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Is it Just Me, Or Is Our Mainframe Missing?

Posted by timothy on from the or-is-it-an-ibm-commercial dept.

xnuandax writes "Here's a salient lesson for those system security personnel who spend their time fretting over the theoretical crack-ability of their 1024 bit encryption keys. Australian Customs have recently suffered a rather unfortunate set back in their "War Against Terror" with the admission that two of their secure mainframe servers have been wheeled out of the building by persons unknown. I'll bet my $2 that the root password on those boxes was 'trustno1'."

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  1. Re:This is what happens ... by opensourcerer-net · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    it happened in australia not the US

  2. Like my sneakers? by blair1q · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "CESTA ASTRONOMY"

  3. Re:This is what happens ... by garbs · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    >it happened in australia not the US

    Well, I'm plenty disgruntled when I don't get a monetary tip myself, and I deliver pizzas in Australia.

  4. Re:This is what happens ... by digitalunity · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    When I was a waiter at The Olive Garden, I actually despised the people who didn't leave a monetary tip because if it wasn't money, they gave the verbal tip: 'Thank you so much. We had a really good time'. When they are overly nice about thanking me, it was always a sure sign of either $2 or $0.

    PS: Don't ever piss off the waiter. We are an angry bunch.

    --
    You can't legislate goodness. Let each to his own destiny, by will of his freely made choices.
  5. Re:Those pesky Pakistani-Indian-Arabians! by gujo-odori · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    If you care to visit the Chicago Manual of Style web site, you will find that in fact they do not put spaces before question marks:

    http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/

    Moreover, if you look here:

    http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/cmosf aq /cmosfaq.Quotations.html

    You find that the editors of the CMOS do not themselves put a space before a question mark (Search for "question" in the text).

    I have yet to see any manual of style that recommends a space before any punctuation character. There are some that recommend two spaces after a colon or period (full stop, for you Brits), however, the Chicago Manual of Style recommends only a single space in both cases.

    I suspect that the CMOS has changed its standard, or you are misremembering its guidelines.