My ISP gets its connectivity from Cogent. As their customer I can connect to anywhere in the Internet EXCEPT those portions served by Sprint. Because of this corporate disagreement, I am cut off from my e-mail and from my Red Hat Network updates.
I agree with klapaucjusz (1167407) who perceptively asked if we needed regulation at the top carrier level. I agree, and plan to file a complaint with the FCC in the morning.
It was Wednesday. That afternoon we learned there was a "worm" loose on the network. The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) had slammed closed the gateways between the unclassified operational MILNET and the original R&D ARPANet. Unfortunately DISA did two things wrong: 1) they were too late, and 2) they cut the DoD off from critical civilian information sources needed to mitigate and stop the worm.
For two days the Air Force struggled to identify all of its UNIX systems on the MILNET. We didn't have databases like we had today. Whenever the folks at Gunter Air Force Station found another site, they'd relay the information to me. The phone call that followed went something like this:
"Hello. This is Captain Foo from Air Force Communications Command Directorate of Operations. There is a 'worm' propagating throughout the MILNET and attacking UNIX systems. You MUST disconnect your system ASAP."
"Uh sir, this is Airman Snuffy. You want me to do WHAT? I can't do that without authorization from my supervisor, Master Sergeant Flap."
"Then call him immediately."
"But it's four o'clock in the morning..."
"Call him. NOW!"
This went on around the clock for two days. By evening on Friday, November 4th I slumped into the basement bar at the O Club. I looked and felt like hell. As I reached for the pitcher of beer on the table my friends asked "What's wrong?"
"There's a mother-f****** worm loose on the DDN."
"A what?"
In the days that followed we learned that the Air Force losses were limited to one UNIX workstation at MacDill AFB, FL and a bunch of workstations behind the Aeronet Gateway in California. The Army and Navy got hammered.
About the time I'd decided I wanted to cut off the b***s of whoever was responsible, I learned it was the son of one of the most distinguished men associated with the early Internet.
For the rest of this story, I refer the reader to Clifford Stohl's "The Cookoo's Egg".
My employer's senior VPs got caught bribing middle eastern royals some years ago in a very public scandal. To atone for their sins, the corporation must implement a 23-point ethics recovery plan contrived by outside consultants. What really pisses off the rank and file employees of this multinational is that we're the ones being forced to watch to a never-ending stream of training videos (like the VD films of past eras) when it's the Rolex and pinkie ring crowd that should get the Clockwork Orange treatment. Corporate ethics, honest politicians, honor among thieves. Yeah, right.
You're right. Whiskey can't age in the bottle because it's absolutely sealed. Wine, on the other hand, has a cork through which air can seep oh so slowly. I'm thinking Mr. Jones' "invention" is nothing more than an ultrasonic bottle cleaner.
I don't suppose anyone knows when those patents were granted and how many years before they expire. If Engulf-And-Devour, Inc. wants to pay for a patent that's got three years left on the clock, that doesn't seem quite as bad as EAD, Inc. snapping up a patent on a technology or process that has 15 years left on it.
Many federal departments and agencies use Firefox 2.x on their classified and other autonomous networks where, while authentication is a must, DNS poisoning and pfishing are unlikely threats. If Firefox 3's new nanny could not be suppressed then users of those networks would object to its crying "Wolf!" all the time. Fortunately Firefox designers provided two simple ways to suppress it:
In Tools -> Options -> Security uncheck these boxes: [ ] Tell me if the site I'm visiting is a suspected attack site [ ] Tell me if the site I'm visiting is a suspected forgery
Alternatively, in about:config set the following: browser.safebrowsing.enabled user set boolean false browser.safebrowsing.malware.enabled user set boolean false
In the military environment where I'm currently working we have an established process where all applications, patch releases, etc. must, in effect, be profiled off-line in an autonomous network that's a clone of the real thing right down to DNS, WINS, AD/LDAP servers, boundary firewalls, IDS/IPS, etc. They're installed on a testbed PC running the same Standard Desktop Configuration (SDC) Windows OS release as the intended client's. We use InstallWatch to determine what file / filesystem / Registry additions, deletions, modifications are made during the installation. We then start and configure the product to run with the minimum rights necessary. While running we use netstat and etherape to determine what ports it uses. Any undesirable or unauthorized external connection attempts are either blocked by boundary protection firewalls or BlueCoat proxy filtering. If the results of this testing reveal no problems, we approve the software for our environment and build an SMS installation package. We verify that the SMS package installs and configures the software as desired, then put it in queue for distribution. Individual users are not allowed administrative rights on their systems, and acceptable use policies are widely published. Periodic and random software audits using SMS verify that only software that has undergone our testing and approval process is installed. Security patches usually jump to the head of the processing line so they can be pushed out as soon as possible. All this is expensive, but the cost is acceptable since the network and everything connected to is is considered a weapons system in its own right.
