(1) Sponsored school where you are 'educated' for free and come out as a good consumer, your brand recognition skillz are amazing. (2) A McJob. (3) As long as you keep working really hard for others and stick in the herd you are defined as a winner and cared for; just don't be a looser ok.
In a society where you can never challenge your overlords there is never any incentive to think. You must live in total thrall until you die.
(1) Sunday school, indocrti^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H church school etc.. (2) You get a job working for the pastors business partners. (3) Soup kitchens, women's circles, retreats and shelters, payola from the congregation and increased social status so long as you are subservient.
In such a society there is never any need to think. They can live in perpetual retardation till the day they die.
Oooh I know..:-D (I've got a steam account.. I even keep a copy of windows around to run it on). There are also the Monkey Island 'Episodes' to look forward to, but I've promised myself that I must finish the originals before I am allowed to spend money on any more..
Amen.. I'm just working my way through the Monkey island series on my aspire netbook and ScummVM, and ran through DoTT and Sam'n'Max before that. All look great when re-rendered into full 1024x600, their upscalers are excellent! There are very few aliasing artifacts etc..
Vavoom (+the texture packs) also does a good job on Doom at the same resolution too.
Yeah... And it makes a good point, because if a tosser like Beck had 'won' he's have revamped the site and made it even nastier. Unfortunately that is a good illustration of the point that the illiberal elite are obnoxious, and the only way to stop them is by doing something terminal to them. Decent people, when they see a man is down, stop putting the boot in. Someone like Beck just keeps going and loves it; a large part of the illiberal mindset is devoted to lording over and damaging the 'weak', it's how such people get their kicks.
I'm in a similar position; so long as the systems I look after are running OK I can fade to invisible, and only show up when there is a problem.
So; I do a small statistics collection every week, and update a spreadsheet (with some attached pretty graphs), and have it included as a slide in the weekly management overview my department submits. I keep a log of these over time. The sort of things I measure includes number of users on our internal issue tracking system (colleagues/customers), total number of new issues this week. Size and number of objects in Subversion, Maven, TFS, ActiveCollab, etc...
Big trick is to have graphs showing usage increasing over time, and to be able to put numbers on these (we have doubled the number of items in our repositories this year!!!) etc. management like that; and find it very easy to justify.
Unfettered physical access and sufficient resources can beat any security: I'm not sure what your point is?
It's a good thing the thieves didn't just toss your motorbike in the back of a truck.
Why would they do that? They thought they could just ride it away! this was a reliable 250cc commuter bike, not a crotch-rocket. Using a van puts them to greater time+effort+cost+risk. Do you think I was trying to protect 100% against all known theft methods, or just trying to protect 99% against joyriders and low-level thieves? 'cos I knew exactly what I was protecting against, and what I was not.
For my server; even if someone compromised my linux desk/laptops sufficiently deeply to open the keyring or install a keylogger, they will still won't be able to ssh to the server.. the secret of how to do that is in my head.. If they really want the data they can always kick my door down and nick the disk array, it's not encrypted. I'm actually defending against botnet herders and the kiddies.
1) Thankyou, that was the whole point. I do still have a bike, a really expensive one, it still has the little box in it, it is still very effectively protected by obscurity.
Although obviously I'll be sitting by it all night now armed with a LART waiting for the hoards of Slashdot-reading, identity cracking, angle-grinder and van equipped slashdot criminals to arrive.
but of course the OP was concerned with 'things that have been said' and not 'things that have been published'. It makes your reply to the OP more accurate, a classic nit-pick. You are still a twit for screaming 'It's all the fault of bloggers' in a very blog like manner. And twittier (or a twitterer) if you think blogs are limited to 140 characters.
Sigh.. like your post is any better than the average blog posting..
The schedule of questions is A PUBLIC RECORD, published in advance.
Ie; it is a matter of record that the question was submitted and scheduled, this was published in advance by the house as part of it's diary of business for the week.
That record is available for anyone to examine, even bloggers and journalists. This is a small but vital part of the democratic process; it allows people to make representations and comments about legislation and the house activities in advance, instead of just being told after the fact what has happened.
Do you understand now why they were being prevented from revealing an -existing- matter of public record from the UK parliament?
