4. HP already had orders with various suppliers to deliver X number of touchpad components, those orders have not been filled completely. The money is spent, they can sell the stuff to some surplus dealer by weight for pennies on the dollar, pay more to dispose of it, or assemble them and sell them as touchpads for dimes on the dollar + some good will.
I'd sure go with option 4 if I were management at HP
I generally agree that moving well know services to alternate ports is a waste of time at best and a headache at worst, for most services.
Port scanners should not be effective tools in a high security environment though. You should have and IDS that can detect a scan, even if its a coordinated scan from multiple hosts. That IDS should be able to shun those hosts. There is no reason why in 2011 you can't make it prohibitively difficult for the vast majority of would be attackers to run a port scan against your hosts. In which there may be value in moving hi-value targets like administrative interfaces to lesser know ports, generally legitimate people using those interfaces won't be terribly inconvenienced.
Will the guy commanding a 10K machine botnet spread over thousands of networks still be able to scan you and find whatever, certainly yes. If your common threat model really includes that guy though you really operating in a different reality than most of us; for the rest snort, iptables and some shell scripts, or {pick commercial vendor solution} here goes a long way.
In 1997 and unprotected host was not good enough anymore, you needed a firewall In 2000 you needed a stateful firewall In 2005 you needed a application layer firewall Its 2011 you need IDS / IPS The arms race continues....
because federally mandated accounting practices that keep giant corporations from telling complete fabrications to their shareholders caused all our industries to believe that moving to China was the best cost-cutting measure ever.
I can understand China being seen as a cost cutting measure. Do you actually mean to imply that part of the problem is a lack of accounting fraud and that corporations should be able to present inaccurate data to share holders?
You are completely ignorant of history. If the poor getting poorer is an effect of the rich getting richer than how do you explain the 19th Century in the United States?
The rich grew richer than they had ever been. The typical person also experienced a jump in wealth never before seen in such a short time. Were there all kinds of abuses, certainly there were. Still it proves that the poor getting poorer is not a necessary outcome of the rich getting richer.
There is also no justice in equality of result, opportunity perhaps but result no. Some people really are less deserving than others, if you can't understand that or can't accept it please leave the country.
Manager: What do you think you think you're doing you can't play video games at the office, at least not during business hours!
Jr. Network Admin: Sir I am conducting a Pen test of against our dev environment.
Manager: Yea I think my kid likes one too, its Japanese right?
Network Admin: Sir I am its not a game.
Manager: Look I know you guys take you aviators seriously, but try to do it on your own time ok.
Jr Network Admin: Sir I think you mean avatar and like I said this is actually not a game its a front end for metasploit.
Sr Network Admin: He cut the crap Jr that interface is not scriptable at all and how many times do I have to tell you if you think you're going to do it twice, script it once! It leaves more time for slashdot.
Manager: What is slashdot?
Sr Network Admin: Its a um.. hmm.. I guess you'd call it a computer based continuing education tool.
Manager: Really, that sounds great, I want the whole department spending a couple hours a day on this slashdot.
No what he is saying is Obama has been in office for three years and is certainly mostly responsible for at least this example of poor government planing, waste, or both. However Obama is his hero and protect his idolized conception of the man he has found a way to lay all the responsibly at the feat of man who has been back in Texas out the spot light for some time now.
You are also forgetting that you have user culture with browsers that often provides you with disinformation, and unpredictable filtering. I can't count the number of sites I have to send a Firefox user agent string so my favorite browser SeaMonkey is permitted to download the page. Its practically the same engine so of course it works 99.9% percent of places Firefox does, but these means if you have done something which depends on one of the few differences, I have possibly obscured information that is needed.
Even fairly non-technical users have things like NoScript, and or pop-up blockers running. More technical users might have other ad filters installed, some like me even have proxies which actually run regex queries and do rewrites of documents. Now move in the corporate world with things like websense and all bets off.
