I always bought Asus anyway; they make good boards, and the few times I've had problems they've replaced them...Once I even got a free upgrade because they'd discontinued the board I had.
So it's not going to change my purchasing, but it's still nice.
Just restrict your logging to failed logins for valid users on valid ports, and then jack up the login attempt delay.
By far the majority of attacks are implemented using guesswork credentials.
It's not much of a problem anymore, because storage space is so cheap. I set mine to log everything for a few months, just out of curiosity at the crap going around my ISP and even at the highest levels the logs were only taking up about 15% of my drive space; mostly automated brute force attacks.
Once I restricted the logging to ports that were open, and valid users, it dropped to practically nothing.
Yep. The problem is, sometimes the predator finds the the non-invasives to be tastier, so it just makes the problem worse. The best example of this is the Cane Toad...It eats anything, and reproduces quickly, so it's great for knocking out beetle plagues, and such like.
Unfortunately it will eat anything, and it reproduces rapidly, and, to make it even better, it's poisonous to eat, so the things that would normally control their population eat them and die.
Biological control of invasives works, but you have to study the impact in advance.
What about free wifi? That's the real issue. I used to live in an apartment building, and all my neighbors sprung for a business-grade internet connection, and we set it up on wifi and went nuts while all the other poor bastards in the building were stuck with the crap cable connection.
If we'd been banned, we'd have just switched the cable to someone elses name. What are they going to do? Search my house weekly to make sure I don't have a wireless card?
Trying to force people to graduate is something that only benefits the school system, not the kids. You can't make them learn if they don't want to learn.
You can blame parents for failing to instill in their kids the idea that knowledge is valuable, but if they don't have it, electronically chaining them to the school is not the solution.
It's easier just to turn off the function using an.htaccess override parameter. I've been doing that for years, though, admittedly, I've also had at least enough admin control over my deployment servers to make that possible, so that may not be an option for everyone.
The problem with JDBC is always on the server end. All too often I have to resort to the JDBC->ODBC bridge to get anything done.
Having the code be different for every database is annoying, but if you abstract your database logic, you can make the application portable without too much extra work. Even better, that work will only have to be done once and you can reuse the code until hell freezes over. If nothing else it makes your security a bit more robust, because you know what's in your database code, and you can update your entire implementation without going into individual apps.
What's easier: sitting in your deadend life and rotting, or illegally crossing into another country for the mere chance to work for a better life? They do a hell of a lot more to get here than the average privileged suburban kid, and they've got ambition...Crap like that drives the economy more than uncountable fat union sinecures.
Anyway I was referring to legal immigration, which is the only kind that is relevant to this discussion. In that situation you absolutely can pick and choose.
The problem is inherent in trying to fix a problem that we haven't even now fully defined.
The arguments against a large population are usually resource based: "ZOMG all teh peoplez are eating all our FOODZ" or taking all our oil/copper/whatever.
Historically, however, we've always found alternate resources. We've always increased production, or utilized alternatives.
Now people push for sustainable living, but we don't have a clear idea of what that means. Sustainable at what level? We have no way of knowing without knowing what our options will be twenty years from now.
I think, barring instances (like in China) where there is a clear and pressing need to reduce your population because of obvious and immediate consequences, that the government and the people are doing the right thing by letting population take care of itself.
The situation is so complex that there is effectively no way to intervene without causing significant issues. You can see this in China, with their sex specific infanticide; an unintended side-effect which became inevitable when the government started meddling in reproduction.
Replacement in the US will have to increase to keep our population from contracting as the Boomers start dying off.
Or immigration will have to increase. I'd rather the latter actually; why take a chance on the genetic lottery when you can pick and choose the best from other countries?
Population tends to be self-regulating. Most first world countries have very low (or negative) population growth.
Third world countries have much higher birth rates, but those rates level off as the country becomes more developed...Both India and China have taken (are taking) extreme measures to curb their birthrate.
I doubt we'll end up with a state eugenics, err, I mean "child licensing" program. We're about to have a relatively significant demographic slump in the US; we're more likely to have the government encouraging people to reproduce(SFW). As for other countries; China already did their draconian population curb (the official one at least; their pollution problems may actually be equally effective).
I suppose other states with similar styles of government may institute similar measures, but I doubt it'll ever come to licensing. Prohibiting every couple to one or two children would be received far better by the population than anything that singled people out, and there is no good way at this point to figure out who will produce "better" kids anyway.
Impossible to say, not that this has stopped pundits from predicting impending collapse due to over-population for centuries.
Humanity is pretty good at outrunning the hangman, apparently...Advances in food storage, production, etc have kept up with increased demand pretty well.
Actually, I agree with regards to Solaris...One of the nice things about proprietary solaris is the patch lines are utterly clear, and you can do insane rollbacks very easily...No screwing around with YUM or APT.
The thing that usually gets me in trouble with Linux is the convenience of the automatic update tools; it's very seductive, and very easy to do something stupid.
