Seems to be a recurring subject line for me... FireFox has it remembered...
but 72 hours in advance? give me a break! When we found out my grandfather was dying, within 12 hours we had out flight, and were at the airport! As it was he died before we made it to the airport, but 72 hours, we would have just arrived in time for the funeral... if all of our flights had been on time (which they weren't).
This will hamper business deals, "Last Minute Travel" (Which the airlines love)... Standby tickets...
Stupid, Stupid, Stupid, Stupid... and in case i didn't mention STUPID...
What was whoever doing on the base image that caused it to become infected? I build system images, and rule #1: Make sure it works cleanly when you're done.
Somebody's Head ------------------- = Silver platter
(Silly junk character filter, I can't even ASCII Art a silver platter)
I am unaware of any "IT as a mandatory reporter" law in my jurisdiction. I am also certain my employer is as well. Likewise, I live in an at-will state, so retaliation is a definite concern, and my only remedy is unemployment insurance... Or the courts. If you get fired after reporting a problem. *If you followed proper protocol* your ass is covered.
See whistleblowers protection act. It is pretty specific about what you have to do.
notice I didn't say shortest program. I said shortest algorithm
algorithms can be expressed as programs, but do not have to be. A formula is an example of an algorithm. I could also have written my algorithm as: N(n) = n mod 10, n>=0 and it would have been equally accurate. It's shorter this way too.
I believe the quote you're looking for goes something like "Why would I get rid of George the third, only to become George the First?" - after being offered the position of "King"
false security there... the keylogger (from what I understand) is on the computer, not on the 'net connection... so all of your keystrokes are getting logged.
having a proxy like that is great for avoiding filters/sniffers, but won't do diddly against a keylogger (either HW or SW).
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... That they have accurate records as to who has been tapped, by whom, on who's authority, Who accessed the information and the warrant under which such actions were taken
I hear you there... I live in northern-middle-of-the-woods-hicksville Maine, and Verizon (through whom I have my phone and DSL) keeps sending me stuff about how great FIOS is, and how wouldn't I like to get FIOS etc. etc. etc.
I check the website... No dice... I ask the Verizon tech who came to service a T1 line at the school "So when will I be able to get FIOS in town?" response "Never. Verizon pretty much sold Maine, Vermont and New Hampshire operations to Fairpoint to pay to expand FIOS in southern States. Also look at it this way... how many people can they connect for a mile of fiber in Urban Mass. vs. how many people for that same mile of fiber in Northern Maine?"
I've pretty much quit gaming due to all the copy protection crap that gets installed with most modern games (and interferes with legitimate software). Look into PlaneShift http://www.planeshift.it/ it's free (as in beer) and while it's still in beta, much work is actively being done.../me can't say more due to NDAs
The code is free (as in speech), but the content is under a proprietary lisence.
like I said, it's still beta, but very playable, and there is a lot of work being done all the time
I will grant you that many companies are now doing that. In my neck of the woods (quite literally given that it's Maine) They recently did a study, and found that many drivers are still being paid by the mile. This gives the drivers incentive to drive as quickly as possible, if only to earn a couple extra dollars.
Not that I advocate a nanny-state, but I get very irritated when laws are not enforced across the board.
p.s. Yes, I'm one of those annoying drivers that does actually drive the speed limit (within the ability of my speedometer to determine my speed accurately)
It's not so much professional courtesy, it's more that corporate owned trucks are more likely to have lawyers to go to traffic court.
Though with the rules for CDLs... 2 15MPH+ infactions, no more license, if they were really serious about the law and saftey, they'd be pulling semis over all the time. nt only for the license bit, but also, do the math, E_Kin = (m(v^2))/2... and a semi going 80, can't just stop on a dime.
Personally I think all of the e-card things (illegitimate, and otherwise) should all rot in hell. If I want to sell my e-mail address to spammers, that's my thing
I think, with all due respect, that you missed the point of my question.
