"Given the type of people you are, and the environment you're in, you have to admit the strong probability that this may be the only chance you will ever have in your entire lives to have sex."
Fascist password policies annoy the living fuck out of me for two reasons. First, they give petty power pushers an ever-so-delightful way of punishing their users. Second, they don't freaking work because nobody can remember the passwords and they simply write them down and post them to the monitor. I'm as security-aware as anyone here, and I've done that before with irritatingly difficult passwords, only I keep them in my wallet instead of on my monitor.
I have a number of web-based email accounts and message board aliases, and for most of them I use the same password, easily guessable by Jack the Ripper or equivalent. It would give your average BSD admin a shitfit, but you know what? Fuck 'em. I have better things to do than pleasing anal-retentive system administrators. Been there, done that, didn't keep the trial issue or the free gift.
It seems we have an axe to grind. I didn't say DIDDLY-SQUAT about "great white man". I think that shows YOUR mindset far more than it shows anything. You said, Japan and India ban permanent residence for foreigners...this is 100% false. I dispute your assertion, and you come back with some out-of-left-field comment about the "great white man"??? Huh?
Japanese autos sold in the U.S. are mostly made in the U.S., these days. That's why they're not so high-quality any more.
Oh, and the irony of you flaming someone because they expose a bit of reality you're not comfortable with, and then misspelling "illiterate" in your knee-jerk reply is not lost on me. Actually, it's going in the Hall of Fame.
Uh, bzzt, wrong. That couldn't be more false than if you said, "astrology is real". Just marry one of their people, and you're set. Ignorant hard-left flamebait ignored.
God save me from cluebies. You do realize that 404 is "page not found", right? Of course, you did read the docs that came with your webserver, right? Naturally you did.
Today, the graphics are the main thing that gamers and more importantly, game reviewers look for in a game. If the graphics aren't whiz-bang and utterly spectacular, the game doesn't sell. I've seen countless gems of games with great ideas, sizzling execution, and mediocre graphics get savaged by reviewers. Not because the game itself was bad, but because the game didn't fit the preconceived notion of what a game should be. Meanwhile borefests like Tony Hawk are highly praised and widely imitated. "Look, you can change his hat color!"
Very rarely? Heck it was rare if nobody came in on the weekend. You've never worked for a company in perpetual firefighting mode? "We MUST get project X done RIGHT NOW, or the company will go BANKRUPT". Repeat with projects Y, Z, and oh by the way we never told you about project AA but it's due at the same time, the CEO had to agree or we would have lost the client. "Oh, just quit" is an invalid solution...I don't know if you've heard but it's quite difficult to get a new job these days.
I just find it stupid when people give these glib, easy answers without even considering the easy comebacks to them.
The article lies. You trust the media more than you trust the man who was actually there, viewing the syslogs and working on the machine? Sad.
There were 14,000 emails. The first hundred or so were the only ones delivered, the rest never made it through due to the system load being over 100. I rm'd the rest. If he was a garden-variety spammer, it would have just been over and done with. But he did this from his home DSL line, and he had a grudge against the company (well, he had a grudge against just about everyone he came in contact with).
I can confirm that Bret McDanel is no hero. He's actually quite an asshole. The kind of guy who spits out a nasty insult about reading the man page when you ask him how to set up a VPN so you can help a customer. He seemed to really enjoy carrying grudges against people. I had the distinct displeasure of working with him at Tornado, I was the on-duty sysadmin when the attack occurred, and I was one of the witnesses at the trial against him.
Bret was not prosecuted for revealing a security vulnerability. He was prosecuted for DOS'ing our server. He sent 14,000 emails to our system, and it overloaded and stopped accepting mail. He did this several times, and knew it overloaded the system when he did it, and knew the FBI had been called after the first time, so nobody needs to feel sorry for him. Holding him up as a martyr or hero is just asinine, but it speaks volumes about how our media works these days.
Of course, there's plenty of culpability to go around...the main server was a Sun Enterprise 4500 with 4x450 CPU and 4Gb RAM. A machine like that should swallow 14,000 emails without a trace. Of course, Tornado's brain-dead custom system implementation meant that every single incoming email spawned off an SQL script to take the message apart and inject it into the database, and a shell process to control the SQL script. The system load went over 100. I had to write a script to kill off all the processes. Since the load was so high, sendmail stopped accepting incoming mail and the rest of the spam piled up on the backup server, where it was rm'd. So, it was Bret's fault for spamming us, but it was Tornado's fault for such a painfully bad email processing method. This actually raises the most interesting question of all, is it a crime to knock down a system that was incompetently implemented?
