>> 90% of my after-tax income, and throwing that in student loans...$22,434 worth of student loans, and has paid it down to $16,449...four months
That's only $1,500 paid down on student loans per month. If that's 90% of his after-tax income (even in California), he's making maybe $22K/year, and spending just $150 month on other stuff.
If you work for a typically paper-pushing corporation, the priority on the "CIA triad' (confidentiality, integrity and availability) is usually: C, then A then I. If you work for a utility ("ICS"), it's often A then I then C. And if you work with medical devices, it's definitely I then A and maybe way down the line maybe C, because there's the HIPAA legal hammer to take care of all that. Hardly anyone in this stack understands authentication, but the key with at least the last two is that if someone's trying to use a machine or device and they are standing right next to it, they are assumed to be authorized. Unfortunately, that line of thinking leaks out into web interfaces, telnet and other craziness, and that's why it's all a mess at the moment.
Perhaps they could buy a station wagon, load it up with tapes and send it with the next dogsled. (I kid.)
It's not like they are using real-time data from this thing - it's more like a traditional particle smashing experiment where most of the analysis is done months and years after the data is collected.
>> Chinese officials can look at the code only during visits and can’t remove it for a thorough review...it would be extremely difficult to comb through all the code for a product for potential “backdoors” that would allow spying on users.
Then why would the Chinese find value in these reviews? (Unless they really are spiriting code out - love those Google Glasses, Xi - or are being allowed to bring their own code analysis tools in.)
And why isn't anyone raising "ITAR" here? I know I've bumped into that objection when working with people outside the US on far less-critical, less-popular tech.
>> Why would a drone dispersing a crowd need an accurate head count? If the crowd is causing a problem or upsetting some one with power
I think you answered your own question: if you can disperse a crowd BEFORE it causes a problem or upsets someone with power there's a business case to be made.
>> SQL Server is two or three SKU's that include all the features in the box and the licensing is by device/user or CPU core. fairly simple...says no one who's every had to deal with application requirements that require segregated processors/systems, offsite or DR processing, unknown capacity needs, fluctuating rulings on whether web applications are "one user" or "one SQL seat per user" etc.
They know their target market (Oracle customers sick of being raped) and it must be big enough to justify the marketing spend to keep developing these articles. I'd bet they'd love the free publicity if Larry went after them as his top legal concern.
First application would seem to be hooking this up to a system to automatically dispatch a drone to monitor if not disperse any detected crowd. Somewhere someone's salivating...
>> someone with physical access can damage your PC
This isn't a local access attack, though. Instead, you label your attacking USB stick with your target company's name and leave it in the parking lot or at a restaurant where you know a lot of your target's employees visit. Some foolish altruist will frequently pick it up and shove it into their computer when they get back to the office. This kind of thing works great for infecting someone's computer with command-and-control malware; if anything this "wreck the computer" attack seems less useful.
When attendance is down, symphonies, theatre groups and other live performers retrench around the "pops" that they know the general population finds popular and puts people in the seats: Christmas songs, Broadway musicals, movie scores, adaptations of rock classics for Baby Boomers, and now video game music for Gen X and Millennials.
You have to wonder if SlashDot has sugarbowls of cocaine lying around the office. Did anyone else see the weird "red bar" paid posts show up this week...but without comments? The content in there was both strange, in that it was random statistics pulled out of thin air, and boring, in that it covered management trends no one here would seem to care about. Is this how the editors and advertisers think we talk to one another now?
>> three open source projects that are keeping the language alive
Open Source ain't keeping COBOL alive. It's IBM. If all those legacy apps could be ported off the mainframe and run at scale, they'd potentially lose billions of dollars.
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>> popular understanding that women
I believe that the word you are looking for is "stereotype."
E.g., do you care to share any "popular understandings" about ethnic groups and athletics?
Just one extra (or fewer) space per bracket...'cause I know it's driven SOMEONE nuts at every shop I've worked at.
This. Ditto.
>> He's making efficient nuclear reactors
He is? Where can go see one?
>> 90% of my after-tax income, and throwing that in student loans...$22,434 worth of student loans, and has paid it down to $16,449...four months
That's only $1,500 paid down on student loans per month. If that's 90% of his after-tax income (even in California), he's making maybe $22K/year, and spending just $150 month on other stuff.
