Basically the way real people who care about security use Wifi securely is that they don't treat is like it's secure.
The simplest implementation of that is to design your network under the assumption that any Wifi portions are about as secure as the general Internet.
In other words, stick the Wifi network on it's own outside your firewalled "internal" network and use a VPN client to connect your laptop or whatever to the real network. The gateway for the Wifi network would in this case usually be a firewall/VPN server.
If someone gets on the Wifi network, they can't do anything with your encrypted packets and they can't get anywhere past the firewalled connection to anything else.
So I guess the idea is that people within the same country should have a major hassle in sending messages, but that if you have an out of country mail server available you can spam all you want?
What we need here is a larger clue-stick, perhaps in the shape of a cricket bat?
A buddy of mine came up with an initiative in CA to eliminate the bias in redistricting by using a set of easily-understood rules that could be set into law and would ensure a balanced outcome based on geography and population levels, not political benefits.
He's still working on getting it passed into law by the voters in CA. It's tough when it doesn't really benefit the party in power to change the system to make it fair.
It's fun to see them bring back an old game like this, but it'd be a lot nicer if they actually updated it while keeping the same play-style. Having the exact same game, but for 50 cents is a little bit of overkill. How many will really pay to play this more than once in an arcade?
The remake of Frogger that came out in the last few years was one of the best updates I've seen. It was tons of fun in new 3d graphics and all while still staying essentially true to the theme and playstyle of the original game.
Even the remake of Pong into current 3d graphics they had out was pretty cool.
The programs for the slot machines are on a single PROM, and that PROM is registered with the Gaming Commission after exhaustive testing.
That's why the best cheats are the ones that work for the gaming commission and have access to slip in a new PROM, like that guy in Nevada whose friends happened to keep winning millions at slots...
Now, if you were born 100 years ago, the chances of you being able to read by adulthood would be slim.
Perhaps you should look up easily available facts before making ridiculous assertions? The literacy rate 100 years ago in the United States for those over 14 years old was 90%. That's not exactly slim.
Also, people who grow up poor (like I did), actually have a very good chance of "getting out of poverty" in the United States. In fact, 80% of the bottom 20% of income earners in the U.S. later in their lives end up part of the top 20% of income earners in the U.S. That's a lot of turnover.
I personally love free libraries, since I tend to read about an average of a book a day, they save me a ton of cash. It's worth pointing out that for most of the nation's history, the overwhelming majority of free publicly available libraries were privately funded and endowed. Most libraries still rely on private donations of cash, books and time in order to serve their patrons.
To sell used books on Amazon, a private individual generally has to type in the details of their normally small inventory, then create some make-shift packaging to ship it to the new owner. This is a big disadvantage compared to the local garage sale.
In comparison, libraries are on the other side of the equation. They have a hassle of moving large numbers of books around to try to sell them physically locally, but already have all the book details in electronic form.
This means that a library can not only just use Amazon's AWS services to load all their available titles directly into Amazon's online used book database using XML over http or SOAP, but can use the outputs of sales information to take the titles out of their systems and automatically print-up shipping information for the new owner.
In this case it's easy to see why libraries would be flocking to data fed book sales in droves, especially when you add in the factor of obscure books finding the "right" buyer from a much larger customer base, versus the usually limited local audience. Those advantages more than outweigh the extra costs of shipping.
What better way to get your bugs known by every technically literate person on the planet than to send a C & D letter like this, leading to a reference that gets posted on Slashdot as a home page story?
I congratulate Gamespy on their great word-of-mouth campaign to get all of their exploitable bugs known by the widest possible audience...
"Ok, after you get your ballot, be sure to soak it in liquid so that it's heavier, then drop it in the ballot box. If you think you can attach some lead weights to it secretly, go for that too..."
They're easy to use (no consultants required), easily expandable and cluster easily, plus you can network attach them and get speeds comparable to EMC SANS that cost 10x as much up front.
If you can't tell, I'm very happy with our NetApps and just wish I could figure out an honest justification why my company needs to sell me one cheap for personal use...
There are some advantages to open source software teams that closed source lacks that this illustrates.
For example, how long before the other BSDs (and even Linux) pick up any applicable parts of the improvements the NetBSD team made here? Even though they are different teams and projects, they still help each other out almost as much as being on the same project does.
AMD64 port Java Project ACPI Status Report FreeBSD ports monitoring system
Just to be a little off-topic, while installing my new Highpoint 1540 SATA RAID controller this afternoon, I noticed an option to mount (yeah, "man mount". I read the article, too.) in the man pages that I hadn't noticed before, mount -o snapshot lets you mount up a snapshot of a filesystem.
I'm sure it's been around forever, but it's new to me! Check it out. It appears to just about rival the software from NetApp, etc.. in usefulness for creating filesystem snapshots.
