Whether he needed the award to lend his voice some backing is (sic) debateable, but don't cry foul because you think he hasn't earned it yet, because it's by no means the first time they've done it, and it's not going to be the last, either.
Don't go too far the other way, though, and think that past indiscretions at all excuse an epic fail.
In other words this guy most likely found a security bug in Safari, but instead of reporting it directly, made an exploit and waited for a hacking contest to get a monetary benefit out of it. A real hero. Or maybe he was just quick. Which seems more plausible?
Hmm, let me put it this way: He most likely did not simply stumble across the Safari hole but instead did his homework in preparation for this specific event. Then he faced the moral issue of 1) Hoarding the secret to score $10,000 and some nice EBay fodder or 2) Reporting the exploit and very possibly facing a defamation lawsuit costing him $10,000 to defend and some nice EBay fodder (e.g. HIS laptop). Being rather quick, our hero has his payday and gets to report the exploit in a way that maximized his chances of sidestepping any potential reprisal.
Oracle currently counts multi-cored CPUs at 1/2 license per core. I wonder whether a three-legged CPU is going to cause problems with applications that utilize a similar scheme.
If I desire the benefits of a column store in my relational database, I simply create an index. For warehouse-flavor queries, I might create a multi-column indexes. Robust RDBMS's will choose multi-column indexes as exclusive read targets if all of the queried columns reside within that index.
Count me in on that. I had not even heard of Firefly when Serenity came out. I think my first glimpse was an Inara screen saver that I downloaded (one in probably three screen savers in my lifetime). I drooled over Morena Baccarin and counted the days for the release of Serenity. I ditched work and deceived my wife to carve out a time slot to see it.
And I was truly amazed.
So I did it again, and again, and again. Then I counted the days until the DVD came out and came up off my hip for a movie for the first time in almost a half-decade. I had to have more, so I did a little research and discovered that there existed a whole whopping season of Serenity (Firefly, I know). In an unheard-of twice-in-a-year, I shelled out my coveted clams for the series.
I made myself watch no more than one episode a day. This took an incredible amount of willpower I must admit. When the curtain came down on the last episode, I felt all hollow inside, like a friend had died. This was both similar and yet distinctly different from the black-hole feeling I got at the end of Blake's 7 - which left me feeling more betrayed than anything else.
The movie is truly eclipsed by the series, yet it serves a vital role in providing closure on many issues.
That being said, my firstborn daughter is named Leah Skye Walker, so you can imagine that I regard Star Wars with more that a little nostalgia. In terms of movie milestones, Star Wars (ep. 4-6) leads Serenity by far IMHO, but if you held a gun to my DVD collection and told me to choose, I'd take Serenity/Firefly in an instant.
I'm already getting the shakes...must....go
And p.s. Once I actually saw the movie, I replaced my screen saver with Jewel Staite:)
Ack! I hold you primarily responsible for the last nine hours of my life as I was strangely compelled to read OOTS completely from the beginning to the current end (#429). Not only that, but some weird, heretofore unknown obsessive compulsion was triggered and I found myself decrypting Haley's obfuscated speech during her entire impediment episode. That was a real PITA by the way, as there were misspellings that would throw me off occasionally.
What?! Oh c'mon, admit it...you did it too. Don't look at me like that.
one company tried getting my SS# so they could list me as an employee and run taxes on me, etc. I told them no way...they can cut me a check to my business. They wanted that EIN number - again no way. B2B they only need your business name (only one business per state with that name allowed anyhow).
For your information, they are legally required to file a 1099 with the IRS covering all payments that they made to you in any year where the total exceeded $600. To file that 1099 they need either your SSN if you're an individual/dba, or your EIN if you're a corporation. Its not just standard practice, its the law.
And they can demand that you provide your EIN (TIN) via the handy-dandy W-9, so why not save yourself the hassle?
I have a Direcway 2-way satellite connection, and I've been pretty satisfied with it as a whole. I don't have any experience with the newer systems (mine is ~1.25 years old), but I thought I'd share anyway.
To answer the first question I ever had: yes, the latency is horrible. I get roughly 700-850ms to the backbone. I do a lot of support from home, and I do it via the corporate VPN when I'm on the satellite. Because of the excessive handshaking, my connection actually responds worse than my 28Kbps connections directly to the customer's network. For more intense bitstreams like PCAnywhere, MS TSC, or VNC connections, the satellite holds its own, but only until I open a console window, and then we're back to major suck.
