It's funny, you don't get the point of the sealing tab. The contents of the container are under less pressure than the surrounding atmosphere. The tab itself doesn't serve as a tamper proof seal, it serves as a tamper evident seal. In other words if someone breaks the integrity of the seal the contents are no longer under less pressure. Generally speaking the covering will be domed inwards, if not, return the product. Same thing for jar tops that have a dimple and go pop. Building tamper-proof containers is hard (since we fundamentally want to let people into them), but tamper evident containers are a reasonably secure alternative (the consumer just has to pay attention a little bit).
Or you can find/create a job that allows you to express who you are. I like to take things apart and learn how they work and mess with them, so information security is a pretty much perfect match for that tendency of mine.
Why not make it easy for me to try out a demo and upgrade to the full version, I can pay $20 up front, or play an extended demo and play to the end of the demo (say halfway through the full thing, or with weapons/skills/whatever only in the full version) and pony up $20. But make it easy, like literally hit a key combo in game that launches my default browser to the right URL, payment should take ~10 seconds or less, and then the game goes legit (automatically or in some very easy manner). Literally make it as easy as buying a cup of coffee (probably one reason so many people buy cups of coffee =). It shouldn't interrupt the game for more than 60 seconds to upgrade. I suspect if there were games with this system they'd sell relatively well.
If you are a technology company offering cloud computing than that is by definition your core competency, to completely outsource it is a pretty much guaranteed path to implosion, as there is no real point for your company existing. Look at what happened to manufacturing in America, it all went to China, and now the Chinese are figuring out they can make their own brand names (or simply buy American ones like Lenovo/Thinkpad) and cut out the middle man marketing/sales/etc and do it themselves.
Submarine patent is an informal term for a patent first published and granted long after the initial application was filed. In analogy to a submarine, its presence is unknown to the public; it stays under water, i.e., unpublished, for long periods, then emerges, i.e., granted and published, and surprises the relevant market. This practice was possible previously under the United States patent law, and is now not practical with present patent filings since the U.S. signed the TRIPS agreement of the WTO: since 1995, patent terms (20 years in the U.S.) are measured from the original filing or priority date, and not the date of issuance. A few potential submarine patents may result from pre-1995 filings that have yet to be granted and may remain unpublished until issuance. Submarine patents are considered by many as a procedural lache (a delay in enforcing one's rights, which may cause the rights to be lost).
(Relatively) simple then, you have multiple systems, they vote on an answer, if someone is out they get voted off the island, you have another system with a different implementation also check to make sure they answer is sensible. Granted this is hideously expensive and probably only suitable for really expensive things like the space shuttle it is possible.
Yes but if _one_ NIC can bring the entire system down what other single failures in a component could bring the entire system down? Obviously the system with the malfunctioning NIC can do any number of things that may result in a similar failure mode. Or what happens if the network switch it is attached to fails (I assume they use multiple paths... but if one nic can nuke it all, imagine if a switch went bonkers).
Actually you don't own your property in the truest sense of the word (yes technically I acknowledge that you own and possibly have possession of it). Ultimately the government owns your land. Just stop paying the land or property taxes and this point will be made abundantly clear. Now if a copyright holder had to pay a yearly fee based on the value (either intrinsic, or perhaps market or realized, something along those lines) of the work in question to keep the copyright I'd be a lot more supportive of copyright laws.
There has been a long, ongoing debate about this issue, and recently it has resurfaced in public. Should companies hire hackers convicted of computer crimes? The general theory is that these "hackers" are elite commando style computer security experts that can tighten up your network in a weekend marathon of pizza and pop. Often nothing is further from the truth.
The first concern I would have is: are these people really any good at computer security? Now this may sound like a rather silly question, but it bears asking. The most obvious clue would be that they have been caught and convicted of a computer related crime. If they are such great "hackers" why did they get caught? Kevin Mitnick, a very famous hacker, was caught several times, and spent time in jail. Most hackers possess very little actual skill. They simply follow in the footsteps of others. It is very easy to download precompiled exploit scripts from sites such as rootshell and then use them to break into systems. Even assuming for a moment that this person has any advanced computer security skills related to breaking into networks, this does not mean they have the skills needed to secure networks. It is one thing to find a weakness and exploit it, but it is an entirely different matter to fix it properly.
