"Our Patented Secret Sauce(tm) will add Obscurity(tm) to your Security, allowing it to defeat 100% of existing exploits!"
...In much the same way that moving the doorknob from the left side of your door to the right side will prevent intruders from opening it tomorrow the same way they did yesterday. It's a nice idea, but unless it makes existing web pages completely unusable by humans as well as bots, it's only going to be a speed bump for exploits to get over.
And you had to configure each remote site as well, no?
The part where I enabled SSH on the gateway and then clicked the "Enable remote desktop on this machine" box was the hardest. It involved spending a minute reading the manual.
I use the prepackaged tool that serves my needs.
And in my case the prepackaged tools are "ssh" and "remote desktop". They're not only prepackaged, they are pre-installed in many cases and that makes their use even easier than installing a third party package. You are always welcome to do things however you like, but arguing that ssh with port forwarding is far more complicated to use than LogMeIn is a bit of a stretch.
Important note - Chrome Remote Desktop works by default as a screen scraper, so that anyone physically near the computer you've remotely logged in to can see what you're doing on the monitor.
Just turn the monitor off before leaving the house/office.
I will be sure to tell the auditors that when they ask how the cleaning staff found out the contents of our quarterly report a week before it was released.
"But I turned off the monitor before I left the buliding! And sprinkled lemon juice on my keyboard! There is NO WAY that anybody could have intercepted that information."
...So now I have to remember the SSH tunneling syntax (and still port numbers), and also be running an SSH server remotely, and also have go through a multi-step process to connect. No thanks.
You do that? All I do is run "go-home.sh" and then pick "RDP-home" off of the start menu.
Do you also negotiate HTTPS connections by hand when you connect to web sites?
"Goodtimes will re-write your hard drive. Not only that, but
it will scramble any disks that are even close to your computer. It
will recalibrate your refrigerator's coolness setting so all your ice
cream goes melty. It will demagnetize the strips on all your credit
cards, screw up the tracking on your television and use subspace field
harmonics to scratch any CD's you try to play.
"It will give your ex-girlfriend your new phone number. It
will mix Kool-aid into your fishtank. It will drink all your beer and
leave its socks out on the coffee table when there's company coming
over. It will put a dead kitten in the back pocket of your good suit
pants and hide your car keys when you are late for work.
"Goodtimes will make you fall in love with a penguin. It will
give you nightmares about circus midgets. It will pour sugar in your
gas tank and shave off both your eyebrows while dating your
girlfriend behind your back and billing the dinner and hotel room to
your Discover card."
It does seem sad that digitizing books leads to destruction of physical copies. I hope they are earnestly being offered to other libraries beforehand.
The point here is that the books are _not_ being digitized, and it is the _only_ copies which are being destroyed. This isn't the public library getting rid of their extra copies of "Fifty Shades of Gray", it's decades of scientific data being sent to dumpsters or outright burned. In many cases the destruction has been done without any attempt at identifying or recording the books being destroyed, so we may not even be able to know exactly what has been affected.
Scales calculate mass by measuring the force exerted by gravity.
Not this kind. By comparing the torque exerted on both sides of the balance, you can directly find the relation between the mass on the pan and the masses of the sliders. Since the sliders are of known mass, this method can determine the mass of an object without being affected by small changes in gravity.
Also, pounds are now defined in kilograms, so pounds are now indirectly a unit of mass.
There are pounds for mass and pounds for force. In standard Earth gravity their values are interchangeable, but they are still two different units measuring two very different things. This is one of many reasons why it is preferable to use SI units like Newtons and kilograms where there is any chance for confusing the two.
You're getting weight and mass mixed up. That's pretty common, especially if you are used to using the same unit for both.
Suppose that you have two scales, one of which measures weight (perhaps with a spring) and the other mass (the balance I mentioned earlier). If you place an object with a mass of one kilogram on each scale, in a gravitational field of exactly one g, then the first scale will measure 2.2046 pounds of weight and the second 1.000 kilograms of mass.
If you travelled to Mars where the gravity is 0.38 g, the first scale would only measure 0.836 pounds of weight but the second would still measure exactly one kilogram of mass. Weight, the force on an object due to gravity, will change in differing gravity but mass will not.
No shit. And measuring the mass of the slug in question involves weighing it. Or do you have another method involved for determining the mass of an object used as the constant for measuring mass?
Comparing it to another mass using a balance makes any variation in the force of gravity irrelevant. You could travel to Mercury or Jupiter and still make accurate measures of mass using the same scale. Of course, that brings us right back to needing something to compare your mass _to_, and that something is eventually a cylinder made up of platinum and iridium stored in a vault just outside of Paris.
Fucking genius! If only it were iron it would be corroding, but it's platinum and irridium. Corrosion is not a big factor. Forgetting to dust it would alter the mass more.
