Obviously, this rat was intelligent enough to figure that out too, which is probably why he swam to the next island. it's incredible what us males will do for just the hope of a nice piece of tail.
I like raw vegtables. It's the cooked vegtables that I hate. Soft and mushy.... ugh., I can take them very lightly cooked, but too many people seem to boil them until they can't stand up on their own.
It's almost like I was eating pre-chewed food.....
Get a 3" external USB drive enclosure (or even a 2" one). They're big enough that they take some conscious effort to pull out -- and they have the advantage of being able to plop in a 40GB drive and store everything you'd ever want on it -- including a full knoppix CD installation.
One of the nice things about booting off of a knoppix CD image is that almost the entire CD is compressed, so it would be pretty difficult to play with that...The remaining parts that aren't on the image are pretty easy to keep track of... You could even have a boot CD that double checks all of the SHA1 checksums for the OS image, and looks for any other wonky files before continuing with the boot process.
Granted, It still doesn't protect you completely from keylogging hardware and virtual machine trojan boxes, but it's getting about as good as you can get for casual computing without carrying around an entire laptop.
One thing that you can do, if you're worried about keylogging, is have a different set of keys for your remote box, and change them on a more regular basis than you do for your 'trusted' boxes.
True, but how does giving away for free something that the MTA is also giving away for fre harmful to the MTA? Nobody is doubting the fact that this is probably the MTA's legal right, we're just pointing out that this is incredibly stupid unless there is something going on that nobody here is seeing.
This is kinda like shotgunning flies in your house... It's perfectly legal (as long as you don't take out your wife), and it does kill the flies -- but most people don't consider it worth the random holes in the wall.
Same thing here... I was just reading about tonight on the local mailing list, and I thought "Why the hell hasn't slashdot posted something about this yet?" I pop over here, and there it is!
From the article, his selling the shares was triggered by him leaving the company. From what I can tell, his leaving the company was trigered by the other owners making his life hell.
If the accusations in the article are accurate, he might be well off to include things like cruelty and poisoned work environment in his causes of action, as opposed to just constructive breach of contract.
This is what I'm talking about RE: stabbing in the back... It doesn't matter how much you may be making, if the people that you have to trust (or the people that you have trusted) make your life hell, that hurts. Even if he wins the lawsuit, I expect that he's still going to be rather unhappy.
Best bet your ass the shooting of men only having canteens, first-aid kits or radios will result in a tribunal and incarceration.
Remember: a poor Brazilian ghit was shot in the head 5 times in a london subway car for wearing a coat. The prime minister later commended the officers.
Another person (a reporter, apparently) was recently arrested for, uhm,
having a laptop... or something like that.
By the definition at contest, soldiers use air in the process of fighting a war, thus air, itself, would also be a weapon, as would be eyes, glasses, toilet paper... pretty much anything that's used, in any way, by an army at war.
Yeah, I know that sounds stupid, That's why I took exception to the definition It's far too broad.
From the original post (god only knows why it was rated as 5-insightful...)
Anything that you take to war, from your rifles and tanks to your canteens, first-aid kits, and radios, is a weapon.
A friend of mine had a book on producing movies from the library. When visiting her place, I cracked the book open and found an eye opening fact.
Industry associations like the MPAA (and, I presume the RIAA), take a cut off the top from producers. About half of that cut goes, supposedly, to anti-piracy efforts.
So, they need to make it look like they're fighting piracy. What better way to get headlines proving you're fighing piracy then to go off suing a bunch of 13 year-olds??/
Then, of course, there's the fact that, if they can legally squash fair use, then they can ultimately charge and track people for each time they listen to a song. More money for less work. It's almost like printing the stuff.
You are claiming that internet use and open source organization on the net wouldn't have happened without Internet Explorer?!
It's kinda like the way that IBM opened up the possibility of workstation computing. Up to that point, Radio Shack, Apple and Commodore were the big players, but most companies -- especially larger companies didn't consider them much more than toys.
Once IBM got into the fray, people suddenly opened their eyes up to the fact that these PC machines could do all sorts of things that had previously been relegated to huge mainframes, and workstation computing took off.
Even though companies like SUN, HP, DEC and even, ultimately IBM itself, became small players relative to Intel/Microsoft, they still took off relative to the market that they had before IBM stepped in, and the dawn of client-server computing ultimately ate a big hole in IBM's then monopoly on business computing.
Similarly, the 'Net was starting to become a really interesting toy by '95, when Microsoft finally stepped into the fray. Yes, they took the crown away from netscape, but by the time they were done, everybody was aware of the power of the 'net. As a side-effect they also became aware of Open Source, and a lot of (then) newbies got into the OS realm that, without net, they wouldn't have had any way to know about.
