If I understand correctly, in this case, Verizon is delegating authority to Etisalat to grant certificates through a subCA. That means that if you trust Verizon, you trust Etisalat.
As an intermediate CA hostile to privacy, they can produce certs which browsers trust without prompting. This means that they can trivially evesdrop on all communications.
Is it possible for me to reject the Etisalat subCA cert without ever seeing it?
Can I trust Verizon anymore, knowing that they grant such certs?
All these guys know one another and probably share tips on running private companies, including which banks offer the best safe deposit boxes. They all travel a lot, so they'd be crazy to keep stuff in a personal safe.
I bet all 7 keys are within 5 meters of each other at the 200 Bay office of RBC in Toronto.
The main reason I'm not using them and I'm sure most others aren't is because SSL sucks for virtual hosts. Else, I'd have a self-signed or cacert cert on all my domains.
Watching the video, unless the first officer (@1:03) radioed ahead to tell this officer that the fellow was going 127 (@0:37), he'd only be aware of the motorcyclist overtaking him on the left as he went for the ramp (apparently at 82mph? @2:31)... and not passing him very quickly or irresponsibly either.
From the video, I don't think the officer with the speed trap would have caught the high speed manuver... the bike passed at 69mph although maybe he heard his engine and knew something was up.
I think he was pulled over for going 82mph.
Drawing a gun in plain clothes, when no weapon is pointed at you, before announcing that you're a police officer is bizzare to me. But that's the U.S. Some states have weird laws and I'm happy not to live there.
The guy on the bike wasn't even that bad. He didn't drive between cars, he didn't advance to the front of the traffic, aside from the speeding, he wasn't doing anything wrong.
The MSDN licenses are there to make it possible to test target platforms without having to buy licenses for every permutation and combination of Microsoft software which it might happen to run on.
So yeah, if you want to run a wordprocessor to document your new MS Word plugin, you install OpenOffice.
Sorry, RHCE, MCSE and CCNP are entry level. They're NOT easy, but if you don't have any work experience to back them up, then they dont' mean that you know very much about the technology.
I did the MCSE years ago, I'm working on the CCNP, and I work in intermediate roles. I don't do the certs because I'm looking for a job, I'm doing them to broaden my knowledge.
I've dealt with lots of clueless RHCEs (seriously) and heaps and heaps of clueless MCSEs. Without exception, they lacked experience. The CCNP is harder to find twits, but personally I think it's because it's virutally impossible to get a CCNP without access to $250k worth of hardware... which means you've probably got the experience.
The CCNP twits I've dealt with took courses paid for by their employers.
I agree completely that it's tiring to hear people say oh, a "RHCE, I wouldn't hire them". The RHCE is a damned hard cert and probably means that you know what you're talking about. But... it'll only prove a minimum level of knowledge. I'd look immediately at the experience after that. If you came out of some career training school and got your RHCE with no sysadmin experience (hard to believe, but these people are out there), I'd only consider you for the simplest of roles.
Congratulations on the RHCE. I'd only take the cert if my employer would pay for it. And although I have over 12 years experience with Linux, I'd expect it to be a gruelling cert to earn. Sadly, you have yet to meet the guys who have it and dont' know a make script from a kernel module.
That's a pretty bold assertion. I assert that it is not true.
Although... most certifications are entry level. They only say that you've read the material, have done some practice and have a basic understanding of the theory. They *try* to test for experience, but the Cisco, Microsoft and Linux certs can be passed without experience. I've written others, but I've seen few certs which contradict this.
Intermediate industry certifications mimic designations. They require nomination/sponsorship and years of experience, also point systems to maintain certification. They're much harder to fake.
All of these certifications make a reasonable minimum requirement. That's all. Most people I've met who are anti-cert seem to be resentful that they'd have to study material to acquire product knowledge in an area they've never seen, nor expect to see. Those people of course are missing knowledge. Maybe it's relevant to their jobs, maybe it's not. They'll never know, and they might spend weeks trying to figure out some problem because they don't know the capabilities of the software/tool/product.
Now I have to get back to work fixing some device which was deployed by some self-taught boob who didn't adhere to best practices for the device... probably because they used the default configuration without knowing what the defaults were. They of course moved on, and are probably telling people that certifications don't matter...
Yeah, because BP spending $27B for a one-time oil spill is money much better spent than $2B in a long term strategy which might prevent such future catastrophes... and even that pales in comparison to the loss of life and incredible expense of continued efforts to do whatever it is that the U.S. is doing deployed in oil-rich countries.
