could I still route mail to my girlfriend in Brazil, around the smoking crator?
Probably not, mostly due to topology. Brazil is closer to US than to Europe. Therefore it's easier to lay a fiber optical cable to there, and take advantage of the already existing cables between US and EU. Not only that, but Brazil communicates more to US than to EU. Therefore it seems to be a logical step.
Brazil has 2 major backbones: Global One and Embratel . Both route traffic to Europe through the US east coast. For those interested, here are some traceroutes:
From Brazil to sunic.sunet.se via Global One: 1 router.indeca.com.br (200.197.162.2) 3 ms 3 ms 3 ms 2 gip-spo-3-rt02-ser1-1-1-4.br.global-one.net (200.224.226.233) 12 ms 11 ms 12 ms 3 gip-spo-3-rt02-fast0-0-0.br.global-one.net (200.224.224.30) 12 ms 15 ms 12 ms 4 gip-spo-3-rt01-fddi10-0.br.global-one.net (200.30.0.37) 13 ms 33 ms 12 ms 5 gip-spo-3-rt06-fast0-0-0.br.global-one.net (200.30.0.62) 16 ms 21 ms 13 ms 6 gip-stoc-us-bar-2-s6-1-2.gip.net (204.59.129.9) 604 ms 604 ms 603 ms 7 gip-penn-us-bar-1-h0-1-1.gip.net (204.59.136.17) 657 ms 657 ms 657 ms 8 gip-penn-us-bar-3-p1-1.gip.net (204.59.138.9) 657 ms 658 ms 664 ms 9 gip-arch-gb-bar-2-p9-0-0.gip.net (204.59.138.22) 726 ms 727 ms 726 ms 10 gip-stkh-se-bar-2-a0-0-0-744-aal5.gip.net (204.59.5.102) 780 ms 781 ms 781 ms 11 gip-segix-se-ix-1-fe3-0.gip.net (204.59.26.193) 795 ms 787 ms 856 ms 12 Stockholm-DGIX.sunet.se (194.68.128.19) 788 ms 781 ms 781 ms 13 STK-BB-2-POS4-2.sunet.se (130.242.204.65) 784 ms * 783 ms 14 KTHNOC-1-SRP-5-0.sunet.se (130.242.211.4) 786 ms 781 ms 782 ms 15 sunic.sunet.se (192.36.125.2) 785 ms 790 ms 785 ms
------- From Brazil to sunic.sunet.se via Embratel: 1 gw-ether1-cisco1.node1.com.br (200.246.122.1) 18.129 ms 18.817 ms 26.504 ms 2 200.182.13.225 (200.182.13.225) 89.953 ms 56.801 ms 38.883 ms 3 ebt-A1-2-1-dist05.spo.embratel.net.br (200.246.244.230) 76.897 ms 48.078 ms 36.505 ms 4 ebt-P10-0-core03.spo.embratel.net.br (200.230.0.138) 30.443 ms 65.064 ms 36.109 ms 5 ebt-P11-1-0-intl01.tang.embratel.net.br (200.230.0.117) 74 ms 83.839 ms 89.661 ms 6 Pos12-0-0.SR2.BLM1.ALTER.NET (157.130.218.133) 604.84 ms 606.939 ms 593.931 ms 7 503.ATM3-0.XR2.EWR1.ALTER.NET (152.63.22.38) 577.339 ms 589.149 ms 561.397 ms 8 192.ATM9-0-0.GW2.NYC2.ALTER.NET (146.188.178.157) 567.07 ms 626.497 ms 558.11 ms 9 teleglobe.ny2-gw.customer.ALTER.NET (157.130.4.166) 583.406 ms 157.130.5.218 (157.130.5.218) 598.425 ms 615.608 ms 10 if-0-0.core1.NewYork.Teleglobe.net (207.45.221.97) 1047.11 ms 751.36 ms 717.436 ms 11 NORDUnet-gw.Teleglobe.net (207.45.202.26) 675.847 ms 786.77 ms 809.703 ms 12 sw-gw.nordu.net (193.10.252.185) 925.529 ms 1059.38 ms 1115.3 ms 13 STK-BB-1.sunet.se (193.10.252.178) 847.593 ms 829.137 ms 785.761 ms 14 KTHNOC-1-SRP-5-0.sunet.se (130.242.211.4) 706.207 ms 701.081 ms 786.604 ms 15 sunic.sunet.se (192.36.125.2) 714.076 ms 699.167 ms 729.571 ms ----- So if the US suddenly got disconnected, most international traffic from South America would be out, indeed. But due to topological reasons, this should not affect traffic from Paris to India or Russia.
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Yep; in sufficiently high doses, anything can kill you. Even abnormally high water intake for a sustained period can kill you in several ways, including malnutirion:
There's even this article against water, for the people unaware that dihydrogen monoxide is water. Read it. It's fun.