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That having been said, I don't think that the benign explanation for their Jeckle & Hyde treatment if Mono holds here...
As someone else pointed out, C# is intended to be a java killer. To do that, they need it to appear cross-platform. That's where Mono comes in.
MS wants people to think that they can port to mono so that they can in theory do.net(tm) programming for Linux servers. This really helps them to market C# to all the CxOs out there... That's why they had the race to Mono.
On the other hand, having people actually use mono is against Microsoft's marketing interests. That's why they killed the mono BOF. They have absolutely no interest in letting mono gain a life of it's own. C# is a Windows only platform. MS's intent is to lock people into Windows with it. Letting Mono live (barely), on the other hand, is a useful marketing ploy (to the extent to which it takes market from java) allowing them to claim that C# is cross-platform capable. Once Java is dead, however, they will throw Mono into the grave after it, and do their level best to bury them both.
Outbreaks were correlated with a particular individual coming back to the office with his laptop after working elsewhere.
Your network had a patchbay, right????
Figure out what port that guy connects his laptop to, and put it on it's own subnet. If you don't have a switch that can vlan, then give him a port direct into a linux/BSD box (of you have to, dedicate an old desktop to him as a firewall. A P75 can handle 10 Mbit without breaking into a sweat. (I only have 10Mbit cards in my BSD box, so I can't test beyond that). Filter it for ONLY the ports that he's supposed to be using within the network and then add the ports that ONLY go to the outside world. That won't be a 100% fix, but it'll probably contain about 75% of the worms that he brings back into the office.
After that you could add a simple IDS system (snort) to to check for signs of contagion on his port.
Once you get that down pat, you can possibly expand that to other users.
Another thing that might be useful is limiting the outbound traffic of any given user. Not much need to limit the inbound traffic. Most of what's going to kill you on viruses is the outbound traffic. Very few viruses suck data.
There might be a couple of ports/addresses that need high-speed outbound, but you can make an exception of those.
Yeah, I realize that you can't spoof.com (if you could, then many things would get 'interesting'). It's just that the 'c' was a nice target. The example was for illustration of the technique. I'm not going to register the domain.
This is one of the reason why some people promote interoperability, compatability and standards. If you aren't forced to use only one browser (IE, firefox, whatever) for browsing the net, then you can choose whichever one is
safe
preferred
convenient (pretty much in that order)
When Microsoft creates 'tools' that don't even allow you to try a different browser, word processor, etc., then you're totally screwed when that 'one and only' browser has a flaw.
Given that I'm running Linux(FC4), I have the choice of 3 or more browsers to view this announcement and workaround here on slashdot, or even on the mozilla website.
Just like genetic diversity makes it harder for one virus to wipe out an entire year's crop, application (and/or OS) diversity makes it harder for one hacker to wipe out the entire internet. Part of the reason why I avoid IE is that any vulnerability is such a juicy target given that so many people don't think that they have a choice other than to use IE.
These days, you don't need to explicitly attach a copyright notice to a text to make it copyright. Given that the report was confidential, I think it's fair to say that 'fair use' rights probably don't apply to his public promulgation of it... You could probably also prosecute him under the trade-secrets act if you wanted to (IANAL, but I can play one on the stage)
That sounds like Microsoft saying to turn off ActiveX controls, until a real patch can be made...
Sort of, but IDN isn't something that's that critical for many people like Active-X, which is at the centre of Microsoft's incompatibility war.
IDN is (necessarily) a bit of a kludge for the most part anyways. The International Domain Name stuff opens up it's own can of worms in that you can come up with Domain names that look a lot like a well known one by grabbing a domain name with one letter changed to an IDN character that looks enough like the original one to fool people. example: hötmail.çom replaces both the O in hotmail and the c in com. botth relatively obvious but good enough to fool some into thinking that it's a rendering error. (( Slashdot filters out almost all international characters, which makes it hard to give a really good IDN example )).
Regardless of the fact that these emails were on a mailing list, rather than just between the two girls, it does remain that they were on an internal mailing list. Releasing them to the public would in all probability result in much wider distribution which would concievably embarass not only to two bitch-fighters but the entire company.
Examples of salacious emails that were just too funny to not be forwarded abound in the recent history of the 'net.
I would say that, more than anything, the person who forwarded the bitchfight outside of the company was even more worthy of discipline than the two bitchfighters themselves.
On the other hand, I wouldn't be surprised if these two were probably the source of a lot of other nasty internal fighting previous to this. If so, that might be the real reason for their firing, and this public embarassment of the company just too good of an opportunity to ignore.
What's interesting about this setup isn't that it's using lasers to produce fusion (yawn... old news). What's relatively new about this facility is that it's using a two-stage approach with one set of lasers being used to compress the capsule, while the other ignites it. Supposedly, this requires less energy, so it's far more hopeful that it will reach the break-even point.