I suppose I shouldn't respond to an Anonymous Coward, but since you ask a relevent question:
"based on which part of your logs?"
The answer is simple. I have javascript at the bottom of each page (so as not to interfere with loading the page, speed-wise) that checks if they are running IE on windows and if so checks their browser's reactions for spyware/parasite software.
If they have detectable spyware installed, it loads a sub-form at the bottom of the page that tells them what is installed and gives them the option to visit the spyware removal page. Obviously, I can then do the simple math of how many IE+Win visitors I have versus how many times the sub-form was requested in conjunction with a regular page and come up with the 10% number.
If anything, the 10% is going to be on the low side, because there are many types of spyware/parasite software that a web-page based javascript files isn't going to be able to detect because it doesn't interact with the pages their IE browser views.
I wasn't aware of the history of BPS. If I can confirm the info in your link, I suspect I'll have to remove their link on my spyware removal software page.
So many IE web users have some sort of spyware/parasite installed (about 10%, based on my web logs) that I finally put up a Spyware Detection and Removal page on an unrelated site, just so I'd have something to refer people to!
If you are serious about privacy, then downloading and installing one of the commercial products (I like Aluria's Spyware Eliminator or the BPS Spyware and Adware Remover the best) is actually worth it. I didn't believe that until I happened to get a free copy of a couple of the commercial versions and found all the features I was missing in the freeware I was using, like a good list of domains and IPs that have been found to have been used by parasites/spyware ready for one-button access denial!
If you just want a "quick" fix that isn't quite as comprehensive (but covers the basics), then hit the Spyware Detection and Removal page above and follow some of the "free scanner" links, or go to one of the commercial sites listed and get their "free" version. I've also tried AdAware, but like most of the other free versions, it didn't seem to pick up as much stuff as my the commercial version of the Aluria software.
Of course, if you aren't running MS Windows, you can pretty much disregard all of the above advice.
The problem with this as a rebuttal to the statement is that your example defines what the participant's "interests" should be, and when that doesn't match reality, declares reality to be wrong.
There are many people for whom their interest in a penny is lower than their interest in factors like pride, their sense of "fairness", the joy of giving/sharing, etc.... People act to further their own interests, but those interests aren't purely about cash.
The other difficulty in the experiment is that people develop a pattern of behavior based on their interests (splitting things 50/50 all the time, for example) and have possibly found (or been taught by their culture) that violating that pattern of behavior for short-term gains, like in this experiment, is counter-productive over the long-run. So are they still serving their interests by going for short-term gains?
I think the topic is a little more complicated than the cited experiment would like us to believe.
We've been trying to figure out for months how to make our data center more impressive when we take PHB's there on tours. This sounds like just the ticket!
Everyone knows that you can tell the speed and worth of a server based on the number of blinking lights on the front of the display. Moving our switches up higher in the rack so that they were more visible did us a ton of good. Sounds like this whole memory lights thing may be the killer app that lets us charge for data center tours now!
I wish they had managed to call it something besides "Web Services" when it doesn't have a lot to do with the "World Wide Web". That's been the biggest point of confusion I've found trying to explain web services to semi-technical people.
The services part hasn't been much better than the Web part, but at least it's mostly fitting.
The book reviewed is a pretty good overview. I just wish they had spent more time on typical internal corporate uses and tools to convert/interact with existing legacy software products.
You can find some similar related books at BUR - Web Services/Soap. I am looking forward to the days when standards like this combined with older stuff like XML and CSS make combining and processing data from disparete sources becomes a lot easier than it typically is now!
All the CAFE standards accomplished was to force people to get rid of station wagons for mini-vans and SUVs since they had different standards.
Yet another example of how just having the government regulate something doesn't make it happen. If people wanted more fuel-efficient cars (like they did when the government imposed price controls in the 70s, which of course drove the availability of gas down), they would buy them and the makers would respond by selling them. Right now, people don't want them, so they don't sell, even with massive tax breaks for buying a super-polluting (due to the batteries always needing replacement) electric car.
Apparently from the comments, no one got the joke that there aren't that many women in IT companies and tried to turn it into some sort of comment on the guy's personal life...
Better yet, if you don't agree to the "new" terms, then join the Republican Liberty Caucus and fight politically for your rights instead of just running away to some other country.:)
Slashdot Mirror
Basically the way real people who care about security use Wifi securely is that they don't treat is like it's secure.
The simplest implementation of that is to design your network under the assumption that any Wifi portions are about as secure as the general Internet.
In other words, stick the Wifi network on it's own outside your firewalled "internal" network and use a VPN client to connect your laptop or whatever to the real network. The gateway for the Wifi network would in this case usually be a firewall/VPN server.
If someone gets on the Wifi network, they can't do anything with your encrypted packets and they can't get anywhere past the firewalled connection to anything else.