Dihydrogen monoxide is colorless, odorless, tasteless, and kills uncounted thousands of people every year. Most of these deaths are caused by accidental inhalation of DHMO, but the dangers of dihydrogen monoxide do not end there. Prolonged exposure to its solid form causes severe tissue damage. Symptoms of DHMO ingestion can include excessive sweating and urination, and possibly a bloated feeling, nausea, vomiting and body electrolyte imbalance. For those who have become dependent, DHMO withdrawal means certain death.
Dihydrogen monoxide:
is also known as hydric acid, and is the major component of acid rain.
contributes to the "greenhouse effect."
may cause severe burns.
contributes to the erosion of our natural landscape.
accelerates corrosion and rusting of many metals.
may cause electrical failures and decreased effectiveness of automobile brakes.
has been found in excised tumors of terminal cancer patients.
CONTAMINATION IS REACHING EPIDEMIC PROPORTIONS!
Quantities of dihydrogen monoxide have been found in almost every stream, lake, and reservoir in America today. But the pollution is global, and the contaminant has even been found in Antarctic ice. In the midwest alone DHMO has caused millions of dollars of property damage.
Despite the danger, dihydrogen monoxide is often used:
as an industrial solvent and coolant.
in nuclear power plants.
in the production of styrofoam.
as a fire retardant.
in many forms of cruel animal research.
in the distribution of pesticides. Even after washing, produce remains contaminated by this chemical.
as an additive in certain "junk-foods" and other food products.
Companies dump waste DHMO into rivers and the ocean, and nothing can be done to stop them because this practice is still legal. The impact on wildlife is extreme, and we cannot afford to ignore it any longer!
THE HORROR MUST BE STOPPED!
The American government has refused to ban the production, distribution, or use of this damaging chemical due to its "importance to the economic health of this nation." In fact, the navy and other military organizations are conducting experiments with DHMO, and designing multi-billion dollar devices to control and utilize it during warfare situations. Hundreds of military research facilities receive tons of it through a highly sophisticated underground distribution network. Many store large quantities for later use.
IT'S NOT TOO LATE!
Act NOW to prevent further contamination. Find out more about this dangerous chemical. What you don't know CAN hurt you and others throughout the world.
Just imagine how bad it'd be if someone with nothing else to do subscribed them on every spam list, and their phone was listed in all telemarket directories. They'd receive lots of junk e-mail and annoying phone calls. That'd be terrible, wouldn't it ?
Hey, pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering ?
Their info, as publically available on whois, is:
Registrant: FIX, STEFANIE (HAND-2-MOUTH-DOM) PO Box 322 NEW PALTZ, NY 12561 US
Domain Name: HAND-2-MOUTH.COM
Administrative Contact, Billing Contact: FIX, STEFANIE (SFO146) sfix@CORNELLS.COM FIX, STEFANIE PO Box 322 NEW PALTZ, NY 12561 914 658 8215 (FAX) 123 123 1234 Technical Contact, Zone Contact: Fix, John (JF113) john3@CORNELLS.COM 310 White Plains Rd Eastchester, NY 10707 914-961-2400 (FAX) 914-961-8443
John Fix seems to be the sysadmin. He probably has nothing to do with it, just keep the site up.
Stefanie Fix is the one who had that brilliant idea.
The fax obviusly is fake. But can someone who lives in US check if that phone 914 658 8215 is valid ? Domain stefaniefix.com also has the same data.
Does someone know good telemarket directories they may want to join ?:) Or wanna call them to complain ? What about junk mail ?
Here in Brazil there is a very bad wealth distribution. By pure coincidence, I have recent figures, as a major Brazilian magazine published this week an article regarding the rich guys. It's consent here that one of the major problems is the wealth distribution.
Those who have an annual income of R$ 7.716 (US$ 4.000) are among the 10% richest Brazilians. Those who earn more than R$ 26.400 (US$ 13894) are the 1% richest, and their incoming is greater than the total incoming of the 50% poorest.
Of course, this includes poor rural areas. Big cities, like Sao Paulo, are quite like NYC. Money is mostly concentrated in the capitals (Sao Paulo, Rio, Brasilia, Belo Horizonte, etc). In these big cities, like in Sao Paulo, that's where I live, we have some places with a standard of life similar to more developed countries. Yes, we have ADSL, cable modem, Mc Donald's, HBO, WB TV, and most stuff americans have. There are like 10 million Brazilians w/ Internet access (not sure about this number.).
This said, we can add that there are lots of illiterates and people who can't have access to the Internet.
And let's face it. Most people will simply use it for on-line chatting. Few people will do something useful with it, let alone profit from it. I guess only those with more culture will actually research or do something productive. But if they have some culture, they most probably are not in the 50% poorest group.
This way, the net can cause even more social distortion. This can be bad. On the other way, the net can really bring new opportunities to people who wouldn't have conditions for such.
Knowing how to access the net will soon be one of the pre-requisites of many jobs. Knowing how to use a computer already is. This will make the computer illiterates socially excluded.
