The FBI is just doing their job man, there's no vast conspiracy to shut down some pipspeak webpage like indymedia.
Spring is here, why don't you go outside and get some sun. Maybe talk to a human being or two about something other than how your government is 'opressing' you. You'll feel better and stop thinking about vast conspiracies.
The indymedia people are classic suburban activists. The stand against a good many things, but stand for nothing.
I looked at the number of Indymedia sites, including the albany, buffalo, vermont, arizona and boston sites and found a number of things:
1. 'Independent' people dislike 'globalization' and dislike 'free trade'.
2. 'Independent' people feel a need to 'reclaim the streets' on a regular basis.
3. 'Independent' people are really psyched up for May 1 or "Mayday: a festival of labor, paganism, anarchist ideas, and action! "
4. 'Independent' people aren't too worried about sweatshops this year. (That was all the rage last year)
The 'Independent Media Center' is little more than a bunch of spoiled, bored college kids who are good at complaining, but incapable of taking any action outside of taking to the streets.
Actually, I have some experience managing large numbers of computers. I am part of a team that manages over 85,000 Windows 95/NT4 and 2000 clients, as well as another 5,000 NT, Linux and Unix servers belonging to a variety of medical facilites as well as state & local gov't.
I never said that Google should use NT, only that the cost comparisons put forth by many Slashdotters are not as one sided as you may think.
I also never suggested the Linux is inferior to NT. But if you find it unlikely that $1-2 million is time & materials were invested in customization and bugfixing, I don't think that you have a realistic grasp of what things cost.
I'm sure that Google spent far in excess of $1 million to customize Linux to the level that they have.
Qualified people who modify the innards of operating systems for a living don't come cheap. Not too many people are willing to donate their time and energy gratis to companies.
Does anyone mention the outrageous electric bill that they pay?
Abandon your home and electrical stuff and go do the world a favor and go live in a clapboard shack in the woods somewhere. Take your green left-wing horseshit somewhere and enjoy living without the 'evils' of modern society.
both left and right wingers are leading us on the road to tyranny.
Using gerrymandering as a example of right wing tyranny in particular displays your partisan ignorance. Both the democrats & republicans attempt to carve up voting districts to their favor. In 1996 the democrats created a congressional district which resembled a snake in order to produce a 'diverse' 95% black district that would vote democrat.
What is the point of backing up keyfiles to tape or to another host.
Some '3733t h4x0r' just needs to steal the tape or compromise the server where the keys are contained and every advantage of ssh keys is eliminated. Backup tapes violate file permissions at a distance. A single point where all keyfiles are stored is a boon to internal hackers.
The pilot does not have direct control of the control surfaces. His movement on the controls generates an electronic response, which filters the input and does what it's told.
Perhaps the controls were not responding, and the pilot was frantically resetting the computer in an attempt to regain some sort of control.
I have no idea why the reset button is there, and see no point to further speculation regarding it.
Your last statement implies that the entire flight control system of the Ospery is defective. This is highly unlikely. More likely is that there is some bug in the reset and/or error detection routines. An aircraft which is designed to perform in combat should be somewhat survivable in the event of hydraulic failure.
If you read my post, you would have noticed that I specifically mentioned that I was not talking about a university or colocation facility.
When I refer to a datacenter, I am referring to facility belonging to a mid to large sized company or government agency.
#1 Developers do not have access to production enviroments. Test/Development enviroments use the same sort of network as the production boxes. I neglected to mention this. DBA's need access to systems.
#2 By 'broker' I am referring to a second tier application which talks to the clients, processes requests, and accesses the database. The firewalls only enable these servers to connect to the central databases.
Our firewalls block all traffic, except traffic to specific ports and addresses that we specify.
#3 You got me on the switch thing. I don't work with managed switches at all and stuck my foot in my mouth. Excuse my ignorance.
You have a point, but think about practical considerations too.
In a university or colocation facility, yes you NEED to be running ssh or pptp or something similar.
But what do you gain in the datacenter or other internal corporate enviroment? If your professional staff is going to break your machines, they'll be able to even with ssh present.
Where I work, we have a cluster of IBM RS/6000 machines, a couple dozen Suns and a bunch of Digital AlphaServers doing a wide variety of data processing. We do not use ssh at all for a couple of reasons.
1. 90% of servers have 6 or less users, who are admins or senior dba's/developers. Most connectivity is done through client/server connections to databases or other applications.
2. Most end-user types cannot even directly connect to the server subnets. All connections go through a broker of some sort.
3. It's a pretty new network. Everything is switched. Hard to sniff on a switch.
What would ssh gain us in this circumstance? Nothing, but wasting a few more CPU cycles.
