Funny-but-true: A buddy I work with tried that on a developer's MacBook Pro today. He wound up munging/etc/sudoers instead. Now they're currently trying to figure down how to get a live distro running that can mount Mac filesystems so they can fix that. It's kind of hilarious from my POV..
Overall, if you already have physical access to the box, it's game-over anyway, and given the astronomically tiny percentage of Macs running OSX 10.10, that has sshd running, and happens to be on a publicly accessible network (either public wifi or a public IP addy)? Prolly not a really big concern...
It does lead to a question, though - could someone in North Korea (with a sufficient level of ability) remove or obfuscate those, or is the source code even available to the typical user in NoKo?
Typical slashdot geek binary thinking. Life must be so happy in your simple world.
If you cannot bring yourself to keep your dick in your pants and it didn't involve your being raped, you have no one to blame but yourself. Like I said, it's not that hard to do for someone with a sufficient level of emotional maturity.
If you want to have sex outside of a relationship so bad, then at least be man enough to either say as much to your S/O directly, and/or end the relationship first.
This isn't one of those gray-area fuzzy moral issues where circumstances could excuse the actions... it's a very simple task: Remain faithful to the person you made the commitment to, or don't enter into a commitment until you are capable.
The reasons why folks marry have changed over time, but until recently, the basic principles of it has not (even if people routinely violate said principles.)
Yes, I'm fully aware of "open" marriages - few of them last very long, at least judging from folks in my social circles. Then again, why would they be embarrassed by the revelation of their names on such a website? Are you saying that even a quorum (let alone a majority) of the folks on that site practice such relationships? If so, the revelation of their names shouldn't be a problem (though actively seeking to hook up with folks from non-open marriages is rather questionable). I'm more than willing to wager that the vast majority of the users are keeping up a façade at home while cruising for some strange on the website.
All these people are going to get painted with a really bad and really large brush no matter what the truth is now.
Sleep with dogs, wake up with fleas. There are most likely websites out there for folks in open marriages to meet up and do whatever they please... can't really bring myself to feel sorry for 'em.
There is no puritanism here, merely a respect for marital trust, and the unwillingness to violate it.
Marriage isn't a mere contract that you can seek out loopholes for, or something you do just so that you can have sex-on-demand. It's a commitment; a sacred trust between two individuals who become as one in spirit. You do this for life, and bind your lives and fortunes together.
Many things are negotiable in this world, even in marriage - but remaining faithful to someone you are married to is not something you can (or should ever) negotiate over. If you haven't the maturity to understand that, then don't get married.
The question isn't how you feel, but the level of commitment you made. If you married someone, you have made it known to one and all that you love that person (outside of countries where contractual marriage is still a thing, anyway). This carries a certain level of responsibility - unless both partners know up-front that the marriage is "open", then avoiding adultery at all costs is automatically and universally assumed to be one of those responsibilities.
I don't see any requests for money, so who is going to pay the hackers?
Individual customers certainly won't.
Dunno - one good spearphishing campaign based on the personal info gathered from the hack would probably garner quite a bit of money... and none of us would ever hear about it. The public announcements would only add to the credibility of the blackmail threats.
It's not that hard to keep yourself in check, gents. You either love your S/O or you do not. If you do, you will do your level best to remain faithful....besides, most of you schmucks are geeks - if you found someone that actually puts up with our little quirks and habits and loves our kind in spite of ourselves, why would you screw that up?
On the other hand, the company is based in Canada, and I'm not sure what their data retention laws may entail. Since the company is pre-IPO, they may have aligned their policies to the Canadian equivalent of SOX (if they have one), but otherwise I don't see much demand to store the CC info for any legit business purpose.
Given its much much smaller marketshare for home desktops/laptops, no one bothers to find bugs because there would be less people to take advantage of.
...and yet given its much larger marketshare for Internet-facing and enterprise servers, one would think it to be far more attractive (even if only as carriers of Windows malware to end-users...)
Until a Windows security update breaks your VM app. "DOS ain't done till..."
How on Earth would a Windows Update break ESXi? the vSphere server maybe, but that's only because VMWare's UI/Utilities dev teams are retarded. Then again, VMWare ain't the only game in town anymore, either.
Personally, I'd love to see Foreman chained onto a working Linux-only virtual solution and cut Microsoft out of the picture entirely... oh, wait...
Actually, neither is astounding, considering how shallow their bench is.
For those among us with a leftward ideology and a twitchy knee, set the ideology aside for a bit and think it through: How many Democrats are 1) nationally recognized, 2) have proven executive ability (e.g. as governor - senators/reps rarely get elected) 3) have enough of a following among their base to push through the primaries?
The Republicans have many of those - in waves, and it shows in the zillion-candidate cage-match they're going through now (though to be honest, only about 8-10 of them have any hope in Hell). Yes, they have some toxic folks among them (e.g. Trump), but they'll flame out long before the primaries are underway.
