I think you have a one sided view here - from my perspective I would love much more of what you call 'filth' on television. Nakedness is natural and freakish morals which demand that everyone is 'protected' from nature are just wrong. Don't get me wrong - I'm perfectly happy for you to put in place controls in your own home that stop you seeing this sort of thing (think 'off' switch!) but I don't want some socially retarded puritan having an effect on my happiness.
I have kids - I certainly won't let them watch horror films, and the sort of live footage you get from Afghanistan is probably a bit much for them, but a bit of nudity in something is the least of my worries. I'd be more concerned that switching over in such a case would end up warping their view of the world and making them feel that nakedness is something to be ashamed about.
I don't tend to let them watch programmes with swearing either - and I don't swear at home - but I am all for swearing on TV if it is relevant and appropriate, for example if a gory space alien was about to attack me, I'm pretty certain I'd shout F*** or something similar:-)
Summary - parents - take control of what your kids watch, don't leave it up to technology. Watch with them - be a part of their lives.
take control of what you watch - there are so many channels if you don't like it, turn over
Just don't push your views onto folks like me who are happy with nakedness, swearing and sex on the telly!
Kubuntu is irrelevant. It is your player that is the issue. Try mplayer or any one of a myriad players. AIFF used to be the most common audio format in many areas and all flavours of unix will have a compatible player (probably) and is remarkably like WAV in structure:-)
It isn't used so much these days, as folks are happy enough with lossy formats
No. There does not have to be a learning curve. It is elementary to set up a linux box so that the user can't tell the difference from windows in most cases. Aside from the fact what happens under the surface suddenly becomes a lot easier for sysadmins etc to maintain
While I agree that the Floyd Rose and Kahler trems have benefits in staying in tune, the Strat vibrato bridge is perfectly playable, and if you are proficient, you can play in tune throughout - tweaking by ear if it goes out as you play, and tuning up quickly at the end of a song takes seconds. And on a strat it really ain't a whammy bar - it doesn't wham!
Anyway if you want one that meets all your needs, build it yourself - my fastest guitar is a self designed, home built model. Sod Gibsons and Strats:-)
Definitely missing something - iTunes as it currently stands will only let me play music on one of my players. It won't let me transfer to my car (unless I make a CD and re-rip, thus losing quality), to my mp3 players (none are Apple), to my home audio server or other devices.
DRM does nothing but mean I have to find other sources of music
The good thing is more and more good stuff is becoming available without being tied into the corporate monster that is RIAA.
But for stuff I want, whether it is RIAA or not, I will not buy an album before I decide whether I like it. So my purchasing is directly dependent on me listening to a copy first (comes under fair use, methinks) and like pretty much all the people I know, I have a large collection of mp3 and ogg files (tens of thousands) of which 30 or 40 at any one time may be considered to be infringing some copyright. Tough - I listen to them, and if they are good, I buy. If not, I delete. I also will not buy any music that has so-called DRM controls which prevent me listening to it on my platform of choice, whether that be WIndows, Linux, embedded hardware, whatever.
But for f**ks sake - stop talking about it as if it were theft. It isn't!!!
After running tools and manual methods we work out what the results really mean (unlike a small shop who might just provide the nessus/ISS/retina/whatever output) from a technical and business perspective. Then we go through this draft report with the client to discuss context - as they will know the environment better that us - so we can work out what risk mitigation is in place.
But amusingly the Scottish one pound note looks remarkably like the English five pound note in low lighting...not sure if that is why I am always asked by friends in London if they can buy my pound notes off me..I charge two pounds for the privilege:-)
Why would you want to avoid the temptation of sex? This is where organised religion these days (well, most of them) really infuriates me. And why America as a whole gets my goat - there is lots of encouragement for punishment (esp the US 'punishing' anyone) but lots of 'you mustn't have sex because it is bad!' nonsense.
Sex is good that is what it is for. It feels great. Attaching guilt to it just fscks people up. It should be encouraged and taught properly - you never know, if teenagers were having more sex they'd have less time to shoot each other and take drugs.
Everyone - just go out and fuck! You know it's a good thing (tm)
Slight rant - I am always puzzled by the reliance people place on firewalls. A firewall is a wall with holes in. A firewall in front of a web server usually has holes for ports 443 and 80, meaning packets on those ports get through. First line of defence does get rid of all those other packets, so that's good.
A deep inspection app (as part of the firewall, or as a standalone) ca strip out obviously malicious code, once a signature is found. So hopefully valid html is all that gets through this 2nd line.
