I don't have this problem - when I search for things on Google, I get relevant results from real pages. Either I regularly search for things that nobody scrapes, or there's actually some skill involved in getting relevant results that most people can't be bothered with.
The biggest problem I've had of late searching on Google is trying to find reviews of hardware and getting ninety billion pages trying to sell it to me with 'Be the first person to review this product!" I need to find a different keyword on that.
So we're not equipped to handle hackers - and we've officially been hacked. What do we do?
Hiring 'hackers' is a media fiction - you wouldn't hire someone who was convicted of armed robbery to guard your local bank just because he was really good at it, would you? Hire a security professional who actually takes what they do for a living seriously, has credentials to prove it, and has a reputation for honesty and integrity they're not afraid to defend with references from previous employers and clients. Or contract the same. Or hire a consulting firm that specializes in security. A CISSP should be a minimum bar to get over.
Security is all about setting appropriate levels of trust on personnel. If you don't trust your security professionals (and by the way, the guy who sets up your firewall there should be one of them) then you can't trust the security they're putting in place. Audit the work they do. Trust, but verify. And for your size of network, you should have at least one full-time IT security person on staff.
And Cryptome is now saying that a Wired reporter contacted them after having spoken with a hacker claiming responsibility for the attack.
Which they responded to with a threat of a subpoena, and publishing news about it before the reporter, after they told the reporter they wouldn't?... er. Way to burn bridges, guys? Seriously, I understand free speech and using reporters as sources, but I don't think reporters are going to be too gung-ho about reporting your findings later after this.
The TransX plugin can help you plan out the proper mission plan, too, with burn times, Delta-V requirements, et al. There's a bit of a learning curve involved, but nothing that taking a couple hours in the tutorials won't fix.
I don't think Orbiter models effects like solar sails or thermal thrust yet, though.
Same situation here - running a conference, needed to allow registrations by credit card. Our primary method of payment is Google Checkout. Main difference: A large percentage of our attendees insisted we support PayPal - so we have a PayPal account that we keep at a zero-dollar balance. When people send us money via PayPal, we immediately transfer it out of that account and to our bank. All of our actual money is held at our real, stable, brick-and-mortar bank.
For fear of precisely this reason. If I had enough support in our fanbase, I'd drop PayPal like a dead cat.
What he meant by 'not going to chase anyone out of their homes' is that we're not going to see sudden, dramatic raises in sea levels. If you think that people aren't capable of adapting to changes in their environment over a period of a hundred years, then, well... I guess I should break out my buggy whip.
Because of poorly written contracts. Most current contracts don't have a distinction between 'audiobook' and 'text-to-speech conversion'. If the authors don't defend their copyright on the text-to-speech conversion, it can be legally argued that they don't mind if the publisher has rights to produce audiobooks - or that they actually sold the right to the publisher in the first place, even if it wasn't explicitly stated in the contract. Considering that we're typically talking about significant amounts of money, that an author may have to live on for the next few years while they write their next work... yeah, it can hurt them, because the original contracts didn't take future technology into account.
I was looking for something like this last year - it looks like this just got released last month, so I don't feel too bad about not finding it.
It looks really interesting, but how accurate is it? I've got some old books that are falling apart I'd like to scan in and textify, but I'd like to know how much time I'm going to have to budget ahead of time fixing problems and proofing.
Speaking as a security professional, we could REALLY use multi-threaded support in our Snort deployments, and the last time I heard 'multi-threaded support is just around the corner' was in 2008.
Right now, the fact that one Snort instance runs as one process linked to one interface in your ethernet stack means that only one core can run it. And with us hitting the plateau in computing speed on a per-core basis, and traffic still increasing, multi-threaded support had better show up in the next couple of years at the latest or I'll have to find some other network-based IDS product, at least for some extreme instances.
No revenue stream now; no revenue stream until 2012.
This seems to be pretty much parallel to most of the business plans of dot-coms. "We have cool new technology! What, we also need sales?"
It really depends on how well they can market the roadsters... which they have not shown to be one of their strong suits yet. Time will tell. Opening day will not.
