China is pretty atheist, if you actually ask what the younger generation believe personally.
From my experience, if you ask surface level "what do you believe", you will generally get an answer "Chinese are buddhist"; but if you probe what they actually believe you tend to get a very atheistic worldview. The older generation may or may not believe in buddhism, although tradition seems to be big there so Im not really sure what the dominant belief system is for that generation.
Not to mention that in order to get a government job you have to affirm atheism.
There are indeed atheist countries out there, whether or not you want to acknowledge it.
THat its trivial to do is irrelevant. They are fully within their rights to block this usage, since.. A) its basically a ticking legal timebomb B) it gets them 0 revenue (the automated servers skip the ads C) it costs them money (the servers are downloading the videos)
for every site like facebook or youtube that "makes it", how many sites are there that go under not because of lack of good ideas, or good management, but because of legal action (be it legit or otherwise)?
Welcome to the realities of entrepreneurship. Is this any different than any startup?
Its like that patent joke, where its treated as new and different just because someone added "on the internet" to it. Starting ANY business is hard, and you need a legal team to defend against various kinds of BS. The bigger you are, the bigger your team needs to be.
In fact, as I recall, about 3 years ago I set up a filezilla server on my home comp, set up basic user accounts, and posted the details to 4chan. Nothing really happened; I think someone tried to upload a decompression bomb, some others started uploading material of questionable legality, etc, but noone got the admin password.
I left it up for several days and eventually some bots noticed the FTP server and began attempting bruteforce the admin password, but nothing else happened.
Now I ask you, if its so easy to just hack someone once you get the IP, why were they fiddling with FTP rather than owning the whole box?
Not necessarily. Vast majority of zombies were hit by driveby exploits for flash, java, whatever. It generally isnt a targetted attack, because its a lot harder to target it without social engineering. It also generally isnt possible to just "hack" a home computer, because you have a natting firewall with no forwarding in the vast majority of cases as well as the built in Windows firewall to deal with.
How you plan to get unrequested traffic from the internet through the NAT and past the Win firewall I would be interested to hear.
The only real way to hack those computers would be to look for a vulnerable UPnP app that has set up forwarding thru both firewalls and which is also able to be exploited, or else to start spreading your own viruses (which is most certainly very illegal). Its not a level playing field either, because these companies would be hugely liable if they were to do so, and would be easy to find and prosecute; meanwhile the botmasters reside in Eastern Europe, so good luck bringing them to trial.
What I know is when nvidia came out, I was seeing thousands of posts from people desperately seeking answers on how to get them to work,
The first time I ever used linux semi-seriously was in a computer class in like 2004. During downtime, since the comps had nvidia cards, I wanted to play Unreal Tournament, so i decided to install the drivers. The steps: 1)Go to nVidia.com, and download the driver installer. 2) run.\driverinstaller 3) play unreal tournament.
Ever since then I have periodically gone back to Linux, each time with an nVidia card, and each time the process was the exact same. Download the installer (helpfully linked here!), run the installer, reboot.
Ubuntu (and I imagine other distros) has for the longest time also had the nvidia drivers in its repos, so you can install it from there even easier ("apt-get install nvidia-drivers-binary" or whatever) and not have to worry about kernel upgrades.
Its not that hard, and it basically has never been that hard (at least for the last decade).
What I know is when nvidia came out, I was seeing thousands of posts from people desperately seeking answers on how to get them to work, and thousands more on how to make their X Window survive upgrades
Synaptic is basically a front-end for apt, and I imagine synaptic's other-distro brothers are similar in that regard. If an upgrade like that is breaking things, the package itself might be broken. Regardless, IIRC the driver is a kernel module and shouldnt be broken by just an X upgrade, though kernel upgrades do have the potential to cause issues if you DONT use a package manager.
This is retarded, its borne out of the notion that any computer on the internet can be hacked if only you have the right skills. Thats not really accurate, you either need a vulnerability or a way to get the victim to install a rootkit (phishing / whatever you want to call it).
