In case of a nuclear accident, the industry will always downplay and deny everything that is not perfectly obvious. Has always been, and probably will always be. This is the main reason I do not trust nuclear power that is run for profit.
Whereas non-nuclear power that is run for profit has always been quite trustworthy.
After all, once you can identify a priori who the smart people are, you can make sure that they are in their proper place from an early age. What a brave, new world that would be.
"Alpha children wear grey They work much harder than we do, because they're so frightfully clever. I'm really awfuly glad I'm a Beta, because I don't work so hard. And then we are much better than the Gammas and Deltas. Gammas are stupid. They all wear green, and Delta children wear khaki. Oh no, I don't want to play with Delta children. And Epsilons are still worse. They're too stupid to be able to read or write. Besides they wear black, which is such a beastly colour. I'm so glad I'm a Beta."
- You're a serial killer in the US, but every time you murder someone you drive to your Canadian cabin in the woods to hide the body; should the US be able to get search warrants for said cabin?
This may sound a little bit crazy, but murdering people was recently declared illegal in Canada too. All Special Agent Scully would have to do is pick up the phone and call her counterpart with the RCMP (They recently had phone service installed at both of their igloos!) who would then search the cabin for her, looking for evidence of a crime as defined by Canadian law. Once that was found it there would be some discussions at the nearest Tim Horton's over poutine and coffee (double-double, naturally) about just who would be charged and tried under what laws and whether evidence would be canoed across the border to the USA or the suspect extradited to Canada, Eh.
It's almost as if this sort of thing has come up before. The situation gets more interesting when a US citizen does something which is only illegal in the USA but not Canada. Something like failing to volunteer to join the army, supporting an unpopular political party or copying music from CD to a tape.
NOTICE: USB DEVICES CONNECTED
The following devices have been connected to USB bus 5:
Device 0, Device ID="0123:4567", Manufacturer="Harmless USB Devices, Inc", DeviceClass="Hub", DeviceProtocol="Full speed hub"
Device 1, Device ID="0123:4567", Manufacturer="Harmless USB Devices, Inc", InterfaceClass="Mass Storage", InterfaceProtocol="Bulk Only"
Device 2, Device ID="0000:0000", Manufacturer="What is this", InterfaceClass="Human Interface Device", InterfaceProtocol="Keyboard"
Device 3, Device ID="0000:0000", Manufacturer="I don't even", InterfaceClass="Communications Device", InterfaceProtocol="AT-Commands", Interface="HSPA+ Mobile Broadband Modem"
The information is already there if you know where to look for it. All that would be required would be to put it into a notification window that attracts a bit more attention. It wouldn't prevent this kind of attack -- that would require user consent for activating any new devices, and be bit challenging if that was your only functional keyboard -- but it would force naughty USB devices masquerading as harmless purveyors of porn^H^H^H^H useful business-related data to tip their hands when they try doing something they shouldn't.
.history shows you everything a user types as soon as they type it
What shell are your users using? That's not what I see at all.
Sounds like Korn shell. You probably see Bourne-again shell writing to ${HISTFILE} when it exits, but ksh will continually update.sh_history as commands are entered. This can get a bit awkward if you are using a shared account with more than one person logged on at once.
Wikipedia does ban. The IP has been banned for 10 days. RTFS.
So, based on past performance, the stream of edits should resume in about a week followed by another ten day ban in August of 2018 if the disruptive behaviour continues?
The biography of former U.S. defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld was edited to say that he was an "alien lizard who eats Mexican babies."
Why won't Donald Rumsfeld deny these allegations? We're not saying he is an alien lizard who eats Mexican babies -- In fact, we think he isn't! But I can't help but wonder, since he has failed to deny these horrible allegations, why won't he deny that he is an alien lizard who eats Mexican babies?
Al Gore, March 8, 1999, interview with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer, "I took the initiative in creating the Internet."
Al Gore, March 8, 1999, about 0.2 seconds later in the same interview "...I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country’s economic growth, environmental protection, improvements in our educational system." Wired magazine yanked that quote out of context and it has never been the same since.
You may want to look up the "High Performance Computing Act of 1991", also known as the "Gore Bill". That's the one which, among other things, funded the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the National Science Foundation, without which we wouldn't have all of the nice toys we enjoy today.
Don't take my word for it. Why not ask Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn, the computer science gurus who did get the Internet up and running? While they had been working on it for some time, the RFCs describing TCP and IP weren't published until 1981, and the "Flag Day" on which the old ARPANET switched to running on Internet Protocol was in 1983.
The internet was up and running before he ever got elected to any office
Al Gore was first elected to the US House of Representatives in 1976 and was pushing the ideas of high speed telecommunications in his first term. Unless you are counting the 57 computers on ARPANET at that time as "The Internet" it looks like you may want to revise that statement.
He kept the tax money flowing to the right rich people and the kept the campaign contributions flowing right back.
That's what tax money does. Taxes pay for things like civilized society, or in this case The Internet. And Al Gore was the guy who paid the bills for the people who created the Internet. He also paid the bills for the initial development of Internet Explorer and letting AOL users onto Usenet, so he does have a lot to make up for, but when he said that he was the man behind much of the US government's support of computing and telecommunication research which led to the modern Internet, he was right.
