To make the point clearer I like this. If we covered 1% of the earth's surface with 1% efficient solar panels we could meet our current energy needs.
Can one even find solar panels that shitty as I thought most were in the 12-18% efficiency range and the really cheap printed solar shingles being like 8% efficient. So using realistic numbers like that we would be down to 0.1% of earths surface area needing to be covered by solar panels. This does ignore the storage problem but there are a number of battery and storage technologies available that would allow things to work when the sun isn't shining that don't degrade like the common solutions most propose. So at the individual household level something like a bank of nickel-iron batteries to store and level household consumption. Then going up a layer have some large sodium sulfur batteries at sub stations and generation plants for storage and load leveling. For large scale storage have some huge pumped storage locations and use old mine pits as the low reservoir as we have dug some huge holes over the years. But that is just crazy talk.
You send it registered mail, return receipt requested, or you send it FedEx next-day delivery.
For any legal paperwork this is just good advice. Used registered mail with return receipt a number of times when dealing with a debt collector who screwed the pooch and when dealing with an insurance company that didn't want to pay full market value for a totaled car. Not only does it prevent them from lying about not getting things (which they will do) but it also tends to send a very strong message that you mean business and they better quit fucking around.
As I have said a number of times even paying a fixed relatively large salary like that, while better than what we have now, I feel doesn't go far enough. And no I am not being sarcastic. I like to contact my congress critters from time to time on this issue and in doing so I like to use the arguments that tech CEOs use. You know that there is a shortage, these people are critical, we can't find any American with the skills, etc. as well as pointing out what the H-1B program is for. Why not use their own rhetoric against them and make it seem like they are either lying or gaming the system. Either way it makes these CEOs look like the fools they are and maybe our congress critters will stop listening to them. My suggestion is that people brought in are the highest compensated people for the company they work for are are doing work for. Below is basically what I write to my congress critters
Hello [represenititive|senator] [name],
I am writing you today about the problems with our current H-1B visa program. It appears that companies are abusing this program in an attempt to drive down wages in the US tech sector. I am willing to take these companies at their word that the US is suffering a major tech worker shortage, that the workers that are available don't' have the necessary skill set, and that these workers are absolutely critical to the continued functioning of their companies. Because of this these must truly be exceptional people. These companies are stating that in a nation with over 300 million citizens there isn't a single person who has the necessary skill set to do the job. This right there means that these individuals are extremely rare and must have exceptional skills. Furthermore these positions are so critical that these companies cannot afford to train an individual who is currently in the US to have the necessary skills. This says that these people must be absolutely critical to the continued operation of the company, more so than any of the executives or CxOs as companies can survive the period it takes to find an new one of those. As such people with these highly desirable, in demand, rare, and critical skill sets should receive the highest total compensated of individuals at the companies they work for. Given that a large number of H-1Bs are used as contractors it seems only reasonable to state that they should be compensated at the higher level the company the work for or are performing work for to ensure that these highly skilled, essential individuals are properly compensated for their work. By total compensation I am referring to base salary, bonuses, benefits, stock options, relocation expenses, company provided housing and vehicles, etc. To avoid any questionable behavior the average of the highest total compensated individual over the previous 5 years at the company will be used to determine the appropriate compensation for these individuals. Once this simple change is made these companies should be allowed to bring in an unlimited number of these highly skilled, in demand, and critical individuals as they must truly be the most exceptional workers who would greatly benefit our nation.
Sincerely,
[Your Name]
Yes I am someone who does believe that we should buy more stuff from our own country when it makes sense. I have lots of good American made stuff but it is getting harder and harder to find but I also have lots of stuff made in other countries that is superior to American equivalents and I paid more for the higher quality. I have a very nice American made wire feed welder, a Swedish made hammer and dolly set, a Nepali made Kukri, an absolutely beautiful 1,000,000 knots per square meter silk on silk prayer rug from Kashmir, American and Japanese power tools, American and German hand tools, etc. I hate buying cheap crap as I am always let down.
Actually I do ice fishing, snowmobiling, and snow showing, my kids like cross country skiing all of which are things one can do up there in the winter. At the end of the road (about 200 meters) is 680 acres of public land open to snowmobiling, ATVs, hunting, and other activities. If I really want to go fast on a snowmobile I can take the snowmobile trail over to the big lake and have about 200 square miles of area to ride on at any speed the machine is capable of reaching.