So, in my opinion, it'll contribute for some of the poorest people to become even poorer, but will give many new opportunities. It's not necessarily bad or good. It's a change. People call it progress.
Your comment is completely false. The Internet is transparent upon the networking medium
Just to reinforce this statement, I'd like to remember there's RFC 1149 regarding Transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers, i.e. pigeons. It's worth reading:) Of course it was posted on April 1st, but it's technically correct.
There's also an amendment, RFC 2549 that adds QOS to Avian Carriers.
Last week my local central office installed DSL. I have been using it since. In fact, just about everyone I know in my city has been using DSL. "Broadband" is the wave of the future! POTS is good for fast and easy voice transmission, but admit it: it's dead for Internet.
Sorry to disappoint you, but DSL *DOES* run on POTS by definition. That's the good thing about DSL. It doesn't require re-wiring, and your POTS will do. You can have a good explanation of DSL and its variations (ADSL, HDSL, SDSL, and others) here.
To: Michael Robinson <contact@STOPNAPSTER.COM> Subject: Suggestion From: napster@molina.com.br Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2000 20:26:40 -0300
Hi. Sorry for e-mailing you, but your website www.stopnapster.com is not allowing comments. So if you are not the person responsible for deciding CD prices, please forward this to the relevant people. Thanks.
I have a suggestion. Why instead of trying to stop Napster (what is a pure waste of time, as if Napster is banned, there will appear other distribution systems, and/or tehnologies), why doesn't RIAA simply lower their prices ? The record companies are fatty and can easily reduce their profit margin. This way, they'll sell more.
No one in their right mind would prefer to get a MP3 from the Internet if they could buy a CD for, say, $4.
When CDs were introduced, some years ago, they were more expensive than a tape. The explanation was that by then CD-recording equipment was expensive and hard to find. Now it's much cheaper than producing a tape. But CD prices didn't lower. Artits profit didn't rise too. This means recording companies are evil and getting all the money.
So, just lower CD prices and there'll be no need to stop napster. People will stop using automatically.
What do you think ?
If you need help setting the new prices, and stuff, you are free to contact me at napster@molina.com.br . TIA.
So much for love thy neighbor. Lets see, what proof do you have of this assertion? Oh that's right, the Bible. How is that authoritative? Oh that's right, because it just is, and perish the thought of thinking otherwise.
The Bible *IS* authorative allright. Look at the SOA !!! Now do you believe it's authorative ??
eagle:/mp3# dig bible.org any @bible.org
; > DiG 8.2 > bible.org any @bible.org ; (1 server found) ;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch ;; got answer: ;; ->>HEADER;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 6, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 3 ;; QUERY SECTION: ;; bible.org, type = ANY, class = IN
;; ANSWER SECTION: bible.org. 6H IN NS dns.bible.org. bible.org. 6H IN NS icarus.ods.com. bible.org. 6H IN SOA dns.bible.org. hamptonk.bible.org. ( 991115 ; serial 6H ; refresh 1H ; retry 2w6d ; expiry 6H ) ; minimum
bible.org. 6H IN MX 20 bsf.bible.org. bible.org. 6H IN MX 10 bible.org. bible.org. 6H IN A 192.94.73.148
;; AUTHORITY SECTION: bible.org. 6H IN NS dns.bible.org. bible.org. 6H IN NS icarus.ods.com.
;; ADDITIONAL SECTION: icarus.ods.com. 16h59m14s IN A 192.94.73.11 bsf.bible.org. 6H IN A 192.94.73.148 bible.org. 6H IN A 192.94.73.148
;; Total query time: 475 msec ;; FROM: eagle to SERVER: bible.org 192.94.73.148 ;; WHEN: Wed Jun 21 03:09:52 2000 ;; MSG SIZE sent: 27 rcvd: 246
1 million is pretty steep for a garbage collector... how about using high powered lasers to blast the sky clean?
I guess you've being too many movies. The laser could heat the debris, ok. In the best case a laser could split a large piece into smaller pieces, what would only aggravate the situation. Instead of 1 large piece to track, you'd have n pieces.
That's NOT a joke ! Some years ago here in Brazil the only ones that could register a domain name were companies (and they had to prove they were companies). Regular people also wanted to register domains, as Internet was gaining popularity and personal websites becoming common. So they started complaining, and the powers that be decided to create new Brazilian TLDs just for regular people.
They were so wise that they had a brilliant idea. To create various TLD's, each one for an occupation. So far so good. In a demonstration of their wisdom, they keenly chose 23 occupations as deserving a TLD. Some of them:
.ntr.br - for nutritionists - with 12 domains registered
.slg.br - for sociologists - with 3 domains
.zlg.br - for zoologists - (no that's not a joke !) And it has *1* (one) domain registered since it was created on may 1999
Obviously people just ignored these ridiculous TLDs and continued registering.com.br (that has 244594 domains registered - 92.69% of all Brazilian domains) You can check with your own eyes the Brazilian TLD's and their stats directly from Fapesp, the only Brazilian registrar (at least they work far better than Network Slowlutions). As its in Portuguese, Babelfish may help.
