I wonder if the FBI was actually the ones to notice it or if the NASA engineers browsing eBay for shuttle replacement components saw it and tipped them off.
...that being said, it would be very difficult to prove
True, but depending on what kinds of IDS they have in place, a marked increase in SSH activity could alert them to something fishy going on. I just mention it as a CYA notice.:-)
they have to have control over the people in the school to accomplish their goals of structuring the environment in the school, and anything that detracts from the percieved goal of the syllabus in classes is undesirable.
Schools need to wake up and realize, if they haven't already, that they need to just deny everything and have a whitelist of acceptable sites. That's the only way they'll ever make sure the kids aren't accessing porn and inappropriate content. There need to be all-inclusive sites for educational institutions to subscribe to that include all the tools a student would usually need to do research.. encyclopedias, dictionaries, filtered access to periodicals online, etc.
Point Nutscrape or Mozilla to localhost port 1080 for the Socks4 proxy. Everything will go over the SSH connection and be proxied by your remote machine without a need for Squid or an explicit web proxy. Don't forget to ask your local security team if this is permissible before doing it though! It may be a big violation to circumvent the access controls in place to support a local security policy. You can, may, and will lose your job over it. Make sure it's worth it.
Once the white box boys figure out that they can deliver all PCs with a free copy of OpenOffice and simply charge $15 or so to have it preinstalled, the casual market for the Microsoft Suite could dry up completely. And, the same may be true with large organizations such as corporations, governments, etc. Why spend $300-600 more per PC when you can go with linux, OpenOffice or StarOffice and double the number of new machines you buy?
I imagine if people at home had their computers audited like some businesses have you'd find the large majority of software in the average home is pirated. Do people go and buy Office2000 for home? Some may, most don't. Why bother when you can grab a copy from work? It's not like you're stealing afterall.. you'll return the CD to work after you install it.
You're assuming that China is actually starting from scratch and writing their own compatible version. It's FAR more likely they have stolen source code to work off of. Wasn't it just last year that Microsoft was compromised and code was stolen and supposedly offered to the Wine project to help them along (which they refused?). Or was that Samba? Either way, the Windows source code is out there and it would only make sense to modify it to build a China specific Windows clone since they couldn't care less about US copyright laws.
No!!! The Chinese People's Operating System BELONGS to the People of China, guided by the steadfast hand of the People's Revolutionary Party!!!!!
And the source code they probably stole to start the project BELONGS to Microsoft and was part of some developer program at a university under NDA. It'll be funny if it looks amazingly like Win98 except for the text on the start menu saying "WindowsPRC".
The real question is: Who do you trust more, the chinese government or microsoft?
I'd have to go with Microsoft on this one. Of all the crimes I've heard levied against them I don't think human rights atrocities was one of them. In my book that is far worse than releasing an overpriced piece of shit OS and profiting off of stupid people buying it.
Well the one thing that the original Code Red attacks did was provide a layer of stealth. In all those thousands of hits a day for default.ida you get on your machine from automated systems, there are at least a handful that are malicious hackers looking for exploitable boxes. I would think most people have long ago started ignoring this particular exploit in their IDS logs as well which makes it doubly dangerous in that someone could introduce a vanilla Win2k IIS box to your network and have it owned in minutes without you paying much attention. Just another Code Red/Nimda attack.. no big deal, all our servers are patched right?;-) I've seen this happen a few times and the admins get the fun job of wiping and reloading the system from scratch and reloading backup data. haha.
And for that I get email, online file storage, and my own web site. That's cheaper than the dial-up account I have now that I never actually dial into. I'll sign up.
Then how do you access the Internet to get to your Mac.com e-mail account and your iDisk? Broadband? It's very likely you're already paying your ISP for these services already. Maybe not the online file storage, but almost everyone offers web space, e-mail accounts, virus scanning on the e-mail accounts, etc. I knew Apple users would be quick to dismiss this as no big deal. Apple could raise the prices on all their computers by $2000 and they'd shrug it off and say you get what you pay for. heh.
you do realize that those are just meaningless entries in your config file, right? nothing forces the entity that is making the http request to honor a 302 response. that a virus would responsably implement the http protocol is a bit much to ask.
It's not for the viruses, it's for the people that used to hit that stuff manually trying to find a shell on a windows box.
The windows cd would still be required (as it should be) - I'm not trying to circumvent that at all - I just wonmder what's involved in unpacking the files from cd and "installing" (copying) to disk...