Supposedly, they're even hoping (as the name suggests) to cause ignition -- where the process actually becomes self-sustaining (so you'll only need the containment lasers). Even more likely to reach break-even then.
The other somewhat newsworthy aspect about this unit is that it will be a civilian facility, not a weapons facility with a few weeks a year allowed for civilian research (which is, apparently, the case for many of the other fusion units).
I was originally gonna skip reading TFA, then I figured... Given how (in)accurate slashdot headlines are, I've got to presume that there's something non-boring about this 'new' plan.
Slashdot Mirror
Obviously, this rat was intelligent enough to figure that out too, which is probably why he swam to the next island. it's incredible what us males will do for just the hope of a nice piece of tail.
I like raw vegtables. It's the cooked vegtables that I hate. Soft and mushy.... ugh., I can take them very lightly cooked, but too many people seem to boil them until they can't stand up on their own.
It's almost like I was eating pre-chewed food.....
One of the nice things about booting off of a knoppix CD image is that almost the entire CD is compressed, so it would be pretty difficult to play with that.. .The remaining parts that aren't on the image are pretty easy to keep track of... You could even have a boot CD that double checks all of the SHA1 checksums for the OS image, and looks for any other wonky files before continuing with the boot process.
Granted, It still doesn't protect you completely from keylogging hardware and virtual machine trojan boxes, but it's getting about as good as you can get for casual computing without carrying around an entire laptop.
One thing that you can do, if you're worried about keylogging, is have a different set of keys for your remote box, and change them on a more regular basis than you do for your 'trusted' boxes.
Nobody is bothering to question the legality of the notice.
What we're questioning is the sanity of the person who wrote the notice.
This is kinda like shotgunning flies in your house... It's perfectly legal (as long as you don't take out your wife), and it does kill the flies -- but most people don't consider it worth the random holes in the wall.
10:30pm showing at Century Eastport 16 (4040 SE 82nd Ave - 503-775-0000)
They apparently also have a ""Big Damn Pre-show Dinner" at Grand Buffet 4410 SE 82nd Ave (503) 788-8000 7:30 pm - 10:00 pm."
This is an attempt to gather together where people are gathering to see Serenity in various cities.
Same thing here... I was just reading about tonight on the local mailing list, and I thought "Why the hell hasn't slashdot posted something about this yet?" I pop over here, and there it is!
If the accusations in the article are accurate, he might be well off to include things like cruelty and poisoned work environment in his causes of action, as opposed to just constructive breach of contract.
This is what I'm talking about RE: stabbing in the back... It doesn't matter how much you may be making, if the people that you have to trust (or the people that you have trusted) make your life hell, that hurts. Even if he wins the lawsuit, I expect that he's still going to be rather unhappy.
No matter how much you may make, being stabbed in the back still hurts.
You don't watch the news, do you?
Someone with a wicked sense of humor. If I could moderate the moderation as funny, I would. I've got the points too.
Remember: a poor Brazilian ghit was shot in the head 5 times in a london subway car for wearing a coat. The prime minister later commended the officers. ... or something like that.
Another person (a reporter, apparently) was recently arrested for, uhm, having a laptop
Yeah, I know that sounds stupid, That's why I took exception to the definition It's far too broad.
From the original post (god only knows why it was rated as 5-insightful...)
Industry associations like the MPAA (and, I presume the RIAA), take a cut off the top from producers. About half of that cut goes, supposedly, to anti-piracy efforts.
So, they need to make it look like they're fighting piracy. What better way to get headlines proving you're fighing piracy then to go off suing a bunch of 13 year-olds??/
Then, of course, there's the fact that, if they can legally squash fair use, then they can ultimately charge and track people for each time they listen to a song. More money for less work. It's almost like printing the stuff.
It's kinda like the way that IBM opened up the possibility of workstation computing. Up to that point, Radio Shack, Apple and Commodore were the big players, but most companies -- especially larger companies didn't consider them much more than toys.
Once IBM got into the fray, people suddenly opened their eyes up to the fact that these PC machines could do all sorts of things that had previously been relegated to huge mainframes, and workstation computing took off.
Even though companies like SUN, HP, DEC and even, ultimately IBM itself, became small players relative to Intel/Microsoft, they still took off relative to the market that they had before IBM stepped in, and the dawn of client-server computing ultimately ate a big hole in IBM's then monopoly on business computing.
Similarly, the 'Net was starting to become a really interesting toy by '95, when Microsoft finally stepped into the fray. Yes, they took the crown away from netscape, but by the time they were done, everybody was aware of the power of the 'net. As a side-effect they also became aware of Open Source, and a lot of (then) newbies got into the OS realm that, without net, they wouldn't have had any way to know about.
