I'm with the "fuck you, Bruce" camp, but only because I would prefer it if his name were Bruce Parens or possibly Bruce (Parens). Such a missed opportunity, Bruce.
Nobody will hire a moron that relies upon nearly 20-years old outdated technology for security.
Until said technology breaks (or more likely, some new technology can't interface with it) and they're in a panic:
Why do we still have this? What does it do? Who's in charge of it? How much will it cost to replace it? Why can't the new system handle everything the old system did? Who do we have to hire to fix it? Why did we contract with IBM/Oracle/Whoever for the transition? Why did they sell us this product if it only meets 15% of our needs and the rest has to be custom developed? When you said the data conversion job was pushed back 3 months, were you referring to the same delay from the report that was distributed to a select few group of PHBs last month, or is this is a new delay? Why is it delayed again? Will this delay change the availability of the test data? Well who knows?! Call them now and find out! Well what fucking time zone is India in? We can't meet our testing validation requirements without access to the data! Well why can't the just start with the historical data and we'll check it as they process it? What do you mean they only committed to 1 year of historical data? How can we replace our old system without converting the historical data? What does the new delay mean for historical data? Do we have 1 year back from the original timeline until launch or does the delay impact the historical data window? How can they charge us for the historical window that just fell off the chart because of their delay if they're not going to give it to us? What fucking work are they claiming they did? We haven't seen anything out of them!
Much of this is actual shit (slightly redacted/fuzzed), going on right now where I work.
Thank you for being a friend Traveled down the road and back again Your heart is true, you're a pal and a cosmonaut.
And if you threw a party Invited everyone you ever knew You would see the biggest gift would be from me And the card attached would say, thank you for being a friend.
But, and I can't stress this enough, Amazon was also quick to fix the issue. They always are, which is why I really don't care if they fuck up once in a while, or if a 3rd-party seller does try to scam me.
The problem with this is that Amazon keeps a tally of everything they do for you. Even if they're correcting their own error, it counts against you. Once you hit a magical threshold, they black hole your account.
Sounds great, actually. I'd love to fall victim to this. Pay whoever for whatever work, then contest the charge with my credit card after I find out they're unlicensed and fraudulent. If they try to come back to my property to recover materials or whatever, they're trespassing. If they go to the cops or a court, they get thrown in jail. The actual work they do and parts they use are likely no worse than a typical licensed pro / contractor.
And then divide everything by 2, because flipping every piece on the board from black to white and vice versa yields a functionally identical state. Also remove rotations and mirrors. This isn't trivial.
That's social engineering, not hacking, you clown. It's a meatspace escalation of privilege attack, and is absolutely not hacking. Hacking involves attacking a machine and getting it to exhibit unexpected or unintended behavior.
Nope, the other AC has it right. I saw it live on TV on CNN. They were claiming she was upset because they used the song, and were trying to stir up some ballyhoo about it. THEN she came out with the "Why do you lie, CNN?" tweet.
A "savings bond" most commonly refers to a bond issued by the government at a fixed interest rate. In the past, the government offered decent interest rates and people trusted the US Dollar, or the government was desperate and offered high interest rates and people wanted to help the government (war bonds). The last time savings bonds were popular was with series EE in the 80s.
People often bought them for newborns and young children. They carried a fixed interest rate (7 percent or something in the 80s) and took 30 years to fully mature. EE Bonds were sold at half of their face value, I believe, so if you cashed them early you lost out. They reach their face value after a certain number of years and continue earning for years after (EE bonds were 30 years, I think). You pay taxes on the income once they stop earning interest, or once you cash it in (whichever is earlier).
They're a government-backed bond, meaning you can present that to any legitimate US bank and get the money, so long as you show that you're the person entitled to the bond (you're named on the bond or you're the the beneficiary of a dead person named on the bond) with some ID and give them address, SSN, etc. for tax purposes.
The bank has to fork over the cash regardless of your relationship with them You don't have to be a customer. The bank gets the cash back from the government, but it's a huge hassle for them to process each bond. There's lots of manual keying in and record keeping, scanning the paper bond, checking ID, fingerprinting, verifying address, etc.
While I'm not aware of any specific restriction that prevents them from charging a fee for processing a savings bond, they'd get a lot of blow back if they tried. Different bond series have different rules. I believe in some cases the bank doesn't have to cash you out directly but still has to do all the work of verifying your identity/signature and giving you proof of that so that you can send shit off to feds directly. This can ultimately be more work for the bank, and more unusual, so they'd prefer to just cash you out.
