In principle that's a grand thing, but when the reality is that you will have to pay a price, even if you win, and the officer in question will likely suffer nothing, even if he loses, then it becomes a distinction without a difference. Either way, the civilian loses.
Freedom isn't free. Your forefathers put in a great deal more effort to attain their freedom. It's not too much to ask that you do something from time to time to retain your freedom.
Like all governments in the past this one will also fail and need to be refreshed. What will you be doing when that time comes?
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." - Thomas Jefferson
"If we humans have such big brains, how can we get conned?"
Ummm... if god is so powerful can he make a rock so big he can't move it?
There is a spectrum of intelligence. Some of the more intelligent people are coming up with cons. People of lower intelligence fall for them. No magic here.
So, you can turn it off. Not only that, but as of 9/30 there's a separate link at their firmware download page for the DIR-655 that says (in plain view, in a sensible spot): Click here for Firmware 1.21 WITHOUT SecureSpot 2.0
Plus, upgrading your firmware "just because". Why?
Double flame to you buddy.
1) I wouldn't call "WITHOUT SecureSpot 2.0" in plain view. It's not like SecureSpot means anything to me. It has the name Secure so it sounds like something I would want. Now if they named it KickInTheBalls 2.0 or maybe SlapInTheFace 3.2 I would know to avoid it. SecureSpot means nothing to me.
2) Upgrading firmware on a firewall/router why? Are you kidding me? You're going to be-little people who pro-actively secure their main entry point to the outside world. From now on you should lose your Slashdot posting privs.
Stay far away from the Video Game industry if you value your 'personal' time. Of the few people I know working for BioWare and Ubisoft... that job will become your life.
I think it all boils down to what one boss said to one of the guys I know: "I've got 35 resumes sitting on my desk of people just as qualified as you who are willing to do your job. So no you can't have time off."
Why don't they just make it an analog clock? The hands could simply spin around faster and faster as the situation worsens, which would be much more amusing. The numbers are fairly meaningless anyway.
It may be slightly off-topic but the parent has a VERY valid point. Self-signed sites are encrypted but best of luck trying to get people to use them thanks to the 3-clicks required and SMALL text. When I used the new firefox release I was even confused at first.
Now back to obfuscated TCP: This is on par with using NAT to fix the lack of IP addresses. Just fix the damn thing properly and stop screwing around with time wasting half-fixes (yeah they admitted it).
About the only thing this is going to do is make troubleshooting problems with Ethereal or other packet sniffers a pain in the a$$. Thanks.
Our security auditing team typically has between six and twelve members who continue to search for and fix new security holes. We have been auditing since the summer of 1996. The process we follow to increase security is simply a comprehensive file-by-file analysis of every critical software component. We are not so much looking for security holes, as we are looking for basic software bugs, and if years later someone discovers the problem used to be a security issue, and we fixed it because it was just a bug, well, all the better. Flaws have been found in just about every area of the system. Entire new classes of security problems have been found during our audit, and often source code which had been audited earlier needs re-auditing with these new flaws in mind. Code often gets audited multiple times, and by multiple people with different auditing skills."
Even better, explain to me why I, as Joe Sixpack will *need* my fridge on a public IP where every flaw and exploit will be passed directly to it, rather than dropped at the NAT box?
What you want is a firewall not a NAT. A firewall will protect you just the same and allow people to initiate communication as YOU desire.
Or better still, explain why a small business with 60 users should have every last user on a public IP?
There are quite a few examples why this is important but here's one. Why can't all students / businesses have a public IP with an exposed port for VoIP? Why do VoIP products have to have complicated NAT traversal software that doesn't always work and at the very least just adds useless overhead.
It's called a firewall. Set one up and stop spreading FUD.
Your comment made me laugh, it really did. Go look at the civil liberties raped over and over by both sides during the American Civil War or during the First World War in the US, then compare/contrast to the current "erosion" of civil liberties.
You're a tool in every sense of the word. It's 'enablers' like you that try to justify every wrongful action. Who cares if it was worse a century ago, who cares if Mexico is worse. The only reason we're better NOW is because we iterated towards a better society.
How exactly is defending this going to make the world a better place? Indifference is the enemy of progress and you're worse. You're a piece of garbage weighted around the ankle of positive change.
