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The jokes have to be really outlandish, otherwise certain people take them seriously.
Example:
Headline: Apple invents iDead - Apple unveiled today a revolutionary, magically device that kills people. Result: Obviously a joke, no one will take it seriously.
Headline: Apple invents iEye - Apple today unveiled a revolutionary, magically device that integrates with the optic nerve to restore sight to blind people. Result: People believe it, Apple stock goes way up. People get rich. Once it is found to be a joke (it is believable because some companies have made inroads to this, but the name should have given it away...I mean, iEye? But then again, iPad is just as bad). Apple stock plummets. People get bankrupt.
I believe April Fool's jokes have, in the past, screwed with stocks.
All of these settings are hidden in the advanced settings dialog
They aren't hidden, they're quite visible. 3 clicks show you them.
I seem to recall it is 4 clicks to disable UAC in Windows, but remember how much of a stink that put up when it came out? It's all about the DEFAULT behaviour of a program that determines the software company's evil or not evil motives.
Could they store the data in the cloud like a RAID 0 array is set up? Only half the bits are on one server vs. another making it harder to extract data if a single server is compromised? Are they already doing something like this?
Hmm, this may not be the best idea. It would definitely make it harder to extract the info if one server was down, in fact, it would make it impossible. With RAID 0, removing one-half of the storage will render the other half unreadable, due to the way it stores information.
You may have been thinking of JBOD, which doesn't split the information on the member disks, but rather "lines it up" disk after disk, so there is only a small risk that information will cross over onto a different disk.
So if the entire world's DNS resolved to the Chinese firewall simultaneously would it DOS them to oblivion and end these shenanigans? I'd give up a day of using the internet to see that go down.
This seems like an overly complex way of ensuring security. And it's not like Ubuntu is 100% secure - if there is a market for malware, it will be done. If, all of a sudden, all banking is done on Ubuntu and FF, I'm pretty sure they will find a way to attack that setup too.
It is inconvenient to have to drop everything you are doing, restart your computer and insert a disc and wait 5 minutes or so to load Ubuntu into memory just to check your online banking.
A simpler alternative would be to call a 1-800 number for your bank, have it authenticate against your verbal password and telephone #, and then issue a temporary password to you that will work for X minutes in Windows. It would probably only take 30 seconds to do it that way. Sounds complicated, right? But any more complicated to the user than running a LiveCD?
Even easier would be to partner with VMWare and Ubuntu to issue a customized virtual machine that you could USE on Windows. Have it locked down so it can only visit one site, etc.
I mean, I guess I could update the entire world every time I eat something or run an errand... but to be honest, I can't see why anyone who doesn't already know would care
This morning I woke up at 5:45, had a shower and got ready for the day. I took the dog out, ate breakfast - just a peanut Nature Valley bar - nothing interesting this morning. I went off to work...at lunch I went to Subway and got a 6" Turkey with everything but hot peppers. No salt and pepper today - not for me! Ranch sauce! Now it is nearing 5:00 PM and I'm looking forward to a salad and possibly some chicken for supper. Not sure what I'll do this evening, but I'll post back tonight and let you know. Maybe watch some CSI - is it new this evening?
Check back tomorrow - will I go to Extreme Pita, Quiznos or Subway for lunch? WHO KNOWS!! That's the fun part!
I drive a Pontiac Vibe - which as you know is a sister car to the Toyota Matrix.
Toyota seems to be dragging their feet on this whole pedal fix and reprogram issue. Even Steve Wozniak believes Toyota has a programming problem. As such, I'm in the market for a new control module for my acceleration subsystem. I'd like it to be open source. Does slashdot have any suggestions? Again, FREE and OPEN SOURCE are preferred.
WSUS is what server admins use to push patches to machines connected to a particular server.
Most machines that are part of a domain or network that utilizes WSUS has Windows Update disabled. The server admin goes through the patches and selects the ones he/she wants to push out to each of the computers.
It's quick and simple...but has nothing to do with the end user.
It is easy for many companies that deal with web-based work to do this. China is a hotbed of Internet fraud. Although GoDaddy probably makes quite a bit off of domain registrations for.com/.net/etc from China, adding in the photography requirement isn't what will kill their interest. It is the eventual benefit of this requirement that would reduce much of the fraud coming from China (one hopes), and with the reduction of fraud, there are very few legitimate.com/.net/etc registrations from China compared to the US and the rest of the world.
