They already started and have managed to keep it under wraps thus far. I bet you they're just going to do THIS with the "recyled" computers.
No one will question it. Everyone will live in blissful ignorance. Move along, people... nothing to see here.
They will get everyone on board with Firefox, then release the exploit to the script kiddie masses. They will make sure the same exploit isn't available to IE. They will wait until peoples' machines start getting infected with [whatever] and say "Those using Microsoft IE are not affected by the vulnerability."
...but I like how the first line in the post's text with the headline including "software" and "politics" contains "registration required" simply to view the article. *giggle*
It misses a lot. It gets a lot. It should be used with other applications, but in the end, only a trained eye can figure out based on the case of letters in a process name, the path to the executable in the registry's run section, and the dates on files, what is spyware and what's a legit process/file. You also gotta know how to kick the butt of those redundant BHO/registry, dual-running-process bastards that replace keys and objects as you try to remove them. No software will ever be good enough, in my opinion, to do that automatically.
Generally speaking, when something bad happens to me, I try to figure out the cause and take steps to prevent it again. Example: if someone ran into me and knocked me over, breaking my leg, I wouldn't sue the person that bumped into me. I would go to the hospital, have it looked at, and have it put in a cast or whatever... I would learn from that mistake and watch where I'm going in the future.
If someone does something bad to me on purpose (something along the lines of a lie, cheat, steal, etc) I don't sue them. I learn what types of people are likely to do that to me again in the future. I strengthen my guard or take whatever steps are necessary to prevent it from happening again. It's a learning process.
I didn't turn 18 and immediately start walking down the street thinking that everyone owes me something and that I'll sue them if they don't give it to me. I get the impression that's what a large portion of the population thinks. I won't even say large; just a portion. I don't walk down the street thinking that everything that happens to me is some scheme perpetrated by shady invisible evils that need to be discovered and sued.
Well, this is the USA.... A lot of things are schemes against me (and others) perpetrated by shady invisible evils (read: corporate decision-makers and marketing execs). I just learn from all of the times I've been burned and try not to get burned again. See, I LEARN.
Mod me down as offtopic, I guess. I had to get it off my chest... fingers.. whatever.:)
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The backplanes on server cases are horrid for SATA. They work, but you have to have special hookups for the LEDs (drive fail and activity) and often the controller cards or motherboards don't supply them. All I've managed to get is power LEDs on the front of the Super Micro cases I've worked with.
SATA is not that much faster in practice than PATA, because the kinds of load that you put a drive under in a production environment are not like the speed/load tests used to generate benchmark numbers.
You asked for opinions, and mine is that PATA (ATA-133) is more than fast enough, and the cost of SATA and the quirks that have yet to be ironed out are not worth it. It's the latest shiny object, and shiny objects are not always the most useful.
I base my experience on the Western Digital SATA (mostly 36 gig) drives and the Western Digital 40 and 80 gig JB drives connected to multiple brands of motherboards and add-on controller cards.
Try submitting your resume to fields other than your target. It seems that people with skills unrelated to IT work seem to get the IT jobs, and the IT-minded people with valuable skills seem to end up working at Burger King. Along those lines, modify your resume to include a bunch of non-IT work and skills.
Also, don't let them know that you're intelligent. If you give them that impression, they will fear that you will realize how messed-up their processes and procedures are and point them out and try to change them. You have to pretend you're completely incompetent and will never have an opinion on anything, but rather just do as you're told.
Is it more important to you to have these items on you while you're out, or is it more important to you that they be safe?
If the answer is that you must have them on you, then try to avoid "bad parts" of town and accept the fact that you're putting yourself in a dangerous position. Pray to your deity. Consider carrying a tazer.
If the answer is that you'd rather hang on to them for the long run, leave the damn things at home.
