Oh, Gosh!
This reminds me of those printed instructions on aluminum ladders: "Under no
circumstances use this ladder for CLIMBING."
We ordinary mortals are screwed.
Nick
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From: friam-boun...@redfish.com [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf
Of Parks, Raymond
S
Yeah, OSX doesn't have enough market share to be interesting to bot herders.
Apple iOS and Android may change that but so far the RBN and such haven't
figured out how to make money off them. BTW, don't think OSX or iOS aren't
pwnable - all of the current crop of Adobe hacks work on them.
Folks,
I decided to put my advice about securing home networks in this message,
along with password advice.
To secure your home network -
1. Use a firewall - either build one or buy one. Most broadband routers
include a firewall.
2. Configure the firewall to deny all incoming traffic and o
Network neutrality matters. It really, really matters. Here's why.
http://www.theopeninter.net/
-- R
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On Dec 22, 2010, at 5:33 PM, Parks, Raymond wrote:
> Note - the following advice is for Winders - there are no significant botnets
> of OSX or Linux systems.
Really? Whew!
But are you sure? Seems to me that there are large number of linux/unix
servers running many VMs, all of which could be
But it takes some patience to read beginning to end.
On Dec 23, 2010, at 7:58 PM, Owen Densmore wrote:
Man, almost a complete book! His best work always has been
journalistic, even when fiction.
-- Owen
On Dec 23, 2010, at 4:19 PM, glen wrote:
The Blast Shack (via Nelson, via mariu
Man, almost a complete book! His best work always has been journalistic, even
when fiction.
-- Owen
On Dec 23, 2010, at 4:19 PM, glen wrote:
>
> The Blast Shack (via Nelson, via mariuswatz)
> http://www.webstock.org.nz/blog/2010/the-blast-shack/
>
> --
> glen
>
> =
Tom,
Not me and frank is out of town. So no stones for the stone soup.
Nick
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Of Tom Johnson
Sent: Thursday, December 23, 2010 3:53 PM
To: fr...@redfish. com
Subject: [FRIAM] Anyone FRIAM-ing tomorrow (the 2
The Blast Shack (via Nelson, via mariuswatz)
http://www.webstock.org.nz/blog/2010/the-blast-shack/
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If so, where? Garcia Street Books?
-tom
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I recall reading the NYer article by Commoner at the time,
as the subject matter was of keen interest to me then, and continues
to be.
FYI, a couple of other related seminal publications from those days:
The Entropy Law and the Economic Process, by Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen,
See
http://www.newyorker.com/archive/1976/02/09/1976_02_09_038_TNY_CARDS_000316706
for the second article in the series,
found via Bing.
On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 10:41 AM, Nicholas Thompson
wrote:
> Thanks, Everybody,
>
>
>
> It Was Barry Commoner, in a three article series in the NY-er beginn
A while back I mentioned Timothy Gowers and others had started a mathematics
collaboration project, the Polymath Project. Basically its "open source math".
This is an example of their project, describing its progress through a
particular problem: http://goo.gl/LlFCR
-- Owen
=
Thanks, Everybody,
It Was Barry Commoner, in a three article series in the NY-er beginning Feb
2, 1976, called "Energy".
And it does have a long and loving account of entropy. I still haven't been
able to read it because the archive system is hostile to ordinary mortals,
but I will let y
British eight-year-olds publish study in top science journal
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/12/eight-year-olds-publish-science-journal/
Blackawton bees
http://rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/early/2010/12/18/rsbl.2010.1056.full
--
glen e. p. ropella, 971-222-9095, http://tempusdictum.co
The whole Gawker thing was quite ridiculous. I'd never heard of Gawker
until this breach occurred, and now sites like LinkedIn (which I am a
member of) require me to change my password, just because my email was
amongst those stolen from Gawker. One would have to assume that my
"Gawker" password wa
Note - the following advice is for Winders - there are no significant botnets
of OSX or Linux systems.
To detect if your system(s) are running bot software -
1. Be aware of changes in performance and behaviour of your system.
2. Log all traffic to the Internet and look for stuff you didn't caus
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