Why should universities be under any more of an obligation to stop copyright infringement than any other ISP?
They should not. However, the RIAA goons latch onto them because of the uniqueness of their constituencies. Most ISPs have to compete to keep their users, this means they must make them happy or they jump ship. A college student can't just get angry and leave the university (especially if they are in a big university). Well, they could but "Darn it Harvard I am going to get my education somewhere else" also gets them a different product.
But setting aside the monoculture bit, what is the alternative? 25 companies all trying to run IT shops securely, when that is not a core competency for them.
A well made valid point. I do not believe that every company should have a network security department. However, they should have a competent individual in a security officer type of position whom they invest in training etc.. for. This person would be responsible for coordinating audits by 2 or more security firms and understanding enough about security to direct them on their audits, patching and mitigation activities.
As someone who provides network security services for a very large university I would like to voice my opinion on this subject. When one company is allowed to become very experienced in a subject and provide that experience to a large audience the one thing that is often overlooked is the signifigance of a flaw in that service. Case in point, Cisco routers: Cisco routers move data around the internet, their penetration is everywhere, you can always find trained people to run your routers. That is all good. A vulnerability in Cisco IOS however leaves much of the net vulnerable...bad. So if 25 companies use the services of www.imasecuritypro.com (fake URL) and imasecuritypro hires someone who lacks competency or worse yet lacks scruples 25 companies are suddenly in peril.
Do not leave your servers out in the open, lock them in a controlled access room (perhaps climate control as well). Throughly vet who gets into your server room. Additionally, do not let people who have low access levels access 'low levels' of the machine. This is revolutionary... in 20 years I can see it being commonplace for companies to have a "server room" outstanding research guys.
Emotions are an aspect of your internal state at any given point in time. Animals feel fear, an emotion. They also feel pleasure, an emotion. I believe, from my personal experience raising rats, cats, and dogs, as well as what I have read of studies on primates, that animals feel a wide range of emotions and that individual creatures within the same species, experience them differently, just as individual humans do.
If you thought I was disputing that animals have self awareness, I apologize. My point was that my argument on emotions = self awareness is why many people argue that they do not. Also, though read your own argument you disagree that emotion = self aware then you posit that cats and dogs etc... have emotions because they have a degree of self awareness. Further, from an ethological perspective you can not prove that your cat 'feels fear' she displays behaviors that you take to be an expression of fear based on your own interpretation of the event, but you lack the cats own internal state and can not comment on it, it is a 'black box' and we can not comment with knowledge on what's in the box. You expect it to be fear because you interpret the event to be scary. Though I state those objections, I also believe in animal cognition/ emotion but as a formerethologist I just say that you are unable to prove them.
I'm not going to deny (OR support)claim that one day, robots can have emotions, etc. But if someone accomplishes that, it will have nothing to do with ability to recognize a mirror image.
Self awareness isn't necessary for emotions? Please consider the following hypothetical conversation: You: Here is my new 'emotional' robot. Robot, how do you feel? Robot: Who am I?
Emotions are an awareness of an internal state and depend greatly on self awareness as YOUR INTERNAL STATE IS YOUR SELF -- hence, no self awareness = no emotions. This is why many people believe dogs, cats etc... do not have emotions, they believe that self awareness is a human trait.
BTW, I for one welcome our LED blinking, self aware, robotic overlords:-)
They claimed they had a throughput of several DVD movies per second. How is that for video on demand!
I can't answer the question until I know WHICH several movies.
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Once you have profiling data for a given port or IP on your network, all you need to do is send a trigger to the switch/router/DSLAM/etc.
Is that all you need to do? Ok, as I pointed out it is a university. People pay to be on that network. People who do things that you may find unacceptable are given grants to do those things. This means that when ou see 'bad' traffic, a certain amount of institutional knowledge has to be applied and perhaps investigative skills to determine if said traffic is bad or not. Also, bear in mind that as universities are the hold outs of free speech you must make the good or bad decision based on knowledge of or about the user without EVER getting to see the data payload on the packet. Still sound simple? Your method in our environment would take our small security team and turn it into abattalion. No university wants a battalion of people looking at their packets. Your proposal is nice though for corporate type networks and does show a great deal of network sophistication, so if I sounded sarcastic... that's just me. kudos to you.
