Posting such info could endanger the future, or risk causality paradox issues --- changing the future in such a way,
that time travel is not discovered.
Time travelers from the future are historians.... they may be tweeting, but they are tweeing about the past
(our present), and possibly sending those tweets into the future.
Sales. marketing, business development and all that shit.
Yes.... without someone to fend off sales; all the company's "profits" will be eaten up by fat commission checks for salesfolken and executives --- that might happen anyways.... there will be no budget $$$ for the technical organization who will get $0, no bonuses for developers; an ever-growing long list of demands from marketing that have to be implemented yesterday, and the software will still be demanded to deliver an excellent return by the bus dev. folks --- it will be all the technical side's fault; without good non-tech managers in the tech organization.
"A bunch of anonymous developers are working on 'Coinye West,' a crypto-currency named after rapper Kanye West.
Death by a million vanity currencies, until Bitcoin itself.... is de-legitimized, because it's just one blockchain out of hundreds thousands of vanity alternatives, intended mainly to enrich whoever created them.
Maybe some with some "claimed" advantages, like diversity, different block rates; harder to concentrate hashing power, or whatever.
Sure, there is a finite supply of Bitcoins... but who will limit how many new cryptocurrencies people can make?:)
Yo Bitcoin, I'm really happy for you, I'ma let you finish, but Kanye had one of the best Cryptocurrences of all time! One of the best cryptocurrencies of all time!
Perhaps we should be talking about IPv4 address space; and why
ALL of these, each of them hogging huge/8 networks, with 16,777,216 IPv4 addresses?
Most likely tens of thousands of times as many addresses as any of them should really be using.
General ElectricMIT, Ford, IBM, Xerox, Hewlett Packard X3, Apple, Computer Sciences Corp, the UK Ministry of Defense, DLA, Halliburton, Prudential, duPont, UK Government Department for Work and Pensions, SITA, The US Postal Service, the DoD Network Information Center, Cap Debis CCS
Google DNS is 8.8.8.8. and 8.8.4.4
Open DNS is 208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220
And when the ISP does this on their router facing you?
ip nat outside source static udp 8.8.8.8 53 [ISP's DNS Server IP 1] 53
ip nat outside source static udp 8.8.4.4 53 [ISP's DNS Server IP 2] 53
ip nat outside source list 140 dnspool
access-list 140 permit udp any any eq 53
Or (rough Linux equivalent)
iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p udp --dport 53 -d [ISP's DNS server IP 1] -j ACCEPT
iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p udp --dport 53 -d [ISP's DNS server IP 2] -j ACCEPT
iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p udp --dport 53 -j DNAT --to-destination [ISP's DNS Server IP 1]
So let's see here. One could posit that the tracks or the rolling stock were intentionally damaged to cause the derailment because the environmentalists are hell bent on casting a dark shadow on fossil fuels.
This is unlikely.... the tracks are fairly robust, and attempts to damage them would likely be detected and set off alarms and alert the railroad security patrols, resulting in the perpetrator being quickly apprehended, and tossed in jail with the felony charge of trespassing on railroad property.
when their "usual and customary" business practices of crashing on a regular basis with non-volatiles gets used for volatile shipments.
Yes.... you do realize the railroads carry a lot of "non-volatile" hazardous industrial chemicals, many that are highly flammable or explosive -- and many that are likely to be released in a derailment -- and in sufficient quantities to cause immediate threat of death upon inhalation for large populations --- materials, such as Chlorine gas, Anhydrous Ammonia, Hydrogen Cyanide gas/Sodium Cyanide/Potassium Cyanide, Sulfudr Dioxide, Sodium hydroxide, Vinyl Chloride, lube oils, Sodium Chlorate, Phthalic anhydride, Ethanol, Nitrous Oxide ?
" The rumor went that if there were ever a pinhole leak in one of the 3" deep welds, or porosity in the casting and you walked through it without seeing it, it would cut you in half."
Are these high pressures, truly necessary for oil pipelines, OR are they simply used to maximize number of gallons that can be transmitted per hour?
It seems if safety were the priority, there would be a legal pressure limit of 5 to 10 PSI for the pipeline.
It must be annoying to have a smart card reader glued to your phone though.
There are alternatives to physical smart card readers, such as little Yubikey nano-style USB token "stubs", that provide a hardware authentication token integrated with a USB or micro-usb connector --- with little or no footprint outside the USB connector of the smart phone or laptop.
Mandatory access control like SELinux or AppArmor can actually provide some security in this case. Sprinkling magic encryption dust cannot.
