Further, they will likely see increased demand outside of the city's network from people who get used to the "free" access and soon cannot live without it at home.
The lockers can be keyed to the biometrics. That should help defeat thievery, and serve customers to allow them to not carry around a badge or key while working out or playing sports.
Especially if it's as innoxious as a [almost publically available] thumbprint.
That said, it would be nice to hold biometric data under the same sharing rules as other medical info.
Reading the summary at least, this little thing seems like a replacement for the "Giant Laser"(tm) used to start more conventional fusion tests. Probably cheaper too.
The problem with fusion has never been really how to start it; it's how to keep it going.
I kid you not. I run sshd at home, with a localhost only irc server so we can chat with each other at work. Figure it's better than all my compatriots running various IM systems.
Anyways, their machines were fairly locked down. No installs, no write access to most areas... But they had IE/Outlook, etc installed. Easy enough to point IE at putty's site and run the exe from there.
Apparently the ssh connection spooked the net admin. It was a 'severe security breach' and she was a 'danger to the network'. God forbid he just close the ports... [okay okay, maybe we reconfigured ssh to use port 8080]
But still, running putty on machines with IE and outlook is a gross violation?
Because obviously, any kid smart enough to download game cracks [what, you think the parents -bought- the games they won't let the kids play?] isn't going to be able to download something to disable the ESRB checking software.
No offense, well, okay, perhaps a little offense meant, but I imagine that if you were a top notch security expert, your company wouldn't be going to 3rd parties to check. Or at least they wouldn't be going to some [supposed] dope with a tool who [you think] gave you bogus stuff.
You might want to consider the possibility that the security expert is right. You also might want to consider the possibility that such 'obscure' holes are the exact thing attackers will look for, because once the machine is owned, it's all over. A hole is a hole.
From a more practical point of view, you should create a sandbox network with one [or many] of the holes the security expert disclosed, and then ask them to exploit one for you. Should be a quick sign if they're right, or they're a dope.
The problem with pinball machines is they were tied to the old style arcades. Arcades would have a guy come out every 3 months or so and bring them new games in exchange for old ones.
Since pinball machines break down [damned mechanical beasties] pretty often, the guy would often spruce them up, and/or replace the little broken bits here and there.
With arcades moving to smaller, less dedicated areas [in movie theatres for example] they don't replace the machines as often. If the machine breaks a little after 2 months, suddenly it's less desirable for maybe 4 months rather than 1.
Futher the larger, less complex video games meant the video game guy turned into more of a mover rather than a mechanic. Pinball machines stay broken longer, or aren't fixed as well. They make less money.
A shame. Pat Lawlor should be as famous as Sid Meier or Will Wright or Chris Sawyer.
Did you take intro economics? or at least pay attention to elementary school word problems?
It's really easy. Take the net cost of buying a machine, divide by expected lifespan. Take net cost of leasing a machine [include shipping, and the such], divide by lease time. Compare cost per time. Pick the lower value.
Though that assumes that large companies like Fortune 100 sorts are actually make logical decisions. More likely than not, an uppity up in your company plays golf with an uppity up in the leasing company.
As a staffer of a 4th party company which sells products to 3rd parties to impliment and ensure compliance, I am figuratively rolling in the legislatively guaranteed income.
And those acts are far more important since they're actually acts than trying to maintain privacy on what is essentially public communications.
I shudder that you sit here and argue the importance of the first amendment and then finish with "but I'd accept the invasion of freedom for mere safety."
Indeed, and I wonder what judge would sign off on a subpoena which was not in persuit of an investigation?
and as I replied elsewhere, the gag order is indeed 'bad' and I hope later it can be seen that the subpoena was used in pursuit of an actual investigation with probable cause rather than some sort of poltical shakedown.
And there really should be no assumption of anonymity on the Internet...
There is a rather distinct difference between surveillance of libraries and a one-off subpoena of server logs.
Hell, the only reason I know of blackened.net is because their EFnet ties. I wouldn't be suprised in the least if the reason for the subpoena was not politically motivated in the least.
*shrug* And no, I see no reason to fear a site just because the government has its logs. Like slashdot here, I'm posting to a public, unencrypted network. There cannot be any expectation of privacy. Further, I know that in the US, I am in the legal right should any action actually be taken against me due to the speech.
