Everybody lies about what they're doing on the internet. Furthermore, 95% of computers connected to the internet contain porn, except in large organizations with filtering
The trouble with believing that everybody lies is that it destroys the hope that there is even one honest person in the entire world. I'd like to believe that a CIA officer can get an honest answer out of anybody, it being a point where all NDA's end.
I work at a small company and whenever the Sysadmin doesn't like someone, he waits for you to go to the toilet, and he then inserts a PGP-encrypted kiddie-porn floppy disk into your machine, copies it to your hard drive and decrypts it. He then drops the appropriate hints to management. Fortunately I made sure he likes me, and so he also told me when management installed Tally Systems TSCensus spyware onto my machine. This information's very useful since I only use my machine for web browsing, and TerminalServices/VNC into other heavy machines do my work. I've changed my routine now so I fire up useful-looking software on my local machine regularly to make the managers happy.
As for pr0n, I've read that 75% of worldwide Internet bandwidth is used for pr0n so don't be surprised, Al Qaeda are very good at being celibate - do they seem well-adjusted to you?
Missing data sector headers (that would cause a hard drive to give an uncorrectable read error) are no problem due to wobbled track clocks
Every data track is verified by the laser as soon as it's written
A defective sector is mapped into the spare area
Data is spatially shifted when overwritten into a sector guard area decreasing statistic probability of same-bit writes on a spot
Data is usually flipped in every sector overwrite by a random inversion (stored in look-up table) so the laser doesn't write 1000 consecutive high-temperature decrystallisations to the same spot which would denature the writing surface
This is why for backups I bought a LG GSA-4040B DVD+-R+-RW-RAM CD-R-RW and use DVD-RAM type 2 with labels on the jewel case (I only touch the DVD-RAM when handling using gloves so my finger grease doesn't contaminate the edges). NEVER touch either surface, not even the label-sid as finger-grease can contaminate it the same as a cheap label. DVD Reed Solomon ECC is 10 times better than CD despite only a 7x increase in recording density.
Of course during the 60 minutes burn (1.5 MBytes/s) you MUST keep your head on the drive to listen out for any unexplained seeks that could indicate defects. If you hear them then rewrite the DVD-RAM so that defect management can kick in (I'm not sure if this is necessary but I'm sometimes overcautious)
IF YOU DON'T HANDLE YOUR BACKUPS IN CLEAN-ROOM CONDITIONS YOU DON'T CARE ABOUT YOUR DATA, and therefore are a Joe sixpack "Dang I lost all my data, whoa the 69'ers hit a home run that's way more important dude"
As a Canadian I definitely disagree with that statement. I don't want to pay $0.77 extra for every CDR that I buy.
Why should a bicycle pay zero road tax, should my car tax subsidises them? I use my computer as a trash can (they're cheap, I bought it so I can use it however I like) so why should I pay for Windows and Intel R&D when I don't use them?
What?! It is precisely because of the flaws of most modern operating systems that do not protect you from sloppy programming, that programmers need to be aware of secure programming methods. It's not just Windows either; Unix/Linux does not protect a programmer from, say, buffer overruns either. All programmers need to be aware of such flaws, and work around them.
The programmers care about security, but the managers don't give a damn. I asked my manager for time off to secure the software I wrote for a client by performing a security audit, he said, "Only if the customer complains that he wants security in his software product, and is willing to pay extra for security feature in the product". So there ya go.
Basically, it gives them a database capable of completely correct operation, not just mostly correct. Of course that may not matter to you, in that case I have a faulty pacemaker to sell you
Trash. Even the NY Stock Exchange has only 99.99% uptime (it was knocked offline by the WTC attacks, and will be knocked offline in future by N Korea's/China's nuclear strike)
The vast vast majority of databases worldwide contain static data or data that is under glacial change. Similarly dot-com companies always represented a very small sector; the food sector like Walmart groceries plus restaurants dwarfs the entire IT sector.
Most companies take their database offline to make a backup, the exception is Banks and financial areas.
