Most burglers are not sentenced to life, but if you break and enter a house and kill someone, then you are eligible for life imprisonment -- just like if you break into a computer and cause someone's death, you deserve at least life imprisonment.
If you break into somebody's house and kill them, you don't get life for the breaking and entering, you might get it for the murder. However, if you deface a website and it kills someone, you can get life without parole under the ATA for the website defacement. Murder/manslaughter would probably be 5 years served.
I agree that unused services need to be shut down, but at the source of the problem and not at the firewall
You forget that the source of the problem is not the computers, but those runing the computers. They run whatever damn thing they like and ignore the admin until he breaks down their door demanding to know why they've been running sendmail 5 (and, by the way, letting in a flood of kiddies)
Congratulations! You've just conditioned the next wave of software developers to use port 80 for all their traffic because of your silly firewall rules.
That's crap and you know it. The firewall is one of the network admin's tools for controlling what goes on and into his network. The current trend of running everything over port 80 is due to laziness; all it will do is spawn firewalls that examine http for badness. The end result is more complexity and less security.
That's all fine and dandy if $BAD_GUY knows it, but what if he doesn't keep up on tech trends? He cuts off your finger and, when it doesn't work, he gets so mad that he shoots you.
No one would own (or lease) a car if contract said, "You must not make modifications to this car and sell it unless you give the instructions on how to make those modifications to the new owner".
Of course, you can just get a copy from someone else for 5 bucks, so your analogy doesn't hold.
You could also add a stereo to the car and the sell somebody a copy of the original car, which is just weird.
You may have lost a paycheck or two. OTOH, six or seven thousand people are dead
What, because a national tragedy happens, I shouldn't bitch about not being paid? Sounds like the old saw i got from my mother about starving kids in China
I suspect that in counterfeiting close-enough is good-enough, as it were
If you were to print a dollar bill on high quality paper, using the right color, and then tried to pass it to me, the first thing i'd notice would probably be the texture. I think you at least need to get the right cotton for the job.
yea, if i knew there was a life sentence for walking on the grass, i'd use the damn sidewalk, wouldnt you?
If I were a criminal, shamelessly stomping around on your lawn and it had a life sentence attached, I'd just shoot you dead. That way, i've a good chance of getting out of prison above ground.
Your laser printer won't be much use as a conunterfeit press without the proper cotton rag paper (which requires $$ to produce due to the large rollers used to flatten it) and special ink.
Also, it has to get the moire pattern right and print finely enough to reproduce the state names on the back of the 5 dollar bill.
No one is trying to take away your freedom to voice your opinions
Sure they are. How likely are you to criticize the government if you know that that will result in all of you skeletons being put on display? Everybody's got something to hide, and for those who don't, there's always sabotage.
If they have more power to monitor and collect info, that means that these abuses will get worse. Don't you even remember the FBI under Hoover? You can make a lot of things happen if you have dirt on powerful people.
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How do you tell the difference?
Most burglers are not sentenced to life, but if you break and enter a house and kill someone, then you are eligible for life imprisonment -- just like if you break into a computer and cause someone's death, you deserve at least life imprisonment.
If you break into somebody's house and kill them, you don't get life for the breaking and entering, you might get it for the murder. However, if you deface a website and it kills someone, you can get life without parole under the ATA for the website defacement. Murder/manslaughter would probably be 5 years served.
Why don't manufacturers use a simple naming convention instead of these hideously long acronyms
Hey, they could use the japanese convention: Graphics Alpha 3 EX Perfect!!.
(yes, the exclamation points are part of the name)Requiring a double opt in for mailing lists isn't exactly spam related now is it ?
Actually , it is. It's really easy to sign some rube up to a dozen non-confirmed lists - Instant SPAM!
Are you suggesting that i shouldn't use them or that i shouldn't use them exclusively?
I agree that unused services need to be shut down, but at the source of the problem and not at the firewall
You forget that the source of the problem is not the computers, but those runing the computers. They run whatever damn thing they like and ignore the admin until he breaks down their door demanding to know why they've been running sendmail 5 (and, by the way, letting in a flood of kiddies)
Congratulations! You've just conditioned the next wave of software developers to use port 80 for all their traffic because of your silly firewall rules.
That's crap and you know it. The firewall is one of the network admin's tools for controlling what goes on and into his network. The current trend of running everything over port 80 is due to laziness; all it will do is spawn firewalls that examine http for badness. The end result is more complexity and less security.
imagine a beowulf clusters of Carmacks
That'd never work - Ego contention would kill the performance.
Nah - these things can tell a dead finger
That's all fine and dandy if $BAD_GUY knows it, but what if he doesn't keep up on tech trends? He cuts off your finger and, when it doesn't work, he gets so mad that he shoots you.
I passed it through social engineering.
Looks like you learned the material too.
Whaddya mean? That's exactly how they marketed it!
No one would own (or lease) a car if contract said, "You must not make modifications to this car and sell it unless you give the instructions on how to make those modifications to the new owner".
Of course, you can just get a copy from someone else for 5 bucks, so your analogy doesn't hold. You could also add a stereo to the car and the sell somebody a copy of the original car, which is just weird.
Software licenses work exactly the same way. You have the right to use, but not to transfer the right to use
No they don't.
who really needs another essay about Moby Dick?
You do. The point of educational assignments is to get you to think, not to finish the assignment.
You may have lost a paycheck or two. OTOH, six or seven thousand people are dead
What, because a national tragedy happens, I shouldn't bitch about not being paid? Sounds like the old saw i got from my mother about starving kids in China
Gentle Sysadmin? What planet are you on?
If you allow claims for employee theft, fraud gets really easy
I suspect that in counterfeiting close-enough is good-enough, as it were
If you were to print a dollar bill on high quality paper, using the right color, and then tried to pass it to me, the first thing i'd notice would probably be the texture. I think you at least need to get the right cotton for the job.
Looks like Jobs and Steve Wozniak may be facing jail time - they got their start building Blue boxes.
yea, if i knew there was a life sentence for walking on the grass, i'd use the damn sidewalk, wouldnt you?
If I were a criminal, shamelessly stomping around on your lawn and it had a life sentence attached, I'd just shoot you dead. That way, i've a good chance of getting out of prison above ground.
Your laser printer won't be much use as a conunterfeit press without the proper cotton rag paper (which requires $$ to produce due to the large rollers used to flatten it) and special ink. Also, it has to get the moire pattern right and print finely enough to reproduce the state names on the back of the 5 dollar bill.
Wasn't the french revolution caused in a large part by wages being somewhat lower than what was needed to survive?
The imposition of democracy by an outside force has never worked
So, how do you explain Germany and Japan?
No one is trying to take away your freedom to voice your opinions
Sure they are. How likely are you to criticize the government if you know that that will result in all of you skeletons being put on display? Everybody's got something to hide, and for those who don't, there's always sabotage.
If they have more power to monitor and collect info, that means that these abuses will get worse. Don't you even remember the FBI under Hoover? You can make a lot of things happen if you have dirt on powerful people.