I'm glad I'm not the only one doing this. I also do those things you mention but now I've upgraded to my new digital flush SSH enabled toilet and toilet paper dispenser. No longer do I worry about my shit being seen unencrypted.
Whether it's OpenSSL or Windows APIs hackers are looking at every possible vector to attack systems. To be honest with ourselves, the software engineering community has to realize that security must be given the same priority as any other code quality metric. While we may not be able to test for every possible vector there should be a standard set of vulnerability tests that every organization should be able to test for before releasing code. Likewise regression tests need to be exercised prior to any subsequent release of the system. I also think that software engineers need to be more objective with themselves and to think more along the lines of how their frameworks/systems could be attacked. Of course that's never going to solve the insider problem as far as attack vectors are concerned but it should go a long way in addressing these kinds of problems.
investment banks deal in all types of risk, if you invest in the products they sell you can expect loss to zero to some return; it comes with the territory. MTGOX was considered a safe haven for Bitcoin, a bank but unlike a bank there was no regulation to insure that fraud didn't occur and that the deposits would have some sort of insurance against loss, whether by overt or inadvertent acts. Instead, insiders of MTGOX stole Bitcoins it gets that's fraudulent activity. People entrusted these digital assets and the caretakers stole them. In large part it wasn't a third party stealing them, a hacker, it was an inside job.
Talk about overstating the obvious. You can't leave work anymore. Every boss or company problem invades you digitally. Whether it's an e-mail or a text message you're always on the clock and expected in most cases to be available. This used to be true for tech workers but it's now anybody.
yeah and red light cameras have become a joke in terms of actually getting at the root cause of the problem: bad driving habits and being rude fucks. All the reasons you mention are because people don't give a fuck about anything else other than their own car and where they have to be. Citing them for a $75 ticket that doesn't go on any record is no deterrent because in most states these tickets are just revenue generators.
I worked in one of those spaces, but I was 16 and it was in a drafting room as a summer job and it was in the 70s. It didn't work then either. Why? Because we had one noisy fuck who was the senior draftsman who constantly whistled. The fucker did it deliberately but nobody would ask him to keep it down. That's why we had breaks about every hour instead of twice a day and also I think why a lot of my co-workers smoked.
We all know that the end goal is to shove as many people into an area as possible. Office designers have foisted this belief on companies who really don't care very much about employee productivity as they do about overall G&A (General and Administrative) costs. Employee workspaces are G&A and companies look bad when G&A is too high. Never mind the fact that the CEO is making 50 to 100 times his average workers salary, G&A is bad so let's cram as many folks into the existing space as possible. More people in less space = more productive. Which of course is total bullshit. The reason it doesn't work is because of these reasons:
Personal Devices. Smart phones, Cell phones all disrupt the worker and everybody around them.
Noisy fuckers. These are the ones who take a company phone call or any activity and amplify their voice to 11 in order to sound more important
Stinky Eaters/Eaters all the time/Snackers. We've all had the guy who put the fish in the microwave, enough said
Colds/Viruses. Not only do more cramped conditions increase the chances of your workers having a {Cold, Flu, Other} epidemic the sneezing, sniffling, blowing noses, coughing all disrupt everybody around.
Creep Factor. Whether it be nosy co-workers or the guy or gal checking out the office hottie people can feel uncomfortable with lechers watching what they're doing. Rule of thumb, don't watch youporn at work.
Cramming people into small places has been proven to fail. See: Airline filghts
Of course we can wear headphones and get privacy screens for our computers but while we're social we also need personal space.
there is compressor stall. and the FAA does have air worthyness directives to cover specifically A320/321 aircraft regarding problems with compressor stall. Until they recover the flight data and cockpit voice recorders all of the information being put out there is speculative.
Drunk Drivers are a big problem but it's a bigger problem that we have people who are Distracted by X where X is Cell Phone calls, Texting, kids in the car or something else or people driving impaired by lack of rest. I don't see how this legislation will solve those problems which are more prevalent and just as deadly.