Oh wait, I'm posting to/. at work. But cmon - isn't active participation in the technical internet community vital to being a productive member of the IT and programming industry?:)
If your wife gives you a heavy orgasm, it decreases your efficiency at work the next day because you'll be a nit more tired. A 24 hour manager must be assigned to every employee to ensure that they don't perform exciting extra-curricular activites such as sport which will degrade the employee's performance. Oh wait, since Americans work for 12 hours a day anyway and are asleep for 8 hours, leaving 4 hours which will probably all be spent commuting, a normal manager is close enough.
Anyone who would be able to put together an actual attack from this paper probably has enough education to get a real job -- something that doesn't go well with writing malware on the side.
I understand the document, and I'm a contract worker earning $32k with no benefits whatsoever and will probably be unemployed soon, I know Comp PhD's on welfare, dot com boom is over pal, and it took the rest of the economy and your pension with it.
The Introduction alone contains enough information to work out what he's talking about. On a saturated link, send traffic to cause a spike, many TCP connections will enter a timeout and wait x seconds to retransmit, so after x seconds when the TCP surge comes, send more traffic to exacerbate the spike which will cause TCP conections to enter a timeout, etc.
The elements of misprision of a feloney, both of which must be proved to support conviction, are: concealment of something, such as suppression of evidence or some other positive act; and
failure to disclose.
Failure to disclose, without active concealment, is not a felony
... and this would still be a felony under the Rico Laws.
Employees hurt by the lawsuit can thank their bosses for breaking the law as well. They'll just have to rough it. It's an unfortunate reality, but hey -- that's the price one pays for living in a society of laws.
Then the other employees will move to another company that can pay a good salary because it doesn't break the law. The sued company will be injured and will gradually collapse, as it will only be able to pay $5 annual salary for a C++ coder.
Companies don't have a Right to self-defence, they can't murder people in order to survive. Abusing labour laws (enslaving children, dangerous working conditions, not paying salary for work done, etc.) and abusing environmental laws (dumping toxic PCB waste), etc. is a violation and must be punished, if the company goes bankrupt as a result, then competing companies will have higher profit margins as a reward for following the law.
The trouble with implementing this is that the morons who spend 2 grand doing up a shitty Vauxhall Nova to squeeze out an extra 10mph would have to find another way to compensate for their 'shortcomings'
Take me, to get into my work by public transport would take me 2 hours, assuming there wasn't a break down, the bus and train weren't late or full, or I can take my car which takes 20-30 minutes
Same here, public transport would take me 1 hour and would drop me at work door to door. Instead I drive which takes 20 minutes, then park 1.5 miles away and walk for 20 minutes, which is difficult in our current 37 Celsius heat. I have to park so far away because there are yellow lines for 1.5 miles around the town centre so I'm forced to park in the council estate and dodge the drugged up kids everyday.
In the event that the Government makes it too difficult to drive, many people would give up work altogether (which our American colleagues can't do because of their lack of a permanent welfare benefit forcing their corporate enslavement).
In an era long past this scheme might have worked, because the workers would take pride in their work and drive more professionally, but in our current Capitalist system where a thousand managers per worker are constantly ordering workers to work 20 hours a day, most drivers are unable to drive in compliance with anything due to burn-out/breakdown/fatigue. The ONLY happy employees I've seen is BT employees, where the workers are very underloaded, NOT AT ANY OTHER COMPANY
If you really want to reduce accidents on the roads every driver should have to take a practical test every 5 years (say). By this I do not mean a little 20 minute drive, I mean a really good, in depth examination of your driving skills
Rubbish, because then you'll have to relearn stupid rules like hand crossover on the steering wheel, which NOBODY follows after passing their driving test, and is unnecessary in the days of power steering. Checking your mirrors five hundred times whilst doing a three-point turn whilst not even touching the kerb gently, WHAT IS THE POINT? Unless you mount the kerb, there's no point failing someone because of touching the kerb during a 3 point turn. And as for reverse/parallel parking, so what if you turn a little too steeply and touch the kerb gently, then bodge it afterwards? So much crap is in the test that I shudder to think what would happen if everybody was to be tested every 5 years, and what if someone fails and loses their job, they default on their mortgage and their kids starve to death on the street?
