No, not the people who had their e-mail and passwords hacked, just most of the commenters here on Slashdot. Really, after all this time I should no longer be surprised.
Heads up, folks! The vast bulk of these e-mail addresses are from @yahoo.com, @gmail.com and the like.
These are PERSONAL e-mail addresses of possibly U.S. government personnel. They are prefaced with a couple dozen.gov and.mil addresses, but the rest are anybody's guess.
The push to get rid of Steve Ballmer isn't because they need a "new" Steve Ballmer. It was because Steve Ballmer isn't able to fill Bill Gates' shoes and provide the vision Microsoft needs.
It isn't about a "new" Ballmer as much as it is you'll need to remove Ballmer himself to successfully get a new visionary in there. Unless he is totally gone, he'll have too much say in the way things are run and he just doesn't have what it takes.
I hope not. Corporations -- at least where I've seen lately -- now upgrade religiously. The only thing upgraded more than the browser now is any Adobe product.
Yes, there are holdouts, but there are technical reasons that have nothing to do with complacency or laziness.
First things first. Congrats on the +5 for the "I like to lick butts!" comment. That should be a special/. achievement. Kudos.
On to the discussion...
The car crashes DO equal the damage done by 9/11. Add up the unemployment, lost hours due to non-fatal injuries, grief time, having to now deal with single-parent issues, etc. and you'll find that it more than matches the loss of productivity triggered by 9/11.
Then take into account the fact that the car issues happen every day, and every year for the last 60 or so and will continue into the foreseeable future and you'll find that it dwarfs the impact of 9/11.
The problem is the spread-out nature of the event diminishes the perceived impact. The numbers get lost in the noise and unless you go looking for them, you don't see them. Even if you point them out to people, most won't acknowledge them. The human brain isn't wired for that sort of thing. We are VERY bad at judging risk at timescales other than the immediate.
It is brave of you to post here under your account. Thanks.
You might want to pass the word along that commentary like Asa's should always be bracketed with "personal opinion only, does not reflect official policy" type disclaimers.
That being said, I think just making Firefox work with AD GPO would go a long way towards satisfying business users. Maybe an MSI package as well, but the first is a big sticking point. I know FrontMotion has this service, so it can't be impossible.
Businesses, at least the ones of any significant size, need Active Directory integration with the ability to push and enforce group policy.
Firefox does not support that natively. FrontMotion does, and we're investigating their product but our business is currently investigating DROPPING Firefox support for internal users.
No, the point of my post is that credit unions can offer a variety of services, ranging from the very specialized to full-service banking. This makes it easier to find something that is a more comfortable fit for you individually.
However, their model is different from for-profit banks. In a credit union, the shareholders of the company are the depositors on record. "Maximizing shareholder value" has a totally different meaning than it does for banking corporations. For instance, cramming as many fees and service charges to make the institution a boatload more money doesn't happen.
That isn't "creating", that is guided evolution. It proves that traits *can* change over time just thru breeding.
Human evolution is the same process, just without the guided hand of the breeder. Combine that with our significantly longer lifespans by comparison and you do have a viable example of evolution.
"Creating" would be manual gene splicing, or building up DNA sequences directly, without natural reproduction occuring.
Yes. Right now, I take size into account when I consider the trustworthiness of a credit union. Texans, with their 16 physical locations in over a dozen different cities and even more ATMs, would be "too big" in my estimation.
Smaller isn't always better, because it is quite possible to be "too small". I can't give you a hard number, but and more than 5 branches and I'd be thinking of them as a normal "bank".
Credit Unions are non-profit organizations, with totally different goals. It is possible, and not uncommon, to have smaller credit unions that are just a few dozen to a few hundred people.
They are much, much more transparent than banks and frequently totally transparent in both their books and operations.
For example, I found that my place of work has a credit union. Its sole purpose is basically to make affordable car loans to employees. There is no online banking, no ATMs, and just one office open 3 hours a day, 4 days a week. Almost no one has a "checking" account there, because they offer only the barest minimum of service.
What they do offer is savings accounts and auto loans and very reasonable rates. No, they don't offer mortgages.
They're chartered, insured and totally transparent to members -- 95% of which see each other on an almost daily basis.
Of the people who I've talked to with RSA tokens, most have said they're now actively planning a migration off of RSA tokens.
