It's generally accepted that most people are not referring to law enforcement (which includes the DA and PubDef offices as well as probation departments) or the fire departments when talking about public servants being slow and/or lazy. They're generally referring to the office workers and bureaucrats who move through arcane processes, playing politics with a viciousness akin to Washington, supported by a union that will fight tooth, nail, cudgel, mace, sword, gun, howitzer, and ICBM to keep from losing someone, even though there is plenty of justifiable cause.
I work for a county government. There are some good people, yes, but there are also a lot of people who play backstabbing games (particularly with those of us on contract to the county) or who can't bear to let a little bit of control leave their desks. I've had to go out to the various agencies and the amount of random chatter I see happening is far and away more than I ever saw when working in large corporations. Deadlines on simple projects are missed by months -- we're more than a year behind on rolling out one e-mail server because of politics involved with other agencies trying to shape our Active Directory implementation.
The highest quotients of good people are usually where the workers are most visible -- police, fire, DA/PubDef, probation, and healthcare and social services field personnel. Get back in the offices, though, and the signal to noise ratio can get extraordinarily bad.
It was two-tiered. The first thing was to get rid of the traffic to begin with so that our other customers weren't affected, since the attack was saturating our own connections and degrading service.
The next step was to allow a much smaller amount of the traffic through for analysis. Fortunately, we were able to find some things in the packets on which the upstream provider could filter, combined with some patches provided by some vendors the customer used, and while there were complaints that some legitimate traffic was blocked, the customer estimated that about 75% of the legit traffic got through. It finally petered out after a couple of days. We still had to deal with periodic DDoS attacks against the customer, but none were again like that, mostly just annoying us.
I've had some experience with this, having worked at an ISP, and we got assistance from our own upstream provider (telco with terabits of connectivity) to start putting blocks in place. This filtered out a several-hundred-megabit flood on one occasion, and was demonstrated later again when Slammer hit (done on their own starting about an hour or so after the ISP world was so harshly awakened by it).
Your word processor probably doesn't. However, that's not to say that your browser, e-mail program, SSH client, P2P app, or whatever other network-connected objects won't have an issue, depending on how (poorly) they were programmed. It's a precaution on Microsoft's part to minimize the number of phone calls into them about things that may really be the problem of third-party apps. It doesn't cause any harm to most users, other than the occasional pissed-off Slashdotter.
I believe this is the result of the more complete implementation of VESA in the basic Windows video drivers by Microsoft and in the hardware by the manufacturers. The same thing happened when I was rebuilding my mother's new laptop, which has a resolution of 1920x1200 running on an X300. I had to go check the drivers to verify that it *hadn't* installed ATI's drivers. Pretty nice to not have to struggle through 640x480 res while looking for drivers on pages designed for 800x600 or more.
It prompts you to reboot, but it's not at all necessary. I've seen it several times before, but just ignored it each time. There were no effects that I could see, even weeks later.
Have you seen any good HOWTO docs on implementing DomainKeys? I've seen a handful of attempts to explain, but nothing really solid on how to go about implementing it. We may be installing a new mail server soon where I work ("That old Sun box just ain't what it used to be, ain't what it used to be, ain't what it used to be...") and I'm wondering if maybe we can use the occasion to bring ourselves up to date.
I wonder if part of the problem here is part of the advice that we in the tech community give to common users, especially the part that says, "NEVER click on an opt-out or unsubscribe message." In doing so, and instead marking these messages as spam to get them out of their inbox, there may be inflicted additional harm on what is a legitimate and good-intentioned system.
He pled guilty to the charges of serving in the Taleban army, and of carrying weapons while doing so. The charges of conspiring to kill Americans abroad was dropped.
Everytime I hear about the cultural habit of killing a daughter for having sex (forced or not) outside of marriage to ensure the honor of the family continues, I hear about how the actual law of that particular area specifically prohibits such actions. I'd be interested in learning about any places where the law actually condones, if not encourages, such behavior.
International law is made up of the body of treaties ratified by the various sovereign states, because such treaties are usually accepted as law by the constitutions of those states. This means that the laws do not apply to those nations that do not ratify them, or who decide to leave the treaty body. However, as you point out, there are usually few means by which to enforce international law, and they're all expensive and time-consuming.
I found Sam Rockwell to be the worst part of the whole movie. I dislike his acting style, and have never liked any part he has played. Matchstick Men was the closest I ever came to being able to deal with him in a role, and that's because the role he played was the role he always plays.
