Once upon a time, a BOFH would manage his system with a pistol. If we KILL'ed a process, we'd loot its shotgun and be even more feared. It was brutal, bloody, and cruel. The way system administration is supposed to be. "root, red in tooth and claw."
Now? Minecraft. And not a good PvP server, either. I'll bet they don't even have TNT or skeleton archers, either. "Creative mode". My 9-year-olds sneer at creative mode. No bloodshed. No mayhem. Nothing to lose.
Pretty soon, it'll be VM management by buying outfits for Hello Kitty in Hello Kitty Container Adventure.
The free and cross-platform Chromium-based code editor Visual Studio Code is being open sourced today.
(Emphasis added)
"Chromium-based" means it's based on a web browser engine, but that doesn't make it web-based. Its backside could easily be file- or Git-based, as you say.
Very interesting, and maybe confusing, move by Microsoft.
In the future, any flight engineer or pilot using that iPad to enter the plane weight data runs the risk of having it auto-corrected to the wrong value used by the crew in this case.
Every candidate they list is a local console application using a local framebuffer desktop system.
Real terminal emulators are network detached from a headless server system.
I use PuTTY SSH from Windows, command-line OpenSSH from a native (non-graphical) console for Linux, or VxConnectBot on my Android phone (which has a slider keyboard).
Sometimes I'll actually use an old-school serial-port terminal emulator on an old Amiga to connect to my "desperation serial port" console on my home server. Weird how that thing will be working when must network-based ttys are down.
All the example attacks cited in the article, and the evil maid attack in the summary, require uninterrupted physical access to the computer. While the specific techniques are interesting, they're all just applications of the the first principle that if an attacker gets unimpeded access to the hardware they're attacking, you have no defenses left.
If your computer is stolen, the lesson here is to assume it's compromised because physical access trumps all.
Makes you wish you could install anti-tamper self destruct on such systems.
Just heard some sad news on talk radio - Computer designer Gene Amdahl was found dead in his Palo Alto home this morning. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to geek culture. Truly an American icon.
Unless the sysadmin has a brain, in which case she installs the optional but ubiquitous GNU userland packages and places them first in execution paths. Because the UNIX native utils suck dead donkey balls.
But yes, in those true UNIX systems/usr/bin and/usr/sbin is probably pure UNIX heritage, for good or ill.
Urban legend has it that back in Old Days of the Revolution, the Chinese Communist Party billed the family of an executed criminal* for the cost of the bullet used to execute him.
There's some dispute to this, of course. It is hard to believe because it would be beyond the pale of decency, even to the extent it would be acknowledged by Communist revolutionaries, to bill you for the cost of their oppression.
But not, apparently, in Oceania.
*"criminal" often meant political opponent, not necessarily an actual criminal.
The history of claim-jumping argues against you. More efficient than prospecting on your own someplace away from other claims, is to let someone else do your prospecting for you and then take the claim for your own. If they're working an asteroid, presumably it's rich enough to make it worth taking from them.
The Earth is big but humanity has always been willing to kill each other for chosen and desirable bits of it. Space probably won't be different, because even if Space is different, humanity is still humanity.
Slashdot Mirror
The Internet of Things will never include the buckets of gold coins and ammunition buried in my back yard.
No, not really.
Forcing yourself to hit a release date, even though something catastrophic has exploded your schedule, remains the guaranteed recipe for shit.
Oddly comforting to know it's not just us out here in software-land.
"We're not going to let those terrorists destroy freedom! We'll destroy it first, and deny them their victory!"
But no, after all it is Sony's pool, with complimentary urine
Also, that's not a Baby Ruth chocolate bar floating in the water.
What I want to know is when are they adding "Other OS" back?
It's a sad thing when ten people die, and you think something like, "well, at least they weren't murdered."
Sufficiently advanced negligence is indistinguishable from homicide.
Once upon a time, a BOFH would manage his system with a pistol. If we KILL'ed a process, we'd loot its shotgun and be even more feared. It was brutal, bloody, and cruel. The way system administration is supposed to be. "root, red in tooth and claw."
Now? Minecraft. And not a good PvP server, either. I'll bet they don't even have TNT or skeleton archers, either. "Creative mode". My 9-year-olds sneer at creative mode. No bloodshed. No mayhem. Nothing to lose.
Pretty soon, it'll be VM management by buying outfits for Hello Kitty in Hello Kitty Container Adventure.
DO NOT WAAAANT!
I suspect the confusion arises because TFA (last link in TFS) says that
(Emphasis added)
"Chromium-based" means it's based on a web browser engine, but that doesn't make it web-based. Its backside could easily be file- or Git-based, as you say.
Very interesting, and maybe confusing, move by Microsoft.
You're blaming slashcode for your double post?
Ok, fine, that's actually quite credible. But still, a craftsman doesn't blame his tools.
In the future, any flight engineer or pilot using that iPad to enter the plane weight data runs the risk of having it auto-corrected to the wrong value used by the crew in this case.
No, not really. I hope.
Every candidate they list is a local console application using a local framebuffer desktop system.
Real terminal emulators are network detached from a headless server system.
I use PuTTY SSH from Windows, command-line OpenSSH from a native (non-graphical) console for Linux, or VxConnectBot on my Android phone (which has a slider keyboard).
Sometimes I'll actually use an old-school serial-port terminal emulator on an old Amiga to connect to my "desperation serial port" console on my home server. Weird how that thing will be working when must network-based ttys are down.
I for one welcome our new G0-T0 crimelords!
FTFY.
All the example attacks cited in the article, and the evil maid attack in the summary, require uninterrupted physical access to the computer. While the specific techniques are interesting, they're all just applications of the the first principle that if an attacker gets unimpeded access to the hardware they're attacking, you have no defenses left.
If your computer is stolen, the lesson here is to assume it's compromised because physical access trumps all.
Makes you wish you could install anti-tamper self destruct on such systems.
Just heard some sad news on talk radio - Computer designer Gene Amdahl was found dead in his Palo Alto home this morning. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to geek culture. Truly an American icon.
None of that nasty GNU stuff needed.
Unless the sysadmin has a brain, in which case she installs the optional but ubiquitous GNU userland packages and places them first in execution paths. Because the UNIX native utils suck dead donkey balls.
But yes, in those true UNIX systems /usr/bin and /usr/sbin is probably pure UNIX heritage, for good or ill.
Urban legend has it that back in Old Days of the Revolution, the Chinese Communist Party billed the family of an executed criminal* for the cost of the bullet used to execute him.
There's some dispute to this, of course. It is hard to believe because it would be beyond the pale of decency, even to the extent it would be acknowledged by Communist revolutionaries, to bill you for the cost of their oppression.
But not, apparently, in Oceania.
*"criminal" often meant political opponent, not necessarily an actual criminal.
Blipverts. Awesome.
The history of claim-jumping argues against you. More efficient than prospecting on your own someplace away from other claims, is to let someone else do your prospecting for you and then take the claim for your own. If they're working an asteroid, presumably it's rich enough to make it worth taking from them.
The Earth is big but humanity has always been willing to kill each other for chosen and desirable bits of it. Space probably won't be different, because even if Space is different, humanity is still humanity.
-- Robert Goodloe Harper
3d printed fish contraception. Who knew it was this versatile!
Squirt people with acid?
Detonate the charge of liquid explosives?
Dampen the Air Marshal?
These are dangerous times.
It's not false advertising!
It's puffery! That makes it totes legit!
Those guys get around.
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This sounds like the setup for a quest line in Fallout 3.
...by buying out Slashdot and hiring on its crack staff of editors.
The quality of the output of both publishers improves radically.