If you're going to be brazen enough to change the root password with a live CD, why not take the extra step of cracking open the case and resetting the BIOS? It might raise a couple of more eye-brows in an office environment, but a stranger sitting at a PC may even be less suspicious when he cracks the case open because he's "repairing" it for the regular user.
Yes - My first system breach (not counting MS systems that were completely unsecured - I mean actually circumventing security) in the wild was back in the early 90's - A university *nix system. The thing that made (makes) *nix such an easy target is that you can actually understand how it works. Windows is full of holes, but it's so frigging weird and hard to wrap your head around the bizarre OS that the casual cracker won't bother learning what's going on. If your only goal is to satisfy some childish desire to breach security and smugly toss your hands in the air and declare yourself an 31337 hacker (as was my case), Linux is the way to go.
Agreed - Being able to understand your OS is indeed a feature for people living in Linux world.
But, really. If you give me physical access to damned near any Windows or Linux machine, it's owned.
OK - Sorry in advance for the self-quote and self-reply, but I thought that I would correct myself before somebody else does. Total hard-drive encryption makes taking a box over significantly harder - Well beyond anything I've actually done. I've read about techniques more sophisticated than an in-line PS/2 or USB sniffer, but I'll leave it to the experts to freeze/remove/copy live RAM. I was talking about your standard office-building desktops.
OK, I'm not a Mac guy so I can say nothing about it. I've also not used Windows 7.
But, really. If you give me physical access to damned near any Windows or Linux machine, it's owned. And there are a lot of people out there a helluva lot better then me.
Sure, I won't be able to crack your encrypted archives. Nor your well-protected stored passwords. But hacking root/admin with physical access to the box isn't rocket science. Actually, it's much tougher with Vista than any Linux distro I've run into.
Yeah - I'm glad they made it and I'm glad I saw it. But I'm also glad that I didn't have a stake in it - It had to be an unsettling investment for those who did. It's got to feel good to have participated, but it was obviously a gamble from the beginning. Watchmen is definitely aimed at a niche market.
Still - I'll bet that DVD sales are good. TPB be damned, I'll have a boxed copy here.
I'm not against the former, though I'd be repulsed if one tried to come on to me.
Why? I've been married for better than a decade and, over the years, I've rejected several advances from ladies and a couple from guys - Not sure why that is - My wife tells me that I'm an ignorant flirt. But it's not much different - You let them know that they're barking up the wrong tree and, typically, they back off and look elsewhere. I've actually had much more trouble rejecting straight women than gay men (I've been literally tackled twice, but liquor was involved).
The latter though, just seem wrong...
I wish I could fault you for that, but frankly it gives me the heebie-jeebies too. But the fact that it creeps me out does make me sympathize with the fact that they feel ostracized.
Apologies in advance to all for feeding the troll.
I've yet to see a case anywhere in the US barring prayer in school. If it's happened (as so many people seem to complain about), please cite a reference. All that I've seen is action taken against school officials leading prayer services - Good. I don't want my kids' Christian/Muslim/Satanist/Pagan/What-freaking-ever-ist teacher trying to install their religion into my kids' heads. That's a job for me/the-church-we-attend/"holy"-books/themselves - And selecting from that list is up to me and my kids, not the schools.
Please show me one case where a student has been stopped from "silently ask[ing] grace for their school lunches" without being overturned.
On a semi-related note (and more on-topic with TFA), does a site really need to be pornographic to be on a filtered list? I'd be much more disturbed to find my child watching videos of people beheading their enemies or reading rhetoric encouraging them toward white supremacy than watching consenting adults have sex. I'm not implying that all of the banned/allowed sites are appropriate, but porn/non-porn is not an end-all metric.
Yeah because nobody ever abuses anything. We can all just smile happily that everybody is looking out for our best.
No. People do abuse authority. Except that TFA has nothing to do with that. This is about the FBI very creatively serving a warrant and the method that they used to act on it. Abuses of authority (unless you're challenging the validity of the warrant) belong somewhere else.
I don't know what you're using the Internet for. But when I asked the librarian to search for what I was interested in, she asked me to leave and not return...
OK, I've dumped my Karma bonus and am expecting to earn a couple of new Freaks, because this is the single most heartless thing that I've ever posted on/.
