The Internet domain name registry CentralNic who commissioned the study, claims that the most common type of password attack comes in the form of "social engineering", when a cracker poses as technical support, and contacts someone in a different department within a big corporation claiming that there is a network problem, and asks for the user's password.
Another option is to pretend to be doing a study of such things, and ask thousands of companies for their user's passwords.
Scum. This is for people with an IQ over 10. Get out of our discussion. Go tan your neck.
This is my first sig, what do you think?
You're new here, aren't you? And your first sig pretty much sucks. HTH. HAND!
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Don't be silly. Ground forces are vital to any armed conflict, for reasons too numerous and obvious for me to detail here. Besides, Great Britain already tried to commit to a "missiles-only" military (and failed). But I'm sure your implementation is far superior to whatever feeble plan those silly Brits came up with.
My guess is that this sort of global "one ID everywhere" solution only makes sense (and money) when you have a large, locked-in user base.
Microsoft probably hopes to integrate, MSN, Hotmail, Explorer,.NET, and Subscription Licenses under one monolithic service umbrella, with global access to "everything you could ever want or need" provided by Passport.
The open source community doesn't have anything like this because of the prohibitive costs of trying to integrate too many disparate - and often competing - services under one centralized authentication solution.
Actually, this is explained by Masamune Shirow in his notes for the manga (upon which the movie is based).
According to Shirow, the typist in that scene belonged to an older generation that reached maturity before the advent of reliable commercial direct-to-brain electronic interfaces.
As a result, he was typically uncomfortable with the idea of some "newfangled cyber-doctor" shoving wires into his brain, but was willing to accept older and more proven surgery on his hands to radically increase his data input rate.
On a side note, Shirow is generally pretty obsessive about documenting the technical concepts in his work. He often includes fairly large appendices containing a wealth of background philosophical, mystical, and technical information - most of it apparently to justify the "look and feel" of his characters and equipment.
Shirow regularly acknowledges the maintenance costs of high-tech solutions, and suggests that this is the main challenge facing gov't and military purchasers when selecing new hardware.
Well duh. Of course pride in what you do is pointless when you have no control. The fact is, it's possible to work for a large company and have control over your work. I enjoy this experience every day.
That's why it's good to preserve your own interests by changing the things you can. What part of "I'm actively looking for a better job" do you not understand?
The article characterizes all South Koreans as game-obsessed nutjobs, drawn into this fantasy as the product of some cultural flaw.
Actually, the article characterizes the South Koreans who are game-obsessed nutjobs as game obsessed nutjobs. It stays pretty solidly on-topic, and has very little to say about the 95% of South Koreans who are not game-obsessed nutjobs.
"Hey, somebody is saying that our national culture has some flaws! Oh no! How offensive! Everybody knows that only Americans have bad culture!"
Government code should be public domain, not placed under a restrictive license like the GPL.
That's funny. I thought the main point of the GPL was to ensure that the code - in this case the Government code that you refer to above - would continue to be in the public domain, in perpetuity. By being less restrictive, the BSD license allows Government code to be taken out of the public domain.
It sounds like you are saying "government code should be freely available to begin with, then it should be co-opted by the private sector and made proprietary".
What the GPL generally says is "GPL code should be freely availble always, even when it is being used by the private sector".
Do you see the difference here?
True, but part of the money you pay is to carry your access provider's costs of transmitting spam. If there was no spam, your access to the entire internet would probably be cheaper.
If you don't agree with how your provider goes about fighting spam, then don't do business with them.
Just like how ISPs can shoose not to carry traffic from other providers.
Whether or not above.net, macromedia, and you are making the right business decisions is being determined in the market, moment by moment, precisely how it should be - by evaluating the proven profitability of those business decisions.
We would have ended up with much cooler stuff if we had invested those enourmous sums of money into other areas. Instead of spending money going to the moon, we could have spent the same money on semiconductor research in the 1960's and 1970's and have jumpstarted the computer industry by 10 years.
You seem to be assuming two things:
1. There are insuffcient resources to engage in both space exploration and semiconductor research with any degree of success.
2. That desireable avenues of research and exploration are trivial to identify and commit to.
Re 1: History suggests that this is not true. Generally, resource shortages have always been due more to bad resource management than a true scarcity of resources. We could conceivably have both "successful" space exploration and "successful" semiconducto research - at the same time.
Re 2: Isn't it a little anachronistic to demand that your predecessors have the same desires and goals as yourself? Just because you would have chosen semiconductor research over space exploration in the 60s and 70s - if you knew then what you know now - this doesn't mean they should have made the same choice. In fact, it looks like everybody - the goverment, the populace, the scientists, &c. - wanted space exploration. So that's the direction they went in.
Your argument is like saying the ancient Egyptians should have researched Existentialism instead of Pyramids, or that the ancient Greeks should have come up with a polio vaccine instead of the Socratic Method.
Your criteria for evaluating the prior achievements of a society are underspecified.
Collecting the same kind of information for all the BBSes around the world sounds like a pretty big job. I don't think the guy can be blamed if he's not interested in taking it on.
