I tried to get our Salespeople to do something like this at MII. Not at lot of 'traction', as they say, however.
Heck, I thought our CDN should offer it for free (a la google's cache) just for the publicity. If we can withstand the slashdot effect, that should be proof enough that our service is rocksolid.
This: "AOL plans to offer private companies and federal agencies a premium version of the service early next year that will enable employees to send encrypted instant messages that can only be read by designated, registered recipients".
It's easy enough to listen to generic AIM traffic anyway, recording those messages shouldn't be upsetting to anyone. In fact, this'll have to happen before some enterprises will allow IM in their walls. If IMs are being used for business purposes, make the users accountable for what they say.
First, Northcutt's Network Intrusion Detection (published with SANS) is a great introduction to using simple tools like TCPDump to understand network traffic.
Second, although I refuse to buy books with 'Hackers!' in the title on principle, one slipped by: Hack Proofing Your Network. Each chapter is by a different author, most of whom are very reputable, and it give an excellent introduction to an array of different topics.
And of course you have a copy of Applied Cryptography...
I mean, really... 'only 4.5%' is a lot of fucking computers. 'Only 4.5%' of the automobile (or whatever) industry can make a very successful company. Most developers would be successful beyond their wildest dreams if their software were on 4.5 of computers.
I didn't know about the CISSP BS clause. i sit for the CISSP in a couple months, think they'll be a grandfather clause for those of us without such a degree?
It's an interesting question, how to deal with flash crowds like this, and some people don't have any choice other than using the Internet for information, however...
Broadcast TV and Radio doesn't degrade in performance the more viewers or listeners it gets.
but "helping the poor" is an imperialist structure, it just is. It's imperialist to think that these 'poor' people (more often than not impoverished because of imperialist actions, say, building a dam to flood their farmland, woah, sorry, I'll try to keep my own bias under control...) want to be 'rich' in a Western sense. Before you can help someone, you have to ask him or her what would be helpful - ya know? It's wrong to assume that someone would want to learn english and make american dollars, maybe they would just like to get their farmland back and live the way they had for the last 1,000 years.
Two points that the FBI guy made over and over at NANOG were that
1) Carnivore is just one tool in a suite of information-gathering utilities. Other software (demonstrated at NANOG) sorts the information gathere from carnivore, and could easily take input from other data gathering systems. All the fuss over carnivore could be (and this is just conjecture) a convenient distraction from really nefarious FBI tools.
2) Carnivore needs to be deployed with the cooperation of the ISP. In addition to simply needing access to the ISP facilities, the FBI engineers need to know where on the ISP's network to locate the box so it can be effective. The FBI agent claimed his folks didn't 'strongarm' ISPs into putting these boxes on their network, although someone from the NANOG audience vigorously claimed that that exact thing (pushy FBI agents force their way onto his network) does happen.
Either way, carnivore itself is just a packetsniffer with an interface even an agent can love. I'm more interested in what other sources of input the FBI has or is developing.
Wouldn't the name of the show be "WHOSE Line is it Anyway?" Imagine if there was an editor at/., who simply looked at every posting before mister taco put it up...
How about mambox.. http://www.mambox.com/ ? They're taking pre-orders at this point, apparently their product was ready but they found a firmware bug..?
Oh, just recalled the one thing that was REALLY ANNOYING about the flick: Half the time, Damon's characters glasses had no glass; half the time, they did. Sure, to avoid reflections, etc, etc, but there were so many close-ups of his face, and the back-and-forth between glass and no glass got really old really fast.
Yeah, I too saw TMR over the weekend, at a big movieplex up in Danvers (northern suburb of Boston) - we were up there to take advantage of the Talbot's and Eddie Bauer and Sears and etc crappy gift certificates the fam threw our way. I liked the movie as well, but perhaps the most amusing thing was the suburban-movie-goer's reaction (along with, apparently, the good folks of/.):
Utter disgust at the homoeroticism.