It's still possible to fubar Linux or Unix or OSX. One advantage that you DO have is that it is possible to do a "real" restore from a working backup...On the other hand, most people are sloppy with backups for their personal machines.
If you do a good job of screwing the system, it still can be quicker to start from scratch. Whenever I have a huge upgrade on a development machine, I tend to start from scratch, to hopefully avoid the problems that accumulate over time.
It's more likely, in the long run, that media players will simply download content from online as they play. Games, music, movies, whatever. No need for DRM when you don't own anything.
If the service was cheap enough, who'd care? Even ~100 bucks a month would be nothing for most of us, for unlimited access. I spend more than that in games alone, even now.
So if I created a brown-colored soda and called it "Coke II" it would be fair use?
I think not.
This is a case where two financial institutions have extremely similar names and overlapping business territory, and the more established one is suing the newer one to prevent them from using the name. It is a textbook application of trademark law, and it doesn't matter at all if the term is a registered trademark as long as the plaintiff can show that they began using the name in the marketplace first.
If the second company was called Capricorn Financial, and they said in all their ads, "Capricorn Financial; we're way the hell better than Orion Financial" that would be fair use.
The goal is to get the best software for the lowest price. The best way to get that is to allow for competition.
Publish a list of specs and requirements, and let anyone who can meet them submit their OS. Anything else and you're subsidizing a product that has no competition; that almost always leads to an inferior product.
The real issue is, most public records that deal with the government are extremely difficult to obtain, requiring repeated FOIA requests, and occasional legal action. Try to get government salary figures (which are also public information) for the morons who are posting this information, and I bet you'll have to jump through hoop after hoop.
Yet when its just some private citizen's information plastered all over the place it is no big deal because it's "public information".
I can just look at the pile of books in my office to call bullshit on that one...I've got 2 O'Reilly's and one "Essential" book that I can see just from where I'm sitting.
Checking my "Safari" account and searching for "Linux" I get 171 books. Searching for "Unix" I get 51.
For the amount of searching that Fossett got, from a state where he didn't live, and didn't pay taxes, I'm finding it hard to be sympathetic. If you or I got lost, we'd never rate a million dollar search effort.
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I always bought Asus anyway; they make good boards, and the few times I've had problems they've replaced them...Once I even got a free upgrade because they'd discontinued the board I had.
So it's not going to change my purchasing, but it's still nice.
Just restrict your logging to failed logins for valid users on valid ports, and then jack up the login attempt delay.
By far the majority of attacks are implemented using guesswork credentials.
It's not much of a problem anymore, because storage space is so cheap. I set mine to log everything for a few months, just out of curiosity at the crap going around my ISP and even at the highest levels the logs were only taking up about 15% of my drive space; mostly automated brute force attacks.
Once I restricted the logging to ports that were open, and valid users, it dropped to practically nothing.
Yep. The problem is, sometimes the predator finds the the non-invasives to be tastier, so it just makes the problem worse. The best example of this is the Cane Toad...It eats anything, and reproduces quickly, so it's great for knocking out beetle plagues, and such like.
Unfortunately it will eat anything, and it reproduces rapidly, and, to make it even better, it's poisonous to eat, so the things that would normally control their population eat them and die.
Biological control of invasives works, but you have to study the impact in advance.
Basically it would fry the RFID...Literally. It'd be a lot less painful to just cut it out.
What about free wifi? That's the real issue. I used to live in an apartment building, and all my neighbors sprung for a business-grade internet connection, and we set it up on wifi and went nuts while all the other poor bastards in the building were stuck with the crap cable connection.
If we'd been banned, we'd have just switched the cable to someone elses name. What are they going to do? Search my house weekly to make sure I don't have a wireless card?
Completely pointless.
If you have an RFID implant, the last thing you want to be exposed to is an EMP.
Trying to force people to graduate is something that only benefits the school system, not the kids. You can't make them learn if they don't want to learn.
You can blame parents for failing to instill in their kids the idea that knowledge is valuable, but if they don't have it, electronically chaining them to the school is not the solution.
It's easier just to turn off the function using an .htaccess override parameter. I've been doing that for years, though, admittedly, I've also had at least enough admin control over my deployment servers to make that possible, so that may not be an option for everyone.
The problem with JDBC is always on the server end. All too often I have to resort to the JDBC->ODBC bridge to get anything done.
Having the code be different for every database is annoying, but if you abstract your database logic, you can make the application portable without too much extra work. Even better, that work will only have to be done once and you can reuse the code until hell freezes over. If nothing else it makes your security a bit more robust, because you know what's in your database code, and you can update your entire implementation without going into individual apps.
What's easier: sitting in your deadend life and rotting, or illegally crossing into another country for the mere chance to work for a better life? They do a hell of a lot more to get here than the average privileged suburban kid, and they've got ambition...Crap like that drives the economy more than uncountable fat union sinecures.
