At least here in Maine US, a solicitation sent in guise of an invoice is illegal. link at state
Check with your local AG, get some nastly letters sent, get them to get in touch with the powers that be where the registrar operates. Maybe get them shut down in your state.
That will be the day, when a domain scammer gets busted on facial recognition software at your local airport.:-)
First, survelliance without a court order is unconstitutional. This portion of the bill will surely be stricken down by the Supreme Court.
Yeah, so is being held without charges. What have you been smoking?
Maybe I should do my civic duty and run for congress on a write in, "The Sanity Party". Even 5% of the vote would restore some of my faith in humanity.
We elected these DOLTS and it's OUR FAULT. I guess that's blaming the victim. Bad me.
I am a California-based network security attorney who has been asked by a senior US Senator to compile a list of the most important legal concerns facing network security administrators. He has a good feel for the government security issues (and lack there of), but he is concerned about what is going on in the front lines in the private sector.
TROLL! Identify this senator that
has a good feel for government security issues
and does not understand what is going on
in the private sector.
Obviously he does not. Maybe I'm not charitable
enough to give him credit for asking now, so
shoot me.
Odds are 99 out of 100 he voted for the
Patriot Act, no?
I was against this, thinking it a boondoggle
until I heard Seymour Pappert discuss it. Why
do we give our kids pencils? Why do we teach
them fractions? (Answer - because they are
measurable.)
Why don't we teach them to **learn**? What is
a parabola, Dr. Pappert asked - a mathematical
blah, blah, blah. But also constant speed vs
acceleration; he showed how kids got that
understanding of a parabola while programming
their own games.
This is a wonderful thing. Of course the
the teachers and the school systems will have
a hard time keeping up with the kids. THAT is
going to be a big problem - how to keep
the kids toeing the line. (If that is a problem?)
A bigger problem will be how to keep the schools
toeing the line, using these tools to teach.
There will be battles over "authority", eg. "Can
the kids take the notebooks home?" They have to
take them home. Teachers are going to have to
open up to help, not "instruct".
I have two kids in portland maine schools, where
their computer class is how to use Word in a
CHIPA censored environment. What crap.
All the kids should have the net at home, all
the kids should have email and messaging. If
that makes the teachers and the teach-to-test
school system less relevant, too bad.
I run maine.com. We have student interns that
can't get a class at the university in 'C'
without taking the Excel **prerequisite**.
More crap. And don't talk to me about
standards and having to know this before that.
The school systems here suck; hell, the town I
live in has made national news because it can't
even pass a budget for the schools. Yeesh.
There is nothing wrong with knowing how to
run a chain saw; frankly, there is quite a bit
of skill involved in using any tool productively
and safely. I don't see any reason why kids
here in Maine can't learn both.
Those of us here in maine can email the governor
and ask how to help. Mentor a school system, a
teacher or some students. And yes, set up a
dual boot on the ibook.:-)
Yeah, and only Congress has the power to
declare war.
Bill of Rights? It goes like this: "We support
the Bill of Rights, it's a basic American freedom
that we all cherish. But make no mistake, we
will defend it with military tribunals, secret
courts, and increased surveillance. Everyone,
even our schoolchildren must be vigilant and
must watch for unusual activity. Report it to
the authorities."
Welcome the jackboots. Embrace the jackboots.
A kinder, gentler jackboot, soft Gucci leather.
Just remember, that should you somehow be
able to fish it out in a library, then your
activities will also be monitored. As will
everyone else present - that's the way it's
written.
Who wants to put money on whether on not
simply requesting a "removed" item will
trigger surveillance?
Nothing to fear, the library video cameras will
not be linked to any databases either. But
you've nothing to fear because you've not done
anything illegal. That argument has worked well
throughout history.
But then, didn't the President just sign an
order effectively ending the release of
presidential papers? We don't need history.
On closing a client account where we maintained
a firewall/gateway, we insisted that the client
find someone to take over sysadmin on the box.
They failed to do so, and accused me of hacking
into their box and taking them off line (when
in fact it was just Road Runner DHCP having a
hard time with the load of Code Red.)
What if this were more serious and they lost real
amounts of data? Hello FBI. It's not just
Penetrating Testing, but any consultant runs
this risk.
You forgot: "willing to give up that privacy if it would NOT have both prevented those attacks, and meant the government now recorded everything you say..."