Web surfing tends to be better than my 33Kbps modem connection when I take advantage of the "Web accelerator" that Direcway provides - for pages with lots of graphics anyway. Still, I dislike the interminable 3-4 second delay between click and action. Furthermore, the speed I enjoy now is the result of much research and T&E with configuration settings. Out of the box, things didn't go quite that well.
I got the $100USD installation fee waived when I bought my equipment, so that wasn't an issue for me. Too bad the FCC wouldn't allow me to do my own installation, because that's what I ended up doing. The guy they sent out here was clueless with regard to satellite setup. The only thing he got right was setting the pole in concrete. He finally left the first day without ever getting anything done (other than the pole). That night (after dark even), I sighted in the dish, installed the software, and got to the point where I needed only to enter the activation code (which I didn't have). The next day, the sat man brought a couple that he was "training" to help him out. He was a little perturbed that all the work was already done, but he told them to remove the dish and begin as if they were starting from scratch?!! It took them all day long to get a poor signal, but it was just enough for them to be able to activate, so they left it at that. Once they left, I took a few minutes to get my signal strength back up and voila! In all the time I've had the system, there have been no additional costs above the advertised price (think mine is $50USD/mo).
I don't notice much difference in peak and non-peak usage, but with a nominal ping of 850ms, an additional 200ms is chump change anyway. The traffic cap is annoying sometimes (too lazy to patch?). I haven't paid much attention to it, but it feels like I've got about a 450Mb bucket to draw from which gets replentished at about 120Mb an hour (more late at night when I'm on:) . When you run out, expect dial-up speeds for 3-4 hours as punishment for hoarding all that precious bandwidth all to yourself. My standard workload is 20-50Mb/hr, and I surf for much less.
So, in conclusion, I keep the satellite because work pays for it. My wife and I enjoy playing Starcraft online with our friends. She'll use the sat connection, and I'll dialup (silly UDP port restriction for Starcraft prevents us from both using the sat). The lag is bad, but we still get reasonible quality games if we set the Extra High Latency option. For other games that I play alone, I use dial-up for most everything with the occasional exception for mudding.
Perhaps the DMA's concerns are not quite so farfetched. The 50 million or so phone numbers don't represent 50 million dead ends. There is a large population of poor saps, suckers, and gulla-bulls that buy from telemarketers. These easy marks represent a LOT of dough, and they're exactly the type of folks who would jump at the chance to never be bullied into another humiliating defeat (read purchase).
And don't think that the >200 million souls who aren't on the list are any more receptive to telemarketers than you or I. First you have to cull out the large number of them that are
a) Too lazy to make the first cut b) Too paranoid to publish their name/phone # c) Too intelligent to publish their name/phone # d) Too indifferent to get on the list OR to buy anything e) Too frickin' stupid to get on the list f) Too embarrased to junk their telezappers g) Too juvenile to relinquish the chance to hang the marketer just one more time
We don't know what the licensing scheme is. We *cannot* know unless we sign the NDA that prevents us from telling anybody else. So, not only is the information that is supposed to be public, not, but so is the pricing scheme that the information is licensed under.
Phaugh! Tell ya' what...I'll just get one of my pet lusers to sign the NDA and store the data on their IIS server. Would that qualify as a M$ public announcement or what?;)
Actually, that would be the chance of catching every one of 100 attacks. If you've got 100 people chipping away at your network then yes, you might miss six of 'em...then again, if you've got 100 crackers on your network, that's probably not all you've missed;)
Wouldn't the fact that he invited the Danish group to probe his mailserver seriously diminish his chances of suing for trespass? I can understand his angst...but can he understand mine? (You've got mail! 99.44% unsolicited, commercial effulvium, and one crucial e-mail which you'll unknowingly delete as well.)
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As any fan of Emerson and Herbert can quote for you: fear always springs from ignorance, and fear is the mind killer.
I walk by with about 10K of these buggers already sucking me dry? Do I get lit up in a fiery insect apocalypse or what?
Wha? ZZZAP!
Whether he needed the award to lend his voice some backing is (sic) debateable, but don't cry foul because you think he hasn't earned it yet, because it's by no means the first time they've done it, and it's not going to be the last, either.
Don't go too far the other way, though, and think that past indiscretions at all excuse an epic fail.
