Nah, in 20 years when we re-release the footage we'll just use a little cgi magic to clearly show the moon shot first and missed, hitting the cantina wall behind us.
For those not on the know, what are you referring to as Rule 34?
Rule 34: For everything that exists, there is porn of it. Basically GP is calling for blatant mockery of Islam through hardcore pornography. Really mature stuff, that.
Of course, what decade that was totally depends on just HOW old the person commenting is. People never seem to realize that one universal constant - while you're growing up, you watch a bunch of stuff (and listen to a bunch of music), and some of it you think is pretty awesome. Then you get old, and you complain EVERYTHING now sucks. It's been true for decades, if not centuries.
I agree wholeheartedly. I think part of this phenomenon is driven by the fact that people that fall into this behavior are performing a biased comparison. They're comparing all the crap that's current with the cream of the crop from the past. There was just as much crap movies being produced 20 years ago, but we all forgot about those movies, because they were crap!
Wait, you store your actual cash inside a credit account?
The issue is that many banks provide credit-backed (Visa, MC, etc) debit cards that are tied directly to one's checking/savings account. If that number gets lifted then yes, the money is drawn directly from the account in question. Granted, only an idiot would use their debit card in a way that exposes them to fraud like this, but it's not a matter of disputing a pending bill - that money is gone, and does not come back until an investigation is completed. I doubt that Anonymous cares enough to differentiate between the types of cards with which they are performing this stunt and exclude the debit card numbers.
This is true . . . however I feel I should expand on this, if I may. One of the support features you get from a paid subscription to RHN is bugfixes/updates shipped directly from their yum repos. If you're not subscribed, you need to figure out a different patching vector yourself. If you want to guarantee security patches are easily applied as soon as RedHat releases a fix, then a subscription may be worth the cost.
Since SVN is a version control system, it can be used for things other than development. For example, I use the SVN repo at my office to store config files for my networking equipment. Makes it real easy to verify historical changes and provides a roll back point if necessary. Since SVN operates over HTTP(S), I could see the draw to use it for remote document/media storage as well. It may not have all the latest whizbang features one is looking for, but it will get the job done.
If you can reach the source via RDP, than it must be a hacked webserver (SQL injection attack most likely). It takes effort to port-forward 3389. If in fact it's a home network, than I doubt it's a bot. Such activity would normally not go unnoticed by someone that network savvy. Or so, that's been experience.
Or, what I'd suspect is more likely, it's a workstation plugged directly into a broadband modem, thus getting a publicly addressable IP right on the NIC.
Dear *,
To reset your PlayStation(R)Network password, please click on the link below. This link will expire in 24 hours from the time that it was sent. The link will direct you to a PlayStation(R)Network web page and allow you to enter and confirm your new password.
False. I reactivated my account by following a link provided in an email from my workstation. And, at the time I asked myself "wait, how do they KNOW it's me???". Short answer: they didn't.
Nothing is 100% 'Hackproof'. Even your example outlined, exploits have been found that allow execution of privileged code on the host system from within the VM.
Are . . . are you implying that DST exists to adjust for some error in our calendar system? If that were the case, wouldn't Arizona's current date have shifted as compared to other States, since they chose not to observe a completely optional practice?
I was thinking the same thing . . . any reputable magazine already has a web presence - why would I need Hulu to navigate to http://www.some-magazine.com/ for me?
Ummm, because he's not an American citizen? One can't be a traitor to a community one is not a member of. But don't let that stop you from being a douche. Carry on.
It would seem you two are having completely different conversations at each other.
You're saying that in order to properly diagnose & address a malfunction with a complicated piece of machinery takes skill that the average layman lacks. This is true. But the point GP is raising is that you don't need the same skill-set to understand the underlying purpose of a complicated piece of machinery when it is in working order. This is also true.
. . . it's about usabilty and "good enough" security . ..
If I had any mod points, I'd give 'em to you for this comment alone. Security is not about actually being impervious to attack. It's about making yourself or your assets appear to be a less-than-appealing target to hopefully force any would-be "villain" to chase after lower-hanging fruit. If someone is seriously gunning for something you have they'll find a way to get it, regardless of the barriers presented.
..the problem is that ISPs have been selling us the "bandwidth" to do this kind of activity for years. Bandwidth is in quotes because "back in the day" if you actually used the bandwidth you were paying for, they suspended your account as the likely reason for a residential user to draw any serious transfer was piracy.
Just so we're clear, what you're doing is blatantly generalizing. I've been on the Internet in some form or the other since about 1990. I've used probably dozens of ISPs and in multiple states, and I have never once had my account shut down or limited due to bandwidth usage. In fact I don't even remember ever hearing about this as a problem!
Sure if you've got comcast I understand they're doing it. I would not use comcast for this reason. But to claim that the problem is more widespread than it is (or at least WAS more widespread than it was then) is wrong.
GP is guilty of generalizing, and you're guilty of providing an entirely anecdotal counter argument - "I've never personally witnessed what you're claiming, so it must never occur". It can, and it does. Whether or not that's standard operating procedures for most ISPs of today or the past is something else entirely.
