What's going to be fun is that the kids will download this spreadsheet and start manufacturing replacement words just to screw with the administration!
Sounds like someone needs to read Cory Doctorow's Eastern Standard Tribe, available free in a variety of eReader formats. http://craphound.com/est/?page_id=1574
One thing that I really like about his technique is the practical application of the honeypot. It would be great for crossing the border back into the U.S.
Customs Agent: Please open and log on to your laptop.
Honeypot Owner: Yessir! (logs on to functional Win 7 partition while his private stuff is nicely hidden away)
The problem for me is that an 8 gig partition is not viable.
10-15 years ago, I was working for a police department doing database/network admin work, I went to an FBI meeting on hacking. The agent was covering the history of hacking and started talking about the Cap'n Crunch whistles and the 2600 Hz tone. He commented that he didn't know if it was Hertz or Mega-Hertz, I spoke up and said Hertz, not Mega-Hertz. He then semi-jokingly accused me of being a hacker. The twit didn't know the difference between a tone in the audio range and something that might be in the microwave range. I'm a ham radio operator and used to sell audio equipment, I think this guy was probably an accountant who took one course in hacking and was the local "expert".
I wasn't impressed with the rest of his presentation and was happy to leave. But I did get an afternoon off from work, so I guess that was OK.
Not that it matters since you posted AC, but TFA says they'll be water-cooled. It's entirely possible that they might share such a cooling system with the servers accessing it.
Not that I'm leaving, but like most others here, Slashdot has been amazingly valuable to me. I was working at a police department when I Love You broke loose: I read about it here at 7am, went to our security/network guy, showed him the story, we went to our router and just pulled the incoming line. Saved our bacon, very minimal problems. Upstream, at the City, they got hammered. So definitely thanks! And it's always a good idea to know where your towel is, especially in our field: DHMO and expensive electronics usually don't mix very well.
My standing offer to take you to Apache Point Observatory stands if you ever get the hankering to see a 3.5 meter telescope up close and personal. Best of luck in your next job life!
Did you see Bill Maher's movie Religulous? In it a Vatican astronomer, who is also a priest, and if I recall high ranking (I don't know the ranks of Catholicism hierarchy), said that the Bible (and the Koran, for that matter) were written before the scientific reformation and the age of enlightenment, and could not be considered to be scientifically rigorous. You can use it for parables and lessons of morality, but don't take it as scientific truth.
I found it to be an interesting statement and a great movie.
A friend of mine lost 3 laptops due to that which HP did nothing for. My MacBook Pro suffered that meltdown and the Apple Store had it repaired in two days and said they would have replaced it even out of warranty.
Wouldn't help me, I can't avoid it: they have one at the border patrol check point East-bound between Las Cruces and Alamogordo, NM, and I go to 'Cruces every two weeks or so. I didn't see one at the West-bound point between 'Cruces and Demming on I-10, but I'm sure they'll have one eventually.
I have considered Bootcamp, but I don't have enough disk space. I intend, when I do my Hackintosh, to dual-boot 10.7 and Win 7, then a lot more of these games becomes more viable. Thanks for the Crossfire rec, I'll have to look in to it.
I've played WoW since before Burning Crusade and frankly I'm tired of it. I'd like to play more City of Heroes, but it's a ghost town. I'm considering getting a WoW credit card to let my monthly pharma fund my WoW, but my desire to play has really been done in to their kowtowing to PvPers. I want a good PvE environment, most of my friends in my two guilds both prefer PvE over PvP, and the grind to 85 has just become too easy.
I would consider other games like LOTRO, but I went Mac 4+ years ago knowing this would be an issue and a choice-limiter. It's possible I'll check them out soonish as I'm planning on making a Hackintosh later this year.