CA weather is different. It doesn't get as cold but CA does suffer from droughts, mudslides, earthquakes, and fires at a level that is worse than has ever been seen in Minnesota. Add in the very high cost of living (food, housing, and transportation), the California crazies, and the brogrammer cultures and it becomes clear that companies wouldn't pay me enough.
When I say support my current life style I expect to have similar to what I currently have. I own a ~2000 square foot house on a half acre plot that backs up to a 14 acre wooded city park. My home is also in one of the best school districts in the state and my kids will be going to one of the best high school in the state. My commute is at most 40 minutes usually closer to 30. The lake property is 2 hours 15 minutes away and is owned outright. My house has only 10 years left until it will be owned outright. I am also able to save close to half of my after tax income and still afford everything else. No employer in CA who has ever contacted me has made an offer that would even come close to that with most offers being slightly more pay than what I currently make by at most 20%. I also get offers for companies on the east coast and their offers are just laughably bad. The worse one there was for a position similar to what I do now in a higher cost area on the east coast but for 1/3rd of my current pay. I laughed at that person who then asked if that was a good offer, I responded and told them it was fucking awful as I make over 3x that now and don't have to live in the Philadelphia area.
Man I got screwed. All I got for $40k a few years back was 2.7 acres but that is all upland hardwoods with 210' for shore line on a lake with no public access. Again not in CA.
Joking aside your seems like a reasonable price depending on what is on the land and what is nearby. Mine is a 2 hour drive from the twin cities and is within 10 miles of a major fishing and recreation lake, unfortunately that was managed into the ground recently, so those things help drive up the price as well as the shoreline and the lake not having public access. I have seen other properties as low as $350 and acre but those are usually really in the middle of no where and if they have trees it is usually little shitty aspens with a bunch of lowland brush and a swamp for good measure. When you get to the $1000/acre you start seeing some nice but remote properties that aren't lakefront in Minnesota. This is just one of the many reasons that I tell recruiters who contact me who are out in CA that they can't afford me as I'm not taking a step down in my lifestyle.
Personally I think everything that Obama did or allowed the government to do should be pointed when Trump uses it. Maybe it will help to fix people's thinking that it is ok because their side is doing it. When the Democrats take the White House again I would encourage to point out the same with Trump.
I am somewhat surprised we haven't seen a resurgence of Occupy yet, myabe the weather is still too cold so maybe they are waiting until things thaw out some.
So it is a moot point on the cost and power consumption of the device on the edge of your network. So now why don't you go back to reliving your glory days of the 90s in you mind and realize that what you are peddling isn't worth the cost of electricity to transmit the bits. Writing a tool to either audit or implement a CIS benchmark isn't hard (I've written several myself they take about a day if I am slacking off), a script that consolidates various hosts files from several sources into one isn't hard (I wrote one for my firewall in a couple of hours that does more than just produce a hosts file), writing a defrag utility isn't that hard even if it is a tedious task. Now go away because none of your accomplishments impress me or anyone else as you brag about doing things that are little more than a college assignment. Add in your incoherent rants and and what I assume you believe to be witty, but it actually puerile, commentary and it was fun but I am board now as I have had better conversations with my parrots.
See my subject software janitor (who didn't write those yourself where I have): What's the cost of the router & does it consume more power? Yes.
Man you really are a special kind of stupid. People haven't been connecting their computer directly to their cable/DSL modems in ages and in all cases will have a router or firewall device between their machines and the internet. So it doesn't matter there as you would have to purchase one any way and it would also consume power so it is a moot point. Also assuming that one isn't completely as mentally deficient, as you seem to be, even on garbage hardware you can avoid the security issues of vendor provided firmware by getting a device that you can drop OpenWRT or DD-WRT on.
Sorry back in the late 90s I wasn't writing a cheesy host file engine or another defrag utility for toy operating systems but was writing control and driver code to run robotic semiconductor test equipment over a HP-IB interface. Even now at a different job I don't work on toy windows machines so I don't need a kid GUI and the people who use the software I write want it to work without having to fiddle with it and change setting from one machine to another. They expect 99.999% up time, they expect it to work, they expect mathematically provable correctness. But what would I know working 12 years in the ICS world securing these systems and pushing management to get their shit together and working with and talking with auditors and regulators to stay ahead of where things are going and also influence where they should go. If you try to pillory me over the current state of ICS security I will be quick to point out that all of the issues you hear about are caused by management not following thing that I would have recommended and I would assume their security people recommended similar solutions that never got implemented. The Target breach, while not an ICS, is a fascinating one as there were so may places where the attack should have been stopped but wasn't. It is one of my favorites given that widely used existing standard technology would have stopped in in so many places but because of poor decisions the attackers had their way with the system. Unfortunately your dumb little hosts file would have gladly let it through and not stopped anything. Also your dumb little hosts file wouldn't have stopped Stuxnet and also would be unable to stop the attacks I have seen from state actors. At best it stops malvertising on a single device that is open enough to allow you to modify the local hosts file but on anything else it does nothing.
