Not only can you send any type of encryption through Gmail you want, there's friggin Thunderbird plugins that do it automatically through Gmail and IMAP.
Whatever the fuck you are doing that isn't working, well that's because you are dumb, not because it can't be done.
Go back to 4chan or somewhere else where bullshit is appreciated.
The original "wind turbines kill birds" campaign used several outlets to say the same thing, using the same four dead birds picture with no evidence.
Glass buildings in cities, radio towers (lights at night), cars all kill way more birds than wind power ever could.
"Fluffy" the house-cat let out at night, and feral cats kill 10,000 times the estimated bird kill from 100% of the US power needs from wind.
In other words, it's hippy bullshit created by folks with (now) lots of money and a bad case of NIMBY-ism. Ex-hippies lie just as much as any other baby boomer does.
Well, you're right for now. While we're starting to develop alternative fuels...let's try to get past the ECO-freaks out there, that won't let us drill for our own oil, in our country!! China is drilling in cuban waters just off the coast of FL...why the fuck aren't we drilling in the lucrative oil fields offshore of FL, NJ, CA...?? I believe, it is because when the rest of the world is tapped out, there will still be quite a bit in "environmentally protected" areas that will be used to retain world superpower status long after everybody else goes back to riding behind horses.
The only thing that stopped me from doing some crap like that, was recognizing that it would ultimately be a self-destructive act. I had all sorts of violence planned for the guy that broke up my marriage, but stopped for two reasons; a) I would get caught and b) it would have killed his dogs too. (I like animals.)
Despite being an ordinarily very caring and nice person, I was ready to do these things. Pile on it worse, is the spouse has a relationship with them, but NOT so much the third party. So expect to bear the brunt of the anger for TWO people.
Even if you have no moral restrictions for interfering with a married or otherwise "taken" person, don't do it because you could get killed if you underestimate something. Sex is great, but it's not worth getting killed for.
- kids - assets - giving as much (of the two above) to women as possible
Yeah, if you are thinking your marriage is rotten, there's good reason to get proof to motivate you to end it. But, photos of a spouse at a hotel mean exactly dick in divorce court. They might mean something for child custody, but that's about it.
That said, the setup is stupid. Either wipe the damn thing, or well.. wipe the damn thing.
Seriously, it takes 4 hours at most to get windows installed, drivers, and service packs. The only reason not to do that would be pirated software, and well, you get what you pay for eh?
Even FINDING a keylogger isn't going to do anything, if there is one, IT DOESNT PROVE THE SPOUSE DID IT. It could always come in through a hole of some kind. (If the gal is dumb enough to not know how to combat a keylogger, she's dumb enough to let stuff in in the first place.)
That said, I sympathize with the need to find proof, I used technical means (Wireshark and Ethereal) to get proof my wife was cheating. Now, I am selling the house and throwing away her shit while she rents a one room in the ghetto. (Karma is a biatch, just like my wife.)
I got one to admit it once (a co worker), she said she did it to feel "special" by commandeering the attention of her boyfriend when he was fixated on something else.
They are causing lots of extra costs (and problems) with power plants in the Great Lakes too. They like the warm ejecta water, and screw up the exit pipes for the power plants.
I would think the same code that applies to dealing with a child's computer when you are helping the parent would apply here.
In that situation, I always ask "how much do you want to know?" and let them decide if they want me to reveal the particular flavor of porn or whatever else they were in into.
I've never had a parent say "i want to know", it's always "fix it and let them keep their privacy".
That said, the goal is not just to recover a 1099 form or something, the goal is a peek into what someone was thinking. In that case, data from just about anywhere might be relevant.
The thing is, all parties involved should go into it knowing and agreeing what the case is on that, rather than having the geek go looking, share, and then get bad feelings because that's not what people expected.
That said... once the information is gained, the data should be wiped, not harvested for what might be useful for a geek later.
The Fermi Paradox is only a paradox if you are willing to swallow intellectually weak arguments in order to get to an interesting meme.
First, it assumes that such life thinks it should contact us, wants to, and can bust through the various physical barriers (speed of light) to do that. (A bad assumption IMHO.)
Secondly assumes that we have done good searches or would see evidence that was there (which is not true)...
And THEN commits an argument from ignorance.
"Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence"
Yes, Fermi was a good physicist. But he sure was a shitty philosopher.