Due to the health risks associated with carbon dioxide exposure, the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration says that average exposure for healthy adults during an eight-hour work day should not exceed 5,000 ppm (0.5%). The maximum safe level for infants, children, the elderly and individuals with cardio-pulmonary health issues is significantly less. For short-term (under ten minutes) exposure, the U.S. National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) and American Conference of Government Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH) limit is 30,000 ppm (3%). NIOSH also states that carbon dioxide concentrations exceeding 4% are immediately dangerous to life and health.
No its not, they are the easiest to scam - you just have to make the scam appeal to a different aspect. i.e. solicit donations to non-existent charities.
WRONG. The scammer wants to make money from the deal. How are they going to coax the mark into giving them money when they claim to already have lots. Let me guess some regulation is stopping them so they want you to help them break the law by helping them unlock funds... If the mark helps he's no longer an honest man.
The timing couldn't have been better. Fark just had an article on this:
"He was going to give me $10,000, and I would take the rest of the $80,000 and place it in a charity to help the poor," Malone said. Click here to find out more!
The man then asked Malone to prove he could be trusted by showing he had his own money, so Malone said they went to a nearby bank.
"All I could think about was, 'This money's going to help a lot of people,'" Malone said.
why not block all automatic financial/bank transactions with Nigeria? Make it so some body has to sign for it, etc.
heck....if both parties are "guilty", why not put road-blocks to block both?
Why not RTFM?
"Professor Olu Agbi said there were almost 140 million people in Nigeria and fewer than 0.1 per cent were involved."
That's a great idea! Let's make it harder for the 99.9% of law abiding people because of a couple of jack-asses. Furthermore let's make sure we invest a lot of government money to put this new sign-off system in place... at least $36M+/year to make it extra ironic.
Shit, if germany decided to kill the jews again, CmdrTaco would be wondering how this affects his BMW's warranty.
How does Slashdot know to take away my mod points at the right time? It's uncanny. I haven't used them in 6+ months and then when I need them.... nada.
+1 Informative wrapped in uncomfortable funny bonus point for effective use of Godwin.
Most street hooligans aren't MIT trained computer scientists./quote>
I blame the American education system. In India street hooligans must have at least a masters degree while ruffians and ne'er-do-wells have doctorates.
"'Near the end of the operation, a Las Vegas Metropolitan Police cruiser drove by the parking lot to see what was going on. Hill and his team waved. The police officers waved back and drove off.'"
The police probably one-up'd these nerds.
Popo 1: What the fudge, those guys are launching some sort of balloon, let's check it out. Nerds: I smell bacon, let's wave to them in unison at....5 Hz, synchronize now. Popo 2: Wait, wtf. Is that an albino convention... no wait they're all wearing 'Defcon' T's and khaki's. Let's get out of here before they start asking us about the number of joules my tazer outputs. Speaking of which, it just finished charging and I thought I saw a crack head down that last alley. Just wave back and let's get the hell out of here. Popo 1: I'm with you number two, switching to yellow alert, engines full reverse, Hahahaha.
My servers run on Electricity but the RAID controller has battery backed up RAM so any cached data will persist a power failure and the disks are in writethrough mode.
I like this setup, but please. Tell me more about this cotton candy technology? Is it superior.
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Browsing from Canada this is all I get when I try to watch videos...
"The video you requested is unavailable. Please visit www.cbs.com for current videos."
Is this just a coincidence or is anyone having the same issue?
Should I be buying stock in Symantec now? Is this going to be like Haliburton with tons of money being thrown at it via government?
In principle that's a grand thing, but when the reality is that you will have to pay a price, even if you win, and the officer in question will likely suffer nothing, even if he loses, then it becomes a distinction without a difference. Either way, the civilian loses.
Freedom isn't free. Your forefathers put in a great deal more effort to attain their freedom. It's not too much to ask that you do something from time to time to retain your freedom.
Like all governments in the past this one will also fail and need to be refreshed. What will you be doing when that time comes?
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
- Thomas Jefferson
"If we humans have such big brains, how can we get conned?"
Ummm... if god is so powerful can he make a rock so big he can't move it?
There is a spectrum of intelligence. Some of the more intelligent people are coming up with cons. People of lower intelligence fall for them. No magic here.