We can still have overlong http requests and attacks that are valid html at this point, so how about another layer...for IIS Urlscan can help a lot here, but we are still left with http requests getting to a web server (because that is what is supposed to happen)
So sort the server and the application - those other lines of defence will be exploited at some point. The question is only when. Make breaching each layer difficult, and you gain a lot of security, but adding layers of protection, and protecting each app, device, protocol etc is a good thing (tm)
You are joking, right? Do you honestly think that there is any games console better than a gaming PC? Okay, it is an unfair comparison, because you can buy whatever bits you like for a PC, thus making it pretty damn whizzy, but they are far superior. Even the X-Box, which is not half bad, doesn't compare to my home PC. Why anyone would want to actually buy one is beyond me (okay, I guess cost could be a reason - for a relatively low price you do get something quite good)
I did add (or scrounge) - if a friend has an XP install it takes 10 minutes to make a slipstreamed CD from your genuine XP CD, the SP2 download and a small utility to get the boot image onto the new CD.
Well - enable it until you have a decent one. The built in one is better than nothing but still pretty shoddy even compared with freebies like ZoneAlarm.
Seriously though - use an old PC as a firewall. A 486 with no hard drive is usable in this context so there is no excuse.
The easiest options if you have to use Microsoft are:
Get a separate firewall - there is no excuse not to these days, especially as there are many cheap DSL routers with firewalls built in. You owe it to the rest of the Internet!
Make (or scrounge) an XP with SP2 install disk - use Slipstreaming - which will mean you start off from a much more secure base. ,
That seems a little harsh. Many clients from small, 40 man operations up to global multinationals do get silly when it comes to insisting on evidence before payment. If that means getting timestamped, then so be it.
I would agree that you really don't want to mess around with the pennies when a good client is paying you well. Count it as "feel good fuzzies marketing" and budget for it. I probably spend 14 hours a month just visiting or talking to clients on the phone for free. And although I charge more than some competitors, my clients keep coming back.
And one terabyte of storage is not exactly that big if you are running proghramming projects for multiple clients (might be overkill for some)
I did think the article was very good, but you do yourself a disservice by just reflex slapping someone down.
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Some discussion on responsible disclosure over in the Security Stack Exchange site: htt p://security.stackexchange.com/q/52/485
Yes - yes you can use your GH1 and 2 guitars with GH3 and RB. Look for the adapter from the ant commandos web site
I think you have a one sided view here - from my perspective I would love much more of what you call 'filth' on television. Nakedness is natural and freakish morals which demand that everyone is 'protected' from nature are just wrong. Don't get me wrong - I'm perfectly happy for you to put in place controls in your own home that stop you seeing this sort of thing (think 'off' switch!) but I don't want some socially retarded puritan having an effect on my happiness. I have kids - I certainly won't let them watch horror films, and the sort of live footage you get from Afghanistan is probably a bit much for them, but a bit of nudity in something is the least of my worries. I'd be more concerned that switching over in such a case would end up warping their view of the world and making them feel that nakedness is something to be ashamed about. I don't tend to let them watch programmes with swearing either - and I don't swear at home - but I am all for swearing on TV if it is relevant and appropriate, for example if a gory space alien was about to attack me, I'm pretty certain I'd shout F*** or something similar:-) Summary - parents - take control of what your kids watch, don't leave it up to technology. Watch with them - be a part of their lives. take control of what you watch - there are so many channels if you don't like it, turn over Just don't push your views onto folks like me who are happy with nakedness, swearing and sex on the telly!
It's free and does a reasonable job at indicating risk level to the less computer savvy (in green, amber and red)
Kubuntu is irrelevant. It is your player that is the issue. Try mplayer or any one of a myriad players. AIFF used to be the most common audio format in many areas and all flavours of unix will have a compatible player (probably) and is remarkably like WAV in structure:-) It isn't used so much these days, as folks are happy enough with lossy formats
No. There does not have to be a learning curve. It is elementary to set up a linux box so that the user can't tell the difference from windows in most cases. Aside from the fact what happens under the surface suddenly becomes a lot easier for sysadmins etc to maintain
While I agree that the Floyd Rose and Kahler trems have benefits in staying in tune, the Strat vibrato bridge is perfectly playable, and if you are proficient, you can play in tune throughout - tweaking by ear if it goes out as you play, and tuning up quickly at the end of a song takes seconds. And on a strat it really ain't a whammy bar - it doesn't wham! Anyway if you want one that meets all your needs, build it yourself - my fastest guitar is a self designed, home built model. Sod Gibsons and Strats:-)
Drive along fast
Depress clutch
Select neutral
wait a few seconds
Push gear lever into reverse - it may take a little more push than usual
Rev engine
Dump clutch
Listen to the squealing from those tortured tyres - oh yes!
erm....of course I use power tools at home without safety gear! Wouldn't be half as much fun otherwise. Jeez.
Anything you provide to the user this way can be automagically used by the attacker. Only OOB methods of passing the unique code will be viable.
