After 10 years working in the credit card industry I can tell you that banks rarely pass up and opportunity to hit merchants with fees and charities are nothing more than merchants to them. The theory they go by is that merchants should be able to tell what transactions are fraudulent but really it's just an excuse to charge for the trouble of having to deal with charge backs (and make a little extra money on the side)
The first thing you need to know is that many of those Google hits will use Stratfor in their source. Reuters, NYT etc all have Stratfor accounts and those stories tend to reduce the Stratfor work to a bunch of facts without the analysis of possible outcomes but at any rate they will be slower than Stratfor.
The second thing you need to know is that unlike most think tanks, Stratfor publishes a quarterly and yearly rundown of their predictions rating them as true/partially true/not true/yet to be seen etc.
Don't mistake their reporting that "x country/organization is doing bad things" with a suggestion that a war on them a good idea. More often than not a war will only make things worse and if the US government had listened to Stratfor's predictions they would not have invaded either Iraq or Afganistan.
Indeed, I am assigned the task of researching where to move my employer's 100+ domains since we want to move but can't just do it blindly. (requirements European based, reasonable prices)
You think the bank will be out any money for this? The only people who will actually be out of money will be the charities since they are now on the hook for the stolen amount plus the charge-back fees.
What a load of crap. Judging by by your post you have no idea whatsoever who or what Stratfor is.
Strafror is a private intelligence company that not only reports on the news, they analyze it for possibly outcomes and consequences. I find them far more insightful than regular news sources and what really gets my respect is that they give a quarterly review of any predictions they made and how many of them came true or were completely off base. About the only thing they have to do with the US political system is their tendency to print information that is inconvenient for the US government and it's allies.
This whole move by Anon will have exactly two consequences: 1 They shut down an important news source while it is needed the most. 2 They will screw over a bunch of charities who will now be hit with charge-back fees. I know that the credit card companies issued a "non denial denial" and said that it was up to the individual banks on whether their contracts contain a clause charging the recipient transactions but how many banks will actually not charge the fee? I don't know of any and I work in the CC processing industry. Hint: the bank is never out any money during a fraudulent transaction.
Ever see what happens if a user comes in and installs their own store bought router because it's faster than talking to IT or because they don't like the company wireless setup? There is nothing as annoying as something sending rogue DHCP replies for a non existent gateway and having half the network go down and then tracking the problem down to some sales rep who setup an incorrectly setup router. Even less fun is trying to figure out why only at certain times of day is the network slow only to discover someone has been war driving and sucking the network dry while causing angry phone calls from your ISP about bad behavior.
And then we have those cute little apps that "work fine at home". Home has 1 maybe two PCs and the office has a lot more than that. Said little app may still let your computer run fine but it very well may be causing everyone else trouble by sucking the network dry. And then there are those apps that just happen to share more of the drive to the outside world than you intended.
Yes, we are the gatekeepers and just because you don't like some of the policies, it does not mean there there aren't some very good reasons for that.
So 9000 copies of Windows not bought. Let's say that save you $50 per machine (perhaps less) at OEM pricing. tha'ts $450,000. Now how many linux techs did they hire to maintain this? Id assume at least 1 for every 100 machines and what is their annual salary? Compared to windows techs, linux techs get more money.
It is true that Linux admins cost more money but you need fewer Linux admins for the same number of workstations so there is an overall savings.
I hang out places that provide the ability to talk to women in a non expectant environment like volunteering somewhere or a meeting based on a hobby. Heck those slashmeets that slashdot had about a decade ago were good for that. The other way, from experience, introduces me to girls I find myself wishing would just shut up after I spend any amount of time at all talking to them.
Our ability to not act on our impulses is what separates the human race from the animals. Your comparison is bad because in bars/clubs there are no other way to judge people but on looks and is a competitive environment to begin with and that makes it a poor place to look for a potential date although I can see your real problem seems to be the implied "if I don't take what I can get I will get nothing".
Years ago I broke up with a girlfriend after dealing with her constant lies, bad temper and generally manipulative behavior and I had to stop and think about my life since she wasn't the first girl I dated who behaved like that. I realized my problem was standards so since then I have applied a "am I better off with this girl than I am when single" filter to relationships and it makes made me notice a few things: worst case "lonely" is better than "pissed off" and that better girls had a bit of a learning curve but were worth the effort.
He's the Environment Minister. Official part of the "Harper Government"(tm).
