It also does not capture brand building. Jewellers, for example, advertise throughout the year, with less expectation of sales next month than people remembering the brand name come holiday season or anniversaries. Similar for plumbers and funeral homes with local ads. The goal is being the first company you think of when you one day will use such services.
One would think that after suffering one of the worst breaches ever in terms of the potential damage, a company would look for fresh perspectives, and not hire the new leaders from within.
Perhaps not too many outside leaders are interested in being hired as officers on a sinking ship?
It means the all things being equal between candidates in technical knowledge
In all my years of sorting through job applications and conducting interviews, "all things being equal" has never occurred.
Instead, what does occur is that HR managers or upper management hint strongly that "won't someone rid me of this meddlesome diversity quota imbalance". The end result is that some will hire the first diversity candidate that in good light meets absolute minimum requirements, despite there being better candidates available.
Being sent to the dilithium mines on Rura Penthe seems appropriate. Or the coal mines in Pennsylvania. She worked her way up, now she can work her way down.
Unless the entropy requirements are published, the assumption should be that it's not random, but a pseudo-rng with known flaws. Exchanging "date +%m%d%Y%H%m" with "ran=frac(9821 * ran + 0.211327)" does not qualify for "random", although it might be a good enough number for this purpose.
I think you missed the word "slingshot". The point is using the orbital movement and gravitational pull of Saturn and its larger moons to increase the speed with every passing until escape velocity has been achieved. You need very little fuel for such an operation, and we have used it many times in the past, including with Cassini itself, as it got gravity assist from Venus twice, then Earth, and then Jupiter. And it's how it has navigated through the Saturn system with extremely little fuel used. Departure from Saturn was one of the EOM options contemplated back in 2008, and it was not lack of fuel that stopped it. In fact, escaping to a heliocentric orbit was the easiest option, as it could be initiated from anywhere.
The scenario is absurdly unlikely, of course, but it can't be absolutely ruled out, and since it can't be ruled out, it triggers the planetary protection protocol.
Yet it doesn't stop us from dropping dozens of probes and landers onto Mars and Venus... Nor did it stop the even more microscopic risk of contaminating life on Saturn itself - slingshoting Cassini at the sun or outer space would have been even "safer".
I have a suspicion that the real goal was to go out in a spectacular "suicide", in order to create publicity. Nothing wrong with that, but be open about it.
The GeoTrust Global CA used to sign the GeoTrust DV SSL CA - G3 certificate is ancient (from 2002) and uses an SHA-1 algorithm, which is no longer considered secure.. So even if the intermediate certificate is SHA-256 sign, the chain is not trusted by clients that require strong security.
GeoTrust used to own Equifax Security, but sold out in 2006, and then got acquied by Verisign, which in turn got acquired by Symantec. So don't be too surprised at signs of incompetence.
Knowing Fortran can be a big plus to add on to Matlab. There are still maths-related programming where the executable quality matters more than the source code, and knowing Fortran gives an edge. It's easy to think that everything can be solved by throwing more abstractions and more hardware to handle the abstractions at the problems, but sometimes you end up in situations like embedded or microcontrollers where you have very little wiggle room. When you have to count nibbles, interpreters are quite out of the question, and huge stack of kitchen sink shared libraries likewise.
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS is no longer a supported OS. It went EOL in April
Incorrect, at least as far as commercial customers go. It went from regular maintenance update support to extended security maintenance support for Advantage customers in April, and will be supported until April 2019.
That's still a short lifecycle compared to Enterprise Linux releases, where each OS gets at least 10 years of production support before (for Red Hat) going into extended maintenance support. The 10 year model more closely matches what Microsoft Windows operating systems offer - you still get updates for Windows 7, and expect programs to work on it. The short lifecycle of Ubuntu, even after they increased the LTS support from 3 to 5 years, is one of the reasons it's not more popular.
Salting is only truly useful if the cracker doesn't know the salt. When the salt is stored with the hash, it prevents rainbow tables (until a new rainbow table is made for that salt), but not brute forcing. So the question is where does the salt come from.
I realize the SSC is used as a primary key, but if you think about it, to do their job, they could have just stored a salted hash of the social security
The SSN is only 9 digits long. It's trivial to crack a 30-bit keyspace.
Use it as what it was meant to be - a public unique identifier, and not a secret. Its role is to separate John Doe from John Doe and John Doe, not anything else.
Don't know, I'm typing this from Palemoon on an Ubuntu desktop at work.
Not Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, which is still supported. It has glibc 2.15, and palemoon 27+ won't run with anything less than 2.17.
Thing is, many of us need to stay on long term stable releases with at least 5 years of support. Then we also need to pick software that works on the still supported LTS releases. Firefox, Seamonkey, Chromium all do. Palemoon does not.
It's just not a good choice for LTS systems, as they have explicitly said that they won't support OSes for as long as the OS has support, but only support the newest bleeding edge systems. For some of us, especially businesses, that is not an option.
