I have no problem with the concept and do not take it personally. It is simply the fact that for the most part they are wrong and can't/don't do what they claim to. So when they are wrong I simply prove that they are and then they go away.
Simply put I've yet to meet one of these consultants from whom I can learn anything but I've taught plenty of them how they should be doing their jobs.
Because most of them *claim* to be able to do "security" and do *not* specify Windows, Linux, or any other flavour of Unix. They will then try to claim that your Linux box is "insecure". But when you push them on it they can no more tell you why, how, or when it could be used against you than fly to the moon.
You would have a point if they claimed to be "Windows Security" people but that's not the way they sell their services or present their results.
I for one *love* ripping these guys new ones. In particular when I produce the same report in a couple of hours. All kinds of fun.
One of my jobs in the Air Force was destroying classified drives. This was almost ten years ago and we were much more thorough even back then. Think things that go "boom". I *really* miss that part of the job.
At that level it is *not* about money in the way you and I think of it. As a thing to exchange for goods and services. It is just a easy way for them to keep score.
No they have to offer you a reasonable way to get the code if they *distrubute* the changes. So under the current version of the GPL if they are shipping GPLed code on the appliance in question they have to offer you a way to get the source.
But you are basically right and the GP is clearly wrong.
Which has always been true of every piece of government issued ID.
Your point was?
All I'm saying is that all ID is worthless so it might as well be a passport as any other piece of ID. Or not. Either way if the government wants to fuck you they will.
While currently a overstatment things are heading that way. I recently went to Singapore. Took me well under 5 minutes to clear customs and immigration at Changi. And I had a *ton* of computer gear, books, and clothing that clearly wasn't for me.
Coming back it took the idiots at Portland nearly 30 minutes to clear me *back* into the country with a suitcase full of dirty laundry. Given what I saw on the plane and the fingerprint machines on the way in if I would not travel to this country for anything if I wasn't a citizen.
While we are certainly not even close to Soviet Russia we are much less free than many places in the world.
The point of a passport is to prove your citizenship. So how do you propose to prove your citzenship without one?
Till now they have been accepting birth certificates/DLs this is simply a change in the docs they will accept. Well they are selling it as a change in the docs. If you think about ID in the context of a web of trust you quickly come to the conclusion that *all* ID is useless.
But the point is that you have to have some way of proving it. So what would you use besides a passport? I'm wiling to bet it is just as useless as proof of citizenship as a passport.
Clearly this should be taken with a grain of salt. But it would appear that given the profit margins on DVDs that they can well afford not to bother one with ads and still make money hand over fist.
The first 4 Legend of the Aldenata books kicked serious ass even if he did mess up the physics of the grav guns and if he had a couple of ambushes wrong. And I'm willing to accept his excuse for why it was 4 instead of 3. And they had a Sluggy corssover! But then he, a still new author, lets others play in his signature universe with HIS CORE CHARACTERS!!
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How many of those people hack Java for fun?
That is what a devolper community and a *good* license/language is all about. Java sucks on both fronts.
Who said I was behaving like a "arrogant prick"?
True. But you have to admit that ones who are really good are few and far in-between.
I have no problem with the concept and do not take it personally. It is simply the fact that for the most part they are wrong and can't/don't do what they claim to. So when they are wrong I simply prove that they are and then they go away.
Simply put I've yet to meet one of these consultants from whom I can learn anything but I've taught plenty of them how they should be doing their jobs.
You misunderstand. I get these kinds of jokers fired. By showing that they can't even spell the word "security".
Because most of them *claim* to be able to do "security" and do *not* specify Windows, Linux, or any other flavour of Unix. They will then try to claim that your Linux box is "insecure". But when you push them on it they can no more tell you why, how, or when it could be used against you than fly to the moon.
You would have a point if they claimed to be "Windows Security" people but that's not the way they sell their services or present their results.
I for one *love* ripping these guys new ones. In particular when I produce the same report in a couple of hours. All kinds of fun.
N0, everybody knows that Finagle's Law is the supereme law of the Universe.
One of my jobs in the Air Force was destroying classified drives. This was almost ten years ago and we were much more thorough even back then. Think things that go "boom". I *really* miss that part of the job.
No.
http://www.opennic.unrated.net/
http://www.crackmonkey.org/faq.html#ANSWER6
As the good folks at Crackmonkey mention the problem is getting others to pay attention to you.
At that level it is *not* about money in the way you and I think of it. As a thing to exchange for goods and services. It is just a easy way for them to keep score.
Where in the fuck does the GPL specify a CD?
No they have to offer you a reasonable way to get the code if they *distrubute* the changes. So under the current version of the GPL if they are shipping GPLed code on the appliance in question they have to offer you a way to get the source.
But you are basically right and the GP is clearly wrong.
CORN!!!!
I just wish they would make some more of the Linux on PS2 kits.
A perjury is lying under oath. So that makes no sense.
"Imagine saying I don't a country because I don't a guy there."
WTF does that mean?
Fuck off and die, then.
Which has always been true of every piece of government issued ID.
Your point was?
All I'm saying is that all ID is worthless so it might as well be a passport as any other piece of ID. Or not. Either way if the government wants to fuck you they will.
Used to be 50 before they stopped using numbers. /me mutters something dark about noobs.
I'm as white as they come.
While currently a overstatment things are heading that way. I recently went to Singapore. Took me well under 5 minutes to clear customs and immigration at Changi. And I had a *ton* of computer gear, books, and clothing that clearly wasn't for me.
Coming back it took the idiots at Portland nearly 30 minutes to clear me *back* into the country with a suitcase full of dirty laundry. Given what I saw on the plane and the fingerprint machines on the way in if I would not travel to this country for anything if I wasn't a citizen.
While we are certainly not even close to Soviet Russia we are much less free than many places in the world.
It's not the Canadian government requiring anything. So your point would be?
The point of a passport is to prove your citizenship. So how do you propose to prove your citzenship without one?
Till now they have been accepting birth certificates/DLs this is simply a change in the docs they will accept. Well they are selling it as a change in the docs. If you think about ID in the context of a web of trust you quickly come to the conclusion that *all* ID is useless.
But the point is that you have to have some way of proving it. So what would you use besides a passport? I'm wiling to bet it is just as useless as proof of citizenship as a passport.
Clearly this should be taken with a grain of salt. But it would appear that given the profit margins on DVDs that they can well afford not to bother one with ads and still make money hand over fist.
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Can sombody shoot John Ringo in the head for me?
Such wasted potential pisses me off.
The first 4 Legend of the Aldenata books kicked serious ass even if he did mess up the physics of the grav guns and if he had a couple of ambushes wrong. And I'm willing to accept his excuse for why it was 4 instead of 3. And they had a Sluggy corssover! But then he, a still new author, lets others play in his signature universe with HIS CORE CHARACTERS!!
That fucking sell out needs to be shot.
that I get to go home early and play PS2?