Normal operation is "record to disk" and then you can recover the video later off the disk. Panic operation is "Dump recorded data to an 'offsite' server over high speed cellular data as well as start streaming current video to same server".
That means you've got your day to day stuff recorded, but in the event you get pulled over by an asshole cop who decided to swipe the memory card out of your dash cam after he pulls you out of your car and tasers you for resisting arrest.
That's why phishers either send out very generic messages (from "The Bank") or messages from the big banks (BoA, Chase, etc). The majority of the recipients will say "I don't have a [BoA|Chase|Citi] account" and discard it. Among those who do have an account, most of them will throw away the message as a phish. All it takes is 1 user to fall for it to make the whole effort worthwhile.
I get email from my bank all the time, so I wouldn't immediately disregard it as a fish. However, I *never* click on the link from the email. Open up a new browser tab, directly enter www.mybank.com, and go from there.
Same reason that should you get a phone call from someone claiming to be from a bank (or your specific bank), you call them back on their published customer service number.
"If you have a choice between saving a man's life or taking a Pulitzer prize winning photograph of him plunging to his death, what shutter speed and aperture settings should you use?"
I virtualized a Windows system a few years ago via Parallels Workstation. Application A ran on the host machine under server 2008. Application B ran on the virtualized machine under server 2008 as well. Application A talked to B and vice versa. *Every* problem with either application was immediately blamed on the virtualization. And a good portion of any other network problem in general was blamed on that one virtualized system. There was one afternoon where the satellite we were using decided to lose lock and go for a spin and before anyone even bothered to look at the spectrum analyzer, they called me and said "There's something wrong with Vipersat, are you sure it isn't that virtualization stuff you're doing?"
That wasn't viable until the Check21 act was passed in October of 2003. Paypal was already 3 years old by that point. And really, it wasn't until the past 2 or 3 years that banks have been accepting customer-side deposits by scanning.
This is Slashdot, where every exploit is a zero-day exploit. I could release a patch to TRS-DOS 1.3 that makes it ignore passwords and someone here would post it as a zero-day.
I want a Sparcstation ELC to run as a serial console/network admin console in my server room.
And for a while I had a Sparc20 with a pair of dual Ross Hypersparc-150s and 512MB of RAM. Stupid fast for a Sparc machine, but you could cook an egg on the chassis.
I've never understood this either. My sister used to go out on Friday night, come home drunk and promptly throw up all over the place and wake up with a nuclear hangover, swear that she'll never do it again and then go right the fuck back out the following Friday and rinse & repeat.
I *loathe* vomiting. I really don't like the idea of going home with a random skank from a bar and "going to bed at 2am with a 10 and waking up at 10am with a 2". One of the reasons I never went to college, I didn't want to be roommates with some fratbastard who I'd have to come get or muck out the stall after he deposited a fifth of Yaeger and a pizza onto the floor.
That's this biggest bullshit excuse I've heard in my life, and I've heard it on multiple occasions both for forward and reverse DNS.
What does vr0-0.internal.notmydomain.com tell you about a device? Not a damn thing. What does core1-loopback0.internal.notmydomain.com tell you? Jack and shit, other than it *might* be a loopback address. How about switch1.notmydomain.com? Sure, its a switch. Maybe. It might be an ethernet switch. It might be a remote power unit. It might be an Asterisk based softswitch. Or it might be someone's IPv6 enabled light switch. Again, jack-point-shit. You'd still have to do a portscan of some sort against it to see what it is and if your admin is worth a shit, that won't get you anything either.
And DNS has no safeguards? Built in? Sure, no more or no less than any other protocol, but my DNS servers that serve the internal.domain.com zones are 1) Firewalled off from the outside world. 2) Also told to ignore anything not coming from an address inside my network. Now, if you're sniffing around from inside my network, I've got bigger problems, but problems that I can solve with a pair of wirecutters or a baseball bat.
No, because the DERP squad is pumping out many megabytes of emails and Facebook postings that say "FWD: FWD: FWD: RE: RE: FWD: FWD Don't accept the dollar coins because they don't have 'In God we Trust'' on them!!!!!!"
Wiring a delay between the compressor start and outdoor blower would be trivial and thermostats with even a small amount of smarts delay starting the indoor airhandler a few seconds after the outdoor unit starts. But, no matter how you slice it, a motor just starting up is effectively "Stalled" and draws a crap load of inrush current. There's designs to reduce that a bit, but they're expensive to build.
