An abandoned airport is probably one of the safest places to drag, since there's no traffic to worry about.
Blame it on the lawyers. After Bubba Joe Jim Bob wraps his hopped-up 72 El Camino around a tree on you property, his grieving kinfolk hire a shyster to sue the pants off you. Therefore, as a preventative measure, you have to do something to actively discourage people from trespassing on your property.
It's a fucked up world where some Darwin Award candidate can tresspass on your property, hurt themselves, and then sue you for failing to protect them from thier own stupidity.
and George W. Bush will be shot on sight if he comes to Scotland.
Keep in mind only a tiny minority of Americans (18%) actually voted for The Shrub [50.4M votes out of a population of ~281M]; out of the 105.4M votes cast, 53% were for Not Shrub. Most of us are just as displeased at his antics as you are.
That being said, please don't shoot The Shrub. If you do, The Dick will take over. (As if Chaney isn't really running the show now), and will get to appoint a new VP. Trust me, an intelligent warmongering goober is far worse than a moronic one.
You are both wrong. It is obvious from your comment that you have never served in the military. Simply put, you do not command the loyalty of your troops by putting the welfare of the enemy over theirs. As to a commander's priorities, the short version is: completing the mission comes first, preserving your resources comes second, other concerns like minimizing collateral damage come last.
When you hire someone as an employee, you're taking a very big risk.
Yes, you are. How exactly does a credit report tell you if a person is an alcoholic, a thief, incompetent, or dishonest? Guess what - it doesn't. A credit rating isn't even an incredibly reliable indicator of how likely a person is to repay a loan. A credit report is totally worthless as an indicator that someone's going to abuse a company credit card, drink on the job, abuse sick leave, or take kickbacks from vendors.
I hire [an IT guy who will be entrusted with 30% of my annual budget], I'm betting my company on their integrity.
Again, a credit score is not a measure of professional competance or personal integrity. Did the CEO of Enron have a bad credit rating? Here's a wild idea -- have you considered exercising some managerial oversight to ensure the budget is spent appropriately, rather than poking your nose into your employees' private lives? Maybe the reason you are having problems finding honest employees is because you treat everyone like a thief. People with high personal integrity are generally insulted by that kind of behavior. I for one will never work for a company that doesn't respect my privacy, and I've quit more than one job for that reason. Fortuantely I'm talented enough so that my employers have needed me more than I've needed them; if that were not the case I might not have had the luxury of being able to stick to my principles.
Without the ability to check some references or credit history, I would have to close a lot of good people out of positions like that, and only give them to established, financially secure people who I know have as much to lose as I do.
Uh huh, wealthy people never imbezzle from their employers, are always honest, and have the highest integrity. That kind of thinking is what led to Enron and Worldcom. I hate to break it to you, but someone with a lot to lose is probably MORE likely to imbezzle or resort to dishonest methods to protect what they have than someone who doesn't have that much. Furthermore, if someone is financially independent, they can keep their standard of living regardless of whether your company prospers or goes under. Someone who's living paycheck-to-paycheck has a much higher and immediate incentive to work hard and help the company succede.
On the other hand, if I see someone who is in a job that they claim to be stable, but they're chronically 60 days late on all their bills.. I assume I am talking to an immature person with poor judgement.
You know what they say about ASSuming things. Perhaps the person is behind on their bills because they are supporting a sick family member. Perhaps they are behind because they had invested heavily in Enron and Worldcom. Perhaps their (ex)-spouse ran up a bunch of bills. The point is, you don't know the details of their personal life, and more importantly, it's none of your fucking business.
The only way you manage your personal finance is relevant to an employer is if you are in a position of fiscal trust (Accountant, Comptroller, CxO, etc). If you are not managing the company's finances, the way you manage your own finances is irrelevant to your ability to do your job.
Bad comparison. Movies are not shirts. Shirts are a necessity (unless you live at a nudist colony), movies are not. A shirt is a durable purchase; the most thing durable you get at a movie theatre is popcorn hulls stuck in your teeth. Plus, most people have a limited budget for entertainment, particularly in this economy; so they have to be choosy about what movies they go see.
Besides, how hard is it to apply a service pack, be it from Microsoft or Sun, or whomever?