The DNC? Not so much. There's a couple of outliers (dude from Maryland for example), but they lack any real name recognition, or a political machine to promote their name. Sanders has the populist imagination (much like the Tea Party does with the GOP), and Hillary has the Clinton name, as well as the massive political machine to back her up. Everyone else is either way too old or way the hell too, well, toxic to get the independent voter's nod. I mean, really, who else has a chance there?
Before the 1980's, Portland was staunchly conservative; there was a church on practically every corner ( the vast majority of which were Catholic), and it was considered a working-class town with those particular values (albeit the strip clubs and etc were thriving from Burnside northwards, etc).
All one has to do is to check the political parties of successive mayors, really.
For instance, Portland (OR) is successful not because of its governance, but because it's surrounded by huge corporations in adjacent cities/counties which are decidedly not Democrat-controlled (e.g. the Intel Corporation has numerous fabs in nearby Hillsboro, Nike is headquartered in Beaverton, etc). Few folks actually live inside Portland's city limits unless they're either very wealthy or very homeless - I think the exceptions are all found east of the river, and most of those neighborhoods are being gentrified all to hell as I type this. Instead, most folks live in the surrounding cities... which again are not Democrat-controlled. To top all that off, PDX hasn't been controlled by the Democrats for as long as most cities.
Seattle isn't too much different, truth be told... Like Portland, they began their swing leftward in the 1980's-1990s. I'm willing to wager that Miami started shifting at around the same time.
NYC? It swings back and forth, going as far left as Dinkins, until everyone gets sick of the squalor and elects someone like Guiliani to clean it all up. Then they slowly go back towards the DNC again.
San Fran is a bit of an exception, but is supported by a massive existing set of industries that cannot easily move.
I bet if you fix that, you'll see the populations rebound. 'course, stopping idiots from spraying neurotoxin-based pesticides is nowhere near as sexy as the magic words "Climate Change", but you know? I think it'd help the bees out a hell of a lot more, and a hell of a lot faster...
Gotta agree here, big-time. Even my own impromptu testing with AdBlock on/off shows that, as an example, roughly 20-30% of Facebook's packets carry advertisements to my browser. Sites like/. have the percentage down to something like 10% or so, personal and fringe sites maybe 5%, and at the other end, any ZDNet/CNET owned website blasts out soemthing like 25-35%. Don't ask what tomshardware.com and the gaming websites throw at you...
While it's nothing more than an annoyance on my home machinery, I know that when I'm tethered, it makes a *huge* effing difference in data usage. I have it firmly installed on my mobile for just this reason.
I get something occasionally, though usually through the phone. I have a very common first/last name combo (and even more, my father has the same name). There's like 42 other guys in the city metro phone book listed, and Lord only knows how many unlisted folks bear the same name. I even have a coworker with the same name (though he's in another department), and have put up with that little phenomenon about every other job.
So - once in awhile I'd get a phone call from some collection agency. Says I owe them some $hundreds or $thousands, usually in New Mexico (never lived there in my life), then claims that I moved in order to avoid paying up. At first this was frustrating in trying to convince them to go away w/o divulging any personal info of my own. After some research a couple of years ago, I've gotten to the point where I just tell them "I am not the person you are looking for. According to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, I demand you leave me the hell alone. My lawyer's name is {the lawyer who handled my Chapter 13}, and he resides in Portland, Oregon, where I live. If you pursue this any further, I will countersue for time and trouble at $350/hr if it's in small claims court, or countersue for $50k on account of harassment if not. See you in court, sucker." Then I hang up. I have yet to see a summons from any of them, and my lawyer has received no contact.
As far as identity theft? My wife's hospital bills shoved us into Chapter 13 (one year left - yay!), so good luck with that...
Like Germany, where they spent $14 million to save $11 million?
Guessing they'll save a lot more than that in the long run - mostly by not having to re-up a massive Microsoft EA multi-million-euro contract every 3 years or so...
In other words, you've fallen for the same short-sighted 'next quarter' BS that the MBAs tend to fall for. Look further out...
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I believe it was a joke...
Funny-but-true: A buddy I work with tried that on a developer's MacBook Pro today. He wound up munging /etc/sudoers instead. Now they're currently trying to figure down how to get a live distro running that can mount Mac filesystems so they can fix that. It's kind of hilarious from my POV..
Overall, if you already have physical access to the box, it's game-over anyway, and given the astronomically tiny percentage of Macs running OSX 10.10, that has sshd running, and happens to be on a publicly accessible network (either public wifi or a public IP addy)? Prolly not a really big concern...
I think you are talking about multithreading in your pigeon English.
Fuck sakes, he was most likely referring to threads.h , which is the std. C++ library for multithreading.
