There's a time and a place. Even the McD's employee mopping the floor knows better than to ask a customer who says "clean the bathroom, the stench makes me want to vomit" "Would you like to vomit some fries with that?"
It's one thing if the customer has called to ask a "how can I" sort of question, it's another if they're calling because you are currently failing to provide what they already paid for. All you'll do that way is make them smile as they imagine sledghammering your balls.
It's far worse if the customer only got angry during the call because your flipbook/flowchart isn't solving the problem. You've just convinced me that I know more about your network than you do and now you want to sell me more based on your "expertise"?!?
There's a lot of data that suggests you can get a pile of cash robbing people in the park as well, but that doesn't make it right. The only reason the megacorps get away with it is where the competition is equally slimy.
Why would a government body have any right to privacy at all?
For other cases, I would say the cutoff point is the public courts. If you can come to an agreement privately, fine. But as soon as the courts are involved AT ALL, it becomes a public matter. They are, after all, PUBLIC courts.
If my experience serves, the average user will have no backups of any kind. The above average user will hire someone or ask a knowledgable friend to set something up for them.
If you're already recommending something to them and it would only take 5 minutes to set up, why wouldn't you set them up with a proper cron job and snapshotted backup volume?
Who said anything about letting viruses loose? I certainly don't recommend that.
Don't underestimate the fact that users cannot write the binaries they run. It may be possible to corrupt the memory space of a running app, but when it's closed, the hack goes away. There's not a good hook to insert a virus into.
If you wish to argue that enhancing the security model could be a good idea, I certainly agree. It may be a harder problem than you think. The NSA took a stab at it w/ SELinux, but that gets so complex to admin that professional admins question the possibility of properly tracking it all, so home users wouldn't stand a chance. AppArmor looks feasible for professionals in a real world environment, but probably will be ignored by home users.
Capabilities are a win, but are primarily used behind the scenes right now. Controlling them with fs xattrs lags behind.
...and they can do that without root, because frankly, there's nothing to hide from. How am I going to know there's malware on my Linux system?
For someone who thinks he knows everything, you burned yourself a bit there:-) Man ps. Man top. And REALLY, man chkrootkit.
Speaking of which, I would say it's false positive rate is no worse than Windows AV but it sure consumes a lot less system resources. It's pretty good at finding subtle signs of a problem where the rootkit hides itself imperfectly. It can also be run from a rescue disk so a rootkit on disk can't hide itself.
What, just because something is a popular meme means that it is good security advice? I suppose kids drown if they go swimming after eating too. I mean, if everyone says it, it must be true, right?
Only a fool wouldn't at least look at the evidence. All those wacky doctors claiming you can't drink antifreeze instead of wearing a coat. PFFFFFT! It says anti-freeze right on the bottle!
I don't know what regulations may apply when it leaves the factory, but some combination of years of wear, a sticky cable, and larger than factory tires put on and that easily goes out the window.
There's also the human factor. For safety, we'd rather people creep a few MPH over than have them laser focused on the speedometer and not the road ahead.
I have seen speed traps like that. They were like that for years. They have slowly gone away as the area has become less rural. I wouldn't be shocked to see them still in existence further out though. It's very real. Good luck getting THE judge (aka the police chief's brother in law) to invalidate the ticket in towns like that.
In more urban areas they prefer to use red light cams and dangerously short yellows to force people to break the law for safety reasons. Generally, the traffic engineering 'rules' are legally just guidelines or recommendations.
You have clearly never seen a speed trap where you go from 45 to 25 and back to 45 in a few hundred feet. If there is a large truck already following you too close, it cound be very dangerous (bordering on suicidal) to slam on your brakes when you round a bend and see the 25 MPH sign.
Actually, the tolerances are codified in law for some jurisdictions and discretionary in others.
The tolerances are there because speedometers and radar guns have limited accuracy. It is entirely plausible that speed limit is 70, speedometer reads 70, car is actually going 72, and radar reads 73.
It's important to make a distinction between casual and disheveled. There are plenty of ways to dress that are not a suit and tie but cannot be called disheveled.