The makers of the RAMBUS workout are suing the makers of the DDR workout, claiming that the DDR workout's prices were fixed in a subversive plot to drive the RAMBUS workout off the market. When contacted, the makers of the DDR workout commented "Hey, hey, let's go, so let's fighting." The makers of the RAMBUS workout had no comment, but stated that their case is very strong and legal action is already in progress.
Asking this question at all is absurd to the point of insanity.
Try different distros. Find one you can easily get into and integrate your work into. Go with that. That's the only way you're going to get an answer to your question.
Unfortunately you're incorrect. I feel I have to point it out.
That particular error is known to never clear itself up. Even when intervention is forced, it's an error that almost never goes away before the end-of-life.
Why doesn't anyone seem to realize that this means nothing good and potentially a bit of bad?
You have magnetic-stripe cards now. They contain the information necessary to identify the account of the card owner.
If you move to RFID-based cards, they will (*GASP*) contain the information necessary to identify the account of the card holder.
That doesn't, in either case, mean that the person actually presenting the card for reading *IS* the account holder. The same marchant negligence issues apply. See: not checking signature or ID, insecure storage methodologies (e.g. keeping customer card information in a batch queue until it's sent, paper/data trails, etc).
Solution: Implant the cardholder with an RFID chip of their own and cross-check. Drawback: I don't imagine many people would accept this as a plausible solution. I sure as hell am not going to have ANYTHING implanted in me unless it's a shot to prevent a disease or to have my blood drawn:) I won't even touch on the possibility of duplication of both based on insecure storage. Authentic online/phone orders not possible.
Solution: Have another card or driver's license with RFID and cross-check. Drawback: Duplication based on insecure storage OR Someone could just freaking steal both of them at the same time and physically use them. Authentic online/phone orders not possible.
Solution: Same as above except force merchants to check "the other card" or driver's license PHOTO. Drawback: Merchants in high-volume sales locations will get lazy VERY fast and not do it. Photos can be duplicated and inserted. Not possible for athentic online/phone orders.
WORKING SOLUTION: Do not tie credit information to SSNs anymore. Instead, assign everyone a Currency/Credit ID. In a centralized location, have the IDs securely tied to a strong public key-based encryption scheme. Use the key system to generate a working end-to-end encryption system. Require a combination of a matching fingerprint or retina scan along with a passphrase WITH COMPLEXITY REQUIREMENTS that the consumer MUST just freaking remember. None of this "oh, I forgot" crap with convenience loopholes at the merchant location. Require the passphrase to be entered within a certain amount of time at the merchant location, and do not allow for entry to be cancelled. Even if the consumer wants to cancel the transaction, they must enter the passphrase unconditionally to do so. The penalty for entering a passphrase incorrectly two times OR not within the amount of time allowed OR failing to provide the proper retina scan/fingerprint match along with the passphrase will result in the passphrase being invalidated. At that time, the consumer will have to go to a CCID service center and have their retina/fingerprint/photo identity verified with the information on file and provide a new passphrase. The penalty for attempting to defraud the system intentionally is life in prison (deterrent). Drawbacks: Cost to merchant, cost to financial institutions, cost to gov't (and ultimately consumers) and the following, which is very important:
IF someone wants to commit fraud, they will. They will find a way. Merchants can leak information such as retina scan matches, fingerprint images, passphrase and keypair data, and photographic information to the hacking community at large, who will invariably find a weakness and exploit it.
One final point that overshadows and provides direction to all of my points: The current credit industry is based on profit, loss, risk, and mitigation. They expend a certain amount doing background checks on new applicants, a certain amount on equipment, a certain amount on fraud prevention, a GREAT amount to successful fraud and delinquency, a GREAT amount on chronic delinquency/writeoffs, and a buttload on other things that aren't relevant to this post.
The credit industry is still just that - an industry. They're a business. They make decisions based on that ever-present bottom line
Plus, there never arises a situation where someone says "my business runs on Mac. Are you able to open Mac files?"
There are ways to port Mac files to 'doze/*NIX and the same to Mac.