I wonder whether this will take focus(and engineers) off of Russia's commitment to the International Space Station? Hopefully not!
Probably not. But maybe the International Space States will come with some extra features, like fridges in all rooms, HBO, jacuzzi rooms, and, of course, an on-board gift shop. The kids need souvenirs, don't they ?
Sizes in genes Compressed Uncompressed -------------------------------------- Patch 462778 2000341 Full source 19629195 83834880 -------------------------------------- The following files were changed in this release:
More people are running it in production environments than any other MTA.
More people are running Win 95/98 in production enviroments than any other OS. More people run wu-ftpd than any other ftpd. More people watch TV than read newspapers.
sendmail's bugs tend to get found very quickly, publicized immediately, and fixed very quickly.
They have a quick response because they're already used to it. And, besides, a quick response for a software bug is common practice in the open source community, specially if security-related. But the point is: a well designed MTA wouldn't have that many bugs.
> I'm not sure how it handles big loads, but I have it on a few smaller boxes and I've never had trouble with it.
Actually Qmail is way much faster than Sendmail and requires a lighter load with the same ammount of traffic. I don't even think of using Sendmail. Why would one want to use a monolithic, buggy system like this? Sendmail has been designed WRONG from the very beggining (it's a monolithic program running as root most of the time). That's why so many security holes appeared. OTOH, a program whose compromise is with security (i.e. Qmail) runs as root the less time possible. No root account has been compromised via Qmail. The only problem that appeared is a possible DoS.
I sincerely can't understand why people go for crappy software. Another very popular example is wu-ftpd. Sorry to say that folks, but IMO wu-ftpd sucks. Have you ever tried to chroot an user using wu-ftpd ? Gee... Not only it's a pain in the ass, it's also messy. How many bugs have been reported to wu-ftpd ? It's also historically insecure. There are much better ftp daemons. My favorite is ncftpd (yes, this one is commercial).
So I just want to understand: Why are wu-ftpd and sendmail so popular ?
>>Selling quake is illegal? >Yep. >>And why?? >Because everywhere you go, there are assholes who feel that "the children must be protected". At any and all cost. Here, they are winning.
I'm sorry, but I have to divert from this. I'm also Brazilian, and, yes, Quake, Duke-Nuken, Carmageddon and some other games are banned in Brazil. But what really caused Quake & D.N. to be banned is that in Sao Paulo, a major city, a psycho got a machine gun and started shooting people in a cinema, resembling that famous Duke Nuken scene. As it was the first killing in Brazil, people got shocked. They found Duke Nuken and Quake on his computer, and decided to ban it (duh).
There are many ways to distribute such a DoS. One is simply to amplify ICMP echo replies by sending a ICMP_ECHO_REQUEST packet with a broadcast address as destination and the target address as source. Lots of machines will reply to the source, thus flooding it. That's called smurf attack.
Other attack is the Syn flood, in wich one (or various) machine send a TCP packet with the SYN flag on and a fake source address. That means it's pretending to start a connection, and it'll take a while till the target notices it's a fake IP address. In this meanwhile it'll drain resources from the machine.
There could be lots of other attacks. Does someone know what was used ?
BTW, a nice way to distribute such a DoS, wich I'm not sure if has already been done, would be to make a backdoor, distributed by a worm or something like that, that connects to one "master" site , wich the 3l33t guy has control and waits for instructions (1 0wn j00). The instruction could be something like: "Hey, all you machines there, go ping flood yahoo."
Geller receives patent for 1-Glance spoon bending method
RUSSIA, Nov. 14/PRNewswire/ -- Leading spoon bender Yuri Geller has been awarded a patent for its innovative 1-glance spoon bending method, wich allows one who uses this technique to easily bend spoons. It is rumored that Geller is going IPO. The market is waiting anxiously.
In other news, Geller is going to sue Matrix movie makers, because of that famous Matrix scene, in wich a boy teaches Neo how to bend spoons. -"This is an obvious infingiment of my patent" -angrily said Mr. Geller.
>Is Brazil's game market just behind the times and these games are the new ones there, > or are they just banning the violent games that this man had in his possession?
I live in Brazil, and we are not so behind the times. Games and movies usually arrive here about one or two monthes after being released in US.
What I believe is that these may be the only games some judge or other bureaucrat may have heard of.
And frankly speaking, I think it's ridiculous to ban these games!! First of all there are much more realistic and violent games (such as Half-life), where you kill persons, not only monsters, wich, I guess, makes a huge difference from the psychological point of view. In Duken Nuken you kill monsters, instead of people !
Another thing: I read here in Slashdot they said the sicko was being treated for stress. That's not true. He was being treated for schizophrenia, and his doctor told his family he should not live unattended. But they left him living alone.
And this case had so much repercussion in the press because it was the first time in Brazil a psycho goes to a public place and starts shooting people without having a reason.
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could I still route mail to my girlfriend in Brazil, around the smoking crator?
