A man-in-the-middle attack on BGP would require that you intercept and re-write BGP data. The only place to do that is if you can insert some hardware on the physical route between two BGP-speaking routers. That is, on the cable between two ISPs that are peering with each other or have a transit agreement. While the BGP protocol could, in theory, be routed across the internet, my understanding is that in practice it never is.
Add to that that to successfully perform such an attack, you would need appropriate (expensive) network interfaces and hardware capable of speaking fast enough, and this "attack" becomes something that needs a *lot* of resources to pull off. Sure, governments and big corporations can do it, maybe big organised crime could too, but yer average bedroom cracker couldn't.
You're missing something. That is that once mail is delivered to my letter box, it is behind my front door. So to read even the front of it they need to break in.
Uh, how on earth are they going to get my name from letters in my letter box? To do that, they need to break in to the property. And the very notion of a utility company sending out a real person instead of having an incomprehensible foreigner from a call centre harass me is ridiculous.
Yeah, it's unbelievable that a Nigerian government official would deign to notice the problem.
But it's a damned good idea, because the victims who volunteer to help, for example, supposed bank employees embezzle funds are themselves attempting to commit fraud. Which is a crime. For which they should be punished.
Atheist means "without god(s)", ie "without belief in god(s)" - or "absence of belief in god(s)". Hie ye to a proper English dictionary as opposed to doing an online search. I recommend the big Oxford dictionary. It will tell you the etymology.
There is a qualitative difference between, on the one hand, courts being open (ie anyone can walk in and watch the incredibly boring goings-on) and the proceedings being available in the library for anyone to read; and on the other the transcripts being online so that google indexes them and they're then accidentally found. Courts being open and transcripts being published is indeed essential for a free society. But I'm not so sure that them being online is essential, as, while it bolsters one right (that of people to know what the courts are doing) it does it at the cost of pretty much destroying privacy for those named in court hearings. Their personal information (that of witnesses, those found not guilty, etc) would now be out there for everyone to read and maybe laugh at, instead of merely for those who know they were involved and are motivated to go to the library.
For example, if I was named in a divorce case, I certainly wouldn't want every slashdot troll that I'd pissed off and everyone at work to know that "Mr. Cantrell regularly met my wife at hotels where Mr. Cantrell would piss in my wife's mouth and she would smear shit in his hair. I only found out when the bills for cleaning shit-smeared hotel rooms came in on our joint credit card."
I'm a member of a union here in the UK, and have been for fifteen years. Any employee who isn't is a damned fool.
The union does *not* set my pay - that's a matter for me to negotiate with my boss. Nor does the union tell me how to vote. Unions these days, at least for professionals like me, are mostly about me keeping informed of what my rights are, and having free access to specialist land-sharks in the unlikely event that I ever need an employment lawyer. In that sense it's really just an insurance policy, insuring me against my employer being a dick.
If I were an easily-replaced manual labourer, then I'd appreciate collective bargaining, but even so, I would still have a choice of whether to take part in it or whether to make my own deal with the boss.
US unions appear to be seriously broken and can't be compared to unions elsewhere.
It's a little known fact that Londoners have evolved to be able to metabolise a fifth food group. As well as beer, curry, chocolate and bacon, we can also extract nutrients from diesel.
This explains why we don't like to travel to the countryside. We can't get essential vitamins through our lungs.
Ahh, good times. I used to run the DNS for barnyard.co.uk on that:-)
Why? Because I could, and it was preferable to running BIND. Come to think of it, it still is preferable to running BIND. I think I shall port it to my Z80 emulator!
According to a great American leader a few years ago, a terrorist is someone who "uses force against an established government". The treasonous colonials certainly did that!
That great American leader is Mr. George W. Bush, a terrorist by his own definition.
I don't declare that current "music" is crap. I declare that it isn't music.
Vaguely rhythmical illiterate shouting ain't music. And in fifty years time, no-one will be listening to the vast majority of the "rap" rubbish that stupid chav scum play on their phones. In fifty years time people *will* be listening to Ray Charles, Black Sabbath and Shostakovich.
But no-one needs private health insurance, so no-one need be "fined". At least not in civilised countries. Every other insurance policy has its rates set taking risk into account, whether it be my home contents cover, or insurance for kayaking holidays.
Even if it did save 750MWh a year, so what? If you assume that on average a home uses 1kW an hour (which when you consider all of the slashdolt readers' computers being left on all the time seems like an underestimate) then that's 8.7MWh a year, or just over 1% of that 750MWh, so you're saving at most the energy output of just 100 homes. That miniscule saving comes at the expense of making the pages *much* harder to read. If you want to save energy, then how about making US cars to the same efficiency standards as European cars.
