When you send things down a wire, everything is "something you know". A smart card or an RSA clock or a code sent via SMS is effectively just another password. And while it may be a strong password that's hard for an attacker to know, changes with time, etc., it's still vulnerable to MITM attacks because you're sending your shit over a single, unsecured channel. It's also a password the user has little to no control over, can lose and not have a backup of, etc., so there are entire management, recovery schemes introduced to make them usable. They provide very little in terms of security over a strong password. They only fix 2 problems - weak passwords and keyloggers. But keyloggers are just a subset of compromised boxes, and if you're using a compromised box then you're susceptible to an active attacker MITMing you using your valid smart card / token / codes / etc.
For two-factor security to actually be "two-factor", you have to validate the 2 things separately and via different means. A bank can do this in person by verifying your account information/name/etc. and your photo ID by actually fucking looking at the ID and you. When you automate everything and shove it down a single pipe (the internet), it's all effectively just a password.
The people doing the hiring don't have the critical thinking skills necessary to identify people worth hiring. If you're a retard, just apply everywhere you can and be polite and enthusiastic - you'll get an offer. If you're not a retard, apply everywhere that may interest you and treat the interview in reverse - answer their questions but make sure you ask your own to assess if you want to work there or not.
That's what the terrified wingnuts are saying. Of course they're just fear-driven former conservatives that caught teabola from far-right-wing media and blogs.
They may be terrified, fear-driven, conservatives (active of former), affiliated with or supportive of the tea party movement, or follow right-wing media or blogs. But they are absolutely right about Obama doing NOTHING to stop Ebola from coming to the US. Obama and his administration have been bending over backwards to lie to us and let it fucking happen. Obola is real.
You must be religious. As God once said, "It doesn't matter what the evidence shows, it's what I assert that matters!"
I'm not religious. More evidence has been shown for people finding fixed-width fonts easier to read. This evidence is correct. The amount of evidence doesn't mean shit if the evidence is wrong. I don't think God ever said that.
When the first amendment was written there was no instantaneous, virtually anonymous worldwide communication network. Now there is. Stop believing an 18th century document can apply to the 21st.
Who gives a shit? You're a fucking retard if you think the age of a law or a new invention changes the merit of the law.
Nothing about computers is intuitive. They're extremely complex systems that do not relate to humans at all. Taking a shit when you feel the urge to is intuitive. Doing anything on a computer is not intuitive. Everyone has to learn how to use these systems. The people who claim shit is "intuitive" or "unintuitive" are actually claiming shit is familiar or unfamiliar.
You can still log off using the command line or by using CTRL+ALT+DEL, just as you have been able to for decades. If you're using RDP, then it's CTRL+ALT+END, just as it has been for decades.
Welcome to computers. You have to learn how to use them. Sometimes things change.
Not only is 126/101 city/highway not the 150 he specified, it's not range of the car - it's the approximate gasoline efficiency rating ("MPGe"). The range is 84 miles.
With an average range of 84 miles, the Nissan LEAF® takes you 2½ times that distance on a single charge.
You can do this in Windows now. Java does it. Bittorrent used to (they might still) when they started foisting their background service on people. I'm sure the functionality will still exist and existing shit will simply be included in the new interface.
So that multiple programs can share the same settings system-wide. The worst thing about Linux is that every program works in a different non-standard way.
Like putting system config in/etc and user config in $HOME, you mean?
Like putting system config in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE and user config in HKEY_USERS, you mean? The registry is trash, but so is a mish-mash of non-standard textfiles strewn about.
The problem that's specific to Windows is that programs can decide to use the registry, text files, or both, and when they use text files they can be in my documents, (which is now a library with no fixed location), the program's installation folder, the system-wide application data folder, or a user-specific application data folder. When using an application data folder, you have the choice of using Local, LocalLow, or Roaming. No one in the world understands the difference between these folders or why some programs use one over another (or use multiple!).
It wouldn't be a problem if everything was relegated to living in one of: A: The application's install directory B: A single directory (one per application) in a specific user/system directory (or both) C: Living in the registry (again, user/system/both as appropriate)
But when applications can choose A, B, C, A & B, A & C, B & C, or A, B & C it's a fucking nightmare.
