So, let me get this straight -- Let's say Super Important Data Stuffs (SIDS) is in a database and as a company you want to protect it. But over 300 employees access that data every day. Evil Bad Hacker comes in and drops a trojan on one of those systems. A few days later, Evil Bad Hacker does a SELECT * FROM... fill in the blank... and in a few minutes it's compressed and uploaded. Super Important Data Stuffs was only 2 GB in size. How does your solution, or any solution, stop this while it's happening? Short answer: It doesn't. But you'll have a fine audit trail to give to the apathetic FBI, who will assure you everything will be done... Before promptly putting it into the circular filing cabinet.
You want your data to be less vulnerable? Stop having your servers practice unsafe hex with everyone who happens to be in the building. -_-
It wasn't that this guy was whacking other underground sites, it's that he also nailed the FBI's "sting" website. The FBI and him engaged in a turf war, because if there's one thing the government hates, it's stealing. It hates competition.
Well, the support group meets here every wednesday night at 6pm. We have some papers and self-help books by a guy named Richard, who's one of the regulars here. We call him The Reverand here because if you mention "Windows" around him, he goes off about the rapture. The meeting lasts for about two hours, then there's a break and a half hour social after. We need to be out of here by 9pm though, because that's when the Macintosh support group comes in. And let me tell you, you don't want to be here when they start filing in. Most of them are court ordered, you know?
Anyway, help yourself to a cookie and some coffee... I'll be around if you have any questions about your new addiction.
Every method of human communication brings with it the reasons we communicate. Spam, reduced to its essential quality, is broadcasting greed. And that emotion has been around since the dawn of civilization. Every "new" communications medium will have it, and in western civilization with its emphasis on individuality, materialism, and consumerism, it will be all the more prominent. So is it really news that another medium (in this case, twitter) has started to reflect this? Not really.
Concurrently, we've been evolving ways of blocking out this trash -- ad filtering, blocking software, downloading our TV episodes online, etc. There is a real grassroots effort underway to fight back against advertising and an emphasis on "real" communication -- that is, honest opinions by people we trust. In this disconnected world, networks of trust have become more important than ever as a way of not drowning in the sea of greed, self-indulgence, and attention-grabbing behavior. I know people that use gmail for one reason alone: The spam filtering is just that damn good. I have seen people breathe a sigh of relief and leap to hug me after setting up firefox with ad blocking software -- they are geniunely happy.
The real story here isn't twitter turning to a sea of suck, it's that our culture is changing on a fundamental level. And it is doing this without any real organization, without any center. It doesn't seem necessary for a person to be part of a certain subculture or have exposure to a certain trigger to start it; It's a stand alone complex. That is, for those who haven't seen Ghost in the Shell, a phenomenon where unrelated, yet very similar actions of individuals create a seemingly concerted effort.
We're going to see more of this in the years to come.
If MediaSentry blinked out of existence tomorrow because of [lawsuit,lack of business,elvis], it wouldn't change anything. It's a company with perhaps fifty grunts, another 20 or so management personnel, and another thirty or so doing support or paralegal. It's a shell company, created by the recording industry for the recording industry. If MediaSentry implodes, they'll just setup another shell company and new personnel. To have any lasting impact, it's not MediaSentry that needs to go away, but the monentary incentive for it to exist in the first place.
Since you're the only poster to reply without yelling "idiot" (thanks, btw) -- Zeroing the drive makes software recovery impossible. It doesn't make data recovery impossible. There are ways to read the offset data, though this is getting harder as magnetic densities increase every year. Ontrack data recovery specializes in that kind of thing. I've seen them do it. Granted, it's not a 100% thing -- you don't get back something that even resembles a filesystem. At least a third of it is uselessly garbled binary.
First, rentacoder.com. Go, frolick about, have fun. Second, your question is equally applicable to the profession I'm jumping into -- graphic design. I'll make a long story short for you: Keep your day job. Part time work doesn't pay the bills unless you're getting more than about $35 an hour. The only area in which I've seen someone earn a living on part time work is as a field technician doing laptop repairs. And at that, only barely (and he is making $36/hr). Just so we're clear, his job is located in one of the top 10 major metropolitan areas in the country.
