Posts by Ru

"they still have another member of the group"

They have a loud-mouthed semicompetent internet user.

This isn't some super secret clandestine terrorist cell. The only people who know *anything* are the ones who actually perform the effective attacks, and they are apparently competent enough to hide their tracks this far. Everyone else is just a script kiddie or wannabe who hangs around on various fora and merrily engages in a DDOS on request of some dude on the internet because they have no idea what they are doing.

You can see the immediate post-print state

which looks like a big block of snow. It is quite solid.

Each layer of power is rolled on to the print providing a fairly solid foundation for all subsequent layers. The design could be arbitrarily complex, so long as holes are left to get the unsintered powder out of hollow components.

Re: bunch of clowns and trolls

The HBGary op was most entertaining. Have a read: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/02/how-one-security-firm-tracked-anonymousand-paid-a-heavy-price.ars

The guys being rounded up by the police aren't even script kiddies. They seem to be idiots who downloaded LOIC, and that's all. They barely qualify for 'low hanging fruit' status. I guess these arrests will serve as a valuable lesson to all the other wannabes, who I suspect will pay more attention in TOR class next time.

Something like HOTP might do

or TOTP (or Google Authenticator, as I believe it uses the same system). There doesn't need to be a whole lot of shared state between the phone and the car, but it provides a nicely syncronised means of generating short numbers which are a little impractical to brute force.

Re: or do you mean safely?

Are you all still plugging modems directly into your PC?

It has been quite a few years since I worried about connecting a fresh windows installation to the interwebs, because I've been happily using firewalls and NAT routers.

Since XP got a firewall by default (was that SP2?) I haven't worried about that particular issue at all. It isn't 2005 any more, guys.

Re: Oh dear

So, "Anonymous" has managed a handful of reasonably competent hacks and social engineering attacks. The people arrested as being part of "Anonymous" are all idiots, who demonstrate no such skills.

What does this tell you?

I suspect all the arrests will be idiot LOIC users who not only had no idea how to cover their tracks but believed that LOIC-driven DDOS attacks would actually accomplish anything at all.

Sorry old bean

Alexander did pretty well for his time, but I'll point out that the British Empire was rather larger in its heyday. Hell, the Persians before him and the Romans afterwards were both larger too, and a fair bit longer lasting.

He did a pretty good job creating an empire out of almost nothing, mind you... not something many other people manage in their lifetime. One of the Napoleons had a pretty good go though...

Re: Ummmm

Things can teleport over very short distances (atomic scale) in a phenomenon known as quantum tunneling. It is the idea behind Hawking radiation that black holes presumably emit, for example. Nothing we've ever found travels faster than the speed of light over macro-scale distances though.

This paper says that information cannot travel faster than the speed of light when propagated by light, which whilst nice to know doesn't rule out tachyons or time travel. Hell, it doesn't even rule out exotic bits of space time like wormholes or alcubierre metrics; their issues come from other bits of physics.

So no, this doesn't have much to tell us about time travel.

Tragically, it isn't just you.

Of such snippets of information is much security theatre built!

How many instances of hi-tech terrorism has the world seen? Precious few. Even lulzsec have managed to cause more irritation and gain vastly wider publicity than politically motivated s'kiddies doing website defacements.

It boils down to the fact that having your phonecalls recorded or having your position tracked or even having your credit card cloned just isn't terrifying in the same way that a few pounds of crude homebrew explosive going off in your local pub is. The latter is much simpler to plan and execute too, requiring much less specialist knowledge or equipment.

Actually, stupid staff are a benefit

Who, really, wants every border to be filled with extremely capable, intelligent staff who are also corrupt, thieving, lying sociopaths?

Re: Don't be insane

I use NoScript to block all javascript by default, and only enable scripts from particular domains as necessary.

Much as I understand that many, many websites need javascript-driven advertising in order to pay their bills, ad providers generally just get blacklisted and silently blocked because it is a terrible, terrible idea to give everyone and their dog javascript execute permissions on your computer.

As for rendering the whole internet unusable... whilst stuff like gmail, youtube, facebook etc all require it, there's plenty of the web that doesn't. Between using IMAP for the former and a decent pub for the latter, I find I cope quite well.

