In the UK we have Crystal Mark which aims to assess published materials by organisations for their ease of reading. From their site:
What we look for
Things we look for include:
a good average sentence length (about 15 to 20 words)
plenty of 'active' verbs (instead of 'passive' ones)
everyday English
words like 'we' and 'you' instead of 'the insured', 'the applicant', 'the society' and so on
conciseness
clear, helpful headings with consistent and suitable ways of making them stand out from the text
a good typesize and clear typeface
plenty of answer space and a logical flow (on forms).
It's vague, but it's better than nothing. Then again, we also have the Unfair Terms in Consumer Contract Regulations which would make this kind of "No saying bad things!" clause utterly ununforceable:)
Correct me if I'm wrong, but won't that require session intiation from the client? Pretty much every home router I've encountered has been set as deny-inbound by default, though that might just be for the SPI features.
Still, NAT is security through obscurity, which is not security at all. It's just an added bonus that you're not routable by default.
You're talking about direct democracy, where you have an influence on specific issues by voting specifically for / against them. This is not how our government (US, UK, almost all democracies) works. You elect parties which are aligned to your political interests, and they in turn propose and support political agenda which are aligned with their policies.
Sadly, both US parties are in the pockets of the same financial sponsors, so good luck getting any kind of democratic representation without serious reforms.
Alas, ignoring them doesn't actually get you in trouble.
Not explicitly, and not obviously. It will, however, probably lead to you not being invited to quote for government pork-barrel business anymore, and more than one very lengthy visit from the IRS. It doesn't matter whether it's legal or not legal anymore, it only matters if you have more firepower (legal, political, or otherwise) than they do.
The NSA wouldn't work with journalists / Wikileaks to redact documents obtained and delivered to them. Why would they work with similar organisations in this instance?
At least they can't stand behind "Any disclosure puts people at risk" in this instance, unless "people" is the guy in the photo opening up Cisco kit and "in danger" means "desk duty".
The Euro is an awful, awful thing. It was oringinally designed to only be utilised by strong, economically secure countries like Germany; Six or seven at most. There are now 18 countries using the euro as their official currency, some of them in financial ruin (Greece, Portugal, Ireland...). Hell, the criteria for entry weren't even applied to everyone equally, so some of those countries shouldn't have joined in the first place!
I'm all for everything else the EU has implemented, but the Euro is an abomination; It should have been chucked over the cliff edge at birth.
It is. I don't do it every night, but I do it regularly. Also cleans up temporary files, logs, other file system clutter. A robust deployment scheme can save masses of heartache.
If your PC is directly connected to the internet then yes, technically it is possible. It would, however, mean that you would need to power off your PC, your ISP would need to pass the attacker's server IP address to your client as a PXE service, and you'd need to instruct your PC to boot from LAN by default.
If you're behind a consumer router, though, they're SOOL; Your internal NAT IP address is not routable from the internet.
I used Pale Moon for about a month, and have just switched back to Firefox. SVG rendering was broken on both my work laptop and my home PC, so I guess it's a problem with the software. You could save SVG files from websites and view them fine in an external viewer, but within the browser they seemes to be missing yellow.
As for the Firefox new UI, it's really not that bad. Tabs look neat, but didn't NEED changing, the new menu was functional for the few moments I used it to set up my addons, network settings etc. I'm ok with how Firefox is right now.
News articles stating why he's on the list are certainly not relavent. Information on List 99 is only for the purposes of Enhanced checks with the Disclosure and Barring Service, only performed when you apply for a job where you will be in frequent, unsupervised contact with minors. I have such a check performed because of where I work.
There's no reason for the lay public to know who's on the list, though, because there are other regulations for public interactions, e.g. restraining orders, other impositions on living / frequenting places within X yards of a school etc. The only, only reason you would have to disagree with the details of someone, who has paid for their crime via the criminal justice system, to not having their details removed is because you believe they haven't suffered enough. Well, tough; The courts decided they've done their time, and now they're free to do as they please. They may be on List 99, they may not; If they are, they will fail to get employment anywhere near children, and that IMHO is enough. If this guy was really such a menace to society, he'd still be segragated from it.
