Imagine how secure Fort Knox would be if nobody knew where it was.
Fort Knox top brass: "It's okay, Smithers. Nobody knows where on God's green earth we are, so they can't even find us, let alone pillage us."
Okay, then what happens when I tail the endless stream of trucks going to some place in the middle of the forest, only to see an unguarded entrance and gold bars lying everywhere...
Fort Knox top brass: "But... but... nobody knew... we were safe... WAAAAHHHHHHH!!!"
If you want the sizzle, see the article. Otherwise, here's the steak, for people like me, who don't have time to read all the articles on Slashdot. (This isn't the whole article, but what I think to be the most poignant parts.)
"...when the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration decided that the limp wing of a new solar array on the station needed to be tightened, engineers worked on the problem around the clock. When a plan was devised, two astronauts on the ground suited up and hopped into a water tank used to simulate weightlessness. When they were finished testing the plan, NASA ground controllers could even tell the shuttle astronauts which torque settings to use on their power tools and gauge the degree of difficulty for each task."
"By contrast, the space station crew was dealing with an air conditioner that broke days ago when the system that removes carbon dioxide from the air also broke down. Since the systems are on the Russian module, the international crew of two Russians and one American dealt with Russian ground controllers, who scolded them after the astronauts decided to set up an alternate system for removing the potentially dangerous gas. 'You could have damaged it,' said a ground controller. 'We have to breathe with something,' snapped Sergei Krikalyov, one of two Russians on the three-man team. At one point the exchange between ground and space grew so heated that a ground controller said, 'Guys, don't swear at me.'"
"As the first crew to live on the space station, the Expedition One crew had little opportunity to adapt to space life when they arrived five weeks ago. They entered a station that had just two days of breathable oxygen. Since then, they have struggled with both the hardware and ground support. 'They plan an activity to take one hour and we know it will take five hours,' ISS crewman Yuri Gidzenko complained.
Patents used to be valid for 17 years from the date of issue. They recently (less than 5 years ago, I think) changed it. They're now valid for 20 years from the date of filing.
No Text (in body of message). Usually this is typed in the subject, so the person will know that clicking on a link to get the body of the message will do them no good.
Here's an Wired article that discusses the need for stringent security practices on the credit-card company's end of the line as well. It is pretty decently done, so I thought I'd put up a link here. -- "Give him head?"
As an American you shoul get yourself an spell checker, man. As to the rest, I agree. Generall in Europe whenever you go with a different accent you have a hard time being accepted as something else than a tourist. Furthermore, as a tourist you feel pretty much welcome, whn it shows that you work there, it is totally different picture. If you are to stay there (permanent-like) it's even worse...
Fuck off, bitch. Not everyone is American. I'm not, and I'm damned well glad.
Honestly, it was interesting the first... oh... day or so, but now that it's almost ONE MONTH after the fsking election, and you still haven't figured out who the fuck won (mainly because you're still using antiquated voting equipment), it gets a bit tiring. -- "Give him head?"
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A better example would have been the 'introduction' of Europeans to the New World
Hey, Wes, are you calling us white boys nothing but mere ballast?;) -- "Give him head?"
Very recently (although I can't find a link for the life of me) there was a row about a distributed antivirus signature update system. If one node were to get poisoned or trojaned, all hell would break loose.
I can see that happening with the sort of thing you're thinking of... way bad idea.
I mean, the only explanation for sysadmins not patching months- (in some cases years-) old holes and bugs are laziness or incompetence. Period. One more automated thing will make it that much easier for chimpanzees to run webservers -- and we don't want that, do we? -- "Give him head?"
I haven't heard a word of Spanish -- or Cantonese, or Japanese, or French, for that matter -- ever since I slipped my trusty Babel fish into my ear many years ago. It's great, really! You should try it...
(ba'bel fish, n.) "The Babel fish," said The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy quietly, "is small, yellow and leechlike, and probably the oddest thing in the Universe... if you stick a Babel fish in your ear you can instantly understand anything said to you in any form of language."
- Douglas Adams, "The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy" -- "Give him head?"
I don't care if it's the best deal on earth and it cures cancer. If it's advertised by spam, I ain't buying one.
If it cures cancer, I'll sell myself to buy their entire production run, spam or no spam. (I mean, c'mon... you gotta draw the line somewhere!) -- "Give him head?"
Aside from the obvious PR burn, their biggest loss is this: an 18% drop in their stock price in one day. Ouch.
