I'm a programmer working for a (relatively) small university. We are busting our asses trying to get our systems compliant with SEVIS by the deadline of Jan. 30, 2003 or we lose the ability to have international students at our school.
The 43 pieces of information range from the usual stuff (last name, first name, middle, birth date, etc) to rather personal stuff like: personal funds (how much money you have in the bank), living costs, dependent costs, how much money you make at your job, driver's license number, etc etc..
The question is: "Is SEVIS likely to Cause Problems For Foreign Students?" Here's your answer: YES: SEVIS will cause you problems! Basically, the word from the INS is that reinstatement is not an option. So, if you are an international student, and for any reason you go out of staus, you're screwed..
As far as the computer systems the INS uses to house this information: nobody knows. We submit the information to the INS via a HTTPS post and the data is in XML format.. (I do know that the web server we submit data to is running IIS...)
Recently, I attended a conference and there was a presentation on SEVIS. The presenter said "If I was an international student, I wouldn't want to go to school in the US. I'd go somewhere else..."!!!
I am very much against this project. I don't think it will solve anything. It's just another knee-jerk reaction from scared government officials wanting another X amount of years in Washington for being a part of <sarcasm> a system that will end all terrorism by tracking every piece of information about students.. Yeah, that will stop terrorism! </sarcasm>
We (read: all ~7000 universities that are REQUIRED to participate) were all hoping at the beginning that this would be some fad and it would just go away once the INS discovered that it is not practical.. But that hasn't happened yet, and we are less than 2 months away from the "do or die" compliance date... This is very much a reality folks.
about 3 years ago, I was pulling cable from 1 room to another.. while standing on a ladder pulling the cable out of the cieling, the cieling collapsed on me! About half the tiles from the room fell on to the floor, and a florescent light hit me in the back on its way down.. that's pretty dangerous!
Linux 3.0? HA!
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< sarcasm> Linus is really behind! Red Hat just came out with version 8.0!
I just went through the windows update BS to update my laptop, and the download was around 55MB, yet the article states: Microsoft is due to release on 9 September a 133MB upgrade for its Windows XP operating system called Service Pack 1.
Last time I checked, today was September 9th. Am I just jumping the gun here? Have they not yet posted SP1 to the windows update site?
Quoth the article: JVC intends to charge between 20 cents and $1 per disk for the encryption service, depending on the complexity of the key codes.
Yay, 1 more thing to drive up the price of CD's.. This reminds me why I don't buy CD's..
features special encryption keys which are hidden in software that's pressed onto a CD-ROM and cannot be read with ordinary procedures.
Couldn't this be overcome by doing a raw copy of the CD? AFAIK, as long as it's not a hardware-driven protection mechanism, a raw write would just transfer the data to the new CD..
Could it be that most users on the internet are just there to send e-mail back & forth between their families, or to hang out in chat rooms?
This is because most people do not need broadband and cannot justify the increased cost just for the online activities listed above. That is why by 2005 broadband will will just be catching up to dial-up percentage wise for users of the internet..
Downside of Upside of Downside: I don't like my broadband provider to block ports that they feel are "commonly abused". I have a good firewall in place, and I think that every other user (broadband or not) on the internet should have one too.
On the downside, code to crash any modern Windows machine with NetBIOS enabled is now floating around the net
Well, one good way to help the propagation along would be to post a link to it on slashdot so thousands of script kiddies can get ahold of it... oh wait..
is that it seems (from the HOWTO) that if you reboot the machine, you get to a lilo prompt and you can easily do something like "linux 1 initrd=/bin/bash" and boot directly into a prompt where you could change the root password without any trouble at all..
what other boot loaders are out there than have the functionality to "lock it down" to where the boot options can't be changed?
Evan [the subject of the article for those of you who didn't read it] seems to be at fault here. IANAL, but most people know that you read anything before you sign it. A lot of companies throw that "anything you create [whether or not on company time/hardware] while working for Company X belongs to Company X".