You can hardly blame users for this either bad actors
So don't become paralyzed. If the computer is not your hobby; realize that what desktop environment you pick really is not that important, pick the first one off the list that ships with your distro and never look back.
Some decisions just don't need to be agonized over. Pick something a move on. Learn not to waste time and energy on things that don't matter much either in absolute terms or relative to yourself, so you can focus on things that do matter.
So what if you picked XFCE and it turns out Gnome or KDE actually is better (as if there even is an objective answer) they all work. Any of them will get your spread sheet application launched and your browser pointed at Facebook just fine.
Very good point, I can see FBI or some other three letter agency coming down like a ton bricks if even the whisper of extortion comes into this. I would call "going to jail" a form of "getting schooled" however.
Yep, Anonymous are/is pretty much just vandals. Lulz Sec at least seemed to have a clear agenda. They were doing to have a good time and to point out the stupidity and arrogance of others. Not the most noble of ambitions, no, but something you cheer for as long as it did go to far. Anonymous on the other had seems more like the London rioters. Something sets them off but they are mostly out there because they are angry at the world and just want smash something.
Well there is a tiny population in this country that paid some attention in their English and History courses. You are normally subjected to them while in those compulsory government detainment ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H education facilities we call high schools.
Personally I'd be very worried if I were him. Groups like Lulz Sec have shown they have people among them who are highly capable and are able to create substantial economic losses for their targets. Anonymous has had less success notable their failure to take down Amazon, and the Credit Card processing companies. Still the threat is credible and Facebook being a one trick pony (they have no business out side their website) could be really hurt by an attack.
Me thinks Anon better come up with something a little more clever than a DDOS though or they are going to be the ones getting schooled.
Right its all about defense in depth. Ideally you should not be able to root a client on my network. If you can root a client on my network then I want to make that have as little utility as possible, when it comes to rooting my servers.
The move is likely to raise borrowing costs eventually for the American government, companies and consumers.
Spoken like a true talking [air] head. It won't raise costs at all because:
The FED/SEC already said organizations can still treat US Treasurys as treasury grade. So Banks do not have to increase capitalization at all. Not that it would be an issue anyway, the FED has goosed the M3 so much Mellon Bank is talking about paying large depositors a negative interest rate, in other words they are so well capitalized they don't want deposits!
Investors do not think about the rating of large sovereign western nations, the way they do about a business or individual because the risk profile is not remotely an analog. Its kinda dumb to even rate sovereigns bonds this way as politics can redefine terms and rules any time; see my first point.
US Treasurys are still a safety play, witness market action all last week. Banks will continue parking money there just like they have been; business as usual all the way.
People will continue buying Treasurys at near zero rates; their is little in the way of better options out there if you need to park a great deal of capital.
Treasurys are at near zero rates, some types like TIPS have even gone NEGATIVE lately. They are therefore not competition for consumer debt, when it comes to shopping for a good interest rate for an investment. If rates don't go up and they won't consumer rates won't go up either.
The rich should not pay more in the proportional sense. What gives you the right to profit by someone eases labor? Similarly the banks and the wealthy people who own them should not have been given bailouts they have no right to your labor. The PROBLEM with this country is this business of redistribution where everyone rich and poor a like feels entitled, and charity is done at gun point. The direction of the flow being determined by the political whim of the moment.
Oh and the fact that we go on these ridiculous military adventures for "humanitarian" reasons while we selectively ignore suffering elsewhere because they have oil, or it might irritate China, or Russia. What this nation needs is a heavy dose of 19th Century political thinking. 20th Century politics are FAIL, let us not wast the 21st with it.
It appears from what the judge wrote that he considered the content being hosted at the domain when he determined seizing the domain did not violate the first amendment.
IANAL but it almost seems like the take away here is that a bunch of links are not protected speech, it seems to leave open the possibility seizing a domain might violate an individuals freedom of speech.