If they have a good excuse for abusing the systems then discuss it with them, suggest alternatives to running rendering jobs on the lab servers and keeping passwords on sticky notes or whatever else it is that they are doing wrong and then restore their access, trusting that they will know better.
Everybody runs a fork bomb once in their life. A computer lab should be a safe place to make mistakes, not somewhere that any mistakes will make you a pariah.
Post a short, general list of rules in several obvious places. Make them reasonable enough to cover most possible user needs but flexible enough to cover things that you haven't thought of yet. Any user who is stupid enough to break the rules by running fork bombs, torrents, mining, hiding stashes of lemur porn or anything else which a child of six could tell you was a bad idea, will have their accounts disabled as soon as they are discovered.
If they have a good excuse for abusing the systems then discuss it with them, suggest alternatives to running rendering jobs on the lab servers and keeping passwords on sticky notes or whatever else it is that they are doing wrong and then restore their access, trusting that they will know better. If you do it right, they may even decide that it is better to ask for permission than forgiveness next time.
If they don't, send a memo to their department head briefly outlining what they did, how it was detected, what action you have taken, and that you won't be reversing this decision until you see a presidential pardon come down from an appropriately high authority. It doesn't matter if they have Really Important Work which needs to be done by the end of the week or not, just cut them off until the proper User Apology and Restoration procedure has been completed.
There you go. This solution is licensed under the WTFPL which is compatible with the Open Source Definition and the Debian Free Software Guidelines so you can use it any way you want. You can even supply your own LART and display it prominently by the door of your office if that helps get the message across.
Maybe living in a functioning economic system just rewards playing by the rules.
Are you saying that you have found a functioning economic system? Please share it, as the rest of the world has been trying to find one for the last six thousand years.
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In case of a nuclear accident, the industry will always downplay and deny everything that is not perfectly obvious. Has always been, and probably will always be. This is the main reason I do not trust nuclear power that is run for profit.
Whereas non-nuclear power that is run for profit has always been quite trustworthy.
After all, once you can identify a priori who the smart people are, you can make sure that they are in their proper place from an early age. What a brave, new world that would be.
"Alpha children wear grey They work much harder than we do, because they're so frightfully clever. I'm really awfuly glad I'm a Beta, because I don't work so hard. And then we are much better than the Gammas and Deltas. Gammas are stupid. They all wear green, and Delta children wear khaki. Oh no, I don't want to play with Delta children. And Epsilons are still worse. They're too stupid to be able to read or write. Besides they wear black, which is such a beastly colour. I'm so glad I'm a Beta."
I thought getting beat up on the schoolyard is what makes them pursue their dreams.
It's also the reason that our... er... their dreams so often include world domination.
Eagles may soar, but have you ever seen a weasel get sucked into a jet engine?
This is Babel, Sensurround now. This place is death with stalls
- You're a serial killer in the US, but every time you murder someone you drive to your Canadian cabin in the woods to hide the body; should the US be able to get search warrants for said cabin?
This may sound a little bit crazy, but murdering people was recently declared illegal in Canada too. All Special Agent Scully would have to do is pick up the phone and call her counterpart with the RCMP (They recently had phone service installed at both of their igloos!) who would then search the cabin for her, looking for evidence of a crime as defined by Canadian law. Once that was found it there would be some discussions at the nearest Tim Horton's over poutine and coffee (double-double, naturally) about just who would be charged and tried under what laws and whether evidence would be canoed across the border to the USA or the suspect extradited to Canada, Eh.
It's almost as if this sort of thing has come up before. The situation gets more interesting when a US citizen does something which is only illegal in the USA but not Canada. Something like failing to volunteer to join the army, supporting an unpopular political party or copying music from CD to a tape.
Be kind. He may have been on of the lucky 10,000 who just figured out where the phrase "per cent" came from.
Don't make me link this here.
(I can't believe that I was able to type that with a straight face.)
Nah. Glue all of the USB ports up and only use safe, secure, wireless solutions like Bluetooth for your keyboard and mouse.
That should solve all of your security problems in a single stroke.
NOTICE: USB DEVICES CONNECTED
The following devices have been connected to USB bus 5:
Device 0, Device ID="0123:4567", Manufacturer="Harmless USB Devices, Inc", DeviceClass="Hub", DeviceProtocol="Full speed hub"
Device 1, Device ID="0123:4567", Manufacturer="Harmless USB Devices, Inc", InterfaceClass="Mass Storage", InterfaceProtocol="Bulk Only"
Device 2, Device ID="0000:0000", Manufacturer="What is this", InterfaceClass="Human Interface Device", InterfaceProtocol="Keyboard"
Device 3, Device ID="0000:0000", Manufacturer="I don't even", InterfaceClass="Communications Device", InterfaceProtocol="AT-Commands", Interface="HSPA+ Mobile Broadband Modem"
The information is already there if you know where to look for it. All that would be required would be to put it into a notification window that attracts a bit more attention. It wouldn't prevent this kind of attack -- that would require user consent for activating any new devices, and be bit challenging if that was your only functional keyboard -- but it would force naughty USB devices masquerading as harmless purveyors of porn^H^H^H^H useful business-related data to tip their hands when they try doing something they shouldn't.
