And you bought it as is, including the locked bootloader. But yes, it's your hardware, so feel free to try to install linux or anything else you'd like to do to it. If you can make it work then more power to you.
Yes, actually there are. From my testing (in a different post) I showed that you get different rates with each new load as long as you aren't sending cookies. Whatever he was doing to test cookie-wise was wrong (which should have been obvious considering he was re-installing browsers to clear cookies, wtf?).
So yes, this was absolutely a case of correlation != causation.
"Gary McKinnon, still suffering from Asperger's syndrome, depression, anxiety, and panic attacks, has one last chance to avoid extradition from the UK to the US to face charges of hacking into NASA and Pentagon computers in search of information on UFOs."
I'm sorry, what relevance does his Aspergers, depression, anxiety, panic attacks, or ingrown toenails have to do with anything? He broke into government systems repeatedly, end of story.
They also don't work very well with macs. At least half the time I see a mac user try to hook up to some VGA projector using one of those it doesn't work, but on the same projector a PC with a VGA out works perfect.
The expression "RAID is not back up" is meant to illustrate that if you're only copy of something (ergo you're working-copy) is on RAID, that is not enough. Significant hardware failure, file corruption through application or OS, or file deletion by accident or a virus - any of these will destroy your local data even if it is RAID'd.
If your working copy is on computer A, however, and you're backing up to a RAID on computer B (or NAS B, whatever), that is back up. It is not fantastic back up (offsite, multiple layers of redundancy, encrypted, yada yada yada), but it is back up.
In short, "RAID is not back up" should be rephrased as "RAID alone is not back up."
By the time that XP downgrade issue comes up XP will be 9 years old, how long are they supposed to be supporting this OS? People love to bag on microsoft for security, but when they try to kill off the largest security flaw on the internet today, the ubiquity of the XP machines where (almost) everyone is running as administrator, people freak out. Windows 7 finally brings the ability to actually use windows effectively without being administrator and without getting asked for your permission to allow something every 6 seconds. This is a very Good Thing(TM).
You've had plenty of time to test for incompatibilities, and if you haven't done it yet start now; Win7 beta is freely available for you to test with right now, I think you'll find most things work fine. As a side note, if you find some legacy apps that don't play with Windows 7, a good workaround to get the abilities of windows 7 while still using that app is throwing it in a VM. Not painless but better than sticking with a dead OS.
If you truly want the internet to be a safer place then you should want XP gone as quickly as possible.
Another aspect here: in the case being referred to the issue was that it was so close it created confusion. However in all of the GH games it is made very clear at the beginning of the song whether it is a cover or not. Real songs are "by," and covers are "as made famous by," i.e. :
Welcome to the Jungle by Guns N' Roses
vs.
What I like about you as made famous by The Romantics
Given this, I don't really see how The Romantics can reasonably claim customer confusion.
There is not one recorded/public example of someone breaking out of the isolation of a virtual environment! I dare someone to demonstrate otherwise, and I will eat my words.
Well then I hope you're hungry. I saw Ed Skoudis from counterhack.net demonstrate virtual machine escape live at SANS Las Vegas in September. VMware and others have released patches related to the vulnerabilities he discovered.
From patch release notes:
Workstation 6.0.1 addresses the following security issues:
* This release fixes a security vulnerability that could allow a guest operating system user with administrative privileges to cause memory corruption in a host process, and thus potentially execute arbitrary code on the host. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) assigned the following name to this issue: CVE-2007-4496.
I'm not even positive this is the exact bug he used, but even if it isn't it shows the possibilities exist.
Yes, let's do apply it. He announced a vulnerability in apple's (and a number of other vendors) wifi layer 2 frame handling and then demonstrated it (without releasing code). Apple, intel, and a number of other affected vendors then release patches for exactly that area of code.
You truly feel the simplest explanation is that he was just bs'ing and then those vendors just happened to find that exact issue? Seems unlikely to me.
Not to mention, in many cases, a crash is just a landing pad and some shell code away from an exploit.
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And you bought it as is, including the locked bootloader. But yes, it's your hardware, so feel free to try to install linux or anything else you'd like to do to it. If you can make it work then more power to you.
Just don't whine when you fail.
Indeed, I'm amazed this got accepted.
I also like this part:
"They also share another disturbing trait: they are could be very closed devices."
Indeed that is a disturbing sentence.
I truly don't get this. If an organization requires a law to tell it that it shouldn't do this - YOU DON'T WANT TO WORK THERE.
Consider yourself lucky that they demonstrated that right up front in the interview before you spent weeks/months/years there.
I have a Samsung TV, and overall I really like it. But with shit like this going on I won't be buying one again.
Bye, Samsung!
"There are no other obvious variables."
Yes, actually there are. From my testing (in a different post) I showed that you get different rates with each new load as long as you aren't sending cookies. Whatever he was doing to test cookie-wise was wrong (which should have been obvious considering he was re-installing browsers to clear cookies, wtf?).
So yes, this was absolutely a case of correlation != causation.
$ for i in {1..2000}; do curl https://www.capitalone.com/ 2>/dev/null | grep "as low as" -m 1 | cut -d ">" -f 3 | cut -d "%" -f 1; done | sort | uniq -c
420 2.30
499 2.70
428 3.10
653 3.50
So for 2000 samples (with the default curl user-agent) we get
2.3% (~21%)
2.7% (~25%)
3.1% (~21%)
3.5% (~33%)
Now let's try it again with a firefox for windows user agent.
