This depends on your method of X forwarding. NX does a pretty good job and isn't slow and is less "buggy" (well, you can't do GLX, but trying to do that via a VPN would be...evil...)- along with handling pretty low bandwidth links well.
Having said this, if RDP does a good enough job and Wayland untangles the whole POSIX desktop world, I'd say it's pretty much a win- esp. if I can do the RDP remoting over moderately low bandwidth links.
Which means they should basically be fired. I don't care what prompted them to do it all- if it's not patentable, granting a patent on it is NOT doing your job in a manner that if I'd done something similar in my day job, they'd fire my *ss.
If you believe that this is the case, I've a bit of seaside property on the middle of the Florida coastline (It's dry, I PROMISE!) and a bit of bridge to sell you.
A Patent is only worth the amount of money you've got to litigate an infringer into submission- for starters.
Worse, there's so damned many Patents out there that you're NOT assured of anything in regards to that "motivation" you speak of.
This is not to say you shouldn't be patenting things- but the bullshit you just spouted off...well, only the foolish believe that these days.
The claim that VP8's inferior isn't a foregone conclusion based on what it doesn't infringe upon. Really? You actually believe that tripe?
The only way one can determine if it's an inferior or superior codec is on the quantitative and qualitative results of the compression- and pretty much nothing else.
Ah, but they won't use a Warrant. Already know of a county (Nearby Tarrant...) illegally using manned surveillance planes to "spot animal cruelty" from the air.
Heh... Keep telling yourself this. It's less to do with what you're talking to and more of a licensing rules thing. Backdoors in GSM are already known and the "baseband" attacks these jokers allude to are actually as much bullshit as the "security risks" they're talking to on these devices.
Seriously... I'm beginning to wonder about the quality of presentations at Black Hat if this was even there.
The modems themselves aren't a threat. It's the fact that many of them cart around drivers and "manager" applications which could provide storage based attack vectors or through compromised versions of the driver or manager that you have any problems... Unsurprising and already well known by most security researchers.
1) For many of those "security threat" modems, Linux works wonders as does *BSD as they support the devices out of box with OS provided support. 2) There's a panopoly of devices that don't expose the machines to any of these vectors that runs $50-150 provided by vendors such as Zoom and Cradlepoint (in fact, it's what I use since it allows the LTE dongle (that doesn't have these "risks" by the way...) be able to switch between 3G and 4G seamlessly (Linux supports both, but NetworkManager doesn't support switching gears between the differing ways both modes are accessed yet...). The devices either have their own battery or not but allow multiple (more than a MiFi type device does...) devices on the connection. 3) If you're wanting something with a few less moving parts and slightly more compact, you can always get a MiFi (which is what the Telcos are now leaning towards because it allows things like your Nook or Kindle to link up to the Internet as well as your notebook...).
I'd be ashamed of myself if I were to try to have ran this "issue" up the flagpole at BlackHat or DEFCON. Really, guys?
It happens because it works. If you put things back a bit more like they were shortly after the Great Depression was over with and make it more profitable (because of tax code changes it's not...) to dole out dividends and the like, such that it's less profitable to strip mine a company that's publicly traded, then you'd see a lot less of this.
Heh... Because you're getting quite a bit less than what $30k/yr would buy you with someone from here. For a long while, I was making real money UN-f*cking up projects that they followed this philosophy with. Offshored and H1B'ed workers aren't the top-shelf people- they typically manage to keep the best talent in-country and pay they proportionately higher wages to keep them there. What you typically get with these deals are the mediocre at best.
Heh... If you hate meetings, you don't want to be in management...especially in the CxO crowd. Management's more about meetings than anything else unless you're a startup...and even then...
Heh... All you need to do to understand that you might be on to something is look at who Al Gore sold his media company to last year. It was those "polluters" that were part of an "Inconvienient Truth".