Had the domain pointed to a web server hosting pages about white supremacy, jihad, golf or similar it might have been protected. I am not sure what impact this ruling will have at all.
That really depends I would expect lots business DO have some ability to control or at least scale their usage.
They could say cool the building down to a cooler than normal, but still liveable temperature while power is cheap so they won't need to run cooling as soon or as long during peak later for example. Say crank the place down to 67F between 7 and 8a and then let the place creep up to 74 before you start the AC again during office hours.
If the cost per kwh is much lower at night, perhaps you do more production on your third shift and your first and second shifts are lighter, for examples.
Like some many times before they forgot its not about the letter of the law, but rather the spirit most of the time. HINT if you think you have found some CLEVER exploit in the law, its only really clever if you have at least as many highly paid lawyers as whoever what ever it is that your doing is going to annoy.
From a purely pragmatic standpoint, this PROTECTS teachers from getting in situations where they might be accused of wrongdoing later... That's not all bad.
I agree it might be a good idea for teachers not send or accept friend requests from their current and or recent students, for the reasons you mention and others. What I can't agree with is that it is Constitutional or even simply ethical for government to interfere with what are mostly going to be perfectly innocent, honest, and beneficial social relationships.
I think there are some serious first Amendment issues here. First of all does Freedom of assembly include assembling online? If so then this is clearly a violation of the Teachers and the Students rights.
Looked at another way Friend[ing] someone on Facebook is a public statement. Facebook does not have to let you friend anyone they don't want you to, its there service. I suppose the teacher is the state's employee but outside of being able to regulate comments about the schools and the education system, where does the state obtain any authority to limit the teacher's speech? I can't even imagine a legitimate argument to restrict the students right to express friendship with their teacher outside of school.
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4. HP already had orders with various suppliers to deliver X number of touchpad components, those orders have not been filled completely. The money is spent, they can sell the stuff to some surplus dealer by weight for pennies on the dollar, pay more to dispose of it, or assemble them and sell them as touchpads for dimes on the dollar + some good will.
I'd sure go with option 4 if I were management at HP
I generally agree that moving well know services to alternate ports is a waste of time at best and a headache at worst, for most services.
Port scanners should not be effective tools in a high security environment though. You should have and IDS that can detect a scan, even if its a coordinated scan from multiple hosts. That IDS should be able to shun those hosts. There is no reason why in 2011 you can't make it prohibitively difficult for the vast majority of would be attackers to run a port scan against your hosts. In which there may be value in moving hi-value targets like administrative interfaces to lesser know ports, generally legitimate people using those interfaces won't be terribly inconvenienced.
Will the guy commanding a 10K machine botnet spread over thousands of networks still be able to scan you and find whatever, certainly yes. If your common threat model really includes that guy though you really operating in a different reality than most of us; for the rest snort, iptables and some shell scripts, or {pick commercial vendor solution} here goes a long way.
In 1997 and unprotected host was not good enough anymore, you needed a firewall
In 2000 you needed a stateful firewall
In 2005 you needed a application layer firewall
Its 2011 you need IDS / IPS
The arms race continues....
because federally mandated accounting practices that keep giant corporations from telling complete fabrications to their shareholders caused all our industries to believe that moving to China was the best cost-cutting measure ever.
I can understand China being seen as a cost cutting measure. Do you actually mean to imply that part of the problem is a lack of accounting fraud and that corporations should be able to present inaccurate data to share holders?
You are completely ignorant of history. If the poor getting poorer is an effect of the rich getting richer than how do you explain the 19th Century in the United States?
The rich grew richer than they had ever been. The typical person also experienced a jump in wealth never before seen in such a short time. Were there all kinds of abuses, certainly there were. Still it proves that the poor getting poorer is not a necessary outcome of the rich getting richer.
There is also no justice in equality of result, opportunity perhaps but result no. Some people really are less deserving than others, if you can't understand that or can't accept it please leave the country.
So there is no problem I guess, as everyone knows there are no humans at Cisco.
