Whether "50% of the population are more stupid than that" depends on whether average is defined as median or mean. It's probably close, but then you also need to define what "population" means.
You haven't quite thought this through. As median cognitive ability goes up as a result of all this shooting, more and more people will drop under the 120 IQ line until we finally end up killing everybody.
Actually we do this all the time, it's more commonly known as war.
In the UK (Gibraltar) residential Internet is still slow and crap, most residents are limited to 512kbps unless they happen to live in the same building that the ISP has offices in, and know the right contacts.
There are two providers, and a single point of failure in Spain. For one provider it seems to be failing all the time at the moment (1-2 outages a week).
Mainland UK's regulatory hands haven't filtered down to Gibraltar... and in reality, one company, Gibtele.com pull all the strings.
Back in 1991, I installed Slackware 2.3 (from a set of 20 or so floppy disks).
So when I saw this article, I thought hmm, got to see that distribution screenshot thingy...
Well lo and behold, the first handful of screens have hardly changed at all! The same UI the same screens! First deviation was cfdisk, which I think we had to exit to shell and run fdisk in 2.3, but otherwise - EXACTLY the same.
The KDE screenshots, well, they look like KDE on any distribution, so discount those as meaningful in any sense.
Slackware was always stable for me, but I stopped using it at around version 9, and after hopping around for a better alternative I've now settled with Gentoo, which provides me with what I need and I still use the odd trick I've learnt from Slackware to break the rules with Gentoo when I find it doesn't do what I want.
That is a load of crap, though I admit it will probably depend on your IP range.
I routinely check a few Class-Cs and it takes around 5 minutes for a scan to appear on our firewall logs. Mostly 1433 port these days, which Win98 will quite hapilly drop.
After about 30 minutes I *might* get a port 139 scan, which many Win98 installations will *still* drop.
Cut the crap and the Microsoft bashing, I'm much more concerned about the spate of port 22 scans, and the brute force ssh password attacks going on right now.
CEO: Good news guys, the web devs have completed the search facility and our website will go live next week. Lowly Ex-MS Employee: So what domain name have we chosen? CEO: Good question, I'll let our CTO answer that one. CTO: ahem, well as some of you know, we registered ohloh.org, ohloh.com & ohloh.net through "Proxy" registrars before the final decision was made. In the conference call with Bill we had last week we made our decision. Lowly Ex-MS Employee: and? CTO: Well the decision was made that "ohloh.org" would be ditched... it's simply to difficult to masquerade as a.org organisation - after all, we clearly want to profit from OSS some way or another. The.com address, well we decided that it should re-direct to the.net address. For Marketing purposes we will use the.net address as it is sufficiently vague as whether it is a profiteering company of open source ideals or an open source organisation without profit aspirations. CEO: I think you'll all agree that this is an ingenious idea.
Disclaimer: I make my income through Internet gambling. However, even before that, I just never saw the problem. Why is it so demonized over there?
Me too, can't be too much of a problem - the Asian market is just started to develop nicely and there's still plenty of growth in Europe yet to come... I guess the US guys will just have to figure out a smart way to access our sites.
Meanwhile, I'll be spending my weekends on Spanish beaches thinking what suckers you gambling guys are.... whuahhhahhahahaaa!
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I've worked in companies which require you to have to remember passwords for lots of different systems.
In my most recent company I've worked to ensure that Windows, UNIX, Remote Access passwords are all sync'd.
When we ask someone to log in to a system, we ask them to use their 'office' password, not your network password, not your windows password, not your unix password, your office password.
By the title I mean, not necessarily in their technical sense, but they are vulnerable through market forces.
Let's face it, companies pay through the nose for Cisco kit, mostly simply through conitnuity purchasing.
Yes, the Cisco kit generally performs as advertised, but I doubt that that has ever influenced someone who had the responsibility for buying the kit.
The market is crying out for a network supplier who can provide the goods & functionality of the Cisco kit for what is deservedly a fraction of the price that Cisco charge.
Cisco have a terrible support policy, unless you purchase your particular item with support you're knackered.
Compare that to even Microsoft, who at least have a larve knowledge base freely available, have reviewed their security updates and made their OS secure as any closed OS can become.
Cisco lag behind in their field far further than any of the other companies in IT.
Their strategy? Invoke achievablie certification which gains advocates for their products. Sign those advocates up to virtual-non-disclosure and reap the benefits.
I've played with this, and found that when setting IPsec policy on a Domain which only has Win2k Domain controllers that the Win2k3 servers do not pick up the Group policy.
Having said that, it works great. You can even import your certificates into group policy so that domain members can communicate normally automatically - this is useful if you utilise the other security group policy objects and enforce anti-virus, anti-spyware/malware on your domain systems.
Non Domain systems can be configured and issued with a certificate once the systems have been authorised (ie checked out by the sys admins for anti virus software, firewall etc...).
It works great, people who plug systems on the wire simply can't even ping your machines without the certificate for IPsec authentication.
Encryption is cool too, but obviously there is a performance concern there.
