Maybe I wasn't clear... I'm enjoying Murdoch's misfortune free of guilt due to the past deeds of his employees (with or without his knowledge is unclear).
I'm not going to defend Anonymous or feel bad if they are prosecuted for their actions. They decided two wrongs make a right and have to live with any consequences. The same applies to the foam pie thrower.
To paraphrase Freud, sometimes a Nazi is just a well-known example of some of the worst in the human race. As the extreme terminator of a range definition whose other end was "Greek Democracy", it sets an appropriate boundary
There's Godwinism and there's False Godwinism.
Greek Democracy... so now you're advocating slavery?
Star Trek was filled with goofy little inconsistencies like that. For example, they could regrow kidneys, but couldn't cure Picard's baldness. Some failing component of 7 of 9 couldn't be replicated yet they had no problems sending her through a transporter. Etc.
Yes, like spending less on food maybe? There are lot of people who can barely afford to feed themselves or their children, maybe you have any ideas on how they should handle their economy to afford good health care?
I do - they can stop spending their food stamps on name brands and their welfare checks on designer sneakers.
Growing up I didn't have access to either - my mothers frugality enabled her to pay our bills without government (read: our neighbors) help.
That's not a very good defense for him. Sticking around at a "piss poor company" for that long would tell me he's not somebody I want to hire. Too stupid to leave a bad job for two years == too stupid to work for me now.
... However, I just hooked on the Eee pc for the first time and it found the gateway and got an IP, PLUS it found the INTERNAL DNS and could access internal machines by name. How is that possible, it is exactly what DHCP is supposed to do, however we don't have DHCP.
You just don't get it. Either security is a corporate priority - then all employees (even forum admins) are educated about how to handle reported security issues - or it's not. It's that simple.
Now stop acting like a brainless fanboy and think a bit.
Apple screwed up.
First they deployed an internet based service without a proper security review (or had it reviewed by less than qualified staff). And second, when it was reported they (sorry, but the forum admins do speak for the company - in this case perception equals reality) deleted the reports instead of providing helpful information and an eta for the fix.
Now it's time for you to say it. Go ahead, say "Apple screwed up." Admitting you're a fanboy is the first step of recovery. It won't hurt you or Apple - I promise. But it will lift up the rose-tinted glasses you're wearing.
Apple is not a monolithic entity with the ever-vigilant head of Steve Jobs on constant watch. It's a large corporation with multiple divisions, each of which has their regions of control and expertise. The decision to nuke posts about a security flaw, while stupid and short-sighted, does not immediately mean that Apple's OS security people are lax or lazy. Wrong - it means exactly that.
If their security folks weren't lax and/or lazy there would be a well known and well understood process within Apple for all the divisions to follow when a possibly security flaw was reported. The process should include tracking, reporting, and escalation procedures to ensure that big things don't get categorized as small things and overlooked.
There is hope -- if the Republican candidates agreed with each other on anything during their most recent TV-debate, it was that we need to build (much) more nuclear stations. That should ease the strain considerably...
I'm sorry, maybe I'm a missing something, but could you explain how building more nuclear reactors will reduce oil consumption? Oil is used to generate less than 5% of the electricity in the U.S. I think one of us is a little confused....
And please don't think I'm against nuclear power - I'm a fan and believe it has the potential to be a lot cleaner than coal - but I'm getting tired of people incorrectly using oil independence as an argument for it's use.
Where do we start... First the cheap shot - seems like you enjoy dealing with pricks, learn that in the marines?
Ok, now that that's out of the way. A buyer walked on you and you "gave them another shot". You're an idiot. You take the deposit and walk. What are you babbling about escrow? If you had them sign a well written (this is why I use a realtor / buyers agent) letter of intent and give you (or your realtor) the deposit then you just keep it if they back out - no fuss. Sounds like you screwed up.
Now, how did the other seller find out what happened? Again, sounds like you screwed up. And why weren't you already under contract with him? Another screw up. He would have to have been stupid not to raise the price.
And last - quit your bitching. You paid this guy $15,000 more for a house (i.e. raised your monthly payment by approx $50 for a 30yr mortgage), so what? You said yourself you wanted the house. If it wasn't worth another $15,000 then you should have walked away. You didn't so either you got what you wanted or you screwed up. Based on your post we'll just mark you down for another screw up.
Oh, and I almost forgot - how the hell does someone bail out of buying your house "one week after closing"? How dumb/confused are you? If it was "one week after closing" the house would have already been sold, deed transfered, etc - that's what happens at "closing".
It sounds to me like you should just rent and leave property ownership to the adults.
