And I see this as one. It does possess the potential and near certainty of improving the results of CDN targeting for users who use non-local DNS servers for resolution. Many of these third party non local DNS providers are thriving because so many 'service providers' are so utterly inept at delivering the net keystone component, DNS resolution. I don't now, and have not for many years rely on provider DNS servers for exactly this reason. This will help the third party DNS providers enable CDNs to do a better job. It will allow a better hit rate for sites that try to geotarget (we do). It has some very interesting potential side effects in the war on spam, botnets, hijacked IP blocks, etc which I won't get into or forget. Does it reduce fundamental anonymity somewhere? Maybe, but really I think that impact is lost if you actually make the connection to the A record you are given, I mean really, if your DNS request was tagged from 172.16.254.0/24, and then you connect to my server from 172.16.254.5, ah where is the foul? (RFC 1918 example IP addresses used to protect the innocent IP addresses). It does mean that I can tell you 'piss off mate' at the DNS level rather that doing it at the network service level which has some potential usefulness/humor value/abuseability but really only if you actually use a DNS server that has the extensions. Could some genius ISP think, "oh, we will railroad you into using this" ? Perhaps, but that will only captivate those who choose to be captivated, PAT, vpns, tunneling, anybody who wants to will drill a walk right through sized hole in that in short order. So, at the end of the day, personally, while I am a bit miffed about some of Google's other recent activity (the broken on off switch on the toolbar tracking and other BigBroMo activity comes to mind) I think this does have some strong technical merits and it's ability to be used in an evil manner is very limited in my opinion.
>North American car owners prefer automatics because you can't eat a cheeseburger and talk on the >phone while applying makeup & reading the newspaper if you're driving stick.
Sure I can, and with Verizon I can use my second phone to send text messages and read Slashdot.
This really depends on the ambient temperature and the vehicle type. The stress of engaging a drive train that is still at -30 degrees or colder well exceeds the stress of allowing it to idle and rise to a viable operating temperature. For a diesel powered vehicle the stress of operating in extreme cold without warming up is magnified significantly.
There is threshold of what is reasonable, and waiting an hour or more to let the heater melt the ice for you is beyond that threshold but there is a reasonable amount of warming up that is prudent to decrease the stress on the vehicle.
Tom and Ray need to spend a couple of winters in Duluth, MN or better yet, International Falls.
My solution was to move to Florida, it works well and often my truck does not even ask me to wait for the glow plugs to warm up.
Heh, I would view it as an opportunity to fail to comply with management. Historically I have always been on the lookout for such opportunities. I still remember the cool bit of code some joker wrote...first it displayed "Press any key to begin formatting C:", then it waited about 5 seconds, after which it displayed "Just kidding...Formatting...n/n/n" and it cycled through some fake head numbers while making a nice ominous clicking sound through the speaker. I think it would make a comeback if somebody ordered me to wear an IT droid shirt.
Bailiff, remove everyone from the courtroom, I want some peace and quiet so I can think of some politically correct way to respond to this in order to get re-elected.
Sure, if it could surf I could use it to monitor my nms while driving down the road or while sitting at the bar. It would be cool if it was more than a toy, (as in has an SSH client, etc) but even if it didn't I could cope with it. If it starts uncontrollably spewing Rollax, Vialis, Shrinx ads I will just have the bartender put it in the beer cooler for a while so it can cool down. I could take it to wally world and scan random barcodes for no apparent reason other than to confuse the ad targeting bot. I still have a USB cuecat around somewhere...I think it's filed under b for barcode, c for cool, s for stuff, or worst case, l for lost.
I think the fact that so many road warriors have retired from travel is good evidence that they won. Personally, I quit taking road warrior jobs not out of fear of terrorists, but simply because I am tired of pathetic TSA bullshit making me throw away my shampoo and mouthwash every week.
The TSA theatrical security is far more pathetic than security through obscurity ever was.
What we have here is "Failure to Communicate", some orbits you just can't reach, which is what we had last night, which is the way we wants it, well we gets it.:)
Inspirational credit formally acknowledged to Axle Rose & the rest of G&R
Do you also refuse to utilize Firefox? If you are truly making this assumption then you really should refuse to use Firefox because those web forgery notifications probably meet your definition of censorship. I tend to visit the censored pages to make sure that I supply them with some worthless drivel. I wouldn't want the spam scamming nimrods to be left without any humor, plus the bogus information helps the ecommerce victims draw a crosshair bead on the perpetrators. If Elvis, John Wayne, and Jimmy Hendrix all show up at your store on the same day to buy Rollaxes your are probably worthy of a closer look by the fraud brothers in arms.
