Than to allow these type of false alarm / fear mongering articles on their main page.
No actual numebrs mentioned in article 1. Article 2 makes it pretty clear there is no danger.
Nothing to see here, please move on.
Yes, free roads to the auto industry and almost free planes to the airlines will make sure nobody invests in a railroad.
Yeah, poking your eye out is better than cutting your throat from ear to ear. What's your point?
The point is: Putting money to work for something useful is better than throwing it away on artificial jobs in government or subsidized industry.
Nope. It shifts jobs from productive activities to wealth-destroying government waste.
nope: it will shift jobs from wealth-destroying government waste to a productive activity.
Government is subsidizing and regulating almost every aspect of the economy already. I don't like it. You don't like it. But of all the ways to throw away money, putting it to work to build a railway is not that bad.
As pointed out in previous posts: Airlines are already subsidized. (As are the Auto makers). I would like to go as far as to say that a railroad would be competitive if you were to take out ALL subsidies given to the auto makers (road construction and direct subsidies) and Airlines (Airports, cheap planes due to defense contracts). Putting public money to work to build a railroad network is a good way to invest public money. it's a hell of a lot better than subsidizing bankrupt companies. It will make the US more competitive in manufacturing (cheaper freight transport), services (cheaper people transport). And building the whole system will provide a lot of meaning full jobs.
This is a great read! One has to wonder: Isn't it much easier to social-engineer ones way into a system than the "hacking" approach?
How hard can it be to get usernames/passwords this way? And since we are in linux-land here: I would bet that more than half of the sysads here would open up their systems to the first pretty girl that would walk along their cubicle. Obviously she cannot be too pretty as that would be VERY suspicious.
There are plenty of stories going around about people just walking into a server room, and taking a few servers home with them. We even had one of those on slashdot here a few months ago,something with the Australian customs office. And there is the now really famous French guy who used to simply walk in on high level government events and get his picture taken.
But the world is probably safe: Somehow good social skills and good technical skills are mutually exclusive...
The only way would be to disallow her to run apps that admins don't install, which we aren't allowed to do
There you go. At work we can have machines that are locked down a tad more: They are only allowed to run apps that we allow them to run. In the background (and remotely) we are checking all processes and libraries in memory every couple of hours (stating the obvious, but this is done by a script). If we see something out of the ordinary, they get a visit.
e-mail, msn, aol icq and other chat type applications are not on the allowed to run list though;-)
This falls into one of the things that will become possible once NTT actually delivers fiber to each home in Japan. They have been working on this for a while.
But please do not get too excited: NTT is making aLotOfMoney with their plain old telephone service to connect people to the internet. It will take some 'competition' (There is a company offering ADSL in some parts of Tokyo now) to make NTT deliver on its press releases.
It's good to see yet another cool piece of Java kick off. Now, let's see if we will get something usefull and working for a change.
Let's recount: First we were supposed to write Java once and it would run on every client. Then we were supposed to write java once on the server. (For some reason we saw very little exciting stuff actually work on the client) And now: We are going to write some Java on the PDA. (I haven't seen any really really cool apps on the server though...).
Is anybody (more or less involved with IT) really suprised by this?
There must be a lot more exploits waiting to be discovered, and it is about time that people start looking for exploits in other places than MS software. It is only a matter of time before the MS marketing people will find a way to leverage the constant finding/fixing issues in MS products versus the lack of any searching for holes in Open Source products.
If you have a bunch of lousy developers, yuo will be in trouble. Good tech support or not. Chances are that you might get better developers on board if you go for solution X. Once a crap system is build, no tech support in the world can save you.
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Pure fear mongering. Another black eye for /.
Than to allow these type of false alarm / fear mongering articles on their main page. No actual numebrs mentioned in article 1. Article 2 makes it pretty clear there is no danger. Nothing to see here, please move on.
I feel very strongly that the press have behaved very irresponsibly throughout this and gov'ts around the world should take them to task.