Well it is him and it's not him. He baited religious folks on social media and there were ramifications for it. Whether or not he was understood isn't the point. The point is you either believe in your convictions and your right to express them or you fold by catering to the whims of people who don't agree with you. In this case he folded "ohh I have to explain that maybe other people have birthdays that are on Dec 25 and that some are famous." Blah. Shame on the retards who have no grasp on that concept.
we've raised at least two generations of self obsessed, no attention-span kids who want instant gratification. Retards like Justin Bieber who today tweets that he bought a new plane. As the later generations grow into the workforce and into fields like journalism, history and computer science it's no small wonder they want to reduce everything down to one liners or soundbites. Pick your field because these kids started with censored cartoons and wound up with Sponge Bob. Shit, even the news is now brokered into short paragraphs that just say "this shit happened now onto the next.."
Screw that! Yeah I'm getting older so get the fuck off my lawn!
We need to have more accurate methods. I suggest a social media app that leverages the best of Google earth and then uses observations to track where Santa is. The updates could then be used to predict speed and direction in order to predict where Santa will appear next. Now for a catchy name. I propose Santa's Annual Tracking Announcement Network or SATAN for short. I will get the Kickstarter rolling.
Pfft yeah, I'm really worried. The one good thing about having episodes like Sony's hack is the fact that forensically they can be studied by the experts and the exploits eventually fixed. That'll put the SOBs like VUPEN out of business and we'll all be able to get on with our lives. As for critical infrastructure, again why aren't there air gaps between control systems and the Internet? That's fucking stupid and if any utility, pipeline operator or other critical infrastructure provider (FAA et al.) is compromised then whoever decided that was a good idea should be taken to the Mall in DC and put in the Stocks for about six weeks. The only thing I ask is that I have the rotten tomato concession.
Give it a couple of years and if the market is big enough somebody will come up with a refill method, just like printer cartridges. I just hope they don't confuse ink with sanitizer though.
Yeah, I think the Patent Lawyers win again, at least whoever wrote up the patent application and submitted it for them. Rule #2 of Econ 101, Lawyers always get paid.
don't remind me. I had to get rid of two cokes I bought at a place next to my gate at Shipol in October. I bought them so I'd have something for the flight. Talk about retarded security! People think the TSA can be bad but try a bunch of no-nothing subcontractors overseas trying to interpret the latest panic directives.
At Hartsfield (ATL) there was a display of items people have tried to bring onto planes. It includes lawnmowers, chainsaws, gas cans and all kinds of stuff. I don't know if it's still there or not but it was mind blowing.
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I'm glad I'm not the only one doing this. I also do those things you mention but now I've upgraded to my new digital flush SSH enabled toilet and toilet paper dispenser. No longer do I worry about my shit being seen unencrypted.
Whether it's OpenSSL or Windows APIs hackers are looking at every possible vector to attack systems. To be honest with ourselves, the software engineering community has to realize that security must be given the same priority as any other code quality metric. While we may not be able to test for every possible vector there should be a standard set of vulnerability tests that every organization should be able to test for before releasing code. Likewise regression tests need to be exercised prior to any subsequent release of the system. I also think that software engineers need to be more objective with themselves and to think more along the lines of how their frameworks/systems could be attacked. Of course that's never going to solve the insider problem as far as attack vectors are concerned but it should go a long way in addressing these kinds of problems.
investment banks deal in all types of risk, if you invest in the products they sell you can expect loss to zero to some return; it comes with the territory. MTGOX was considered a safe haven for Bitcoin, a bank but unlike a bank there was no regulation to insure that fraud didn't occur and that the deposits would have some sort of insurance against loss, whether by overt or inadvertent acts. Instead, insiders of MTGOX stole Bitcoins it gets that's fraudulent activity. People entrusted these digital assets and the caretakers stole them. In large part it wasn't a third party stealing them, a hacker, it was an inside job.
it's not hacking if you're on the inside and you own the playing field. It's still theft albeit of digital bits.
Talk about overstating the obvious. You can't leave work anymore. Every boss or company problem invades you digitally. Whether it's an e-mail or a text message you're always on the clock and expected in most cases to be available. This used to be true for tech workers but it's now anybody.
yeah and red light cameras have become a joke in terms of actually getting at the root cause of the problem: bad driving habits and being rude fucks. All the reasons you mention are because people don't give a fuck about anything else other than their own car and where they have to be. Citing them for a $75 ticket that doesn't go on any record is no deterrent because in most states these tickets are just revenue generators.
