Does this bug also affect users of those OS's, because last time I heard a) Adobe isn't offering a flash package for current android b) Adobe isn't offering updates to the Linux flash version.
I'll assume that Linux users can have the vulnerable version, is there something in the OS that makes them immune or were they just not mentioned?
It's not exactly a standard option on all machines these days. I have a USB-serial adaptor to plug into my servers, but if the box that has the issue is the one with no serial port, well....
Errrr, no. Have you ever tried to deal with replacements and/or issues within a large organization where everything is different? It's hellish.
Try tracking an issue across an enterprise of architecture when all the architecture is DIFFERENT. You also don't want to mix RAM, and drivers can be a real b**** for different motherboards. Oh, and RMA's things, not fun.
Different brands of RAM. Yeah, you try a rack full of servers playing mix'n'match and see how well that works.
Lastly... how many vendors/brands of enterprise gear do you think are out there, and for the ones that do exist how well do you think they talk together. Maybe you're happy mixing HP Procurves with your Cisco stuff but I don't recommend it, and for some stuff there aren't a lot of vendors to choose from anyhow.
If you don't have a plan to pay for your funeral, you're simply irresponsible.
Uhhh, this is fairly dependant on the individual. An healthy 18-20 year old who hasn't planned for a funeral expense is much more of a concern than somebody 50+ I certainly haven't *planned* for my funeral. If I died suddenly then there's enough money in insurance and the bank to cover it and then some, but it's not a plan per-se.
In Canada, a buddy of mine noticed that as soon as he a) Started some torrents or b) Opened a VPN
His carrier (Shaw) would route him through a different network segment and essentially throttle him into the ground. If VPN's become more popular in the U.S. I'd imagine more of the same.
Apple has already been paid for the iPhone. The cellular company still has a contract. Even if you unlock your phone for use with another carreir, you're still liable under the early termination clause for breaking your contract early.
So you bought your laptop for $99 + monthly payments. What does it matter if you install another OS, so long as you continue the payments? Those are for the contact, NOT the software on the device.If you stop with monthly payments and sell the laptop with Windows still installed, you're still in breach of contract and liable for the fees involved.
So what would you suggest then? That the punishment for committing a multitude of crimes be the same as a single crime? What's the limiting factor? Some people don't have restraint and think they'll always get off, but if you open that up then you'll end up with a lot more of "ah well, if I get caught doing this twice it's the same as once, so lets go ahead and rob another house today".
Or when they ruin somebody's life because he wouldn't pay a crooked taxman's bribes, conveniently losing all his documentation, and then refuse to pay back damages.
One should not (and cannot) under the current laws be put to deal for stealing candy bars. AFAIK, no death sentence at all exists for anything other than the cold-blooded killing of another human being. So you could no more be executed for that than you could be for being a hyperboloidal fool (which, luckily for you is not a crime in itself).
If you stole 1000 candy bars from 1000 stores, you likely could be charged with a number of theft charges. How many would likely depend on a number of factors (timeframe, etc).
Merely pointing out that this guy committed a large number of separate crimes - each with a separate time, instance, and victim - and is being charged as such. I don't see anyone on here advocating death by torture. If they ever do legalize such a penalty, I suggest that you might find employment talking to condemned prisoners until they get so fed up they hang themselves.
This is the same "type" of crime, being committed across multiple instances/timeframes/victims. If somebody breaks into your house today, your neighbours house tomorrow, etc. That's going to be several counts of a given crime (though often pled down).
I agree that the LIBOR guys should be going to jail for a long time though, and Aaron was more the result of the wrong charge overall (wiretap, really?) to exaggerate a crime.
Well, yeah. He gets jail-time because he did this over a hundred times. Just like the sentence for multiple-homicide is different than a single incident, this is a cumulative sentence for all the charges.
Not an argument that people should be able to use slow, crappy storage.
And why not? What exactly is slow and crappy? Even a fairly cheap MicroSD card is fine for storing pictures or a bunch of music. I'm not so sure about video. I'd imagine that hi-def stuff isn't going to work particularly great with a cheap card (I don't have any HD video on my device), but SD is probably OK.
And why should 90% of users pay for the inclusion of something only 10% of the people want or need? So the extra buck or two per device is an onerous addon? If people are shelling out hundreds of dollars to get a bit more space, I'd say that it *IS* something that users want/need, and a MicroSD slot is a heck of a lot more reasonable than a few hundred bucks. However, Apple (and Google too) have discovered that it's more profitable to sell another whole device rather than allow users to add their own storage. Of course, the console boys have been doing this for quite a long time (take a look at the price of an XBOX hard-drive).
