I'll bet it persists in Vista, 7, 8 and 8.1 or it's prodigy would exhibit the problem. I just looked over the patch Tuesday fixes from this week and there's no mention of anything for SVCHOST however there is a nice memory leak that's been around for a long time in oleaut32.dll. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2870467
I guess they don't take advantage of static or runtime analysis tools at MSFT.
Agreed, it's not just tech companies. I've seen where quite a few verticals have agreed with their peers not to poach which ultimately drives down wages. These kinds of agreements including non-compete employee contracts need to be abolished once and for all. I was hit one time by being offered a position at another company only to find out that they had a no-poach agreement with the company I was working for. It would have been a nice bump in salary too. About six months after that incident I left anyway for another opportunity.
Well I'd agree with part of that but the planners are the biggest issue and you're right they've been derelict in the past few decades. If they're not going to adequately plan for growth, then stop the growth or target into areas where investments can be made to improve the quality of life, not put it in jeopardy. Planning highway jobs without any buffer room costs people lives, but that's part of the plan too and they fully expect it.
Here you have somebody indicating that they use simulations to determine if lanes should be closed. The root cause is that there doesn't have to be a reason for the various transportation departments to close roads or lanes. In this case we all know this was political retribution but how many of the incessant lane closures on bridges and highways are just because of incompetence? We've been dealing with an ARRA funded road project for the past 5 years and they close lanes, redirect traffic, block access without any rhyme or reason. Fortunately it's close to being finished now but for the past 5 years it's been hell for people who have to travel in that area (airport). All this happening while on the other side of town they decide to blow up another interstate corridor not more than 5 years after disrupting the same corridor. These aren't about political retribution, these are about overly ambitious projects run by idiots who think that their simulation software takes into account a car with a flat tire blocking a lane because there's on emergency area, causing a backup for miles and putting people's lives at risk.
Well I think you're making a few assumptions here. Frankly we have a dysfunctional nation and that's the biggest problem. People are myopic in that their own self interests are what matters and screw everybody else. When the kid has problems in school the first place parents point to is the school, not themselves. Why? They're too absorbed in their own lives most of the time to not take enough interest to find out what their child is or should be doing in school and helping them out. Sure there's kids that are slower at learning some things vs. others but they can all benefit from some extra help. Charter Schools / Magnet Schools or however they're called do little to fix that situation. Coupled with increased violence and drug situations on school campuses everywhere, we're now expecting our educators in most cases to be prison wardens, locking the kids in and worrying about that vs. the three Rs. This creates a serious problem both in terms of educating our kids and also attracting the best people to the profession. Would you want to work in a profession where your pay is latched yet you're expected to make sure the kids in your charge learn what you teach, are kept safe from all kinds of harm that has nothing to do with teaching and to deal with self-absorbed parents and administrators who blame you constantly because "Johnny can't read." Education is critical, no question but we have to get through to the folks who either can't support their kids adequately with whatever means necessary. That also means educating them on what their own strengths are and capabilities in handling kids. Some parents aren't good at it at all and they need some education in bringing their kids up in a balanced environment. That doesn't mean endless hours in front of TV or Video Games, but maybe some honest reading and reading with your kids.
Anti-Virus, printers and hardware devices. A lot of folks who upgraded from Windows 7 found a lot of problems with 8 and once stable 8.1 threw out a new slew of issues including the embedding of.net 4.5 with a myriad of feature issues associated with it. It wasn't smooth from 7 to 8 nor from 8 to 8.1, not by a long shot. Sometimes "Compatibility Mode" just doesn't work.
Well hopefully they'll learn not to lock out 3rd party ISVs like they did with 8.1. It was amazing to see how many stable and respected vendors who were once courted by MSFT were pushed out. The whole Technet change from last year also has created a lot of doubt as to how inclusive MSFT intends to be especially when it comes to O/S changes in the future.
Oh joy a new set of incompatibilities and endless upgrades and updates await. Windows 8 broke a lot of desktop apps and 8.1 did the same, especially in the AV camp. Let's hope 9 at least maintains backward compatibility for app users otherwise it's more pain than it'll be worth.
You know what makes kids want to learn? An environment where they can learn and feel successful in doing it. That means they need to be safe, well fed and have a nurturing home environment that allows them to grow. Nowadays we expect too much out of the public school system. We want the teachers and administrators to deal with all the other issues in our kids lives and not just teach them. If you add that to the low wages, teachers unions, school boards and tightening budgets its amazing that some school districts can keep the doors open. The parents need to step up in their own kids lives and make a difference by helping the schools help their kids. It's the only way they'll be successful.