Maybe I'm missing something, but why should the Windows CD be required to install a dedicated Linux server? You seem to be understanding and justify that. There's no reason they can't do the same thing Valve does with Half-Life and release a dedicated Linux tarball of the server and all the files it needs to run. You don't even need to own Half-Life to run a dedicated server. Maybe you want to setup one for your friends and you don't have Windows and don't care about even buying the game?
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! Tags Trance got me through the entire last school year! That station introduced me to so much more electronic music than I could have ever found or heard on my own!
*sarcasm* That's what you get for violating artists' rights to make fair compensation through radio play. He probably wasn't paying enough to support the artists' needs. On the positive side there are plenty of stations in your area that are playing the greatest hits of the 80s, 90s, 70s, and TODAY!!! In fact, ClearChannel is positive there are because there are identical stations in every market now. Woohoo! Without the Telecommunications Act of 1996 you may have still be listening to the same old boring heterogeneous radio market, but now they're able to bring you the combined power of a mega radio giant monopoly marketing machine. */sarcasm*
thus, they really need a case, as previously stated. which would only work with the small "coin sized" version
A case about the size of a compactflash card would be perfect. That'd be my ideal removable storage media if it were around that size and as durable. Easy to smuggle on those corporate espionage jobs too.
The series of unmanned fighting aircraft that Boeing is developing can be thought of as reusable cruise missiles; instead of crashing into their targets they drop bombs and return for another mission.
How efficient. Maybe eventually we'll get to the point where we won't even need to waste the bombs and just drop leaflets with instructions to commit suicide, or else. "Hello, you have been randomly selected by the United States military to become a casualty of war. With this great privilege comes great responsibility. Here are a list of 10 ways to efficiently and painlessly commit suicide. Please select the method of your choice within 1 hour. Thanks!"
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That is such garbage (or a pretty good troll).
If I was trolling then why on earth would I have posted it logged in? The photos belong in a museum's care or a national archive of some sort, NOT in Bill Gates's private closet hidden away in an underground cave. They should all be digitized and stored properly in a national archive and then made available for free. These photos are as much a part of human history. It pains me to see the rich continue to horde works of priceless art and dole out sub-par digital representations of it to the highest bidders.
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After all, the functioning work in "intellectual property" is "property". And a property holder is certain within its rights to hoard its belongings.
That reminds me of Corbis. Bill Gates and this organization are hoarding thousands of priceless historical photographs and keeping them locked up away from prying eyes. Hey, if you're lucky you can get a copy of one of the photographs they deem interesting with a nice big old CORBIS watermark all over it. The others that they don't deem interesting? Well, you wouldn't want to see those so we'll keep those in the vault. It isn't so much that someone wants to get credit and payment for their work, but this kind of thing takes it to the extreme. Most of that archive should be in a public museum not locked away where only billionaire playboys can access them. It's our heritage and our history!
Oh jeez, I had to read the article to make sure this wasn't some sort of Simpsons joke. I know, I know, Jimmy was a Nuke Engineer on a Sub before he drove the country into double digit inflation and created the misery index while wearing a sweater. But I was shocked that he already had a military ship named after him. Anyone know what the rules are for that? Is it a military thing or a Congressional?
I'm not sure if they're still following any specific naming rules like they used to, but if you see this puppy in or around your nation you might want to check those undersea lines.:-)
That white around the screen dazzels me. I'd like a black one.
Listening Apple?
Nope. They've gone from having tons of fruity colors back to gray and white as the only options unless you buy the old low end (boring) iMac. So much for being able to get new and exciting cses from Apple. They dropped the interesting cube design and got rid of color in their cases.
Steve Jobs is taking a lesson from Henry Ford. You can have any color you want as long as it's a white iMac or iBook and a gray G4 tower or Powerbook.
Hello command central? Listener node "bpfinn" is acquiring sentience. We need you to send out a re-education drone immediately to wipe and reload the RIAA approved OS before he fully awakens and breaks out of the restraints.
Calculate the bandwith costs to cover four million people listening to 128 kbps Internet radio instead. To serve this, you'd have to be thinking 4,000,000 * 16 * 1024 bytes per second. Each OC unit (Optical Carrier, as in OC-3) transmits data at 51.84 Mbps, or 6,794,792 bytes per second. Divide out and you're going to need an OC-9645.
Or you could get an ISDN line and multicast your Internet radio program to the entire Internet. The only problem with that is that it seems the average commercial ISP doesn't deal much with multicast users and definitely doesn't promote it like it should, especially with home users. I suppose it'd be a support hassle in their minds, but it'd save a ton of bandwidth.