I disagree on the subpoena of news agencies. Or rather I agree that news agencies should be able to claim anonymous source if and when the source requests to be anonymous. Visiting websites on a public, unencrypted network is not anonymous. Further, any of the vistors could've requested to be anonymous sources, and had the admin purge them from the logs, like reporters destroy taped interviews. It's a rather trivial exercise.
And in a more practical vein, the government already uses plenty of methods to detect who's expressing what opinions, and it hasn't stopped freedom of speech. Fight the times when the government actually censors speech, or curtails our freedom. There's plenty of that already.
So what? If I owned a little deli, and had a security camera, are those tapes safe from subpeona? If I ran a little telecom, would the phone lines be safe from wiretap orders?
It's all rather simple. People have the inalienable right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. If one person acts in a way to curtail these rights of another by say... Killing another, or kidnapping another, or discriminating against another... there's the line.
Any time there's a "judgement" call, or a situation where an illegal act curtails freedom to prevent the curtail of another [killing in self defense] it's a matter for the courts.
Now if the Libertarians would actually act like Libertarians and not anarchists, we might get there....
At 18, kids are being propositioned by prostitutes in American cities. Somehow I think that if they can handle that [and there's no great outcry from the right about that!] they can certainly handle a video game.
Really. It'd be interesting to see a non-federation ship as the primary vessel. Better yet, make it a klingon mercenary ship to give them more plot oppertunities. Less goodie goodie prime directive, more honor.
Most universities have an appeals process for such an action. That would be your best bet, because legally, they can do whatever they want with their network for any reason what-so-ever [as long as they don't prevent you from getting seperate internet access,in which case things get far more complex and in the student's favor].
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Further, they will likely see increased demand outside of the city's network from people who get used to the "free" access and soon cannot live without it at home.
Now for the gamespy implimentation to see what servers are filled with lamers... Now that'd be useful!
The lockers can be keyed to the biometrics. That should help defeat thievery, and serve customers to allow them to not carry around a badge or key while working out or playing sports.
Especially if it's as innoxious as a [almost publically available] thumbprint.
That said, it would be nice to hold biometric data under the same sharing rules as other medical info.
Reading the summary at least, this little thing seems like a replacement for the "Giant Laser"(tm) used to start more conventional fusion tests. Probably cheaper too.
The problem with fusion has never been really how to start it; it's how to keep it going.
My wife got fired for using putty.
I kid you not. I run sshd at home, with a localhost only irc server so we can chat with each other at work. Figure it's better than all my compatriots running various IM systems.
Anyways, their machines were fairly locked down. No installs, no write access to most areas... But they had IE/Outlook, etc installed. Easy enough to point IE at putty's site and run the exe from there.
Apparently the ssh connection spooked the net admin. It was a 'severe security breach' and she was a 'danger to the network'. God forbid he just close the ports... [okay okay, maybe we reconfigured ssh to use port 8080]
But still, running putty on machines with IE and outlook is a gross violation?
Because obviously, any kid smart enough to download game cracks [what, you think the parents -bought- the games they won't let the kids play?] isn't going to be able to download something to disable the ESRB checking software.
No offense, well, okay, perhaps a little offense meant, but I imagine that if you were a top notch security expert, your company wouldn't be going to 3rd parties to check. Or at least they wouldn't be going to some [supposed] dope with a tool who [you think] gave you bogus stuff.
You might want to consider the possibility that the security expert is right. You also might want to consider the possibility that such 'obscure' holes are the exact thing attackers will look for, because once the machine is owned, it's all over. A hole is a hole.
From a more practical point of view, you should create a sandbox network with one [or many] of the holes the security expert disclosed, and then ask them to exploit one for you. Should be a quick sign if they're right, or they're a dope.
The problem with pinball machines is they were tied to the old style arcades. Arcades would have a guy come out every 3 months or so and bring them new games in exchange for old ones.
Since pinball machines break down [damned mechanical beasties] pretty often, the guy would often spruce them up, and/or replace the little broken bits here and there.
With arcades moving to smaller, less dedicated areas [in movie theatres for example] they don't replace the machines as often. If the machine breaks a little after 2 months, suddenly it's less desirable for maybe 4 months rather than 1.
