If you store other peoples' shit in your home for money, damn right you are responsible for its security. Nobody cares if your own stuff gets stolen.
My wife has a yarn store and import/distribution business for fancy schmancy yarns. We have customer data, not by choice, customers demand it for their convenience. I happen to be a security/crypto type engineer. So we worked out what the plan was based on the notion that a yarn store is helpless in the face of electronic warfare.
1) Outsource anything touching PCI-DSS. The payment card machine doesn't attach to the computer. The online payments are through a service that handles the card data on their servers while appearing to be on our web site and PCI-DSS compliance is part of their service. PCI-DSS sucks (I've read the specs - It's not pretty). But it's what we have. So pay someone else to hold the responsibility who on the surface may be better positioned that a yarn store to handle such data.
2) Don't keep customer credit card data on a computer. Use other means.
In general, there's nothing anyone can do who isn't deeply involved in computer security and cryptography, which on average is everyone. Those few who are involved in the intersection of retail and computer security are disempowered by the payment card companies who dictate terms, avoid liability and push absolutely useless security standards on the rest of us.
He said he "hunted Africa", which I understand to mean that he stepped off of the plain, looked around, found an Africa, and started shooting the ground.
Continents are hard to kill, though, because they're just so big. There's been maybe one good account of a kill, but it was so long ago that it might have been fictionalized. Sure, lots of folks tell stories about it, but very few ever even try to take down a continent themselves. Even the attempt is impressive.
Someone killed Antarctica a long time ago. It's stone cold now.
I don't have a numpad you insensitive clod! I have a Happy Hacking keyboard.
However when typing I just sort of launch my fingers at the keyboard and hit the keys in the required order. This comes from typing from an early age. I never learned 'proper' touch typing, but the muscle memory is pretty well ingrained and I can type faster than I can think of what to type.
So whatever finger is close to the six and fits in the logic sequence of where my fingers need to go will be the one that hits the 6 (right hand that time - Left hand hit the 'e' of the the, so the right hand was ready and available to hit the 6).
personally I buy what I want to play at the time not wait 5 years to try and hopefully save $50. that may be a $5 game or a $60 game just released. $60 isn't a lot to pay for something I will spend many many hours on. cheaper than going to the movies and most other forms of entertainment I engage in. I find gaming saves me money as I would be spending far more on other activities.
I find that there is an unlimited supply of steam games to play at any time and it's no hardship to find a cheap one when I'm done with the last one. I think I paid full price for the last Bioshock, but that's because I'd run through the previous two and it was in the series. Stupid ending though.
Your game might have a limited memory footprint, but my entropy analysis algorithms do not.
... which is obviously completely representative of the workload that Joe Sixpack is running on his home PC.
(I'm running genetic algorithms that require 16-20TB of VM, but I don't make any decisions based on that because it's not like any workload that J.Random public would be running. From doing the usual helping out with family and neighbours PCs, most of them would get by fine with 2GB, and maybe an 800MHz CPU if you have hibernate enabled so the boot time isn't so long).
I've yet to find what J.Random public is. People's workloads seem diverse in quantity and type. My basic unit of data is 1TB, mostly because that's what people can deliver to me on a reasonably priced disk.
I anticipate that what was a pain 5 years ago and is a day's compute load today will be nothing in terms of network bandwidth, storage an compute a few years from now. My jobs won't get bigger. There will just be the capability to do more of them per unit time. The real work comes when the data isn't right and I have to engage the brain to diagnose the defect in algorithm, architecture or circuit. I don't get any faster with time.
Your game might have a limited memory footprint, but my entropy analysis algorithms do not.
Too much RAM is dangerous because without ECC the risk of corruption becomes very high.
For some stuff I do checksums on the bulk data to capture bit errors. It's not worth correcting for. Just re-run. It happens maybe a couple of times a year but my sample space on my current biggest machine is only 2 years. If it happened more often, ECC RAM would be more optimal. If I had the option for desktop computers I would be buying ECC ram.
When I abuse the company server farms, they do have ECC, but I'm running on desktops because people don't like it when I run my jobs on shared machines. 1 4 core, 8 thread i7 PC with 64Gig of ram runnning 24/7 can keep on going on, whereas shared servers in a rack somewhere have variable load and you have to nanny it.
I played with EC2, but it's expensive if your compute load is unbounded.
They are not simply doing research on competing AV. They were posting, anonymously, common files to blacklists like VirusTotal. They chose files that would cause the system to crash if removed. So then other AV software, that didn't know about these fake entries in the blacklist, would break people's computers. This was very sinister, and not the first time an anti-virus company has been caught proliferating damaging software. They are harming people's computers just to make their competitors look bad. It's astonishing they would do this considering how much harm they did to everyone, and how little good they did for themselves.
An OS based AV should have white list signatures for essential OS files. This attack shouldn't be a problem if the host has defense in depth.