That would reduce the risk for the mother; I doubt it would reduce it for the child. The child is under far more risk than the mother in most pregnancies.
Who cares? The mother is far more important than the child. The "child", at least in the most risky period of the pregnancy, is just a collection of tissue that will hopefully develop a nervous system and eventually become a person. If we can halve the risk to the mother while doubling the risk to the embryo - I'm all for it.
When my wife was pregnant with our first child, she asked me very seriously how I would respond if something went wrong and the doctor told me that he could only save either her or our child (she watches too much TV). I told her that I'd pick her and we could try for another baby or adopt. She was satisfied with that and responded with something to the effect of "Damn straight." Reduce the risk to the mother at (almost) all cost - Babies are easy to assemble, far more difficult to transform into productive adults. [/monster]
Clean coal is clearly an oxymoron - There's no such thing as clean coal.
Just like there's no such thing as clean nuclear (gotta do something with that waste), clean wind (service roads are a bitch and transporting energy requires infrastructure), clean sun (break-even on solar panels just sucks, but ovens and water-heaters are OK), etc...
We've got tons of coal that's (relatively) easy to mine and (if not clean) not nearly as bad as it used to be and its environmental impact isn't all that much worse than a lot of the "green" sources. It's not as nice as nuclear (assuming you're not scared of the waste) or wind (if you happen to have a consistently windy back yard), but it's cheap, plentiful, and efficient. If you have that big a problem with it, find a better solution and then do the leg-work getting it approved, funded, and implemented. I'll applaud you when you're done.
That works both ways. Shove a piece of fiber into the wrist of a friendly Cylon and you can immobilize their entire invasion fleet. At least that's my understanding.
Simple solution - A quick prick from a syringe incorporated into your keyboard and they can tell if you're into gay literature. Or whether you're a potential alcoholic and should be banned from the wine-of-the-month-club. Or whether you've damaged your DNA with LSD and should be barred from buying mushroom spores from Seattle.
Why are we so short sighted?
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Seriously though, Amazon is one of 2 companies that makes their claim-to-fame via the Internet that I actually have faith in (I'm an admitted Google fan-boi, in spite of their over-seas policies). They seem pretty willing to sell whatever will fetch a price and do it at reasonable rates. When Fahrenheit 451 and Animal Farm drop off their list, I'll start whining. Until then, I actually believe them. Bitch at Amazon that you can't get what you want - From my experience, they'll find it. They want to sell everything to everyone.
Yep - If you want to rid the world of nuclear weapons, we're going to have to get some very talented physicists to sit down and re-write the rules on what happens when a critical mass is assembled. I'm not even sure how you enforce a change in the laws of physics...
If you outlaw nuclear weapons, only outlaws will have nuclear weapons.
Imagine a world where the U.S., Russia, China, etc disarm and leave the DPRK, Iran (assuming that their program is a success), and Israel as the remaining nuclear powers. At least it would be exciting.
You're mostly right there. If a pain-killer is marketed as a 'headache' drug, it's probably got caffeine. Several times over if it's marketed as a 'migraine' drug, as caffeine is an effective vasoconstrictor and combats the vasal dilation that causes most migraines. But if you're just taking aspirin, it's probably just aspirin and possibly a buffer.
I don't usually buy 'Advil' or 'Bayer'. I buy 'ibuprofen' or 'aspirin'. I have little need for a brand name attachment to the drug I'm after. (We do however buy Tylenol - I've never seen a bottle simply labeled "acetaminophen".) It sounds like a peeve of yours and it may be a common mis-speak (I've never knowingly run into it, but it could be). But when somebody tells me they take aspirin, I assume that they're taking aspirin. If they're taking something else, it's usually a "pain-killer" or just "I took something".
Water is tougher to drink quickly in large quantities than coffee/soda for somebody who's used to the caffeine. Same with beer for somebody who's used to the alcohol. Caffeine & alcohol are diuretics and tend to move through the system more quickly than water.
Yeah, like gun rights. "Markedly different" doesn't always mean better.....
Nobody ever said anything about "better" - Just markedly different. Bush, for example, would never have said that he's striving toward a world without nuclear weapons. And, even though he and Obama are both for spending huge amounts of $$ that we're borrowing from the Chinese on credit, it never would have occurred to him to spend that money domestically.
I've got major issues with both administrations, but you have to admit that they really are different.