The real inconvienent truth is that he did more polluting in the name of "cleaning things up" by all that speaking tour on the subject than any single one of us here combined. Each and every one of those jet trips he did provided that. Then he sold the media company to Al Jazeera.
I don't buy for a moment any of this stuff because it's empty appeals to emotion. Seriously.
Should we be concerned about what we're doing to the environment? Yes. Should be we be doing a chicken little? No. Are we doing one right now? YES.
That's just ONE example. Electric vehicles require Lithium or NiMH batteries in large quantites which cause worse pollution than the internal combustion engines that you're replacing them with- and hybrids tend to be the worst of both worlds. In the case of EV's you have the pollution of the POWER PLANT charging the things- which at this time is a coal or gas fired plant in most cases, or a problematic just post-WWII era nuclear reactor design, none of which are "clean" or "cheap" in the sense you seem to be using. Wind power doing it? Look at the link and weep. Solar power? Right now, it's the most expensive in terms of net power consumption to get to power production and it's the least efficient- not to mention that the cheapest designs combust in sunlight if you have a failure of the encapsulation of the cells (Look up "Abound Solar" and "burning"... We won't do liquid salt Thorium reactors or Pebble Bed reactors so nuclear power's currently more dangerous and potentially polluting than the other options. (Now, if you'd say we do that for electricity, you'd be starting in the right direction...a bit...)
Saying that they're actually cheaper is being ignorant of everything and listening to the feel-good arguments that're full of appeals to emotion and devoid of the reality of things. This isn't to say that we shouldn't be working on things in that direction- but to claim it's cheaper or actually better right at the moment...you're lying to everyone about it...including yourself.
The moment you use the term "denialists", you've converted the discussion from science into religion.
There's a reason why some deny it- it's because of crap like what you just spouted. Right or wrong, it's not hard science like you're claiming it is- you've made it your faith and you'll not listen to ANY reasonable discussion on the subject.
Actually, the only non-renewable "fossil" fuel is Coal- which actually IS a fossil fuel. What do you think happens with all the dead matter on the bottom of the ocean when it's subducted with the plates at the trenches? It's subjected to pyrolysis and converted into...wait for it...
Natural gas and oil.
You see the process done up in miniature with a Thermal Depolymerization setup.
Hint: It's pretty easy to get a headshot with a shotgun at close to medium range. Wave the gun in the general direction and pull the trigger- and it's a hell of a lot cheaper (and looks more cool...) than the silver bullet approach... (Not to mention you can load a shotshell with a bunch of little silver bullets and be best of both worlds... Hey, funny that...that list IS a bunch of little ineffective ones by themselves...)
1) These are due to trying to make Linux "easy". If you're using a desktop install, it's going to happen. Autorun is a BAD and bogus idea, really. 2) An embedded or secured Linux won't respond to Autorun like this. I think only the ones trying to be a Windows/OSX "competitor" like Ubuntu have this on by default.
Sorry, it's more that the OS in question (Windows) does stupid things that're insecure by design- and adopting any of those bad ideas in your OS will cause the same sorts of problems. Your set of links merely proves this.
Ah, but you're reading MORE into this than is actually there (HINT: This story'd been WAAAAY different if it'd been YOUR story...).
Quite simply put, you're glossing over that Windows is actually a BAD choice for a SCADA system software component- because this wouldn't have happened the way it was read and seems to be playing out if it'd not been a Windows system in the first place.
Slashdot Mirror
Heh...
Access to the GHOUL2 damage engine mods on top of it?
This depends on your method of X forwarding. NX does a pretty good job and isn't slow and is less "buggy" (well, you can't do GLX, but trying to do that via a VPN would be...evil...)- along with handling pretty low bandwidth links well.
Having said this, if RDP does a good enough job and Wayland untangles the whole POSIX desktop world, I'd say it's pretty much a win- esp. if I can do the RDP remoting over moderately low bandwidth links.
This depends on the "embedded development", really.