_____
That having been said, I don't think that the benign explanation for their Jeckle & Hyde treatment if Mono holds here... As someone else pointed out, C# is intended to be a java killer. To do that, they need it to appear cross-platform. That's where Mono comes in.
MS wants people to think that they can port to mono so that they can in theory do .net(tm) programming for Linux servers. This really helps them to market C# to all the CxOs out there... That's why they had the race to Mono.
On the other hand, having people actually use mono is against Microsoft's marketing interests. That's why they killed the mono BOF. They have absolutely no interest in letting mono gain a life of it's own. C# is a Windows only platform. MS's intent is to lock people into Windows with it. Letting Mono live (barely), on the other hand, is a useful marketing ploy (to the extent to which it takes market from java) allowing them to claim that C# is cross-platform capable. Once Java is dead, however, they will throw Mono into the grave after it, and do their level best to bury them both.
I'm guessing a submarine-patent wolf-pack.
Your network had a patchbay, right????
Figure out what port that guy connects his laptop to, and put it on it's own subnet. If you don't have a switch that can vlan, then give him a port direct into a linux/BSD box (of you have to, dedicate an old desktop to him as a firewall. A P75 can handle 10 Mbit without breaking into a sweat. (I only have 10Mbit cards in my BSD box, so I can't test beyond that). Filter it for ONLY the ports that he's supposed to be using within the network and then add the ports that ONLY go to the outside world. That won't be a 100% fix, but it'll probably contain about 75% of the worms that he brings back into the office.
After that you could add a simple IDS system (snort) to to check for signs of contagion on his port.
Once you get that down pat, you can possibly expand that to other users.
Another thing that might be useful is limiting the outbound traffic of any given user. Not much need to limit the inbound traffic. Most of what's going to kill you on viruses is the outbound traffic. Very few viruses suck data.
There might be a couple of ports/addresses that need high-speed outbound, but you can make an exception of those.
Yeah, I realize that you can't spoof .com (if you could, then many things would get 'interesting'). It's just that the 'c' was a nice target. The example was for illustration of the technique. I'm not going to register the domain.
- safe
- preferred
- convenient
When Microsoft creates 'tools' that don't even allow you to try a different browser, word processor, etc., then you're totally screwed when that 'one and only' browser has a flaw.(pretty much in that order)
Given that I'm running Linux(FC4), I have the choice of 3 or more browsers to view this announcement and workaround here on slashdot, or even on the mozilla website.
Just like genetic diversity makes it harder for one virus to wipe out an entire year's crop, application (and/or OS) diversity makes it harder for one hacker to wipe out the entire internet. Part of the reason why I avoid IE is that any vulnerability is such a juicy target given that so many people don't think that they have a choice other than to use IE.
These days, you don't need to explicitly attach a copyright notice to a text to make it copyright. Given that the report was confidential, I think it's fair to say that 'fair use' rights probably don't apply to his public promulgation of it ... You could probably also prosecute him under the trade-secrets act if you wanted to (IANAL, but I can play one on the stage)
Sort of, but IDN isn't something that's that critical for many people like Active-X, which is at the centre of Microsoft's incompatibility war.
IDN is (necessarily) a bit of a kludge for the most part anyways. The International Domain Name stuff opens up it's own can of worms in that you can come up with Domain names that look a lot like a well known one by grabbing a domain name with one letter changed to an IDN character that looks enough like the original one to fool people. example: hötmail.çom replaces both the O in hotmail and the c in com. botth relatively obvious but good enough to fool some into thinking that it's a rendering error. (( Slashdot filters out almost all international characters, which makes it hard to give a really good IDN example )).
You're new here, aren't you? I"m betting that you inherited that 4 digit uid from your dad.
Examples of salacious emails that were just too funny to not be forwarded abound in the recent history of the 'net.
I would say that, more than anything, the person who forwarded the bitchfight outside of the company was even more worthy of discipline than the two bitchfighters themselves.
On the other hand, I wouldn't be surprised if these two were probably the source of a lot of other nasty internal fighting previous to this. If so, that might be the real reason for their firing, and this public embarassment of the company just too good of an opportunity to ignore.
Supposedly, they're even hoping (as the name suggests) to cause ignition -- where the process actually becomes self-sustaining (so you'll only need the containment lasers). Even more likely to reach break-even then.
The other somewhat newsworthy aspect about this unit is that it will be a civilian facility, not a weapons facility with a few weeks a year allowed for civilian research (which is, apparently, the case for many of the other fusion units).
I was originally gonna skip reading TFA, then I figured... Given how (in)accurate slashdot headlines are, I've got to presume that there's something non-boring about this 'new' plan.