From what I've seen/heard from people presented with this clause in their contracts, if you ask, they will take it out without any questions, but that doesn't make it right to put it in there for the poor fools who don't read it and just sign away...
I knew it was going to happen, just not this soon..
Is this the kind of FUD we're going to come to expect from security focus now that they sold out^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H are under the symantec "corporate umbrella"?
a lot of these toys have forcefully deprecated because one idiot kid did something stupid with them and their parents had a fit.
This brings to light a bigger problem:
What ever happened to natural selection? You know, the kid who swallows too many marbles doesn't grow up to have kids of his own?
Why are parents now making kids wear a helmet for everything but jerking off? All of the fun toys had "swallowable parts" so they aren't popular anymore because some parent raised a stink over it...
I work for a college doing web-based database programming (all of our apps are in-housed created)
I received an e-mail a few weeks ago from my boss saying that he wanted a few volunteers to run IE on their machines instead of netscape (right now we only "support" netscape)...
Supposedly we won't be required to start writing apps for IE only, but it makes me kinda worry..
Too bad i couldn't volunteer! I don't think they have a version of IE for linux yet...
call me a comspiracy theorist....but i've thought for a long time that symantec and mcafee were responsible for most viruses that are around the internet today.
We don't have a market? We'll just have to make one!
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I'm a programmer working for a (relatively) small university. We are busting our asses trying to get our systems compliant with SEVIS by the deadline of Jan. 30, 2003 or we lose the ability to have international students at our school.
The 43 pieces of information range from the usual stuff (last name, first name, middle, birth date, etc) to rather personal stuff like: personal funds (how much money you have in the bank), living costs, dependent costs, how much money you make at your job, driver's license number, etc etc..
The question is: "Is SEVIS likely to Cause Problems For Foreign Students?" Here's your answer: YES: SEVIS will cause you problems! Basically, the word from the INS is that reinstatement is not an option. So, if you are an international student, and for any reason you go out of staus, you're screwed..
As far as the computer systems the INS uses to house this information: nobody knows. We submit the information to the INS via a HTTPS post and the data is in XML format.. (I do know that the web server we submit data to is running IIS...)
Recently, I attended a conference and there was a presentation on SEVIS. The presenter said "If I was an international student, I wouldn't want to go to school in the US. I'd go somewhere else..."!!!
I am very much against this project. I don't think it will solve anything. It's just another knee-jerk reaction from scared government officials wanting another X amount of years in Washington for being a part of <sarcasm> a system that will end all terrorism by tracking every piece of information about students.. Yeah, that will stop terrorism! </sarcasm>
We (read: all ~7000 universities that are REQUIRED to participate) were all hoping at the beginning that this would be some fad and it would just go away once the INS discovered that it is not practical.. But that hasn't happened yet, and we are less than 2 months away from the "do or die" compliance date... This is very much a reality folks.
Just be careful when you do this. If one of your 2.4gig HD's craps out, you've lost the whole array (that means all your data/porn)!!
about 3 years ago, I was pulling cable from 1 room to another.. while standing on a ladder pulling the cable out of the cieling, the cieling collapsed on me! About half the tiles from the room fell on to the floor, and a florescent light hit me in the back on its way down.. that's pretty dangerous!
< sarcasm> Linus is really behind! Red Hat just came out with version 8.0!
Sorry for replying to myself, but here is the correct link for the Mac compatible scanners on pricewatch...
Pricewatch.com has a whole section for Mac compatible scanners but I didn't see any that were hand-held..
I just went through the windows update BS to update my laptop, and the download was around 55MB, yet the article states:
Microsoft is due to release on 9 September a 133MB upgrade for its Windows XP operating system called Service Pack 1.
Last time I checked, today was September 9th. Am I just jumping the gun here? Have they not yet posted SP1 to the windows update site?
Quoth the article: JVC intends to charge between 20 cents and $1 per disk for the encryption service, depending on the complexity of the key codes.
Yay, 1 more thing to drive up the price of CD's.. This reminds me why I don't buy CD's..
features special encryption keys which are hidden in software that's pressed onto a CD-ROM and cannot be read with ordinary procedures.