Don't blame the current administration. The previous administration takes a lot of blame, but going much further back there were errors all along the way which could be easily forseen. The truth is that there are a lot of people who simply don't give a F- as to what happens to the people who are going to be living with the results 20 years from now. The bad decisions which made people wealthy 20 years ago are being paid for by the people today. And the bad decisions of today won't be paid for another 20 years.
I swear that there are some people in this world who simply disagree with political policy because they didn't vote for it, and form their opinions about what affects their immediate well-being. Choosing not to see the problem doesn't make it go away, it just makes it all the harder to deal with for the generation which will inherit the problems 20 years from now.
If you think that $2B on solar is a waste, what do you think a better policy is for a sustainable future? Solar is not the answer... but it's part of the answer.
Maybe Wired journalists are okay at writing about journalism?
I'm not sure if I should continue ignoring this publication. It's confusing.
Update: "...The point is that users who want to be safe need to be encrypting their traffic, whether they're using Tor or not." This flat denial of the assertion that Wikileaks was bootstrapped with documents sniffed from the Tor network is repeated unambiguously in correspondence from Wikileaks volunteers."
What are the odds that she was one of 47 million uninsured Americans? she made a stupid mistake and now is faced with bankruptcy, or worse, unable to pay medical bills she needs to survive. A nice lawyer offered to split the winnings in exchange for the rights to pursue the case.
Inkjet technology is the only technology I can think of in the computer industry where it has gotten progressively more and more expensive. Sure the printers are cheap... but the price per page is absurd.
When somebody asks my advice about a printer... I usually say "buy a laser" and unless you're shelling out big bucks for an office, don't even think about HP. Their ink is so expensive and short lived, that it's cheaper to go to Kinko's... and you get better quality.
Think about enhanced reality. No shaky hands, no rubber gloves, surface-track a beating heart and the surgeon could operate as though it weren't even moving. Scale reality to 100x, and arteries become sewer pipes.
But yeah, I don't really understand the tele-part of this. It seems like it would only be useful in the scenario that a remote hospital has a state-of-the-art medical facility with robotic surgeons and for some reason doesn't have a heart surgeon on hand.
that's true, and sad. Surfing for porn is just a form of escapism. They could be powerless, overwhelmed or drowning in the bureaucracy. Porn is the same thing as Facebook, doing your email or hanging out on Slashdot.
which reminds me... I should re-enable my Slashdot parental controls adn get back to work:-)
Based on what? government's insane minimum requirements for the number of publications a scientist with a government grant must have.[1]
n China, the government grants are almost entirely political, and you're not fighting for tenure; Post-doc biologists at Harvard have to publish 70 papers in 7 years (if memory serves) to even qualify for [2] a junior faculty position. There's no way that a scientist can publish ten papers per year that are worth jack squat, and the result is that most of the papers coming out of Harvard are garbage that get published because of where they come from. This isn't a China-only problem.
The official salary of any government researcher is, well, well below what someone of equivalent schooling could have gotten in business or IT (as in most countries, only moreso). However, the government is pumping major sums of money at institutions that publish frequently, [3] such that most researchers are paid hefty bonuses on a "per publication" basis by their home institution, usually a smaller amount for chinese-language journals and more for international journals, and a mega-bonus for high-profile journals.
The law makes sense in the most common and rational situation. Police also generally use common sense. Sure, there are stupid officers from time to time, and its unfair if you get nailed for it, but the law generally works as written.
Think about the extreme situation. If you're going the speed limit, into an intersection and the light turns yellow, if you have to take the time to think about whether or not you'll stop safely... it probably isn't safe to stop.
On the other hand, if you pull out of a driveway near an intersection, you're barely moving, and the light turns yellow, you're not going to make it. Just stop.
There are grid-lock laws to deal with the situation where you enter the intersection when the guy in front of you stopped. In a traffic jam, they really do want you to wait until the intersection is clear before you enter it. I've waited out greens before... it's all you can do. Driving at rush-hour in the city will always be frustrating.
Does anyone have any thoughts as to why Apache would be targeted like this?
Apache doesn't exactly garner bad blood from shady groups. Big corporations and governments have too much to lose by attacking Apache this way. I could understand an attempt by organized crime or a blackhat organization to secretly insert a back door into the Apache code base, but this was too heavy-handed to even consider being a secret attempt.
(15) Every driver approaching a traffic control signal showing a circular amber indication and facing the indication shall stop his or her vehicle if he or she can do so safely, otherwise he or she may proceed with caution. R.S.O. 1990, c. H.8, s. 144 (15).
