"PS: El AL, Israel's national airline, hasn't had an airplane incident in decades. Yes, that's the airline of the country that has suicide bombers
flocking to it on a weekly basis. How much of your rights does El Al security take into account when securing airplanes for liftoff? Don't know?
I'll give you a small clue: it curtails your rights, oh gee, a little more than somewhat"
Yes, and if I wanted to feel safer and was willing to risk my privacy and rights for that security, I'd move to Israel.
I haven't moved to Israel and I am unwilling to trade "security" for my fundamental rights. You are? Good. Move to a dictatorship.
Some have observed that the level of committment this would require of humanity would be like nothing ever seen before, and which would
require devotion that has historically only been commanded by religious quests.
Fortunately, there's a "religion" with the right kind of funding to do so!
Who would ever think something good would come out of Scientology?:>
This machine will not cut the mustard in those areas - it's just too damn slow.
I have to disagree. I work for a government research center who is still running some Indys and Challenge S series machines for some applications. The scientists there are worried less about speed, typically, and more about stability and function.
Speed is good, but increased function is even more important, and above all else it had better NOT crash on day 13 of a 14 day modeling operation.
I can honestly see the need for them to keep the code under BSD style licensing. The code is still available for all to see and audit, but to release it without restriction would immediately see big companies making profit off the hard work of volunteer developers.
No one wants someone else to stand by, yawn, and then profit from their sweat and tears.
Not true. I run Solaris 8 x/86, and it's a beautiful, wonderful thing. I ran it as a server for over a year on my home DSL line. In that year on pacbells' network, I saw thousands of attempts to compromise the box, via scripts for windows and linux alike.
Its unpopularity is beautiful -- no one scripts for Solaris 8 intel. I'm going to miss it a lot.
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Best buy is not legally allowed to check your bag against your recipt if you refuse to allow them, by the way. Legally speaking, after you leave the register, everything in your bag is yours, and if they honestly want you searched, they must detain you and call the police to do the search.
Seriously, how can you believe that the $7 an hour clerk at best buy has the authority to do "guilty until proven innocent" searches on everyone in the store, routinely?
Block all known VPN clients. These were sucking up tremendous amounts of bandwidth, since we are in a rural area and many people liked to telecommute using our service.
---------(SNIP)
Er.. "telecommute using OUR service" = "People buy service from us and like to use it to telecommute. Sorry, but I'm not drying those virtual tears of yours. If I purchase DSL or Cable from my neighborhood provider, I intend to use the service I've purchased.
How can you seriously be bothered by the fact that your users have the *audacity* to actually use the service they've purchased to do work?
I've known it for a long time, but the events of the WTC, and now this, are continually proving it for me.
FOX News is one of the most sensational, "check the facts later if anyone bothers to call us on our imaginative story" news agencies to ever hit the books. It wasn't 5 minutes that the first building hit the ground before FOX news had conclusive proof that Bin Laden did it.
Of course, they blamed Oklahoma City on him too, and look what happened.
Holy crap, man! How insecure federal government computers, along with AOL and other huge companies, have shown to be! It almost makes me think that it's *difficult* to completely secure an entire/8 subnet when you have tens of thousands of employees responsible for different pieces of it.
My guess is, they may have hacked into a few desktops running winders, but getting into shell.int.us.mil is still relatively difficult.
Right now, the laws in this country have you by six degrees of separation. If anyone is determined enough, they can convict you and throw you away for life based on laws that reference laws that reference laws. . .
This is a perfect example. Decrypting DVDs under the DMCA is circumvention. Circumvention is hacking. Hacking is now terrorism.
Crack a copy of your new CD so you can have burned copies in your car instead of the originals (in case they get stolen), and you are now a terrorist.
It installs a backdoor which listens for incoming connections on UDP port 5503 or higher, and allows remote attackers to connect to, and take control of, an infected system.
Unless it also reconfigures my firewall to allow incoming traffic to port 5503 and higher and fiddles with my hosts.allow file, I'm not particularly concerned. Anyone who fails to have more than one layer of precaution on their system has a bit more to worry about.
"I'll just send a "server down for maintainence" message and walk right through their front door".
Ha! That's where your fatal flaw will get you nailed in 10 minutes. NASA doesn't take servers down for maintainence at all! That's why they still run SunOS 4.1.
Keep thinking like a logical tech, man, and you'll never break into their level.:>
I wonder if the drop in Apache market share has anything to do with people getting Win2k and mistakenly installing IIS on it. I seem to be getting about 810 requests per week from infected IIS Servers, prolly from people who are clueless.
