In increasing order of moron, here are a few ways that this can happen:
1) The IPMI may share the same port as the primary network interface.
2) You may have requested an expensive switching architecture with proper VLAN segregation, but your manager only approved you to take the old D-Link box from under his desk, forcing everything to be on the same segment.
3) The people who run the datacentre may have thoughtfully connected every Ethernet port they could find to your switch, even the one with that funny wrench symbol on it, without telling you. In many cases it's possible for a server to be purchased, received, installed, configured and put into production without any of its owners ever seeing it in person. Throw in a heavy dose of "It's somebody else's problem" all around and anything can happen.
4) In some organizations (and I'm not going to name any), IT policy like "All management ports must be reachable from our head office and the IT support desk in Hyderabad" is set by people who think that "security" means remembering to lock their Lexus.
[...] at the point of this writing, there are 31,964 systems that have their passwords available on the open market. It gets a bit scarier when you review some of the password statistics. Out of those passwords, 3296 are the default combination. Since I’m not comfortable providing too much password information, I will just say that there exists a subset of this data that either contains or just was “password”.
President Skroob's luggage looks like Fort Knox compared to these things.
The only reason the current Bletchley park management haven't levelled the place to put up a Starbucks is that the donors might notice and cut off their multi-million pound gravy train.
But a reasonable period in academia of 4 or 5 years for a PhD should be enough to differentiate candidates and put them on that track or not, instead of leading people along for 7+ years before flushing them.
What, and give up three or more years worth of tuition, fees, and cheap labour? You're talking as if the goal of a University is somehow academic in nature, rather than to make as much money as possible.
I was never given the impression that my parents took me to little-league games for the purpose of that I might someday become a profession athlete. More likely, they just thought having some athletics would be beneficial, both socially and medically.
If only there was some sort of parallel with the study of things like history, art and literature here.
Umm, are you trolling or completely naive about geopolitics? Canada is a NATO member. An attack against one is an attack against all. There are three nuclear armed NATO states, and all three of them share common languages and cultural heritages with Canada. They aren't likely to look kindly upon any attempt to violate her sovereignty.
Why? He's doing business from Panama. US regulators can FOAD if they think they have the right to regulate the planet. If some US investors bought these securities, then that shoud be between them and the SEC. Not Vorhees.
That's nice, dear.
"Voorhees, age 29, is a U.S. citizen who, at the time of the FeedZeBirds and SatoshiDICE offerings, was living in
the United States."
[...]
"As a result of the conduct described above, Voorhees violated Sectons 5(a) and 5(c) of the Securities Act, which prohibit the direct or indirect sale of securities, offer to sell or offer to buy securities through the mails or interstate commerce unless a registration statement has been filed or is in effect. "
So a US citizen, living in the US, sells securities to US investors in violation of US law, but he should walk because he used a.PA email address to do it?
Okay, that makes sense. It's not very much different from how a US citizen is able to make a phone call to Romania to hire a hit man. That's totally legal because part of the call takes place in another country, right?
"After breaking into government computers and accessing unauthorized data, in much the same way that Aaron Swartz and Andrew Auernheimer did before him, notorious terrorist Ben Wellington manipulated government records to steal over fifty thousand dollars directly from the people of New York City. In the interests of protecting freedom and democracy, SWAT teams arrived at the homes of Wellington, who hides behind the non-de-crime of "I (redacted) NY", along with members of his immediate family and his dog who was shot while trying to resist arrest.
"The criminal mastermind is being held without trial in a secure, undisclosed location and has been denied access to telecommunications equipment for fear that he might use a pay phone to break into the Pentagon and whistle the correct codes to launch nuclear missiles at Mayor Bloomberg."
"The Attorney General's office then went on to congratulate itself for protecting freedom everywhere, and urged everyone to enjoy their new twenty gramme chocolate ration."
Get the employees to the places they need to be: For "office" environments, the office must supply living space for any employee that does not wish to transit/commute, or they must provide the telecommuting resources. I can't tell you how much telecommuting is useful, and how redundant office buildings are. Maybe new buildings can be constructed so that they are literately partitioned as "living space | workspace" with entire companies renting out floors so they can use the meeting spaces and network resources of those floors.
Well, sure that looks like a good idea at first, but then the citizens of the Arcology start getting unhappy and launch the whole thing into space and then what are you left with?
Do you hear that sound? That's the sound of millions of people in Ontario crying over the thought of losing access to the high quality products and vast selection they can only get from Walmart.
. . .
No, it's just those darn crickets again. Never mind.
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I don't go anywhere near the ocean.
You do know that statistically you're more likely to die of bee stings than from a shark, right?
That goes without saying, since sharks rarely leave the ocean.
Excel programmers
I know what each of those words mean, but I just can't comprehend how they fit together.
In increasing order of moron, here are a few ways that this can happen:
1) The IPMI may share the same port as the primary network interface.
2) You may have requested an expensive switching architecture with proper VLAN segregation, but your manager only approved you to take the old D-Link box from under his desk, forcing everything to be on the same segment.
3) The people who run the datacentre may have thoughtfully connected every Ethernet port they could find to your switch, even the one with that funny wrench symbol on it, without telling you. In many cases it's possible for a server to be purchased, received, installed, configured and put into production without any of its owners ever seeing it in person. Throw in a heavy dose of "It's somebody else's problem" all around and anything can happen.
4) In some organizations (and I'm not going to name any), IT policy like "All management ports must be reachable from our head office and the IT support desk in Hyderabad" is set by people who think that "security" means remembering to lock their Lexus.
>That's pretty terrifying stuff!
It's pretty handy if you have 100 racks of 30 machines each and no monitor or keyboard on any of them.