HeHe, I never had a Fizzy (really wanted one, coolest bike on the block, had to settle for a Honda Camino instead) but I did ride my mates one a few times and the gearbox, as they say, did my 'ed in. I can well imagine the twats not working that out.:-)
My bike (a Suzi 250 by then) was found in the hedge at the bottom of our garden, I also wondered why it was not torched.. The same immobiliser device is still in use on my 1200 to this day.
20 years ago my motobike was not stolen, even after the thieves had laboriously sliced a chain and wired the ignition. Why? Because the engine would cut out within 10 seconds of starting, eventually they gave up and left. The engine cutting out was down to a obscure little security system I designed, built and fitted myself, killed the ignition for 2 seconds out of every 10 unless a magnet was held in the correct place as the ignition was turned on. The thieves probably never even suspected it was deliberate, they probably thought the bike was a lemon.. which is arguably true;-)
My server, which has no open public SSH port.. Unless you know exactly where to look and when.
Both of these work because they are genuinely obscure single implementations. In order to break them the attacker would need to know that it exists, and then spend time analysing the unit to break it. Even if they know there is a hidden layer of defence, is the payout (a crummy motorcycle, control of my printer and access to my photos and porn collection) worth their time to break it?
The sort of Security through Obscurity you describe fails because it is identically implemented in millions of devices, ie. It is not really Obscure, it's just a secret. And if you break it in one place you break it in all places. The payout for finding and breaking it is much, much, greater.
By getting elected, and preventing warmonger fucks like Palin from being anywhere near control of the US military.
By standing up to same warlike fucks on the election trail, and artfully making sure their motivations and manipulations were laid bare for ordinary people to see.
When he took the oath he has already done more for world peace than any president since Carter..
Either the "free" games are sponsored or they are paid for by everyone who buys a Zune - whether they want them or not.
Which would be the Slashdot geek's next complaint.
Like the way we constantly complain about Minesweeper and Solitaire being bundled in Windows... or snakes being bundled on almost every Nokia phone ever..
I'm so proud that Linux distributions never do stuff like that.
Data can either be useful or perfectly anonymous but never both
What a load of bolaks....
Supposing you have a list of -just- birth dates for every citizen at the census. You -only- have only been given one piece of data per person, the date, nothing more. Just a huge list of dates, sorted chronologically. 1) The data has been totally anonymised. 2) You can do all kinds of meaningful analysis on the age demographics of the population. And make policy decisions based on that.
Actually an overdose of proper fish anasthetic is the best, these can sometimes be had from animal supplies retailers, depends on the local regs. some places that depend on fish-farming have them. I've read the online stuff too, both vodka and alkalinity (from alka-seltza) burn gills, but the co2 is a powerful anasthetic and overwhelms them faster than alcohol. It's a tricky subject, lots of confusing advice out there. Round here if you want bad advice you probably go to Hornbach, but I'm priviliged to be in cycling distance of two great local shops in a town with almost perfect water.
Fresh fish caught and eaten on the same day is delicious.
Could not agree more, but for the rest, methinks you are trolling (I only bothered replying because of that pun!), true fishermen use a club or knife. My grandpa always did anyway.
I'm a tropical fishkeeper, it's more of a hobby to me than IT. And, frankly, more rewarding. I'm also a biker.
All three hobbies have on thing in common, other hobbiests and commercial interests cause harm, and this reflects badly on me.. Consider:
<soapbox> Fishkeepers who dump fish in nearby streams/ponds since having brought something in a shop to look 'hard' these inadequates bottle it when faced with reality, piranias and 'sharks' are classic for this.. both will grow sodding huge (think of needing 180+litres per fish!) but are sold by crappy retailers (pets@home, petco, walmart are particularly bad offenders in this) with apparently no qualms at all, profit must win at all costs.
Same is (perversely) true for goldfish.. I get really angry at seeing these beautiful fish kept in tanks which are only twice as long as they are, in those conditions the fish are NOT fat because they are jolly. They are fat because they do not get proper exercise, and are overfed by their obese lardbucket know-nothing owners.
Then you have the people in the trade who will happily poison/dynamite/extinct an entire ecosystem just to get a few valuable fish to sell through the trade. Google 'Live rock' and 'Galaxy Rasbora' for great examples of how a widely promoted commercially driven fad can cause massive damage to the original habitats.
