And maybe a meteorite will hit the earth. Or maybe I'll get hit by a Volvo while biking home from school.. oh wait that happened. Bad things happen, life has risks. Get over it and live. Life is full of risks.
P.S. there's only one fenced in dog in a 3 block radius and it's a poodle that wears a diaper (seriously, I can't make stuff like this up). My cat could take him.
I have a feeling this will cost a pretty penny, of course that won't stop most people that are insecure enough that they would feel they need this to ensure their dog doesn't run away (crazy idea, why not look after your dog responsibly?).
That's why I'm a cat person. Kitty goes out, Kitty comes back in. She ain't dumb, she knows where her food dish is.
Marketing data is valuable. Why should I give it away for free? You guys are making a profit on the concept that you annoy a lot of people making a few cents or maybe a buck for each annoyed person. Plus there are the scams/etc. to deal with, people selling useless things (if I needed it I would go buy it), getting you to switch long distance carriers, etc. A lot like spam come to think of it. The only way I'll ever get a land line again (it's been 6 years) is with an Asterisk PBX to screen my calls and keep people like you as far away as possible.
They can leave voicemail. Despite what people think most don't have to be in contact 24/7, humanity did fine without phones for several millenia. You really want to amaze people? When your cell phone rings look at it and hit the hang up button to send them to voicemail and say "I'll get that later when we're done, right now I'm with you."
1) It's mildly embaressing, also they want to push their own management tools
2) It's monopolistic, extending their control and basically snuffing out ssh.com and other commercial SSH providers. They got in trouble for this type of behavior remember?
My cat is chipped, I had a choice: she can wear a collar with a tag (which I have to keep on her, make sure is on, etc, etc.), she can get a tattoo (which takes about an hour) or she could get chipped (takes about 2 minutes, she didn't seem to mind, neither did my parent's cats when they were done). Why is it such a stretch to require chipping for exotic pets? I know locally the entire chipping process with registration costs about $100 (one time cost).
While not directly a content management system (or rather it is a CMS, but aimed heavily at the Encyclopedia market) it does very well as a CMS for pretty much any application. I use mediawiki to handle about... well let's ask my Mediawiki:
"There are 13,208 total pages in the database. This includes "talk" pages, pages about Seifried Security Site, minimal "stub" pages, redirects, and others that probably don't qualify as content pages. Excluding those, there are 11,475 pages that are probably legitimate content pages."
Well there ya go. Setup takes about 5 minutes if you have a working UNIX/Linux/BSD server with Apache, MySQL and PHP installed.
RPM uses both MD5 and SHA1, the chances of finding a collision that satisfies both hashes is small, even if both MD5 and SHA1 are compromised since the hash the data differently.
rpm -Kvv xorg-x11-libs-6.8.2-37.FC4.49.2.i386.rpm
D: Expected size: 2655615 = lead(96)+sigs(344)+pad(0)+data(2655175)
D: Actual size: 2655615
D: opening db index/var/lib/rpm/Packages rdonly mode=0x0
D: locked db index/var/lib/rpm/Packages
D: opening db index/var/lib/rpm/Pubkeys rdonly mode=0x0
D: read h# 278 Header sanity check: OK
D: ========== DSA pubkey id b44269d0 4f2a6fd2 (h#278) ./updates-released/packages/xorg-x11-libs-6.8.2-37 .FC4.49.2.i386.rpm:
Header V3 DSA signature: OK, key ID 4f2a6fd2
Header SHA1 digest: OK (f37bf5cb97db696f14133b90e23f2455b9f94587)
MD5 digest: OK (8eda29837b6992876bd867df03b3b8af)
V3 DSA signature: OK, key ID 4f2a6fd2
D: closed db index/var/lib/rpm/Pubkeys
D: closed db index/var/lib/rpm/Packages
D: May free Score board((nil))
Uhh every major RPM based distro (Red Hat, SuSE, Mandriva, Trustix, etc, etc.) does this. Third party guys like Dag who distribute literally hundreds pf RPM's also sign their packages (thus if I have Dag's key I can verify his RPM's regardless of where I actually get them. In RPM based systems adding a key consists of:
Download the key (RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora for example) rpm --import RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora
And voila. This works for third party developer's keys.
As for your other comments they are just misinformed, you should read the article maybe. Or not and justmake stuff up, that works too.
Because you opted in to the Internet, or more specificaly the world wide web. And google won't find your pages unless someone links to them, or the URL's are submitted to google. This behavior implies you wanted the material you posted online to be read, searched, indexed, etc. If you didn't want people to view it you would take measures, such as not posting it online, or by password protecting it.
Actually the majority of large companies are publicly held which means their duty is to enhance share holder value, creating wealth is a side effect of this (sometimes, you can also enhance share holder value without creating wealth, witness Enron/Tycho/etc.). You may want to buy a copy of "Corporate Governance" and read it.
