So, which plugins does this really affect?

And to list these for your own drive:

$ sudo smartctl -A /dev/sda | egrep '^\s*(ID|5|1[89][78])'
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
    5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 100 100 036 Pre-fail Always - 0
187 Reported_Uncorrect 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
188 Command_Timeout 0x0032 100 253 000 Old_age Always - 0
197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0010 100 100 000 etc.

(Incomplete last line to "use fewer 'junk' characters." as requested by that silly filter)

I guess you mean 60 GBytes per second, not Gbits.
 

If it were encrypted, we would never have known. Adobe could have said it's just a "license check" or whatever. So I wonder if we should actually mandate all "phone home in the background" communication to be plain text.

I thought any important criminal gang in Russia had much more than "loose connections with the gorvernment.

For this new vulnerabilty, there are no toy-command-checks yet I believe. But in the meantime, try the "Fun Shellshock test with curl" on the NAS boxes in your neighborhood (or anywhere else this Google search points you to).

And note that as a bonus the web server on that NAS already runs as root, so there is no need for a "privilege escalation" vulnerability. Nothing to escalate, you start from the top already.

If you have a NAS accessible through the Internet, it will probably soon be part of a botnet. See Using curl to test Qnap NAS for Shellshock.

And note that, as a bonus for crackers, the NAS even runs it's web server as root.

For Europe at least, you can get RIPE IP blocks from their web site or through their RIPEstat Text Service. I use it for one of my servers to get daily lists for one country, and feed it to ipset. Maybe others like ARIN etc. also publish lists? Or you can get GeoIP databases. Or you could try a (Perl) module like IP::Country?

Maybe it could theoretically work (or maybe not), but it's irrelevant because almost impossible to do.

The problem is: how do you take away money (subsidies) from those who have a lot of it (partly precisely from subsidies)?

They can spend a lot for lobbying and public relations in general. The industries which would need to receive these subsidies don't have comparable means for their campaigns, and in part these industries don't even exist yet, because the money is lacking to develop them.

In social movements, many poor can force a few rich to pay more.

But industries are different. How do a few poor convince that the money of many very rich industries (which also feed many workers) should go to them?

So the Belgian and German companies can be named, but not the Swiss one? That seems strange.

If you already have a server with a static IP, it's pretty easy to configure bind to accept dynamic updates. See for example Set up your own Dynamic DNS.

I set it up like that, and have short scripts on my Linux and Mac notebooks to do the updates when the network comes up. On Linux, it's a short script in /etc/network/if-up.d/. On Mac, it's a script called by a LaunchDeaemon (a .plist file in /Library/LaunchDaemons).

Yes, "daily lethal doses" is really weird. The problem with cocaine is not lethal doses (that's a problem with heroin). It's that the people addicted to cocaine end up completely crazy after a few years. The effect on the brain can be fun, but in the long run it is really destructive.

Is it dead? Well, some quick scripting can tell us the truth, using Bash and of course Perl.

On my Ubuntu notebook and main machine:

sudo find /etc /bin /sbin /usr/bin /usr/sbin -type f -executable -exec file -b "{}" \; \
| perl -MData::Dumper -nle '
        next unless /script/;
        if ( /(shell|python|ruby|perl|bash)/i ) {
            $types{$1}++
        }
        else {
            warn "Other: $_\n"
        };
        END {
            print Dumper(\%types);
        }'

Output:

Other: a /usr/bin/make -f script, ASCII text executable
Other: a nickle script, UTF-8 Unicode text executable
Other: awk script, ASCII text executable
$VAR1 = {
                    'perl' => 283,
                    'python' => 104,
                    'bash' => 1,
                    'Ruby' => 3,
                    'ruby' => 9,
                    'shell' => 602
                };

On a server:

Other: a /bin/dash script, ASCII text executable
$VAR1 = {
                    'Python' => 36,
                    'Perl' => 139,
                    'shell' => 267
                };

Looks very much alive. Unless of course, Perl realized what it was calculating and cheated and made it's own numbers up on the fly...

Because it's inventor died 14 years older at 102. :-)

And seriously, the one time I tried ecstasy, I didn't like that it seemed to interfere with my emotions.

LSD modifies percepetions and paths of thought, which can be a fantastic experience (or just great fun) if you are in the right mood for it, but I don't remember it ever modifying my emotions.

Ecstasy gave me the impression of creating out of proportion artificial emotions in me. After the fact, I really didn't like that aspect. No wonder it was all the rage during the years of techno music. I guess people dancing to that cold techno music really needed something to still feel human.

But anyway, peace to "Godfather of Ecstasy" and all chemists experimenting with psychoactive drugs. When used right, these all give valuable experiences.