Uh, the earth is approximately round, not exactly round. Roundish, sort of round. With harmonics of waves modulating the roundness. Why the harmonics? And this is approximately pear shaped? So the earth is geek shaped? Maybe that is why so many geeks live in their mother's basements? To get closer to the Uber-geek shape?
Credit card readers in stores have far better security requirements. PCI DSS 2.0. serious encryption, physical tamper detection, etc are difficult to break. Why don't they adopt standards like these? Oh, the parties want to be able to tamper with elections. Nevermind.
Actually, yes he has. Sometimes when his mother yells at him down the basement stairs to come up and eat his supper right now, he is in the middle of a seriously wicked mages battle, and cannot possibly leave for an hour or he is dead. Now what is he going to do?
Actually, that kiss-ass bunch will be strongly motivated to fix it, because it impacts their own wallets, their own lives. That is the only thing they care about, and if you look at their record, they have been remarkably successful in protecting themselves and making themselves richer and more powerful.
Every time this happens to me I run Stopzilla and Webroot and I always find some malware that got thru. I have found a spyware that norton did not see but spybot found. Once spybot removed a component, norton could see the rest. I depend on Stopzilla and it really cleans up
Use secure pdfs. Intel does (.pvd). When you open the doc you have to enter a password to view it. Can't edit, copy, etc from it. Yes, someone may crack it. but all you have to do is diligence in securing it, and you are ok. If some unscrupulous person cracks it, you are not responsible. You did your best. So the person has to install the secure software to view the secure pdf. Then you have the person download their secure pdf from your doc server. You know who got it, and that it is locked. You are set.
The government does not actually want us to know the state of the economy. They report unemployment figures, not how many people are out of work. they do not report the average wage, when people who lose jobs are losing higher paying jobs, and people who are getting jobs are getting lower paying jobs. They do not report the change in uninsured (more people are uninsured every day, and more alarmingly, more children) They do not report the number of people not owning a home, a number that is increasing as more people default on loans. They do not report on the non-mortgage loan default rate. They do not report on the business failure rate. They do not report on the number of people in jail or prison.
Basically, they do not want people to know the state of the union at all. Make like there is no problem, hide heads in the sand, maybe it will all go away.
They really do not want people to know the divide between the rich and the rest of us. Government is in the business of keepin gthe rich rich and happy, not in the business of keeping the voters gaining financial wealth and stability. They just do not want the masses to panic. Remembere Max Headroom?
If they wanted us to be informed, they would immediately be voted out, recalled, removed from office, or charged with crimes. Like they really want that.
Check the numbers, and do the math. Very few Americans emigrate, and very many foreigners imigrate. people love it here. Do not believe everything you see in the media. And the US does not have the highest prison population, percentage wise. And the surveilance is not something Americans are doing, it is something the government is doing. adn a whole lot less than UK.
American flag obsession is fairly easy to explain. Many Americans are actually very happy to be Americans, because of their freedom and ability to grow rich. Almost all Americans are far richer than everyone else on the planet, even the poor Americans are relatively rich. examine the median income of other countries, even western Europe, and you can see that Americans are not bad off. Most Americans are quite happy to work, and very happy that jobs are avialable for them to take. In other countries, jobs are not available, especially good jobs, and taxes are so bad that you just do not feel like work is very productive (GB for example) Many Europeans do not feel like working. France, Spain, Italy are examples of countries where more than half of the workforce is actually not working, but living on the dole, supposedly disabled and unable to work. So scamming their governments is natural for them. They believe in entitlement, not earning what they have and get. Just like their royalty is entitled to their riches and power. Americans are far more free than most everyone else. For example, look at what Great Britain is doing in surveilance these days. And in France, if you are involved in a crime, you are arrested, imprisoned, and have to prove your innocence? Many countries have no freedom of the press, or religion. In America, you can attend any church you want to, or not attend any church at all. Many countries have religious groups persecuting other religious groups, including murdering them. Arab countries, Hindu countries, etc are all killing christians and Jews. ANd there you do not dare to date, much less marry, outside of your religion. In America, there is no caste system. Many countries, like India, are extremely caste oriented. You have no way to improve your lot in life.