We COULD be doing a crapload of science, but the U.S. government doesn't seem to care much for funding science. Auto makers and oil industry won't work on this, it's against the status quo and doesn't immediately improve profits, so Wall Street won't be interested in it either. My wife is an astronomer, and their sister telescope originally was funded entirely through the National Science Foundation. The funding was reviewed every year, and they've lost a lot of personnel to other telescopes because the NSF got down to less than a month before funding expired to renew it for the next year. Since then they've been able to diversify some of their projects so they're not 100% dependent on NSF for funding.
I did an audit for someone who received a BSA letter. BSA provided them with software, I went around to each PC and booted it from a floppy, it audited the machine and logged it into a CSV. I imported it into a database, produced pretty reports, and gave it back to the company's attorney. Now, this was 15+ years ago, but I would imagine BSA still provides the software. At that time it compared all *.COM and *.EXE against a known list, I'm sure the software is somewhat more sophisticated now.
All I can say is good luck! Turns out the company was massively out of compliance (and they, too, got ratted out by a former employee) and had to cough up substantial $$$.
My issue is that I have no problem with using my real name among friends, but I also operate as a company and a game designer and use pseudonymous handles in those environments where I don't want those associated with my 'professional' handle as a computer professional. I have no problem with my pseudonymous handle being authenticated via a $1 credit card charge or snail mail or something, but it should be allowed.
Agreed. I read positive/highly-ranked reviews for user information, negative reviews for true(r) user experience. I find that to be much more representative of whatever it is that's being reviewed.
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I've heard rumors from two sources that the iPad 3 will have a Retina display. I can't imagine what that will look like.
Don't forget NYC's tough gun control laws! It's a wonderfully peaceful and friendly place to visit, from what I've heard.
Not too dry these days, though.
What's going to be fun is that the kids will download this spreadsheet and start manufacturing replacement words just to screw with the administration!
Sounds like someone needs to read Cory Doctorow's Eastern Standard Tribe, available free in a variety of eReader formats. http://craphound.com/est/?page_id=1574
One thing that I really like about his technique is the practical application of the honeypot. It would be great for crossing the border back into the U.S.
Customs Agent: Please open and log on to your laptop.
Honeypot Owner: Yessir! (logs on to functional Win 7 partition while his private stuff is nicely hidden away)
The problem for me is that an 8 gig partition is not viable.
10-15 years ago, I was working for a police department doing database/network admin work, I went to an FBI meeting on hacking. The agent was covering the history of hacking and started talking about the Cap'n Crunch whistles and the 2600 Hz tone. He commented that he didn't know if it was Hertz or Mega-Hertz, I spoke up and said Hertz, not Mega-Hertz. He then semi-jokingly accused me of being a hacker. The twit didn't know the difference between a tone in the audio range and something that might be in the microwave range. I'm a ham radio operator and used to sell audio equipment, I think this guy was probably an accountant who took one course in hacking and was the local "expert".
I wasn't impressed with the rest of his presentation and was happy to leave. But I did get an afternoon off from work, so I guess that was OK.
Not that it matters since you posted AC, but TFA says they'll be water-cooled. It's entirely possible that they might share such a cooling system with the servers accessing it.
Dear Slashdot:
I never thought this would happen to me! I was working late one night in the machine room when our sexy new admin came in....
Of course, it took more than MyCleanPC to clear that virus!
Not that I'm leaving, but like most others here, Slashdot has been amazingly valuable to me. I was working at a police department when I Love You broke loose: I read about it here at 7am, went to our security/network guy, showed him the story, we went to our router and just pulled the incoming line. Saved our bacon, very minimal problems. Upstream, at the City, they got hammered. So definitely thanks! And it's always a good idea to know where your towel is, especially in our field: DHMO and expensive electronics usually don't mix very well.
My standing offer to take you to Apache Point Observatory stands if you ever get the hankering to see a 3.5 meter telescope up close and personal. Best of luck in your next job life!
Ah, a Dupont fisherman!
Did you see Bill Maher's movie Religulous? In it a Vatican astronomer, who is also a priest, and if I recall high ranking (I don't know the ranks of Catholicism hierarchy), said that the Bible (and the Koran, for that matter) were written before the scientific reformation and the age of enlightenment, and could not be considered to be scientifically rigorous. You can use it for parables and lessons of morality, but don't take it as scientific truth.