If this DRM/Longhorn crap takes off, most of the noobs and brain-dead fat cats who read CIO magazine will simply wag their tails and go along with what Momma Microsoft says, and the rest of us self-preservatory individuals with enough foresight to realize that it's a doomed enterprise will be shit outta luck because we can't interoperate with a decent chunk of the business/personal world anymore.
I agree with your foresight. I believe that is EXACTLY what will happen.
Like spam and spyware, it won't even be on the radar of the political crowd until it hits them close to home; when they can't open up the porn they just spent an entire day downloading, they'll realize that this DRM crap isn't worth the lobbyist payoffs.
Busting a nut is far too important to let Microsoft call the punches... if you get my meaning.
Indeed, Xbox is a learning platform for how to marry the OS with the hardware such that one won't work without the other.
You worry too much, my friend. Microsoft successfully married hardware and software DRM in the XBox, and what happened? It was broken in a short amount of time.
The same will happen with any other trusted computing or "secure" OS that *ANY* company or entity decides to put out.
Popular demand will still be the prevailing driver in computing trends.
...that by purchasing these DRMed products and music that you're just encouraging and supporting these large corporations and the **AA's business models?
Even if fair use it taken into consideration through the use of proprietary hardware, the big companies will take those rights away as soon as they have M$-sized market share (proportionally-speaking) and people can't afford to switch to a platform that takes their interests into consideration.
I guess if you're gullible enough to chase after the pretty bells and whistles without considering the consequences, you deserve whatever happens. I guess that really means I don't have a point.
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Could you cite a source to refute it?
They already started and have managed to keep it under wraps thus far. I bet you they're just going to do THIS with the "recyled" computers.
No one will question it. Everyone will live in blissful ignorance. Move along, people... nothing to see here.
Hijack this is my best friend when cleaning up W32 machines.
They will get everyone on board with Firefox, then release the exploit to the script kiddie masses. They will make sure the same exploit isn't available to IE. They will wait until peoples' machines start getting infected with [whatever] and say "Those using Microsoft IE are not affected by the vulnerability."
There's no other marketable reason.
...but I like how the first line in the post's text with the headline including "software" and "politics" contains "registration required" simply to view the article.
*giggle*
No.
It misses a lot. It gets a lot. It should be used with other applications, but in the end, only a trained eye can figure out based on the case of letters in a process name, the path to the executable in the registry's run section, and the dates on files, what is spyware and what's a legit process/file. You also gotta know how to kick the butt of those redundant BHO/registry, dual-running-process bastards that replace keys and objects as you try to remove them. No software will ever be good enough, in my opinion, to do that automatically.
...did it HAVE to be Texas?
Play those Bud Light commercials... Real Men of Genius!
I'm not poking fun at you. I think that would be hilarious. People would remember your company.
Generally speaking, when something bad happens to me, I try to figure out the cause and take steps to prevent it again. Example: if someone ran into me and knocked me over, breaking my leg, I wouldn't sue the person that bumped into me. I would go to the hospital, have it looked at, and have it put in a cast or whatever... I would learn from that mistake and watch where I'm going in the future.
:)
If someone does something bad to me on purpose (something along the lines of a lie, cheat, steal, etc) I don't sue them. I learn what types of people are likely to do that to me again in the future. I strengthen my guard or take whatever steps are necessary to prevent it from happening again. It's a learning process.
I didn't turn 18 and immediately start walking down the street thinking that everyone owes me something and that I'll sue them if they don't give it to me. I get the impression that's what a large portion of the population thinks. I won't even say large; just a portion. I don't walk down the street thinking that everything that happens to me is some scheme perpetrated by shady invisible evils that need to be discovered and sued.
Well, this is the USA.... A lot of things are schemes against me (and others) perpetrated by shady invisible evils (read: corporate decision-makers and marketing execs). I just learn from all of the times I've been burned and try not to get burned again. See, I LEARN.
Mod me down as offtopic, I guess. I had to get it off my chest... fingers.. whatever.