Futher the larger, less complex video games meant the video game guy turned into more of a mover rather than a mechanic. Pinball machines stay broken longer, or aren't fixed as well. They make less money.
A shame. Pat Lawlor should be as famous as Sid Meier or Will Wright or Chris Sawyer.
Because the proper dialog box:
"You're fucked."
Offends users rather than merely confusing them.
Did you take intro economics? or at least pay attention to elementary school word problems?
It's really easy. Take the net cost of buying a machine, divide by expected lifespan. Take net cost of leasing a machine [include shipping, and the such], divide by lease time. Compare cost per time. Pick the lower value.
Though that assumes that large companies like Fortune 100 sorts are actually make logical decisions. More likely than not, an uppity up in your company plays golf with an uppity up in the leasing company.
A lower population density. Most likely due to the more uneven terrain in colorado, as compared to wisconsin.
As a staffer of a 4th party company which sells products to 3rd parties to impliment and ensure compliance, I am figuratively rolling in the legislatively guaranteed income.
And those acts are far more important since they're actually acts than trying to maintain privacy on what is essentially public communications.
I shudder that you sit here and argue the importance of the first amendment and then finish with "but I'd accept the invasion of freedom for mere safety."
Indeed, and I wonder what judge would sign off on a subpoena which was not in persuit of an investigation?
and as I replied elsewhere, the gag order is indeed 'bad' and I hope later it can be seen that the subpoena was used in pursuit of an actual investigation with probable cause rather than some sort of poltical shakedown.
And there really should be no assumption of anonymity on the Internet...
There is a rather distinct difference between surveillance of libraries and a one-off subpoena of server logs.
Hell, the only reason I know of blackened.net is because their EFnet ties. I wouldn't be suprised in the least if the reason for the subpoena was not politically motivated in the least.
*shrug* And no, I see no reason to fear a site just because the government has its logs. Like slashdot here, I'm posting to a public, unencrypted network. There cannot be any expectation of privacy. Further, I know that in the US, I am in the legal right should any action actually be taken against me due to the speech.
I concur on the gag order.
I disagree on the subpoena of news agencies. Or rather I agree that news agencies should be able to claim anonymous source if and when the source requests to be anonymous. Visiting websites on a public, unencrypted network is not anonymous. Further, any of the vistors could've requested to be anonymous sources, and had the admin purge them from the logs, like reporters destroy taped interviews. It's a rather trivial exercise.
And in a more practical vein, the government already uses plenty of methods to detect who's expressing what opinions, and it hasn't stopped freedom of speech. Fight the times when the government actually censors speech, or curtails our freedom. There's plenty of that already.
So what? If I owned a little deli, and had a security camera, are those tapes safe from subpeona? If I ran a little telecom, would the phone lines be safe from wiretap orders?
Why should server logs be any different?
It's all rather simple. People have the inalienable right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. If one person acts in a way to curtail these rights of another by say... Killing another, or kidnapping another, or discriminating against another... there's the line.
Any time there's a "judgement" call, or a situation where an illegal act curtails freedom to prevent the curtail of another [killing in self defense] it's a matter for the courts.
Now if the Libertarians would actually act like Libertarians and not anarchists, we might get there....
At 18, kids are being propositioned by prostitutes in American cities. Somehow I think that if they can handle that [and there's no great outcry from the right about that!] they can certainly handle a video game.
And the fact that the United States has only ever had white male Presidents and Vice Presidents doesn't do the same exact thing.
Just the little tool I need to setup a wireless router into some corperate network...
And corperate security folks were worried about usb drives.
Really. It'd be interesting to see a non-federation ship as the primary vessel. Better yet, make it a klingon mercenary ship to give them more plot oppertunities. Less goodie goodie prime directive, more honor.
Heh, I've known two Galadriels [one went by Gail for short] and two Eowyns.
Just remember: 90% of what you learn at university isn't learned in the classroom.
Don't worry about what you're taking so much. Just go. You won't regret it.
Most universities have an appeals process for such an action. That would be your best bet, because legally, they can do whatever they want with their network for any reason what-so-ever [as long as they don't prevent you from getting seperate internet access,in which case things get far more complex and in the student's favor].