I'm not sure if those are the words of kdawson or flatfilsoc, but whoever wrote them needs to stop being a dumbass.
The author has obviously never worked at a regulated and/or publicly traded company or a company that has experienced the embarrassment of a PII leak. Those decrees come from Audit and/or Legal. And it may be painful to admit this, but those departments are trying to look out for the company - yes, ignorance can cause a misstep or three, but it's naive to assume all their decisions are driven by fud.
And for all the down trodden cubicle jockeys that will post, "but what about USB drives, or floppies, or [insert other tech here]" there are plenty of ways to limit/remove that functionality as well. The one I'm most familiar with is giving users a locked down Wyse terminal that can/will only RDP to a very locked down terminal server.
Remember, you're on the companies infrastructure and they're paying for your time - you get to what they want and how they want you to. If you don't like it get another job. If you think these decisions are in the hands of the CIO, get a clue.
If we ultimately rely on the courts to defend our civil liberties then we as citizens have failed democracy. Not enough people care enough to go out and vote. Not enough people are active enough to contribute to the voice of the country. If it stays this way, and doesn't change when too many civil liberties have vanished, there is nothing at all the courts will be able to do for us. Has this democracy already become an illusion?
Although I don't agree with your entire response, this is a very good point. Too many people want to assign blame and whine about the current state of affairs - it's not enough. The government (supposedly) works for us and if there's a problem we need to fix it. Whining won't change anything.
to reduce the impact of SpamAssassin overhead - true, this doesn't reduce the overhead itself, but it has kept it from becoming noticeable to my users:
1) I use spamc/spamd instead of invoking spamassassin directly - big save on a busy server.
2) Limit the size of emails being scanned - spammers usually use small messages since larger ones are more expensive (cpu and network) to send. This will probably change someday since botnets reduce this cost.
3) Limit the number of spamc/spamd invocations to 1/user via a procmail lockfile also double locksleep to keep to make this even nicer.
4) Limit the number of spamd children (done by default in most distributions).
Here's my/etc/procmailrc -
DROPPRIVS=yes # Double the default LOCKSLEEP. LOCKSLEEP=16 ## Filter email through Spamassassin if it's smaller than 256KB ## only invoke spamc if the user doesn't already have it running. :0fw : ${HOME}/.spamc.lock * < 256000 |/usr/bin/spamc
mandated by the Audit and IT Risk Management Departments.
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To clear things up... Sun did create Java. Sun also created the slogan, "The network is the computer" in the early 90s. And while Sun didn't invent the idea of grid computing (several research projects like Condor pionered it 10+ years ago - way before SETI) it is the first company to sell access to a shared grid via a published API.
You could shoot for an NTP server but I wouldn't trust the accuracy past 500 ms.
What...?
Ok, so you're either smarter than Dr. Mills or smoking crack - I'd bet the later. What crevice did you pull your 500ms threshhold from? Even a strat 10+ timesever should give you a relative accuracy better than that as long as it's in a room with a stable temperature.
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Coffee just shot out of my nose... That was brilliant.
Too true!
I'm not going to defend Anonymous or feel bad if they are prosecuted for their actions. They decided two wrongs make a right and have to live with any consequences. The same applies to the foam pie thrower.
I agree with your post, but I have to admit that Anonymous is providing some guilt free schadenfreude....
To paraphrase Freud, sometimes a Nazi is just a well-known example of some of the worst in the human race. As the extreme terminator of a range definition whose other end was "Greek Democracy", it sets an appropriate boundary
There's Godwinism and there's False Godwinism.
Greek Democracy... so now you're advocating slavery?
Why should he provide citations for demographic data that can easily be found via google? http://www.google.com/search?q=worl+religion+demographics&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:unofficial&client=iceweasel-a
Star Trek was filled with goofy little inconsistencies like that. For example, they could regrow kidneys, but couldn't cure Picard's baldness. Some failing component of 7 of 9 couldn't be replicated yet they had no problems sending her through a transporter. Etc.
Yes, like spending less on food maybe? There are lot of people who can barely afford to feed themselves or their children, maybe you have any ideas on how they should handle their economy to afford good health care?
I do - they can stop spending their food stamps on name brands and their welfare checks on designer sneakers.
Growing up I didn't have access to either - my mothers frugality enabled her to pay our bills without government (read: our neighbors) help.
That's not a very good defense for him. Sticking around at a "piss poor company" for that long would tell me he's not somebody I want to hire. Too stupid to leave a bad job for two years == too stupid to work for me now.
