Serious, I shifted my port for ssh several years ago. I have yet to see a failed attempt that wasn't a legitimate user who screwed up since I changed.
Sure, I know that someone could be port scanning and stuff, but really, I just don't see it happening.
Credit Card Companies are already paranoid enough about new businesses. When you are a Legit business trying to sell a Legit product and you do large business the Credit Card companies shut you off if your business goes in spurts and such.
It is bad to have the Credit Card Companies have several false positives because you've tried to turn them into an investigative police force rather then a funds collector.
You may see it as retribution as I expect many victims of crimes do, but retribution is really one more of the items on the list of side benefits.
The core mechanic here is to put known punishments on crimes to deter people from committing the crime. Then when they are caught doing so the punishment must be given or lose it's ability to deter in the future.
If it were about retribution and paying back society do you think they'd really just rot in a cage and eat on the government's dime? If it was about paying back a debt then a monetary value would be placed on the crime and they'd be forced to work for the state or victims in some way until that value was paid back.
No, I'm interested in seeing the core issues dealt with which straight punishment seldom does.
As I was pointing out earlier, our justice system is not designed to cure or protect just punish, and I'm NOT a proponent of Life Sentences like that other guy suggested.
In most cases I'm the first person to mock those who "live in fear" but when it comes to my daughter I tend to try to be a little more cautious and take note of possible dangers around. It is part of my job as a parent that she lives the best and most well adjusted childhood she can. So, if one neighbor has a particularly vicious dog I want to know it so her and I can talk about that dog specifically. We talk about them in general as well, but always good to know when specific dangers are in place. Same thing with sex offenders. If I know someone is a known sex offender I'm not going to hunt the guy down, but keep a closer eye if he talks to her or interacts with her.
As for the repeat offender vs not repeat offender thing.... I'll have to go look at those statistics because I've always been told that those who have committed a sex crime are likely to do it again. There are core emotional disturbances that bring on these actions and prison doesn't cure those disturbances so unless they get help I'm not buying that they are less likely to do it again, maybe just less likely to get caught again.
No, I don't condone his actions in the least. I'm just saying that if my daughter says "Can I go play at Jose's house" I'm going to respond differently if I know Jose's step-father is a registered sex offender.
The problem is that you miss-interpret the purpose of prison.
Prison is punishment for a crime not protection of the public. There is no mechanism in our society to seclude those who would be dangerous to society from society. Instead, all we do is punish them after the fact for committing a crime. Any animal trainer will of course tell you this is the least effective form of training, and aren't humans just animals with more tools?
For a while Mental Institutions were serving this purpose but they are less funded and more over crowded then jails so they serve less and less in this capacity.
Megan's list was an acknowledgment of this core issue with our society. Where we have no way to manage these men who are very likely to commit their crime again once released we can at least notify parents so they can keep close tabs on their children and hopefully protect them from harm.
All around, being reactive rather then proactive is very ineffective in fighting something like this. There is no real good answer other then actually curing the man of his core issues that cause this behavior which is not something we have designed our system to do at all.
It's a shame this guy went overboard in protecting his family, but as a parent I like having tools like this because I don't trust the police to protect my family anymore. Their hands are tied with red tape and the issues around waiting until the damage is actually done before they can react.
Ahhhh, yes, a drill bit, thats the feeling in my temple.... my GODS! that show was aweful... I actually lasted a whole 5 minutes! But, then again, I'm now prying out drill bits unlike e4g4 who just wanted to put it there.... so, don't take me too far on it.
Either way it doesn't matter if it affects your credit or not, the big issue is what to do once it's happened to you. Kroll has the best IDTheft solution out there, they monitor your credit for you, AND when (not if, because it's just happening to everyone these days) you are compromised they will fix it for you, rather then leaving you to your own resources to fix it. I thought it was cool enough I became a reseller, go read about it at the cheesey stock website they gave me where they have all the good info
The hashhish is all your my friend. There was no Bitching or sarcasm in my message. My opinion was real and based on experiance. I've lived both life styles and I specifically said that priorities change when you have a family and that the Midwest is not that bad of an option for the people who have seen those changes in priority.
I've lived in many cities all over the country, on both coasts, and the midwest.
So, yeah, you can tell me that if I want a bigger house on the coast I can work harder for it, but guess what, again, I have a family and I like them to see me from time to time.
I think it's great that those people want to dedicate thier lives to thier companies, and I spent years doing exactly just that, now all I'm saying is that as lives change so do priorities and that the guy who suggested the midwest earlier had a point in that it's a good option for those who choose to not live and breath their work.