Will this allow me to whitelist a particular domain/site? It sounds like a great feature (one I already have with existing addons), but only if you can whitelist domains that you trust and not otherwise have to click-to-allow every time.
With that in mind, a blacklist for evil domains (like doubleclick) would be nice too. Especially if one could import it from a master file.
Indeed. It's a case of two wrongs. Should Swartz have gotten some punishment for what he did? Yes. Should he have gotten (or been threatened) a potential life sentence or more from an overzealous prosecutor. No. If he had been facing a substantial (but not unreasonable/life-ruining) fine, or a few months in jail, then we probably wouldn't be talking about this right now (and he'd still be alive).
Well, the GP specifically said "Even wargamers know tanks are dead meat in *cities*"
I could see how this would be the case, especially if the military ever came in with a domestic show of force. There are plenty of places tanks aren't going to be able to travel, and plenty of places for them to get stuck. All those tunnels and what-not that often run under streets, bridges, etc, a tank isn't going to travel well over a 15' hole in the ground.
Hopefully we'll never have to find out how tanks fare in a domestic in-city conflict.
And who exactly does this? Do you have any idea of the horsepower and work that would be needed to inspect a few hundred machines traffic (and not have false-positives up the ying-yang?)
I'm surprised that MS isn't being watched closely for anti-trust on the whole windows 8 thing. Win8 is a crappy interface for a non-touch PC, and a terrible change for anyone who's used to a traditional OS. What it is good for, is getting people used to the same interface as on MS tablets etc. Since they're late to the tablet market, it seems that "unifying" the interface is really an attempt to lock people into MS's metro interface and app-store etc, so that they can push more into the tablet market as it replaces the PC market.
However, I thought that leveraging a monopoly in one market to gain an advantage in another is one of the foundations of anti-trust. Can somebody explain that?
And put something very subtle in it that affects birth-rate. Perhaps something that disables the "Y" chromosome (or perhaps the other way, something that would cause predominantly male births instead).
Nothing contagious etc mind you, this isn't something that you'd want to mess with passing on. Just something that's persistent so long as people are eating the food.
It's a long-term solution. But as I'd imagine those "in-favour" will consume most of the food-aid, suddenly you're going to have a population with a huge female-male ratio. I'd imagine that while the few remaining males would enjoy that ratio for awhile, over time it's going to eventually significantly reduce the ability to increase population through internal procreation.
Oh hell, perhaps if they could match for aggression, spread something that will eventually lead to a population that is very passive and non-warlike.
Except how will you know it's compromised unless you're scanning from a clean system/media? You *could* have another machine pop in and compare md5's or whatever, but that assumes that "md5sum" and a bunch of others machine being tested isn't compromised. You *could* also run the SSH'able machine inside a VM and check from the VM host, but the host could still be compromised or other issues.
Another option is to routinely check by booting from secure media, but that involves downtime.
Investigating a compromised system is one thing. I believe the GP was more about discovering that the system is compromised in the first place.
Kinda like how in Canada the new mine just made speaking Mandarin part of the job requirement, and then hired all workers from China when they "couldn't find" local candidates that fit the requirement.
This sounds like a good thing to me. If you have an H1B holder convert to a GC holder/Citizen, then you're (generally) adding a productive citizen who is familiar with the laws/environment and has useful work experience. Sounds a lot better than letting somebody in on a resident permit only to find that their skills/experience are only useful in allowing them to work as a cab driver or in a fast-food joint. This seems to happen a lot in Canada as in the big cities a log of places prefer immigrants (more power, easier to control, less knowledge of labor laws), illegals (work under the table for less), etc, and those skill jobs that do hire at market rate prefer locals (more local knowledge of culture, better english, etc). You end up with people coming in as "skilled workers" but then not being able to find a job that makes use of said skills, or at least not for several years.
I read the GP as you have to fight with immigration in your country to get a new H1B, but then coming back to the US you could still be denied at the border.
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Does this bug also affect users of those OS's, because last time I heard
a) Adobe isn't offering a flash package for current android
b) Adobe isn't offering updates to the Linux flash version.
I'll assume that Linux users can have the vulnerable version, is there something in the OS that makes them immune or were they just not mentioned?
