They do things like try to set off shoe bombs in their seats instead of the plane bathroom.
I get a good laugh out of that one. From what I heard (correct me if I am wrong) he was trying to light a fuse consisting of his shoelace to a small amount of C4. From what I heard the only way to make C4 explode is to use a blasting cap in other words something else needs to explode for C4 to explode. Exposing it to flame wouldn't do the trick. Thing is I found this hard to believe.
It has been brought up before in this posting and I have already posted about it as well but, according to "The Power of Nightmares", the Islamist Extremists have adopted the philosophy of an Egyptian, Sayyid Qutb, who came to the US post WWII to research the educational system to bring back to the Middle East. Qutb was disgusted with what he though of the sickness of the US culture where the typical Joe American was more concerned about the state of his lawn than the poor and downtrodden. He also visited a Baptist dance and was shocked by the public display of sexuality, I guess two people slow dancing was a bit much for him. Qutb's idea was to build a country where it was run according to islamic rule but incorporate modern technology and science. Qutb ended up coming to the conclusion when he got back to Egypt that Nassar was a non muslim since he was obviously against his ideas and said he (Nassar) should be killed. Needless to say Qutb got executed shortly after. Out of this the Islamic Jihad was formed and the documentary goes on from there.
It is interesting to watch whether or not it is accurate.
Something useful would be to create a docking mechanism for an ipod that hooks up to my stereo with a remote (or use existing learning remote) that has a LED display so I can see what is on or is coming next. If it came with a remote, maybe use the clickwheel as an interface. If it had a video connector so I can hook up to my tv even better. Maybe a builtin audio/video switcher would be nice as well.
Warning Spoilers below.. I saw the documentary as well and found it intriguing. It doesn't deny terrorism is occuring and will occur nor does it deny Bin Laden hates the US and is not their puppet. Their basic gist is that: 1. There are terrorists out there but not organized into this huge network. Their theory about the whole Al Quaeda network was used to link Bin Laden (who did fund the Embassy bombing) so they could charge him in absentia using some law where if there is a network and you can link someone as the head of the network and the people who did the act as being part of the network you can charge the head as well as the lackies. They used this with the Mafia at some point or other 2. Bin Laden never used the word "Al Quaeda" before the US did. 3. 911 was not his idea but someone elses. Bin Laden provided funds for it but did not plan it. 4. Famous video of Bin Laden visiting his terrorists in training was completely staged. He hired on trainees from other terrorist camps to show up and go through the motions.
The funniest part was an interview with Donald Rumsfeld where they were talking about fortress strongholds in huge caves in Tora Bora with beds and computers with a picture that looked like the next Cobra Headquarters from GI Joe.
The documentary was a really interesting watch. Now how much is true and accurate... no idea. The fact that they got Gorbachev to be interviewed gives it a bit of clout though.
The only thing that anything newer than the H1 is name only. The H2 is based off of a GMC chassis while the H1 is the HMMWV.
The original allure of the Hummer H1 was that it was practically identical to the HMMWV the H2 is to the H1 as the New VW Bug is to the old VW Bug (probably a better comparison). They look similar but are worlds apart
Ah see we don't see a lot of hummers up here and I remember hearing something about the H3 being geared towards women. They were a bit of a fad when the first ones came out commercially. I was amazed at how many I saw when I went down to Colorado Springs for 10 days of work. You couldn't look anywhere without seeing an H2
The real Hummer is still built by AM General. The H2 and soon to be H3 are knockoffs. They have as much in common with the original Hummer as my CAT shoes have to do with the manufacturer of Bulldozers (IOW nothing other than a licensing of a name)
WEP can be cracked a lot quicker if you have a wireless nic that supports injection (i.e Prism based) I broke a 128bit WEP network (client's so it was authorized) in 11 minutes.
MAC Filtering? overcome by MAC spoofing Change your IP Address range? Don't bother, if you can break the Encryption, simple packet sniffing will give it to you Disable Beaconing? Stops Netstumbler but Kismet will see the network the moment you send anything over it. (Although if you have an open network do everyone a favour and disable beaconing. Nothing more annoying than booting up and getting slow access until you realize your machine connected to some AP a block down the road.
WPA can be brute forced (coWPAtty is the tool) but the key thing with WPA is to make sure your passphrase is long. As well I believe WPA renegotiates keys every halfhour to hour so it leaves a small window where it can be broken.
