The reason you don't pre-order the game is the chance that it's over-hyped garbage. In other words, there's no way for you to know before it's released if you truly want to play it.
It's simple cognitive dissonance, what you're describing.
To be fair, Cisco is handing out free upgrades with this vulnerability. Call TAC, give them your serial number, and a few hours later you should have a download link in your email.
Look, the phd is not going to open very many doors in this industry. This is one of the most severe industries for devaluing advanced degrees and instead almost all value is placed on demonstrable experience.
So basically, as a PhD, you're just (in their eyes) an inexperienced programmer who has unrealistic salary fantasies.
The PhD may help you in academic circles, but in the IT industry, it just represents prime years spent on something that brings no value to the company wanting to hire you.
This is not a DoS attack. Look at how infrequent the packets are...it's essentially background noise that every IP address will see.
This feels like 2002 all over again, when people had host-based firewalls and would freak out any time they got hit with a port scan, not really understanding what they were looking at.
At every turn, he attaches quantities to resources:
75 cheap laptops 23 women 6 men 8 of the women lived with him 2 people in the Nicaraguan Hezbollah camp 3 people in Mexico dealing with the Zetas
The only "evidence" supporting his story are his "so easy to fake my kids could it" screenshots and audio files.
I think the original assessment stands: This is a guy who has snorted waaaay too much MPDV, is seeing shadow men in bushes, and killed his neighbor in retaliation for his neighbor killing his dog.
He escaped the country via a combination of his charisma, money, and the ineptitude of the Belize law enforcement.
This is all just a retroactive attempt at explaining why the Belize government would want to frame him. Look, it's simple...why would Belize kill his neighbor to frame McAfee, when they could simply just kill McAfee instead?
It's all about chipsets. Figure out what chipset a given motherboard has, do a few googles, and you'll likely have your answers.
I have no problem with either of the manufacturers that you mentioned. Were you perhaps trying to do an AMD solution? I'd just stick with Intel chips and chipsets at this point in the game.
In Washington State, the "2 party rule" specifically only applies to telephone conversations and other conversations where there is an expectation of privacy. Just because the rules are different in say, Maryland, doesn't mean that every state's 2 party rules are the same.
Hint: He's the "K" in "AWK". He helped Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie invent UNIX at Bell Labs. He co-authored "The C Programming Language", the very first book on programming in C, and widely considered by most to be the bible of modern programming.
He was extremely fun and engaging, and I felt honored to be in the presence of one of the forefathers of modern computing.
Very well put, even for an obviously non-native speaker! If I had any moderation points I'd bump you up for being insightful. You put your finger on one of my least favorite aspects of my country and culture.
I have worked in the internet service business for over a decade now. I have seen a lot of things come and go, and a lot of predictions about when we would run out of IP space.
The bottom line is that the only people who realy WANT a rollout of IPv6 is Cisco. Why? Because the vast majority of their existing installed routers will not support IPv6 with anywhere near the same feature set and packet rate as those routers can handle with IPv4. Thus, IPv6 means people upgrading equipment that isn't really deficient.
Most people have no concept of:
a) How much IP space we have left. b) How extremely inefficent we have been with a large percentage of the address space. c) How much assigned, announced, and routed space is completely unused. d) How much the rate of growth has flattened. e) How wrong every prediction about when we run out of IP space has been thus far.
If you search the nanog archives, you'll see posts by myself going back many years stating essentially "Somebody tell me why we need IPv6 again?"
Do not hold your breath. We're 10-15 years away from IPv6, because it will take an even larger gross expenditure for the service providers to upgrade to support IPv6 than it did for the broadcast industry to upgrade to HDTV.
This is what industries that rely on revenue growth do when their customer growth flattens. They invent a new widget, come up with reasons why everybody needs it, market it, and hopefully everybody buys the product all over again. IPv6 is admittedly a good bit different; it was created by geeks in attempt to solve a perceived problem. However, it was siezed upon by the router vendors as a future "upgrade when growth flattens" path.