Coding is no longer my Crack, I'm a social coder now instead of a compulsive one, try it some time you might like it. And gee, if you kick your Hash habbit you were accusing me of having you might actually find that you have a life left over.
Yeah, winters suck but in 8 years of being here I haven't seen ludafisk on the menu in any restraunt.
I have to admit that when I was in Sacromento a couple months ago to visit the Cal-DOJ it seemed like an alright town that wasn't too overly packed, but by nature of the fact that you are in California it seems like you still need to spend a lot more for less.
Sure, if I was a single guy with no dependants I'd live in a closet in the valley and party it up. But, I want my children to go to a nice safe school, I want my dog to have a yard to play in, I want my wife to be able to plant a garden in said yard (not a flower box), and I find the only thing I really miss by living in Minneapolis rather then SF is the Ocean, and guess what: if I were working in one of those jobs I'd probably spend very little time at the Ocean anyways.
There are plenty of places in the Mid West that are a good compromise and give you a good family life while letting you enjoy amenities. There is of course the Twin Cities (where I live), and Chicago, or even if you want Kansas City and Omaha.
But, it's all a question of priorities, a 3 bedroom house and a white pickette fence doesn't start to look good until you have kids.
The problem with RBL's is the question of where they get their information. Too many times they black hole the wrong people. Like the other guy said earlier in this thread "Rule #1 Spammers Lie, Rule #2 See Rule #1".
I've seen too many times where RBLs hurt innocent people because someone was falsely listed as a spammer.
I've been trying hard to remember, there was an idea posted about a year ago that spam filter programs should start automatically following links and doing content validating on those links as well as the email itself, there by double checking the email more cleanly and also doing it's own type of DOS to a spammer if everyone did it. This makes much more sense to me, but I don't remember what they were calling the concept or know what ever happened to it.
While this is too young for most of us to participate in
NOT TRUE! I coached a FLL team this year, it was a blast!
You can be involved by doing that. Our team made it to the State Competition but not beyond that. These kids do this all over the world, and the one the article is talking about is the world competition that is the best of the best of the best.
It is very cool stuff, the kids learn so much and do so much. I had 3rd graders writing algorithms and learning about code reuse and project management. Not to mention quite a few physics concepts.
a chance to mold young minds and create future evil genius' bent on world domination
A chance to preemptively teach someone good coding habits before some idiot College Proff who can't code his way out of a paper bag teaches them bad ones
Fun!
Competition! (It is like a geek sport)
What you should not expect:
That these kids know what they are getting into
That they know near as much as you do
To be able to build or design it for them (you can only coach them, you can't do it yourself)
This is the big thing for me, I started breaking out my programming from the design in all my bids about 6 years ago and make it very clear that I'm a coder not a designer and that I will give any designer an easy method to change the look and feel all day long but don't expect mine look and feel to be perfect.
This way the client knows exactly what they are getting, they know the system will work, and they know they can spend more later for a better look if they want to.
check out what asdf.com has to say about people using asdf@asdf.com.... actually the note on his page is a lot nicer then it used to be, they used to be really mad about it.
The effects were what we have come to expect from The Matrix, there were some good one liners, and some questions were answered. I think they delt with the death of the actress who played the original Oracle incredibly well and did a very good job of integrating it with the story. If you are expecting the first Matrix again you WILL be disapointed, the fact is that there was no possible way to end the story that would of not been a let down, the greatest power of the first movie was all the unanswered questions and hanging loose ends. To bring to close the whole trillogy they had to answer some of them, but the story is not over completly, like the real world some things continue on, there will always be a few lose ends. I am sure that for everyone who was looking for reasons to cut it down there is one maybe even two people who liked it.
So, If you have seen it think about what the real goal of the movie was before jumping at it, and if you haven't don't expect the first movie all over but pee before the movie starts.
Actually I've been saying for years that I'm surprised some crazed linux user hasn't assassinated Bill Gates yet, then again, there is the theory that they have and the current version of Bill is a Clone or Andriod made to carry on when it happens, kinda like the emperor from Star Wars. Thier motivations, methods and overall ickyness are about the same.:P
Or, as someone very sussinctly put it for me once long ago "If you have gold you need Fort Knocks, if you have klenex you need a klenex box"
Security is a balancing act, all you are ever doing is trying to make the data and systems harder to get to then they are worth. The only way to make your data 100% secure is to destroy it.