I think they're also tax-deductible.
The backplanes on server cases are horrid for SATA. They work, but you have to have special hookups for the LEDs (drive fail and activity) and often the controller cards or motherboards don't supply them. All I've managed to get is power LEDs on the front of the Super Micro cases I've worked with.
SATA is not that much faster in practice than PATA, because the kinds of load that you put a drive under in a production environment are not like the speed/load tests used to generate benchmark numbers.
You asked for opinions, and mine is that PATA (ATA-133) is more than fast enough, and the cost of SATA and the quirks that have yet to be ironed out are not worth it. It's the latest shiny object, and shiny objects are not always the most useful.
I base my experience on the Western Digital SATA (mostly 36 gig) drives and the Western Digital 40 and 80 gig JB drives connected to multiple brands of motherboards and add-on controller cards.
Try submitting your resume to fields other than your target. It seems that people with skills unrelated to IT work seem to get the IT jobs, and the IT-minded people with valuable skills seem to end up working at Burger King. Along those lines, modify your resume to include a bunch of non-IT work and skills.
Also, don't let them know that you're intelligent. If you give them that impression, they will fear that you will realize how messed-up their processes and procedures are and point them out and try to change them. You have to pretend you're completely incompetent and will never have an opinion on anything, but rather just do as you're told.
I speak from personal experience.
...to show up at one of these shows and troll my ass off every chance I got.
That's why I said "consider."
My actual comment, while trollish, would be more like "if you don't want it stolen, don't carry it. If you carry it, pray it doesn't get stolen."
There's not really much more to it than that. If someone wants it, they'll take it. Just hope you aren't seen by one of those people.
Is it more important to you to have these items on you while you're out, or is it more important to you that they be safe?
If the answer is that you must have them on you, then try to avoid "bad parts" of town and accept the fact that you're putting yourself in a dangerous position. Pray to your deity. Consider carrying a tazer.
If the answer is that you'd rather hang on to them for the long run, leave the damn things at home.
The makers of the RAMBUS workout are suing the makers of the DDR workout, claiming that the DDR workout's prices were fixed in a subversive plot to drive the RAMBUS workout off the market.
When contacted, the makers of the DDR workout commented "Hey, hey, let's go, so let's fighting."
The makers of the RAMBUS workout had no comment, but stated that their case is very strong and legal action is already in progress.
Here we go again.
1000 geeks will respond with different opinions.
Asking this question at all is absurd to the point of insanity.
Try different distros. Find one you can easily get into and integrate your work into. Go with that. That's the only way you're going to get an answer to your question.
Unfortunately you're incorrect. I feel I have to point it out.
That particular error is known to never clear itself up. Even when intervention is forced, it's an error that almost never goes away before the end-of-life.
Why doesn't anyone seem to realize that this means nothing good and potentially a bit of bad?
:) I won't even touch on the possibility of duplication of both based on insecure storage. Authentic online/phone orders not possible.
You have magnetic-stripe cards now. They contain the information necessary to identify the account of the card owner.
If you move to RFID-based cards, they will (*GASP*) contain the information necessary to identify the account of the card holder.
That doesn't, in either case, mean that the person actually presenting the card for reading *IS* the account holder. The same marchant negligence issues apply. See: not checking signature or ID, insecure storage methodologies (e.g. keeping customer card information in a batch queue until it's sent, paper/data trails, etc).
Solution: Implant the cardholder with an RFID chip of their own and cross-check.
Drawback: I don't imagine many people would accept this as a plausible solution. I sure as hell am not going to have ANYTHING implanted in me unless it's a shot to prevent a disease or to have my blood drawn
Solution: Have another card or driver's license with RFID and cross-check.
Drawback: Duplication based on insecure storage OR Someone could just freaking steal both of them at the same time and physically use them. Authentic online/phone orders not possible.
Solution: Same as above except force merchants to check "the other card" or driver's license PHOTO.