Of course, the email system was not the only part of the system that was breakable...we had system outages several times a week from different causes, and really, the Bret thing was not that bad, being in that it was easily identifiable and fixable.
Another fun thing was that Tornado initially claimed $300,000 in losses from the incident. This is important because the FBI will not get involved with anything under $50,000. This figure was later reduced (much, much later) to $9,000. Oh yeah, what else...Tornado's great email implementation also meant that we had to run an open relay, which was frequently abused. We sent out hundreds of thousands of nigerian bank account emails. A manager who took a stand and turned off the relaying one weekend was demoted and ultimately fired. Basically Tornado was a bunch of Windows developers who couldn't use Windows to implement their custom email/fax/paging application because Windows wouldn't scale to the sizes they needed. So they had to use Unix, and they didn't know anything about Unix, and they made just about all of the predictable errors that the ignorant make.
In conclusion, it's scary that every time this story comes up, there's a different (wrong) angle on it.
My, we're politically correct today, aren't we? Ever been to China? Didn't think so! I have. Let's just say that in a country where people make $4/day, thousand-dollar office suites aren't exactly going to fly off the shelves. I have yet to see an actual licensed copy of any software in any factory I've inspected so far. What I have seen is the markets that have CDs on sale for $1 each.
But it has its good points, too...anyone want a copy of Gigli or Hulk on DVD?
Oh, come on...slash'em is a hacky hack hack by twits for whom the One True Game is not enough. Anyone familiar with the archetypical "Monty Haul" campaign? Slash'em is just extra chrome for the "The Sims" crowd. It adds way too much crap to an otherwise uncluttered game. Just go get the Amulet of Yendor already. Bored with nethack? Well, you should be...part of being a serious nethack player is mastering the game, getting bored, and moving on. It's like at the end of "Yellowbeard" when Dan murders his father.
A mother who told her child to tend to his own wounds would quickly receive a visit from Child Protective Services, and if she didn't kowtow to the system would find her child taken from the home very quickly. Criminal charges would be filed, a link would make its way to fark.com, and everyone, including you, would join in in denouncing her as the unfit mother that she is.
Three groups in society always lose their freedoms first. Children, prisoners, and the military. These groups have, by definition, less rights than the rest of us. One group can't be responsible for their own actions, one group refused to be responsible for their own actions, and one group gave up some of their rights so they could defend the rest of us (typically ungrateful) people.
Wait until the implantable ID chips take off. You'll see the military using it to track their soldiers, prisons using it to find escapees, and parents using it to set off zone alarms if their kid wanders into the front yard.
This kind of monitoring should get children used to being watched from birth. I have an acquaintance who had her whole house wired with video after she had a child. She said she just didn't feel safe being on the computer unless she had a window in the corner of her screen where she could watch her kid. Someday, people will look back at our priggishness and laugh, wondering what we were thinking, much like we laugh at the priggishness of the Victorian era.
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Satan is known as "The Father of Lies" for a reason...pleasing yourself and ignoring others is a recipe for a life of pain for everyone.
Better?
"Given the type of people you are, and the environment you're in, you have to admit the strong probability that this may be the only chance you will ever have in your entire lives to have sex."
Okay, now that was funny.
Fascist password policies annoy the living fuck out of me for two reasons. First, they give petty power pushers an ever-so-delightful way of punishing their users. Second, they don't freaking work because nobody can remember the passwords and they simply write them down and post them to the monitor. I'm as security-aware as anyone here, and I've done that before with irritatingly difficult passwords, only I keep them in my wallet instead of on my monitor.
I have a number of web-based email accounts and message board aliases, and for most of them I use the same password, easily guessable by Jack the Ripper or equivalent. It would give your average BSD admin a shitfit, but you know what? Fuck 'em. I have better things to do than pleasing anal-retentive system administrators. Been there, done that, didn't keep the trial issue or the free gift.
Are you in the Women's Studies department, or the Philosophy department?
It seems we have an axe to grind. I didn't say DIDDLY-SQUAT about "great white man". I think that shows YOUR mindset far more than it shows anything. You said, Japan and India ban permanent residence for foreigners...this is 100% false. I dispute your assertion, and you come back with some out-of-left-field comment about the "great white man"??? Huh?
No wonder cluebieism is so widespread among wannabe webserver administrators. They think following the RFC is pedantry. Sad.
Oh, and the irony of you flaming someone because they expose a bit of reality you're not comfortable with, and then misspelling "illiterate" in your knee-jerk reply is not lost on me. Actually, it's going in the Hall of Fame.
Uh, bzzt, wrong. That couldn't be more false than if you said, "astrology is real". Just marry one of their people, and you're set. Ignorant hard-left flamebait ignored.
