According to the Bonus Features in the "Catch Me If You Can" DVD, the guy featured in that movie is now a highly paid consultant to the banking industry.
However, unlike most garden variety criminals, he seems unusually gifted at social skills.
I think if you were to confuse "graffiti" with "firebombing SUVs for the ELF" in Singapore you would receive much more than 8 years. You'd be lucky to live.
I dunno, go to Singapore and give it a try and see.
If you're lucky, your application is good enough it doesn't need IPS. Used to have some BSD boxes just sitting on the internet, no firewall, running postfix and running BIND 8 with no recursion.
Day after day these boxes were subjected to all kinds of indignitites, and BSD woud just laugh in their general direction. Their only vulnerability was to properly executed DDoS attacks, which, as previous posters have pointed out, most IDS/IPS products are hard to configure against without running the risk of, say, preventing the CEO from getting his precious email while he's vacationing in Abu Dhabi.
I wouldn't be too worried unless I was living on the ISS, or if I was a satellite. Where a tinfoil hat would be useful in such a situation (well, OK a lead foil one for my 'nads.)
The telemarketers calling me are getting increasing nasty. When I break into their spiel to politely but firmly say "please put me on your no-call list", I have gotten a couple of "Fuck you too"'s from them, and one called me back to threaten me. I think a lot of these callers think they are working toward a job as Mr Big in sales.
There are plenty of other jobs out there. If you take a job making unsolicited calls, you are pond scum. While I don't think you should be strung up with piano wire from the nearest lamppost like your bosses, but you are an unevolved life form no higher than crustacean, I hope the stress of the job gives you skin problems until you decide to get a job with real value, your mother is a hamster and your father smells of elderberries, and by the way my dog hates your job too.
Maybe MS isn't but other companies (like my employer) maybe are matching contributions.
More importantly, lots of sites, Salvation Army in particular, are slashdotted, and the corporate sites can aggregate the contributions.
I tried donating directly via salvationarmyusa.org just now and I never saw a confirmation for my transaction. I'm going to have to wait a couple days all call my CC and see if to went through.
The media cluster-fuck that is CNN, MSNBC, etc, is concentrating on the poor people who are stuck in New Orleans. If you RTFA and MFP this offer is for the entirety of all three states (and ought to be extended to Texas) where the majority (and probably more like 80%) of New Orleans residents evacuated on time, with their laptops and a bare minimum of other possessions, and are sitting around in shelters wondering just what the hell they are going to do with their lives.
A lot of businesses have an "ark" - shipping containers with food and water for several days for all employees, and I carry powerbars and a liter of water everywhere I go. My family spends several hours per month on preparedness, if you count quake-proofing the house as preparedness (we have our own little ark). We are trying to organize our little suburb with a network of FRS radio-linked block captains. San Francisco is already way ahead of us and is fairly well organized. (The DHS has recently standardized and begun promoting this Community Emergency Response Team system.)
However, only our worst-case scenario (a 7.0 right under Berkeley/Oakland) would result in a scenario as bad as what NO is going through, with thousands of housing units destroyed and hundreds killed.
Still, NO got caught asleep at the wheel. This is not an act of God, it's a 90% man-made disaster.
This offer is for the displaced populations, not for the destroyed areas. That 's why it overs all of three states (and needs to cover SE Texas too.)
Considering the entire 600K+ population of greater N.O. is going to be dispersed to random places all over the South for an extended period of time, this is useful, assuming you have a laptop. Because it's going to be a long long long time before your DSL works again.
The last few data centers I've worked in have had raised floors for flood protection. Now that positive-pressure raised floors are out of fashion, there are a lot of raised floors out there. Not for Katrina-sized flood protection, but for garden-variety HVAC and water main leaks; you need an alarm system since the area is hidden.
I actually was wondering if it might be good to use the raised floors as exhaust plenums. You could suck hot air near the ceiling in via raised stacks. The space was never good for anything except collecting shards of wire and starting fires.
The newest data centers I've been in don't even have raised floors at all.
Back in the 5 1/4" floppy days the media on HDDs was crude enough that you could stain the platter with a special chemical and examine the orientation (well probably the *magnetic* not physical orientation) of the magnetic particles with a microscope.
I am sure a similar technology could exist today, deep in the skunk works of some three-letter-agency.
> why don't you use Linux and simply create a drive image straight from the raw device without mounting at all
Because once you start blathering on and on under cross-examination about raw devices, MD5 hash integrity, etc., the jury, which will probably consist of morons, will slowly doze off into la la land and blow off evrything you are saying.
Much better to spend $500 and tell the jury, "Jethto, Earlene, I got this here special dee-vice that physically prevents tampering."
To quote (fairly accurately IIRC) a juror in the Vioxx trial that just ended, "They started talkin' all that science talk and it was like - wah wah wah wah wah wah" (sound of the Teacher talking from the Charlie Brown videos).
