I think this is nothing new, and began when Sony dumped the Vaio PC line and decided if you can't sell people premium hardware for profit anymore why bother to do it.
The issue with this assertion is that the Vaio line wasn't actually premium hardware. At best, it was nicely-decorated mediocre hardware sold at a premium price. At worst, they were just dreadfully crappy (albeit pretty) machines.
couple months back, a separate division of my employer had 3 of a 16 disk group fail within 2 days -- killing a raid-6 group. These were 8TB seagate disks and were ~6 months old.
This is why, as a rule, you shouldn't populate a RAID with drives from the same manufactured batch.
And I thought that Chicago, LA, and NYC were the only cities that thought of themselves as being states of their own.
This is more apropos to this discussion than one might think. O’Hare International Airport is only technically in Chicago. It’s physically nestled well within the northwest suburbs, but is connected to Chicago via a very long and ridiculously narrow strip of land that extends the Chicago border just far enough to claim that site.
So can the security researcher do the planet some good by providing a simple Java app which would clean everything or do we really need to buy Malwarebytes to fix this?
RTFM helps. “Apple calls it 'Fruitfly', and has already released an update that will be automatically downloaded behind the scenes to protect against future infections.”
Henry Rollins' character goes off on a rant about omnipresent consumer electronics and their fields causing all their health problems in Johnny Mnemonic from 1995.
In the world of Johnny Mnemonic, they have wetware (which is pretty much the whole point), so his rant actually made sense. There’s a difference between our current situation and the one in which these electronic devices are physically embedded into the brain.
Of course the bug is worrisome, but then, I consider the setting that allows it—leaving AirDrop open to everyone—to be a pretty ridiculous personal security flaw. Making one’s phone readily available to connections from random sources for the sole purpose of file drops doesn’t sound like something that should make the least bit of sense to even the average user.
In this case, Sergeant what's-his-name could look up prices for HDDs on Amazon, fill a form asking for 100 dollars to buy a larger HDD and 50 dollars to pay for installation services and be done with it.
Yeah, let that non-IT guy do the procurement process. I mean, how much worse can it get than what they’ve already done (implementing a critical system to run on a desktop) anyway?
But when someone wants to kick the soapbox out from under you and sell it for a profit because you have used it to attract a lot of attention there is no problem at all?
If you want your own soapbox, then buy your own soapbox. You seem to be writing about someone else’s soapbox, to which you have no actual right.
Ah, yes, a credit card, which I'll give to yet another vendor, which will then be responsible for securing my account data. That's certainly one idea, but I prefer to make my financial data readily available to as few vendors as possible. I much prefer to allow a trusted third party to take responsibility for assuring that my account data is protected— fewer potential points of risk, not more.
affect: to act on; produce an effect or change
effect: to produce as an effect; bring about; accomplish; make happen
If you had bothered to read the definitions you referenced before posting the links, you would have realized that as defined, the first is a verb; the second, a noun.
If you'd bothered to read the links the AC posted (or, y'know, cracked open a dictionary sometime), you'd know that you're actually wrong. To be more specific:
effect verb (used with object)
to produce as an effect; bring about; accomplish; make happen
It would appear that reading really is fundamental.
Absolutely. German politicos don't really care about this, because the existence of this particular type of spying is something they've always understood. For decades, all diplomats everywhere, if wise, have made the presumption that their unsecured lines are under surveillance by any number of different nations. The only reason they're pretending to care is because their naïve constituents apparently didn't know. They can't simply let the rabble go unanswered.
An example: The train you're on is running 30 minutes late, and you need a cab to get you to the day's last ferry, or you will have to wait until morning. That's when you'll really appreciate what a skilled cabdriver can do for you.
I fully understand what you mean by "skilled cabdriver." I have to walk/drive on the same roads as the aforementioned "skilled cabdrivers," and thus I direct you back to my previous post.
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I think this is nothing new, and began when Sony dumped the Vaio PC line and decided if you can't sell people premium hardware for profit anymore why bother to do it.
The issue with this assertion is that the Vaio line wasn't actually premium hardware. At best, it was nicely-decorated mediocre hardware sold at a premium price. At worst, they were just dreadfully crappy (albeit pretty) machines.
couple months back, a separate division of my employer had 3 of a 16 disk group fail within 2 days -- killing a raid-6 group. These were 8TB seagate disks and were ~6 months old.
This is why, as a rule, you shouldn't populate a RAID with drives from the same manufactured batch.
https://linux.slashdot.org/sto...
