This. PCI DSS has a tone of requirements, not the least of which is having a basic firewall. Unfortunately it's all too common having vendors who choose the path of least resistance such as requiring domain administrator credentials to run a service or disabling any firewall services simply because they haven't taken the time to learn a proper security mindset. Just because many vendors are clowns doesn't give this particular vendor any excuse.
A perfect example - a large financial information provider that will go unnamed installed a service in our data center for pricing. They delivered 3 PCs, 2 switches and 1 router. None of the equipment was redundant and any single component failure took down the entire system. When asked why they didn't offer 2 routers, 2 switches and use failover - they admitted that they just didn't do it that way. Incompetent comes in all sizes - always object when you can.
I imagine that cable companies have no intention of making CableCards easier to obtain or use. The profits they make on an (HD) DVR + Remote rental every month far exceed the much lower fees for the CableCards. If I were the cable company, I'd make sure it was a PITA to obtain one vs renting a cable box.
The best way that TIVO becomes easier for most end users to select is for cable/satellite providers to include it as a DVR rental option - I've heard that some companies do this. Unfortunately, Cablevision (my provider) does not.
While I'm not certain that the risk of death is the cause of the manned space program's demise, this is certainly the reason we haven't planned any manned missions to Mars. There are other branches of the military where the risk of death and the consequences are well accepted. For example, mining, offshore fishing and armed conflict all accept a certain level of risk due to the nature of the job. If politicians and the public accepted the risks then we could easily organize a 1 way trip to Mars with a remote possibility of getting a team back to earth within 10 years, presuming advances in technology and supplies sent via unmanned capsules.
More interesting to me than how the intrusion occurred or how lax Sony's security practices are will be what the public backlash level is like. IT security departments tend to whip up a frenzy with the potential for "end of the company" concerns for data breaches on a regular basis. However, reality is that data loss doesn't always seem to have a particularly negative effect for the company that loses the information. Point in example would be the TJX data loss - http://it.slashdot.org/story/07/03/29/1618239/TJX-Is-Biggest-Data-Breach-Ever. Somehow this hardly seems to have put a dent in corporate profits. TJX's stock is up 100% since 2006 when the breach occurred. http://www.google.com/finance?q=tjx
Point being is, if nothing seriously negative happens to Sony then it's no wonder that firms continue to have poor security practices. After all, why bother spending the effort and money to secure data when there is no return on the investment?
While I agree in general with your sentiments that we steadily complain less about freedom encroaching laws and practices, I don't agree with your seatbelt analogy.
1) Not wearing your seatbelt affects more than just you. If you have to swerve or brake suddenly or both while not wearing your seatbelt then it's possible that you could end up losing control over your vehicle causing you to crash into me. By wearing your seatbelt, you drive more safely and in control and you are performing a public good.
2) If you really don't want to wear your seatbelt, don't. The cops can't stop you for not wearing your seatbelt - they can only fine you for not wearing it if they pull you over for another infraction and then catch you not wearing it. Your privacy in your vehicle is far more secure than your email or your browsing habits which you have little control over who sees, given the nature of the internet.
Comparing seatbelt laws with say executive orders that allow a US citizen to be detained without right to concil, family, challenges to his detention, and without being charged with a crime is an entirely different ballgame. In latter case, we should not only tell them to go to hell, but throw the bums out.
Those 3 deaths on the Apollo missions happened on the ground, due to a hatch design problem. There probably isn't enough data to extrapolate which is more deadly to a precise degree, but it seems logical that the more complicated shuttle would be the less safe vehicle.
ok, so CBS doesn't like linking to their stories - it redirects to their main news site. if you want to read the article just google for "top bush flip flops" - its the first hit.
This movie just went from the "I might spend 10 bucks on it" category to the "Fire up usenet" category, if for no reason other than to not reward hollywood for putting out crap.
In my world, you would pay for a movie AFTER seeing it, and then it would be a graduated scale. If you thought the movie sucked, you wouldn't have to pay. 0 effort on creating a movie that is true to the original work earns a big fat 0 from my wallet.
bah - the media doesn't even raise the questions and GWB wouldn't answer them if they did. The media in the US is pathetic. When did they question Bush about Iraq and his previous stance on not doing nation building?