Of Spin and Theory

Huh, and there was me thinking that the graviton must necessarily have spin 2. The search for the Higgs Boson is quite a separate bit of research to quantum gravity mediated by particles. The graviton is also just a theory, and a rather more tenuous one from the Higgs field, I'd say.

You are suggesting mass and gravity come form the same source, I assume? It is hard to tell, because your website says *nothing* and your pictures are content and context free.

Not at all

Look up 'Microsoft Lync' and 'Microsoft Office Communicator'. They've had all of the functionality you're talking about for some time, now. The purchase of skype was about the brand and its users, not its technology.

Arabic Transliterations

don't really seem to be standardised. But 'Misurata' gives a better impression of the pronounciation, as anglophones would seem to be likely to pronounce 'Misrata' as 'miz-rata' rather than 'mizur-ata'. Your local accent might not have that particular distinction, of course.

Not quite.

How many docking stations use a standard interface to connect to the laptop? Will a laptop by one manufacturer support docking stations made by another? Can you still pick up docking stations for older models of laptop? Can you upgrade your old docking stations to new ones that will support interconnect standards invented since the original was released?

I'd not considered thunderbolt/light-peak's use as a docking station connector for any capable device, but it seems like a pretty useful one to me.

Its the leapfrogging bit I was looking for.

Everything else is old news, even in ubuntu/windows land and they're not exactly at the leading edge of the security world.

In fact, I'd be a lot more interested if Apple changed is corporate attitude to security issues, where it isn't exactly a paragon of the industry.

Why is this bad?

Send the 'I, for one...' comments the same way whilst you're there!

Re: broken and toothless

Ahh, so you're not an academic, you don't understand the review process, and your understanding of the system comes from reading reports of a few high profile peer reviewing failures. Gotcha.

Much like democracy, peer-review is not an ideal system but the alternatives are far from ideal.

Oh dear.

The country has not had its fill of such. Every one of the candidates would be ideal for filling such roles. And making stuff? Seems to me that the financial and legal sectors are doing just fine, and they don't manufacture a whole lot.

I wonder if the new entrepreneurial format was Siralan's suggestion, or one made by the committee that designed the show. Clearly they made a poor choice of candidates... not a single one of them had a decent business idea. Even the winner's second-rate plan has since been binned, and he'll be carrying on with the old nail-filing business.

Did Rupert invent the News of the World?

He is responsible for it becoming a disreputable tabloid, yes. He knows what sells to the proles.

Welcome to Capitalism!

You'll not get a free lunch.

If the owners of AC, inc, come out rich: they screwed their employees, not IBM. If they don't come out rich, they're naive at best and incompetent at worst, and they'll either know better for their next business venture or they'll pack it in for good.

In your example, IBM behaved quite rationally and reasonably. They're not a charity.

Interesting.

Because MS have done it, this makes it an acceptable business practise? Or is it that unfair business practises are fair game when used against companies who have abused their position of power in the past?

Remember that once upon a time, Microsoft were taking on the big bad monopolists, too. Nowadays, Google are pushing the notion of a 'Free*' internet, where everything is ad-supported and everything you do is monitored, processed and sold. Forgive me for not thinking this is the greatest thing ever, simply because it undermines Microsoft's business model.

The enemy of your enemy is just waiting their turn.

20 grand?

Going by the US precendents, I will expect you to be fined the full value of my house, plus additional compensation to be paid to my neighbours whose own house values will have been reduced by your criminal activity.

Oh, and my legal fees too.

You're fine with that, right?

I wonder how a court might react to someone complaining that a stranger snuck into their house though an open window, spraypainted 'DON'T LEAVE YOUR WINDOWS OPEN' on the walls? I've got a pretty good idea what their insurers would have to say on the matter.

Re: and an ability to play mp3s

Why do critical safety and avionics systems need to play MP3s? Why do they need 50k times more processing power? The system has proven quite adequate for surface to orbit (and back) travel many, many times. Upgrading would be frivolous, pointless and potentially hazardous; there's nothing to gain and everything to lose.

Astronauts can and do use significantly more modern and powerful computers. I doubt they're using flight control systems to send tweets.