If a message is trying to sell me "V1A afdsuiwre GRA", SpamAssassin takes care of it, and scores it to hell, and I never see it; If a message is infected with Trojan.Dropper.C ClamD detects it, flags it as a virus, and I never see it.
(If anybody has the text of one of these, and they feel like posting it, that would be cool, 'cause I haven't gotten any... I feel so unloved, just like when the lovebug went around)
Yes the message falls under the aegis of "unwanted e-mail", but New rules may have to be written to mod it to hell & back There's no viral payload in the message, but yet the message has the potential to infect the recipient with a virus
This whole scenario brings up a rather interesting question: Is this a Spam problem, or a virus problem?
From my understanding there is no viral content in the message, so your virus scanner would have no reason to block the message. A Spam filtering company could well "pass the buck" and say that this is a virus problem, yes it's going to trigger on some spam rules, but "Where it's a virus problem, why create special rules for it"
I can see this type of attack becoming more popular in the future, at least until this question is solved.
Do we even need mailing-lists any more? Yes. mailing lists are a push interface, forums are a pull interface.
Mailing lists allow you to send information, rather than having information be available for someone to get. Now, I don't see mailing lists as being a problem with non-existant e-mail addresses... take mailman for example, if it tries to send a message to a non-existant e-mail address, and it gets a bounce back, (it's configurable) it stops delivery to that address
Based on what damages? I'm just curious. If you found out that AT&T helped the NSA listen to your phone calls, would that cause you $1 million in emotional damage or something? Based on the theory that civil rights are priceless
Man, I wish I had mod points... I think that is the most insightful comment I've seen in the entire debate about the "war on terror", and the subsequent erosion of civil liberties.
You last sentence is the root of the whole issue:
Personally, I will not give in to the terrorists. I will not become fearful. I think you've hit the nail right on the head... and I think I just found a great slogan for a protest sign (and a new.sig)
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Seems to be a recurring subject line for me... FireFox has it remembered...
but 72 hours in advance? give me a break! When we found out my grandfather was dying, within 12 hours we had out flight, and were at the airport! As it was he died before we made it to the airport, but 72 hours, we would have just arrived in time for the funeral... if all of our flights had been on time (which they weren't).
This will hamper business deals, "Last Minute Travel" (Which the airlines love)... Standby tickets...
in short... this is a Bad Thing (TM)
Stupid, Stupid, Stupid, Stupid... and in case i didn't mention STUPID...
What was whoever doing on the base image that caused it to become infected? I build system images, and rule #1: Make sure it works cleanly when you're done.
Somebody's Head
------------------- = Silver platter
(Silly junk character filter, I can't even ASCII Art a silver platter)
See whistleblowers protection act. It is pretty specific about what you have to do.
I have data on the hard Drive that is covered under a NDA (and I seriously do too), I'm sorry, but I'm not allowed to let you have the Hard Drive
notice I didn't say shortest program. I said shortest algorithm
algorithms can be expressed as programs, but do not have to be. A formula is an example of an algorithm. I could also have written my algorithm as:
N(n) = n mod 10, n>=0
and it would have been equally accurate. It's shorter this way too.
Also don't forget this one:
"A mind is like a parachute, it works best when open"
Every time some article mentions "Random numbers" the question is raised: What exactly is a random number?
and every time, everybody disagrees...
once again... for the record... From My CS classes:
A number sequence can be defined as "Sufficiently Random" if the simplest algorithm to generate said sequence is shorter than the sequence itself.
ergo: 012346567890123465678901234656789012346567890123465678901234656789 Ain't Random
for i=0, i50,i++{
print (i mod 10);
}
I believe the quote you're looking for goes something like "Why would I get rid of George the third, only to become George the First?" - after being offered the position of "King"
false security there... the keylogger (from what I understand) is on the computer, not on the 'net connection... so all of your keystrokes are getting logged.
having a proxy like that is great for avoiding filters/sniffers, but won't do diddly against a keylogger (either HW or SW).
So Nobody has ever ODed on Religion...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonestown The Jonestown suicide/massacre would seem to be a counterexample to that.