In the end though, do ISPs really care? You're paying them for bandwidth and they don't really have any incentive to help you conserve it.. especially if you're a large Internet radio broadcaster as their customer. They'd rather sell you some massive pipe when you could have gotten by with a much smaller arrangement and used a more efficient "broadcasting" technology.
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This would be great if it became a second phase of the space race. It's also a better long term move than a space station. While a space station has a lot of advantages, a moon base has more long term growth potential.
The *only* way the USA would ever participate in establishing a permanent base on the moon would be if it was politically advantageous to the people in power. Congressmen and the President don't take a shit anymore unless they check the polls first to see how it will effect their popularity. Micromanagement of the government based on polling data will be the death of us all. If China is seen as a real threat and is serious about establishing a moon base I would imagine you'd see the EU and USA team up to make sure that the efforts by the People's Republic of China are balanced out by the efforts of more democratic nations. Afterall, we can't have the bloody commies on the moon right? They'll shoot nukes at us and paint a giant red star on the surface of the moon to signify their strength.;-)
And the next movie acording to TVGuide woont be about the conspiracy. What the hell is that all about. I hope they dont make a 2 hour long episode about about a NJ shit monster.
I was thinking about that too. If Mulder and Scully are in the movie, how the hell will they explain that away? He's under sentence of death and is definitely not an FBI agent anymore. Unless the movie takes place somewhere during the previous 9 years it'd be completely idiotic. The only stories that matter anymore for a movie revolve around them trying to foil the planned alien invasion on 12-22-2012!
Well, around here they advertise the Telezapper quite a bit. I haven't shelled out the $50 to try it, but after getting several calls yesterday that were obviously computers cold calling I'm thinking about it though.
It just sends out a couple of the tones from the "disconnected line" tone. You know, the one that plays the tones and then says: "We're sorry, the number you are dialing has been disconnected". Supposedly it "fools" the telemarketing dialing systems into placing your number on a disconnected number list so it doesn't call it again. I've been skeptical that it really works though. Anyone use these kinds of devices (or just put the tones on their answering machine as telespammer traps?).
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I wonder if the FBI was actually the ones to notice it or if the NASA engineers browsing eBay for shuttle replacement components saw it and tipped them off.
...that being said, it would be very difficult to prove
:-)
True, but depending on what kinds of IDS they have in place, a marked increase in SSH activity could alert them to something fishy going on. I just mention it as a CYA notice.
they have to have control over the people in the school to accomplish their goals of structuring the environment in the school, and anything that detracts from the percieved goal of the syllabus in classes is undesirable.
Schools need to wake up and realize, if they haven't already, that they need to just deny everything and have a whitelist of acceptable sites. That's the only way they'll ever make sure the kids aren't accessing porn and inappropriate content. There need to be all-inclusive sites for educational institutions to subscribe to that include all the tools a student would usually need to do research.. encyclopedias, dictionaries, filtered access to periodicals online, etc.
It's even easier if you're using OpenSSH:
ssh -D 1080 yourhomemachine.org
Point Nutscrape or Mozilla to localhost port 1080 for the Socks4 proxy. Everything will go over the SSH connection and be proxied by your remote machine without a need for Squid or an explicit web proxy. Don't forget to ask your local security team if this is permissible before doing it though! It may be a big violation to circumvent the access controls in place to support a local security policy. You can, may, and will lose your job over it. Make sure it's worth it.
Once the white box boys figure out that they can deliver all PCs with a free copy of OpenOffice and simply charge $15 or so to have it preinstalled, the casual market for the Microsoft Suite could dry up completely. And, the same may be true with large organizations such as corporations, governments, etc. Why spend $300-600 more per PC when you can go with linux, OpenOffice or StarOffice and double the number of new machines you buy?
I imagine if people at home had their computers audited like some businesses have you'd find the large majority of software in the average home is pirated. Do people go and buy Office2000 for home? Some may, most don't. Why bother when you can grab a copy from work? It's not like you're stealing afterall.. you'll return the CD to work after you install it.
You're assuming that China is actually starting from scratch and writing their own compatible version. It's FAR more likely they have stolen source code to work off of. Wasn't it just last year that Microsoft was compromised and code was stolen and supposedly offered to the Wine project to help them along (which they refused?). Or was that Samba? Either way, the Windows source code is out there and it would only make sense to modify it to build a China specific Windows clone since they couldn't care less about US copyright laws.
No!!! The Chinese People's Operating System BELONGS to the People of China, guided by the steadfast hand of the People's Revolutionary Party!!!!!
