Mod parent +1 informative. I thought the Americans were just stupid. After all, they don't use kg to weigh freight, so my expectations were pretty low.
Ummm, you do know that the British are responsible for the horrible imperial system of measures that still persists in the USA, right?
Flamanville lies close to the British Channel Islands and about 150 miles from the southern English coast
I'm curious why the article says this at all. They could just as accurately have said: Flamanville lies ZERO miles from the French coast (ha ha) and is equidistant from Paris and London. That seems the more relevant information in terms of potential catastrophic impact on population centers.
Seems like the author is maybe British and fear-mongering for the local audience?
Whoever modded my previous "flamebait" doesn't understand satire. Even with the emoticon hint,;-) really, you missed that? Sure, don't mod it funny if you don't agree; heck, even mod it overrated if you mus!. But "flamebait"?! LOL
"This could help prevent billions of pounds of vehicle damage."
Mike Tyson does damage in pounds. Potholes cause economic damage. Silly Brits; measuring car damage as a weight. I'm surprised they didn't say "millions of stones of damage!";-)
Yes, but which hardware/software!?! You need to figure that out first. Not only so you don't needlessly replace certain hardware, but also so you understand the source of the infection. You could replace every piece of hardware and get reinfected from a restored data file!!!!
They'll replace everything, then one person will plug in their phone over USB to put some emails on their new workstation and it'll begin all over again.
Seems they should track down the source of any possible hardware infections before replacing all hardware. A) So they can better understand the threat and how it was perpetrated. And B) So they can, as you say, make sure they don't reinfect themselves.
It is hard enough to purge a single computer of tenacious malware, let alone an entire network!!
I agree completely! The advice about not treating any artifact or process as a holy cow I found much more meaningful than the "advice" that a manager should do what the developers hate for them. Sounds like a way to waste your time doing busy work instead of managine. Developers hate commenting their code. So should the manager spend all their time doing that??? Yeah, I'm sure that would help productivity.
Seriously... dude, you are doing something very wrong if you make $210K/yr and can't live more than 3 months without that salary. And 3 kids and high cost-of-living area are no justifications. You need to learn personal financial skills before anything else!
My advice... don't have sex with the office cleaning lady in your desk area. That sort of thing is generally frowned upon, even if it's not explicitly stated in the office rules.
An anonymous poster stated: "I recently discovered that a partner web site of a financial institution I do business with makes it trivially easy to view documents that do not belong to me. As in, change the document ID in a URL and view someone else's financial documents." He spoke customer service agents, escalated to a supervisor, and was told he would get a call back, but he never heard anything else. "I'm trying to be responsible and patient in my handling of this, but I am second guessing how to move forward if not quickly resolved. So, Slashdot, how would you handle this situation?"
1. NEVER sign a non-compete clause. 2. NEVER sign one of those "the company owns any ideas you have" employment contracts.
If you have done any of the above, stop here - you lose.
You forgot 2b... never succeed in getting hired, since there is no one who will hire you without signing those. AND, even with #2, it is de facto in the law whether you sign a contract about it or not.
“The FBI makes this proposal to look like they’re looking for a simple law to add a simple feature,” says Robert Graham, CEO at Errata Security. “But when you look into it, what they’re really asking for is dramatic, it’s a huge thing. They’d need to outlaw certain kinds of code. Possessing crypto code would become illegal.”
Ask hackers and other cybersecurity experts, and they'll tell you that the entire idea of a “backdoor” is a bureaucratic fantasy with little basis in technical reality.
“You can't build a backdoor that only the good guys can walk through,” cryptographer and author Bruce Schneier explained. “Encryption protects against cybercriminals, industrial competitors, the Chinese secret police, and the FBI. You're either vulnerable to eavesdropping by any of them, or you're secure from eavesdropping from all of them.”
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LOL
Mod parent +1 informative. I thought the Americans were just stupid. After all, they don't use kg to weigh freight, so my expectations were pretty low.
Ummm, you do know that the British are responsible for the horrible imperial system of measures that still persists in the USA, right?
Flamanville lies close to the British Channel Islands and about 150 miles from the southern English coast
I'm curious why the article says this at all. They could just as accurately have said: Flamanville lies ZERO miles from the French coast (ha ha) and is equidistant from Paris and London. That seems the more relevant information in terms of potential catastrophic impact on population centers.