Best strategy: Encrypt it WEP,WPA whatever but use VPN between clients and disable File and Print Sharing for the nic (but leave it enabled for VPN that way only clients who have VPN connection will be able to see the shares)
If protecting your data is really that important, you would upgrade your infrastructure or not use Wireless at all. Key thing with security is not to make sure if someone breaks in that they have deniability, it is to prevent someone from accessing your data. The side effect of doing this is that you remove the deniability
I did some consulting in my last job for the govt. Normally, machines were rebuilt from scratch or an existing Ghost image using the corporate licensed Win2k. But some groups would keep the OEM image on to save time. The thing I noticed was that the OEM based machines would have more problems than the corp based machines.
Personally I think it is all the extra fluff that gets added in by the manufacturer. All that would be installed by the corp was the OS, latest drivers and blessed applications. No DVD viewing apps, Mouse crud, etc.
My WinXp(bad fart) is lucky to go more than three days without falling down
after using Nlite to strip XP like a used buick it is standable
You think these two comments could possibly be related?
Don't get me wrong, I agree that XP is not exactly the lightest OS but far from it. The thing is that using a tool made by a third party to essentially rip out the guts of the OS that do not have a normal uninstall method will have some impact on the behaviour of the OS.
Based on your arguement then I can say that Ubuntu is horrible as well as Fedora since I installed both on my laptop and X never came up right and would lock the machine up so that I had to do a hard reset (modifying modprobe.conf fixed it). It used to be with 95, 98 (not so much 98SE) and especially ME that they were so bad that just looking at them would BSOD. With 2000 and XP, Microsoft seems to be getting on the ball. Security is tightening up (almost annoyingly) but stability is not an issue. The only thing I have to complain about is that rebooting after specific OS patches which is every couple of weeks. Now if they could fix that....
To paraphrase you, just because you saw something doesn't mean it is always true, your experience is your experience but it isn't gospel. I have only had one BSOD in 3 years of running XP and I was playing with an unsupported and hacked wireless driver.
I am seeing this as well in some IT contracts that are out there. They are labeling jobs as "junior" but the skill set for the job is somewhat more advanced. Plus jobs that start out as junior usually end up taking on more responsible work (which is good but only when you get paid at the same level as the responsibility) and the job role changes.
Any tips on how I can better hide my ID on the net? I believe you are asking how to hide yourself better on a network and not on THE 'net.
The answer would be no without mimicking an existing MAC address which could potentially cause DOS for either you or the other MAC.
There are tools out there that can detect and list new network cards connecting to a wireless network as well as force disassociation of said network cards as well as rogue access points
Mind you a hospital using Wireless without locking it down with some form of VPN is silly if not plain stupid.
Question is if DOD will sell the drives after wiping them? I suspect not. DND (Canada's military) won't they use (DOD Compliant) disk wiping only when the drive (machine) gets allocated from one person to another.
I am surprised that they don't sell them without the drives and woodchip them. That is what any sane organization does that wants to make sure this situation doesn't happen.
I have a Costco membership. I have been there twice this year. I probably won't renew and most likely cancel before the end of the year. Couple of Reasons: 1. No Deep Freeze. Everything there you need to buy 10 of. I can understand if you have a family with multiple kids but it is just two of us in an apartment.
2. Prices aren't that much better on everything else. The nice thing about them is the stuff they carry is different. In other words something that the normal grocery stores don't carry. Plus since there are only three in my city (soon to be 4) it is more inconvenient to go to. See #1 why not to stock up.
3. Electronics. My parents have always done their Xmas shopping there and they seem to only carry specific models that no one else does. The difference in prices for electronics there may seem good until you look at the details. I was looking at a big screen a while back and the price seemed decent until I looked elsewhere and realized for an extra $100 I get more and better input methods.
3. Biggest problem: Payment methods. They only take Amex. Sorry I don't want another credit card. Hell they still take checks!
I can understand why people go there but it isn't the be all that it is cracked up to for everyone.
Just remember that because of the levy, in Canada you can download anything you want. They can't penalize you twice (once with the levy, twice with a lawsuit).
However with the new copyright ammendment this may change...
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Thanks. I had heard C4 but couldn't remember where (news, coworker or what)
They do things like try to set off shoe bombs in their seats instead of the plane bathroom.
I get a good laugh out of that one. From what I heard (correct me if I am wrong) he was trying to light a fuse consisting of his shoelace to a small amount of C4. From what I heard the only way to make C4 explode is to use a blasting cap in other words something else needs to explode for C4 to explode. Exposing it to flame wouldn't do the trick.