Anyway I was referring to legal immigration, which is the only kind that is relevant to this discussion. In that situation you absolutely can pick and choose.
The problem is inherent in trying to fix a problem that we haven't even now fully defined.
The arguments against a large population are usually resource based: "ZOMG all teh peoplez are eating all our FOODZ" or taking all our oil/copper/whatever.
Historically, however, we've always found alternate resources. We've always increased production, or utilized alternatives.
Now people push for sustainable living, but we don't have a clear idea of what that means. Sustainable at what level? We have no way of knowing without knowing what our options will be twenty years from now.
I think, barring instances (like in China) where there is a clear and pressing need to reduce your population because of obvious and immediate consequences, that the government and the people are doing the right thing by letting population take care of itself.
The situation is so complex that there is effectively no way to intervene without causing significant issues. You can see this in China, with their sex specific infanticide; an unintended side-effect which became inevitable when the government started meddling in reproduction.
Replacement in the US will have to increase to keep our population from contracting as the Boomers start dying off.
Or immigration will have to increase. I'd rather the latter actually; why take a chance on the genetic lottery when you can pick and choose the best from other countries?
Population tends to be self-regulating. Most first world countries have very low (or negative) population growth.
Third world countries have much higher birth rates, but those rates level off as the country becomes more developed...Both India and China have taken (are taking) extreme measures to curb their birthrate.
I doubt we'll end up with a state eugenics, err, I mean "child licensing" program. We're about to have a relatively significant demographic slump in the US; we're more likely to have the government encouraging people to reproduce(SFW). As for other countries; China already did their draconian population curb (the official one at least; their pollution problems may actually be equally effective).
I suppose other states with similar styles of government may institute similar measures, but I doubt it'll ever come to licensing. Prohibiting every couple to one or two children would be received far better by the population than anything that singled people out, and there is no good way at this point to figure out who will produce "better" kids anyway.
Impossible to say, not that this has stopped pundits from predicting impending collapse due to over-population for centuries.
Humanity is pretty good at outrunning the hangman, apparently...Advances in food storage, production, etc have kept up with increased demand pretty well.
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Actually, I agree with regards to Solaris...One of the nice things about proprietary solaris is the patch lines are utterly clear, and you can do insane rollbacks very easily...No screwing around with YUM or APT.
The thing that usually gets me in trouble with Linux is the convenience of the automatic update tools; it's very seductive, and very easy to do something stupid.
It's still possible to fubar Linux or Unix or OSX. One advantage that you DO have is that it is possible to do a "real" restore from a working backup...On the other hand, most people are sloppy with backups for their personal machines.
If you do a good job of screwing the system, it still can be quicker to start from scratch. Whenever I have a huge upgrade on a development machine, I tend to start from scratch, to hopefully avoid the problems that accumulate over time.
It's more likely, in the long run, that media players will simply download content from online as they play. Games, music, movies, whatever. No need for DRM when you don't own anything.
If the service was cheap enough, who'd care? Even ~100 bucks a month would be nothing for most of us, for unlimited access. I spend more than that in games alone, even now.
So if I created a brown-colored soda and called it "Coke II" it would be fair use?
I think not.
This is a case where two financial institutions have extremely similar names and overlapping business territory, and the more established one is suing the newer one to prevent them from using the name. It is a textbook application of trademark law, and it doesn't matter at all if the term is a registered trademark as long as the plaintiff can show that they began using the name in the marketplace first.
If the second company was called Capricorn Financial, and they said in all their ads, "Capricorn Financial; we're way the hell better than Orion Financial" that would be fair use.
The goal is to get the best software for the lowest price. The best way to get that is to allow for competition.
Publish a list of specs and requirements, and let anyone who can meet them submit their OS. Anything else and you're subsidizing a product that has no competition; that almost always leads to an inferior product.
The real issue is, most public records that deal with the government are extremely difficult to obtain, requiring repeated FOIA requests, and occasional legal action. Try to get government salary figures (which are also public information) for the morons who are posting this information, and I bet you'll have to jump through hoop after hoop.
Yet when its just some private citizen's information plastered all over the place it is no big deal because it's "public information".
You want some real irony? Do the same search with the word Caldera included.
That is one bare-faced lie.
I can just look at the pile of books in my office to call bullshit on that one...I've got 2 O'Reilly's and one "Essential" book that I can see just from where I'm sitting.
Checking my "Safari" account and searching for "Linux" I get 171 books. Searching for "Unix" I get 51.
He really is just nucking futs.
Darl's not a technical guy; for all we know he really does believe it.
I'm not sure which is worse; a mindless zealot, or a flaming hypocrite.
For the amount of searching that Fossett got, from a state where he didn't live, and didn't pay taxes, I'm finding it hard to be sympathetic. If you or I got lost, we'd never rate a million dollar search effort.
Privilege has its price.