Pale Moon doesn't work with supported long-term stable operating systems like Red Hat / CentOS / Scientific Linux 6, requiring a newer version of libc for no good reason (as it doesn't use the new capabilities). It also doesn't build reliably with newer compilers, which is why it's both masked and keyworded in the gentoo overlay.
I hope Trump gets rid of the Green Card Lottery. I don't understand why we give away 50000 green cards every year to people who may only have a high school degree.
We're not "giving away" green cards. Green cards are not free. The fees are higher than many can afford, and is a source of income. The bare minimum fees are:
- I-485 filing fee: $1,140 - Biometric services fee: $85 - Visum fee (to enter the US in the first place after "winning"): $160
In addition, there are external costs: - Medical costs for filing a required I-693 form, in the $200-1,000 range depending on whether vaccinations are needed. - 10+ approved photos. - Costs of transportation to the US. - Transportation and accommodation for INS interviews. - Translation assistance or lawyers as needed. - Means of living for the couple of years it takes to process the application.
So truly poor people can't afford to "win" a green card lottery.
Of course then you have to provide your own firewall, NAT, and DHCP.
You don't have to. Firewall and NAT is generally a good idea, but DHCP is just a convenience - static IPs work well too, and for IPv6, you can also auto-assign IP addresses on the host side without DHCP.
The entire board of directors should be rotting in jail for allowing foreign agents to infiltrate US computer systems.
I'd rather have foreign agents being able to access my systems than native agents. The foreign agents have far less power to use the data in a way that's harmful to me or my interests.
Giving native agencies access, on the other hand, is deeply scary, for a multitude of reasons, including democracy. It's we the people who are supposed to be their bosses, not feudal lords and kings telling them what to do to whom.
Is it even possible to get a decent (zoomed)picture without using a solar filter? Even if the shutter/sensor didn't get damaged?
Yes, during and very near totality. You can't get a usable shot during totality with a solar filter, as I'm sure many found out. But you need to protect the lens until that time, either by using a solar filter, or by not pointing the camera towards the sun until totality starts. And you still want a filter, just not one that strong.
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It also does not capture brand building.
Jewellers, for example, advertise throughout the year, with less expectation of sales next month than people remembering the brand name come holiday season or anniversaries. Similar for plumbers and funeral homes with local ads.
The goal is being the first company you think of when you one day will use such services.
One would think that after suffering one of the worst breaches ever in terms of the potential damage, a company would look for fresh perspectives, and not hire the new leaders from within.
Perhaps not too many outside leaders are interested in being hired as officers on a sinking ship?
It means the all things being equal between candidates in technical knowledge
In all my years of sorting through job applications and conducting interviews, "all things being equal" has never occurred.
Instead, what does occur is that HR managers or upper management hint strongly that "won't someone rid me of this meddlesome diversity quota imbalance". The end result is that some will hire the first diversity candidate that in good light meets absolute minimum requirements, despite there being better candidates available.
Being sent to the dilithium mines on Rura Penthe seems appropriate. Or the coal mines in Pennsylvania. She worked her way up, now she can work her way down.
Unless the entropy requirements are published, the assumption should be that it's not random, but a pseudo-rng with known flaws.
Exchanging "date +%m%d%Y%H%m" with "ran=frac(9821 * ran + 0.211327)" does not qualify for "random", although it might be a good enough number for this purpose.
They're doing this out of the goodness of their heart?
Or, is "free" perhaps not entirely true?
I think you missed the word "slingshot".
The point is using the orbital movement and gravitational pull of Saturn and its larger moons to increase the speed with every passing until escape velocity has been achieved. You need very little fuel for such an operation, and we have used it many times in the past, including with Cassini itself, as it got gravity assist from Venus twice, then Earth, and then Jupiter. And it's how it has navigated through the Saturn system with extremely little fuel used.
Departure from Saturn was one of the EOM options contemplated back in 2008, and it was not lack of fuel that stopped it. In fact, escaping to a heliocentric orbit was the easiest option, as it could be initiated from anywhere.
The scenario is absurdly unlikely, of course, but it can't be absolutely ruled out, and since it can't be ruled out, it triggers the planetary protection protocol.
Yet it doesn't stop us from dropping dozens of probes and landers onto Mars and Venus...
Nor did it stop the even more microscopic risk of contaminating life on Saturn itself - slingshoting Cassini at the sun or outer space would have been even "safer".
I have a suspicion that the real goal was to go out in a spectacular "suicide", in order to create publicity. Nothing wrong with that, but be open about it.
Though I'm not ungrateful for your reminder, most people can let the typos slide
Writing "yoir" instead of "your" would be a typo.
Writing "you're" instead of "your" is not a typo; it's ignorance.
You're device
No, I'm human. Mostly.
The GeoTrust Global CA used to sign the GeoTrust DV SSL CA - G3 certificate is ancient (from 2002) and uses an SHA-1 algorithm, which is no longer considered secure..
So even if the intermediate certificate is SHA-256 sign, the chain is not trusted by clients that require strong security.
