My exprience with procurves must have been very different then yours. You must not be doing multicast, care when the switch decides not to switch packet, or when the switch keeps forgetting its cam table. You also must not be changing vlans through SNMP, have a large number of vlans, or enjoy a proper CLI.
For the price, you should be able to get better gear.
I would have thought part of the manufacturing process would have been dd-ing the card with a fresh layout... forget they are cheap cards - electronic parts are cheap, especially in wholesale and the fact your Alcatel/Cisco/Procurve hardware probably got their $.00001 resistors and surface mount diodes from the same place.... nothing should have survived the write / verify of the media during their final manufacturing/QA process.
I could see some IT guy sticking the flash card into an win2k or XP machine to duplicate it onto another card. Maybe an old laptop that they kept burried in a drawer in their datacenter because it has a serial port...
I'm guessing they couldn't override wirelessly (the wireless function is designed for administering bolus doses on my pump).
I would at least have chance to hear one or two bolus beeps before it got through the full reservoir. provided it is operating as it is designed and being used as intended
I mean, I don't think any hardware or software is designed to guard against all the misuses they have not thought about... but if the pump is connected the same electronics as the wireless and controlled by a common software stack... it could probably be redesigned... but if I were you I'd be more worried about someone redesigning your brakes.
That's what I was thinking, but obviously I wasn't thinking too hard because I never thought of the energy requirements meat needing to be chilled... suppose we could shoot cows and turn them straight to jerky on site... only thing I know for sure is I don't know enough.
Paranoid? You're damned right I'm paranoid....
...that a company that exists only to gather and sell information about people will eventually abuse that in order to make money.
That's cynical, yes... but I wouldn't think that is the same as being paranoid. Being paranoid is thinking that the money (which they are swimming in already) is nothing to do with anything. I mean is there anything that google can do with more money then it cannot already do? Being parinoid would believe that such abuse of your information will be used against you and the people you care about.
My particular use case can be described as: "Eehhh, I guess I'll just leave it in the bathroom for when I need to look something up while taking a shit."
Except the carbon expelled comes from the carbon we eat right? We eat mostly things that mostly pulled the carbon from the air less than 200 years ago... we are not releasing new carbon except that which was used to cultivate the food from fossil fuel.
Your argument seems short sighted... add to that the decomposition of the dead bodies will probably release green-house gas too (including methane) unless you burry them right away, and even then you will probably parade the body around first and dig a hole with a back-hoe...
I've done something similar to this with my router - it would BGP null route the zombies by distributing the/32 route with a community tag and the upstream router would use policy routing to null route the routes in that community... unfortunately, trying to find an upstream ISP that supports such null routing is now hard to find.
As a UNIX guy myself who actually liked(and used) Windows NT features, NTFS permissions/registry/auditing/group policy/etc., and not a Windows hater by any means. I actually thought Microsoft Services for Unix would bridge the gap nicely... but I found SFU is terrible (for my use). The NFS implimentation is terrible. The terminal is terrible. There is no X server. There is no native ssh included. No community support. No vi. It (was) all crap and there was no way I wanted to port and recompile every mundane script/program. When I started installing cygwin binaries to make my SFU experience more complete, I eventualluy ditched SFU all together. SFU was just a steaming pile of sog dhit waiting for you to add the flies.
Granted, but was the LD50 tested after prolonged exposure to UV, other pesticides, heat etc.?? that is the unknown... and stories like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13QiSV_lrDQ do not help with the FUD
I found Vista 64bit quite good for my purpose actually... the 32bit version and lack of 64bit software as well as the crap hardware of the time is what sucked for me.
I agree... mind you the fear is in the unknown. Many people do not fully understand the method of action of the pesticides and how it targets specific neurotransmitters only in insects while being a perfect compound that does not alter chemically in heat/digestion or have bi-products created in the production. <sarcasm>Me, I'd rather worry about being taken out by a freaking magnet.</sarcasm>
25,000 social security numbers with medical files... ought to be a way to track down some photos and missing information for a good number of them... find facebook accounts etc... few photoshops here and there or maybe a few look-a-likes who can commit the actual fraud... the beautiful thing about information such as this is that it does not change. Maybe it is not useful now... but a few more breaches and the defence in depth approach with common information gets shallow.