The Fermi Paradox is nothing more than an interesting point of mental masturbation with one's geek friends over whatever you happen to imbibe. It is NOT however anything that should be used in an actual probability analysis of ET or ETI.
Sealing ammo cans with cloth tape.
Though the origin of the name is a controversy, the term is originally "Duck Tape" because water is repelled by the outside surface, thus making it good for ammo cans.
You can get the can wet, pull it out of the wet, and since the water rolled off, open the can right away without getting much water in the can.
Or, so the story goes.
If the ISP can hide behind the EULA as a contract how long before banks and telecoms jump on this bandwagon?
Zero days. Banks are, and have been for a long time, training various staff members how to scan through account history and locate "suspicious" (as defined by the feds) activity.
It's called the "Know your customer" campaign.
And, since it's the bank data, the can do this as often and however they want, hand the data over as a friendly tip and there's not a goddamn thing you can do about it. (Aside from not use banks, which will probably get you on some other list.)
I know this, because I helped develop (the tech side) of several online courses given by several state banking associations during the 90's.
The banks already are spying on you, and it's all OK because it's strictly 'voluntary' (wink wink nudge nudge here's some payback in the form of ignoring your illegal loans to relatives).
Bankers in general, are always pansy ass suck ups, and especially so when it comes to the feds.
"There are things for which the debate has been conducted and there is a settled position. Things like the world is not flat and that the Earth is not the center of the Universe. People who debate those points don't have open minds, they're just stupid."
-birdmanesq
Pretty much sums it up. There's no "debate", only stupid people making movies or otherwise flapping their yaps.
Ben Stain is motivated by the same thing Michael Moore is, profit. Discourse on science doesn't happen on a movie screen, though it might happen at a lecture in a movie theatre.
Several people have posted saying "why don't banks do X" and I just happened to hit reply on yours, so this is adding to the conversation.
Banks, as one used to think of them were the cutting edge of vault design and technology. The internet and computers however, have passed them up. You need to be dealing with a VERY big bank before you can count on professional experienced IT folks making decisions about this stuff.
For a bank, IT staff like a janitor. They don't listen to them or take them seriously.
At most small or regional banks, some goober vice president who knows nothing but thinks he does (because he installed AOL at home) is in control of the IT department.
The web site, that's managed by the youngest female member of the marketing department because she both has the most internet skills, and doesn't have the authority to push the crap jobs on someone else. So the web site itself slowly rots with more and more animated GIFs and less and less sense.
All the while, you have a large industry of fraudsters selling useless services to these banks, without anybody anywhere along the line really having a clue. They spend thousands of dollars a year on certification services, auditors, "penetration tests" (which is really just off the shelf open source programs) and then refuse to upgrade to an individual server (for an extra $20 a month) so they can lock it down to their tastes, and they won't spend $100 to get a bit of consulting to help them do it.
Also, if a bank tries to teach someone something, they take on MORE liability. Because now the lawyer has the "your training was inadequate, you owe my client".
Banks are about minimizing and mitigating risk. Teaching something, ADDS risk. So they don't do it. Telling folks that event XYZ happened and they should protect themselves just reveals they knew it was happening.
The bottom line is, they don't give a flying fuck about the end customer's individual accounts, they care about their overall accounts and what the government will do to them, they DONT care about what market forces will do to them because that's not a big threat.
Banks need their Bill Cosby of IT. Someone with pull, well respected, and known to them to go "You are doing it wrong!" Until that guy comes along, they will continue to founder.
Until then, consumers are on their own. Protect your friends and family as much as you can, but don't go insane banging your head against the wall of human IT ignorance. You can't bust through it. Only time will let it crumble as the ignorant die off in 60 years.
Last time I followed this stuff. The universe was open (destined for heat death) and the margin of "how open" was HUGE.
Unless the universes before had significantly different masses, there's no way this happened.
It's irrelevant in any case. You can think, talk, have a beer while imagining all this stuff as much as you want. But unless you can tack a method of gathering data to TEST the theory it IS. NOT. SCIENCE.
Fun, yes. Science? Hell no.
Those Intelligent Design proponents are starting to reap the damage on the intellect of our nation I think.
Early seismometers used lines drawn on glass (recording the sound of the earth) way before this guy. Do those count as "tunes recorded"? So what if it's natural sounds vs. man made sounds.
