Here we go again. Someone will say that hydrogen is a power source and then a bunch of pedants will jump on him / her claiming that it's not a power sources it's a power store as it uses more energy to create it. Then there will be an argument over what constitutes a power source. Does that about sum up the discussion?
Actually, you forgot about the diatribes on the sources of the fuel/store and whether greenhouse gases matter if they are from the current carbon cycle.
They fact that so many slashdotters don't know this whole routine already, especially the editors, is what's scary.
The IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) which is coming out of 3GPP (GMS) and 3GPP2 (CDMA) will establish a solid footing for VoIP where it can match the quality of current PSTN.
IMS will allow Quality of Service (QOS) on the network, between carriers.
IMS will also support much more security than available now with VoIP. Especially between carriers.
IMS will allow roaming, because the network you are on will probably not give you QOS otherwise.
Best of all, IMS is based on SIP and other IETF standards. It will allow much more rapid development of multimedia applications for both wireless and wireline applications.
The downside is that while the standards are open, this will be a big player game. While there will be much more intelligence on the End User device compared to PSTN, the network will still maintain control. It has to for QOS. Peer-to-peer VoIP will never match the quality of PSTN. Ultimately the big carriers do not want to be commoditized dumb pipes
Truth be told, most people are not savvy enough for peer-to-peer and putting enough intelligence in our software is still a long-long way off. Especially if it's being developed by Microsoft.
Note: I work for a telecommunications equipment vendor. I am heavily into and biased for IMS.
I also have been paying the $5 a year for a while.
My six year old is really into seeing the radar maps and when the next wave of snow is going to hit us in MA.
I get storm totals for areas around my camp in VT.
I get numerous local weather readings from Personal Weather Stations.
The first thing I do when I reboot is open Firefox and open a Wunderground window. It is always there and usually autorefreshes automatically.
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I fail to see how Bell Labs could be funded any better from a single Baby Bell than it is now through Lucent. The days of the monopoly are long over and no telco is going to be able to support the premium of the Bell Labs of old. Lucent curently offers services and equipment to all the Baby Bells, AT&T, wireless carriers, cable providers, as well as other telcos globally. This is a marketplace where Lucent has many global competitors. Some of the revenue from these offerings goes back into Bell Labs to develop better offerings. So Bell Labs has to be more focused on business needs than under a government endorsed monopoly and a lot of research simply had to be eliminated.
That is called capitalism.
It takes a monopoly to support the Bell Labs of old. That is either a government funded effort or perhaps Microsoft. In a competitive market, long term research with risky far off paybacks can't be supported.
Disclaimer: I am a Lucent employee speaking my own opinion. I am currently working on an AT&T contract.
I fear I must come out in the open and announce to all agents that THEY are on to US. No more trolling slashdot with our secret messages for this alley has been lit up like the yard of an obnoxious neighbor with too much discposable income who insists on subsidizing the electric company by generating so much light and heat that it doesn't even snow in their vincinity.
But I digress.
We now must move to plan B. As a reminder, Plan B has nothing to do with entering crappy setganographed photos into Worth1000 contests. It also does not involve the creation of fake open source projects on SourceForge or the submission of obscure bugs to Bugzilla. It defnitely does not consist of using google search terms to communcate in the referrer fields of our personal web pages.
It is simply a matter of timing the two events so that the asteroid crashes into the caldera at the time of eruption and everything cancels itself out.
If one has told management that the network security program is working, based on past history of attacks, and someone proves otherwise by simply performing a VA and showing all the vulnerabilities, then one is a security risk.
Now, how much of this is management's fault for perhaps having a network security analyst doing more than one's training and experience can handle? It is likely that management is pretty weak here.
Security is a process, not a state. It sounds like this financial institution has a bunch of security technology and a person to manage it without having a security program. Probably their whole IT is poorly run, in which case outsourcing is the only short term hope.
It really boils down to two possibilities:
Either it was a setup
or
A misinformed management saw the real state of security and panicked.
Either way, management sucked and its time to learn and move on.
Sorry, but the fact that this 'home theater' does the exact same thing my 19 inch TV does, only on a grander scale, makes the two comparable. It doesn't matter that one has several different components that must be purchased separately. A TV is the conveyance of the video and audio.
However, you are right that this person would have likely spent the money on something else related to himself anyway. Our culture is very voyeuristic, as anyone who spends 10K on an entertainment center will tell you. Many of those that do go out and do things for entertainment, do not do things that usually help others (me included).
