The article is sensationalist to be sure - obviously simply having a dns server gives you power over nobody.
The practice of poisoning/changing/redirecting a target's DNS requests to a DNS server you control, is what's on the rise.
The problem is the amount of trust built upon DNS... so much of web-based security is built on same-domain policies and things like that. Once you control someone's DNS lookups, you control just about everything they do on the internet.
I'm not calling you a liar.. but it's *extremely* unlikely that you can hear 25kHz.
How were you generating and listening to the tone?
I'm one of those people who gets annoyed by TVs because I can hear the flyback transformer going, even from a different room, and there's still no way I can hear 25kHz.
Your argument is common, but I don't think it's the correct point of view.
You are looking at it as some kind of punishment.
Right now, the problem is the industry's business model doesn't fit what the public at-large wants to do. The laws support the industry, but enforcement is not practical. The rules of the game have to change, or we're just wasting resources on all sides.
Blanket licensing is one solution to the problem - it makes what the public is doing expressly legal. Those of you who say "Why should I pay, I don't steal music?".. well, after this, a whole new market would pop up for you to *legally* get music from, and stop buying cds.
I'ts always been clear that Linus speaks for Linus.
"Linux" means different things to different people.. from the "It's just a kernel" crowd (who are correct) to the "Linux is a killer-app-market-force" crowd (also true).
Linus has always been very up-front that he speaks for himself, and himself alone, and that anyone who disagrees is free to go do whatever they want with the software he wrote.
No - you'd need to cover square kilometers with multiple sheets of plastic in layers stacked up for kilometers.
Also note that the point is to drive kinetic energy into the plastic - putting the plastic at an angle to allow a cascade necessarily means less energy extracted at each level.
I think that's what the parent meant... . Either way - for a given size, would that generate more or less power than funnelling it all through a hydro-electric dam?
The original premise was "This is better than a dam, as the rain falls farther".. but that's not the case.. so where's the benefit?
Terminal velocity for raindrops appears to be about 20mph, or about 32km/h, or about 9 m/s and that's for extremely large drops in huge storms. They would hit that after falling for about 1 second.. so all that extra altitude wouldn't seem to be helping at all.
Your calculation would the be 2000 * 9.8 = 19,200 J
The client machine is set to look for AAAA records before A records (so that IF you had ipv6 and ipv4, you would use ipv6 by defeault for sites that had it). If the AAAA query returns an error, rather than a simple not-found, the resolver returns a fail.
Now - if the DNS server that's being queried doesn't respond exactly right.. ti can hang clients for ages.
It's a somewhat poorly thought out system, and prone to error.
I guess my point is that the term "Engineer" is not as well defined as many engineers would like it to be.
Yes, in some situations, certified professional engineers can sign off on things, and be legally responsible..but there are plenty of engineers who are NOT putting an official engineer stamp on their work.. they are doing normal everyday work at a company like many other people.
To joe average, the term "engineer" does not necessarily mean what you want it to mean... hence the ton of people who call themselves "Engineers".
That would be true if security practices were based on common sense, logic, and risk models.
Current practices, however, are based on politics and hunches by bureaucrats. The train cost 90 billion dollars to build. You aren't getting on without REAL ID, not being on a TSA list, photographed, fingerprinted, and your luggage scanned.
And if this went through - you wouldn't have to worry about avoiding "pirating" music - because copying music from anonymous people on the internet would be *legal*... you could freely download what you want, when you want.
The others aren't whining.. only the music industry. Yes, we can say no to others... we will *change the law* so that in exchange for a small fee, we Canadians no longer have to worry about frivolous lawsuits from the music industry and can move on to other things, like enjoying music.
One one hand - why should I pay for something I won't do? Why should the privilege of using an internet connection automatically put money in the pockets of one specific business group who has *nothing* do to with providing me my internet services? Also.. this is Canada... non-commercial copying for personal use is already expressly legal as far as I recall.
On the other hand.. it's a compromise. They should go further - and allow commercial services to use their material as well, under some other similarly broad license. It could open things up to some innovative new services.
It's only "infringing" if it breaks copyright. Copyright is a limited set of rights granted by law to the creator. preventing people from making "fair use" copies is not one of those rights.. so it's not infringing on anything.
The primary benefit of universal healthcare is this: The average Canadian (or whatever) does not ever worry about choosing which finger they have to have sewn back on.
It does mean that those with the means have a harder time getting special treatment.. it is much easier for them in the US... but joe average does not worry about healthcare. It's not a driving force in our lives.
What you cannot do is ban gambling run by foreigners, but not locals.