Yes, it's an embarrassing time to be a Canadian. There used to be a time when we would take part in multinational initiatives and act as a positive mediator who helped countries reach consensus. Now we sabotage them.
You mean "pretend to take part in multinational initiatives". The government that signed the stupid agreement in the first place didn't do much of anything to actually bring down our carbon emissions.
That's assuming the predecessor wasn't the problem. I have learned over the years that there are far too many tech types to prefer to be the only one that does a particular task and will make any excuse to management to make sure things stay that way. When these lone wolf types happen to not be as competent as they pretend to be they tend to themselves into too deep a hole so they either get fired or quit in frustration but when you talk to them it will always be some other person's fault.
I'm not saying management isn't at fault, they very well could be but don't assume that right off. The first step is to try and get a read on how good the predecessor was at their job otherwise he can get very misleading info.
Good old fashioned paper letters are NOT private. I have had my credit card number stolen exactly 3 times in my life and NONE of them were electronic. 1 Domino's Pizza employee 2.Pickpocket (out of my front pocket no less) 3.Postal Service.
Of the three the only one that actually succeeded in making charges was the one taken from the postal service. Safe? Not even close.
Rsyslogd already has plenty of ways to move data to a remote machine reliably, mechanisms to prevent local apps from pretending to be each other as well as the option to log to a database. There is no need to rip out the current system.
No data I care about resides on any of my SSD drives since I use them for system files only. Anything I care about is on a standard drive (due to size issues) as well as backed up elsewhere.
The only time I have really heard of them failing on any large scale is when they are plugged in and just don't work(or work intermittently) due to incompatibilities/software defects or when someone updates the firmware and generally if they work for the first week without problems they will run well. I own several and they have been solid although I have avoided spending large amounts of money and ended up with the smaller sizes that I used for system files.
With just the system files on SSD the difference in speed has been huge for both Linux and Windows.
It's all about Marketing. MS Windows is has plenty of speed if you are willing to put the right hardware behind it and the brochure advertising their platform only mentions that their system has the lowest latency when processing stock data and not total cost.
and not only did spammers plug up the queue with bad messages, it ended up being used for reflector attacks where the attacker set the target's address as the return and sent messages that would bounce to many different servers.
Theoretically, that is possible. In practice I haven't seen spammers use that mechanism.
I used to run qmail and I have seen it used for that.
The whole problem ended up being so bad that many that many mail admins considered servers running Qmail to be almost as bad as an open relay and there were people who actually maintained blacklists of servers running Qmail and that was right about when I stopped using it but I hear there have been patches to fix the worst of it's flaws since then.
A lot of people are irrationally against djb in any way. He's become like the president, every time something goes wrong people blame him. Those blacklists you speak of are less about addressing an operational problem and much more about irrational dick waving.
It's not irrational if you observe a problem only to be ignored. As I said earlier I used to run Qmail and I did so because of it's security benefits and while Qmail didn't get my box rooted the same way sendmail did, it still had it's problems. I have since moved to postifx and now have a que of 0 to 10 messages instead of the 300 to 1000 I had under Qmail despite the fact that I have 3x the number of domains and 5x the number of messages than I did before.
The major problem with Qmail was it's design simply didn't take into account the possibility of a bad return address. The downside was that it couldn't bounce during reception and so was forced to generate a bounce message instead and not only did spammers plug up the queue with bad messages, it ended up being used for reflector attacks where the attacker set the target's address as the return and sent messages that would bounce to many different servers. The whole problem ended up being so bad that many that many mail admins considered servers running Qmail to be almost as bad as an open relay and there were people who actually maintained blacklists of servers running Qmail and that was right about when I stopped using it but I hear there have been patches to fix the worst of it's flaws since then.
In short: it was secure for only some definitions of secure and for everything else DJB ignored the problem.
Not that far fetched. In Canada some years ago during a strike Telus (second largest telco in Canada) blocked the employee’s union's website. Telcos can never be trusted not to censor things they don't like.
Email addresses are hard to change. I know a lot of people who still have their email address from 10 years ago and don't want to touch it because that's the email address everyone has and tracking down everyone on the old address would be far too hard.
I can understand the sentiment because I've had my email address for 14 years now and every once and awhile I get someone I haven't heard from in a few years get in contact with me using the address I gave them years ago.