If this is an internal enviroment, using ssh in this manner is probaly a waste of time and processor resources. Firewalls and private networks are the best way to secure servers in an enterprise enviroment.
I mainly work with database servers, which all sit in protected subnets, accessible only to the application servers (brokers, report writers, etc) which need direct access to the database.
If any application is overhyped on Slashdot, ssh is. Clueless sysadmins writing passwords on notepads and stacks of DLT tapes on sysadmin's desks are a far bigger security menace than hackers sniffing an internal network for passwords.
I suggest you take your know-it-all attitude and use it to do something other than sully a dead man's honor.
The Ospery is a plane which requires computer control. No human being is able to compensate or be aware of all of the servos and control surfaces on that aircraft.
You are happy to sit back and say "You try to write a program so it boots up and takes control of an on-going process without glitches", defending the team that designed the software. Yet you question the pilot's intelligence for following his procedures during a few split-second moments of time.
It's a shame that young Marines and aircrew need to die because overpaid 'engineers' who fuck up the design of systems sit back and collect their consulting fees. If a civil engineer designed a bridge which collapsed under the weight of passenger traffic, he would lose his license and possibly face criminal charges. Software 'engineers' get to continue the project and collect more fees.
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The FBI is just doing their job man, there's no vast conspiracy to shut down some pipspeak webpage like indymedia.
Spring is here, why don't you go outside and get some sun. Maybe talk to a human being or two about something other than how your government is 'opressing' you. You'll feel better and stop thinking about vast conspiracies.
The indymedia people are classic suburban activists. The stand against a good many things, but stand for nothing.
I looked at the number of Indymedia sites, including the albany, buffalo, vermont, arizona and boston sites and found a number of things:
1. 'Independent' people dislike 'globalization' and dislike 'free trade'.
2. 'Independent' people feel a need to 'reclaim the streets' on a regular basis.
3. 'Independent' people are really psyched up for May 1 or "Mayday: a festival of labor, paganism, anarchist ideas, and action! "
4. 'Independent' people aren't too worried about sweatshops this year. (That was all the rage last year)
The 'Independent Media Center' is little more than a bunch of spoiled, bored college kids who are good at complaining, but incapable of taking any action outside of taking to the streets.
Actually, I have some experience managing large numbers of computers. I am part of a team that manages over 85,000 Windows 95/NT4 and 2000 clients, as well as another 5,000 NT, Linux and Unix servers belonging to a variety of medical facilites as well as state & local gov't.
I never said that Google should use NT, only that the cost comparisons put forth by many Slashdotters are not as one sided as you may think.
I also never suggested the Linux is inferior to NT. But if you find it unlikely that $1-2 million is time & materials were invested in customization and bugfixing, I don't think that you have a realistic grasp of what things cost.
I'm sure that Google spent far in excess of $1 million to customize Linux to the level that they have.
Qualified people who modify the innards of operating systems for a living don't come cheap. Not too many people are willing to donate their time and energy gratis to companies.
not really, licensing vast quantites of microsoft os's especially in high-profile enviroments leads to very signifigant discounts.
the large government agency that I work for paid approx $3M for about 25000 windows 2k server and workstation licenses
Does anyone mention the outrageous electric bill that they pay?
Abandon your home and electrical stuff and go do the world a favor and go live in a clapboard shack in the woods somewhere. Take your green left-wing horseshit somewhere and enjoy living without the 'evils' of modern society.
Until recently, New York had the highest energy costs in the nation... although California takes that prize these days
No post since April 25th is available on Google right not (April 27)
You can't tell me that comp.lang.perl.misc has had zero activity
With too-long match times, camping and crummy guns who would ever want to watch a counterstrike game without playing?
I'd rather watch cspan...
When I dealt with informix less than 6 months ago, they impressed me as having one of the best support organizations anywhere.
I'd say all of the various support problems you have stem from the fact that you know everything, yet still call support.
AMD has only boosted it's marketshare 2% in the last year. The 'geek influence' that Slashbotters love to harp on about just does not exist.
Face it, people don't base decisions on the opinions of know it all, self-proclaimed 'experts'.
Intel has the market clout and cash to survive any price war. Bye, bye AMD.
Ok, I'll buy that.
I would point out that different groups of common people (eg. soldiers, businesspeople, farmers, etc) would be interesting.
The SR-71 is actually a ramjet, the top speed is classified.
F-15's can go mach 2.5, but only with afterburner (dumping jet fuel into the exhaust) and only for like 15-20 minutes before running out of fuel.