Couldn't this be overcome by doing a raw copy of the CD? AFAIK, as long as it's not a hardware-driven protection mechanism, a raw write would just transfer the data to the new CD..
Could it be that most users on the internet are just there to send e-mail back & forth between their families, or to hang out in chat rooms?
This is because most people do not need broadband and cannot justify the increased cost just for the online activities listed above. That is why by 2005 broadband will will just be catching up to dial-up percentage wise for users of the internet..
Downside: On the downside, code to crash any modern Windows machine with NetBIOS enabled is now floating around the net
Upside of Downside: My cablemodem provider blocks some commonly abused ports (including NetBIOS).
Downside of Upside of Downside: I don't like my broadband provider to block ports that they feel are "commonly abused". I have a good firewall in place, and I think that every other user (broadband or not) on the internet should have one too.
But hey, that's just my $0.02US
On the downside, code to crash any modern Windows machine with NetBIOS enabled is now floating around the net
Well, one good way to help the propagation along would be to post a link to it on slashdot so thousands of script kiddies can get ahold of it... oh wait..
the specs on the request that has to be made, couldn't you crack this with some sort of brute-force method?
is that it seems (from the HOWTO) that if you reboot the machine, you get to a lilo prompt and you can easily do something like "linux 1 initrd=/bin/bash" and boot directly into a prompt where you could change the root password without any trouble at all..
what other boot loaders are out there than have the functionality to "lock it down" to where the boot options can't be changed?
Evan [the subject of the article for those of you who didn't read it] seems to be at fault here. IANAL, but most people know that you read anything before you sign it. A lot of companies throw that "anything you create [whether or not on company time/hardware] while working for Company X belongs to Company X".
From what I've seen/heard from people presented with this clause in their contracts, if you ask, they will take it out without any questions, but that doesn't make it right to put it in there for the poor fools who don't read it and just sign away...
Yeah.. Security through obscurity, baby.. bind 4.9 all the way!
Japan Launches ID Network Amid 'Big Brother' Angst
They have that crappy TV show in Japan too?
"Don't they have something better to do during the summer than hack our site?" asked the RIAA representative, who asked not to be identified.
Well, obviously not... Do you think they're going to actually *gasp* go outside?!
I knew it was going to happen, just not this soon..
Is this the kind of FUD we're going to come to expect from security focus now that they sold out^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H are under the symantec "corporate umbrella"?
a lot of these toys have forcefully deprecated because one idiot kid did something stupid with them and their parents had a fit.
This brings to light a bigger problem:
What ever happened to natural selection? You know, the kid who swallows too many marbles doesn't grow up to have kids of his own?
Why are parents now making kids wear a helmet for everything but jerking off? All of the fun toys had "swallowable parts" so they aren't popular anymore because some parent raised a stink over it...
*steps off soap box*
I work for a college doing web-based database programming (all of our apps are in-housed created)
I received an e-mail a few weeks ago from my boss saying that he wanted a few volunteers to run IE on their machines instead of netscape (right now we only "support" netscape)...
Supposedly we won't be required to start writing apps for IE only, but it makes me kinda worry..
Too bad i couldn't volunteer! I don't think they have a version of IE for linux yet...
It may sound sci-fi, but according to the WWF in this story...
Everybody knows that the WWF is all scripted! None of it is real!
A Billion Dollars Worth Of Software On My System For Free!
Yeah, that's what happens when you use P2P _WAY_ too much
if the camera is on the other side of the phone, looking away from the person talking... It'll be the end of:
Husband: No honey, i'm not at the strip club! I'm just working late.
call me a comspiracy theorist....but i've thought for a long time that symantec and mcafee were responsible for most viruses that are around the internet today.
We don't have a market? We'll just have to make one!
Will the EMP from the coming nuclear war in central Asia adversly effect my reception on the public wireless LAN here in the UK?
Yes
No
Who cares? I don't live in the UK!
Cowboy Neal