Don't buy into the hype. IPv4 is here to stay for a long time. Even when IPv6 starts to have some decent degree of market penetration, you will always find most of the devices on the net are IPv4 behind IPv6 to IPv4 NATs.
Thus proving that running a Unix operating system doesn't indicate level of clue.
Wow.
You do realize that raw sockets have nothing to do with "worms of viruses" as you put it, right? It has to do with mitigating the effects of what can be done to a compromised windows box.
Raw sockets don't decrease security; they increase the amount of damage that can be done if somebody has taken control of your computer.
I don't run a virus scanner on any of my windows boxes, never have, and I've never gotten a virus. So, your assertion that you would get a virus if you didn't have a firewall makes me realize you have absolutely no idea what you're talking about.
Yes, Unix is more secure. But for the most part, that's because idiot users don't use it.
Anybody who invests five minutes in researching this will find that no, there aren't any OSS tax solutions.
Why?
They aren't needed.
If you go to irs.gov, they will link you to several services which will enable you to prepare and electronically file your taxes online, completely free of charge. Most won't file your state taxes for free, but then, many states allow you to file for free on their own website.
I didn't pay a dime this year, and I didn't have to print out any forms. And yes, I have a reasonably complicated tax return.
You base the effectiveness of these companies based on the percentage of all jobs filled that are filled by these services.
What you fail to take into account is the relative number of positions being offered in the different services.
For instance, if only 5% of all jobs offered are listed on Monster, 3.5% or whatever would be fantastic.
You also fail to address the fact that the services are more useful in certain industries, and almost completely useless in most industries. For instance, most fast food jobs are filled by word of mouth. So? That doesn't help Lockheed Martin find talented engineers.
Lastly, you fail to address the statistical validity of the surveys you quote, as well as there real implications. Your logic is backward.
And the worst part is, you fail to remind the readers that your interests lie orthogonal to those of the job services.
You over-reduce the effectiveness of job sites by relying on weak numbers, something most would call a sterotypically poor editorial process.
It creates an amazing display of irony.
Face it, like everything in a capitalist society, effectiveness of job sites can only be measured in terms of the value placed on them by job hunters and employers.
Let me just cut through the bullshit for everybody:
Headhunters are middlemen. Job sites are an attempt at removing the middleman, allowing companies to ultimately get better candidates cheaper. Likewise, candidates get better and easier access to jobs.
Oh, they're definitely principles worth sticking to.
I don't put CD-ROMs in the servers I build. It's stupid, why would they need CD-ROMs? I just install a floppy drive, because it needs one of those regardless (hardware bios updates, emergency recovery, etc.).
I boot off the install floppies and install via FTP (takes LESS time than via CD when doing so on a T3).
The floppies are extremely important. Many shops rely on them.
That only works for routers you have access to. That means, bandwidth you are pushing (egress) will be unqueued...and some people have managed routers and are not in a position to affect the queueing strategy.
You might get your provider to turn off WFQ...but there's no need. WFQ is a good thing, and there are plenty of better ways to test throughput than TCP.
Slashdot Mirror
Uhm....dude. WTF? Are you really that incompetent that you can't adapt to figure out how to move the window via the title bar?
If you click on the area between the + and the - at the top right of the title, that space will never have anything in it. There's always space there.
I'm really blown away right now. Is this a troll?
No offense, but that's absolutely terrible logic.
The reason you don't pre-order the game is the chance that it's over-hyped garbage. In other words, there's no way for you to know before it's released if you truly want to play it.
It's simple cognitive dissonance, what you're describing.
To be fair, Cisco is handing out free upgrades with this vulnerability. Call TAC, give them your serial number, and a few hours later you should have a download link in your email.
Look, the phd is not going to open very many doors in this industry. This is one of the most severe industries for devaluing advanced degrees and instead almost all value is placed on demonstrable experience.
So basically, as a PhD, you're just (in their eyes) an inexperienced programmer who has unrealistic salary fantasies.