When considering fissionable materials they better get their destructive testing planning right the first time. I don't think they'll get another chance to repeat it. Much like the NASA/FAA crashing the Boeing 707 (720) in 1984 to anti-misting agent in the fuel.. Unfortunately the plane didn't land as they had planned but ultimately it showed that the anti-misting agent didn't work but because of smoke, they estimated that only about 23%-25% of the 113 passengers would have survived.
As a result of analysis of the crash, the FAA instituted new flammability standards for seat cushions which required the use of fire-blocking layers, resulting in seats which performed better than those in the test. It also implemented a standard requiring floor proximity lighting to be mechanically fastened, due to the apparent detachment of two types of adhesive-fastened emergency lights during the impact. Federal aviation regulations for flight data recorder sampling rates for pitch, roll and acceleration were found to be insufficient.
So out of a somewhat failed test good things were learned. So let's hope these guys learn something rather than irradiating more of Japan unnecessarily.
Alas.. nobody remembers the Gargantua movie as well as the ToHo Frankenstein movie. Those were much better than any of the Godzilla flicks. We have monsters eating humans, when did Godzilla or any of his other frenemies do that?!?
there's not a programmer worth $1m/year we can get them from China and India and instead pay them $30,000/year and get over 3000 of them which of course means we'll need 300 middle managers/ 30 directors etc. It's all about hiring in government projects regardless of where the "jobs" actually are that way when it comes to election time we can point back and say "we put over 3000 people to work..."
When the politicians in the same government start bailing on a project and start to point fingers at each other, it's only a short amount of time thereafter that you'll see resignations and folks trying to distance themselves from the coming disaster. It's that rat instinct we all have and this project sounds like it'll completely blow up here shortly.
With the abundance of older operating systems out there, I think browser code and general websites will still be hampered for quite sometime. For Yahoo and others that means the lowest common denominator needs to be supported for quite sometime. If you're rolling out your own website and can control those variables then certainly you can enforce TLS 1.2 with ciphers that are much stronger than RC4. If you can't control the client side in terms of minimum support that unfortunately means TLS 1.0 and RC4 if you want your website accessible by those old systems like XP, Vista etc. I don't think that the rest of us who have upgraded to Windows 7/8 or Linux shouldn't be left insecure however just because lowest common denominators have to be supported. Another point to remember is that TLS 1.2 has just rolled out within the last year or so in both Chrome and Firefox and Microsoft on the client side hasn't supported it until Windows 7 and IE 9; that means that site providers who want to reach the broadest spectrum of clients will have to shift support to the older, less secure protocols or lock people out of their website. I don't see Yahoo or Google doing that anytime soon. In fact, I just checked my connection with Yahoo and with Chrome 32.0.1700 it shows AES_256_CBC, on Firefox 26 it's using Camella 256... but both are using TLS 1.0. On Google with Chrome, AES_256_CBC with TLS 1.2 (woohoo!) but on Firefox 26 it's AES_128_CBC bit keys with TLS 1.1 even though I have AES_256 enabled... So that's something the Firefox folks will need to look into. FYI, in Firefox using about:config you can disable RC4 which is also how I configure the protocols and also set security.tls.version.max=3 to enable TLS 1.2 support for Firefox 25 and newer.
If you want to check what a website supports you can use the openssl client connect command with the appropriate switch. For example:
openssl s_client -connect mail.yahoo.com:443 -tls1_2 will attempt to connect to the yahoo mail service using only TLSv1.2 you can use -tls1_1 for obviously tlsv1.1, -tls1 for 1.0 etc. mail.yahoo.com doesn't support TLSv1.1 or TLSv1.2 but does support 1.0..
Uhm, but the Comstock Lode in now what's Virginia City, NV did make a lot of people rich. Also California has a lot of other resources to be sure, too bad it's lost its magic. I can say that to since I'm an expatriate born and raised in So Cal. It's a nice place to visit but I no longer want to go there.
I have a Son who's a Marine and the stuff he tells me about training cancellations and guys becoming retired early from service has me worried. You can't replace the experience of senior leadership with new recruits and the incessant bullshit from congress and micro-managing the military budgets via the sequester isn't a way to protect the nation. The sequester came about as everybody will recall because both parties couldn't agree on how to reign in spending even though you had a bi-partisan effort in the Simpson-Bowles plan.
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I'll bet it persists in Vista, 7, 8 and 8.1 or it's prodigy would exhibit the problem. I just looked over the patch Tuesday fixes from this week and there's no mention of anything for SVCHOST however there is a nice memory leak that's been around for a long time in oleaut32.dll. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2870467
I guess they don't take advantage of static or runtime analysis tools at MSFT.
