Also, I know TFA mentions "Residential Locations", but I wonder if there were any coffee shops dotted around which offer free wifi. Maybe none, but a short sentence in the article would help me sleep at night:)
"Anyone behind the firewall know" : Shouldn't that be "Anyone behind the firewall knows" ? Or is that a valid ellipsis with an interrogative form : "(Does) anyone behind the firewall know" ?
I think it could be argued either way, in which case I was prepared to give the benefit of the doubt:)
BinaryMage found a pretty shocking article - apparently the Chinese government has shut down 1.3 million websites in 2010, an incredible 41% of all sites behind the great firewall. The usual reasons (pornography) are cited, as well as the reminder that China blocks Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube from its citizens. Anyone behind the firewall know if Slashdot is currently blocked? I've heard it varies.
Yea, that's pretty much what I'm saying. I'm wondering how much of a compulsive liar this guy must be if he honestly thinks he can forge an email trail. I guess it's worth a shot for a few hundred million dollars though.
This is why we need PGP signing or something like that to become mainsteam. This would have cleared things up so much quicker. Damn you email clients stuck using technology decades old, we need to move on to stop fraud like this from even being attempted. I can't believe that in this day and age, they are/still/ using techniques similar to handwriting matching (well, sentence construction matching in this case, but you know what I mean) when there are soo many better ways of verifying your identity.
Apress prints up the developer's notes directly without any editing or proof-reading. The text and illustrations and intellectual content were of sub-standard quality throughout. Thus I found it almost completely useless.
Thus I found it almost completely useless.
You might want to proof-read your own posts before posting.
Also, where's the relevance to Apress in this review? It is Manning Publications who are publishing Camel in Action
Proactively? Not really. The systems used for this are typically overseas, in countries that more or less don't care.
However, you -can- configure your server to disregard even initial connection attempts from specific ranges of IP addresses. I solved a lot of this on my own home FTP server by (sorry comrads) telling my server to ignore connection attempts from Russia and China.
Upon doing so, it went from a daily occurrence, to maybe one attempt a month. Usually less.
And, if a friend ever needs to FTP in from one of these countries, it's a simple enough rule change.
The only slight snag is that the IP I'm on at work in the UK doesn't seem to be listed, so I'm not sure how reliable this list is, although I guess a false negative is better than a false positive.
I know you're trolling but let me explain why the UK does what it does.
The Sale of Goods act (1953) was brought into being to protect the consumer from shops palming off problems to the manufacturer. Your equipment is faulty? Send it back to the manufacturer. The book you bought has pages missing? Phone up the publisher to get it replaced. With this act the retailer is obliged to offer a replacement to the purchaser and it becomes the retailer's responsibility to get a replacement from the manufacturer. No flux capacitor required.
Let's be honest, the real problem here was that MS was using the "Security by Obscurity" model to hide the test code site. It even says ITA that it was a "secret" website. (As if a website could EVER be secret for long, especially one connected to Microsoft.)
Secret websites are nothing special. The only thing that Microsoft forgot to do is create a robots.txt file
I cannot speak for these guys, but where I work, software I write for the company stays with the company. If I were to leave and go out on my own, I would be violating the terms of my previous contract so in effect I would have to write my software again. I'd be very surprised if this weren't the case here as well.
If you're outside, you should, you know, be outside, doing outsidey kinds of things.
Man , please look at the potential rather than just immediately pigeonholing these type of devices as things that cross social boundaries that shouldn't be crossed. I for one read books in the park and maybe in 20 years time I won't need to lug around a 1000 page novel when I'm only going to be reading 1 or two pages in a lunchtime; this device will suit me down to the ground.
Because trying to have Microsoft and Intel open up were such successes...
That makes absolutely no sense. The EU bitch slapped those companies for anti competitive behaviour. It had nothing to do with their openness (or perceived lack thereof.) Opening up was not their end game.
Slashdot Mirror
Maybe they all 10,000 residents read Bruce Schneier's blog:
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/01/my_open_wireles.html
Also, I know TFA mentions "Residential Locations", but I wonder if there were any coffee shops dotted around which offer free wifi. Maybe none, but a short sentence in the article would help me sleep at night :)
"Anyone behind the firewall know" : Shouldn't that be "Anyone behind the firewall knows" ? Or is that a valid ellipsis with an interrogative form : "(Does) anyone behind the firewall know" ?
I think it could be argued either way, in which case I was prepared to give the benefit of the doubt :)
True, but being a grammar Nazi does not prohibit me from correcting typos
BinaryMage found a pretty shocking article - apparently the Chinese government has shut down 1.3 million websites in 2010, an incredible 41% of all sites behind the great firewall. The usual reasons (pornography) are cited, as well as the reminder that China blocks Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube from its citizens. Anyone behind the firewall know if Slashdot is currently blocked? I've heard it varies.