What the hell, people? I know it's New England, but are we still puritans? I think most of the folks in the theater went because they wanted to see darling local boy Matt Damon, and knew nothing about the storyline. Some makeuped and big-haired North Shore Chick behind us said, as the credits began to roll, that she was going to 'be sick' in the theater (assumedly on me, as she was sitting right behind me, love those 'stadium-style' seats, you have to go to the suburbs for that shit) and some other guy (who looked just just just like Casey Afflek I kid you not) turned around and yelled as the credits rolled and the lights came up "OK Did anybody actually like that?"
I mean, sure, it was the suburbs, but are people really that uptight? My companions and I thought hopefully that our fellow moviegoers were just upset by the violence in the film; subsequent comments by the theater-mates however made it obvious they just didn't like the GAY THEME. OMG PEOPLE! IT'S A REAL LIVE HO-MO-SEXUAL. It was amazing.
But aside from the audience (and/.) reaction (which, I guess, is a good thing, that it at least got a strong reaction, unlike for example Eyes Wide Shut [which I think of because it was the last movie I happened to be in the suburbs when I saw {hey, they have a Target up there!}] where everyone was just in a daze..) I thought the film was great - the scenery alone, as many others have mentioned. And Freddy! What an amazing portrayal of the stereotypical 'Ugly American', yet, more than just a cut-out character. We loved it!
Trying to avoid spoilers; didn't you who saw it love the way the title sequence and closing sequence connected? The shapes at the beginning, with the voiceovers, and then the swinging mirrors making the same shapes as he sits alone in the cabin?
Yes, it was lenghty, but I loved it, hell, I even finally see why people thing Damon's cute!
Getting offtopic, a while back in Bloomington, IN, there was a rash of tagging of 'GWAR' and 'GO VEGAN'. The BPD, in their wisdom, thought GWAR meant 'Gang-War' and that the VEGANs were one of the gangs about to be involved in hostilities.
Additionally, email address aren't as static as postal. Sure, people move, but short of that you're not going to stop getting snailmail because of nonpayment to an ISP. I've had the same email address for 5 years, but if the ISP tanks what can i do? Unless the guvm'nt wants to gaa-run-tee us an address...
I took an 'Advanced Topics in Data Networking' course in the spring at Harvard and thought they handled the 'distance learning' piece well. The classes met as usual and were also videotaped, the video of the class was available within hours on the web along with all the slides Scott (Bradner, instructor) used. Most people went to most of the classes, but if you couldn't make one you could watch it at any point on the web. All the reading assignments (mostly RFCs) and exams were on the web. The instructor was available and responsive via email.
A class with no chance of face-to-face interaction with the instructor and no shared space with other students will work for some people, but interaction and groupwork are more instructive for others. Making classes available in a variety of media and allowing the students to choose what works best for them seems like the best idear to me.
Really, I think the reasons are much simpler. Most people don't do more work than they need to, and for people in jobs with pre-computer-aided expectations it's easy to still produce the same amount and spend the rest of the times taking smoke breaks in the alley. And the second contributing factor is distraction, be it solitair or/. or writing endless little perl scripts to 'simplify' our jobs, we can spend a lot of time that isn't 'producing' whatever the product the indexes index.
But the next level of the argument, I would think, would be rethinking just what's measured in 'production', because, even if we make the same number of widgets as we did 20 years ago when we were handcarving widgets out of stone; the fact that we have an extra 3 hours a day for personal pursuits perhaps makes us more well-rounded widgeteers; increases personal and job satisfaction; and spawns creative construct.
Slashdot Mirror
I was going to say:
Alternate Headline: Fed Discovers NAT
Hey, former boss!
I tried to get our Salespeople to do something like this at MII. Not at lot of 'traction', as they say, however.
Heck, I thought our CDN should offer it for free (a la google's cache) just for the publicity. If we can withstand the slashdot effect, that should be proof enough that our service is rocksolid.
This: "AOL plans to offer private companies and federal agencies a premium version of the service early next year that will enable employees to send encrypted instant messages that can only be read by designated, registered recipients".
