From the FBI press release abut the guilty plea on possession of child porn:
According to Assistant U.S. Attorney Steven D. DeBrota, who is prosecuting the case for the government, Sachtleben could face five to 20 years in prison for the distribution charge and up to 10 years for the possession charge. Both charges also carry up to a $250,000 fine and lifetime supervised release if he is found to be guilty.
I won't disagree about issues with product strategy, but I do question the comment about the HTC Evo 3D not being a good phone. I got one as soon as they came out, and other than the lousy camera functionality (there's a good quarter second delay between pushing the button to take a picture and the picture actually being taken, which results in shaky or out of focus pictures) it''s been an excellent phone. Over a year later and there are no scratches or dings on it even though I don't use a case. It still performs very snappy even with Sprint's crapware that's loaded on it, and battery life is still very good (I usually charge every other day). It's one of the better smartphones I've ever owned.
All these arguments about the Founding Fathers and what they intended or wanted for this new country they were founding seems to lack a critical part: Who were they, really? How many were there? What were their names? What were their individual beliefs?
Seems to me that either side, the religious right or the non-religious left, are trying to claim the "Founding Fathers" as their own without really understanding who they were or what each of them believed, individually. I bet that if you study the Founding Fathers you'll find them as diverse in their personalities and beliefs as America is today. Personally, I think we should leave the Founding Fathers out of this whole argument, they lived over 250 years ago and the world was a much different place then than it is now. We should concentrate the discussion on the issues we face today and modern solutions to them.
computing in the future won't be tethered to a keyboard and mouse, that's 20th century input, we're in the 21'st century now. with voice recognition getting better by the year you'll soon* be able to use your bluetooth hands free headset from your phone with your tablet as a general input device along with the touch interface that we have now.
* Soon can be defined as any time in the next 30 days to the next 30 years, and everything in between
Mobile Search is generating a lot of revenue for Google, and it's only going to increase. Having Android as the dominant mobile platform means a hell of a lot of search money for Google.
Yeah, because one lawyer officially represents the views of all 1 billion Muslims. Just like Rousas John Rushdoony officially represents the views of all Christians, Including the view that your children should be taken from you and stoned to death if they disobey you.
If you think kooks like this in far away Pakistan are dangerous take a look in your own backyard, the Christian Reconstructionists want to do away with Democracy and turn the American government into a Christian version of the Taliban. There are homicidal crazy people in just about any social group.
He's right. I spent 8 years as a 3C0x1 (Communications Computer Systems Operator) and the idea that any base would have 400 enlisted people dedicated to programming is utter bullshit, even bases as massive as Eglin or Vandenberg.
it isn't a pain in the ass if you actually have a *clue* to what you are doing, and as for scaling, we run 3000 users per exchange mailbox cluster, and we expect to be able to get well over twice that when we go to Exchange 2007.
For all of you who are calling this girl "stupid, "moron", or "idiot", let me ask you a question. How many of you know how to change the brake pads on your car? How many can rebuild your carburetor, or even do something as simple as change your oil? I'm going to guess that not very many of you can do any of these things, and yet cars have been around a lot longer than computers, and in the west are about as ubiquitous as telephones and television sets.
This girl isn't stupid because she doesn't know how to configure Linux to connect to the Internet through her ISP, or find an alternative to MS Office that can write a Word doc compatible file her professor can use, it's simply a matter of her not having the opportunity, or taken the time, to learn about something like the principles of operating systems and computers in general. Just like most of you have never learned how to do something as simple as change the oil in your car.
Please ignore the mullet headed, cheap beer swilling hockey fan. His parents dove into the shallow end of the gene pool, obviously, and he does not represent all hockey fans.
While I agree that relying solely on security through obscurity is an obvious flawed approach to computer security, in the Military we had an OPSEC concept known as EEFI, Essential Elements of Friendly Information (a horrible acronym, I know). This Army guy *really* should have known better.
Basically it boils down to even the most basic tidbits of unclassified information can be used by an intelligence agency to piece together classified missions and operations and that you should always be tight lipped about any aspect of your job, no matter how mundane it seemed.
This is something that the civilian sector really needs to adapt as well, even in so called software security company's the amount of useful information leaking out (almost pouring out) is alarming.
Fundamental OPSEC, you're Army friend really should have known better. Unless Army training budgets have been cut so much that reoccurring OPSEC, COMSEC, INFOSEC, and COMPUSEC training no longer happens.
I think game companies are finally starting to figure this out (where MMO's are concerned). I was in the AoC open beta and had a lot of problems with the beta client (debugging code was compiled in and turned on), but I've heard from the early access people that the RTM client was smooth as silk, a huge improvement over the different beta clients and actually playable on machines 1-2 years old. And of course Mythic pushed back the release of Warhammer Online, which hopefully means they'll get it straight for a smooth launch.
