There may not be black and white answers for many cases but there sure are for this case.
Free speech gives you every right to have an unpopular opinion.
Disagree with the way the country is run? That's free speeach.
Hate my religion? Shout it from the rooftops.. I'll deal because that's your right.
It may even give you the right to think that girl is better off dead.
What it does not give this guy is the right to say to that girl "hey we can die together it's alright" when he had no plans whatsoever to go through with it. Pretending to be someone your not for the purposes of conning someone is not free speech.
It's the same way free speech does not mean me saying "hey give me $100 now and I'll pay you back" when I have no actual intention of doing so.
What I find truly shocking is that I didn't find anyone defending guys who bilked people out of millions with stock scams as free speech but somehow lying to some girl to push her the rest of the way over the edge is fine.
When did money become more important than human life?
TRIM was only enabled on kernel 2.6.33. I don't know any distros that ship that version yet so unless your friends are custom compiling their kernels they don't have working TRIM.
It is only a slight performance improvement for large files. For large amounts of small files it's a huge gain thanks to the lack of head movement.
I picked up a 32gb SSD drive to handle the OS and apps and left my 1TB drive for movies. The difference in boot times and app load times are very noticeable.
That seems written by someone who really has little to no idea how SSD drives work. It should take years to see problems caused by flash wearing out even under intense use.
The actual problem involves the way modern SSD drives write your new data to an unused portion of the disk before erasing the old flash to improve speed. If the drives think they are full then you are stuck waiting for the old blocks to be cleared before you can write your data.
TRIM was added to fix this problem by letting the OS tell the drive when blocks become unused but it only works on very recent drives and new operating systems. You are out of luck on that front if your running XP or a Linux kernel older than 2.6.33 but on the upside the problem only affects write speed.
If only that were true. Ditching C only moves you to a different set of attack vectors. If there is a language that actually prevents most exploits I haven't seen it yet.
The difference is that gay porn involves consenting adults and not someone too young to be able to consent.. Imagine being raped and then having the pictures passed around for years. This isn't exactly a victimless crime were talking about here.
Quite frankly if your getting off on pictures/videos of sex that doesn't involve the consent of everyone involved you deserve to be locked away for a very long time.
Indeed... I once got a call into the sales office for a place I worked. It seemed that one of our clients in Russia thought it would be funny to prank our head of sales with a child porn page that opened ten sites and each of those opened up another ten. He tried to close the windows but eventually they just overran his computer and they called me in to fix it.
Imagine going to jail because some sick bastard thought grossing you out would be a fantastic prank.
fail2ban firewalls off the port for a time you specify
DenyHosts blocks the ip in/etc/hosts.deny
I find fail2ban to be much more effective since I can use it for more than just SSH (on my system: ftp, imap, pop3, ssh, smtp). Some of the newer botnets will attempt to crack the password using another service and then try the resulting password on ssh so it's important to have more complete coverage.
Your wrong.. both Canada and the US have been doing this for years. Was actually kind of sad in one case since they had a nice classical piece playing outside of a shop but inside it was Brittany Spears. I actually preferred being outside the store.
That's exactly what most of the people I've worked with or cleaned up after who call themselves "webdev" are. Designers who can pull of some HTML and make use of the odd AJAX libraries and now they know some PHP or ASP to make themselves more marketable.
The result is a ton of SQL heavy apps that manage their input validation in Javascript.
If you want truly scary you should see what happens when these guys go upscale and learn java: Java daemonized apps that use the SQL server to store their internal state and SQL tables instead of sockets.
The problem is not the web devs it's the managers who didn't realize they need both a programmer and a webdev.
They are very different functions. If you have only webdevs you tend towards the sort of security mess we are seeing here. If you have only programmers you end up with a site that is butt ugly and useless from a user interface perspective.
Your stock market display software is a good example of a case where the entire project will fall apart unless you have programmers who can move the data efficiently and securely and then some skilled webdevs to handle the user interface work.
The problem is that what a programmer does is largely behind the scenes and no one really know what they do anyways. The current crop of "programmers" are web designers who learned a bit of web programming to add to their skill set. They don't understand any of the implications of what they are doing and only know how to take results from a database and display it in a nice looking web page.
