I am too low on the totem pole to make any decisions on what drive brand to buy for servers. Normally our customers end up just ordering directly from the OEM that assembled the server. However, from personal experience with desktop drives, I normally order Samsung and haven't had issues so far. I've also purchased 2 Seagate SATA drives over the past couple years. The first was DOA, but the replacement has been going strong. The second is the exact model this issue is affecting. Luckily, I found out about the upgrade after it was pulled, and told my brother to hold off on upgrading until its fixed.
That seems like a nice feature for user protection, but it also seems a bit too Big Brother-ish to me. Then again its better than Comcast's "We'll throttle and block whatever we want without telling you, then ban you for doing it."
Perspectives is an excellent add-on for Firefox 3 that checks pages with self-signed certs from several locations and then bypasses the terrible Firefox 3 warning page if everything checks out. This is pretty effective at negating man-in-the-middle attacks.
I lean liberal myself, but I wouldn't blame this one on conservatism. I'd say the term you are looking for is "religious nutjob". Although a lot of them see themselves as "conservative".
Next time you jerk off while driving, don't look down or you could get nabbed for being a peeping tom... wouldn't surprise me the way people have gotten so unhinged with this issue...
The problem is that since gay people aren't allowed to be married, Google can't give them the same benefits as a straight married employee. They dont want their employees to be forced to move to another state. They also dont want it to be difficult to convince someone to move there for employment because they will be not given the same benefits as a different group.
So it is OK for a state to discriminate against a group of people? The only actual arguments I've seen against gay marriage are based on religious beliefs. With a supposed separation of church and state, a religious belief should not influence lawmaking, especially one that discriminates against certain people. I'm straight and married, but I firmly believe that straight or not, everyone has the right to be treated equally. If gay marriage is to be illegal, then all marriage should lose legal protections and benefits from the government.
The problem is that "router" to a home user and to an IT person (the latter including many of the Slashdot users responding to this) are very different things. To a home user, a "router" is a NAT router with a small layer-2 switch or hub built in to the LAN side (usually 4 ports) and that most likely has wireless(are there any consumer NAT routers still sold that are wired only?). To an IT person, a router is a layer-3 device that routes traffic. If you are going to post in a thread likely filled with IT guys, you should be a bit more specific. Is it pedantic? Probably. Is it nitpicking? Sure. Is it/.? FUCK YEAH!
You are correct. I was thinking about a type of WEP cracking where the probability of a successful attack increases as more packets are collected. Off to get some more coffee, I haven't had my daily hallucinations yet.
The article and summary have a lot of glaring errors. For one, TFA states that it sends random passwords to the access point. This is false. According to the product page, the app listens to the network in question and creates a dump. Then it works on that dump locally. Also, as you stated, there is no such thing as a brute-force dictionary attack. Brute-force just attempts every possible permutation, while dictionary attacks try using passwords based on words in a dictionary. This uses an "advanced dictionary attack" (this is how the product website describes it), which uses a dictionary along with mutations such as inserting symbols or numbers in place of letters.
Anyway, if you can afford the license for this product, you should really be using WPA-RADIUS or WPA2-RADIUS instead of a preshared key. In fact, you could probably buy a cheap windows server and install IAS for the cost of one license for this app(or a *nix box with better hardware). As far as I can tell, not using a pre-shared key invalidates this product.
Elcomsoft Wireless Security Auditor works completely in off-line, undetectable by the Wi-Fi network being probed, by analyzing a dump of network communications in order to attempt to retrieve the original WPA/WPA2-PSK passwords in plain text.
TFA is misunderstanding the way the app functions, it listens to the network until a certain amount of information has been sent, then attempts to decrypt that data locally. Sending wave after wave of login attempts is easily detectable and would almost certainly bottleneck somewhere at the network level before CPU.
I don't know if there is an official standard, but I've always used this:
Mb = Megabits
MB = MegaBytes
Mib = Mebibits (not sure if that even exists)
MiB = MebiBytes
In any case, its obviously a typo, stop fucking nitpicking.