Maybe, but this is not the right way. You should switch your wireless authentication to 802.1X with certificate-based authentication, and use a physical smart card, as the machine certificate, for authentication of access to the network: whether WiFi access,
or 802.1X wired port security.
Well actually, you can stash the password in a system-level store, like a keychain, so it's not in plaintext. AFAIK that's what mac os x does.
Well... Mac OS X is closed source, so I can't tell you exactly what it does.
But since the WiFi is key is presented, without the user having to log in --- I can assure you, that any keys necessary to access the credentials are available, and anyone who can manage to escalate to root access can get them, export them, or even view the Wifi credentials.
They don't have to use plaintext - they could use, say, blowfish. Sure they key would have to be stored somewhere
As you should know; the security provided by symmetric cryptography is no better than how strongly you can protect the key.
And the key must be stored. It's a simple fact that the key must be stored, for without it -- the system could not connect to the network!
It's substantially more work to dig a key out of a system and decrypt something than it is to do a
cat pasword_file
This is not true. It is substantially more work to build the software that has to handle the WiFi credentials, though.
It's a one-time effort for a hacker to build their tool that does the equivalent of "cat password_file" and distribute it.
From that point forward, using the "hacker" tool to cat the credentials is no harder than "cat password_file".
It is much less effort to build the custom credential dump tool, than the extra effort it took to actually develop the encryption into the software!
Gravity so strong that it collapses into a singularity, the sweet-potato fries get sucked in, and ordinary non-sweet potato fries are ejected from the fryer, fully done.
But in many places the law was, and quite possibly still is, that the handing over of such documents indicated the time of payment.
Indicated the time/date of payment, sure, not the fact of payment.
Anyways, major retailers provide specific terms consumers have to accept to complete an order.
Orders are always subject to cancellation at the retailer's discretion.
EXAMPLE Amazon.com Conditions of Use:
With respect to items sold by Amazon, we cannot confirm the price of an item until you order. Despite our best efforts, a small number of the items in our catalog may be mispriced. If the correct price of an item sold by Amazon is higher than our stated price, we will, at our discretion, either contact you for instructions before shipping or cancel your order and notify you of such cancellation. Other merchants may follow different policies in the event of a mispriced item.
EXAMPLE: TigerDirect:
As all prices are subject to change, your order may not be accepted or we may have to communicate price changes or availability issues to you after you place your order.
EXAMPLE: NewEgg:
Product Listings... In the event a product listed on our Web site is labeled with an incorrect price due to some typographical, informational, technical or other error, Newegg.com shall at its sole discretion have the right to refuse and/or cancel any order for said product and immediately amend, correct and/or remove the inaccurate information.
Some Antarctic ice thickening after massive Arctic ice thinning, is still a net global climate change;
with plenty of potential ramifications --- most likely highly negative ramifications; when it comes to world climates:
climate change = potential extinctions.
Jabber for n00bz. Seriously. WhatsApp uses the Jabber protocol, wrapped behind an app,
with your cell phone number as the portion of your handle before the @.
And an "image upload" feature that posts images to a server and sends a link over chat.
I guess what's going on here is... Snapchat and WhatsApp are SMS text messaging replacements;
the extra attribute that the kids like is that the Snapchat conversations are forcibly destroyed within seconds after they were made ---- so, unlike Facebook or normal SMS text messages.... there's no "record" to worry about their parents snooping off their account or their device.
False. They need not ship the goods for them to be too late to back out of the deal.
It's not too late. If you don't have goods; then they can supply goods, OR they can return the money or void the CC charge. Either action settles the transaction.
The retailer is under no obligation to supply the goods at a price they did not offer and agree to; if there is an error in their transaction processing system, they can back out the transaction, or contact you, and insist you agree to pay the expected amount.
Now if the error was caught before the credit card actually got billed
You apparently don't understand how credit card processing works.
When the retailer "charges your CC"; payment has not been delivered -- an authorization of future payment has been secured.
The retailer doesn't receive money immediately when your credit card is "charged" ('authorized for payment') -- the charge action, is a pre-authorization to receive a certain amount of money.
The retailer doesn't receive any money until settlement; usually around 30 days after the CC charge, before settled funds can be deposited in the retailer's accounts.
Any time before settlement, the retailer can void the transaction, and there is no settlement (I.E. You never paid anything; the retailer never got any money)
So, what you're saying is, the business can take my money, 'ship' the product (Ground, of course), then, on the last day before it's delivered, cancel the shipping and have it returned to them, all that time keeping my money in their bank accounts, earning them interest, and only then refund me?