Once the technology for facial recognition
exists in airports, then it **WILL** be used
in Times Square. Once it is used for terrorists,
it will be used for child abandoment, bail
jumping, wanton disregard of parking tickets,
failure to get your car inspected and all the
email you have ever sent.
Just having the system in place will get it used.
And then it is just a matter of glue to tie it
to your local supermarket's "Super Saver Tag",
same at Walmart, RiteAid, social security et al.
And I thought fingerprinting all Maine educators
was hysteria. Silly me.
3 3.0x6.8 solid core birch doors with
several layers of poly, 2 29" high full
extension file cabinets under each. Power
strip bars fastened under tables at back.
Won't bend when you stand on it (so the
keyboard won't rock). moveable, a lot of
space, Set up a U and you have a **lot** of
space.
This is just another wake up call. If it helps
anyone understand that they need to take
security seriously, then the price is cheap.
Too bad that's just wishfull thinking.
I'm wondering if we don't need some way to
exploit these **more** so the defenses get
better, sort of like a vaccine. Otherwise
the defenseless organism gets wiped out. I'm
old enough to remember bringing the kids around
to get measles and chicken pox. Now that those
are (sometimes) rare, larger groups of unexposed
population without vaccines (security patches)
get hit harder with greater consequence.
Perhaps if there were a higher level of random
hostility pervading the internet operating
environment - like the air we breath, the
food we eat and the streets we drive - then it
would be a **safer** place overall. You know,
crash test dummies, bumpers that worked (oops -
wishfull thinking again), and fences to make good
neighbors.
There has been some statistical research done
on the effectiveness of text ads.
See http://www.planetarynews.com/online-news/
and look for "E-pub logo that's an ad" and the
thread around it.
One point I find really interesting is that
they are effective **because** a visitor has
a high degree of confidence in what they are and
where they will take him. One of things Nielsen
notes makes for a "good link".
I disagree with that as a rule, but it would be
really good training for the first few. Read,
you are giving away your services to learn.
BRING YOUR BEST SALESPEOPLE TO THIS MEETING.
It goes something like this:
I've got a problem. An ethical problem. This
is not my job. You have good people working on it.
I'm going to share with you some ideas; promise me
that if you think it is worth it, someday you
will pay me back (that's all you get while you
are learning). Then just tell them and leave.
Keep the tech people out of it. Keep anyone out
of it that might take it personally.
Afterwards, discuss with your salesperson how
to use this on next sales call. Here's where you
get your payback. Goes something
like this:
We're not going to be the low bidder. Is that
the only issue or do you care about {quality|security|what you do well}? If they want
to hear more, "Let me share with you a story...."
eg, You might have lost this one, but don't lose the
next for the same reason.:-)
You will NOT get the client back by showing them
they have made a bad choice. Don't call their
children ugly, don't argue with their data
no matter how questionable it seems to you.
Try not to do too much real work for free. It
should be easy. If you keep the tech people out (to protect their egos) the business heads can herd them on their own. DO make sure that you
get a marker. Even if it is only "Yes, I will
call you next time, etc..."
The upstream for the local DSL provider,
securespeed.net, **is** the cable company,
Time Warner/Road Runner. FWIW, a traceroute
shows their gateway on same/24 as our
Road Runner box (just a consumer account) running
over exactly the same path. My understanding is
that they charge **more** than RoadRunner. Of
course they also promise their users will never
catch a virus, either. What was that line
about underestimating the American public?
Best I can tell, DSL operators make Cable Cos
look **good**.
Myabe not a used car salesman. but do look
into "sales training". Not the "hard close"
but how to shut up, how to listen to others,
how to listen to the intent of their questions,
to try to understand their point of view and
to treat them with respect. How to understand
your own fears and limitations. Most anything
meaningful involves others else it is a solitary
dream.
I'm on the other side of that issue, as an
owner and employer in a small internet company.
What staff cost in the big picture vs what they
bring in is always a big question. In a small
shop that leads very quickly to scale of operations,
business focus and my ability as manager to
keep it humming.
We've learned that you have to pay pretty much
the going rate in your area. **Then** you can
talk about quality of life and benefits,
flexibility and training, health club, AND
the challenges, etc....
Those extras will attract and keep the best people
but only if the pay is there. At least for top
level people, the challenge is critical too. Are
they going to learn management (OS-X or whatever
their personal goals)? The fit **must** be there
both for leaders and production staff.
That jibes pretty well with what the local
headhunters tell me too.
