What I don't understand is how did they know that the source code was from a government's classified project and therefore should be deleted? The way that i see it is that if they happen to get their hands on malware source code then why wouldn't they assume that it is illegal and process the heck out of it?
So if I was a bad buy and wanted to protect from my source code from analysis then I should mark it "Top Secret" and "Classified" and post it my github account and no one will mess with it?
I would tend to agree that the sysadmins are not playing nice. Even if MS does release the "fix" to resolve this issue, how are the users going to retrieve it without Internet Access? I wouldn't want to have to deal with explaining/faxing instructions on how to retrieve a disk and manually installing an update, especially if that update depended upon other updates.
We have an ISP like that right now. Anytime the circuit drops for any reason they call us to find out what if we are doing anything that might have caused it or if they need to get on it. I have even gotten calls from that home in the middle of the night to let me know the circuit was down and they were working on it. Typically I already know the circuit is down but it really is nice to know they are on it. If it is our problem they even offer to help us fix it. Their name is SBBSNet and they are located in Michigan. I highly recommend them for a lot of applications. Disclaimer: I am not affiliated with them other than as a customer and I have been that for a lot of years.
I noticed this a couple of weeks ago on my router. I by-passed the issue by enabling port-forwarding and forwarded those two ports to a non-existant IP address. This solved my issue but YMMV. Hope it helps.
I noticed this a couple of weeks ago on my Router. I bypassed the issue by enabling port-forwarding and I forwarded those two ports to a non-existant IP address. Problem solved. YMMV.
This should be the ideal solution, unfortunately it is also the most expensive. The numbers that we were given for such care is about $90,000 a year. We encounter a lot of people that tell us that number is way to high but no one ever gives us a better number. If anyone has any information that contradicts this, I would find that information to be very helpful.
Any help/ideas are helpful. Even some of the more twisted ones have value buried in them someplace. The reason that I replied the way I did wasn't out of defense, per se. I was trying to help you to see the other side of the situation. Having to lock doors to keep somebody safe (relatively) is not a comforting thought, but what is the alternative?
Posting personal information on slashdot isn't comforting either but I have found more decent suggestions in the last two days here on slashdot then I have heard in two years of struggling with the system.
Although I appreciate your suggestion, I would like to point out a couple of things that it doesn't take into consideration. I realize you couldn't possibly have had this info but I included as much as I could in my question but couldn't include everything.
One, this kid can be determined. I don't know if Autistics are more determined then most or not but when this kid has a purpose, its his only purpose in life. I chased him for six hours once when we went to a family reunion which happened to be in a park by a river. His purpose in life that day was to get to the water. I positioned myself between him and the water and ran for six hours to keep myself there. Sometimes he would run the other way, to lead me away from the water, and then would try to circle around me to get back to the water. Various family members offered to relieve me but my wife and I agreed that no one would watch him closely enough to be allowed that responsibility. If you let your guard down for a moment, he would get by you. He got by me twice but never made it to the water, and I watched him CLOSELY. After six hours I was too tired to move, so we scooped him up and headed home. It was my wife's family so I ran while she socialized
Two, he doesn't sleep. Actually, he sleeps about four hours a night.
Third, the family is nearing a breaking point already. We watch this kid 24/7. He can be aggressive, difficult to handle, and determined. The effort required to instill rules and behaviors into a kid like this can be massive and the first time he sees an opportunity to do what he wants he will. Then all of the effort put into it is wasted. You cannot know how frustrating and discouraging that can be. A couple of weeks ago, I was teaching him how to color with markers. We were doing great and been at it all day. Take a marker out of the box, color, put the cap back on it and put it in the box. We were doing great. My daught called and was ready to be picked up. I told the five year old to get his shoes on and had to help him find one. I had my back turned for two minutes and when I turned back, he was blue. Literally, my son was blue. He had colored his face, his eyes, in his ears, his teeth, everyting. He took the felt insert out of the marker, colored himself blue and ate it. He ate the insert. I cried. Thank GOD for nontoxic, washable crayolas. By the way, the school called a couple days later, slightly concerned about the bright green bowl movement that he had at school that day.
Sometime I will have to tell you about the time we tried to do Sparklers with him. He tried to put one in his eye. Now we know better.
Typical scenario: I'm outside mowing lawn, trimming trees, digging ditches, or whatever that may require a small amount of attentiveness is outside of a direct line of sight with the door. Let's say my five year old is outside with me. When my five year old decides he needs to go to the bathroom, or wants to grab his hotwheels, he needs to be able to go into the house, get what he wants and come back outside without leaving a door unlocked for the Autistic child to get out. For the record, my wife is inside watching the Autistic child, but she may be folding laundry, doing dishes, picking up a bedroom or something else that isn't in a direct line of sight with the door. Trust me when I say that we are much more aware of what our children are doing then any parent that we know. We are because we HAVE to be, but as close as we watch him, its impossible to watch him 24/7 and he is sneaky. Did I mention he only sleeps four hours a night?