Thing is I found this hard to believe.
It has been brought up before in this posting and I have already posted about it as well but, according to "The Power of Nightmares", the Islamist Extremists have adopted the philosophy of an Egyptian, Sayyid Qutb, who came to the US post WWII to research the educational system to bring back to the Middle East. Qutb was disgusted with what he though of the sickness of the US culture where the typical Joe American was more concerned about the state of his lawn than the poor and downtrodden. He also visited a Baptist dance and was shocked by the public display of sexuality, I guess two people slow dancing was a bit much for him.
Qutb's idea was to build a country where it was run according to islamic rule but incorporate modern technology and science.
Qutb ended up coming to the conclusion when he got back to Egypt that Nassar was a non muslim since he was obviously against his ideas and said he (Nassar) should be killed.
Needless to say Qutb got executed shortly after.
Out of this the Islamic Jihad was formed and the documentary goes on from there.
It is interesting to watch whether or not it is accurate.
Something useful would be to create a docking mechanism for an ipod that hooks up to my stereo with a remote (or use existing learning remote) that has a LED display so I can see what is on or is coming next. If it came with a remote, maybe use the clickwheel as an interface. If it had a video connector so I can hook up to my tv even better. Maybe a builtin audio/video switcher would be nice as well.
Apple you listening?
Warning Spoilers below..
I saw the documentary as well and found it intriguing. It doesn't deny terrorism is occuring and will occur nor does it deny Bin Laden hates the US and is not their puppet.
Their basic gist is that:
1. There are terrorists out there but not organized into this huge network. Their theory about the whole Al Quaeda network was used to link Bin Laden (who did fund the Embassy bombing) so they could charge him in absentia using some law where if there is a network and you can link someone as the head of the network and the people who did the act as being part of the network you can charge the head as well as the lackies. They used this with the Mafia at some point or other
2. Bin Laden never used the word "Al Quaeda" before the US did.
3. 911 was not his idea but someone elses. Bin Laden provided funds for it but did not plan it.
4. Famous video of Bin Laden visiting his terrorists in training was completely staged. He hired on trainees from other terrorist camps to show up and go through the motions.
The funniest part was an interview with Donald Rumsfeld where they were talking about fortress strongholds in huge caves in Tora Bora with beds and computers with a picture that looked like the next Cobra Headquarters from GI Joe.
The documentary was a really interesting watch. Now how much is true and accurate... no idea. The fact that they got Gorbachev to be interviewed gives it a bit of clout though.
Worth watching
Did it say anything about GM building the H1?
The only thing that anything newer than the H1 is name only. The H2 is based off of a GMC chassis while the H1 is the HMMWV.
The original allure of the Hummer H1 was that it was practically identical to the HMMWV the H2 is to the H1 as the New VW Bug is to the old VW Bug (probably a better comparison). They look similar but are worlds apart
Ah see we don't see a lot of hummers up here and I remember hearing something about the H3 being geared towards women. They were a bit of a fad when the first ones came out commercially. I was amazed at how many I saw when I went down to Colorado Springs for 10 days of work. You couldn't look anywhere without seeing an H2
The real Hummer is still built by AM General. The H2 and soon to be H3 are knockoffs. They have as much in common with the original Hummer as my CAT shoes have to do with the manufacturer of Bulldozers (IOW nothing other than a licensing of a name)
WEP can be cracked a lot quicker if you have a wireless nic that supports injection (i.e Prism based) I broke a 128bit WEP network (client's so it was authorized) in 11 minutes.
MAC Filtering? overcome by MAC spoofing
Change your IP Address range? Don't bother, if you can break the Encryption, simple packet sniffing will give it to you
Disable Beaconing? Stops Netstumbler but Kismet will see the network the moment you send anything over it. (Although if you have an open network do everyone a favour and disable beaconing. Nothing more annoying than booting up and getting slow access until you realize your machine connected to some AP a block down the road.
WPA can be brute forced (coWPAtty is the tool) but the key thing with WPA is to make sure your passphrase is long. As well I believe WPA renegotiates keys every halfhour to hour so it leaves a small window where it can be broken.
Best strategy: Encrypt it WEP,WPA whatever but use VPN between clients and disable File and Print Sharing for the nic (but leave it enabled for VPN that way only clients who have VPN connection will be able to see the shares)
If protecting your data is really that important, you would upgrade your infrastructure or not use Wireless at all. Key thing with security is not to make sure if someone breaks in that they have deniability, it is to prevent someone from accessing your data. The side effect of doing this is that you remove the deniability
I did some consulting in my last job for the govt.