Probably not, mostly due to topology. Brazil is closer to US than to Europe. Therefore it's easier to lay a fiber optical cable to there, and take advantage of the already existing cables between US and EU. Not only that, but Brazil communicates more to US than to EU. Therefore it seems to be a logical step.
Brazil has 2 major backbones: Global One and Embratel . Both route traffic to Europe through the US east coast. For those interested, here are some traceroutes:
From Brazil to sunic.sunet.se via Global One:
1 router.indeca.com.br (200.197.162.2) 3 ms 3 ms 3 ms
2 gip-spo-3-rt02-ser1-1-1-4.br.global-one.net (200.224.226.233) 12 ms 11 ms 12 ms
3 gip-spo-3-rt02-fast0-0-0.br.global-one.net (200.224.224.30) 12 ms 15 ms 12 ms
4 gip-spo-3-rt01-fddi10-0.br.global-one.net (200.30.0.37) 13 ms 33 ms 12 ms
5 gip-spo-3-rt06-fast0-0-0.br.global-one.net (200.30.0.62) 16 ms 21 ms 13 ms
6 gip-stoc-us-bar-2-s6-1-2.gip.net (204.59.129.9) 604 ms 604 ms 603 ms
7 gip-penn-us-bar-1-h0-1-1.gip.net (204.59.136.17) 657 ms 657 ms 657 ms
8 gip-penn-us-bar-3-p1-1.gip.net (204.59.138.9) 657 ms 658 ms 664 ms
9 gip-arch-gb-bar-2-p9-0-0.gip.net (204.59.138.22) 726 ms 727 ms 726 ms
10 gip-stkh-se-bar-2-a0-0-0-744-aal5.gip.net (204.59.5.102) 780 ms 781 ms 781 ms
11 gip-segix-se-ix-1-fe3-0.gip.net (204.59.26.193) 795 ms 787 ms 856 ms
12 Stockholm-DGIX.sunet.se (194.68.128.19) 788 ms 781 ms 781 ms
13 STK-BB-2-POS4-2.sunet.se (130.242.204.65) 784 ms * 783 ms
14 KTHNOC-1-SRP-5-0.sunet.se (130.242.211.4) 786 ms 781 ms 782 ms
15 sunic.sunet.se (192.36.125.2) 785 ms 790 ms 785 ms
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From Brazil to sunic.sunet.se via Embratel:
1 gw-ether1-cisco1.node1.com.br (200.246.122.1) 18.129 ms 18.817 ms 26.504 ms
2 200.182.13.225 (200.182.13.225) 89.953 ms 56.801 ms 38.883 ms
3 ebt-A1-2-1-dist05.spo.embratel.net.br (200.246.244.230) 76.897 ms 48.078 ms 36.505 ms
4 ebt-P10-0-core03.spo.embratel.net.br (200.230.0.138) 30.443 ms 65.064 ms 36.109 ms
5 ebt-P11-1-0-intl01.tang.embratel.net.br (200.230.0.117) 74 ms 83.839 ms 89.661 ms
6 Pos12-0-0.SR2.BLM1.ALTER.NET (157.130.218.133) 604.84 ms 606.939 ms 593.931 ms
7 503.ATM3-0.XR2.EWR1.ALTER.NET (152.63.22.38) 577.339 ms 589.149 ms 561.397 ms
8 192.ATM9-0-0.GW2.NYC2.ALTER.NET (146.188.178.157) 567.07 ms 626.497 ms 558.11 ms
9 teleglobe.ny2-gw.customer.ALTER.NET (157.130.4.166) 583.406 ms 157.130.5.218 (157.130.5.218) 598.425 ms 615.608 ms
10 if-0-0.core1.NewYork.Teleglobe.net (207.45.221.97) 1047.11 ms 751.36 ms 717.436 ms
11 NORDUnet-gw.Teleglobe.net (207.45.202.26) 675.847 ms 786.77 ms 809.703 ms
12 sw-gw.nordu.net (193.10.252.185) 925.529 ms 1059.38 ms 1115.3 ms
13 STK-BB-1.sunet.se (193.10.252.178) 847.593 ms 829.137 ms 785.761 ms
14 KTHNOC-1-SRP-5-0.sunet.se (130.242.211.4) 706.207 ms 701.081 ms 786.604 ms
15 sunic.sunet.se (192.36.125.2) 714.076 ms 699.167 ms 729.571 ms
-----
So if the US suddenly got disconnected, most international traffic from South America would be out, indeed. But due to topological reasons, this should not affect traffic from Paris to India or Russia.
There's even this article against water, for the people unaware that dihydrogen monoxide is water. Read it. It's fun.
Dihydrogen monoxide is colorless, odorless, tasteless, and kills uncounted thousands of people every year. Most of these deaths are caused by accidental inhalation of DHMO, but the dangers of dihydrogen monoxide do not end there. Prolonged exposure to its solid form causes severe tissue damage. Symptoms of DHMO ingestion can include excessive sweating and urination, and possibly a bloated feeling, nausea, vomiting and body electrolyte imbalance. For those who have become dependent, DHMO withdrawal means certain death.
