Anyone know why the US1 and US2 head North West for Iceland and not for America?
One, to keep the graphic clearer to use.
Two, it is likely that the cables do head
roughly in that direction as the shortest
distance would be a Great Circle.
That's nice and all but you reported on this already last week.
But this is 'open monopoly', where you
can loop, ride the parsing railroad,
enjoy free parking (telecommute), take
chances, still deal with monopoly utilites
such as water and electric, pay rent, and
hopefully avoid jail.
managment in my company is looking for a 'code deletion engineer'... it's not a joke.
Totally comprehend that. I deleted
40,000 lines of C code from a system once in
order to make it function. Rewrote
the removed functionality in approximately
4,000 lines of C and imbedded SQL.
The problem was that management allowed the
code to reach such a state. But thats what
happens when management only understands SLOCs
and fails to reward efficient design and coding.
And of course, not doing peer reviews.
It was working perfectly (it was switching emergency calls) until 4pm sept 11th when it's
batteries failed. All that with 110 floors piled on top of it. WOW.
WOW is right. I noticed you used 'Has' in
the subject line instead of 'Had'. Nice touch.
It would be nice to save that puppy for historical reasons, maybe for
the Smithsonian Institution.
As far as I know this already exists in a way. The department of defense operates the defense
switched network (DSN) which is a telephone switch network. DSN is used to do such things as
launching nuclear attacks and has priority over the other telecommunications networks in the US
(this is my understanding of it). Why doesn't the US just increase the capacity of this network and
keep on using it?
Because it does have ties to the PSTN (Public
Switched Telephone Network), and is therefore
susceptible to potential attacks. Not likely,
but possible. With proper monitoring, all
trunks to the PSTN could be disconnected in
the event of an attack. But if you're not
vigilant, and you don't pay people properly, well,
stuff can slip through the cracks.
In all likelyhood, this RFI is just more of
the same crap, spend money on stuff instead
of people, and in this case, pump up the economy.
Now, who will bother to send in a response
to the RFI, much less to a RFP?
This is a huge project and I'm not sure there
are many players that will want to bite on this.
Maybe Microsoft and/or EDS, but I don't want
to see Microsoft involved unless they are forced
to cleanup all of their security holes in their
software. Otherwise the project is useless from
a security standpoint and only helps by spending money.
I'm curious, was it really interstate communication that was used? Seems to me that
Uskogee, Oklahoma and Stigler, Oklahoma are
really in the same *STATE*, and therefore he
could *NOT* have used INTERstate communication
to break the law.
USKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - BRIAN KEITH WEST, age 24, of Stigler, Oklahoma, pled
guilty today to intentionally accessing and obtaining information from a protected computer without
authorization through the use of an interstate communication in violation of Title 18, United States
Code, Section 1030(a)(2)(C).
Yes, I've been researching that for some time.
My conclusion is that it is not random at all.
In fact, I've turned information over to the
State Department regarding this. Whether it
helps or not, I don't know, as I've not broken
any encryption related to this.
But if you wanted to set up a message delivery
system that was open but hidden, there is
absolutely no better way than encrypted messages
associated with porn spam on Usenet.
Delivery to anywhere. The recipient of the message
can be anywhere and get the message, why they can
read it at the library!
Lack of traceback to the sender. All of the
porn spam I'm referring to is posted via open
NNTP servers with forged identification.
Lack of prying eyes. Most people when reading
Usenet will automatically skip over the porn spam,
never to take a look at it. I used to, but
something caught my eye, and made me look closer.
Automatic destruction. It being the nature of
Usenet, messages are purged off after time, and
typically are not archived anywhere. In fact,
even Google Groups (Deja) does spam cleaning, so these
messages are not retained, which would be very
helpful in breaking an encryption code. Lately,
some of the porn spam messages have been using the
'X-No-Archive: Yes' directive.
At this time, I am collecting porn spam from
a set of newsgroups in the hope that I can find
additional patterns.
I'm using a NNTP proxy to filter out the
normal stuff!
Just runaway now!
It's those damn marketing folks out of
control again.
