Unfortunately there aren't linux advocates with truckloads of money to convince the PHBs to give free a chance. If it doesn't get sold to the higher ups on the back 9 with promises of kickbacks it probably won't be sold.
On top of which gov't agencies require things like Access and hell some even require *gasp* Dos to run their interdepartmental reporting applications. Possible to run in a TS environment, but not quite a cakewalk to manage the tens (hundreds?) of such applications 25,000 users would require.
Now, as to preventing wireless access points and the like. It's not about preventing uber hackers from getting on the network, it's about preventing joe-sixpacks from plugging in and having an access point.
25,000 users is a lot but not unmanagable. DHCP whitelisting is a good step towards enforcing policy on the calibre of worker you end up with in a beurocracy.
Still, who needs a computer, most government employees are willing to give you any information they have at their fingertips for a short cordial conversation with a stranger. I'd start there, and the computer based problems become much easier to communicate to users.
Wow. Amazing. I'm in awe at the netcraft reference. Even though Microsoft's share to apache ratio is much larger than the linux on the desktop to microsoft share ratio we will pretend M$ isn't the mainstream provider of damn near everything PHB's want.
Although the insecure part... that's dead on.
Less reliable, or less portable are also acceptable. But non-mainstream? We're talking about Microsoft here.
Or better still, why fire the rockets *down* towards earth at all? Why not move it into a higher orbit by Radio and not risk losing the shuttle at all? The shuttle could maintain it's orbit until repairs could be completed (with any needed materials brought from earth) with less risk than a tricky RC re-entry process.
Rubber Keyboards http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/inpu t/5a7f/ Pine Sol http://www.pinesol.com/faq_spray.shtml
Ok, so they use a more industrial strength cleaner at hospitals. I demonstrate the nastiness of a user's keyboard (if they question it) by turning it upside down and banging a few times. The black crust that falls out is typically more than enough to convince them to buy a new keyboard/change their habbits.
Do the same to a few hospital presidents and viola, solution will be made. Probably much more expensive than $30 a unit though.
...Microsoft has alway been a modifier, rarely an inovator and even more rarely a contributor to the geek community.
Scooped up companies/software include: Visio Giant (Anti-Spyware) Sybari Software (Anti-Virus) Great Plains (Inventory Accounting and Management) *cough* DOS *cough*
Of all the things that *seem* to be innovations the biggest plus for windows (IMO) is the file system security model. It's much easier to manage for joe-sixpacks than the basic unix security model and it allows for much more granular control over your security without delving into ACLs and the like.
On top of which CACLS is easy to script (similar to chmod/own etc.)
The problem with the current file system is basically non-existent. No one has bothered to learn the methods. Most problems with windows (as with anything) are due to laziness.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy... Some summarize the definition of democracy as being "majority rule with minority rights."... Tyranny of the majority
This issue is also discussed in the article on Majoritarianism.
Whether or not there is a very broad and inclusive franchise, majority rule may lead to a fear of so-called "tyranny of the majority". This refers to the possibility that a democratic system can empower elected representatives acting on behalf of the majority view to take action that oppresses a particular minority. This clearly has the potential to undermine the aspiration of democracy as empowerment of the citizenry as a whole. For example, it is theoretically possible in a liberal democracy to elect a representative body that will decide that a certain minority (religion, political belief, etc.) should be criminalized (either directly or indirectly).
Proponents of democracy make a number of defenses to this. One is to argue that the presence of a constitution in many democratic countries acts as a safeguard against the tyranny of the majority. A constitution (whether written or unwritten) can ensure a distinction between policy enacted through the legislature and executive, and the modification of fundamental constitutional rights, which may require a more deliberative procedure (such as an independent judiciary) and less vulnerable to the tyranny of the majority. Another common argument is that, despite these risks, majority rule is preferable to other systems, and the tyranny of the majority is at all events an improvement on a tyranny of a minority. In practice, history offers numerous examples of ruling minorities who oppressed a disenfranchised majority, as well as cases of societies that oppressed a minority of the enfranchised.