And the source code they probably stole to start the project BELONGS to Microsoft and was part of some developer program at a university under NDA. It'll be funny if it looks amazingly like Win98 except for the text on the start menu saying "WindowsPRC".
The real question is: Who do you trust more, the chinese government or microsoft?
I'd have to go with Microsoft on this one. Of all the crimes I've heard levied against them I don't think human rights atrocities was one of them. In my book that is far worse than releasing an overpriced piece of shit OS and profiting off of stupid people buying it.
Well the one thing that the original Code Red attacks did was provide a layer of stealth. In all those thousands of hits a day for default.ida you get on your machine from automated systems, there are at least a handful that are malicious hackers looking for exploitable boxes. I would think most people have long ago started ignoring this particular exploit in their IDS logs as well which makes it doubly dangerous in that someone could introduce a vanilla Win2k IIS box to your network and have it owned in minutes without you paying much attention. Just another Code Red/Nimda attack.. no big deal, all our servers are patched right? ;-) I've seen this happen a few times and the admins get the fun job of wiping and reloading the system from scratch and reloading backup data. haha.
And for that I get email, online file storage, and my own web site. That's cheaper than the dial-up account I have now that I never actually dial into. I'll sign up.
Then how do you access the Internet to get to your Mac.com e-mail account and your iDisk? Broadband? It's very likely you're already paying your ISP for these services already. Maybe not the online file storage, but almost everyone offers web space, e-mail accounts, virus scanning on the e-mail accounts, etc. I knew Apple users would be quick to dismiss this as no big deal. Apple could raise the prices on all their computers by $2000 and they'd shrug it off and say you get what you pay for. heh.
you do realize that those are just meaningless entries in your config file, right? nothing forces the entity that is making the http request to honor a 302 response. that a virus would responsably implement the http protocol is a bit much to ask.
It's not for the viruses, it's for the people that used to hit that stuff manually trying to find a shell on a windows box.
Could you tell me how to redirect that GETs using apache to goatse.cx?
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RedirectMatch (.*)\cmd.exe$ http://goatse.cx
RedirectMatch (.*)\root.exe$ http://goatse.cx
RedirectMatch (.*)\default.ida$ http://goatse.cx
Although, I redirect them to http://www.microsoft.com/technet instead.
The windows cd would still be required (as it should be) - I'm not trying to circumvent that at all - I just wonmder what's involved in unpacking the files from cd and "installing" (copying) to disk...
Maybe I'm missing something, but why should the Windows CD be required to install a dedicated Linux server? You seem to be understanding and justify that. There's no reason they can't do the same thing Valve does with Half-Life and release a dedicated Linux tarball of the server and all the files it needs to run. You don't even need to own Half-Life to run a dedicated server. Maybe you want to setup one for your friends and you don't have Windows and don't care about even buying the game?
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!
Tags Trance got me through the entire last school year! That station introduced me to so much more electronic music than I could have ever found or heard on my own!
*sarcasm*
That's what you get for violating artists' rights to make fair compensation through radio play. He probably wasn't paying enough to support the artists' needs. On the positive side there are plenty of stations in your area that are playing the greatest hits of the 80s, 90s, 70s, and TODAY!!! In fact, ClearChannel is positive there are because there are identical stations in every market now. Woohoo! Without the Telecommunications Act of 1996 you may have still be listening to the same old boring heterogeneous radio market, but now they're able to bring you the combined power of a mega radio giant monopoly marketing machine.
*/sarcasm*
thus, they really need a case, as previously stated. which would only work with the small "coin sized" version
A case about the size of a compactflash card would be perfect. That'd be my ideal removable storage media if it were around that size and as durable. Easy to smuggle on those corporate espionage jobs too.
The series of unmanned fighting aircraft that Boeing is developing can be thought of as reusable cruise missiles; instead of crashing into their targets they drop bombs and return for another mission.
How efficient. Maybe eventually we'll get to the point where we won't even need to waste the bombs and just drop leaflets with instructions to commit suicide, or else. "Hello, you have been randomly selected by the United States military to become a casualty of war. With this great privilege comes great responsibility. Here are a list of 10 ways to efficiently and painlessly commit suicide. Please select the method of your choice within 1 hour. Thanks!"
That is such garbage (or a pretty good troll).
If I was trolling then why on earth would I have posted it logged in? The photos belong in a museum's care or a national archive of some sort, NOT in Bill Gates's private closet hidden away in an underground cave. They should all be digitized and stored properly in a national archive and then made available for free. These photos are as much a part of human history. It pains me to see the rich continue to horde works of priceless art and dole out sub-par digital representations of it to the highest bidders.