God save me from cluebies. You do realize that 404 is "page not found", right? Of course, you did read the docs that came with your webserver, right? Naturally you did.
No, Triangle Man is Robert Mitchum. Nice try.
P.S. "a long" is two words.
I just find it stupid when people give these glib, easy answers without even considering the easy comebacks to them.
PHB says, "oh, no problem, just stay late tonight until you can finish everything. if it's not done you have plenty of time this weekend." /true story
Wine does not in any way, shape, or form, emulate the x86 processor architecture. You can compile wine on an apple and it won't help one bit. Cluebie.
There were 14,000 emails. The first hundred or so were the only ones delivered, the rest never made it through due to the system load being over 100. I rm'd the rest. If he was a garden-variety spammer, it would have just been over and done with. But he did this from his home DSL line, and he had a grudge against the company (well, he had a grudge against just about everyone he came in contact with).
Bret was not prosecuted for revealing a security vulnerability. He was prosecuted for DOS'ing our server. He sent 14,000 emails to our system, and it overloaded and stopped accepting mail. He did this several times, and knew it overloaded the system when he did it, and knew the FBI had been called after the first time, so nobody needs to feel sorry for him. Holding him up as a martyr or hero is just asinine, but it speaks volumes about how our media works these days.
Of course, there's plenty of culpability to go around...the main server was a Sun Enterprise 4500 with 4x450 CPU and 4Gb RAM. A machine like that should swallow 14,000 emails without a trace. Of course, Tornado's brain-dead custom system implementation meant that every single incoming email spawned off an SQL script to take the message apart and inject it into the database, and a shell process to control the SQL script. The system load went over 100. I had to write a script to kill off all the processes. Since the load was so high, sendmail stopped accepting incoming mail and the rest of the spam piled up on the backup server, where it was rm'd. So, it was Bret's fault for spamming us, but it was Tornado's fault for such a painfully bad email processing method. This actually raises the most interesting question of all, is it a crime to knock down a system that was incompetently implemented?
Of course, the email system was not the only part of the system that was breakable...we had system outages several times a week from different causes, and really, the Bret thing was not that bad, being in that it was easily identifiable and fixable.
Another fun thing was that Tornado initially claimed $300,000 in losses from the incident. This is important because the FBI will not get involved with anything under $50,000. This figure was later reduced (much, much later) to $9,000. Oh yeah, what else...Tornado's great email implementation also meant that we had to run an open relay, which was frequently abused. We sent out hundreds of thousands of nigerian bank account emails. A manager who took a stand and turned off the relaying one weekend was demoted and ultimately fired. Basically Tornado was a bunch of Windows developers who couldn't use Windows to implement their custom email/fax/paging application because Windows wouldn't scale to the sizes they needed. So they had to use Unix, and they didn't know anything about Unix, and they made just about all of the predictable errors that the ignorant make.
In conclusion, it's scary that every time this story comes up, there's a different (wrong) angle on it.
But it has its good points, too...anyone want a copy of Gigli or Hulk on DVD?
Oh, come on...slash'em is a hacky hack hack by twits for whom the One True Game is not enough. Anyone familiar with the archetypical "Monty Haul" campaign? Slash'em is just extra chrome for the "The Sims" crowd. It adds way too much crap to an otherwise uncluttered game. Just go get the Amulet of Yendor already. Bored with nethack? Well, you should be...part of being a serious nethack player is mastering the game, getting bored, and moving on. It's like at the end of "Yellowbeard" when Dan murders his father.
A mother who told her child to tend to his own wounds would quickly receive a visit from Child Protective Services, and if she didn't kowtow to the system would find her child taken from the home very quickly. Criminal charges would be filed, a link would make its way to fark.com, and everyone, including you, would join in in denouncing her as the unfit mother that she is.
1) What law is this? There is no federal education system, schools are run locally.
2) They already have daytime curfew laws for juveniles in many localities (again, not a federal law).
Wait until the implantable ID chips take off. You'll see the military using it to track their soldiers, prisons using it to find escapees, and parents using it to set off zone alarms if their kid wanders into the front yard.
This kind of monitoring should get children used to being watched from birth. I have an acquaintance who had her whole house wired with video after she had a child. She said she just didn't feel safe being on the computer unless she had a window in the corner of her screen where she could watch her kid. Someday, people will look back at our priggishness and laugh, wondering what we were thinking, much like we laugh at the priggishness of the Victorian era.
My favorite tool to use on a Macintosh is a claw hammer. And then a crowbar. Followed by a reciprocating saw, a nail gun, and then a Colt .45.