I'm an engineer and have been straight my whole life, so I don't believe in rimming/rusty trombones/etc.... However, I've found that I immensely enjoy occasional gay sex. I don't believe any of that outside those sessions, but every once in a while, it's nice to meet someone gayer than I am, like a few candles, smoke a bit of tobacco from a bong, engage in the whole gay sex ritual (sliding fingers on the sack, etc.), have him toss my salad and then reflect on how to interpret that all based on my history and expectations for the future.
It's almost therapeutic to completely suspend your disbelief every once in a while and get in touch with the gay side (I think that there is a certain mental state that every human - no matter how skeptic, etc. - can achieve if they want to... and it's pretty pleasant, really). As long as you keep it at that and don't ever start to think that you could actually make important decisions based on all that, it's pretty much the most harmless source of enjoyment that there is.
So, if people want that and what they get is that someone wiretaps their phones, installs hidden cameras to their apartment, etc... it's not okay to say "Well, what did they expect? Of course they're going to get rimmed!"
A switch might be able to survive in an "airing cupboard" without particular cooling but even a "quiet" 4RU server is going to produce more heat than you want in a closed cupboard.
That said, unless you're going to die in this house, installing more than a wiring cupboard seems to be a massive waste of space that would make me want a discount on the future sale of the house.
Put a couple of the RJ45 points in the garage and the server in there, on a shelf.
then they could just show video of what happens if you don't use your seatbelt on an aircraft to that 10% of idiots that know better instead of the boring safety talk.
There are legal (DVR) time shifting options to avoid the need for streaming TV to be instant, but they dropped in price too late to be popular and aren't foolproof, and still have ads.. so it's really hard for that to compete with torrents.
Hulu seems pretty cheap to me, but that's a relative term. My biggest problem w/ Hulu is I hate the interface.
I completely agree with the advertising question though, I will never pay for a service which is then pushing ads as well. When some of the cable/satellite services started in Australia they had the perfect storm of why I would never subscribe: - all content was old - all content (except premium movies) had ads inserted, including the premium TV - everything was repeated at least 3 times a day
Even before they had paid advertisers they had channel ads in all the slots to fill the 22 minutes of programming into a 30 minute show.
From our experience packet flooding attacks are rare, most are application layer attacks because they're cheaper:
- If your landing page is dynamic chances are a small site can be choked at the database from a few hundred zombies, and it's much harder to detect the zombies from the genuine clients in a safe automated fashion - If you don't have a lot of CPU at your firewall layer you can't create long enough rule tables to stop the bad traffic as you detect it - Often you can simplify your rules but just starting by blocking China, Russia, Korea, then smaller countries that are hosting bots.
If they are genuine flood attacks:
The idea that your ISP will block a "list of addresses" is comical, it's not nearly responsive enough, and if you're lucky your ISP will agree to block countries and only if you have a business account which you're paying over the odds access fees for. Some will even null route YOUR IP instead of the attackers to save their own infrastructure: http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/content/2009/s2658405.htm
ANDREW FOWLER: The Russian cyber attack was so sustained it backed up through Telstra's network, knocking out the whole of Alice Springs, part of Adelaide, and Telstra central in Sydney.
DAN CRANE, FORMER TECHNOLOGY MANAGER, MULTIBET: And that's when they sort of started to panic a bit I think because all of a sudden it wasn't just a, you know run of the mill attack, this was a pretty hardcore attack because that's when it started, that's when it took out Alice Springs, that's when it degraded Adelaide and that's when it melted their routers in Sydney so that's when they said that's it, we don't want a bar of it.
ANDREW FOWLER: According to Dan Crane, Telstra stopped accepting any of Multibet's internet traffic from entering Australia.