There are no restrictions whatsoever on what I can grow for their own consumption on my own land (apart from crops like cannabis of course). Your court thing is irrelevant to me, because it is foreign and so I didn't bother reading beyond the first line of the article, but I suppose it might be (but only might be, depending on the details) relevant to those unfortunate enough to live in the US. Thankfully you have the right, enshrined in the Holy Constitution, to shoot tyrannical governments which prevent people from growing their own potatoes.
It compares pretty well. Two years ago the US spent (in nice round numbers) USD5200 per person on healthcare. At current exchange rates, that's GBP2600-ish. Using a two year old exchange rate it was GBP4200.
Your argument about quality is bogus. What you don't seem to realise is that only the occasional failures make news stories, you never hear about the vast majority of patients who get treated quickly and correctly.
It's worth noting here that when I worked for a Lloyds of London medical malpractice underwriter, they refused to cover anyone in the US, partly because of the ridiculous culture of litigation, but also because they had determined that the majority of US medical care just wasn't up to the standards they expected in their other markets. The excessive litigation they could have coped with through increased premiums for Americans, but they found that the excessive incompetence made it more profitable to concentrate on selling cover in India and South Africa instead.
Your argument about food is also bogus. Food *is* elastic. If the price of potatoes is too high, I can buy pasta or rice or parsnips or I can grow my own instead. But if I was in the third world and had to buy medical treatment, I would have no choice in the matter. I can't shop around for some other cure when what ails me is brain cancer, nor can I fix it myself. If you really want a food and drink analogy, then you need to compare with water. Water is the one essential (and even then I'm sure there are some crazies who fuck themselves up by only drinking orange juice, or beer). You can pick and choose everything else, but you need water. Additionally, because of the infrastructure (pipes, pumping stations etc) required to deliver water, it is a natural monopoly just like electricity, local phone service, and so on. It is therefore no surprise that the price of water is regulated. If it wasn't, people would have no choice but to pay silly prices just like you poor sods do with medicine.
Slashdot Mirror
That's a lovely press release. But why's it on Slashdot?
A man-in-the-middle attack on BGP would require that you intercept and re-write BGP data. The only place to do that is if you can insert some hardware on the physical route between two BGP-speaking routers. That is, on the cable between two ISPs that are peering with each other or have a transit agreement. While the BGP protocol could, in theory, be routed across the internet, my understanding is that in practice it never is.
Add to that that to successfully perform such an attack, you would need appropriate (expensive) network interfaces and hardware capable of speaking fast enough, and this "attack" becomes something that needs a *lot* of resources to pull off. Sure, governments and big corporations can do it, maybe big organised crime could too, but yer average bedroom cracker couldn't.
And why would the big boys bother anyway, when they can just announce bogus routes?
You're missing something. That is that once mail is delivered to my letter box, it is behind my front door. So to read even the front of it they need to break in.
America got the criminals too. Mostly in the Virginia and Georgia colonies. You obviously didn't get enough of them.
Uh, how on earth are they going to get my name from letters in my letter box? To do that, they need to break in to the property. And the very notion of a utility company sending out a real person instead of having an incomprehensible foreigner from a call centre harass me is ridiculous.
Yeah, it's unbelievable that a Nigerian government official would deign to notice the problem.
But it's a damned good idea, because the victims who volunteer to help, for example, supposed bank employees embezzle funds are themselves attempting to commit fraud. Which is a crime. For which they should be punished.
Atheist means "without god(s)", ie "without belief in god(s)" - or "absence of belief in god(s)". Hie ye to a proper English dictionary as opposed to doing an online search. I recommend the big Oxford dictionary. It will tell you the etymology.
See also moral, immoral, and amoral.
I don't have a grey beard!
but only because I pluck the grey hairs out
There is a qualitative difference between, on the one hand, courts being open (ie anyone can walk in and watch the incredibly boring goings-on) and the proceedings being available in the library for anyone to read; and on the other the transcripts being online so that google indexes them and they're then accidentally found. Courts being open and transcripts being published is indeed essential for a free society. But I'm not so sure that them being online is essential, as, while it bolsters one right (that of people to know what the courts are doing) it does it at the cost of pretty much destroying privacy for those named in court hearings. Their personal information (that of witnesses, those found not guilty, etc) would now be out there for everyone to read and maybe laugh at, instead of merely for those who know they were involved and are motivated to go to the library.
For example, if I was named in a divorce case, I certainly wouldn't want every slashdot troll that I'd pissed off and everyone at work to know that "Mr. Cantrell regularly met my wife at hotels where Mr. Cantrell would piss in my wife's mouth and she would smear shit in his hair. I only found out when the bills for cleaning shit-smeared hotel rooms came in on our joint credit card."