I tend towards business casual when I go in to work. Solid colored v-neck, dark pants w/ no holes, un-scuffed rubber soled shoes.
While there are limits, the standard suit and tie are often impediments to an engineer. When the business people want to get in close and see what's actually going on, it means going over to accounting and looking at spreadsheets. For an engineer though, it may mean pulling up the floor and going into tight spaces with lots of dirt and possibly grease (especially for devops). It may mean going into environments where a suit doesn't allow the mobility needed and a tie is an actual danger. Ties and lathes do NOT mix!
My home backup system is rsync on a cron job to another machine. It's easy. 2TB HDs cost $80 and a Raspberry Pi is more than enough to host one as a backup. No need for 5 guys to monitor that.
MOST viruses and trojans are more interested in carving out a space for a rootkit so they can spam, DDOS and have a jumping off point for other exploits. Those never touch your data and can be blocked by not running as root. I know of one (cryptolocker) that screws with user data. That one would be where the backups and snapshots come in.
You should look at AppArmor, it's much easier to live with than SELinux.
I'm going to need some citation for that. As far as I can see, if we cut out those things I listed above (that do not enjoy a lot of voter support), we could have a balanced budget now. We had just gotten there during the Clinton administration and so we can be there again.
Get handed over to the U.S. and get extreme rendition to some hellhole where he gets tortured and the U.S. gets plausible deniability.
Further, he has not been indicted. There is currently no trial awaiting him. He is wanted for QUESTIONING but mysteriously, they refuse to simply question him over phone or video conference. This is after he had already been formally granted permission to leave the country.
There are significant irregularities under both Swedish and U.K. law. It's little wonder he smells a rat.
You asked the wrong questions though. The pollution in those waters is well known. He never claimed that the level of accumulation was sufficient for an advisory. And finally, all predatory fish are bio-accumulators. This is well understood.
The more useful question or comment would be to ask for a comparison with native pike or to simply point out that some of the native fish are also predatory.
Missing a driver for new hardware is hardly limited to Linux. In fact, I have run into that problem FAR more often with Windows even though I've done far fewer Windows installs. Unlike Windows, in Linux I can generally get around the problem by loading the relevant non-distro driver onto a flash drive (or my phone) and manually insmoding it at the start of an advanced install. An alternative approach is to use a well supported USB network adapter to complete the install, then load an out of tree driver for the network hardware.
As for Jessie, it's called testing for a reason:-)
Entitlements will always be raised by vote until that's all the government can afford to do any more
It hasn't happened in over 200 years of democracy, what makes you think it will happen now?
We're already there.
We are nowhere near there. Actual paid taxes are at a low point and we still have more than enough to blow trillions in Iraq, billions in the pointless war on drugs, untold gadzillions on the NSA, etc etc. The only time D.C. pleads poverty is when it comes to infrastructure and the social safety net.
Most of Europe got suckered into an austerity budget that is killing them. Most of the woes are due to the banking collapse. The few countries that have tougher banking laws and told the banks "gee that's a shame" rather than "Here, let us loan you a few trillion" are doing just fine now in spite of having far more comprehensive social programs in the U.S. If we can kick the war habit, get sensioble on drugs, and quit worshipping deadbeat bankers and other corporate ne'er do wells, we can do it too.
I don't understand what jobs you think will be going away that pay $50k today?
Worse, unless they agree in writing that the $20 settles the matter in full, they'll then sue you and use your payment as an admission of guilt (true or not).
No, American Politics is more pernicious. Certain views in the U.S. cause OTHER people to die. At least the clowns who looted the quarantine center will pay the price personally.
But day causes night and night causes day *IS* a reasonable model which will correctly predict what will happen next.
It is far from a perfect model but it's a start. A more complex model is necessary to make finer predictions (exactly when will the sun rise again, seasons, etc).
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There's a time and a place. Even the McD's employee mopping the floor knows better than to ask a customer who says "clean the bathroom, the stench makes me want to vomit" "Would you like to vomit some fries with that?"
It's one thing if the customer has called to ask a "how can I" sort of question, it's another if they're calling because you are currently failing to provide what they already paid for. All you'll do that way is make them smile as they imagine sledghammering your balls.