The Cisco PIX will rewrite TCP sequence numbers by default. See the documentation at http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/ia abu/pix/pix_v51/config/commands.htm#6833
Other than that, I think the PIX rots.
One sure way to tell you're running nmap against a PIX is that all the sequence numbers are impossible to predict and they're running IIS.
Suppose all this is true, and I have no reason to doubt that it is, as you pointed out in your last sentence there is still an NSA key installed by default in the Microsoft OS's and thus available for any other use. If one is sufficiently paranoid one should replace that key.
Earlier in the year a paper was published on the vulnerability of keys, because of their entropy, to a brute force search of the hard drive by a virus. I now think that I might want such a tool to see what keys are installed on my system. Anyone heard of such a tool being written?
If your father had called ahead, they could have saved him the trip if it wasn't in stock...
If the clerk was new and didn't know where everything was yet...
If you father will be a regular customer and they garden supply house sets up an extranet that lets him check the inventory himself and preorder so that it is waiting on the loading dock when he gets there...
Your fathers pruning shears are great, so long as he keeps them sharp and uses them correctly. Dull shears used wrong could damage the plant more and take longer than ripping the branches off.
Computerization, in and of itself, does not improve a poor process or break a good one.
I don't remember who, where or when, but I liked it very much. It started with the very same checkbox idea.
A home computer system would allow/force everyone to vote on how they wanted to allocate their taxes. There was even a write in option. I won't spoil the ending. It was very clever.
If one reads the article, this is not a harddrive, but a Storage System. A quote
"IBM said the new product line can handle from 420 gigabytes... up to 11 terrabytes... the highest capacity in the industry. The new storage systems, together with a refreshed line of storage tape backup products, help organizations record and track the massive volumes of information they create each day."
These are huge boxes that live in enterprise data centers that have massive amounts of money.
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Actually, you forgot about the diatribes on the sources of the fuel/store and whether greenhouse gases matter if they are from the current carbon cycle.
They fact that so many slashdotters don't know this whole routine already, especially the editors, is what's scary.
The IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) which is coming out of 3GPP (GMS) and 3GPP2 (CDMA) will establish a solid footing for VoIP where it can match the quality of current PSTN.
IMS will allow Quality of Service (QOS) on the network, between carriers.
IMS will also support much more security than available now with VoIP. Especially between carriers.
IMS will allow roaming, because the network you are on will probably not give you QOS otherwise.
Best of all, IMS is based on SIP and other IETF standards. It will allow much more rapid development of multimedia applications for both wireless and wireline applications.
The downside is that while the standards are open, this will be a big player game. While there will be much more intelligence on the End User device compared to PSTN, the network will still maintain control. It has to for QOS. Peer-to-peer VoIP will never match the quality of PSTN. Ultimately the big carriers do not want to be commoditized dumb pipes
Truth be told, most people are not savvy enough for peer-to-peer and putting enough intelligence in our software is still a long-long way off. Especially if it's being developed by Microsoft.
Note: I work for a telecommunications equipment vendor. I am heavily into and biased for IMS.
Peace,
Vudu Child
Wunderground is simply wunderful.
I also have been paying the $5 a year for a while.
My six year old is really into seeing the radar maps and when the next wave of snow is going to hit us in MA.
I get storm totals for areas around my camp in VT.
I get numerous local weather readings from Personal Weather Stations.
The first thing I do when I reboot is open Firefox and open a Wunderground window. It is always there and usually autorefreshes automatically.
I fail to see how Bell Labs could be funded any better from a single Baby Bell than it is now through Lucent. The days of the monopoly are long over and no telco is going to be able to support the premium of the Bell Labs of old. Lucent curently offers services and equipment to all the Baby Bells, AT&T, wireless carriers, cable providers, as well as other telcos globally. This is a marketplace where Lucent has many global competitors. Some of the revenue from these offerings goes back into Bell Labs to develop better offerings. So Bell Labs has to be more focused on business needs than under a government endorsed monopoly and a lot of research simply had to be eliminated.
That is called capitalism.
It takes a monopoly to support the Bell Labs of old. That is either a government funded effort or perhaps Microsoft. In a competitive market, long term research with risky far off paybacks can't be supported.
Disclaimer: I am a Lucent employee speaking my own opinion. I am currently working on an AT&T contract.
I fear I must come out in the open and announce to all agents that THEY are on to US. No more trolling slashdot with our secret messages for this alley has been lit up like the yard of an obnoxious neighbor with too much discposable income who insists on subsidizing the electric company by generating so much light and heat that it doesn't even snow in their vincinity.