I'll say it again: Don't give up your day job. And don't expect to make much money. If you want a more realistic moonlighting job, consider medical transcription. It's also a work-at-home job and involves arcane technical crap, but there's always work there. Two semesters. And you won't have to argue with other people about the best implimentation, or this algorithm or that...
If you have had a few close calls while passing, perhaps you need to examine your driving habits?
The odds of an accident are approximately 1 per 10,000 for every car trip. Most people make 2 a day to work and such, and we'll say as much on the weekends just to keep it simple. The median age in this country is about 35 right now. For the sake of simplicity, I'm going to assume that everyone gets their license at 18 and starts driving. That's an average of 17 years of driving experience. Each year of experience creates 730 trips. The chance that you have been in an accident is, if my math is correct, about 62% by the time you're 35. Now, what do you think the ratio of near misses to accidents is? I'm guessing it's many-fold higher for our hypothetical driver. Of course, before you think "Well that isn't me!" another statistic for you: 80% of drivers think they're above average.
So, about examining those driving habits? How about examining the laws of probability instead. It'll be more fruitful.
Slashdot must be populated mostly by engineers and programmers that work on the software side of things, because nobody's considered mentioning a data recovery service, instead giving the "You're doooooooomed! You should have paid your IT people more" line. How very kind everyone here is of other people's technical mistakes. Because none of us have ever seen a bunch of dot files in a directory and typed "rm -rf.*" and then cried after or screwed up some production server with a "minor change"...
If I expose my chest in public, that's a crime. I fail to see how involving a baby suddenly makes it morally justified, since the crime is exposing my tits, not what I'm doing with them. Blanket. Now. Thanks.
Maybe it's the concept of people flaunting the fact that they have (or can have) kids, when not all of us can? Or maybe it's that some of us have realized that most of these people are activists who are using their breast-feeding as a way to be exhibitionists while the rest of the population that deals with this brings a blanket along and finds a quiet place to do it instead of in the main lobby of the mall.
Maybe the issue isn't breast feeding in public per se but how people are going about it?
You don't have the right to tell people not to do things that offend you unless they're actively in your way (they address you, touch you, sit on your table).
I'll remember that when some creep smiles and opens his trench coat from across the room for you.
Nice try, but it ignores one thing: Personal responsibility. If you can't bring a blanket and cover yourself up, go somewhere where we don't have to see you. This reinforces the notion that next time you'll bring a blanket! I fail to see how a lack of planning on their part constitutes a legitimate reason to expose themselves in front of me. -_- My argument, however morally distasteful you might find it pins the responsibility on the mother. But you and so many other people think that the moment someone pops a baby out of their crotch they're entitled to special exemption from the morals the rest of us are expected to uphold.
A restroom isn't a toilet, you idiot. And it's not any dirtier than the inside of your car, that bench in the lobby, or most public places which by their nature are crawling with germs anyway. Restrooms are probably the cleanest places you can find in public areas because they're one of the few that are regularly sanitized. But I mean, by all means, go ahead and get morally outraged because some of us would like to walk around in public without seeing people taking off their shirts and nursing their babies in front of large crowds. What next, getting morally outraged because I don't want to see you having sex with someone? I mean, after all.. That's perfectly natural too. So is masturbation.
Yes. We want to be left alone, not having to go through a gauntlet of boys' toys that see through our clothes, weigh and measure us, and treat us like we're a deli food item just because we want to go see mom for Christmas!