Not to mention even creating this list is a continual task. Botnets rent out "so many connections", but the computers that are active at any time rotate in and out of the pool. We saw probably around 1000 computers at a time hitting the firewall, but from a pool of more like 100,000 addresses we discovered over the course of a week. We initially took a strategy of programmatically blocking individual IPs as they came in at a response rate of about 5 seconds with some scripting, but soon moved to blocking entire countries that we didn't do business with and doing some daily post processing of the IP list as well to consolidate IPs into/27s and sometimes as far as/24s
Our last client to have this issue used Black Lotus and they seemed to do a good job for the price and be quite responsive, though they were still learning their trade at that time... I don't think they were terribly cheap. And botnets are much much cheaper, so unless you're lucky and it's someone that loses interest and not a competitor attacking you it can end up making your web hosting very expensive.
The amount of clients I've worked with that have this "timeline" for their internet presence is disturbingly high:
1. Discover the internet is important to sales 2. Spend 400 man hours discussing what the domain name should be 3. Spend 5 minutes on Google finding a website designer 4. Allow designer to sell you a hosting package and do all that technical stuff, like registering domain names and setting up DNS servers. 5. Wait 12 months 6. Decide they want to move hosting of "their" domain 7. Spend 400 man hours trying to work out how to "regain" ownership of "their" domain.
In my mind this is the same process:
1. Discover cars are important to sales 2. Spend 400 man hours deciding what colour the car should be (yellow) 3. Spend 5 minutes at a car lot and buy a yellow coupe for your family of 6. 4. Allow the car salesman to sell you the upgraded everything and do all that technical stuff, like registering the car (in the yard's name) 5. Wait 12 months 6. Decide you want to sell "your" car 7. Spend 400 man hours trying to work out how to regain ownership of your car.
Why is the second example ludicrous and the first commonplace?
The Minority Report interface is cool because he's not doing work, he's creating a display for the audience. Hence, the only place I see gesture interfaces being useful is for Jobs 2.0 explaining why we should buy yet another incrementally better iPad, or Balmer showing how much Metro sucks for desktop use:)
I've been told for years Macs are impervious to virii because you have to put in your password manually to install anything. Clearly this so-called news is a fake.
It's not old-school to avoid rebooting unix machines that have a fault but are still accessible, particularly remotely.
I've seen a number of instances, from people trying to email files that were bigger than the total RAM on the machine, to secondary drives that were dying, all of which would cause the machine to fail to come back up but could be corrected while it was still on and save hours of work and possibly a trip to the site.
Rebooting a windows server though, yeah, that's stage 1 troubleshooting....
I miss the writing from Fallout 2, the presentation was secondary for me, though I did like turn based combat over twitch/Diablo mashing.
That said, when I hear "Interplay" I hear Python's "Run away! Run away!" line. They run projects like everyone at the top has the programming skill of Jobs, the design asthetic of Gates and the management style of a helicopter parent.
He was just trying to make a reductio ad absurdum argument about morality to disarm, fairly silly, attacks that Eucalyptus shouldn't play nice with Amazon.
There's plenty of commercial interests around that have brought a lot of added value to the Open Source movement and I'm far more concerned about the GOOG ignoring obligations than anyone making a buck.
I'm not convinced. If I drive 20 miles drunk I'm drunk for the entire 20 miles. If I send a couple of texts in that time the overall distraction is way down.
I think the wiser study was the one that suggested making texting illegal was highly dangerous as people text from their lap to avoid detection instead of from the steering wheel where they have some (limited) vision of the road.
People seem confused in the differences between "I do nothing illegal" and "I have nothing to hide".
If you like to cross dress you most certainly have something to hide from your biker mates, or the chaps at the tennis club, or your patients at the dental surgery, or pretty much anyone else that doesn't enjoy your subculture. Yet there's nothing illegal there.
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Cloud assumes bandwidth is free... they assume incorrectly. It might be cheap in US markets, but it's never free.
So this is not the same ATMs with a demonstrated hack at the blackhat conference a couple years back? http://arstechnica.com/security/2010/07/researcher-demonstrates-atm-jackpotting-at-black-hat-conference/
Was this modded up so we could laugh at it?
That's because it's civil law, not criminal law. It's not just the "patent system" that works this way, it's all civil torts (IANAL).
