Not really. It is the internet, consider it pre-tapped. USA capture on the edge in LAX (Thanks AT&T) , China captures on the GFoC. Doubt Japanese government or Singapore does much of their own taps.
In any case, who wants to support a tap a 5000 feet down?
Has anyone ever seen a non-compete actually stop someone from moving to another company? Non-competes have never been successfully upheld unless the ex-employee has it as part of his/her severance package. If they give you a million dollars to go away, they might be able to stop you from working for a competitor for a while. If you are fired, no way no how.
The private keys for the CA provider roots are not exposed to any internet connectivity.
I know for Verisign, for instance they need to get 5 or 6 people with access to physically be at the servers in question to issue certificates that require manual configuration.
Large corporate entities are also selling address space. Bought a class B for a Million last year. Not personally, but the corporate entity I represent.
If the ipv6 standards group had made an incremental change to address address space and left the rest of the protocols, then things might be different. As it was they threw in a bunch of features that no one wanted, and no one needs. IPv6 is a rehash of the failed and unused OSI transport and intranetwork protocols, which were soundly rejected by the market. The problem was that no one really took a good look at the protocols outside of the OSI because the working engineers were too busy keeping the networks on.
The good thing is that the longer adaption period is enabling older OSs, routers and incompatible switches to drop out of use and the market. Most carriers have had it in the lab for 10 years, vendor bugs have been discovered and fixed without melting down the internet. So what we are waiting for now is the cost benefits for ipv6 to show up. Considering that fixed space ipv4 is now something you can SELL, widespread use of ipv6 is actually of negative value for the carriers.
Meanwhile, the large planned ip6 conversions haven't happened. The US Army passed their 2008 deadline and said F it, we will switch when we need to. Comcast uses it for cable box and element addressing, but not for internet access. APAC should be driving the adaptation, but OSs and router versions are primitive in most areas of the APAC, so the people with the most to gain have the riskiest road forward.
Well, it should be, unfortunately many vendors used hardware optimization routines that assumed ipv4. Others keyed on the address type to seperate certain traffic with unexpected ethernet bridging issues.
Actually he set it up so that they could not in fact reset the passwords without permanently deleting the configurations, in some case they would permanently lose configuration if they were powered down, He put his own padlocks on the trucks, and booby trapped some of them to have the engines burn up if they messed with the locks.
As my two brothers whom are doctors say, If you want to learn to think, go to law school, medicine is memorizing. It is a generalization, but a fairly accurate one. This isn't what separates good doctors from bad doctors, it is what separates doctors from non-doctors.
At least we can still detain people indefinitely without charging them or a trial, and assassinate american citizens and foreigners using radio controlled missiles, amirite?
This is my main conspiracy theory. The years that napster ran unchecked, glorious, glorious years, were the years that the RIAA recorded their greatest profits, level of profit that they have not equaled since. I think that unfettered access to music of all genres makes people better music consumers. I personally became excited about music as I had not been since my youth ( I am an old ) . I bought more cds, I went to more concerts. I have tapered off again because it is just harder to get things done, so I don't bother. The numbers say I am not alone.
I feel the real reason the music companies are terrified of electronic music distribution is twofold.
One, maintaining limited participation in music distribution to protect the status quo, it democratizes the process creating methods of distribution that a smart player could get involved and push the old fogeys out.
Two, electronic music distribution makes the tracking of music sales trivial, and the accurate assignment of funds to the correct copyright holders, and audit by same go from a difficult and arcane process to a simple exercise in database management. This is the last fucking thing the labels want. Since the beginning of the recording industry, the most powerful and profitable labels have gotten there by screwing the musicians. Hiding overseas profits, disguising sales and production runs, overstating promotional costs, accounting errors ( never in the favor of the artist, I assure you ) anything, actualy, to hide the actual profits from the musicians, and send it to the record companies' coke habits. Try to watch a music documentary from the past 50 years. Find one where the label wasn't fucking the artist over. The labels don't want this to change, this is why they have to be dragged into digital music by their shorthairs, they need time to set up the structures to screw the artists out of their due. If you are ever wondering why packaged and cookie cutter artists seem to thrive, it is because they are more easily bilked out of the profits.
Have you ever had an airline lose a bag? I will never check again. If they want to make me check it at the door, fine, at least it goes into the door quickly.
But then you are left changing the IP for the site. If possible just cname the site hostname to a DNS hostname that the new guy controls . As long as you don't need to have a https version of the site. Then either migrate your mail to a new domain over time by changing all your account profiles and informing your correspondents of the change, or put a banner on the site informing visitors of the upcoming change to the new domain name.
Since the Batmobile debuted in 1941, using the copyright rules in effect of the times, the name would be public domain since 1991. Since our congressmen are apparently paid by Disney, this date was pushed to 2011 and now 2031. Let us try to guess how much in royalties the descendants of the creators of the name Batmobile will get. Lets see... Oh yes they will get ditkuss.
Bill Finger probably made a total of 50K off of batman his whole goddamn life. So I am not crying for DC here.
