> stepped on by an elephant, run over by a Land Rover, dropped from a second-story window, buried in mud, soaked in a pint of beer, and roasted in an oven at 150 degrees c
Hey, coincidentally, that exactly describes what happened to me last night. And I'm still working.
I don't have any mod points, so I'm just going to say, beautifully illustrated!
Can you imagine if a manager was to pull himself away from his desk, walk down to the IT shop and ask an employee to, "show me," that he could make a cable, and then test that it was correctly made? Who's watching the stock price while that is going on? No one.
I'm so glad that we are staying focused on real CYA business practices here, instead of muddying the waters with talk of profit and loss, craftsmanship, or product quality.
It may evolve to the point that these characters will want to invest the effort in really carefully targeting their marks. I have heard it called, "spear phishing," but I have never actually seen it.
If they really wanted to do that, I would think they'd start by harvesting info from the million zombie pcs they root. I *have* seen a worm that eavesdropped on FTP to steal login info, and tag sites with malware, but that is about all I have seen in the wild.
Most of the spam/phish gang action I see, seems to be very big nets, cast very wide.
This concern that you may have your email address *discovered* by spammers because you post it on a web page is so 5-years-ago. They already have your email address, and they probably didn't get it by scraping web pages.
When you have sent a couple emails out with a given address, you can figure that at least one of them will to sit around in someone's Outlook mailstore for the next couple years. (Someone you know uses Windows!) When that person's computer gets infected with spam gang malware (as they all do), they have your address.
This is also known as, "The Problem With SPF." SPF breaks forwarding. This is well known. People who use SPF need to be aware of the ramifications.
The SPF people have created SRS, as you are aware, to work around this problem. It is a complicated and unappealing workaround. I certainly won't do it.
You have three options as I see it:
1) Stop forwarding. It's really a terrible idea. Install webmail on your mailserver. Check out RoundCube, for instance. 2) Wait for people to figure out that strict SPF policies break SMTP too badly for most users. 3) Implement SRS. (this would probably be easier if you were using a modern MTA)
I guess you were hoping for an easy fix, but there simply isn't one.
That has always been my gut reaction too, but the result is a government that looks at it's constituents and knows for sure that they don't give a shit, and then acts accordingly.
A disinterested and disengaged citizenry is a lot easier to oppress.
> I yanked my kid out of daycare on the spot when I walked in and found a room full of goddamn year old toddlers watching Spongebob with commercials.
Yikes. Spongebob is decent, but the cereal and dolls onslaught is unbearable.
> And I've inherited the family gene that makes me think tantrums are funny (as a child that drove me absolutely insane; the madder I got, the more hilarious my parents found it) so I don't cave to that sort of kid pressure.
Haha awesome, Humor and Distraction are definitely the weapons I pick up before Punishment. Another poster commented about getting irate over the grocery store tantrum, and that's just so far offbase. Your kid is running the show at that point, and like your kid, you are making emotional (bad) decisions.
> That's the whole point of the wall-to-wall candy at every checkout line, the cartoon characters on every cereal box, the random kid crap on little face-out hangers that adorns rows full of otherwise kid-unfriendly merchandise.
I dunno, even without the kid traps, the supermarket is still super-sensory-overload. There's just so much shiny stuff there:
I ended up going to the supermarket with my kid about two hours after I posted this, and then the auto parts store. I think she was about equally excited by both places. No tantrums though!
> Oh, and this happens every single time you go to the store. Like clockwork.
> You will cave in. You don't know you will, but trust me--and every other parent out there--you will cave, and buy it whatever it wants to just shut it up.
Read this as, "I cave in, and now I get tantrums every time I go to the store, like clockwork because I have conditioned my kids to do it."
Reward the behavior you like, and punish the behavior you don't like. Never deviate from this, ever. Behavior that is rewarded will be repeated, and behavior that is punished will (eventually!) cease. I mean, I know exactly where you are coming from. I know how much tantrums at the store suck. You may have to sit through a few of them before it works. If it's bad enough, just exit the store and deposit the kid with someone else, while you shop solo. Trade sleep for time to shop if you have to, but never reward bad behavior. YOU are in charge.