Plus, no fewer than two major manufacturers were toying with the idea of launching Transmeta notebooks and later changed their mind. This certainly isn't going to help them change their minds back in the other direction... -- "Give him head?"
Here are two petitions that allow you to voice your opinion. Please, sign them if this matters at all to you (especially if you live in Europe)... don't think "they'll have enough signatures without mine". Every signature counts!
Also, here's an excellent information resource on software patents that I found really interesting. Software patents and their evil brethren (UCITA, for example) must not be permitted if the consumer is to have any control over the software they are paying good money for! -- "Give him head?"
At the recently concluded meetings in Los Angeles, ICANN indicated that it may include JVTeam's.biz in their rootzone. That does NOT mean that BIZtld's.biz is going anywhere. We did not apply for entry into the ICANN rootzone and we plan to stay where we are and continue to resolve to the ORSC rootzone. We also plan to make this apparent to ICANN and the DoC and have e-mailed ICANN's Chairman, Vint Cerf to that effect.
Sure, it works if you're one of the very few people with ORSC's nameservers in your resolv.conf... if not,.biz is still vaporware! -- "Give him head?"
God, that's why I don't use Sendmail. If you, like me, prefer to retain your sanity when configuring your MTA (and thus use Postfix), here's all you need to add to your main.cf:
Another trick I use on spammers that aren't in the MAPS RBL/RSS/DUL is to prevent them from finding out what my mail server's IP address is in the first place, by adding this to your named.conf:
(Obviously, insert the proper CIDR addresses/ranges in there.) Violà! Now spammer can't send you mail (or know anything else about your IP addresses). Don't forget to implement the blackhole on your slaves, too!
Oh, and don't ever give Ebay your real email address and then bid on, or sell, anything there. Spammers very routinely harvest bazillions of real legitimate email addresses from there, and send spam directly to you. (Use a spamtrap alias that you can change routinely for use on Ebay, like youruserid-ebay@domain.tld.) --
More importantly, it touches all of us, since anyone who tries to reverse engineer an API from MS is going to get painted with the haxor brush. The MS code isn't even that good. I only hope that they don't use this as an excuse to begin a litigious assault on the Open Source movement. Sustained lawsuits attacking key applications will slow development, and could influence virtually everything we do.
Who says that this isn't Microsoft's plan? They've certainly stooped lower than this. Who's side was that 1337 h4x0r on, anyway?
What a perfect foundation to sue the shit out of anything OSS... and Samba might well be the first thing their crosshairs fall on... --
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Security through obscurity works, in the end.
Imagine how secure Fort Knox would be if nobody knew where it was.
Fort Knox top brass: "It's okay, Smithers. Nobody knows where on God's green earth we are, so they can't even find us, let alone pillage us."
Okay, then what happens when I tail the endless stream of trucks going to some place in the middle of the forest, only to see an unguarded entrance and gold bars lying everywhere...
Fort Knox top brass: "But... but... nobody knew... we were safe... WAAAAHHHHHHH!!!"
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Here you can find the latest FidoNet policy document.
This is the sobering part:
FidoNet Policy Document
Version 4.07
June 9, 1989
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Patents used to be valid for 17 years from the date of issue. They recently (less than 5 years ago, I think) changed it. They're now valid for 20 years from the date of filing.
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This is probably what they used to bug his keyboard.
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No Text (in body of message). Usually this is typed in the subject, so the person will know that clicking on a link to get the body of the message will do them no good.
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You can't; karma is now capped at max +50. People with more than that didn't lose any, but they can't gain any more.
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Here's an Wired article that discusses the need for stringent security practices on the credit-card company's end of the line as well. It is pretty decently done, so I thought I'd put up a link here.
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"Give him head?"
As an American you shoul get yourself an spell checker, man. As to the rest, I agree. Generall in Europe whenever you go with a different accent you have a hard time being accepted as something else than a tourist. Furthermore, as a tourist you feel pretty much welcome, whn it shows that you work there, it is totally different picture. If you are to stay there (permanent-like) it's even worse...
Three words for you: Pot, kettle, black.
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"Give him head?"
Christ, Wes... ;)
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"Give him head?"
Fuck off, bitch. Not everyone is American. I'm not, and I'm damned well glad.
Honestly, it was interesting the first... oh... day or so, but now that it's almost ONE MONTH after the fsking election, and you still haven't figured out who the fuck won (mainly because you're still using antiquated voting equipment), it gets a bit tiring.
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"Give him head?"
A better example would have been the 'introduction' of Europeans to the New World
;)
Hey, Wes, are you calling us white boys nothing but mere ballast?