These were available for about $8K in the US. Kind of overpriced for a glorified golf cart with a Mercedes-Benz logo slapped on it. Plastic sheeting for weather protection. AFAIK they run on lead-acid batteries.
Let's see if this guy still thinks they're affordable once the touristas have trashed all his batteries in six months. Although IIRC Cordova's not that hilly.
Here in the SF Bay Area, you can buy two used Segways and upgrade them with fresh NiMh batteries for about the same price, maybe a little more for LiIon battery upgrades. You'll have to ride in the rain, but you'll get the ability to schlep it on transit, and regen braking for the hills.
The certifications show you have drunk the support Kool-Aid and spent so many $$$ on support. This is a blatant element of Cisco and Microsoft certifications. If I was a PHB in an organization with significant Cisco and Microsoft monocultures, I could see it.
You know cashier error is played up by politicans and reporters grubbing for a story, but I am pretty good at tracking my purchases at the grocery store, I buy only one or two bags at a time, and I have a moderately photographic memory, and over the years the scanners have always, always been right, except for maybe one or two times when I have been buying large quantities of an item and one or two like items have been missed. Every once in a while I think there's been a mistake, but the scan is always 100% correct when I double-check.
So RFID will make it faster!!, cheaper!! But it's possible the errors might go *up* since there's no human involved in making sure the scans cover 100% of the items in the basket. And people will do their best to cheat; right now at the self-scan at Home Depot, there is an attendant keeping people homest. And the unions and politicians will try to block the new technlogy as best they can. I am sure those glitches will be worked out in time, but it will probably be a few more years before our glorious check-out less future arrives.
Who needs military confrontations when we can feed them McDonalds and KFC, sell them American cigarettes, and then get them to drive fast cars on their newly-built high speed freeways.
They can retaliate by poaching our intellectual property - Ha! We will invent crappy action movies and bad pop music CDs so fast they won't be able to keep up.
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"If only President Clinton had ratified the Kyoto Protocol, this would have happened three weeks later."
According to the Bonus Features in the "Catch Me If You Can" DVD, the guy featured in that movie is now a highly paid consultant to the banking industry.
However, unlike most garden variety criminals, he seems unusually gifted at social skills.
The animal rights fascists are humor-impaired, and they have access to explosives. Not a good combination.
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I reference the font o' all knowledge, snopes.com:
http://www.snopes.com/critters/crusader/bonsai.as
I think if you were to confuse "graffiti" with "firebombing SUVs for the ELF" in Singapore you would receive much more than 8 years. You'd be lucky to live.
I dunno, go to Singapore and give it a try and see.
. . . is to taunt police until they get their asses kicked.
It's a lousy job but somebody's got to do it.
If you're lucky, your application is good enough it doesn't need IPS. Used to have some BSD boxes just sitting on the internet, no firewall, running postfix and running BIND 8 with no recursion.
Day after day these boxes were subjected to all kinds of indignitites, and BSD woud just laugh in their general direction. Their only vulnerability was to properly executed DDoS attacks, which, as previous posters have pointed out, most IDS/IPS products are hard to configure against without running the risk of, say, preventing the CEO from getting his precious email while he's vacationing in Abu Dhabi.
http://www.esa.int/esaSC/SEMNFTWLDMD_index_0.html
http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/hotshots/X17/
An X20+ in 1991, and we all survived.
I wouldn't be too worried unless I was living on the ISS, or if I was a satellite. Where a tinfoil hat would be useful in such a situation (well, OK a lead foil one for my 'nads.)
1) Buy company that offers an intersting service with reasonable fees.
2) Jack up fees until customers bail.
3) ??????
4) Profit!
What is happening to your Culture down there?
"Crikey!"
This is the fate of a good many iPod users, I fear.
I have worked with several co-workers who have had hearing aids at age ~35.
AtomChip® optoelectronic non-volatile Quantum-Optical memory pwoering a voice-actuated Caps Locks command? How perfectly cromulent!
The telemarketers calling me are getting increasing nasty. When I break into their spiel to politely but firmly say "please put me on your no-call list", I have gotten a couple of "Fuck you too"'s from them, and one called me back to threaten me. I think a lot of these callers think they are working toward a job as Mr Big in sales.
There are plenty of other jobs out there. If you take a job making unsolicited calls, you are pond scum. While I don't think you should be strung up with piano wire from the nearest lamppost like your bosses, but you are an unevolved life form no higher than crustacean, I hope the stress of the job gives you skin problems until you decide to get a job with real value, your mother is a hamster and your father smells of elderberries, and by the way my dog hates your job too.
Maybe MS isn't but other companies (like my employer) maybe are matching contributions.
More importantly, lots of sites, Salvation Army in particular, are slashdotted, and the corporate sites can aggregate the contributions.
I tried donating directly via salvationarmyusa.org just now and I never saw a confirmation for my transaction. I'm going to have to wait a couple days all call my CC and see if to went through.