Also, I suspect a lot of the gimme gimme tantrums are tv-related. It sucks to think you paid someone (TV purchase, cable subscription) to induce tantrums in your kid. Maybe turn that crap off too.
Mmm, slashdot parenting. This crowd is getting old.
Have you ever benchmarked this? It's a beautiful trick, but I couldn't even fill up a 10M local network link the last time I tried it. Same with SSH and rsync. Same with NFS.
The best performance I got was piping a tar/gzip through netcat. That requires a trusted network though.
Just, "wow". Note to (almost) everyone who answered: America is losing two wars right now, and spending $200B for the privilege. I'm seeing maglevs and french language classes and...wow. All sorts of Star Trek engineering solutions, and (almost) no one mentions the loosing two wars thing. My expectation for the next election just dropped even lower.
I am forced into speech because men of science have refused to follow my advice without knowing why. It is altogether against my will that I tell my reasons for opposing this contemplated invasion of the antarctic--with its vast fossil hunt and its wholesale boring and melting of the ancient ice caps. And I am the more reluctant because my warning may be in vain.
Doubt of the real facts, as I must reveal them, is inevitable; yet, if I suppressed what will seem extravagant and incredible there would be nothing left. The hitherto withheld photographs, both ordinary and aërial, will count in my favor, for they are damnably vivid and graphic. Still, they will be doubted because of the great lengths to which clever fakery can be carried. The ink drawings, of course, will be jeered at as obvious impostures, notwithstanding a strangeness of technique which art experts ought to remark and puzzle over.
In the end I must rely on the judgement and standing of the few scientific leaders who have, on the other hand, sufficient independence of thought to weigh my data on its own hideously convincing merits or in the light of certain primordial and highly baffling myth cycles; and on the other hand, sufficient influence to deter the exploring world in general from any rash and over ambitious program in the region of those mountains of madness. It is an unfortunate fact that relatively obscure men like myself and my associates, connected only with a small university, have little chance of making an impression where matters of a wildly bizarre or highly controversial nature are concerned.
Breaking and on-the-books law is absolutely not a requirement for an impeachment. Abuse of power and misconduct in office are grounds for impeachment. Lying about intelligence, under oath or otherwise, in order to bamboozle the country into an unnecessary war is grounds for impeachment. Please refer to the history of impeachment, and the overwhelming consensus of constitutional scholars for what is an impeachable offense.
FreeBSD has had support for "snapshots" in the base install for some time now. I believe it was modeled on a feature in NetApps. Other file systems may support a similar feature. Basically, you tell the system to take a snapshot - say every hour via cron - and it starts a new log of changes that have taken place on the file system. Multiple snapshots may be maintained concurrently. With a little snapshot magic you can mount, and even automount these just like NetApp and Leopard. It works great. Note that it saves the snapshot on the same filesystem, so it does not get you out of making proper backups.
The beauty of the OSX's time machine is that it works right, by default, without any setup (If you have an external drive for the purpose). The upshot is that in 5 years, maybe 50% of mac desktops will have SOME kind of regular backup. That will be a pretty huge jump from about 0% now.
How much for a 25 lb bag of beans? Costco has 2.5 lb bags for $8 or $9, MUCH cheaper that the supermarkets, and they are roasting it right there. Is the deal better than that?
Like, every two weeks we see, "$ASSHAT_ANTI_VIRUS_COMPANY sez there is something not entirely unlike an OSX worm in the wild, and uh, Mac users have been lulled into a false sense of security, and uh no Mac user has ever actually seen a real virus in the wild because they're not all that popular, and um, like, we should all go buy us some Anti-Virus software."
Like, every two weeks we see, "$ASSHAT_ANTI_VIRUS_COMPANY sez there is something not entirely unlike an OSX worm in the wild, and uh, Mac users have been lulled into a false sense of security, and uh no Mac user has ever actually seen a real virus in the wild because they're not all that popular, and um, like, we should all go buy us some Anti-Virus software."