It's not exactly a standard option on all machines these days. I have a USB-serial adaptor to plug into my servers, but if the box that has the issue is the one with no serial port, well....
Errrr, no. Have you ever tried to deal with replacements and/or issues within a large organization where everything is different? It's hellish.
Try tracking an issue across an enterprise of architecture when all the architecture is DIFFERENT. You also don't want to mix RAM, and drivers can be a real b**** for different motherboards. Oh, and RMA's things, not fun.
Different brands of RAM. Yeah, you try a rack full of servers playing mix'n'match and see how well that works.
Lastly... how many vendors/brands of enterprise gear do you think are out there, and for the ones that do exist how well do you think they talk together. Maybe you're happy mixing HP Procurves with your Cisco stuff but I don't recommend it, and for some stuff there aren't a lot of vendors to choose from anyhow.
You joke, but look where being nice and/or polite has gotten us so far.
These guys don't play nice...
If you don't have a plan to pay for your funeral, you're simply irresponsible.
Uhhh, this is fairly dependant on the individual. An healthy 18-20 year old who hasn't planned for a funeral expense is much more of a concern than somebody 50+
I certainly haven't *planned* for my funeral. If I died suddenly then there's enough money in insurance and the bank to cover it and then some, but it's not a plan per-se.
In Canada, a buddy of mine noticed that as soon as he
a) Started some torrents
or
b) Opened a VPN
His carrier (Shaw) would route him through a different network segment and essentially throttle him into the ground. If VPN's become more popular in the U.S. I'd imagine more of the same.
The GP's analogy was perfectly fine.
Apple has already been paid for the iPhone. The cellular company still has a contract. Even if you unlock your phone for use with another carreir, you're still liable under the early termination clause for breaking your contract early.
So you bought your laptop for $99 + monthly payments. What does it matter if you install another OS, so long as you continue the payments? Those are for the contact, NOT the software on the device.If you stop with monthly payments and sell the laptop with Windows still installed, you're still in breach of contract and liable for the fees involved.
So what would you suggest then? That the punishment for committing a multitude of crimes be the same as a single crime? What's the limiting factor?
Some people don't have restraint and think they'll always get off, but if you open that up then you'll end up with a lot more of "ah well, if I get caught doing this twice it's the same as once, so lets go ahead and rob another house today".
Or when they ruin somebody's life because he wouldn't pay a crooked taxman's bribes, conveniently losing all his documentation, and then refuse to pay back damages.
One should not (and cannot) under the current laws be put to deal for stealing candy bars. AFAIK, no death sentence at all exists for anything other than the cold-blooded killing of another human being. So you could no more be executed for that than you could be for being a hyperboloidal fool (which, luckily for you is not a crime in itself).
If you stole 1000 candy bars from 1000 stores, you likely could be charged with a number of theft charges. How many would likely depend on a number of factors (timeframe, etc).
Merely pointing out that this guy committed a large number of separate crimes - each with a separate time, instance, and victim - and is being charged as such. I don't see anyone on here advocating death by torture. If they ever do legalize such a penalty, I suggest that you might find employment talking to condemned prisoners until they get so fed up they hang themselves.
Also, I'm not American.
This is the same "type" of crime, being committed across multiple instances/timeframes/victims.
If somebody breaks into your house today, your neighbours house tomorrow, etc. That's going to be several counts of a given crime (though often pled down).
I agree that the LIBOR guys should be going to jail for a long time though, and Aaron was more the result of the wrong charge overall (wiretap, really?) to exaggerate a crime.
Well, yeah. He gets jail-time because he did this over a hundred times. Just like the sentence for multiple-homicide is different than a single incident, this is a cumulative sentence for all the charges.
Not an argument that people should be able to use slow, crappy storage.
And why not? What exactly is slow and crappy? Even a fairly cheap MicroSD card is fine for storing pictures or a bunch of music. I'm not so sure about video. I'd imagine that hi-def stuff isn't going to work particularly great with a cheap card (I don't have any HD video on my device), but SD is probably OK.
And why should 90% of users pay for the inclusion of something only 10% of the people want or need?
So the extra buck or two per device is an onerous addon? If people are shelling out hundreds of dollars to get a bit more space, I'd say that it *IS* something that users want/need, and a MicroSD slot is a heck of a lot more reasonable than a few hundred bucks. However, Apple (and Google too) have discovered that it's more profitable to sell another whole device rather than allow users to add their own storage. Of course, the console boys have been doing this for quite a long time (take a look at the price of an XBOX hard-drive).
