This may be slightly off-topic, but I use free Let's Encrypt certificates for my httpS websites. Personally, I have never had problems with them, however some browsers and mobiles throw up the same OMG WARNING HAXXXORS screen that you get when using a self-signed cert. This has forced me to turn off server-forwarding rules I had in place to direct folks to the httpS site when they used the http URL.
The irony is that these ill-conceived browser warning messages are herding them to use the un-encrypted site, as supposedly being the "safe" one. Whether the cert is self-signed or LE, it's still ENCRYPTION. That's categorically safer! I know the warning is technically to prevent browsing to a site while being "man in the middle'd", but 9999 out of 10000 times, it's just a perfectly fine SS or LE cert. The browser warnings do nothing but scare people away from safer sites.
AKAJack, eh? Sorry to go off topic, but I wager your name is "Chad" and you either have a slight accent, are a fast talker, or both. If you live in Austin, please meet me, your twin brother for a drink this weekend!
No, what one does is provide the answer as requested, then offer that there is another solution if circumstances permit. The problem you don't see is that the "better approach" will be an order of magnitude more complex and advanced than the otherwise workable one which the requester has been squaring up for. Like refusing to answer someone's batch file question because you really think they ought to handle it in Python or Rails.
Boy, are you wrong! I support nuclear power as long as we aren't building power plants on fault lines or using antique designs that get explodey when the electricity goes off. Liquid sodium and Thorium reactors look like reasonable stepping-stones until we have aneutronic or fusion reactors working.
AC: Ya know, I am actually capable of critical thinking, and if all they showed was a cherrypicked patch or two of brown grass, I probably wouldn't have mentioned it. You seem to know about the article, or a similar one to that which I'm talking about. Please post a link to it, and we can compare. Regardless, the article I read was more substantial than you mockingly retort. Ultimately, we'll only know for sure if it was credible, if we each became polyglot nuclear scientists and ecologists, and team up together to verify the findings. Short of that, it's quite reasonable to take the word of the article's author and the Ukranian researchers s/he wrote about. Their point was that they found something very wrong with the ecology within and around the Exclusion Zone, and they needed more time and resources to determine the extent of it. I'm so very sorry that this clashes with your happy thoughts of a human-free paradise where gentle woodland critters flourish and dance about in the woods, but them's the breaks.
I'd say it's fair to count the thousands who died and will still die as a result of this wholly unnecessary disaster. Let's not be pedantic about the far lower number attributed directly to just death by radiation, thanks.
A pictorial documentary which I saw in the last year or so studied the plant life within the exclusion zone. They're hanging dosimeters on tree trunks to see what their dosages are over time. It appears that in some places the natural cycle of composting and regrowth has halted. Organisms are no longer decomposing biomass, so it piles up much longer than is natural. The ecology is being starved of nutrients, so remaining growth is slowed. There are dead forested areas persistently standing instead of crumbling and being overgrown. The pics looked appropriately post-apocalyptic.:(
Managers like to sneak up on their employees, and look over their shoulders. They like to be an ever-present looming threat keeping the prole's heads down and working hard. It's a constant trickle of pleasure in their bloodstreams. Productivity and mental health numbers don't matter to them.
Hahah, I was dialed into a local number to the University's free Gopher-based card catalog, but I was telnetting to cyberspace.??? from there for my free 30-day trial shell account(s). Pretty sure it was.com. I don't even know where it was physically located. The domain's changed hands many times since then.
IO was a fun, sometimes strange place to work. When were you a customer? I worked there 2000-2001. Did you see the archival copy I linked to? Lots of interesting pictures, and you can even see the employee-only intranet pages with procedure, schedules and web tools.
I hate websites where the elements keep squirming around. I click a spot and nothing happens. Then the objects shift over and the page takes a click on the thing that wasn't there when I clicked.
In 1994, BBSs were still the dominant experience for the common man. However, the University had a dial-up line that was configured to use a Gopher client as shell, for purposes of searching an online card catalog for one of the libraries. I found I could use the search engines of the day, Archie and Jughead (and Veronica?) to find hosts offering free access to Lynx (the text-only browser) and even Telnet "gateways". Cyberspace.com was offering free trial Unix accounts, literally with no verification. They offered Pine, storage space and plenty of other things. I could now surf the whole existing web, Gopherspace, read Usenet and download files and warez from there. Since Zmodem was borked by the Gopher client I was connected through, I couldn't download directly. So, I used Pine to re-mail them to myself at a local BBS which had a nightly UUCP connection where it exchanged email (with bangs as well as @) and updated it's select Usenet posts.
At one point, I struggled to run DOSSLIP and DOSLYNX directly on my PC, but this never compared to just using a BBS dialup program and doing things on the terminal. I still use Lynx and (Al)Pine several times a week!