If you want to try monitoring your high-bandwidth campus network let me recommend our open source solution, Ourmon. We've been using it for several years with good results.
I might take a look at that, but for clarification I didn't mean to imply that we can't monitor the network. My point was simply that a 'blip' in bandwidth is in and of itself meaningless and not 'the way' to monitor.
I don't understand why this article has such a tin foil hat slant to it. Darknets tell nothing about acceptable use, they primarily identify malware and misconfigurations.
Well, TFA took over 10 minutes to load so now that I have RTFAd I guess the darknets to which I refered are different than the author. However, the bandwidth comment stands.
Shouldn't the first sign "something" is up be an increase in bandwidth?
Try monitoring a campus network where you have several thousand users and an obscenely large amount of bandwidth. Oh, and you have live research data being generated on campus and moved to places like the NCSA etc... Bandwidth consumption may vary by tens of megabytes by the minute. So I ask you, in that situation (which I work in) what is an "increase in bandwidth" a sign of?
I don't understand why this article has such a tin foil hat slant to it. Darknets tell nothing about acceptable use, they primarily identify malware and misconfigurations.
My suggestion: don't click on a link from a friend before 1) you know what it is 2) and make sure that it doesn't say that your downloading a video file, when it's obviously a batch or exe file. This virus is not really a big deal, you just have to have half a brain to deal with it.
Is this a duplicated post. I am sure I read this in 1995;-}
I was going to say that and add that this is definitely scarier than the ones that pop up the message "Would you like to download and install a rootkit". But that would be -1 redundant
Only if "Christian ideas are unscientific" is true. It is possible for an interpretation of scripture to be guided by scientific observations, or for interpretation of scientific observations to be guided by scripture.
Absolutely! I implore someone to show me how this is done. I will even relax my normally critical view of scientific standards to say that if a single scientist replicates the miracles in the bible and documents how they were replicated it should be taught in science class. If it is err.... unable to be documented and unable to be replicated and is indeed a miracle.... keep it in church. I love science, I am religious. I want my nieces and nephews learning about the values taught by religion (whichever ones they choose) I also want them being taught science, in a science class. I want that science unfettered by political, spiritual or even moral standards.
When I learned evolution in high school I was told that it was a theory. I was told that it had more evidence that was observable than any other theory at the time. I was also told that many people believe in creationism and was given an approx. 5 minute explanation of it. To me that is fine and it is a responsible way for a creationist science teacher to deal with it (I found out after I graduated that he was a creationist) he never once mentioned his support for the theory in class. I applaud that.
I am somewhat antimicrosoft, but I fail to see why this is called "vigilante". Microsoft is working openly with the FTC. They set up their own computer, it got infected and they are investigating unauthorized connections to it. As a security professional I applaud their efforts. This is no different than anyone of you making a honeypot and checking the damage.
Yay MS! Now, make Stevie B kill them (as other posters suggested:-)
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but seriously, since it is revolving around the black hole, does that mean it is slowly being sucked in?
Revolving is kind of a 2 dimensional way to look at it. Instead it is orbiting, which is actually a perpetual fall. So the short answer is..."yes, it is not being sucked in". Really, I would have no idea how to do the math (as most of the variable are too...variable). But basically, for every object that can be orbited you can figure out a minimum sustainable orbit versus one that is catastrophic.
Free != inferior. Similarly, just because someone attaches a price tag to something doesn't mean it's automatically 'bad ass'. After all, you can put a price tag on anything, even a steaming pile of shit.
And I suggest you take a better look at PHP, how widely used it is, and the heavyweights that are using it, before calling it 'inferior'.
Ha, he and his vbscripted access DB laugh in your general direction.
You're at the 58th floor of a building.
There is a fire. You can't use the stairs or elevators.
A)You break the glass, jump out and fall to your death.
B)You don't break the glass and suffocated because of the smoke.
Slashdot Mirror
Why should universities be under any more of an obligation to stop copyright infringement than any other ISP?
They should not. However, the RIAA goons latch onto them because of the uniqueness of their constituencies. Most ISPs have to compete to keep their users, this means they must make them happy or they jump ship. A college student can't just get angry and leave the university (especially if they are in a big university). Well, they could but "Darn it Harvard I am going to get my education somewhere else" also gets them a different product.