All the things done for casual players considered, the R&D of Bliizzard is still focussed on the power gamer (Nihilum&Co). 90% of all instanced content (SSC and higher) will only be seen by a small minoritry of all players (~15%)
Actually, many more people see high end raid content than you might think. Wowjutsu is a site that crawls the Armory and compiles stats and progress for guilds and servers, and it also breaks down the percentage of the population that sees raid instances and even specific bosses (it does this by looking at the gear worn by a player when it goes through the Armory). According to the latest run 57.5% of the WoW population has seen The Eye and 62.65% have seen Serpentshrine Caverns, though much less have seen the end bosses Lady Vashj and Kael'Thas. I've noticed that since Blizz removed attunement the percentage of the population that's set foot into Mount Hyjal and Black Temple has increased quite a bit.
Now, it does take a lot of dedication and effort to be successful at raiding and continually progress, at least 20+ hours per week would need to be spent just on raiding itself, not including time spent getting money and consumables. This is what my guild found out after having problems with the new 25 man raiding format when The Burning Crusade came out. We were a raiding guild that had been through AQ40 and were close to being ready for Naxx when TBC came out, but we had a lot of problems making the transition to a 25 man raid and spent a lot of months banging our head against Gruul and Mags. We then instituted new rules and a new guild rank for raiding and our progress took off shortly after that. We went from struggling with Gruul and Mags to whacking away at Illidan himself in 8 months. It may not be the fastest progression but it's enough to make us one of the top 4 horde raiding guilds on our server. On average our hardcore raiders spend 20+ hours a week on raiding, and probably another few hours getting money and consumables for raiding. We have required attendance for raids (3 times a week, but most people raid 5 times a week) and required stats for the different classes/specs. We aren't as hardcore as most successful raiding guilds, we allow non raiders and casual raiders into the guild, we have some class/specs that the hardcore guilds wouldn't think of bringing to a raid, and our stat requirements are probably lower than the other hardcore raiding guilds, but it's been working for us and we're all having a lot of fun.
Basically, if your guild wants to progress through the 25 man raids at a steady pace then you need to have discipline and dedication from 25+ people, and you need to be able to work as a team and not go at each others throats when you hit some adversity.
I would expect that in closed beta, or maybe an early open stress test beta, but something done 2 weeks before the game is released? It was already RTM'd, and most people taking the time to subscribe to fileplanet to participate were looking to get a feel for the game to help decide if they would buy it. At that late stage it would seem that an open beta was more of a PR exercise to generate buzz for the game, so it wouldn't make sense to release a very sloppy client. That's just my 2 cents.
How do we go from this to a headline reading Identity Theft Hits the Root Servers?
because 3 seperate entities falsely advertised the routes to the IP block that contained the old IP address, 198.32.64.12, and ran bogus L root servers that answered queries from traffic that ended up where it shouldn't have been. Only ep.net was authorized to advertise that netblock.
nonsense. the article is very clear: here's what happened:
icann hosted L-root on ip addresses they didn't have an exclusive right to use.
they decided to stop doing that and moved L-root to somewhere else.
shortly thereafter someone else decided to operate a name server on the very same IP addresses.
that's *what* happened. perhaps you meant to say that the article doesn't say *why* it happened. that would be a fair criticism.
you're missing something here. It wasn't just that "someone" else decided to operate a bogus L root server on that IP address, it's that several someones were doing this. The article states there were FOUR of these running on the OLD ip address. so you had the newly IP'd correct L server, and 4 bogus L servers (one of which was being run by ICANN itself), all using the same old IP address.
How could this happen you ask? because 3 entities not authorized to announce they host that IP block did so anyway, so there were 4 different routes to that IP block on the Internet, resulting in 4 possible places you could end up at when sending DNS queries to the old address, 198.32.64.12.
So basically there are 2 concerns here, one is that a couple of Internet entities were advertising routes for an IP block they were not authorized to advertise, and that they were running a bogus L root server from that IP block on it's old address. Bill Manning owned the IP block so his ISP was authorized to advertise that route, and it might be obvious why ICANN was also advertising a route for it as well (to try to get that traffic going to the old IP address for root lookups), but why were Community DNS and Diyixian.com advertising that route and running a bogus L root server?
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From the FBI press release abut the guilty plea on possession of child porn:
According to Assistant U.S. Attorney Steven D. DeBrota, who is prosecuting the case for the government, Sachtleben could face five to 20 years in prison for the distribution charge and up to 10 years for the possession charge. Both charges also carry up to a $250,000 fine and lifetime supervised release if he is found to be guilty.