If someone had a copy of the Verisign root public keys, it doesn't matter if the providers get new keys, your browser would trust any certificate created by these keys. So if you connect to a website encrypted by certificates from a different CA, a man in the middle attack presenting a newly minted certificate using the stolen keys would not raise any alarm in any SSL browser that trusts that verisign root certificate. Which essentially means every browser in the world.
Not only would every provider need to get new certificates and intermediates, every end user browser would need to be patched to no longer trust the compromised x509 root keys.
People are still using internet explorer 6.0 . Good luck on that one.
I wonder if this has anything to do with why Verisign was so hot to change their root keys (10/10/2010) , though they stated that this was for the 2048bit keylength that will be manditory 1/1/2014 .
If the root PKI private keys were lifted from the site then whoever had them could create valid ssl certificates for any DNS hostname that every browser and ssl stack in the world would view as real. If the same users were able to put themselves in the correct place in the network or be able to do a successful DNS poisoning attack, they would then be able to undetectably capture all data protected by the SSL public key infrastructure. So pretty much all internet data would be suspect.
I assume that this did not happen, as these super hackers would have access to huge swaths of the accounts and sensitive user information for for every e-commerce site in the world. You know your bank accounts and paypal and apple ids and credit card info. Those tax returns you do online, ssl vpns, ipsec vpns secured with x509 certificates, corporate mail, stock brokerage accounts. They would be able to relay mail undetectably thru every mail server that permits relay with authentication. Nothing major. I personally would put my money in a sock in my bedroom, but nothing major.
While the old guard hated her, she put the company in a position to be profitable again.
It is looking like firing Carly was an awful idea. Like it or not, she had the company moving in a direction, and they were making plenty of money.They had kicked dell out of the corporate laptop business ( the end of the market that makes money ) and were starting to do the same with corporate desktops. They were making money, lots of it. And they have been chasing their tail since. They will soon spin out into two or three companies, the software services one will crash and burn. The profitable sector will be the one stamping their name on calculators and printers designed and made in China.
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Tired of these fuckers thinking they are the promised people guiding us out of ignorance.
Not really. It is the internet, consider it pre-tapped. USA capture on the edge in LAX (Thanks AT&T) , China captures on the GFoC. Doubt Japanese government or Singapore does much of their own taps.
In any case, who wants to support a tap a 5000 feet down?
Has anyone ever seen a non-compete actually stop someone from moving to another company? Non-competes have never been successfully upheld unless the ex-employee has it as part of his /her severance package. If they give you a million dollars to go away, they might be able to stop you from working for a competitor for a while. If you are fired, no way no how.
The private keys for the CA provider roots are not exposed to any internet connectivity.
I know for Verisign, for instance they need to get 5 or 6 people with access to physically be at the servers in question to issue certificates that require manual configuration.
Just paste it into this chat window...
smiley:frown:coffee:cake:ff82 blah blah.
Also throwing in alphanumerics make it a pain when troubleshooting with folks of different languages.
Idiocy and trollism is in the eye of the beholder. Lot of meaningless statistics here.
You can't troubleshoot DNS using DNS. I can remember an IP better than some random customer hostname.
I have to back support to IE6. IE6. Sigh.
Large corporate entities are also selling address space. Bought a class B for a Million last year. Not personally, but the corporate entity I represent.
If the ipv6 standards group had made an incremental change to address address space and left the rest of the protocols, then things might be different. As it was they threw in a bunch of features that no one wanted, and no one needs. IPv6 is a rehash of the failed and unused OSI transport and intranetwork protocols, which were soundly rejected by the market. The problem was that no one really took a good look at the protocols outside of the OSI because the working engineers were too busy keeping the networks on.
The good thing is that the longer adaption period is enabling older OSs, routers and incompatible switches to drop out of use and the market. Most carriers have had it in the lab for 10 years, vendor bugs have been discovered and fixed without melting down the internet. So what we are waiting for now is the cost benefits for ipv6 to show up. Considering that fixed space ipv4 is now something you can SELL, widespread use of ipv6 is actually of negative value for the carriers.
Meanwhile, the large planned ip6 conversions haven't happened. The US Army passed their 2008 deadline and said F it, we will switch when we need to. Comcast uses it for cable box and element addressing, but not for internet access. APAC should be driving the adaptation, but OSs and router versions are primitive in most areas of the APAC, so the people with the most to gain have the riskiest road forward.
Well, it should be, unfortunately many vendors used hardware optimization routines that assumed ipv4. Others keyed on the address type to seperate certain traffic with unexpected ethernet bridging issues.
Actually he set it up so that they could not in fact reset the passwords without permanently deleting the configurations, in some case they would permanently lose configuration if they were powered down, He put his own padlocks on the trucks, and booby trapped some of them to have the engines burn up if they messed with the locks.
Unfortunately, confidence is a requirement for the job. An indecisive doctor is a shitty doctor.
As my two brothers whom are doctors say, If you want to learn to think, go to law school, medicine is memorizing. It is a generalization, but a fairly accurate one. This isn't what separates good doctors from bad doctors, it is what separates doctors from non-doctors.
