Is there anything we can really do to ensure that our equipment doesn't wind up in some other country's landfill??
Uhhh... keep it?:)
I sold my 486 around 2 years ago. It won't really prevent it from becoming part of the landfill waste. However, it will take way your worries, thinking that your computer will be put to use for another year or so.
My 286 gets to sit around in my home longer than my 486, but my parents eventually gave it to the recycling centre (around 6 months ago). I'm hoping that it doesn't end up in China too, even though my parents bought it from Hong Kong.
In Starcraft, you can install "spawn" copies legally from the main install menu. You don't need multiple copies or multiple CD keys. I don't think it checks for CD keys on LAN games either.
Unfortunately, there is no Broodwar equivalent of the spawn version.
Although I don't know if SC works this way, but it makes sense to check the CD key on both the spawn and full install to make sure they are the same. After all, if you have two different keys, why bother installing the spawn version anyway?
May be in addition to publicly attacking, they could send the lawyers as well:)
7. Lawsuit. The Vendor threatens the Reporter for creating the demonstration with lawsuits, claiming that the "Hacker Tool" is damaging their reputation.
My university email account had been flooded with spam about a year ago, and I went to the sysadmin, trying to get a new account. However, he suggested that I try spamgard 0.5 that they had already installed (but not activated by default).
It does everything except 3, and a non-random "password" for 4.
It does an excellent work on filtering out spam. Acutally I allowed only email sent from within the university domain, plus a selected few.
Any email that is not in my approved list gets bounced back to the sender (or reply-to) telling them that they must use a special password in the subject line in order to get past the filter.
However, none of them cared. None of them even read the password and use that in the subject. I actually received *more* spam than usual (it kept a log, so I know), but a good thing that they were filtered out.
The next step with eliminating the extra flood of spam was to bounce the email with the format exactly like as if my account wasn't even there, give or take a few messages. To this day, the only filtered out email were my friends sending email to me from outside the domain (oops:)
"The cell phone you are trying to reach is currently rebooting (or, has just crashed because you called)."
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Unless I'm mistaken or this "university network" isn't very universal, any traffic going outside the university network count towards your limit...
So, unless you have the address of somebody else within your university network who happened to be very generous about people using his/her limit, you'll still use up your 500MB/week, won't you? And what about people connecting to your server from the outside? Those could count as double to your limit...
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What about the standard SSL?
Peek-A-Booty nodes send out standard SSL, so the censorware can't distinguish the request from any other secure electronic transaction
I thought that was pretty good, although it might make the government suspicious about lots of people connecting to a single server using SSL...
unless it's done the same way as the *tella style p2p.
It's just so annoying that when I wanted something from the *tella network, the server isn't even on. Or I kept seeing people probing my computer for a *tella server.
Then again if it's done similar to the central location way, it can be easily blocked too. Hrm. Guess there'll be more traffic hammering my firewall. *sigh*
I'm seeing close to 800 posts (and probably more coming) and then I see the other stories with a low 200. With the 800 posts, I also see so many moderation points thrown into this story...
Heck, since when did MHz mean something?
Sure it does... it makes my P3-450MHz look puny now (of course, it's been two years). People can go out and buy (or upgrade to) a better computer (and another excuse for me to get a new one too;).
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I'm sure Bill Gates knows why this is better, since it did say in the public domain source code:).
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Not to mention Dalnet's 1080 probing. Every single time I connect, it has to probe my WinGate. Here's what they say:
This server runs an open proxy/wingate detection monitor. If you see a port 1080 or port 23 connection from [somewhere].monitor.dal.net please disregard it, as it is the detector in action. For more information please see http://kline.dal.net/proxy/wingate.htm
"Cruel. But you said it yourself, who wants to meet meat? And the ones who have been aboard our vessels, the ones you have probed? You're sure they won't remember?"
"They'll be considered crackpots if they do. We went into their heads and smoothed out their meat so that we're just a dream to them."
A Simpsons episode comes to mind...
"We'll just cover you with rum and nobody will believe you!" ---
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Is there anything we can really do to ensure that our equipment doesn't wind up in some other country's landfill??
:)
Uhhh... keep it?
I sold my 486 around 2 years ago. It won't really prevent it from becoming part of the landfill waste. However, it will take way your worries, thinking that your computer will be put to use for another year or so.
My 286 gets to sit around in my home longer than my 486, but my parents eventually gave it to the recycling centre (around 6 months ago). I'm hoping that it doesn't end up in China too, even though my parents bought it from Hong Kong.
Couldn't I use the game client to connect to the Bnet server? It might be a little harder to do, but it could be done, right?
In Starcraft, you can install "spawn" copies legally from the main install menu. You don't need multiple copies or multiple CD keys. I don't think it checks for CD keys on LAN games either.