There are times when you can say that there are two sides of the coin and that what are considered lies and flip-flops are just misunderstandings and distortions created by the opposition. This is not the case with th Bush administration.
Clearly, this president has flip-flopped far more than can be attributed to either Gore or Keri.
To the Bush-lovers out there - I'd like to see someone refute this top ten list (with FACTS, not opinion and bluster, please):
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/09/28/politics/main646142.shtml
I doubt that Gaim would be held responsible for a third party plugin that allowed it to do file sharing. Thats like suing the maker of Windows because it runs BitTorrent.
I agree that those are not the minimum specs or possibly even the recommended specs. I'm merely stating that OSes have taken advantage of resources more and more because there has been so much extra to go around. Heck, with a good video card, cpu and enough RAM there is no benefit to turning off any of the "effects" in Windows XP. The faster CPUs become the more of these eyecandy effects we are going to see.
Another thing is where is my Star Trek Enterprise-like computer where all I need to do is speak to it? Sure, there is more work to be done in speech recognition algorithms but that will definitely take a very fast CPU to correctly interpret human speech quickly and accurately. If you build a faster CPU it will not sit idly for long.
There are other factors that can make a page not display correctly. For example, what resolution are you running at? I run at 1600x1200 where I can but on my laptop am limited to 1024x768 which, in Firefox, doesn't display slashdot correctly. It makes the left column slightly overlap the main center posting column. At higher res its not even an issue so I wouldn't know about this problem if I weren't forced to see it on my lower res laptop.
Just wait til Longhorn comes out. 2GB of RAM and 4Ghz so you can turn on all the eyecandy. The biggest reason to make your OS prettier (and more bloated and resource intensive) is because you can. Imagine trying to run Windows 98 with all the visual effects on a 486. Windows, KDE, OSX, etc, have increased the visual effect requirements slowly over the years. Sure you can run your XP desktop without a background or window animations or cleartype fonts, but it doesn't come out of the box like that. If you have a faster CPU, your OS/applications will use it...eventually.
Competition is good. Whenever MS gets off its butt and comes out with IE7 there is no way that they couldn't make their pathetic browser better. Tabbed browsing, security features(maybe), better customization features, CSS 3.0 - all these things have to come or else MS will far behind in the market. MS has rarely given up market share in a market they so clearly dominate and I don't expect them to sit on their haunches while it happens.
Honestly, I'd like Firefox to get enough market share where businesses find that its worth their time and effort to make their sites Firefox compatible. It would be truly great to be able to never have to fire up IE - until that day comes, IE will never be in any danger.
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so many of the industry's best hopes. Halo was the most talked about game for a long time and then MS decided they HAD to have it for their console. I played it on the PC eventually and it was guilty of being so very average. I really doubt that it would have been so bland if Bungie had been left on their own. Another example: MS grabbed the Mechwarrior/Battletech license from FASA and now we have no more quality games coming the Battletech storyline. Look at MechAssault for the Xbox - it was just plain boring. I don't know if it's MS or the console itself that is the problem but these companies, FASA/Activision and Bungie, just made better products for the PC.
Rather than suggest the word should be removed, it simply seems better to moderate and ignore. Free speech still rules in importance, except when deemed a direct public menace - screaming "fire" in a movie theatre, etc.
because it still looks like Greedo shoots first. Someone really needs to take the original films and clean up the scenes which Lucas has mucked around with so that a decent looking film can be created - of course to be distributed on everyone's favorite sharing app or newsgroups.
Lucas might have been a genius at one time but its hard to see that after watching him be so arrogant as to not bother releasing a DVD with both versions so as to appeal to the fan who wants to see the movie as they saw it in the theatres.
Now lets say that I decide that I don't want to go along with the "broadcast who I am wherever I go" mentality. If I microwave (or otherwise destroy) the RFID capability, and it doesn't broadcast who I am at some checkpoint, is my passport no longer valid? Is there a penalty for doing this, similar to forging or altering an identification card?
I've often carried my passport when I go to places where I need to verify my age to avoid having my license scanned and added to some bar's database so they spam me with snail-mail - I've had that happen once. I could have just put a magic marker over the barcode scan on the back of the licenses, but decided that wouldn't look to good if I ever had to display it to the cops. Wonder if this would be a similar issue...