Where does it say that he's not interested in taking it on? If you RTF post that michael put up, you will see almost instantly that "Jason Scott" has a bigass list of BBS's, and he's hoping people will help him add to it, in an effort to build a list of "every BBS there ever was".
Nowhere does it say anything about the project being U.S.-centric.
Seriously, I'd rather the idiots just stick to moderating, please.
Main Entry: spade
Pronunciation: 'spAd
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English, from Old English spadu; akin to Greek spathE blade of a sword or oar
Date: before 12th century 1 : a digging implement adapted for being pushed into the ground with the foot 2 : a spade-shaped instrument
I'd say we're pretty clear on what a "spade" is, dude.
I'm a sysadmin, I'm salaried, and I'm on call 24/7/365 (not counting vacation time). My job consists of two major functions: 1) work on projects, and 2) be available at any time to fix my projects when the engineers break them.
What does this mean? It means I put it a good 30-40 hours a week in the office, going to meetings, working on my projects, &c. It also means I have a pager and a cell phone, and I must respond to them at any time - even if I'm not able to do the work, I still need to be available to monitor progress, coordinate effort, and provide status reports to the higher-ups.
In exchange for this, I am paid a sizeable annual salary and enjoy excellent benefits. I don't really have a problem with this arrangement.
[I] think there will be a bit of 'uh... who should do it?' for awhile.
What's more likely is that each agency scrambled to put together a political argument in favor of getting authority over this new jurisdiction, and with it, more funding and recognition. The FBI may be with winner, with a fait accompli and attendant media circus.
Ingenious, but not ingeneous enough. The FAT table is a limited resource, and his solution uses up more of that resource than the original file. It's still not a valid compression - not to mention the fact that it's totally unportable anyway. Other OS's won't even concede this marginal point. ..
"Today's payslip has more deductions than a Sherlock Holmes novel."
Technically, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle never wrote any Sherlock Holmes novels. The Hound of the Baskervilles (and some other stories) might be considered novellas, though.
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Actually, the real goal of NASA is to get to Alpha Centauri before the Zulus do.
The Internet domain name registry CentralNic who commissioned the study, claims that the most common type of password attack comes in the form of "social engineering", when a cracker poses as technical support, and contacts someone in a different department within a big corporation claiming that there is a network problem, and asks for the user's password.
Another option is to pretend to be doing a study of such things, and ask thousands of companies for their user's passwords.
Scum. This is for people with an IQ over 10. Get out of our discussion. Go tan your neck.
This is my first sig, what do you think?
You're new here, aren't you? And your first sig pretty much sucks. HTH. HAND!
Don't be silly. Ground forces are vital to any armed conflict, for reasons too numerous and obvious for me to detail here. Besides, Great Britain already tried to commit to a "missiles-only" military (and failed). But I'm sure your implementation is far superior to whatever feeble plan those silly Brits came up with.
My guess is that this sort of global "one ID everywhere" solution only makes sense (and money) when you have a large, locked-in user base.
Microsoft probably hopes to integrate, MSN, Hotmail, Explorer, .NET, and Subscription Licenses under one monolithic service umbrella, with global access to "everything you could ever want or need" provided by Passport.
The open source community doesn't have anything like this because of the prohibitive costs of trying to integrate too many disparate - and often competing - services under one centralized authentication solution.
More importantly, where are the NSA guidelines for making it secure?
Actually, this is explained by Masamune Shirow in his notes for the manga (upon which the movie is based).
According to Shirow, the typist in that scene belonged to an older generation that reached maturity before the advent of reliable commercial direct-to-brain electronic interfaces.
As a result, he was typically uncomfortable with the idea of some "newfangled cyber-doctor" shoving wires into his brain, but was willing to accept older and more proven surgery on his hands to radically increase his data input rate.
On a side note, Shirow is generally pretty obsessive about documenting the technical concepts in his work. He often includes fairly large appendices containing a wealth of background philosophical, mystical, and technical information - most of it apparently to justify the "look and feel" of his characters and equipment.
Shirow regularly acknowledges the maintenance costs of high-tech solutions, and suggests that this is the main challenge facing gov't and military purchasers when selecing new hardware.
That's why it's good to preserve your own interests by changing the things you can. What part of "I'm actively looking for a better job" do you not understand?
The article characterizes all South Koreans as game-obsessed nutjobs, drawn into this fantasy as the product of some cultural flaw.
Actually, the article characterizes the South Koreans who are game-obsessed nutjobs as game obsessed nutjobs. It stays pretty solidly on-topic, and has very little to say about the 95% of South Koreans who are not game-obsessed nutjobs.
"Hey, somebody is saying that our national culture has some flaws! Oh no! How offensive! Everybody knows that only Americans have bad culture!"
Too easy!
If [I] were Jelly Plants
which had a cancerous infestation of GPLed software
I'm not sure I would want Amazon to sell my personal information.
How's that?
That's funny, I always thought "notorious spacetime crackpots" would be a great name for a band.
Government code should be public domain, not placed under a restrictive license like the GPL.