See my subject & this link: No denying it/https://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=9995967&cid=53488785b [slashdot.org] & it's FAR from a complete list (even though it shows 100's of router security + inefficiency issues).
Your argument is so old and tired I get a/. 404 error, seriously I do. That said anyone who is using the factory provided firmware on a consumer router/firewall is dumb. OpenWRT or DDWRT are much better choices that offer better security and better options. Or if you prefer go and drop pfSense on some "powerful" but inexpensive hardware. As you will have a device like these between your computer and the internet I don't see how an argument about cost is an issue as you have your modem connected to the internet (DSL or Cable) and then either a router or firewall that your other gear sits behind. Depending on what hardware you have and layout your setup behind the router or firewall will vary greatly.
* LMAO - again, that's you "networking menials" (that can't program their OWN solutions because you're limited) to a tee
Not a millennial (I assume that it what you meant) by a long shot I do actually program and have through my employer contributed to a number of open source projects. You mayhaveheardofa few of them.
WRONG! I don't understand "layered-security"/"defense-in-depth"? I wrote guides on it that even GOT ME PAID https://www.google.com/search?... [google.com]
Guess what I have contributed to guides on securing systems and am paid by my employer to do so when new versions and updates are sought. The difference is that what I have contributed to are respected and well known.
Also it looks like you are a bit to copy/paste happy as I see you are getting frustrated and double posting (see above and below). You really should look into getting treatment for your ails as something does appear to be wrong.
Hey chiropractic treatment works if it is just getting something straightened out. When I was pushing my trailer back around my house after deer season I slipped on some snow covered leaves and got my back a little out of alignment and ended up probably pinching a nerve with a shooting pain into one of my legs still the next day. Went to see a chiropractor who went and popped everything back into place. It cost $25 and took like 15 minutes and afterwards the pain was gone. For stuff like that they are a good choice, beyond that though I wouldn't go to them as there is a lot of quackery that they push.
If they are unlucky enough to have hemochromatosis then yes. Even for people who have high but not quite high enough iron levels and a genetic predisposition to it it is still highly recommended that they donate blood to keep their iron levels in check. If your iron levels are too high then blood banks can't use your blood. Yes I fall in the latter group and I regularly give blood and have since I was 17. At the beginning of every other month so it is easy to remember. As an added benefit I am helping to keep up the supplies of O- blood which is always in short supply.
The odds are even worse than that. You would have a better chance of picking a random fundamental particle in the universe and then pick a second random (the first one can be chose again) fundamental particle and have them be the same fundamental particle.
^^^ See suffering from lead or mercury poisoning ^^^^
Like I said he is too dumb to realize what is possible on non garbage hardware. And by non garbage I mean a little 5"x5"x2" box with a 4 core celeron processor, 8GB ram, and a 120GB SSD which is garbage compared to my desktop but is substantially more powerful than the trash consumer firewalls and routers. In addition to being a firewall it also runs Snort in NIPS mode doing DPI, black holes a bunch of crap as a DNS server, runs a proxy server for all web traffic where it passes the traffic through an AV first, and acts as a VPN server so when I am away my mobile devices connect to it instead of being naked on some questionable WiFi connection. Also by not relying on a single hosts file on one my desktop I can protect even devices that otherwise couldn't be like smart phones and tablets.
Also APK doesn't seem to know much about securing systems because if he did he would understand the defense in depth philosophy. That is layer upon layer of protection to stop threats at as many different levels in as many different ways as possible. Snot will block threats attempting malicious activity that a hosts file can't stop. Just because all the web traffic flows through an AV on the firewall doesn't mean I don't have windows security essentials running on a windows machine doing checking there. Just because I have a firewall device at the edge of my network doesn't mean that I have disabled the OS firewall on machines behind it.