I had this friend once, the real tinfoil hat kind of friend/acquaintance who: - refused to use the internet - lined his house in chicken wire/lead drywall -I stopped talking to when he called me the enemy for working for a wireless internet company
He spoke of a day when we would all have the choice to take a national ID with a smart card and register our finger prints or be denied all government services.
That and it seems many ISPs don't have complete customer information and if they did it would probably be more expensive to use it then simply modifying a page through a transparent proxy... could you imagine the cost on an with 5,000,000+ subscribers, on a billing date if 20,000 didn't pay and were cut off and called a call center for 5 minutes... that is 100,000minutes of call center staff... 1666hours... every 30 days for subscribers who are not paying or keeping updated payment records. If they were spaced out over a single staff member getting paid $12/hr with no other overhead easy quarter million/yr... but obviously one staff member can't answer 1666hours of calls with tollerable wait times and there is overhead... non paying subscribers are nearly all going to call during peak hours. As a large ISP how would you do it?
Just so you know... they can almost as easily use Squid as Blue Coat... Blue Coat is not a man-in-the-middle attack tool... it is a transparent(or not) proxy. Transparent proxies have been used for non evil purposes since the early days of the internet. Just because it has an interface for any idiot to use which is simple then writing your own regex's to grep a standard log file, it doesn't mean its a tool of opression.
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My exprience with procurves must have been very different then yours. You must not be doing multicast, care when the switch decides not to switch packet, or when the switch keeps forgetting its cam table. You also must not be changing vlans through SNMP, have a large number of vlans, or enjoy a proper CLI.
For the price, you should be able to get better gear.
I would have thought part of the manufacturing process would have been dd-ing the card with a fresh layout... forget they are cheap cards - electronic parts are cheap, especially in wholesale and the fact your Alcatel/Cisco/Procurve hardware probably got their $.00001 resistors and surface mount diodes from the same place. ... nothing should have survived the write / verify of the media during their final manufacturing/QA process.
I could see some IT guy sticking the flash card into an win2k or XP machine to duplicate it onto another card. Maybe an old laptop that they kept burried in a drawer in their datacenter because it has a serial port...
What? is VxWorks dead?!
I'm guessing they couldn't override wirelessly (the wireless function is designed for administering bolus doses on my pump).
I would at least have chance to hear one or two bolus beeps before it got through the full reservoir. provided it is operating as it is designed and being used as intended
I mean, I don't think any hardware or software is designed to guard against all the misuses they have not thought about... but if the pump is connected the same electronics as the wireless and controlled by a common software stack... it could probably be redesigned... but if I were you I'd be more worried about someone redesigning your brakes.
That's what I was thinking, but obviously I wasn't thinking too hard because I never thought of the energy requirements meat needing to be chilled... suppose we could shoot cows and turn them straight to jerky on site... only thing I know for sure is I don't know enough.
I use PPP multi-link you insensitive clod.
Paranoid? You're damned right I'm paranoid....
...that a company that exists only to gather and sell information about people will eventually abuse that in order to make money.
That's cynical, yes... but I wouldn't think that is the same as being paranoid. Being paranoid is thinking that the money (which they are swimming in already) is nothing to do with anything. I mean is there anything that google can do with more money then it cannot already do? Being parinoid would believe that such abuse of your information will be used against you and the people you care about.
My particular use case can be described as: "Eehhh, I guess I'll just leave it in the bathroom for when I need to look something up while taking a shit."
That's pretty close to my use case...
One could suspect that when google/messenger voice integrates as part of Aura, lawyers will make money. Ready the popcorn machine...
