C&H Surplus had a wonderful store on an increasingly pricey stretch of Colorado Blvd. in Pasadena, CA, but had to relocate several miles east as rents and property values increased. Its former proximity to Caltech and JPL (and sundry assorted neighborhood subcontractors) yielded up tons and aisle after aisle of high grade test equipment, massive power supplies, relay racks, and who-knows-what. I remember getting into a yelling match with my mom (40 years ago) that a hulking Tektronix oscilloscope I picked up was not a "television" (which I was not allowed to have in my bedroom!) After a little cosmetic work, I ended up selling it for a small profit -- to a bigger geek than I was/am.
If driverless automobiles are plausible (with generally two degrees/ranges of motion), why do we need a human to "drive" something that can generally only go in one direction?
This is going to be a massively expensive exercise...
I don't want to misread your post, but assume you're asking for input from those "in the trenches," so to speak, which I heartily applaud. Spend some "quality time" with the project architect and/or interior designer. If they've been chosen well (not always a safe assumption), they should be able to tell you - in plain English, not "designer-speak - exactly what they've taken into account and their prior experience designing 24/7 secure facilities. You'll be surprise about the things you haven't considered (which they have). OTOH, if they sound like someone who designed the CEO's house (and nothing like what's planned), sound the alarm bells. Good luck with your project. -z
"The government would have probably went on for a few more years . .." should be rewritten as, "The government probably would have gone on for a few more years . .."
Defamation allows you to sue for money, or a court order to stop/remediate the wrongful statements -- but it is not a crime (in the U.S.), and hence is not "illegal."
Some actions allow you to sue for money AND are illegal, such as punching someone in the nose. That's battery (a crime) AND an act that allows you to sue the perpetrator for money.
Sonar buoys, dropped from ASW aircraft, cruise missiles, RPVs operating off a carrier. You drop them where you (or your subs) aren't. If they're shot at by an unfriendly, voila, new target.
You install the "Express" version (which is what the article is talking about) on a desktop/laptop for development purposes. For example, I'm developing a specialized information tracking application that is intended to run on my company's intranet. Our company is 100% MS shop, so we have to design for SQL Server as the back end. I'm using MS Visual Web Developer 2005 Express to create the ASP.Net "business logic" or "mddleware", and a web-based user interface. Visual Web Developer 2005 Express automatically installs SQL Server Express and integrates nicely.
I know I'm joining this thread really late in the day, but bear with me. I think the ISPs have another avenue that won't require as much call center support from angry customers, and which won't drive them to a competitor (which there really aren't too many of if you stop and think about it):
This addresses both open relays and botted machines (I think):
1. Inspect all outbound SMTP email (port 25) to verify that the sender's IP address is the same address assigned to the customer's login/password for the SMTP server
2. Let the message pass through if there is a match.
3. If there is no match, dump the message.
Since the customer has no interruption in service, he need not call the ISP. Customer doesn't know that botted machine's spam messages are being dumped because, well, he didn't send them and has no compalints that they aren't being received.
ISP has option to contact customer and "do the right thing" by, say, notifying customer by snail mail that it thinks a machine at his/her address is contaminated and why, and sends a free CDROM containing free antivirus product.
If the bot starts adding the customer's REAL IP address to get around this, the recipients (or their border protection filters) will probably complain to the ISP (since they now know that all IP addresses from this ISP are real), who then can contact the customer directly -- armed with a real 3rd party complaint (and maybe some free AV software).
Yep, there's probably some overhead at the SMTP server level; I'm not a network engineer so I have no idea what kind of code needs to be written to check this, but it just seems to me to be a simple, cache-able lookup. Yes, it probably requires a customer to use the ISP's SMTP servers exclusively, but it would seem that this would only enhance the ISP's reputation as a trustworthy originator of email, thus keeping it off of blacklists.
I'm sure there's something I'm missing, but this seems reasonable (to me at least). Thanks for reading this post.
No objection to the business model. Why, then can't you just be honest, and say something like:
"Up to 3MB/sec transfer rate (your actual average download speeds will be less,
probably closer to 1.2MB/sec over an hour or so)."
I'm sure some marketing dweeb will make this shorter and sweeter (and a lawyer would make it horribly longer), but a little transparency would be welcome.