I think that some people are just learning that the D's respect your privacy roughly as much as the R's. But, of course, when it's the R's doing it, the D's are very vocal about how they're violating people's rights and need to be run out on a rail. If this was a new policy and not a continuation of one from the previous administration, the R's would likely be waxing Libertarian and doing the same thing now.
I won't go so far as to welcome "the new boss - same as the old boss" because Obama is certainly markedly different from Bush on a wide swath of issues, but some things never change. Once a government claims a power, taking it back is very, very difficult.
Personally, I voted Barr/Root mainly because fiscal liberalism scares me and social liberalism just seems right (even though I wished that they had a better VP choice). Still, I'm holding my breath that having a charismatic president in office will have some positive repercussions domestically and internationally.
Hum, I might be missing something but where exactly says that he downloaded it?
In his review, he says "I found a work in progress print of it, 95 percent completed, on the internet last night.". That makes it sound to me like he downloaded it...
This isn't about the life or death of the Internet. This isn't about some rogue reporter breaking in to a pharmaceutical lab to expose doctored test reports. This isn't about the pinnacle of achievement of the human race being threatened because somebody violated company policy and got fired. This is about a foolish movie reviewer downloading a stolen movie and then announcing it to the world through his employer (which makes movies).
You're really over-dramatizing this. It was a dumb move. He got fired. He's not facing charges. It's not time for pitchforks and torches yet.
Actually, on second thought, this is Fox News. Yes, it's been pitchfork and torch time for a while now - We're way overdue.
Opera readers will simply build an inline proxy that pre-reads the page, corrects any errors, add missing alignment attributes and then optimize the resulting code before passing it on to the user.
... which will be available as a Firefox Add-on eight months later and built into the monolith that will be known as IE 10. Firefox users (myself included) will believe and argue that FF invented this feature.
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If you're going to be brazen enough to change the root password with a live CD, why not take the extra step of cracking open the case and resetting the BIOS? It might raise a couple of more eye-brows in an office environment, but a stranger sitting at a PC may even be less suspicious when he cracks the case open because he's "repairing" it for the regular user.
Yes - My first system breach (not counting MS systems that were completely unsecured - I mean actually circumventing security) in the wild was back in the early 90's - A university *nix system. The thing that made (makes) *nix such an easy target is that you can actually understand how it works. Windows is full of holes, but it's so frigging weird and hard to wrap your head around the bizarre OS that the casual cracker won't bother learning what's going on. If your only goal is to satisfy some childish desire to breach security and smugly toss your hands in the air and declare yourself an 31337 hacker (as was my case), Linux is the way to go.
Agreed - Being able to understand your OS is indeed a feature for people living in Linux world.
But, really. If you give me physical access to damned near any Windows or Linux machine, it's owned.
OK - Sorry in advance for the self-quote and self-reply, but I thought that I would correct myself before somebody else does. Total hard-drive encryption makes taking a box over significantly harder - Well beyond anything I've actually done. I've read about techniques more sophisticated than an in-line PS/2 or USB sniffer, but I'll leave it to the experts to freeze/remove/copy live RAM. I was talking about your standard office-building desktops.
OK, I'm not a Mac guy so I can say nothing about it. I've also not used Windows 7.
But, really. If you give me physical access to damned near any Windows or Linux machine, it's owned. And there are a lot of people out there a helluva lot better then me.
Sure, I won't be able to crack your encrypted archives. Nor your well-protected stored passwords. But hacking root/admin with physical access to the box isn't rocket science. Actually, it's much tougher with Vista than any Linux distro I've run into.
Yeah - I'm glad they made it and I'm glad I saw it. But I'm also glad that I didn't have a stake in it - It had to be an unsettling investment for those who did. It's got to feel good to have participated, but it was obviously a gamble from the beginning. Watchmen is definitely aimed at a niche market.
Still - I'll bet that DVD sales are good. TPB be damned, I'll have a boxed copy here.
I'm not against the former, though I'd be repulsed if one tried to come on to me.
Why? I've been married for better than a decade and, over the years, I've rejected several advances from ladies and a couple from guys - Not sure why that is - My wife tells me that I'm an ignorant flirt. But it's not much different - You let them know that they're barking up the wrong tree and, typically, they back off and look elsewhere. I've actually had much more trouble rejecting straight women than gay men (I've been literally tackled twice, but liquor was involved).