I freely admit to being a Constitutional junkie, but it seems to me that Steven Warshak's lawyers are grasping at shrinking straws. Their client is eminently, if not braggardly guilty of the crimes he was charged with. There was no statutory misconduct on the part of police or prosecutors in this case. No amount of legal Enzyte will raise (erect?) any reasonable doubt about his guilt. I say send him to jail, confiscate his ill-gotten gains, redistribute them to his victims, and move on.
There are far more ominous Constitutional issues being contested today than the legal pimpings of this huckster's lawyers.
No need. All the Flat Earthers have moved on to ID. With no more FE believers, the earth has taken on a distinct curve so any hurricane waters will simply run off.
Absolutely. Robert Tinney's artwork graced the covers of Byte magazine and several computer parts catalogs during the early days of modern computing. His "Breaking the Sound Barrier", "Computer Piracy", "Seventeen Seventy-Six", "Future Past", "Transmission Lines", and "Inside IBM" are among his many timeless classics that would be very at home in a CS department.
In the operation code-named TITAN RAIN, the Chinese (or hackers cleverly appearing to originate from a trio of Chinese military bases) systematically broke into U.S. government, military, and contractor computer systems looking for anything and everything they could steal. According to the story in Time magazine, their objective was to steal anything that would take them longer than five years to develop on their own. Their haul is still classified, but among the things they reportedly stole from a contractor site was the Air Force Flight Planning Software. While not classified, it's a very sophisticated package that took thousands of programmer man-hours to develop and refine. While the Chinese may not have 21st century tools targeting our systems, their methods are described as extremely deliberate and thorough. If you have an unpatched vulnerability in your system, they can find and exploit it.
I'm sick of the AT&T monopoly on iPhones. What will it take to make CMDA iPhones available to Sprint and Verison? Does the Justice Department have to break up another AT&T monopoly?
I wonder if Alltel customers will have to replace their GSM phones. Sprint and Verizon are the only major carriers in the U.S. using the more modern (but less "standard") CDMA signaling.
GM Nav owners have tales to tell similar to the Garmin trapped truckers. GM's OEM (Denso?) has apparently declined suggestions to open an errata web site portal where users could report errors, new/upgraded roads and bridges, etc. A totally open sourced GPS database would be nice, but one that supported broader inputs from end users with vested interests in correct, up-to-date maps would be better.
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Eh? I seem to recall saying high resolution video is one of the three application classes that demands 64-bits. Regardless of whether the pictures are still or in motion, high resolution video is high resolution video. It not only requires gobs of memory, but also a GPU with the addressing and video bandwidth capabilities to do the job quicker than you can blink. Technology aside, though, you PhotoShop guys are (and always will be) vastly outnumbered by consumers of that other video product, a that's what will drive the market's conversion to 64-bits.
There are probably only three application classes that really *demand* 64-bits: ultra-high resolution video, virtualization and commercial databases. Most consumers could care less about virtualization or databases, but video includes games and porn. QED.
I don't mean to be a wet blanket, but all of the advantages of the latest whiz-bang technology don't amount to a bucket of warm spit unless and until the major carriers adopt it. If I live to be a hundred, I'll never see Gigabit data service where I live in the St. Louis MetroEast area of Illinois because no one will force our regulated monopoly (AT&T) to provide it. Until Universal Service is expanded to include broadband, and regulatory bodies set the definition of the term broadband to be 2 Mbits/sec or higher, AT&T will continue to offer only POTS and dial-up service to my established suburban neighborhood.
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My ISP gets its connectivity from Cogent. As their customer I can connect to anywhere in the Internet EXCEPT those portions served by Sprint. Because of this corporate disagreement, I am cut off from my e-mail and from my Red Hat Network updates.
I agree with klapaucjusz (1167407) who perceptively asked if we needed regulation at the top carrier level. I agree, and plan to file a complaint with the FCC in the morning.