Quit fucking with the sham that there aren't enough qualified IT workers in the US. They posted that ad for 3 years and never got anyone qualified, so, golly, they need to import some people to do it at 1/2 salary.
Oh, and as a corollary to this, if you ever find yourself asking why a web site is a hassle to use, or doesn't have the info that is important to you, or attacks you with a bunch of useless pitches, it's because You Are Not The Customer. Ever wonder why radio is so crappy? It's because You Are Not The Customer. Who pays the job site? Who pays classmates.com? Who pays for TV broadcasts? Who pays for radio broadcasts?
Ok, sometimes the site was just coded by monkeys that don't know any better, but that excuse isn't reasonable for major sites.
The problem with job sites is the problem with any sort of site that does not maintain and publish the reputations of it's participants. It is just particularly acute with job sites since:
1. Every company and every employee in the world is a potential customer. 2. There's a lot of money involved.
Failing to make these things community and reputation driven is negligent at best, and more likely just exploitive.
Now someone Ask Slashdot why all real estate / rental sites suck, so I can repost this verbatim.
No. The salary you arrive at is the compromise between what you think the employee is worth in the job market, and what he thinks he's worth. Same as any price for anything in an open market. When you post the salery, you do yourself and potential employees the service of not wasting each other's time (writing a cover letter, swapping emails, conducting a phone interview) when your ideas of their market value are too divergent to ever work out.
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> stepped on by an elephant, run over by a Land Rover, dropped from a second-story window, buried in mud, soaked in a pint of beer, and roasted in an oven at 150 degrees c
Hey, coincidentally, that exactly describes what happened to me last night. And I'm still working.
I don't have any mod points, so I'm just going to say, beautifully illustrated!
Can you imagine if a manager was to pull himself away from his desk, walk down to the IT shop and ask an employee to, "show me," that he could make a cable, and then test that it was correctly made? Who's watching the stock price while that is going on? No one.
I'm so glad that we are staying focused on real CYA business practices here, instead of muddying the waters with talk of profit and loss, craftsmanship, or product quality.
It may evolve to the point that these characters will want to invest the effort in really carefully targeting their marks. I have heard it called, "spear phishing," but I have never actually seen it.
If they really wanted to do that, I would think they'd start by harvesting info from the million zombie pcs they root. I *have* seen a worm that eavesdropped on FTP to steal login info, and tag sites with malware, but that is about all I have seen in the wild.
Most of the spam/phish gang action I see, seems to be very big nets, cast very wide.
Again, that may change over time.
This concern that you may have your email address *discovered* by spammers because you post it on a web page is so 5-years-ago. They already have your email address, and they probably didn't get it by scraping web pages.
When you have sent a couple emails out with a given address, you can figure that at least one of them will to sit around in someone's Outlook mailstore for the next couple years. (Someone you know uses Windows!) When that person's computer gets infected with spam gang malware (as they all do), they have your address.
Once of them has it, they probably all have it.
This is also known as, "The Problem With SPF." SPF breaks forwarding. This is well known. People who use SPF need to be aware of the ramifications.
The SPF people have created SRS, as you are aware, to work around this problem. It is a complicated and unappealing workaround. I certainly won't do it.
You have three options as I see it:
1) Stop forwarding. It's really a terrible idea. Install webmail on your mailserver. Check out RoundCube, for instance.
2) Wait for people to figure out that strict SPF policies break SMTP too badly for most users.
3) Implement SRS. (this would probably be easier if you were using a modern MTA)
I guess you were hoping for an easy fix, but there simply isn't one.
One botnet node per child.
That has always been my gut reaction too, but the result is a government that looks at it's constituents and knows for sure that they don't give a shit, and then acts accordingly.
A disinterested and disengaged citizenry is a lot easier to oppress.
> I yanked my kid out of daycare on the spot when I walked in and found a room full of goddamn year old toddlers watching Spongebob with commercials.