Unfortunately, there is no Broodwar equivalent of the spawn version.
Although I don't know if SC works this way, but it makes sense to check the CD key on both the spawn and full install to make sure they are the same. After all, if you have two different keys, why bother installing the spawn version anyway?
Sounds like RealDownload, as described here.
:)
May be in addition to publicly attacking, they could send the lawyers as well
7. Lawsuit. The Vendor threatens the Reporter for creating the demonstration with lawsuits, claiming that the "Hacker Tool" is damaging their reputation.
you'll see me having breakf...
Wait a minute..
That's like windows 98... :)
or the Win9x series in general
My university email account had been flooded with spam about a year ago, and I went to the sysadmin, trying to get a new account. However, he suggested that I try spamgard 0.5 that they had already installed (but not activated by default).
:)
It does everything except 3, and a non-random "password" for 4.
It does an excellent work on filtering out spam. Acutally I allowed only email sent from within the university domain, plus a selected few.
Any email that is not in my approved list gets bounced back to the sender (or reply-to) telling them that they must use a special password in the subject line in order to get past the filter.
However, none of them cared. None of them even read the password and use that in the subject. I actually received *more* spam than usual (it kept a log, so I know), but a good thing that they were filtered out.
The next step with eliminating the extra flood of spam was to bounce the email with the format exactly like as if my account wasn't even there, give or take a few messages. To this day, the only filtered out email were my friends sending email to me from outside the domain (oops
It used to be on ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/wj/wje/release , but I guess Earthlink took over.
"The cell phone you are trying to reach is currently rebooting (or, has just crashed because you called)."
Unless I'm mistaken or this "university network" isn't very universal, any traffic going outside the university network count towards your limit...
So, unless you have the address of somebody else within your university network who happened to be very generous about people using his/her limit, you'll still use up your 500MB/week, won't you? And what about people connecting to your server from the outside? Those could count as double to your limit...
What about the standard SSL?
Peek-A-Booty nodes send out standard SSL, so the censorware can't distinguish the request from any other secure electronic transaction
I thought that was pretty good, although it might make the government suspicious about lots of people connecting to a single server using SSL...
unless it's done the same way as the *tella style p2p.
It's just so annoying that when I wanted something from the *tella network, the server isn't even on. Or I kept seeing people probing my computer for a *tella server.
Then again if it's done similar to the central location way, it can be easily blocked too. Hrm. Guess there'll be more traffic hammering my firewall. *sigh*
Oh wait... it's just my sig :)
They can genetically altered the DNA so that it is born neutered already.
"This is Bob Barker reminding you to have your cloned pets pre-spaded or pre-neutered."
CopyDog? That doesn't sound right...
I'm seeing close to 800 posts (and probably more coming) and then I see the other stories with a low 200. With the 800 posts, I also see so many moderation points thrown into this story...
It's all about you now isn't it?!
Heck, since when did MHz mean something? ;).
:).
Sure it does... it makes my P3-450MHz look puny now (of course, it's been two years). People can go out and buy (or upgrade to) a better computer (and another excuse for me to get a new one too
<MS_BASH>
I'm sure Bill Gates knows why this is better, since it did say in the public domain source code
</MS_BASH>
You can eat them, if you don't mind lighting up once in a while... Actually, that might be good: saves energy at night... ;)
'He's using steroids to move that pawn!'
Nooo.... They're overclocking Deep Blue!
It would be interesting if this was proven to be true with spam laws
Not to mention that Yahoo can sue (what's his nick again?) for DoSing the site!
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Opt-out is an invitation to spending your whole life as an opt-outer.
Oh not necessarily. You can ignore that address, ie ask all your friends to send to another address (of course, this is best used on free emails).
That reminds me, I left a few Hotmail accounts unchecked for a few months now. I wonder if it's filled up already?
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Not to mention Dalnet's 1080 probing. Every single time I connect, it has to probe my WinGate. Here's what they say:
This server runs an open proxy/wingate detection monitor. If you see a port 1080 or port 23 connection from [somewhere].monitor.dal.net please disregard it, as it is the detector in action. For more information please see http://kline.dal.net/proxy/wingate.htm
You think they're onto something?
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Ahhh yes... the monkey virus. However, the monkey virus infects the MBR, encrypts it, and stow it somewhere else.
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"Cruel. But you said it yourself, who wants to meet meat? And the ones who have been aboard our vessels, the ones you have probed? You're sure they won't remember?"
"They'll be considered crackpots if they do. We went into their heads and smoothed out their meat so that we're just a dream to them."
A Simpsons episode comes to mind...
"We'll just cover you with rum and nobody will believe you!"
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