But I digress.
We now must move to plan B. As a reminder, Plan B has nothing to do with entering crappy setganographed photos into Worth1000 contests. It also does not involve the creation of fake open source projects on SourceForge or the submission of obscure bugs to Bugzilla. It defnitely does not consist of using google search terms to communcate in the referrer fields of our personal web pages.
Please burn this message after reading it.
Encrypted (or stegged) spam has already been done, and discovered. If you'd see this BlackHat talk, you'd know.
4 -s peakers.html#kret
Nobody's Anonymous--Tracking Spam and Covert Channels
Curtis Kret, Researcher, Secure Science Corporation
http://www.blackhat.com/html/bh-usa-04/bh-usa-0
While that is true, there are significant design faults with LANMAN hashes that make the task much easier.
First all LANMAN passwords are not case sensitive.
Second the hash is made in two 7 character chunks which makes the search space much smaller.
In Boston, MA, USA there are taxi cabs with changing LED ads on the roof. They will even display sports scores.
It is simply a matter of timing the two events so that the asteroid crashes into the caldera at the time of eruption and everything cancels itself out.
Ought to make a good B-movie plot.
Sounds like buying books is more addictive than actually reading them.
If one has told management that the network security program is working, based on past history of attacks, and someone proves otherwise by simply performing a VA and showing all the vulnerabilities, then one is a security risk.
Now, how much of this is management's fault for perhaps having a network security analyst doing more than one's training and experience can handle? It is likely that management is pretty weak here.
Security is a process, not a state. It sounds like this financial institution has a bunch of security technology and a person to manage it without having a security program. Probably their whole IT is poorly run, in which case outsourcing is the only short term hope.
It really boils down to two possibilities:
Either it was a setup
or
A misinformed management saw the real state of security and panicked.
Either way, management sucked and its time to learn and move on.
Sorry, but the fact that this 'home theater' does the exact same thing my 19 inch TV does, only on a grander scale, makes the two comparable. It doesn't matter that one has several different components that must be purchased separately. A TV is the conveyance of the video and audio.
However, you are right that this person would have likely spent the money on something else related to himself anyway. Our culture is very voyeuristic, as anyone who spends 10K on an entertainment center will tell you. Many of those that do go out and do things for entertainment, do not do things that usually help others (me included).
The Cisco PIX will rewrite TCP sequence numbers by default. See the documentation at http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/ia abu/pix/pix_v51/config/commands.htm#6833
Other than that, I think the PIX rots.
One sure way to tell you're running nmap against a PIX is that all the sequence numbers are impossible to predict and they're running IIS.
Suppose all this is true, and I have no reason to doubt that it is, as you pointed out in your last sentence there is still an NSA key installed by default in the Microsoft OS's and thus available for any other use. If one is sufficiently paranoid one should replace that key.
Earlier in the year a paper was published on the vulnerability of keys, because of their entropy, to a brute force search of the hard drive by a virus. I now think that I might want such a tool to see what keys are installed on my system. Anyone heard of such a tool being written?
If your father had called ahead, they could have saved him the trip if it wasn't in stock...
If the clerk was new and didn't know where everything was yet...
If you father will be a regular customer and they garden supply house sets up an extranet that lets him check the inventory himself and preorder so that it is waiting on the loading dock when he gets there...
Your fathers pruning shears are great, so long as he keeps them sharp and uses them correctly. Dull shears used wrong could damage the plant more and take longer than ripping the branches off.
Computerization, in and of itself, does not improve a poor process or break a good one.
I don't know if it is his 768 k-bit pipe or the Apache/Zope/Squishdot engine on a Pentium 120, but the site is just about gone.
I'd like to see some benchmarks for Zope on different configurations. This just highlights the need.
I don't remember who, where or when, but I liked it very much. It started with the very same checkbox idea.
A home computer system would allow/force everyone to vote on how they wanted to allocate their taxes. There was even a write in option. I won't spoil the ending. It was very clever.
Anyone else remember it?
If one reads the article, this is not a harddrive, but a Storage System. A quote
... up to 11 terrabytes ... the highest capacity in the industry. The new storage systems, together with a refreshed line of storage tape backup products, help organizations record and track the massive volumes of information they create each day."
"IBM said the new product line can handle from 420 gigabytes
These are huge boxes that live in enterprise data centers that have massive amounts of money.
Sorry to dissapoint.