The headline should read: ICANN's Cozy Relationship With the US Must End, Says ____________ [insert name of any country not spelled "United States of America" here]
I'm failing to understand the issue here. Anything ICANN does is essentially public. Any changes to domain IP addresses have to propagate out to everyone, so it's not like they could cause traffic to be arbitrarily rerouted, etc. Sounds like just another straw man attempt to get the ICANN out of the US.
I bet you have been conditioned from the no smoking laws and all the reports being threaded to the public that if you look at a cigarette you will get cancer and die a horrible death 3 days ago. And if you ever see someone smoking, your eyes will fall out, you will have a heart attach and die on the spot from cancer.
I sense over exaggeration here, but I could be wrong.
I don't think I'd like the alternative to text based coding. The only thing I can think of is some kind of fancy smancy IDE where you drag and drop stuff and build some kind of visual flowchart. Those kinds of things are out there for people who don't like to type (or produce real software for that matter).
PC sales have been steadily declining for years. Large PC maker lays off employees. And? Same thing happened at record player companies. And typewriter companies. And factories that produced film. If you want to complain about something, the complain about how Dell couldn't turn itself into Apple or Google. Laying off people is the only way to save the company at this point in time.
I have a device for sale which generates free, unlimited power. The catch is that you cannot measure the power output or it won't function. If you put any load on the device you are directly or indirectly measuring the power, and thus it won't work. So just know up front that stipulation and use the device accordingly.
Further, if it's case 1 (a quick "get it done" job to just get it over with really fast and move on), then you need to take the proper tone to set up an environment for you to complete the task you were brought in to do. What I'm talking about is portray the software in a positive light - that it is efficient, single-purpose, quickly developed, etc. However, for those reasons it isn't very extensible, and you're going to need to lay some groundwork and framework to facilitate the enhancements they require. What I'm presuming you're lamenting is you don't have the time or bid too low for the amount of work required. You need to communicate to them that you will have to reorganize a significant amount of the existing code in the process. Be sure and state the advantages (IE what they're getting for their extra money), which will be streamlined future enhancements, and importantly, more efficient maintenance of the software from here on out.
I've been in this situation a number of times, and every time the higher-ups had an appreciation for the extra work required to lay a good groundwork and I was able to proceed in the manner I recommended even if it took more time. Another way to explain it to a non-technical person is that software is often built very incrementally and piecemeal, and that can result in a hodgepodge of code over the years, and every now and then it requires a good reorganization and consolidation of redundant parts into reusable libraries. Usually they understand that general concept, because it's true of most physical, real-world assets as well.
When the Target data breach happened, I commented here about some of the advantages to using throw-away, preload credit cards (which limits your potential loss and allows you to quickly switch to an entirely different account if you feel the other might be compromised). I was modded down by people who have bought into the whole big-bank credit card racket, and the attitude "why should I worry, when the bank is responsible and I'll eventually get my money back". Well here is yet another advantage of using preloaded credit cards. You load money on it, pay your annual hosting fees, etc, and then just toss it and get another next year to make the next annual payment. This story illustrates the advantages of using an entirely different credit card per service, so the card you use with Godaddy is not the same as you use with Paypal.
Yes, yes, it will cost you $3 each time you load a card to make that yearly payment, but you can decide for yourself what that extra $3 can buy you.
That would indeed be a bit more exotic, but from what I can tell it's just doing a simple http get to the Russian server with the encoded credentials. From the Avast report: https://blog.avast.com/wp-cont...
The DNS lookup to the Russian server and the http get are there as plain as day.
I'm not fully understanding the "sends it to an unauthorized server using the same FTP operation launched by the user without going through a firewall that might spot what it's doing" part. It's posting the stolen credentials via http, not FTP. If FileZilla is only given access to the FTP port then it should block this behavior, correct? I'm just not understanding what's magical about this - any app that is already given blanket permission to access the network in a general way can send data to places it shouldn't go without being blocked by firewalls. They make it sound like there's something special or exotic it's doing to avoid the firewall and I'm not understanding exactly what that is.
The alternative could be assassination, and I don't mean by the USA. There are many groups active in Russia who would kill Snowden simply to make the USA look bad (if he dies, regardless of the circumstances, most people will assume he was killed by the US). Returning to the US would alleviate living under that kind of fear (assuming he recognizes it).