I doubt that very much. The dual sim tells me it's not at all Apple electronics and most likely made by SCI. Sci makes cheap knockoffs using an OS they skin to make the front screen look like whatever OS they are mimicking. Slap an Apple look alike case and home screen and it's an iphone. Slap a t mobile g1 case on it and it's Android.
I actually own one. I needed a cheap phone fast and their G1 knockoff was cheaper than even low end phones around here. It wasn't bad for the price but I wish they wouldn't bother skinning it to look like other phones.
I wish I had your internet. Here in Spain I can count on telefonica dropping my connection a couple of times a day.
This actually reminds me of one of my co workers last year. He bought a PC and a bunch of games and then ended up having to go hunt down a cracked version of one of the games because it required internet access to install and we didn't have internet access at home yet.
And on that note. What about Laptops? What if I want to play something during a two hour layover somewhere and internet access happens to cost $1 a minute?
Funny.. I just went through there and I don't see any whitelist or blacklist entries. I do see one for trusting files at certain locations but that has nothing to do with what sites can store info on the computer.
In addition, disabling "allow third party sites to access information on your computer" Does not actually prevent flash for creating files on my drive for each flash site I visit. It only prevents the few useful sites where I had saved settings from doing so.
If java is backward compatible then why do bugfix releases keep breaking java apps? I actually caught the programmers at the last place I worked trying to disable system security updates on the servers. I also have a Cisco firewall whose web interface breaks on the latest java plugin and needed updating to experimental firmware.
I'd much rather people use python or perl for complex scripts.
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There may not be black and white answers for many cases but there sure are for this case.
Free speech gives you every right to have an unpopular opinion.
Disagree with the way the country is run? That's free speeach.
Hate my religion? Shout it from the rooftops.. I'll deal because that's your right.
It may even give you the right to think that girl is better off dead.
What it does not give this guy is the right to say to that girl "hey we can die together it's alright" when he had no plans whatsoever to go through with it. Pretending to be someone your not for the purposes of conning someone is not free speech.
It's the same way free speech does not mean me saying "hey give me $100 now and I'll pay you back" when I have no actual intention of doing so.
What I find truly shocking is that I didn't find anyone defending guys who bilked people out of millions with stock scams as free speech but somehow lying to some girl to push her the rest of the way over the edge is fine.
When did money become more important than human life?
Except that's not what happened, this guy pretended to be a woman, made fake suicide pacts and actually pressured people to go through with them.
There is a saying that applies here: "Anything is easy if you don't know what your talking about"
We know this and I'm sure their programmers know this but I bet the managers don't believe it for an instant.
If you REALLY want to send them a message don't buy it and don't pirate it either.
Pirating the game tells them that you would have bought it had their DRM been foolproof.
TRIM was only enabled on kernel 2.6.33. I don't know any distros that ship that version yet so unless your friends are custom compiling their kernels they don't have working TRIM.
It is only a slight performance improvement for large files. For large amounts of small files it's a huge gain thanks to the lack of head movement.
I picked up a 32gb SSD drive to handle the OS and apps and left my 1TB drive for movies. The difference in boot times and app load times are very noticeable.
That seems written by someone who really has little to no idea how SSD drives work. It should take years to see problems caused by flash wearing out even under intense use.
The actual problem involves the way modern SSD drives write your new data to an unused portion of the disk before erasing the old flash to improve speed. If the drives think they are full then you are stuck waiting for the old blocks to be cleared before you can write your data.
TRIM was added to fix this problem by letting the OS tell the drive when blocks become unused but it only works on very recent drives and new operating systems. You are out of luck on that front if your running XP or a Linux kernel older than 2.6.33 but on the upside the problem only affects write speed.
Actually The LSE doesn't run .NET anymore They Dumped it in favor of Linux and software written by a Sri Lanken software company.
If only that were true. Ditching C only moves you to a different set of attack vectors. If there is a language that actually prevents most exploits I haven't seen it yet.
The difference is that gay porn involves consenting adults and not someone too young to be able to consent.. Imagine being raped and then having the pictures passed around for years. This isn't exactly a victimless crime were talking about here.
Quite frankly if your getting off on pictures/videos of sex that doesn't involve the consent of everyone involved you deserve to be locked away for a very long time.