I'm an engineer and have been straight my whole life, so I don't believe in rimming/rusty trombones/etc.... However, I've found that I immensely enjoy occasional gay sex. I don't believe any of that outside those sessions, but every once in a while, it's nice to meet someone gayer than I am, like a few candles, smoke a bit of tobacco from a bong, engage in the whole gay sex ritual (sliding fingers on the sack, etc.), have him toss my salad and then reflect on how to interpret that all based on my history and expectations for the future.
It's almost therapeutic to completely suspend your disbelief every once in a while and get in touch with the gay side (I think that there is a certain mental state that every human - no matter how skeptic, etc. - can achieve if they want to... and it's pretty pleasant, really). As long as you keep it at that and don't ever start to think that you could actually make important decisions based on all that, it's pretty much the most harmless source of enjoyment that there is.
So, if people want that and what they get is that someone wiretaps their phones, installs hidden cameras to their apartment, etc... it's not okay to say "Well, what did they expect? Of course they're going to get rimmed!"
A switch might be able to survive in an "airing cupboard" without particular cooling but even a "quiet" 4RU server is going to produce more heat than you want in a closed cupboard.
That said, unless you're going to die in this house, installing more than a wiring cupboard seems to be a massive waste of space that would make me want a discount on the future sale of the house.
Put a couple of the RJ45 points in the garage and the server in there, on a shelf.
The FDA would be playing a massive game of catchup in that they have no experience in the security field. They're provably not very competent at the things they DO have expertise in http://health.msn.com/health-topics/articlepage.aspx?cp-documentid=100198246&page=2
It's like asking local law enforcement to start issuing engineering approval for car modifications that require blue prints.
then they could just show video of what happens if you don't use your seatbelt on an aircraft to that 10% of idiots that know better instead of the boring safety talk.
There are legal (DVR) time shifting options to avoid the need for streaming TV to be instant, but they dropped in price too late to be popular and aren't foolproof, and still have ads.. so it's really hard for that to compete with torrents.
Hulu seems pretty cheap to me, but that's a relative term. My biggest problem w/ Hulu is I hate the interface.
I completely agree with the advertising question though, I will never pay for a service which is then pushing ads as well. When some of the cable/satellite services started in Australia they had the perfect storm of why I would never subscribe:
- all content was old
- all content (except premium movies) had ads inserted, including the premium TV
- everything was repeated at least 3 times a day
Even before they had paid advertisers they had channel ads in all the slots to fill the 22 minutes of programming into a 30 minute show.
Who pays for that?
From our experience packet flooding attacks are rare, most are application layer attacks because they're cheaper:
- If your landing page is dynamic chances are a small site can be choked at the database from a few hundred zombies, and it's much harder to detect the zombies from the genuine clients in a safe automated fashion
- If you don't have a lot of CPU at your firewall layer you can't create long enough rule tables to stop the bad traffic as you detect it
- Often you can simplify your rules but just starting by blocking China, Russia, Korea, then smaller countries that are hosting bots.
If they are genuine flood attacks:
The idea that your ISP will block a "list of addresses" is comical, it's not nearly responsive enough, and if you're lucky your ISP will agree to block countries and only if you have a business account which you're paying over the odds access fees for. Some will even null route YOUR IP instead of the attackers to save their own infrastructure: http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/content/2009/s2658405.htm
ANDREW FOWLER: The Russian cyber attack was so sustained it backed up through Telstra's network, knocking out the whole of Alice Springs, part of Adelaide, and Telstra central in Sydney.
DAN CRANE, FORMER TECHNOLOGY MANAGER, MULTIBET: And that's when they sort of started to panic a bit I think because all of a sudden it wasn't just a, you know run of the mill attack, this was a pretty hardcore attack because that's when it started, that's when it took out Alice Springs, that's when it degraded Adelaide and that's when it melted their routers in Sydney so that's when they said that's it, we don't want a bar of it.
ANDREW FOWLER: According to Dan Crane, Telstra stopped accepting any of Multibet's internet traffic from entering Australia.