Talk about the law of unintended consequences....
So I guess the idea is that people within the same country should have a major hassle in sending messages, but that if you have an out of country mail server available you can spam all you want?
What we need here is a larger clue-stick, perhaps in the shape of a cricket bat?
A buddy of mine came up with an initiative in CA to eliminate the bias in redistricting by using a set of easily-understood rules that could be set into law and would ensure a balanced outcome based on geography and population levels, not political benefits.
You can find the details at Fair Vote 2k2.
He's still working on getting it passed into law by the voters in CA. It's tough when it doesn't really benefit the party in power to change the system to make it fair.
It's fun to see them bring back an old game like this, but it'd be a lot nicer if they actually updated it while keeping the same play-style. Having the exact same game, but for 50 cents is a little bit of overkill. How many will really pay to play this more than once in an arcade?
The remake of Frogger that came out in the last few years was one of the best updates I've seen. It was tons of fun in new 3d graphics and all while still staying essentially true to the theme and playstyle of the original game.
Even the remake of Pong into current 3d graphics they had out was pretty cool.
The programs for the slot machines are on a single PROM, and that PROM is registered with the Gaming Commission after exhaustive testing.
That's why the best cheats are the ones that work for the gaming commission and have access to slip in a new PROM, like that guy in Nevada whose friends happened to keep winning millions at slots...
Now, if you were born 100 years ago, the chances of you being able to read by adulthood would be slim.
Perhaps you should look up easily available facts before making ridiculous assertions? The literacy rate 100 years ago in the United States for those over 14 years old was 90%. That's not exactly slim.
Also, people who grow up poor (like I did), actually have a very good chance of "getting out of poverty" in the United States. In fact, 80% of the bottom 20% of income earners in the U.S. later in their lives end up part of the top 20% of income earners in the U.S. That's a lot of turnover.
I personally love free libraries, since I tend to read about an average of a book a day, they save me a ton of cash. It's worth pointing out that for most of the nation's history, the overwhelming majority of free publicly available libraries were privately funded and endowed. Most libraries still rely on private donations of cash, books and time in order to serve their patrons.
To sell used books on Amazon, a private individual generally has to type in the details of their normally small inventory, then create some make-shift packaging to ship it to the new owner. This is a big disadvantage compared to the local garage sale.
In comparison, libraries are on the other side of the equation. They have a hassle of moving large numbers of books around to try to sell them physically locally, but already have all the book details in electronic form.
This means that a library can not only just use Amazon's AWS services to load all their available titles directly into Amazon's online used book database using XML over http or SOAP, but can use the outputs of sales information to take the titles out of their systems and automatically print-up shipping information for the new owner.
In this case it's easy to see why libraries would be flocking to data fed book sales in droves, especially when you add in the factor of obscure books finding the "right" buyer from a much larger customer base, versus the usually limited local audience. Those advantages more than outweigh the extra costs of shipping.
What better way to get your bugs known by every technically literate person on the planet than to send a C & D letter like this, leading to a reference that gets posted on Slashdot as a home page story?
I congratulate Gamespy on their great word-of-mouth campaign to get all of their exploitable bugs known by the widest possible audience...
I can see it now....
"Ok, after you get your ballot, be sure to soak it in liquid so that it's heavier, then drop it in the ballot box. If you think you can attach some lead weights to it secretly, go for that too..."
Yeah, go take a look at some NetApp products.
They're easy to use (no consultants required), easily expandable and cluster easily, plus you can network attach them and get speeds comparable to EMC SANS that cost 10x as much up front.
If you can't tell, I'm very happy with our NetApps and just wish I could figure out an honest justification why my company needs to sell me one cheap for personal use...
There are some advantages to open source software teams that closed source lacks that this illustrates.
For example, how long before the other BSDs (and even Linux) pick up any applicable parts of the improvements the NetBSD team made here? Even though they are different teams and projects, they still help each other out almost as much as being on the same project does.
Some of my favorites included in the list are:
AMD64 port
Java Project
ACPI Status Report
FreeBSD ports monitoring system
Just to be a little off-topic, while installing my new Highpoint 1540 SATA RAID controller this afternoon, I noticed an option to mount (yeah, "man mount". I read the article, too.) in the man pages that I hadn't noticed before, mount -o snapshot lets you mount up a snapshot of a filesystem.
I'm sure it's been around forever, but it's new to me! Check it out. It appears to just about rival the software from NetApp, etc.. in usefulness for creating filesystem snapshots.
I suppose I shouldn't respond to an Anonymous Coward, but since you ask a relevent question:
"based on which part of your logs?"
The answer is simple. I have javascript at the bottom of each page (so as not to interfere with loading the page, speed-wise) that checks if they are running IE on windows and if so checks their browser's reactions for spyware/parasite software.