Hey they had to come up with the Sebelius Sneeze didn't they?
Citation here?
Agreed, it's not just tech companies. I've seen where quite a few verticals have agreed with their peers not to poach which ultimately drives down wages. These kinds of agreements including non-compete employee contracts need to be abolished once and for all. I was hit one time by being offered a position at another company only to find out that they had a no-poach agreement with the company I was working for. It would have been a nice bump in salary too. About six months after that incident I left anyway for another opportunity.
Well I'd agree with part of that but the planners are the biggest issue and you're right they've been derelict in the past few decades. If they're not going to adequately plan for growth, then stop the growth or target into areas where investments can be made to improve the quality of life, not put it in jeopardy. Planning highway jobs without any buffer room costs people lives, but that's part of the plan too and they fully expect it.
I'd rather have it in bitcoins please.
Here you have somebody indicating that they use simulations to determine if lanes should be closed. The root cause is that there doesn't have to be a reason for the various transportation departments to close roads or lanes. In this case we all know this was political retribution but how many of the incessant lane closures on bridges and highways are just because of incompetence? We've been dealing with an ARRA funded road project for the past 5 years and they close lanes, redirect traffic, block access without any rhyme or reason. Fortunately it's close to being finished now but for the past 5 years it's been hell for people who have to travel in that area (airport). All this happening while on the other side of town they decide to blow up another interstate corridor not more than 5 years after disrupting the same corridor. These aren't about political retribution, these are about overly ambitious projects run by idiots who think that their simulation software takes into account a car with a flat tire blocking a lane because there's on emergency area, causing a backup for miles and putting people's lives at risk.
Definitely. It's great software and hopefully it'll stay that way.
Well I think you're making a few assumptions here. Frankly we have a dysfunctional nation and that's the biggest problem. People are myopic in that their own self interests are what matters and screw everybody else. When the kid has problems in school the first place parents point to is the school, not themselves. Why? They're too absorbed in their own lives most of the time to not take enough interest to find out what their child is or should be doing in school and helping them out. Sure there's kids that are slower at learning some things vs. others but they can all benefit from some extra help. Charter Schools / Magnet Schools or however they're called do little to fix that situation. Coupled with increased violence and drug situations on school campuses everywhere, we're now expecting our educators in most cases to be prison wardens, locking the kids in and worrying about that vs. the three Rs. This creates a serious problem both in terms of educating our kids and also attracting the best people to the profession. Would you want to work in a profession where your pay is latched yet you're expected to make sure the kids in your charge learn what you teach, are kept safe from all kinds of harm that has nothing to do with teaching and to deal with self-absorbed parents and administrators who blame you constantly because "Johnny can't read." Education is critical, no question but we have to get through to the folks who either can't support their kids adequately with whatever means necessary. That also means educating them on what their own strengths are and capabilities in handling kids. Some parents aren't good at it at all and they need some education in bringing their kids up in a balanced environment. That doesn't mean endless hours in front of TV or Video Games, but maybe some honest reading and reading with your kids.
Anti-Virus, printers and hardware devices. A lot of folks who upgraded from Windows 7 found a lot of problems with 8 and once stable 8.1 threw out a new slew of issues including the embedding of .net 4.5 with a myriad of feature issues associated with it. It wasn't smooth from 7 to 8 nor from 8 to 8.1, not by a long shot. Sometimes "Compatibility Mode" just doesn't work.
Well hopefully they'll learn not to lock out 3rd party ISVs like they did with 8.1. It was amazing to see how many stable and respected vendors who were once courted by MSFT were pushed out. The whole Technet change from last year also has created a lot of doubt as to how inclusive MSFT intends to be especially when it comes to O/S changes in the future.
Oh joy a new set of incompatibilities and endless upgrades and updates await. Windows 8 broke a lot of desktop apps and 8.1 did the same, especially in the AV camp. Let's hope 9 at least maintains backward compatibility for app users otherwise it's more pain than it'll be worth.
You know what makes kids want to learn? An environment where they can learn and feel successful in doing it. That means they need to be safe, well fed and have a nurturing home environment that allows them to grow. Nowadays we expect too much out of the public school system. We want the teachers and administrators to deal with all the other issues in our kids lives and not just teach them. If you add that to the low wages, teachers unions, school boards and tightening budgets its amazing that some school districts can keep the doors open. The parents need to step up in their own kids lives and make a difference by helping the schools help their kids. It's the only way they'll be successful.
Yeah, that won't work for example: Hushmail folded like a house of cards.