That's shit-though-mouth backwards. The issuing bank can more readily identify the account, available funds, detect fraud, minimize clearing times, etc. Of course they fucking don't, because all the clearing and processing times are artificial, and are designed to hit an account holder with fees later should the check bounce. It's the same with the overdraft "protection" scam.
Inn recent years I've been cashing savings bonds (series E I believe). I first went to Wells Fargo because they were the closest bank open on Saturday. My god, it was a fucking hassle. I knew it would be bad, and I expected the teller to have no fucking clue what a savings bond was let alone how to process it, but what I didn't expect was the damn resistance to actually cashing it because I wasn't a Wells Fargo customer.
You're a fucking bank, and there are still (some) laws you have to respect. After 3 people had a powwow and figured out where the scanner was, and after putting the bond (which was clean and undamaged and unfolded) through it about 3 dozen times, they finally forked over the cash. They also handed over a receipt and a large side of attitude, with a parting recommendation to switch my banking over to Well Fargo. No fucking thanks. Those clowns made Bank of America look competent, and I had to ditch those crooks about a decade ago for refusing to do anything about fraudulent ACH activity on my checking account. Closing my accounts on those fuckers and walking out with a stack of cash was particularly satisfying.
So every savings bond after that was taken to the same Wells Fargo, just to maximize their inconvenience. Each teller I encounter is flabbergasted that a non-customer can walk in, make them do some actual work, and get money without any fees attached.
> Speaking for myself restoring the Internet to a viable network of PEERs where everyone has > the capability if desired to directly address everyone else is of upmost importance to countering > the proliferation of centralized manure currently waging war against *my* Internet.
I have a paranoid iptables firewall. Having said that, DID (Defense In Depth) always helps. I don't have a complacent "it can't happen to me attitude". I *WANT* a NAT'ing router between my home machines and the internet for an extra layer of protection.
> IPv6 is well worth any initial hardship or annoyance. Even if everyone hides > behind an SPI anyway the ability to trivially prime direct connections with > a 1:1 map is an absolutely priceless capability by itself without getting to global > costs of dealing with IPv4 scarcity or people being forced into CGN land.
I hope somebody comes out with a NAT'ing IPV6 ADSL router that NATs multiple machines behind it to one publically visible address. It'll be worth it just to watch all those internet hippies' heads explode.
Repeat after me: NAT is *not* a security mechanism. If you think it protects you, you are a fool.
NAT is not a security mechanism, but it provides useful security by preventing hosts from having publicly routable IPs when they simply don't need them.
It's an additional layer on top of a firewall which may or may not actually be configured properly (or actually work). Think of the tens of millions of home users who have a crappy modem/router combo device managed by their ISP.
Nope. No NAT. Real, public IPv4 IPs. Yes, the allocation is unfair.
I have returned a bunch of IPs (some/24s and some/26s or something) to the organization's pool (which is much larger than/24) as we've consolidated some things, but as far as I know there's no chance of those IPs going back to public use as far as I know. In the grand scheme of things, a few hundred IPs for public allocation won't help much. Now, IBM on the other hand, with it's/8 assignment...
The current holder of the angel'o'sphere or whatever account bought it from someone who had quit Slashdot, came around and acted like a retard a year or two back, left, and now either:
A: They have returned, acting just as retarded as before. B: Some other retard bought the account from the first retard who bought it from the original user.
Just ignore it, like the 11001011whatever guy and MightyMartian.
If you've tried http://winsupersite.com/window... and it didn't work, you're not alone. My guess is MS simply doesn't give a shit and that option never, ever, worked.
Instead, try https://support.microsoft.com/... . Scroll down to the download link to get the "troubleshooter" tool which will let you hide/disable specific updates. This will only help you if the updates are coming in via Windows Update and not some Dell utility.
So, Biden said he's support Bush if Bush did something he'd support, and that he'd support certain behavior if it weren't affecting him or his current situation.
They only allowed sideloading after a failed windows 8 and a few windows 10 builds couldn't muster any interest
Bullshit. It's always been allowed on non-RT devices, and it's not referred to as "sideloading". Further, RT is dead, dead, dead.
I hate MS more than most (check my post history), but stop spouting bullshit. MS has done nothing to lock down Windows to their store. The closest thing to that were the locked-down RT shits, which were aimed at the mobile market.
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I'm with the "fuck you, Bruce" camp, but only because I would prefer it if his name were Bruce Parens or possibly Bruce (Parens).
Such a missed opportunity, Bruce.
Nobody will hire a moron that relies upon nearly 20-years old outdated technology for security.
Until said technology breaks (or more likely, some new technology can't interface with it) and they're in a panic:
Why do we still have this?
What does it do?
Who's in charge of it?
How much will it cost to replace it?
Why can't the new system handle everything the old system did?
