While I haven't seen anyone accused of cheating in online poker, the fact that it would be pretty easy for someone to be on the phone with someone else at the table, plus the fact that no technology is perfect and someone could theoretically see other players' cards or cheat in some way makes betting money online seem to me to not be a smart thing to do. I enjoy playing online poker on for play money. This way I can enjoy a game of poker and get some practice while not being a victim of some scammer. I would only play for money while actually sitting at the table with the other players. If you are interested, I use PokerStars.net.
That all being said, don't expect everyone to be great players or great sports. You always see people that will go all-in with every single bet and some that will cuss you out or threaten you for having a lucky flop. I suppose there's some in every crowd.
Yes, I know the difference. I typically don't make a huge deal to differentiate between the two because they are virtually identical in the PUBLIC conciousness. I guess I just slip into that mode since I deal with non-IT folk all the time.
I was in the process of testing the latest patches and was planning on expanding them out to the rest of the couple of thousand machines later in this week. I heard about the exploits available online when I woke up Sunday morning. I worked on Sunday making sure the couple of thousand machines we have were patched. By the time I was done, two viruses taking advantage of the vulnerability were in the wild so I got the signatures updated in case any machines were missed by the auto update I started. Today as I was about to leave, someone up the chain of command (not in a direct line of management with IT, thankfully) with no IT knowledge called, nearly in a panic. "My mother just called and CNN is calling this one of the worst viruses ever." I figured, "Yeah, she read a virus hoax email." She conference me in with her mother so I could hear what CNN was saying. I have never heard so much hype over such a minor virus before. From what I heard, it sounded like they were way over the top. I calmly explained to them the process I went through and when. CNN is reporting it two days later. I know this is a new version, but jeeze. Haven't these companies learned from previous virus events? I'm glad I stopped watching major media news.
Quoteth Captain Kirk, "When Stage Two was to be completed, it was to be underground. It was to be underground." -- Kirk on the Genesis Project - Star Trek II, The Wrath of Kahn
The interview with Dan Kaminsky, while heavy on the car/computer analogy still comes across as "okay". He provided some insight into what happened at the "Blue Hat Hackers" meeting with Microsoft. The interview with Richard Thieme left me awestruck. He is a spittin' image (interview-wise) as Jon Katz. Lots of buzzwords that didn't provide any information or insight. I feel as though I was a security expert forced to listen to a marketing person tell me why he is a security expert. That was painful and I'm not a security expert.
I just can't believe some of the comments I'm reading about this. Someone saying the people responsible for this should be killed is rated "Troll" or "Flamebait"? Others saying that WE are responsible for these bombings because of the war on terror? Others saying the people who did this should be slapped because they don't want to kill them. Do you really think a slap will stop their murders? It won't. Nothing will stop them until they are dead. I'm sick of everyone saying how we just need to understand these people, we need to treat them better, we need to stop offending them. How about if they just treat us better. How about if they stop offending us? How about if they stop murdering us? With the Islamic group that posted on their web site that they are responsible for this, arrest every member. They just admitted they are guilty of murder.
I hereby post this to a public board to prevent money-grubbing corporate types from patenting this idea and preventing others from producing it.
I think I've come up with the perfect use for fingernail storage. Substitute it for passcodes, door codes and biometrics. This has all the advantages of biometrics and fewer drawbacks. Here's how it works:
Imprint a code onto a fingernail. At a secure door, you have a fingernail scanner. Insert finger. Code is read off the finger and processed much like a door code or pass card. Door is opened. After a period of time, your code expires or if it gets stolen (logically or physically [ouch!]), disable the old code and imprint a new code onto another fingernail. The old fingernail grows out and can be reused.
Unless it is physically stolen, in which case you have 9 more! Okay, some drawbacks of biometrics are still there.
No matter what your business, when it comes to any task that must be accomplished, you must pay for it to be completed correctly one way or another. If not, you'll pay for it to NOT be completed correctly.
Take IT for example. If you, the business manager don't know IT, you need to pay someone to do it. Of course, you need to know enough about it to hire the right person. If you don't, you need to pay someone that knows enough about it to ask the right questions and get the person you need.