I found it to be an interesting statement and a great movie.
Heh. After reading this I stopped at Staples on the way home to look at one. They did indeed have it on display, and it wouldn't turn on.
I was amused.
A friend of mine lost 3 laptops due to that which HP did nothing for. My MacBook Pro suffered that meltdown and the Apple Store had it repaired in two days and said they would have replaced it even out of warranty.
Wouldn't help me, I can't avoid it: they have one at the border patrol check point East-bound between Las Cruces and Alamogordo, NM, and I go to 'Cruces every two weeks or so. I didn't see one at the West-bound point between 'Cruces and Demming on I-10, but I'm sure they'll have one eventually.
I had a shirt that said "Proud to be an Undercover CIA Agent." I enjoyed wearing that on casual Friday when I worked for the police department.
You know, I have a spare WAP sitting around, I think I'll power it up only I'll call it NSA_Surveillance_Van, and no internet connection.
I have considered Bootcamp, but I don't have enough disk space. I intend, when I do my Hackintosh, to dual-boot 10.7 and Win 7, then a lot more of these games becomes more viable. Thanks for the Crossfire rec, I'll have to look in to it.
I've played WoW since before Burning Crusade and frankly I'm tired of it. I'd like to play more City of Heroes, but it's a ghost town. I'm considering getting a WoW credit card to let my monthly pharma fund my WoW, but my desire to play has really been done in to their kowtowing to PvPers. I want a good PvE environment, most of my friends in my two guilds both prefer PvE over PvP, and the grind to 85 has just become too easy.
I would consider other games like LOTRO, but I went Mac 4+ years ago knowing this would be an issue and a choice-limiter. It's possible I'll check them out soonish as I'm planning on making a Hackintosh later this year.
And the number of the beast was 666, meaning all could read his files.
We COULD be doing a crapload of science, but the U.S. government doesn't seem to care much for funding science. Auto makers and oil industry won't work on this, it's against the status quo and doesn't immediately improve profits, so Wall Street won't be interested in it either. My wife is an astronomer, and their sister telescope originally was funded entirely through the National Science Foundation. The funding was reviewed every year, and they've lost a lot of personnel to other telescopes because the NSF got down to less than a month before funding expired to renew it for the next year. Since then they've been able to diversify some of their projects so they're not 100% dependent on NSF for funding.
Yeah. Did you see the article last year about DHS losing 243 guns? Not a viable solution.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/02/18/government.guns/index.html?hpt=T2
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/02/19/1642201/Officers-Lose-243-Homeland-Security-Guns?art_pos=25
On 4 year old hardware AND NOT WITH ADMINISTRATOR PRIVILEGES...
There, fixed that for you.
I saw a great bumper sticker a few weeks ago. To paraphrase: Government is like a car, R moves it backwards and D moves it forwards.
Though now days I don't think it makes a lot of difference.
I did an audit for someone who received a BSA letter. BSA provided them with software, I went around to each PC and booted it from a floppy, it audited the machine and logged it into a CSV. I imported it into a database, produced pretty reports, and gave it back to the company's attorney. Now, this was 15+ years ago, but I would imagine BSA still provides the software. At that time it compared all *.COM and *.EXE against a known list, I'm sure the software is somewhat more sophisticated now.
All I can say is good luck! Turns out the company was massively out of compliance (and they, too, got ratted out by a former employee) and had to cough up substantial $$$.
My issue is that I have no problem with using my real name among friends, but I also operate as a company and a game designer and use pseudonymous handles in those environments where I don't want those associated with my 'professional' handle as a computer professional. I have no problem with my pseudonymous handle being authenticated via a $1 credit card charge or snail mail or something, but it should be allowed.
Agreed. I read positive/highly-ranked reviews for user information, negative reviews for true(r) user experience. I find that to be much more representative of whatever it is that's being reviewed.