GeoTrust used to own Equifax Security, but sold out in 2006, and then got acquied by Verisign, which in turn got acquired by Symantec. So don't be too surprised at signs of incompetence.
STOP SAYING PIN NUMBERS
Yes, he should have said personal PIN number, so it's not mistaken for a corporate PIN number.
$20 towards signing up for TrustID, I'm sure. Taxes and other fees apply.
Knowing Fortran can be a big plus to add on to Matlab. There are still maths-related programming where the executable quality matters more than the source code, and knowing Fortran gives an edge.
It's easy to think that everything can be solved by throwing more abstractions and more hardware to handle the abstractions at the problems, but sometimes you end up in situations like embedded or microcontrollers where you have very little wiggle room. When you have to count nibbles, interpreters are quite out of the question, and huge stack of kitchen sink shared libraries likewise.
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS is no longer a supported OS. It went EOL in April
Incorrect, at least as far as commercial customers go. It went from regular maintenance update support to extended security maintenance support for Advantage customers in April, and will be supported until April 2019.
That's still a short lifecycle compared to Enterprise Linux releases, where each OS gets at least 10 years of production support before (for Red Hat) going into extended maintenance support. The 10 year model more closely matches what Microsoft Windows operating systems offer - you still get updates for Windows 7, and expect programs to work on it. The short lifecycle of Ubuntu, even after they increased the LTS support from 3 to 5 years, is one of the reasons it's not more popular.
AV software is quite useful when you copy a cart full of floppies, and don't want something wonderful to happen..
RHEL7 comes with glibc 2.17
It also comes with systemd and incompatibility with some of our software and networking. RHEL6 is supported for several more years.
...which is why you salt it...
Salting is only truly useful if the cracker doesn't know the salt. When the salt is stored with the hash, it prevents rainbow tables (until a new rainbow table is made for that salt), but not brute forcing.
So the question is where does the salt come from.
I realize the SSC is used as a primary key, but if you think about it, to do their job, they could have just stored a salted hash of the social security
The SSN is only 9 digits long. It's trivial to crack a 30-bit keyspace.
Use it as what it was meant to be - a public unique identifier, and not a secret. Its role is to separate John Doe from John Doe and John Doe, not anything else.
Don't know, I'm typing this from Palemoon on an Ubuntu desktop at work.
Not Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, which is still supported. It has glibc 2.15, and palemoon 27+ won't run with anything less than 2.17.
Thing is, many of us need to stay on long term stable releases with at least 5 years of support. Then we also need to pick software that works on the still supported LTS releases.
Firefox, Seamonkey, Chromium all do. Palemoon does not.
It's just not a good choice for LTS systems, as they have explicitly said that they won't support OSes for as long as the OS has support, but only support the newest bleeding edge systems. For some of us, especially businesses, that is not an option.
Pale Moon doesn't work with supported long-term stable operating systems like Red Hat / CentOS / Scientific Linux 6, requiring a newer version of libc for no good reason (as it doesn't use the new capabilities).
It also doesn't build reliably with newer compilers, which is why it's both masked and keyworded in the gentoo overlay.
SeaMonkey is a better choice.
I hope Trump gets rid of the Green Card Lottery. I don't understand why we give away 50000 green cards every year to people who may only have a high school degree.
We're not "giving away" green cards. Green cards are not free. The fees are higher than many can afford, and is a source of income. The bare minimum fees are:
- I-485 filing fee: $1,140
- Biometric services fee: $85
- Visum fee (to enter the US in the first place after "winning"): $160
In addition, there are external costs:
- Medical costs for filing a required I-693 form, in the $200-1,000 range depending on whether vaccinations are needed.
- 10+ approved photos.
- Costs of transportation to the US.
- Transportation and accommodation for INS interviews.
- Translation assistance or lawyers as needed.
- Means of living for the couple of years it takes to process the application.
So truly poor people can't afford to "win" a green card lottery.
Of course then you have to provide your own firewall, NAT, and DHCP.
You don't have to. Firewall and NAT is generally a good idea, but DHCP is just a convenience - static IPs work well too, and for IPv6, you can also auto-assign IP addresses on the host side without DHCP.
The entire board of directors should be rotting in jail for allowing foreign agents to infiltrate US computer systems.
I'd rather have foreign agents being able to access my systems than native agents. The foreign agents have far less power to use the data in a way that's harmful to me or my interests.
Giving native agencies access, on the other hand, is deeply scary, for a multitude of reasons, including democracy. It's we the people who are supposed to be their bosses, not feudal lords and kings telling them what to do to whom.
Is it even possible to get a decent (zoomed)picture without using a solar filter? Even if the shutter/sensor didn't get damaged?
Yes, during and very near totality. You can't get a usable shot during totality with a solar filter, as I'm sure many found out.
But you need to protect the lens until that time, either by using a solar filter, or by not pointing the camera towards the sun until totality starts. And you still want a filter, just not one that strong.