Unfortunately, Depth of Field points out one of the big *flaws* in 3D cinema. Try focusing on something blurred in the background of the shot. Can't do it, even though your eye really, really wants to. Not sure about others, but that sure gives me a bit of eye-strain.
This continues to be true for their Vista and Windows 7 recovery media as well. I have stacks of the things here at work, and have even used them to "recover" non-Dell hardware, with a valid license activation key.
Most SAN administrators wouldn't be caught dead using your $130 1TB drives. Rerunning your calculations with 15K 450GB SAS drives (around $300 bucks), and you're spending quite a bit more: 228 drives will give you 100TB, sure, but we'd want some redundancy . . . say RAID 5 (not the best approach for SAN design, but let's keep it simple) which pushes the drive count up to 304 with a total cost of $91,200, just for disks. To get a real, enterprise enclosure (or rather, cluster of enclosures considering the drive count) that offers things like FiberChannel, 10Gb iSCSI, or InfiniBand uplinks, and features such as SAN to SAN replication, bit deduplification, and other enterprise-level utilities/features, I'd say you're looking at $500,000 (ballpark guess) just to have something to stick the drives into. We're at ~$600,000 without even taking into account the physical costs of operation, datacenter architecture, or labor costs to maintain such a SAN.
Suddenly, that $1 million isn't so far fetched, eh?
This is only a problem when the products' purchase is compulsory.
Considering that the amount of compulsory services offered by corporations is insignificant as compared to the non-compulsory, you're pretty much arguing that in order to solve the National Debt, we need to arbitrarily increase taxes on consumers (significantly made up of the middle class) across the board? Good luck with that.
Except that without 'Net Neutrality, the reason Fox News loads faster than any competing news outlet could have nothing to do with the size of the pipe heading there - it would be based on the fact that the ISP I use and Fox News are both owned by the same parent Corporation; A Corporation that decides to throw my packets on the floor if they're destined for a competitor's page. The Daily Kos can throw millions of dollars at getting a "phat pipe" to handle the load, I'd still connect as if over a 300 baud modem regardless.
Just imagine how much less national debt we would have if corporations had to pay taxes.
Impossible. Any government imposed fee placed upon a corporation will simply be transferred to those that purchase the services they render as a "cost of doing business". Corporations don't pay taxes, consumers do.
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'[Mass killers such as Lanza] don't believe this was just a spreadsheet. They believe it was a score sheet. This was the work of a video gamer'
No, this was the work of a crazy person.
No matter how it ends, Earth shoot first.
Nah, in 20 years when we re-release the footage we'll just use a little cgi magic to clearly show the moon shot first and missed, hitting the cantina wall behind us.
For those not on the know, what are you referring to as Rule 34?
Rule 34: For everything that exists, there is porn of it. Basically GP is calling for blatant mockery of Islam through hardcore pornography. Really mature stuff, that.
Of course, what decade that was totally depends on just HOW old the person commenting is. People never seem to realize that one universal constant - while you're growing up, you watch a bunch of stuff (and listen to a bunch of music), and some of it you think is pretty awesome. Then you get old, and you complain EVERYTHING now sucks. It's been true for decades, if not centuries.
I agree wholeheartedly. I think part of this phenomenon is driven by the fact that people that fall into this behavior are performing a biased comparison. They're comparing all the crap that's current with the cream of the crop from the past. There was just as much crap movies being produced 20 years ago, but we all forgot about those movies, because they were crap!
Wait, you store your actual cash inside a credit account?
The issue is that many banks provide credit-backed (Visa, MC, etc) debit cards that are tied directly to one's checking/savings account. If that number gets lifted then yes, the money is drawn directly from the account in question. Granted, only an idiot would use their debit card in a way that exposes them to fraud like this, but it's not a matter of disputing a pending bill - that money is gone, and does not come back until an investigation is completed. I doubt that Anonymous cares enough to differentiate between the types of cards with which they are performing this stunt and exclude the debit card numbers.
This is true . . . however I feel I should expand on this, if I may. One of the support features you get from a paid subscription to RHN is bugfixes/updates shipped directly from their yum repos. If you're not subscribed, you need to figure out a different patching vector yourself. If you want to guarantee security patches are easily applied as soon as RedHat releases a fix, then a subscription may be worth the cost.
I thought about how stupid people can be and I can say with certainty that 50% are below average.
So can I. That's because that's how averages work, by definition.
Since SVN is a version control system, it can be used for things other than development. For example, I use the SVN repo at my office to store config files for my networking equipment. Makes it real easy to verify historical changes and provides a roll back point if necessary. Since SVN operates over HTTP(S), I could see the draw to use it for remote document/media storage as well. It may not have all the latest whizbang features one is looking for, but it will get the job done.
If you can reach the source via RDP, than it must be a hacked webserver (SQL injection attack most likely). It takes effort to port-forward 3389. If in fact it's a home network, than I doubt it's a bot. Such activity would normally not go unnoticed by someone that network savvy. Or so, that's been experience.
Or, what I'd suspect is more likely, it's a workstation plugged directly into a broadband modem, thus getting a publicly addressable IP right on the NIC.
FROM: DoNotReply@ac.playstation.net
.