I'm just hoping the NSA doesn't get any ideas.
It does lead to a question, though - could someone in North Korea (with a sufficient level of ability) remove or obfuscate those, or is the source code even available to the typical user in NoKo?
Typical slashdot geek binary thinking. Life must be so happy in your simple world.
If you cannot bring yourself to keep your dick in your pants and it didn't involve your being raped, you have no one to blame but yourself. Like I said, it's not that hard to do for someone with a sufficient level of emotional maturity.
If you want to have sex outside of a relationship so bad, then at least be man enough to either say as much to your S/O directly, and/or end the relationship first.
This isn't one of those gray-area fuzzy moral issues where circumstances could excuse the actions... it's a very simple task: Remain faithful to the person you made the commitment to, or don't enter into a commitment until you are capable.
The reasons why folks marry have changed over time, but until recently, the basic principles of it has not (even if people routinely violate said principles.)
Yes, I'm fully aware of "open" marriages - few of them last very long, at least judging from folks in my social circles. Then again, why would they be embarrassed by the revelation of their names on such a website? Are you saying that even a quorum (let alone a majority) of the folks on that site practice such relationships? If so, the revelation of their names shouldn't be a problem (though actively seeking to hook up with folks from non-open marriages is rather questionable). I'm more than willing to wager that the vast majority of the users are keeping up a façade at home while cruising for some strange on the website.
All these people are going to get painted with a really bad and really large brush no matter what the truth is now.
Sleep with dogs, wake up with fleas. There are most likely websites out there for folks in open marriages to meet up and do whatever they please... can't really bring myself to feel sorry for 'em.
There is no puritanism here, merely a respect for marital trust, and the unwillingness to violate it.
Marriage isn't a mere contract that you can seek out loopholes for, or something you do just so that you can have sex-on-demand. It's a commitment; a sacred trust between two individuals who become as one in spirit. You do this for life, and bind your lives and fortunes together.
Many things are negotiable in this world, even in marriage - but remaining faithful to someone you are married to is not something you can (or should ever) negotiate over. If you haven't the maturity to understand that, then don't get married.
The question isn't how you feel, but the level of commitment you made. If you married someone, you have made it known to one and all that you love that person (outside of countries where contractual marriage is still a thing, anyway). This carries a certain level of responsibility - unless both partners know up-front that the marriage is "open", then avoiding adultery at all costs is automatically and universally assumed to be one of those responsibilities.
I don't see any requests for money, so who is going to pay the hackers?
Individual customers certainly won't.
Dunno - one good spearphishing campaign based on the personal info gathered from the hack would probably garner quite a bit of money... and none of us would ever hear about it. The public announcements would only add to the credibility of the blackmail threats.
...as long as you don't cohabitate in certain states (where common-law marriage may apply).
This, right here.
It's not that hard to keep yourself in check, gents. You either love your S/O or you do not. If you do, you will do your level best to remain faithful. ...besides, most of you schmucks are geeks - if you found someone that actually puts up with our little quirks and habits and loves our kind in spite of ourselves, why would you screw that up?
To be honest? The act is criminal, but if the affected want sympathy? They can find it in the dictionary between "shit" and "syphilis".
Point of order: PCI compliance demands that you do *not* store customer CC data unless absolutely necessary (mind the PDF, Henry).
On the other hand, the company is based in Canada, and I'm not sure what their data retention laws may entail. Since the company is pre-IPO, they may have aligned their policies to the Canadian equivalent of SOX (if they have one), but otherwise I don't see much demand to store the CC info for any legit business purpose.
Given its much much smaller marketshare for home desktops/laptops, no one bothers to find bugs because there would be less people to take advantage of.
...and yet given its much larger marketshare for Internet-facing and enterprise servers, one would think it to be far more attractive (even if only as carriers of Windows malware to end-users...)
Point of Order: Apache and OpenSSL are not "Linux". I can run a user-oriented Linux desktop/laptop box just fine without either.
If we're going to talk vulns in an OS, then let's stick with the OS, not middleware or applications.
Dude - there's a reason PDF exists, and so long as you;re not cooperatively editing docs, it would work just fine for the purpose.
True (and you should be modded up for that post, big-time).
Then again, how many folks are going to go mucking around disabling services, let alone set up WSUS/SCCM ?
Until a Windows security update breaks your VM app. "DOS ain't done till..."
How on Earth would a Windows Update break ESXi? the vSphere server maybe, but that's only because VMWare's UI/Utilities dev teams are retarded. Then again, VMWare ain't the only game in town anymore, either.
Personally, I'd love to see Foreman chained onto a working Linux-only virtual solution and cut Microsoft out of the picture entirely... oh, wait...
Actually, neither is astounding, considering how shallow their bench is.