A UI for a piece of networking gear's embedded development- and corresponds pretty well, actually.
Which means they should basically be fired. I don't care what prompted them to do it all- if it's not patentable, granting a patent on it is NOT doing your job in a manner that if I'd done something similar in my day job, they'd fire my *ss.
If you believe that this is the case, I've a bit of seaside property on the middle of the Florida coastline (It's dry, I PROMISE!) and a bit of bridge to sell you.
A Patent is only worth the amount of money you've got to litigate an infringer into submission- for starters.
Worse, there's so damned many Patents out there that you're NOT assured of anything in regards to that "motivation" you speak of.
This is not to say you shouldn't be patenting things- but the bullshit you just spouted off...well, only the foolish believe that these days.
The claim that VP8's inferior isn't a foregone conclusion based on what it doesn't infringe upon. Really? You actually believe that tripe?
The only way one can determine if it's an inferior or superior codec is on the quantitative and qualitative results of the compression- and pretty much nothing else.
Not even close... Third...
Ah, but they won't use a Warrant. Already know of a county (Nearby Tarrant...) illegally using manned surveillance planes to "spot animal cruelty" from the air.
What counts is what a court will see in all of that.
Honestly, it's a shame they didn't stick with something Open Source.
Heh... Keep telling yourself this. It's less to do with what you're talking to and more of a licensing rules thing. Backdoors in GSM are already known and the "baseband" attacks these jokers allude to are actually as much bullshit as the "security risks" they're talking to on these devices.
http://www.pittnerovi.com/jiri/hobby/electronics/gsm/index.html is there for your reading for starters. It has nothing to do with what you claim it to be- because if that were the case, it'd be illegal pretty much everywhere and it isn't.
Seriously... I'm beginning to wonder about the quality of presentations at Black Hat if this was even there .
The modems themselves aren't a threat. It's the fact that many of them cart around drivers and "manager" applications which could provide storage based attack vectors or through compromised versions of the driver or manager that you have any problems... Unsurprising and already well known by most security researchers.
1) For many of those "security threat" modems, Linux works wonders as does *BSD as they support the devices out of box with OS provided support.
2) There's a panopoly of devices that don't expose the machines to any of these vectors that runs $50-150 provided by vendors such as Zoom and Cradlepoint (in fact, it's what I use since it allows the LTE dongle (that doesn't have these "risks" by the way...) be able to switch between 3G and 4G seamlessly (Linux supports both, but NetworkManager doesn't support switching gears between the differing ways both modes are accessed yet...). The devices either have their own battery or not but allow multiple (more than a MiFi type device does...) devices on the connection.
3) If you're wanting something with a few less moving parts and slightly more compact, you can always get a MiFi (which is what the Telcos are now leaning towards because it allows things like your Nook or Kindle to link up to the Internet as well as your notebook...).
I'd be ashamed of myself if I were to try to have ran this "issue" up the flagpole at BlackHat or DEFCON. Really, guys?
It happens because it works. If you put things back a bit more like they were shortly after the Great Depression was over with and make it more profitable (because of tax code changes it's not...) to dole out dividends and the like, such that it's less profitable to strip mine a company that's publicly traded, then you'd see a lot less of this.
Heh... Because you're getting quite a bit less than what $30k/yr would buy you with someone from here. For a long while, I was making real money UN-f*cking up projects that they followed this philosophy with. Offshored and H1B'ed workers aren't the top-shelf people- they typically manage to keep the best talent in-country and pay they proportionately higher wages to keep them there. What you typically get with these deals are the mediocre at best.
Heh... If you hate meetings, you don't want to be in management...especially in the CxO crowd. Management's more about meetings than anything else unless you're a startup...and even then...
While requiring a login, you CAN do that with Google Voice right now... Still is cool. It's just Faceplant that's retarded...
Why ditch it when you can put the stupid spammers on a blocking group and send them permanantly and quietly to VoiceJail on GV?