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After 10 years working in the credit card industry I can tell you that banks rarely pass up and opportunity to hit merchants with fees and charities are nothing more than merchants to them. The theory they go by is that merchants should be able to tell what transactions are fraudulent but really it's just an excuse to charge for the trouble of having to deal with charge backs (and make a little extra money on the side)
IF you did it in your own time, release it as Open Source, at least then you have a good CV when it comes to getting a job elsewhere.
The first thing you need to know is that many of those Google hits will use Stratfor in their source. Reuters, NYT etc all have Stratfor accounts and those stories tend to reduce the Stratfor work to a bunch of facts without the analysis of possible outcomes but at any rate they will be slower than Stratfor.
The second thing you need to know is that unlike most think tanks, Stratfor publishes a quarterly and yearly rundown of their predictions rating them as true/partially true/not true/yet to be seen etc.
Don't mistake their reporting that "x country/organization is doing bad things" with a suggestion that a war on them a good idea. More often than not a war will only make things worse and if the US government had listened to Stratfor's predictions they would not have invaded either Iraq or Afganistan.
Indeed, I am assigned the task of researching where to move my employer's 100+ domains since we want to move but can't just do it blindly. (requirements European based, reasonable prices)
You think the bank will be out any money for this? The only people who will actually be out of money will be the charities since they are now on the hook for the stolen amount plus the charge-back fees.
What a load of crap. Judging by by your post you have no idea whatsoever who or what Stratfor is.
Strafror is a private intelligence company that not only reports on the news, they analyze it for possibly outcomes and consequences. I find them far more insightful than regular news sources and what really gets my respect is that they give a quarterly review of any predictions they made and how many of them came true or were completely off base. About the only thing they have to do with the US political system is their tendency to print information that is inconvenient for the US government and it's allies.
This whole move by Anon will have exactly two consequences:
1 They shut down an important news source while it is needed the most.
2 They will screw over a bunch of charities who will now be hit with charge-back fees. I know that the credit card companies issued a "non denial denial" and said that it was up to the individual banks on whether their contracts contain a clause charging the recipient transactions but how many banks will actually not charge the fee? I don't know of any and I work in the CC processing industry. Hint: the bank is never out any money during a fraudulent transaction.
Ever see what happens if a user comes in and installs their own store bought router because it's faster than talking to IT or because they don't like the company wireless setup? There is nothing as annoying as something sending rogue DHCP replies for a non existent gateway and having half the network go down and then tracking the problem down to some sales rep who setup an incorrectly setup router. Even less fun is trying to figure out why only at certain times of day is the network slow only to discover someone has been war driving and sucking the network dry while causing angry phone calls from your ISP about bad behavior.
And then we have those cute little apps that "work fine at home". Home has 1 maybe two PCs and the office has a lot more than that. Said little app may still let your computer run fine but it very well may be causing everyone else trouble by sucking the network dry. And then there are those apps that just happen to share more of the drive to the outside world than you intended.
Yes, we are the gatekeepers and just because you don't like some of the policies, it does not mean there there aren't some very good reasons for that.
Here you go: http://www.rfgonline.com/subsforum/LinuxTCO.pdf
So 9000 copies of Windows not bought. Let's say that save you $50 per machine (perhaps less) at OEM pricing. tha'ts $450,000. Now how many linux techs did they hire to maintain this? Id assume at least 1 for every 100 machines and what is their annual salary? Compared to windows techs, linux techs get more money.
It is true that Linux admins cost more money but you need fewer Linux admins for the same number of workstations so there is an overall savings.
I hang out places that provide the ability to talk to women in a non expectant environment like volunteering somewhere or a meeting based on a hobby. Heck those slashmeets that slashdot had about a decade ago were good for that. The other way, from experience, introduces me to girls I find myself wishing would just shut up after I spend any amount of time at all talking to them.
Our ability to not act on our impulses is what separates the human race from the animals. Your comparison is bad because in bars/clubs there are no other way to judge people but on looks and is a competitive environment to begin with and that makes it a poor place to look for a potential date although I can see your real problem seems to be the implied "if I don't take what I can get I will get nothing".
Years ago I broke up with a girlfriend after dealing with her constant lies, bad temper and generally manipulative behavior and I had to stop and think about my life since she wasn't the first girl I dated who behaved like that. I realized my problem was standards so since then I have applied a "am I better off with this girl than I am when single" filter to relationships and it makes made me notice a few things: worst case "lonely" is better than "pissed off" and that better girls had a bit of a learning curve but were worth the effort.
He's the Environment Minister. Official part of the "Harper Government"(tm).