Many Americans area ctually proud to be Americans. At least Americans stand up for what is right. Look at the French in WWII. not much to be proud of. Most countries do not come to the aid of others. WHere do all the humanitarian aid efforts come from? America.
So the American flag is easy to understand. It represents something good, something better in the world. Slackers need to get off their backsides, shut up, and get to work.
Actually, the next thing is that computers will know exactly where everyone is, so you can have automatic access or automatic lockout. TIA squared. the feds probably already have it, and just aren't telling us. And after that, mind reading. Put our tin foil hat back on, stupid!
Yes they are working on mind reading from many angles.
I actually have never worked for a blowhard full of hot air and lies. The guys who invented ethernet invented the internet, in my opinion. I would have to "think" of Al Gore using "anti-think." Where did you learn "anti-think"? Oh, yeh. I forgot. That is what they teach in most colleges. I actually am taking a critical thinking course right now, and even in that course, I am able to use critical thinking to blow apart some of the class's basic propositions.
Funny boy. Heh heh. You made me laugh. I always appreciate a good laugh.
How much data loss occurs? big corp email loss is bigtime (I worked at one of the biggest, "most knowledgable", and exchange server crashes were frequent. You just had to have email set to move to a local folder. Of course, the local machine was also running M$windoze, so you lost it there. Network connectivity issues were rare (think "invented the internet"). Lost, corrupted, unavailable, and stolen data must be the primary determinants of usability. So unavailable comes in third. Think backup tapes, and you will see that although not easily available, buttsave is possible has long been good enough.
So the questions are, in order: How much mission critical data is lost? one major contract or project is too much. Corrupted data is probably useless, nearly lost. Can google data be restored? I have not heard. Can google apps be hacked?
Actually, if one bank started using token-based, then all the other banks would be in the embarassing position of haveing to explain why they didn't. And the token bank would have to explain why they finally did. Banks do not like to talk about security and crime, because they are so weak. They do not want anybody thinking about banks and security and crime because some of those thinking people might start questioning bank security and crime.
A very long time ago I dated a girl who was a bank teller at a drive-up window. So we were in my bed and she was telling me how she thought she deserved a few thousand bucks more, so she would take people's money and not deposit it. Eventually the bank would catch on, and let her go. Not prosecute her or anything, just let her go. So she would get a job at another bank, since that is what she already knew how to do. The bank would not tell ANYONE she was a bank crook, not even another bank. Why? because they cower in terror of anyone realizing this stuff happens. By the way, I immediately got up and hd my wallet.
The majority of crime in most businesses (like retail, for example) is theft by employees. Why do you think banks are any different? If banks cannot coordinate the simplest system to keep thieves out of the bamks, how do you expect them to keep thieves out of banks?
Some of what needs to be done about bank security is being done by Visa / Mastercard. They have a PCI DSS specification. That needs to be enhanced to include token based, and other security specifications that forces banks and all other money handling institutions to comply and clean up their acts. Like adding a database of bank workers who stole money, or loan officers who made bad loans to friends. Like setting up a special industry wide corporation that goes after banking criminals.
Does not mean that the rest of the country is under the constitution. Check with the prez on that. By the way, when you ask him, you will disappear... Hey, Who was I talking to. Where did he go? Who, me? No, officer, I never met the guy... Taxi!!!
Actually, it does tell you something. People spend all their money. They do not have the 200 billion extra to spend on bs (oops, I mean movies) that they are not already spending. If there were no piracy, they might shift a little more to movies, but not anywhere near 200 billion. and movie makers make a lot of money on movie extras. action figures, games, posters, t-shirts, etc. Look at star wars, or batman. You can't download that stuff.
Actually, piracy affects only a very small percentage of Americans. Most are too old to be interested in the internet, where they would download this pirated stuff. And are uninterested in pirated software. Only the terminally obsessed with online games and movies get this stuff. And that is actually a small percentage of the whole. And watching the movies available improves no one's quality of life. They are all crud. What improves the quality of life is mainly face-to-face relationships with others, education, and to some extent, distance relationships with others. News aggregaters like boingboing only help a little. online is not life. life is in the real world. and very few use pirated software. So I call BS on this whole line of "reasoning". You guys are trolling, not informing.