APK doesn't understand that it is possible to black hole DNS lookups with a non garbage router/firewall. He probably also doesn't understand that on a non garbage firewall you can do a lot more than just have it look at packet headers and do block/allow actions based off of the data in there. I mean who would want to have an NIDS/NIPS running on the edge of their network doing DPI to block malicious content? Why would anyone want to have something inspecting all web traffic to block virus laden content? Who would ever want to have a secure VPN server so that they can access their stuff remotely and also ensure that dodgy WiFi hotspots can't spy on their activities? Finally who wouldn't want all of that in a little box that sits there quietly consuming 8-14W?
Personally I think APK is the reason we have RoHS as he was licking too many boards with lead solder, either that or he needs to give up his hobby of hat making.
I think long ago most of us realized that ALL AV products suck. I get asked frequently by others outside of IT world which AV they should run and they are shocked when I tell them just use MS security essentials, or windows defender as they are free, come built in to windows, and while they suck about as much as the other AV products at least it doesn't nag you and eat all available resources.
Windows builtin AV will NOT perform SSL/HTTPS inspection
That is one of the jobs of my firewall. Along with running a NIPS, doing regular firewall activities, DNS black holing for ads and trackers and being a VPN server. So why run it on my main machine when instead I can run it on a much more secure platform with a much smaller attack surface that then protects all devices I own.
My experience has shown me that most HR people would be best liquefied and spread across farm fields as they spew so much BS is isn't funny.
Years ago one of my co workers (a big white guy) was working with another guy (a smaller Indian guy) one day to try and figure out a problem with data going across the network. The white guy says, "I think you have a little endian problem" as this was a data going from an older AIX box to Windows. Unfortunately one of the HR drones overhears this and since they have no idea they believe that what was said was "I think you have a little Indian problem" and hauls him up to their office. He tries to explain what was actually said but HR has no idea of the technical terms and told him to stop talking as he tried to explain little endian vs big endian. So he ended up on probation and was written up. After that it has become a running joke around the office about there being a little endian problem.
as well as calling a person "African American", just based on their skin color.
Well with the large Somali community and the issues between them and the original African Americans here in Minnesota maybe it should be. Those two groups don't get along all that well and how African Americans don't want the Somalis to call themselves African American.
And yet in that story it doesn't mention what the actual university systems are getting or the total number of students that are full time, part time, in state, out state, or international. That is the information that is hard to come by. Also when these thing are reported usually slashing funding includes some part of not getting an increase. So if one could find the actual numbers for something like the University of Illinois system where $209 million was slashed from their budget you would likely find that 2015 spending isn't $209 million less than the 2014 spending, but instead is some amount less. I don't know what that amount would be something seeing something like the state would be providing $180 million to $190 million less over the 2014 amount wouldn't surprise me.
My point also wasn't to argue that states' spending on public college and university systems hasn't gone down as it has. My point was to point a reasonable question to ask which is how much is being spent on a per student basis by the state and then look to your non dodgy private colleges and see what they are charging and see if you can figure out why the private institution can get by without a massive per student subsidy. By non dodgy I don't mean the ones that advertise on cable TV or ones that are nationally accredited but real reputable ones. In Minnesota schools like St. Thomas, St. Olaf, Gustavus Adolphus are all good private schools that are well respected. They are more expensive the universities in the MNSCU system but are pretty damn close (or they were when I was in school) to the University of Minnesota Twin Cities but they weren't $10,000/year more. Also that $10,000/year number that I used was very generous as all I had was the total from the state and the total number of students. As the state wasn't subsidizing out of state, exception for states with reciprocity, or international students, and that figure also assumes that even a person taking one class a semester is also being subsidized that $10,000. So taking that into account the full time in state student total subsidy would likely be higher and probably much higher. I do question the use of money by state schools on sports stadiums the pay for coaches, the huge administrative overhead, and the waste on equipment. For example when I was at Mankato they had a computer lab open for all the students to use, so far so good. It had 300 machines in it of which 100 were replaced each year, again so far so good. Problem is that instead of buying the middle of the road machines, or buying low end ones they bought the top of the line machines with really good video cards, max ram, the biggest available hard drives, huge screens, top of the line Intel consumer processors. These weren't machines for doing simulations, games, or AI but machines used by the general student body for web browsing (static pages mostly), e-mail, and MS Word for papers. That is the kind of waste that needs to be curtailed and looked closer at.
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To make the point clearer I like this. If we covered 1% of the earth's surface with 1% efficient solar panels we could meet our current energy needs.