The F-22 is the first and only plane which can maintain a speed over mach 2 without afterburner.
both left and right wingers are leading us on the road to tyranny.
Using gerrymandering as a example of right wing tyranny in particular displays your partisan ignorance. Both the democrats & republicans attempt to carve up voting districts to their favor. In 1996 the democrats created a congressional district which resembled a snake in order to produce a 'diverse' 95% black district that would vote democrat.
To the contrary.
Historians are attempting to decipher burned scrolls written by every day Roman citizens found buryied in ash near Pompeii.
Letters from common Civil War soldiers are regularly read and studied.
What is the point of backing up keyfiles to tape or to another host.
Some '3733t h4x0r' just needs to steal the tape or compromise the server where the keys are contained and every advantage of ssh keys is eliminated. Backup tapes violate file permissions at a distance. A single point where all keyfiles are stored is a boon to internal hackers.
The Ospery is a fly-by-wire aircraft.
The pilot does not have direct control of the control surfaces. His movement on the controls generates an electronic response, which filters the input and does what it's told.
Perhaps the controls were not responding, and the pilot was frantically resetting the computer in an attempt to regain some sort of control.
I have no idea why the reset button is there, and see no point to further speculation regarding it.
Your last statement implies that the entire flight control system of the Ospery is defective. This is highly unlikely. More likely is that there is some bug in the reset and/or error detection routines. An aircraft which is designed to perform in combat should be somewhat survivable in the event of hydraulic failure.
If you read my post, you would have noticed that I specifically mentioned that I was not talking about a university or colocation facility.
When I refer to a datacenter, I am referring to facility belonging to a mid to large sized company or government agency.
#1 Developers do not have access to production enviroments. Test/Development enviroments use the same sort of network as the production boxes. I neglected to mention this. DBA's need access to systems.
#2 By 'broker' I am referring to a second tier application which talks to the clients, processes requests, and accesses the database. The firewalls only enable these servers to connect to the central databases.
Our firewalls block all traffic, except traffic to specific ports and addresses that we specify.
#3 You got me on the switch thing. I don't work with managed switches at all and stuck my foot in my mouth. Excuse my ignorance.
You have a point, but think about practical considerations too.
In a university or colocation facility, yes you NEED to be running ssh or pptp or something similar.
But what do you gain in the datacenter or other internal corporate enviroment? If your professional staff is going to break your machines, they'll be able to even with ssh present.
Where I work, we have a cluster of IBM RS/6000 machines, a couple dozen Suns and a bunch of Digital AlphaServers doing a wide variety of data processing. We do not use ssh at all for a couple of reasons.
1. 90% of servers have 6 or less users, who are admins or senior dba's/developers. Most connectivity is done through client/server connections to databases or other applications.
2. Most end-user types cannot even directly connect to the server subnets. All connections go through a broker of some sort.
3. It's a pretty new network. Everything is switched. Hard to sniff on a switch.
What would ssh gain us in this circumstance? Nothing, but wasting a few more CPU cycles.
Looks pretty hairy... what is that language? is it for microcode or something?
No, since the GNU General Public License requires that you publish the source code of everything, we would know who had the technology.
The country that 'stole' it would also have to provide the source of any mods that they make.
The is no room in this world for non-Free software.
If this is an internal enviroment, using ssh in this manner is probaly a waste of time and processor resources. Firewalls and private networks are the best way to secure servers in an enterprise enviroment.
I mainly work with database servers, which all sit in protected subnets, accessible only to the application servers (brokers, report writers, etc) which need direct access to the database.
If any application is overhyped on Slashdot, ssh is. Clueless sysadmins writing passwords on notepads and stacks of DLT tapes on sysadmin's desks are a far bigger security menace than hackers sniffing an internal network for passwords.
I suggest you take your know-it-all attitude and use it to do something other than sully a dead man's honor.
The Ospery is a plane which requires computer control. No human being is able to compensate or be aware of all of the servos and control surfaces on that aircraft.
You are happy to sit back and say "You try to write a program so it boots up and takes control of an on-going process without glitches", defending the team that designed the software. Yet you question the pilot's intelligence for following his procedures during a few split-second moments of time.
It's a shame that young Marines and aircrew need to die because overpaid 'engineers' who fuck up the design of systems sit back and collect their consulting fees. If a civil engineer designed a bridge which collapsed under the weight of passenger traffic, he would lose his license and possibly face criminal charges. Software 'engineers' get to continue the project and collect more fees.
This guy is right.
Having thousands of open source developers collaborate together to improve military software is the best thing that we can do.
The reward was for finding a security hole.
Qmail has several bugs.