But setting aside the monoculture bit, what is the alternative? 25 companies all trying to run IT shops securely, when that is not a core competency for them.
A well made valid point. I do not believe that every company should have a network security department. However, they should have a competent individual in a security officer type of position whom they invest in training etc.. for. This person would be responsible for coordinating audits by 2 or more security firms and understanding enough about security to direct them on their audits, patching and mitigation activities.
As someone who provides network security services for a very large university I would like to voice my opinion on this subject. When one company is allowed to become very experienced in a subject and provide that experience to a large audience the one thing that is often overlooked is the signifigance of a flaw in that service. Case in point, Cisco routers: Cisco routers move data around the internet, their penetration is everywhere, you can always find trained people to run your routers. That is all good. A vulnerability in Cisco IOS however leaves much of the net vulnerable...bad. So if 25 companies use the services of www.imasecuritypro.com (fake URL) and imasecuritypro hires someone who lacks competency or worse yet lacks scruples 25 companies are suddenly in peril.
Do not leave your servers out in the open, lock them in a controlled access room (perhaps climate control as well). Throughly vet who gets into your server room. Additionally, do not let people who have low access levels access 'low levels' of the machine. This is revolutionary... in 20 years I can see it being commonplace for companies to have a "server room" outstanding research guys.
Or is the risk that it will get on the outside of suits, and be hard to clean off, and so will be carried in?
That, and those rude people from neighboring moon bases who NEVER wipe their feet before they come in.
What is this? News for stupid assholes who easily believe that the air on the moon should be cleaned with US taxmoney?
There's no air to clean.
with crippled versions of said commercial products?
The poster meant differently abled versions.
Happy random day in December!
Emotions are an aspect of your internal state at any given point in time. Animals feel fear, an emotion. They also feel pleasure, an emotion. I believe, from my personal experience raising rats, cats, and dogs, as well as what I have read of studies on primates, that animals feel a wide range of emotions and that individual creatures within the same species, experience them differently, just as individual humans do.
If you thought I was disputing that animals have self awareness, I apologize. My point was that my argument on emotions = self awareness is why many people argue that they do not. Also, though read your own argument you disagree that emotion = self aware then you posit that cats and dogs etc... have emotions because they have a degree of self awareness. Further, from an ethological perspective you can not prove that your cat 'feels fear' she displays behaviors that you take to be an expression of fear based on your own interpretation of the event, but you lack the cats own internal state and can not comment on it, it is a 'black box' and we can not comment with knowledge on what's in the box. You expect it to be fear because you interpret the event to be scary. Though I state those objections, I also believe in animal cognition/ emotion but as a formerethologist I just say that you are unable to prove them.
Cool! Someday my kitten will be self aware.
Not if me and my pr0n have anything to say about it.
think of the kittens
I'm not going to deny (OR support)claim that one day, robots can have emotions, etc. But if someone accomplishes that, it will have nothing to do with ability to recognize a mirror image.
:-)
Self awareness isn't necessary for emotions? Please consider the following hypothetical conversation:
You: Here is my new 'emotional' robot. Robot, how do you feel?
Robot: Who am I?
Emotions are an awareness of an internal state and depend greatly on self awareness as YOUR INTERNAL STATE IS YOUR SELF -- hence, no self awareness = no emotions. This is why many people believe dogs, cats etc... do not have emotions, they believe that self awareness is a human trait.
BTW, I for one welcome our LED blinking, self aware, robotic overlords
or worse, set up custom ringtones
Damn it, I went to barkmail again!
They claimed they had a throughput of several DVD movies per second. How is that for video on demand!
I can't answer the question until I know WHICH several movies.
Once you have profiling data for a given port or IP on your network, all you need to do is send a trigger to the switch/router/DSLAM/etc.
Is that all you need to do? Ok, as I pointed out it is a university. People pay to be on that network. People who do things that you may find unacceptable are given grants to do those things. This means that when ou see 'bad' traffic, a certain amount of institutional knowledge has to be applied and perhaps investigative skills to determine if said traffic is bad or not. Also, bear in mind that as universities are the hold outs of free speech you must make the good or bad decision based on knowledge of or about the user without EVER getting to see the data payload on the packet. Still sound simple? Your method in our environment would take our small security team and turn it into abattalion. No university wants a battalion of people looking at their packets. Your proposal is nice though for corporate type networks and does show a great deal of network sophistication, so if I sounded sarcastic... that's just me. kudos to you.
