Slashdot Mirror


User: silas_moeckel

silas_moeckel's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
2,989
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 2,989

  1. Re:Clueless on White House Green-lights Tech Apprenticeship Program · · Score: 1

    When your looking for slave labor your not looking at mit etc. They guys go to MS etc but it's mostly a stepping stone MS gets a few years before they get scoffed up by a startup etc. They want drones that will toil away doing customer customization etc not the big sexy projects.

  2. Do you realy need passwords?? on Ask Slashdot: Definitive Password Management Best Practices Using OSS? · · Score: 0

    At this point every user has at least one SSO since it's baked into google facebook etc etc etc. So the first thing should be to support as many of those as possible especially arbitrary ones, better ones let users do 2 factor auto use sll keys etc etc. Now you will need a fallback local password use ldap never transmit the password over the wire and use a hash thats not known to be insecure.

  3. Backdoors on Spy Industry Leaders Befuddled Over 'Deep Cynicism' of American Public · · Score: 1

    There are fundamental technical issue with government backdoors. You're either baking them in making whatever keys are used the biggest target in the world. Or your writing law that says you have to provide keys to the government making that keystore the biggest target in the world and providing an easy way to forget a key to make anybody a criminal.

    In any event bad guys will still use strong crypto. Stenography and one time pads make it very hard to trace and impossible to mathematically break. Cold war era spycraft is still very effective the classic phrases on message boards, personals, classifieds, etc etc.

  4. Re:Kodi on Plex Is Coming To Apple TV · · Score: 1

    That seems like a LOT of effort. Like you I have a lifetime sub, came up from xbmc and pytivo before that with some windows media center and hd homerun mixed in along the way.

  5. Re:Kodi on Plex Is Coming To Apple TV · · Score: 1

    Plex is the useful fork of Kodi.

  6. Re:Since he asked the question on Researcher: The US Owes the World $4 Trillion For Trashing the Climate · · Score: 2

    1st world nations are already doing that if you don't count 1st gen immigrants.

  7. Re:IT Careers will look much the same on What an IT Career Will Look Like 5 Years Out · · Score: 1

    I laughed when a client was looking for a cloud solution to store their pb's of cad and high res imaging data, they had a blazing fast 10mbs internet BTW. Napkin math showed that even a 10ge internet link would not give him acceptable access speeds since latency matters.

    If your talking about office productivity sure grab a google or o365 account and pray they don't start charging more or drop a feature you need. Sure they are great at sucking data in getting it back out can be a pita. Just look at MSSQL for the long game of give it cheap then once you have a decade or more of investment charge more but still less than the cost to migrate.

  8. IT Careers will look much the same on What an IT Career Will Look Like 5 Years Out · · Score: 1

    There will be less of them. Already most corp IT is not IT but vendor management the cloud move is going from outside vendors taking care of your inhouse IT shop to outside vendors taking care of your cloud IT shop.

    Overall this is a good thing boil down the IT staff to the real people and boil off the fluff. Give it a decade and watch core business functions go back in house as companies figure out a one size fits all is to ridged.

  9. Re:Bad editorial on Why Patent Law Shouldn't Block the Sale of Used Tech Products · · Score: 1

    Correct you can import and resell copyrighted works, you don't make another copy, you legally obtained one somewhere in the world. They try to weasel around it with well that company only bought the rights to the original country so it should be null and void if imported.

    The only valid claim lexmark should have would be trademark if somebody were selling them as original carts not refurbished.

    Copyright exists to encourage people to make things, not to have an artificial tiered pricing scheme the world around. Lets look at it as a car would you be ok if ford cars could only run on ford gas? Would you be ok if you could only sell your ford car in the country you bought it in? Would you be ok if you could not sell your ford car and it only ran to as many miles as ford says it could? These are all things lexmark is doing.

  10. Re:Two signals, one hand on Why Biking Injuries and Deaths Are Spiking In the US · · Score: 1

    The point is if society is going to give them the rights of cars the need to have the responsibilities of cars. That means effective methods to communicate intent and using them.

  11. Re:Two signals, one hand on Why Biking Injuries and Deaths Are Spiking In the US · · Score: 1

    Nope my son's works fine, he petals backwards to stop. If your going to treat a bike like a car it should need to pass inspection, it's not like adding some running lights and signals would be complex and with modern LED's it's not like you need onboard generators, batteries last near forever.

  12. Re:Two signals, one hand on Why Biking Injuries and Deaths Are Spiking In the US · · Score: 1

    So your bike is defective and should not be driven on the roadway.

  13. Re:Cyclists DON'T obey the law! on Why Biking Injuries and Deaths Are Spiking In the US · · Score: 1

    Treating bikes like cars is fine, this should include not causing an obstruction. So if you can not keep up with traffic you need to pull over and let people pass you.

  14. Re:Why not just do it right? on Is There Too Much New Programming On TV? · · Score: 1

    Thus making it perfect for a HBO or a netflix to do. Quality programing that pisses off advertisers.

  15. Isn't that impossible she must be a hacker. So she distributed kiddy porn and was an evil hacker violating snapchats TOS. Oh thats right the SJW's would call charging her abusing the victim.

    It's some young teenage kids trying to figure out sex it should have not made it past the headmaster and parents. It's not like it should have been shocking the UK age of consent is what 16? Mind you the two of them can have sex without legal issue throw snapchat into the mix and now it's a serious crime?

