The whole "OMG Backpack Nuke!" hysteria is just a reflection of how poorly the average person understands anything with the word "nuclear" in it and immediately fears it.
Of all the content management systems (CMSs) from which a Web developer can choose for creating a new Web site, Joomla is generally considered to be one of the top choices...
Sure, maybe if you're a patient sadist when it comes to admin interfaces.
Oh god, I would rather stab out my eyes than administer a Joomla site ever again. Joomla has the worst admin console... the worst documentation... oh jesus, the pain, it's all flooding back, nooooooo......
Posting on/. about a website with difficulties is like throwing a bucket of water on someone drowning. Actually, considering how big/. is, this is more like using a fire hose on someone drowning.
Given that it's Amazon we're talking about, it's more like throwing a bucket of water on a submarine. While it's submerged.
He has given notice that he intends to quit on a certain day. If he gets FIRED before that day, bye-bye remaining wages, accrued holiday pay, and hello big black mark on his resume.
When someone with the word "Director" in his job title "tasks" me with doing something, then you better believe I'll be doing what I'm told and covering my ass while I do it. If the task is "send this sensitive data to a consultant and do it securely" that's exactly what I'll do, and I'll do it in such a way that it can be proven that I did it and how I did it. I don't see any mention of being tasked with assessing the security policies of an outside consultant.
> > I would only ever send sensitive data via PGP-encrypted and -signed email, or more specifically via PGP-encrypted and -signed attachment to an email
> none of these help if some determined individual intercepts the traffic and has the resources to brute-force the encryption
Um... yeah, right. Do you know of any individual, group, company, government, species, or universe with such resources?
If this is for a work task (and in the parent article it obviously is) I would only ever send sensitive data via PGP-encrypted and -signed email, or more specifically via PGP-encrypted and -signed attachment to an email.
Via encrypted signed email there's a paper trail. "The data you have is verifiably the data that I intended for you to receive, and the sensitive data haven't been mangled or modified (the hashes match), it is verifiably from me (that's my signature), and I have demonstrably met your request by sending you the information on this day at this time (email headers, server logs, whatever).
If it's important and it's for work purposes, COVER ASS AT ALL TIMES.
That's because Joe and Jane consumer don't understand issues like these. Instead they understand that if they want a Mac and have $1,000 to spend, they have to buy a mini.
Then, after a year or two, they find it slow as hell and replace it. Wash, rinse, repeat.
Now, either they learn that the rest of society buys a moderate machine that they replace every 3 - 5 years, or they have enough money to spend $2,500 in new mac minis every 5 years. Those that don't have that much money, but still want to use Macs just bemoan how horridly slow the machines are.
And this is why Apple's marketshare (but not profit) sucks. It appeals to only one type of person: The person with money to burn. It's the same as luxury cars, most people love to look at them, but wouldn't buy one unless they won the lottery.
And, just like luxury cars, Apple computers never do any of the regular work. Just specialized stuff and movie props. Doesn't mean you _couldn't_ tow a trailer with your Lexus, but, uhhh, you just wouldn't.
What keeps Apple in the money is their curse: They'll always be #2 in popularity, in perpetuity, unless they get out of the luxury market, and make a "mediocre" middle class machine. Just the same way Ferrari is pretty low in popularity, when it comes to sales.
I'll just bulletpoint this because I'm running late for something.
* People aren't going to replace their Mac Minis every year or two because they find them slow. They just aren't. One of my Intel Macs is a Mac Mini, and it's almost 2 years old, and it's perfectly adequate for everything I use it for. I'm not going to replace it any time soon because it does its job and gives me no hassles.
* Apple has proven time and again since Steve Jobs returned as CEO that it doesn't care about market share or being #1 or whatever metric you choose, it cares about making money. And it's doing perfectly well at that. Just accept it. Apple does not appear to care about being #1.
* You seem to be of the opinion that Macs are for fashionistas with "money to burn". You may find it interesting that in the past 18 months almost every alpha geek and developer at my workplace has moved to a Mac as his/her primary workstation.
They don't have a consumer desktop line, which is what a whole lot of people and companies want.
I disagree. The only entities I see bemoaning the lack of an "xMac" (a modestly-powered headless upgradeable desktop Mac) are some geeks on sites like Slashdot and Ars Technica. I don't see any desire whatsoever from Joe and Jane Consumer, who are Apple's target market.
Epic and Id are the primary drivers behind the PC game market. Their engines are the keystone that holds the whole thing together. Thus it is their engines that make the market.
Epic and id may drive the FIRST-PERSON SHOOTER genre, but in the PC game market there's Blizzard and then "everyone else" a long way back.
I can say that child pornography is a lot less rare than you think. Yes, it is a small minority of non-legit (spam or illegal) Internet traffic, but if I did a 30-day search of our corpus, I doubt there'd be a day when there wasn't some child porn spam in it.
"child porn spam" != child porn. You can't say that X is widespread if your only evidence is that there's a lot of spam email that refers to X.
I see a lot of spam advertising cheap pills that will make my penis 12 inches long and enable me to shoot a bucket of semen every 15 minutes. Somehow I'm not sure that it's genuine.
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Could we have this important information in units used by, I don't know, the rest of the world?
Another fine product from... MAJESTIC STUDIOS!
I'm trying to think of a gorgeous game that sucked...
Unreal, 1998.
The whole "OMG Backpack Nuke!" hysteria is just a reflection of how poorly the average person understands anything with the word "nuclear" in it and immediately fears it.
You mean "NU-CU-LAR".
Oh god, I would rather stab out my eyes than administer a Joomla site ever again. Joomla has the worst admin console... the worst documentation... oh jesus, the pain, it's all flooding back, nooooooo......