A data room can get hot in a hurry without A/C and if you're running at 65, you get to 95 much less slowly than you do when you're running at 82.
That really depends on the size of your datacenter and your server load. If you've got a huge room with one rack in the middle, you're good to go. If you've got a 10x10 room with 2 or 3 loaded racks and your chiller goes tits up, you're going to be roasting hardware in a few short minutes. Some quick back-of-the-napkin calculations show that a 10x10x8 room with a single rack pulling all the juice it can from a 20 amp circuit will raise the temperature in the room about 10 degrees every 2 minutes. From 82 to 95 is about 3 minutes, from 65 to 95 is about 6.
That's where social networking (and I don't mean Facebook) come into play. And not just in technical circles either. I attended ITT straight out of high school, mostly because I thought I would need a piece of paper to prove what I knew.
I made friends with the placement director at the school and so she knew who I was when a company came by and asked for qualified people to fill PC tech support spots. She put me on the top of the pile and I got an interview. I passed the HR interview without a problem and then I got to meet with the manager of Network Services. Turns out that he was former business partners with the scoutmaster I worked with when I was assistant scoutmaster at a troop. One quick phone call to said scoutmaster and I was asked if I could start that night.
Out of all the jobs I've had, almost everything else has been 'a friend recommended me' or I had some sort of "in" with the company. One job was a direct call to a staffing company to inquire about a posted position and the other was a one week Asterisk contract that turned into a full time gig when I impressed the hell out of them.
You took one of the business classes. Then you got to learn how to be an applications jockey for Wordperfect and PFS: First Publisher. There were some simple computer literacy classes during middle school, but it was a semester of "spend 4 45 minute classes during a week listening to lectures and 1 45 minute class actually punching keys". There was a second semester elective class of "computer programming" in Apple BASIC and there were 4 people in that class.
The heaviest use of computing in the high school was the yearbook and newspaper staff trying to get their feet wet with desktop publishing using Pagemaker and the only reason those got done properly is because I plowed through Pagemaker to learn it and ended up teaching the rest of the staff (and I got made Editor senior year...woo me!).
LOL, budget owned. A Global Hawk costs $104 million. $104 million * 122 WFOs = $12.6 billion dollars. Somehow I think they'll stick with cheap radiosondes twice a day.
You're assuming that you can even recover them. The balloons launched from NWS offices near the coast end up in the drink 99% of the time. When I was touring their office, one of the meteorologists at NWS Tampa said in his service years, he's heard of 2, maybe 3, of the radiosondes being launched from their office be recovered.
It'll be a long while before something will "lessen the importance of weather balloons". Unless you can figure out a way to measure air pressure, humidity, temperature, and wind direction from 0-70k ft regularly without launching balloons or dropsondes, they'll be needed. And if you can figure out a way to do it, the folks who fly the Hurricane Hunter aircraft would like a word with you so they can stop flying in and around tropical cyclones.
I always like the systems (I'm looking at you Dell!) that send you through the song and dance of entering information, then when the time comes to hit the queue the system says "We're sorry, call volumes are too high at the moment. Please call back later. *CLICK*".
You're assuming that there's decent data coverage in the area (Texas Hill Country). It may have improved over the past few years, but there wasn't shit for data coverage when I lived there. Voice coverage on anything other than 800Mhz analogue cellular sucked. There was one Sprint tower in the area, but it was perpetually overloaded.
My old department got hand-me-down trucks from the Texas Forest Service that we converted to brush trucks. We also got a 5000 gallon flight-line fuel truck from them that we converted to a mobile hydrant. The one "new" truck we bought, we bought as a used truck from a department in Chicago and had to take out a loan to pay for it. The bi-annual fundraising BBQ we held covered operating expenses, but that was just about it. Everything else came from handouts from the government.
The radio system? Patched together with stuff my dad & I bought at hamfests.
And there was more than a few times during the summer and we were fighting multihundred acre brush fires that I wish I knew exactly where each truck was, how much fuel and water they had onboard, and be able to set a waypoint for them to drive to for their next task.
That may not have all been able to have been done with an ad-hoc wireless system, but that would have helped immensely.
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I'm holding out for Firefox 98.
At this rate, it'll be sometime next week.
If only there were a button in the "Govermnent Alerts" part of the "Notifications" menu that allowed you to turn off AMBER alerts separately.
And if only there were another button that allowed you to turn off the rest of the Alerts as well.
What the dashcam world needs is this:
I envision a dash cam system that has two modes:
Normal operation is "record to disk" and then you can recover the video later off the disk.