So... since they're there to interpret the constitution does that mean the letter or the spirit? A democracy by it's very nature dictates the democratic people represented in it's government should be the ones who's rights are protected, regardless of political bent.
And for those who have read the constitution the original document contains almost nothing to do with minority rights, the BILL OF RIGHTS and subsequent ammendments were created for this purpose. Ammendments to the constitution have created what we hope is minority rights encompassing the populous. If what you're saying is that by it's nature it allows for Judicial Activism then the constitution is flawed as well as those mis-using their positions of power.
IMO, IANAL blah blah, their are examples of both good and bad cases of judicial activism, (good being following the spirit of common law, and bad going against the spirit of common law.)
What the hell difference is it in a lab environment if my system is more secure than yours if there's no measure of real world elements? Dropping a couple hundred boxes on the net and plotting out the time it takes for their security to be subverted would be a good measure of the OS security.
Multiple bandwidth tests (56k-1.5mbdsl) trying to update the OS. Utilizing vendor (Dell/HP/Gateway) XP installs/Linux installs (not fully patched, but patched a *little*) In combination with hardened installations in similar configurations. You could more than likely run a hardened setup with autoupdates on Windows/Linux side by side without a successful attack the length of the survey.
In a situation like this where you know the culprit is standing only a few meters away from you its so tempting to confront the thief. I admire his resolve.
I never really thought how much power you the credit card holder have in these situations. A few proactive measures can go a great deal further than a phone call to a dusty beurocrat.
We are all so used to faster than realtime copy mechanisms.
There's no way to totally prevent you from "reproducing" an A/V stream as long as there are devices that record audio and/or video. Even back as far as the first Mpeg2 encoders I used I remember having to suck the audio in directly from a playing CD to the input port on my sound card.
Even today the most common method of reproducing movies in theatres is video taping the movie screen... nicely and primatively circumvents most copy protection methods today (except for the yellow dot trick.)
This is just preventing consumer fair use, hobbyists and pirates alike will always find a way through these stupid hoops.
The security of a network is a combination of factors: Technological Physical Social
We can fight the battles in the technological front till we're blue in the face, but the temp at the front desk is a hole you'll probably never close.
In my head obvious questions this document failed to address are as follows: How many people have access to your data center?
How many people have access to your most remote networked buildings?
Scrolling through this document there is no mention of the greatest security challenges facing IT today. Worms have been around since before the public internet, and as IT warriors we fight those battles constantly.
Ignoring the other aspects of "cyber" security is folly and tantamount to IT security suicide.
Now, in reality Celerons have a lower cache, lower bus speed and overall lower clockspeed. As I remember, because of this the core doesn't have to pass as high a standard as the current Pentium offering.
I'm sure there are others who would offer better knowledge on this.
My father purchased a rio 500 for me the first year they were released. A testament to the popularity of the rio 500 was the fact that it was ordered in november of 99 (X-Mas present) and it wasn't off backorder (direct from Diamond) until sometime around may.
So yeah I guess I had one in August 2000, still I remember being pissed it took so damn long to get one.
Not dissimilar to the problems people have had with the original Ipod and more recently the Ipod mini.
Still, this guy hasn't got a leg to stand on. The rio 300 was out late 98 early 99 if I remember, even if it wasn't as popular it's good prior art.
I like this approach, as it involves isolation at the network layer. Still only those bright enough to flash firmware will be able to stay obfuscated.
And who's to say we won't see a bill that prevents US citizens from staying anonymous in the future. Far fetched, perhaps but still not that far from the Patriot atrocity.
I can see this from the top down being a powerful tool for anyone tracking a specific host. Still the Fed already has this one covered. The best way to impliment this would be at the carrier level. With a carni box sniffin packets at almost all big ISPs they've already taken care of that.
Yes, you are correct. And yes it is possible, to an extent. You can still of course execute some IE calls after you replace the shell and nuke iexplore.exe and explorer.exe but you can indeed remove even that ability if you really wanted to.