Unless the hacker has decided to leave RDP open or left ports 135-139 exposed, its not going to be as easy as "just counterhack them".
I rather imagine I could hand out my IP to everyone on the internet, and that noone would be able to "just hack me"; and my "firewall" consists of a simple natting router.
then it's really none of the company's business if you check your bank account, Gmail, or order something from Amazon.
Wrong, and Im really suprised you dont get this.
Its not your network, its not your equipment, and its not your own time. For most companies, your time is their time between certain hours, and if they ask you to do a job that isnt strictly speaking in the job description, you can still be expected to do it. If they ask you not to do something, you are generally expected to comply (assuming legal, ethical, etc).
That can change depending on the specifics of what you agreed to when you were hired, but you most certainly dont have some right to the company's networking resources (unless you are chipping in for their internet bill?)
If youd read the other posts, youd see that for the last several years we've had variously the 5th, 6th, or 7th highest median income among all states. North Dakota is near the bottom of the barrel (~$50k per year), Va is near the top (~$61k/yr).
I wouldnt call that "right to work for less". Id also note that our unemployment is also quite low, we're #9 there with a 5.6% unemployment.
Relevant to what? To a Slashdot thread where we're supposed to comment? Pretty sure "what I think" is the only thing relevant.
Relevant in the sense that if your boss were to tell you to stop using facebook at work (which seems to be the implication at the submitter's workplace, with their monitoring), telling him that you have your own reasons for doing so probably arent going to impress him very much. See, when they pay you to do a job, they set the rules. If you dont like those rules, you can leave.
Thats not exactly true, I heard some 20,000 died from the tidal wave.
The mockery here is that everyone has their panties in a bunch over 2 hospitalized workers (no doubt very brave and much to be commended) and a handful who died @ fukushima, while a whole coastline was littered with dead and dying people who got about 5 minutes of airtime.
WOOO PERSPECTIVE! Way to have those priorities in line.
but that doesn't mean that it's a good idea for them to be a dick about it
But it is their right to do so, and OP is acting immature by getting this attitude that his rights have been violated-- when he is essentially a guest on the employer's network.
The communicating parties are the remote server and an employer's computer. If that computer is being used in an unauthorized way, I might argue that that falls afoul of some hacking laws.
Theres really no way you can paint this that leaves the employer as the bad guy for maintaining control of and monitoring his own machines.
Bullshit. There are laws against companies doing things like installing hidden cameras in the employee restrooms
Thats because there IS an expectation of privacy in the restrooms, issues of sexual harassment aside.
This is totally different; its a company providing you access to a secure network and taking steps to monitor and secure it.
But transparent SSL interception is deliberately posing to someone that they are communicating via a private channel when in fact they are not.
See, the difference is, youre SUPPOSED to have privacy and in the restroom, and youre supposed to use it. Youre NOT supposed to be using the company network for private affairs. It would be more like installing cameras in the broom closet to make sure employees dont take a leak in there, because they shouldnt be doing that.
Thats probably only if theyre doing PKI. Normally with SSH the remote host has a thumbprint that your ssh client remembers, and if it sees a different thumbprint you will get a big nasty error. Its not something you can work around, as thats the entire point of SSH.
McAfee may have a way of proxying it, but it will generate a huge warning every time.
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China is pretty atheist, if you actually ask what the younger generation believe personally.
From my experience, if you ask surface level "what do you believe", you will generally get an answer "Chinese are buddhist"; but if you probe what they actually believe you tend to get a very atheistic worldview. The older generation may or may not believe in buddhism, although tradition seems to be big there so Im not really sure what the dominant belief system is for that generation.
Not to mention that in order to get a government job you have to affirm atheism.
There are indeed atheist countries out there, whether or not you want to acknowledge it.
THat its trivial to do is irrelevant. They are fully within their rights to block this usage, since..