...1, and zero. The first amendment covers free speech and expression. Unless your tits are part of a comedy act, or are engaging in political protest, I don't see how the first amendment applies. And frankly, I think these breeders ought to have the cuffs thrown on them and dragged out of the stores they do this crap in. If you're going to arrest boys for showing their ass cleavage with baggy pants, don't get all squeamish about cuffing a girl for showing her tits. It's sexist and I know more than a few women that would stand up and cheer the officer on for doing it. If we're going to say showing tits in public is illegal, then fine, no exceptions. Otherwise legalize it so we all can do it! I'm sick of these breeders and their crotch fruit acting like they're special or something because they popped out a baby. No, you're not... It's not a miracle it happened, it's a miracle society lets you. -_-
Sorry, but speaking for at least myself and most of my female friends, this kind of thing is really annoying. I'm all for private places for new mothers to nurse their kids at work -- the so-called "lactation rooms". If that fails, many women's restrooms (especially in pre-1980s buildings) have areas to lay or sit down inside. And single-occupancy restrooms are not hard to find. Yay for women's lib, right? O_O You have plenty of options to protect your dignity (and my eyes). If I find you in the bathroom doing your thing, I'm not going to say anything--You and I both have seen worse.
The flip here is there is no excuse for anyone to have to look at your dirty pillows. Save it for the bedroom, or the shower, or the locker, or please god anywhere but online or in public where I can stumble into it. And to all the boys sniggering in back or making the usual comments talking about this entails, kindly STFU. Posting pictures of frontal nudity of any kind is (and rightly should be) banned from websites where people can casually come across it! You want to show your friends that stuff *fine*. Send it in an e-mail or put it in a photo album but for crissakes don't post it on the internet. Most people have the common sense to never let someone take naked pictures of them, but if you're one of the few whose elevators don't go to the top floor, at least think of your decency. Or my eyes.
Okay, did they put this in 3 point font size on poster-board sized pages? Because 55 pages can't even describe how to avoid buffer overflows, let alone something as all-encompassing as browser security. I don't need to read this to know that it fails in its objective as a "one stop" source. At best it might serve as an introduction to rudimentary security concepts. -_-
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That makes sense. I didn't know there had been any. Thanks! :)
So, let me get this straight -- Let's say Super Important Data Stuffs (SIDS) is in a database and as a company you want to protect it. But over 300 employees access that data every day. Evil Bad Hacker comes in and drops a trojan on one of those systems. A few days later, Evil Bad Hacker does a SELECT * FROM... fill in the blank... and in a few minutes it's compressed and uploaded. Super Important Data Stuffs was only 2 GB in size. How does your solution, or any solution, stop this while it's happening? Short answer: It doesn't. But you'll have a fine audit trail to give to the apathetic FBI, who will assure you everything will be done... Before promptly putting it into the circular filing cabinet.
You want your data to be less vulnerable? Stop having your servers practice unsafe hex with everyone who happens to be in the building. -_-
It wasn't that this guy was whacking other underground sites, it's that he also nailed the FBI's "sting" website. The FBI and him engaged in a turf war, because if there's one thing the government hates, it's stealing. It hates competition.
There's a connection with childhood leukemia that has been linked to high voltage towers nearby. But it's not strongly correlated.
Well, the support group meets here every wednesday night at 6pm. We have some papers and self-help books by a guy named Richard, who's one of the regulars here. We call him The Reverand here because if you mention "Windows" around him, he goes off about the rapture. The meeting lasts for about two hours, then there's a break and a half hour social after. We need to be out of here by 9pm though, because that's when the Macintosh support group comes in. And let me tell you, you don't want to be here when they start filing in. Most of them are court ordered, you know?
Anyway, help yourself to a cookie and some coffee... I'll be around if you have any questions about your new addiction.
Every method of human communication brings with it the reasons we communicate. Spam, reduced to its essential quality, is broadcasting greed. And that emotion has been around since the dawn of civilization. Every "new" communications medium will have it, and in western civilization with its emphasis on individuality, materialism, and consumerism, it will be all the more prominent. So is it really news that another medium (in this case, twitter) has started to reflect this? Not really.
Concurrently, we've been evolving ways of blocking out this trash -- ad filtering, blocking software, downloading our TV episodes online, etc. There is a real grassroots effort underway to fight back against advertising and an emphasis on "real" communication -- that is, honest opinions by people we trust. In this disconnected world, networks of trust have become more important than ever as a way of not drowning in the sea of greed, self-indulgence, and attention-grabbing behavior. I know people that use gmail for one reason alone: The spam filtering is just that damn good. I have seen people breathe a sigh of relief and leap to hug me after setting up firefox with ad blocking software -- they are geniunely happy.