Can one even find solar panels that shitty as I thought most were in the 12-18% efficiency range and the really cheap printed solar shingles being like 8% efficient. So using realistic numbers like that we would be down to 0.1% of earths surface area needing to be covered by solar panels. This does ignore the storage problem but there are a number of battery and storage technologies available that would allow things to work when the sun isn't shining that don't degrade like the common solutions most propose. So at the individual household level something like a bank of nickel-iron batteries to store and level household consumption. Then going up a layer have some large sodium sulfur batteries at sub stations and generation plants for storage and load leveling. For large scale storage have some huge pumped storage locations and use old mine pits as the low reservoir as we have dug some huge holes over the years. But that is just crazy talk.
You send it registered mail, return receipt requested, or you send it FedEx next-day delivery.
For any legal paperwork this is just good advice. Used registered mail with return receipt a number of times when dealing with a debt collector who screwed the pooch and when dealing with an insurance company that didn't want to pay full market value for a totaled car. Not only does it prevent them from lying about not getting things (which they will do) but it also tends to send a very strong message that you mean business and they better quit fucking around.
As I have said a number of times even paying a fixed relatively large salary like that, while better than what we have now, I feel doesn't go far enough. And no I am not being sarcastic. I like to contact my congress critters from time to time on this issue and in doing so I like to use the arguments that tech CEOs use. You know that there is a shortage, these people are critical, we can't find any American with the skills, etc. as well as pointing out what the H-1B program is for. Why not use their own rhetoric against them and make it seem like they are either lying or gaming the system. Either way it makes these CEOs look like the fools they are and maybe our congress critters will stop listening to them. My suggestion is that people brought in are the highest compensated people for the company they work for are are doing work for. Below is basically what I write to my congress critters
Hello [represenititive|senator] [name],
I am writing you today about the problems with our current H-1B visa program. It appears that companies are abusing this program in an attempt to drive down wages in the US tech sector. I am willing to take these companies at their word that the US is suffering a major tech worker shortage, that the workers that are available don't' have the necessary skill set, and that these workers are absolutely critical to the continued functioning of their companies. Because of this these must truly be exceptional people. These companies are stating that in a nation with over 300 million citizens there isn't a single person who has the necessary skill set to do the job. This right there means that these individuals are extremely rare and must have exceptional skills. Furthermore these positions are so critical that these companies cannot afford to train an individual who is currently in the US to have the necessary skills. This says that these people must be absolutely critical to the continued operation of the company, more so than any of the executives or CxOs as companies can survive the period it takes to find an new one of those. As such people with these highly desirable, in demand, rare, and critical skill sets should receive the highest total compensated of individuals at the companies they work for. Given that a large number of H-1Bs are used as contractors it seems only reasonable to state that they should be compensated at the higher level the company the work for or are performing work for to ensure that these highly skilled, essential individuals are properly compensated for their work. By total compensation I am referring to base salary, bonuses, benefits, stock options, relocation expenses, company provided housing and vehicles, etc. To avoid any questionable behavior the average of the highest total compensated individual over the previous 5 years at the company will be used to determine the appropriate compensation for these individuals. Once this simple change is made these companies should be allowed to bring in an unlimited number of these highly skilled, in demand, and critical individuals as they must truly be the most exceptional workers who would greatly benefit our nation.
Sincerely,
[Your Name]
Yes I am someone who does believe that we should buy more stuff from our own country when it makes sense. I have lots of good American made stuff but it is getting harder and harder to find but I also have lots of stuff made in other countries that is superior to American equivalents and I paid more for the higher quality. I have a very nice American made wire feed welder, a Swedish made hammer and dolly set, a Nepali made Kukri, an absolutely beautiful 1,000,000 knots per square meter silk on silk prayer rug from Kashmir, American and Japanese power tools, American and German hand tools, etc. I hate buying cheap crap as I am always let down.
Actually I do ice fishing, snowmobiling, and snow showing, my kids like cross country skiing all of which are things one can do up there in the winter. At the end of the road (about 200 meters) is 680 acres of public land open to snowmobiling, ATVs, hunting, and other activities. If I really want to go fast on a snowmobile I can take the snowmobile trail over to the big lake and have about 200 square miles of area to ride on at any speed the machine is capable of reaching.
CA weather is different. It doesn't get as cold but CA does suffer from droughts, mudslides, earthquakes, and fires at a level that is worse than has ever been seen in Minnesota. Add in the very high cost of living (food, housing, and transportation), the California crazies, and the brogrammer cultures and it becomes clear that companies wouldn't pay me enough.
