"...What followed was first a Firewall password brute force attack resulting in successful hash and destruction of the firewall,"
If they leave their firewall accessible to any sort of brute force password attack, its a good bet they don't know what their doing and would have no idea how to stop a DoS attack.
I agree with some of the other posts suggesting that this DoS was just a handy beard, and that they were in some sort of financial difficulty.
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Palestinians never existed as a nation. You forget, prior to WWI and the British capturing and marking off an area they called by its historic name "Palestine", that area was under the control of the Ottoman Empire. The indigenous population at the time Identified themselves tribally, (First by family, then tribe, then as Arabs) not nationally. the whole "Palestinian People" thing is a product of 60's era revolutionist thinking - its designed to keep you from saying "Hey, why is the PLO lead by an Egyptian?"
"There is no language known as Palestinian. There is no distinct Palestinian culture. There has never been a land known as Palestine governed by Palestinians. Palestinians are Arabs, indistinguishable from Jordanians (another recent invention), Syrians, Lebanese, Iraqis, etc. Keep in mind that the Arabs control 99.9 percent of the Middle East lands. Israel represents one-tenth of 1 percent of the landmass.
But that's too much for the Arabs. They want it all. And that is ultimately what the fighting in Israel is about today. Greed. Pride. Envy. Covetousness. No matter how many land concessions the Israelis make, it will never be enough."
-Joseph Farah, Arab-American journalist,
editor and CEO of WorldNetDaily
I don't know when quality TV programming became a natural right. I don't pay for The Simpsons out of my pocket, so I'm willing to put up with whatever the fine folks at Fox can dish out. And when I don't like it anymore, I'LL STOP WATCHING
The airlines' service sucks. I don't remember when air travel became a natural right so I'll just stop flying.
AT&T sucks. It takes them 3 months to get me a phone and they'll only let me use their particular model of telephone. I don't recall phone service being guaranteed in the constitution though, so I'll just go without phone service.
Certain things are available to us as a society in finite quantities. The broadcast spectrum for instance - its ours and we ALLOW it to be used for commercial TV. Since its ours and we're giving them the chance to use it to make money/entertain us, we have every right in the world to bitch when we don't like what they're doing with it.
I buy a lot of records. Most of the stuff that I get isn't available on CD. What I think would be really cool is if companies putting out vinyl would give me a cd with mp3s of the songs on the records so I didn't have to rip them. I would end up buying a lot more stuff then.
Obviously the big record companies have no interest in doing this as they are more committed to maintaining their monopolies then providing a legitamate service, but it would be pretty dope if indie labels started doing that.
People have downloaded ~100GB of crap off of my FTP server in the last month to month and a half. I'm on a 1.5Mbit DSL line. Cable is meant for Joe Shmoe I-burst-to-1.5Mbit-when-i'm-downloading-my-go4t-pr 0n-but-don't-really-use-the-bandwidth-since-they'd -cap-me. I like the freedom of paying for access and not being told what I can do with it. I rue the day that I will have to go to a cable provider thats trying to sell me some consumer oriented bullshit instead of the phatp1p3 I have now.
Its interesting to note how the technology the army uses has evolved since WWII, as a result of a shift in our motivation for combat. In that war, we were ostensibly trying to free people from the tyranny of Fascism, and as such had popular support from the local population . Since then we've entered into any number of battle zones where we are there out of our own selfish interests, and naturally we don't have popular support in the areas where our troops are. Development of Less Lethal weapons such as this vehicle are nothing more than an attempt to avoid the fact that we're not there to help the local population, we're there to help ourselves (See: Somalia - Oil, Grenada - Get eyes off of Reagan's illicit activities, bombing Kosovo - Get eyes of Clinton's illicit activities.)
I think spamming lusers on a service with a USPS admin is a pretty bad idea. They have automatic weapons and have demonstrated repeatedly a proficiency for using them.
I don't have a problem with this. I think its wonderful when net businesses choose to shoot themselves in the foot like this. Eventually there will be so many laws that running a business on the Internet will cease to be worthwhile. No more Etoy/Etoys, no more lame ass trademark domain disputes. Yeah there'll be a ministry of information presiding over it all and strange unmarked vans mysteriously parked in your neighborhood all the time but that's a small price to pay to get to watch net businesses crash and burn.
Heh heh. After my auto insurer created an extra-high-risk category for me, I never figured I would affect the insurance industry so significantly again.