It's far worse if the customer only got angry during the call because your flipbook/flowchart isn't solving the problem. You've just convinced me that I know more about your network than you do and now you want to sell me more based on your "expertise"?!?
There's a lot of data that suggests you can get a pile of cash robbing people in the park as well, but that doesn't make it right. The only reason the megacorps get away with it is where the competition is equally slimy.
No. When they violate the public trust, they have no right to keep it a secret.
Why would a government body have any right to privacy at all?
For other cases, I would say the cutoff point is the public courts. If you can come to an agreement privately, fine. But as soon as the courts are involved AT ALL, it becomes a public matter. They are, after all, PUBLIC courts.
If my experience serves, the average user will have no backups of any kind. The above average user will hire someone or ask a knowledgable friend to set something up for them.
If you're already recommending something to them and it would only take 5 minutes to set up, why wouldn't you set them up with a proper cron job and snapshotted backup volume?
Who said anything about letting viruses loose? I certainly don't recommend that.
Don't underestimate the fact that users cannot write the binaries they run. It may be possible to corrupt the memory space of a running app, but when it's closed, the hack goes away. There's not a good hook to insert a virus into.
If you wish to argue that enhancing the security model could be a good idea, I certainly agree. It may be a harder problem than you think. The NSA took a stab at it w/ SELinux, but that gets so complex to admin that professional admins question the possibility of properly tracking it all, so home users wouldn't stand a chance. AppArmor looks feasible for professionals in a real world environment, but probably will be ignored by home users.
Capabilities are a win, but are primarily used behind the scenes right now. Controlling them with fs xattrs lags behind.
...and they can do that without root, because frankly, there's nothing to hide from. How am I going to know there's malware on my Linux system?
For someone who thinks he knows everything, you burned yourself a bit there :-) Man ps. Man top. And REALLY, man chkrootkit.
Speaking of which, I would say it's false positive rate is no worse than Windows AV but it sure consumes a lot less system resources. It's pretty good at finding subtle signs of a problem where the rootkit hides itself imperfectly. It can also be run from a rescue disk so a rootkit on disk can't hide itself.
What, just because something is a popular meme means that it is good security advice? I suppose kids drown if they go swimming after eating too. I mean, if everyone says it, it must be true, right?
Only a fool wouldn't at least look at the evidence. All those wacky doctors claiming you can't drink antifreeze instead of wearing a coat. PFFFFFT! It says anti-freeze right on the bottle!
I don't know what regulations may apply when it leaves the factory, but some combination of years of wear, a sticky cable, and larger than factory tires put on and that easily goes out the window.
There's also the human factor. For safety, we'd rather people creep a few MPH over than have them laser focused on the speedometer and not the road ahead.
CRUNCH! Hrmm, that truck seems to have safely run over my trunk.
I have seen speed traps like that. They were like that for years. They have slowly gone away as the area has become less rural. I wouldn't be shocked to see them still in existence further out though. It's very real. Good luck getting THE judge (aka the police chief's brother in law) to invalidate the ticket in towns like that.
In more urban areas they prefer to use red light cams and dangerously short yellows to force people to break the law for safety reasons. Generally, the traffic engineering 'rules' are legally just guidelines or recommendations.
Of course if they drive a Pinto, they are much safer being the fastest car on the road. :-)
You have clearly never seen a speed trap where you go from 45 to 25 and back to 45 in a few hundred feet. If there is a large truck already following you too close, it cound be very dangerous (bordering on suicidal) to slam on your brakes when you round a bend and see the 25 MPH sign.
Actually, the tolerances are codified in law for some jurisdictions and discretionary in others.
The tolerances are there because speedometers and radar guns have limited accuracy. It is entirely plausible that speed limit is 70, speedometer reads 70, car is actually going 72, and radar reads 73.
It's important to make a distinction between casual and disheveled. There are plenty of ways to dress that are not a suit and tie but cannot be called disheveled.
I tend towards business casual when I go in to work. Solid colored v-neck, dark pants w/ no holes, un-scuffed rubber soled shoes.