Another Lynx trick came in handy 5 years later: You could telnet to password.io.com from anywhere in the world, and log on as guest. Lynx was configured as the shell, and you would then be presented with the minimalist web-based customer tools found at http://password.io.com/ to reset your password, update your address, etc. IO forgot to disable browsing the filesystem (press g, period, enter). Also, IO never enforced uniform/home/user/ directory permissions or audited active accounts. As a result, through 2004, when IO was taken over by Prismnet (or later), you could roam around and directly view many customer's private files, email, and IO's sensitive system areas. This was a direct back-door into everything! That was a full two years after IOCOM "hardened" their network to sell network security services.
The Illuminati Online website is archived by an old employee here: http://io.fondoo.net/
As khallow said, they add the taps during scheduled downtime. They also add the taps during an outage. And you can imagine how easy it is to arrange for a trawler to "accidentally" drag it's anchor across the ocean floor. There is some risk of being detected by diagnostic equipment at either end of the cable, since they can determine the distance to the break, but if the trawler break and submarine tap are 10 miles apart, the sub should go unnoticed, and the difference in distance is within a margin of error.
I loved Maxthon back in 2009. It had tons of usability and security features built-in. They abruptly changed the look and feel at some point, and I switched to firefox with about two dozen unsatisfying plugins.
And there's evidence that Omar Mateem, the Pulse mass-murderer, was being cultivated for a similar operation. He was reported repeatedly for his violent and radical views, and the FBI let him off after a little chat. He just surprised them by going queer hunting instead of waiting for the target and timetable they were preparing for him.
That's the key issue in my mind. The cops found out where he was, and set about finding a way to kill him. It's not that the cops had No Other Options, it's that they weren't even slightly interested in them. This was an execution, not a police action. There should be murder charges for all officers involved.
Also, wtf don't they have anesthetic gas? WTF don't police have a bevy of 21st century non-lethal options? The only nonlethal tools PD seem keen on are those which double nicely as torture devices.
Legit-ish. "Lamb" was in one of the terrariums full of haxxors that the spooks keep for research and observation. Obviously, he wasn't even valuable enough for them to aggressively hold on to.
And don't forget, if you're observed actively avoiding cameras, microphones, etc., then you're *automatically* suspicious, and our governmental Heroes of the Homeland are obliged to surveil you more aggressively because terrorists-pedos-commies.
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This may be slightly off-topic, but I use free Let's Encrypt certificates for my httpS websites. Personally, I have never had problems with them, however some browsers and mobiles throw up the same OMG WARNING HAXXXORS screen that you get when using a self-signed cert. This has forced me to turn off server-forwarding rules I had in place to direct folks to the httpS site when they used the http URL.
The irony is that these ill-conceived browser warning messages are herding them to use the un-encrypted site, as supposedly being the "safe" one. Whether the cert is self-signed or LE, it's still ENCRYPTION. That's categorically safer! I know the warning is technically to prevent browsing to a site while being "man in the middle'd", but 9999 out of 10000 times, it's just a perfectly fine SS or LE cert. The browser warnings do nothing but scare people away from safer sites.
AKAJack, eh? Sorry to go off topic, but I wager your name is "Chad" and you either have a slight accent, are a fast talker, or both. If you live in Austin, please meet me, your twin brother for a drink this weekend!
No, what one does is provide the answer as requested, then offer that there is another solution if circumstances permit.
The problem you don't see is that the "better approach" will be an order of magnitude more complex and advanced than the otherwise workable one which the requester has been squaring up for. Like refusing to answer someone's batch file question because you really think they ought to handle it in Python or Rails.
Even worse is "No-no. You don't really want to do that".
Boy, are you wrong! I support nuclear power as long as we aren't building power plants on fault lines or using antique designs that get explodey when the electricity goes off. Liquid sodium and Thorium reactors look like reasonable stepping-stones until we have aneutronic or fusion reactors working.
AC: Ya know, I am actually capable of critical thinking, and if all they showed was a cherrypicked patch or two of brown grass, I probably wouldn't have mentioned it. You seem to know about the article, or a similar one to that which I'm talking about. Please post a link to it, and we can compare. Regardless, the article I read was more substantial than you mockingly retort. Ultimately, we'll only know for sure if it was credible, if we each became polyglot nuclear scientists and ecologists, and team up together to verify the findings. Short of that, it's quite reasonable to take the word of the article's author and the Ukranian researchers s/he wrote about. Their point was that they found something very wrong with the ecology within and around the Exclusion Zone, and they needed more time and resources to determine the extent of it. I'm so very sorry that this clashes with your happy thoughts of a human-free paradise where gentle woodland critters flourish and dance about in the woods, but them's the breaks.
Buddy, you and I are *so* not on the same page here.
I'd say it's fair to count the thousands who died and will still die as a result of this wholly unnecessary disaster.
Let's not be pedantic about the far lower number attributed directly to just death by radiation, thanks.