It didn't happen here because cell phones at the outset we're never as economically compelling. I used to live in Israel where the phone company (Bezeq) had a complete monopoly - making you wait years for a second line, and the whole bit. A couple companies went in and put in cell infrasturcture and everyone switched to cell phones. The situation was similar in many parts of Europe, if I understand correctly. Thats why cell phone tech in Europe and Japan is several generations ahead of what we have in the US.
Where do you live? I'm in Boston and on my cell phone I pay 5 cents a minute. Ma Bell charges me 7. And the cell phone has free nights and weekends besides.
The only shitty thing about connecting over a cell phone is that analog connections typically suck, and the digital providers don't have the infrastructure in place yet to do any sort of high speed data access - damn premature phone monopoly deregulation.
Rather than getting indignant every time Real (or similar companies) are found violating peoples privacy like this, why don't we just work towards obfuscating their data set. What about a little hack that sent random junk data to them rather than whatever it is they're trying to collect?
This could have the additional benefit of making companies act more overtly about their data collections, if that is the only way they can successfully collect accurate information.
go read the thread on the shugashack about what you have to do to get napster working. I believe it leaves some reg keys lying around even after install, and you have to manually remove them before reinstalling.
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you can do this already. Do an RDNS lookup on the IP of the server and reject it if the domain in the 'from' doesn't match.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/23770.html
"...What followed was first a Firewall password brute force attack resulting in successful hash and destruction of the firewall,"
If they leave their firewall accessible to any sort of brute force password attack, its a good bet they don't know what their doing and would have no idea how to stop a DoS attack.
I agree with some of the other posts suggesting that this DoS was just a handy beard, and that they were in some sort of financial difficulty.
Palestinians never existed as a nation. You forget, prior to WWI and the British capturing and marking off an area they called by its historic name "Palestine", that area was under the control of the Ottoman Empire. The indigenous population at the time Identified themselves tribally, (First by family, then tribe, then as Arabs) not nationally. the whole "Palestinian People" thing is a product of 60's era revolutionist thinking - its designed to keep you from saying "Hey, why is the PLO lead by an Egyptian?"
"There is no language known as Palestinian. There is no distinct Palestinian culture. There has never been a land known as Palestine governed by Palestinians. Palestinians are Arabs, indistinguishable from Jordanians (another recent invention), Syrians, Lebanese, Iraqis, etc. Keep in mind that the Arabs control 99.9 percent of the Middle East lands. Israel represents one-tenth of 1 percent of the landmass.
But that's too much for the Arabs. They want it all. And that is ultimately what the fighting in Israel is about today. Greed. Pride. Envy. Covetousness. No matter how many land concessions the Israelis make, it will never be enough."
-Joseph Farah, Arab-American journalist,
editor and CEO of WorldNetDaily
I don't know when quality TV programming became a natural right. I don't pay for The Simpsons out of my pocket, so I'm willing to put up with whatever the fine folks at Fox can dish out. And when I don't like it anymore, I'LL STOP WATCHING
The airlines' service sucks. I don't remember when air travel became a natural right so I'll just stop flying.
AT&T sucks. It takes them 3 months to get me a phone and they'll only let me use their particular model of telephone. I don't recall phone service being guaranteed in the constitution though, so I'll just go without phone service.
Certain things are available to us as a society in finite quantities. The broadcast spectrum for instance - its ours and we ALLOW it to be used for commercial TV. Since its ours and we're giving them the chance to use it to make money/entertain us, we have every right in the world to bitch when we don't like what they're doing with it.
I buy a lot of records. Most of the stuff that I get isn't available on CD. What I think would be really cool is if companies putting out vinyl would give me a cd with mp3s of the songs on the records so I didn't have to rip them. I would end up buying a lot more stuff then.
Obviously the big record companies have no interest in doing this as they are more committed to maintaining their monopolies then providing a legitamate service, but it would be pretty dope if indie labels started doing that.
People have downloaded ~100GB of crap off of my FTP server in the last month to month and a half. I'm on a 1.5Mbit DSL line. Cable is meant for Joe Shmoe I-burst-to-1.5Mbit-when-i'm-downloading-my-go4t-pr 0n-but-don't-really-use-the-bandwidth-since-they'd -cap-me. I like the freedom of paying for access and not being told what I can do with it. I rue the day that I will have to go to a cable provider thats trying to sell me some consumer oriented bullshit instead of the phatp1p3 I have now.
-Spazimodo
Fsck the millennium, we want it now.