I call bs on your little anecdote. If someone was told to ship something to a place they weren't familiar with, they wouldn't ask "where in the US is that?". They would simply ask "where is that?" because they are already in this country and obviously assumed it was simply a place they didn't know about. Further I have never met anyone, no matter how uneducated, who did not know what Europe was.
It's worse than that. He's already stated that he took the job in the first place to find damning information to release. That is one of the details about the whole Snowden saga that causes me reserve in using the term "whistleblower" to describe him.
"Online subscribers" is defined by the article as everyone in the world with Broadband, and 45% of them are the 348 million broadband customers who would have to pay $15 annually to watch movies. Here's the problem. Of those 773 million people, 174 million are Chinese, which are 22% of the broadband users. I was just reading an article how China has not even been releasing Box Office revenue from foreign films showing at theaters. I don't think there's much chance of milking any considerable amount of money through video streaming out of that country at this point in time.
I think any studies like this can only realistically look at US and similar western broadband markets as potential customers for video streaming service, as opposed to this study which includes every single broadband customer on the planet.
I've found very few people under the age of 20 have any idea who Calvin and Hobbes are. My Black Ops 2 emblem is Calvin, and very few people recognize who he is (and the emblem is nicely done, thank you very much). Sad, considering it's my all-time favorite comic strip.
Considering the internet is still used by the same set of people from 2013, and 2012, and 2011, etc, it shouldn't be surprising they're using the same kinds of crappy passwords.
This could possibly replace Google News for me, we'll see. One thing I don't like right off the bat is a lot of the fonts don't render correctly on Chrome. Like lowercase "e" doesn't have the horizontal bar and looks more like a "c".
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The headline should read:
ICANN's Cozy Relationship With the US Must End, Says ____________ [insert name of any country not spelled "United States of America" here]
I'm failing to understand the issue here. Anything ICANN does is essentially public. Any changes to domain IP addresses have to propagate out to everyone, so it's not like they could cause traffic to be arbitrarily rerouted, etc. Sounds like just another straw man attempt to get the ICANN out of the US.
I bet you have been conditioned from the no smoking laws and all the reports being threaded to the public that if you look at a cigarette you will get cancer and die a horrible death 3 days ago. And if you ever see someone smoking, your eyes will fall out, you will have a heart attach and die on the spot from cancer.
I sense over exaggeration here, but I could be wrong.
I don't think I'd like the alternative to text based coding. The only thing I can think of is some kind of fancy smancy IDE where you drag and drop stuff and build some kind of visual flowchart. Those kinds of things are out there for people who don't like to type (or produce real software for that matter).
why Target would have given an HVAC company external network access, or why that access would not be cordoned off from Target's payment system network
Because they have just one big unified network for everything. That probably saves them money, unless something really bad were to happen...
PC sales have been steadily declining for years. Large PC maker lays off employees. And? Same thing happened at record player companies. And typewriter companies. And factories that produced film. If you want to complain about something, the complain about how Dell couldn't turn itself into Apple or Google. Laying off people is the only way to save the company at this point in time.
I have a device for sale which generates free, unlimited power. The catch is that you cannot measure the power output or it won't function. If you put any load on the device you are directly or indirectly measuring the power, and thus it won't work. So just know up front that stipulation and use the device accordingly.
Further, if it's case 1 (a quick "get it done" job to just get it over with really fast and move on), then you need to take the proper tone to set up an environment for you to complete the task you were brought in to do. What I'm talking about is portray the software in a positive light - that it is efficient, single-purpose, quickly developed, etc. However, for those reasons it isn't very extensible, and you're going to need to lay some groundwork and framework to facilitate the enhancements they require. What I'm presuming you're lamenting is you don't have the time or bid too low for the amount of work required. You need to communicate to them that you will have to reorganize a significant amount of the existing code in the process. Be sure and state the advantages (IE what they're getting for their extra money), which will be streamlined future enhancements, and importantly, more efficient maintenance of the software from here on out.