We're about to hire someone that will start at
twice what I make as owner. Personally I don't
have a problem with that; in theory at least I
own the shop. But it will create problems up
and down the line with everyone else - including
my wife.
Still, once I decided that mediocrity was not
going to cut it, only the best I could find would
do. So my challenge as manager will be to double
the scale, refine the business, and bring up the
level of the other staff (and clients). The
alternative is we won't get and keep good staff
and will ultimately go out of business.
If the owner of your business is really committed
to training and increasing your skills and value,
then he must also commit himself to doing **more**
with you. Doing that in a {stable|declining}
market, Mac services, is a tough nut.
I'm not sure about the back door on this one, but what about the sticker over the power plug that says breaking this sticker means accepting the software license? I'm surprised Microsoft could get away with that. How could it possibly ever be held valid? I've asked for but never received an RMA for those power supplies.;^)
I'm curious as to why someone would run a chrooted web server just to turn around and try to dig out of the chroot jail for the purpose of adding system accounts.
I suppose if I had to do something like that I'd use some sort of network authentication and appropriate PAM modules with mysql instead of flat file.
I won't buy into point 1, but will strongly support 2 and 3. As a 6 year old ISP we've seen microsoft break standards time and time again. Either they are totally incompetant or it is intentional.
Maybe I'm just a cyncial bastard, but sooner or later they will release Word for linux. It will be, like the Mac versions of their software, a poor cousin. To get the real features, give up and get Windows: how many people run Mac's now?
And don't forget, it will run SUID root. No more laughing at melissa and word viruses. I can't think of a better way to slam linux than to release a crippled version of word.
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sent in guise of an invoice is illegal.
link at state
Check with your local AG, get some nastly letters
sent, get them to get in touch with the powers
that be where the registrar operates. Maybe get
them shut down in your state.
That will be the day, when a domain scammer gets :-)
busted on facial recognition software at your
local airport.
STOP DOMAIN NAME TERRORISTS
Yeah, so is being held without charges. What
have you been smoking?
Maybe I should do my civic duty and run for
congress on a write in, "The Sanity Party".
Even 5% of the vote would restore some of my
faith in humanity.
We elected these DOLTS
and it's OUR FAULT. I guess that's
blaming the victim. Bad me.
netboy
Why not rbl.linkriot.com?
I am a California-based network security attorney who has been asked by a senior US Senator to compile a list of the most important legal concerns facing network security administrators. He has a good feel for the government security issues (and lack there of), but he is concerned about what is going on in the front lines in the private sector.
TROLL! Identify this senator that
has a good feel for government security issues
and does not understand what is going on
in the private sector.
Obviously he does not. Maybe I'm not charitable
enough to give him credit for asking now, so
shoot me.
Odds are 99 out of 100 he voted for the
Patriot Act, no?
An anonymous Senator, kiss my ass.
netboy
Well, it's lending, not giving.
:-)
I was against this, thinking it a boondoggle
until I heard Seymour Pappert discuss it. Why
do we give our kids pencils? Why do we teach
them fractions? (Answer - because they are
measurable.)
Why don't we teach them to **learn**? What is
a parabola, Dr. Pappert asked - a mathematical
blah, blah, blah. But also constant speed vs
acceleration; he showed how kids got that
understanding of a parabola while programming
their own games.
This is a wonderful thing. Of course the
the teachers and the school systems will have
a hard time keeping up with the kids. THAT is
going to be a big problem - how to keep
the kids toeing the line. (If that is a problem?)
A bigger problem will be how to keep the schools
toeing the line, using these tools to teach.
There will be battles over "authority", eg. "Can
the kids take the notebooks home?" They have to
take them home. Teachers are going to have to
open up to help, not "instruct".
I have two kids in portland maine schools, where
their computer class is how to use Word in a
CHIPA censored environment. What crap.
All the kids should have the net at home, all
the kids should have email and messaging. If
that makes the teachers and the teach-to-test
school system less relevant, too bad.
I run maine.com. We have student interns that
can't get a class at the university in 'C'
without taking the Excel **prerequisite**.
More crap. And don't talk to me about
standards and having to know this before that.
The school systems here suck; hell, the town I
live in has made national news because it can't
even pass a budget for the schools. Yeesh.
There is nothing wrong with knowing how to
run a chain saw; frankly, there is quite a bit
of skill involved in using any tool productively
and safely. I don't see any reason why kids
here in Maine can't learn both.