I confess, I was one of these "let's make in Access and it's just like a true Windows app" persons. Then, I learned the IT corrilary of "you broke it you bought it", which is "you wrote it you support it." Suddenly I was no longer doing my (non-IT) job, but was constantly dealing with "the database is broken" and "can you make it sort this way rather than that way." Oh, and there there's the ninth circle of hell known as "report writing."
I owe a large debt of gratitude to my company's DB guru, who cleaned it up, got rid of all my "very cool".vbx controls ("hey, that's a neat spinner thingy"), and made it functional (complete with a simple interface and an SQL Server back end). Through it all he was very patient and non-critical, but left me with the valuable lesson of remembering that I didn't have a monopoly on good ideas.
" . . . it is every company's responsibility, in fact under the law, to state all possibilities that may negatively affect a business, however remote those possibilities may be."
Not quite. It is every company's responsibility to state all facts that a reasonable investor might consider important in deciding whether to invest.
The required level of disclosure is certainly something less than "all possibilities . . . however remote [they] may be." Under this type of standard, a company would have to disclose the possibility of an asteroid hitting the corporate headquarters, or the possibility of the CEO's having a heart attack and an infinite number of other "possibilities".
To be fair (and at the risk of stating the obvious), Real's disclosure is right on the money. Given the current state of the law and the spectre of even a threatened DMCA action, any new technology that requires reverse engineering (especially one that goes straight for Apple's market) makes its author vulnerable, and disclosure in this case is warranted.
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Thank you!
That would seem to be important, no?
Thanks.
P.s. TFA does not specify.
to prevent an involuntary overwrite. I don't think it stops the nag, but you won't get a "helpful surprise" install against your will.
Available here (free): https://www.grc.com/never10.htm
C&H Surplus had a wonderful store on an increasingly pricey stretch of Colorado Blvd. in Pasadena, CA, but had to relocate several miles east as rents and property values increased. Its former proximity to Caltech and JPL (and sundry assorted neighborhood subcontractors) yielded up tons and aisle after aisle of high grade test equipment, massive power supplies, relay racks, and who-knows-what. I remember getting into a yelling match with my mom (40 years ago) that a hulking Tektronix oscilloscope I picked up was not a "television" (which I was not allowed to have in my bedroom!) After a little cosmetic work, I ended up selling it for a small profit -- to a bigger geek than I was/am.
ah, walking down memory lane . . . .
I use PuTTY to SSH into my FreeBSD box. And no, Netcraft has not confirmed anything.
Get it here:
http://www.chiark.greenend.org...
How long could you ping pong a dialog between 2 Gmail accounts?
Good point. The magnitude of the risk is not something I had considered in the comparison.
Thank you!
If driverless automobiles are plausible (with generally two degrees/ranges of motion), why do we need a human to "drive" something that can generally only go in one direction?
Thank you Saint Aardvark for taking the time to write this review. You write very well.
--Z.
Followed by a burst of some sort of disabling agent to hold them until the police arrive?
I recommend taking a look at The Open Web Security Application Project. There are a significant number of resources listed on this topic.
Best,
Z
At the University of British Columbia, Canada.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/gruenelf113/3657589909/
Nope, I read it. All excellent points!
-z
This is going to be a massively expensive exercise...
I don't want to misread your post, but assume you're asking for input from those "in the trenches," so to speak, which I heartily applaud. Spend some "quality time" with the project architect and/or interior designer. If they've been chosen well (not always a safe assumption), they should be able to tell you - in plain English, not "designer-speak - exactly what they've taken into account and their prior experience designing 24/7 secure facilities. You'll be surprise about the things you haven't considered (which they have). OTOH, if they sound like someone who designed the CEO's house (and nothing like what's planned), sound the alarm bells. Good luck with your project.
-z
"The government would have probably went on for a few more years . . ." should be rewritten as, "The government probably would have gone on for a few more years . . ."
Thanks,
GP
Personal experience has shown that black holes expand to about the size of a corporate accounting department.
They may actually be one and the same thing.
Defamation allows you to sue for money, or a court order to stop/remediate the wrongful statements -- but it is not a crime (in the U.S.), and hence is not "illegal."