All participating countries do not have to allow the same things.. but if they DO allow them, they have to allow them fairly.
The US currently has very lopsided gambling legislation. I realize it seems normal for gambling to be handled the way it is in the US.. but it's not how the rest of the world generally works.
He probably means your more typical server room raised floor which is just high enough to fit a standard six pack of beer under. He's probably not envisioning supercomputer-center type raised floor that's high enough to crawl under.
There are a lot of moral and ethical arguments here...
This is business, and your job.
1) Don't assume the person who did this is evil, bad, or incompetent. 2) Ask whoever you report to about the issue in writing. Bring it to their attention a a possibly copyright issue.
Then just let it go unless you are asked to do something else.
UNLESS
Unless you feel this particular issue is of grave risk to the company.. then you might want to go over a head and escalate it.. but be sure about what you are doing and aware of who you might piss off.
Don't start getting pissy about it just on principle.
Welcome to business 101.. don't spend money you don't have to.
So you made a small GPL violation.. what's the worst outcome?
The WORST outcome would be the entire body of copyright holders of the GPL work suing the shit out of you without simply asking you to comply, and so on. That's pretty unlikely, and even more unlikely to succeed.
The likely outcome is either NOBODY notices or Someone notices, and eventually you find the spare cycles to fix the issue and say "Yeah well we're a big company, mistakes happened, we fixed it, the software is free ANYWAY so it's not like we stole from anyone."
Sure.. sometimes it feels like "Hey they don't trust me."
If only HR policy could be fine tuned to every individual.
At my workplace, we've had a good mix of reactions.
In most cases, notice is accepted and the employee can work out the rest of their days.. it's all very friendly and amicable. In some cases, employees hang around and just stir shit up, complain about all the stuff they dno't like about working there, and waste time. Now put yourself in the owners shoes.. is that what you are paying them for? I wouldn't.
The company generally has to pay you anyway... it's often a much easier deicision to simply have you out. They don't lose anything.
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The article is sensationalist to be sure - obviously simply having a dns server gives you power over nobody.
The practice of poisoning/changing/redirecting a target's DNS requests to a DNS server you control, is what's on the rise.
The problem is the amount of trust built upon DNS... so much of web-based security is built on same-domain policies and things like that. Once you control someone's DNS lookups, you control just about everything they do on the internet.
Or, maybe they had their limited resources tied up with more serious crime.
I'm not calling you a liar.. but it's *extremely* unlikely that you can hear 25kHz.
How were you generating and listening to the tone?
I'm one of those people who gets annoyed by TVs because I can hear the flyback transformer going, even from a different room, and there's still no way I can hear 25kHz.
Your argument is common, but I don't think it's the correct point of view.
You are looking at it as some kind of punishment.
Right now, the problem is the industry's business model doesn't fit what the public at-large wants to do. The laws support the industry, but enforcement is not practical. The rules of the game have to change, or we're just wasting resources on all sides.
Blanket licensing is one solution to the problem - it makes what the public is doing expressly legal. Those of you who say "Why should I pay, I don't steal music?".. well, after this, a whole new market would pop up for you to *legally* get music from, and stop buying cds.
I'ts always been clear that Linus speaks for Linus.
"Linux" means different things to different people.. from the "It's just a kernel" crowd (who are correct)
to the "Linux is a killer-app-market-force" crowd (also true).
Linus has always been very up-front that he speaks for himself, and himself alone, and that anyone who disagrees is free to go do whatever they want with the software he wrote.
No - you'd need to cover square kilometers with multiple sheets of plastic in layers stacked up for kilometers.
Also note that the point is to drive kinetic energy into the plastic - putting the plastic at an angle to allow a cascade necessarily means less energy extracted at each level.
I think that's what the parent meant...
.
Either way - for a given size, would that generate more or less power than funnelling it all through a hydro-electric dam?
The original premise was "This is better than a dam, as the rain falls farther".. but that's not the case.. so where's the benefit?
Terminal velocity for raindrops appears to be about 20mph, or about 32km/h, or about 9 m/s and that's for extremely large drops in huge storms. They would hit that after falling for about 1 second.. so all that extra altitude wouldn't seem to be helping at all.
Your calculation would the be 2000 * 9.8 = 19,200 J
http://www.shorstmeyer.com/wxfaqs/float/rdtable.html
It's more likely a host problem....
I've seen this in BSD/Sendmail sometimes.
IIRC (something like this anyway)
The client machine is set to look for AAAA records before A records (so that IF you had ipv6 and ipv4, you would use ipv6 by defeault for sites that had it). If the AAAA query returns an error, rather than a simple not-found, the resolver returns a fail.