Seems like the author is maybe British and fear-mongering for the local audience?
Whoever modded my previous "flamebait" doesn't understand satire. Even with the emoticon hint, ;-) really, you missed that? Sure, don't mod it funny if you don't agree; heck, even mod it overrated if you mus!. But "flamebait"?! LOL
You sir, are awarded the good humor prize: http://www.creativecertificate...
"This could help prevent billions of pounds of vehicle damage."
Mike Tyson does damage in pounds. Potholes cause economic damage. Silly Brits; measuring car damage as a weight. I'm surprised they didn't say "millions of stones of damage!" ;-)
Yes, but which hardware/software!?!
You need to figure that out first. Not only so you don't needlessly replace certain hardware, but also so you understand the source of the infection.
You could replace every piece of hardware and get reinfected from a restored data file!!!!
They'll replace everything, then one person will plug in their phone over USB to put some emails on their new workstation and it'll begin all over again.
Or a USB key!
Seems they should track down the source of any possible hardware infections before replacing all hardware. A) So they can better understand the threat and how it was perpetrated. And B) So they can, as you say, make sure they don't reinfect themselves.
It is hard enough to purge a single computer of tenacious malware, let alone an entire network!!
You seem very confused by this thread. Don't worry; we understood what you meant and liked your joke anyway.
He was referring to me by replying to dblll?
Mind blowing, eh?
Yeah, dude, you're your own guy.
The guy who comes in and injects hostility.
Thus the irony.
I think he *did* miss the irony, dbill. ;-)
Cute comic though.
No, he's referring to you. :-)
I think you did miss the irony.
I like the Dilbert, however. Thanks for sharing.
(thumbs)
Or maybe he means "jibe"?
Why the cheap *jab*? ;-)
I agree completely! The advice about not treating any artifact or process as a holy cow I found much more meaningful than the "advice" that a manager should do what the developers hate for them. Sounds like a way to waste your time doing busy work instead of managine. Developers hate commenting their code. So should the manager spend all their time doing that??? Yeah, I'm sure that would help productivity.
Well I'm glad that's settled. No more problems here! Also, it doesn't cause earthquakes.
Seriously... dude, you are doing something very wrong if you make $210K/yr and can't live more than 3 months without that salary.
And 3 kids and high cost-of-living area are no justifications. You need to learn personal financial skills before anything else!
My advice... don't have sex with the office cleaning lady in your desk area. That sort of thing is generally frowned upon, even if it's not explicitly stated in the office rules.
First time a vulnerability was disclosed on Slashdot?
Don't forget this nice Slashdot story:
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/...
An anonymous poster stated: "I recently discovered that a partner web site of a financial institution I do business with makes it trivially easy to view documents that do not belong to me. As in, change the document ID in a URL and view someone else's financial documents." He spoke customer service agents, escalated to a supervisor, and was told he would get a call back, but he never heard anything else. "I'm trying to be responsible and patient in my handling of this, but I am second guessing how to move forward if not quickly resolved. So, Slashdot, how would you handle this situation?"
1. NEVER sign a non-compete clause.
2. NEVER sign one of those "the company owns any ideas you have" employment contracts.
If you have done any of the above, stop here - you lose.
You forgot 2b... never succeed in getting hired, since there is no one who will hire you without signing those. AND, even with #2, it is de facto in the law whether you sign a contract about it or not.
Does your puppy picture contain steganography? ;-)
A good passage...
“The FBI makes this proposal to look like they’re looking for a simple law to add a simple feature,” says Robert Graham, CEO at Errata Security. “But when you look into it, what they’re really asking for is dramatic, it’s a huge thing. They’d need to outlaw certain kinds of code. Possessing crypto code would become illegal.”
Ask hackers and other cybersecurity experts, and they'll tell you that the entire idea of a “backdoor” is a bureaucratic fantasy with little basis in technical reality.
“You can't build a backdoor that only the good guys can walk through,” cryptographer and author Bruce Schneier explained. “Encryption protects against cybercriminals, industrial competitors, the Chinese secret police, and the FBI. You're either vulnerable to eavesdropping by any of them, or you're secure from eavesdropping from all of them.”
Oh no! The secret handshake has been revealed?! Now how will they know who isn't really a member?
Would voting against an incumbent public official be an "insult"?
This law is a croc of shit!