There. I stuck up for the rights of a deviant. Let the hate commence.
Convicted, imprisoned, released, and now a free man (still on List 99, most likely, so can never work with children or vulnerable adults). Or do you think that a person should continue to pay for past transgressions indefinitely? If so, I hope you're nowhere near the law making institutions of the UK.
You know nothing of the situation; Maybe he created images, maybe he just posessed images, maybe they were thumbnails in his webcache from visiting 4chan on a bad day, maybe he was sent them anonymously in an email and reported them to the police who then said "Posession, in fact just viewing, these images is a crime. You're nicked mate."
Oh, you say that things are almost never black and white? Say it ain't so, gov!
Ever seen a microwave oven with the words "CHAOS defrost" written on it?
Your microwave outputs at a standard rate; A percentage of the full 1.1KW output for the time you have specified. Microwaves work by exciting water to boiling point extremely quickly, and in that absorbing the microwave energy. You put your pie in for two minutes straight and the outside of the food will be utterly ruined, having absorbed the entire X/1100 you threw at it. Leaving the pie to cool in between allows the food around the bit that's just heated to reach equilibrium; It heats up while the microwave isn't on, just by drawing away (sorry, physics types) the energy from the water that was just heated.
CHAOS defrost gets around this problem by switching the output of the microwave during the cycle, down to allow the outside to cool a little, then back up to keep the process continuing.
The pastry turns to rubber because it's been boiled dry by the microwave; You've dumped the whole of the cooking cycle into the very outside of the pie in a very short time. Leaving it to cool for 5 minutes allows that heat to warm the middle, getting you a better result.
Perhaps cost per gigabyte wasn't the right term (I'm not a certified cost accountant!:) ) "Price per gigabyte" is maybe a better way to put it. It's not relating to the cost of provoding the service, it's just how they charge out you accessing the service.
Either way, everyone pays for their service on a per gigabyte basis until you reach consumer ISPs, at which point they oversell their service in order to make access available to the general public. You can get 40Mb downstream sometimes because it's shared between maybe 20 people on your circuit. The caveat is that you're not all supposed to use it at once; This is how it's always been, they've just been underhanded in telling you that.
The alternative is leased lines. 44Mb (T3) costs up to $15000 pcm (yup, fifteen thousand), so I don't think we actually get a bad deal when we can get 40Mb for 90% of the day for approximately 1/200 the price of the equivalent leaased line.
Cohen is actually talking about data transferred, rather than stored (as headline originally had it)
I didn't even have to read the stub to know that storage wasn't right. It doesn't make sense for an ISP (data transfer) to be talking about storing data.
I can' understand a missing comma a greengrocer's apostrophe, or or a duplicated word, but that title was fundamentally wrong on a techncial level. I'd definitely expect someone to pick that up during editing.
It's not arbitrary; Everyone north of Tier 1 providers pay per gigabyte of data they transfer over Tier 1 backbones. T1 don't pay each other because they agree to transfer each other's data without charging ("Peering agreements"). Paying per gigabyte is how the internet actually works; The speed is limited only by the hardware.
But the limit is still the quantity, not the speed at which it gets to you. A 300GB/month bandwidth cap would be 925Kb/s; You cannot transfer more than 300GB per month at that speed, it is physically impossible. 925*60(seconds)*60(minutes)*24(hours)*30(days) = ~300,000,000KB aka 300GB.
A transfer cap is whatever speed you can get, and 300GB is all you will have. You could well saturate your 925Kb line for the month, or you could saturate your 4Mb line for a week, or your 80Mb line for 8 hours.
This isn't about limiting the speed of your connection, only the quantity of bits you can receive. It's a transfer cap, and the post title has been amended to reflect that now.
2. Mandate that they are able to accommodate ALL the bandwidth they sell at any time.
We already have this. Go look up leasing a T3 connection for your home; Guaranteed 44Mb line. Expect to pay several thousand dollars per month.