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I'll say it again... alt.binaries.movies.divx
Unfortunately there aren't linux advocates with truckloads of money to convince the PHBs to give free a chance. If it doesn't get sold to the higher ups on the back 9 with promises of kickbacks it probably won't be sold.
On top of which gov't agencies require things like Access and hell some even require *gasp* Dos to run their interdepartmental reporting applications. Possible to run in a TS environment, but not quite a cakewalk to manage the tens (hundreds?) of such applications 25,000 users would require.
Now, as to preventing wireless access points and the like. It's not about preventing uber hackers from getting on the network, it's about preventing joe-sixpacks from plugging in and having an access point.
25,000 users is a lot but not unmanagable. DHCP whitelisting is a good step towards enforcing policy on the calibre of worker you end up with in a beurocracy.
Still, who needs a computer, most government employees are willing to give you any information they have at their fingertips for a short cordial conversation with a stranger. I'd start there, and the computer based problems become much easier to communicate to users.
Wow. Amazing. I'm in awe at the netcraft reference. Even though Microsoft's share to apache ratio is much larger than the linux on the desktop to microsoft share ratio we will pretend M$ isn't the mainstream provider of damn near everything PHB's want.
Although the insecure part... that's dead on.
Less reliable, or less portable are also acceptable. But non-mainstream? We're talking about Microsoft here.
A better look at hype is on a short term basis. Since hype is... well, short term.
SCOX 5day graph
SCO understands this game. We feed it.
A week after I get over a nasty nasty flu, this article pops up. Thanks slashdot for fueling the little hypochondriac inside us all.
Or better still, why fire the rockets *down* towards earth at all? Why not move it into a higher orbit by Radio and not risk losing the shuttle at all? The shuttle could maintain it's orbit until repairs could be completed (with any needed materials brought from earth) with less risk than a tricky RC re-entry process.
Rubber Keyboardsu t/5a7f/
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/inp
Pine Sol
http://www.pinesol.com/faq_spray.shtml
Ok, so they use a more industrial strength cleaner at hospitals. I demonstrate the nastiness of a user's keyboard (if they question it) by turning it upside down and banging a few times. The black crust that falls out is typically more than enough to convince them to buy a new keyboard/change their habbits.
Do the same to a few hospital presidents and viola, solution will be made. Probably much more expensive than $30 a unit though.
...Microsoft has alway been a modifier, rarely an inovator and even more rarely a contributor to the geek community.
Scooped up companies/software include:
Visio
Giant (Anti-Spyware)
Sybari Software (Anti-Virus)
Great Plains (Inventory Accounting and Management)
*cough* DOS *cough*
Of all the things that *seem* to be innovations the biggest plus for windows (IMO) is the file system security model. It's much easier to manage for joe-sixpacks than the basic unix security model and it allows for much more granular control over your security without delving into ACLs and the like.
On top of which CACLS is easy to script (similar to chmod/own etc.)
The problem with the current file system is basically non-existent. No one has bothered to learn the methods. Most problems with windows (as with anything) are due to laziness.
For crying out loud. Why do we only hear about good Torrent sites *after* they're down.
So... since they're there to interpret the constitution does that mean the letter or the spirit? A democracy by it's very nature dictates the democratic people represented in it's government should be the ones who's rights are protected, regardless of political bent.
And for those who have read the constitution the original document contains almost nothing to do with minority rights, the BILL OF RIGHTS and subsequent ammendments were created for this purpose. Ammendments to the constitution have created what we hope is minority rights encompassing the populous. If what you're saying is that by it's nature it allows for Judicial Activism then the constitution is flawed as well as those mis-using their positions of power.
IMO, IANAL blah blah, their are examples of both good and bad cases of judicial activism, (good being following the spirit of common law, and bad going against the spirit of common law.)
What the hell difference is it in a lab environment if my system is more secure than yours if there's no measure of real world elements? Dropping a couple hundred boxes on the net and plotting out the time it takes for their security to be subverted would be a good measure of the OS security.