That's funny. I thought the main point of the GPL was to ensure that the code - in this case the Government code that you refer to above - would continue to be in the public domain, in perpetuity. By being less restrictive, the BSD license allows Government code to be taken out of the public domain. It sounds like you are saying "government code should be freely available to begin with, then it should be co-opted by the private sector and made proprietary". What the GPL generally says is "GPL code should be freely availble always, even when it is being used by the private sector". Do you see the difference here?
Clearly, we should build a mega-university in Ohio, and store the waste beneath the sewer system.
True, but part of the money you pay is to carry your access provider's costs of transmitting spam. If there was no spam, your access to the entire internet would probably be cheaper.
If you don't agree with how your provider goes about fighting spam, then don't do business with them.
Just like how ISPs can shoose not to carry traffic from other providers.
Whether or not above.net, macromedia, and you are making the right business decisions is being determined in the market, moment by moment, precisely how it should be - by evaluating the proven profitability of those business decisions.
If anything these these sites need to band together to put a stop to the abuse foisted upon them.
Or do what I've been suggesting for months now: band together and start their own ad network, under their own control.
We're doing an unscheduled major code realease to our website today. I think this qualifies as a "crisis week".
We would have ended up with much cooler stuff if we had invested those enourmous sums of money into other areas. Instead of spending money going to the moon, we could have spent the same money on semiconductor research in the 1960's and 1970's and have jumpstarted the computer industry by 10 years.
You seem to be assuming two things:
1. There are insuffcient resources to engage in both space exploration and semiconductor research with any degree of success.
2. That desireable avenues of research and exploration are trivial to identify and commit to.
Re 1: History suggests that this is not true. Generally, resource shortages have always been due more to bad resource management than a true scarcity of resources. We could conceivably have both "successful" space exploration and "successful" semiconducto research - at the same time.
Re 2: Isn't it a little anachronistic to demand that your predecessors have the same desires and goals as yourself? Just because you would have chosen semiconductor research over space exploration in the 60s and 70s - if you knew then what you know now - this doesn't mean they should have made the same choice. In fact, it looks like everybody - the goverment, the populace, the scientists, &c. - wanted space exploration. So that's the direction they went in.
Your argument is like saying the ancient Egyptians should have researched Existentialism instead of Pyramids, or that the ancient Greeks should have come up with a polio vaccine instead of the Socratic Method.
Your criteria for evaluating the prior achievements of a society are underspecified.
Of course, Weber was discussing the implications of the already existing "Calvinist" viewpoint, wasn't he?
and your point is ...?
Ah. No point, really. Just observing that "Calvinism" didn't originate with Weber, who was something of a Johnny-come-lately to the whole PWE thing.
Do you feel better, now?
Collecting the same kind of information for all the BBSes around the world sounds like a pretty big job. I don't think the guy can be blamed if he's not interested in taking it on.
Where does it say that he's not interested in taking it on? If you RTF post that michael put up, you will see almost instantly that "Jason Scott" has a bigass list of BBS's, and he's hoping people will help him add to it, in an effort to build a list of "every BBS there ever was".
Nowhere does it say anything about the project being U.S.-centric.
Seriously, I'd rather the idiots just stick to moderating, please.
As for Calvinism, a funny little man named Max Weber advanced an argument along that line some years ago ...
Of course, Weber was discussing the implications of the already existing "Calvinist" viewpoint, wasn't he?
We don't even know what a spade *is*.
From Merriam-Webster Online:
Main Entry: spade
Pronunciation: 'spAd
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English, from Old English spadu; akin to Greek spathE blade of a sword or oar
Date: before 12th century
1 : a digging implement adapted for being pushed into the ground with the foot
2 : a spade-shaped instrument
I'd say we're pretty clear on what a "spade" is, dude.
Sucks to be you, dude.
I'm a sysadmin, I'm salaried, and I'm on call 24/7/365 (not counting vacation time). My job consists of two major functions: 1) work on projects, and 2) be available at any time to fix my projects when the engineers break them.
What does this mean? It means I put it a good 30-40 hours a week in the office, going to meetings, working on my projects, &c. It also means I have a pager and a cell phone, and I must respond to them at any time - even if I'm not able to do the work, I still need to be available to monitor progress, coordinate effort, and provide status reports to the higher-ups.
In exchange for this, I am paid a sizeable annual salary and enjoy excellent benefits. I don't really have a problem with this arrangement.
[I] think there will be a bit of 'uh... who should do it?' for awhile.
What's more likely is that each agency scrambled to put together a political argument in favor of getting authority over this new jurisdiction, and with it, more funding and recognition. The FBI may be with winner, with a fait accompli and attendant media circus.
Ingenious, but not ingeneous enough. The FAT table is a limited resource, and his solution uses up more of that resource than the original file. It's still not a valid compression - not to mention the fact that it's totally unportable anyway. Other OS's won't even concede this marginal point. . .
"Today's payslip has more deductions than a Sherlock Holmes novel."
Technically, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle never wrote any Sherlock Holmes novels. The Hound of the Baskervilles (and some other stories) might be considered novellas, though.