It's entirely possible that the reason they're complaining is that they want a smaller government with less things they're responsible for, so they'll have fewer things they're capable of screwing up, and want the things that government does taken over by private industry. Having a larger government does not necessarily mean having a more prepared government - it generally means having more layers of bureaucracy and more people who's jobs are not directly tied to their performance.
While I don't promote handing over the control of our jails over to private industry, you could certainly hand over the server management to people who actually know what they're doing and have a vested interest in making sure that there's a stable, solid datacenter behind the servers. You could get rid of some government sysadmins, and it'd be cheaper than buying a brand new datacenter as well.
On a side note, why are people suddenly so in love with the term "infographic"? Can't we call it a "graph" or "chart"?
Because it sounds like 'pornographic'. That makes every single marketing degree person perk up their ears. And everybody knows management loves the info-porn.
I do notice a lack of understanding of theory and hardware. I'm always amazed how these grads know squat about how computers actually work
I graduated about ten years ago from my college with a BA in Computer Science the knowledge to design, from transistors, a minimal-instruction processor, program it in assembly, and design a high-level language for it, in that assembly. I also never learned to code from a library, work with a modern language, or function in a team.
To date, I have used my knowledge from my degree precisely twice - once to take an overly-long Excel IF(IF(IF... statement and reduce it via a binary tree because Excel limited you to 7 nested IF statements, and the other time... I forget exactly what, but it was about as earth-shatteringly important. My current job consists largely of doing (or generating) paperwork to prove to our clients that my company is complying with its contractual obligations, with the occasional system administration bit thrown in. Usually to generate more paperwork.
The reason CS students aren't learning what companies need is because the schools aren't teaching it. The most valuable thing you take away from the university is proof that you'll put up with four years of crap for an award you can hang on your wall.
A friend of mine has one that I got a chance to try out. It's an interesting little device - I'm not going to get one, but then, it's not meant for me.
The iPad does notably excel in one simple thing that I have been missing for the past few years. It has no interface lag. My phone? When I'm switching screens, it lags for a couple seconds. My two year old laptop I got fed up with and threw out because the power jack kept breaking? Opening a directory took a noticable amount of time. Even my streamlined, power-user, performance gaming desktop has moments where its trying to access things and it chugs along before giving me any feedback.
The iPad's interface is responsive. It does what you want it to, when you want it to. When you drag an icon around, it responds immediately. When you poke at a link, it responds instantly with feedback - the webpage might take a moment to load, but it lets you know it's heard you immediately. And everything else in the environment remains responsive. You access the dropdowns, they come right down. You hit the 'menu' button, and you don't get 'the application is waiting to close' hourglass or anything like that, you get MENU.
I can see how that would appeal to many consumers in a world of stuttering, jerky computers.
This was actually predicted some time ago, in a Cyberpunk 2020 supplement. I forget which one exactly, I think it was 'Listen Up, You Primitive Screwheads!'
"Back in the late twentieth century, the average short term loan's length was 30 days. In 2060, the average term is 30 seconds. What can you do in 30 seconds? If you hop on a fast bike, you might make it part of the way down the street. But I can take that thirty-second loan and make enough money to buy a South Sea island, complete with mansion and Playboy bunnies to serve my every whim through a little miracle called currency arbitrage."
This is why Statistics should be taught to anyone attempting to do scientific research. If you don't understand why this is happening and how to prevent it, please turn in your PhD now.
The key message here is that simply testing your web site with a vulnerability scanner doesn't make it secure. Well, duh.
PCI is still important because before the guidelines, most people weren't scanning their web sites at all. Even when they knew how - they couldn't convince management it was worth the trouble, time, dollars, and so on. And without scans, the number of discovered web vulnerabilities approaches 0%.
PCI isn't just about scanning your website, either. There's hundreds of things you have to do to secure everything from the physical layer up to the application layer. And having PCI be required to process credit cards makes everything much more secure. I'm talking about small businesses so cheap they don't want to put LOCKS on the doors between the outside world and the servers holding your plain-text, unencrypted credit card numbers, and who don't have the expertise to set up a web camera on their own building.