  16. Expensive is good on Police Body Camera Business All About the Video Evidence Storage · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It leads to not keeping things around just because it was easier/cheaper than figuring out what to keep. Seems trivial to flag all open cases/complaints etc and ditch the rest after a set period.

    It also should not be a cheap NAS box onsite, It should be written out to multiple worm tapes with full audit logging. Throw in cryptographic signing preferably with a third party so you need 3 people to collude rather than 2 and happen on the device as well (with a key generated on the device within TPM type hardware). Hashes should be generated to so there is a paper trail to help prove the video has not been altered. Physical security of at least one WORM tape.

    At the end of the day it should be implemented with the least amount of trust as possible, the cop should have that hash to protect himself. The camera signing the footage coupled with a cosigning from a 3rd party makes it hard to tamper with the data. WORM tapes make it very hard to alter after the fact. A physically secured copy gives the opposing side something to examine.

    Sure all this can be gotten around point is to make it very hard to do so, and that no one break after the fact can succeed.

  17. Re:For back doors and transmission power. on New FCC Rules Could Ban WiFi Router Firmware Modification · · Score: 1

    Congress gave up it's legislative powers, they just authorize administrative law and lets the courts decide if they exceeded their mandate. If they did it's a so sorry we will go reword it slightly so you have to go to court again.

  18. Re:300 GB a month is nothing in the era of HD on Comcast To Charge $30 For Unlimited Data Over 300GB Cap · · Score: 1

    And the gas stations pays a bit less that what they sell for. Commercial pricing for a 10ge connection full out is down below 5k a month that's 200 users at 50mbs all month for which they charge at least $50 (I'm rounding assuming etc etc etc) or about 10k. A 100% markup over cost of goods is excellent. Places like netflix are happy to shove gear into their network (and paid for the privilege) to reduce that cost to near 0 ar just space/power/cooling and a switchport. In effect the markup for watching something like nextflix is more like 1000% and netflix is making money coming and going, litery paid to deliver content to their customers and charging their customers to do it.

    Gas stations are reasonable because there is a low barrier to entry some near a highway might be more expensive etc etc. Comsat is a monopoly or virtually so as DSL is so bad in this country, funny that after they regulated it to be "open" all over the place.

  19. Re:Cue terrorist bombings/shootings on Carbon Dating Shows Koran May Predate Muhammad · · Score: 1

    There are no facts in dispute so nothing to debate, religion is an opinion at best a tool to control others at worst.

  20. Sure it's possible it's not that probable. Even very big providers tend to clear their filters once you have enough prefixes being announced. Problem is I've heard the somebody must have spoofed my IP which was at least incorrect if not a lie thousands upon thousands of times more than it actually happening. That did not involve BGP but rather ARP and was back in the 90's. Most of the spoofing I see is CPE gear without uRPF, on ISP's without egress filtering connected to ISP's with no ingress filtering and running a tiny tunneling agent on the actual box (often some PHP injected code). I would still call that reason to RBL the source IP it's infected with that agent even if the traffic does not actually originate there.

    PS First you have to have a BGP session with a poorly secured router with their upstream provider or some provider close to where your spamming, unless your going to break into it you will probably need to use at least a /24 and now your ASN is going to be all over the attack as poorly secured routers don't tend to have BGP communities setup. I say this as even a very poorly managed ISP tends to figure out a /24 filter to stop some of the stupidity coming from there clients. If you're in control of an ISP's router there are much more profitable things you can do than spam.

  21. Re:Here's a question for you to think about on Ask Slashdot: Can Any Wireless Tech Challenge Fiber To the Home? · · Score: 1

    Sure wireless can get that for you but not you and all your neighbors. Not with the little old lady down the streets sketchy microwave. Not during nasty weather.

    You could have put fiber in the ground in the 70's and still be using it today. You pull one or more strands per and now you can open it up to competition. Fiber lets a heavy user upgrade while grandma is running off some ancient gear that is good enough for a few bucks a month/free. Fiber lets a city empower business to connect to themselves and others, Outside of some quantum entanglement instantaneous communications fiber is the scalable solution (ok high speed traders use microwave but that's a niche market).

  22. Re:I'm sure they are right.... on Citi Report: Slowing Global Warming Could Save Tens of Trillions of Dollars · · Score: 1

    Fission via cookie cutter design. We need to make modern reactors, something you build in a factory, something that has a standard interface, and general has a design life.

    Companies are trying to get this going, things like sealed reactors that are expected to got back and get refurbished, scrapped or whatever in 30 years.

    Right now we keep building one off's as to get the political support you need to hire a pile of construction workers for years to build everything. Problem is they cost massive amounts to build and operate.

  23. Re:Cue terrorist bombings/shootings on Carbon Dating Shows Koran May Predate Muhammad · · Score: 1

    No there is not a bit more, you believe is some , the minutiae of your religion has no bearing on whether or not it's a good idea to have faith in something you can not prove.

    I take no issue with moral codes etc etc but frankly ascribing some deity as the reason for following them is scary. If you want to be a good person figure what good is for yourself and be that person.

  24. Re:Cue terrorist bombings/shootings on Carbon Dating Shows Koran May Predate Muhammad · · Score: 1

    Anytime you have a bunch of people that will all believe in an invisible father figure you will have issues.

  25. Please no on Ask Slashdot: Should I Publish My Collection of Email Spamming IP Addresses? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If you think you can spoof a TCP connection you have no business running a RBL.