We just rented a house that was lived in by a wannabe plumber. The toilets weren't attached to the house, just to the sewer pipe. The water heater didn't have a chimney, good thing we noticed before we suffocated from CO poisoning. The guy mixed steel and copper plumbing so that the water was undrinkable. We paid a licensed contractor $2000 to fix it, and imagine how loud Wally the Landlord screamed when we deducted it from the rent.
Reporting a vuln using a lawyer as a go-between completely removes you from the possibility of criminal prosecution, unless you left a trail of bread crumbs. Attorney-client privilege beats any number of anonymized proxy servers.
Amen. A prudent whitehat never touches someone else's system or network without first obtaining written permission, using language that has been reviewed and approved by his own lawyer. And the lawyer had better be familiar with the various, and latest, federal and state computer intrusion statutes and appellate court decisions.
Fail to do this and you are in the category of Whining. IAAL.
We Southern Californians are like so ahead of you on this issue. We have a pool boy that comes once a week and measures the water. Too much CO2, he adds a little calcium hydroxide from Home Depot. Just scale this to the whole planet and you're totally there.
From the TOS: "la la reserves the right to terminate or suspend your access to the Services or Site, with or without cause, at any time and effective immediately."
In other words they can take back what you thought you paid for anytime, and they won't return your dime.
If Google wants to be in the business of making it easier to deny people health care based on pre-existing conditions, why doesn't it just buy the Medical Information Bureau?
1. Splash screen sits in the middle of your screen for 2 minutes or more, like a big, wet fart. 2. Tells you all your cookies are virii. 3. Charges your credit card for license renewal without your permission.
So you think you don't need a WILL because you're only 18, or 30?? I had a client who was 29 and in the middle of a divorce when he stroked out. Because the divorce wasn't finalized, his not-yet-ex-wife got his money and life insurance instead of his kid!! See a lawyer and have it done right (and BTW give the lawyer a sealed envelope with all your passwords and instructions for dealing with your data).
Sure the lawyers for the big defense contractors have clearances. But don't hold your breath waiting for the EFF lawyers or your local solo practitioner to be issued clearances. The clearance rules disfavor people who have taken risks, people who have been entrepreneurs, and members of various arbitrarily disfavored social, ethnic, religious, cultural and/or political groupings.
When I was a pinball tech in the 70s, the OEMs had just learned to build the logic out of TTL instead of relays and solenoids... but there was one lesson they hadn't yet learned. One day I was called to a room full of pins that had mysteriously stopped working. Remembering my NS TTL Data Book specs, I realized that the room was warm... the chips inside the back glass cabinets were operating above their (commercial) design temperature... and I went out and bought some boxer fans and placed them inside the cabinets! Problem solved.
And pinball died because 1) greedheads reduced the number of balls from 5 to 3; and, most importantly, THE GAME OWNERS WOULDN'T CLEAN AND POLISH THE FSCKING PLAYFIELDS. There's nothing quite as demoralizing as attempting to play a pin with a dirty playfield.
It is... illegal - for individuals to carry out experimental science capable of generating measurable earthquakes large enough to be observed over any significant distance.
Please back up this statement with a citation to applicable law (other than, e.g., laws against detonating destructive devices). AFAIK merely starting an earthquake, absent unlawful external stimuli such as the use of nuclear explosives, is not illegal.
Google has announced that Google Phones (beta) will soon unveil the results of its having wardialed all 6,800,000,000 U.S. telephone numbers. Visitors to the Google Phones site will be able to search individual phone numbers to determine (without personally dialing the number) whether the number belongs to a landline telephone, cell phone, fax, or modem.
On phone numbers where a VMS is detected, Google plans to dial "#0#" and other codes in order to determine how to reach a human.
"Since we are a big, rich entity, the laws don't apply to us. We can do black-hat hacking exploits that would cause law enforcement to raid your home if you did the same thing," said a Google spokesman.
I've never seen an annual report generated by a law enforcement agency that omitted: How many people were arrested and charged with so-called cyber crimes during 2007? What crimes were they charged with? How many suspects were convicted? How much jail or prison time, if any, did they get?
What percentage of the criminal charges were based on fraudulent conduct against individual victims (as opposed to corporate or other institutional victims)?