PS: Do not dump fish, it is antisocial and cruel. If you have to get rid of a fish do it with Alka-Seltza (small fish, CO2 is an anasethic for fish, but lethal in large doses) or a knife (big fish, sever the spinal cord, personally I've never had the guts for this). Any true fish retailer or hobbyist will help you with this (for a fee, consider it the price of your mistake). This applies DOUBLE for flushing them, unless you really think they like to slowly suffocate in shit. </soapbox>
Also consider: Geeks who abuse the non-technical when they ask for help or report stupidities/bugs. Who spew buggy code and misconfigured systems and never, ever, admit fault or fix their screwups, causing millions of hour of wasted effort fixing things that should have been done correctly in the first place. Of course, by that time, the idiot who introduced the bugs is on his next great project puffing off to people about how leet he is, and how many lines of code he 'contributed', and how many 'posts' he's made in the forums last month. Meanwhile Joe public is dealing with another buffer overflow and wondering why, when he asked online about the problem he got called ignorant and stupid.
Bikers who just cut through stuff and speed, no matter what the conditions, totally brain dead, driving their bikes like they would otherwise drive their Honda civics, all balls and no brains.) I get lumped in with them after they wipe-out. Irritating. Loud pipes too, not in built-up-areas... puh-leese. Note, there are old riders, and bold riders, but very few old bold riders.. But in this I'll accept I'm a wuss, at least with this one I do get it, adrenaline is the hardest drug to kick. -----------------------
All the above have, at heart, the same problem. Selfish people who not only want it all for themselves but actively piss on others at the same time, for whom it is not enough to 'win', they must also actively create 'loosers;' too.. presumably since they are sexually dysfunctional.
I think those 'studies' were conducted by the same people you reference in your signature. And, frankly, might have been slightly manipulated. Just a little.. maybe. I suspect so anyway but what do I know, all that socialism and affordable healthcare has addled my brain.
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Naah... actually it's capitalism.
(1) Sponsored school where you are 'educated' for free and come out as a good consumer, your brand recognition skillz are amazing. (2) A McJob. (3) As long as you keep working really hard for others and stick in the herd you are defined as a winner and cared for; just don't be a looser ok.
In a society where you can never challenge your overlords there is never any incentive to think. You must live in total thrall until you die.
Ooh.. I thought it was the church:
(1) Sunday school, indocrti^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H church school etc.. (2) You get a job working for the pastors business partners. (3) Soup kitchens, women's circles, retreats and shelters, payola from the congregation and increased social status so long as you are subservient.
In such a society there is never any need to think. They can live in perpetual retardation till the day they die.
Oooh I know.. :-D (I've got a steam account.. I even keep a copy of windows around to run it on). There are also the Monkey Island 'Episodes' to look forward to, but I've promised myself that I must finish the originals before I am allowed to spend money on any more..
Amen.. I'm just working my way through the Monkey island series on my aspire netbook and ScummVM, and ran through DoTT and Sam'n'Max before that. All look great when re-rendered into full 1024x600, their upscalers are excellent! There are very few aliasing artifacts etc..
Vavoom (+the texture packs) also does a good job on Doom at the same resolution too.
Yeah... And it makes a good point, because if a tosser like Beck had 'won' he's have revamped the site and made it even nastier. Unfortunately that is a good illustration of the point that the illiberal elite are obnoxious, and the only way to stop them is by doing something terminal to them. Decent people, when they see a man is down, stop putting the boot in. Someone like Beck just keeps going and loves it; a large part of the illiberal mindset is devoted to lording over and damaging the 'weak', it's how such people get their kicks.
I'm in a similar position; so long as the systems I look after are running OK I can fade to invisible, and only show up when there is a problem.
So; I do a small statistics collection every week, and update a spreadsheet (with some attached pretty graphs), and have it included as a slide in the weekly management overview my department submits. I keep a log of these over time. The sort of things I measure includes number of users on our internal issue tracking system (colleagues/customers), total number of new issues this week. Size and number of objects in Subversion, Maven, TFS, ActiveCollab, etc...
Big trick is to have graphs showing usage increasing over time, and to be able to put numbers on these (we have doubled the number of items in our repositories this year!!!) etc. management like that; and find it very easy to justify.
No. Always, I speak English like a native and I know these things.
:-( they fixed the typo. Boo Hiss.
You got an axe with that..
Unfettered physical access and sufficient resources can beat any security: I'm not sure what your point is?