I would agree with this but for one immediate problem and one larger comment. When prices fall you certainly aren't going to sell the stock you bought at the high price at a loss. Either way the business is making money, the question is when does your making money infringe on other people's needs, i.e. for gas/food/water/whatever. Society is about the common good and sometimes you'll have to take one for the team (and not make obscene profits).
According to alexa.com:
Traffic Rank for trnmag.com: 155,360
Traffic Rank for seifried.org: 148,844
Traffic Rank for slashdot.org: 1,134
Traffic Rank for cnn.com: 28
Now people will say Alexa.com isn't accurate/etc/etc and I would agree. However in this case it's showing my personal website and a web site with commercial aspirations to be about equal (actually I outrank it, sweet! =). And of course it shows Slashdot clobbering us, and in turn CNN clobbering.. well nearly everyone.
I get a click through rate on my Google page ads of about 1-2% (which is pretty solid), in part because my content is specific (information security) which lends itseld well to ads (firewalls, anti-virus, and so on) and mostly because the people at my site are interested in those ads. If you want to go the advertising route you need content that brings in people that will respond to ads, and the ads have to be content appropriate. Your site displays ads for physics and nanotechnology, at a site targeting the general public (at least I assume that's your target, your website content is overly generic and unfocused).
If you go the subscription route you need to provide information that is useful, timely, unique, or ideally all three. Again your information isn't really all that unique, timely, unique or even well presented or analyzed.
In short: your website is not all that interesting, it's not targeted, it's ugly as sin and poorly laid out, basically everything you can do wrong, you have done wrong.
I was talking with a friend of mine who runs a mortgage brokering business. He does NOT advertise online, he mostly does it by word of mouth and trade shows (especially the bridal ones, people getting married seem to be in the house market more often than not).
Each client earns him a little over $1000 US on average (I hadn't realized it was so much, I always assumed it was a few hundred), in other words each person he closes a mortgage with is worth quite a bit of money. This means that for a spam run of say a few tens of million addresses if he were to get two or more responses that developed into sales he would turn a profit after paying for the spam. If he developed five or ten customers due to massive spamming he'd be making an extra couple of grand (not bad).
Until the economics of such activities change we will have spam. It's a brutally cost-effective method of advertising (that happens to annoy the hell out of everyone).
So if you can resell a physical textbook for 1/3 it's value or more you're
ahead of the game by buying the physical text book.
So if you want to keep the textbook long term (like... more then one term,
imagine that) you're ahead of the game by buying the physical text book.
So if you want to bring the textbook with you to class os study hall and you
don't have a laptop you're ahead of the game by buying the physical text
book.
So if you have a laptop with good battery life but want to back up your
textbook in case it crashes or you buy a new laptop you're ahead of the game
by buying the physical text book
If you want to print out a chunk of the text book to read... you can't,
you're obviously ahead of the game by buying the physical one in this case.
If you want to add notes or highlight your textbook... does the electronic
version allow this? The physical one certainly does.
What possible use case does the electronic text book have that benefits the
student? Unless it was _significantly cheaper, like 10% of the physical one
all the above problems really make the physical textbook a lot more
desirable. This from a guy with multiple laptops and a paperless office (I
don't have a working printer), but I do own about 200 information/computer
related books, all of them physical.
We got my dad a Mac last year. I haven't recieved a single support call from him since. It's really the sanest way to go if you want it to just work, and be soft and fuzzy.
Building microchips uses a LOT of very toxic chemicals (such as powerful acids/etc to wash product between stages). I would rather these extremely toxic chemicals be used in a country with some of the stricted environmental laws around then in a country with weak, if any real environmental laws (assuming they get enforced, which I rather doubt in places like China and India where corruption and bribery is still rampant). Not to knock these countries, Germany almost killed the Ruhr river with pollution 30 years ago, but since then they have learned, unfortunately this is still a ways off in India and China.
This wouldn't really work against DNS, because DNS largely uses UDP which is an unreliable transport protocol that leaves errors/etc handling to the higher levels such as the application, and doesn't rely to heavily on ICMP (beyond things like host unreachable/etc.). In other words path MTU throttling doesn't work to well when you have small packets to begin with that use the UDP protocol which doesn't rely on connections like TCP does.
Slashdot Mirror
And maybe a meteorite will hit the earth. Or maybe I'll get hit by a Volvo while biking home from school.. oh wait that happened. Bad things happen, life has risks. Get over it and live. Life is full of risks.
P.S. there's only one fenced in dog in a 3 block radius and it's a poodle that wears a diaper (seriously, I can't make stuff like this up). My cat could take him.
I have a feeling this will cost a pretty penny, of course that won't stop most people that are insecure enough that they would feel they need this to ensure their dog doesn't run away (crazy idea, why not look after your dog responsibly?).