Definitely missing something - iTunes as it currently stands will only let me play music on one of my players. It won't let me transfer to my car (unless I make a CD and re-rip, thus losing quality), to my mp3 players (none are Apple), to my home audio server or other devices. DRM does nothing but mean I have to find other sources of music
So this whole warming of the oceans is your fault, eh?
But damned funny!
The good thing is more and more good stuff is becoming available without being tied into the corporate monster that is RIAA.
But for stuff I want, whether it is RIAA or not, I will not buy an album before I decide whether I like it. So my purchasing is directly dependent on me listening to a copy first (comes under fair use, methinks) and like pretty much all the people I know, I have a large collection of mp3 and ogg files (tens of thousands) of which 30 or 40 at any one time may be considered to be infringing some copyright. Tough - I listen to them, and if they are good, I buy. If not, I delete. I also will not buy any music that has so-called DRM controls which prevent me listening to it on my platform of choice, whether that be WIndows, Linux, embedded hardware, whatever. But for f**ks sake - stop talking about it as if it were theft. It isn't!!!
Oggs, Flacs, MP3s - they all work in my car. Seriously - get an empeg...hundreds of gigs of music...sweeeeeeeeeeeeet!
After running tools and manual methods we work out what the results really mean (unlike a small shop who might just provide the nessus/ISS/retina/whatever output) from a technical and business perspective. Then we go through this draft report with the client to discuss context - as they will know the environment better that us - so we can work out what risk mitigation is in place.
Only then do we issue a final report!
But amusingly the Scottish one pound note looks remarkably like the English five pound note in low lighting...not sure if that is why I am always asked by friends in London if they can buy my pound notes off me..I charge two pounds for the privilege:-)
Why would you want to avoid the temptation of sex? This is where organised religion these days (well, most of them) really infuriates me. And why America as a whole gets my goat - there is lots of encouragement for punishment (esp the US 'punishing' anyone) but lots of 'you mustn't have sex because it is bad!' nonsense.
Sex is good that is what it is for. It feels great. Attaching guilt to it just fscks people up. It should be encouraged and taught properly - you never know, if teenagers were having more sex they'd have less time to shoot each other and take drugs.
Everyone - just go out and fuck! You know it's a good thing (tm)
Slight rant - I am always puzzled by the reliance people place on firewalls. A firewall is a wall with holes in. A firewall in front of a web server usually has holes for ports 443 and 80, meaning packets on those ports get through. First line of defence does get rid of all those other packets, so that's good.
A deep inspection app (as part of the firewall, or as a standalone) ca strip out obviously malicious code, once a signature is found. So hopefully valid html is all that gets through this 2nd line.
We can still have overlong http requests and attacks that are valid html at this point, so how about another layer...for IIS Urlscan can help a lot here, but we are still left with http requests getting to a web server (because that is what is supposed to happen)
So sort the server and the application - those other lines of defence will be exploited at some point. The question is only when. Make breaching each layer difficult, and you gain a lot of security, but adding layers of protection, and protecting each app, device, protocol etc is a good thing (tm)
You are joking, right? Do you honestly think that there is any games console better than a gaming PC? Okay, it is an unfair comparison, because you can buy whatever bits you like for a PC, thus making it pretty damn whizzy, but they are far superior. Even the X-Box, which is not half bad, doesn't compare to my home PC. Why anyone would want to actually buy one is beyond me (okay, I guess cost could be a reason - for a relatively low price you do get something quite good)
I did add (or scrounge) - if a friend has an XP install it takes 10 minutes to make a slipstreamed CD from your genuine XP CD, the SP2 download and a small utility to get the boot image onto the new CD.
Well - enable it until you have a decent one. The built in one is better than nothing but still pretty shoddy even compared with freebies like ZoneAlarm.
Seriously though - use an old PC as a firewall. A 486 with no hard drive is usable in this context so there is no excuse.
Erm...gigs of RAM really is cheap.
Really, really cheap.
Seriously. 4Gb RAM is now at a price most folks can afford. Cheap enough to have a spare machine just for Rainbow Tables:-)
The easiest options if you have to use Microsoft are:
Get a separate firewall - there is no excuse not to these days, especially as there are many cheap DSL routers with firewalls built in. You owe it to the rest of the Internet!
Make (or scrounge) an XP with SP2 install disk - use Slipstreaming - which will mean you start off from a much more secure base.
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That seems a little harsh. Many clients from small, 40 man operations up to global multinationals do get silly when it comes to insisting on evidence before payment. If that means getting timestamped, then so be it.
I would agree that you really don't want to mess around with the pennies when a good client is paying you well. Count it as "feel good fuzzies marketing" and budget for it. I probably spend 14 hours a month just visiting or talking to clients on the phone for free. And although I charge more than some competitors, my clients keep coming back.
And one terabyte of storage is not exactly that big if you are running proghramming projects for multiple clients (might be overkill for some)
I did think the article was very good, but you do yourself a disservice by just reflex slapping someone down.