Your home broadband connection is oversold, and that's fine. That's why it's cheap, and it is very cheap. The problem is that they didn't tell you that that was how it was, and instead sold you on "up to $Mb download speed". Now that there are services that will actually saturate your 20Mb line 24/7 (bittorrent, netflix, whatever) the connections are congested. It's like putting all of the cars on the motorway at once; Nobody will get anywhere.
If the model was shifted to paying for the data you use regardless of your line speed, at least it would be fair; You get what you pay for, no more, no less. I watch netflix, I download ISOs and games on Steam, and I rarely hit north of 150GB in a month. This scheme seems fine to me. Then again, I'm looking at this through the rose-tinted glasses of a consumer, not a greedy corporate sociopath. I'm sure they'll have us bent over again soon enough.
Bandwidth, in networking, is a measure of the amount of data transfered per time unit. The Comcast exec is predicting a transfer cap, i.e. a maximum quantity of data.
You're right, though; Neither are "storage". Whoever titled the post is a moron.
When did you get your degree? If it was before the end of the last academic year, you're not the people we're talking about.
CS degrees now are worthless because they're all sorting algorithms from 1986, web design, and a smattering of actual computer science. It's an arts degree, ffs! Sure, you can probably find BSc's which include some math modules, but mostly it's been gutted into more specialised subjects.
Your CS degree is not the CS degree of today. The problem is the employers of the world haven't caught up yet.
Disband and reform? "The IEFT was compromised. We are the same people as before, minus the NSA employee. Let's get this done right." seems like a good press release.
I always say, It it's created by humans then it can be cracked.
Yeah, but can it be easily cracked, or cracked within the time frame that the information is still useful? If a criminal can MITM my internet banking and get all of my savings, that is A Bad Thing. In 2006 we could crack Enigma in 4 days with then-modern home PC hardware and an optimised brute force routine. That is absolutely fine; The people who benefited from its use are mostly dead, the war is over, there's no need for the security anymore. In fact, Enigma was so good that almost all of the successful cracks were based on operator error; Enigma was unbreakable at the time when operated correctly.
Just because something can be cracked doesn't mean it's not fit for purpose.
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What we look for
Things we look for include:
It's vague, but it's better than nothing. Then again, we also have the Unfair Terms in Consumer Contract Regulations which would make this kind of "No saying bad things!" clause utterly ununforceable :)
Correct me if I'm wrong, but won't that require session intiation from the client? Pretty much every home router I've encountered has been set as deny-inbound by default, though that might just be for the SPI features.
Still, NAT is security through obscurity, which is not security at all. It's just an added bonus that you're not routable by default.
You're talking about direct democracy, where you have an influence on specific issues by voting specifically for / against them. This is not how our government (US, UK, almost all democracies) works. You elect parties which are aligned to your political interests, and they in turn propose and support political agenda which are aligned with their policies.
Sadly, both US parties are in the pockets of the same financial sponsors, so good luck getting any kind of democratic representation without serious reforms.
Alas, ignoring them doesn't actually get you in trouble.
Not explicitly, and not obviously. It will, however, probably lead to you not being invited to quote for government pork-barrel business anymore, and more than one very lengthy visit from the IRS. It doesn't matter whether it's legal or not legal anymore, it only matters if you have more firepower (legal, political, or otherwise) than they do.
The NSA wouldn't work with journalists / Wikileaks to redact documents obtained and delivered to them. Why would they work with similar organisations in this instance?
At least they can't stand behind "Any disclosure puts people at risk" in this instance, unless "people" is the guy in the photo opening up Cisco kit and "in danger" means "desk duty".
The Euro is an awful, awful thing. It was oringinally designed to only be utilised by strong, economically secure countries like Germany; Six or seven at most. There are now 18 countries using the euro as their official currency, some of them in financial ruin (Greece, Portugal, Ireland...). Hell, the criteria for entry weren't even applied to everyone equally, so some of those countries shouldn't have joined in the first place!
I'm all for everything else the EU has implemented, but the Euro is an abomination; It should have been chucked over the cliff edge at birth.