While there are limits, the standard suit and tie are often impediments to an engineer. When the business people want to get in close and see what's actually going on, it means going over to accounting and looking at spreadsheets. For an engineer though, it may mean pulling up the floor and going into tight spaces with lots of dirt and possibly grease (especially for devops). It may mean going into environments where a suit doesn't allow the mobility needed and a tie is an actual danger. Ties and lathes do NOT mix!
My home backup system is rsync on a cron job to another machine. It's easy. 2TB HDs cost $80 and a Raspberry Pi is more than enough to host one as a backup. No need for 5 guys to monitor that.
MOST viruses and trojans are more interested in carving out a space for a rootkit so they can spam, DDOS and have a jumping off point for other exploits. Those never touch your data and can be blocked by not running as root. I know of one (cryptolocker) that screws with user data. That one would be where the backups and snapshots come in.
You should look at AppArmor, it's much easier to live with than SELinux.
I'm going to need some citation for that. As far as I can see, if we cut out those things I listed above (that do not enjoy a lot of voter support), we could have a balanced budget now. We had just gotten there during the Clinton administration and so we can be there again.
Get handed over to the U.S. and get extreme rendition to some hellhole where he gets tortured and the U.S. gets plausible deniability.
Further, he has not been indicted. There is currently no trial awaiting him. He is wanted for QUESTIONING but mysteriously, they refuse to simply question him over phone or video conference. This is after he had already been formally granted permission to leave the country.
There are significant irregularities under both Swedish and U.K. law. It's little wonder he smells a rat.
You asked the wrong questions though. The pollution in those waters is well known. He never claimed that the level of accumulation was sufficient for an advisory. And finally, all predatory fish are bio-accumulators. This is well understood.
The more useful question or comment would be to ask for a comparison with native pike or to simply point out that some of the native fish are also predatory.
Missing a driver for new hardware is hardly limited to Linux. In fact, I have run into that problem FAR more often with Windows even though I've done far fewer Windows installs. Unlike Windows, in Linux I can generally get around the problem by loading the relevant non-distro driver onto a flash drive (or my phone) and manually insmoding it at the start of an advanced install. An alternative approach is to use a well supported USB network adapter to complete the install, then load an out of tree driver for the network hardware.
As for Jessie, it's called testing for a reason :-)
Entitlements will always be raised by vote until that's all the government can afford to do any more
It hasn't happened in over 200 years of democracy, what makes you think it will happen now?
We're already there.
We are nowhere near there. Actual paid taxes are at a low point and we still have more than enough to blow trillions in Iraq, billions in the pointless war on drugs, untold gadzillions on the NSA, etc etc. The only time D.C. pleads poverty is when it comes to infrastructure and the social safety net.
Most of Europe got suckered into an austerity budget that is killing them. Most of the woes are due to the banking collapse. The few countries that have tougher banking laws and told the banks "gee that's a shame" rather than "Here, let us loan you a few trillion" are doing just fine now in spite of having far more comprehensive social programs in the U.S. If we can kick the war habit, get sensioble on drugs, and quit worshipping deadbeat bankers and other corporate ne'er do wells, we can do it too.
I don't understand what jobs you think will be going away that pay $50k today?
I said 50K jobs, not jobs paying $50K
The false positives are much less frequent than slashdot commenters would have you believe.
But presumably you're not claiming zero false positives, right? If it's non-zero then some innocent people will inevitably get hit up for the fine.
Worse, unless they agree in writing that the $20 settles the matter in full, they'll then sue you and use your payment as an admission of guilt (true or not).
Asking for evidence that the sky appears blue and that the moon isn't actually cheese is laziness.
How many sticks of dynamite can a quadcopter safely carry?
No, American Politics is more pernicious. Certain views in the U.S. cause OTHER people to die. At least the clowns who looted the quarantine center will pay the price personally.
But day causes night and night causes day *IS* a reasonable model which will correctly predict what will happen next.
It is far from a perfect model but it's a start. A more complex model is necessary to make finer predictions (exactly when will the sun rise again, seasons, etc).