You are correct. Stuff from the 50's era was designed by the engineers (overengineered), much like OSS today is designed and made by coders instead of Managers. Consumer products these days are made by Managers that don't care about their products and only care about profits even at the expense of customers' lives. The US economy is about building the cheapest product so that you can compete, regardless of how long it lasts. There are notable exceptions such as Boeing. There's a HUGE body of people fixing up older overengineered cars, which is impossible with newer cars.
it's a feeling of power in an otherwise powerless life
Rubbish - everybody has power. Mohammed Atta had power, Hitler had power, you have power. The real question is what do you do with power - build a park so that children can play, blow up a skyscraper, or perform Governmental eugenics (early genetic engineering)?
UI simplification is a good thing. A very good thing. A lot of people loathe computers, because of software which was built on the mentality that it's not that hard to learn,
Right on. A geek can't know how he makes everyone else feels until it happens to him. I told lots of users they were dumb for not knowing the difference between bash and tcsh. But when my car broke down on my way to work and I had it towed to the garage, the guy at work that I belittled said, "You're so stupid, all you had to do was get three T-clips, restrain the clutch, remove the hydraulic cylinder, reattach the clutch cable, reinsert the hydraulic cylinder with a torque wrench set to 320Nm then remove the T-clips, duh". I was amazed and looked at him with puppy eyes, and then felt a sense of deja vu that I had experienced something familiar - this is what TechSupp does when we dazzle users with our computing knowledge.
Then I realised that everyone does tech support for everybody else, just in different fields of expertise.
The engineers learned that all sections of the grid must have significant over-capacity
Overcapacity and overengineering are Communist concepts. Surely you don't expect the US Government to use Communist mechanisms? Americans want fast and cheap. Leading up to the power failure, how many Americans gave a damn about the power grid?
Since I am an American, by and for the people, I AM the govt. so punishing myself and neighbors isnt very effective
Nobody HAS to give you a job, THOU SHALT ALWAYS BE ABLE TO GET A JOB isn't a Commandment). If you refuse to take Government handouts and starve to death duing a 1 year recession, then that robs the United States of your potential future 50 years of contribution after the massive taxpayer investment that went into your School education. Recessions happen, and good people can't find a job for years, that's why welfare must always exist.
Even when unemployment is 90%, the top 10% will have jobs
Uhhh, and what will the 90% do? Move to Ethiopea? If they did that instead of penalising the Government, then Bush should give all his trillions of dollars to 10% of people, and throw 90% of the people into Mexico or let them starve to death. When the economy gets better, it won't be able to expand unless those people come back, but why should they come back when they've made homes for themselves in another Mexico?
To our credit, we do as a species tend to accept and confront unpleasantness at some point.
Only when it's very close to us, such as our partner having a limb severed, or our own child going through hardship. This is by design, human beings generally have evolved to kill Wooly Mammoth, rabbits and other such creatures, so our compassion and understanding have evolved to switch off at some point, called "distancing" and "dehumanisation" by psychiatrists. Dehumanisation is simply making another group of creatures (sometimes other humans having a common attribute) look like "prey" via social conditioning.
But I have never seen an unemployment check, partially due to the fact that I am motivated enough to keep looking, live modest enough that I don't get behind in my bills, and have enough self respect that I WILL take a job that is "beneath" me rather than take Govt. charity.
You pay taxes, therefore you are *legally* entitled to claim welfare. It's not "Government charity", it's your obligation to penalise the Government if they can't adjust economic conditions to provide you with a job.
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I work at a small company and whenever the Sysadmin doesn't like someone, he waits for you to go to the toilet, and he then inserts a PGP-encrypted kiddie-porn floppy disk into your machine, copies it to your hard drive and decrypts it. He then drops the appropriate hints to management. Fortunately I made sure he likes me, and so he also told me when management installed Tally Systems TSCensus spyware onto my machine. This information's very useful since I only use my machine for web browsing, and TerminalServices/VNC into other heavy machines do my work. I've changed my routine now so I fire up useful-looking software on my local machine regularly to make the managers happy.
As for pr0n, I've read that 75% of worldwide Internet bandwidth is used for pr0n so don't be surprised, Al Qaeda are very good at being celibate - do they seem well-adjusted to you?