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This. PCI DSS has a tone of requirements, not the least of which is having a basic firewall. Unfortunately it's all too common having vendors who choose the path of least resistance such as requiring domain administrator credentials to run a service or disabling any firewall services simply because they haven't taken the time to learn a proper security mindset. Just because many vendors are clowns doesn't give this particular vendor any excuse. A perfect example - a large financial information provider that will go unnamed installed a service in our data center for pricing. They delivered 3 PCs, 2 switches and 1 router. None of the equipment was redundant and any single component failure took down the entire system. When asked why they didn't offer 2 routers, 2 switches and use failover - they admitted that they just didn't do it that way. Incompetent comes in all sizes - always object when you can.
I imagine that cable companies have no intention of making CableCards easier to obtain or use. The profits they make on an (HD) DVR + Remote rental every month far exceed the much lower fees for the CableCards. If I were the cable company, I'd make sure it was a PITA to obtain one vs renting a cable box. The best way that TIVO becomes easier for most end users to select is for cable/satellite providers to include it as a DVR rental option - I've heard that some companies do this. Unfortunately, Cablevision (my provider) does not.
While I'm not certain that the risk of death is the cause of the manned space program's demise, this is certainly the reason we haven't planned any manned missions to Mars. There are other branches of the military where the risk of death and the consequences are well accepted. For example, mining, offshore fishing and armed conflict all accept a certain level of risk due to the nature of the job. If politicians and the public accepted the risks then we could easily organize a 1 way trip to Mars with a remote possibility of getting a team back to earth within 10 years, presuming advances in technology and supplies sent via unmanned capsules.
More interesting to me than how the intrusion occurred or how lax Sony's security practices are will be what the public backlash level is like. IT security departments tend to whip up a frenzy with the potential for "end of the company" concerns for data breaches on a regular basis. However, reality is that data loss doesn't always seem to have a particularly negative effect for the company that loses the information. Point in example would be the TJX data loss - http://it.slashdot.org/story/07/03/29/1618239/TJX-Is-Biggest-Data-Breach-Ever. Somehow this hardly seems to have put a dent in corporate profits. TJX's stock is up 100% since 2006 when the breach occurred. http://www.google.com/finance?q=tjx Point being is, if nothing seriously negative happens to Sony then it's no wonder that firms continue to have poor security practices. After all, why bother spending the effort and money to secure data when there is no return on the investment?
Why not? Ignoring the competition has worked wonders for Novell.Red Hat's new mascot = the ostrich.
While I agree in general with your sentiments that we steadily complain less about freedom encroaching laws and practices, I don't agree with your seatbelt analogy.
1) Not wearing your seatbelt affects more than just you. If you have to swerve or brake suddenly or both while not wearing your seatbelt then it's possible that you could end up losing control over your vehicle causing you to crash into me. By wearing your seatbelt, you drive more safely and in control and you are performing a public good.
2) If you really don't want to wear your seatbelt, don't. The cops can't stop you for not wearing your seatbelt - they can only fine you for not wearing it if they pull you over for another infraction and then catch you not wearing it. Your privacy in your vehicle is far more secure than your email or your browsing habits which you have little control over who sees, given the nature of the internet.
Comparing seatbelt laws with say executive orders that allow a US citizen to be detained without right to concil, family, challenges to his detention, and without being charged with a crime is an entirely different ballgame. In latter case, we should not only tell them to go to hell, but throw the bums out.
Those 3 deaths on the Apollo missions happened on the ground, due to a hatch design problem. There probably isn't enough data to extrapolate which is more deadly to a precise degree, but it seems logical that the more complicated shuttle would be the less safe vehicle.
ok, so CBS doesn't like linking to their stories - it redirects to their main news site. if you want to read the article just google for "top bush flip flops" - its the first hit.
This movie just went from the "I might spend 10 bucks on it" category to the "Fire up usenet" category, if for no reason other than to not reward hollywood for putting out crap. In my world, you would pay for a movie AFTER seeing it, and then it would be a graduated scale. If you thought the movie sucked, you wouldn't have to pay. 0 effort on creating a movie that is true to the original work earns a big fat 0 from my wallet.
bah - the media doesn't even raise the questions and GWB wouldn't answer them if they did. The media in the US is pathetic. When did they question Bush about Iraq and his previous stance on not doing nation building?