The PhD may help you in academic circles, but in the IT industry, it just represents prime years spent on something that brings no value to the company wanting to hire you.
The logs you posted are not evidence of DoS, they show a random packet here and there.
A DoS would be characterized by, at a minimum, thousands of packets per second.
This is not a DoS attack. Look at how infrequent the packets are...it's essentially background noise that every IP address will see.
This feels like 2002 all over again, when people had host-based firewalls and would freak out any time they got hit with a port scan, not really understanding what they were looking at.
With gigabit ethernet, you can go 100 meters with cat6 wiring.
So, all this provides is the ability to use a single pair instead of two pair...at the expense of having equipment to terminate it at each end.
This has zero applications for delivering broadband. Nobody is within 100 meters of a DSLAM.
This is clearly bullshit.
At every turn, he attaches quantities to resources:
75 cheap laptops
23 women
6 men
8 of the women lived with him
2 people in the Nicaraguan Hezbollah camp
3 people in Mexico dealing with the Zetas
The only "evidence" supporting his story are his "so easy to fake my kids could it" screenshots and audio files.
I think the original assessment stands: This is a guy who has snorted waaaay too much MPDV, is seeing shadow men in bushes, and killed his neighbor in retaliation for his neighbor killing his dog.
He escaped the country via a combination of his charisma, money, and the ineptitude of the Belize law enforcement.
This is all just a retroactive attempt at explaining why the Belize government would want to frame him. Look, it's simple...why would Belize kill his neighbor to frame McAfee, when they could simply just kill McAfee instead?
Paranoid bullshit, and so obviously so.
It's all about chipsets. Figure out what chipset a given motherboard has, do a few googles, and you'll likely have your answers.
I have no problem with either of the manufacturers that you mentioned. Were you perhaps trying to do an AMD solution? I'd just stick with Intel chips and chipsets at this point in the game.
In Washington State, the "2 party rule" specifically only applies to telephone conversations and other conversations where there is an expectation of privacy. Just because the rules are different in say, Maryland, doesn't mean that every state's 2 party rules are the same.
There's no expectation of privacy in public, therefore it's exempt.
That sucks. I had a different experience.
My freshman instructor in CS50, the first class you take in CS, was a special guest instructor that year.
I shit you not, I was taught C by none other than Brian Kernighan.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Kernighan
Hint: He's the "K" in "AWK". He helped Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie invent UNIX at Bell Labs. He co-authored "The C Programming Language", the very first book on programming in C, and widely considered by most to be the bible of modern programming.
He was extremely fun and engaging, and I felt honored to be in the presence of one of the forefathers of modern computing.
Very well put, even for an obviously non-native speaker! If I had any moderation points I'd bump you up for being insightful. You put your finger on one of my least favorite aspects of my country and culture.
I could be wrong, but given that the sections are usually 16 pages long, I think this is the cover of a second fold of the A paper.
So it actually got the "second front page" in a sense.
You have forgotten the golden rule of business:
Do not give away that which people are willing to pay for.
Clearly $120 is not outrageous; their main problem seemed to be from too many people. Economics tells us they didn't charge ENOUGH.
I have worked in the internet service business for over a decade now. I have seen a lot of things come and go, and a lot of predictions about when we would run out of IP space.
The bottom line is that the only people who realy WANT a rollout of IPv6 is Cisco. Why? Because the vast majority of their existing installed routers will not support IPv6 with anywhere near the same feature set and packet rate as those routers can handle with IPv4. Thus, IPv6 means people upgrading equipment that isn't really deficient.
Most people have no concept of:
a) How much IP space we have left.
b) How extremely inefficent we have been with a large percentage of the address space.
c) How much assigned, announced, and routed space is completely unused.
d) How much the rate of growth has flattened.
e) How wrong every prediction about when we run out of IP space has been thus far.
If you search the nanog archives, you'll see posts by myself going back many years stating essentially "Somebody tell me why we need IPv6 again?"