As someone above said, Zaphod's not an idiot. His ideas aren't always the brightest (and some are downright stupid), but he has his occasional bouts of genius. He's also much more in control than most people around him realize, and he was most certainly not in control in the movie. There's a lot more subtlety to him than Rockwell has the capability to portray.
Sunni and Shi'ite sects make up the significant majority of Muslims, but there are other sects. I know of the Druze, Alawi, and Ismali (Ismaeli?), but there are others, though even combined they are a very small percentage of the overall religion.
The Catholic Church counts some 1.1 billion members, give or take, so about the size of China, or perhaps a little less. Islam is the second-largest religion with about 850 million adherents, though this does not include sects such as Sunni and Shi'ite, which the Catholic Church basically is.
That depends entirely on how well the AWACS aircraft perform. If one side has effective AWACS and sufficient missile supply while the other does not, front-line and reserve aircraft are going to lose out, because the AWACS will going to vector in friendlies and coordinate initial responses. Iraq lost out hugely in the air battle of 1991 because of this, even with capable fighters such as the MiG-29. The sole confirmed air-to-air victory by an Iraqi pilot was the downing of an F/A-18 by a MiG-25, partially because of the initial strikes that took out many of the planes before they got off the ground, but also because of the effective AWACS coverage that assured that there were no significant coverage holes, and that strike aircraft were effectively protected by interceptors.
So it's used by a niche crowd that could just as easily use something else, for which better free software is easily available, while the crowd that may have real need for it (security admins required by policy or application choice to use Windows) are crippled?
Gibson predicted the end of the internet when it was announced that raw sockets was to be supported in WinXP. That didn't happen, but Microsoft has decided to nerf it anyway. I don't see the logic here.
Perhaps something could be clarified... Have there been any significant viruses, worms, bots, or whatever that have taken advantage of raw sockets? Almost all of the alerts I've seen from Symantec, McAfee, etc, cover worms that cause problems via other means.
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Erm... Yeah. Symmetric. That's what I said. Must have been some bit errors after I submitted. :)
Not to mention that cable and DSL is largely asynchronous. Synchronous bandwidth, even for DSL, can get really expensive.
You get 6Mbps synchronous from Comcast cheaper than that?
Might want to check your numbers again.
It's generally accepted that most people are not referring to law enforcement (which includes the DA and PubDef offices as well as probation departments) or the fire departments when talking about public servants being slow and/or lazy. They're generally referring to the office workers and bureaucrats who move through arcane processes, playing politics with a viciousness akin to Washington, supported by a union that will fight tooth, nail, cudgel, mace, sword, gun, howitzer, and ICBM to keep from losing someone, even though there is plenty of justifiable cause.
I work for a county government. There are some good people, yes, but there are also a lot of people who play backstabbing games (particularly with those of us on contract to the county) or who can't bear to let a little bit of control leave their desks. I've had to go out to the various agencies and the amount of random chatter I see happening is far and away more than I ever saw when working in large corporations. Deadlines on simple projects are missed by months -- we're more than a year behind on rolling out one e-mail server because of politics involved with other agencies trying to shape our Active Directory implementation.
The highest quotients of good people are usually where the workers are most visible -- police, fire, DA/PubDef, probation, and healthcare and social services field personnel. Get back in the offices, though, and the signal to noise ratio can get extraordinarily bad.
It was two-tiered. The first thing was to get rid of the traffic to begin with so that our other customers weren't affected, since the attack was saturating our own connections and degrading service.
The next step was to allow a much smaller amount of the traffic through for analysis. Fortunately, we were able to find some things in the packets on which the upstream provider could filter, combined with some patches provided by some vendors the customer used, and while there were complaints that some legitimate traffic was blocked, the customer estimated that about 75% of the legit traffic got through. It finally petered out after a couple of days. We still had to deal with periodic DDoS attacks against the customer, but none were again like that, mostly just annoying us.
I've had some experience with this, having worked at an ISP, and we got assistance from our own upstream provider (telco with terabits of connectivity) to start putting blocks in place. This filtered out a several-hundred-megabit flood on one occasion, and was demonstrated later again when Slammer hit (done on their own starting about an hour or so after the ISP world was so harshly awakened by it).
Your word processor probably doesn't. However, that's not to say that your browser, e-mail program, SSH client, P2P app, or whatever other network-connected objects won't have an issue, depending on how (poorly) they were programmed. It's a precaution on Microsoft's part to minimize the number of phone calls into them about things that may really be the problem of third-party apps. It doesn't cause any harm to most users, other than the occasional pissed-off Slashdotter.