In addition, it loses value over time. So if he bought a zune for $50 dollars and it comes broken breaks right away, $50 lost(assuming for some reason it cannot be returned or exchanged). But if it works for 2 years and he expected about the same amount of usage, then nothing lost. His $50 was put into use.
WARNING! Car analogy: WARNING!
I buy a car for $1000 (so not a good car, shut up it is a car analogy). I use the car for a year and sell it for less than the original value, say I get $750. Did I lose $250 dollars or use $250 to have a working car for a year?
I think donations is still the best way for Wikipedia to go. However, if they decide to move to an ad-supported model, they should use something like google ad-sense text ads. This model adds a layer of separation in that the advertisers pay google and google then pays the site for ad placement. However, this could be seen as giving google some power of influence over the site. I think a publicly disclosed contract between google and wikimedia would be appropriate in this case.
(And accepting them only on floppies is the single factor that will eventually kill off XP)
While I agree with your sentiments about drivers being one of the biggest issues with Windows, what in the world are you talking about here? Unless you are referring to install-time storage drivers, I have never needed to use a floppy to install drivers in XP. Plus, with storage drivers you can create a new install CD with the drivers included.
Windows is terrible at fragmenting filesystems, especially the drive the OS is installed on. Using an old version of Buzzsaw from back when it was freeware, my system drive would routinely have hundreds of fragments per day with only a few on my other drive, which housed the pagefile and data files.
I've never had critical system files go corrupt unless the hard drive was failing or a transformer explodes less than a block away. I also diligently maintain my drives with Buzzsaw doing idle defragging and a monthly full defragmentation of each drive.
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I am too low on the totem pole to make any decisions on what drive brand to buy for servers. Normally our customers end up just ordering directly from the OEM that assembled the server. However, from personal experience with desktop drives, I normally order Samsung and haven't had issues so far. I've also purchased 2 Seagate SATA drives over the past couple years. The first was DOA, but the replacement has been going strong. The second is the exact model this issue is affecting. Luckily, I found out about the upgrade after it was pulled, and told my brother to hold off on upgrading until its fixed.
That seems like a nice feature for user protection, but it also seems a bit too Big Brother-ish to me. Then again its better than Comcast's "We'll throttle and block whatever we want without telling you, then ban you for doing it."
Perspectives is an excellent add-on for Firefox 3 that checks pages with self-signed certs from several locations and then bypasses the terrible Firefox 3 warning page if everything checks out. This is pretty effective at negating man-in-the-middle attacks.
I lean liberal myself, but I wouldn't blame this one on conservatism. I'd say the term you are looking for is "religious nutjob". Although a lot of them see themselves as "conservative".
Next time you jerk off while driving, don't look down or you could get nabbed for being a peeping tom... wouldn't surprise me the way people have gotten so unhinged with this issue...
Is that better?
This paradox right here is why any sane judge should throw this case right out.
Everyone knows "Troll" and "Flamebait" are to be used when you disagree, duh.
I agree with your sentiments, but why do you let NetBIOS traffic outside of your firewall? Just using that as an example?
Me too. Thank you 4 years of German in high school.
Although its only "cornficker" in the summary and "conficker" everywhere else.
I was thinking an Excel '97 spreadsheet considering how many articles I've seen about Twitter being down.
The problem is that since gay people aren't allowed to be married, Google can't give them the same benefits as a straight married employee. They dont want their employees to be forced to move to another state. They also dont want it to be difficult to convince someone to move there for employment because they will be not given the same benefits as a different group.
So it is OK for a state to discriminate against a group of people? The only actual arguments I've seen against gay marriage are based on religious beliefs. With a supposed separation of church and state, a religious belief should not influence lawmaking, especially one that discriminates against certain people. I'm straight and married, but I firmly believe that straight or not, everyone has the right to be treated equally. If gay marriage is to be illegal, then all marriage should lose legal protections and benefits from the government.
Bingo. Doubly so for schools and other government entities.