I do have nine of them wired together. Why nine? Since so many of our doors are kept locked all of the time, it seemed like a good idea to make sure that each zone was monitored, and that other zones would be alerted to an issue.
We have considered this as well but let two things stop us from pursuing it further. One, is how to detect the tags? They use sensors at Walmart and other places but I have never been able to find them at a reaonable cost, or figure out how they work. Two, if this kid decided that he didn't want to wear the tag, you couldn't possibly keep it on him. He skinned up his hand one time, pretty guesome, so I put some ointment on, with gauze and I taped the snot out of it. I superglued the end of the tape so that he couldn't get it off. Well, he got it off. He sprained his wrist peeling it backword over his hand. Lesson learned: Don't underestimate the determination of an Autistic kid.
We have put more thought a system that allows us to know when the door was opened then most, but my wife was concerned that too many 'false positives' would make the system ineffective. Cobining it with another idea (RF tags?) might make it more accurate.
My wife already has trouble handling him when he wants to be difficult. Unfortunately, there isn't anything/anyone available to assist us at this time, so we do the best we can.
I understand your thoughts and we consider it often as we try to decide what to do but if he gets out, there is a very strong chance that he could be seriously hurt, killed, lost, like frostbite the last time he got out.
There is a much smaller risk that someone else would not get out during an internal emergency
Actually, as I understand it, being a member of a union takes away your ability to ask for a raise period. When you elect a union, in the US, the union becomes your sole represenative when bargaining with management. We are currently undergoing an organization effort for our non-technical positions.
Something that I would add would be routines that would monitor the functionality of semi-intelligent/intelligent appliances. Action could be taken if the applinance suddenly deviated from its previous norms. i.e. the duty cycle for the sump pump averaged 20% for the last year, today it ran 100%. The refridgerator normally uses 12 amps of current on a 10% duty cycle to maintain 40 degrees, today its using 18 amps on 40% to maintain 45. But what do I know?
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What I don't understand is how did they know that the source code was from a government's classified project and therefore should be deleted? The way that i see it is that if they happen to get their hands on malware source code then why wouldn't they assume that it is illegal and process the heck out of it? So if I was a bad buy and wanted to protect from my source code from analysis then I should mark it "Top Secret" and "Classified" and post it my github account and no one will mess with it?
I would tend to agree that the sysadmins are not playing nice. Even if MS does release the "fix" to resolve this issue, how are the users going to retrieve it without Internet Access? I wouldn't want to have to deal with explaining/faxing instructions on how to retrieve a disk and manually installing an update, especially if that update depended upon other updates.
We have an ISP like that right now. Anytime the circuit drops for any reason they call us to find out what if we are doing anything that might have caused it or if they need to get on it. I have even gotten calls from that home in the middle of the night to let me know the circuit was down and they were working on it. Typically I already know the circuit is down but it really is nice to know they are on it. If it is our problem they even offer to help us fix it. Their name is SBBSNet and they are located in Michigan. I highly recommend them for a lot of applications. Disclaimer: I am not affiliated with them other than as a customer and I have been that for a lot of years.
Hey Dude, if you can get me a list of people to call then I will donate the phone time to call them.
If I don't confirm receipt, then I didn't it.
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I noticed this a couple of weeks ago on my router. I by-passed the issue by enabling port-forwarding and forwarded those two ports to a non-existant IP address. This solved my issue but YMMV. Hope it helps.
I noticed this a couple of weeks ago on my Router. I bypassed the issue by enabling port-forwarding and I forwarded those two ports to a non-existant IP address. Problem solved. YMMV.
This should be the ideal solution, unfortunately it is also the most expensive. The numbers that we were given for such care is about $90,000 a year. We encounter a lot of people that tell us that number is way to high but no one ever gives us a better number. If anyone has any information that contradicts this, I would find that information to be very helpful.
Any help/ideas are helpful. Even some of the more twisted ones have value buried in them someplace. The reason that I replied the way I did wasn't out of defense, per se. I was trying to help you to see the other side of the situation. Having to lock doors to keep somebody safe (relatively) is not a comforting thought, but what is the alternative?
Posting personal information on slashdot isn't comforting either but I have found more decent suggestions in the last two days here on slashdot then I have heard in two years of struggling with the system.
Thanks.
Although I appreciate your suggestion, I would like to point out a couple of things that it doesn't take into consideration. I realize you couldn't possibly have had this info but I included as much as I could in my question but couldn't include everything.