Those of us here in maine can email the governor
and ask how to help. Mentor a school system, a
teacher or some students. And yes, set up a
dual boot on the ibook.
netboy
Yeah, and because linux is not vulnerable,
then linux is a terrorist tool and anyone
using it is unpatriotic and suspect.
Anyone patching security holes will be providing
aid to terrorists. What's that mumbling, oh
it's just Alan Cox....
Do you suppose we'll see a sudden upsurge in
linux adoption by terrorist organizations? What
will they use, Redhat, Mandrake or Debian?
Stay tuned for more from the human crawl.
--
mandrake
Yeah, and only Congress has the power to
declare war.
Bill of Rights? It goes like this: "We support
the Bill of Rights, it's a basic American freedom
that we all cherish. But make no mistake, we
will defend it with military tribunals, secret
courts, and increased surveillance. Everyone,
even our schoolchildren must be vigilant and
must watch for unusual activity. Report it to
the authorities."
Welcome the jackboots. Embrace the jackboots.
A kinder, gentler jackboot, soft Gucci leather.
Just remember, that should you somehow be
able to fish it out in a library, then your
activities will also be monitored. As will
everyone else present - that's the way it's
written.
Who wants to put money on whether on not
simply requesting a "removed" item will
trigger surveillance?
Nothing to fear, the library video cameras will
not be linked to any databases either. But
you've nothing to fear because you've not done
anything illegal. That argument has worked well
throughout history.
But then, didn't the President just sign an
order effectively ending the release of
presidential papers? We don't need history.
Yes, this has in fact happened to me.
On closing a client account where we maintained
a firewall/gateway, we insisted that the client
find someone to take over sysadmin on the box.
They failed to do so, and accused me of hacking
into their box and taking them off line (when
in fact it was just Road Runner DHCP having a
hard time with the load of Code Red.)
What if this were more serious and they lost real
amounts of data? Hello FBI. It's not just
Penetrating Testing, but any consultant runs
this risk.
cfm
You forgot: "willing to give up that privacy if it would NOT have both prevented those attacks, and meant the government now recorded everything you say..."
Once the technology for facial recognition
;^>
exists in airports, then it **WILL** be used
in Times Square. Once it is used for terrorists,
it will be used for child abandoment, bail
jumping, wanton disregard of parking tickets,
failure to get your car inspected and all the
email you have ever sent.
Just having the system in place will get it used.
And then it is just a matter of glue to tie it
to your local supermarket's "Super Saver Tag",
same at Walmart, RiteAid, social security et al.
And I thought fingerprinting all Maine educators
was hysteria. Silly me.
Take a number, next please.
O
Yeah, and just trying to break it will
be illegal and presumptive proof of guilt.
3 3.0x6.8 solid core birch doors with
several layers of poly, 2 29" high full
extension file cabinets under each. Power
strip bars fastened under tables at back.
Won't bend when you stand on it (so the
keyboard won't rock). moveable, a lot of
space, Set up a U and you have a **lot** of
space.
This is just another wake up call. If it helps
anyone understand that they need to take
security seriously, then the price is cheap.
Too bad that's just wishfull thinking.
I'm wondering if we don't need some way to
exploit these **more** so the defenses get
better, sort of like a vaccine. Otherwise
the defenseless organism gets wiped out. I'm
old enough to remember bringing the kids around
to get measles and chicken pox. Now that those
are (sometimes) rare, larger groups of unexposed
population without vaccines (security patches)
get hit harder with greater consequence.
Perhaps if there were a higher level of random
hostility pervading the internet operating
environment - like the air we breath, the
food we eat and the streets we drive - then it
would be a **safer** place overall. You know,
crash test dummies, bumpers that worked (oops -
wishfull thinking again), and fences to make good
neighbors.
cfm
Strikes me that Microsoft's porting
:-)
Office to OSX finally answers the
popular troll about porting Office to linux.
No doubt it will run SUID root with
Active-X and Outlook.
Talk about "embrace and extend"....
There has been some statistical research done
on the effectiveness of text ads.
See http://www.planetarynews.com/online-news/
and look for "E-pub logo that's an ad" and the
thread around it.
One point I find really interesting is that
they are effective **because** a visitor has
a high degree of confidence in what they are and
where they will take him. One of things Nielsen
notes makes for a "good link".