> I personally hope this extends into requiring that people have well rounded educational backgrounds
That may work nicely for generating lots of well rounded people, but stuff gets done be people focused on the thing they do. You wouldn't have any communication security if it wasn't for people who obsessed over mathematics for their entire lives. You wouldn't have pretty game graphics if it wasn't for people who obsessed over datapath architecture. You wouldn't have nice game music if it wasn't for people who focused on music their whole lives. You can live wide & shallow or deep & narrow or both or neither. The world will get by, but don't imagine it would be ok if everyone followed the wide & shallow path.
You can believe what you want, and refuse to believe what you choose, I'm not here to make you change your mind. However, except for the price there isn't really noticeable difference here, and that comes almost exactly to the amount they are "saving" in fees and taxes.
The difference is when I call a taxi company, it's one of many companies and their cars are 30 minutes away. When I tap on the Lyft or Uber their cars are all over the place, fairly well distributed and the nearest car is between 30 seconds and 5 minutes away. I'm not 'believing' or 'disbelieving' anything. I'm communicating my direct experience of using both normal Taxis, Lyft and Uber, as a frequent business traveller.
Driving without 3rd party insurance being illegal has nothing to do with driving a taxi. You need 3rd party insurance to drive in any capacity.
Arresting them for driving without 3rd party insurance, but not for violating some taxi related law suggests that they were just targeting uber drivers and getting them on something else because driving for uber isn't in and of itself illegal.
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If you store other peoples' shit in your home for money, damn right you are responsible for its security. Nobody cares if your own stuff gets stolen.
My wife has a yarn store and import/distribution business for fancy schmancy yarns. We have customer data, not by choice, customers demand it for their convenience. I happen to be a security/crypto type engineer. So we worked out what the plan was based on the notion that a yarn store is helpless in the face of electronic warfare.
1) Outsource anything touching PCI-DSS. The payment card machine doesn't attach to the computer. The online payments are through a service that handles the card data on their servers while appearing to be on our web site and PCI-DSS compliance is part of their service. PCI-DSS sucks (I've read the specs - It's not pretty). But it's what we have. So pay someone else to hold the responsibility who on the surface may be better positioned that a yarn store to handle such data.
2) Don't keep customer credit card data on a computer. Use other means.
In general, there's nothing anyone can do who isn't deeply involved in computer security and cryptography, which on average is everyone. Those few who are involved in the intersection of retail and computer security are disempowered by the payment card companies who dictate terms, avoid liability and push absolutely useless security standards on the rest of us.
He said nothing about lions.
He said he "hunted Africa", which I understand to mean that he stepped off of the plain, looked around, found an Africa, and started shooting the ground.
Continents are hard to kill, though, because they're just so big. There's been maybe one good account of a kill, but it was so long ago that it might have been fictionalized. Sure, lots of folks tell stories about it, but very few ever even try to take down a continent themselves. Even the attempt is impressive.
Someone killed Antarctica a long time ago. It's stone cold now.
The keyboard is the useless part of the keyboard.
When I was around age 10 I learned to type with one of these.. https://www.google.com/search?...
I regret that microwriters never took off. With a weeks practice you could type perfectly fast one handed while drinking coffee with the other.
I'm fairly certain you can get a keyboard with no number pad...
Get this one.. http://www.amazon.com/Happy-Ha...
Really, it's worth the wonga.
I use the numpad almost always.
I don't have a numpad you insensitive clod! I have a Happy Hacking keyboard.
However when typing I just sort of launch my fingers at the keyboard and hit the keys in the required order. This comes from typing from an early age. I never learned 'proper' touch typing, but the muscle memory is pretty well ingrained and I can type faster than I can think of what to type.
So whatever finger is close to the six and fits in the logic sequence of where my fingers need to go will be the one that hits the 6 (right hand that time - Left hand hit the 'e' of the the, so the right hand was ready and available to hit the 6).
I'd say NFS is the evidence that's it's not practically possible :)
And 9P is the evidence that it's entirely possible.
Did someone think up this game after playing Lifeless Planet on Steam?
If there's a Mrs Overstreet, she needs to be careful. Linux FS programmers have a bit of a history.
go slit your fucking wrists fucktard
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You seem angry. Perhaps you should seek anger management classes.
personally I buy what I want to play at the time not wait 5 years to try and hopefully save $50. that may be a $5 game or a $60 game just released. $60 isn't a lot to pay for something I will spend many many hours on. cheaper than going to the movies and most other forms of entertainment I engage in. I find gaming saves me money as I would be spending far more on other activities.
I find that there is an unlimited supply of steam games to play at any time and it's no hardship to find a cheap one when I'm done with the last one. I think I paid full price for the last Bioshock, but that's because I'd run through the previous two and it was in the series. Stupid ending though.
Pre- and post-Maxwell makes a huge difference,
The silver-hammer, demon or field equations?
I'll wait five years to pick up this card for $50 and buy this year's video games for $5 each on Steam.