Panic operation is "Dump recorded data to an 'offsite' server over high speed cellular data as well as start streaming current video to same server".
That means you've got your day to day stuff recorded, but in the event you get pulled over by an asshole cop who decided to swipe the memory card out of your dash cam after he pulls you out of your car and tasers you for resisting arrest.
That's why phishers either send out very generic messages (from "The Bank") or messages from the big banks (BoA, Chase, etc). The majority of the recipients will say "I don't have a [BoA|Chase|Citi] account" and discard it. Among those who do have an account, most of them will throw away the message as a phish. All it takes is 1 user to fall for it to make the whole effort worthwhile.
I get email from my bank all the time, so I wouldn't immediately disregard it as a fish. However, I *never* click on the link from the email. Open up a new browser tab, directly enter www.mybank.com, and go from there.
Same reason that should you get a phone call from someone claiming to be from a bank (or your specific bank), you call them back on their published customer service number.
There's a joke that goes something like this:
"If you have a choice between saving a man's life or taking a Pulitzer prize winning photograph of him plunging to his death, what shutter speed and aperture settings should you use?"
I get a yearly ballot for directors for the Lee County Electric Cooperative. You can vote yes or no for each candidate. I always vote no for everyone.
Doesn't make a difference, but I feel better.
I virtualized a Windows system a few years ago via Parallels Workstation. Application A ran on the host machine under server 2008. Application B ran on the virtualized machine under server 2008 as well. Application A talked to B and vice versa. *Every* problem with either application was immediately blamed on the virtualization. And a good portion of any other network problem in general was blamed on that one virtualized system. There was one afternoon where the satellite we were using decided to lose lock and go for a spin and before anyone even bothered to look at the spectrum analyzer, they called me and said "There's something wrong with Vipersat, are you sure it isn't that virtualization stuff you're doing?"
That wasn't viable until the Check21 act was passed in October of 2003. Paypal was already 3 years old by that point. And really, it wasn't until the past 2 or 3 years that banks have been accepting customer-side deposits by scanning.
This is Slashdot, where every exploit is a zero-day exploit. I could release a patch to TRS-DOS 1.3 that makes it ignore passwords and someone here would post it as a zero-day.
But I believe that patch already exists.
I want a Sparcstation ELC to run as a serial console/network admin console in my server room.
And for a while I had a Sparc20 with a pair of dual Ross Hypersparc-150s and 512MB of RAM. Stupid fast for a Sparc machine, but you could cook an egg on the chassis.
I've never understood this either. My sister used to go out on Friday night, come home drunk and promptly throw up all over the place and wake up with a nuclear hangover, swear that she'll never do it again and then go right the fuck back out the following Friday and rinse & repeat.
I *loathe* vomiting. I really don't like the idea of going home with a random skank from a bar and "going to bed at 2am with a 10 and waking up at 10am with a 2". One of the reasons I never went to college, I didn't want to be roommates with some fratbastard who I'd have to come get or muck out the stall after he deposited a fifth of Yaeger and a pizza onto the floor.
That's this biggest bullshit excuse I've heard in my life, and I've heard it on multiple occasions both for forward and reverse DNS.
What does vr0-0.internal.notmydomain.com tell you about a device? Not a damn thing.
What does core1-loopback0.internal.notmydomain.com tell you? Jack and shit, other than it *might* be a loopback address.
How about switch1.notmydomain.com? Sure, its a switch. Maybe. It might be an ethernet switch. It might be a remote power unit. It might be an Asterisk based softswitch. Or it might be someone's IPv6 enabled light switch. Again, jack-point-shit. You'd still have to do a portscan of some sort against it to see what it is and if your admin is worth a shit, that won't get you anything either.
And DNS has no safeguards? Built in? Sure, no more or no less than any other protocol, but my DNS servers that serve the internal.domain.com zones are 1) Firewalled off from the outside world. 2) Also told to ignore anything not coming from an address inside my network. Now, if you're sniffing around from inside my network, I've got bigger problems, but problems that I can solve with a pair of wirecutters or a baseball bat.
Nevermind the fact that the sacred phrase of power is written on the side of the coins.
No, because the DERP squad is pumping out many megabytes of emails and Facebook postings that say "FWD: FWD: FWD: RE: RE: FWD: FWD Don't accept the dollar coins because they don't have 'In God we Trust'' on them!!!!!!"