That's why I'm a cat person. Kitty goes out, Kitty comes back in. She ain't dumb, she knows where her food dish is.
Why not just buy a Dell with Red Hat Enterprise 4.0 pre-loaded (extra cost of $350).
Marketing data is valuable. Why should I give it away for free? You guys are making a profit on the concept that you annoy a lot of people making a few cents or maybe a buck for each annoyed person. Plus there are the scams/etc. to deal with, people selling useless things (if I needed it I would go buy it), getting you to switch long distance carriers, etc. A lot like spam come to think of it. The only way I'll ever get a land line again (it's been 6 years) is with an Asterisk PBX to screen my calls and keep people like you as far away as possible.
They can leave voicemail. Despite what people think most don't have to be in contact 24/7, humanity did fine without phones for several millenia. You really want to amaze people? When your cell phone rings look at it and hit the hang up button to send them to voicemail and say "I'll get that later when we're done, right now I'm with you."
When cold stuff gets hot it expands! Expansion in an enclosed space leads to explosions when the container eventually fails.
1) It's mildly embaressing, also they want to push their own management tools
2) It's monopolistic, extending their control and basically snuffing out ssh.com and other commercial SSH providers. They got in trouble for this type of behavior remember?
My cat is chipped, I had a choice: she can wear a collar with a tag (which I have to keep on her, make sure is on, etc, etc.), she can get a tattoo (which takes about an hour) or she could get chipped (takes about 2 minutes, she didn't seem to mind, neither did my parent's cats when they were done). Why is it such a stretch to require chipping for exotic pets? I know locally the entire chipping process with registration costs about $100 (one time cost).
Booooooring.
While not directly a content management system (or rather it is a CMS, but aimed heavily at the Encyclopedia market) it does very well as a CMS for pretty much any application. I use mediawiki to handle about ... well let's ask my Mediawiki:
http://www.seifried.org/security/index.php/Special :Statistics
"There are 13,208 total pages in the database. This includes "talk" pages, pages about Seifried Security Site, minimal "stub" pages, redirects, and others that probably don't qualify as content pages. Excluding those, there are 11,475 pages that are probably legitimate content pages."
Well there ya go. Setup takes about 5 minutes if you have a working UNIX/Linux/BSD server with Apache, MySQL and PHP installed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki
RPM uses both MD5 and SHA1, the chances of finding a collision that satisfies both hashes is small, even if both MD5 and SHA1 are compromised since the hash the data differently.
rpm -Kvv xorg-x11-libs-6.8.2-37.FC4.49.2.i386.rpm /var/lib/rpm/Packages rdonly mode=0x0 /var/lib/rpm/Packages /var/lib/rpm/Pubkeys rdonly mode=0x0
./updates-released/packages/xorg-x11-libs-6.8.2-37 .FC4.49.2.i386.rpm: /var/lib/rpm/Pubkeys /var/lib/rpm/Packages
D: Expected size: 2655615 = lead(96)+sigs(344)+pad(0)+data(2655175)
D: Actual size: 2655615
D: opening db index
D: locked db index
D: opening db index
D: read h# 278 Header sanity check: OK
D: ========== DSA pubkey id b44269d0 4f2a6fd2 (h#278)
Header V3 DSA signature: OK, key ID 4f2a6fd2
Header SHA1 digest: OK (f37bf5cb97db696f14133b90e23f2455b9f94587)
MD5 digest: OK (8eda29837b6992876bd867df03b3b8af)
V3 DSA signature: OK, key ID 4f2a6fd2
D: closed db index
D: closed db index
D: May free Score board((nil))
Uhh every major RPM based distro (Red Hat, SuSE, Mandriva, Trustix, etc, etc.) does this. Third party guys like Dag who distribute literally hundreds pf RPM's also sign their packages (thus if I have Dag's key I can verify his RPM's regardless of where I actually get them. In RPM based systems adding a key consists of:
Download the key (RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora for example)
rpm --import RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora
And voila. This works for third party developer's keys.
As for your other comments they are just misinformed, you should read the article maybe. Or not and justmake stuff up, that works too.
Because you opted in to the Internet, or more specificaly the world wide web. And google won't find your pages unless someone links to them, or the URL's are submitted to google. This behavior implies you wanted the material you posted online to be read, searched, indexed, etc. If you didn't want people to view it you would take measures, such as not posting it online, or by password protecting it.
Actually the majority of large companies are publicly held which means their duty is to enhance share holder value, creating wealth is a side effect of this (sometimes, you can also enhance share holder value without creating wealth, witness Enron/Tycho/etc.). You may want to buy a copy of "Corporate Governance" and read it.
Ever see a 1.5mm mechanical drafting pencil? It can draw a hole the size of a dinner plate on a piece of paper.