This is the "first recording" like the first guy to crap in a bucket is the discoverer of the "first toilet"*.
*If someone can come by and cut a hole in the bucket to flush it 150 years later counts as "first toilet".
You can invent all the stuff you want, but unless you are figuring out what to DO with it, or how to market it, it's absolutely meaningless. The first surviving thread gets the credit every time. Go spend some time re-writing history from the Neanderthal point of view or something...
Here's the current list of IPs. I stuck the entire country on the "drop all packets" list a while back on some of my servers and never looked back. AND got a significant reduction in the random crap that tried to break into my stuff.
Now that strikes me as a bit odd. These people are already dead. He didn't kill them. So my first question is: does a dead body have rights ? I'm pretty sure it does not. Does it belong to anyone ? This one I don't know. But assuming it belongs to his/her heirs then I think a conviction of theft, breach of contract, vandalism or fraud would be more appropriate.
If it belongs to anyone (an open philosophical question), it's the family or the estate of the deceased. Just like the goobers at Geek Squad don't have a right to copy personal digital photos when they repair computers, the people processing cadavers do not have a right to take anything off a corpse without permission. If the family doesn't own it, the a-hole at the funeral home sure as fark doesn't either.
Add in profit (and apparently LOTS of it) and it's basically a crime.
That said, a lot of families have the cultural stigma of the body not being "divided up" or whatever and it's a shame a resource goes to waste. Someone should work on changing that, if even to simply make dying a positive or neutral financial event, rather than one that costs some unsuspecting family 15k.
Another big player (Microsoft) has been really slow on this too.
Just about the only secure protocol that's easy and already ready to use with Windows server 2k3 is HTTPS. And it's a pain in the rear to do do self signed certificates with it.
No support for SFTP, SSH, SCP or anything else without third party apps.
I have been told but not seen that the new server OS supports SFTP. But, when Win2k3 came out, it was a really really stupid move not to include SFTP.
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QuantumRiff Real Estate Business is a scam. There. See, how easy that was?
Try to not lie and distort the truth so much.
Not only can you send any type of encryption through Gmail you want, there's friggin Thunderbird plugins that do it automatically through Gmail and IMAP.
Whatever the fuck you are doing that isn't working, well that's because you are dumb, not because it can't be done.
Go back to 4chan or somewhere else where bullshit is appreciated.
You don't get it because it makes no sense.
It's complete bullshit.
Note the following facts:
The original "wind turbines kill birds" campaign used several outlets to say the same thing, using the same four dead birds picture with no evidence.
Glass buildings in cities, radio towers (lights at night), cars all kill way more birds than wind power ever could.
"Fluffy" the house-cat let out at night, and feral cats kill 10,000 times the estimated bird kill from 100% of the US power needs from wind.
In other words, it's hippy bullshit created by folks with (now) lots of money and a bad case of NIMBY-ism. Ex-hippies lie just as much as any other baby boomer does.
It's a long term strategy.
Just to drive this point home.
The only thing that stopped me from doing some crap like that, was recognizing that it would ultimately be a self-destructive act. I had all sorts of violence planned for the guy that broke up my marriage, but stopped for two reasons; a) I would get caught and b) it would have killed his dogs too. (I like animals.)
Despite being an ordinarily very caring and nice person, I was ready to do these things. Pile on it worse, is the spouse has a relationship with them, but NOT so much the third party. So expect to bear the brunt of the anger for TWO people.
Even if you have no moral restrictions for interfering with a married or otherwise "taken" person, don't do it because you could get killed if you underestimate something. Sex is great, but it's not worth getting killed for.
Hah. Well, that is exactly the senario my wife is in. She got her computer (and gave me the "family" laptop back) and I got my computer.
Both the laptop and my computer got wiped after she had no more access to them. Her computer, probably isn't wiped.
(It's not my wife though, my wife's boyfriend is a geek and not stupid enough to pose a question like this.)
Infidelity doesn't matter.
The courts care about;
- kids
- assets
- giving as much (of the two above) to women as possible
Yeah, if you are thinking your marriage is rotten, there's good reason to get proof to motivate you to end it. But, photos of a spouse at a hotel mean exactly dick in divorce court. They might mean something for child custody, but that's about it.
Its TWO states. And it's tremendously hard to do.
That said, the setup is stupid. Either wipe the damn thing, or well.. wipe the damn thing.