Yikes. Spongebob is decent, but the cereal and dolls onslaught is unbearable.
> And I've inherited the family gene that makes me think tantrums are funny (as a child that drove me absolutely insane; the madder I got, the more hilarious my parents found it) so I don't cave to that sort of kid pressure.
Haha awesome, Humor and Distraction are definitely the weapons I pick up before Punishment. Another poster commented about getting irate over the grocery store tantrum, and that's just so far offbase. Your kid is running the show at that point, and like your kid, you are making emotional (bad) decisions.
> That's the whole point of the wall-to-wall candy at every checkout line, the cartoon characters on every cereal box, the random kid crap on little face-out hangers that adorns rows full of otherwise kid-unfriendly merchandise.
I dunno, even without the kid traps, the supermarket is still super-sensory-overload. There's just so much shiny stuff there:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/unaesthetic/22725413/sizes/l/
I ended up going to the supermarket with my kid about two hours after I posted this, and then the auto parts store. I think she was about equally excited by both places. No tantrums though!
> Oh, and this happens every single time you go to the store. Like clockwork.
> You will cave in. You don't know you will, but trust me--and every other parent out there--you will cave, and buy it whatever it wants to just shut it up.
Read this as, "I cave in, and now I get tantrums every time I go to the store, like clockwork because I have conditioned my kids to do it."
It's not too late to stop caving in!
Personally, as the parent of a 4-year-old...
Reward the behavior you like, and punish the behavior you don't like. Never deviate from this, ever. Behavior that is rewarded will be repeated, and behavior that is punished will (eventually!) cease. I mean, I know exactly where you are coming from. I know how much tantrums at the store suck. You may have to sit through a few of them before it works. If it's bad enough, just exit the store and deposit the kid with someone else, while you shop solo. Trade sleep for time to shop if you have to, but never reward bad behavior. YOU are in charge.
Also, I suspect a lot of the gimme gimme tantrums are tv-related. It sucks to think you paid someone (TV purchase, cable subscription) to induce tantrums in your kid. Maybe turn that crap off too.
Mmm, slashdot parenting. This crowd is getting old.
Have you ever benchmarked this? It's a beautiful trick, but I couldn't even fill up a 10M local network link the last time I tried it. Same with SSH and rsync. Same with NFS.
The best performance I got was piping a tar/gzip through netcat. That requires a trusted network though.
Just, "wow". Note to (almost) everyone who answered: America is losing two wars right now, and spending $200B for the privilege. I'm seeing maglevs and french language classes and...wow. All sorts of Star Trek engineering solutions, and (almost) no one mentions the loosing two wars thing. My expectation for the next election just dropped even lower.
> There's no shortage of people who would be happy to have a job driving for you if you don't drive.
Yeah there is. There's a shortage of about 40,000 people a year in the US:
http://www-fars.nhtsa.dot.gov/Main/index.aspx
I am forced into speech because men of science have refused to follow my advice without knowing why. It is altogether against my will that I tell my reasons for opposing this contemplated invasion of the antarctic--with its vast fossil hunt and its wholesale boring and melting of the ancient ice caps. And I am the more reluctant because my warning may be in vain.
Doubt of the real facts, as I must reveal them, is inevitable; yet, if I suppressed what will seem extravagant and incredible there would be nothing left. The hitherto withheld photographs, both ordinary and aërial, will count in my favor, for they are damnably vivid and graphic. Still, they will be doubted because of the great lengths to which clever fakery can be carried. The ink drawings, of course, will be jeered at as obvious impostures, notwithstanding a strangeness of technique which art experts ought to remark and puzzle over.
In the end I must rely on the judgement and standing of the few scientific leaders who have, on the other hand, sufficient independence of thought to weigh my data on its own hideously convincing merits or in the light of certain primordial and highly baffling myth cycles; and on the other hand, sufficient influence to deter the exploring world in general from any rash and over ambitious program in the region of those mountains of madness. It is an unfortunate fact that relatively obscure men like myself and my associates, connected only with a small university, have little chance of making an impression where matters of a wildly bizarre or highly controversial nature are concerned.