One, this kid can be determined. I don't know if Autistics are more determined then most or not but when this kid has a purpose, its his only purpose in life. I chased him for six hours once when we went to a family reunion which happened to be in a park by a river. His purpose in life that day was to get to the water. I positioned myself between him and the water and ran for six hours to keep myself there. Sometimes he would run the other way, to lead me away from the water, and then would try to circle around me to get back to the water. Various family members offered to relieve me but my wife and I agreed that no one would watch him closely enough to be allowed that responsibility. If you let your guard down for a moment, he would get by you. He got by me twice but never made it to the water, and I watched him CLOSELY. After six hours I was too tired to move, so we scooped him up and headed home. It was my wife's family so I ran while she socialized
Two, he doesn't sleep. Actually, he sleeps about four hours a night.
Third, the family is nearing a breaking point already. We watch this kid 24/7. He can be aggressive, difficult to handle, and determined. The effort required to instill rules and behaviors into a kid like this can be massive and the first time he sees an opportunity to do what he wants he will. Then all of the effort put into it is wasted. You cannot know how frustrating and discouraging that can be. A couple of weeks ago, I was teaching him how to color with markers. We were doing great and been at it all day. Take a marker out of the box, color, put the cap back on it and put it in the box. We were doing great. My daught called and was ready to be picked up. I told the five year old to get his shoes on and had to help him find one. I had my back turned for two minutes and when I turned back, he was blue. Literally, my son was blue. He had colored his face, his eyes, in his ears, his teeth, everyting. He took the felt insert out of the marker, colored himself blue and ate it. He ate the insert. I cried. Thank GOD for nontoxic, washable crayolas. By the way, the school called a couple days later, slightly concerned about the bright green bowl movement that he had at school that day.
Sometime I will have to tell you about the time we tried to do Sparklers with him. He tried to put one in his eye. Now we know better.
Typical scenario: I'm outside mowing lawn, trimming trees, digging ditches, or whatever that may require a small amount of attentiveness is outside of a direct line of sight with the door. Let's say my five year old is outside with me. When my five year old decides he needs to go to the bathroom, or wants to grab his hotwheels, he needs to be able to go into the house, get what he wants and come back outside without leaving a door unlocked for the Autistic child to get out. For the record, my wife is inside watching the Autistic child, but she may be folding laundry, doing dishes, picking up a bedroom or something else that isn't in a direct line of sight with the door. Trust me when I say that we are much more aware of what our children are doing then any parent that we know. We are because we HAVE to be, but as close as we watch him, its impossible to watch him 24/7 and he is sneaky. Did I mention he only sleeps four hours a night?
Good point.
I do have nine of them wired together. Why nine? Since so many of our doors are kept locked all of the time, it seemed like a good idea to make sure that each zone was monitored, and that other zones would be alerted to an issue.
Thanks.
We have considered this as well but let two things stop us from pursuing it further. One, is how to detect the tags? They use sensors at Walmart and other places but I have never been able to find them at a reaonable cost, or figure out how they work. Two, if this kid decided that he didn't want to wear the tag, you couldn't possibly keep it on him. He skinned up his hand one time, pretty guesome, so I put some ointment on, with gauze and I taped the snot out of it. I superglued the end of the tape so that he couldn't get it off. Well, he got it off. He sprained his wrist peeling it backword over his hand. Lesson learned: Don't underestimate the determination of an Autistic kid.
We have put more thought a system that allows us to know when the door was opened then most, but my wife was concerned that too many 'false positives' would make the system ineffective. Cobining it with another idea (RF tags?) might make it more accurate.
HE can come in any time that he wants. I just don't want the neighbor kids, or anyone else coming in without knowing about it.
My wife already has trouble handling him when he wants to be difficult. Unfortunately, there isn't anything/anyone available to assist us at this time, so we do the best we can.
I understand your thoughts and we consider it often as we try to decide what to do but if he gets out, there is a very strong chance that he could be seriously hurt, killed, lost, like frostbite the last time he got out.
There is a much smaller risk that someone else would not get out during an internal emergency
Which one is better? I don't know.
Why not just block the browsers/OS from viewing your sites. That would eliminate them maninpulating your content.
Actually, as I understand it, being a member of a union takes away your ability to ask for a raise period. When you elect a union, in the US, the union becomes your sole represenative when bargaining with management. We are currently undergoing an organization effort for our non-technical positions.
Something that I would add would be routines that would monitor the functionality of semi-intelligent/intelligent appliances. Action could be taken if the applinance suddenly deviated from its previous norms. i.e. the duty cycle for the sump pump averaged 20% for the last year, today it ran 100%. The refridgerator normally uses 12 amps of current on a 10% duty cycle to maintain 40 degrees, today its using 18 amps on 40% to maintain 45. But what do I know?