There are also countless examples through-out history of people that have died or killed themselves for their religion
Kudos... It was very insightful to see a patrol officer's take on the situation.
... That they have accurate records as to who has been tapped, by whom, on who's authority, Who accessed the information
and the warrant under which such actions were taken
I hear you there... I live in northern-middle-of-the-woods-hicksville Maine, and Verizon (through whom I have my phone and DSL) keeps sending me stuff about how great FIOS is, and how wouldn't I like to get FIOS etc. etc. etc.
I check the website... No dice... I ask the Verizon tech who came to service a T1 line at the school "So when will I be able to get FIOS in town?" response "Never. Verizon pretty much sold Maine, Vermont and New Hampshire operations to Fairpoint to pay to expand FIOS in southern States. Also look at it this way... how many people can they connect for a mile of fiber in Urban Mass. vs. how many people for that same mile of fiber in Northern Maine?"
The code is free (as in speech), but the content is under a proprietary lisence.
like I said, it's still beta, but very playable, and there is a lot of work being done all the time
at this point, where it "looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and smells like a duck"
I'm almost tempted to buy one, just so that I can submit the software to clamav, symantec, mcafee, et. al.
It looks like a virus, quacks like a virus, and smells like a virus, lets treat it like a virus
I will grant you that many companies are now doing that. In my neck of the woods (quite literally given that it's Maine) They recently did a study, and found that many drivers are still being paid by the mile. This gives the drivers incentive to drive as quickly as possible, if only to earn a couple extra dollars.
Not that I advocate a nanny-state, but I get very irritated when laws are not enforced across the board.
p.s. Yes, I'm one of those annoying drivers that does actually drive the speed limit (within the ability of my speedometer to determine my speed accurately)
It's not so much professional courtesy, it's more that corporate owned trucks are more likely to have lawyers to go to traffic court.
Though with the rules for CDLs... 2 15MPH+ infactions, no more license, if they were really serious about the law and saftey, they'd be pulling semis over all the time. nt only for the license bit, but also, do the math, E_Kin = (m(v^2))/2... and a semi going 80, can't just stop on a dime.
cute... really cute, but for proper effect, it should then e-mail the supposed root password back to some @hotmail.com e-mail address
Hence the problem.
Personally I think all of the e-card things (illegitimate, and otherwise) should all rot in hell. If I want to sell my e-mail address to spammers, that's my thing
I think, with all due respect, that you missed the point of my question.
If a message is trying to sell me "V1A afdsuiwre GRA", SpamAssassin takes care of it, and scores it to hell, and I never see it;
If a message is infected with Trojan.Dropper.C ClamD detects it, flags it as a virus, and I never see it.
(If anybody has the text of one of these, and they feel like posting it, that would be cool, 'cause I haven't gotten any... I feel so unloved, just like when the lovebug went around)
Yes the message falls under the aegis of "unwanted e-mail", but New rules may have to be written to mod it to hell & back
There's no viral payload in the message, but yet the message has the potential to infect the recipient with a virus
This whole scenario brings up a rather interesting question: Is this a Spam problem, or a virus problem?
From my understanding there is no viral content in the message, so your virus scanner would have no reason to block the message. A Spam filtering company could well "pass the buck" and say that this is a virus problem, yes it's going to trigger on some spam rules, but "Where it's a virus problem, why create special rules for it"
I can see this type of attack becoming more popular in the future, at least until this question is solved.
Mailing lists allow you to send information, rather than having information be available for someone to get. Now, I don't see mailing lists as being a problem with non-existant e-mail addresses... take mailman for example, if it tries to send a message to a non-existant e-mail address, and it gets a bounce back, (it's configurable) it stops delivery to that address
Very good point, Any *Honest* LEO should know to go straight to the legal department anyways.
You last sentence is the root of the whole issue: Personally, I will not give in to the terrorists. I will not become fearful. I think you've hit the nail right on the head... and I think I just found a great slogan for a protest sign (and a new