Breaking and on-the-books law is absolutely not a requirement for an impeachment. Abuse of power and misconduct in office are grounds for impeachment. Lying about intelligence, under oath or otherwise, in order to bamboozle the country into an unnecessary war is grounds for impeachment. Please refer to the history of impeachment, and the overwhelming consensus of constitutional scholars for what is an impeachable offense.
FreeBSD has had support for "snapshots" in the base install for some time now. I believe it was modeled on a feature in NetApps. Other file systems may support a similar feature. Basically, you tell the system to take a snapshot - say every hour via cron - and it starts a new log of changes that have taken place on the file system. Multiple snapshots may be maintained concurrently. With a little snapshot magic you can mount, and even automount these just like NetApp and Leopard. It works great. Note that it saves the snapshot on the same filesystem, so it does not get you out of making proper backups.
The beauty of the OSX's time machine is that it works right, by default, without any setup (If you have an external drive for the purpose). The upshot is that in 5 years, maybe 50% of mac desktops will have SOME kind of regular backup. That will be a pretty huge jump from about 0% now.
This virus works on the honor system:
If you're running a variant of unix or linux, please forward this message to everyone you know and delete a bunch of your files at random.
I am pleased to see these nonsense osx malware stories have at least decreased in regularity.
How about an instructables.com on that?
How much for a 25 lb bag of beans? Costco has 2.5 lb bags for $8 or $9, MUCH cheaper that the supermarkets, and they are roasting it right there. Is the deal better than that?
Best ask.slashdot ever.
I mean, the story posting? Is it a cron job?
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Like, every two weeks we see, "$ASSHAT_ANTI_VIRUS_COMPANY sez there is something not entirely unlike an OSX worm in the wild, and uh, Mac users have been lulled into a false sense of security, and uh no Mac user has ever actually seen a real virus in the wild because they're not all that popular, and um, like, we should all go buy us some Anti-Virus software."
Stop posting PR crap, please. Don't be a PR tool.
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=178631&cid=14
perl -e 'print(ucfirst(`hostname -s`));' | figlet -f chunky > /etc/motd
I mean, the story posting? Is it a cron job?
Like, every two weeks we see, "$ASSHAT_ANTI_VIRUS_COMPANY sez there is something not entirely unlike an OSX worm in the wild, and uh, Mac users have been lulled into a false sense of security, and uh no Mac user has ever actually seen a real virus in the wild because they're not all that popular, and um, like, we should all go buy us some Anti-Virus software."
Stop posting PR crap, please. Don't be a PR tool.
Quit fucking with the sham that there aren't enough qualified IT workers in the US. They posted that ad for 3 years and never got anyone qualified, so, golly, they need to import some people to do it at 1/2 salary.
Oh, and as a corollary to this, if you ever find yourself asking why a web site is a hassle to use, or doesn't have the info that is important to you, or attacks you with a bunch of useless pitches, it's because You Are Not The Customer. Ever wonder why radio is so crappy? It's because You Are Not The Customer. Who pays the job site? Who pays classmates.com? Who pays for TV broadcasts? Who pays for radio broadcasts?
Ok, sometimes the site was just coded by monkeys that don't know any better, but that excuse isn't reasonable for major sites.
The problem with job sites is the problem with any sort of site that does not maintain and publish the reputations of it's participants. It is just particularly acute with job sites since:
1. Every company and every employee in the world is a potential customer.
2. There's a lot of money involved.
Failing to make these things community and reputation driven is negligent at best, and more likely just exploitive.
Now someone Ask Slashdot why all real estate / rental sites suck, so I can repost this verbatim.
No. The salary you arrive at is the compromise between what you think the employee is worth in the job market, and what he thinks he's worth. Same as any price for anything in an open market. When you post the salery, you do yourself and potential employees the service of not wasting each other's time (writing a cover letter, swapping emails, conducting a phone interview) when your ideas of their market value are too divergent to ever work out.