I've been in this situation a number of times, and every time the higher-ups had an appreciation for the extra work required to lay a good groundwork and I was able to proceed in the manner I recommended even if it took more time. Another way to explain it to a non-technical person is that software is often built very incrementally and piecemeal, and that can result in a hodgepodge of code over the years, and every now and then it requires a good reorganization and consolidation of redundant parts into reusable libraries. Usually they understand that general concept, because it's true of most physical, real-world assets as well.
Yeah, because it's not like Slashdot had stories about the Superbowl during its heyday.
When the Target data breach happened, I commented here about some of the advantages to using throw-away, preload credit cards (which limits your potential loss and allows you to quickly switch to an entirely different account if you feel the other might be compromised). I was modded down by people who have bought into the whole big-bank credit card racket, and the attitude "why should I worry, when the bank is responsible and I'll eventually get my money back". Well here is yet another advantage of using preloaded credit cards. You load money on it, pay your annual hosting fees, etc, and then just toss it and get another next year to make the next annual payment. This story illustrates the advantages of using an entirely different credit card per service, so the card you use with Godaddy is not the same as you use with Paypal.
Yes, yes, it will cost you $3 each time you load a card to make that yearly payment, but you can decide for yourself what that extra $3 can buy you.
"editor" and "button clicker who approves a story" are not the same thing, nor have they ever been at Slashdot.
That would indeed be a bit more exotic, but from what I can tell it's just doing a simple http get to the Russian server with the encoded credentials. From the Avast report:
https://blog.avast.com/wp-cont...
The DNS lookup to the Russian server and the http get are there as plain as day.
You really think the NSA is sending their data to Russian servers? That's where the article says it's going.
I'm not fully understanding the "sends it to an unauthorized server using the same FTP operation launched by the user without going through a firewall that might spot what it's doing" part. It's posting the stolen credentials via http, not FTP. If FileZilla is only given access to the FTP port then it should block this behavior, correct? I'm just not understanding what's magical about this - any app that is already given blanket permission to access the network in a general way can send data to places it shouldn't go without being blocked by firewalls. They make it sound like there's something special or exotic it's doing to avoid the firewall and I'm not understanding exactly what that is.
The alternative could be assassination, and I don't mean by the USA. There are many groups active in Russia who would kill Snowden simply to make the USA look bad (if he dies, regardless of the circumstances, most people will assume he was killed by the US). Returning to the US would alleviate living under that kind of fear (assuming he recognizes it).
I literally looked down at the clock on my taskbar to see if today was April 1 while reading this blurb.
I call bs on your little anecdote. If someone was told to ship something to a place they weren't familiar with, they wouldn't ask "where in the US is that?". They would simply ask "where is that?" because they are already in this country and obviously assumed it was simply a place they didn't know about. Further I have never met anyone, no matter how uneducated, who did not know what Europe was.
It's worse than that. He's already stated that he took the job in the first place to find damning information to release. That is one of the details about the whole Snowden saga that causes me reserve in using the term "whistleblower" to describe him.
"Online subscribers" is defined by the article as everyone in the world with Broadband, and 45% of them are the 348 million broadband customers who would have to pay $15 annually to watch movies. Here's the problem. Of those 773 million people, 174 million are Chinese, which are 22% of the broadband users. I was just reading an article how China has not even been releasing Box Office revenue from foreign films showing at theaters. I don't think there's much chance of milking any considerable amount of money through video streaming out of that country at this point in time.
I think any studies like this can only realistically look at US and similar western broadband markets as potential customers for video streaming service, as opposed to this study which includes every single broadband customer on the planet.
I've found very few people under the age of 20 have any idea who Calvin and Hobbes are. My Black Ops 2 emblem is Calvin, and very few people recognize who he is (and the emblem is nicely done, thank you very much). Sad, considering it's my all-time favorite comic strip.
Sounds like a lot of fun to play against a computer. Not. (maybe I'm just getting old, but I'm not much into futility these days)
And a study complimentary to this one has found the remainder of the particulate matter inhaled in California came from Mexico.
Made in China. Inhaled in California.
Considering the internet is still used by the same set of people from 2013, and 2012, and 2011, etc, it shouldn't be surprising they're using the same kinds of crappy passwords.
This could possibly replace Google News for me, we'll see. One thing I don't like right off the bat is a lot of the fonts don't render correctly on Chrome. Like lowercase "e" doesn't have the horizontal bar and looks more like a "c".