Securing a network takes a lot more then plugging a few technical holes. Even if I were to walk into your network and fix every single existing problem, it would not make your network secure. Security is a procedure with many steps, assessment, definition of needs, planning, implementation, review, and so forth, which amounts to a never ending cycle. Even if you hire a brilliant hacker that secures you against all known attacks, new problems will crop up. Even if your hacker has these qualities, their ethics are extremely questionable. There is a famous saying among lawyers: "never put a perjurer on the stand", which boils down to "if you know he's lied before, chances are, he might do it again". How can you trust your newly hired hacker not to slip backdoors into the system that they might later exploit. While it is true that any trusted employee might try to do something like this it certainly seems silly to put yourself in a higher risk category.
A company has a fiduciary responsibility to stockholders. They are entrusted with their stockholders' money and are expected to make decisions that will increase it without unnecessary risk. Engaging in high risk behavior means legal liability. For example, would it be reasonable to sue the corporation for not taking proper care and responsibility in hiring someone they know to have offended before? Considering the position of trust most security administrators are placed in (they have administrative access to servers, monitor users' network usage, read incoming and outgoing e-mail and so on) is it really wise to hire these people? A person with administrative access to a server, or physical access to the network can break into systems and leave backdoors with nary a trace. Would you expect a bank to hire criminals convicted of armed robbery to transport money on the grounds they know what to look out for? Would you hire a burglar to install the alarm system for your house?
While it would be nice if all criminals that got caught were rehabilitated, used their skills for good rather than evil, and never offended again, this is not a perfect world. By breaking the law, for whatever reason (curiosity, maliciousness, etc.) they have chosen to violate rules generally accepted in most countries and societies. They have (at a bare minimum) shown poor decision making, and while they may not specifically want to re-offend, they may be tempted by a short term gain and take a chance (as they have in past).
Summary
While it is possible to find a convicted hacker with the skills you want, it is exceedingly ra
Or simply increase the cost of energy so people stop wasting it on things like air conditioning (having experienced the bone chilling level most US offices and houses are cooled to it's no wonder to me that power usage is so high). Here's a hint: 72 all the time is simply ridiculous.
Generally speaking we hold the people with guns and the ability to arrest other people to a higher standard. Here's a hint: we should probably hold the system up to it's own rules. If it cannot be internally consistent what is the point? We may as well let them disappear people without habeus corpus... perhaps you see where this is headed?
Yup. On the other hand if a site has well placed ads that are relevant chances are it'll work better and annoy users less. I reserve the right to control what I see/spend my time on. I also respect that a site may wish to block people who block ads, but I haven't run into that yet.
I probably would have looked her in the eye, and then cranked the door open. Look startled as it hits her car, and try again. Then look at her, look at the car door, and try it once more. I love rental cars and 0 deductibles.
A server farm is a terrible idea, first you got to schlep all the stuff up there, build infrastructure and (drum roll please) cool it. Cool it into what though? There's no atmosphere. So you need to build a radiator farm, but when you're facing the sun good luck radiating all that heat away. Much saner to leave the server farms on planet earth. About the only thing that makes sense is mining it for the deuterium on the surface and using it as a launch base for interplanetary stuff (no atmosphere +less gravity = much better, plus you could fire stuff using a rail gun.
How can consumers be so bloody stupid? They have two clear examples of perfectly good product being killed in less than 5 years by DRM so they had to buy it again. And yet they are letting governments and the entertainment industry stick it to them and even contemplate prison and unreasonable fines for trying to avoid being screwed.
It wasn't a perfectly good product. Far from it. Overpriced, to much hassle, and then the cherry on top, not only did the companies decide to stop selling it, but because of the nature of the product everything you had spent went up in a puff of smoke.
I wonder if this is a less than subtle way of the FCC executing a power grab, first establish censoring on a free network, then start moving it to the current networks (although this would not be needed if the enough people use this as their "last mile", you just look at their traffic there).