Normally, machines were rebuilt from scratch or an existing Ghost image using the corporate licensed Win2k. But some groups would keep the OEM image on to save time.
The thing I noticed was that the OEM based machines would have more problems than the corp based machines.
Personally I think it is all the extra fluff that gets added in by the manufacturer. All that would be installed by the corp was the OS, latest drivers and blessed applications. No DVD viewing apps, Mouse crud, etc.
My WinXp(bad fart) is lucky to go more than three days without falling down
after using Nlite to strip XP like a used buick it is standable
You think these two comments could possibly be related?
Don't get me wrong, I agree that XP is not exactly the lightest OS but far from it. The thing is that using a tool made by a third party to essentially rip out the guts of the OS that do not have a normal uninstall method will have some impact on the behaviour of the OS.
Based on your arguement then I can say that Ubuntu is horrible as well as Fedora since I installed both on my laptop and X never came up right and would lock the machine up so that I had to do a hard reset (modifying modprobe.conf fixed it). It used to be with 95, 98 (not so much 98SE) and especially ME that they were so bad that just looking at them would BSOD. With 2000 and XP, Microsoft seems to be getting on the ball. Security is tightening up (almost annoyingly) but stability is not an issue. The only thing I have to complain about is that rebooting after specific OS patches which is every couple of weeks. Now if they could fix that....
To paraphrase you, just because you saw something doesn't mean it is always true, your experience is your experience but it isn't gospel. I have only had one BSOD in 3 years of running XP and I was playing with an unsupported and hacked wireless driver.
Do you think that your sig may have something to do with the tremors? :)
I am seeing this as well in some IT contracts that are out there. They are labeling jobs as "junior" but the skill set for the job is somewhat more advanced. Plus jobs that start out as junior usually end up taking on more responsible work (which is good but only when you get paid at the same level as the responsibility) and the job role changes.
Any tips on how I can better hide my ID on the net?
I believe you are asking how to hide yourself better on a network and not on THE 'net.
The answer would be no without mimicking an existing MAC address which could potentially cause DOS for either you or the other MAC.
There are tools out there that can detect and list new network cards connecting to a wireless network as well as force disassociation of said network cards as well as rogue access points
Mind you a hospital using Wireless without locking it down with some form of VPN is silly if not plain stupid.
Ealing may be in the UK, but the GGP was talking about a case in Florida (I think either way it was in the US)
Question is if DOD will sell the drives after wiping them? I suspect not. DND (Canada's military) won't they use (DOD Compliant) disk wiping only when the drive (machine) gets allocated from one person to another.
I am surprised that they don't sell them without the drives and woodchip them. That is what any sane organization does that wants to make sure this situation doesn't happen.
I have a Costco membership. I have been there twice this year. I probably won't renew and most likely cancel before the end of the year.
Couple of Reasons:
1. No Deep Freeze. Everything there you need to buy 10 of. I can understand if you have a family with multiple kids but it is just two of us in an apartment.
2. Prices aren't that much better on everything else. The nice thing about them is the stuff they carry is different. In other words something that the normal grocery stores don't carry. Plus since there are only three in my city (soon to be 4) it is more inconvenient to go to. See #1 why not to stock up.
3. Electronics. My parents have always done their Xmas shopping there and they seem to only carry specific models that no one else does. The difference in prices for electronics there may seem good until you look at the details. I was looking at a big screen a while back and the price seemed decent until I looked elsewhere and realized for an extra $100 I get more and better input methods.
3. Biggest problem: Payment methods. They only take Amex. Sorry I don't want another credit card.
Hell they still take checks!
I can understand why people go there but it isn't the be all that it is cracked up to for everyone.
I think the problem with Millenium was that it was based around Y2K . Once that passed it was doomed.
Just started watching Firefly and am truly enjoying it. I suspect that we will see the movie as well.
Just remember that because of the levy, in Canada you can download anything you want. They can't penalize you twice (once with the levy, twice with a lawsuit).
However with the new copyright ammendment this may change...
Piece of crap looked like it was done by Sid and Marty Kroft on a bad day.
Land of the Lost redux!
Course they would probably replace the Sleestak with zombies or something
What is funny is for the last couple of years I had morphed Voltron to be Battle of the Planets (G-Force).
Tells you how similar the two are.
Even better... A newsgroup. Course most of them probably would be the same serial number