Dihydrogen monoxide:
is also known as hydric acid, and is the major component of acid rain.
contributes to the "greenhouse effect."
may cause severe burns.
contributes to the erosion of our natural landscape.
accelerates corrosion and rusting of many metals.
may cause electrical failures and decreased effectiveness of automobile brakes.
has been found in excised tumors of terminal cancer patients.
CONTAMINATION IS REACHING EPIDEMIC PROPORTIONS!
Quantities of dihydrogen monoxide have been found in almost every stream, lake, and reservoir in America today. But the pollution is global, and the contaminant has even been found in Antarctic ice. In the midwest alone DHMO has caused millions of dollars of property damage.
Despite the danger, dihydrogen monoxide is often used:
as an industrial solvent and coolant.
in nuclear power plants.
in the production of styrofoam.
as a fire retardant.
in many forms of cruel animal research.
in the distribution of pesticides. Even after washing, produce remains contaminated by this chemical.
as an additive in certain "junk-foods" and other food products.
Companies dump waste DHMO into rivers and the ocean, and nothing can be done to stop them because this practice is still legal. The impact on wildlife is extreme, and we cannot afford to ignore it any longer!
THE HORROR MUST BE STOPPED!
The American government has refused to ban the production, distribution, or use of this damaging chemical due to its "importance to the economic health of this nation." In fact, the navy and other military organizations are conducting experiments with DHMO, and designing multi-billion dollar devices to control and utilize it during warfare situations. Hundreds of military research facilities receive tons of it through a highly sophisticated underground distribution network. Many store large quantities for later use.
IT'S NOT TOO LATE!
Act NOW to prevent further contamination. Find out more about this dangerous chemical. What you don't know CAN hurt you and others throughout the world.
> I have made sure to update my access.db with all of their netblocks
What are their netblocks ?
via whois I got Netblock: 64.37.192.0 - 64.37.239.255 but I'm afraid this can include other exodus customers.
As far as I understood, they build that stuff together.
Just imagine how bad it'd be if someone with nothing else to do subscribed them on every spam list, and their phone was listed in all telemarket directories. They'd receive lots of junk e-mail and annoying phone calls. That'd be terrible, wouldn't it ?
:) Or wanna call them to complain ? What about junk mail ?
Hey, pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering ?
Their info, as publically available on whois, is:
Registrant:
FIX, STEFANIE (HAND-2-MOUTH-DOM)
PO Box 322
NEW PALTZ, NY 12561
US
Domain Name: HAND-2-MOUTH.COM
Administrative Contact, Billing Contact:
FIX, STEFANIE (SFO146) sfix@CORNELLS.COM
FIX, STEFANIE
PO Box 322
NEW PALTZ, NY 12561
914 658 8215 (FAX) 123 123 1234
Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
Fix, John (JF113) john3@CORNELLS.COM
310 White Plains Rd
Eastchester, NY 10707
914-961-2400 (FAX) 914-961-8443
John Fix seems to be the sysadmin. He probably has nothing to do with it, just keep the site up.
Stefanie Fix is the one who had that brilliant idea.
The fax obviusly is fake. But can someone who lives in US check if that phone 914 658 8215 is valid ?
Domain stefaniefix.com also has the same data.
Does someone know good telemarket directories they may want to join ?
Being Brazilian, I'd like to express my opinion.
Here in Brazil there is a very bad wealth distribution. By pure coincidence, I have recent figures, as a major Brazilian magazine published this week an article regarding the rich guys. It's consent here that one of the major problems is the wealth distribution.
Those who have an annual income of R$ 7.716 (US$ 4.000) are among the 10% richest Brazilians. Those who earn more than R$ 26.400 (US$ 13894) are the 1% richest, and their incoming is greater than the total incoming of the 50% poorest.
Of course, this includes poor rural areas. Big cities, like Sao Paulo, are quite like NYC. Money is mostly concentrated in the capitals (Sao Paulo, Rio, Brasilia, Belo Horizonte, etc). In these big cities, like in Sao Paulo, that's where I live, we have some places with a standard of life similar to more developed countries. Yes, we have ADSL, cable modem, Mc Donald's, HBO, WB TV, and most stuff americans have. There are like 10 million Brazilians w/ Internet access (not sure about this number.).
This said, we can add that there are lots of illiterates and people who can't have access to the Internet.
And let's face it. Most people will simply use it for on-line chatting. Few people will do something useful with it, let alone profit from it. I guess only those with more culture will actually research or do something productive. But if they have some culture, they most probably are not in the 50% poorest group.
This way, the net can cause even more social distortion. This can be bad. On the other way, the net can really bring new opportunities to people who wouldn't have conditions for such.
Knowing how to access the net will soon be one of the pre-requisites of many jobs. Knowing how to use a computer already is. This will make the computer illiterates socially excluded.