The real story here isn't twitter turning to a sea of suck, it's that our culture is changing on a fundamental level. And it is doing this without any real organization, without any center. It doesn't seem necessary for a person to be part of a certain subculture or have exposure to a certain trigger to start it; It's a stand alone complex. That is, for those who haven't seen Ghost in the Shell, a phenomenon where unrelated, yet very similar actions of individuals create a seemingly concerted effort.
We're going to see more of this in the years to come.
If MediaSentry blinked out of existence tomorrow because of [lawsuit,lack of business,elvis], it wouldn't change anything. It's a company with perhaps fifty grunts, another 20 or so management personnel, and another thirty or so doing support or paralegal. It's a shell company, created by the recording industry for the recording industry. If MediaSentry implodes, they'll just setup another shell company and new personnel. To have any lasting impact, it's not MediaSentry that needs to go away, but the monentary incentive for it to exist in the first place.
Since you're the only poster to reply without yelling "idiot" (thanks, btw) -- Zeroing the drive makes software recovery impossible. It doesn't make data recovery impossible. There are ways to read the offset data, though this is getting harder as magnetic densities increase every year. Ontrack data recovery specializes in that kind of thing. I've seen them do it. Granted, it's not a 100% thing -- you don't get back something that even resembles a filesystem. At least a third of it is uselessly garbled binary.
First, rentacoder.com. Go, frolick about, have fun. Second, your question is equally applicable to the profession I'm jumping into -- graphic design. I'll make a long story short for you: Keep your day job. Part time work doesn't pay the bills unless you're getting more than about $35 an hour. The only area in which I've seen someone earn a living on part time work is as a field technician doing laptop repairs. And at that, only barely (and he is making $36/hr). Just so we're clear, his job is located in one of the top 10 major metropolitan areas in the country.
I'll say it again: Don't give up your day job. And don't expect to make much money. If you want a more realistic moonlighting job, consider medical transcription. It's also a work-at-home job and involves arcane technical crap, but there's always work there. Two semesters. And you won't have to argue with other people about the best implimentation, or this algorithm or that...
If you have had a few close calls while passing, perhaps you need to examine your driving habits?
The odds of an accident are approximately 1 per 10,000 for every car trip. Most people make 2 a day to work and such, and we'll say as much on the weekends just to keep it simple. The median age in this country is about 35 right now. For the sake of simplicity, I'm going to assume that everyone gets their license at 18 and starts driving. That's an average of 17 years of driving experience. Each year of experience creates 730 trips. The chance that you have been in an accident is, if my math is correct, about 62% by the time you're 35. Now, what do you think the ratio of near misses to accidents is? I'm guessing it's many-fold higher for our hypothetical driver. Of course, before you think "Well that isn't me!" another statistic for you: 80% of drivers think they're above average.
So, about examining those driving habits? How about examining the laws of probability instead. It'll be more fruitful.
Slashdot must be populated mostly by engineers and programmers that work on the software side of things, because nobody's considered mentioning a data recovery service, instead giving the "You're doooooooomed! You should have paid your IT people more" line. How very kind everyone here is of other people's technical mistakes. Because none of us have ever seen a bunch of dot files in a directory and typed "rm -rf .*" and then cried after or screwed up some production server with a "minor change"...
You seem like a very bitter person who overuses the bold tag.
Bite me.
I also don't eat with my shirt and bra off in public either...
If I expose my chest in public, that's a crime. I fail to see how involving a baby suddenly makes it morally justified, since the crime is exposing my tits, not what I'm doing with them. Blanket. Now. Thanks.
Maybe it's the concept of people flaunting the fact that they have (or can have) kids, when not all of us can? Or maybe it's that some of us have realized that most of these people are activists who are using their breast-feeding as a way to be exhibitionists while the rest of the population that deals with this brings a blanket along and finds a quiet place to do it instead of in the main lobby of the mall.