Posting on /. about a website with difficulties is like throwing a bucket of water on someone drowning. Actually, considering how big /. is, this is more like using a fire hose on someone drowning.
Given that it's Amazon we're talking about, it's more like throwing a bucket of water on a submarine. While it's submerged.
A quote I saw today:
Hillary Clinton, America's Psycho Ex-girlfriend
(17)'10s - South Seas scheme
(16)'30s - Tulips
etc etc
He has given notice that he intends to quit on a certain day. If he gets FIRED before that day, bye-bye remaining wages, accrued holiday pay, and hello big black mark on his resume.
Option C will enable the company to fire his ass and show him the door for misconduct, WITHOUT four weeks of pay.
...the Cult of Scientology is about to ask for its money back.
SHA-1 is encryption now? Wow, blink and you miss something on the Intertubes...
When someone with the word "Director" in his job title "tasks" me with doing something, then you better believe I'll be doing what I'm told and covering my ass while I do it. If the task is "send this sensitive data to a consultant and do it securely" that's exactly what I'll do, and I'll do it in such a way that it can be proven that I did it and how I did it. I don't see any mention of being tasked with assessing the security policies of an outside consultant.
> > I would only ever send sensitive data via PGP-encrypted and -signed email, or more specifically via PGP-encrypted and -signed attachment to an email
> none of these help if some determined individual intercepts the traffic and has the resources to brute-force the encryption
Um... yeah, right. Do you know of any individual, group, company, government, species, or universe with such resources?
I would be much more worried about the security after you get the data there.
Speaking as if I was the poster of the original question, I don't care what happens to the security after I get the data there. It's not my problem.
If this is for a work task (and in the parent article it obviously is) I would only ever send sensitive data via PGP-encrypted and -signed email, or more specifically via PGP-encrypted and -signed attachment to an email.
Via encrypted signed email there's a paper trail. "The data you have is verifiably the data that I intended for you to receive, and the sensitive data haven't been mangled or modified (the hashes match), it is verifiably from me (that's my signature), and I have demonstrably met your request by sending you the information on this day at this time (email headers, server logs, whatever).
If it's important and it's for work purposes, COVER ASS AT ALL TIMES.
That's because Joe and Jane consumer don't understand issues like these. Instead they understand that if they want a Mac and have $1,000 to spend, they have to buy a mini.
Then, after a year or two, they find it slow as hell and replace it. Wash, rinse, repeat.
Now, either they learn that the rest of society buys a moderate machine that they replace every 3 - 5 years, or they have enough money to spend $2,500 in new mac minis every 5 years. Those that don't have that much money, but still want to use Macs just bemoan how horridly slow the machines are.
And this is why Apple's marketshare (but not profit) sucks. It appeals to only one type of person: The person with money to burn. It's the same as luxury cars, most people love to look at them, but wouldn't buy one unless they won the lottery.
And, just like luxury cars, Apple computers never do any of the regular work. Just specialized stuff and movie props. Doesn't mean you _couldn't_ tow a trailer with your Lexus, but, uhhh, you just wouldn't.
What keeps Apple in the money is their curse: They'll always be #2 in popularity, in perpetuity, unless they get out of the luxury market, and make a "mediocre" middle class machine. Just the same way Ferrari is pretty low in popularity, when it comes to sales.
I'll just bulletpoint this because I'm running late for something.
* People aren't going to replace their Mac Minis every year or two because they find them slow. They just aren't. One of my Intel Macs is a Mac Mini, and it's almost 2 years old, and it's perfectly adequate for everything I use it for. I'm not going to replace it any time soon because it does its job and gives me no hassles.
* Apple has proven time and again since Steve Jobs returned as CEO that it doesn't care about market share or being #1 or whatever metric you choose, it cares about making money. And it's doing perfectly well at that. Just accept it. Apple does not appear to care about being #1.
* You seem to be of the opinion that Macs are for fashionistas with "money to burn". You may find it interesting that in the past 18 months almost every alpha geek and developer at my workplace has moved to a Mac as his/her primary workstation.
They don't have a consumer desktop line, which is what a whole lot of people and companies want.
I disagree. The only entities I see bemoaning the lack of an "xMac" (a modestly-powered headless upgradeable desktop Mac) are some geeks on sites like Slashdot and Ars Technica. I don't see any desire whatsoever from Joe and Jane Consumer, who are Apple's target market.
Please. Hessians only made up about one quarter of British Army forces in North America during the Revolution.
Epic and Id are the primary drivers behind the PC game market. Their engines are the keystone that holds the whole thing together. Thus it is their engines that make the market.
Epic and id may drive the FIRST-PERSON SHOOTER genre, but in the PC game market there's Blizzard and then "everyone else" a long way back.
Can't MS just send some programmers over there to take over the country?
It's not like they'd put up a fight...
You mean, like they did when they defeated the British Army and won the American War of Independence?
I never cease to be amazed at how often I execute "dir /b > foo.txt" under Windows.
I can say that child pornography is a lot less rare than you think. Yes, it is a small minority of non-legit (spam or illegal) Internet traffic, but if I did a 30-day search of our corpus, I doubt there'd be a day when there wasn't some child porn spam in it.
"child porn spam" != child porn. You can't say that X is widespread if your only evidence is that there's a lot of spam email that refers to X.
I see a lot of spam advertising cheap pills that will make my penis 12 inches long and enable me to shoot a bucket of semen every 15 minutes. Somehow I'm not sure that it's genuine.
I use Office 2004 on my desktop and Office 2008 on my laptop, and they seem to run at comparable speeds to me.
The thing is, my desktop is a 466 MHz PPC G4 and my laptop is a 2.0 GHz Intel Core Duo.
End of story.