The latter though, just seem wrong...
I wish I could fault you for that, but frankly it gives me the heebie-jeebies too. But the fact that it creeps me out does make me sympathize with the fact that they feel ostracized.
Apologies in advance to all for feeding the troll.
I've yet to see a case anywhere in the US barring prayer in school. If it's happened (as so many people seem to complain about), please cite a reference. All that I've seen is action taken against school officials leading prayer services - Good. I don't want my kids' Christian/Muslim/Satanist/Pagan/What-freaking-ever-ist teacher trying to install their religion into my kids' heads. That's a job for me/the-church-we-attend/"holy"-books/themselves - And selecting from that list is up to me and my kids, not the schools.
Please show me one case where a student has been stopped from "silently ask[ing] grace for their school lunches" without being overturned.
On a semi-related note (and more on-topic with TFA), does a site really need to be pornographic to be on a filtered list? I'd be much more disturbed to find my child watching videos of people beheading their enemies or reading rhetoric encouraging them toward white supremacy than watching consenting adults have sex. I'm not implying that all of the banned/allowed sites are appropriate, but porn/non-porn is not an end-all metric.
Yeah because nobody ever abuses anything. We can all just smile happily that everybody is looking out for our best.
No. People do abuse authority. Except that TFA has nothing to do with that. This is about the FBI very creatively serving a warrant and the method that they used to act on it. Abuses of authority (unless you're challenging the validity of the warrant) belong somewhere else.
I don't know what you're using the Internet for. But when I asked the librarian to search for what I was interested in, she asked me to leave and not return...
I thought everyone lieked mudkips.
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OK, I've dumped my Karma bonus and am expecting to earn a couple of new Freaks, because this is the single most heartless thing that I've ever posted on /.
That would reduce the risk for the mother; I doubt it would reduce it for the child. The child is under far more risk than the mother in most pregnancies.
Who cares? The mother is far more important than the child. The "child", at least in the most risky period of the pregnancy, is just a collection of tissue that will hopefully develop a nervous system and eventually become a person. If we can halve the risk to the mother while doubling the risk to the embryo - I'm all for it.
When my wife was pregnant with our first child, she asked me very seriously how I would respond if something went wrong and the doctor told me that he could only save either her or our child (she watches too much TV). I told her that I'd pick her and we could try for another baby or adopt. She was satisfied with that and responded with something to the effect of "Damn straight." Reduce the risk to the mother at (almost) all cost - Babies are easy to assemble, far more difficult to transform into productive adults.
[/monster]
Clean coal is clearly an oxymoron - There's no such thing as clean coal.
Just like there's no such thing as clean nuclear (gotta do something with that waste), clean wind (service roads are a bitch and transporting energy requires infrastructure), clean sun (break-even on solar panels just sucks, but ovens and water-heaters are OK), etc...
We've got tons of coal that's (relatively) easy to mine and (if not clean) not nearly as bad as it used to be and its environmental impact isn't all that much worse than a lot of the "green" sources. It's not as nice as nuclear (assuming you're not scared of the waste) or wind (if you happen to have a consistently windy back yard), but it's cheap, plentiful, and efficient. If you have that big a problem with it, find a better solution and then do the leg-work getting it approved, funded, and implemented. I'll applaud you when you're done.
That works both ways. Shove a piece of fiber into the wrist of a friendly Cylon and you can immobilize their entire invasion fleet. At least that's my understanding.
At those distances, I'd have gone wireless. Wait to string ethernet to the space station until we're done with the space elevator.
Well, somebody else could step up and compete w/o commercials.
But the likely result would be that they'd take the market and wind up losing up to $1.65M/day.
Simple solution - A quick prick from a syringe incorporated into your keyboard and they can tell if you're into gay literature. Or whether you're a potential alcoholic and should be banned from the wine-of-the-month-club. Or whether you've damaged your DNA with LSD and should be barred from buying mushroom spores from Seattle.
Why are we so short sighted?
[/sarc]
Seriously though, Amazon is one of 2 companies that makes their claim-to-fame via the Internet that I actually have faith in (I'm an admitted Google fan-boi, in spite of their over-seas policies). They seem pretty willing to sell whatever will fetch a price and do it at reasonable rates. When Fahrenheit 451 and Animal Farm drop off their list, I'll start whining. Until then, I actually believe them. Bitch at Amazon that you can't get what you want - From my experience, they'll find it. They want to sell everything to everyone.