Rob, shame on you for trying to steal Job's thunder :-)
As someone who read this site for years, and has been a registered user for about a decade now, I want to say thank you - its been great!
Manager: What do you think you think you're doing you can't play video games at the office, at least not during business hours!
Jr. Network Admin: Sir I am conducting a Pen test of against our dev environment.
Manager: Yea I think my kid likes one too, its Japanese right?
Network Admin: Sir I am its not a game.
Manager: Look I know you guys take you aviators seriously, but try to do it on your own time ok.
Jr Network Admin: Sir I think you mean avatar and like I said this is actually not a game its a front end for metasploit.
Sr Network Admin: He cut the crap Jr that interface is not scriptable at all and how many times do I have to tell you if you think you're going to do it twice, script it once! It leaves more time for slashdot.
Manager: What is slashdot?
Sr Network Admin: Its a um.. hmm.. I guess you'd call it a computer based continuing education tool.
Manager: Really, that sounds great, I want the whole department spending a couple hours a day on this slashdot.
No what he is saying is Obama has been in office for three years and is certainly mostly responsible for at least this example of poor government planing, waste, or both. However Obama is his hero and protect his idolized conception of the man he has found a way to lay all the responsibly at the feat of man who has been back in Texas out the spot light for some time now.
You are also forgetting that you have user culture with browsers that often provides you with disinformation, and unpredictable filtering. I can't count the number of sites I have to send a Firefox user agent string so my favorite browser SeaMonkey is permitted to download the page. Its practically the same engine so of course it works 99.9% percent of places Firefox does, but these means if you have done something which depends on one of the few differences, I have possibly obscured information that is needed.
Even fairly non-technical users have things like NoScript, and or pop-up blockers running. More technical users might have other ad filters installed, some like me even have proxies which actually run regex queries and do rewrites of documents. Now move in the corporate world with things like websense and all bets off.
You can hardly blame users for this either bad actors
So don't become paralyzed. If the computer is not your hobby; realize that what desktop environment you pick really is not that important, pick the first one off the list that ships with your distro and never look back.
Some decisions just don't need to be agonized over. Pick something a move on. Learn not to waste time and energy on things that don't matter much either in absolute terms or relative to yourself, so you can focus on things that do matter.
So what if you picked XFCE and it turns out Gnome or KDE actually is better (as if there even is an objective answer) they all work. Any of them will get your spread sheet application launched and your browser pointed at Facebook just fine.
Very good point, I can see FBI or some other three letter agency coming down like a ton bricks if even the whisper of extortion comes into this. I would call "going to jail" a form of "getting schooled" however.
Yep, Anonymous are/is pretty much just vandals. Lulz Sec at least seemed to have a clear agenda. They were doing to have a good time and to point out the stupidity and arrogance of others. Not the most noble of ambitions, no, but something you cheer for as long as it did go to far. Anonymous on the other had seems more like the London rioters. Something sets them off but they are mostly out there because they are angry at the world and just want smash something.
Well there is a tiny population in this country that paid some attention in their English and History courses. You are normally subjected to them while in those compulsory government detainment ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H education facilities we call high schools.
Personally I'd be very worried if I were him. Groups like Lulz Sec have shown they have people among them who are highly capable and are able to create substantial economic losses for their targets. Anonymous has had less success notable their failure to take down Amazon, and the Credit Card processing companies. Still the threat is credible and Facebook being a one trick pony (they have no business out side their website) could be really hurt by an attack.
Me thinks Anon better come up with something a little more clever than a DDOS though or they are going to be the ones getting schooled.
Right its all about defense in depth. Ideally you should not be able to root a client on my network. If you can root a client on my network then I want to make that have as little utility as possible, when it comes to rooting my servers.
It's time for a general curfew starting at 6pm and revoked at 6am for two months if the rioters doesn't stop.
Now there is some economic stimulus! Just what the struggling economy needs. Hell the riots at least function as a makes work program.