- Missing data sector headers (that would cause a hard drive to give an uncorrectable read error) are no problem due to wobbled track clocks
- Every data track is verified by the laser as soon as it's written
- A defective sector is mapped into the spare area
- Data is spatially shifted when overwritten into a sector guard area decreasing statistic probability of same-bit writes on a spot
- Data is usually flipped in every sector overwrite by a random inversion (stored in look-up table) so the laser doesn't write 1000 consecutive high-temperature decrystallisations to the same spot which would denature the writing surface
This is why for backups I bought a LG GSA-4040B DVD+-R+-RW-RAM CD-R-RW and use DVD-RAM type 2 with labels on the jewel case (I only touch the DVD-RAM when handling using gloves so my finger grease doesn't contaminate the edges). NEVER touch either surface, not even the label-sid as finger-grease can contaminate it the same as a cheap label. DVD Reed Solomon ECC is 10 times better than CD despite only a 7x increase in recording density.Of course during the 60 minutes burn (1.5 MBytes/s) you MUST keep your head on the drive to listen out for any unexplained seeks that could indicate defects. If you hear them then rewrite the DVD-RAM so that defect management can kick in (I'm not sure if this is necessary but I'm sometimes overcautious)
IF YOU DON'T HANDLE YOUR BACKUPS IN CLEAN-ROOM CONDITIONS YOU DON'T CARE ABOUT YOUR DATA, and therefore are a Joe sixpack "Dang I lost all my data, whoa the 69'ers hit a home run that's way more important dude"
It's about how the majority use it.
The vast vast majority of databases worldwide contain static data or data that is under glacial change. Similarly dot-com companies always represented a very small sector; the food sector like Walmart groceries plus restaurants dwarfs the entire IT sector.
Most companies take their database offline to make a backup, the exception is Banks and financial areas.
Yes, PASV uses Port 20 callback
Repeatability occurs by reverse engineering the science experiment, and thus violates the DMCA. Therefore all of science is illegal
The Introduction alone contains enough information to work out what he's talking about. On a saturated link, send traffic to cause a spike, many TCP connections will enter a timeout and wait x seconds to retransmit, so after x seconds when the TCP surge comes, send more traffic to exacerbate the spike which will cause TCP conections to enter a timeout, etc.
Companies don't have a Right to self-defence, they can't murder people in order to survive. Abusing labour laws (enslaving children, dangerous working conditions, not paying salary for work done, etc.) and abusing environmental laws (dumping toxic PCB waste), etc. is a violation and must be punished, if the company goes bankrupt as a result, then competing companies will have higher profit margins as a reward for following the law.
In the event that the Government makes it too difficult to drive, many people would give up work altogether (which our American colleagues can't do because of their lack of a permanent welfare benefit forcing their corporate enslavement).
In an era long past this scheme might have worked, because the workers would take pride in their work and drive more professionally, but in our current Capitalist system where a thousand managers per worker are constantly ordering workers to work 20 hours a day, most drivers are unable to drive in compliance with anything due to burn-out/breakdown/fatigue. The ONLY happy employees I've seen is BT employees, where the workers are very underloaded, NOT AT ANY OTHER COMPANY
Rubbish, because then you'll have to relearn stupid rules like hand crossover on the steering wheel, which NOBODY follows after passing their driving test, and is unnecessary in the days of power steering. Checking your mirrors five hundred times whilst doing a three-point turn whilst not even touching the kerb gently, WHAT IS THE POINT? Unless you mount the kerb, there's no point failing someone because of touching the kerb during a 3 point turn. And as for reverse/parallel parking, so what if you turn a little too steeply and touch the kerb gently, then bodge it afterwards? So much crap is in the test that I shudder to think what would happen if everybody was to be tested every 5 years, and what if someone fails and loses their job, they default on their mortgage and their kids starve to death on the street?You are correct. Stuff from the 50's era was designed by the engineers (overengineered), much like OSS today is designed and made by coders instead of Managers. Consumer products these days are made by Managers that don't care about their products and only care about profits even at the expense of customers' lives. The US economy is about building the cheapest product so that you can compete, regardless of how long it lasts. There are notable exceptions such as Boeing. There's a HUGE body of people fixing up older overengineered cars, which is impossible with newer cars.
Then I realised that everyone does tech support for everybody else, just in different fields of expertise.
If we lived forever, Bill Gates would say, "I'll fix all the bugs in my software within the next 10000 years, no hurry"