Refusal to allow your car to be searched is grounds for the police to hold you, stuck on the side of the road, for as many hours as it takes for them to get a K-9 unit on the scene to have the drug dog sniff all over your car.
Richard Chambers, TVA's inspector general, said:
"If you're allowing others to tap into your computer,
you have got some additional risk there."
Anthony Smith, a senior manager of TVA's
computer system [said] use of the SETI program on 17 TVA computers
presented "some kind of risk".
God, this would just be hilarious if it wasn't so pathetic. Sure, use of the pointless SETI program was against policy, and should have never been done in the first place...it's an example of stupid users installing software on their workstations that accomplishes nothing and increases complexity when troubleshooting is needed. But, when asked to clarify exactly what problem existed, the best they can come up with is, "some kind of risk"? God, what crap. And these guys are senior, and supposedly know what they're doing...this is the kind of knee-jerk response you expect when you put a freshly-minted MCSE in charge of a firewall. "We can't do that [desperately needed service], it's some kind of security risk." They go on to cite a breakin to the SETI web server (completely disconnected with the client, but try explaining that to these clueless morons). I hope I never, ever have to work in a shop like this.
Heh, heh...get this...our company bought HP/Openview IT/Operations for monitoring...and we have, oh, thirty nodes. For those of you keeping score at home, that's about $2,000 per node.
Current federal regulations require banks and credit unions -- about 19,000 in all -- to inform federal law enforcement of all transactions $5,000 and above that have no "apparent lawful purpose or are not the sort in which the particular customer would normally be expected to engage."
Because e-gold is not a bank that lends money -- it's more akin to a warehouse that stores gold on behalf of its customers -- it's not covered by those rules.
Right there's your answer. The feds didn't the idea, so they raided the business and shut them down. Not that they were doing anything illegal, but hey, the feds don't like anything that's not under their control. Sure, in a few years maybe, the feds will be found negligent and restitution will be made, but that's a little late for e-gold, which is pretty much the idea.
X doesn't really take up *that* many resouces...unless your server is heavily loaded and you need every megabyte of RAM you can spare, there's no harm in running X. Tivoli is insanely expensive, and is complete overkill unless you have thousands of nodes to monitor.
Yeah, it's amazing how many Windows-originating Linux johnnie-come-latelies completely fail to understand X...using VNC, I mean come on. The question asker uses an "enhanced" version of VNC that offers zero new features, but does include an installer (woooo), instead of just going to the AT&T site and getting the damn thing. I love using remote X desktops, but I always get stung by things like incompatible fonts and lack of availible static colormaps.
Whenever I install openssh on a new machine, the man page is totally hosed...no sections or formatting, and all the words are run together. Freaking useless. Other implementations of ssh don't have this problem, I don't know why.
How is the rote memorization of moves in Dragon's Lair any different from the wildly popular fighting games, where each character has different unique moves that require rote memorization to master?
Oh, sure...blindly accuse regions of the country that you've never been to of racism. "There's a perception here" seems to mean, "I heard about it on TV", and we all know how bias-free the bicoastal media is when it comes to dealing with the interior regions of the country.
Then the hardcore cheaters would change their computer clock to always be Christmas...and instead of just changing the computer date via the control applet, there would be a downloadable.exe (written in Visual Basic, 1038k) called, "DaRk aNg3l'Z super-powerup cheat"...
They only allow you in the computer crime divisions if you know nothing about computers. The federal law enforcement agencies are pretty picky about who they accept...if you didn't go to Jesuit school, or an well-known Eastern university, the odds are highly stacked against you. Then, there's the whole security clearance issue...hope you didn't change apartments every six months back in college, or have a good friend get busted for drugs five years after you last associated with him.
Second world? I know Brazil was always a bit pink, but I would never have called them Soviet Bloc. It seems you are mis-using the term, "second world", which is not surprising considering the level of education of the average citizen of Brazil. Do a web search on the term and educate yourself.
No...people don't expect perfection, the OpenBSD guys/users consider themselves perfect. Just ask any of them, or look at their message postings. There's a real attitude problem.
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Yeah, but anytime you wanted to? The symphony only plays certain pieces, at certain times of year, at certain times of day. There's the whole hassle of getting seats with good acoustics. Dressing up in a coat and tie, elbowing your way through the crowds...the symphony is really more of a social experience and an excuse to dress up than it is a way to listen to live music. I could go on, but I haven't been to a symphony or any kind of arty thing in years and years...I'm sure someone more current could express these thoughts more coherently.
The d.net project will produce results, it will say that 64-bit encryption is useless. Anyway, if you read their site, they say the whole point of d.net was to produce a stable, cross-platform distributed computing client...not factor prime numbers or what have you. The method is more important than the message.
scp isn't better...sure, it's "secure", but there's no interface worth mentioning. I mean, you need to know the *exact* filename and path of the file that you want to retrieve. No typos! If your developers like to use really_long_filenames_with-hyphens@chars&abbrevs-n -long.version.number.3.2.15r-release with spaces.tar.gz, scp can become a real chore.
Don't worry, if the FAA can't find anything to object to, they'll find a regulatory agency that will, or perhaps they will merely draft a new rule to fit your case. My suggestion would be to make a donation to your local congressman and send a letter to his office to have him make a call to the appropriate government agency on your behalf.
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Refusal to allow your car to be searched is grounds for the police to hold you, stuck on the side of the road, for as many hours as it takes for them to get a K-9 unit on the scene to have the drug dog sniff all over your car.