It's a good thing the thieves didn't just toss your motorbike in the back of a truck.
Why would they do that? They thought they could just ride it away! this was a reliable 250cc commuter bike, not a crotch-rocket. Using a van puts them to greater time+effort+cost+risk. Do you think I was trying to protect 100% against all known theft methods, or just trying to protect 99% against joyriders and low-level thieves? 'cos I knew exactly what I was protecting against, and what I was not.
For my server; even if someone compromised my linux desk/laptops sufficiently deeply to open the keyring or install a keylogger, they will still won't be able to ssh to the server.. the secret of how to do that is in my head.. If they really want the data they can always kick my door down and nick the disk array, it's not encrypted. I'm actually defending against botnet herders and the kiddies.
1) Thankyou, that was the whole point. I do still have a bike, a really expensive one, it still has the little box in it, it is still very effectively protected by obscurity.
Although obviously I'll be sitting by it all night now armed with a LART waiting for the hoards of Slashdot-reading, identity cracking, angle-grinder and van equipped slashdot criminals to arrive.
2) http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/box : you are only allowed to use 'boxen' in a whimsical fashion!
but of course the OP was concerned with 'things that have been said' and not 'things that have been published'. It makes your reply to the OP more accurate, a classic nit-pick. You are still a twit for screaming 'It's all the fault of bloggers' in a very blog like manner. And twittier (or a twitterer) if you think blogs are limited to 140 characters.
Sigh.. like your post is any better than the average blog posting..
The schedule of questions is A PUBLIC RECORD, published in advance.
Ie; it is a matter of record that the question was submitted and scheduled, this was published in advance by the house as part of it's diary of business for the week.
That record is available for anyone to examine, even bloggers and journalists. This is a small but vital part of the democratic process; it allows people to make representations and comments about legislation and the house activities in advance, instead of just being told after the fact what has happened.
Do you understand now why they were being prevented from revealing an -existing- matter of public record from the UK parliament?
HeHe, I never had a Fizzy (really wanted one, coolest bike on the block, had to settle for a Honda Camino instead) but I did ride my mates one a few times and the gearbox, as they say, did my 'ed in. I can well imagine the twats not working that out. :-)
My bike (a Suzi 250 by then) was found in the hedge at the bottom of our garden, I also wondered why it was not torched.. The same immobiliser device is still in use on my 1200 to this day.
Here's a counterexample.. two in fact.
20 years ago my motobike was not stolen, even after the thieves had laboriously sliced a chain and wired the ignition. Why? Because the engine would cut out within 10 seconds of starting, eventually they gave up and left. The engine cutting out was down to a obscure little security system I designed, built and fitted myself, killed the ignition for 2 seconds out of every 10 unless a magnet was held in the correct place as the ignition was turned on. The thieves probably never even suspected it was deliberate, they probably thought the bike was a lemon.. which is arguably true ;-)
My server, which has no open public SSH port.. Unless you know exactly where to look and when.
Both of these work because they are genuinely obscure single implementations. In order to break them the attacker would need to know that it exists, and then spend time analysing the unit to break it. Even if they know there is a hidden layer of defence, is the payout (a crummy motorcycle, control of my printer and access to my photos and porn collection) worth their time to break it?
The sort of Security through Obscurity you describe fails because it is identically implemented in millions of devices, ie. It is not really Obscure, it's just a secret. And if you break it in one place you break it in all places. The payout for finding and breaking it is much, much, greater.
Note the past tense.
By getting elected, and preventing warmonger fucks like Palin from being anywhere near control of the US military.
By standing up to same warlike fucks on the election trail, and artfully making sure their motivations and manipulations were laid bare for ordinary people to see.
When he took the oath he has already done more for world peace than any president since Carter..
You know, like it does EVERY. FOUR. YEARS?
I think you'll find that's 8 years.... occasionally 12
All this shows is that the world community is entirely ignorant of how the US Office of the President works.
Understand it pretty well thanks; it works very badly.
That was a very weak attempt at a retort.
You are presumably speaking as one expert to another..
Either the "free" games are sponsored or they are paid for by everyone who buys a Zune - whether they want them or not.
Which would be the Slashdot geek's next complaint.
Like the way we constantly complain about Minesweeper and Solitaire being bundled in Windows... or snakes being bundled on almost every Nokia phone ever..