Will this allow me to whitelist a particular domain/site?
It sounds like a great feature (one I already have with existing addons), but only if you can whitelist domains that you trust and not otherwise have to click-to-allow every time.
With that in mind, a blacklist for evil domains (like doubleclick) would be nice too. Especially if one could import it from a master file.
Indeed. It's a case of two wrongs.
Should Swartz have gotten some punishment for what he did? Yes.
Should he have gotten (or been threatened) a potential life sentence or more from an overzealous prosecutor. No.
If he had been facing a substantial (but not unreasonable/life-ruining) fine, or a few months in jail, then we probably wouldn't be talking about this right now (and he'd still be alive).
Well, the GP specifically said "Even wargamers know tanks are dead meat in *cities*"
I could see how this would be the case, especially if the military ever came in with a domestic show of force. There are plenty of places tanks aren't going to be able to travel, and plenty of places for them to get stuck. All those tunnels and what-not that often run under streets, bridges, etc, a tank isn't going to travel well over a 15' hole in the ground.
Hopefully we'll never have to find out how tanks fare in a domestic in-city conflict.
And who exactly does this? Do you have any idea of the horsepower and work that would be needed to inspect a few hundred machines traffic (and not have false-positives up the ying-yang?)
I'm surprised that MS isn't being watched closely for anti-trust on the whole windows 8 thing. Win8 is a crappy interface for a non-touch PC, and a terrible change for anyone who's used to a traditional OS. What it is good for, is getting people used to the same interface as on MS tablets etc. Since they're late to the tablet market, it seems that "unifying" the interface is really an attempt to lock people into MS's metro interface and app-store etc, so that they can push more into the tablet market as it replaces the PC market.
However, I thought that leveraging a monopoly in one market to gain an advantage in another is one of the foundations of anti-trust. Can somebody explain that?
And put something very subtle in it that affects birth-rate. Perhaps something that disables the "Y" chromosome (or perhaps the other way, something that would cause predominantly male births instead).
Nothing contagious etc mind you, this isn't something that you'd want to mess with passing on. Just something that's persistent so long as people are eating the food.
It's a long-term solution. But as I'd imagine those "in-favour" will consume most of the food-aid, suddenly you're going to have a population with a huge female-male ratio. I'd imagine that while the few remaining males would enjoy that ratio for awhile, over time it's going to eventually significantly reduce the ability to increase population through internal procreation.
Oh hell, perhaps if they could match for aggression, spread something that will eventually lead to a population that is very passive and non-warlike.
You know, I thought that having an PWNable internet-connected printer was bad because some guy could print out goatse pictures.
Even worse would be a "bioprinter" where it could be printer in some 3d, flesh-like material....
Well, apparently it will last longer than if you had put them on MegaUpload... :-)
Except how will you know it's compromised unless you're scanning from a clean system/media?
You *could* have another machine pop in and compare md5's or whatever, but that assumes that "md5sum" and a bunch of others machine being tested isn't compromised.
You *could* also run the SSH'able machine inside a VM and check from the VM host, but the host could still be compromised or other issues.
Another option is to routinely check by booting from secure media, but that involves downtime.
Investigating a compromised system is one thing. I believe the GP was more about discovering that the system is compromised in the first place.
Kinda like how in Canada the new mine just made speaking Mandarin part of the job requirement, and then hired all workers from China when they "couldn't find" local candidates that fit the requirement.
This sounds like a good thing to me.
If you have an H1B holder convert to a GC holder/Citizen, then you're (generally) adding a productive citizen who is familiar with the laws/environment and has useful work experience.
Sounds a lot better than letting somebody in on a resident permit only to find that their skills/experience are only useful in allowing them to work as a cab driver or in a fast-food joint. This seems to happen a lot in Canada as in the big cities a log of places prefer immigrants (more power, easier to control, less knowledge of labor laws), illegals (work under the table for less), etc, and those skill jobs that do hire at market rate prefer locals (more local knowledge of culture, better english, etc). You end up with people coming in as "skilled workers" but then not being able to find a job that makes use of said skills, or at least not for several years.
I read the GP as you have to fight with immigration in your country to get a new H1B, but then coming back to the US you could still be denied at the border.