I actually wasn't assuming incompetence, the hallmark of many SysAdmins is being understaffed, overworked and underpaid, and thus do not have the resources to properly test all backup and redundant systems.
As consultants and contractors in the area of System Administration, you get let go if anything like this was ever to happen. This is why they charge a little bit more.
Whatever happened, it failed. A good lesson for next time. Not knowing exactly the cause, but it is safe to safe there were too many eggs in one basket. Multiple geopgrahically diverse load-balanced DNS servers? Why was there an overheating problem in the first place? Only one air conditioner?
Wikipedia has had a few failures, not all their fault. In 2006 Cogent pulled a block of IP addresses that were leased to Wikipedia.
However, shortly after we did this failover switch, it turned out that this failover mechanism was now broken, causing the DNS resolution of Wikimedia sites to stop working globally.
Good thing Wikimedia pays their System Administrators well enough to test their backup systems.
There are a number of newer signature pads that record forensic data such as stroke length, pressure, lift points, etc as well as it has certain security to help identify genuine signatures or tampering. Most have plugins for PDFs.
I've used signature pads for banking, renting cars, and accepting packages.
What makes it difficult to implement is the APIs for some of these are not free/cheap, so implementing into, say, a car dealership's management system may not be economical at the moment.
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Sadly this is the story of 99% of all start ups and home based businesses.
Hmm, I should proof-read my posts more often.
The jokes have to be really outlandish, otherwise certain people take them seriously.
Example:
Headline: Apple invents iDead - Apple unveiled today a revolutionary, magically device that kills people.
Result: Obviously a joke, no one will take it seriously.
Headline: Apple invents iEye - Apple today unveiled a revolutionary, magically device that integrates with the optic nerve to restore sight to blind people.
Result: People believe it, Apple stock goes way up. People get rich. Once it is found to be a joke (it is believable because some companies have made inroads to this, but the name should have given it away...I mean, iEye? But then again, iPad is just as bad). Apple stock plummets. People get bankrupt.
I believe April Fool's jokes have, in the past, screwed with stocks.
though that wouldn't excuse Slashdot, it being usually late with anything
I figured slashdot would get to the April fool's jokes around April 3rd, then repeat them on April 5th, 6th, 9th and 26th.
All of these settings are hidden in the advanced settings dialog
They aren't hidden, they're quite visible. 3 clicks show you them.
I seem to recall it is 4 clicks to disable UAC in Windows, but remember how much of a stink that put up when it came out? It's all about the DEFAULT behaviour of a program that determines the software company's evil or not evil motives.
They (M$) do collect this information locally if you have form auto-completion
Yes, and my MS Outlook 2007 collects my emails and stores them locally too! Bastards!
Could they store the data in the cloud like a RAID 0 array is set up? Only half the bits are on one server vs. another making it harder to extract data if a single server is compromised? Are they already doing something like this?
Hmm, this may not be the best idea. It would definitely make it harder to extract the info if one server was down, in fact, it would make it impossible. With RAID 0, removing one-half of the storage will render the other half unreadable, due to the way it stores information.
You may have been thinking of JBOD, which doesn't split the information on the member disks, but rather "lines it up" disk after disk, so there is only a small risk that information will cross over onto a different disk.
The US Army will be buying millions of magnets to put in army issue helmets.
So it isn't just a bad cliche when in the movies the bad guys always run a car salvage/crushing yard with the big electromagnet cranes.
Wait until someone hacks into this and auto-posts your underpants logs via Twitter or Facebook.
No longer will the rules "he who smelt it dealt it" and "he who denied it, supplied it" apply - simply logon and find out who really did it.
Television Advertisement: "So use your computer to go to [PRODUCT WEBSITE] today!"
msauve: "What does this mean? Is my "computer" now a web browser?"
PROTIP: Substituting idiocy for pedantry doesn't make you look cool. Not even on slashdot.
It will be if you are going to run Chrome.
So if the entire world's DNS resolved to the Chinese firewall simultaneously would it DOS them to oblivion and end these shenanigans? I'd give up a day of using the internet to see that go down.
Why don't we just slashdot it?
What if every single router in the world is manufactured in China? Are you sure you know what's in that firmware?
Yes, lead, melamine, and poorly documented programming.