Maybe the issue isn't breast feeding in public per se but how people are going about it?
Last i heard nudity was legal in private.
There. Fixed that for you. If you think it's legal in public, go ahead and try it. -_-
You don't have the right to tell people not to do things that offend you unless they're actively in your way (they address you, touch you, sit on your table).
I'll remember that when some creep smiles and opens his trench coat from across the room for you.
Nice try, but it ignores one thing: Personal responsibility. If you can't bring a blanket and cover yourself up, go somewhere where we don't have to see you. This reinforces the notion that next time you'll bring a blanket! I fail to see how a lack of planning on their part constitutes a legitimate reason to expose themselves in front of me. -_- My argument, however morally distasteful you might find it pins the responsibility on the mother. But you and so many other people think that the moment someone pops a baby out of their crotch they're entitled to special exemption from the morals the rest of us are expected to uphold.
I say no. Bring the damn blanket.
A restroom isn't a toilet, you idiot. And it's not any dirtier than the inside of your car, that bench in the lobby, or most public places which by their nature are crawling with germs anyway. Restrooms are probably the cleanest places you can find in public areas because they're one of the few that are regularly sanitized. But I mean, by all means, go ahead and get morally outraged because some of us would like to walk around in public without seeing people taking off their shirts and nursing their babies in front of large crowds. What next, getting morally outraged because I don't want to see you having sex with someone? I mean, after all.. That's perfectly natural too. So is masturbation.
Amen brother.
I'm nobody's brother, hun.
Yes. We want to be left alone, not having to go through a gauntlet of boys' toys that see through our clothes, weigh and measure us, and treat us like we're a deli food item just because we want to go see mom for Christmas!
Hey, aren't you Carrie's mom? I thought you were dead!
No, just a fan. The movie was great inspiration.
...1, and zero. The first amendment covers free speech and expression. Unless your tits are part of a comedy act, or are engaging in political protest, I don't see how the first amendment applies. And frankly, I think these breeders ought to have the cuffs thrown on them and dragged out of the stores they do this crap in. If you're going to arrest boys for showing their ass cleavage with baggy pants, don't get all squeamish about cuffing a girl for showing her tits. It's sexist and I know more than a few women that would stand up and cheer the officer on for doing it. If we're going to say showing tits in public is illegal, then fine, no exceptions. Otherwise legalize it so we all can do it! I'm sick of these breeders and their crotch fruit acting like they're special or something because they popped out a baby. No, you're not... It's not a miracle it happened, it's a miracle society lets you. -_-
Sorry, but speaking for at least myself and most of my female friends, this kind of thing is really annoying. I'm all for private places for new mothers to nurse their kids at work -- the so-called "lactation rooms". If that fails, many women's restrooms (especially in pre-1980s buildings) have areas to lay or sit down inside. And single-occupancy restrooms are not hard to find. Yay for women's lib, right? O_O You have plenty of options to protect your dignity (and my eyes). If I find you in the bathroom doing your thing, I'm not going to say anything--You and I both have seen worse.
The flip here is there is no excuse for anyone to have to look at your dirty pillows. Save it for the bedroom, or the shower, or the locker, or please god anywhere but online or in public where I can stumble into it. And to all the boys sniggering in back or making the usual comments talking about this entails, kindly STFU. Posting pictures of frontal nudity of any kind is (and rightly should be) banned from websites where people can casually come across it! You want to show your friends that stuff *fine*. Send it in an e-mail or put it in a photo album but for crissakes don't post it on the internet. Most people have the common sense to never let someone take naked pictures of them, but if you're one of the few whose elevators don't go to the top floor, at least think of your decency. Or my eyes.
Okay, did they put this in 3 point font size on poster-board sized pages? Because 55 pages can't even describe how to avoid buffer overflows, let alone something as all-encompassing as browser security. I don't need to read this to know that it fails in its objective as a "one stop" source. At best it might serve as an introduction to rudimentary security concepts. -_-