I worked in one of those spaces, but I was 16 and it was in a drafting room as a summer job and it was in the 70s. It didn't work then either. Why? Because we had one noisy fuck who was the senior draftsman who constantly whistled. The fucker did it deliberately but nobody would ask him to keep it down. That's why we had breaks about every hour instead of twice a day and also I think why a lot of my co-workers smoked.
We all know that the end goal is to shove as many people into an area as possible. Office designers have foisted this belief on companies who really don't care very much about employee productivity as they do about overall G&A (General and Administrative) costs. Employee workspaces are G&A and companies look bad when G&A is too high. Never mind the fact that the CEO is making 50 to 100 times his average workers salary, G&A is bad so let's cram as many folks into the existing space as possible. More people in less space = more productive. Which of course is total bullshit. The reason it doesn't work is because of these reasons:
Of course we can wear headphones and get privacy screens for our computers but while we're social we also need personal space.
there is compressor stall. and the FAA does have air worthyness directives to cover specifically A320/321 aircraft regarding problems with compressor stall. Until they recover the flight data and cockpit voice recorders all of the information being put out there is speculative.
Drunk Drivers are a big problem but it's a bigger problem that we have people who are Distracted by X where X is Cell Phone calls, Texting, kids in the car or something else or people driving impaired by lack of rest. I don't see how this legislation will solve those problems which are more prevalent and just as deadly.
Well it is him and it's not him. He baited religious folks on social media and there were ramifications for it. Whether or not he was understood isn't the point. The point is you either believe in your convictions and your right to express them or you fold by catering to the whims of people who don't agree with you. In this case he folded "ohh I have to explain that maybe other people have birthdays that are on Dec 25 and that some are famous." Blah. Shame on the retards who have no grasp on that concept.
with all the brown ones removed.
The brown ones are naked!
we've raised at least two generations of self obsessed, no attention-span kids who want instant gratification. Retards like Justin Bieber who today tweets that he bought a new plane. As the later generations grow into the workforce and into fields like journalism, history and computer science it's no small wonder they want to reduce everything down to one liners or soundbites. Pick your field because these kids started with censored cartoons and wound up with Sponge Bob. Shit, even the news is now brokered into short paragraphs that just say "this shit happened now onto the next.."
Screw that! Yeah I'm getting older so get the fuck off my lawn!
We need to have more accurate methods. I suggest a social media app that leverages the best of Google earth and then uses observations to track where Santa is. The updates could then be used to predict speed and direction in order to predict where Santa will appear next. Now for a catchy name. I propose Santa's Annual Tracking Announcement Network or SATAN for short. I will get the Kickstarter rolling.
10 years for version 1.0? Really?
Bert the Turtle has a plan! https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Why was I thinking Hamster Dance when I read this?
It's nice to see somebody trying to do something without big pharma trying to rape us for billions in R&D for anything it seems nowadays.
Pfft yeah, I'm really worried. The one good thing about having episodes like Sony's hack is the fact that forensically they can be studied by the experts and the exploits eventually fixed. That'll put the SOBs like VUPEN out of business and we'll all be able to get on with our lives. As for critical infrastructure, again why aren't there air gaps between control systems and the Internet? That's fucking stupid and if any utility, pipeline operator or other critical infrastructure provider (FAA et al.) is compromised then whoever decided that was a good idea should be taken to the Mall in DC and put in the Stocks for about six weeks. The only thing I ask is that I have the rotten tomato concession.
Maybe Verizon finally disconnected Kim's FIOS?
Give it a couple of years and if the market is big enough somebody will come up with a refill method, just like printer cartridges. I just hope they don't confuse ink with sanitizer though.
Yeah, I think the Patent Lawyers win again, at least whoever wrote up the patent application and submitted it for them. Rule #2 of Econ 101, Lawyers always get paid.
Beer usually creates more problems than it solves.
don't remind me. I had to get rid of two cokes I bought at a place next to my gate at Shipol in October. I bought them so I'd have something for the flight. Talk about retarded security! People think the TSA can be bad but try a bunch of no-nothing subcontractors overseas trying to interpret the latest panic directives.
At Hartsfield (ATL) there was a display of items people have tried to bring onto planes. It includes lawnmowers, chainsaws, gas cans and all kinds of stuff. I don't know if it's still there or not but it was mind blowing.