A) its basically a ticking legal timebomb
B) it gets them 0 revenue (the automated servers skip the ads
C) it costs them money (the servers are downloading the videos)
for every site like facebook or youtube that "makes it", how many sites are there that go under not because of lack of good ideas, or good management, but because of legal action (be it legit or otherwise)?
Welcome to the realities of entrepreneurship. Is this any different than any startup?
Its like that patent joke, where its treated as new and different just because someone added "on the internet" to it. Starting ANY business is hard, and you need a legal team to defend against various kinds of BS. The bigger you are, the bigger your team needs to be.
Someone should let Zuckerberg know that it isnt worth it. Im sure he will find that fascinating.
In fact, as I recall, about 3 years ago I set up a filezilla server on my home comp, set up basic user accounts, and posted the details to 4chan. Nothing really happened; I think someone tried to upload a decompression bomb, some others started uploading material of questionable legality, etc, but noone got the admin password.
I left it up for several days and eventually some bots noticed the FTP server and began attempting bruteforce the admin password, but nothing else happened.
Now I ask you, if its so easy to just hack someone once you get the IP, why were they fiddling with FTP rather than owning the whole box?
Sounds like a low-level DoS which will get the target ISP to start rejecting you and your own ISP to send you a nastygram.
In other words, an easy way to get yourself kicked off the net.
Not necessarily. Vast majority of zombies were hit by driveby exploits for flash, java, whatever. It generally isnt a targetted attack, because its a lot harder to target it without social engineering. It also generally isnt possible to just "hack" a home computer, because you have a natting firewall with no forwarding in the vast majority of cases as well as the built in Windows firewall to deal with.
How you plan to get unrequested traffic from the internet through the NAT and past the Win firewall I would be interested to hear.
The only real way to hack those computers would be to look for a vulnerable UPnP app that has set up forwarding thru both firewalls and which is also able to be exploited, or else to start spreading your own viruses (which is most certainly very illegal). Its not a level playing field either, because these companies would be hugely liable if they were to do so, and would be easy to find and prosecute; meanwhile the botmasters reside in Eastern Europe, so good luck bringing them to trial.
Here you go:
Your IP Address Is: 69.138.178.32
Ill even give you a hint, port 4242 is forwarded.
Get to hacking, I expect a rooted machine by morning.
What I know is when nvidia came out, I was seeing thousands of posts from people desperately seeking answers on how to get them to work,
The first time I ever used linux semi-seriously was in a computer class in like 2004. During downtime, since the comps had nvidia cards, I wanted to play Unreal Tournament, so i decided to install the drivers. The steps: .\driverinstaller
1)Go to nVidia.com, and download the driver installer.
2) run
3) play unreal tournament.
Ever since then I have periodically gone back to Linux, each time with an nVidia card, and each time the process was the exact same. Download the installer (helpfully linked here!), run the installer, reboot.
Ubuntu (and I imagine other distros) has for the longest time also had the nvidia drivers in its repos, so you can install it from there even easier ("apt-get install nvidia-drivers-binary" or whatever) and not have to worry about kernel upgrades.
Its not that hard, and it basically has never been that hard (at least for the last decade).
What I know is when nvidia came out, I was seeing thousands of posts from people desperately seeking answers on how to get them to work, and thousands more on how to make their X Window survive upgrades
Synaptic is basically a front-end for apt, and I imagine synaptic's other-distro brothers are similar in that regard. If an upgrade like that is breaking things, the package itself might be broken. Regardless, IIRC the driver is a kernel module and shouldnt be broken by just an X upgrade, though kernel upgrades do have the potential to cause issues if you DONT use a package manager.
How are you going to root the zombie?
This is retarded, its borne out of the notion that any computer on the internet can be hacked if only you have the right skills. Thats not really accurate, you either need a vulnerability or a way to get the victim to install a rootkit (phishing / whatever you want to call it).
Unless the hacker has decided to leave RDP open or left ports 135-139 exposed, its not going to be as easy as "just counterhack them".