Recently a 767 costs $70,000 to fill up That is one flight. Aviation has been frantic for many decades to improve flight fuel efficiency, routing flights for a tail wind, or changing altitude to avoid a head wind. I worked at Delco electronics in the late 70s / early 80s, where they made flight control computers, whose primary task was to decrease fuel usage, so I am certain that the airline industry has been firmly embedded in the save fuel costs plan for a very long time. (yes, I am an expert) But the car industry still focuses on idiots who want bigger (penii?) trucks / cars / SUVs with bigger engines which burn fuel like there is no tomorrow. And they are getting burned in sales decreases and lower profits big time. But Ford just announced a new 60 mpg vehicle, which they only will sell in Europe, because it is a diesel? WTF?
The ends do not justify the means. He told the school, but that does not erase the violation. Moreover, there is no indication that white hatting the system was his original intent. Even if he claims that white hat was his original intent, that is just what he claims. The school should have its computers set so only sysadmins can install software, not general student logins. The school should have anti-scum scanners on their computers, to catch trojans, keyloggers, etc. The school is negligent, and their insurance companies, boards of trustees, etc. should really rip them a new one. Insurance companies should require all clients to install auto-updating anti-scum scanners, and other pieces of a security plan. Since the insurance companies are not requiring the computer equivalent of bumpers and airbags a car is required to have, the insurance companies are negligent. I could go on and on.. but I won't (I know, on slashdot everyone is supposed to rant and rave, but what can I say. I'm busy right now.) Sheese, everyone involved is incompetent, negligent, criminally negligent, or just plain criminal here. But I do not see anywhere in the article that he actually did anything damaging. So the school cannot sue. Are there any lawyers out there who can say what the actual legalities are on this?
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Uh, the earth is approximately round, not exactly round. Roundish, sort of round. With harmonics of waves modulating the roundness. Why the harmonics?
And this is approximately pear shaped?
So the earth is geek shaped? Maybe that is why so many geeks live in their mother's basements? To get closer to the Uber-geek shape?
Credit card readers in stores have far better security requirements. PCI DSS 2.0. serious encryption, physical tamper detection, etc are difficult to break. Why don't they adopt standards like these? Oh, the parties want to be able to tamper with elections. Nevermind.
No, Actually, the battery just reverses it's polarity. You know, toilets flush spin the other way...
You know they charge your family for the re-education costs (one bullet)
I know some politicians and actresses who should try it out. They need it bad.
Are you sure?
Actually, yes he has. Sometimes when his mother yells at him down the basement stairs to come up and eat his supper right now, he is in the middle of a seriously wicked mages battle, and cannot possibly leave for an hour or he is dead. Now what is he going to do?
Actually, that kiss-ass bunch will be strongly motivated to fix it, because it impacts their own wallets, their own lives. That is the only thing they care about, and if you look at their record, they have been remarkably successful in protecting themselves and making themselves richer and more powerful.
Every time this happens to me I run Stopzilla and Webroot and I always find some malware that got thru. I have found a spyware that norton did not see but spybot found. Once spybot removed a component, norton could see the rest. I depend on Stopzilla and it really cleans up
Use secure pdfs. Intel does (.pvd). When you open the doc you have to enter a password to view it. Can't edit, copy, etc from it. Yes, someone may crack it. but all you have to do is diligence in securing it, and you are ok. If some unscrupulous person cracks it, you are not responsible. You did your best. So the person has to install the secure software to view the secure pdf. Then you have the person download their secure pdf from your doc server. You know who got it, and that it is locked. You are set.
The government does not actually want us to know the state of the economy.
They report unemployment figures, not how many people are out of work.
they do not report the average wage, when people who lose jobs are losing higher paying jobs, and people who are getting jobs are getting lower paying jobs.
They do not report the change in uninsured (more people are uninsured every day, and more alarmingly, more children)
They do not report the number of people not owning a home, a number that is increasing as more people default on loans.
They do not report on the non-mortgage loan default rate.
They do not report on the business failure rate.
They do not report on the number of people in jail or prison.