Seriously, it takes 4 hours at most to get windows installed, drivers, and service packs. The only reason not to do that would be pirated software, and well, you get what you pay for eh?
Even FINDING a keylogger isn't going to do anything, if there is one, IT DOESNT PROVE THE SPOUSE DID IT. It could always come in through a hole of some kind. (If the gal is dumb enough to not know how to combat a keylogger, she's dumb enough to let stuff in in the first place.)
That said, I sympathize with the need to find proof, I used technical means (Wireshark and Ethereal) to get proof my wife was cheating. Now, I am selling the house and throwing away her shit while she rents a one room in the ghetto. (Karma is a biatch, just like my wife.)
Uhm. Yes?
I got one to admit it once (a co worker), she said she did it to feel "special" by commandeering the attention of her boyfriend when he was fixated on something else.
They are causing lots of extra costs (and problems) with power plants in the Great Lakes too. They like the warm ejecta water, and screw up the exit pipes for the power plants.
Too bad they don't taste good.
I would think the same code that applies to dealing with a child's computer when you are helping the parent would apply here.
In that situation, I always ask "how much do you want to know?" and let them decide if they want me to reveal the particular flavor of porn or whatever else they were in into.
I've never had a parent say "i want to know", it's always "fix it and let them keep their privacy".
That said, the goal is not just to recover a 1099 form or something, the goal is a peek into what someone was thinking. In that case, data from just about anywhere might be relevant.
The thing is, all parties involved should go into it knowing and agreeing what the case is on that, rather than having the geek go looking, share, and then get bad feelings because that's not what people expected.
That said... once the information is gained, the data should be wiped, not harvested for what might be useful for a geek later.
A nice trip around the world on the customer's dime however, that is a sacrifice they will make to obtain justice!
(all of the following above has been sarcasm)
The Fermi Paradox is only a paradox if you are willing to swallow intellectually weak arguments in order to get to an interesting meme.
First, it assumes that such life thinks it should contact us, wants to, and can bust through the various physical barriers (speed of light) to do that. (A bad assumption IMHO.)
Secondly assumes that we have done good searches or would see evidence that was there (which is not true)...
And THEN commits an argument from ignorance.
"Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence"
Yes, Fermi was a good physicist. But he sure was a shitty philosopher.
The Fermi Paradox is nothing more than an interesting point of mental masturbation with one's geek friends over whatever you happen to imbibe. It is NOT however anything that should be used in an actual probability analysis of ET or ETI.
Sealing ammo cans with cloth tape. Though the origin of the name is a controversy, the term is originally "Duck Tape" because water is repelled by the outside surface, thus making it good for ammo cans. You can get the can wet, pull it out of the wet, and since the water rolled off, open the can right away without getting much water in the can. Or, so the story goes.
Zero days. Banks are, and have been for a long time, training various staff members how to scan through account history and locate "suspicious" (as defined by the feds) activity.
It's called the "Know your customer" campaign.
And, since it's the bank data, the can do this as often and however they want, hand the data over as a friendly tip and there's not a goddamn thing you can do about it. (Aside from not use banks, which will probably get you on some other list.)
I know this, because I helped develop (the tech side) of several online courses given by several state banking associations during the 90's.
The banks already are spying on you, and it's all OK because it's strictly 'voluntary' (wink wink nudge nudge here's some payback in the form of ignoring your illegal loans to relatives).
Bankers in general, are always pansy ass suck ups, and especially so when it comes to the feds.
"There are things for which the debate has been conducted and there is a settled position. Things like the world is not flat and that the Earth is not the center of the Universe. People who debate those points don't have open minds, they're just stupid."
-birdmanesq
Pretty much sums it up. There's no "debate", only stupid people making movies or otherwise flapping their yaps.
Ben Stain is motivated by the same thing Michael Moore is, profit. Discourse on science doesn't happen on a movie screen, though it might happen at a lecture in a movie theatre.
Nothing to see here, move along.
Several people have posted saying "why don't banks do X" and I just happened to hit reply on yours, so this is adding to the conversation.
Banks, as one used to think of them were the cutting edge of vault design and technology. The internet and computers however, have passed them up. You need to be dealing with a VERY big bank before you can count on professional experienced IT folks making decisions about this stuff.
For a bank, IT staff like a janitor. They don't listen to them or take them seriously.