At least we can still detain people indefinitely without charging them or a trial, and assassinate american citizens and foreigners using radio controlled missiles, amirite?
An almost infinitesimal chance of personal injury will pull more fans to see the races. Danger is exciting.
This is my main conspiracy theory. The years that napster ran unchecked, glorious, glorious years, were the years that the RIAA recorded their greatest profits, level of profit that they have not equaled since. I think that unfettered access to music of all genres makes people better music consumers. I personally became excited about music as I had not been since my youth ( I am an old ) . I bought more cds, I went to more concerts. I have tapered off again because it is just harder to get things done, so I don't bother. The numbers say I am not alone.
I feel the real reason the music companies are terrified of electronic music distribution is twofold.
One, maintaining limited participation in music distribution to protect the status quo, it democratizes the process creating methods of distribution that a smart player could get involved and push the old fogeys out.
Two, electronic music distribution makes the tracking of music sales trivial, and the accurate assignment of funds to the correct copyright holders, and audit by same go from a difficult and arcane process to a simple exercise in database management. This is the last fucking thing the labels want. Since the beginning of the recording industry, the most powerful and profitable labels have gotten there by screwing the musicians. Hiding overseas profits, disguising sales and production runs, overstating promotional costs, accounting errors ( never in the favor of the artist, I assure you ) anything, actualy, to hide the actual profits from the musicians, and send it to the record companies' coke habits.
Try to watch a music documentary from the past 50 years. Find one where the label wasn't fucking the artist over. The labels don't want this to change, this is why they have to be dragged into digital music by their shorthairs, they need time to set up the structures to screw the artists out of their due. If you are ever wondering why packaged and cookie cutter artists seem to thrive, it is because they are more easily bilked out of the profits.
Have you ever had an airline lose a bag? I will never check again. If they want to make me check it at the door, fine, at least it goes into the door quickly.
But then you are left changing the IP for the site. If possible just cname the site hostname to a DNS hostname that the new guy controls . As long as you don't need to have a https version of the site. Then either migrate your mail to a new domain over time by changing all your account profiles and informing your correspondents of the change, or put a banner on the site informing visitors of the upcoming change to the new domain name.
Every time I wanted to go to the 7-11 it would be 5 minutes of...
Atomic batteries to power.
- Check
Turbines to speed.
- Check
Since the Batmobile debuted in 1941, using the copyright rules in effect of the times, the name would be public domain since 1991. Since our congressmen are apparently paid by Disney, this date was pushed to 2011 and now 2031. Let us try to guess how much in royalties the descendants of the creators of the name Batmobile will get. Lets see... Oh yes they will get ditkuss.
Bill Finger probably made a total of 50K off of batman his whole goddamn life. So I am not crying for DC here.
If someone had a copy of the Verisign root public keys, it doesn't matter if the providers get new keys, your browser would trust any certificate created by these keys. So if you connect to a website encrypted by certificates from a different CA, a man in the middle attack presenting a newly minted certificate using the stolen keys would not raise any alarm in any SSL browser that trusts that verisign root certificate. Which essentially means every browser in the world.
Not only would every provider need to get new certificates and intermediates, every end user browser would need to be patched to no longer trust the compromised x509 root keys.
People are still using internet explorer 6.0 . Good luck on that one.
I wonder if this has anything to do with why Verisign was so hot to change their root keys (10/10/2010) , though they stated that this was for the 2048bit keylength that will be manditory 1/1/2014 .
If the root PKI private keys were lifted from the site then whoever had them could create valid ssl certificates for any DNS hostname that every browser and ssl stack in the world would view as real. If the same users were able to put themselves in the correct place in the network or be able to do a successful DNS poisoning attack, they would then be able to undetectably capture all data protected by the SSL public key infrastructure. So pretty much all internet data would be suspect.
I assume that this did not happen, as these super hackers would have access to huge swaths of the accounts and sensitive user information for for every e-commerce site in the world. You know your bank accounts and paypal and apple ids and credit card info. Those tax returns you do online, ssl vpns, ipsec vpns secured with x509 certificates, corporate mail, stock brokerage accounts. They would be able to relay mail undetectably thru every mail server that permits relay with authentication. Nothing major. I personally would put my money in a sock in my bedroom, but nothing major.
While the old guard hated her, she put the company in a position to be profitable again.
It is looking like firing Carly was an awful idea. Like it or not, she had the company moving in a direction, and they were making plenty of money.They had kicked dell out of the corporate laptop business ( the end of the market that makes money ) and were starting to do the same with corporate desktops. They were making money, lots of it. And they have been chasing their tail since. They will soon spin out into two or three companies, the software services one will crash and burn. The profitable sector will be the one stamping their name on calculators and printers designed and made in China.
Oh look, here is wikileaks RELEASING THE PERSONAL DETAILS OF AN INDIVIDUAL'S SEX AFFAIRS.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/17/tj-hemlinger-emails_n_798104.html
Oops, you missed earlier when they were WITH A GUY WITH A FUCKING RPG.