Probably not. If you paid by credit card, and they void/reverse the transaction --- the business won't be earning any interest. There won't be any interest to earn -- and if there was any: it will be banks that are earning the transaction float, not retailers.
The only way they would be earning interest would be with cleared funds -- which doesn't happen in 5 days, unless you paid by check or wire. Which just doesn't happen with online e-commerce sales.
So, I guess the whole thing comes down to: When is an online order 'complete'?
After the buyer has both paid for and taken delivery of the item.
If they discover that the amount has been paid any time before that, the seller can suspend delivery of the goods (cancel before shipping, or delivery intercept)
With no goods in hand by the buyer, the sale is not yet completed.
As soon as the shipping company deposits the goods on the buyer's doorstep however --- the items are now at the buyer's property, and the transaction has concluded; can no longer be cancelled or revised, without the buyer's consent.
If a brick and mortar left a sign up in their windows advertising X percent off consumers would expect it.
Yes.... but I belive that's more about HONORING What you advertise. If the printed price they stuck on the goods says "$300" on a $3000 on a brand new Macbook pro; they better honor it.
On the other hand... if the price said $3000, BUT the cash register rings up $300, they need not honor the $300 price: if the clerk catches the error, before finalizing the transaction.
If the clerk doesn't catch the error --- tells the customer this is what their price is: then the deal is final after the customer pays.
Similarly IF THE WEBSITE advertises $1000, but when you got to checkout, your total shows $100.
The customer should expect the store won't honor the $100 price; if their online shopping cart disagrees with the advertised price.
The store should call the customer and inform them of the error --- give them the option to pay the expected price, or cancel the transaction.
If the online store goes ahead with the sale, then they have accepted the error. Once they ship the goods, it is now too late for them to back out of the deal, and escape without causing the customer undue harm.
I would suggest looking up the Nimtz double-prism experiment
Apparent faster than c transmission has been observed to be exceeded based on comparison of arrival times b/w groups of waves.
transmitted and reflected waves arrived at detectors simultaneously, despite the transmitted light having also traversed an additional distance across a gap
Slashdot Mirror
Posting such info could endanger the future, or risk causality paradox issues --- changing the future in such a way, that time travel is not discovered.
Time travelers from the future are historians.... they may be tweeting, but they are tweeing about the past (our present), and possibly sending those tweets into the future.
Sales. marketing, business development and all that shit.
Yes.... without someone to fend off sales; all the company's "profits" will be eaten up by fat commission checks for salesfolken and executives --- that might happen anyways.... there will be no budget $$$ for the technical organization who will get $0, no bonuses for developers; an ever-growing long list of demands from marketing that have to be implemented yesterday, and the software will still be demanded to deliver an excellent return by the bus dev. folks --- it will be all the technical side's fault; without good non-tech managers in the tech organization.
"A bunch of anonymous developers are working on 'Coinye West,' a crypto-currency named after rapper Kanye West.
Death by a million vanity currencies, until Bitcoin itself.... is de-legitimized, because it's just one blockchain out of hundreds thousands of vanity alternatives, intended mainly to enrich whoever created them. Maybe some with some "claimed" advantages, like diversity, different block rates; harder to concentrate hashing power, or whatever.
Sure, there is a finite supply of Bitcoins... but who will limit how many new cryptocurrencies people can make? :)
Yo Bitcoin, I'm really happy for you, I'ma let you finish, but Kanye had one of the best Cryptocurrences of all time! One of the best cryptocurrencies of all time!
Perhaps we should be talking about IPv4 address space; and why ALL of these, each of them hogging huge /8 networks, with 16,777,216 IPv4 addresses?
Most likely tens of thousands of times as many addresses as any of them should really be using. General Electric MIT, Ford, IBM, Xerox, Hewlett Packard X3, Apple, Computer Sciences Corp, the UK Ministry of Defense, DLA, Halliburton, Prudential, duPont, UK Government Department for Work and Pensions, SITA, The US Postal Service, the DoD Network Information Center, Cap Debis CCS
Google DNS is 8.8.8.8. and 8.8.4.4
Open DNS is 208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220
And when the ISP does this on their router facing you?
ip nat outside source static udp 8.8.8.8 53 [ISP's DNS Server IP 1] 53
ip nat outside source static udp 8.8.4.4 53 [ISP's DNS Server IP 2] 53
ip nat outside source list 140 dnspool
access-list 140 permit udp any any eq 53
Or (rough Linux equivalent)
iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p udp --dport 53 -d [ISP's DNS server IP 1] -j ACCEPT
iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p udp --dport 53 -d [ISP's DNS server IP 2] -j ACCEPT
iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p udp --dport 53 -j DNAT --to-destination [ISP's DNS Server IP 1]
So let's see here. One could posit that the tracks or the rolling stock were intentionally damaged to cause the derailment because the environmentalists are hell bent on casting a dark shadow on fossil fuels.