Did it cost more to collect the satellite information, and prosecute the case, than it cost for the government to pay off the crop damage claim?
Wine Is Not an Emulator.
Ah, but the SETI client does not "tap into your computer"...it makes an outgoing connection, and downloads data.
Anthony Smith, a senior manager of TVA's computer system [said] use of the SETI program on 17 TVA computers presented "some kind of risk".
God, this would just be hilarious if it wasn't so pathetic. Sure, use of the pointless SETI program was against policy, and should have never been done in the first place...it's an example of stupid users installing software on their workstations that accomplishes nothing and increases complexity when troubleshooting is needed. But, when asked to clarify exactly what problem existed, the best they can come up with is, "some kind of risk"? God, what crap. And these guys are senior, and supposedly know what they're doing...this is the kind of knee-jerk response you expect when you put a freshly-minted MCSE in charge of a firewall. "We can't do that [desperately needed service], it's some kind of security risk." They go on to cite a breakin to the SETI web server (completely disconnected with the client, but try explaining that to these clueless morons). I hope I never, ever have to work in a shop like this.
Heh, heh...get this...our company bought HP/Openview IT/Operations for monitoring...and we have, oh, thirty nodes. For those of you keeping score at home, that's about $2,000 per node.
Because e-gold is not a bank that lends money -- it's more akin to a warehouse that stores gold on behalf of its customers -- it's not covered by those rules.
Right there's your answer. The feds didn't the idea, so they raided the business and shut them down. Not that they were doing anything illegal, but hey, the feds don't like anything that's not under their control. Sure, in a few years maybe, the feds will be found negligent and restitution will be made, but that's a little late for e-gold, which is pretty much the idea.
They went off the gold standard because that way, the rich could become richer. Sad, but ultimately true.
X doesn't really take up *that* many resouces...unless your server is heavily loaded and you need every megabyte of RAM you can spare, there's no harm in running X. Tivoli is insanely expensive, and is complete overkill unless you have thousands of nodes to monitor.
Yeah, it's amazing how many Windows-originating Linux johnnie-come-latelies completely fail to understand X...using VNC, I mean come on. The question asker uses an "enhanced" version of VNC that offers zero new features, but does include an installer (woooo), instead of just going to the AT&T site and getting the damn thing. I love using remote X desktops, but I always get stung by things like incompatible fonts and lack of availible static colormaps.
Whenever I install openssh on a new machine, the man page is totally hosed...no sections or formatting, and all the words are run together. Freaking useless. Other implementations of ssh don't have this problem, I don't know why.
How is the rote memorization of moves in Dragon's Lair any different from the wildly popular fighting games, where each character has different unique moves that require rote memorization to master?
Oh, sure...blindly accuse regions of the country that you've never been to of racism. "There's a perception here" seems to mean, "I heard about it on TV", and we all know how bias-free the bicoastal media is when it comes to dealing with the interior regions of the country.
Then the hardcore cheaters would change their computer clock to always be Christmas...and instead of just changing the computer date via the control applet, there would be a downloadable .exe (written in Visual Basic, 1038k) called, "DaRk aNg3l'Z super-powerup cheat"...
I'm not one of those loony store-window-smashing neo-Luddites, but dang, news like this just frightens me.
They only allow you in the computer crime divisions if you know nothing about computers. The federal law enforcement agencies are pretty picky about who they accept...if you didn't go to Jesuit school, or an well-known Eastern university, the odds are highly stacked against you. Then, there's the whole security clearance issue...hope you didn't change apartments every six months back in college, or have a good friend get busted for drugs five years after you last associated with him.
Second world? I know Brazil was always a bit pink, but I would never have called them Soviet Bloc. It seems you are mis-using the term, "second world", which is not surprising considering the level of education of the average citizen of Brazil. Do a web search on the term and educate yourself.
No...people don't expect perfection, the OpenBSD guys/users consider themselves perfect. Just ask any of them, or look at their message postings. There's a real attitude problem.
Hey, Kool-aid!
My.
God.
People actually laugh at Shakespeare's jokes? Save me.
No, shoot me.
Quit using a CGA card.
Yeah, but anytime you wanted to? The symphony only plays certain pieces, at certain times of year, at certain times of day. There's the whole hassle of getting seats with good acoustics. Dressing up in a coat and tie, elbowing your way through the crowds...the symphony is really more of a social experience and an excuse to dress up than it is a way to listen to live music. I could go on, but I haven't been to a symphony or any kind of arty thing in years and years...I'm sure someone more current could express these thoughts more coherently.
The d.net project will produce results, it will say that 64-bit encryption is useless. Anyway, if you read their site, they say the whole point of d.net was to produce a stable, cross-platform distributed computing client...not factor prime numbers or what have you. The method is more important than the message.
scp isn't better...sure, it's "secure", but there's no interface worth mentioning. I mean, you need to know the *exact* filename and path of the file that you want to retrieve. No typos! If your developers like to use really_long_filenames_with-hyphens@chars&abbrevs-n -long.version.number.3.2.15r-release with spaces.tar.gz, scp can become a real chore.
Don't worry, if the FAA can't find anything to object to, they'll find a regulatory agency that will, or perhaps they will merely draft a new rule to fit your case. My suggestion would be to make a donation to your local congressman and send a letter to his office to have him make a call to the appropriate government agency on your behalf.