You've never been a professional DBA on a mission-critical system, have you? A database is very often a company's crown jewels. If the database is not available, or the data gets corrupted, millions of dollars could be lost. You don't go making ANY changes to a critical database without a boatload of testing. You don't apply a service pack, even a critical one, until you have *PROVEN* that it's not going to break anything.
There's nothing in copyright that says you can't *MAKE* a derivitive work without the copyright owner's permission, you just can't *DISTRIBUTE* that derivitive work without permission. There's nothing illegal about creating a derivitive work for your personal use.
You're missing the point. The cool hack involved here wasn't building a cluster of Xboxen; it was getting somebody else to pay for it!
It's not really as silly as you might imagine. It's been widely speculated that XBox consoles cost more to produce than they sell for: they are sold at a loss (or at best break-even) in order to facilitate the future sale of pure-profit games -- the old razor/blade gambit. Finding a creative way to use the razor that doesn't require any blades is a Good Thing.
While you may *speculate* that a Xbox is inferior to a comperably-priced PC, without hard data to back up your claim, you are blowing smoke. As others have noted, using an Xbox as a computational cluster isn't smart. However, as others have noted, there are other things that you CAN use it for that make a lot of sense. I defy you to buy or build a $200 pc that has a DVD-ROM and component Audio & video output.
Its exactly this kind of emergent behaviour that crichton was talking about and this guy has seemed to miss the point.
Ummm, "this guy" is FREEMAN DYSON, one of the smartest human beings alive. (Ever hear of a Dyson sphere?) I'll wager he knows more about the physics of nanotech than Michael Chriton, you, and the entire readership of/. combined.
Learn how traceroute works. Just because your connection gets routed THROUGH a machine on a private subnet does not mean that you can connect TO that machine directly - the machines on either side route through it. Just try pinging the IP on hop 17 directly. Didn't work, did it? The fact still remains that a packet on a public link should NEVER have a source or destination IP in one of the reserved private network ranges.
Routers are designed to move packets (quickly), not block them
Part of moving good packets quickly means that you drop garbage packets on the floor, assuming you can tell if they are garbage quickly. For example, there's no good reason for a public router to forward packets with a source or destination address in the 192.168.0.0/24 range. These are either forged or mis-routed and should be dropped.
This should be done over a VPN or SSH tunnel. An even better architecture is to have a daemon or webapp running in London that only accepts log requests coming from Sidney, and only has permission to run a small set of stored procedures on the sql server. Sounds like your DBA needs to be flogged.
There's no good reason whatsoever for a database server to connect directly to the internet - it should only accept connections from trusted hosts. You never let an untrusted application talk directly to the database - if they need to query the database it should be proxied by a piece of middleware. Any DBA who says otherwise is an incompetent idiot.
You put your webserver on a DMZ, and let it (and only it) talk to the database server through the firewall. Any 2-tier client-server app should be going through a VPN or other secure tunnel.
The only way to do security is to have multiple layers, and to ruthlessly apply the priciple of least privilidge (you get only those permissions you ABSOLOUTELY need and nothing more).
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Targetting SQL servers is quite clever, as many of them will be in hosting centres with 34Mbs, burstable to 155Mb (for example).
Any DBA who lets his database server connect directly to the internet deserves to be drawn and quartered. There's no reason whatsoever for a database server to be talking to the internet; all external SQL requests should be made via a middle tier. You don't run 2 tier client-server apps over the internet without some kind a VPN or some other secure tunnel.
Likewise, you shouldn't be running a database on the same box as your web server for any kind of serious production system - the web server goes on the DMZ, and the database server goes behind the firewall and only talks to trusted machines. Note that this applies to ANY database server, not just MS-SQL Server.
Notice that I said "often", not "always". IMHO, there is more pseudoscience in psychology than good science; the good science that does exist gets lost in the noise, or worse, is (willfully) mis-interpreted by people with an axe to grind.
the Constitution gives Congress to power tp regulate interstate commerce
Indeed it does. However, after giving Congress the power to regulate interstate commerce, it then forbids Congress from making any law which abridges the freedom of the press (among other things). However, this is not really a first amendment issue, because the law isn't restricting what you can publish, it's restricting how it can be sold. That being said, it's still unconstitutional. The commerce clause only applys to INTERSTATE commerce. A retail sale is practially by definition an intra-state transaction and is therefore NOT subject to any rational intrepretation of the commerce clause and beyond Congress's power.