When I say support my current life style I expect to have similar to what I currently have. I own a ~2000 square foot house on a half acre plot that backs up to a 14 acre wooded city park. My home is also in one of the best school districts in the state and my kids will be going to one of the best high school in the state. My commute is at most 40 minutes usually closer to 30. The lake property is 2 hours 15 minutes away and is owned outright. My house has only 10 years left until it will be owned outright. I am also able to save close to half of my after tax income and still afford everything else. No employer in CA who has ever contacted me has made an offer that would even come close to that with most offers being slightly more pay than what I currently make by at most 20%. I also get offers for companies on the east coast and their offers are just laughably bad. The worse one there was for a position similar to what I do now in a higher cost area on the east coast but for 1/3rd of my current pay. I laughed at that person who then asked if that was a good offer, I responded and told them it was fucking awful as I make over 3x that now and don't have to live in the Philadelphia area.
Man I got screwed. All I got for $40k a few years back was 2.7 acres but that is all upland hardwoods with 210' for shore line on a lake with no public access. Again not in CA.
Joking aside your seems like a reasonable price depending on what is on the land and what is nearby. Mine is a 2 hour drive from the twin cities and is within 10 miles of a major fishing and recreation lake, unfortunately that was managed into the ground recently, so those things help drive up the price as well as the shoreline and the lake not having public access. I have seen other properties as low as $350 and acre but those are usually really in the middle of no where and if they have trees it is usually little shitty aspens with a bunch of lowland brush and a swamp for good measure. When you get to the $1000/acre you start seeing some nice but remote properties that aren't lakefront in Minnesota. This is just one of the many reasons that I tell recruiters who contact me who are out in CA that they can't afford me as I'm not taking a step down in my lifestyle.
I thought we were talking about Bestest Korea.
Personally I think everything that Obama did or allowed the government to do should be pointed when Trump uses it. Maybe it will help to fix people's thinking that it is ok because their side is doing it. When the Democrats take the White House again I would encourage to point out the same with Trump.
I am somewhat surprised we haven't seen a resurgence of Occupy yet, myabe the weather is still too cold so maybe they are waiting until things thaw out some.
So it is a moot point on the cost and power consumption of the device on the edge of your network. So now why don't you go back to reliving your glory days of the 90s in you mind and realize that what you are peddling isn't worth the cost of electricity to transmit the bits. Writing a tool to either audit or implement a CIS benchmark isn't hard (I've written several myself they take about a day if I am slacking off), a script that consolidates various hosts files from several sources into one isn't hard (I wrote one for my firewall in a couple of hours that does more than just produce a hosts file), writing a defrag utility isn't that hard even if it is a tedious task. Now go away because none of your accomplishments impress me or anyone else as you brag about doing things that are little more than a college assignment. Add in your incoherent rants and and what I assume you believe to be witty, but it actually puerile, commentary and it was fun but I am board now as I have had better conversations with my parrots.
See my subject software janitor (who didn't write those yourself where I have): What's the cost of the router & does it consume more power? Yes.
Man you really are a special kind of stupid. People haven't been connecting their computer directly to their cable/DSL modems in ages and in all cases will have a router or firewall device between their machines and the internet. So it doesn't matter there as you would have to purchase one any way and it would also consume power so it is a moot point. Also assuming that one isn't completely as mentally deficient, as you seem to be, even on garbage hardware you can avoid the security issues of vendor provided firmware by getting a device that you can drop OpenWRT or DD-WRT on.
Sorry back in the late 90s I wasn't writing a cheesy host file engine or another defrag utility for toy operating systems but was writing control and driver code to run robotic semiconductor test equipment over a HP-IB interface. Even now at a different job I don't work on toy windows machines so I don't need a kid GUI and the people who use the software I write want it to work without having to fiddle with it and change setting from one machine to another. They expect 99.999% up time, they expect it to work, they expect mathematically provable correctness. But what would I know working 12 years in the ICS world securing these systems and pushing management to get their shit together and working with and talking with auditors and regulators to stay ahead of where things are going and also influence where they should go. If you try to pillory me over the current state of ICS security I will be quick to point out that all of the issues you hear about are caused by management not following thing that I would have recommended and I would assume their security people recommended similar solutions that never got implemented. The Target breach, while not an ICS, is a fascinating one as there were so may places where the attack should have been stopped but wasn't. It is one of my favorites given that widely used existing standard technology would have stopped in in so many places but because of poor decisions the attackers had their way with the system. Unfortunately your dumb little hosts file would have gladly let it through and not stopped anything. Also your dumb little hosts file wouldn't have stopped Stuxnet and also would be unable to stop the attacks I have seen from state actors. At best it stops malvertising on a single device that is open enough to allow you to modify the local hosts file but on anything else it does nothing.