$ for i in {1..2000}; do curl https://www.capitalone.com/ --user-agent 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.11) Gecko/20101012 Firefox/3.6.11 Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.11) Gecko/20101012 Firefox/3.6.11' 2>/dev/null | grep "as low as" -m 1 | cut -d ">" -f 3 | cut -d "%" -f 1; done | sort | uniq -c
395 2.30
536 2.70
450 3.10
619 3.50
So for 2000 samples (with the firefox user agent) we get
2.3% (~20%)
2.7% (~27%)
3.1% (~23%)
3.5% (~31%)
This deviation does not seem statistically meaningful to me, I would conclude that user agent is not relevant, at least not between firefox and curl.
Once again, there are many circumstances in which this is not illegal, so that is not a valid argument.
"Gary McKinnon, still suffering from Asperger's syndrome, depression, anxiety, and panic attacks, has one last chance to avoid extradition from the UK to the US to face charges of hacking into NASA and Pentagon computers in search of information on UFOs."
I'm sorry, what relevance does his Aspergers, depression, anxiety, panic attacks, or ingrown toenails have to do with anything? He broke into government systems repeatedly, end of story.
Sorry, my irony detector is overloading.
so: "1 byte = 10 bits" is perfectly OK!
I wasn't making a general computer science statement. In the architecture the article is talking about a byte is 8 bits, so no, it's not OK.
"where 1 byte = 10 bits."
as well as multiple prominent instances of "4096K"
Being off by 3 orders of magnitude is pretty hugely wrong, as is something as basic as how many bits are in a byte.
They also don't work very well with macs. At least half the time I see a mac user try to hook up to some VGA projector using one of those it doesn't work, but on the same projector a PC with a VGA out works perfect.
The expression "RAID is not back up" is meant to illustrate that if you're only copy of something (ergo you're working-copy) is on RAID, that is not enough. Significant hardware failure, file corruption through application or OS, or file deletion by accident or a virus - any of these will destroy your local data even if it is RAID'd.
If your working copy is on computer A, however, and you're backing up to a RAID on computer B (or NAS B, whatever), that is back up. It is not fantastic back up (offsite, multiple layers of redundancy, encrypted, yada yada yada), but it is back up.
In short, "RAID is not back up" should be rephrased as "RAID alone is not back up."
You see, this is why slashdot sucks these days. You post something reasonable that isn't "OMG M$ Sux0rs!" and you get marked as flamebait.
Yes, feel free to mark this the same or worse, I didn't say "Go linux!" once so I know it deserves to be ignored.
By the time that XP downgrade issue comes up XP will be 9 years old, how long are they supposed to be supporting this OS? People love to bag on microsoft for security, but when they try to kill off the largest security flaw on the internet today, the ubiquity of the XP machines where (almost) everyone is running as administrator, people freak out. Windows 7 finally brings the ability to actually use windows effectively without being administrator and without getting asked for your permission to allow something every 6 seconds. This is a very Good Thing(TM).
You've had plenty of time to test for incompatibilities, and if you haven't done it yet start now; Win7 beta is freely available for you to test with right now, I think you'll find most things work fine. As a side note, if you find some legacy apps that don't play with Windows 7, a good workaround to get the abilities of windows 7 while still using that app is throwing it in a VM. Not painless but better than sticking with a dead OS.
If you truly want the internet to be a safer place then you should want XP gone as quickly as possible.
context, rather.
Drobo does have a NAS attachment, but the performance will be poor, especially in a gigE content.
Another aspect here: in the case being referred to the issue was that it was so close it created confusion. However in all of the GH games it is made very clear at the beginning of the song whether it is a cover or not. Real songs are "by," and covers are "as made famous by," i.e. :
Welcome to the Jungle
by Guns N' Roses
vs.
What I like about you
as made famous by The Romantics
Given this, I don't really see how The Romantics can reasonably claim customer confusion.
There is not one recorded/public example of someone breaking out of the isolation of a virtual environment! I dare someone to demonstrate otherwise, and I will eat my words.
Well then I hope you're hungry. I saw Ed Skoudis from counterhack.net demonstrate virtual machine escape live at SANS Las Vegas in September. VMware and others have released patches related to the vulnerabilities he discovered.
From patch release notes:
Workstation 6.0.1 addresses the following security issues:
* This release fixes a security vulnerability that could allow a guest operating system user with administrative privileges to cause memory corruption in a host process, and thus potentially execute arbitrary code on the host. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) assigned the following name to this issue: CVE-2007-4496.
I'm not even positive this is the exact bug he used, but even if it isn't it shows the possibilities exist.
Kids like anything that makes them feel/look more grown-up. Did we really need a study for this?
I just hate that word.
"Remember when I took that home wine-making course and forgot how to drive?"
"That's because you were drunk!"
"And how!"
It already tanked last weekend so predicting that it tanks next weekend isn't a risky bet, but it has nothing to do with this.
Let's apply Occam's Razor here.
Yes, let's do apply it. He announced a vulnerability in apple's (and a number of other vendors) wifi layer 2 frame handling and then demonstrated it (without releasing code). Apple, intel, and a number of other affected vendors then release patches for exactly that area of code.
You truly feel the simplest explanation is that he was just bs'ing and then those vendors just happened to find that exact issue? Seems unlikely to me.
Not to mention, in many cases, a crash is just a landing pad and some shell code away from an exploit.
I've used code collaborator and I find it pretty good. The interface can be a little limiting sometimes, but overall a good product that allows the reviewers to review from their office when they have time to do it. This can occasionally lead to the review dragging on, but the convenience is worth it.