I would agree with this but for one immediate problem and one larger comment. When prices fall you certainly aren't going to sell the stock you bought at the high price at a loss. Either way the business is making money, the question is when does your making money infringe on other people's needs, i.e. for gas/food/water/whatever. Society is about the common good and sometimes you'll have to take one for the team (and not make obscene profits).
Maybe they were tasty and we ate them.
According to alexa.com:
Traffic Rank for trnmag.com: 155,360
Traffic Rank for seifried.org: 148,844
Traffic Rank for slashdot.org: 1,134
Traffic Rank for cnn.com: 28
Now people will say Alexa.com isn't accurate/etc/etc and I would agree. However in this case it's showing my personal website and a web site with commercial aspirations to be about equal (actually I outrank it, sweet! =). And of course it shows Slashdot clobbering us, and in turn CNN clobbering .. well nearly everyone.
I get a click through rate on my Google page ads of about 1-2% (which is pretty solid), in part because my content is specific (information security) which lends itseld well to ads (firewalls, anti-virus, and so on) and mostly because the people at my site are interested in those ads. If you want to go the advertising route you need content that brings in people that will respond to ads, and the ads have to be content appropriate. Your site displays ads for physics and nanotechnology, at a site targeting the general public (at least I assume that's your target, your website content is overly generic and unfocused).
If you go the subscription route you need to provide information that is useful, timely, unique, or ideally all three. Again your information isn't really all that unique, timely, unique or even well presented or analyzed.
In short: your website is not all that interesting, it's not targeted, it's ugly as sin and poorly laid out, basically everything you can do wrong, you have done wrong.
"Rather than clustering a lot of smaller servers together, large ISPs can now use fewer systems to handle massive traffic load."
From the testing reports linked in the article we have:
For a total of 10 systems seperated into 3 levels (front end, backend, data storage).
High quality editing for Slashdot as usual.
Source: http://www.spec.org/mail2001/results/res2005q3/mai l2001-20050707-00039.html
Actually port 445 is CIFS, Common Internet File System, it replaces SMB.
http://www.seifried.org/security/ports/0/445.html
I was talking with a friend of mine who runs a mortgage brokering business. He does NOT advertise online, he mostly does it by word of mouth and trade shows (especially the bridal ones, people getting married seem to be in the house market more often than not).
Each client earns him a little over $1000 US on average (I hadn't realized it was so much, I always assumed it was a few hundred), in other words each person he closes a mortgage with is worth quite a bit of money. This means that for a spam run of say a few tens of million addresses if he were to get two or more responses that developed into sales he would turn a profit after paying for the spam. If he developed five or ten customers due to massive spamming he'd be making an extra couple of grand (not bad).
Until the economics of such activities change we will have spam. It's a brutally cost-effective method of advertising (that happens to annoy the hell out of everyone).
So if you can resell a physical textbook for 1/3 it's value or more you're ahead of the game by buying the physical text book.
So if you want to keep the textbook long term (like... more then one term, imagine that) you're ahead of the game by buying the physical text book.
So if you want to bring the textbook with you to class os study hall and you don't have a laptop you're ahead of the game by buying the physical text book.
So if you have a laptop with good battery life but want to back up your textbook in case it crashes or you buy a new laptop you're ahead of the game by buying the physical text book
If you want to print out a chunk of the text book to read... you can't, you're obviously ahead of the game by buying the physical one in this case.
If you want to add notes or highlight your textbook... does the electronic version allow this? The physical one certainly does.
What possible use case does the electronic text book have that benefits the student? Unless it was _significantly cheaper, like 10% of the physical one all the above problems really make the physical textbook a lot more desirable. This from a guy with multiple laptops and a paperless office (I don't have a working printer), but I do own about 200 information/computer related books, all of them physical.
-Kurt
Next time you have to deal with this feel free to point them at:
Microsoft Windows Security Anti Spyware Quick Reference Card
Click here for the printable version.
We got my dad a Mac last year. I haven't recieved a single support call from him since. It's really the sanest way to go if you want it to just work, and be soft and fuzzy.
Building microchips uses a LOT of very toxic chemicals (such as powerful acids/etc to wash product between stages). I would rather these extremely toxic chemicals be used in a country with some of the stricted environmental laws around then in a country with weak, if any real environmental laws (assuming they get enforced, which I rather doubt in places like China and India where corruption and bribery is still rampant). Not to knock these countries, Germany almost killed the Ruhr river with pollution 30 years ago, but since then they have learned, unfortunately this is still a ways off in India and China.
This wouldn't really work against DNS, because DNS largely uses UDP which is an unreliable transport protocol that leaves errors/etc handling to the higher levels such as the application, and doesn't rely to heavily on ICMP (beyond things like host unreachable/etc.). In other words path MTU throttling doesn't work to well when you have small packets to begin with that use the UDP protocol which doesn't rely on connections like TCP does.