Psychology is all to often dangerous pseudoscience. All too often "psychological research" consists of starting with a conclusion, then designing rigged experiments to support it and/or spin-doctoring the data to support whatever cause they are trying to prove. Take anything the APA says with a large grain of salt.
What we need is consistent and merciless prosecution of corrupt elected leaders.
If I had any mod points, I'd mod this up as insightful. Of course, no politician is going to vote for a law which makes politicians accountable for their actions. They, after all, view themselves as being above the law.
The MPAA movie rating system is a voluntary advisory system. It does not carry the force of law, at least not at the federal level. I'm sure various jurisdictions have enacted laws that do make it illegal for theatres (or video retailers) to ignore the MPAA rating system, but those laws are on shaky ground Constitutionally.
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It's a fucked up world where some Darwin Award candidate can tresspass on your property, hurt themselves, and then sue you for failing to protect them from thier own stupidity.
That being said, please don't shoot The Shrub. If you do, The Dick will take over. (As if Chaney isn't really running the show now), and will get to appoint a new VP. Trust me, an intelligent warmongering goober is far worse than a moronic one.
You are both wrong. It is obvious from your comment that you have never served in the military. Simply put, you do not command the loyalty of your troops by putting the welfare of the enemy over theirs. As to a commander's priorities, the short version is: completing the mission comes first, preserving your resources comes second, other concerns like minimizing collateral damage come last.
The only way you manage your personal finance is relevant to an employer is if you are in a position of fiscal trust (Accountant, Comptroller, CxO, etc). If you are not managing the company's finances, the way you manage your own finances is irrelevant to your ability to do your job.
There's nothing in copyright that says you can't *MAKE* a derivitive work without the copyright owner's permission, you just can't *DISTRIBUTE* that derivitive work without permission. There's nothing illegal about creating a derivitive work for your personal use.
It's not really as silly as you might imagine. It's been widely speculated that XBox consoles cost more to produce than they sell for: they are sold at a loss (or at best break-even) in order to facilitate the future sale of pure-profit games -- the old razor/blade gambit. Finding a creative way to use the razor that doesn't require any blades is a Good Thing.
While you may *speculate* that a Xbox is inferior to a comperably-priced PC, without hard data to back up your claim, you are blowing smoke. As others have noted, using an Xbox as a computational cluster isn't smart. However, as others have noted, there are other things that you CAN use it for that make a lot of sense. I defy you to buy or build a $200 pc that has a DVD-ROM and component Audio & video output.
Learn how traceroute works. Just because your connection gets routed THROUGH a machine on a private subnet does not mean that you can connect TO that machine directly - the machines on either side route through it. Just try pinging the IP on hop 17 directly. Didn't work, did it? The fact still remains that a packet on a public link should NEVER have a source or destination IP in one of the reserved private network ranges.
This should be done over a VPN or SSH tunnel. An even better architecture is to have a daemon or webapp running in London that only accepts log requests coming from Sidney, and only has permission to run a small set of stored procedures on the sql server. Sounds like your DBA needs to be flogged.
You put your webserver on a DMZ, and let it (and only it) talk to the database server through the firewall. Any 2-tier client-server app should be going through a VPN or other secure tunnel.
The only way to do security is to have multiple layers, and to ruthlessly apply the priciple of least privilidge (you get only those permissions you ABSOLOUTELY need and nothing more).
Likewise, you shouldn't be running a database on the same box as your web server for any kind of serious production system - the web server goes on the DMZ, and the database server goes behind the firewall and only talks to trusted machines. Note that this applies to ANY database server, not just MS-SQL Server.
Psychology is all to often dangerous pseudoscience. All too often "psychological research" consists of starting with a conclusion, then designing rigged experiments to support it and/or spin-doctoring the data to support whatever cause they are trying to prove. Take anything the APA says with a large grain of salt.
The MPAA movie rating system is a voluntary advisory system. It does not carry the force of law, at least not at the federal level. I'm sure various jurisdictions have enacted laws that do make it illegal for theatres (or video retailers) to ignore the MPAA rating system, but those laws are on shaky ground Constitutionally.
Actually there are only a very few places where possession of lockpicks is itself a crime.