Dear *,
To reset your PlayStation(R)Network password, please click on the link below. This link will expire in 24 hours from the time that it was sent. The link will direct you to a PlayStation(R)Network web page and allow you to enter and confirm your new password.
. .
Sure looks like it came from PSN to me.
False. I reactivated my account by following a link provided in an email from my workstation. And, at the time I asked myself "wait, how do they KNOW it's me???". Short answer: they didn't.
Nothing is 100% 'Hackproof'. Even your example outlined, exploits have been found that allow execution of privileged code on the host system from within the VM.
Are . . . are you implying that DST exists to adjust for some error in our calendar system? If that were the case, wouldn't Arizona's current date have shifted as compared to other States, since they chose not to observe a completely optional practice?
You may want to read up a bit before posting further nonsense: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time
I was thinking the same thing . . . any reputable magazine already has a web presence - why would I need Hulu to navigate to http://www.some-magazine.com/ for me?
'cos he's a piece of shit "anarchist" wanna-be?
Ummm, because he's not an American citizen? One can't be a traitor to a community one is not a member of. But don't let that stop you from being a douche. Carry on.
It would seem you two are having completely different conversations at each other.
You're saying that in order to properly diagnose & address a malfunction with a complicated piece of machinery takes skill that the average layman lacks. This is true. But the point GP is raising is that you don't need the same skill-set to understand the underlying purpose of a complicated piece of machinery when it is in working order. This is also true.
. . . it's about usabilty and "good enough" security . . .
If I had any mod points, I'd give 'em to you for this comment alone. Security is not about actually being impervious to attack. It's about making yourself or your assets appear to be a less-than-appealing target to hopefully force any would-be "villain" to chase after lower-hanging fruit. If someone is seriously gunning for something you have they'll find a way to get it, regardless of the barriers presented.
..the problem is that ISPs have been selling us the "bandwidth" to do this kind of activity for years. Bandwidth is in quotes because "back in the day" if you actually used the bandwidth you were paying for, they suspended your account as the likely reason for a residential user to draw any serious transfer was piracy.
Just so we're clear, what you're doing is blatantly generalizing. I've been on the Internet in some form or the other since about 1990. I've used probably dozens of ISPs and in multiple states, and I have never once had my account shut down or limited due to bandwidth usage. In fact I don't even remember ever hearing about this as a problem!
Sure if you've got comcast I understand they're doing it. I would not use comcast for this reason. But to claim that the problem is more widespread than it is (or at least WAS more widespread than it was then) is wrong.
GP is guilty of generalizing, and you're guilty of providing an entirely anecdotal counter argument - "I've never personally witnessed what you're claiming, so it must never occur". It can, and it does. Whether or not that's standard operating procedures for most ISPs of today or the past is something else entirely.
Can you name a single TV channel that exists in absence of viewers?
CSPAN?
Unfortunately, Depth of Field points out one of the big *flaws* in 3D cinema. Try focusing on something blurred in the background of the shot. Can't do it, even though your eye really, really wants to. Not sure about others, but that sure gives me a bit of eye-strain.
This continues to be true for their Vista and Windows 7 recovery media as well. I have stacks of the things here at work, and have even used them to "recover" non-Dell hardware, with a valid license activation key.
Most SAN administrators wouldn't be caught dead using your $130 1TB drives. Rerunning your calculations with 15K 450GB SAS drives (around $300 bucks), and you're spending quite a bit more: 228 drives will give you 100TB, sure, but we'd want some redundancy . . . say RAID 5 (not the best approach for SAN design, but let's keep it simple) which pushes the drive count up to 304 with a total cost of $91,200, just for disks. To get a real, enterprise enclosure (or rather, cluster of enclosures considering the drive count) that offers things like FiberChannel, 10Gb iSCSI, or InfiniBand uplinks, and features such as SAN to SAN replication, bit deduplification, and other enterprise-level utilities/features, I'd say you're looking at $500,000 (ballpark guess) just to have something to stick the drives into. We're at ~$600,000 without even taking into account the physical costs of operation, datacenter architecture, or labor costs to maintain such a SAN.
Suddenly, that $1 million isn't so far fetched, eh?
This is only a problem when the products' purchase is compulsory.
Considering that the amount of compulsory services offered by corporations is insignificant as compared to the non-compulsory, you're pretty much arguing that in order to solve the National Debt, we need to arbitrarily increase taxes on consumers (significantly made up of the middle class) across the board? Good luck with that.
Except that without 'Net Neutrality, the reason Fox News loads faster than any competing news outlet could have nothing to do with the size of the pipe heading there - it would be based on the fact that the ISP I use and Fox News are both owned by the same parent Corporation; A Corporation that decides to throw my packets on the floor if they're destined for a competitor's page. The Daily Kos can throw millions of dollars at getting a "phat pipe" to handle the load, I'd still connect as if over a 300 baud modem regardless.
Just imagine how much less national debt we would have if corporations had to pay taxes.
Impossible. Any government imposed fee placed upon a corporation will simply be transferred to those that purchase the services they render as a "cost of doing business". Corporations don't pay taxes, consumers do.