And with SuperMicro BMCs, it's even more handy when you don't own any of them.
SuperMicro built these PIN code locks with the correct code clearly printed on the side of the PIN entry panel.
What's even more frightening is what some of those codes were set to by the security conscious (or is that unconscious) people in charge of them:
[...] at the point of this writing, there are 31,964 systems that have their passwords available on the open market. It gets a bit scarier when you review some of the password statistics. Out of those passwords, 3296 are the default combination. Since I’m not comfortable providing too much password information, I will just say that there exists a subset of this data that either contains or just was “password”.
President Skroob's luggage looks like Fort Knox compared to these things.
Bletchley Park looked to its most valuable resource — the veterans who worked there
...and fired them for daring to show historic computers to visitors. And then kicking out the amateur radio society to replace them with a gift shop, and finally putting up a chain link fence to make sure nobody accidentally visits the real museum in building H.
The only reason the current Bletchley park management haven't levelled the place to put up a Starbucks is that the donors might notice and cut off their multi-million pound gravy train.
No they can't. Google fruit of the poisonous tree.
Google "Prove it".
Waiting for IPv7, I hear its going to be much better.
Whatever you do, don't settle for IPVista.
This is a solved problem. As one of the smartest and most knowledgeable computer experts in the world, Stephen Fry, has said, all they need to do is register a .uk domain to generate new IP numbers.
A 13 year old boy was also able to pass the Turing test, convincing a panel of middle-aged judges that he was an actual person.
Did "Bank of Montreal" not clue you in that this wasn't in the USA?
Why should it have? There are hundreds of BMO branches in the USA.
And then arrested if they were suspiciously taller than a policeman.
Not just in French, but with the French on top and in a larger typeface so that it is markedly predominant.
It's the law.
You can't have one without the other.
If people in this field actually tried to use this amazing insight to better the world, society might put more value in it.
Instead, they circle jerk amongst themselves with projects so bafflingly abstract that no one outside of their field gets any kind of value out of it.
There's no need to keep bashing on Computer Science here.
But a reasonable period in academia of 4 or 5 years for a PhD should be enough to differentiate candidates and put them on that track or not, instead of leading people along for 7+ years before flushing them.
What, and give up three or more years worth of tuition, fees, and cheap labour? You're talking as if the goal of a University is somehow academic in nature, rather than to make as much money as possible.
I was never given the impression that my parents took me to little-league games for the purpose of that I might someday become a profession athlete. More likely, they just thought having some athletics would be beneficial, both socially and medically.
If only there was some sort of parallel with the study of things like history, art and literature here.
Umm, are you trolling or completely naive about geopolitics? Canada is a NATO member. An attack against one is an attack against all. There are three nuclear armed NATO states, and all three of them share common languages and cultural heritages with Canada. They aren't likely to look kindly upon any attempt to violate her sovereignty.
You may skipped this class in global politics.
You joke. But you'll sing a different tune when the Canadian invasion of the USA begins!
"Begins"? Haven't you noticed how many Canadian military bases are already in occupied parts of the USA?
You do know that Mr. Bloomberg doesn't get to keep the title forever, right?
...and that was the only thing about that story that seemed wrong?
Why? He's doing business from Panama. US regulators can FOAD if they think they have the right to regulate the planet. If some US investors bought these securities, then that shoud be between them and the SEC. Not Vorhees.
That's nice, dear.
"Voorhees, age 29, is a U.S. citizen who, at the time of the FeedZeBirds and SatoshiDICE offerings, was living in the United States."
[...]
"As a result of the conduct described above, Voorhees violated Sectons 5(a) and 5(c) of the Securities Act, which prohibit the direct or indirect sale of securities, offer to sell or offer to buy securities through the mails or interstate commerce unless a registration statement has been filed or is in effect. "
So a US citizen, living in the US, sells securities to US investors in violation of US law, but he should walk because he used a .PA email address to do it?
Okay, that makes sense. It's not very much different from how a US citizen is able to make a phone call to Romania to hire a hit man. That's totally legal because part of the call takes place in another country, right?
"Hacker arrested for stealing $57,000 from NYPD"
"After breaking into government computers and accessing unauthorized data, in much the same way that Aaron Swartz and Andrew Auernheimer did before him, notorious terrorist Ben Wellington manipulated government records to steal over fifty thousand dollars directly from the people of New York City. In the interests of protecting freedom and democracy, SWAT teams arrived at the homes of Wellington, who hides behind the non-de-crime of "I (redacted) NY", along with members of his immediate family and his dog who was shot while trying to resist arrest.
"The criminal mastermind is being held without trial in a secure, undisclosed location and has been denied access to telecommunications equipment for fear that he might use a pay phone to break into the Pentagon and whistle the correct codes to launch nuclear missiles at Mayor Bloomberg."
"The Attorney General's office then went on to congratulate itself for protecting freedom everywhere, and urged everyone to enjoy their new twenty gramme chocolate ration."
Get the employees to the places they need to be: For "office" environments, the office must supply living space for any employee that does not wish to transit/commute, or they must provide the telecommuting resources. I can't tell you how much telecommuting is useful, and how redundant office buildings are. Maybe new buildings can be constructed so that they are literately partitioned as "living space | workspace" with entire companies renting out floors so they can use the meeting spaces and network resources of those floors.
Well, sure that looks like a good idea at first, but then the citizens of the Arcology start getting unhappy and launch the whole thing into space and then what are you left with?
Do you hear that sound? That's the sound of millions of people in Ontario crying over the thought of losing access to the high quality products and vast selection they can only get from Walmart.
. . .
No, it's just those darn crickets again. Never mind.
Maybe you just don't understand what the word 'average' means.