And here I spent $2k on Michelin pilot sport ps2's that are only good for maximum 30,000miles... the market caters to all people...
And with that said... I wonder if its better for the environment to eat free grazing cows or wheat?
Except the carbon expelled comes from the carbon we eat right? We eat mostly things that mostly pulled the carbon from the air less than 200 years ago... we are not releasing new carbon except that which was used to cultivate the food from fossil fuel.
Your argument seems short sighted... add to that the decomposition of the dead bodies will probably release green-house gas too (including methane) unless you burry them right away, and even then you will probably parade the body around first and dig a hole with a back-hoe...
The city cannot fix the sensor to detect my carbon fiber/aluminum bike... so I use my blackberries speaker set on the coil.
The junior scientist in me encourages you to take out the sound dampening material and test your hypothesis... :)
I've done something similar to this with my router - it would BGP null route the zombies by distributing the /32 route with a community tag and the upstream router would use policy routing to null route the routes in that community... unfortunately, trying to find an upstream ISP that supports such null routing is now hard to find.
As a UNIX guy myself who actually liked(and used) Windows NT features, NTFS permissions/registry/auditing/group policy/etc., and not a Windows hater by any means. I actually thought Microsoft Services for Unix would bridge the gap nicely... but I found SFU is terrible (for my use). The NFS implimentation is terrible. The terminal is terrible. There is no X server. There is no native ssh included. No community support. No vi. It (was) all crap and there was no way I wanted to port and recompile every mundane script/program. When I started installing cygwin binaries to make my SFU experience more complete, I eventualluy ditched SFU all together. SFU was just a steaming pile of sog dhit waiting for you to add the flies.
I suppose so...
Granted, but was the LD50 tested after prolonged exposure to UV, other pesticides, heat etc.?? that is the unknown... and stories like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13QiSV_lrDQ do not help with the FUD
I found Vista 64bit quite good for my purpose actually... the 32bit version and lack of 64bit software as well as the crap hardware of the time is what sucked for me.
I agree... mind you the fear is in the unknown. Many people do not fully understand the method of action of the pesticides and how it targets specific neurotransmitters only in insects while being a perfect compound that does not alter chemically in heat/digestion or have bi-products created in the production.
<sarcasm>Me, I'd rather worry about being taken out by a freaking magnet.</sarcasm>
25,000 social security numbers with medical files... ought to be a way to track down some photos and missing information for a good number of them... find facebook accounts etc... few photoshops here and there or maybe a few look-a-likes who can commit the actual fraud... the beautiful thing about information such as this is that it does not change. Maybe it is not useful now... but a few more breaches and the defence in depth approach with common information gets shallow.
I had this friend once, the real tinfoil hat kind of friend/acquaintance who:
- refused to use the internet
- lined his house in chicken wire/lead drywall
-I stopped talking to when he called me the enemy for working for a wireless internet company
He spoke of a day when we would all have the choice to take a national ID with a smart card and register our finger prints or be denied all government services.
errr..
That and it seems many ISPs don't have complete customer information and if they did it would probably be more expensive to use it then simply modifying a page through a transparent proxy... could you imagine the cost on an with 5,000,000+ subscribers, on a billing date if 20,000 didn't pay and were cut off and called a call center for 5 minutes... that is 100,000minutes of call center staff... 1666hours... every 30 days for subscribers who are not paying or keeping updated payment records. If they were spaced out over a single staff member getting paid $12/hr with no other overhead easy quarter million/yr... but obviously one staff member can't answer 1666hours of calls with tollerable wait times and there is overhead... non paying subscribers are nearly all going to call during peak hours. As a large ISP how would you do it?
Just so you know... they can almost as easily use Squid as Blue Coat... Blue Coat is not a man-in-the-middle attack tool... it is a transparent(or not) proxy. Transparent proxies have been used for non evil purposes since the early days of the internet. Just because it has an interface for any idiot to use which is simple then writing your own regex's to grep a standard log file, it doesn't mean its a tool of opression.