It isn't that they were hacked. Shit happens, even to the best of them. It was the lack of information and lack of transparency by RSA (EMC) on the whole event. Trust has been lost.
I'm not talking about public statements or mea culpas. I'm talking about why they weren't 100% open and upfront with existing customers right away. It gives the impression that EMC's execs were hoping no one would get hacked and it would all fade away over time. That they could just ride this out and weren't going to have to fork over a boatload of cash to replace everyone's tokens, thus not taking a hit on their stock or bonuses.
They were wrong, and now the price they are going to pay is not only replacing everyone's tokens, but a loss of trust and hence future business.
Anyway, what's to say that some of the sites you have changed your login for (including possibly NWN) don't keep archived or backup records of previous email addresses, password hashes, addresses, etc?
Are you kidding? Have you seen the code quality and effort put into most websites? While I have no trouble believing Google or Facebook might keep histories or backups, most of the lesser sites just don't put that sort of effort or expense into their code and data. *MAYBE* a banking or investing site, but CNet and their ilk?
I have once or twice seen sites keeping old hashes to enforce password reuse policies, but they've always been things like my Contractor HR and Payroll site.
Take a look at some of the popular blogging and forums frameworks and I guarantee you won't find *ANY* of the code or databases that support user information history. I defy you to find anything other than standard "UPDATE (fieldname) WHERE" commands.
NWN was one of my favorite games, and one of the few I bothered to register on forums for. There was a lot of high-quality user generated content that was available. I was in their system, with CD keys, name, partial address, phone, (fake) DOB, etc.
About two months ago I decided to "clean up" my presence on the internet. Among other efforts, I went thru my mail archives for the last 7 years looking for references to anywhere I had created an account, posted messages, or had an identifiable presence.
Next, I created an anonymous, free Hushmail account. Just for paranoia's sake, I used a random proxy whenever I logged in there. I then logged in to every site that I had record of having an account on, recovering passwords if necessary. This included NWN forums.
Once back in, I changed all the login information to bogus info. Incorrect addresses, phony phone number, wrong dates of birth, random passwords and the disposable Hushmail e-mail address. Most sites needed confirmation on e-mail, so you just can't make something up.
The few sites that allowed it, I then deleted or disabled the account. Those that didn't are forever beyond my reach with false info and not tied to my e-mail address.
Only three remain, including Slashdot and GMail. I'm working on replacing GMail, and Slashdot I'll keep since it never had and valid personal info other than my e-mail (GMail) address.
Checking Hushmail shows I got a copy of the letter from EA, proving my efforts paid off. All the info is bogus. After July, waiting just to make sure I didn't miss anything, I'll let the Hushmail account expire and be purged.
My identifiable presence on the Internet will be only what I want it to be. With a little effort, privacy *can* be maintained regardless of what Messrs. Zuckerberg and Brin say.
Actually, most of that is really round-off error compared to 1080p, HD video.
Adding things like a Facebook updates, Twitter streams, a couple of extra audio channels and whatnot don't really add that much to the bandwidth utilization.
Getting people to purchase new video devices that can handle greater than 1080p video is going to take probably decades. We're still seeing a lot of people with standard-def (480i) and even half-HD (720p) sets -- with little to no inclination to upgrade.
Then all the production infrastructure, content, etc. will add to that.
The biggest issue will be multiple video streams going over one household pipe. All three of my kids have HD monitors, and it isn't unusual for 4 different video streams to be piped in at the same time.
Yup, your already configured tape drive on the network is snappy. Now try it with drives physically removed from a non-connected system and do it while preserving the chain of evidence. It takes a lot of time.
Newsflash. There is NOTHING that can 1:1 bit-copy large hard drives QUICKLY. Drives that are hundreds of megabytes in size, or even terabytes take FOREVER to clone. God help you if they're in a RAID. Cloning them can take DAYS, even with hardware copy systems.
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The certification process is simple;
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2. Profit!
3. Certification granted
They're just the advance troops sent by the aliens in The Abyss!
Ask put in the second panel of this XKCD cartoon...
For a universe that's supposed to be half-Chinese, Firefly sure doesn't have any Asians.
No, not the people who had their e-mail and passwords hacked, just most of the commenters here on Slashdot. Really, after all this time I should no longer be surprised.