Some actions allow you to sue for money AND are illegal, such as punching someone in the nose. That's battery (a crime) AND an act that allows you to sue the perpetrator for money.
Sonar buoys, dropped from ASW aircraft, cruise missiles, RPVs operating off a carrier. You drop them where you (or your subs) aren't. If they're shot at by an unfriendly, voila, new target.
You install the "Express" version (which is what the article is talking about) on a desktop/laptop for development purposes. For example, I'm developing a specialized information tracking application that is intended to run on my company's intranet. Our company is 100% MS shop, so we have to design for SQL Server as the back end. I'm using MS Visual Web Developer 2005 Express to create the ASP.Net "business logic" or "mddleware", and a web-based user interface. Visual Web Developer 2005 Express automatically installs SQL Server Express and integrates nicely.
Just not on Vista, it appears.
I know I'm joining this thread really late in the day, but bear with me. I think the ISPs have another avenue that won't require as much call center support from angry customers, and which won't drive them to a competitor (which there really aren't too many of if you stop and think about it):
This addresses both open relays and botted machines (I think):
1. Inspect all outbound SMTP email (port 25) to verify that the sender's IP address is the same address assigned to the customer's login/password for the SMTP server
2. Let the message pass through if there is a match.
3. If there is no match, dump the message.
Since the customer has no interruption in service, he need not call the ISP. Customer doesn't know that botted machine's spam messages are being dumped because, well, he didn't send them and has no compalints that they aren't being received.
ISP has option to contact customer and "do the right thing" by, say, notifying customer by snail mail that it thinks a machine at his/her address is contaminated and why, and sends a free CDROM containing free antivirus product.
If the bot starts adding the customer's REAL IP address to get around this, the recipients (or their border protection filters) will probably complain to the ISP (since they now know that all IP addresses from this ISP are real), who then can contact the customer directly -- armed with a real 3rd party complaint (and maybe some free AV software).
Yep, there's probably some overhead at the SMTP server level; I'm not a network engineer so I have no idea what kind of code needs to be written to check this, but it just seems to me to be a simple, cache-able lookup. Yes, it probably requires a customer to use the ISP's SMTP servers exclusively, but it would seem that this would only enhance the ISP's reputation as a trustworthy originator of email, thus keeping it off of blacklists.
I'm sure there's something I'm missing, but this seems reasonable (to me at least). Thanks for reading this post.
No objection to the business model. Why, then can't you just be honest, and say something like:
"Up to 3MB/sec transfer rate (your actual average download speeds will be less,
probably closer to 1.2MB/sec over an hour or so)."
I'm sure some marketing dweeb will make this shorter and sweeter (and a lawyer would make it horribly longer), but a little transparency would be welcome.
I confess, I was one of these "let's make in Access and it's just like a true Windows app" persons. Then, I learned the IT corrilary of "you broke it you bought it", which is "you wrote it you support it." Suddenly I was no longer doing my (non-IT) job, but was constantly dealing with "the database is broken" and "can you make it sort this way rather than that way." Oh, and there there's the ninth circle of hell known as "report writing."
.vbx controls ("hey, that's a neat spinner thingy"), and made it functional (complete with a simple interface and an SQL Server back end). Through it all he was very patient and non-critical, but left me with the valuable lesson of remembering that I didn't have a monopoly on good ideas.
I owe a large debt of gratitude to my company's DB guru, who cleaned it up, got rid of all my "very cool"
Does "wired" Bluetooth exist? Maybe I missed a press release.
Just wondering.
at least according to these Slashdot stories:
Google's own internet
Google's peering points
Google's free Wi-Fi
Not quite. It is every company's responsibility to state all facts that a reasonable investor might consider important in deciding whether to invest.
The required level of disclosure is certainly something less than "all possibilities . . . however remote [they] may be." Under this type of standard, a company would have to disclose the possibility of an asteroid hitting the corporate headquarters, or the possibility of the CEO's having a heart attack and an infinite number of other "possibilities".
To be fair (and at the risk of stating the obvious), Real's disclosure is right on the money. Given the current state of the law and the spectre of even a threatened DMCA action, any new technology that requires reverse engineering (especially one that goes straight for Apple's market) makes its author vulnerable, and disclosure in this case is warranted.