You might not like PCI, it might be inconvenient, but it's necessary to protect the general public.
Disclaimer: I am an information security professional.
That said - there's a reason I drive a manual. Even if my (non-recalled) Yaris suffers some kind of acceleration problem, I can disable it by... pushing the clutch, taking it out of gear, turning off the engine. I have many failure-safe modes.
No, it's more like the CEPA investigating WHO. Which I agree, is a horrible acronym. They should change their name to the World Health Accountability Trust to look into the fearmongering accusations regarding the pandemic.
Yes! WHAT should investigate WHO!
-- For more fun facts around the swine flu epidemic, read The H1N1 Survival Guide.
"Just the flu" is far deadlier each year than the swine flu has ever been in sum total.
What?! But how can that be?! The WHO published data and mortality figures that unequivocally showed the swine flu would be more deadly than even the Spanish Flu, killing millions of people all around the globe!
Are you saying that we can't trust government organizations designed to prevent the common citizen from having to actually read statistical reports on mortality?
-- For more fun facts around the swine flu epidemic, read The H1N1 Survival Guide.
LPR, NPR, Facial recognition, window blanking, etc.
I didn't find any systems in my research that offered the features you're describing. It might be that we're just so outside the target market that I wasn't able to find any. However, I can see that a number of companies offer those solutions as bolt-on appliances that would add more systems to our network for management instead of a centralized solution (one of the core requirements we had for our project).
Do you know of any companies that provide that sort of technology, integrated into a video recording and archival system? If so, I'm quite interested for our next round of security system upgrades in the next few years.
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I don't have this problem - when I search for things on Google, I get relevant results from real pages. Either I regularly search for things that nobody scrapes, or there's actually some skill involved in getting relevant results that most people can't be bothered with.
The biggest problem I've had of late searching on Google is trying to find reviews of hardware and getting ninety billion pages trying to sell it to me with 'Be the first person to review this product!" I need to find a different keyword on that.
According to the Washington Post, it's all due Mastercard no longer permitting donations via their services to Wikileaks.
However, I doubt the DDOS is going to change their mind.
I am intrigued by your statistics and wish to know of their sources.
So we're not equipped to handle hackers - and we've officially been hacked. What do we do?
Hiring 'hackers' is a media fiction - you wouldn't hire someone who was convicted of armed robbery to guard your local bank just because he was really good at it, would you? Hire a security professional who actually takes what they do for a living seriously, has credentials to prove it, and has a reputation for honesty and integrity they're not afraid to defend with references from previous employers and clients. Or contract the same. Or hire a consulting firm that specializes in security. A CISSP should be a minimum bar to get over.
Security is all about setting appropriate levels of trust on personnel. If you don't trust your security professionals (and by the way, the guy who sets up your firewall there should be one of them) then you can't trust the security they're putting in place. Audit the work they do. Trust, but verify. And for your size of network, you should have at least one full-time IT security person on staff.
And Cryptome is now saying that a Wired reporter contacted them after having spoken with a hacker claiming responsibility for the attack.
Which they responded to with a threat of a subpoena, and publishing news about it before the reporter, after they told the reporter they wouldn't? ... er. Way to burn bridges, guys? Seriously, I understand free speech and using reporters as sources, but I don't think reporters are going to be too gung-ho about reporting your findings later after this.
The TransX plugin can help you plan out the proper mission plan, too, with burn times, Delta-V requirements, et al. There's a bit of a learning curve involved, but nothing that taking a couple hours in the tutorials won't fix.
I don't think Orbiter models effects like solar sails or thermal thrust yet, though.
And here I am with an android phone that's running 1.5 because the vendor refuses to release any more updates for this 1-year old model of phone.
Oh, wait, that's right, I already rooted and upgraded to 2.2. Nevermind.
Same situation here - running a conference, needed to allow registrations by credit card. Our primary method of payment is Google Checkout. Main difference: A large percentage of our attendees insisted we support PayPal - so we have a PayPal account that we keep at a zero-dollar balance. When people send us money via PayPal, we immediately transfer it out of that account and to our bank. All of our actual money is held at our real, stable, brick-and-mortar bank.