You too? I have started Fallout III last week after magic 300h passed on Napoleon Total War. Both are playable on C2Q 6600 and GF 9800GT
I thought everyone does that. I just filter for sub $10.00.
I think the number on my card is 970.
This is 950.
Are smaller numbers better than bigger numbers? Or is this an older card that they've kept in a box for a year before revealing to the world?
How would this improve my life?
Your game might have a limited memory footprint, but my entropy analysis algorithms do not.
... which is obviously completely representative of the workload that Joe Sixpack is running on his home PC.
(I'm running genetic algorithms that require 16-20TB of VM, but I don't make any decisions based on that because it's not like any workload that J.Random public would be running. From doing the usual helping out with family and neighbours PCs, most of them would get by fine with 2GB, and maybe an 800MHz CPU if you have hibernate enabled so the boot time isn't so long).
I've yet to find what J.Random public is. People's workloads seem diverse in quantity and type. My basic unit of data is 1TB, mostly because that's what people can deliver to me on a reasonably priced disk.
I anticipate that what was a pain 5 years ago and is a day's compute load today will be nothing in terms of network bandwidth, storage an compute a few years from now. My jobs won't get bigger. There will just be the capability to do more of them per unit time. The real work comes when the data isn't right and I have to engage the brain to diagnose the defect in algorithm, architecture or circuit. I don't get any faster with time.
The more RAM I have, the better.
Your game might have a limited memory footprint, but my entropy analysis algorithms do not.
Too much RAM is dangerous because without ECC the risk of corruption becomes very high.
For some stuff I do checksums on the bulk data to capture bit errors. It's not worth correcting for. Just re-run. It happens maybe a couple of times a year but my sample space on my current biggest machine is only 2 years. If it happened more often, ECC RAM would be more optimal. If I had the option for desktop computers I would be buying ECC ram.
When I abuse the company server farms, they do have ECC, but I'm running on desktops because people don't like it when I run my jobs on shared machines. 1 4 core, 8 thread i7 PC with 64Gig of ram runnning 24/7 can keep on going on, whereas shared servers in a rack somewhere have variable load and you have to nanny it.
I played with EC2, but it's expensive if your compute load is unbounded.
The more RAM I have, the better.
Your game might have a limited memory footprint, but my entropy analysis algorithms do not.
Why is anyone still running Firefox? (Other than those of us who need to a keep a copy around for web dev.)
Because
dnf install firefox works.
dnf install chrome does not.
But but but I have a Nexus 4 from Google! Whennnn?
About 3 months after the AOSP release from Google and Cyanogen or your preferred alternative make a working version for the Nexus 4.
So this puts all the people who brought their android phone from a US carrier one more version of Android behind their expectations.
That BOM missed the $60 for patent licensing from the 3G pool.
They are not simply doing research on competing AV. They were posting, anonymously, common files to blacklists like VirusTotal. They chose files that would cause the system to crash if removed. So then other AV software, that didn't know about these fake entries in the blacklist, would break people's computers. This was very sinister, and not the first time an anti-virus company has been caught proliferating damaging software. They are harming people's computers just to make their competitors look bad. It's astonishing they would do this considering how much harm they did to everyone, and how little good they did for themselves.
An OS based AV should have white list signatures for essential OS files. This attack shouldn't be a problem if the host has defense in depth.
That's provably impossible. It's trivial to convert it to the halting problem.
They worked that out centuries ago when securing castles. That's why the guards shout "Halt! Who goes there?"
> I personally hope this extends into requiring that people have well rounded educational backgrounds
That may work nicely for generating lots of well rounded people, but stuff gets done be people focused on the thing they do. You wouldn't have any communication security if it wasn't for people who obsessed over mathematics for their entire lives. You wouldn't have pretty game graphics if it wasn't for people who obsessed over datapath architecture. You wouldn't have nice game music if it wasn't for people who focused on music their whole lives. You can live wide & shallow or deep & narrow or both or neither. The world will get by, but don't imagine it would be ok if everyone followed the wide & shallow path.
You can believe what you want, and refuse to believe what you choose, I'm not here to make you change your mind. However, except for the price there isn't really noticeable difference here, and that comes almost exactly to the amount they are "saving" in fees and taxes.
The difference is when I call a taxi company, it's one of many companies and their cars are 30 minutes away. When I tap on the Lyft or Uber their cars are all over the place, fairly well distributed and the nearest car is between 30 seconds and 5 minutes away. I'm not 'believing' or 'disbelieving' anything. I'm communicating my direct experience of using both normal Taxis, Lyft and Uber, as a frequent business traveller.
Driving without 3rd party insurance being illegal has nothing to do with driving a taxi. You need 3rd party insurance to drive in any capacity.
Arresting them for driving without 3rd party insurance, but not for violating some taxi related law suggests that they were just targeting uber drivers and getting them on something else because driving for uber isn't in and of itself illegal.