After all, the functioning work in "intellectual property" is "property". And a property holder is certain within its rights to hoard its belongings.
That reminds me of Corbis. Bill Gates and this organization are hoarding thousands of priceless historical photographs and keeping them locked up away from prying eyes. Hey, if you're lucky you can get a copy of one of the photographs they deem interesting with a nice big old CORBIS watermark all over it. The others that they don't deem interesting? Well, you wouldn't want to see those so we'll keep those in the vault. It isn't so much that someone wants to get credit and payment for their work, but this kind of thing takes it to the extreme. Most of that archive should be in a public museum not locked away where only billionaire playboys can access them. It's our heritage and our history!
Oh jeez, I had to read the article to make sure this wasn't some sort of Simpsons joke. I know, I know, Jimmy was a Nuke Engineer on a Sub before he drove the country into double digit inflation and created the misery index while wearing a sweater. But I was shocked that he already had a military ship named after him. Anyone know what the rules are for that? Is it a military thing or a Congressional?
:-)
I'm not sure if they're still following any specific naming rules like they used to, but if you see this puppy in or around your nation you might want to check those undersea lines.
That white around the screen dazzels me.
I'd like a black one.
Listening Apple?
Nope. They've gone from having tons of fruity colors back to gray and white as the only options unless you buy the old low end (boring) iMac. So much for being able to get new and exciting cses from Apple. They dropped the interesting cube design and got rid of color in their cases.
Steve Jobs is taking a lesson from Henry Ford. You can have any color you want as long as it's a white iMac or iBook and a gray G4 tower or Powerbook.
Hello command central? Listener node "bpfinn" is acquiring sentience. We need you to send out a re-education drone immediately to wipe and reload the RIAA approved OS before he fully awakens and breaks out of the restraints.
Calculate the bandwith costs to cover four million people listening to 128 kbps Internet radio instead. To serve this, you'd have to be thinking 4,000,000 * 16 * 1024 bytes per second. Each OC unit (Optical Carrier, as in OC-3) transmits data at 51.84 Mbps, or 6,794,792 bytes per second. Divide out and you're going to need an OC-9645.
Or you could get an ISDN line and multicast your Internet radio program to the entire Internet. The only problem with that is that it seems the average commercial ISP doesn't deal much with multicast users and definitely doesn't promote it like it should, especially with home users. I suppose it'd be a support hassle in their minds, but it'd save a ton of bandwidth.
In the end though, do ISPs really care? You're paying them for bandwidth and they don't really have any incentive to help you conserve it.. especially if you're a large Internet radio broadcaster as their customer. They'd rather sell you some massive pipe when you could have gotten by with a much smaller arrangement and used a more efficient "broadcasting" technology.
This would be great if it became a second phase of the space race. It's also a better long term move than a space station. While a space station has a lot of advantages, a moon base has more long term growth potential.
;-)
The *only* way the USA would ever participate in establishing a permanent base on the moon would be if it was politically advantageous to the people in power. Congressmen and the President don't take a shit anymore unless they check the polls first to see how it will effect their popularity. Micromanagement of the government based on polling data will be the death of us all. If China is seen as a real threat and is serious about establishing a moon base I would imagine you'd see the EU and USA team up to make sure that the efforts by the People's Republic of China are balanced out by the efforts of more democratic nations. Afterall, we can't have the bloody commies on the moon right? They'll shoot nukes at us and paint a giant red star on the surface of the moon to signify their strength.
And the next movie acording to TVGuide woont be about the conspiracy. What the hell is that all about. I hope they dont make a 2 hour long episode about about a NJ shit monster.
I was thinking about that too. If Mulder and Scully are in the movie, how the hell will they explain that away? He's under sentence of death and is definitely not an FBI agent anymore. Unless the movie takes place somewhere during the previous 9 years it'd be completely idiotic. The only stories that matter anymore for a movie revolve around them trying to foil the planned alien invasion on 12-22-2012!
Well, around here they advertise the Telezapper quite a bit. I haven't shelled out the $50 to try it, but after getting several calls yesterday that were obviously computers cold calling I'm thinking about it though.
It just sends out a couple of the tones from the "disconnected line" tone. You know, the one that plays the tones and then says: "We're sorry, the number you are dialing has been disconnected". Supposedly it "fools" the telemarketing dialing systems into placing your number on a disconnected number list so it doesn't call it again. I've been skeptical that it really works though. Anyone use these kinds of devices (or just put the tones on their answering machine as telespammer traps?).