For fear of precisely this reason. If I had enough support in our fanbase, I'd drop PayPal like a dead cat.
What he meant by 'not going to chase anyone out of their homes' is that we're not going to see sudden, dramatic raises in sea levels. If you think that people aren't capable of adapting to changes in their environment over a period of a hundred years, then, well... I guess I should break out my buggy whip.
Because of poorly written contracts. Most current contracts don't have a distinction between 'audiobook' and 'text-to-speech conversion'. If the authors don't defend their copyright on the text-to-speech conversion, it can be legally argued that they don't mind if the publisher has rights to produce audiobooks - or that they actually sold the right to the publisher in the first place, even if it wasn't explicitly stated in the contract. Considering that we're typically talking about significant amounts of money, that an author may have to live on for the next few years while they write their next work... yeah, it can hurt them, because the original contracts didn't take future technology into account.
I was looking for something like this last year - it looks like this just got released last month, so I don't feel too bad about not finding it.
It looks really interesting, but how accurate is it? I've got some old books that are falling apart I'd like to scan in and textify, but I'd like to know how much time I'm going to have to budget ahead of time fixing problems and proofing.
.... is pretty much DOA.
Speaking as a security professional, we could REALLY use multi-threaded support in our Snort deployments, and the last time I heard 'multi-threaded support is just around the corner' was in 2008.
Right now, the fact that one Snort instance runs as one process linked to one interface in your ethernet stack means that only one core can run it. And with us hitting the plateau in computing speed on a per-core basis, and traffic still increasing, multi-threaded support had better show up in the next couple of years at the latest or I'll have to find some other network-based IDS product, at least for some extreme instances.
No revenue stream now; no revenue stream until 2012.
This seems to be pretty much parallel to most of the business plans of dot-coms. "We have cool new technology! What, we also need sales?"
It really depends on how well they can market the roadsters... which they have not shown to be one of their strong suits yet. Time will tell. Opening day will not.
It's entirely possible that the reason they're complaining is that they want a smaller government with less things they're responsible for, so they'll have fewer things they're capable of screwing up, and want the things that government does taken over by private industry. Having a larger government does not necessarily mean having a more prepared government - it generally means having more layers of bureaucracy and more people who's jobs are not directly tied to their performance.
While I don't promote handing over the control of our jails over to private industry, you could certainly hand over the server management to people who actually know what they're doing and have a vested interest in making sure that there's a stable, solid datacenter behind the servers. You could get rid of some government sysadmins, and it'd be cheaper than buying a brand new datacenter as well.
On a side note, why are people suddenly so in love with the term "infographic"? Can't we call it a "graph" or "chart"?
Because it sounds like 'pornographic'. That makes every single marketing degree person perk up their ears. And everybody knows management loves the info-porn.
I do notice a lack of understanding of theory and hardware. I'm always amazed how these grads know squat about how computers actually work
I graduated about ten years ago from my college with a BA in Computer Science the knowledge to design, from transistors, a minimal-instruction processor, program it in assembly, and design a high-level language for it, in that assembly. I also never learned to code from a library, work with a modern language, or function in a team.
To date, I have used my knowledge from my degree precisely twice - once to take an overly-long Excel IF(IF(IF... statement and reduce it via a binary tree because Excel limited you to 7 nested IF statements, and the other time ... I forget exactly what, but it was about as earth-shatteringly important. My current job consists largely of doing (or generating) paperwork to prove to our clients that my company is complying with its contractual obligations, with the occasional system administration bit thrown in. Usually to generate more paperwork.
The reason CS students aren't learning what companies need is because the schools aren't teaching it. The most valuable thing you take away from the university is proof that you'll put up with four years of crap for an award you can hang on your wall.
A friend of mine has one that I got a chance to try out. It's an interesting little device - I'm not going to get one, but then, it's not meant for me.