Whatever the effectiveness of card counting, the movie wasn't about card counting so much as it was about "Wonging" (the practice of inviting a big-betting confederate to join the game only when the count is favorable). The casinos no longer allow "mid-shoe entry," i.e. a new player must wait until after a shuffle to enter the game). End of Wonging.
1. Bad guys want to kill Cheney. That seems quite plausible.
2. Secret Service anticipates this. NSA and the Office of the Sergeant at Arms of the U.S. Senate are tasked to establish and test a set of security controls.
3. Pursuant to applicable FISMA, OMB, NIST and DoD regulations, it is determined that Cheney's pacemaker must undergo Certification and Accreditation under DIACAP (Doing Information Assurance on Cheney's Automatic Pacemaker) throughout the VP's Life Cycle.
4. Since the responsible government employees want to CYA, it is determined that the C&A work will be done by Contractors. An RFP is put together and posted to FedBizOpps.
5. A consortium of contractors including SAIC, Booz Allen, and Northrop Grumman are awarded the contract, with the real work to be done by a Section 8(a) minority small business contractor out of Bethesda.
6. The DIACAP team is assembled, a set of 8500.2 security controls is agreed upon, and the Veep is called in for several days of Security Control Assessments.
7. The contractors decide that a full SCA is too much hassle, so an SP 800-26 risk assessment checklist is completed instead.
8. Cheney leaves Bethesda Naval Hospital hardwired to a golf cart full of equipment at a cost of $35 million.
The author points to Knol as an example of the demand for more accurate information.
The Knol story is a case in point. The user-generated media claims he is a cute, cuddly baby bear cub, but the reality is that Knol now has 6-inch claws, and they have had to limit his contact with his human zookeepers.
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We just rented a house that was lived in by a wannabe plumber. The toilets weren't attached to the house, just to the sewer pipe. The water heater didn't have a chimney, good thing we noticed before we suffocated from CO poisoning. The guy mixed steel and copper plumbing so that the water was undrinkable. We paid a licensed contractor $2000 to fix it, and imagine how loud Wally the Landlord screamed when we deducted it from the rent.
a lollipop with a Batman projector built-in, in case one has the need to summon the Caped Crusader. I saw it at 7-11.
Reporting a vuln using a lawyer as a go-between completely removes you from the possibility of criminal prosecution, unless you left a trail of bread crumbs. Attorney-client privilege beats any number of anonymized proxy servers.
Amen. A prudent whitehat never touches someone else's system or network without first obtaining written permission, using language that has been reviewed and approved by his own lawyer. And the lawyer had better be familiar with the various, and latest, federal and state computer intrusion statutes and appellate court decisions.
Fail to do this and you are in the category of Whining. IAAL.
I'd at least like to be able to flag Free Registration Yada Yada sites.
We Southern Californians are like so ahead of you on this issue. We have a pool boy that comes once a week and measures the water. Too much CO2, he adds a little calcium hydroxide from Home Depot. Just scale this to the whole planet and you're totally there.
My newly-built Marshall head is made with lead-free solder; you can always tell the new units 'cause they won't go up to 11.
Revert with extreme prejudice.
From the TOS: "la la reserves the right to terminate or suspend your access to the Services or Site, with or without cause, at any time and effective immediately."
In other words they can take back what you thought you paid for anytime, and they won't return your dime.
If Google wants to be in the business of making it easier to deny people health care based on pre-existing conditions, why doesn't it just buy the Medical Information Bureau?
I don't want to exit the installation. I want to decline your %^&* "license agreement."
1. Splash screen sits in the middle of your screen for 2 minutes or more, like a big, wet fart.
2. Tells you all your cookies are virii.
3. Charges your credit card for license renewal without your permission.
And you've been trolled! I can't get federal funding for broadband at my little cottage in Cape Cod??!?
So you think you don't need a WILL because you're only 18, or 30?? I had a client who was 29 and in the middle of a divorce when he stroked out. Because the divorce wasn't finalized, his not-yet-ex-wife got his money and life insurance instead of his kid!! See a lawyer and have it done right (and BTW give the lawyer a sealed envelope with all your passwords and instructions for dealing with your data).
How come people give mod points to IANALs who attempt legal advice?