A pictorial documentary which I saw in the last year or so studied the plant life within the exclusion zone. They're hanging dosimeters on tree trunks to see what their dosages are over time. It appears that in some places the natural cycle of composting and regrowth has halted. Organisms are no longer decomposing biomass, so it piles up much longer than is natural. The ecology is being starved of nutrients, so remaining growth is slowed. There are dead forested areas persistently standing instead of crumbling and being overgrown. The pics looked appropriately post-apocalyptic. :(
Managers like to sneak up on their employees, and look over their shoulders. They like to be an ever-present looming threat keeping the prole's heads down and working hard. It's a constant trickle of pleasure in their bloodstreams. Productivity and mental health numbers don't matter to them.
Hahah, I was dialed into a local number to the University's free Gopher-based card catalog, but I was telnetting to cyberspace.??? from there for my free 30-day trial shell account(s). Pretty sure it was .com. I don't even know where it was physically located. The domain's changed hands many times since then.
IO was a fun, sometimes strange place to work. When were you a customer? I worked there 2000-2001. Did you see the archival copy I linked to? Lots of interesting pictures, and you can even see the employee-only intranet pages with procedure, schedules and web tools.
I hate websites where the elements keep squirming around. I click a spot and nothing happens. Then the objects shift over and the page takes a click on the thing that wasn't there when I clicked.
In 1994, BBSs were still the dominant experience for the common man. However, the University had a dial-up line that was configured to use a Gopher client as shell, for purposes of searching an online card catalog for one of the libraries. I found I could use the search engines of the day, Archie and Jughead (and Veronica?) to find hosts offering free access to Lynx (the text-only browser) and even Telnet "gateways". Cyberspace.com was offering free trial Unix accounts, literally with no verification. They offered Pine, storage space and plenty of other things. I could now surf the whole existing web, Gopherspace, read Usenet and download files and warez from there. Since Zmodem was borked by the Gopher client I was connected through, I couldn't download directly. So, I used Pine to re-mail them to myself at a local BBS which had a nightly UUCP connection where it exchanged email (with bangs as well as @) and updated it's select Usenet posts.
At one point, I struggled to run DOSSLIP and DOSLYNX directly on my PC, but this never compared to just using a BBS dialup program and doing things on the terminal. I still use Lynx and (Al)Pine several times a week!
Another Lynx trick came in handy 5 years later: You could telnet to password.io.com from anywhere in the world, and log on as guest. Lynx was configured as the shell, and you would then be presented with the minimalist web-based customer tools found at http://password.io.com/ to reset your password, update your address, etc. IO forgot to disable browsing the filesystem (press g, period, enter). Also, IO never enforced uniform /home/user/ directory permissions or audited active accounts. As a result, through 2004, when IO was taken over by Prismnet (or later), you could roam around and directly view many customer's private files, email, and IO's sensitive system areas. This was a direct back-door into everything! That was a full two years after IOCOM "hardened" their network to sell network security services.
The Illuminati Online website is archived by an old employee here: http://io.fondoo.net/
What is this 'web' you refer to? Is it part of SnapChat?
It'll also be 3-12MB for no discernible reason.
As khallow said, they add the taps during scheduled downtime. They also add the taps during an outage. And you can imagine how easy it is to arrange for a trawler to "accidentally" drag it's anchor across the ocean floor. There is some risk of being detected by diagnostic equipment at either end of the cable, since they can determine the distance to the break, but if the trawler break and submarine tap are 10 miles apart, the sub should go unnoticed, and the difference in distance is within a margin of error.
I loved Maxthon back in 2009. It had tons of usability and security features built-in. They abruptly changed the look and feel at some point, and I switched to firefox with about two dozen unsatisfying plugins.
No, mang. The rule is, you don't make people Google for you. And if you're my friend, I want your detailed report of evidence in that respect. Bye.
Poor starving troll!
If I have to Google shit for you, then you're not the type I care to have on my side in the first place.
And there's evidence that Omar Mateem, the Pulse mass-murderer, was being cultivated for a similar operation. He was reported repeatedly for his violent and radical views, and the FBI let him off after a little chat. He just surprised them by going queer hunting instead of waiting for the target and timetable they were preparing for him.
That's the key issue in my mind. The cops found out where he was, and set about finding a way to kill him. It's not that the cops had No Other Options, it's that they weren't even slightly interested in them. This was an execution, not a police action. There should be murder charges for all officers involved.
Also, wtf don't they have anesthetic gas? WTF don't police have a bevy of 21st century non-lethal options? The only nonlethal tools PD seem keen on are those which double nicely as torture devices.
What I got from it was that Lamb wants to be a security consultant. You'd pay him to run Nessus against your network or whatever.
Legit-ish. "Lamb" was in one of the terrariums full of haxxors that the spooks keep for research and observation. Obviously, he wasn't even valuable enough for them to aggressively hold on to.
And don't forget, if you're observed actively avoiding cameras, microphones, etc., then you're *automatically* suspicious, and our governmental Heroes of the Homeland are obliged to surveil you more aggressively because terrorists-pedos-commies.