Do not hold your breath. We're 10-15 years away from IPv6, because it will take an even larger gross expenditure for the service providers to upgrade to support IPv6 than it did for the broadcast industry to upgrade to HDTV.
This is what industries that rely on revenue growth do when their customer growth flattens. They invent a new widget, come up with reasons why everybody needs it, market it, and hopefully everybody buys the product all over again. IPv6 is admittedly a good bit different; it was created by geeks in attempt to solve a perceived problem. However, it was siezed upon by the router vendors as a future "upgrade when growth flattens" path.
Don't buy into the hype. IPv4 is here to stay for a long time. Even when IPv6 starts to have some decent degree of market penetration, you will always find most of the devices on the net are IPv4 behind IPv6 to IPv4 NATs.
Thus proving that running a Unix operating system doesn't indicate level of clue.
Wow.
You do realize that raw sockets have nothing to do with "worms of viruses" as you put it, right? It has to do with mitigating the effects of what can be done to a compromised windows box.
Raw sockets don't decrease security; they increase the amount of damage that can be done if somebody has taken control of your computer.
I don't run a virus scanner on any of my windows boxes, never have, and I've never gotten a virus. So, your assertion that you would get a virus if you didn't have a firewall makes me realize you have absolutely no idea what you're talking about.
Yes, Unix is more secure. But for the most part, that's because idiot users don't use it.
Anybody who invests five minutes in researching this will find that no, there aren't any OSS tax solutions.
Why?
They aren't needed.
If you go to irs.gov, they will link you to several services which will enable you to prepare and electronically file your taxes online, completely free of charge. Most won't file your state taxes for free, but then, many states allow you to file for free on their own website.
I didn't pay a dime this year, and I didn't have to print out any forms. And yes, I have a reasonably complicated tax return.
He should have just gotten paid to both learn the new tools and search for a new job.
I'd say he's the tool at this point.
Well, that's kind of interesting.
They shoot 5 episodes per day. 15 days...is 75 episodes.
You base the effectiveness of these companies based on the percentage of all jobs filled that are filled by these services.
What you fail to take into account is the relative number of positions being offered in the different services.
For instance, if only 5% of all jobs offered are listed on Monster, 3.5% or whatever would be fantastic.
You also fail to address the fact that the services are more useful in certain industries, and almost completely useless in most industries. For instance, most fast food jobs are filled by word of mouth. So? That doesn't help Lockheed Martin find talented engineers.
Lastly, you fail to address the statistical validity of the surveys you quote, as well as there real implications. Your logic is backward.
And the worst part is, you fail to remind the readers that your interests lie orthogonal to those of the job services.
You over-reduce the effectiveness of job sites by relying on weak numbers, something most would call a sterotypically poor editorial process.
It creates an amazing display of irony.
Face it, like everything in a capitalist society, effectiveness of job sites can only be measured in terms of the value placed on them by job hunters and employers.
Let me just cut through the bullshit for everybody:
Headhunters are middlemen. Job sites are an attempt at removing the middleman, allowing companies to ultimately get better candidates cheaper. Likewise, candidates get better and easier access to jobs.
I find it's closely related to overall physical health.
All of the problems you mention are most likely related to the fact that you sit on your ass typing all day.
Douchenozzle...
Oh, they're definitely principles worth sticking to.
I don't put CD-ROMs in the servers I build. It's stupid, why would they need CD-ROMs? I just install a floppy drive, because it needs one of those regardless (hardware bios updates, emergency recovery, etc.).
I boot off the install floppies and install via FTP (takes LESS time than via CD when doing so on a T3).
The floppies are extremely important. Many shops rely on them.
Andy
This is why we don't offer burstable connections.
You pay for capped bandwidth, and your bill never changes.
Andy
That only works for routers you have access to. That means, bandwidth you are pushing (egress) will be unqueued...and some people have managed routers and are not in a position to affect the queueing strategy.
You might get your provider to turn off WFQ...but there's no need. WFQ is a good thing, and there are plenty of better ways to test throughput than TCP.
Andy