Who do we have to hire to fix it?
Why did we contract with IBM/Oracle/Whoever for the transition?
Why did they sell us this product if it only meets 15% of our needs and the rest has to be custom developed?
When you said the data conversion job was pushed back 3 months, were you referring to the same delay from the report that was distributed to a select few group of PHBs last month, or is this is a new delay?
Why is it delayed again? Will this delay change the availability of the test data?
Well who knows?! Call them now and find out!
Well what fucking time zone is India in? We can't meet our testing validation requirements without access to the data!
Well why can't the just start with the historical data and we'll check it as they process it?
What do you mean they only committed to 1 year of historical data? How can we replace our old system without converting the historical data?
What does the new delay mean for historical data? Do we have 1 year back from the original timeline until launch or does the delay impact the historical data window?
How can they charge us for the historical window that just fell off the chart because of their delay if they're not going to give it to us?
What fucking work are they claiming they did? We haven't seen anything out of them!
Much of this is actual shit (slightly redacted/fuzzed), going on right now where I work.
Thank you for being a friend
Traveled down the road and back again
Your heart is true, you're a pal and a cosmonaut.
And if you threw a party
Invited everyone you ever knew
You would see the biggest gift would be from me
And the card attached would say, thank you for being a friend.
Shaking in their booties! Imagine if Twitter were held responsible for the terrorist shit they allow?
But, and I can't stress this enough, Amazon was also quick to fix the issue. They always are, which is why I really don't care if they fuck up once in a while, or if a 3rd-party seller does try to scam me.
The problem with this is that Amazon keeps a tally of everything they do for you. Even if they're correcting their own error, it counts against you.
Once you hit a magical threshold, they black hole your account.
Sounds great, actually. I'd love to fall victim to this. Pay whoever for whatever work, then contest the charge with my credit card after I find out they're unlicensed and fraudulent. If they try to come back to my property to recover materials or whatever, they're trespassing. If they go to the cops or a court, they get thrown in jail. The actual work they do and parts they use are likely no worse than a typical licensed pro / contractor.
And then divide everything by 2, because flipping every piece on the board from black to white and vice versa yields a functionally identical state.
Also remove rotations and mirrors. This isn't trivial.
That's social engineering, not hacking, you clown. It's a meatspace escalation of privilege attack, and is absolutely not hacking. Hacking involves attacking a machine and getting it to exhibit unexpected or unintended behavior.
Nope, the other AC has it right. I saw it live on TV on CNN. They were claiming she was upset because they used the song, and were trying to stir up some ballyhoo about it. THEN she came out with the "Why do you lie, CNN?" tweet.
Snake Oil is the new Snake Oil.
https://www.savingsbonds.gov/
A "savings bond" most commonly refers to a bond issued by the government at a fixed interest rate. In the past, the government offered decent interest rates and people trusted the US Dollar, or the government was desperate and offered high interest rates and people wanted to help the government (war bonds). The last time savings bonds were popular was with series EE in the 80s.
People often bought them for newborns and young children. They carried a fixed interest rate (7 percent or something in the 80s) and took 30 years to fully mature. EE Bonds were sold at half of their face value, I believe, so if you cashed them early you lost out. They reach their face value after a certain number of years and continue earning for years after (EE bonds were 30 years, I think). You pay taxes on the income once they stop earning interest, or once you cash it in (whichever is earlier).
They're a government-backed bond, meaning you can present that to any legitimate US bank and get the money, so long as you show that you're the person entitled to the bond (you're named on the bond or you're the the beneficiary of a dead person named on the bond) with some ID and give them address, SSN, etc. for tax purposes.
The bank has to fork over the cash regardless of your relationship with them You don't have to be a customer. The bank gets the cash back from the government, but it's a huge hassle for them to process each bond. There's lots of manual keying in and record keeping, scanning the paper bond, checking ID, fingerprinting, verifying address, etc.
While I'm not aware of any specific restriction that prevents them from charging a fee for processing a savings bond, they'd get a lot of blow back if they tried. Different bond series have different rules. I believe in some cases the bank doesn't have to cash you out directly but still has to do all the work of verifying your identity/signature and giving you proof of that so that you can send shit off to feds directly. This can ultimately be more work for the bank, and more unusual, so they'd prefer to just cash you out.
Capital One (formerly ING Direct, formerly Orange) has yet to screw me. But I'm ready to jump ship when that day comes.
That's shit-though-mouth backwards. The issuing bank can more readily identify the account, available funds, detect fraud, minimize clearing times, etc. Of course they fucking don't, because all the clearing and processing times are artificial, and are designed to hit an account holder with fees later should the check bounce. It's the same with the overdraft "protection" scam.