If you work for a typically paper-pushing corporation, the priority on the "CIA triad' (confidentiality, integrity and availability) is usually: C, then A then I. If you work for a utility ("ICS"), it's often A then I then C. And if you work with medical devices, it's definitely I then A and maybe way down the line maybe C, because there's the HIPAA legal hammer to take care of all that. Hardly anyone in this stack understands authentication, but the key with at least the last two is that if someone's trying to use a machine or device and they are standing right next to it, they are assumed to be authorized. Unfortunately, that line of thinking leaks out into web interfaces, telnet and other craziness, and that's why it's all a mess at the moment.
How do you know you're on SlashDot?
Stories about how someone made a friend in meatspace get modded up.
>> have been in safekeeping beneath the Arctic Ice
Wait, I thought all that was melting because the sky is falling.
>> it was the most preventable of man-made disasters -- war
Do you have a suggestion to improve gender-equity in disasters?
>> lowering the skyrocketing levels of student debt McAfee: Why not lower the cost of education itself? What is the cause of these high costs?
I think McAfee's the first guy to get the education question right.
>> Do you read opensource.com
No.
>> while Red Hat is the site's sponsor, they never try to dictate the site's content
Anyone who believes that deserves what they're fed.
>> while authors are undoubtedly important intended beneficiaries of copyright, the ultimate, primary intended beneficiary is the public
In whose lifetime?
Perhaps they could buy a station wagon, load it up with tapes and send it with the next dogsled. (I kid.)
It's not like they are using real-time data from this thing - it's more like a traditional particle smashing experiment where most of the analysis is done months and years after the data is collected.
>> Chinese officials can look at the code only during visits and can’t remove it for a thorough review...it would be extremely difficult to comb through all the code for a product for potential “backdoors” that would allow spying on users.
Then why would the Chinese find value in these reviews? (Unless they really are spiriting code out - love those Google Glasses, Xi - or are being allowed to bring their own code analysis tools in.)
And why isn't anyone raising "ITAR" here? I know I've bumped into that objection when working with people outside the US on far less-critical, less-popular tech.
This is why people follow particular reviewers, like Siskel OR Ebert back in the day.
>> Why would a drone dispersing a crowd need an accurate head count? If the crowd is causing a problem or upsetting some one with power
I think you answered your own question: if you can disperse a crowd BEFORE it causes a problem or upsets someone with power there's a business case to be made.
>> SQL Server is two or three SKU's that include all the features in the box and the licensing is by device/user or CPU core. fairly simple ...says no one who's every had to deal with application requirements that require segregated processors/systems, offsite or DR processing, unknown capacity needs, fluctuating rulings on whether web applications are "one user" or "one SQL seat per user" etc.
>> Just one Oracle article after another
They know their target market (Oracle customers sick of being raped) and it must be big enough to justify the marketing spend to keep developing these articles. I'd bet they'd love the free publicity if Larry went after them as his top legal concern.
First application would seem to be hooking this up to a system to automatically dispatch a drone to monitor if not disperse any detected crowd. Somewhere someone's salivating...
>> someone with physical access can damage your PC
This isn't a local access attack, though. Instead, you label your attacking USB stick with your target company's name and leave it in the parking lot or at a restaurant where you know a lot of your target's employees visit. Some foolish altruist will frequently pick it up and shove it into their computer when they get back to the office. This kind of thing works great for infecting someone's computer with command-and-control malware; if anything this "wreck the computer" attack seems less useful.
They're getting excited about 4s and 5s? Quick someone tell them about the petrochemical depots near LA.
When attendance is down, symphonies, theatre groups and other live performers retrench around the "pops" that they know the general population finds popular and puts people in the seats: Christmas songs, Broadway musicals, movie scores, adaptations of rock classics for Baby Boomers, and now video game music for Gen X and Millennials.
You have to wonder if SlashDot has sugarbowls of cocaine lying around the office. Did anyone else see the weird "red bar" paid posts show up this week...but without comments? The content in there was both strange, in that it was random statistics pulled out of thin air, and boring, in that it covered management trends no one here would seem to care about. Is this how the editors and advertisers think we talk to one another now?
>> IT people don't work in teams
So..that's the heart of DevOps according to this guy? More meetings?
>> three open source projects that are keeping the language alive
Open Source ain't keeping COBOL alive. It's IBM. If all those legacy apps could be ported off the mainframe and run at scale, they'd potentially lose billions of dollars.
No one uses color names
It's all RGB these days
No one gives a shit
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