Not to mention even creating this list is a continual task. Botnets rent out "so many connections", but the computers that are active at any time rotate in and out of the pool. We saw probably around 1000 computers at a time hitting the firewall, but from a pool of more like 100,000 addresses we discovered over the course of a week. We initially took a strategy of programmatically blocking individual IPs as they came in at a response rate of about 5 seconds with some scripting, but soon moved to blocking entire countries that we didn't do business with and doing some daily post processing of the IP list as well to consolidate IPs into /27s and sometimes as far as /24s
Our last client to have this issue used Black Lotus and they seemed to do a good job for the price and be quite responsive, though they were still learning their trade at that time... I don't think they were terribly cheap. And botnets are much much cheaper, so unless you're lucky and it's someone that loses interest and not a competitor attacking you it can end up making your web hosting very expensive.
The amount of clients I've worked with that have this "timeline" for their internet presence is disturbingly high:
1. Discover the internet is important to sales
2. Spend 400 man hours discussing what the domain name should be
3. Spend 5 minutes on Google finding a website designer
4. Allow designer to sell you a hosting package and do all that technical stuff, like registering domain names and setting up DNS servers.
5. Wait 12 months
6. Decide they want to move hosting of "their" domain
7. Spend 400 man hours trying to work out how to "regain" ownership of "their" domain.
In my mind this is the same process:
1. Discover cars are important to sales
2. Spend 400 man hours deciding what colour the car should be (yellow)
3. Spend 5 minutes at a car lot and buy a yellow coupe for your family of 6.
4. Allow the car salesman to sell you the upgraded everything and do all that technical stuff, like registering the car (in the yard's name)
5. Wait 12 months
6. Decide you want to sell "your" car
7. Spend 400 man hours trying to work out how to regain ownership of your car.
Why is the second example ludicrous and the first commonplace?
And yes, I'm blaming the victim here.
The Minority Report interface is cool because he's not doing work, he's creating a display for the audience. Hence, the only place I see gesture interfaces being useful is for Jobs 2.0 explaining why we should buy yet another incrementally better iPad, or Balmer showing how much Metro sucks for desktop use :)
I've been told for years Macs are impervious to virii because you have to put in your password manually to install anything. Clearly this so-called news is a fake.
You could attempt to drill the sun, since most of the "abundant" hydrogen in the universe is stored in stars.
It's not old-school to avoid rebooting unix machines that have a fault but are still accessible, particularly remotely.
I've seen a number of instances, from people trying to email files that were bigger than the total RAM on the machine, to secondary drives that were dying, all of which would cause the machine to fail to come back up but could be corrected while it was still on and save hours of work and possibly a trip to the site.
Rebooting a windows server though, yeah, that's stage 1 troubleshooting....
The supply of ex-nazi rocket scientists has also dried up since we last went to the moon.
Wait, there's eyelash extending drugs? I need those :(
I miss the writing from Fallout 2, the presentation was secondary for me, though I did like turn based combat over twitch/Diablo mashing. That said, when I hear "Interplay" I hear Python's "Run away! Run away!" line. They run projects like everyone at the top has the programming skill of Jobs, the design asthetic of Gates and the management style of a helicopter parent.
He was just trying to make a reductio ad absurdum argument about morality to disarm, fairly silly, attacks that Eucalyptus shouldn't play nice with Amazon. There's plenty of commercial interests around that have brought a lot of added value to the Open Source movement and I'm far more concerned about the GOOG ignoring obligations than anyone making a buck.
I'm not convinced. If I drive 20 miles drunk I'm drunk for the entire 20 miles. If I send a couple of texts in that time the overall distraction is way down. I think the wiser study was the one that suggested making texting illegal was highly dangerous as people text from their lap to avoid detection instead of from the steering wheel where they have some (limited) vision of the road.
People seem confused in the differences between "I do nothing illegal" and "I have nothing to hide". If you like to cross dress you most certainly have something to hide from your biker mates, or the chaps at the tennis club, or your patients at the dental surgery, or pretty much anyone else that doesn't enjoy your subculture. Yet there's nothing illegal there.