This is unlikely.... the tracks are fairly robust, and attempts to damage them would likely be detected and set off alarms and alert the railroad security patrols, resulting in the perpetrator being quickly apprehended, and tossed in jail with the felony charge of trespassing on railroad property.
when their "usual and customary" business practices of crashing on a regular basis with non-volatiles gets used for volatile shipments.
Yes.... you do realize the railroads carry a lot of "non-volatile" hazardous industrial chemicals, many that are highly flammable or explosive -- and many that are likely to be released in a derailment -- and in sufficient quantities to cause immediate threat of death upon inhalation for large populations --- materials, such as Chlorine gas, Anhydrous Ammonia, Hydrogen Cyanide gas/Sodium Cyanide/Potassium Cyanide, Sulfudr Dioxide, Sodium hydroxide, Vinyl Chloride, lube oils, Sodium Chlorate, Phthalic anhydride, Ethanol, Nitrous Oxide ?
Apparently only one of the trains belonged to a major carrier which can afford the latest safety equipment.
There you go.... the government should ban operation of any train without the latest safety equipment.
" The rumor went that if there were ever a pinhole leak in one of the 3" deep welds, or porosity in the casting and you walked through it without seeing it, it would cut you in half."
Are these high pressures, truly necessary for oil pipelines, OR are they simply used to maximize number of gallons that can be transmitted per hour?
It seems if safety were the priority, there would be a legal pressure limit of 5 to 10 PSI for the pipeline.
Given the choice of some oil spilled, and 50 people dead due to the explosion caused in a train derailment ---- I would pick the oil spilled any day.
It must be annoying to have a smart card reader glued to your phone though.
There are alternatives to physical smart card readers, such as little Yubikey nano-style USB token "stubs", that provide a hardware authentication token integrated with a USB or micro-usb connector --- with little or no footprint outside the USB connector of the smart phone or laptop.
Mandatory access control like SELinux or AppArmor can actually provide some security in this case. Sprinkling magic encryption dust cannot.
Maybe, but this is not the right way. You should switch your wireless authentication to 802.1X with certificate-based authentication, and use a physical smart card, as the machine certificate, for authentication of access to the network: whether WiFi access, or 802.1X wired port security.
Well actually, you can stash the password in a system-level store, like a keychain, so it's not in plaintext. AFAIK that's what mac os x does.
Well... Mac OS X is closed source, so I can't tell you exactly what it does. But since the WiFi is key is presented, without the user having to log in --- I can assure you, that any keys necessary to access the credentials are available, and anyone who can manage to escalate to root access can get them, export them, or even view the Wifi credentials.
They don't have to use plaintext - they could use, say, blowfish. Sure they key would have to be stored somewhere
As you should know; the security provided by symmetric cryptography is no better than how strongly you can protect the key.
And the key must be stored. It's a simple fact that the key must be stored, for without it -- the system could not connect to the network!
It's substantially more work to dig a key out of a system and decrypt something than it is to do a
cat pasword_file
This is not true. It is substantially more work to build the software that has to handle the WiFi credentials, though.
It's a one-time effort for a hacker to build their tool that does the equivalent of "cat password_file" and distribute it. From that point forward, using the "hacker" tool to cat the credentials is no harder than "cat password_file".
It is much less effort to build the custom credential dump tool, than the extra effort it took to actually develop the encryption into the software!
Gravity so strong that it collapses into a singularity, the sweet-potato fries get sucked in, and ordinary non-sweet potato fries are ejected from the fryer, fully done.
But in many places the law was, and quite possibly still is, that the handing over of such documents indicated the time of payment.
Indicated the time/date of payment, sure, not the fact of payment.
Anyways, major retailers provide specific terms consumers have to accept to complete an order. Orders are always subject to cancellation at the retailer's discretion.
EXAMPLE Amazon.com Conditions of Use:
With respect to items sold by Amazon, we cannot confirm the price of an item until you order. Despite our best efforts, a small number of the items in our catalog may be mispriced. If the correct price of an item sold by Amazon is higher than our stated price, we will, at our discretion, either contact you for instructions before shipping or cancel your order and notify you of such cancellation. Other merchants may follow different policies in the event of a mispriced item.
EXAMPLE: TigerDirect: As all prices are subject to change, your order may not be accepted or we may have to communicate price changes or availability issues to you after you place your order.