For those among us with a leftward ideology and a twitchy knee, set the ideology aside for a bit and think it through: How many Democrats are 1) nationally recognized, 2) have proven executive ability (e.g. as governor - senators/reps rarely get elected) 3) have enough of a following among their base to push through the primaries?
The Republicans have many of those - in waves, and it shows in the zillion-candidate cage-match they're going through now (though to be honest, only about 8-10 of them have any hope in Hell). Yes, they have some toxic folks among them (e.g. Trump), but they'll flame out long before the primaries are underway.
The DNC? Not so much. There's a couple of outliers (dude from Maryland for example), but they lack any real name recognition, or a political machine to promote their name. Sanders has the populist imagination (much like the Tea Party does with the GOP), and Hillary has the Clinton name, as well as the massive political machine to back her up. Everyone else is either way too old or way the hell too, well, toxic to get the independent voter's nod. I mean, really, who else has a chance there?
I disagree (disclosure: I live here).
Before the 1980's, Portland was staunchly conservative; there was a church on practically every corner ( the vast majority of which were Catholic), and it was considered a working-class town with those particular values (albeit the strip clubs and etc were thriving from Burnside northwards, etc).
All one has to do is to check the political parties of successive mayors, really.
Not as easy as all that.
For instance, Portland (OR) is successful not because of its governance, but because it's surrounded by huge corporations in adjacent cities/counties which are decidedly not Democrat-controlled (e.g. the Intel Corporation has numerous fabs in nearby Hillsboro, Nike is headquartered in Beaverton, etc). Few folks actually live inside Portland's city limits unless they're either very wealthy or very homeless - I think the exceptions are all found east of the river, and most of those neighborhoods are being gentrified all to hell as I type this. Instead, most folks live in the surrounding cities... which again are not Democrat-controlled. To top all that off, PDX hasn't been controlled by the Democrats for as long as most cities.
Seattle isn't too much different, truth be told... Like Portland, they began their swing leftward in the 1980's-1990s. I'm willing to wager that Miami started shifting at around the same time.
NYC? It swings back and forth, going as far left as Dinkins, until everyone gets sick of the squalor and elects someone like Guiliani to clean it all up. Then they slowly go back towards the DNC again.
San Fran is a bit of an exception, but is supported by a massive existing set of industries that cannot easily move.
Kind of surprised you didn't mention LA...
Dude - bees have a much more immediate and far larger problem than some speculative "Oh Noes teh Hooman iz changings teh Climatez!" correlation:
http://www.theguardian.com/env...
I bet if you fix that, you'll see the populations rebound. 'course, stopping idiots from spraying neurotoxin-based pesticides is nowhere near as sexy as the magic words "Climate Change", but you know? I think it'd help the bees out a hell of a lot more, and a hell of a lot faster...
Should say - I have it installed both on my laptop and my mobile.
Gotta agree here, big-time. Even my own impromptu testing with AdBlock on/off shows that, as an example, roughly 20-30% of Facebook's packets carry advertisements to my browser. Sites like /. have the percentage down to something like 10% or so, personal and fringe sites maybe 5%, and at the other end, any ZDNet/CNET owned website blasts out soemthing like 25-35%. Don't ask what tomshardware.com and the gaming websites throw at you...
While it's nothing more than an annoyance on my home machinery, I know that when I'm tethered, it makes a *huge* effing difference in data usage. I have it firmly installed on my mobile for just this reason.
I get something occasionally, though usually through the phone. I have a very common first/last name combo (and even more, my father has the same name). There's like 42 other guys in the city metro phone book listed, and Lord only knows how many unlisted folks bear the same name. I even have a coworker with the same name (though he's in another department), and have put up with that little phenomenon about every other job.
So - once in awhile I'd get a phone call from some collection agency. Says I owe them some $hundreds or $thousands, usually in New Mexico (never lived there in my life), then claims that I moved in order to avoid paying up. At first this was frustrating in trying to convince them to go away w/o divulging any personal info of my own. After some research a couple of years ago, I've gotten to the point where I just tell them "I am not the person you are looking for. According to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, I demand you leave me the hell alone. My lawyer's name is {the lawyer who handled my Chapter 13}, and he resides in Portland, Oregon, where I live. If you pursue this any further, I will countersue for time and trouble at $350/hr if it's in small claims court, or countersue for $50k on account of harassment if not. See you in court, sucker." Then I hang up. I have yet to see a summons from any of them, and my lawyer has received no contact.
As far as identity theft? My wife's hospital bills shoved us into Chapter 13 (one year left - yay!), so good luck with that...
Like Germany, where they spent $14 million to save $11 million?
Guessing they'll save a lot more than that in the long run - mostly by not having to re-up a massive Microsoft EA multi-million-euro contract every 3 years or so...
In other words, you've fallen for the same short-sighted 'next quarter' BS that the MBAs tend to fall for. Look further out...