So, in my opinion, it'll contribute for some of the poorest people to become even poorer, but will give many new opportunities. It's not necessarily bad or good. It's a change. People call it progress.
Your comment is completely false. The Internet is transparent upon the networking medium
:) Of course it was posted on April 1st, but it's technically correct.
Just to reinforce this statement, I'd like to remember there's RFC 1149 regarding Transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers, i.e. pigeons. It's worth reading
There's also an amendment, RFC 2549 that adds QOS to Avian Carriers.
Last week my local central office installed DSL. I have been using it since. In fact, just about everyone I know in my city has been using DSL.
"Broadband" is the wave of the future! POTS is good for fast and easy voice transmission, but admit it: it's dead for Internet.
Sorry to disappoint you, but DSL *DOES* run on POTS by definition. That's the good thing about DSL. It doesn't require re-wiring, and your POTS will do. You can have a good explanation of DSL and its variations (ADSL, HDSL, SDSL, and others) here.
Yes every serious Linuxer should use Slackware
I assume you never really tried Debian Slink nor the Potato, right ?
If you did, you probably wouldn't say that.
My letter to them:
To: Michael Robinson <contact@STOPNAPSTER.COM>
Subject: Suggestion
From: napster@molina.com.br
Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2000 20:26:40 -0300
Hi. Sorry for e-mailing you, but your website www.stopnapster.com is not allowing comments. So if you are not the person responsible for deciding CD prices, please forward this to the relevant people. Thanks.
I have a suggestion. Why instead of trying to stop Napster (what is a pure waste of time, as if Napster is banned, there will appear other distribution systems, and/or tehnologies), why doesn't RIAA simply lower their prices ? The record companies are fatty and can easily reduce their profit margin. This way, they'll sell more.
No one in their right mind would prefer to get a MP3 from the Internet if they could buy a CD for, say, $4.
When CDs were introduced, some years ago, they were more expensive than a tape. The explanation was that by then CD-recording equipment was expensive and hard to find. Now it's much cheaper than producing a tape. But CD prices didn't lower. Artits profit didn't rise too. This means recording companies are evil and getting all the money.
So, just lower CD prices and there'll be no need to stop napster. People will stop using automatically.
What do you think ?
If you need help setting the new prices, and stuff, you are free to contact me at napster@molina.com.br . TIA.
So much for love thy neighbor. Lets see, what proof do you have of this assertion? Oh that's right, the Bible. How is that authoritative? Oh that's right, because it just is, and perish the thought of thinking otherwise.
;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
;; got answer:
;; ->>HEADER ;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 6, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 3
;; QUERY SECTION:
;; bible.org, type = ANY, class = IN
;; ANSWER SECTION:
;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
;; Total query time: 475 msec
;; FROM: eagle to SERVER: bible.org 192.94.73.148
;; WHEN: Wed Jun 21 03:09:52 2000
;; MSG SIZE sent: 27 rcvd: 246
The Bible *IS* authorative allright.
Look at the SOA !!!
Now do you believe it's authorative ??
eagle:/mp3# dig bible.org any @bible.org
; > DiG 8.2 > bible.org any @bible.org
; (1 server found)
bible.org. 6H IN NS dns.bible.org.
bible.org. 6H IN NS icarus.ods.com.
bible.org. 6H IN SOA dns.bible.org. hamptonk.bible.org. (
991115 ; serial
6H ; refresh
1H ; retry
2w6d ; expiry
6H ) ; minimum
bible.org. 6H IN MX 20 bsf.bible.org.
bible.org. 6H IN MX 10 bible.org.
bible.org. 6H IN A 192.94.73.148
bible.org. 6H IN NS dns.bible.org.
bible.org. 6H IN NS icarus.ods.com.
icarus.ods.com. 16h59m14s IN A 192.94.73.11
bsf.bible.org. 6H IN A 192.94.73.148
bible.org. 6H IN A 192.94.73.148
1 million is pretty steep for a garbage collector... how about using high powered lasers to blast the sky clean?
I guess you've being too many movies.
The laser could heat the debris, ok.
In the best case a laser could split a large piece into smaller pieces, what would only aggravate the situation. Instead of 1 large piece to track, you'd have n pieces.
Some years ago here in Brazil the only ones that could register a domain name were companies (and they had to prove they were companies). Regular people also wanted to register domains, as Internet was gaining popularity and personal websites becoming common. So they started complaining, and the powers that be decided to create new Brazilian TLDs just for regular people.
They were so wise that they had a brilliant idea. To create various TLD's, each one for an occupation. So far so good. In a demonstration of their wisdom, they keenly chose 23 occupations as deserving a TLD. Some of them:
Obviously people just ignored these ridiculous TLDs and continued registering
Amazing, isn't it ?
I wonder whether this will take focus(and engineers) off of Russia's commitment to the International Space Station? Hopefully not!
Probably not. But maybe the International Space States will come with some extra features, like fridges in all rooms, HBO, jacuzzi rooms, and, of course, an on-board gift shop. The kids need souvenirs, don't they ?