There, FTFY
Yea, that's pretty much what I'm saying. I'm wondering how much of a compulsive liar this guy must be if he honestly thinks he can forge an email trail. I guess it's worth a shot for a few hundred million dollars though.
This is why we need PGP signing or something like that to become mainsteam. This would have cleared things up so much quicker. Damn you email clients stuck using technology decades old, we need to move on to stop fraud like this from even being attempted. I can't believe that in this day and age, they are /still/ using techniques similar to handwriting matching (well, sentence construction matching in this case, but you know what I mean) when there are soo many better ways of verifying your identity.
From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_Daiichi_nuclear_disaster
Reported deaths: 1 (heart attack)
Let's put that in perspective, the Bhopal disaster (chemical based) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhopal_disaster
The official immediate death toll was 2,259 and the government of Madhya Pradesh has confirmed a total of 3,787 deaths related to the gas release
In fact, 1 death is on a par with the number of deaths related to people putting lava lamps on stoves (that we know of)
On one hand....
You never told us what you're doing with the other...
Apress prints up the developer's notes directly without any editing or proof-reading. The text and illustrations and intellectual content were of sub-standard quality throughout. Thus I found it almost completely useless.
Thus I found it almost completely useless.
You might want to proof-read your own posts before posting.
Also, where's the relevance to Apress in this review? It is Manning Publications who are publishing Camel in Action
Proactively? Not really. The systems used for this are typically overseas, in countries that more or less don't care.
However, you -can- configure your server to disregard even initial connection attempts from specific ranges of IP addresses. I solved a lot of this on my own home FTP server by (sorry comrads) telling my server to ignore connection attempts from Russia and China.
Upon doing so, it went from a daily occurrence, to maybe one attempt a month. Usually less.
And, if a friend ever needs to FTP in from one of these countries, it's a simple enough rule change.
That's a pretty good idea. I take it you use the ip blocks given in http://www.ipdeny.com/ipblocks/
The only slight snag is that the IP I'm on at work in the UK doesn't seem to be listed, so I'm not sure how reliable this list is, although I guess a false negative is better than a false positive.
Looks like this website's idea has been taken a little further than people expected it would
That it's not profanity anymore. Is damn considered profanity any longer. At one point that was as harsh as Fuck is today.
Bullshit
No, I'm not. I've used ie4linux loads for fairly obvious reasons and it's a great bit of software.
It's just a shame I had to use it in the first place.
If you're suitably masochistic:
http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/page/Main_Page
The site of Idle, surely?
I know you're trolling but let me explain why the UK does what it does.
The Sale of Goods act (1953) was brought into being to protect the consumer from shops palming off problems to the manufacturer. Your equipment is faulty? Send it back to the manufacturer. The book you bought has pages missing? Phone up the publisher to get it replaced. With this act the retailer is obliged to offer a replacement to the purchaser and it becomes the retailer's responsibility to get a replacement from the manufacturer. No flux capacitor required.
Let's be honest, the real problem here was that MS was using the "Security by Obscurity" model to hide the test code site. It even says ITA that it was a "secret" website. (As if a website could EVER be secret for long, especially one connected to Microsoft.)
Secret websites are nothing special. The only thing that Microsoft forgot to do is create a robots.txt file
User-agent: * /SecretDownloads/Halo-Reach-Prerelease.zip
Disallow:
That way it wouldn't have shown up on Google and nobody would have downloaded it. Problem solved.
Monopoly healthcare. No choice healthcare.
I'm genuinely curious as to where this happens.
I use opera instead. I find IE just as much security issue prone as IE.
To offer a counter argument, from my personal experience I've found Opera to be as much of a security issue as Opera.
I cannot speak for these guys, but where I work, software I write for the company stays with the company. If I were to leave and go out on my own, I would be violating the terms of my previous contract so in effect I would have to write my software again. I'd be very surprised if this weren't the case here as well.
That WHOOOOOOSH noise is the sound of a backup tape flying over your head.
You spelt touchy wrong
good luck with that! I don't give that terminology's adoption a chico's chance in a groucho.
Don't you mean a chico's chance in hella? :)
If you're outside, you should, you know, be outside, doing outsidey kinds of things.
Man , please look at the potential rather than just immediately pigeonholing these type of devices as things that cross social boundaries that shouldn't be crossed. I for one read books in the park and maybe in 20 years time I won't need to lug around a 1000 page novel when I'm only going to be reading 1 or two pages in a lunchtime; this device will suit me down to the ground.
Because trying to have Microsoft and Intel open up were such successes ...
That makes absolutely no sense. The EU bitch slapped those companies for anti competitive behaviour. It had nothing to do with their openness (or perceived lack thereof.) Opening up was not their end game.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8047546.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/7266629.stm
This is the first I've heard of Packt publishing
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