Outsourcing has been going strong for 10 years now. There's a whole generation who've been permanent software developers since they started their careers. They're better educated on average, and are now there's a good pool of experienced developers out there.
The biggest difference from 10 years ago is that now North American and European management know how to work with Indian management.
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If I understand correctly, in this case, Verizon is delegating authority to Etisalat to grant certificates through a subCA. That means that if you trust Verizon, you trust Etisalat.
As an intermediate CA hostile to privacy, they can produce certs which browsers trust without prompting. This means that they can trivially evesdrop on all communications.
Is it possible for me to reject the Etisalat subCA cert without ever seeing it?
Can I trust Verizon anymore, knowing that they grant such certs?
All these guys know one another and probably share tips on running private companies, including which banks offer the best safe deposit boxes. They all travel a lot, so they'd be crazy to keep stuff in a personal safe.
I bet all 7 keys are within 5 meters of each other at the 200 Bay office of RBC in Toronto.
The main reason I'm not using them and I'm sure most others aren't is because SSL sucks for virtual hosts. Else, I'd have a self-signed or cacert cert on all my domains.
Watching the video, unless the first officer (@1:03) radioed ahead to tell this officer that the fellow was going 127 (@0:37), he'd only be aware of the motorcyclist overtaking him on the left as he went for the ramp (apparently at 82mph? @2:31)... and not passing him very quickly or irresponsibly either.
From the video, I don't think the officer with the speed trap would have caught the high speed manuver... the bike passed at 69mph although maybe he heard his engine and knew something was up.
I think he was pulled over for going 82mph.
Drawing a gun in plain clothes, when no weapon is pointed at you, before announcing that you're a police officer is bizzare to me. But that's the U.S. Some states have weird laws and I'm happy not to live there.
The guy on the bike wasn't even that bad. He didn't drive between cars, he didn't advance to the front of the traffic, aside from the speeding, he wasn't doing anything wrong.
I agree here that it's a total abuse of the law.
I bet they used a computer.
The MSDN licenses are there to make it possible to test target platforms without having to buy licenses for every permutation and combination of Microsoft software which it might happen to run on.
So yeah, if you want to run a wordprocessor to document your new MS Word plugin, you install OpenOffice.
Sorry, RHCE, MCSE and CCNP are entry level. They're NOT easy, but if you don't have any work experience to back them up, then they dont' mean that you know very much about the technology.
I did the MCSE years ago, I'm working on the CCNP, and I work in intermediate roles. I don't do the certs because I'm looking for a job, I'm doing them to broaden my knowledge.
I've dealt with lots of clueless RHCEs (seriously) and heaps and heaps of clueless MCSEs. Without exception, they lacked experience. The CCNP is harder to find twits, but personally I think it's because it's virutally impossible to get a CCNP without access to $250k worth of hardware... which means you've probably got the experience.
The CCNP twits I've dealt with took courses paid for by their employers.
I agree completely that it's tiring to hear people say oh, a "RHCE, I wouldn't hire them". The RHCE is a damned hard cert and probably means that you know what you're talking about. But... it'll only prove a minimum level of knowledge. I'd look immediately at the experience after that. If you came out of some career training school and got your RHCE with no sysadmin experience (hard to believe, but these people are out there), I'd only consider you for the simplest of roles.
Congratulations on the RHCE. I'd only take the cert if my employer would pay for it. And although I have over 12 years experience with Linux, I'd expect it to be a gruelling cert to earn. Sadly, you have yet to meet the guys who have it and dont' know a make script from a kernel module.
That's a pretty bold assertion. I assert that it is not true.
Although... most certifications are entry level. They only say that you've read the material, have done some practice and have a basic understanding of the theory. They *try* to test for experience, but the Cisco, Microsoft and Linux certs can be passed without experience. I've written others, but I've seen few certs which contradict this.
Intermediate industry certifications mimic designations. They require nomination/sponsorship and years of experience, also point systems to maintain certification. They're much harder to fake.
All of these certifications make a reasonable minimum requirement. That's all. Most people I've met who are anti-cert seem to be resentful that they'd have to study material to acquire product knowledge in an area they've never seen, nor expect to see. Those people of course are missing knowledge. Maybe it's relevant to their jobs, maybe it's not. They'll never know, and they might spend weeks trying to figure out some problem because they don't know the capabilities of the software/tool/product.
Now I have to get back to work fixing some device which was deployed by some self-taught boob who didn't adhere to best practices for the device... probably because they used the default configuration without knowing what the defaults were. They of course moved on, and are probably telling people that certifications don't matter...