Basically, they do not want people to know the state of the union at all. Make like there is no problem, hide heads in the sand, maybe it will all go away.
They really do not want people to know the divide between the rich and the rest of us. Government is in the business of keepin gthe rich rich and happy, not in the business of keeping the voters gaining financial wealth and stability. They just do not want the masses to panic. Remembere Max Headroom?
If they wanted us to be informed, they would immediately be voted out, recalled, removed from office, or charged with crimes.
Like they really want that.
Millions of kittens? Apparently, your counter does not have enough most significant bits, and keeps rolling over.
Check the numbers, and do the math. Very few Americans emigrate, and very many foreigners imigrate. people love it here. Do not believe everything you see in the media. And the US does not have the highest prison population, percentage wise.
And the surveilance is not something Americans are doing, it is something the government is doing. adn a whole lot less than UK.
get real.
American flag obsession is fairly easy to explain.
Many Americans are actually very happy to be Americans, because of their freedom and ability to grow rich. Almost all Americans are far richer than everyone else on the planet, even the poor Americans are relatively rich. examine the median income of other countries, even western Europe, and you can see that Americans are not bad off.
Most Americans are quite happy to work, and very happy that jobs are avialable for them to take. In other countries, jobs are not available, especially good jobs, and taxes are so bad that you just do not feel like work is very productive (GB for example) Many Europeans do not feel like working. France, Spain, Italy are examples of countries where more than half of the workforce is actually not working, but living on the dole, supposedly disabled and unable to work. So scamming their governments is natural for them. They believe in entitlement, not earning what they have and get. Just like their royalty is entitled to their riches and power.
Americans are far more free than most everyone else. For example, look at what Great Britain is doing in surveilance these days. And in France, if you are involved in a crime, you are arrested, imprisoned, and have to prove your innocence? Many countries have no freedom of the press, or religion.
In America, you can attend any church you want to, or not attend any church at all. Many countries have religious groups persecuting other religious groups, including murdering them. Arab countries, Hindu countries, etc are all killing christians and Jews. ANd there you do not dare to date, much less marry, outside of your religion.
In America, there is no caste system. Many countries, like India, are extremely caste oriented. You have no way to improve your lot in life.
Many Americans area ctually proud to be Americans. At least Americans stand up for what is right. Look at the French in WWII. not much to be proud of. Most countries do not come to the aid of others. WHere do all the humanitarian aid efforts come from? America.
So the American flag is easy to understand. It represents something good, something better in the world.
Slackers need to get off their backsides, shut up, and get to work.
Actually, the next thing is that computers will know exactly where everyone is, so you can have automatic access or automatic lockout.
TIA squared.
the feds probably already have it, and just aren't telling us.
And after that, mind reading.
Put our tin foil hat back on, stupid!
Yes they are working on mind reading from many angles.
I actually have never worked for a blowhard full of hot air and lies.
The guys who invented ethernet invented the internet, in my opinion.
I would have to "think" of Al Gore using "anti-think." Where did you learn "anti-think"? Oh, yeh. I forgot. That is what they teach in most colleges. I actually am taking a critical thinking course right now, and even in that course, I am able to use critical thinking to blow apart some of the class's basic propositions.
Funny boy.
Heh heh.
You made me laugh.
I always appreciate a good laugh.
How much data loss occurs? big corp email loss is bigtime (I worked at one of the biggest, "most knowledgable", and exchange server crashes were frequent. You just had to have email set to move to a local folder. Of course, the local machine was also running M$windoze, so you lost it there.
Network connectivity issues were rare (think "invented the internet").
Lost, corrupted, unavailable, and stolen data must be the primary determinants of usability. So unavailable comes in third. Think backup tapes, and you will see that although not easily available, buttsave is possible has long been good enough.
So the questions are, in order:
How much mission critical data is lost? one major contract or project is too much.
Corrupted data is probably useless, nearly lost.
Can google data be restored? I have not heard.
Can google apps be hacked?
Obviously the answer to the question "what is the average company's LAN/WAN downtime" is 42
Actually, if one bank started using token-based, then all the other banks would be in the embarassing position of haveing to explain why they didn't. And the token bank would have to explain why they finally did. Banks do not like to talk about security and crime, because they are so weak. They do not want anybody thinking about banks and security and crime because some of those thinking people might start questioning bank security and crime.