Slashdot Mirror
Serious, I shifted my port for ssh several years ago. I have yet to see a failed attempt that wasn't a legitimate user who screwed up since I changed. Sure, I know that someone could be port scanning and stuff, but really, I just don't see it happening.
Credit Card Companies are already paranoid enough about new businesses. When you are a Legit business trying to sell a Legit product and you do large business the Credit Card companies shut you off if your business goes in spurts and such. It is bad to have the Credit Card Companies have several false positives because you've tried to turn them into an investigative police force rather then a funds collector.
I don't even see that coming in Q2
You may see it as retribution as I expect many victims of crimes do, but retribution is really one more of the items on the list of side benefits.
The core mechanic here is to put known punishments on crimes to deter people from committing the crime. Then when they are caught doing so the punishment must be given or lose it's ability to deter in the future.
If it were about retribution and paying back society do you think they'd really just rot in a cage and eat on the government's dime? If it was about paying back a debt then a monetary value would be placed on the crime and they'd be forced to work for the state or victims in some way until that value was paid back.
No, I'm interested in seeing the core issues dealt with which straight punishment seldom does.
As I was pointing out earlier, our justice system is not designed to cure or protect just punish, and I'm NOT a proponent of Life Sentences like that other guy suggested.
In most cases I'm the first person to mock those who "live in fear" but when it comes to my daughter I tend to try to be a little more cautious and take note of possible dangers around. It is part of my job as a parent that she lives the best and most well adjusted childhood she can. So, if one neighbor has a particularly vicious dog I want to know it so her and I can talk about that dog specifically. We talk about them in general as well, but always good to know when specific dangers are in place. Same thing with sex offenders. If I know someone is a known sex offender I'm not going to hunt the guy down, but keep a closer eye if he talks to her or interacts with her.
As for the repeat offender vs not repeat offender thing.... I'll have to go look at those statistics because I've always been told that those who have committed a sex crime are likely to do it again. There are core emotional disturbances that bring on these actions and prison doesn't cure those disturbances so unless they get help I'm not buying that they are less likely to do it again, maybe just less likely to get caught again.
No, I don't condone his actions in the least. I'm just saying that if my daughter says "Can I go play at Jose's house" I'm going to respond differently if I know Jose's step-father is a registered sex offender.
The problem is that you miss-interpret the purpose of prison. Prison is punishment for a crime not protection of the public. There is no mechanism in our society to seclude those who would be dangerous to society from society. Instead, all we do is punish them after the fact for committing a crime. Any animal trainer will of course tell you this is the least effective form of training, and aren't humans just animals with more tools? For a while Mental Institutions were serving this purpose but they are less funded and more over crowded then jails so they serve less and less in this capacity. Megan's list was an acknowledgment of this core issue with our society. Where we have no way to manage these men who are very likely to commit their crime again once released we can at least notify parents so they can keep close tabs on their children and hopefully protect them from harm. All around, being reactive rather then proactive is very ineffective in fighting something like this. There is no real good answer other then actually curing the man of his core issues that cause this behavior which is not something we have designed our system to do at all. It's a shame this guy went overboard in protecting his family, but as a parent I like having tools like this because I don't trust the police to protect my family anymore. Their hands are tied with red tape and the issues around waiting until the damage is actually done before they can react.
Ahhhh, yes, a drill bit, thats the feeling in my temple.... my GODS! that show was aweful... I actually lasted a whole 5 minutes! But, then again, I'm now prying out drill bits unlike e4g4 who just wanted to put it there.... so, don't take me too far on it.
Either way it doesn't matter if it affects your credit or not, the big issue is what to do once it's happened to you. Kroll has the best IDTheft solution out there, they monitor your credit for you, AND when (not if, because it's just happening to everyone these days) you are compromised they will fix it for you, rather then leaving you to your own resources to fix it. I thought it was cool enough I became a reseller, go read about it at the cheesey stock website they gave me where they have all the good info
I consoled myself about Bill Gates in the same way for years only to be disapointed that the closest anyone ever came was a pie in the face.
Don't count on psychos, they never hit the ones you want them to hit.