It is. I don't do it every night, but I do it regularly. Also cleans up temporary files, logs, other file system clutter. A robust deployment scheme can save masses of heartache.
If your PC is directly connected to the internet then yes, technically it is possible. It would, however, mean that you would need to power off your PC, your ISP would need to pass the attacker's server IP address to your client as a PXE service, and you'd need to instruct your PC to boot from LAN by default.
If you're behind a consumer router, though, they're SOOL; Your internal NAT IP address is not routable from the internet.
I used Pale Moon for about a month, and have just switched back to Firefox. SVG rendering was broken on both my work laptop and my home PC, so I guess it's a problem with the software. You could save SVG files from websites and view them fine in an external viewer, but within the browser they seemes to be missing yellow.
As for the Firefox new UI, it's really not that bad. Tabs look neat, but didn't NEED changing, the new menu was functional for the few moments I used it to set up my addons, network settings etc. I'm ok with how Firefox is right now.
1882 TV cop shows
Ah, that old classic, Ye Olde Bylle.
News articles stating why he's on the list are certainly not relavent. Information on List 99 is only for the purposes of Enhanced checks with the Disclosure and Barring Service, only performed when you apply for a job where you will be in frequent, unsupervised contact with minors. I have such a check performed because of where I work.
There's no reason for the lay public to know who's on the list, though, because there are other regulations for public interactions, e.g. restraining orders, other impositions on living / frequenting places within X yards of a school etc. The only, only reason you would have to disagree with the details of someone, who has paid for their crime via the criminal justice system, to not having their details removed is because you believe they haven't suffered enough. Well, tough; The courts decided they've done their time, and now they're free to do as they please. They may be on List 99, they may not; If they are, they will fail to get employment anywhere near children, and that IMHO is enough. If this guy was really such a menace to society, he'd still be segragated from it.
There. I stuck up for the rights of a deviant. Let the hate commence.
I almost modded you down, but realised I just disagree with your opinion.
What do you think your suggestion would achieve? What point are you trying to make?
Convicted, imprisoned, released, and now a free man (still on List 99, most likely, so can never work with children or vulnerable adults). Or do you think that a person should continue to pay for past transgressions indefinitely? If so, I hope you're nowhere near the law making institutions of the UK.
You know nothing of the situation; Maybe he created images, maybe he just posessed images, maybe they were thumbnails in his webcache from visiting 4chan on a bad day, maybe he was sent them anonymously in an email and reported them to the police who then said "Posession, in fact just viewing, these images is a crime. You're nicked mate."
Oh, you say that things are almost never black and white? Say it ain't so, gov!
Ever seen a microwave oven with the words "CHAOS defrost" written on it?
Your microwave outputs at a standard rate; A percentage of the full 1.1KW output for the time you have specified. Microwaves work by exciting water to boiling point extremely quickly, and in that absorbing the microwave energy. You put your pie in for two minutes straight and the outside of the food will be utterly ruined, having absorbed the entire X/1100 you threw at it. Leaving the pie to cool in between allows the food around the bit that's just heated to reach equilibrium; It heats up while the microwave isn't on, just by drawing away (sorry, physics types) the energy from the water that was just heated.
CHAOS defrost gets around this problem by switching the output of the microwave during the cycle, down to allow the outside to cool a little, then back up to keep the process continuing.
The pastry turns to rubber because it's been boiled dry by the microwave; You've dumped the whole of the cooking cycle into the very outside of the pie in a very short time. Leaving it to cool for 5 minutes allows that heat to warm the middle, getting you a better result.
This is one of those posts that deserves +6.
An Anon Coward, too. Bravo.
Perhaps cost per gigabyte wasn't the right term (I'm not a certified cost accountant! :) ) "Price per gigabyte" is maybe a better way to put it. It's not relating to the cost of provoding the service, it's just how they charge out you accessing the service.
Either way, everyone pays for their service on a per gigabyte basis until you reach consumer ISPs, at which point they oversell their service in order to make access available to the general public. You can get 40Mb downstream sometimes because it's shared between maybe 20 people on your circuit. The caveat is that you're not all supposed to use it at once; This is how it's always been, they've just been underhanded in telling you that.