... However, I just hooked on the Eee pc for the first time and it found the gateway and got an IP, PLUS it found the INTERNAL DNS and could access internal machines by name. How is that possible, it is exactly what DHCP is supposed to do, however we don't have DHCP.Yes you do... surprise!
How can employees be expected to tolerate this denial of their personal freedoms?!
Now stop acting like a brainless fanboy and think a bit.
Apple screwed up.
First they deployed an internet based service without a proper security review (or had it reviewed by less than qualified staff). And second, when it was reported they (sorry, but the forum admins do speak for the company - in this case perception equals reality) deleted the reports instead of providing helpful information and an eta for the fix.
Now it's time for you to say it. Go ahead, say "Apple screwed up." Admitting you're a fanboy is the first step of recovery. It won't hurt you or Apple - I promise. But it will lift up the rose-tinted glasses you're wearing.
If their security folks weren't lax and/or lazy there would be a well known and well understood process within Apple for all the divisions to follow when a possibly security flaw was reported. The process should include tracking, reporting, and escalation procedures to ensure that big things don't get categorized as small things and overlooked.
funniest Slashdot post I've read in months... even if you were serious...
I'm sorry, maybe I'm a missing something, but could you explain how building more nuclear reactors will reduce oil consumption? Oil is used to generate less than 5% of the electricity in the U.S. I think one of us is a little confused....
And please don't think I'm against nuclear power - I'm a fan and believe it has the potential to be a lot cleaner than coal - but I'm getting tired of people incorrectly using oil independence as an argument for it's use.
Ok, now that that's out of the way. A buyer walked on you and you "gave them another shot". You're an idiot. You take the deposit and walk. What are you babbling about escrow? If you had them sign a well written (this is why I use a realtor / buyers agent) letter of intent and give you (or your realtor) the deposit then you just keep it if they back out - no fuss. Sounds like you screwed up.
Now, how did the other seller find out what happened? Again, sounds like you screwed up. And why weren't you already under contract with him? Another screw up. He would have to have been stupid not to raise the price.
And last - quit your bitching. You paid this guy $15,000 more for a house (i.e. raised your monthly payment by approx $50 for a 30yr mortgage), so what? You said yourself you wanted the house. If it wasn't worth another $15,000 then you should have walked away. You didn't so either you got what you wanted or you screwed up. Based on your post we'll just mark you down for another screw up.
Oh, and I almost forgot - how the hell does someone bail out of buying your house "one week after closing"? How dumb/confused are you? If it was "one week after closing" the house would have already been sold, deed transfered, etc - that's what happens at "closing".
It sounds to me like you should just rent and leave property ownership to the adults.
The prior poster has seen the light and [his butt has] been saved!
The author has obviously never worked at a regulated and/or publicly traded company or a company that has experienced the embarrassment of a PII leak. Those decrees come from Audit and/or Legal. And it may be painful to admit this, but those departments are trying to look out for the company - yes, ignorance can cause a misstep or three, but it's naive to assume all their decisions are driven by fud.
And for all the down trodden cubicle jockeys that will post, "but what about USB drives, or floppies, or [insert other tech here]" there are plenty of ways to limit/remove that functionality as well. The one I'm most familiar with is giving users a locked down Wyse terminal that can/will only RDP to a very locked down terminal server.
Remember, you're on the companies infrastructure and they're paying for your time - you get to what they want and how they want you to. If you don't like it get another job. If you think these decisions are in the hands of the CIO, get a clue.
If you can't afford RAM you shouldn't even be dreaming about SSDs.
http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/chasleep.htm l
1) I use spamc/spamd instead of invoking spamassassin directly - big save on a busy server.
2) Limit the size of emails being scanned - spammers usually use small messages since larger ones are more expensive (cpu and network) to send. This will probably change someday since botnets reduce this cost.
3) Limit the number of spamc/spamd invocations to 1/user via a procmail lockfile also double locksleep to keep to make this even nicer.
4) Limit the number of spamd children (done by default in most distributions).
Here's my /etc/procmailrc -
mandated by the Audit and IT Risk Management Departments.
To clear things up... Sun did create Java. Sun also created the slogan, "The network is the computer" in the early 90s. And while Sun didn't invent the idea of grid computing (several research projects like Condor pionered it 10+ years ago - way before SETI) it is the first company to sell access to a shared grid via a published API.
Ok, so you're either smarter than Dr. Mills or smoking crack - I'd bet the later. What crevice did you pull your 500ms threshhold from? Even a strat 10+ timesever should give you a relative accuracy better than that as long as it's in a room with a stable temperature.