At most small or regional banks, some goober vice president who knows nothing but thinks he does (because he installed AOL at home) is in control of the IT department.
The web site, that's managed by the youngest female member of the marketing department because she both has the most internet skills, and doesn't have the authority to push the crap jobs on someone else. So the web site itself slowly rots with more and more animated GIFs and less and less sense.
All the while, you have a large industry of fraudsters selling useless services to these banks, without anybody anywhere along the line really having a clue. They spend thousands of dollars a year on certification services, auditors, "penetration tests" (which is really just off the shelf open source programs) and then refuse to upgrade to an individual server (for an extra $20 a month) so they can lock it down to their tastes, and they won't spend $100 to get a bit of consulting to help them do it.
Also, if a bank tries to teach someone something, they take on MORE liability. Because now the lawyer has the "your training was inadequate, you owe my client".
Banks are about minimizing and mitigating risk. Teaching something, ADDS risk. So they don't do it. Telling folks that event XYZ happened and they should protect themselves just reveals they knew it was happening.
The bottom line is, they don't give a flying fuck about the end customer's individual accounts, they care about their overall accounts and what the government will do to them, they DONT care about what market forces will do to them because that's not a big threat.
Banks need their Bill Cosby of IT. Someone with pull, well respected, and known to them to go "You are doing it wrong!" Until that guy comes along, they will continue to founder.
Until then, consumers are on their own. Protect your friends and family as much as you can, but don't go insane banging your head against the wall of human IT ignorance. You can't bust through it. Only time will let it crumble as the ignorant die off in 60 years.
Last time I followed this stuff. The universe was open (destined for heat death) and the margin of "how open" was HUGE.
Unless the universes before had significantly different masses, there's no way this happened.
It's irrelevant in any case. You can think, talk, have a beer while imagining all this stuff as much as you want. But unless you can tack a method of gathering data to TEST the theory it IS. NOT. SCIENCE.
Fun, yes. Science? Hell no.
Those Intelligent Design proponents are starting to reap the damage on the intellect of our nation I think.
BUAHAhhahaahaaha! (choke) hahahahaah!
I love it when folks who CANT DO BASIC MATH spout stuff like this.
Retard.
Early seismometers used lines drawn on glass (recording the sound of the earth) way before this guy. Do those count as "tunes recorded"? So what if it's natural sounds vs. man made sounds.
This is the "first recording" like the first guy to crap in a bucket is the discoverer of the "first toilet"*.
*If someone can come by and cut a hole in the bucket to flush it 150 years later counts as "first toilet".
You can invent all the stuff you want, but unless you are figuring out what to DO with it, or how to market it, it's absolutely meaningless. The first surviving thread gets the credit every time. Go spend some time re-writing history from the Neanderthal point of view or something...
Here's the current list of IPs. I stuck the entire country on the "drop all packets" list a while back on some of my servers and never looked back. AND got a significant reduction in the random crap that tried to break into my stuff.
http://www.apnic.net/apnic-bin/ipv4-by-country.pl?country=cn
There never was any useful traffic from there for what I am doing, so no loss.
If it belongs to anyone (an open philosophical question), it's the family or the estate of the deceased. Just like the goobers at Geek Squad don't have a right to copy personal digital photos when they repair computers, the people processing cadavers do not have a right to take anything off a corpse without permission. If the family doesn't own it, the a-hole at the funeral home sure as fark doesn't either.
Add in profit (and apparently LOTS of it) and it's basically a crime.
That said, a lot of families have the cultural stigma of the body not being "divided up" or whatever and it's a shame a resource goes to waste. Someone should work on changing that, if even to simply make dying a positive or neutral financial event, rather than one that costs some unsuspecting family 15k.
All those parts, they are part of a pinball machine.
To a good portion of the Chinese netblocks:
http://www.apnic.net/apnic-bin/ipv4-by-country.pl?country=cn
Just stick them in your firewall to drop all packets and go on with life.
Another big player (Microsoft) has been really slow on this too.
Just about the only secure protocol that's easy and already ready to use with Windows server 2k3 is HTTPS. And it's a pain in the rear to do do self signed certificates with it.
No support for SFTP, SSH, SCP or anything else without third party apps.
I have been told but not seen that the new server OS supports SFTP. But, when Win2k3 came out, it was a really really stupid move not to include SFTP.