In your case, the issue is online advertising. You claim you don't know much about it. In that case, you need to pay someone that knows about it to do the task for you. If they don't know enough about it to be safe legally, then you'd better fire them and get someone better. Maybe it's more of a legal issue. If you don't know enough about the law to add the appropriate clause into your contracts, then you'd better hire a lawyer to do it for you. If you don't, you'll likely be paying a lawyer to defend you in court, if you can find one that will defend someone who doesn't do their due diligence.
Can you say "lawsuit"? This was a total lapse in judgement in keeping data they shouldn't have compounded with the fact that they didn't secure their network. I'd place money on this company not surviving this error. Even if the loss of money in settlements doesn't break them, I'd bet they will lose most of their future business because of this (and rightly so).
I've been testing WSUS and I'm rather impressed. If you have a Windows environment with up to a couple of thousand workstations, I'd have no problem with recommending this. This is what SUS should have been in the first place. SUS allowed you to point machines at the SUS server to download patches and schedule them for install by way of GPO. That was the limit to patch management for SUS. With WSUS, you can assign the machines to groups and assign patches to those groups. This allows you to install only the patches you want on only the machines you want to install them on. Depending on the number of groups you need to create, this could be a bear to initially set up, but once that part is done, you can roll out a new patch to a test group, then if no problems occur, roll them out to the rest of the organzation according to the schedule you decide on. It also provides reporting. Imagine if a new virus came out that takes advantage of one particular vulnerability (not social engineering). You can bring up that patch and look at all machines and whether it is installed or not or even if its not needed. Or you can look at them machine by machine and see their patch status.
I know. It's still not as secure as an all Linux environment. But, I'm curious. Does Linux have anything comparable? I honestly don't know and I'd appreciate it if anyone could let me know.
I think I may buy the full 6 (or 12 or whatever) DVD set when it comes out, rip all the movies including the original trilogy from the Video Disk rip and put them together in my own edit. I'll leave out most of the annoying kid Annie (Yippee!), the whiney irritating teenager Annie (I don't like sand), and the Ewoks, leaving only a tragic tale of the rise, fall and redemption of Anakin Skywalker. Yes, I'll be a criminal breaking the DMCA and all, but I'll just have to live with myself.
The RBL lists have been around for a long time, yet there has been zero impact on spam. I'm frankly shocked that anyone still uses them at all.
Maybe there's zero impact on the amount of spam being sent, but there is a huge impact on the amount of spam being received. I block 90,000-120,000 spams per week by way of RBLs. These amount to huge amounts of bandwidth that I don't have sucked up by spam. Of those that make it through to the next level of filtering, there's still another 20,000-50,000 that get blocked per week. I'd say RBLs make a big difference for me. It's not the only tool I use, but it's my first line of defense. I've had some people get blocked that were legit businesses, but that was only because they had admins that didn't know how to lock down their mail servers. Once I explained it, they got them fixed and thanked me. Don't use RBLs if you don't want to. That doesn't bother me a bit. But don't say I shouldn't be using them.
Don't click this link. Clicking this link prompts you to install the winadclient spyware. You can find their license agreement here. I don't recommend it.
Although I don't have cable because I don't watch much television to begin with, given this new load of crapvertisements shoved down viewers' throats, I will never buy or use a Tivo. Okay, I'm only one person, but I'm sure there are many more people who think this.
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Are you suggesting seagulls migrate?
While I haven't seen anyone accused of cheating in online poker, the fact that it would be pretty easy for someone to be on the phone with someone else at the table, plus the fact that no technology is perfect and someone could theoretically see other players' cards or cheat in some way makes betting money online seem to me to not be a smart thing to do. I enjoy playing online poker on for play money. This way I can enjoy a game of poker and get some practice while not being a victim of some scammer. I would only play for money while actually sitting at the table with the other players. If you are interested, I use PokerStars.net.
That all being said, don't expect everyone to be great players or great sports. You always see people that will go all-in with every single bet and some that will cuss you out or threaten you for having a lucky flop. I suppose there's some in every crowd.