Gnome+Unity is so utterly messed up beyond redemption, maybe something that'll kill off defective thinking would be helpful in the long run.
I don’t really think you’ll have to worry about Unity all that much anymore.
Finance chiefs say the ubiquitous spreadsheet software that revolutionized accounting in the 1980s...
I thought this was about Excel, not VisiCalc or Lotus 1-2-3.
Reminds me a little of Theranos.
Similar to this story, Wired has also written quite a bit about Thearnos as well.
They'll start moving the data in-house again. They'll call it "The ground" or something equally meaningless...
"On-prem." They're calling it "on-prem."
FreeBSD runs on a Mach microkernel?
Darwin in OSX is derived from 4.4BSD.
And I thought that Chicago, LA, and NYC were the only cities that thought of themselves as being states of their own.
This is more apropos to this discussion than one might think. O’Hare International Airport is only technically in Chicago. It’s physically nestled well within the northwest suburbs, but is connected to Chicago via a very long and ridiculously narrow strip of land that extends the Chicago border just far enough to claim that site.
RTFA. Bah.
So can the security researcher do the planet some good by providing a simple Java app which would clean everything or do we really need to buy Malwarebytes to fix this?
RTFM helps. “Apple calls it 'Fruitfly', and has already released an update that will be automatically downloaded behind the scenes to protect against future infections.”
“We've also asked for a comment from Oracle about Dyn's recent breach”
Since when does a DDoS qualify as a “breach?”
Henry Rollins' character goes off on a rant about omnipresent consumer electronics and their fields causing all their health problems in Johnny Mnemonic from 1995.
In the world of Johnny Mnemonic, they have wetware (which is pretty much the whole point), so his rant actually made sense. There’s a difference between our current situation and the one in which these electronic devices are physically embedded into the brain.
Of course the bug is worrisome, but then, I consider the setting that allows it—leaving AirDrop open to everyone—to be a pretty ridiculous personal security flaw. Making one’s phone readily available to connections from random sources for the sole purpose of file drops doesn’t sound like something that should make the least bit of sense to even the average user.
Wait a second. I don't mind paperwork.
In this case, Sergeant what's-his-name could look up prices for HDDs on Amazon, fill a form asking for 100 dollars to buy a larger HDD and 50 dollars to pay for installation services and be done with it.
Yeah, let that non-IT guy do the procurement process. I mean, how much worse can it get than what they’ve already done (implementing a critical system to run on a desktop) anyway?
*groan*
http://www.npr.org/2014/08/01/...
Planet Money covered this one reasonably well.
But when someone wants to kick the soapbox out from under you and sell it for a profit because you have used it to attract a lot of attention there is no problem at all?
If you want your own soapbox, then buy your own soapbox. You seem to be writing about someone else’s soapbox, to which you have no actual right.
Oh, and I pay PayPal and Amazon with my credit card, which makes that even less of a moot point anyway.
It exists. It's called a credit card
Ah, yes, a credit card, which I'll give to yet another vendor, which will then be responsible for securing my account data. That's certainly one idea, but I prefer to make my financial data readily available to as few vendors as possible. I much prefer to allow a trusted third party to take responsibility for assuring that my account data is protected— fewer potential points of risk, not more.
The operative word in my previous text being "another."
It'll be nice to have another viable competitor to PayPal.
affect: to act on; produce an effect or change
effect: to produce as an effect; bring about; accomplish; make happen
If you had bothered to read the definitions you referenced before posting the links, you would have realized that as defined, the first is a verb; the second, a noun.
If you'd bothered to read the links the AC posted (or, y'know, cracked open a dictionary sometime), you'd know that you're actually wrong. To be more specific:
effect
verb (used with object)
to produce as an effect; bring about; accomplish; make happen
It would appear that reading really is fundamental.
It's all faux outrage for political expediency.
Absolutely. German politicos don't really care about this, because the existence of this particular type of spying is something they've always understood. For decades, all diplomats everywhere, if wise, have made the presumption that their unsecured lines are under surveillance by any number of different nations. The only reason they're pretending to care is because their naïve constituents apparently didn't know. They can't simply let the rabble go unanswered.
An example: The train you're on is running 30 minutes late, and you need a cab to get you to the day's last ferry, or you will have to wait until morning. That's when you'll really appreciate what a skilled cabdriver can do for you.
I fully understand what you mean by "skilled cabdriver." I have to walk/drive on the same roads as the aforementioned "skilled cabdrivers," and thus I direct you back to my previous post.