I've been using ext3 & LVM with mdadm on a raid5 array that is 6+1par+1hotspare x 1TB drives.
You'd be better off running RAID-6 or RAID-DP. Less risk for the same amount of disks. Sorry, I'll take any excuse to say RAID-DP.
It's always fun to bring up DP in a meeting with a straight face then follow it up with, "as in RAID-DP, why what did you think I meant?"
From the goddamn article:
So, you can turn it off. Not only that, but as of 9/30 there's a separate link at their firmware download page for the DIR-655 that says (in plain view, in a sensible spot): Click here for Firmware 1.21 WITHOUT SecureSpot 2.0
Plus, upgrading your firmware "just because". Why?
Double flame to you buddy.
1) I wouldn't call "WITHOUT SecureSpot 2.0" in plain view. It's not like SecureSpot means anything to me. It has the name Secure so it sounds like something I would want. Now if they named it KickInTheBalls 2.0 or maybe SlapInTheFace 3.2 I would know to avoid it. SecureSpot means nothing to me.
2) Upgrading firmware on a firewall/router why? Are you kidding me? You're going to be-little people who pro-actively secure their main entry point to the outside world. From now on you should lose your Slashdot posting privs.
Stay far away from the Video Game industry if you value your 'personal' time. Of the few people I know working for BioWare and Ubisoft... that job will become your life.
I think it all boils down to what one boss said to one of the guys I know: "I've got 35 resumes sitting on my desk of people just as qualified as you who are willing to do your job. So no you can't have time off."
Why don't they just make it an analog clock? The hands could simply spin around faster and faster as the situation worsens, which would be much more amusing. The numbers are fairly meaningless anyway.
George W. Bush is that you?
It may be slightly off-topic but the parent has a VERY valid point. Self-signed sites are encrypted but best of luck trying to get people to use them thanks to the 3-clicks required and SMALL text. When I used the new firefox release I was even confused at first.
Now back to obfuscated TCP: This is on par with using NAT to fix the lack of IP addresses. Just fix the damn thing properly and stop screwing around with time wasting half-fixes (yeah they admitted it).
About the only thing this is going to do is make troubleshooting problems with Ethereal or other packet sniffers a pain in the a$$. Thanks.
What should truly paranoid user do?
get help?
get BSD?
Seriously, there is already an OS aimed at security... OpenBSD:
"Our efforts emphasize portability, standardization, correctness, proactive security and integrated cryptography."
"Audit Process:
Our security auditing team typically has between six and twelve members who continue to search for and fix new security holes. We have been auditing since the summer of 1996. The process we follow to increase security is simply a comprehensive file-by-file analysis of every critical software component. We are not so much looking for security holes, as we are looking for basic software bugs, and if years later someone discovers the problem used to be a security issue, and we fixed it because it was just a bug, well, all the better. Flaws have been found in just about every area of the system. Entire new classes of security problems have been found during our audit, and often source code which had been audited earlier needs re-auditing with these new flaws in mind. Code often gets audited multiple times, and by multiple people with different auditing skills."
Even better, explain to me why I, as Joe Sixpack will *need* my fridge on a public IP where every flaw and exploit will be passed directly to it, rather than dropped at the NAT box?
What you want is a firewall not a NAT. A firewall will protect you just the same and allow people to initiate communication as YOU desire.
Or better still, explain why a small business with 60 users should have every last user on a public IP?
There are quite a few examples why this is important but here's one. Why can't all students / businesses have a public IP with an exposed port for VoIP? Why do VoIP products have to have complicated NAT traversal software that doesn't always work and at the very least just adds useless overhead.
It's called a firewall. Set one up and stop spreading FUD.
Your comment made me laugh, it really did. Go look at the civil liberties raped over and over by both sides during the American Civil War or during the First World War in the US, then compare/contrast to the current "erosion" of civil liberties.
You're a tool in every sense of the word. It's 'enablers' like you that try to justify every wrongful action. Who cares if it was worse a century ago, who cares if Mexico is worse. The only reason we're better NOW is because we iterated towards a better society.
How exactly is defending this going to make the world a better place? Indifference is the enemy of progress and you're worse. You're a piece of garbage weighted around the ankle of positive change.
Dry ice and a fan?