I'm so proud that Linux distributions never do stuff like that.
Newt, people want sex!
... just not with you.
Data can either be useful or perfectly anonymous but never both
What a load of bolaks....
Supposing you have a list of -just- birth dates for every citizen at the census. You -only- have only been given one piece of data per person, the date, nothing more. Just a huge list of dates, sorted chronologically.
1) The data has been totally anonymised.
2) You can do all kinds of meaningful analysis on the age demographics of the population. And make policy decisions based on that.
Fully anonymous data producing useful results.
Actually an overdose of proper fish anasthetic is the best, these can sometimes be had from animal supplies retailers, depends on the local regs. some places that depend on fish-farming have them. I've read the online stuff too, both vodka and alkalinity (from alka-seltza) burn gills, but the co2 is a powerful anasthetic and overwhelms them faster than alcohol. It's a tricky subject, lots of confusing advice out there. Round here if you want bad advice you probably go to Hornbach, but I'm priviliged to be in cycling distance of two great local shops in a town with almost perfect water.
Fresh fish caught and eaten on the same day is delicious.
Could not agree more, but for the rest, methinks you are trolling (I only bothered replying because of that pun!), true fishermen use a club or knife. My grandpa always did anyway.
I'm a tropical fishkeeper, it's more of a hobby to me than IT. And, frankly, more rewarding. I'm also a biker.
All three hobbies have on thing in common, other hobbiests and commercial interests cause harm, and this reflects badly on me.. Consider:
<soapbox>
Fishkeepers who dump fish in nearby streams/ponds since having brought something in a shop to look 'hard' these inadequates bottle it when faced with reality, piranias and 'sharks' are classic for this.. both will grow sodding huge (think of needing 180+litres per fish!) but are sold by crappy retailers (pets@home, petco, walmart are particularly bad offenders in this) with apparently no qualms at all, profit must win at all costs.
Same is (perversely) true for goldfish.. I get really angry at seeing these beautiful fish kept in tanks which are only twice as long as they are, in those conditions the fish are NOT fat because they are jolly. They are fat because they do not get proper exercise, and are overfed by their obese lardbucket know-nothing owners.
Then you have the people in the trade who will happily poison/dynamite/extinct an entire ecosystem just to get a few valuable fish to sell through the trade. Google 'Live rock' and 'Galaxy Rasbora' for great examples of how a widely promoted commercially driven fad can cause massive damage to the original habitats.
PS: Do not dump fish, it is antisocial and cruel. If you have to get rid of a fish do it with Alka-Seltza (small fish, CO2 is an anasethic for fish, but lethal in large doses) or a knife (big fish, sever the spinal cord, personally I've never had the guts for this). Any true fish retailer or hobbyist will help you with this (for a fee, consider it the price of your mistake). This applies DOUBLE for flushing them, unless you really think they like to slowly suffocate in shit.
</soapbox>
Also consider:
Geeks who abuse the non-technical when they ask for help or report stupidities/bugs. Who spew buggy code and misconfigured systems and never, ever, admit fault or fix their screwups, causing millions of hour of wasted effort fixing things that should have been done correctly in the first place. Of course, by that time, the idiot who introduced the bugs is on his next great project puffing off to people about how leet he is, and how many lines of code he 'contributed', and how many 'posts' he's made in the forums last month. Meanwhile Joe public is dealing with another buffer overflow and wondering why, when he asked online about the problem he got called ignorant and stupid.
Bikers who just cut through stuff and speed, no matter what the conditions, totally brain dead, driving their bikes like they would otherwise drive their Honda civics, all balls and no brains.) I get lumped in with them after they wipe-out. Irritating. Loud pipes too, not in built-up-areas... puh-leese. Note, there are old riders, and bold riders, but very few old bold riders.. But in this I'll accept I'm a wuss, at least with this one I do get it, adrenaline is the hardest drug to kick.
-----------------------
All the above have, at heart, the same problem. Selfish people who not only want it all for themselves but actively piss on others at the same time, for whom it is not enough to 'win', they must also actively create 'loosers;' too.. presumably since they are sexually dysfunctional.
I think those 'studies' were conducted by the same people you reference in your signature. And, frankly, might have been slightly manipulated. Just a little.. maybe. I suspect so anyway but what do I know, all that socialism and affordable healthcare has addled my brain.