Are you sure you didn't end up at Redbook and CommUTube?
In other news, Skynet, err The Great Firewall of China, became self-aware at 8:14am EDT March 26, 2010
This seems like an overly complex way of ensuring security. And it's not like Ubuntu is 100% secure - if there is a market for malware, it will be done. If, all of a sudden, all banking is done on Ubuntu and FF, I'm pretty sure they will find a way to attack that setup too.
It is inconvenient to have to drop everything you are doing, restart your computer and insert a disc and wait 5 minutes or so to load Ubuntu into memory just to check your online banking.
A simpler alternative would be to call a 1-800 number for your bank, have it authenticate against your verbal password and telephone #, and then issue a temporary password to you that will work for X minutes in Windows. It would probably only take 30 seconds to do it that way. Sounds complicated, right? But any more complicated to the user than running a LiveCD?
Even easier would be to partner with VMWare and Ubuntu to issue a customized virtual machine that you could USE on Windows. Have it locked down so it can only visit one site, etc.
I mean, I guess I could update the entire world every time I eat something or run an errand... but to be honest, I can't see why anyone who doesn't already know would care
This morning I woke up at 5:45, had a shower and got ready for the day. I took the dog out, ate breakfast - just a peanut Nature Valley bar - nothing interesting this morning. I went off to work...at lunch I went to Subway and got a 6" Turkey with everything but hot peppers. No salt and pepper today - not for me! Ranch sauce! Now it is nearing 5:00 PM and I'm looking forward to a salad and possibly some chicken for supper. Not sure what I'll do this evening, but I'll post back tonight and let you know. Maybe watch some CSI - is it new this evening?
Check back tomorrow - will I go to Extreme Pita, Quiznos or Subway for lunch? WHO KNOWS!! That's the fun part!
But it's OPEN SOURCE...
I drive a Pontiac Vibe - which as you know is a sister car to the Toyota Matrix.
Toyota seems to be dragging their feet on this whole pedal fix and reprogram issue. Even Steve Wozniak believes Toyota has a programming problem. As such, I'm in the market for a new control module for my acceleration subsystem. I'd like it to be open source. Does slashdot have any suggestions? Again, FREE and OPEN SOURCE are preferred.
WSUS is what server admins use to push patches to machines connected to a particular server.
Most machines that are part of a domain or network that utilizes WSUS has Windows Update disabled. The server admin goes through the patches and selects the ones he/she wants to push out to each of the computers.
It's quick and simple...but has nothing to do with the end user.
It is easy for many companies that deal with web-based work to do this. China is a hotbed of Internet fraud. Although GoDaddy probably makes quite a bit off of domain registrations for .com/.net/etc from China, adding in the photography requirement isn't what will kill their interest. It is the eventual benefit of this requirement that would reduce much of the fraud coming from China (one hopes), and with the reduction of fraud, there are very few legitimate .com/.net/etc registrations from China compared to the US and the rest of the world.
I actually wasn't assuming incompetence, the hallmark of many SysAdmins is being understaffed, overworked and underpaid, and thus do not have the resources to properly test all backup and redundant systems.
As consultants and contractors in the area of System Administration, you get let go if anything like this was ever to happen. This is why they charge a little bit more.
Whatever happened, it failed. A good lesson for next time. Not knowing exactly the cause, but it is safe to safe there were too many eggs in one basket. Multiple geopgrahically diverse load-balanced DNS servers? Why was there an overheating problem in the first place? Only one air conditioner?
Wikipedia has had a few failures, not all their fault. In 2006 Cogent pulled a block of IP addresses that were leased to Wikipedia.
However, shortly after we did this failover switch, it turned out that this failover mechanism was now broken, causing the DNS resolution of Wikimedia sites to stop working globally.
Good thing Wikimedia pays their System Administrators well enough to test their backup systems.
I wouldn't call this an ad. This is legitimately really fucking cool.
So is the Mr. Clean Magic Eraser...
There are a number of newer signature pads that record forensic data such as stroke length, pressure, lift points, etc as well as it has certain security to help identify genuine signatures or tampering. Most have plugins for PDFs.
I've used signature pads for banking, renting cars, and accepting packages.
What makes it difficult to implement is the APIs for some of these are not free/cheap, so implementing into, say, a car dealership's management system may not be economical at the moment.