This is not recommended:
Due to the health risks associated with carbon dioxide exposure, the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration says that average exposure for healthy adults during an eight-hour work day should not exceed 5,000 ppm (0.5%). The maximum safe level for infants, children, the elderly and individuals with cardio-pulmonary health issues is significantly less. For short-term (under ten minutes) exposure, the U.S. National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) and American Conference of Government Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH) limit is 30,000 ppm (3%). NIOSH also states that carbon dioxide concentrations exceeding 4% are immediately dangerous to life and health.
No its not, they are the easiest to scam - you just have to make the scam appeal to a different aspect. i.e. solicit donations to non-existent charities.
WRONG. The scammer wants to make money from the deal. How are they going to coax the mark into giving them money when they claim to already have lots. Let me guess some regulation is stopping them so they want you to help them break the law by helping them unlock funds... If the mark helps he's no longer an honest man.
The timing couldn't have been better. Fark just had an article on this:
"He was going to give me $10,000, and I would take the rest of the $80,000 and place it in a charity to help the poor," Malone said.
Click here to find out more!
The man then asked Malone to prove he could be trusted by showing he had his own money, so Malone said they went to a nearby bank.
"All I could think about was, 'This money's going to help a lot of people,'" Malone said.
WRONG. You wanted to $10k you greedy bastard.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/technology/jail-greedy-scam-victims-diplomat/2008/08/21/1219262419867.html
why not block all automatic financial/bank transactions with Nigeria? Make it so some body has to sign for it, etc.
heck....if both parties are "guilty", why not put road-blocks to block both?
Why not RTFM?
"Professor Olu Agbi said there were almost 140 million people in Nigeria and fewer than 0.1 per cent were involved."
That's a great idea! Let's make it harder for the 99.9% of law abiding people because of a couple of jack-asses. Furthermore let's make sure we invest a lot of government money to put this new sign-off system in place... at least $36M+/year to make it extra ironic.
"It's hard to con an honest man."
Flash excels at vector graphics. If you have animated or computer generated graphics as opposed to raw video than the files are incredibly compact.
Shit, if germany decided to kill the jews again, CmdrTaco would be wondering how this affects his BMW's warranty.
How does Slashdot know to take away my mod points at the right time? It's uncanny. I haven't used them in 6+ months and then when I need them.... nada.
+1 Informative wrapped in uncomfortable funny bonus point for effective use of Godwin.
Most street hooligans aren't MIT trained computer scientists./quote>
I blame the American education system. In India street hooligans must have at least a masters degree while ruffians and ne'er-do-wells have doctorates.
How can you justify the hack? Showing people how to ripoff the subway would seem to be a criminal act.
No... RIPPING OFF THE SUBWAY is the criminal act.
By your logic everyone in the military should go to jail for teaching or learning how to kill.
"'Near the end of the operation, a Las Vegas Metropolitan Police cruiser drove by the parking lot to see what was going on. Hill and his team waved. The police officers waved back and drove off.'"
The police probably one-up'd these nerds.
Popo 1: What the fudge, those guys are launching some sort of balloon, let's check it out. .5 Hz, synchronize now.
Nerds: I smell bacon, let's wave to them in unison at...
Popo 2: Wait, wtf. Is that an albino convention... no wait they're all wearing 'Defcon' T's and khaki's. Let's get out of here before they start asking us about the number of joules my tazer outputs. Speaking of which, it just finished charging and I thought I saw a crack head down that last alley. Just wave back and let's get the hell out of here.
Popo 1: I'm with you number two, switching to yellow alert, engines full reverse, Hahahaha.
There is the slight question of where and how you store your hydrogen and oxygen...
I can cut your problem in half.
You only need to store the hydrogen!
If you really wanted you could turn the oxygen into a pay oxygen bar and recoup additional money from suckers.
My servers run on Electricity but the RAID controller has battery backed up RAM so any cached data will persist a power failure and the disks are in writethrough mode.
I like this setup, but please. Tell me more about this cotton candy technology? Is it superior.
Coming soon, the 5 MHz toilet paper.
If you're wiping 5,000,000 times a second that toilet paper better be really good at soaking up blood.
+1 gross
But how much of an improvement will they be over fluorescent lights, which we already have at an affordable price?
Less mercury.