Yes, I know the difference. I typically don't make a huge deal to differentiate between the two because they are virtually identical in the PUBLIC conciousness. I guess I just slip into that mode since I deal with non-IT folk all the time.
I was in the process of testing the latest patches and was planning on expanding them out to the rest of the couple of thousand machines later in this week. I heard about the exploits available online when I woke up Sunday morning. I worked on Sunday making sure the couple of thousand machines we have were patched. By the time I was done, two viruses taking advantage of the vulnerability were in the wild so I got the signatures updated in case any machines were missed by the auto update I started. Today as I was about to leave, someone up the chain of command (not in a direct line of management with IT, thankfully) with no IT knowledge called, nearly in a panic. "My mother just called and CNN is calling this one of the worst viruses ever." I figured, "Yeah, she read a virus hoax email." She conference me in with her mother so I could hear what CNN was saying. I have never heard so much hype over such a minor virus before. From what I heard, it sounded like they were way over the top. I calmly explained to them the process I went through and when. CNN is reporting it two days later. I know this is a new version, but jeeze. Haven't these companies learned from previous virus events? I'm glad I stopped watching major media news.
Quoteth Captain Kirk, "When Stage Two was to be completed, it was to be underground. It was to be underground."
-- Kirk on the Genesis Project - Star Trek II, The Wrath of Kahn
Actually, according to this article, "The settlement is conditioned on dismissal of the bankruptcy cases."
Whenever I need to call any company's tech support and have to deal with their level 1 support, I feel as though I know less after talking to them.
A half ton of chicks? How about just one half ton chick?
...ok...sorry...
The interview with Dan Kaminsky, while heavy on the car/computer analogy still comes across as "okay". He provided some insight into what happened at the "Blue Hat Hackers" meeting with Microsoft. The interview with Richard Thieme left me awestruck. He is a spittin' image (interview-wise) as Jon Katz. Lots of buzzwords that didn't provide any information or insight. I feel as though I was a security expert forced to listen to a marketing person tell me why he is a security expert. That was painful and I'm not a security expert.
government mandated TV watching, blip-verts killing people, a really annoying latex looking AI in the computer networks annoying everyone.
No thanks. I dont WANT that tv show getting anywhere near my reality.
Yeah, but it also had Amanda Pays playing Theora Jones. I'd like Amanda a little closer to my reality.
The good news is it lives up to its name.
I just can't believe some of the comments I'm reading about this. Someone saying the people responsible for this should be killed is rated "Troll" or "Flamebait"? Others saying that WE are responsible for these bombings because of the war on terror? Others saying the people who did this should be slapped because they don't want to kill them. Do you really think a slap will stop their murders? It won't. Nothing will stop them until they are dead. I'm sick of everyone saying how we just need to understand these people, we need to treat them better, we need to stop offending them. How about if they just treat us better. How about if they stop offending us? How about if they stop murdering us? With the Islamic group that posted on their web site that they are responsible for this, arrest every member. They just admitted they are guilty of murder.
do you think it will be till the United States is blamed for this?
Already happened. Read some of the comments on this board. It's pathetic, really.
I hereby post this to a public board to prevent money-grubbing corporate types from patenting this idea and preventing others from producing it.
I think I've come up with the perfect use for fingernail storage. Substitute it for passcodes, door codes and biometrics. This has all the advantages of biometrics and fewer drawbacks. Here's how it works:
Imprint a code onto a fingernail. At a secure door, you have a fingernail scanner. Insert finger. Code is read off the finger and processed much like a door code or pass card. Door is opened. After a period of time, your code expires or if it gets stolen (logically or physically [ouch!]), disable the old code and imprint a new code onto another fingernail. The old fingernail grows out and can be reused.
Unless it is physically stolen, in which case you have 9 more! Okay, some drawbacks of biometrics are still there.
No matter what your business, when it comes to any task that must be accomplished, you must pay for it to be completed correctly one way or another. If not, you'll pay for it to NOT be completed correctly.