Indeed... I once got a call into the sales office for a place I worked. It seemed that one of our clients in Russia thought it would be funny to prank our head of sales with a child porn page that opened ten sites and each of those opened up another ten. He tried to close the windows but eventually they just overran his computer and they called me in to fix it.
Imagine going to jail because some sick bastard thought grossing you out would be a fantastic prank.
I'm happy for some Canadian sanity.
More accurately it blocks the attacker's IP at the firewall.
If the average reader sees a bunch of scientific sounding words there will be the assumption that the report's author knows what hes taking about.
fail2ban firewalls off the port for a time you specify
DenyHosts blocks the ip in /etc/hosts.deny
I find fail2ban to be much more effective since I can use it for more than just SSH (on my system: ftp, imap, pop3, ssh, smtp). Some of the newer botnets will attempt to crack the password using another service and then try the resulting password on ssh so it's important to have more complete coverage.
For single long haul runs you are better off with a 110 tool and a proper female end. It's easier, faster, and more reliable.
I don't own a crimping tool on principal.
Your wrong.. both Canada and the US have been doing this for years. Was actually kind of sad in one case since they had a nice classical piece playing outside of a shop but inside it was Brittany Spears. I actually preferred being outside the store.
That's exactly what most of the people I've worked with or cleaned up after who call themselves "webdev" are. Designers who can pull of some HTML and make use of the odd AJAX libraries and now they know some PHP or ASP to make themselves more marketable.
The result is a ton of SQL heavy apps that manage their input validation in Javascript.
If you want truly scary you should see what happens when these guys go upscale and learn java: Java daemonized apps that use the SQL server to store their internal state and SQL tables instead of sockets.
The problem is not the web devs it's the managers who didn't realize they need both a programmer and a webdev.
They are very different functions. If you have only webdevs you tend towards the sort of security mess we are seeing here. If you have only programmers you end up with a site that is butt ugly and useless from a user interface perspective.
Your stock market display software is a good example of a case where the entire project will fall apart unless you have programmers who can move the data efficiently and securely and then some skilled webdevs to handle the user interface work.
The problem is that what a programmer does is largely behind the scenes and no one really know what they do anyways. The current crop of "programmers" are web designers who learned a bit of web programming to add to their skill set. They don't understand any of the implications of what they are doing and only know how to take results from a database and display it in a nice looking web page.
Dual sim means dual sim slots and two recievers so the phone can connect to two networks at once if you don't mind a shorter battery life.
It's a particularly Chinese innovation and not just a small tweak of an Apple design.
I doubt that very much. The dual sim tells me it's not at all Apple electronics and most likely made by SCI. Sci makes cheap knockoffs using an OS they skin to make the front screen look like whatever OS they are mimicking. Slap an Apple look alike case and home screen and it's an iphone. Slap a t mobile g1 case on it and it's Android.
I actually own one. I needed a cheap phone fast and their G1 knockoff was cheaper than even low end phones around here. It wasn't bad for the price but I wish they wouldn't bother skinning it to look like other phones.
I wish I had your internet. Here in Spain I can count on telefonica dropping my connection a couple of times a day.
This actually reminds me of one of my co workers last year. He bought a PC and a bunch of games and then ended up having to go hunt down a cracked version of one of the games because it required internet access to install and we didn't have internet access at home yet.
And on that note. What about Laptops? What if I want to play something during a two hour layover somewhere and internet access happens to cost $1 a minute?
On here that only seems to change the camera and microphone settings. No reference at all to file storage.
Anyhow that page has always been on "always ask" and I still get cookies.
Funny.. I just went through there and I don't see any whitelist or blacklist entries. I do see one for trusting files at certain locations but that has nothing to do with what sites can store info on the computer.
In addition, disabling "allow third party sites to access information on your computer" Does not actually prevent flash for creating files on my drive for each flash site I visit. It only prevents the few useful sites where I had saved settings from doing so.
If java is backward compatible then why do bugfix releases keep breaking java apps? I actually caught the programmers at the last place I worked trying to disable system security updates on the servers. I also have a Cisco firewall whose web interface breaks on the latest java plugin and needed updating to experimental firmware.
I'd much rather people use python or perl for complex scripts.