I wasn't going to spill the beans on an "unsupported" "feature" though. ;-)
Not spilling the beans, eh? My friend, you are in massive violation of the Slashdot TOS. Don't tell me, your cat clicked through?
So, I wonder if I'll be able to do a WGet --post-data on this to let the wife know that I'm "really" at the bowling alley after all.
Did anyone else read that as Joke with a serif-compensating complex?
HTH am I supposed to get my Lawyer bash on in the face of your insufferably reasonable arguments? You, sir, are an insensitive clod.
Oracle currently counts multi-cored CPUs at 1/2 license per core. I wonder whether a three-legged CPU is going to cause problems with applications that utilize a similar scheme.
If I desire the benefits of a column store in my relational database, I simply create an index. For warehouse-flavor queries, I might create a multi-column indexes. Robust RDBMS's will choose multi-column indexes as exclusive read targets if all of the queried columns reside within that index.
Count me in on that. I had not even heard of Firefly when Serenity came out. I think my first glimpse was an Inara screen saver that I downloaded (one in probably three screen savers in my lifetime). I drooled over Morena Baccarin and counted the days for the release of Serenity. I ditched work and deceived my wife to carve out a time slot to see it.
:)
And I was truly amazed.
So I did it again, and again, and again. Then I counted the days until the DVD came out and came up off my hip for a movie for the first time in almost a half-decade. I had to have more, so I did a little research and discovered that there existed a whole whopping season of Serenity (Firefly, I know). In an unheard-of twice-in-a-year, I shelled out my coveted clams for the series.
I made myself watch no more than one episode a day. This took an incredible amount of willpower I must admit. When the curtain came down on the last episode, I felt all hollow inside, like a friend had died. This was both similar and yet distinctly different from the black-hole feeling I got at the end of Blake's 7 - which left me feeling more betrayed than anything else.
The movie is truly eclipsed by the series, yet it serves a vital role in providing closure on many issues.
That being said, my firstborn daughter is named Leah Skye Walker, so you can imagine that I regard Star Wars with more that a little nostalgia. In terms of movie milestones, Star Wars (ep. 4-6) leads Serenity by far IMHO, but if you held a gun to my DVD collection and told me to choose, I'd take Serenity/Firefly in an instant.
I'm already getting the shakes...must....go
And p.s. Once I actually saw the movie, I replaced my screen saver with Jewel Staite
Ack! I hold you primarily responsible for the last nine hours of my life as I was strangely compelled to read OOTS completely from the beginning to the current end (#429). Not only that, but some weird, heretofore unknown obsessive compulsion was triggered and I found myself decrypting Haley's obfuscated speech during her entire impediment episode. That was a real PITA by the way, as there were misspellings that would throw me off occasionally.
What?! Oh c'mon, admit it...you did it too. Don't look at me like that.
Anyway, I hope you're proud of yourself.
one company tried getting my SS# so they could list me as an employee and run taxes on me, etc. I told them no way...they can cut me a check to my business. They wanted that EIN number - again no way. B2B they only need your business name (only one business per state with that name allowed anyhow).
For your information, they are legally required to file a 1099 with the IRS covering all payments that they made to you in any year where the total exceeded $600. To file that 1099 they need either your SSN if you're an individual/dba, or your EIN if you're a corporation. Its not just standard practice, its the law.
And they can demand that you provide your EIN (TIN) via the handy-dandy W-9, so why not save yourself the hassle?
Heh. I think it's awful sweet of those guys to write Darl his own Windoze virus, especially since he already ownz all Linux virii anyway.
I have a Direcway 2-way satellite connection, and I've been pretty satisfied with it as a whole. I don't have any experience with the newer systems (mine is ~1.25 years old), but I thought I'd share anyway.
To answer the first question I ever had: yes, the latency is horrible. I get roughly 700-850ms to the backbone. I do a lot of support from home, and I do it via the corporate VPN when I'm on the satellite. Because of the excessive handshaking, my connection actually responds worse than my 28Kbps connections directly to the customer's network. For more intense bitstreams like PCAnywhere, MS TSC, or VNC connections, the satellite holds its own, but only until I open a console window, and then we're back to major suck.
Web surfing tends to be better than my 33Kbps modem connection when I take advantage of the "Web accelerator" that Direcway provides - for pages with lots of graphics anyway. Still, I dislike the interminable 3-4 second delay between click and action. Furthermore, the speed I enjoy now is the result of much research and T&E with configuration settings. Out of the box, things didn't go quite that well.
I got the $100USD installation fee waived when I bought my equipment, so that wasn't an issue for me. Too bad the FCC wouldn't allow me to do my own installation, because that's what I ended up doing. The guy they sent out here was clueless with regard to satellite setup. The only thing he got right was setting the pole in concrete. He finally left the first day without ever getting anything done (other than the pole). That night (after dark even), I sighted in the dish, installed the software, and got to the point where I needed only to enter the activation code (which I didn't have). The next day, the sat man brought a couple that he was "training" to help him out. He was a little perturbed that all the work was already done, but he told them to remove the dish and begin as if they were starting from scratch?!! It took them all day long to get a poor signal, but it was just enough for them to be able to activate, so they left it at that. Once they left, I took a few minutes to get my signal strength back up and voila! In all the time I've had the system, there have been no additional costs above the advertised price (think mine is $50USD/mo).
I don't notice much difference in peak and non-peak usage, but with a nominal ping of 850ms, an additional 200ms is chump change anyway. The traffic cap is annoying sometimes (too lazy to patch?). I haven't paid much attention to it, but it feels like I've got about a 450Mb bucket to draw from which gets replentished at about 120Mb an hour (more late at night when I'm on :) . When you run out, expect dial-up speeds for 3-4 hours as punishment for hoarding all that precious bandwidth all to yourself. My standard workload is 20-50Mb/hr, and I surf for much less.
So, in conclusion, I keep the satellite because work pays for it. My wife and I enjoy playing Starcraft online with our friends. She'll use the sat connection, and I'll dialup (silly UDP port restriction for Starcraft prevents us from both using the sat). The lag is bad, but we still get reasonible quality games if we set the Extra High Latency option. For other games that I play alone, I use dial-up for most everything with the occasional exception for mudding.
Perhaps the DMA's concerns are not quite so farfetched. The 50 million or so phone numbers don't represent 50 million dead ends. There is a large population of poor saps, suckers, and gulla-bulls that buy from telemarketers. These easy marks represent a LOT of dough, and they're exactly the type of folks who would jump at the chance to never be bullied into another humiliating defeat (read purchase).
And don't think that the >200 million souls who aren't on the list are any more receptive to telemarketers than you or I. First you have to cull out the large number of them that are
a) Too lazy to make the first cut
b) Too paranoid to publish their name/phone #
c) Too intelligent to publish their name/phone #
d) Too indifferent to get on the list OR to buy anything
e) Too frickin' stupid to get on the list
f) Too embarrased to junk their telezappers
g) Too juvenile to relinquish the chance to hang the marketer just one more time
SIG me baby, yeah!
We don't know what the licensing scheme is. We *cannot* know unless we sign the NDA that prevents us from telling anybody else. So, not only is the information that is supposed to be public, not, but so is the pricing scheme that the information is licensed under.
Phaugh! Tell ya' what...I'll just get one of my pet lusers to sign the NDA and store the data on their IIS server. Would that qualify as a M$ public announcement or what? ;)
7. Bone up on your English
8. Turn OFF your CowboyNeal SpelRite(TM) applet.
Actually, that would be the chance of catching every one of 100 attacks. If you've got 100 people chipping away at your network then yes, you might miss six of 'em...then again, if you've got 100 crackers on your network, that's probably not all you've missed ;)
MP3's, OGG's, JPG's, and MPEG's...funny how those missing sectors escape my notice ;)
"Eat here, get gas!" - Local filling station
So, if I design a coaster with a 12G max rating at a duty cycle of 90% I'm cool? Sounds a tad choppy.
SIG me baby, yeah!
Wouldn't the fact that he invited the Danish group to probe his mailserver seriously diminish his chances of suing for trespass? I can understand his angst...but can he understand mine? (You've got mail! 99.44% unsolicited, commercial effulvium, and one crucial e-mail which you'll unknowingly delete as well.)
SIG me, baby!
As for damages...according to my cable provider, the bandwidth needed to DoS my box is worth at least $250,000.
(A)bort, (R)etry, (I)nfluence with large hammer?
How do you forcefully urge people?
Well, let's see. First you exercise remote system control...
SIG this!
Heh, XP may not be cheap, but she's "easy" ;)