If they have detectable spyware installed, it loads a sub-form at the bottom of the page that tells them what is installed and gives them the option to visit the spyware removal page. Obviously, I can then do the simple math of how many IE+Win visitors I have versus how many times the sub-form was requested in conjunction with a regular page and come up with the 10% number.
If anything, the 10% is going to be on the low side, because there are many types of spyware/parasite software that a web-page based javascript files isn't going to be able to detect because it doesn't interact with the pages their IE browser views.
I wasn't aware of the history of BPS. If I can confirm the info in your link, I suspect I'll have to remove their link on my spyware removal software page.
I personally prefer Aluria's software the best.
So many IE web users have some sort of spyware/parasite installed (about 10%, based on my web logs) that I finally put up a Spyware Detection and Removal page on an unrelated site, just so I'd have something to refer people to!
If you are serious about privacy, then downloading and installing one of the commercial products (I like Aluria's Spyware Eliminator or the BPS Spyware and Adware Remover the best) is actually worth it. I didn't believe that until I happened to get a free copy of a couple of the commercial versions and found all the features I was missing in the freeware I was using, like a good list of domains and IPs that have been found to have been used by parasites/spyware ready for one-button access denial!
If you just want a "quick" fix that isn't quite as comprehensive (but covers the basics), then hit the Spyware Detection and Removal page above and follow some of the "free scanner" links, or go to one of the commercial sites listed and get their "free" version. I've also tried AdAware, but like most of the other free versions, it didn't seem to pick up as much stuff as my the commercial version of the Aluria software.
Of course, if you aren't running MS Windows, you can pretty much disregard all of the above advice.
So this is Dean's payback to the Blog community for supporting him all this time?
Come on Howard... we were looking for some cash in government bennies, not something from sourceforge....
Politicians: The ultimate Vaporware....
The problem with this as a rebuttal to the statement is that your example defines what the participant's "interests" should be, and when that doesn't match reality, declares reality to be wrong.
There are many people for whom their interest in a penny is lower than their interest in factors like pride, their sense of "fairness", the joy of giving/sharing, etc.... People act to further their own interests, but those interests aren't purely about cash.
The other difficulty in the experiment is that people develop a pattern of behavior based on their interests (splitting things 50/50 all the time, for example) and have possibly found (or been taught by their culture) that violating that pattern of behavior for short-term gains, like in this experiment, is counter-productive over the long-run. So are they still serving their interests by going for short-term gains?
I think the topic is a little more complicated than the cited experiment would like us to believe.
You've managed to reinvent in mangled form the Cato version of the exempt-the-poor national sales tax.
Great... now we're all gonna get a wheelbarrow full of $5 coupons from Network Solutions that we can only use for their price-inflated products!
I already have enough toilet paper that says "register.com" on it. Guess I better go invest in a fireplace...
We've been trying to figure out for months how to make our data center more impressive when we take PHB's there on tours. This sounds like just the ticket!
Everyone knows that you can tell the speed and worth of a server based on the number of blinking lights on the front of the display. Moving our switches up higher in the rack so that they were more visible did us a ton of good. Sounds like this whole memory lights thing may be the killer app that lets us charge for data center tours now!
I wish they had managed to call it something besides "Web Services" when it doesn't have a lot to do with the "World Wide Web". That's been the biggest point of confusion I've found trying to explain web services to semi-technical people.
The services part hasn't been much better than the Web part, but at least it's mostly fitting.
The book reviewed is a pretty good overview. I just wish they had spent more time on typical internal corporate uses and tools to convert/interact with existing legacy software products.
You can find some similar related books at BUR - Web Services/Soap. I am looking forward to the days when standards like this combined with older stuff like XML and CSS make combining and processing data from disparete sources becomes a lot easier than it typically is now!
All the CAFE standards accomplished was to force people to get rid of station wagons for mini-vans and SUVs since they had different standards.
Yet another example of how just having the government regulate something doesn't make it happen. If people wanted more fuel-efficient cars (like they did when the government imposed price controls in the 70s, which of course drove the availability of gas down), they would buy them and the makers would respond by selling them. Right now, people don't want them, so they don't sell, even with massive tax breaks for buying a super-polluting (due to the batteries always needing replacement) electric car.
Maybe you can't get a salesman on the phone becuase they didn't actually expect anyone to call and want to buy one?
Or it's just a cheap screening tactic to try and weed out the 2 real buyers from the 800 anti-SCO people who just want to argue with them?
Apparently from the comments, no one got the joke that there aren't that many women in IT companies and tried to turn it into some sort of comment on the guy's personal life...
"The women at work..."
Dude, if you have enough women where you work to make a statistically valid statement, you're on the wrong website...
Better yet, if you don't agree to the "new" terms, then join the Republican Liberty Caucus and fight politically for your rights instead of just running away to some other country. :)