See my subject & this link: No denying it /https://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=9995967&cid=53488785b [slashdot.org] & it's FAR from a complete list (even though it shows 100's of router security + inefficiency issues).
Your argument is so old and tired I get a /. 404 error, seriously I do. That said anyone who is using the factory provided firmware on a consumer router/firewall is dumb. OpenWRT or DDWRT are much better choices that offer better security and better options. Or if you prefer go and drop pfSense on some "powerful" but inexpensive hardware. As you will have a device like these between your computer and the internet I don't see how an argument about cost is an issue as you have your modem connected to the internet (DSL or Cable) and then either a router or firewall that your other gear sits behind. Depending on what hardware you have and layout your setup behind the router or firewall will vary greatly.
* LMAO - again, that's you "networking menials" (that can't program their OWN solutions because you're limited) to a tee
Not a millennial (I assume that it what you meant) by a long shot I do actually program and have through my employer contributed to a number of open source projects. You may have heard of a few of them.
WRONG! I don't understand "layered-security"/"defense-in-depth"? I wrote guides on it that even GOT ME PAID https://www.google.com/search?... [google.com]
Guess what I have contributed to guides on securing systems and am paid by my employer to do so when new versions and updates are sought. The difference is that what I have contributed to are respected and well known.
Also it looks like you are a bit to copy/paste happy as I see you are getting frustrated and double posting (see above and below). You really should look into getting treatment for your ails as something does appear to be wrong.
Hey chiropractic treatment works if it is just getting something straightened out. When I was pushing my trailer back around my house after deer season I slipped on some snow covered leaves and got my back a little out of alignment and ended up probably pinching a nerve with a shooting pain into one of my legs still the next day. Went to see a chiropractor who went and popped everything back into place. It cost $25 and took like 15 minutes and afterwards the pain was gone. For stuff like that they are a good choice, beyond that though I wouldn't go to them as there is a lot of quackery that they push.
So you are saying an effective treatment would be to just feed the kid some lemon poppy seed muffins then.
If they are unlucky enough to have hemochromatosis then yes. Even for people who have high but not quite high enough iron levels and a genetic predisposition to it it is still highly recommended that they donate blood to keep their iron levels in check. If your iron levels are too high then blood banks can't use your blood. Yes I fall in the latter group and I regularly give blood and have since I was 17. At the beginning of every other month so it is easy to remember. As an added benefit I am helping to keep up the supplies of O- blood which is always in short supply.
I believe aleopathic is a new synonym for placebo.
The odds are even worse than that. You would have a better chance of picking a random fundamental particle in the universe and then pick a second random (the first one can be chose again) fundamental particle and have them be the same fundamental particle.
Well if Doc Brown hadn't taken their uranium they wouldn't have been pissed.
^^^ See suffering from lead or mercury poisoning ^^^^
Like I said he is too dumb to realize what is possible on non garbage hardware. And by non garbage I mean a little 5"x5"x2" box with a 4 core celeron processor, 8GB ram, and a 120GB SSD which is garbage compared to my desktop but is substantially more powerful than the trash consumer firewalls and routers. In addition to being a firewall it also runs Snort in NIPS mode doing DPI, black holes a bunch of crap as a DNS server, runs a proxy server for all web traffic where it passes the traffic through an AV first, and acts as a VPN server so when I am away my mobile devices connect to it instead of being naked on some questionable WiFi connection. Also by not relying on a single hosts file on one my desktop I can protect even devices that otherwise couldn't be like smart phones and tablets.
Also APK doesn't seem to know much about securing systems because if he did he would understand the defense in depth philosophy. That is layer upon layer of protection to stop threats at as many different levels in as many different ways as possible. Snot will block threats attempting malicious activity that a hosts file can't stop. Just because all the web traffic flows through an AV on the firewall doesn't mean I don't have windows security essentials running on a windows machine doing checking there. Just because I have a firewall device at the edge of my network doesn't mean that I have disabled the OS firewall on machines behind it.
It can't be that hard to impersonate APK I believe he may have actually been turned into a very small shell script.