Wiring a delay between the compressor start and outdoor blower would be trivial and thermostats with even a small amount of smarts delay starting the indoor airhandler a few seconds after the outdoor unit starts. But, no matter how you slice it, a motor just starting up is effectively "Stalled" and draws a crap load of inrush current. There's designs to reduce that a bit, but they're expensive to build.
A data room can get hot in a hurry without A/C and if you're running at 65, you get to 95 much less slowly than you do when you're running at 82.
That really depends on the size of your datacenter and your server load. If you've got a huge room with one rack in the middle, you're good to go. If you've got a 10x10 room with 2 or 3 loaded racks and your chiller goes tits up, you're going to be roasting hardware in a few short minutes. Some quick back-of-the-napkin calculations show that a 10x10x8 room with a single rack pulling all the juice it can from a 20 amp circuit will raise the temperature in the room about 10 degrees every 2 minutes. From 82 to 95 is about 3 minutes, from 65 to 95 is about 6.
That's where social networking (and I don't mean Facebook) come into play. And not just in technical circles either. I attended ITT straight out of high school, mostly because I thought I would need a piece of paper to prove what I knew.
I made friends with the placement director at the school and so she knew who I was when a company came by and asked for qualified people to fill PC tech support spots. She put me on the top of the pile and I got an interview. I passed the HR interview without a problem and then I got to meet with the manager of Network Services. Turns out that he was former business partners with the scoutmaster I worked with when I was assistant scoutmaster at a troop. One quick phone call to said scoutmaster and I was asked if I could start that night.
Out of all the jobs I've had, almost everything else has been 'a friend recommended me' or I had some sort of "in" with the company. One job was a direct call to a staffing company to inquire about a posted position and the other was a one week Asterisk contract that turned into a full time gig when I impressed the hell out of them.
You took one of the business classes. Then you got to learn how to be an applications jockey for Wordperfect and PFS: First Publisher. There were some simple computer literacy classes during middle school, but it was a semester of "spend 4 45 minute classes during a week listening to lectures and 1 45 minute class actually punching keys". There was a second semester elective class of "computer programming" in Apple BASIC and there were 4 people in that class.
The heaviest use of computing in the high school was the yearbook and newspaper staff trying to get their feet wet with desktop publishing using Pagemaker and the only reason those got done properly is because I plowed through Pagemaker to learn it and ended up teaching the rest of the staff (and I got made Editor senior year...woo me!).
For time reference, I graduated in 1993.
Nobody "codes" in Perl. Perl programs are written by eating a bag of alphabet pasta and then chasing it with ipecac.
LOL, budget owned. A Global Hawk costs $104 million. $104 million * 122 WFOs = $12.6 billion dollars. Somehow I think they'll stick with cheap radiosondes twice a day.
You're assuming that you can even recover them. The balloons launched from NWS offices near the coast end up in the drink 99% of the time. When I was touring their office, one of the meteorologists at NWS Tampa said in his service years, he's heard of 2, maybe 3, of the radiosondes being launched from their office be recovered.
It'll be a long while before something will "lessen the importance of weather balloons". Unless you can figure out a way to measure air pressure, humidity, temperature, and wind direction from 0-70k ft regularly without launching balloons or dropsondes, they'll be needed. And if you can figure out a way to do it, the folks who fly the Hurricane Hunter aircraft would like a word with you so they can stop flying in and around tropical cyclones.
I always like the systems (I'm looking at you Dell!) that send you through the song and dance of entering information, then when the time comes to hit the queue the system says "We're sorry, call volumes are too high at the moment. Please call back later. *CLICK*".
You're assuming that there's decent data coverage in the area (Texas Hill Country). It may have improved over the past few years, but there wasn't shit for data coverage when I lived there. Voice coverage on anything other than 800Mhz analogue cellular sucked. There was one Sprint tower in the area, but it was perpetually overloaded.
My old department got hand-me-down trucks from the Texas Forest Service that we converted to brush trucks. We also got a 5000 gallon flight-line fuel truck from them that we converted to a mobile hydrant. The one "new" truck we bought, we bought as a used truck from a department in Chicago and had to take out a loan to pay for it. The bi-annual fundraising BBQ we held covered operating expenses, but that was just about it. Everything else came from handouts from the government.
The radio system? Patched together with stuff my dad & I bought at hamfests.
And there was more than a few times during the summer and we were fighting multihundred acre brush fires that I wish I knew exactly where each truck was, how much fuel and water they had onboard, and be able to set a waypoint for them to drive to for their next task.
That may not have all been able to have been done with an ad-hoc wireless system, but that would have helped immensely.