Why is there a resource-intensive GUI on a server anyway? Is the server supposed to be able to play Solitaire or World of Warcraft? Or is the server supposed to, oh, I donno, serve files and applications to client stations?
Because the admin changed the default install mode to include the GUI. A default installation of Windows Server 2012 and newer does not include a GUI. For 2008 R2 (and possibly 2008), the recommendation was to not install the GUI, but I do not recall if what was also the default.
Even worse. I RDP'ed into a Server the other day and nobody, even those running Windows 8 on their laptops could figure out how to do a "log out" on the server.
Then you're a fucking moron. Click the account icon and then click "Sign Out". Do you also need me to tell you how to shutdown a box that you've connected to over RDP?
Yup. It's an amalgam of all the aborted attempts Google has made at jamming social shit into email (including their own) and making the interface extra shitty and extra "mobile".
Gmail had a similar thing (though as with many features, Hotmail had it first), I think they called theirs "Priority Inbox", which covered both the actual priority inbox as well as all the other social/travel/etc. filtered inbox views. Like you, I immediately switched it off. The only one I can tolerate is Hotmail's "Active View". It's useful enough to warrant existing and innocuous enough to not warrant me trying to turn it off.
A hacker could hack the hospital doors and windows and everybody would die of starvation sooner or later!
Can you picture the carnage as people waste away as they vainly dance around and wave their arms at the little motion detector that was destroyed by the hacker, never realizing they could simply throw stuff at the glass in the sliding doors to make it break, thus freeing themselves from the hell they're in?
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When you send things down a wire, everything is "something you know".
A smart card or an RSA clock or a code sent via SMS is effectively just another password. And while it may be a strong password that's hard for an attacker to know, changes with time, etc., it's still vulnerable to MITM attacks because you're sending your shit over a single, unsecured channel. It's also a password the user has little to no control over, can lose and not have a backup of, etc., so there are entire management, recovery schemes introduced to make them usable. They provide very little in terms of security over a strong password. They only fix 2 problems - weak passwords and keyloggers. But keyloggers are just a subset of compromised boxes, and if you're using a compromised box then you're susceptible to an active attacker MITMing you using your valid smart card / token / codes / etc.
For two-factor security to actually be "two-factor", you have to validate the 2 things separately and via different means. A bank can do this in person by verifying your account information/name/etc. and your photo ID by actually fucking looking at the ID and you. When you automate everything and shove it down a single pipe (the internet), it's all effectively just a password.
The people doing the hiring don't have the critical thinking skills necessary to identify people worth hiring.
If you're a retard, just apply everywhere you can and be polite and enthusiastic - you'll get an offer.
If you're not a retard, apply everywhere that may interest you and treat the interview in reverse - answer their questions but make sure you ask your own to assess if you want to work there or not.
>What you're describing is Obola.
That's what the terrified wingnuts are saying. Of course they're just fear-driven former conservatives that caught teabola from far-right-wing media and blogs.
They may be terrified, fear-driven, conservatives (active of former), affiliated with or supportive of the tea party movement, or follow right-wing media or blogs.
But they are absolutely right about Obama doing NOTHING to stop Ebola from coming to the US. Obama and his administration have been bending over backwards to lie to us and let it fucking happen. Obola is real.
From WHENCE.
Holy shit you're a fucking moron.
Vaginal Vulture
You must be religious. As God once said, "It doesn't matter what the evidence shows, it's what I assert that matters!"
I'm not religious.
More evidence has been shown for people finding fixed-width fonts easier to read. This evidence is correct.
The amount of evidence doesn't mean shit if the evidence is wrong.
I don't think God ever said that.
Thisssssssssssssssss
No, it's more valid. Also, it's correct.
You can have all the studies you want concluding that tomatoes are vegetables, but they're fucking fruits.
Since women found about 9gag and started to participate in making memes it definitely got worse.
I didn't think it was possible for 9gag to get worse.
When the first amendment was written there was no instantaneous, virtually anonymous worldwide communication network. Now there is. Stop believing an 18th century document can apply to the 21st.