Heads up, folks! The vast bulk of these e-mail addresses are from @yahoo.com, @gmail.com and the like.
These are PERSONAL e-mail addresses of possibly U.S. government personnel. They are prefaced with a couple dozen .gov and .mil addresses, but the rest are anybody's guess.
And I guess the meaning of "kill switch" will depend on exactly what is tweeted.
The push to get rid of Steve Ballmer isn't because they need a "new" Steve Ballmer. It was because Steve Ballmer isn't able to fill Bill Gates' shoes and provide the vision Microsoft needs.
It isn't about a "new" Ballmer as much as it is you'll need to remove Ballmer himself to successfully get a new visionary in there. Unless he is totally gone, he'll have too much say in the way things are run and he just doesn't have what it takes.
Really? Check the images. Two of the ones I saw were the little blue-footed birds. Maybe you were just luckier than I was.
Please God, I hope you're referring to Rick-Rolls and not Goatse.cx links!
I hope not. Corporations -- at least where I've seen lately -- now upgrade religiously. The only thing upgraded more than the browser now is any Adobe product.
Yes, there are holdouts, but there are technical reasons that have nothing to do with complacency or laziness.
First things first. Congrats on the +5 for the "I like to lick butts!" comment. That should be a special /. achievement. Kudos.
On to the discussion...
The car crashes DO equal the damage done by 9/11. Add up the unemployment, lost hours due to non-fatal injuries, grief time, having to now deal with single-parent issues, etc. and you'll find that it more than matches the loss of productivity triggered by 9/11.
Then take into account the fact that the car issues happen every day, and every year for the last 60 or so and will continue into the foreseeable future and you'll find that it dwarfs the impact of 9/11.
The problem is the spread-out nature of the event diminishes the perceived impact. The numbers get lost in the noise and unless you go looking for them, you don't see them. Even if you point them out to people, most won't acknowledge them. The human brain isn't wired for that sort of thing. We are VERY bad at judging risk at timescales other than the immediate.
It is brave of you to post here under your account. Thanks.
You might want to pass the word along that commentary like Asa's should always be bracketed with "personal opinion only, does not reflect official policy" type disclaimers.
That being said, I think just making Firefox work with AD GPO would go a long way towards satisfying business users. Maybe an MSI package as well, but the first is a big sticking point. I know FrontMotion has this service, so it can't be impossible.
Charles
Businesses, at least the ones of any significant size, need Active Directory integration with the ability to push and enforce group policy.
Firefox does not support that natively. FrontMotion does, and we're investigating their product but our business is currently investigating DROPPING Firefox support for internal users.
No, the point of my post is that credit unions can offer a variety of services, ranging from the very specialized to full-service banking. This makes it easier to find something that is a more comfortable fit for you individually.
However, their model is different from for-profit banks. In a credit union, the shareholders of the company are the depositors on record. "Maximizing shareholder value" has a totally different meaning than it does for banking corporations. For instance, cramming as many fees and service charges to make the institution a boatload more money doesn't happen.
The article doesn't address the most important question. Did the whale cause the algae to drift, or did the algae cause the whale to migrate?
That isn't "creating", that is guided evolution. It proves that traits *can* change over time just thru breeding.
Human evolution is the same process, just without the guided hand of the breeder. Combine that with our significantly longer lifespans by comparison and you do have a viable example of evolution.
"Creating" would be manual gene splicing, or building up DNA sequences directly, without natural reproduction occuring.
Yes. Right now, I take size into account when I consider the trustworthiness of a credit union. Texans, with their 16 physical locations in over a dozen different cities and even more ATMs, would be "too big" in my estimation.
Smaller isn't always better, because it is quite possible to be "too small". I can't give you a hard number, but and more than 5 branches and I'd be thinking of them as a normal "bank".
Credit Unions are non-profit organizations, with totally different goals. It is possible, and not uncommon, to have smaller credit unions that are just a few dozen to a few hundred people.
They are much, much more transparent than banks and frequently totally transparent in both their books and operations.
For example, I found that my place of work has a credit union. Its sole purpose is basically to make affordable car loans to employees. There is no online banking, no ATMs, and just one office open 3 hours a day, 4 days a week. Almost no one has a "checking" account there, because they offer only the barest minimum of service.
