Really, SCO's just a bit confused over what kind of attack they're experiencing. Nobody does "SYN" floods anymore (unless, of course, they're a L33t child, or they just recently emerged from a 5 year coma).
No . . . What's SCO's experiencing is a "SIN" attack.
A classic example of that whole "what goes around, comes around" karma kinda thing.
What I don't understand is why so many people are threatened by the notion of a secular government?
Fear of losing control.
By fostering a sense of "us vs. them", governments and religious institutions play on the fears and insecurities of their supporters/followers. If you can make your minions believe that only you have the answers, they'll follow you to hell and back, or straight to the Kool-aid table.
Secular governments are traditionally far more liberally minded (yes, I used the "L" word) with regard to education. An educated populace loses a lot of its fear of the unknown, and thus becomes dangerous to the status quo. The staus quo responds by closing ranks and promoting new fears to try and restore order.
In the old days, it was the fear of hell that kept the common folk in line while the Medici popes raided the European and Vatican coffers. The modern day equivalent of hell is poverty, so the fear of losing money, or to appear that you have less than others, is the demon dangled whenever those free-thinking types get uppity. In times of uncertainty, hypocrisy reigns supreme over logic.
If it wasn't so sad, it'd almost be funny. But then again, humankind has known this for millenia, and yet we still fight the battles over and over.
Yech. I'm checking for bad blocks on a 40gig. disk now for the past hour and a half. I don't even want to think about how long it'd take on one of these . . .
I find it funny that a group that collectively has trouble with personal hygiene, getting a date, ever getting a second date, finding something to talk about besides computers, etc is down on high level executives.
Brought to you by a happily married sysadmin with excellent personal hygeine . . .
...that all of these changes in copyright law, and collection of personal information is really just some giant, and perversely evil scheme designed to make marketing easier?
thanks to outstanding marketing the record industry turned him and a few other pseudo singers into a bankable megastars for a time.
And this is a good thing?
Seriously, if the record companies would promote "true" artists (i.e., those that could actually write, produce and sing quality material) instead of wasting millions developing and promoting folks like Timberlake simply because they're "pretty", everyone would be happier.
...I thought I'd have a future computer that didn't crash. I had no idea I'd have to worry about toasters, refridgerators, and dishwashers crashing too...
Your absolutely right. However, the system that is being described in the article is based around a voice-stress analysis. People with these types of claims are going to demonstating the exact types of voice stresses that a system such as this will flag as a indicator of falsehood. Therefore, is is safe to assume that a moderately high percentage of people with valid claims will be forced to endure a completely unecessary, and unecessarily extra stressful examination of their motives for filing. Punishment for the punished, in other words.
After Microsoft Bob died, his remains were moved to the beta test lab for a "postmortem". Unfortunately, the temp assigned to check him out had already cashed out his MS stock and moved to Belize.
So Bob sat. And sat. And sat. Until nobody else in the test lab questioned his presence. To all the temps, Bob was just another one of the guys.
One day Bill Gates, after learning that his company would actually be forced to pay their temp employees for the 80+ hours a week of overtime he expected from them, came up with the brilliant idea of giving Bob a new lease on life by having him handle all of the beta testing for the company. He immediately fired all the human temp employees formerly assigned to the task and, using automation as the key to profit, assigned Bob the new title of Bill's Automated Systems Tester And Research Developer.
Almost instantly, Bill saved millions in salary and saw his company's stock price jump another three percent. Bill's wife Miranda, a kindly soul still deeply wounded by the harsh outcries her contribution Bob had caused in her husband's user base, was immensely happy. All looked right with the world.
Unfortunately, Bob, being buggy, had acquired some nasty habits during his tenure in the beta test lab, surrounded by donut eating, salary deprived temps. Designed to help steer frightened computer users into the light, Bob began to feel sorry for the frightened computer bugs. Out of a now perverse sense of binary sympathy, Bob began to ignore the "minor" bugs that would make computers safer. In his mind, computers needed to be easy, not safe.
...is that most people generally have very good reasons for sounding distressed during a call an insurance company.
How is someone supposed to calmly explain they just lost their entire family to a car crash, saw their child die in a terrorist attack, or just permanently lost the use of their arm to the wood chipper? How are they supposed to do this while navigating the vast innefficient bureaucracy insurers have erected to keep callers to a minimum? Just getting through the bloody voice mail tree is often more than enough to send most folks into a rage, which'll probably light these lie detectors up like Times Square on New Year's Eve.
I get the feeling this is just another attempt for insurance companies to try and justify claim denials. Cheap and cruelly insensitive.
The level of increase in the amount of scanning this thing is producing is amazing. According to the ISC Storm Center, this thing is now accounting for almost 80% of all inbound reports.
At the non-profit where I work we saw just five scans in the firewall logs from Sunday. Today's logs show well over 500 scans in a five hour period. While a larger site admin may think this is a trivial amount, the only comaprable level of activity we've had that was similar in the past was Code Red related.
While this looks like a troll, I'll bite and remind folks that Burlington Coat Factory is one of a very few companies that actually implemented a large scale roll-out of Linux on the desktop. And they did it back in 1999.
Not a day goes by that I don't hear some pundit exclaiming that Linux is "still not ready for the desktop", but Burlington has already proven that it most definitely is.
Slashdot Mirror
Bush's campaign has an e-mail list totaling 6 million people
Would this be the number of addresses harvested off that lovely new "whitehouse.gov" e-mail system?
Not just every company, but also every division within that company. There won't likely be any "opt me out once and for all" clauses.
I expect that I'll be limbering up my "Delete" button over the next few weeks in anticipation of the onslaught.
At least tinker toys are fun.