EXAMPLE: NewEgg: Product Listings ... In the event a product listed on our Web site is labeled with an incorrect price due to some typographical, informational, technical or other error, Newegg.com shall at its sole discretion have the right to refuse and/or cancel any order for said product and immediately amend, correct and/or remove the inaccurate information.
Some Antarctic ice thickening after massive Arctic ice thinning, is still a net global climate change; with plenty of potential ramifications --- most likely highly negative ramifications; when it comes to world climates: climate change = potential extinctions.
How about we just build Bus traps and Cattle guards around all the plants?
The terrorists are dumb animals, and sure to fall into the cattleguards, and get stuck there until the police arrive -- thus thwarting the attack
What's a WhatsApp anyway?
Jabber for n00bz. Seriously. WhatsApp uses the Jabber protocol, wrapped behind an app, with your cell phone number as the portion of your handle before the @. And an "image upload" feature that posts images to a server and sends a link over chat.
I guess what's going on here is... Snapchat and WhatsApp are SMS text messaging replacements; the extra attribute that the kids like is that the Snapchat conversations are forcibly destroyed within seconds after they were made ---- so, unlike Facebook or normal SMS text messages.... there's no "record" to worry about their parents snooping off their account or their device.
What the heck do these WhatsApp and Snapchat chatter programs have to do with social networking, anyways?
False. They need not ship the goods for them to be too late to back out of the deal.
It's not too late. If you don't have goods; then they can supply goods, OR they can return the money or void the CC charge. Either action settles the transaction. The retailer is under no obligation to supply the goods at a price they did not offer and agree to; if there is an error in their transaction processing system, they can back out the transaction, or contact you, and insist you agree to pay the expected amount.
Now if the error was caught before the credit card actually got billed
You apparently don't understand how credit card processing works. When the retailer "charges your CC"; payment has not been delivered -- an authorization of future payment has been secured.
The retailer doesn't receive money immediately when your credit card is "charged" ('authorized for payment') -- the charge action, is a pre-authorization to receive a certain amount of money.
The retailer doesn't receive any money until settlement; usually around 30 days after the CC charge, before settled funds can be deposited in the retailer's accounts.
Any time before settlement, the retailer can void the transaction, and there is no settlement (I.E. You never paid anything; the retailer never got any money)
So, what you're saying is, the business can take my money, 'ship' the product (Ground, of course), then, on the last day before it's delivered, cancel the shipping and have it returned to them, all that time keeping my money in their bank accounts, earning them interest, and only then refund me?
Probably not. If you paid by credit card, and they void/reverse the transaction --- the business won't be earning any interest. There won't be any interest to earn -- and if there was any: it will be banks that are earning the transaction float, not retailers.
The only way they would be earning interest would be with cleared funds -- which doesn't happen in 5 days, unless you paid by check or wire. Which just doesn't happen with online e-commerce sales.
So, I guess the whole thing comes down to: When is an online order 'complete'?
After the buyer has both paid for and taken delivery of the item.
If they discover that the amount has been paid any time before that, the seller can suspend delivery of the goods (cancel before shipping, or delivery intercept)
With no goods in hand by the buyer, the sale is not yet completed.
As soon as the shipping company deposits the goods on the buyer's doorstep however --- the items are now at the buyer's property, and the transaction has concluded; can no longer be cancelled or revised, without the buyer's consent.
If a brick and mortar left a sign up in their windows advertising X percent off consumers would expect it.
Yes.... but I belive that's more about HONORING What you advertise. If the printed price they stuck on the goods says "$300" on a $3000 on a brand new Macbook pro; they better honor it.
On the other hand... if the price said $3000, BUT the cash register rings up $300, they need not honor the $300 price: if the clerk catches the error, before finalizing the transaction. If the clerk doesn't catch the error --- tells the customer this is what their price is: then the deal is final after the customer pays.
Similarly IF THE WEBSITE advertises $1000, but when you got to checkout, your total shows $100. The customer should expect the store won't honor the $100 price; if their online shopping cart disagrees with the advertised price.
The store should call the customer and inform them of the error --- give them the option to pay the expected price, or cancel the transaction.
If the online store goes ahead with the sale, then they have accepted the error. Once they ship the goods, it is now too late for them to back out of the deal, and escape without causing the customer undue harm.
I would suggest looking up the Nimtz double-prism experiment
Apparent faster than c transmission has been observed to be exceeded based on comparison of arrival times b/w groups of waves. transmitted and reflected waves arrived at detectors simultaneously, despite the transmitted light having also traversed an additional distance across a gap