The hashhish is all your my friend. There was no Bitching or sarcasm in my message. My opinion was real and based on experiance. I've lived both life styles and I specifically said that priorities change when you have a family and that the Midwest is not that bad of an option for the people who have seen those changes in priority. I've lived in many cities all over the country, on both coasts, and the midwest. So, yeah, you can tell me that if I want a bigger house on the coast I can work harder for it, but guess what, again, I have a family and I like them to see me from time to time. I think it's great that those people want to dedicate thier lives to thier companies, and I spent years doing exactly just that, now all I'm saying is that as lives change so do priorities and that the guy who suggested the midwest earlier had a point in that it's a good option for those who choose to not live and breath their work. Coding is no longer my Crack, I'm a social coder now instead of a compulsive one, try it some time you might like it. And gee, if you kick your Hash habbit you were accusing me of having you might actually find that you have a life left over.
Yeah, winters suck but in 8 years of being here I haven't seen ludafisk on the menu in any restraunt. I have to admit that when I was in Sacromento a couple months ago to visit the Cal-DOJ it seemed like an alright town that wasn't too overly packed, but by nature of the fact that you are in California it seems like you still need to spend a lot more for less.
Sure, if I was a single guy with no dependants I'd live in a closet in the valley and party it up. But, I want my children to go to a nice safe school, I want my dog to have a yard to play in, I want my wife to be able to plant a garden in said yard (not a flower box), and I find the only thing I really miss by living in Minneapolis rather then SF is the Ocean, and guess what: if I were working in one of those jobs I'd probably spend very little time at the Ocean anyways.
There are plenty of places in the Mid West that are a good compromise and give you a good family life while letting you enjoy amenities. There is of course the Twin Cities (where I live), and Chicago, or even if you want Kansas City and Omaha.
But, it's all a question of priorities, a 3 bedroom house and a white pickette fence doesn't start to look good until you have kids.
Add Google Talk to that list.
It wont really teach them what OOS is but it will be fun and introduce them to some of the players. :P
I've seen too many times where RBLs hurt innocent people because someone was falsely listed as a spammer.
I've been trying hard to remember, there was an idea posted about a year ago that spam filter programs should start automatically following links and doing content validating on those links as well as the email itself, there by double checking the email more cleanly and also doing it's own type of DOS to a spammer if everyone did it. This makes much more sense to me, but I don't remember what they were calling the concept or know what ever happened to it.
Where is his second head? *sigh*
It's been a long time since I read the books, am I forgetting something?
NOT TRUE! I coached a FLL team this year, it was a blast!
You can be involved by doing that. Our team made it to the State Competition but not beyond that. These kids do this all over the world, and the one the article is talking about is the world competition that is the best of the best of the best.
It is very cool stuff, the kids learn so much and do so much. I had 3rd graders writing algorithms and learning about code reuse and project management. Not to mention quite a few physics concepts.
Check out High TechKids.org
What you should expect as a coach FLL Coach:
What you should not expect:
Thats not at all thier Style, I've known the owner of that site for a good Decade now. Your impression is wrong.
This is the big thing for me, I started breaking out my programming from the design in all my bids about 6 years ago and make it very clear that I'm a coder not a designer and that I will give any designer an easy method to change the look and feel all day long but don't expect mine look and feel to be perfect. This way the client knows exactly what they are getting, they know the system will work, and they know they can spend more later for a better look if they want to.
check out what asdf.com has to say about people using asdf@asdf.com.... actually the note on his page is a lot nicer then it used to be, they used to be really mad about it.
You get nothing bud adds when you go look at the article now, it's gone. Anyone got a mirror of it somewhere?
The effects were what we have come to expect from The Matrix, there were some good one liners, and some questions were answered. I think they delt with the death of the actress who played the original Oracle incredibly well and did a very good job of integrating it with the story. If you are expecting the first Matrix again you WILL be disapointed, the fact is that there was no possible way to end the story that would of not been a let down, the greatest power of the first movie was all the unanswered questions and hanging loose ends. To bring to close the whole trillogy they had to answer some of them, but the story is not over completly, like the real world some things continue on, there will always be a few lose ends. I am sure that for everyone who was looking for reasons to cut it down there is one maybe even two people who liked it. So, If you have seen it think about what the real goal of the movie was before jumping at it, and if you haven't don't expect the first movie all over but pee before the movie starts.
Actually I've been saying for years that I'm surprised some crazed linux user hasn't assassinated Bill Gates yet, then again, there is the theory that they have and the current version of Bill is a Clone or Andriod made to carry on when it happens, kinda like the emperor from Star Wars. Thier motivations, methods and overall ickyness are about the same. :P
Or, as someone very sussinctly put it for me once long ago "If you have gold you need Fort Knocks, if you have klenex you need a klenex box" Security is a balancing act, all you are ever doing is trying to make the data and systems harder to get to then they are worth. The only way to make your data 100% secure is to destroy it.