Linux itself doesn't have a desktop interface. If you were to voice any of these opinions in the kernel mailing lists you'd probably find yourself blacklisted for trolling.
The desktop is KDE, Gnome or generally whatever Window Manager you use with X Windows, if you use X Windows.
we had one of these security consultants, first I heard about it, was detecting a nessus scan coming over the WAN, so I fired up email and sent one off warning of possible reconnaissance on the network, the eventual reply I got after followups went something like this:
We have yet to receive the full report, the security company just finished up a web scan of the **** Network last Sunday so it will be a couple of week before we get the total results.
I am not aware at this time of any issues with the UK network, but will let you know if any were found.
Thanks for the info, I will let the Security Company know that they didn't go undetected.
I never did get a report, but as there penetration scan caused me to put out a full alert on an internal IP in our company, I doubt they ever got paid.
I suspect these wizards are more concerned with buying and selling than looking at the bigger picture, which, while being nice, and explaining boom and bust, together with mini-boom and mini-bust (ad infinitum), doesn't actually help the predictions...
I thought that while fractals look in some ways to be predictable, they are in fact, when examined in detail, highly unpredictable.
you shouldn't consider bandwidth as how fast you can transfer data from A to B, but rather as the capacity of the network as a whole... 10Gbps networking is need more in backbones connecting 1Gbps or 100Mbps hosts that communicate amongst each other at their respective wire speeds.
I doubt you will ever get 10Gbps per second from a fileserver or web host, unless the data required is constantly in cache or high speed memory.
Isn't being slashdotted a form of vigilante justice?
no.
despite the fact that most sites cannot deal with the volume of hits that being featured on slashdot brings with it, most crave it... so much so that, in the past, some have hired people to submit stories directly to slashdot - and, when this has failed, have harboured people to build up mod points in the hope that their stories will be accepted by the slashdot editorial staff.
for the admins - this is also a good test of their webservers under high load - a situation that is actually pretty difficult to simulate in real life.
I'll get flamed if I don't provide a RWE (real-world-example), so here
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Whether "50% of the population are more stupid than that" depends on whether average is defined as median or mean. It's probably close, but then you also need to define what "population" means.
Actually we do this all the time, it's more commonly known as war.
In the UK (Gibraltar) residential Internet is still slow and crap, most residents are limited to 512kbps unless they happen to live in the same building that the ISP has offices in, and know the right contacts.
There are two providers, and a single point of failure in Spain. For one provider it seems to be failing all the time at the moment (1-2 outages a week).
Mainland UK's regulatory hands haven't filtered down to Gibraltar... and in reality, one company, Gibtele.com pull all the strings.
Well, slackware was my first distribution.
Back in 1991, I installed Slackware 2.3 (from a set of 20 or so floppy disks).
So when I saw this article, I thought hmm, got to see that distribution screenshot thingy...
Well lo and behold, the first handful of screens have hardly changed at all! The same UI the same screens! First deviation was cfdisk, which I think we had to exit to shell and run fdisk in 2.3, but otherwise - EXACTLY the same.
The KDE screenshots, well, they look like KDE on any distribution, so discount those as meaningful in any sense.
Slackware was always stable for me, but I stopped using it at around version 9, and after hopping around for a better alternative I've now settled with Gentoo, which provides me with what I need and I still use the odd trick I've learnt from Slackware to break the rules with Gentoo when I find it doesn't do what I want.
Still, an interesting article.
That is a load of crap, though I admit it will probably depend on your IP range.
I routinely check a few Class-Cs and it takes around 5 minutes for a scan to appear on our firewall logs. Mostly 1433 port these days, which Win98 will quite hapilly drop.
After about 30 minutes I *might* get a port 139 scan, which many Win98 installations will *still* drop.
Cut the crap and the Microsoft bashing, I'm much more concerned about the spate of port 22 scans, and the brute force ssh password attacks going on right now.
CEO: Good news guys, the web devs have completed the search facility and our website will go live next week. .org organisation - after all, we clearly want to profit from OSS some way or another. The .com address, well we decided that it should re-direct to the .net address. For Marketing purposes we will use the .net address as it is sufficiently vague as whether it is a profiteering company of open source ideals or an open source organisation without profit aspirations.
Lowly Ex-MS Employee: So what domain name have we chosen?
CEO: Good question, I'll let our CTO answer that one.
CTO: ahem, well as some of you know, we registered ohloh.org, ohloh.com & ohloh.net through "Proxy" registrars before the final decision was made. In the conference call with Bill we had last week we made our decision.
Lowly Ex-MS Employee: and?
CTO: Well the decision was made that "ohloh.org" would be ditched... it's simply to difficult to masquerade as a
CEO: I think you'll all agree that this is an ingenious idea.
ohloh.net whois entry
ohloh.com whois entry
ohloh.org whois entry
ummm get real.....
I may be drunk, but who the f*** is running Win98 in their high availability environ?\\\
Disclaimer: I make my income through Internet gambling. However, even before that, I just never saw the problem. Why is it so demonized over there?