Stil...I find Faceplant's price a bit too steep. It's hardly free.
Heh... All you need to do to understand that you might be on to something is look at who Al Gore sold his media company to last year. It was those "polluters" that were part of an "Inconvienient Truth".
The real inconvienent truth is that he did more polluting in the name of "cleaning things up" by all that speaking tour on the subject than any single one of us here combined. Each and every one of those jet trips he did provided that. Then he sold the media company to Al Jazeera.
I don't buy for a moment any of this stuff because it's empty appeals to emotion. Seriously.
Should we be concerned about what we're doing to the environment? Yes. Should be we be doing a chicken little? No. Are we doing one right now? YES.
Really?
Windmills cause climate change
That's just ONE example. Electric vehicles require Lithium or NiMH batteries in large quantites which cause worse pollution than the internal combustion engines that you're replacing them with- and hybrids tend to be the worst of both worlds. In the case of EV's you have the pollution of the POWER PLANT charging the things- which at this time is a coal or gas fired plant in most cases, or a problematic just post-WWII era nuclear reactor design, none of which are "clean" or "cheap" in the sense you seem to be using. Wind power doing it? Look at the link and weep. Solar power? Right now, it's the most expensive in terms of net power consumption to get to power production and it's the least efficient- not to mention that the cheapest designs combust in sunlight if you have a failure of the encapsulation of the cells (Look up "Abound Solar" and "burning"... We won't do liquid salt Thorium reactors or Pebble Bed reactors so nuclear power's currently more dangerous and potentially polluting than the other options. (Now, if you'd say we do that for electricity, you'd be starting in the right direction...a bit...)
Saying that they're actually cheaper is being ignorant of everything and listening to the feel-good arguments that're full of appeals to emotion and devoid of the reality of things. This isn't to say that we shouldn't be working on things in that direction- but to claim it's cheaper or actually better right at the moment...you're lying to everyone about it...including yourself.
The moment you use the term "denialists", you've converted the discussion from science into religion.
There's a reason why some deny it- it's because of crap like what you just spouted. Right or wrong, it's not hard science like you're claiming it is- you've made it your faith and you'll not listen to ANY reasonable discussion on the subject.
Actually, the only non-renewable "fossil" fuel is Coal- which actually IS a fossil fuel. What do you think happens with all the dead matter on the bottom of the ocean when it's subducted with the plates at the trenches? It's subjected to pyrolysis and converted into...wait for it...
Natural gas and oil.
You see the process done up in miniature with a Thermal Depolymerization setup.
It's not that it's toxic- it becomes an asphyxiant. The partial pressures of CO2 become such that you can't get it out of your blood at those levels.
Toxic is where it quickly attacks your system instead of suffocating you- CO is toxic.
Hint: It's pretty easy to get a headshot with a shotgun at close to medium range. Wave the gun in the general direction and pull the trigger- and it's a hell of a lot cheaper (and looks more cool...) than the silver bullet approach... (Not to mention you can load a shotshell with a bunch of little silver bullets and be best of both worlds... Hey, funny that...that list IS a bunch of little ineffective ones by themselves...)
1) These are due to trying to make Linux "easy". If you're using a desktop install, it's going to happen. Autorun is a BAD and bogus idea, really.
2) An embedded or secured Linux won't respond to Autorun like this. I think only the ones trying to be a Windows/OSX "competitor" like Ubuntu have this on by default.
Sorry, it's more that the OS in question (Windows) does stupid things that're insecure by design - and adopting any of those bad ideas in your OS will cause the same sorts of problems. Your set of links merely proves this.
Ah, but you're reading MORE into this than is actually there (HINT: This story'd been WAAAAY different if it'd been YOUR story...).
Quite simply put, you're glossing over that Windows is actually a BAD choice for a SCADA system software component- because this wouldn't have happened the way it was read and seems to be playing out if it'd not been a Windows system in the first place.