Really, SCO's just a bit confused over what kind of attack they're experiencing. Nobody does "SYN" floods anymore (unless, of course, they're a L33t child, or they just recently emerged from a 5 year coma).
No . . . What's SCO's experiencing is a "SIN" attack. A classic example of that whole "what goes around, comes around" karma kinda thing.
I guess Disney needs to buy some SARS masks for Mickey and Minnie . . .
Fear of losing control.
By fostering a sense of "us vs. them", governments and religious institutions play on the fears and insecurities of their supporters/followers. If you can make your minions believe that only you have the answers, they'll follow you to hell and back, or straight to the Kool-aid table.
Secular governments are traditionally far more liberally minded (yes, I used the "L" word) with regard to education. An educated populace loses a lot of its fear of the unknown, and thus becomes dangerous to the status quo. The staus quo responds by closing ranks and promoting new fears to try and restore order. In the old days, it was the fear of hell that kept the common folk in line while the Medici popes raided the European and Vatican coffers. The modern day equivalent of hell is poverty, so the fear of losing money, or to appear that you have less than others, is the demon dangled whenever those free-thinking types get uppity. In times of uncertainty, hypocrisy reigns supreme over logic.
If it wasn't so sad, it'd almost be funny. But then again, humankind has known this for millenia, and yet we still fight the battles over and over.
It really is that simple.
. . .upgrade the Flight Simulator in Excel.
Yech. I'm checking for bad blocks on a 40gig. disk now for the past hour and a half. I don't even want to think about how long it'd take on one of these . . .
Favorite Programming Beverage: COFFEE
Anyone care to venture a guess as to what today's marketing meeting will be about?
...that all of these changes in copyright law, and collection of personal information is really just some giant, and perversely evil scheme designed to make marketing easier?
And this is a good thing?
Seriously, if the record companies would promote "true" artists (i.e., those that could actually write, produce and sing quality material) instead of wasting millions developing and promoting folks like Timberlake simply because they're "pretty", everyone would be happier.
. . . and a Republican mob outside the door, being controlled by Karl (the Nazi in Raiders of the Lost Ark) Rove.
Funny. I thought my computer was tool for, I don't know, doing my job ??? This must mean that I've had it all, horribly wrong for all this time.
Evian.
...I thought I'd have a future computer that didn't crash. I had no idea I'd have to worry about toasters, refridgerators, and dishwashers crashing too...
Your absolutely right. However, the system that is being described in the article is based around a voice-stress analysis. People with these types of claims are going to demonstating the exact types of voice stresses that a system such as this will flag as a indicator of falsehood. Therefore, is is safe to assume that a moderately high percentage of people with valid claims will be forced to endure a completely unecessary, and unecessarily extra stressful examination of their motives for filing. Punishment for the punished, in other words.
After Microsoft Bob died, his remains were moved to the beta test lab for a "postmortem". Unfortunately, the temp assigned to check him out had already cashed out his MS stock and moved to Belize.
So Bob sat. And sat. And sat. Until nobody else in the test lab questioned his presence. To all the temps, Bob was just another one of the guys.
One day Bill Gates, after learning that his company would actually be forced to pay their temp employees for the 80+ hours a week of overtime he expected from them, came up with the brilliant idea of giving Bob a new lease on life by having him handle all of the beta testing for the company. He immediately fired all the human temp employees formerly assigned to the task and, using automation as the key to profit, assigned Bob the new title of Bill's Automated Systems Tester And Research Developer.
Almost instantly, Bill saved millions in salary and saw his company's stock price jump another three percent. Bill's wife Miranda, a kindly soul still deeply wounded by the harsh outcries her contribution Bob had caused in her husband's user base, was immensely happy. All looked right with the world.
Unfortunately, Bob, being buggy, had acquired some nasty habits during his tenure in the beta test lab, surrounded by donut eating, salary deprived temps. Designed to help steer frightened computer users into the light, Bob began to feel sorry for the frightened computer bugs. Out of a now perverse sense of binary sympathy, Bob began to ignore the "minor" bugs that would make computers safer. In his mind, computers needed to be easy, not safe.
I say we hang him.
...is that most people generally have very good reasons for sounding distressed during a call an insurance company.
How is someone supposed to calmly explain they just lost their entire family to a car crash, saw their child die in a terrorist attack, or just permanently lost the use of their arm to the wood chipper? How are they supposed to do this while navigating the vast innefficient bureaucracy insurers have erected to keep callers to a minimum? Just getting through the bloody voice mail tree is often more than enough to send most folks into a rage, which'll probably light these lie detectors up like Times Square on New Year's Eve.
I get the feeling this is just another attempt for insurance companies to try and justify claim denials. Cheap and cruelly insensitive.
The level of increase in the amount of scanning this thing is producing is amazing. According to the ISC Storm Center, this thing is now accounting for almost 80% of all inbound reports.
At the non-profit where I work we saw just five scans in the firewall logs from Sunday. Today's logs show well over 500 scans in a five hour period. While a larger site admin may think this is a trivial amount, the only comaprable level of activity we've had that was similar in the past was Code Red related.
Shove everything in the microwave, and voila, instant privacy.
Of course, once you eat and RFID, you're screwed . . .
high quality banner ads
high quality flash ads
high quality vb scripting
high quality address harvesting
etc. . . .
While this looks like a troll, I'll bite and remind folks that Burlington Coat Factory is one of a very few companies that actually implemented a large scale roll-out of Linux on the desktop. And they did it back in 1999.
Not a day goes by that I don't hear some pundit exclaiming that Linux is "still not ready for the desktop", but Burlington has already proven that it most definitely is.
But they DO have a right to privacy from everyone else. Some Examples:
Marketers
Estranged Parents
Mentally Ill Relatives
Pedophiles