I consider this to be a far more serious problem than anything the article mentions and I find it rather shady that they completely avoid this rather serious issue. It isn't like it is an unknown problem. If you run big engines like trains or ships, then you will periodically test the oil for soot (and other stuff related to other defects) to detect faulty piston rings before the engine is wrecked. Anybody working in the engine industry should know this.
[...] It is when one considers the multiple- charge rocket as a traveler to the moon that one begins to doubt and looks again, to see if the dispatch announcing the professor's purposes and hopes says that he is working under the auspices of the Smithsonian Institution. It does say so, and therefore the impulse to do more than doubt the practicability of such a device for such a purpose must be--well, controlled. Still, to be filled with uneasy wonder and express it will be safe enough, for after the rocket quits our air and and really starts on its longer journey, its flight would be neither accelerated nor maintained by the explosion of the charges it then might have left. To claim that it would be is to deny a fundamental law of dynamics, and only Dr. Einstein and his chosen dozen, so few and fit, are licensed to do that.
That Professor Goddard, with his "chair" in Clark College and the countenancing of the Smithsonian Institution, does not know the relation of action to reaction, and of the need to have something better than a vacuum against which to react--to say that would be absurd. Of course he only seems to lack the knowledge ladled out daily in high schools.
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"Our Patented Secret Sauce(tm) will add Obscurity(tm) to your Security, allowing it to defeat 100% of existing exploits!"
...In much the same way that moving the doorknob from the left side of your door to the right side will prevent intruders from opening it tomorrow the same way they did yesterday. It's a nice idea, but unless it makes existing web pages completely unusable by humans as well as bots, it's only going to be a speed bump for exploits to get over.
Really, don't be that guy.
But this is an online dating site. The alternative is to be one of these guys.
But I thought this was a story about Network Solutions.
At some point, you wrote that script, no?
echo "ssh -L 3389:wifes-computer:3389 myserver.no-ip.com" > go-home.sh
And you had to configure each remote site as well, no?
The part where I enabled SSH on the gateway and then clicked the "Enable remote desktop on this machine" box was the hardest. It involved spending a minute reading the manual.
I use the prepackaged tool that serves my needs.
And in my case the prepackaged tools are "ssh" and "remote desktop". They're not only prepackaged, they are pre-installed in many cases and that makes their use even easier than installing a third party package. You are always welcome to do things however you like, but arguing that ssh with port forwarding is far more complicated to use than LogMeIn is a bit of a stretch.
If only there was some sort of web site which could help you fix that...
Are you suggesting that before the rise of the ubiquitous Internet, the Social Security Number was somehow a secure, reliable form of authentication?
"Some government facilities"
No. All government facilities.
I will remember that the next time I go to the post office or visit the DMV.
Important note - Chrome Remote Desktop works by default as a screen scraper, so that anyone physically near the computer you've remotely logged in to can see what you're doing on the monitor.
Just turn the monitor off before leaving the house/office.
I will be sure to tell the auditors that when they ask how the cleaning staff found out the contents of our quarterly report a week before it was released.
"But I turned off the monitor before I left the buliding! And sprinkled lemon juice on my keyboard! There is NO WAY that anybody could have intercepted that information."
...So now I have to remember the SSH tunneling syntax (and still port numbers), and also be running an SSH server remotely, and also have go through a multi-step process to connect. No thanks.
You do that? All I do is run "go-home.sh" and then pick "RDP-home" off of the start menu.
Do you also negotiate HTTPS connections by hand when you connect to web sites?
Ooo...Maybe we should get Watson to replace the /. editors? Brilliant!
If Watson's busy, I would settle for ELIZA.
"Good Times" is widely known as the most dangerous computer virus of all time.
"Goodtimes will re-write your hard drive. Not only that, but it will scramble any disks that are even close to your computer. It will recalibrate your refrigerator's coolness setting so all your ice cream goes melty. It will demagnetize the strips on all your credit cards, screw up the tracking on your television and use subspace field harmonics to scratch any CD's you try to play.
"It will give your ex-girlfriend your new phone number. It will mix Kool-aid into your fishtank. It will drink all your beer and leave its socks out on the coffee table when there's company coming over. It will put a dead kitten in the back pocket of your good suit pants and hide your car keys when you are late for work.
"Goodtimes will make you fall in love with a penguin. It will give you nightmares about circus midgets. It will pour sugar in your gas tank and shave off both your eyebrows while dating your girlfriend behind your back and billing the dinner and hotel room to your Discover card."
Seriously, just don't do it.
Thank you for restating my original point.
It does seem sad that digitizing books leads to destruction of physical copies. I hope they are earnestly being offered to other libraries beforehand.
The point here is that the books are _not_ being digitized, and it is the _only_ copies which are being destroyed. This isn't the public library getting rid of their extra copies of "Fifty Shades of Gray", it's decades of scientific data being sent to dumpsters or outright burned. In many cases the destruction has been done without any attempt at identifying or recording the books being destroyed, so we may not even be able to know exactly what has been affected.
Scales calculate mass by measuring the force exerted by gravity.