The iPad does notably excel in one simple thing that I have been missing for the past few years. It has no interface lag. My phone? When I'm switching screens, it lags for a couple seconds. My two year old laptop I got fed up with and threw out because the power jack kept breaking? Opening a directory took a noticable amount of time. Even my streamlined, power-user, performance gaming desktop has moments where its trying to access things and it chugs along before giving me any feedback.
The iPad's interface is responsive. It does what you want it to, when you want it to. When you drag an icon around, it responds immediately. When you poke at a link, it responds instantly with feedback - the webpage might take a moment to load, but it lets you know it's heard you immediately. And everything else in the environment remains responsive. You access the dropdowns, they come right down. You hit the 'menu' button, and you don't get 'the application is waiting to close' hourglass or anything like that, you get MENU.
I can see how that would appeal to many consumers in a world of stuttering, jerky computers.
This was actually predicted some time ago, in a Cyberpunk 2020 supplement. I forget which one exactly, I think it was 'Listen Up, You Primitive Screwheads!'
"Back in the late twentieth century, the average short term loan's length was 30 days. In 2060, the average term is 30 seconds. What can you do in 30 seconds? If you hop on a fast bike, you might make it part of the way down the street. But I can take that thirty-second loan and make enough money to buy a South Sea island, complete with mansion and Playboy bunnies to serve my every whim through a little miracle called currency arbitrage."
Quote is approximate.
Second Life. Except both parties have to click on the little ball labelled 'RAPE POSE', so...
One significant figure?
Yeah. My eyes bugged out when I saw that, too.
This is why Statistics should be taught to anyone attempting to do scientific research. If you don't understand why this is happening and how to prevent it, please turn in your PhD now.
The key message here is that simply testing your web site with a vulnerability scanner doesn't make it secure. Well, duh.
PCI is still important because before the guidelines, most people weren't scanning their web sites at all. Even when they knew how - they couldn't convince management it was worth the trouble, time, dollars, and so on. And without scans, the number of discovered web vulnerabilities approaches 0%.
PCI isn't just about scanning your website, either. There's hundreds of things you have to do to secure everything from the physical layer up to the application layer. And having PCI be required to process credit cards makes everything much more secure. I'm talking about small businesses so cheap they don't want to put LOCKS on the doors between the outside world and the servers holding your plain-text, unencrypted credit card numbers, and who don't have the expertise to set up a web camera on their own building.
You might not like PCI, it might be inconvenient, but it's necessary to protect the general public.
Disclaimer: I am an information security professional.
Didn't Car and Driver do a very similar test and report that Ford Explorers categorically don't roll over when there's a tire failure unless the driver panics and starts steering like a madman? http://www.caranddriver.com/features/01q1/why_are_ford_explorers_crashing_-column
That said - there's a reason I drive a manual. Even if my (non-recalled) Yaris suffers some kind of acceleration problem, I can disable it by... pushing the clutch, taking it out of gear, turning off the engine. I have many failure-safe modes.
Still getting 40 MPG, too.
No, it's more like the CEPA investigating WHO. Which I agree, is a horrible acronym. They should change their name to the World Health Accountability Trust to look into the fearmongering accusations regarding the pandemic.
Yes! WHAT should investigate WHO!
--
For more fun facts around the swine flu epidemic, read The H1N1 Survival Guide.
"Just the flu" is far deadlier each year than the swine flu has ever been in sum total.
What?! But how can that be?! The WHO published data and mortality figures that unequivocally showed the swine flu would be more deadly than even the Spanish Flu, killing millions of people all around the globe!
Are you saying that we can't trust government organizations designed to prevent the common citizen from having to actually read statistical reports on mortality?
--
For more fun facts around the swine flu epidemic, read The H1N1 Survival Guide.
LPR, NPR, Facial recognition, window blanking, etc.
I didn't find any systems in my research that offered the features you're describing. It might be that we're just so outside the target market that I wasn't able to find any. However, I can see that a number of companies offer those solutions as bolt-on appliances that would add more systems to our network for management instead of a centralized solution (one of the core requirements we had for our project).
Do you know of any companies that provide that sort of technology, integrated into a video recording and archival system? If so, I'm quite interested for our next round of security system upgrades in the next few years.