Perhaps Apple buyers are really just paying $500 to avoid Microsoft products. And judging from the loyalty of Apple users, one could easily conclude that they find it to be a good investment.
I was a regular business and personal customer for a long time. Sadly they sank the ship themselves, with Acer & Microsoft's help. Vista was and still is pathetic defective crap. Shoving it up so many customers asses was a sure way to go down in flames. I payed the restocking fee on returning the utterly defective and useless Vista Christmas laptops, and they lost me as a customer, not because 'they couldn't do anything about it', but because they never even tried. Billy's ability to suck a 5 mile freight train through a coffee stirrer even caught me off guard. After having paid $3k for the worthless OS/2 1.0 SDK I thought I knew what he was capable of. Vista is a greed scam that makes Madeoff look like a choir boy.
"Would you mean, perhaps, administrative policies that from all of this, it would appear to have been Childs job to implement?"
Yes, I think that is a fair conclusion. If it wasn't his responsibility to account for these archival processes then it sure should have been somebody's (like maybe his manager who locked himself out?). In any case, the problem was a lot bigger than his refusal to disclose IMHO.
I expect he will be able to find more than one Cisco certified security professional who will point out that devices with limited or no physical security can and should be configured with "no service password-recovery". Proper administrative policies would have had version control archiving router and switch configurations, thereby completely alleviating the impact of disabling break key recognition.
I don't call it secure until at the very least, I can't break in without extraordinary measures.
Actually, he may be an 'asshole' with more integrity than you understand. One strict interpretation of Sarbanes Oxley elements (albeit probably not intended) does prohibit such a disclosure in the context of systems affecting revenue(and networks he administrated did fall in that category), and would place the city in non-compliance. The reality is that the SOX rules that were supposed to govern shared accounts have really created some seriously misguided ambiguity. Unfortunately, what seems logical and intuitively right also seems to be directly at odds with compliance law. It's a cluster fsck with some inodes over-subscribed by politicians who can't count or add. To make matters worse you can have NDA crap that is pathetically written that imposes post employment disclosure prohibition that further complicates the issue. Without reading his NDAs I don't know exactly what he was facing but in over 20 years of consulting I have seen some real idiocy on paper mandated by lawyers, and in fact I have walked away from gigs where the paperwork was so contradictory at inception that it was impossible to comply with one doc without violating another. I backed out and walked away, no harm no foul. In short, I would say that the manager tried a heavy hand when proper direct pressure was more appropriate. A demand to seal and vault global enterprise credentials (root/enable/etc) could have been complied with, and a subsequent de-vault for documented appropriate cause would have complied with SOX where a demand for direct unauditable disclosure violates several SOX auditing factors.
But just think...you could go to the urinal in a bar and mr. wizard could change the channel on the urinal video display to match the one you were watching at your bar stool. Then when you return to your barstool and sit down mr. wizard could tell you how long had elapsed between your urinal trips, advise you to move over if you sat at a different bar stool, and automatically charge another drink to the next stolen credit card number on your list, er ahh order you a jonnycab. I'd have to go with the "10 Seconds in the 7-Eleven Microwave" plan as I just don't see how this does anything to resolve the alleged justification. It might violate the virginia radar detector statutes too. Big brother is already too big, no thanks mr. wizard.
I think it would even be more effective and less time consuming to install OpenDOS. It is an operating system, it would eliminate the NakedPC lawyer lala, and minimize the cost impact on the sellers at risk. Personally I question the implication that a licensed copy of software has to run on the 'original machine'. Heh, anyone who has ever tried to keep billysoft failware running knows that monthly (or more frequent for those who load applications) reloads are required to keep it running anyways.
I think what we have here is a monopoly that is running scared, and it should be. I don't owe Microsoft jack except if I choose to run their lame OS, which I don't, Naked PC or not.
I prefer Solaris, FreeBSD, and Linux on Intel
platforms.
Almondo
My reaction to this crap is to declare SOA for doubleclick.net. If they can collect and disseminate data about me without my consent then I reserve the right to block them from any access to me whatsoever. I reserve the right to block anyone from accessing my domain, network or other resources for any reason, or no reason at all.