Its interesting to note how the technology the army uses has evolved since WWII, as a result of a shift in our motivation for combat. In that war, we were ostensibly trying to free people from the tyranny of Fascism, and as such had popular support from the local population . Since then we've entered into any number of battle zones where we are there out of our own selfish interests, and naturally we don't have popular support in the areas where our troops are. Development of Less Lethal weapons such as this vehicle are nothing more than an attempt to avoid the fact that we're not there to help the local population, we're there to help ourselves (See: Somalia - Oil, Grenada - Get eyes off of Reagan's illicit activities, bombing Kosovo - Get eyes of Clinton's illicit activities.)
-Spazimodo
Fsck the millennium, we want it now.
uh, the player 3 guessing red thing reduces your chance of success to %50. remember, they all have to guess at the same time.
-Spazimodo
Fsck the millennium, we want it now.
lets beat them in the marketplace, not the courtroom. If you need to buy RAM, make sure its from Micron.
-Spazimodo
Fsck the millennium, we want it now.
y 3l53 d0 j00 th1nk th3y r1t3 lyk3 th1s?
-Spazimodo
Fsck the millennium, we want it now.
rather than putting the gene in your body, which sounds kinda gross, why not add it into every other food and beverage item available.
mmm.. caffinated pickles...
-Spazimodo
Fsck the millennium, we want it now.
Thats a fun idea. I'm in Boston as well and would love to help.
-Spazimodo
Fsck the millennium, we want it now.
I think spamming lusers on a service with a USPS admin is a pretty bad idea. They have automatic weapons and have demonstrated repeatedly a proficiency for using them.
-Spazimodo
Fsck the millennium, we want it now.
isn't is kinda bogus to compare this to MPEG4, since MPEGs are 2D and this is for compressing 3D images?
-Spazimodo
Fsck the millennium, we want it now.
Whuzzup with Sony? First a video camera that can see through clothes, and now this. Someone needs to restock their engineers supply of tenticle porn.
-Spazimodo
Fsck the millennium, we want it now.
Dual 500MHZ G4 - $3,499
MAC OS X - $500
Apple Cinema Display - $3,999.00
Being able to Kill -9 that fscking crashed quark session - priceless
-Spazimodo
Fsck the millennium, we want it now.
I don't have a problem with this. I think its wonderful when net businesses choose to shoot themselves in the foot like this. Eventually there will be so many laws that running a business on the Internet will cease to be worthwhile. No more Etoy/Etoys, no more lame ass trademark domain disputes. Yeah there'll be a ministry of information presiding over it all and strange unmarked vans mysteriously parked in your neighborhood all the time but that's a small price to pay to get to watch net businesses crash and burn.
-Spazimodo
Fsck the millennium, we want it now.
Heh heh.
After my auto insurer created an extra-high-risk category for me, I never figured I would affect the insurance industry so significantly again.
-Spazimodo
Fsck the millennium, we want it now.
% rm God ar: God nonexistent
% ar t God ar: God does not exist
% ar r God ar: creating God
from a forward a while back...
-Spazimodo
Fsck the millennium, we want it now.
No Ewoks!!
-Spazimodo
Fsck the millennium, we want it now.
L0pht's already working on it. guerrilla.net
-Spazimodo
Fsck the millennium, we want it now.
It didn't happen here because cell phones at the outset we're never as economically compelling. I used to live in Israel where the phone company (Bezeq) had a complete monopoly - making you wait years for a second line, and the whole bit. A couple companies went in and put in cell infrasturcture and everyone switched to cell phones. The situation was similar in many parts of Europe, if I understand correctly. Thats why cell phone tech in Europe and Japan is several generations ahead of what we have in the US.
-Spazimodo
Fsck the millennium, we want it now.
Where do you live? I'm in Boston and on my cell phone I pay 5 cents a minute. Ma Bell charges me 7. And the cell phone has free nights and weekends besides.
The only shitty thing about connecting over a cell phone is that analog connections typically suck, and the digital providers don't have the infrastructure in place yet to do any sort of high speed data access - damn premature phone monopoly deregulation.
-Spazimodo
Fsck the millennium, we want it now.
Rather than getting indignant every time Real (or similar companies) are found violating peoples privacy like this, why don't we just work towards obfuscating their data set. What about a little hack that sent random junk data to them rather than whatever it is they're trying to collect?
This could have the additional benefit of making companies act more overtly about their data collections, if that is the only way they can successfully collect accurate information.
-Spazimodo
Fsck the millennium, we want it now.
go read the thread on the shugashack about what you have to do to get napster working. I believe it leaves some reg keys lying around even after install, and you have to manually remove them before reinstalling.
-Spazimodo
Fsck the millennium, we want it now.