If you want to try monitoring your high-bandwidth campus network let me recommend our open source solution, Ourmon. We've been using it for several years with good results.
I might take a look at that, but for clarification I didn't mean to imply that we can't monitor the network. My point was simply that a 'blip' in bandwidth is in and of itself meaningless and not 'the way' to monitor.
I don't understand why this article has such a tin foil hat slant to it. Darknets tell nothing about acceptable use, they primarily identify malware and misconfigurations.
Well, TFA took over 10 minutes to load so now that I have RTFAd I guess the darknets to which I refered are different than the author. However, the bandwidth comment stands.
Shouldn't the first sign "something" is up be an increase in bandwidth?
Try monitoring a campus network where you have several thousand users and an obscenely large amount of bandwidth. Oh, and you have live research data being generated on campus and moved to places like the NCSA etc... Bandwidth consumption may vary by tens of megabytes by the minute. So I ask you, in that situation (which I work in) what is an "increase in bandwidth" a sign of?
I don't understand why this article has such a tin foil hat slant to it. Darknets tell nothing about acceptable use, they primarily identify malware and misconfigurations.
My suggestion: don't click on a link from a friend before 1) you know what it is 2) and make sure that it doesn't say that your downloading a video file, when it's obviously a batch or exe file. This virus is not really a big deal, you just have to have half a brain to deal with it.
;-}
Is this a duplicated post. I am sure I read this in 1995
I was going to say that and add that this is definitely scarier than the ones that pop up the message "Would you like to download and install a rootkit". But that would be -1 redundant
Only if "Christian ideas are unscientific" is true. It is possible for an interpretation of scripture to be guided by scientific observations, or for interpretation of scientific observations to be guided by scripture.
.... keep it in church. I love science, I am religious. I want my nieces and nephews learning about the values taught by religion (whichever ones they choose) I also want them being taught science, in a science class. I want that science unfettered by political, spiritual or even moral standards.
Absolutely! I implore someone to show me how this is done. I will even relax my normally critical view of scientific standards to say that if a single scientist replicates the miracles in the bible and documents how they were replicated it should be taught in science class. If it is err.... unable to be documented and unable to be replicated and is indeed a miracle
When I learned evolution in high school I was told that it was a theory. I was told that it had more evidence that was observable than any other theory at the time. I was also told that many people believe in creationism and was given an approx. 5 minute explanation of it. To me that is fine and it is a responsible way for a creationist science teacher to deal with it (I found out after I graduated that he was a creationist) he never once mentioned his support for the theory in class. I applaud that.
Thank the FSM
Pastafarianism wins again!!
I am somewhat antimicrosoft, but I fail to see why this is called "vigilante". Microsoft is working openly with the FTC. They set up their own computer, it got infected and they are investigating unauthorized connections to it. As a security professional I applaud their efforts. This is no different than anyone of you making a honeypot and checking the damage.
Yay MS! Now, make Stevie B kill them (as other posters suggested:-)
but seriously, since it is revolving around the black hole, does that mean it is slowly being sucked in?
Revolving is kind of a 2 dimensional way to look at it. Instead it is orbiting, which is actually a perpetual fall. So the short answer is..."yes, it is not being sucked in". Really, I would have no idea how to do the math (as most of the variable are too...variable). But basically, for every object that can be orbited you can figure out a minimum sustainable orbit versus one that is catastrophic.
Free != inferior. Similarly, just because someone attaches a price tag to something doesn't mean it's automatically 'bad ass'. After all, you can put a price tag on anything, even a steaming pile of shit.
And I suggest you take a better look at PHP, how widely used it is, and the heavyweights that are using it, before calling it 'inferior'.
Ha, he and his vbscripted access DB laugh in your general direction.
You're at the 58th floor of a building.
There is a fire. You can't use the stairs or elevators.
A)You break the glass, jump out and fall to your death.
B)You don't break the glass and suffocated because of the smoke.
Either way, you're toast.
Wrong...
A) You're jam
B) You're toast
The difference isn't subtle.
But the question is. Can you write with it?
You must be new here. The question actually is: Can it run Linux...