Who gives a shit? You're a fucking retard if you think the age of a law or a new invention changes the merit of the law.
Nothing about computers is intuitive. They're extremely complex systems that do not relate to humans at all.
Taking a shit when you feel the urge to is intuitive. Doing anything on a computer is not intuitive. Everyone has to learn how to use these systems. The people who claim shit is "intuitive" or "unintuitive" are actually claiming shit is familiar or unfamiliar.
You can still log off using the command line or by using CTRL+ALT+DEL, just as you have been able to for decades. If you're using RDP, then it's CTRL+ALT+END, just as it has been for decades.
Welcome to computers. You have to learn how to use them. Sometimes things change.
That's how it's supposed to work, yes. In practice, applications put shit wherever the fuck they want.
Yes.
It won't.
Beat up Martin.
Eat up Martha.
http://i.imgur.com/06fu9sE.jpg
http://www.nissanusa.com/elect...
Not only is 126/101 city/highway not the 150 he specified, it's not range of the car - it's the approximate gasoline efficiency rating ("MPGe"). The range is 84 miles.
With an average range of 84 miles, the Nissan LEAF® takes you 2½ times that distance on a single charge.
You can do this in Windows now. Java does it. Bittorrent used to (they might still) when they started foisting their background service on people.
I'm sure the functionality will still exist and existing shit will simply be included in the new interface.
So that multiple programs can share the same settings system-wide. The worst thing about Linux is that every program works in a different non-standard way.
Like putting system config in /etc and user config in $HOME, you mean?
Like putting system config in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE and user config in HKEY_USERS, you mean?
The registry is trash, but so is a mish-mash of non-standard textfiles strewn about.
The problem that's specific to Windows is that programs can decide to use the registry, text files, or both, and when they use text files they can be in my documents, (which is now a library with no fixed location), the program's installation folder, the system-wide application data folder, or a user-specific application data folder. When using an application data folder, you have the choice of using Local, LocalLow, or Roaming. No one in the world understands the difference between these folders or why some programs use one over another (or use multiple!).
It wouldn't be a problem if everything was relegated to living in one of:
A: The application's install directory
B: A single directory (one per application) in a specific user/system directory (or both)
C: Living in the registry (again, user/system/both as appropriate)
But when applications can choose A, B, C, A & B, A & C, B & C, or A, B & C it's a fucking nightmare.
Why is there a resource-intensive GUI on a server anyway? Is the server supposed to be able to play Solitaire or World of Warcraft? Or is the server supposed to, oh, I donno, serve files and applications to client stations?
Because the admin changed the default install mode to include the GUI.
A default installation of Windows Server 2012 and newer does not include a GUI.
For 2008 R2 (and possibly 2008), the recommendation was to not install the GUI, but I do not recall if what was also the default.
Even worse. I RDP'ed into a Server the other day and nobody, even those running Windows 8 on their laptops could figure out how to do a "log out" on the server.
Then you're a fucking moron. Click the account icon and then click "Sign Out".
Do you also need me to tell you how to shutdown a box that you've connected to over RDP?
Yup. It's an amalgam of all the aborted attempts Google has made at jamming social shit into email (including their own) and making the interface extra shitty and extra "mobile".
Gmail had a similar thing (though as with many features, Hotmail had it first), I think they called theirs "Priority Inbox", which covered both the actual priority inbox as well as all the other social/travel/etc. filtered inbox views. Like you, I immediately switched it off. The only one I can tolerate is Hotmail's "Active View". It's useful enough to warrant existing and innocuous enough to not warrant me trying to turn it off.
It combines the worst of mobile, email, and social. ...yet.
At least they're not injecting it into Gmail like all their previous attempts...
Unless panic is warranted!
A hacker could hack the hospital doors and windows and everybody would die of starvation sooner or later!
Can you picture the carnage as people waste away as they vainly dance around and wave their arms at the little motion detector that was destroyed by the hacker, never realizing they could simply throw stuff at the glass in the sliding doors to make it break, thus freeing themselves from the hell they're in?
Already covered by history's greatest hero: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
I recommend watching the whole episode (and series).