It's easy enough to listen to generic AIM traffic anyway, recording those messages shouldn't be upsetting to anyone. In fact, this'll have to happen before some enterprises will allow IM in their walls. If IMs are being used for business purposes, make the users accountable for what they say.
First, Northcutt's Network Intrusion Detection (published with SANS) is a great introduction to using simple tools like TCPDump to understand network traffic. Second, although I refuse to buy books with 'Hackers!' in the title on principle, one slipped by: Hack Proofing Your Network. Each chapter is by a different author, most of whom are very reputable, and it give an excellent introduction to an array of different topics. And of course you have a copy of Applied Cryptography...
well, have you checked out these things?
http://www.commoncriteria.org/
http://csrc.nist.gov/cc/pp/pplist.htm
I mean, I could set up a procmail rule to send the cryptogram to /. on the 15th of the month when I receive if it would get my name in lights.....
I mean, really ... 'only 4.5%' is a lot of fucking computers. 'Only 4.5%' of the automobile (or whatever) industry can make a very successful company. Most developers would be successful beyond their wildest dreams if their software were on 4.5 of computers.
I didn't know about the CISSP BS clause. i sit for the CISSP in a couple months, think they'll be a grandfather clause for those of us without such a degree?
Isn't Steve Jobs vegan? Would he let his company market something with a leather case? Maybe the case is made of thousands of dead nogas...
It's an interesting question, how to deal with flash crowds like this, and some people don't have any choice other than using the Internet for information, however...
Broadcast TV and Radio doesn't degrade in performance the more viewers or listeners it gets.
but "helping the poor" is an imperialist structure, it just is. It's imperialist to think that these 'poor' people (more often than not impoverished because of imperialist actions, say, building a dam to flood their farmland, woah, sorry, I'll try to keep my own bias under control...) want to be 'rich' in a Western sense. Before you can help someone, you have to ask him or her what would be helpful - ya know? It's wrong to assume that someone would want to learn english and make american dollars, maybe they would just like to get their farmland back and live the way they had for the last 1,000 years.
What? The second usage of "its" (incorrectly written as "its'") should be possessive, and shouldn't have the dangling apostrophe.
Two points that the FBI guy made over and over at NANOG were that
1) Carnivore is just one tool in a suite of information-gathering utilities. Other software (demonstrated at NANOG) sorts the information gathere from carnivore, and could easily take input from other data gathering systems. All the fuss over carnivore could be (and this is just conjecture) a convenient distraction from really nefarious FBI tools.
2) Carnivore needs to be deployed with the cooperation of the ISP. In addition to simply needing access to the ISP facilities, the FBI engineers need to know where on the ISP's network to locate the box so it can be effective. The FBI agent claimed his folks didn't 'strongarm' ISPs into putting these boxes on their network, although someone from the NANOG audience vigorously claimed that that exact thing (pushy FBI agents force their way onto his network) does happen.
Either way, carnivore itself is just a packetsniffer with an interface even an agent can love. I'm more interested in what other sources of input the FBI has or is developing.
Wouldn't the name of the show be "WHOSE Line is it Anyway?" Imagine if there was an editor at /., who simply looked at every posting before mister taco put it up...
Wow, somehow I broke the 'preview' options.t ement.html
http://www.fnwire.com/news/011700/satire-sunsta
was supposed to be in there somewhere.
Sun announces 'Microsoft Sucks'.
How about mambox .. http://www.mambox.com/ ? They're taking pre-orders at this point, apparently their product was ready but they found a firmware bug..?
-Matt
Oh, just recalled the one thing that was REALLY ANNOYING about the flick: Half the time, Damon's characters glasses had no glass; half the time, they did. Sure, to avoid reflections, etc, etc, but there were so many close-ups of his face, and the back-and-forth between glass and no glass got really old really fast.
Not to pick nits or anything.