Drawback: Merchants in high-volume sales locations will get lazy VERY fast and not do it. Photos can be duplicated and inserted. Not possible for athentic online/phone orders.
WORKING SOLUTION:
Do not tie credit information to SSNs anymore. Instead, assign everyone a Currency/Credit ID. In a centralized location, have the IDs securely tied to a strong public key-based encryption scheme. Use the key system to generate a working end-to-end encryption system. Require a combination of a matching fingerprint or retina scan along with a passphrase WITH COMPLEXITY REQUIREMENTS that the consumer MUST just freaking remember. None of this "oh, I forgot" crap with convenience loopholes at the merchant location. Require the passphrase to be entered within a certain amount of time at the merchant location, and do not allow for entry to be cancelled. Even if the consumer wants to cancel the transaction, they must enter the passphrase unconditionally to do so. The penalty for entering a passphrase incorrectly two times OR not within the amount of time allowed OR failing to provide the proper retina scan/fingerprint match along with the passphrase will result in the passphrase being invalidated. At that time, the consumer will have to go to a CCID service center and have their retina/fingerprint/photo identity verified with the information on file and provide a new passphrase. The penalty for attempting to defraud the system intentionally is life in prison (deterrent).
Drawbacks: Cost to merchant, cost to financial institutions, cost to gov't (and ultimately consumers) and the following, which is very important:
IF someone wants to commit fraud, they will. They will find a way. Merchants can leak information such as retina scan matches, fingerprint images, passphrase and keypair data, and photographic information to the hacking community at large, who will invariably find a weakness and exploit it.
One final point that overshadows and provides direction to all of my points: The current credit industry is based on profit, loss, risk, and mitigation. They expend a certain amount doing background checks on new applicants, a certain amount on equipment, a certain amount on fraud prevention, a GREAT amount to successful fraud and delinquency, a GREAT amount on chronic delinquency/writeoffs, and a buttload on other things that aren't relevant to this post.
The credit industry is still just that - an industry. They're a business. They make decisions based on that ever-present bottom line
...that this means absolutely nothing since someone is already set to buy it back up, don't you?
Sc-uhreew you guys.... I'm cashing out.
That's because we have RECOURSE.
Plus, there never arises a situation where someone says "my business runs on Mac. Are you able to open Mac files?"
There are ways to port Mac files to 'doze/*NIX and the same to Mac.
If this DRM/Longhorn crap takes off, most of the noobs and brain-dead fat cats who read CIO magazine will simply wag their tails and go along with what Momma Microsoft says, and the rest of us self-preservatory individuals with enough foresight to realize that it's a doomed enterprise will be shit outta luck because we can't interoperate with a decent chunk of the business/personal world anymore.
You deserve +20 Insightful for that.
I agree with your foresight. I believe that is EXACTLY what will happen.
Like spam and spyware, it won't even be on the radar of the political crowd until it hits them close to home; when they can't open up the porn they just spent an entire day downloading, they'll realize that this DRM crap isn't worth the lobbyist payoffs.
Busting a nut is far too important to let Microsoft call the punches... if you get my meaning.
Indeed, Xbox is a learning platform for how to marry the OS with the hardware such that one won't work without the other.
You worry too much, my friend. Microsoft successfully married hardware and software DRM in the XBox, and what happened? It was broken in a short amount of time.
The same will happen with any other trusted computing or "secure" OS that *ANY* company or entity decides to put out.
Popular demand will still be the prevailing driver in computing trends.
...that by purchasing these DRMed products and music that you're just encouraging and supporting these large corporations and the **AA's business models?
Even if fair use it taken into consideration through the use of proprietary hardware, the big companies will take those rights away as soon as they have M$-sized market share (proportionally-speaking) and people can't afford to switch to a platform that takes their interests into consideration.
I guess if you're gullible enough to chase after the pretty bells and whistles without considering the consequences, you deserve whatever happens. I guess that really means I don't have a point.