What they do offer is savings accounts and auto loans and very reasonable rates. No, they don't offer mortgages.
They're chartered, insured and totally transparent to members -- 95% of which see each other on an almost daily basis.
Of the people who I've talked to with RSA tokens, most have said they're now actively planning a migration off of RSA tokens.
It isn't that they were hacked. Shit happens, even to the best of them. It was the lack of information and lack of transparency by RSA (EMC) on the whole event. Trust has been lost.
I'm not talking about public statements or mea culpas. I'm talking about why they weren't 100% open and upfront with existing customers right away. It gives the impression that EMC's execs were hoping no one would get hacked and it would all fade away over time. That they could just ride this out and weren't going to have to fork over a boatload of cash to replace everyone's tokens, thus not taking a hit on their stock or bonuses.
They were wrong, and now the price they are going to pay is not only replacing everyone's tokens, but a loss of trust and hence future business.
Are you kidding? Have you seen the code quality and effort put into most websites? While I have no trouble believing Google or Facebook might keep histories or backups, most of the lesser sites just don't put that sort of effort or expense into their code and data. *MAYBE* a banking or investing site, but CNet and their ilk?
I have once or twice seen sites keeping old hashes to enforce password reuse policies, but they've always been things like my Contractor HR and Payroll site.
Take a look at some of the popular blogging and forums frameworks and I guarantee you won't find *ANY* of the code or databases that support user information history. I defy you to find anything other than standard "UPDATE (fieldname) WHERE" commands.
NWN was one of my favorite games, and one of the few I bothered to register on forums for. There was a lot of high-quality user generated content that was available. I was in their system, with CD keys, name, partial address, phone, (fake) DOB, etc.
About two months ago I decided to "clean up" my presence on the internet. Among other efforts, I went thru my mail archives for the last 7 years looking for references to anywhere I had created an account, posted messages, or had an identifiable presence.
Next, I created an anonymous, free Hushmail account. Just for paranoia's sake, I used a random proxy whenever I logged in there. I then logged in to every site that I had record of having an account on, recovering passwords if necessary. This included NWN forums.
Once back in, I changed all the login information to bogus info. Incorrect addresses, phony phone number, wrong dates of birth, random passwords and the disposable Hushmail e-mail address. Most sites needed confirmation on e-mail, so you just can't make something up.
The few sites that allowed it, I then deleted or disabled the account. Those that didn't are forever beyond my reach with false info and not tied to my e-mail address.
Only three remain, including Slashdot and GMail. I'm working on replacing GMail, and Slashdot I'll keep since it never had and valid personal info other than my e-mail (GMail) address.
Checking Hushmail shows I got a copy of the letter from EA, proving my efforts paid off. All the info is bogus. After July, waiting just to make sure I didn't miss anything, I'll let the Hushmail account expire and be purged.
My identifiable presence on the Internet will be only what I want it to be. With a little effort, privacy *can* be maintained regardless of what Messrs. Zuckerberg and Brin say.
Actually, most of that is really round-off error compared to 1080p, HD video.
Adding things like a Facebook updates, Twitter streams, a couple of extra audio channels and whatnot don't really add that much to the bandwidth utilization.
Getting people to purchase new video devices that can handle greater than 1080p video is going to take probably decades. We're still seeing a lot of people with standard-def (480i) and even half-HD (720p) sets -- with little to no inclination to upgrade.
Then all the production infrastructure, content, etc. will add to that.
The biggest issue will be multiple video streams going over one household pipe. All three of my kids have HD monitors, and it isn't unusual for 4 different video streams to be piped in at the same time.
What is wrong with Westinghouse T.V.s? I got a really good deal on mine from Costco and am quite happy with it.
Where's the Kosher electronics?
Typo. Hundreds of Gigabytes.
Yup, your already configured tape drive on the network is snappy. Now try it with drives physically removed from a non-connected system and do it while preserving the chain of evidence. It takes a lot of time.
Newsflash. There is NOTHING that can 1:1 bit-copy large hard drives QUICKLY. Drives that are hundreds of megabytes in size, or even terabytes take FOREVER to clone. God help you if they're in a RAID. Cloning them can take DAYS, even with hardware copy systems.