The media cluster-fuck that is CNN, MSNBC, etc, is concentrating on the poor people who are stuck in New Orleans. If you RTFA and MFP this offer is for the entirety of all three states (and ought to be extended to Texas) where the majority (and probably more like 80%) of New Orleans residents evacuated on time, with their laptops and a bare minimum of other possessions, and are sitting around in shelters wondering just what the hell they are going to do with their lives.
Looks like Interdictor and Sigmund are the only people in NO who did any disaster planning.
Out here in earthquake country (San Francsico) the authorities are telling people - don't expect any help for 72 hours.
http://www.72hours.org/
A lot of businesses have an "ark" - shipping containers with food and water for several days for all employees, and I carry powerbars and a liter of water everywhere I go. My family spends several hours per month on preparedness, if you count quake-proofing the house as preparedness (we have our own little ark). We are trying to organize our little suburb with a network of FRS radio-linked block captains. San Francisco is already way ahead of us and is fairly well organized. (The DHS has recently standardized and begun promoting this Community Emergency Response Team system.)
However, only our worst-case scenario (a 7.0 right under Berkeley/Oakland) would result in a scenario as bad as what NO is going through, with thousands of housing units destroyed and hundreds killed.
Still, NO got caught asleep at the wheel. This is not an act of God, it's a 90% man-made disaster.
This offer is for the displaced populations, not for the destroyed areas. That 's why it overs all of three states (and needs to cover SE Texas too.)
Considering the entire 600K+ population of greater N.O. is going to be dispersed to random places all over the South for an extended period of time, this is useful, assuming you have a laptop. Because it's going to be a long long long time before your DSL works again.
The last few data centers I've worked in have had raised floors for flood protection. Now that positive-pressure raised floors are out of fashion, there are a lot of raised floors out there. Not for Katrina-sized flood protection, but for garden-variety HVAC and water main leaks; you need an alarm system since the area is hidden.
I actually was wondering if it might be good to use the raised floors as exhaust plenums. You could suck hot air near the ceiling in via raised stacks. The space was never good for anything except collecting shards of wire and starting fires.
The newest data centers I've been in don't even have raised floors at all.
Back in the 5 1/4" floppy days the media on HDDs was crude enough that you could stain the platter with a special chemical and examine the orientation (well probably the *magnetic* not physical orientation) of the magnetic particles with a microscope.
I am sure a similar technology could exist today, deep in the skunk works of some three-letter-agency.
> why don't you use Linux and simply create a drive image straight from the raw device without mounting at all
Because once you start blathering on and on under cross-examination about raw devices, MD5 hash integrity, etc., the jury, which will probably consist of morons, will slowly doze off into la la land and blow off evrything you are saying.
Much better to spend $500 and tell the jury, "Jethto, Earlene, I got this here special dee-vice that physically prevents tampering."
To quote (fairly accurately IIRC) a juror in the Vioxx trial that just ended, "They started talkin' all that science talk and it was like - wah wah wah wah wah wah" (sound of the Teacher talking from the Charlie Brown videos).
Typical UI designer speak, they obviously failed to QA half the population.
These were available for about $8K in the US. Kind of overpriced for a glorified golf cart with a Mercedes-Benz logo slapped on it. Plastic sheeting for weather protection. AFAIK they run on lead-acid batteries.
Let's see if this guy still thinks they're affordable once the touristas have trashed all his batteries in six months. Although IIRC Cordova's not that hilly.
Here in the SF Bay Area, you can buy two used Segways and upgrade them with fresh NiMh batteries for about the same price, maybe a little more for LiIon battery upgrades. You'll have to ride in the rain, but you'll get the ability to schlep it on transit, and regen braking for the hills.
The certifications show you have drunk the support Kool-Aid and spent so many $$$ on support. This is a blatant element of Cisco and Microsoft certifications. If I was a PHB in an organization with significant Cisco and Microsoft monocultures, I could see it.
But I'm not. So certifications are useless to me.
You know cashier error is played up by politicans and reporters grubbing for a story, but I am pretty good at tracking my purchases at the grocery store, I buy only one or two bags at a time, and I have a moderately photographic memory, and over the years the scanners have always, always been right, except for maybe one or two times when I have been buying large quantities of an item and one or two like items have been missed. Every once in a while I think there's been a mistake, but the scan is always 100% correct when I double-check.
So RFID will make it faster!!, cheaper!! But it's possible the errors might go *up* since there's no human involved in making sure the scans cover 100% of the items in the basket. And people will do their best to cheat; right now at the self-scan at Home Depot, there is an attendant keeping people homest. And the unions and politicians will try to block the new technlogy as best they can. I am sure those glitches will be worked out in time, but it will probably be a few more years before our glorious check-out less future arrives.
Who needs military confrontations when we can feed them McDonalds and KFC, sell them American cigarettes, and then get them to drive fast cars on their newly-built high speed freeways.
They can retaliate by poaching our intellectual property - Ha! We will invent crappy action movies and bad pop music CDs so fast they won't be able to keep up.
Take that, Evil Commies!