Reads like something from the Bastard Operator From Hell's excuse calendar
The move is likely to raise borrowing costs eventually for the American government, companies and consumers.
Spoken like a true talking [air] head. It won't raise costs at all because:
The FED/SEC already said organizations can still treat US Treasurys as treasury grade. So Banks do not have to increase capitalization at all. Not that it would be an issue anyway, the FED has goosed the M3 so much Mellon Bank is talking about paying large depositors a negative interest rate, in other words they are so well capitalized they don't want deposits!
Investors do not think about the rating of large sovereign western nations, the way they do about a business or individual because the risk profile is not remotely an analog. Its kinda dumb to even rate sovereigns bonds this way as politics can redefine terms and rules any time; see my first point.
US Treasurys are still a safety play, witness market action all last week. Banks will continue parking money there just like they have been; business as usual all the way.
People will continue buying Treasurys at near zero rates; their is little in the way of better options out there if you need to park a great deal of capital.
Treasurys are at near zero rates, some types like TIPS have even gone NEGATIVE lately. They are therefore not competition for consumer debt, when it comes to shopping for a good interest rate for an investment. If rates don't go up and they won't consumer rates won't go up either.
The rich should not pay more in the proportional sense. What gives you the right to profit by someone eases labor? Similarly the banks and the wealthy people who own them should not have been given bailouts they have no right to your labor. The PROBLEM with this country is this business of redistribution where everyone rich and poor a like feels entitled, and charity is done at gun point. The direction of the flow being determined by the political whim of the moment.
Oh and the fact that we go on these ridiculous military adventures for "humanitarian" reasons while we selectively ignore suffering elsewhere because they have oil, or it might irritate China, or Russia. What this nation needs is a heavy dose of 19th Century political thinking. 20th Century politics are FAIL, let us not wast the 21st with it.
It appears from what the judge wrote that he considered the content being hosted at the domain when he determined seizing the domain did not violate the first amendment.
IANAL but it almost seems like the take away here is that a bunch of links are not protected speech, it seems to leave open the possibility seizing a domain might violate an individuals freedom of speech.
Had the domain pointed to a web server hosting pages about white supremacy, jihad, golf or similar it might have been protected. I am not sure what impact this ruling will have at all.
That really depends I would expect lots business DO have some ability to control or at least scale their usage.
They could say cool the building down to a cooler than normal, but still liveable temperature while power is cheap so they won't need to run cooling as soon or as long during peak later for example. Say crank the place down to 67F between 7 and 8a and then let the place creep up to 74 before you start the AC again during office hours.
If the cost per kwh is much lower at night, perhaps you do more production on your third shift and your first and second shifts are lighter, for examples.
Like some many times before they forgot its not about the letter of the law, but rather the spirit most of the time. HINT if you think you have found some CLEVER exploit in the law, its only really clever if you have at least as many highly paid lawyers as whoever what ever it is that your doing is going to annoy.
From a purely pragmatic standpoint, this PROTECTS teachers from getting in situations where they might be accused of wrongdoing later... That's not all bad.
I agree it might be a good idea for teachers not send or accept friend requests from their current and or recent students, for the reasons you mention and others. What I can't agree with is that it is Constitutional or even simply ethical for government to interfere with what are mostly going to be perfectly innocent, honest, and beneficial social relationships.
I think there are some serious first Amendment issues here. First of all does Freedom of assembly include assembling online? If so then this is clearly a violation of the Teachers and the Students rights.
Looked at another way Friend[ing] someone on Facebook is a public statement. Facebook does not have to let you friend anyone they don't want you to, its there service. I suppose the teacher is the state's employee but outside of being able to regulate comments about the schools and the education system, where does the state obtain any authority to limit the teacher's speech? I can't even imagine a legitimate argument to restrict the students right to express friendship with their teacher outside of school.
Where is the ACLU when you actually need them?
I am afraid DC might go super critical already all on its own.