The problem is that "router" to a home user and to an IT person (the latter including many of the Slashdot users responding to this) are very different things. To a home user, a "router" is a NAT router with a small layer-2 switch or hub built in to the LAN side (usually 4 ports) and that most likely has wireless(are there any consumer NAT routers still sold that are wired only?). To an IT person, a router is a layer-3 device that routes traffic. If you are going to post in a thread likely filled with IT guys, you should be a bit more specific. Is it pedantic? Probably. Is it nitpicking? Sure. Is it /.? FUCK YEAH!
You've basically just described the plot of Judge Dredd.
You are correct. I was thinking about a type of WEP cracking where the probability of a successful attack increases as more packets are collected. Off to get some more coffee, I haven't had my daily hallucinations yet.
The article and summary have a lot of glaring errors. For one, TFA states that it sends random passwords to the access point. This is false. According to the product page, the app listens to the network in question and creates a dump. Then it works on that dump locally. Also, as you stated, there is no such thing as a brute-force dictionary attack. Brute-force just attempts every possible permutation, while dictionary attacks try using passwords based on words in a dictionary. This uses an "advanced dictionary attack" (this is how the product website describes it), which uses a dictionary along with mutations such as inserting symbols or numbers in place of letters.
Anyway, if you can afford the license for this product, you should really be using WPA-RADIUS or WPA2-RADIUS instead of a preshared key. In fact, you could probably buy a cheap windows server and install IAS for the cost of one license for this app(or a *nix box with better hardware). As far as I can tell, not using a pre-shared key invalidates this product.
From the product website:
Elcomsoft Wireless Security Auditor works completely in off-line, undetectable by the Wi-Fi network being probed, by analyzing a dump of network communications in order to attempt to retrieve the original WPA/WPA2-PSK passwords in plain text.
TFA is misunderstanding the way the app functions, it listens to the network until a certain amount of information has been sent, then attempts to decrypt that data locally. Sending wave after wave of login attempts is easily detectable and would almost certainly bottleneck somewhere at the network level before CPU.
Maybe he uses a French Press?
I prefer the Sega Genesis Mortal Kombat blood code rhyming scheme myself.
I don't know if there is an official standard, but I've always used this:
Mb = Megabits
MB = MegaBytes
Mib = Mebibits (not sure if that even exists)
MiB = MebiBytes
In any case, its obviously a typo, stop fucking nitpicking.
In addition, it loses value over time. So if he bought a zune for $50 dollars and it comes broken breaks right away, $50 lost(assuming for some reason it cannot be returned or exchanged). But if it works for 2 years and he expected about the same amount of usage, then nothing lost. His $50 was put into use.
WARNING! Car analogy: WARNING!
I buy a car for $1000 (so not a good car, shut up it is a car analogy). I use the car for a year and sell it for less than the original value, say I get $750. Did I lose $250 dollars or use $250 to have a working car for a year?
I think donations is still the best way for Wikipedia to go. However, if they decide to move to an ad-supported model, they should use something like google ad-sense text ads. This model adds a layer of separation in that the advertisers pay google and google then pays the site for ad placement. However, this could be seen as giving google some power of influence over the site. I think a publicly disclosed contract between google and wikimedia would be appropriate in this case.
(And accepting them only on floppies is the single factor that will eventually kill off XP)
While I agree with your sentiments about drivers being one of the biggest issues with Windows, what in the world are you talking about here? Unless you are referring to install-time storage drivers, I have never needed to use a floppy to install drivers in XP. Plus, with storage drivers you can create a new install CD with the drivers included.
Windows is terrible at fragmenting filesystems, especially the drive the OS is installed on. Using an old version of Buzzsaw from back when it was freeware, my system drive would routinely have hundreds of fragments per day with only a few on my other drive, which housed the pagefile and data files.
I've never had critical system files go corrupt unless the hard drive was failing or a transformer explodes less than a block away. I also diligently maintain my drives with Buzzsaw doing idle defragging and a monthly full defragmentation of each drive.