Uhmm no. You can access it via IMAP or POP which makes it pretty trivial to suck everything out (basically limited to bandwidth speed). Scripting this with a few lines of your favorite scripting language wouldn't exactly be rocket science (connect to IMAP-SSL port, login, for i in * do download $i, done). This is one reason I moved all my stuff ot GMail, they are relatively easy to bail out on (suck out your email, change MX records, done).
What about the right to vote and universal suffrage? That's pretty recent (like 50 years in the US). What about the right to life liberty and so on, again pretty recent in the US (slavery and segregation didn't end until all that recently).
Insightful is deserved. Or own the desktop at home, will drag Linux into the enterprise. Something RedHat and Novell have missed completely. If they continue to do so, many might just drag in Ubuntu... I would and will.
If anything, they should put out a home distro cheap and capitalize on Vista's shortcomings.
Let me know when you get Ubuntu hardware certified and supported with someone like Dell, HP, IBM, Sun, etc. Oh and certified and supported software like
Red Hat Software Catalog Browse by Company. Until then Red Hat is probably going to stay on top.
That's an incredibly victimizing viewpoint to hold. Only I have suffered, and thus only I can truly understand how truly terrible war is! Get over yourself. You might want to stop martyring and put the cross down someday. My advice: seek help from a competent therapist who specializes in emotional trauma and PTSD.
I agree they are often abused/misused but a lot of it just makes sense and is honestly "best practices". Backups. Least privilege. Audit logs. Separate of privileges. This is all stuff that industries like banking figured out ages ago and (in large part) directly applies to what we do. I agree 100% that before applying anything you should be pretty damn clear on the why/benefit/requirement/whatever it is that drives the show. It's a lot like health or dieting, eat less, eat more stuff that is actual food, and get some damn exercise. this isn't rocket science. Granted it may need some tailoring on an individual basis but the fundamentals hold true most of the time.
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It's funny, you don't get the point of the sealing tab. The contents of the container are under less pressure than the surrounding atmosphere. The tab itself doesn't serve as a tamper proof seal, it serves as a tamper evident seal. In other words if someone breaks the integrity of the seal the contents are no longer under less pressure. Generally speaking the covering will be domed inwards, if not, return the product. Same thing for jar tops that have a dimple and go pop. Building tamper-proof containers is hard (since we fundamentally want to let people into them), but tamper evident containers are a reasonably secure alternative (the consumer just has to pay attention a little bit).
Or you can find/create a job that allows you to express who you are. I like to take things apart and learn how they work and mess with them, so information security is a pretty much perfect match for that tendency of mine.
Why not make it easy for me to try out a demo and upgrade to the full version, I can pay $20 up front, or play an extended demo and play to the end of the demo (say halfway through the full thing, or with weapons/skills/whatever only in the full version) and pony up $20. But make it easy, like literally hit a key combo in game that launches my default browser to the right URL, payment should take ~10 seconds or less, and then the game goes legit (automatically or in some very easy manner). Literally make it as easy as buying a cup of coffee (probably one reason so many people buy cups of coffee =). It shouldn't interrupt the game for more than 60 seconds to upgrade. I suspect if there were games with this system they'd sell relatively well.
If you are a technology company offering cloud computing than that is by definition your core competency, to completely outsource it is a pretty much guaranteed path to implosion, as there is no real point for your company existing. Look at what happened to manufacturing in America, it all went to China, and now the Chinese are figuring out they can make their own brand names (or simply buy American ones like Lenovo/Thinkpad) and cut out the middle man marketing/sales/etc and do it themselves.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submarine_patent.
Submarine patent is an informal term for a patent first published and granted long after the initial application was filed. In analogy to a submarine, its presence is unknown to the public; it stays under water, i.e., unpublished, for long periods, then emerges, i.e., granted and published, and surprises the relevant market. This practice was possible previously under the United States patent law, and is now not practical with present patent filings since the U.S. signed the TRIPS agreement of the WTO: since 1995, patent terms (20 years in the U.S.) are measured from the original filing or priority date, and not the date of issuance. A few potential submarine patents may result from pre-1995 filings that have yet to be granted and may remain unpublished until issuance. Submarine patents are considered by many as a procedural lache (a delay in enforcing one's rights, which may cause the rights to be lost).