They just want to track
all of your habits via cross-referencing
to a central database.
It's just like tracking your IP across websites,
except they'll know for certain that you
really will spend money at those businesses.
The primary advantage of stored procedures
besides performance reasons is that you can
store all of your DML (Data Manipulation Language)
*in* the database. If done properly (you rarely
see this in the wild), there is *NO* external
code that does any INSERTs, DELETEs, or UPDATEs,
only SELECTs from views and calls to stored procedures.
This results in three main benefits. First,
your entire schema (tables, indexes, and stored
procedures, etc) is more easily validated and
kept consistent. Second, schema changes made
by the DBA will only impact stored procedures
and views, which can be properly maintained
by the DBA. If the changes are just new columns
or normalization activities, the existing external
code will not have to be changed unless that code
needs to see new columns in the new or modified
views, or the external code has to pass additional
parameters to stored procedures.
Basically, you can reduce maintenance costs.
Lastly, and most importantly in my experience,
it prevents crap programmers from screwing up
the data in the database. All data rules can
be properly enforced in the database. If you
let anyone do the INSERTs, DELETEs, or UPDATEs
and you are missing the rules (triggers, referential integrity constraints, etc), then
your database can be invalid. By keeping all
of the rules *IN* the database, you'll have
much better control and less problems.
Indeed. And even if we did happen to stumble across "the true nature of existence",
how could we possibly know that we had, and that there wasn't some even better
description lurking just beyond our reach?
My theory is that we can never know the
true nature of the universe because
we are part of it. We can never be a true
neutral observer.
Prediction: before the year is out, you will see a "worm kernel" that incorporates thought-out techniques
like this, with a modular interface for plugging in the latest exploits.
this is what joe user will think:
A dangerous "virus" threatens the entire internet (*cough*) and then microsoft comes to the rescue with a
patch and saves the internet!
Which would be a good reason for M$
to leave the holes,
then release CR, wait for
the PR, then release the patch when the PR
starts to turn negative (Hotmail).
Repeat as needed.
If I lived somewhere where it rained bullets I'd make sure I installed bullet proof glass.
If the manufacturer told me it was bullet proof I'd probably believe him.
If it subsequently broke when a bullet hit it who's fault is it?
yours probably:)
However, I can sue for damages.
In the case of CR and M$, there is no one
to sue for damages, is there?
...magnesium powder and a bit of detergent and water...
detergent and water? Petroleum jelly is what
I heard is best.
If you have no powder, just
hacking the solid chuck so there are cuts that
result in thin burrs usually will do the trick.
Slashdot Mirror
Steve?
Is that you?
You forgot to take your medicine again.
One, to keep the graphic clearer to use.
Two, it is likely that the cables do head roughly in that direction
as the shortest distance would be a Great Circle.
And that's why she still can have fun.
You go grandma!
50 million?
Obviously they counted politicians.
If dark matter is falling into the event horizon of a black hole,
and no one is there to observe it,
does it emit radiation?
But this is 'open monopoly', where you can loop, ride the parsing railroad, enjoy free parking (telecommute), take chances, still deal with monopoly utilites such as water and electric, pay rent, and hopefully avoid jail.
Please pay me $200.
Totally comprehend that. I deleted 40,000 lines of C code from a system once in order to make it function. Rewrote the removed functionality in approximately 4,000 lines of C and imbedded SQL.
The problem was that management allowed the code to reach such a state. But thats what happens when management only understands SLOCs and fails to reward efficient design and coding. And of course, not doing peer reviews.
...the card has geekcode
WOW is right.
I noticed you used 'Has' in the subject line instead of 'Had'.
Nice touch.
It would be nice to save that puppy for historical reasons,
maybe for the Smithsonian Institution.
Appropriately modded IMHO. Read The Stupid Network.
...smells really bad from here.
Because it does have ties to the PSTN (Public Switched Telephone Network), and is therefore susceptible to potential attacks. Not likely, but possible. With proper monitoring, all trunks to the PSTN could be disconnected in the event of an attack. But if you're not vigilant, and you don't pay people properly, well, stuff can slip through the cracks.