Sizes in genes Compressed Uncompressed
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Patch 462778 2000341
Full source 19629195 83834880
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The following files were changed in this release:
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kernel/female/blondes/Makefile | 308
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More people are running it in production environments than any other MTA.
More people are running Win 95/98 in production enviroments than any other OS. More people run wu-ftpd than any other ftpd. More people watch TV than read newspapers.
sendmail's bugs tend to get found very quickly, publicized immediately, and fixed very quickly.
They have a quick response because they're already used to it. And, besides, a quick response for a software bug is common practice in the open source community, specially if security-related. But the point is: a well designed MTA wouldn't have that many bugs.
> I'm not sure how it handles big loads, but I have it on a few smaller boxes and I've never had trouble with it.
Actually Qmail is way much faster than Sendmail and requires a lighter load with the same ammount of traffic.
I don't even think of using Sendmail. Why would one want to use a monolithic, buggy system like this? Sendmail has been designed WRONG from the very beggining (it's a monolithic program running as root most of the time). That's why so many security holes appeared. OTOH, a program whose compromise is with security (i.e. Qmail) runs as root the less time possible. No root account has been compromised via Qmail. The only problem that appeared is a possible DoS.
I sincerely can't understand why people go for crappy software. Another very popular example is wu-ftpd. Sorry to say that folks, but IMO wu-ftpd sucks. Have you ever tried to chroot an user using wu-ftpd ? Gee... Not only it's a pain in the ass, it's also messy. How many bugs have been reported to wu-ftpd ? It's also historically insecure. There are much better ftp daemons. My favorite is ncftpd (yes, this one is commercial).
So I just want to understand: Why are wu-ftpd and sendmail so popular ?
I'm sorry, but I have to divert from this. I'm also Brazilian, and, yes, Quake, Duke-Nuken, Carmageddon and some other games are banned in Brazil. But what really caused Quake & D.N. to be banned is that in Sao Paulo, a major city, a psycho got a machine gun and started shooting people in a cinema, resembling that famous Duke Nuken scene. As it was the first killing in Brazil, people got shocked. They found Duke Nuken and Quake on his computer, and decided to ban it (duh).
So now Slashdot has turned into Computer Shopper, uh ?
It'd be ok if this laptop had an a new and outstanding technology. But, c'mon ! Face it ! It's just another laptop, a good one, but nothing new.
What kind of attack was this one ?
There are many ways to distribute such a DoS. One is simply to amplify ICMP echo replies by sending a ICMP_ECHO_REQUEST packet with a broadcast address as destination and the target address as source. Lots of machines will reply to the source, thus flooding it. That's called smurf attack.
Other attack is the Syn flood, in wich one (or various) machine send a TCP packet with the SYN flag on and a fake source address. That means it's pretending to start a connection, and it'll take a while till the target notices it's a fake IP address. In this meanwhile it'll drain resources from the machine.
There could be lots of other attacks. Does someone know what was used ?
BTW, a nice way to distribute such a DoS, wich I'm not sure if has already been done, would be to make a backdoor, distributed by a worm or something like that, that connects to one "master" site , wich the 3l33t guy has control and waits for instructions (1 0wn j00). The instruction could be something like: "Hey, all you machines there, go ping flood yahoo."
Has it already been done ?
> You don't have access to this page. Get lost. "
> was the "yor" on purpose?
No, that was a typo.
Yes, there is a link on http://internal-affairs.inter.net.eu.org/news/99A4 E0000C9F5345888A88-20847847,4/
You forgot to mention the cracks (such as in http://www.crack.ru/ )
RUSSIA, Nov. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Leading spoon bender Yuri Geller has been awarded a patent for its innovative 1-glance spoon bending method, wich allows one who uses this technique to easily bend spoons. It is rumored that Geller is going IPO. The market is waiting anxiously.
In other news, Geller is going to sue Matrix movie makers, because of that famous Matrix scene, in wich a boy teaches Neo how to bend spoons.
-"This is an obvious infingiment of my patent" -angrily said Mr. Geller.
>Is Brazil's game market just behind the times and these games are the new ones there,
> or are they just banning the violent games that this man had in his possession?
I live in Brazil, and we are not so behind the times. Games and movies usually arrive here about one or two monthes after being released in US.
What I believe is that these may be the only games some judge or other bureaucrat may have heard of.
And frankly speaking, I think it's ridiculous to ban these games!! First of all there are much more realistic and violent games (such as Half-life), where you kill persons, not only monsters, wich, I guess, makes a huge difference from the psychological point of view. In Duken Nuken you kill monsters, instead of people !
Another thing: I read here in Slashdot they said the sicko was being treated for stress. That's not true. He was being treated for schizophrenia, and his doctor told his family he should not live unattended. But they left him living alone.
And this case had so much repercussion in the press because it was the first time in Brazil a psycho goes to a public place and starts shooting people without having a reason.