Not this kind. By comparing the torque exerted on both sides of the balance, you can directly find the relation between the mass on the pan and the masses of the sliders. Since the sliders are of known mass, this method can determine the mass of an object without being affected by small changes in gravity.
Also, pounds are now defined in kilograms, so pounds are now indirectly a unit of mass.
There are pounds for mass and pounds for force. In standard Earth gravity their values are interchangeable, but they are still two different units measuring two very different things. This is one of many reasons why it is preferable to use SI units like Newtons and kilograms where there is any chance for confusing the two.
You're getting weight and mass mixed up. That's pretty common, especially if you are used to using the same unit for both.
Suppose that you have two scales, one of which measures weight (perhaps with a spring) and the other mass (the balance I mentioned earlier). If you place an object with a mass of one kilogram on each scale, in a gravitational field of exactly one g, then the first scale will measure 2.2046 pounds of weight and the second 1.000 kilograms of mass.
If you travelled to Mars where the gravity is 0.38 g, the first scale would only measure 0.836 pounds of weight but the second would still measure exactly one kilogram of mass. Weight, the force on an object due to gravity, will change in differing gravity but mass will not.
No shit. And measuring the mass of the slug in question involves weighing it. Or do you have another method involved for determining the mass of an object used as the constant for measuring mass?
Comparing it to another mass using a balance makes any variation in the force of gravity irrelevant. You could travel to Mercury or Jupiter and still make accurate measures of mass using the same scale. Of course, that brings us right back to needing something to compare your mass _to_, and that something is eventually a cylinder made up of platinum and iridium stored in a vault just outside of Paris.
Fucking genius! If only it were iron it would be corroding, but it's platinum and irridium. Corrosion is not a big factor. Forgetting to dust it would alter the mass more.
Actually, remembering to dust it is what causes its mass to change. The problem of how to properly clean the things has been going on for years.
Florida Man!
He's a pretty busy guy. Let's see some other ways he has been answering the FloridaManSignal...
- Florida Man Shoplifts Condoms, Massage Oil, Energy Drinks, Flashlight; Passed-Out Girl Found in Car.
- Lack of Food and Utensils Results in Florida Man Opening Fire at Baptism Party.
- Florida Man Kills Friend During Argument Over How to Correctly Cut Barbecue.
- Florida Man Shoots Three Roommates in Attempt to Get Best Bed.
It's pretty much business as usual for the state that brought us "Cops".
Depends upon the winds. I bow hunt, and pretty much pack it even even with small to moderate gusts. Accuracy and repeatability just goes all to hell.
Try putting a cruise missile in your bow and see what happens. Accuracy will be even worse, but at least your results will be 100% repeatable.
These are only a problem if they are built and used.
That is the whole idea of this machine, you know. Deterrence is the art of producing in the mind of the enemy... the FEAR to attack. And so, because of the automated and irrevocable decision-making process which rules out human meddling, the Doomsday machine is terrifying and simple to understand... and completely credible and convincing.
We cannot stop anyone from building them (in secret).
Of course, the whole point of a Doomsday Machine is lost, if you *keep* it a *secret*!
Real Programmers(tm) wouldn't use this for debugging. You should be using Fuckit.js to really work out the bugs in your code.
if the NSA wants to know the number, they'll have to send a hot femme fatale to seduce you
Or they could think of an easier way.
You are an IT Security person's worst nightmare with that bullshit argument, especially if you have even a fucking hint of how Windows security works,
And you are the guy who assumed that everything runs on Windows. Also known as the IT person's worst nightmare.
We will just call them Isolinear chips by then.
I consider this to be a far more serious problem than anything the article mentions and I find it rather shady that they completely avoid this rather serious issue. It isn't like it is an unknown problem. If you run big engines like trains or ships, then you will periodically test the oil for soot (and other stuff related to other defects) to detect faulty piston rings before the engine is wrecked. Anybody working in the engine industry should know this.
What does this remind me of? Oh, yes. New York Times, January 13, 1920.
[...] It is when one considers the multiple- charge rocket as a traveler to the moon that one begins to doubt and looks again, to see if the dispatch announcing the professor's purposes and hopes says that he is working under the auspices of the Smithsonian Institution. It does say so, and therefore the impulse to do more than doubt the practicability of such a device for such a purpose must be--well, controlled. Still, to be filled with uneasy wonder and express it will be safe enough, for after the rocket quits our air and and really starts on its longer journey, its flight would be neither accelerated nor maintained by the explosion of the charges it then might have left. To claim that it would be is to deny a fundamental law of dynamics, and only Dr. Einstein and his chosen dozen, so few and fit, are licensed to do that.
That Professor Goddard, with his "chair" in Clark College and the countenancing of the Smithsonian Institution, does not know the relation of action to reaction, and of the need to have something better than a vacuum against which to react--to say that would be absurd. Of course he only seems to lack the knowledge ladled out daily in high schools.