Inn recent years I've been cashing savings bonds (series E I believe). I first went to Wells Fargo because they were the closest bank open on Saturday.
My god, it was a fucking hassle. I knew it would be bad, and I expected the teller to have no fucking clue what a savings bond was let alone how to process it, but what I didn't expect was the damn resistance to actually cashing it because I wasn't a Wells Fargo customer.
You're a fucking bank, and there are still (some) laws you have to respect. After 3 people had a powwow and figured out where the scanner was, and after putting the bond (which was clean and undamaged and unfolded) through it about 3 dozen times, they finally forked over the cash. They also handed over a receipt and a large side of attitude, with a parting recommendation to switch my banking over to Well Fargo. No fucking thanks. Those clowns made Bank of America look competent, and I had to ditch those crooks about a decade ago for refusing to do anything about fraudulent ACH activity on my checking account.
Closing my accounts on those fuckers and walking out with a stack of cash was particularly satisfying.
So every savings bond after that was taken to the same Wells Fargo, just to maximize their inconvenience. Each teller I encounter is flabbergasted that a non-customer can walk in, make them do some actual work, and get money without any fees attached.
> Speaking for myself restoring the Internet to a viable network of PEERs where everyone has
> the capability if desired to directly address everyone else is of upmost importance to countering
> the proliferation of centralized manure currently waging war against *my* Internet.
I have a paranoid iptables firewall. Having said that, DID (Defense In Depth) always helps. I don't have a complacent "it can't happen to me attitude". I *WANT* a NAT'ing router between my home machines and the internet for an extra layer of protection.
> IPv6 is well worth any initial hardship or annoyance. Even if everyone hides
> behind an SPI anyway the ability to trivially prime direct connections with
> a 1:1 map is an absolutely priceless capability by itself without getting to global
> costs of dealing with IPv4 scarcity or people being forced into CGN land.
I hope somebody comes out with a NAT'ing IPV6 ADSL router that NATs multiple machines behind it to one publically visible address. It'll be worth it just to watch all those internet hippies' heads explode.
Repeat after me: NAT is *not* a security mechanism. If you think it protects you, you are a fool.
NAT is not a security mechanism, but it provides useful security by preventing hosts from having publicly routable IPs when they simply don't need them.
It's an additional layer on top of a firewall which may or may not actually be configured properly (or actually work). Think of the tens of millions of home users who have a crappy modem/router combo device managed by their ISP.
Nope. No NAT. Real, public IPv4 IPs. Yes, the allocation is unfair.
I have returned a bunch of IPs (some /24s and some /26s or something) to the organization's pool (which is much larger than /24) as we've consolidated some things, but as far as I know there's no chance of those IPs going back to public use as far as I know. In the grand scheme of things, a few hundred IPs for public allocation won't help much. Now, IBM on the other hand, with it's /8 assignment...
I have more than enough IPv4 addresses allocated to me and my servers. I don't need IPv6.
Sorry the rest of you have to fight over IPs. I've got plenty (no you can't have them).
I've made a huge mistake.
A minimum of 700 mph requires Infinite G force.
What happens when there's a breach or rupture in the tube? The pressure rises gradually.
In the same way that a balloon pops gradually, sure.
The current holder of the angel'o'sphere or whatever account bought it from someone who had quit Slashdot, came around and acted like a retard a year or two back, left, and now either:
A: They have returned, acting just as retarded as before.
B: Some other retard bought the account from the first retard who bought it from the original user.
Just ignore it, like the 11001011whatever guy and MightyMartian.
If you've tried http://winsupersite.com/window... and it didn't work, you're not alone. My guess is MS simply doesn't give a shit and that option never, ever, worked.
Instead, try https://support.microsoft.com/... . Scroll down to the download link to get the "troubleshooter" tool which will let you hide/disable specific updates. This will only help you if the updates are coming in via Windows Update and not some Dell utility.
So, Biden said he's support Bush if Bush did something he'd support, and that he'd support certain behavior if it weren't affecting him or his current situation.
What a class act!
They only allowed sideloading after a failed windows 8 and a few windows 10 builds couldn't muster any interest
Bullshit. It's always been allowed on non-RT devices, and it's not referred to as "sideloading". Further, RT is dead, dead, dead.
I hate MS more than most (check my post history), but stop spouting bullshit. MS has done nothing to lock down Windows to their store. The closest thing to that were the locked-down RT shits, which were aimed at the mobile market.
Emulators are only legal if they don't include the original system's BIOS or other bootstrap software IIRC.
Correct. And because of the DMCA, they also can't circumvent copy protection schemes, which every modern system has. Thanks Obama^W Clinton.