APK doesn't understand that it is possible to black hole DNS lookups with a non garbage router/firewall. He probably also doesn't understand that on a non garbage firewall you can do a lot more than just have it look at packet headers and do block/allow actions based off of the data in there. I mean who would want to have an NIDS/NIPS running on the edge of their network doing DPI to block malicious content? Why would anyone want to have something inspecting all web traffic to block virus laden content? Who would ever want to have a secure VPN server so that they can access their stuff remotely and also ensure that dodgy WiFi hotspots can't spy on their activities? Finally who wouldn't want all of that in a little box that sits there quietly consuming 8-14W?
Personally I think APK is the reason we have RoHS as he was licking too many boards with lead solder, either that or he needs to give up his hobby of hat making.
I think long ago most of us realized that ALL AV products suck. I get asked frequently by others outside of IT world which AV they should run and they are shocked when I tell them just use MS security essentials, or windows defender as they are free, come built in to windows, and while they suck about as much as the other AV products at least it doesn't nag you and eat all available resources.
Windows builtin AV will NOT perform SSL/HTTPS inspection
That is one of the jobs of my firewall. Along with running a NIPS, doing regular firewall activities, DNS black holing for ads and trackers and being a VPN server. So why run it on my main machine when instead I can run it on a much more secure platform with a much smaller attack surface that then protects all devices I own.
My experience has shown me that most HR people would be best liquefied and spread across farm fields as they spew so much BS is isn't funny.
Years ago one of my co workers (a big white guy) was working with another guy (a smaller Indian guy) one day to try and figure out a problem with data going across the network. The white guy says, "I think you have a little endian problem" as this was a data going from an older AIX box to Windows. Unfortunately one of the HR drones overhears this and since they have no idea they believe that what was said was "I think you have a little Indian problem" and hauls him up to their office. He tries to explain what was actually said but HR has no idea of the technical terms and told him to stop talking as he tried to explain little endian vs big endian. So he ended up on probation and was written up. After that it has become a running joke around the office about there being a little endian problem.
as well as calling a person "African American", just based on their skin color.
Well with the large Somali community and the issues between them and the original African Americans here in Minnesota maybe it should be. Those two groups don't get along all that well and how African Americans don't want the Somalis to call themselves African American.
He's a narcissistic liar and a sexual predator.
So just like Bill Clinton was.
And yet in that story it doesn't mention what the actual university systems are getting or the total number of students that are full time, part time, in state, out state, or international. That is the information that is hard to come by. Also when these thing are reported usually slashing funding includes some part of not getting an increase. So if one could find the actual numbers for something like the University of Illinois system where $209 million was slashed from their budget you would likely find that 2015 spending isn't $209 million less than the 2014 spending, but instead is some amount less. I don't know what that amount would be something seeing something like the state would be providing $180 million to $190 million less over the 2014 amount wouldn't surprise me.
My point also wasn't to argue that states' spending on public college and university systems hasn't gone down as it has. My point was to point a reasonable question to ask which is how much is being spent on a per student basis by the state and then look to your non dodgy private colleges and see what they are charging and see if you can figure out why the private institution can get by without a massive per student subsidy. By non dodgy I don't mean the ones that advertise on cable TV or ones that are nationally accredited but real reputable ones. In Minnesota schools like St. Thomas, St. Olaf, Gustavus Adolphus are all good private schools that are well respected. They are more expensive the universities in the MNSCU system but are pretty damn close (or they were when I was in school) to the University of Minnesota Twin Cities but they weren't $10,000/year more. Also that $10,000/year number that I used was very generous as all I had was the total from the state and the total number of students. As the state wasn't subsidizing out of state, exception for states with reciprocity, or international students, and that figure also assumes that even a person taking one class a semester is also being subsidized that $10,000. So taking that into account the full time in state student total subsidy would likely be higher and probably much higher. I do question the use of money by state schools on sports stadiums the pay for coaches, the huge administrative overhead, and the waste on equipment. For example when I was at Mankato they had a computer lab open for all the students to use, so far so good. It had 300 machines in it of which 100 were replaced each year, again so far so good. Problem is that instead of buying the middle of the road machines, or buying low end ones they bought the top of the line machines with really good video cards, max ram, the biggest available hard drives, huge screens, top of the line Intel consumer processors. These weren't machines for doing simulations, games, or AI but machines used by the general student body for web browsing (static pages mostly), e-mail, and MS Word for papers. That is the kind of waste that needs to be curtailed and looked closer at.