Not sexy, just effective.
cfm
I disagree with that as a rule, but it would be
:-)
really good training for the first few. Read,
you are giving away your services to learn.
BRING YOUR BEST SALESPEOPLE TO THIS MEETING.
It goes something like this:
I've got a problem. An ethical problem. This
is not my job. You have good people working on it.
I'm going to share with you some ideas; promise me
that if you think it is worth it, someday you
will pay me back (that's all you get while you
are learning). Then just tell them and leave.
Keep the tech people out of it. Keep anyone out
of it that might take it personally.
Afterwards, discuss with your salesperson how
to use this on next sales call. Here's where you
get your payback. Goes something
like this:
We're not going to be the low bidder. Is that
the only issue or do you care about {quality|security|what you do well}? If they want
to hear more, "Let me share with you a story...."
eg, You might have lost this one, but don't lose the
next for the same reason.
You will NOT get the client back by showing them
they have made a bad choice. Don't call their
children ugly, don't argue with their data
no matter how questionable it seems to you.
Try not to do too much real work for free. It
should be easy. If you keep the tech people out (to protect their egos) the business heads can herd them on their own. DO make sure that you
get a marker. Even if it is only "Yes, I will
call you next time, etc..."
cfm
The upstream for the local DSL provider, /24 as our
securespeed.net, **is** the cable company,
Time Warner/Road Runner. FWIW, a traceroute
shows their gateway on same
Road Runner box (just a consumer account) running
over exactly the same path. My understanding is
that they charge **more** than RoadRunner. Of
course they also promise their users will never
catch a virus, either. What was that line
about underestimating the American public?
Best I can tell, DSL operators make Cable Cos
look **good**.
Myabe not a used car salesman. but do look
into "sales training". Not the "hard close"
but how to shut up, how to listen to others,
how to listen to the intent of their questions,
to try to understand their point of view and
to treat them with respect. How to understand
your own fears and limitations. Most anything
meaningful involves others else it is a solitary
dream.
I'm on the other side of that issue, as an
owner and employer in a small internet company.
What staff cost in the big picture vs what they
bring in is always a big question. In a small
shop that leads very quickly to scale of operations,
business focus and my ability as manager to
keep it humming.
We've learned that you have to pay pretty much
the going rate in your area. **Then** you can
talk about quality of life and benefits,
flexibility and training, health club, AND
the challenges, etc....
Those extras will attract and keep the best people
but only if the pay is there. At least for top
level people, the challenge is critical too. Are
they going to learn management (OS-X or whatever
their personal goals)? The fit **must** be there
both for leaders and production staff.
That jibes pretty well with what the local
headhunters tell me too.
We're about to hire someone that will start at
twice what I make as owner. Personally I don't
have a problem with that; in theory at least I
own the shop. But it will create problems up
and down the line with everyone else - including
my wife.
Still, once I decided that mediocrity was not
going to cut it, only the best I could find would
do. So my challenge as manager will be to double
the scale, refine the business, and bring up the
level of the other staff (and clients). The
alternative is we won't get and keep good staff
and will ultimately go out of business.
If the owner of your business is really committed
to training and increasing your skills and value,
then he must also commit himself to doing **more**
with you. Doing that in a {stable|declining}
market, Mac services, is a tough nut.
I'm not sure about the back door on this ;^)
one, but what about the sticker over the power
plug that says breaking this sticker means
accepting the software license? I'm surprised
Microsoft could get away with that. How could
it possibly ever be held valid? I've asked for
but never received an RMA for those power supplies.
Copy the page, send it to your congressperson.
This is a classic example of abuse of
monopoly power.
I'm curious as to why someone would run
/.
a chrooted web server just to turn around
and try to dig out of the chroot jail for
the purpose of adding system accounts.
I suppose if I had to do something like that
I'd use some sort of network authentication
and appropriate PAM modules with mysql
instead of flat file.
Or change the chroot to
I won't buy into point 1, but will strongly
support 2 and 3. As a 6 year old ISP we've
seen microsoft break standards time and time
again. Either they are totally incompetant
or it is intentional.
Maybe I'm just a cyncial bastard, but sooner or
later they will release Word for linux. It will
be, like the Mac versions of their software, a
poor cousin. To get the real features, give up
and get Windows: how many people run Mac's now?
And don't forget, it will run SUID root. No more
laughing at melissa and word viruses. I can't
think of a better way to slam linux than to
release a crippled version of word.