How Open Source Projects Survive Poisonous People (And You Can Too)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4216011961522818645.
(Relatively) simple then, you have multiple systems, they vote on an answer, if someone is out they get voted off the island, you have another system with a different implementation also check to make sure they answer is sensible. Granted this is hideously expensive and probably only suitable for really expensive things like the space shuttle it is possible.
Yes but if _one_ NIC can bring the entire system down what other single failures in a component could bring the entire system down? Obviously the system with the malfunctioning NIC can do any number of things that may result in a similar failure mode. Or what happens if the network switch it is attached to fails (I assume they use multiple paths... but if one nic can nuke it all, imagine if a switch went bonkers).
Actually you don't own your property in the truest sense of the word (yes technically I acknowledge that you own and possibly have possession of it). Ultimately the government owns your land. Just stop paying the land or property taxes and this point will be made abundantly clear. Now if a copyright holder had to pay a yearly fee based on the value (either intrinsic, or perhaps market or realized, something along those lines) of the work in question to keep the copyright I'd be a lot more supportive of copyright laws.
Like I wrote back in 2001 Hiring hackers - why it might not be a good idea
There has been a long, ongoing debate about this issue, and recently it has resurfaced in public. Should companies hire hackers convicted of computer crimes? The general theory is that these "hackers" are elite commando style computer security experts that can tighten up your network in a weekend marathon of pizza and pop. Often nothing is further from the truth.
The first concern I would have is: are these people really any good at computer security? Now this may sound like a rather silly question, but it bears asking. The most obvious clue would be that they have been caught and convicted of a computer related crime. If they are such great "hackers" why did they get caught? Kevin Mitnick, a very famous hacker, was caught several times, and spent time in jail. Most hackers possess very little actual skill. They simply follow in the footsteps of others. It is very easy to download precompiled exploit scripts from sites such as rootshell and then use them to break into systems. Even assuming for a moment that this person has any advanced computer security skills related to breaking into networks, this does not mean they have the skills needed to secure networks. It is one thing to find a weakness and exploit it, but it is an entirely different matter to fix it properly.
Securing a network takes a lot more then plugging a few technical holes. Even if I were to walk into your network and fix every single existing problem, it would not make your network secure. Security is a procedure with many steps, assessment, definition of needs, planning, implementation, review, and so forth, which amounts to a never ending cycle. Even if you hire a brilliant hacker that secures you against all known attacks, new problems will crop up. Even if your hacker has these qualities, their ethics are extremely questionable. There is a famous saying among lawyers: "never put a perjurer on the stand", which boils down to "if you know he's lied before, chances are, he might do it again". How can you trust your newly hired hacker not to slip backdoors into the system that they might later exploit. While it is true that any trusted employee might try to do something like this it certainly seems silly to put yourself in a higher risk category.
A company has a fiduciary responsibility to stockholders. They are entrusted with their stockholders' money and are expected to make decisions that will increase it without unnecessary risk. Engaging in high risk behavior means legal liability. For example, would it be reasonable to sue the corporation for not taking proper care and responsibility in hiring someone they know to have offended before? Considering the position of trust most security administrators are placed in (they have administrative access to servers, monitor users' network usage, read incoming and outgoing e-mail and so on) is it really wise to hire these people? A person with administrative access to a server, or physical access to the network can break into systems and leave backdoors with nary a trace. Would you expect a bank to hire criminals convicted of armed robbery to transport money on the grounds they know what to look out for? Would you hire a burglar to install the alarm system for your house?
While it would be nice if all criminals that got caught were rehabilitated, used their skills for good rather than evil, and never offended again, this is not a perfect world. By breaking the law, for whatever reason (curiosity, maliciousness, etc.) they have chosen to violate rules generally accepted in most countries and societies. They have (at a bare minimum) shown poor decision making, and while they may not specifically want to re-offend, they may be tempted by a short term gain and take a chance (as they have in past).