The alternative is leased lines. 44Mb (T3) costs up to $15000 pcm (yup, fifteen thousand), so I don't think we actually get a bad deal when we can get 40Mb for 90% of the day for approximately 1/200 the price of the equivalent leaased line.
Cohen is actually talking about data transferred, rather than stored (as headline originally had it)
I didn't even have to read the stub to know that storage wasn't right. It doesn't make sense for an ISP (data transfer) to be talking about storing data.
I can' understand a missing comma a greengrocer's apostrophe, or or a duplicated word, but that title was fundamentally wrong on a techncial level. I'd definitely expect someone to pick that up during editing.
It's not arbitrary; Everyone north of Tier 1 providers pay per gigabyte of data they transfer over Tier 1 backbones. T1 don't pay each other because they agree to transfer each other's data without charging ("Peering agreements"). Paying per gigabyte is how the internet actually works; The speed is limited only by the hardware.
But the limit is still the quantity, not the speed at which it gets to you. A 300GB/month bandwidth cap would be 925Kb/s; You cannot transfer more than 300GB per month at that speed, it is physically impossible. 925*60(seconds)*60(minutes)*24(hours)*30(days) = ~300,000,000KB aka 300GB.
A transfer cap is whatever speed you can get, and 300GB is all you will have. You could well saturate your 925Kb line for the month, or you could saturate your 4Mb line for a week, or your 80Mb line for 8 hours.
This isn't about limiting the speed of your connection, only the quantity of bits you can receive. It's a transfer cap, and the post title has been amended to reflect that now.
2. Mandate that they are able to accommodate ALL the bandwidth they sell at any time.
We already have this. Go look up leasing a T3 connection for your home; Guaranteed 44Mb line. Expect to pay several thousand dollars per month.
Your home broadband connection is oversold, and that's fine. That's why it's cheap, and it is very cheap. The problem is that they didn't tell you that that was how it was, and instead sold you on "up to $Mb download speed". Now that there are services that will actually saturate your 20Mb line 24/7 (bittorrent, netflix, whatever) the connections are congested. It's like putting all of the cars on the motorway at once; Nobody will get anywhere.
If the model was shifted to paying for the data you use regardless of your line speed, at least it would be fair; You get what you pay for, no more, no less. I watch netflix, I download ISOs and games on Steam, and I rarely hit north of 150GB in a month. This scheme seems fine to me. Then again, I'm looking at this through the rose-tinted glasses of a consumer, not a greedy corporate sociopath. I'm sure they'll have us bent over again soon enough.
Bandwidth, in networking, is a measure of the amount of data transfered per time unit. The Comcast exec is predicting a transfer cap, i.e. a maximum quantity of data.
You're right, though; Neither are "storage". Whoever titled the post is a moron.
And today as a seasoned professional
When did you get your degree? If it was before the end of the last academic year, you're not the people we're talking about.
CS degrees now are worthless because they're all sorting algorithms from 1986, web design, and a smattering of actual computer science. It's an arts degree, ffs! Sure, you can probably find BSc's which include some math modules, but mostly it's been gutted into more specialised subjects.
Your CS degree is not the CS degree of today. The problem is the employers of the world haven't caught up yet.
Disband and reform? "The IEFT was compromised. We are the same people as before, minus the NSA employee. Let's get this done right." seems like a good press release.
I always say, It it's created by humans then it can be cracked.
Yeah, but can it be easily cracked, or cracked within the time frame that the information is still useful? If a criminal can MITM my internet banking and get all of my savings, that is A Bad Thing. In 2006 we could crack Enigma in 4 days with then-modern home PC hardware and an optimised brute force routine. That is absolutely fine; The people who benefited from its use are mostly dead, the war is over, there's no need for the security anymore. In fact, Enigma was so good that almost all of the successful cracks were based on operator error; Enigma was unbreakable at the time when operated correctly.
Just because something can be cracked doesn't mean it's not fit for purpose.
(I don't mind my internet running a little slower so someone can get their MRI transmitted faster)
Thin.
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