Sure the lawyers for the big defense contractors have clearances. But don't hold your breath waiting for the EFF lawyers or your local solo practitioner to be issued clearances. The clearance rules disfavor people who have taken risks, people who have been entrepreneurs, and members of various arbitrarily disfavored social, ethnic, religious, cultural and/or political groupings.
When I was a pinball tech in the 70s, the OEMs had just learned to build the logic out of TTL instead of relays and solenoids... but there was one lesson they hadn't yet learned. One day I was called to a room full of pins that had mysteriously stopped working. Remembering my NS TTL Data Book specs, I realized that the room was warm... the chips inside the back glass cabinets were operating above their (commercial) design temperature... and I went out and bought some boxer fans and placed them inside the cabinets! Problem solved.
And pinball died because 1) greedheads reduced the number of balls from 5 to 3; and, most importantly, THE GAME OWNERS WOULDN'T CLEAN AND POLISH THE FSCKING PLAYFIELDS. There's nothing quite as demoralizing as attempting to play a pin with a dirty playfield.
It is ... illegal - for individuals to carry out experimental science capable of generating measurable earthquakes large enough to be observed over any significant distance.
Please back up this statement with a citation to applicable law (other than, e.g., laws against detonating destructive devices). AFAIK merely starting an earthquake, absent unlawful external stimuli such as the use of nuclear explosives, is not illegal.
Google has announced that Google Phones (beta) will soon unveil the results of its having wardialed all 6,800,000,000 U.S. telephone numbers. Visitors to the Google Phones site will be able to search individual phone numbers to determine (without personally dialing the number) whether the number belongs to a landline telephone, cell phone, fax, or modem.
On phone numbers where a VMS is detected, Google plans to dial "#0#" and other codes in order to determine how to reach a human.
"Since we are a big, rich entity, the laws don't apply to us. We can do black-hat hacking exploits that would cause law enforcement to raid your home if you did the same thing," said a Google spokesman.
Now that we know that life as we know it sprang from meteorite-sperm, we owe it to the rest of the Universe to immediately deploy Dyson condoms.
I've never seen an annual report generated by a law enforcement agency that omitted: How many people were arrested and charged with so-called cyber crimes during 2007? What crimes were they charged with? How many suspects were convicted? How much jail or prison time, if any, did they get?
What percentage of the criminal charges were based on fraudulent conduct against individual victims (as opposed to corporate or other institutional victims)?
Whatever the effectiveness of card counting, the movie wasn't about card counting so much as it was about "Wonging" (the practice of inviting a big-betting confederate to join the game only when the count is favorable). The casinos no longer allow "mid-shoe entry," i.e. a new player must wait until after a shuffle to enter the game). End of Wonging.
I can't wait for my self-driving car. Go to sleep in the car Friday night, wake up in Vegas in the morning.
1. Remove $ from wallet.
2. Burn it.
3. Drink 400ml of your favorite distilled spirits.
4. Pass out.
You've just saved 40 gallons of gas and two days' hotel bill!!
I mean, imagine the following scenario:
1. Bad guys want to kill Cheney. That seems quite plausible.
2. Secret Service anticipates this. NSA and the Office of the Sergeant at Arms of the U.S. Senate are tasked to establish and test a set of security controls.
3. Pursuant to applicable FISMA, OMB, NIST and DoD regulations, it is determined that Cheney's pacemaker must undergo Certification and Accreditation under DIACAP (Doing Information Assurance on Cheney's Automatic Pacemaker) throughout the VP's Life Cycle.
4. Since the responsible government employees want to CYA, it is determined that the C&A work will be done by Contractors. An RFP is put together and posted to FedBizOpps.
5. A consortium of contractors including SAIC, Booz Allen, and Northrop Grumman are awarded the contract, with the real work to be done by a Section 8(a) minority small business contractor out of Bethesda.
6. The DIACAP team is assembled, a set of 8500.2 security controls is agreed upon, and the Veep is called in for several days of Security Control Assessments.
7. The contractors decide that a full SCA is too much hassle, so an SP 800-26 risk assessment checklist is completed instead.
8. Cheney leaves Bethesda Naval Hospital hardwired to a golf cart full of equipment at a cost of $35 million.
The author points to Knol as an example of the demand for more accurate information.
The Knol story is a case in point. The user-generated media claims he is a cute, cuddly baby bear cub, but the reality is that Knol now has 6-inch claws, and they have had to limit his contact with his human zookeepers.