It was Wednesday. That afternoon we learned there was a "worm" loose on the network. The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) had slammed closed the gateways between the unclassified operational MILNET and the original R&D ARPANet. Unfortunately DISA did two things wrong: 1) they were too late, and 2) they cut the DoD off from critical civilian information sources needed to mitigate and stop the worm.
For two days the Air Force struggled to identify all of its UNIX systems on the MILNET. We didn't have databases like we had today. Whenever the folks at Gunter Air Force Station found another site, they'd relay the information to me. The phone call that followed went something like this:
"Hello. This is Captain Foo from Air Force Communications Command Directorate of Operations. There is a 'worm' propagating throughout the MILNET and attacking UNIX systems. You MUST disconnect your system ASAP."
"Uh sir, this is Airman Snuffy. You want me to do WHAT? I can't do that without authorization from my supervisor, Master Sergeant Flap."
"Then call him immediately."
"But it's four o'clock in the morning..."
"Call him. NOW!"
This went on around the clock for two days. By evening on Friday, November 4th I slumped into the basement bar at the O Club. I looked and felt like hell. As I reached for the pitcher of beer on the table my friends asked "What's wrong?"
"There's a mother-f****** worm loose on the DDN."
"A what?"
In the days that followed we learned that the Air Force losses were limited to one UNIX workstation at MacDill AFB, FL and a bunch of workstations behind the Aeronet Gateway in California. The Army and Navy got hammered.
About the time I'd decided I wanted to cut off the b***s of whoever was responsible, I learned it was the son of one of the most distinguished men associated with the early Internet.
For the rest of this story, I refer the reader to Clifford Stohl's "The Cookoo's Egg".
My employer's senior VPs got caught bribing middle eastern royals some years ago in a very public scandal. To atone for their sins, the corporation must implement a 23-point ethics recovery plan contrived by outside consultants. What really pisses off the rank and file employees of this multinational is that we're the ones being forced to watch to a never-ending stream of training videos (like the VD films of past eras) when it's the Rolex and pinkie ring crowd that should get the Clockwork Orange treatment. Corporate ethics, honest politicians, honor among thieves. Yeah, right.
You're right. Whiskey can't age in the bottle because it's absolutely sealed. Wine, on the other hand, has a cork through which air can seep oh so slowly. I'm thinking Mr. Jones' "invention" is nothing more than an ultrasonic bottle cleaner.
Looks like 32-bits only. How quaint.
I don't suppose anyone knows when those patents were granted and how many years before they expire. If Engulf-And-Devour, Inc. wants to pay for a patent that's got three years left on the clock, that doesn't seem quite as bad as EAD, Inc. snapping up a patent on a technology or process that has 15 years left on it.
Many federal departments and agencies use Firefox 2.x on their classified and other autonomous networks where, while authentication is a must, DNS poisoning and pfishing are unlikely threats. If Firefox 3's new nanny could not be suppressed then users of those networks would object to its crying "Wolf!" all the time. Fortunately Firefox designers provided two simple ways to suppress it:
In Tools -> Options -> Security uncheck these boxes:
[ ] Tell me if the site I'm visiting is a suspected attack site
[ ] Tell me if the site I'm visiting is a suspected forgery
Alternatively, in about:config set the following:
browser.safebrowsing.enabled user set boolean false
browser.safebrowsing.malware.enabled user set boolean false
Please ignore the reference to etherape. We wish there was a Windows version.
In the military environment where I'm currently working we have an established process where all applications, patch releases, etc. must, in effect, be profiled off-line in an autonomous network that's a clone of the real thing right down to DNS, WINS, AD/LDAP servers, boundary firewalls, IDS/IPS, etc. They're installed on a testbed PC running the same Standard Desktop Configuration (SDC) Windows OS release as the intended client's. We use InstallWatch to determine what file / filesystem / Registry additions, deletions, modifications are made during the installation. We then start and configure the product to run with the minimum rights necessary. While running we use netstat and etherape to determine what ports it uses. Any undesirable or unauthorized external connection attempts are either blocked by boundary protection firewalls or BlueCoat proxy filtering. If the results of this testing reveal no problems, we approve the software for our environment and build an SMS installation package. We verify that the SMS package installs and configures the software as desired, then put it in queue for distribution. Individual users are not allowed administrative rights on their systems, and acceptable use policies are widely published. Periodic and random software audits using SMS verify that only software that has undergone our testing and approval process is installed. Security patches usually jump to the head of the processing line so they can be pushed out as soon as possible. All this is expensive, but the cost is acceptable since the network and everything connected to is is considered a weapons system in its own right.