"We did, Ma'am. Look, we're sewing little orange jumpsuits, and contracting out their prison terms to a company owned by Disney! Kids love Disney, right?" ------------------------------------------------ --
There's a small red button at the top right of most model Nokia and Motorola phones that allows you to opt out of being tracked while you drive. Theres' no way you can be tracked, or issued a speeding ticket based on that data if you use it!
Just place your cell phone on the passenger seat and press the red button that says 'Power'. ---------------------------------------- ----------
The internet is cashless. Therefore, to pay for content, you have to use a credit card or check of some sort. So, to pay for online content, the person providing the content needs your address, home phone, and all other info that comes with your payment method.
If I paid for all the content I view on the internet, a) I'd STILL be broke with how much content I view, and b) I'd be in thousands more marketing databases, receiving thousands more SPAM mails from hundreds more companies who ask you to pay for their product and then turn around and supplement their income more by selling your info.
No thanks; I'll just keep my CC info to myself. ----------------------------------------- ---------
Users, generally, have too many passwords to remember. And no one wants to subscribe to MS Passport. Writing down the password, as well, is equally foolish.
However, to be a good SysAdmin, you really need to try to find SOME way for your users to have both a secure password, and one the can remember. (OR you'll be resetting it constantly).
I advise my users to think of a sentence to use as a mnemonic device, and make their password off that. ie, "My Sysadmin Has Too Many Piercings Today" - their PW would be mshtmp2d. I know, it's not as good as, say, "54kaSgHJ3", but most crack programs will take a hell of a long time on a NICE computer to break it, and the users feel more comfortable with it.
Really, the point is to make the password not easily guessable, not write it down, but easy for the user to remember. --------------------------------------- -----------
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There's still a mainframe market?
"PS: El AL, Israel's national airline, hasn't had an airplane incident in decades. Yes, that's the airline of the country that has suicide bombers
flocking to it on a weekly basis. How much of your rights does El Al security take into account when securing airplanes for liftoff? Don't know?
I'll give you a small clue: it curtails your rights, oh gee, a little more than somewhat"
Yes, and if I wanted to feel safer and was willing to risk my privacy and rights for that security, I'd move to Israel.
I haven't moved to Israel and I am unwilling to trade "security" for my fundamental rights. You are? Good. Move to a dictatorship.
Some have observed that the level of committment this would require of humanity would be like nothing ever seen before, and which would
:>
require devotion that has historically only been commanded by religious quests.
Fortunately, there's a "religion" with the right kind of funding to do so!
Who would ever think something good would come out of Scientology?
This machine will not cut the mustard in those areas - it's just too damn slow.
I have to disagree. I work for a government research center who is still running some Indys and Challenge S series machines for some applications. The scientists there are worried less about speed, typically, and more about stability and function.
Speed is good, but increased function is even more important, and above all else it had better NOT crash on day 13 of a 14 day modeling operation.
In the book "Microserfs", by Douglas Coupland, the writer muses (This was, by the way, in about 1993):
"Someday life will be nothing more than jail and shopping."
'Nuff said.
Uh. Your logic is whack. People are downloading more than they are uploading
Logically, if one person is downloading then another person (peer to peer) is uploading.
How do people download more than upload?
I can honestly see the need for them to keep the code under BSD style licensing. The code is still available for all to see and audit, but to release it without restriction would immediately see big companies making profit off the hard work of volunteer developers.
No one wants someone else to stand by, yawn, and then profit from their sweat and tears.
Not true. I run Solaris 8 x/86, and it's a beautiful, wonderful thing. I ran it as a server for over a year on my home DSL line. In that year on pacbells' network, I saw thousands of attempts to compromise the box, via scripts for windows and linux alike.
Its unpopularity is beautiful -- no one scripts for Solaris 8 intel. I'm going to miss it a lot.
Best buy is not legally allowed to check your bag against your recipt if you refuse to allow them, by the way. Legally speaking, after you leave the register, everything in your bag is yours, and if they honestly want you searched, they must detain you and call the police to do the search.
Seriously, how can you believe that the $7 an hour clerk at best buy has the authority to do "guilty until proven innocent" searches on everyone in the store, routinely?
---------(SNIP)
Block all known VPN clients. These were sucking up tremendous amounts of bandwidth, since we are in a rural area and many people liked to telecommute using our service.
---------(SNIP)
Er.. "telecommute using OUR service" = "People buy service from us and like to use it to telecommute. Sorry, but I'm not drying those virtual tears of yours. If I purchase DSL or Cable from my neighborhood provider, I intend to use the service I've purchased.