A very long time ago I dated a girl who was a bank teller at a drive-up window. So we were in my bed and she was telling me how she thought she deserved a few thousand bucks more, so she would take people's money and not deposit it. Eventually the bank would catch on, and let her go. Not prosecute her or anything, just let her go. So she would get a job at another bank, since that is what she already knew how to do. The bank would not tell ANYONE she was a bank crook, not even another bank. Why? because they cower in terror of anyone realizing this stuff happens. By the way, I immediately got up and hd my wallet.
The majority of crime in most businesses (like retail, for example) is theft by employees. Why do you think banks are any different? If banks cannot coordinate the simplest system to keep thieves out of the bamks, how do you expect them to keep thieves out of banks?
Some of what needs to be done about bank security is being done by Visa / Mastercard. They have a PCI DSS specification. That needs to be enhanced to include token based, and other security specifications that forces banks and all other money handling institutions to comply and clean up their acts.
Like adding a database of bank workers who stole money, or loan officers who made bad loans to friends. Like setting up a special industry wide corporation that goes after banking criminals.
Does not mean that the rest of the country is under the constitution. Check with the prez on that. By the way, when you ask him, you will disappear...
Hey, Who was I talking to. Where did he go?
Who, me? No, officer, I never met the guy...
Taxi!!!
That's where I work!
Actually, it does tell you something. People spend all their money. They do not have the 200 billion extra to spend on bs (oops, I mean movies) that they are not already spending. If there were no piracy, they might shift a little more to movies, but not anywhere near 200 billion. and movie makers make a lot of money on movie extras. action figures, games, posters, t-shirts, etc. Look at star wars, or batman. You can't download that stuff.
Actually, piracy affects only a very small percentage of Americans. Most are too old to be interested in the internet, where they would download this pirated stuff. And are uninterested in pirated software. Only the terminally obsessed with online games and movies get this stuff. And that is actually a small percentage of the whole.
And watching the movies available improves no one's quality of life. They are all crud. What improves the quality of life is mainly face-to-face relationships with others, education, and to some extent, distance relationships with others. News aggregaters like boingboing only help a little.
online is not life. life is in the real world. and very few use pirated software.
So I call BS on this whole line of "reasoning".
You guys are trolling, not informing.
Recently a 767 costs $70,000 to fill up That is one flight. Aviation has been frantic for many decades to improve flight fuel efficiency, routing flights for a tail wind, or changing altitude to avoid a head wind. I worked at Delco electronics in the late 70s / early 80s, where they made flight control computers, whose primary task was to decrease fuel usage, so I am certain that the airline industry has been firmly embedded in the save fuel costs plan for a very long time. (yes, I am an expert)
But the car industry still focuses on idiots who want bigger (penii?) trucks / cars / SUVs with bigger engines which burn fuel like there is no tomorrow. And they are getting burned in sales decreases and lower profits big time.
But Ford just announced a new 60 mpg vehicle, which they only will sell in Europe, because it is a diesel? WTF?
The ends do not justify the means. He told the school, but that does not erase the violation. Moreover, there is no indication that white hatting the system was his original intent. Even if he claims that white hat was his original intent, that is just what he claims.
The school should have its computers set so only sysadmins can install software, not general student logins.
The school should have anti-scum scanners on their computers, to catch trojans, keyloggers, etc.
The school is negligent, and their insurance companies, boards of trustees, etc. should really rip them a new one.
Insurance companies should require all clients to install auto-updating anti-scum scanners, and other pieces of a security plan. Since the insurance companies are not requiring the computer equivalent of bumpers and airbags a car is required to have, the insurance companies are negligent.
I could go on and on.. but I won't (I know, on slashdot everyone is supposed to rant and rave, but what can I say. I'm busy right now.)
Sheese, everyone involved is incompetent, negligent, criminally negligent, or just plain criminal here.
But I do not see anywhere in the article that he actually did anything damaging. So the school cannot sue.
Are there any lawyers out there who can say what the actual legalities are on this?