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"Give him head?"
You go, Wes. :)
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"Give him head?"
Very recently (although I can't find a link for the life of me) there was a row about a distributed antivirus signature update system. If one node were to get poisoned or trojaned, all hell would break loose.
I can see that happening with the sort of thing you're thinking of... way bad idea.
I mean, the only explanation for sysadmins not patching months- (in some cases years-) old holes and bugs are laziness or incompetence. Period. One more automated thing will make it that much easier for chimpanzees to run webservers -- and we don't want that, do we?
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"Give him head?"
This is just the kind of news I could do without, having recently been persuaded to register with AIM and give GAIM a try.
Sorry, what did you say your screen name was again?
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"Give him head?"
I haven't heard a word of Spanish -- or Cantonese, or Japanese, or French, for that matter -- ever since I slipped my trusty Babel fish into my ear many years ago. It's great, really! You should try it...
(ba'bel fish, n.) "The Babel fish," said The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy quietly, "is small, yellow and leechlike, and probably the oddest thing in the Universe... if you stick a Babel fish in your ear you can instantly understand anything said to you in any form of language."
- Douglas Adams, "The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy"
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"Give him head?"
Oh. Oops!
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"Give him head?"
I don't care if it's the best deal on earth and it cures cancer. If it's advertised by spam, I ain't buying one.
If it cures cancer, I'll sell myself to buy their entire production run, spam or no spam. (I mean, c'mon... you gotta draw the line somewhere!)
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"Give him head?"
Yes, fewer than 300. 284, to be precise.
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"Give him head?"
Aside from the obvious PR burn, their biggest loss is this: an 18% drop in their stock price in one day. Ouch.
Plus, no fewer than two major manufacturers were toying with the idea of launching Transmeta notebooks and later changed their mind. This certainly isn't going to help them change their minds back in the other direction...
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"Give him head?"
- http://swpat.ffii.org
- http://petition.eurolinux.org/
Also, here's an excellent information resource on software patents that I found really interesting. Software patents and their evil brethren (UCITA, for example) must not be permitted if the consumer is to have any control over the software they are paying good money for!--
"Give him head?"
At the recently concluded meetings in Los Angeles, ICANN indicated that it may include JVTeam's .biz in their rootzone. That does NOT mean that BIZtld's .biz is going anywhere. We did not apply for entry into the ICANN rootzone and we plan to stay where we are and continue to resolve to the ORSC rootzone. We also plan to make this apparent to ICANN and the DoC and have e-mailed ICANN's Chairman, Vint Cerf to that effect.
.biz is still vaporware!
Sure, it works if you're one of the very few people with ORSC's nameservers in your resolv.conf... if not,
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"Give him head?"
Aww, are you jealous you didn't make it to VA's party in San Jose? Poor you!
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God, that's why I don't use Sendmail. If you, like me, prefer to retain your sanity when configuring your MTA (and thus use Postfix), here's all you need to add to your main.cf:
maps_rbl_domains = blackholes.mail-abuse.org, dialups.mail-abuse.org, relays.mail-abuse.org
maps_rbl_reject_code = 550
smtpd_client_restrictions = permit_mynetworks, reject_maps_rbl
(That was three lines. Unwrap if necessary.)
Another trick I use on spammers that aren't in the MAPS RBL/RSS/DUL is to prevent them from finding out what my mail server's IP address is in the first place, by adding this to your named.conf:
blackhole {
3.2.1/8;
4.3.2/8;
5.2/16;
123.123.123.123/32;
};
(Obviously, insert the proper CIDR addresses/ranges in there.) Violà! Now spammer can't send you mail (or know anything else about your IP addresses). Don't forget to implement the blackhole on your slaves, too!
Oh, and don't ever give Ebay your real email address and then bid on, or sell, anything there. Spammers very routinely harvest bazillions of real legitimate email addresses from there, and send spam directly to you. (Use a spamtrap alias that you can change routinely for use on Ebay, like youruserid-ebay@domain.tld.)
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More importantly, it touches all of us, since anyone who tries to reverse engineer an API from MS is going to get painted with the haxor brush. The MS code isn't even that good. I only hope that they don't use this as an excuse to begin a litigious assault on the Open Source movement. Sustained lawsuits attacking key applications will slow development, and could influence virtually everything we do.
Who says that this isn't Microsoft's plan? They've certainly stooped lower than this. Who's side was that 1337 h4x0r on, anyway?
What a perfect foundation to sue the shit out of anything OSS... and Samba might well be the first thing their crosshairs fall on...
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