Yeah, because BP spending $27B for a one-time oil spill is money much better spent than $2B in a long term strategy which might prevent such future catastrophes... and even that pales in comparison to the loss of life and incredible expense of continued efforts to do whatever it is that the U.S. is doing deployed in oil-rich countries.
Don't blame the current administration. The previous administration takes a lot of blame, but going much further back there were errors all along the way which could be easily forseen. The truth is that there are a lot of people who simply don't give a F- as to what happens to the people who are going to be living with the results 20 years from now. The bad decisions which made people wealthy 20 years ago are being paid for by the people today. And the bad decisions of today won't be paid for another 20 years.
I swear that there are some people in this world who simply disagree with political policy because they didn't vote for it, and form their opinions about what affects their immediate well-being. Choosing not to see the problem doesn't make it go away, it just makes it all the harder to deal with for the generation which will inherit the problems 20 years from now.
If you think that $2B on solar is a waste, what do you think a better policy is for a sustainable future? Solar is not the answer... but it's part of the answer.
when I get me the twinge
from my ach'n beer binge
got me hypo syringe
full o'orange
gobless y'all.
It was pretty cool.
... it's a Wired article which doesn't suck.
Maybe Wired journalists are okay at writing about journalism?
I'm not sure if I should continue ignoring this publication. It's confusing.
Okay, I have my answer. Continue ignoring Wired.
What are the odds that she was one of 47 million uninsured Americans? she made a stupid mistake and now is faced with bankruptcy, or worse, unable to pay medical bills she needs to survive. A nice lawyer offered to split the winnings in exchange for the rights to pursue the case.
"How is this any different from the De-sal plants that run on oil?"
I infer from the title that it runs on wave power.
The danger of Apple stock is how closely it is tied to Steve Jobs health.
Inkjet technology is the only technology I can think of in the computer industry where it has gotten progressively more and more expensive. Sure the printers are cheap... but the price per page is absurd.
When somebody asks my advice about a printer... I usually say "buy a laser" and unless you're shelling out big bucks for an office, don't even think about HP. Their ink is so expensive and short lived, that it's cheaper to go to Kinko's... and you get better quality.
Think about enhanced reality. No shaky hands, no rubber gloves, surface-track a beating heart and the surgeon could operate as though it weren't even moving. Scale reality to 100x, and arteries become sewer pipes.
But yeah, I don't really understand the tele-part of this. It seems like it would only be useful in the scenario that a remote hospital has a state-of-the-art medical facility with robotic surgeons and for some reason doesn't have a heart surgeon on hand.
that's true, and sad. Surfing for porn is just a form of escapism. They could be powerless, overwhelmed or drowning in the bureaucracy. Porn is the same thing as Facebook, doing your email or hanging out on Slashdot.
which reminds me... I should re-enable my Slashdot parental controls adn get back to work :-)
welcome our Apple overlords
It's all people shorter than 200m.
The law makes sense in the most common and rational situation. Police also generally use common sense. Sure, there are stupid officers from time to time, and its unfair if you get nailed for it, but the law generally works as written.
Think about the extreme situation. If you're going the speed limit, into an intersection and the light turns yellow, if you have to take the time to think about whether or not you'll stop safely... it probably isn't safe to stop.
On the other hand, if you pull out of a driveway near an intersection, you're barely moving, and the light turns yellow, you're not going to make it. Just stop.
There are grid-lock laws to deal with the situation where you enter the intersection when the guy in front of you stopped. In a traffic jam, they really do want you to wait until the intersection is clear before you enter it. I've waited out greens before... it's all you can do. Driving at rush-hour in the city will always be frustrating.
Does anyone have any thoughts as to why Apache would be targeted like this?
Apache doesn't exactly garner bad blood from shady groups. Big corporations and governments have too much to lose by attacking Apache this way. I could understand an attempt by organized crime or a blackhat organization to secretly insert a back door into the Apache code base, but this was too heavy-handed to even consider being a secret attempt.
The whole thing is weird.
In Ontario it's a stop:
http://www.e-laws.gov.on.ca/html/statutes/english/elaws_statutes_90h08_e.htm
Little differences like this in laws are annoying.
Outsourcing has been going strong for 10 years now. There's a whole generation who've been permanent software developers since they started their careers. They're better educated on average, and are now there's a good pool of experienced developers out there.
The biggest difference from 10 years ago is that now North American and European management know how to work with Indian management.