Now - if the DNS server that's being queried doesn't respond exactly right.. ti can hang clients for ages.
It's a somewhat poorly thought out system, and prone to error.
I guess my point is that the term "Engineer" is not as well defined as many engineers would like it to be.
Yes, in some situations, certified professional engineers can sign off on things, and be legally responsible..but there are plenty of engineers who are NOT putting an official engineer stamp on their work.. they are doing normal everyday work at a company like many other people.
To joe average, the term "engineer" does not necessarily mean what you want it to mean... hence the ton of people who call themselves "Engineers".
That would be true if security practices were based on common sense, logic, and risk models.
Current practices, however, are based on politics and hunches by bureaucrats.
The train cost 90 billion dollars to build. You aren't getting on without REAL ID, not being on a TSA list, photographed, fingerprinted, and your luggage scanned.
Show me a place where a software engineer is legally responsible for their work?
The industry collectively agrees with it - that makes it fair.
In fact - it would make it law.
And if this went through - you wouldn't have to worry about avoiding "pirating" music - because copying music from anonymous people on the internet would be *legal*... you could freely download what you want, when you want.
The others aren't whining.. only the music industry. Yes, we can say no to others... we will *change the law* so that in exchange for a small fee, we Canadians no longer have to worry about frivolous lawsuits from the music industry and can move on to other things, like enjoying music.
One one hand - why should I pay for something I won't do? Why should the privilege of using an internet connection automatically put money in the pockets of one specific business group who has *nothing* do to with providing me my internet services? Also.. this is Canada... non-commercial copying for personal use is already expressly legal as far as I recall.
On the other hand.. it's a compromise. They should go further - and allow commercial services to use their material as well, under some other similarly broad license. It could open things up to some innovative new services.
That's just playing at words.
It's only "infringing" if it breaks copyright. Copyright is a limited set of rights granted by law to the creator. preventing people from making "fair use" copies is not one of those rights.. so it's not infringing on anything.
You may be partially correct.
The primary benefit of universal healthcare is this:
The average Canadian (or whatever) does not ever worry about choosing which finger they have to have sewn back on.
It does mean that those with the means have a harder time getting special treatment.. it is much easier for them in the US... but joe average does not worry about healthcare. It's not a driving force in our lives.
Losing your house how?
Getting foreign treatment is not illegal, at least not in Canada.
What you cannot do is ban gambling run by foreigners, but not locals.
All participating countries do not have to allow the same things.. but if they DO allow them, they have to allow them fairly.
The US currently has very lopsided gambling legislation. I realize it seems normal for gambling to be handled the way it is in the US.. but it's not how the rest of the world generally works.
He probably means your more typical server room raised floor which is just high enough to fit a standard six pack of beer under. He's probably not envisioning supercomputer-center type raised floor that's high enough to crawl under.
There are a lot of moral and ethical arguments here...
This is business, and your job.
1) Don't assume the person who did this is evil, bad, or incompetent.
2) Ask whoever you report to about the issue in writing. Bring it to their attention a a possibly copyright issue.
Then just let it go unless you are asked to do something else.
UNLESS
Unless you feel this particular issue is of grave risk to the company.. then you might want to go over a head and escalate it.. but be sure about what you are doing and aware of who you might piss off.
Don't start getting pissy about it just on principle.
Welcome to business 101.. don't spend money you don't have to.
So you made a small GPL violation.. what's the worst outcome?
The WORST outcome would be the entire body of copyright holders of the GPL work suing the shit out of you without simply asking you to comply, and so on. That's pretty unlikely, and even more unlikely to succeed.
The likely outcome is either NOBODY notices
or
Someone notices, and eventually you find the spare cycles to fix the issue and say "Yeah well we're a big company, mistakes happened, we fixed it, the software is free ANYWAY so it's not like we stole from anyone."
This is completely normal at almost any company.
Sure.. sometimes it feels like "Hey they don't trust me."
If only HR policy could be fine tuned to every individual.
At my workplace, we've had a good mix of reactions.
In most cases, notice is accepted and the employee can work out the rest of their days.. it's all very friendly and amicable.
In some cases, employees hang around and just stir shit up, complain about all the stuff they dno't like about working there, and waste time.
Now put yourself in the owners shoes.. is that what you are paying them for? I wouldn't.
The company generally has to pay you anyway... it's often a much easier deicision to simply have you out. They don't lose anything.
Would you pay someone to hang out in YOUR office buidling talking to YOUR employees about how great it would be if they quiet?