There are times when you can say that there are two sides of the coin and that what are considered lies and flip-flops are just misunderstandings and distortions created by the opposition. This is not the case with th Bush administration. Clearly, this president has flip-flopped far more than can be attributed to either Gore or Keri. To the Bush-lovers out there - I'd like to see someone refute this top ten list (with FACTS, not opinion and bluster, please): http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/09/28/politics /main646142.shtml
I doubt that Gaim would be held responsible for a third party plugin that allowed it to do file sharing. Thats like suing the maker of Windows because it runs BitTorrent.
I've only had it happen on the lower res PC, so I assumed that was the issue. Thanks for the extension tip though - that fixed the issue.
I agree that those are not the minimum specs or possibly even the recommended specs. I'm merely stating that OSes have taken advantage of resources more and more because there has been so much extra to go around. Heck, with a good video card, cpu and enough RAM there is no benefit to turning off any of the "effects" in Windows XP. The faster CPUs become the more of these eyecandy effects we are going to see. Another thing is where is my Star Trek Enterprise-like computer where all I need to do is speak to it? Sure, there is more work to be done in speech recognition algorithms but that will definitely take a very fast CPU to correctly interpret human speech quickly and accurately. If you build a faster CPU it will not sit idly for long.
There are other factors that can make a page not display correctly. For example, what resolution are you running at? I run at 1600x1200 where I can but on my laptop am limited to 1024x768 which, in Firefox, doesn't display slashdot correctly. It makes the left column slightly overlap the main center posting column. At higher res its not even an issue so I wouldn't know about this problem if I weren't forced to see it on my lower res laptop.
Just wait til Longhorn comes out. 2GB of RAM and 4Ghz so you can turn on all the eyecandy. The biggest reason to make your OS prettier (and more bloated and resource intensive) is because you can. Imagine trying to run Windows 98 with all the visual effects on a 486. Windows, KDE, OSX, etc, have increased the visual effect requirements slowly over the years. Sure you can run your XP desktop without a background or window animations or cleartype fonts, but it doesn't come out of the box like that. If you have a faster CPU, your OS/applications will use it...eventually.
Competition is good. Whenever MS gets off its butt and comes out with IE7 there is no way that they couldn't make their pathetic browser better. Tabbed browsing, security features(maybe), better customization features, CSS 3.0 - all these things have to come or else MS will far behind in the market. MS has rarely given up market share in a market they so clearly dominate and I don't expect them to sit on their haunches while it happens. Honestly, I'd like Firefox to get enough market share where businesses find that its worth their time and effort to make their sites Firefox compatible. It would be truly great to be able to never have to fire up IE - until that day comes, IE will never be in any danger.
so many of the industry's best hopes. Halo was the most talked about game for a long time and then MS decided they HAD to have it for their console. I played it on the PC eventually and it was guilty of being so very average. I really doubt that it would have been so bland if Bungie had been left on their own. Another example: MS grabbed the Mechwarrior/Battletech license from FASA and now we have no more quality games coming the Battletech storyline. Look at MechAssault for the Xbox - it was just plain boring. I don't know if it's MS or the console itself that is the problem but these companies, FASA/Activision and Bungie, just made better products for the PC.
Rather than suggest the word should be removed, it simply seems better to moderate and ignore. Free speech still rules in importance, except when deemed a direct public menace - screaming "fire" in a movie theatre, etc.
because it still looks like Greedo shoots first. Someone really needs to take the original films and clean up the scenes which Lucas has mucked around with so that a decent looking film can be created - of course to be distributed on everyone's favorite sharing app or newsgroups. Lucas might have been a genius at one time but its hard to see that after watching him be so arrogant as to not bother releasing a DVD with both versions so as to appeal to the fan who wants to see the movie as they saw it in the theatres.
Now lets say that I decide that I don't want to go along with the "broadcast who I am wherever I go" mentality. If I microwave (or otherwise destroy) the RFID capability, and it doesn't broadcast who I am at some checkpoint, is my passport no longer valid? Is there a penalty for doing this, similar to forging or altering an identification card? I've often carried my passport when I go to places where I need to verify my age to avoid having my license scanned and added to some bar's database so they spam me with snail-mail - I've had that happen once. I could have just put a magic marker over the barcode scan on the back of the licenses, but decided that wouldn't look to good if I ever had to display it to the cops. Wonder if this would be a similar issue...