How can you seriously be bothered by the fact that your users have the *audacity* to actually use the service they've purchased to do work?
telnet server.foo.com 80
/GET file-to-have-your-advice.
Connected to server.foo.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
/HTTP
You're telling me.
I got into the sysadmin business because I couldn't make a decent living firefighting, or as a Paramedic. Not in the bay area.
I've known it for a long time, but the events of the WTC, and now this, are continually proving it for me.
FOX News is one of the most sensational, "check the facts later if anyone bothers to call us on our imaginative story" news agencies to ever hit the books. It wasn't 5 minutes that the first building hit the ground before FOX news had conclusive proof that Bin Laden did it.
Of course, they blamed Oklahoma City on him too, and look what happened.
For gods' sake, stay away from them.
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Holy crap, man! How insecure federal government computers, along with AOL and other huge companies, have shown to be! It almost makes me think that it's *difficult* to completely secure an entire /8 subnet when you have tens of thousands of employees responsible for different pieces of it.
My guess is, they may have hacked into a few desktops running winders, but getting into shell.int.us.mil is still relatively difficult.
Right now, the laws in this country have you by six degrees of separation. If anyone is determined enough, they can convict you and throw you away for life based on laws that reference laws that reference laws. . .
This is a perfect example. Decrypting DVDs under the DMCA is circumvention. Circumvention is hacking. Hacking is now terrorism.
Crack a copy of your new CD so you can have burned copies in your car instead of the originals (in case they get stolen), and you are now a terrorist.
April, 1942:
The civil liberties of thousands of Japanese American citizens were restricted during wartime. Later, this was called an atrocity.
To any senators or congressmen listening:
Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
It installs a backdoor which listens for incoming connections on UDP port 5503 or higher, and allows remote attackers to connect to, and take control of, an infected system.
Unless it also reconfigures my firewall to allow incoming traffic to port 5503 and higher and fiddles with my hosts.allow file, I'm not particularly concerned. Anyone who fails to have more than one layer of precaution on their system has a bit more to worry about.
they will have transporters, but they won't be trusted because they randomly kill people
:>
Cool! Just like the Muni buses in San Francisco.
"I'll just send a "server down for maintainence" message and walk right through their front door".
:>
Ha! That's where your fatal flaw will get you nailed in 10 minutes. NASA doesn't take servers down for maintainence at all! That's why they still run SunOS 4.1.
Keep thinking like a logical tech, man, and you'll never break into their level.
I wonder if the drop in Apache market share has anything to do with people getting Win2k and mistakenly installing IIS on it. I seem to be getting about 810 requests per week from infected IIS Servers, prolly from people who are clueless.
"Won't someone please think of the children?"
- --
"We did, Ma'am. Look, we're sewing little orange jumpsuits, and contracting out their prison terms to a company owned by Disney! Kids love Disney, right?"
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There's a small red button at the top right of most model Nokia and Motorola phones that allows you to opt out of being tracked while you drive. Theres' no way you can be tracked, or issued a speeding ticket based on that data if you use it!
- ----------
Just place your cell phone on the passenger seat and press the red button that says 'Power'.
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The internet is cashless. Therefore, to pay for content, you have to use a credit card or check of some sort. So, to pay for online content, the person providing the content needs your address, home phone, and all other info that comes with your payment method.
- ---------
If I paid for all the content I view on the internet, a) I'd STILL be broke with how much content I view, and b) I'd be in thousands more marketing databases, receiving thousands more SPAM mails from hundreds more companies who ask you to pay for their product and then turn around and supplement their income more by selling your info.
No thanks; I'll just keep my CC info to myself.
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Users, generally, have too many passwords to remember. And no one wants to subscribe to MS Passport. Writing down the password, as well, is equally foolish.
- -----------
However, to be a good SysAdmin, you really need to try to find SOME way for your users to have both a secure password, and one the can remember. (OR you'll be resetting it constantly).
I advise my users to think of a sentence to use as a mnemonic device, and make their password off that. ie, "My Sysadmin Has Too Many Piercings Today" - their PW would be mshtmp2d. I know, it's not as good as, say, "54kaSgHJ3", but most crack programs will take a hell of a long time on a NICE computer to break it, and the users feel more comfortable with it.
Really, the point is to make the password not easily guessable, not write it down, but easy for the user to remember.
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I don't see you making as much of an effort to tap into your neighbour's cellular phone conversations though.
:P- ----
And a damn good thing you don't see me doing it, too. Otherwise you'd jump our fence and smack the shit out of me.
By the way, dude... cut the calls to 'Mistress Cleo'. She's a fake.
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