Yep - If you want to rid the world of nuclear weapons, we're going to have to get some very talented physicists to sit down and re-write the rules on what happens when a critical mass is assembled. I'm not even sure how you enforce a change in the laws of physics...
If you outlaw nuclear weapons, only outlaws will have nuclear weapons.
Imagine a world where the U.S., Russia, China, etc disarm and leave the DPRK, Iran (assuming that their program is a success), and Israel as the remaining nuclear powers. At least it would be exciting.
You're mostly right there. If a pain-killer is marketed as a 'headache' drug, it's probably got caffeine. Several times over if it's marketed as a 'migraine' drug, as caffeine is an effective vasoconstrictor and combats the vasal dilation that causes most migraines. But if you're just taking aspirin, it's probably just aspirin and possibly a buffer.
I don't usually buy 'Advil' or 'Bayer'. I buy 'ibuprofen' or 'aspirin'. I have little need for a brand name attachment to the drug I'm after. (We do however buy Tylenol - I've never seen a bottle simply labeled "acetaminophen".) It sounds like a peeve of yours and it may be a common mis-speak (I've never knowingly run into it, but it could be). But when somebody tells me they take aspirin, I assume that they're taking aspirin. If they're taking something else, it's usually a "pain-killer" or just "I took something".
Water is tougher to drink quickly in large quantities than coffee/soda for somebody who's used to the caffeine. Same with beer for somebody who's used to the alcohol. Caffeine & alcohol are diuretics and tend to move through the system more quickly than water.
Yeah, like gun rights. "Markedly different" doesn't always mean better.....
Nobody ever said anything about "better" - Just markedly different. Bush, for example, would never have said that he's striving toward a world without nuclear weapons. And, even though he and Obama are both for spending huge amounts of $$ that we're borrowing from the Chinese on credit, it never would have occurred to him to spend that money domestically.
I've got major issues with both administrations, but you have to admit that they really are different.
I think that some people are just learning that the D's respect your privacy roughly as much as the R's. But, of course, when it's the R's doing it, the D's are very vocal about how they're violating people's rights and need to be run out on a rail. If this was a new policy and not a continuation of one from the previous administration, the R's would likely be waxing Libertarian and doing the same thing now.
I won't go so far as to welcome "the new boss - same as the old boss" because Obama is certainly markedly different from Bush on a wide swath of issues, but some things never change. Once a government claims a power, taking it back is very, very difficult.
Personally, I voted Barr/Root mainly because fiscal liberalism scares me and social liberalism just seems right (even though I wished that they had a better VP choice). Still, I'm holding my breath that having a charismatic president in office will have some positive repercussions domestically and internationally.
Sorry - Sarcasm doesn't come across very well via text.
Thanks for the background, though.
Right. As new as ARM architecture is to the market, it will just take a little while to catch on...
Did I mention that this is the year of Linux on the desktop?...
I went off-track too, but a little differently.
The first thing I thought was "In related news, Malware Writers Boast 96% Netbook Penetration".
Hum, I might be missing something but where exactly says that he downloaded it?
In his review, he says "I found a work in progress print of it, 95 percent completed, on the internet last night.". That makes it sound to me like he downloaded it...
This isn't about the life or death of the Internet. This isn't about some rogue reporter breaking in to a pharmaceutical lab to expose doctored test reports. This isn't about the pinnacle of achievement of the human race being threatened because somebody violated company policy and got fired. This is about a foolish movie reviewer downloading a stolen movie and then announcing it to the world through his employer (which makes movies).
You're really over-dramatizing this. It was a dumb move. He got fired. He's not facing charges. It's not time for pitchforks and torches yet.
Actually, on second thought, this is Fox News. Yes, it's been pitchfork and torch time for a while now - We're way overdue.
Opera readers will simply build an inline proxy that pre-reads the page, corrects any errors, add missing alignment attributes and then optimize the resulting code before passing it on to the user.
... which will be available as a Firefox Add-on eight months later and built into the monolith that will be known as IE 10. Firefox users (myself included) will believe and argue that FF invented this feature.