Multiple bandwidth tests (56k-1.5mbdsl) trying to update the OS. Utilizing vendor (Dell/HP/Gateway) XP installs/Linux installs (not fully patched, but patched a *little*) In combination with hardened installations in similar configurations. You could more than likely run a hardened setup with autoupdates on Windows/Linux side by side without a successful attack the length of the survey.
Oh I don't know, something like: this
In a situation like this where you know the culprit is standing only a few meters away from you its so tempting to confront the thief. I admire his resolve.
I never really thought how much power you the credit card holder have in these situations. A few proactive measures can go a great deal further than a phone call to a dusty beurocrat.
We are all so used to faster than realtime copy mechanisms.
There's no way to totally prevent you from "reproducing" an A/V stream as long as there are devices that record audio and/or video. Even back as far as the first Mpeg2 encoders I used I remember having to suck the audio in directly from a playing CD to the input port on my sound card.
Even today the most common method of reproducing movies in theatres is video taping the movie screen... nicely and primatively circumvents most copy protection methods today (except for the yellow dot trick.)
This is just preventing consumer fair use, hobbyists and pirates alike will always find a way through these stupid hoops.
Can you say Comcast?
How the hell do you expect ISPs to react to this kind of retalitory behavior?
You start attacking major networks automatically and you're going to see port blocking come up faster than you can say Postfix.
Then don't complain when ISPs start blocking port 25 at their head end.
The security of a network is a combination of factors:
Technological
Physical
Social
We can fight the battles in the technological front till we're blue in the face, but the temp at the front desk is a hole you'll probably never close.
In my head obvious questions this document failed to address are as follows:
How many people have access to your data center?
How many people have access to your most remote networked buildings?
Scrolling through this document there is no mention of the greatest security challenges facing IT today. Worms have been around since before the public internet, and as IT warriors we fight those battles constantly.
Ignoring the other aspects of "cyber" security is folly and tantamount to IT security suicide.
The AMD XP to MP 2100 mod.
Now, in reality Celerons have a lower cache, lower bus speed and overall lower clockspeed. As I remember, because of this the core doesn't have to pass as high a standard as the current Pentium offering.
I'm sure there are others who would offer better knowledge on this.
Safari perhaps?
I wonder how many of the current concrete structures have the aerodynamics of a near perfect dome.
Who's joking? I haven't seen a faster way to get a working test virtualization setup than mounting a Bootable OS ISO (eg: knoppix/slax).
My father purchased a rio 500 for me the first year they were released. A testament to the popularity of the rio 500 was the fact that it was ordered in november of 99 (X-Mas present) and it wasn't off backorder (direct from Diamond) until sometime around may.
So yeah I guess I had one in August 2000, still I remember being pissed it took so damn long to get one.
Not dissimilar to the problems people have had with the original Ipod and more recently the Ipod mini.
Still, this guy hasn't got a leg to stand on. The rio 300 was out late 98 early 99 if I remember, even if it wasn't as popular it's good prior art.
I like this approach, as it involves isolation at the network layer. Still only those bright enough to flash firmware will be able to stay obfuscated.
And who's to say we won't see a bill that prevents US citizens from staying anonymous in the future. Far fetched, perhaps but still not that far from the Patriot atrocity.
I can see this from the top down being a powerful tool for anyone tracking a specific host. Still the Fed already has this one covered. The best way to impliment this would be at the carrier level. With a carni box sniffin packets at almost all big ISPs they've already taken care of that.
Or it could be that it's so rare to encounter an actual real life Female in the ranks of geekdom he's doubting reality.
It happens to me every time I talk to my wife.
I did that for the mars pics.
Later I started using gimp to put bright colored borders around the images evenly. It made it easier to line them up on screen.
Yes, you are correct. And yes it is possible, to an extent. You can still of course execute some IE calls after you replace the shell and nuke iexplore.exe and explorer.exe but you can indeed remove even that ability if you really wanted to.