I believe this is the result of the more complete implementation of VESA in the basic Windows video drivers by Microsoft and in the hardware by the manufacturers. The same thing happened when I was rebuilding my mother's new laptop, which has a resolution of 1920x1200 running on an X300. I had to go check the drivers to verify that it *hadn't* installed ATI's drivers. Pretty nice to not have to struggle through 640x480 res while looking for drivers on pages designed for 800x600 or more.
It prompts you to reboot, but it's not at all necessary. I've seen it several times before, but just ignored it each time. There were no effects that I could see, even weeks later.
Have you seen any good HOWTO docs on implementing DomainKeys? I've seen a handful of attempts to explain, but nothing really solid on how to go about implementing it. We may be installing a new mail server soon where I work ("That old Sun box just ain't what it used to be, ain't what it used to be, ain't what it used to be...") and I'm wondering if maybe we can use the occasion to bring ourselves up to date.
I wonder if part of the problem here is part of the advice that we in the tech community give to common users, especially the part that says, "NEVER click on an opt-out or unsubscribe message." In doing so, and instead marking these messages as spam to get them out of their inbox, there may be inflicted additional harm on what is a legitimate and good-intentioned system.
Generally yes, although you'll only have to wait until 16 in some states.
Do they still have to water cool them when the spoiler is installed?
He pled guilty to the charges of serving in the Taleban army, and of carrying weapons while doing so. The charges of conspiring to kill Americans abroad was dropped.
Everytime I hear about the cultural habit of killing a daughter for having sex (forced or not) outside of marriage to ensure the honor of the family continues, I hear about how the actual law of that particular area specifically prohibits such actions. I'd be interested in learning about any places where the law actually condones, if not encourages, such behavior.
International law is made up of the body of treaties ratified by the various sovereign states, because such treaties are usually accepted as law by the constitutions of those states. This means that the laws do not apply to those nations that do not ratify them, or who decide to leave the treaty body. However, as you point out, there are usually few means by which to enforce international law, and they're all expensive and time-consuming.
I found Sam Rockwell to be the worst part of the whole movie. I dislike his acting style, and have never liked any part he has played. Matchstick Men was the closest I ever came to being able to deal with him in a role, and that's because the role he played was the role he always plays.
As someone above said, Zaphod's not an idiot. His ideas aren't always the brightest (and some are downright stupid), but he has his occasional bouts of genius. He's also much more in control than most people around him realize, and he was most certainly not in control in the movie. There's a lot more subtlety to him than Rockwell has the capability to portray.
Sunni and Shi'ite sects make up the significant majority of Muslims, but there are other sects. I know of the Druze, Alawi, and Ismali (Ismaeli?), but there are others, though even combined they are a very small percentage of the overall religion.
The Catholic Church counts some 1.1 billion members, give or take, so about the size of China, or perhaps a little less. Islam is the second-largest religion with about 850 million adherents, though this does not include sects such as Sunni and Shi'ite, which the Catholic Church basically is.
Tracks are mechanically much more complex. Each track is mechanically linked with its neighbors, increasing the number of possible failures.
That depends entirely on how well the AWACS aircraft perform. If one side has effective AWACS and sufficient missile supply while the other does not, front-line and reserve aircraft are going to lose out, because the AWACS will going to vector in friendlies and coordinate initial responses. Iraq lost out hugely in the air battle of 1991 because of this, even with capable fighters such as the MiG-29. The sole confirmed air-to-air victory by an Iraqi pilot was the downing of an F/A-18 by a MiG-25, partially because of the initial strikes that took out many of the planes before they got off the ground, but also because of the effective AWACS coverage that assured that there were no significant coverage holes, and that strike aircraft were effectively protected by interceptors.
So it's used by a niche crowd that could just as easily use something else, for which better free software is easily available, while the crowd that may have real need for it (security admins required by policy or application choice to use Windows) are crippled?
Gibson predicted the end of the internet when it was announced that raw sockets was to be supported in WinXP. That didn't happen, but Microsoft has decided to nerf it anyway. I don't see the logic here.
Perhaps something could be clarified... Have there been any significant viruses, worms, bots, or whatever that have taken advantage of raw sockets? Almost all of the alerts I've seen from Symantec, McAfee, etc, cover worms that cause problems via other means.
Seems so. After all, my LFS CLI is wicked-fast.
Your geek license is hereby suspended for 42 days. The correct number is 1.21 gigawatts.
Jules: A measurement of the amount of BMFness in a given system. The amount in this system is very small, hency the tiny number.