Yes, free roads to the auto industry and almost free planes to the airlines will make sure nobody invests in a railroad.
Yeah, poking your eye out is better than cutting your throat from ear to ear. What's your point?
The point is: Putting money to work for something useful is better than throwing it away on artificial jobs in government or subsidized industry.
Nope. It shifts jobs from productive activities to wealth-destroying government waste.
nope: it will shift jobs from wealth-destroying government waste to a productive activity. Government is subsidizing and regulating almost every aspect of the economy already. I don't like it. You don't like it. But of all the ways to throw away money, putting it to work to build a railway is not that bad.
As pointed out in previous posts: Airlines are already subsidized. (As are the Auto makers). I would like to go as far as to say that a railroad would be competitive if you were to take out ALL subsidies given to the auto makers (road construction and direct subsidies) and Airlines (Airports, cheap planes due to defense contracts).
Putting public money to work to build a railroad network is a good way to invest public money. it's a hell of a lot better than subsidizing bankrupt companies. It will make the US more competitive in manufacturing (cheaper freight transport), services (cheaper people transport). And building the whole system will provide a lot of meaning full jobs.
This is a great read! One has to wonder: Isn't it much easier to social-engineer ones way into a system than the "hacking" approach?
,something with the Australian customs office. And there is the now really famous French guy who used to simply walk in on high level government events and get his picture taken.
How hard can it be to get usernames/passwords this way? And since we are in linux-land here: I would bet that more than half of the sysads here would open up their systems to the first pretty girl that would walk along their cubicle. Obviously she cannot be too pretty as that would be VERY suspicious.
There are plenty of stories going around about people just walking into a server room, and taking a few servers home with them. We even had one of those on slashdot here a few months ago
But the world is probably safe: Somehow good social skills and good technical skills are mutually exclusive...
This is not a new invention. Mitsubishi Electric has done this before: iGlassware
The Japanese version does not require batteries in the glasses or pitchers.
100 Mbps up/down. (please note the capital M there) for about 5,000 yen a month (about US$ 46).
Link, (in japanese) UsenThe only way would be to disallow her to run apps that admins don't install, which we aren't allowed to do
;-)
There you go. At work we can have machines that are locked down a tad more: They are only allowed to run apps that we allow them to run. In the background (and remotely) we are checking all processes and libraries in memory every couple of hours (stating the obvious, but this is done by a script). If we see something out of the ordinary, they get a visit.
e-mail, msn, aol icq and other chat type applications are not on the allowed to run list though
This falls into one of the things that will become possible once NTT actually delivers fiber to each home in Japan. They have been working on this for a while.
But please do not get too excited: NTT is making aLotOfMoney with their plain old telephone service to connect people to the internet. It will take some 'competition' (There is a company offering ADSL in some parts of Tokyo now) to make NTT deliver on its press releases.
It's good to see yet another cool piece of Java kick off. Now, let's see if we will get something usefull and working for a change.
Let's recount: First we were supposed to write Java once and it would run on every client. Then we were supposed to write java once on the server. (For some reason we saw very little exciting stuff actually work on the client) And now: We are going to write some Java on the PDA. (I haven't seen any really really cool apps on the server though...).
Java: money oriented programming
Is anybody (more or less involved with IT) really suprised by this?
There must be a lot more exploits waiting to be discovered, and it is about time that people start looking for exploits in other places than MS software. It is only a matter of time before the MS marketing people will find a way to leverage the constant finding/fixing issues in MS products versus the lack of any searching for holes in Open Source products.
If you have a bunch of lousy developers, yuo will be in trouble. Good tech support or not. Chances are that you might get better developers on board if you go for solution X. Once a crap system is build, no tech support in the world can save you.
Projects like these are the only hope for ever getting an equal number of windows and linux distributions.
Check out the playstation 2 in a few months time when some of the major Japanese houses start pumping out some real names. Then re-visit the subject.
Water causes far more fatalities and property damage than caffeine.
for example: