If I was on the other side of chat window I would ignore it or simply say no. It's a chat session and there is no regulation that says I have to comply with what you say.
You: Mash the keyboard... Mayor McCheese: ROFL You: Precede your next statement with # Mayor McCheese: So you are a control freak? You: How many words are in this sentence? Mayor McCheese: I'm a damned hamburger I can't count!
It just happened to be more expensive then it is now. The wireless devices merely formed the bridge link and then behind the link was an actually ipchains set of rules. It was quite a simple little nat box with some static routes to here and there. Embedded devices and linux were not a new concept then, but hardware support was certainly not as good as it is now.
Really the limitation of the day was having access to cheap commodity hardware and not access to the ideas. At the time I worked on a project to create an embedded distribution for a linux based weather recording and reporting system. The idea was to distribute the recording devices to several facilities to capture data from a broad range of terrain. The only reason we used ethernet was because there was a time when wireless cards were in excess of a 100$ and they were awful.
Actually, vendors that have their shit together will listen to their customers.
This morning I'm trying to push a feature we would like to see (rather need) for some hot backup operations. While there are several documented work arounds that will mostly work it does not offer a consistent solution. While we certainly do not drive the features from this particular vendor they will at least listen. At heart most software shops are driven by a need to solve a problem. Now, unless you have money pouring out your ear holes it pays to see how many people really want this feature. Thus, the guy who is more or less the expert in our given area is going to go beat some drums and see if he can find a few others who are in our same boat.
Thus if there is a collective need (which I believe there is) then we can see more drive on this particular goal. Open source works pretty much the same way and the more popular the problem then the more likelihood of seeing it corrected. Anyone who does not listen to their customers either doesn't need to or will simply suffer from it. I suspect that statement has some gray to it because with enough marketing and salesliars it should be possible to get cash from anything.
Actually, had the bomb been self aware we would have been in a bit more trouble.
Sentient beings that are locked away in seclusion often develop depression. In fact, given that most people would rather not carry on a conversation with a sentient nuclear weapon this would have been doubly bad. I suspect at some point our self aware nuclear being would have turned suicidal at some point. Unfortunately, in this case he really could have taken them all with him.
If you ask me... that is something to be really afraid of... if it happened.
Now, in fairness tmobile has some nice pricing and my plan actually used to be cheaper. However, the moment I try to use a lower minute plan is when everyone wants to call me. That has probably more to do with karma then anything else.
Would you help us redact some names from these stolen classified documents?
I'm not exactly sure how they were in a position to agree and assist. Assisting, would really be acknowledging that wikileaks had a right to the information and the release of said data was approved. It's complete rubbish to assume that anyone inside the government would agree to anything like that. It's such a horse shit move to continue to cite that reasoning as why its ok to release classified data.
The documents are what they are and if you want more transparent government we have a clear system for changing things. Just because we might not agree with something does not make it ok to not comply with the current laws.
With that said... if you had an organization which possess tons of leaked classified documents you would immediately treat them as hostile and react as such. You would do anything that is within your power to condemn such an organization. It's the plain and simple truth of what is going on here.
* LHC did not explode into bits.
* finally find the other side of that wormhole (spills out into a closet in it).
* 30 consecutive days of no spontaneous human combustion.
* Do not destroy the galaxy with spurious black hole generation.
Can someone explain how the mains circuit is supplied.
TFA was so light on details its very difficult to understand what he did. I'm not sure how you can actually illegally tap into the power grid without someone noticing. Here an inspector literally reads the meter or in some cases a digital meter supplies information automatically. In fact, my gas is apparently wireless and merely requires someone to drive by to meter the usage. It would seem like something that would be very difficult to subvert in a suburban environment.
You could do it with a towel and a hair dryer if you really wanted it to.
In fact, I've repaired an xbox 360 using the towel and the units own heat. In my case, I was not replacing the processor, but rather I needed to melt the solder once again.
I actually live in a nicer section in a metropolitan area. Now, the rent I pay is not awful and it is not great. However, if you live outside of the city there are several additional expenses that have to be calculated. Vehicle, insurance, fuel and parking will quickly tear away at the reduced costs of living outside of the city. In fact, with my "more expensive" living conditions I actually live quite a bit cheaper then my commuter counter-parts.
There are some various pros and cons to living in or outside of the city, but these have to be weighed by the individual and/or family. For instance, it is quite a bit less to own a home in suburbia and these areas I would consider more youth friendly. Now, in downtown the nightlife is waaaay better. In fact, it's about that time.
Google needs to be able to launch it's own geosynchronous satellite communication network in order to facilitate further expanse of the autonomous vehicle fleet. It's going to be rather difficult to send out droves of autonomous sales droids if the area doesn't have a wide enough wireless telecommunication zone.
In the near term they will be limited to deploying in major and medium cities and urban areas. However, in the future with a global telecommunications network there will be no one to thwart the looming threat of the sales droid.
The reason Google was collecting wireless data was for the simple necessity of controlling it's autonomous fleet of vehicles. Eventually, these drones will sweep the nation day and night using the plethora of open access points around the nation. Our own ineptness will be our downfall as the machines eventually become self aware. Sure, it was all for marketing and advertising to earn a few dollars, but I just can't live in a future they are creating. Yes, I am talking about autonomous sales droids that watch you day and night while analyzing your garbage. They will be on the front door to pitch you a customer tailored vacuum cleaner the moment you try to escape your home. It's a truely dark future that lies in the waiting.
It seems like the entire ordeal was designed to fail.
These were all fairly common attack vectors and not nearly as lavish as the PS3 stack smash. (Seriously, who thinks of that attack vector). Even basic precautions and awareness of current threat models would have enabled them to harden their system from these things. To add insult to injury the left over data on the host and default passwords to expose it.
I wholly agree that internet voting is fucking scary, but it seems like this test setup was created just to make the idea shine.
There several network appliances that can assistance and eliminate most of the overhead of a denial of service attack. This of course would not compensate for upstream saturation, but you have within your power to eliminate a good deal of it long enough to work with upstream providers.
This is why lots of new denial of service attacks focus on exploiting content which has a high application cost. ie, find a page which has too much dynamic content or generates slowly due to dependent services being at threshold. With this mindset you can essentially pressure point an application host even if it is well protected.
If you have to secure, enforce constraints or manage much of anything at the host level you are going to suffer quickly.
It's a log cut in half with random pc parts shoved inside. The two hellish halves are held together with rail road stakes and a few lengths of chain. (Legend has it they were forged in the depths of hell by Hades himself, but that's just what the guy at Home Depot told me.)
Between the twigs, bugs and pine cones still attached to the raw timber there really isn't much room for comfort, but then again if I had built it for comfort I might as well have made it a functional PC too. You see son, a real man's laptop isn't for a sissy boy or one of those city fellas, but rather it was made to exemplify man's eternal struggle against nature. (It also helps to demonstrate how much of a real man a man is.)
Each real man's laptop (tm) comes with a set of work boots and plaid shirt.
In any event, I am afraid it is time to unveil your true identity using the grammar and spelling footprint technique. I say to you Mr. Abraham Lincoln... how does it feel to be unmasked by your own musings!
Sure, no single systems should be the source of any business outage, but service owners can and do fuck things up.
There are also instances where a database application serves in a tier 1 role and while redundant configurations exist no one wants to run in degraded mode for very long.
Yahoo, Google, Facebook and many others employee technicians which service to complete repairs and perform advanced troubleshooting on the host. Typically, these environments operate with technicians performing troubleshooting/repairs with escalations that may or may not be onsite. In some instances the vendor provides technicians which perform the end to end troubleshooting, but this arrangement I've seen limited to only a few locations.
Generally, unless a system is tier 1 system it gets pulled out of the pool when a failure is identified. However, at some point that host will need to be fixed and returned to the pool.
Your major brand name server components are going to have cache depots throughout the united states to allow for servicing of equipment which has same day or next business day service contracts.
You are also incorrect on staffing from hardware vendors onsite. There are several types of arrangements that can be made and in some situations it can be a free service depending on the size of the facility or cluster. Generally, this type of arrangement typically accompanies a fairly large purchase and the onsite provided is there to ensure such an arrangement stays in place.
Less dominate players in the market will typically provide parts onsite for quick turn around in logistics. This service can be arranged in several different varieties as well, but my preference is typically for the vendor to own and manage the inventory.
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It's not a bad test, but it's not perfect.
If I was on the other side of chat window I would ignore it or simply say no. It's a chat session and there is no regulation that says I have to comply with what you say.
You: Mash the keyboard...
Mayor McCheese: ROFL
You: Precede your next statement with #
Mayor McCheese: So you are a control freak?
You: How many words are in this sentence?
Mayor McCheese: I'm a damned hamburger I can't count!
Douchebags ruin your turing tests.
I was doing wireless routing prior to 98.
It just happened to be more expensive then it is now. The wireless devices merely formed the bridge link and then behind the link was an actually ipchains set of rules. It was quite a simple little nat box with some static routes to here and there. Embedded devices and linux were not a new concept then, but hardware support was certainly not as good as it is now.
Really the limitation of the day was having access to cheap commodity hardware and not access to the ideas. At the time I worked on a project to create an embedded distribution for a linux based weather recording and reporting system. The idea was to distribute the recording devices to several facilities to capture data from a broad range of terrain. The only reason we used ethernet was because there was a time when wireless cards were in excess of a 100$ and they were awful.
Now I feel like an old man.
Actually, vendors that have their shit together will listen to their customers.
This morning I'm trying to push a feature we would like to see (rather need) for some hot backup operations. While there are several documented work arounds that will mostly work it does not offer a consistent solution. While we certainly do not drive the features from this particular vendor they will at least listen. At heart most software shops are driven by a need to solve a problem. Now, unless you have money pouring out your ear holes it pays to see how many people really want this feature. Thus, the guy who is more or less the expert in our given area is going to go beat some drums and see if he can find a few others who are in our same boat.
Thus if there is a collective need (which I believe there is) then we can see more drive on this particular goal. Open source works pretty much the same way and the more popular the problem then the more likelihood of seeing it corrected. Anyone who does not listen to their customers either doesn't need to or will simply suffer from it. I suspect that statement has some gray to it because with enough marketing and salesliars it should be possible to get cash from anything.
Actually, had the bomb been self aware we would have been in a bit more trouble.
Sentient beings that are locked away in seclusion often develop depression. In fact, given that most people would rather not carry on a conversation with a sentient nuclear weapon this would have been doubly bad. I suspect at some point our self aware nuclear being would have turned suicidal at some point. Unfortunately, in this case he really could have taken them all with him.
If you ask me... that is something to be really afraid of... if it happened.
I'm way under a hundred actually.
Now, in fairness tmobile has some nice pricing and my plan actually used to be cheaper. However, the moment I try to use a lower minute plan is when everyone wants to call me. That has probably more to do with karma then anything else.
Hey,
Would you help us redact some names from these stolen classified documents?
I'm not exactly sure how they were in a position to agree and assist. Assisting, would really be acknowledging that wikileaks had a right to the information and the release of said data was approved. It's complete rubbish to assume that anyone inside the government would agree to anything like that. It's such a horse shit move to continue to cite that reasoning as why its ok to release classified data.
The documents are what they are and if you want more transparent government we have a clear system for changing things. Just because we might not agree with something does not make it ok to not comply with the current laws.
With that said... if you had an organization which possess tons of leaked classified documents you would immediately treat them as hostile and react as such. You would do anything that is within your power to condemn such an organization. It's the plain and simple truth of what is going on here.
You silly sod!
* LHC did not explode into bits.
* finally find the other side of that wormhole (spills out into a closet in it).
* 30 consecutive days of no spontaneous human combustion.
* Do not destroy the galaxy with spurious black hole generation.
Can someone explain how the mains circuit is supplied.
TFA was so light on details its very difficult to understand what he did. I'm not sure how you can actually illegally tap into the power grid without someone noticing. Here an inspector literally reads the meter or in some cases a digital meter supplies information automatically. In fact, my gas is apparently wireless and merely requires someone to drive by to meter the usage. It would seem like something that would be very difficult to subvert in a suburban environment.
The key part in the begining was to apply a flux for lifting.
This protected the board and assisted in thermal spread.
Likely he was removing that with the solvent because it wouldn't be too helpful to have that on and attempt to re-attache to the surface.
You could do it with a towel and a hair dryer if you really wanted it to.
In fact, I've repaired an xbox 360 using the towel and the units own heat. In my case, I was not replacing the processor, but rather I needed to melt the solder once again.
It's obvious they keep moving their planet after it has been discovered.
We need a global echelon network to find the interstellar spies hiding among us.
Once we can plug the leak we can finally launch a ship to take all the oxygen from their planet.
That really depends on where you live.
I actually live in a nicer section in a metropolitan area. Now, the rent I pay is not awful and it is not great. However, if you live outside of the city there are several additional expenses that have to be calculated. Vehicle, insurance, fuel and parking will quickly tear away at the reduced costs of living outside of the city. In fact, with my "more expensive" living conditions I actually live quite a bit cheaper then my commuter counter-parts.
There are some various pros and cons to living in or outside of the city, but these have to be weighed by the individual and/or family. For instance, it is quite a bit less to own a home in suburbia and these areas I would consider more youth friendly. Now, in downtown the nightlife is waaaay better. In fact, it's about that time.
One more run johnny...
Google needs to be able to launch it's own geosynchronous satellite communication network in order to facilitate further expanse of the autonomous vehicle fleet. It's going to be rather difficult to send out droves of autonomous sales droids if the area doesn't have a wide enough wireless telecommunication zone.
In the near term they will be limited to deploying in major and medium cities and urban areas. However, in the future with a global telecommunications network there will be no one to thwart the looming threat of the sales droid.
Game over man, game over!
The reason Google was collecting wireless data was for the simple necessity of controlling it's autonomous fleet of vehicles. Eventually, these drones will sweep the nation day and night using the plethora of open access points around the nation. Our own ineptness will be our downfall as the machines eventually become self aware. Sure, it was all for marketing and advertising to earn a few dollars, but I just can't live in a future they are creating. Yes, I am talking about autonomous sales droids that watch you day and night while analyzing your garbage. They will be on the front door to pitch you a customer tailored vacuum cleaner the moment you try to escape your home. It's a truely dark future that lies in the waiting.
It seems like the entire ordeal was designed to fail.
These were all fairly common attack vectors and not nearly as lavish as the PS3 stack smash. (Seriously, who thinks of that attack vector). Even basic precautions and awareness of current threat models would have enabled them to harden their system from these things. To add insult to injury the left over data on the host and default passwords to expose it.
I wholly agree that internet voting is fucking scary, but it seems like this test setup was created just to make the idea shine.
Nope,
There several network appliances that can assistance and eliminate most of the overhead of a denial of service attack. This of course would not compensate for upstream saturation, but you have within your power to eliminate a good deal of it long enough to work with upstream providers.
This is why lots of new denial of service attacks focus on exploiting content which has a high application cost. ie, find a page which has too much dynamic content or generates slowly due to dependent services being at threshold. With this mindset you can essentially pressure point an application host even if it is well protected.
If you have to secure, enforce constraints or manage much of anything at the host level you are going to suffer quickly.
I use a real man's laptop.
It's a log cut in half with random pc parts shoved inside. The two hellish halves are held together with rail road stakes and a few lengths of chain. (Legend has it they were forged in the depths of hell by Hades himself, but that's just what the guy at Home Depot told me.)
Between the twigs, bugs and pine cones still attached to the raw timber there really isn't much room for comfort, but then again if I had built it for comfort I might as well have made it a functional PC too. You see son, a real man's laptop isn't for a sissy boy or one of those city fellas, but rather it was made to exemplify man's eternal struggle against nature. (It also helps to demonstrate how much of a real man a man is.)
Each real man's laptop (tm) comes with a set of work boots and plaid shirt.
Get one.... now.
Grammar and spelling as a virtual fingerprint...
I don't believe anything could go wrong at all.
In any event, I am afraid it is time to unveil your true identity using the grammar and spelling footprint technique. I say to you Mr. Abraham Lincoln... how does it feel to be unmasked by your own musings!
You would probably be wrong....
Sure, no single systems should be the source of any business outage, but service owners can and do fuck things up.
There are also instances where a database application serves in a tier 1 role and while redundant configurations exist no one wants to run in degraded mode for very long.
Yahoo, Google, Facebook and many others employee technicians which service to complete repairs and perform advanced troubleshooting on the host. Typically, these environments operate with technicians performing troubleshooting/repairs with escalations that may or may not be onsite. In some instances the vendor provides technicians which perform the end to end troubleshooting, but this arrangement I've seen limited to only a few locations.
Generally, unless a system is tier 1 system it gets pulled out of the pool when a failure is identified. However, at some point that host will need to be fixed and returned to the pool.
Your major brand name server components are going to have cache depots throughout the united states to allow for servicing of equipment which has same day or next business day service contracts.
You are also incorrect on staffing from hardware vendors onsite. There are several types of arrangements that can be made and in some situations it can be a free service depending on the size of the facility or cluster. Generally, this type of arrangement typically accompanies a fairly large purchase and the onsite provided is there to ensure such an arrangement stays in place.
Less dominate players in the market will typically provide parts onsite for quick turn around in logistics. This service can be arranged in several different varieties as well, but my preference is typically for the vendor to own and manage the inventory.
"The parts must flow...."
As soon as I win the lottery I will purchase my own jet fighter....
I'll pretty much burn up the winnings in one shot, but damn it feels good to be a gangster.
I fail to understand how anyone can complain when they failed to institute basic encryption policies to protect such data.
It would make no sense to block the application because it's obvious the work can be easily reproduced.
If this was ever a concern they should have at least implemented some basic protections.
It's only frowned upon if you get caught....