-Matt
Yeah, I too saw TMR over the weekend, at a big movieplex up in Danvers (northern suburb of Boston) - we were up there to take advantage of the Talbot's and Eddie Bauer and Sears and etc crappy gift certificates the fam threw our way. I liked the movie as well, but perhaps the most amusing thing was the suburban-movie-goer's reaction (along with, apparently, the good folks of /.):
/.) reaction (which, I guess, is a good thing, that it at least got a strong reaction, unlike for example Eyes Wide Shut [which I think of because it was the last movie I happened to be in the suburbs when I saw {hey, they have a Target up there!}] where everyone was just in a daze..) I thought the film was great - the scenery alone, as many others have mentioned. And Freddy! What an amazing portrayal of the stereotypical 'Ugly American', yet, more than just a cut-out character. We loved it!
Utter disgust at the homoeroticism.
What the hell, people? I know it's New England, but are we still puritans? I think most of the folks in the theater went because they wanted to see darling local boy Matt Damon, and knew nothing about the storyline. Some makeuped and big-haired North Shore Chick behind us said, as the credits began to roll, that she was going to 'be sick' in the theater (assumedly on me, as she was sitting right behind me, love those 'stadium-style' seats, you have to go to the suburbs for that shit) and some other guy (who looked just just just like Casey Afflek I kid you not) turned around and yelled as the credits rolled and the lights came up "OK Did anybody actually like that?"
I mean, sure, it was the suburbs, but are people really that uptight? My companions and I thought hopefully that our fellow moviegoers were just upset by the violence in the film; subsequent comments by the theater-mates however made it obvious they just didn't like the GAY THEME. OMG PEOPLE! IT'S A REAL LIVE HO-MO-SEXUAL. It was amazing.
But aside from the audience (and
Trying to avoid spoilers; didn't you who saw it love the way the title sequence and closing sequence connected? The shapes at the beginning, with the voiceovers, and then the swinging mirrors making the same shapes as he sits alone in the cabin?
Yes, it was lenghty, but I loved it, hell, I even finally see why people thing Damon's cute!
-Matt
Getting offtopic, a while back in Bloomington, IN, there was a rash of tagging of 'GWAR' and 'GO VEGAN'. The BPD, in their wisdom, thought GWAR meant 'Gang-War' and that the VEGANs were one of the gangs about to be involved in hostilities.
-Matt
Additionally, email address aren't as static as postal. Sure, people move, but short of that you're not going to stop getting snailmail because of nonpayment to an ISP. I've had the same email address for 5 years, but if the ISP tanks what can i do? Unless the guvm'nt wants to gaa-run-tee us an address...
I took an 'Advanced Topics in Data Networking' course in the spring at Harvard and thought they handled the 'distance learning' piece well. The classes met as usual and were also videotaped, the video of the class was available within hours on the web along with all the slides Scott (Bradner, instructor) used. Most people went to most of the classes, but if you couldn't make one you could watch it at any point on the web. All the reading assignments (mostly RFCs) and exams were on the web. The instructor was available and responsive via email.
A class with no chance of face-to-face interaction with the instructor and no shared space with other students will work for some people, but interaction and groupwork are more instructive for others. Making classes available in a variety of media and allowing the students to choose what works best for them seems like the best idear to me.
Really, I think the reasons are much simpler. Most people don't do more work than they need to, and for people in jobs with pre-computer-aided expectations it's easy to still produce the same amount and spend the rest of the times taking smoke breaks in the alley. And the second contributing factor is distraction, be it solitair or /. or writing endless little perl scripts to 'simplify' our jobs, we can spend a lot of time that isn't 'producing' whatever the product the indexes index.
But the next level of the argument, I would think, would be rethinking just what's measured in 'production', because, even if we make the same number of widgets as we did 20 years ago when we were handcarving widgets out of stone; the fact that we have an extra 3 hours a day for personal pursuits perhaps makes us more well-rounded widgeteers; increases personal and job satisfaction; and spawns creative construct.
Or maybe not.