Yes, it's an embarrassing time to be a Canadian. There used to be a time when we would take part in multinational initiatives and act as a positive mediator who helped countries reach consensus. Now we sabotage them.
You mean "pretend to take part in multinational initiatives". The government that signed the stupid agreement in the first place didn't do much of anything to actually bring down our carbon emissions.
That's assuming the predecessor wasn't the problem. I have learned over the years that there are far too many tech types to prefer to be the only one that does a particular task and will make any excuse to management to make sure things stay that way. When these lone wolf types happen to not be as competent as they pretend to be they tend to themselves into too deep a hole so they either get fired or quit in frustration but when you talk to them it will always be some other person's fault.
I'm not saying management isn't at fault, they very well could be but don't assume that right off. The first step is to try and get a read on how good the predecessor was at their job otherwise he can get very misleading info.
Good old fashioned paper letters are NOT private. I have had my credit card number stolen exactly 3 times in my life and NONE of them were electronic.
1 Domino's Pizza employee
2.Pickpocket (out of my front pocket no less)
3.Postal Service.
Of the three the only one that actually succeeded in making charges was the one taken from the postal service. Safe? Not even close.
Rsyslogd already has plenty of ways to move data to a remote machine reliably, mechanisms to prevent local apps from pretending to be each other as well as the option to log to a database. There is no need to rip out the current system.
No data I care about resides on any of my SSD drives since I use them for system files only. Anything I care about is on a standard drive (due to size issues) as well as backed up elsewhere.
The only time I have really heard of them failing on any large scale is when they are plugged in and just don't work(or work intermittently) due to incompatibilities/software defects or when someone updates the firmware and generally if they work for the first week without problems they will run well. I own several and they have been solid although I have avoided spending large amounts of money and ended up with the smaller sizes that I used for system files.
With just the system files on SSD the difference in speed has been huge for both Linux and Windows.
It's all about Marketing. MS Windows is has plenty of speed if you are willing to put the right hardware behind it and the brochure advertising their platform only mentions that their system has the lowest latency when processing stock data and not total cost.
and not only did spammers plug up the queue with bad messages, it ended up being used for reflector attacks where the attacker set the target's address as the return and sent messages that would bounce to many different servers.
Theoretically, that is possible. In practice I haven't seen spammers use that mechanism.
I used to run qmail and I have seen it used for that.
The whole problem ended up being so bad that many that many mail admins considered servers running Qmail to be almost as bad as an open relay and there were people who actually maintained blacklists of servers running Qmail and that was right about when I stopped using it but I hear there have been patches to fix the worst of it's flaws since then.
A lot of people are irrationally against djb in any way. He's become like the president, every time something goes wrong people blame him. Those blacklists you speak of are less about addressing an operational problem and much more about irrational dick waving.
It's not irrational if you observe a problem only to be ignored. As I said earlier I used to run Qmail and I did so because of it's security benefits and while Qmail didn't get my box rooted the same way sendmail did, it still had it's problems. I have since moved to postifx and now have a que of 0 to 10 messages instead of the 300 to 1000 I had under Qmail despite the fact that I have 3x the number of domains and 5x the number of messages than I did before.
The major problem with Qmail was it's design simply didn't take into account the possibility of a bad return address. The downside was that it couldn't bounce during reception and so was forced to generate a bounce message instead and not only did spammers plug up the queue with bad messages, it ended up being used for reflector attacks where the attacker set the target's address as the return and sent messages that would bounce to many different servers. The whole problem ended up being so bad that many that many mail admins considered servers running Qmail to be almost as bad as an open relay and there were people who actually maintained blacklists of servers running Qmail and that was right about when I stopped using it but I hear there have been patches to fix the worst of it's flaws since then.
In short: it was secure for only some definitions of secure and for everything else DJB ignored the problem.
Better yet use Unbound resolving only nameserver since it supports signed zones.
Not that far fetched. In Canada some years ago during a strike Telus (second largest telco in Canada) blocked the employee’s union's website. Telcos can never be trusted not to censor things they don't like.
Report them to their ISP.
Email addresses are hard to change. I know a lot of people who still have their email address from 10 years ago and don't want to touch it because that's the email address everyone has and tracking down everyone on the old address would be far too hard.
I can understand the sentiment because I've had my email address for 14 years now and every once and awhile I get someone I haven't heard from in a few years get in contact with me using the address I gave them years ago.