I'm a member of a union here in the UK, and have been for fifteen years. Any employee who isn't is a damned fool.
The union does *not* set my pay - that's a matter for me to negotiate with my boss. Nor does the union tell me how to vote. Unions these days, at least for professionals like me, are mostly about me keeping informed of what my rights are, and having free access to specialist land-sharks in the unlikely event that I ever need an employment lawyer. In that sense it's really just an insurance policy, insuring me against my employer being a dick.
If I were an easily-replaced manual labourer, then I'd appreciate collective bargaining, but even so, I would still have a choice of whether to take part in it or whether to make my own deal with the boss.
US unions appear to be seriously broken and can't be compared to unions elsewhere.
It's a little known fact that Londoners have evolved to be able to metabolise a fifth food group. As well as beer, curry, chocolate and bacon, we can also extract nutrients from diesel.
This explains why we don't like to travel to the countryside. We can't get essential vitamins through our lungs.
Does it really have all those Pointless Capitals in it? If it does, it deserves to Fail on the Grounds of Illiteracy.
Ahh, good times. I used to run the DNS for barnyard.co.uk on that :-)
Why? Because I could, and it was preferable to running BIND. Come to think of it, it still is preferable to running BIND. I think I shall port it to my Z80 emulator!
I use Linux, and I play chess and go on my computer.
Oh, you meant *video* games. I don't play those. That's because I'm an adult and childish things just don't interest me.
According to a great American leader a few years ago, a terrorist is someone who "uses force against an established government". The treasonous colonials certainly did that!
That great American leader is Mr. George W. Bush, a terrorist by his own definition.
Apart, that is, from the significant danger of having his wallet emptied in the process of defending himself.
Vaguely rhythmical illiterate shouting ain't music. And in fifty years time, no-one will be listening to the vast majority of the "rap" rubbish that stupid chav scum play on their phones. In fifty years time people *will* be listening to Ray Charles, Black Sabbath and Shostakovich.
But impulse buys aren't driven by google advertising.
But no-one needs private health insurance, so no-one need be "fined". At least not in civilised countries. Every other insurance policy has its rates set taking risk into account, whether it be my home contents cover, or insurance for kayaking holidays.
Even if it did save 750MWh a year, so what? If you assume that on average a home uses 1kW an hour (which when you consider all of the slashdolt readers' computers being left on all the time seems like an underestimate) then that's 8.7MWh a year, or just over 1% of that 750MWh, so you're saving at most the energy output of just 100 homes. That miniscule saving comes at the expense of making the pages *much* harder to read. If you want to save energy, then how about making US cars to the same efficiency standards as European cars.
... just switch over to using the cellular phone network. It's rare indeed these days to be somewhere that you can't do GPRS.
There are no restrictions whatsoever on what I can grow for their own consumption on my own land (apart from crops like cannabis of course). Your court thing is irrelevant to me, because it is foreign and so I didn't bother reading beyond the first line of the article, but I suppose it might be (but only might be, depending on the details) relevant to those unfortunate enough to live in the US. Thankfully you have the right, enshrined in the Holy Constitution, to shoot tyrannical governments which prevent people from growing their own potatoes.
Not a single one of my rural relatives has a well. They all have a proper piped supply.
It compares pretty well. Two years ago the US spent (in nice round numbers) USD5200 per person on healthcare. At current exchange rates, that's GBP2600-ish. Using a two year old exchange rate it was GBP4200.
It's worth noting here that when I worked for a Lloyds of London medical malpractice underwriter, they refused to cover anyone in the US, partly because of the ridiculous culture of litigation, but also because they had determined that the majority of US medical care just wasn't up to the standards they expected in their other markets. The excessive litigation they could have coped with through increased premiums for Americans, but they found that the excessive incompetence made it more profitable to concentrate on selling cover in India and South Africa instead.
Your argument about food is also bogus. Food *is* elastic. If the price of potatoes is too high, I can buy pasta or rice or parsnips or I can grow my own instead. But if I was in the third world and had to buy medical treatment, I would have no choice in the matter. I can't shop around for some other cure when what ails me is brain cancer, nor can I fix it myself. If you really want a food and drink analogy, then you need to compare with water. Water is the one essential (and even then I'm sure there are some crazies who fuck themselves up by only drinking orange juice, or beer). You can pick and choose everything else, but you need water. Additionally, because of the infrastructure (pipes, pumping stations etc) required to deliver water, it is a natural monopoly just like electricity, local phone service, and so on. It is therefore no surprise that the price of water is regulated. If it wasn't, people would have no choice but to pay silly prices just like you poor sods do with medicine.