The last time I checked it was the PEOPLE who were sovereign, not the Gestapo.
I freely admit to being a Constitutional junkie, but it seems to me that Steven Warshak's lawyers are grasping at shrinking straws. Their client is eminently, if not braggardly guilty of the crimes he was charged with. There was no statutory misconduct on the part of police or prosecutors in this case. No amount of legal Enzyte will raise (erect?) any reasonable doubt about his guilt. I say send him to jail, confiscate his ill-gotten gains, redistribute them to his victims, and move on.
There are far more ominous Constitutional issues being contested today than the legal pimpings of this huckster's lawyers.
No need. All the Flat Earthers have moved on to ID. With no more FE believers, the earth has taken on a distinct curve so any hurricane waters will simply run off.
Absolutely. Robert Tinney's artwork graced the covers of Byte magazine and several computer parts catalogs during the early days of modern computing. His "Breaking the Sound Barrier", "Computer Piracy", "Seventeen Seventy-Six", "Future Past", "Transmission Lines", and "Inside IBM" are among his many timeless classics that would be very at home in a CS department.
In the operation code-named TITAN RAIN, the Chinese (or hackers cleverly appearing to originate from a trio of Chinese military bases) systematically broke into U.S. government, military, and contractor computer systems looking for anything and everything they could steal. According to the story in Time magazine, their objective was to steal anything that would take them longer than five years to develop on their own. Their haul is still classified, but among the things they reportedly stole from a contractor site was the Air Force Flight Planning Software. While not classified, it's a very sophisticated package that took thousands of programmer man-hours to develop and refine. While the Chinese may not have 21st century tools targeting our systems, their methods are described as extremely deliberate and thorough. If you have an unpatched vulnerability in your system, they can find and exploit it.
I'm sick of the AT&T monopoly on iPhones. What will it take to make CMDA iPhones available to Sprint and Verison? Does the Justice Department have to break up another AT&T monopoly?
I wonder if Alltel customers will have to replace their GSM phones. Sprint and Verizon are the only major carriers in the U.S. using the more modern (but less "standard") CDMA signaling.
Also, do try to see the HBO documentary "Hacking Democracy" which featured folks from BlackBoxVoting.
I think this best describes our technological society, both then and now:
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." --A.C.Clark
GM Nav owners have tales to tell similar to the Garmin trapped truckers. GM's OEM (Denso?) has apparently declined suggestions to open an errata web site portal where users could report errors, new/upgraded roads and bridges, etc. A totally open sourced GPS database would be nice, but one that supported broader inputs from end users with vested interests in correct, up-to-date maps would be better.
Forbidden /2008/01/28/programming-as-art-ihcs-fave-demos-i-heart-tech/ on this server.
You don't have permission to access
Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
Apache/1.3.33 Server at www.iheartchaos.com Port 80
Must have been a local DNS problem. Works now.
Either I'm having DNS resolution difficulties or the site http://thelongestlistofthelongeststuffatthelongestdomainnameatlonglast.com/first71.html has dropped off the air.
Eh? I seem to recall saying high resolution video is one of the three application classes that demands 64-bits. Regardless of whether the pictures are still or in motion, high resolution video is high resolution video. It not only requires gobs of memory, but also a GPU with the addressing and video bandwidth capabilities to do the job quicker than you can blink. Technology aside, though, you PhotoShop guys are (and always will be) vastly outnumbered by consumers of that other video product, a that's what will drive the market's conversion to 64-bits.
There are probably only three application classes that really *demand* 64-bits: ultra-high resolution video, virtualization and commercial databases. Most consumers could care less about virtualization or databases, but video includes games and porn. QED.
I don't mean to be a wet blanket, but all of the advantages of the latest whiz-bang technology don't amount to a bucket of warm spit unless and until the major carriers adopt it. If I live to be a hundred, I'll never see Gigabit data service where I live in the St. Louis MetroEast area of Illinois because no one will force our regulated monopoly (AT&T) to provide it. Until Universal Service is expanded to include broadband, and regulatory bodies set the definition of the term broadband to be 2 Mbits/sec or higher, AT&T will continue to offer only POTS and dial-up service to my established suburban neighborhood.