Me too, can't be too much of a problem - the Asian market is just started to develop nicely and there's still plenty of growth in Europe yet to come... I guess the US guys will just have to figure out a smart way to access our sites.
Meanwhile, I'll be spending my weekends on Spanish beaches thinking what suckers you gambling guys are.... whuahhhahhahahaaa!
today we're demonstrating that adults are not just juvenile, but illiterate too.
47, expensive? 47 what? Rupees? Pounds? Dollars?
http://x.org
Enough said...
I've worked in companies which require you to have to remember passwords for lots of different systems.
In my most recent company I've worked to ensure that Windows, UNIX, Remote Access passwords are all sync'd.
When we ask someone to log in to a system, we ask them to use their 'office' password, not your network password, not your windows password, not your unix password, your office password.
Single logon, can be done - should be used.
By the title I mean, not necessarily in their technical sense, but they are vulnerable through market forces.
Let's face it, companies pay through the nose for Cisco kit, mostly simply through conitnuity purchasing.
Yes, the Cisco kit generally performs as advertised, but I doubt that that has ever influenced someone who had the responsibility for buying the kit.
The market is crying out for a network supplier who can provide the goods & functionality of the Cisco kit for what is deservedly a fraction of the price that Cisco charge.
Cisco have a terrible support policy, unless you purchase your particular item with support you're knackered.
Compare that to even Microsoft, who at least have a larve knowledge base freely available, have reviewed their security updates and made their OS secure as any closed OS can become.
Cisco lag behind in their field far further than any of the other companies in IT.
Their strategy? Invoke achievablie certification which gains advocates for their products. Sign those advocates up to virtual-non-disclosure and reap the benefits.
I've played with this, and found that when setting IPsec policy on a Domain which only has Win2k Domain controllers that the Win2k3 servers do not pick up the Group policy.
Having said that, it works great. You can even import your certificates into group policy so that domain members can communicate normally automatically - this is useful if you utilise the other security group policy objects and enforce anti-virus, anti-spyware/malware on your domain systems.
Non Domain systems can be configured and issued with a certificate once the systems have been authorised (ie checked out by the sys admins for anti virus software, firewall etc...).
It works great, people who plug systems on the wire simply can't even ping your machines without the certificate for IPsec authentication.
Encryption is cool too, but obviously there is a performance concern there.
Interesting article, but
Linux itself doesn't have a desktop interface. If you were to voice any of these opinions in the kernel mailing lists you'd probably find yourself blacklisted for trolling.
The desktop is KDE, Gnome or generally whatever Window Manager you use with X Windows, if you use X Windows.
All these interfaces are not Linux specific.
we had one of these security consultants, first I heard about it, was detecting a nessus scan coming over the WAN, so I fired up email and sent one off warning of possible reconnaissance on the network, the eventual reply I got after followups went something like this:
We have yet to receive the full report, the security company just finished up a web scan of the **** Network last Sunday so it will be a couple of week before we get the total results.
I am not aware at this time of any issues with the UK network, but will let you know if any were found.
Thanks for the info, I will let the Security Company know that they didn't go undetected.
I never did get a report, but as there penetration scan caused me to put out a full alert on an internal IP in our company, I doubt they ever got paid.
as in cylinder, sector & head?
rejected this notion...
I suspect these wizards are more concerned with buying and selling than looking at the bigger picture, which, while being nice, and explaining boom and bust, together with mini-boom and mini-bust (ad infinitum), doesn't actually help the predictions...
I thought that while fractals look in some ways to be predictable, they are in fact, when examined in detail, highly unpredictable.
you shouldn't consider bandwidth as how fast you can transfer data from A to B, but rather as the capacity of the network as a whole... 10Gbps networking is need more in backbones connecting 1Gbps or 100Mbps hosts that communicate amongst each other at their respective wire speeds.
I doubt you will ever get 10Gbps per second from a fileserver or web host, unless the data required is constantly in cache or high speed memory.
Isn't being slashdotted a form of vigilante justice?
no.
despite the fact that most sites cannot deal with the volume of hits that being featured on slashdot brings with it, most crave it... so much so that, in the past, some have hired people to submit stories directly to slashdot - and, when this has failed, have harboured people to build up mod points in the hope that their stories will be accepted by the slashdot editorial staff.
for the admins - this is also a good test of their webservers under high load - a situation that is actually pretty difficult to simulate in real life.
I'll get flamed if I don't provide a RWE (real-world-example), so here
I just did a tracert 127.0.0.1 and the time was 1ms, you must be very close to my internet connection.
dumbass windows user... the command is traceroute 127.0.0.1
they're called IBM T221's, and we've had them for about 2 years now.
These are probably re-badged, re-assembled models of exactly the same technology.
Incredibly though, I think the IBM T221's are cheaper...
Update: 01/21 21:58 GMT by T: Errr, Robyn's a He, not a She -- many apologies. That hasn't happened in years!
;-)
No timothy, all the others never told you they were {he's}
I feel a slashdot bitchslap coming on.
I doubt that particular Belkin router (sounds like a Home Router, probably DSL) has FDA approval for use in any medical field.