They will never pass inspection with no firewall, which means that they will need to become PCI compliant or face fines.
Unfortunately some clients think that "never" only applies to other people.
What's worse is that it can be quite a long time before they are proven wrong.
.history shows you everything a user types as soon as they type it
What shell are your users using? That's not what I see at all.
Sounds like Korn shell. You probably see Bourne-again shell writing to ${HISTFILE} when it exits, but ksh will continually update .sh_history as commands are entered. This can get a bit awkward if you are using a shared account with more than one person logged on at once.
It's what you have to do after you drink a whole lot of crime.
Type on your computer. Talk on your phone.
Extolling. Am glee with kids. Dear Aunt, let’s set so double the killer delete select all.
We used to know that, but we live in a nation where ArcadeMan destroys Chris Hedges.
Wikipedia does ban. The IP has been banned for 10 days. RTFS.
So, based on past performance, the stream of edits should resume in about a week followed by another ten day ban in August of 2018 if the disruptive behaviour continues?
The biography of former U.S. defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld was edited to say that he was an "alien lizard who eats Mexican babies."
Why won't Donald Rumsfeld deny these allegations? We're not saying he is an alien lizard who eats Mexican babies -- In fact, we think he isn't! But I can't help but wonder, since he has failed to deny these horrible allegations, why won't he deny that he is an alien lizard who eats Mexican babies?
Hey, I'm just asking questions.
Al Gore, March 8, 1999, interview with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer, "I took the initiative in creating the Internet."
Al Gore, March 8, 1999, about 0.2 seconds later in the same interview "...I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country’s economic growth, environmental protection, improvements in our educational system." Wired magazine yanked that quote out of context and it has never been the same since.
You may want to look up the "High Performance Computing Act of 1991", also known as the "Gore Bill". That's the one which, among other things, funded the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the National Science Foundation, without which we wouldn't have all of the nice toys we enjoy today.
Don't take my word for it. Why not ask Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn, the computer science gurus who did get the Internet up and running? While they had been working on it for some time, the RFCs describing TCP and IP weren't published until 1981, and the "Flag Day" on which the old ARPANET switched to running on Internet Protocol was in 1983.
The internet was up and running before he ever got elected to any office
Al Gore was first elected to the US House of Representatives in 1976 and was pushing the ideas of high speed telecommunications in his first term. Unless you are counting the 57 computers on ARPANET at that time as "The Internet" it looks like you may want to revise that statement.
He kept the tax money flowing to the right rich people and the kept the campaign contributions flowing right back.
That's what tax money does. Taxes pay for things like civilized society, or in this case The Internet. And Al Gore was the guy who paid the bills for the people who created the Internet. He also paid the bills for the initial development of Internet Explorer and letting AOL users onto Usenet, so he does have a lot to make up for, but when he said that he was the man behind much of the US government's support of computing and telecommunication research which led to the modern Internet, he was right.
The skilled people are already there. They just aren't willing to work for "apprentice" rates.
If they have a good excuse for abusing the systems then discuss it with them, suggest alternatives to running rendering jobs on the lab servers and keeping passwords on sticky notes or whatever else it is that they are doing wrong and then restore their access, trusting that they will know better.
Everybody runs a fork bomb once in their life. A computer lab should be a safe place to make mistakes, not somewhere that any mistakes will make you a pariah.
It's good that we agree on that.
Post a short, general list of rules in several obvious places. Make them reasonable enough to cover most possible user needs but flexible enough to cover things that you haven't thought of yet. Any user who is stupid enough to break the rules by running fork bombs, torrents, mining, hiding stashes of lemur porn or anything else which a child of six could tell you was a bad idea, will have their accounts disabled as soon as they are discovered.
If they have a good excuse for abusing the systems then discuss it with them, suggest alternatives to running rendering jobs on the lab servers and keeping passwords on sticky notes or whatever else it is that they are doing wrong and then restore their access, trusting that they will know better. If you do it right, they may even decide that it is better to ask for permission than forgiveness next time.
If they don't, send a memo to their department head briefly outlining what they did, how it was detected, what action you have taken, and that you won't be reversing this decision until you see a presidential pardon come down from an appropriately high authority. It doesn't matter if they have Really Important Work which needs to be done by the end of the week or not, just cut them off until the proper User Apology and Restoration procedure has been completed.
There you go. This solution is licensed under the WTFPL which is compatible with the Open Source Definition and the Debian Free Software Guidelines so you can use it any way you want. You can even supply your own LART and display it prominently by the door of your office if that helps get the message across.
Maybe living in a functioning economic system just rewards playing by the rules.
Are you saying that you have found a functioning economic system? Please share it, as the rest of the world has been trying to find one for the last six thousand years.
when a study contradicts your personal beliefs, it's 'propaganda'.
Yes. And when you put cereal into a bowl, it's called "breakfast".
Indeed.