I rather imagine I could hand out my IP to everyone on the internet, and that noone would be able to "just hack me"; and my "firewall" consists of a simple natting router.
then it's really none of the company's business if you check your bank account, Gmail, or order something from Amazon.
Wrong, and Im really suprised you dont get this.
Its not your network, its not your equipment, and its not your own time. For most companies, your time is their time between certain hours, and if they ask you to do a job that isnt strictly speaking in the job description, you can still be expected to do it. If they ask you not to do something, you are generally expected to comply (assuming legal, ethical, etc).
That can change depending on the specifics of what you agreed to when you were hired, but you most certainly dont have some right to the company's networking resources (unless you are chipping in for their internet bill?)
If youd read the other posts, youd see that for the last several years we've had variously the 5th, 6th, or 7th highest median income among all states. North Dakota is near the bottom of the barrel (~$50k per year), Va is near the top (~$61k/yr).
I wouldnt call that "right to work for less". Id also note that our unemployment is also quite low, we're #9 there with a 5.6% unemployment.
Well i have proof that the general population is far stupider now than 500 years ago.
Do tell. All you posted was anecdotal generalizations, which are pretty worthless as proof goes.
Sounds more like "grass is greener" syndrome to me.
Relevant to what? To a Slashdot thread where we're supposed to comment? Pretty sure "what I think" is the only thing relevant.
Relevant in the sense that if your boss were to tell you to stop using facebook at work (which seems to be the implication at the submitter's workplace, with their monitoring), telling him that you have your own reasons for doing so probably arent going to impress him very much. See, when they pay you to do a job, they set the rules. If you dont like those rules, you can leave.
My mistake, things changed from 2007-2008 to 2009-2010.
We are now number 5.
According to This (2 year median income by state), Virginia has the 7th highest average household income in the country.
DESPITE all that, very few people were killed,
Thats not exactly true, I heard some 20,000 died from the tidal wave.
The mockery here is that everyone has their panties in a bunch over 2 hospitalized workers (no doubt very brave and much to be commended) and a handful who died @ fukushima, while a whole coastline was littered with dead and dying people who got about 5 minutes of airtime.
WOOO PERSPECTIVE! Way to have those priorities in line.
Actually Virginia, where you can actually get a job and we arent going broke these days.
Of course, if you want a good old blue state you can do Md or Ca, I hear those are great places to find jobs right now.
Are you saying that is a bad thing?
but that doesn't mean that it's a good idea for them to be a dick about it
But it is their right to do so, and OP is acting immature by getting this attitude that his rights have been violated-- when he is essentially a guest on the employer's network.
Wiretap laws apply to both communicating parties.
The communicating parties are the remote server and an employer's computer. If that computer is being used in an unauthorized way, I might argue that that falls afoul of some hacking laws.
Theres really no way you can paint this that leaves the employer as the bad guy for maintaining control of and monitoring his own machines.
they think you're a criminal
Is this like "if you dont let joe in accounting have root, youre treating him like garbage"?
Bullshit. There are laws against companies doing things like installing hidden cameras in the employee restrooms
Thats because there IS an expectation of privacy in the restrooms, issues of sexual harassment aside.
This is totally different; its a company providing you access to a secure network and taking steps to monitor and secure it.
But transparent SSL interception is deliberately posing to someone that they are communicating via a private channel when in fact they are not.
See, the difference is, youre SUPPOSED to have privacy and in the restroom, and youre supposed to use it. Youre NOT supposed to be using the company network for private affairs. It would be more like installing cameras in the broom closet to make sure employees dont take a leak in there, because they shouldnt be doing that.
Its not "decrypting it" so much as "performing a MITM and causing the SSH client to generate MITM warnings".
Might seem like a pedantic difference, but its not.
Thats probably only if theyre doing PKI. Normally with SSH the remote host has a thumbprint that your ssh client remembers, and if it sees a different thumbprint you will get a big nasty error. Its not something you can work around, as thats the entire point of SSH.
McAfee may have a way of proxying it, but it will generate a huge warning every time.