In all likelyhood, this RFI is just more of the same crap, spend money on stuff instead of people, and in this case, pump up the economy.
Now, who will bother to send in a response to the RFI, much less to a RFP? This is a huge project and I'm not sure there are many players that will want to bite on this. Maybe Microsoft and/or EDS, but I don't want to see Microsoft involved unless they are forced to cleanup all of their security holes in their software. Otherwise the project is useless from a security standpoint and only helps by spending money.
Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister
end-pedant-mode
I'm curious, was it really interstate communication that was used? Seems to me that Uskogee, Oklahoma and Stigler, Oklahoma are really in the same *STATE*, and therefore he could *NOT* have used INTERstate communication to break the law.
USKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - BRIAN KEITH WEST, age 24, of Stigler, Oklahoma, pled guilty today to intentionally accessing and obtaining information from a protected computer without authorization through the use of an interstate communication in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1030(a)(2)(C).
But if you wanted to set up a message delivery system that was open but hidden, there is absolutely no better way than encrypted messages associated with porn spam on Usenet.
Delivery to anywhere. The recipient of the message can be anywhere and get the message, why they can read it at the library!
Lack of traceback to the sender. All of the porn spam I'm referring to is posted via open NNTP servers with forged identification.
Lack of prying eyes. Most people when reading Usenet will automatically skip over the porn spam, never to take a look at it. I used to, but something caught my eye, and made me look closer.
Automatic destruction. It being the nature of Usenet, messages are purged off after time, and typically are not archived anywhere. In fact, even Google Groups (Deja) does spam cleaning, so these messages are not retained, which would be very helpful in breaking an encryption code. Lately, some of the porn spam messages have been using the 'X-No-Archive: Yes' directive.
At this time, I am collecting porn spam from a set of newsgroups in the hope that I can find additional patterns.
I'm using a NNTP proxy to filter out the normal stuff!
How about a Spud Launcher?
Gee, you're just figuring this out?
Statistically, this is easy to prove.
Just runaway now!
It's those damn marketing folks out of control again.
They just want to track all of your habits via cross-referencing to a central database.
It's just like tracking your IP across websites, except they'll know for certain that you really will spend money at those businesses.
Pick one
This results in three main benefits. First, your entire schema (tables, indexes, and stored procedures, etc) is more easily validated and kept consistent. Second, schema changes made by the DBA will only impact stored procedures and views, which can be properly maintained by the DBA. If the changes are just new columns or normalization activities, the existing external code will not have to be changed unless that code needs to see new columns in the new or modified views, or the external code has to pass additional parameters to stored procedures. Basically, you can reduce maintenance costs. Lastly, and most importantly in my experience, it prevents crap programmers from screwing up the data in the database. All data rules can be properly enforced in the database. If you let anyone do the INSERTs, DELETEs, or UPDATEs and you are missing the rules (triggers, referential integrity constraints, etc), then your database can be invalid. By keeping all of the rules *IN* the database, you'll have much better control and less problems.
how could we possibly know that we had, and that there wasn't some even better
description lurking just beyond our reach?
My theory is that we can never know the true nature of the universe
because we are part of it.
We can never be a true neutral observer.
Wishful thinking? It's probably out already.
this is what joe user will think:
A dangerous "virus" threatens the entire internet (*cough*) and then microsoft comes to the rescue with a patch and saves the internet!
Which would be a good reason for M$ to leave the holes,
then release CR, wait for the PR, then release the patch when the PR starts to turn negative (Hotmail).
Repeat as needed.
Well, there is a logical equivalent.
Just call the FBI, tell them there is kiddie porn on the machine.
If the manufacturer told me it was bullet proof I'd probably believe him.
If it subsequently broke when a bullet hit it who's fault is it?
yours probably
However, I can sue for damages.
In the case of CR and M$, there is no one to sue for damages, is there?
detergent and water? Petroleum jelly is what I heard is best.
If you have no powder, just hacking the solid chuck so there are cuts that result in thin burrs usually will do the trick.