Summary
While it is possible to find a convicted hacker with the skills you want, it is exceedingly ra
I think he meant Tang where he said orange juice (sadly many americans thing Tang/Kool-Aid/etc is juice).
Or simply increase the cost of energy so people stop wasting it on things like air conditioning (having experienced the bone chilling level most US offices and houses are cooled to it's no wonder to me that power usage is so high). Here's a hint: 72 all the time is simply ridiculous.
Generally speaking we hold the people with guns and the ability to arrest other people to a higher standard. Here's a hint: we should probably hold the system up to it's own rules. If it cannot be internally consistent what is the point? We may as well let them disappear people without habeus corpus... perhaps you see where this is headed?
Yup. On the other hand if a site has well placed ads that are relevant chances are it'll work better and annoy users less. I reserve the right to control what I see/spend my time on. I also respect that a site may wish to block people who block ads, but I haven't run into that yet.
I probably would have looked her in the eye, and then cranked the door open. Look startled as it hits her car, and try again. Then look at her, look at the car door, and try it once more. I love rental cars and 0 deductibles.
A server farm is a terrible idea, first you got to schlep all the stuff up there, build infrastructure and (drum roll please) cool it. Cool it into what though? There's no atmosphere. So you need to build a radiator farm, but when you're facing the sun good luck radiating all that heat away. Much saner to leave the server farms on planet earth. About the only thing that makes sense is mining it for the deuterium on the surface and using it as a launch base for interplanetary stuff (no atmosphere +less gravity = much better, plus you could fire stuff using a rail gun.
It wasn't a perfectly good product. Far from it. Overpriced, to much hassle, and then the cherry on top, not only did the companies decide to stop selling it, but because of the nature of the product everything you had spent went up in a puff of smoke.
I wonder if this is a less than subtle way of the FCC executing a power grab, first establish censoring on a free network, then start moving it to the current networks (although this would not be needed if the enough people use this as their "last mile", you just look at their traffic there).
Uhmm no. You can access it via IMAP or POP which makes it pretty trivial to suck everything out (basically limited to bandwidth speed). Scripting this with a few lines of your favorite scripting language wouldn't exactly be rocket science (connect to IMAP-SSL port, login, for i in * do download $i, done). This is one reason I moved all my stuff ot GMail, they are relatively easy to bail out on (suck out your email, change MX records, done).
Parallax should answer that question quite handily (2AU's worth assuming you're patient enough to wait 6 months between measurements).
What about the right to vote and universal suffrage? That's pretty recent (like 50 years in the US). What about the right to life liberty and so on, again pretty recent in the US (slavery and segregation didn't end until all that recently).
By "Validated" do they mean "supported by the vendor" or "we got it to work, so it should work for you"? Bit of a difference.
Insightful is deserved. Or own the desktop at home, will drag Linux into the enterprise. Something RedHat and Novell have missed completely. If they continue to do so, many might just drag in Ubuntu... I would and will.
If anything, they should put out a home distro cheap and capitalize on Vista's shortcomings.
Let me know when you get Ubuntu hardware certified and supported with someone like Dell, HP, IBM, Sun, etc. Oh and certified and supported software like Red Hat Software Catalog Browse by Company. Until then Red Hat is probably going to stay on top.
That's an incredibly victimizing viewpoint to hold. Only I have suffered, and thus only I can truly understand how truly terrible war is! Get over yourself. You might want to stop martyring and put the cross down someday. My advice: seek help from a competent therapist who specializes in emotional trauma and PTSD.
I agree they are often abused/misused but a lot of it just makes sense and is honestly "best practices". Backups. Least privilege. Audit logs. Separate of privileges. This is all stuff that industries like banking figured out ages ago and (in large part) directly applies to what we do. I agree 100% that before applying anything you should be pretty damn clear on the why/benefit/requirement/whatever it is that drives the show. It's a lot like health or dieting, eat less, eat more stuff that is actual food, and get some damn exercise. this isn't rocket science. Granted it may need some tailoring on an individual basis but the fundamentals hold true most of the time.