Take IT for example. If you, the business manager don't know IT, you need to pay someone to do it. Of course, you need to know enough about it to hire the right person. If you don't, you need to pay someone that knows enough about it to ask the right questions and get the person you need.
In your case, the issue is online advertising. You claim you don't know much about it. In that case, you need to pay someone that knows about it to do the task for you. If they don't know enough about it to be safe legally, then you'd better fire them and get someone better. Maybe it's more of a legal issue. If you don't know enough about the law to add the appropriate clause into your contracts, then you'd better hire a lawyer to do it for you. If you don't, you'll likely be paying a lawyer to defend you in court, if you can find one that will defend someone who doesn't do their due diligence.
This is no one's problem except your own.
Can you say "lawsuit"? This was a total lapse in judgement in keeping data they shouldn't have compounded with the fact that they didn't secure their network. I'd place money on this company not surviving this error. Even if the loss of money in settlements doesn't break them, I'd bet they will lose most of their future business because of this (and rightly so).
Apple Macintosh users currently face no restrictions at all.
I suppose it's official now. Using a Mac puts you in violation of the DMCA.
I've been testing WSUS and I'm rather impressed. If you have a Windows environment with up to a couple of thousand workstations, I'd have no problem with recommending this. This is what SUS should have been in the first place. SUS allowed you to point machines at the SUS server to download patches and schedule them for install by way of GPO. That was the limit to patch management for SUS. With WSUS, you can assign the machines to groups and assign patches to those groups. This allows you to install only the patches you want on only the machines you want to install them on. Depending on the number of groups you need to create, this could be a bear to initially set up, but once that part is done, you can roll out a new patch to a test group, then if no problems occur, roll them out to the rest of the organzation according to the schedule you decide on. It also provides reporting. Imagine if a new virus came out that takes advantage of one particular vulnerability (not social engineering). You can bring up that patch and look at all machines and whether it is installed or not or even if its not needed. Or you can look at them machine by machine and see their patch status.
I know. It's still not as secure as an all Linux environment. But, I'm curious. Does Linux have anything comparable? I honestly don't know and I'd appreciate it if anyone could let me know.
That must be it. Here's a picture of him.
I think I may buy the full 6 (or 12 or whatever) DVD set when it comes out, rip all the movies including the original trilogy from the Video Disk rip and put them together in my own edit. I'll leave out most of the annoying kid Annie (Yippee!), the whiney irritating teenager Annie (I don't like sand), and the Ewoks, leaving only a tragic tale of the rise, fall and redemption of Anakin Skywalker. Yes, I'll be a criminal breaking the DMCA and all, but I'll just have to live with myself.
The RBL lists have been around for a long time, yet there has been zero impact on spam. I'm frankly shocked that anyone still uses them at all.
Maybe there's zero impact on the amount of spam being sent, but there is a huge impact on the amount of spam being received. I block 90,000-120,000 spams per week by way of RBLs. These amount to huge amounts of bandwidth that I don't have sucked up by spam. Of those that make it through to the next level of filtering, there's still another 20,000-50,000 that get blocked per week. I'd say RBLs make a big difference for me. It's not the only tool I use, but it's my first line of defense. I've had some people get blocked that were legit businesses, but that was only because they had admins that didn't know how to lock down their mail servers. Once I explained it, they got them fixed and thanked me. Don't use RBLs if you don't want to. That doesn't bother me a bit. But don't say I shouldn't be using them.
Using commercial time to go to the bathroom
could get you sued, then. I guess.
Actually, according to the MPAA's Jamie Kellner, "I guess there's a certain amount of tolerance for going to the bathroom."
You can find this quote on this page or any number of other sites.
I still havn't forgotten "Conjunction Junction"
Symantec has that song in their on-hold rotation. No, I'm not joking.
Don't click this link. Clicking this link prompts you to install the winadclient spyware. You can find their license agreement here. I don't recommend it.
Although I don't have cable because I don't watch much television to begin with, given this new load of crapvertisements shoved down viewers' throats, I will never buy or use a Tivo. Okay, I'm only one person, but I'm sure there are many more people who think this.