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And I see this as one. It does possess the potential and near certainty of improving the results of CDN targeting for users who use non-local DNS servers for resolution. Many of these third party non local DNS providers are thriving because so many 'service providers' are so utterly inept at delivering the net keystone component, DNS resolution. I don't now, and have not for many years rely on provider DNS servers for exactly this reason. This will help the third party DNS providers enable CDNs to do a better job. It will allow a better hit rate for sites that try to geotarget (we do). It has some very interesting potential side effects in the war on spam, botnets, hijacked IP blocks, etc which I won't get into or forget. Does it reduce fundamental anonymity somewhere? Maybe, but really I think that impact is lost if you actually make the connection to the A record you are given, I mean really, if your DNS request was tagged from 172.16.254.0/24, and then you connect to my server from 172.16.254.5, ah where is the foul? (RFC 1918 example IP addresses used to protect the innocent IP addresses). It does mean that I can tell you 'piss off mate' at the DNS level rather that doing it at the network service level which has some potential usefulness/humor value/abuseability but really only if you actually use a DNS server that has the extensions. Could some genius ISP think, "oh, we will railroad you into using this" ? Perhaps, but that will only captivate those who choose to be captivated, PAT, vpns, tunneling, anybody who wants to will drill a walk right through sized hole in that in short order. So, at the end of the day, personally, while I am a bit miffed about some of Google's other recent activity (the broken on off switch on the toolbar tracking and other BigBroMo activity comes to mind) I think this does have some strong technical merits and it's ability to be used in an evil manner is very limited in my opinion.
>North American car owners prefer automatics because you can't eat a cheeseburger and talk on the >phone while applying makeup & reading the newspaper if you're driving stick.
Sure I can, and with Verizon I can use my second phone to send text messages and read Slashdot.
Coordination dude, git some ;)
This really depends on the ambient temperature and the vehicle type. The stress of engaging a drive train that is still at -30 degrees or colder well exceeds the stress of allowing it to idle and rise to a viable operating temperature. For a diesel powered vehicle the stress of operating in extreme cold without warming up is magnified significantly.
There is threshold of what is reasonable, and waiting an hour or more to let the heater melt the ice for you is beyond that threshold but there is a reasonable amount of warming up that is prudent to decrease the stress on the vehicle.
Tom and Ray need to spend a couple of winters in Duluth, MN or better yet, International Falls.
My solution was to move to Florida, it works well and often my truck does not even ask me to wait for the glow plugs to warm up.
Heh, I would view it as an opportunity to fail to comply with management. Historically I have always been on the lookout for such opportunities. I still remember the cool bit of code some joker wrote...first it displayed "Press any key to begin formatting C:", then it waited about 5 seconds, after which it displayed "Just kidding...Formatting...n/n/n" and it cycled through some fake head numbers while making a nice ominous clicking sound through the speaker. I think it would make a comeback if somebody ordered me to wear an IT droid shirt.
Bailiff, remove everyone from the courtroom, I want some peace and quiet so I can think of some politically correct way to respond to this in order to get re-elected.
Sure, if it could surf I could use it to monitor my nms while driving down the road or while sitting at the bar. It would be cool if it was more than a toy, (as in has an SSH client, etc) but even if it didn't I could cope with it. If it starts uncontrollably spewing Rollax, Vialis, Shrinx ads I will just have the bartender put it in the beer cooler for a while so it can cool down. I could take it to wally world and scan random barcodes for no apparent reason other than to confuse the ad targeting bot. I still have a USB cuecat around somewhere...I think it's filed under b for barcode, c for cool, s for stuff, or worst case, l for lost.
I think the fact that so many road warriors have retired from travel is good evidence that they won. Personally, I quit taking road warrior jobs not out of fear of terrorists, but simply because I am tired of pathetic TSA bullshit making me throw away my shampoo and mouthwash every week.
The TSA theatrical security is far more pathetic than security through obscurity ever was.
The real terrorists are the TSA themselves.
Actually, I did not previously know the origin of that line.
I thus acknowledge Cool Hand Luke, Rosenberg, Pearce and Pierson for the original work as well. ;)
What we have here is "Failure to Communicate", some orbits you just can't reach, which is what we had last night, which is the way we wants it, well we gets it. :)
Inspirational credit formally acknowledged to Axle Rose & the rest of G&R
Do you also refuse to utilize Firefox? If you are truly making this assumption then you really should refuse to use Firefox because those web forgery notifications probably meet your definition of censorship. I tend to visit the censored pages to make sure that I supply them with some worthless drivel. I wouldn't want the spam scamming nimrods to be left without any humor, plus the bogus information helps the ecommerce victims draw a crosshair bead on the perpetrators. If Elvis, John Wayne, and Jimmy Hendrix all show up at your store on the same day to buy Rollaxes your are probably worthy of a closer look by the fraud brothers in arms.
Perhaps Apple buyers are really just paying $500 to avoid Microsoft products. And judging from the loyalty of Apple users, one could easily conclude that they find it to be a good investment.
I was a regular business and personal customer for a long time. Sadly they sank the ship themselves, with Acer & Microsoft's help. Vista was and still is pathetic defective crap. Shoving it up so many customers asses was a sure way to go down in flames. I payed the restocking fee on returning the utterly defective and useless Vista Christmas laptops, and they lost me as a customer, not because 'they couldn't do anything about it', but because they never even tried. Billy's ability to suck a 5 mile freight train through a coffee stirrer even caught me off guard. After having paid $3k for the worthless OS/2 1.0 SDK I thought I knew what he was capable of. Vista is a greed scam that makes Madeoff look like a choir boy.
"Would you mean, perhaps, administrative policies that from all of this, it would appear to have been Childs job to implement?"
Yes, I think that is a fair conclusion. If it wasn't his responsibility to account for these archival processes then it sure should have been somebody's (like maybe his manager who locked himself out?). In any case, the problem was a lot bigger than his refusal to disclose IMHO.
I expect he will be able to find more than one Cisco certified security professional who will point out that devices with limited or no physical security can and should be configured with "no service password-recovery". Proper administrative policies would have had version control archiving router and switch configurations, thereby completely alleviating the impact of disabling break key recognition.
I don't call it secure until at the very least, I can't break in without extraordinary measures.
Actually, he may be an 'asshole' with more integrity than you understand. One strict interpretation of Sarbanes Oxley elements (albeit probably not intended) does prohibit such a disclosure in the context of systems affecting revenue(and networks he administrated did fall in that category), and would place the city in non-compliance. The reality is that the SOX rules that were supposed to govern shared accounts have really created some seriously misguided ambiguity. Unfortunately, what seems logical and intuitively right also seems to be directly at odds with compliance law. It's a cluster fsck with some inodes over-subscribed by politicians who can't count or add. To make matters worse you can have NDA crap that is pathetically written that imposes post employment disclosure prohibition that further complicates the issue. Without reading his NDAs I don't know exactly what he was facing but in over 20 years of consulting I have seen some real idiocy on paper mandated by lawyers, and in fact I have walked away from gigs where the paperwork was so contradictory at inception that it was impossible to comply with one doc without violating another. I backed out and walked away, no harm no foul. In short, I would say that the manager tried a heavy hand when proper direct pressure was more appropriate. A demand to seal and vault global enterprise credentials (root/enable/etc) could have been complied with, and a subsequent de-vault for documented appropriate cause would have complied with SOX where a demand for direct unauditable disclosure violates several SOX auditing factors.
But just think...you could go to the urinal in a bar and mr. wizard could change the channel on the urinal video display to match the one you were watching at your bar stool. Then when you return to your barstool and sit down mr. wizard could tell you how long had elapsed between your urinal trips, advise you to move over if you sat at a different bar stool, and automatically charge another drink to the next stolen credit card number on your list, er ahh order you a jonnycab. I'd have to go with the "10 Seconds in the 7-Eleven Microwave" plan as I just don't see how this does anything to resolve the alleged justification. It might violate the virginia radar detector statutes too. Big brother is already too big, no thanks mr. wizard.
I think it would even be more effective and less time consuming to install OpenDOS. It is an operating system, it would eliminate the NakedPC lawyer lala, and minimize the cost impact on the sellers at risk. Personally I question the implication that a licensed copy of software has to run on the 'original machine'. Heh, anyone who has ever tried to keep billysoft failware running knows that monthly (or more frequent for those who load applications) reloads are required to keep it running anyways. I think what we have here is a monopoly that is running scared, and it should be. I don't owe Microsoft jack except if I choose to run their lame OS, which I don't, Naked PC or not. I prefer Solaris, FreeBSD, and Linux on Intel platforms. Almondo
Yes, but only if I knew that 30% was going toward taking rights away from the RIAA and giving them back to the artists.
My reaction to this crap is to declare SOA for doubleclick.net. If they can collect and disseminate data about me without my consent then I reserve the right to block them from any access to me whatsoever. I reserve the right to block anyone from accessing my domain, network or other resources for any reason, or no reason at all.