When considering fissionable materials they better get their destructive testing planning right the first time. I don't think they'll get another chance to repeat it. Much like the NASA/FAA crashing the Boeing 707 (720) in 1984 to anti-misting agent in the fuel.. Unfortunately the plane didn't land as they had planned but ultimately it showed that the anti-misting agent didn't work but because of smoke, they estimated that only about 23%-25% of the 113 passengers would have survived.
As a result of analysis of the crash, the FAA instituted new flammability standards for seat cushions which required the use of fire-blocking layers, resulting in seats which performed better than those in the test. It also implemented a standard requiring floor proximity lighting to be mechanically fastened, due to the apparent detachment of two types of adhesive-fastened emergency lights during the impact. Federal aviation regulations for flight data recorder sampling rates for pitch, roll and acceleration were found to be insufficient.
So out of a somewhat failed test good things were learned. So let's hope these guys learn something rather than irradiating more of Japan unnecessarily.
Alas.. nobody remembers the Gargantua movie as well as the ToHo Frankenstein movie. Those were much better than any of the Godzilla flicks. We have monsters eating humans, when did Godzilla or any of his other frenemies do that?!?
cousin of Alter?
there's not a programmer worth $1m/year we can get them from China and India and instead pay them $30,000/year and get over 3000 of them which of course means we'll need 300 middle managers/ 30 directors etc. It's all about hiring in government projects regardless of where the "jobs" actually are that way when it comes to election time we can point back and say "we put over 3000 people to work..."
When the politicians in the same government start bailing on a project and start to point fingers at each other, it's only a short amount of time thereafter that you'll see resignations and folks trying to distance themselves from the coming disaster. It's that rat instinct we all have and this project sounds like it'll completely blow up here shortly.
With the abundance of older operating systems out there, I think browser code and general websites will still be hampered for quite sometime. For Yahoo and others that means the lowest common denominator needs to be supported for quite sometime. If you're rolling out your own website and can control those variables then certainly you can enforce TLS 1.2 with ciphers that are much stronger than RC4. If you can't control the client side in terms of minimum support that unfortunately means TLS 1.0 and RC4 if you want your website accessible by those old systems like XP, Vista etc. I don't think that the rest of us who have upgraded to Windows 7/8 or Linux shouldn't be left insecure however just because lowest common denominators have to be supported. Another point to remember is that TLS 1.2 has just rolled out within the last year or so in both Chrome and Firefox and Microsoft on the client side hasn't supported it until Windows 7 and IE 9; that means that site providers who want to reach the broadest spectrum of clients will have to shift support to the older, less secure protocols or lock people out of their website. I don't see Yahoo or Google doing that anytime soon. In fact, I just checked my connection with Yahoo and with Chrome 32.0.1700 it shows AES_256_CBC, on Firefox 26 it's using Camella 256... but both are using TLS 1.0. On Google with Chrome, AES_256_CBC with TLS 1.2 (woohoo!) but on Firefox 26 it's AES_128_CBC bit keys with TLS 1.1 even though I have AES_256 enabled... So that's something the Firefox folks will need to look into. FYI, in Firefox using about:config you can disable RC4 which is also how I configure the protocols and also set security.tls.version.max=3 to enable TLS 1.2 support for Firefox 25 and newer.
If you want to check what a website supports you can use the openssl client connect command with the appropriate switch. For example:
openssl s_client -connect mail.yahoo.com:443 -tls1_2 will attempt to connect to the yahoo mail service using only TLSv1.2 you can use -tls1_1 for obviously tlsv1.1, -tls1 for 1.0 etc. mail.yahoo.com doesn't support TLSv1.1 or TLSv1.2 but does support 1.0..
What is keeping Yahoo up? /quote?
Viagra or Cialis?
How Jackie Collins sells so many books? She uses too many verbs? I thought it was about the overly dripping romance themes that women seem to like?!?!
Uhm, but the Comstock Lode in now what's Virginia City, NV did make a lot of people rich. Also California has a lot of other resources to be sure, too bad it's lost its magic. I can say that to since I'm an expatriate born and raised in So Cal. It's a nice place to visit but I no longer want to go there.
If the bus is going in the wrong direction, slash the tires and damn the consequences i say.
Can't we just burn the bus down? That way we can be sure the bus never goes that way again.
I have a Son who's a Marine and the stuff he tells me about training cancellations and guys becoming retired early from service has me worried. You can't replace the experience of senior leadership with new recruits and the incessant bullshit from congress and micro-managing the military budgets via the sequester isn't a way to protect the nation. The sequester came about as everybody will recall because both parties couldn't agree on how to reign in spending even though you had a bi-partisan effort in the Simpson-Bowles plan.