I won't disagree about issues with product strategy, but I do question the comment about the HTC Evo 3D not being a good phone. I got one as soon as they came out, and other than the lousy camera functionality (there's a good quarter second delay between pushing the button to take a picture and the picture actually being taken, which results in shaky or out of focus pictures) it''s been an excellent phone. Over a year later and there are no scratches or dings on it even though I don't use a case. It still performs very snappy even with Sprint's crapware that's loaded on it, and battery life is still very good (I usually charge every other day). It's one of the better smartphones I've ever owned.
They revoked their real name policy a couple of months ago, you can use any name you want now.
Start making your G+ profile then, they already got rid of it several months ago.
This has no place on /.
I second this motion. All in favor?
Aye.
Yeah, Exchange 2007 introduced this in late 2006 when it released.
All these arguments about the Founding Fathers and what they intended or wanted for this new country they were founding seems to lack a critical part: Who were they, really? How many were there? What were their names? What were their individual beliefs?
Seems to me that either side, the religious right or the non-religious left, are trying to claim the "Founding Fathers" as their own without really understanding who they were or what each of them believed, individually. I bet that if you study the Founding Fathers you'll find them as diverse in their personalities and beliefs as America is today. Personally, I think we should leave the Founding Fathers out of this whole argument, they lived over 250 years ago and the world was a much different place then than it is now. We should concentrate the discussion on the issues we face today and modern solutions to them.
They look anorexic to me, not very attractive.
computing in the future won't be tethered to a keyboard and mouse, that's 20th century input, we're in the 21'st century now. with voice recognition getting better by the year you'll soon* be able to use your bluetooth hands free headset from your phone with your tablet as a general input device along with the touch interface that we have now.
* Soon can be defined as any time in the next 30 days to the next 30 years, and everything in between
Mobile Search is generating a lot of revenue for Google, and it's only going to increase. Having Android as the dominant mobile platform means a hell of a lot of search money for Google.
Yeah, because one lawyer officially represents the views of all 1 billion Muslims. Just like Rousas John Rushdoony officially represents the views of all Christians, Including the view that your children should be taken from you and stoned to death if they disobey you.
If you think kooks like this in far away Pakistan are dangerous take a look in your own backyard, the Christian Reconstructionists want to do away with Democracy and turn the American government into a Christian version of the Taliban. There are homicidal crazy people in just about any social group.
very quickly, thanks to http://www.t1shopper.com/tools/calculate/byteconverter.shtml
He's right. I spent 8 years as a 3C0x1 (Communications Computer Systems Operator) and the idea that any base would have 400 enlisted people dedicated to programming is utter bullshit, even bases as massive as Eglin or Vandenberg.
it isn't a pain in the ass if you actually have a *clue* to what you are doing, and as for scaling, we run 3000 users per exchange mailbox cluster, and we expect to be able to get well over twice that when we go to Exchange 2007.
For all of you who are calling this girl "stupid, "moron", or "idiot", let me ask you a question. How many of you know how to change the brake pads on your car? How many can rebuild your carburetor, or even do something as simple as change your oil? I'm going to guess that not very many of you can do any of these things, and yet cars have been around a lot longer than computers, and in the west are about as ubiquitous as telephones and television sets.
This girl isn't stupid because she doesn't know how to configure Linux to connect to the Internet through her ISP, or find an alternative to MS Office that can write a Word doc compatible file her professor can use, it's simply a matter of her not having the opportunity, or taken the time, to learn about something like the principles of operating systems and computers in general. Just like most of you have never learned how to do something as simple as change the oil in your car.
Please ignore the mullet headed, cheap beer swilling hockey fan. His parents dove into the shallow end of the gene pool, obviously, and he does not represent all hockey fans.
While I agree that relying solely on security through obscurity is an obvious flawed approach to computer security, in the Military we had an OPSEC concept known as EEFI, Essential Elements of Friendly Information (a horrible acronym, I know). This Army guy *really* should have known better.
Basically it boils down to even the most basic tidbits of unclassified information can be used by an intelligence agency to piece together classified missions and operations and that you should always be tight lipped about any aspect of your job, no matter how mundane it seemed.
This is something that the civilian sector really needs to adapt as well, even in so called software security company's the amount of useful information leaking out (almost pouring out) is alarming.
Fundamental OPSEC, you're Army friend really should have known better. Unless Army training budgets have been cut so much that reoccurring OPSEC, COMSEC, INFOSEC, and COMPUSEC training no longer happens.
I'm sorry but anyone who can run Windows and has been ISSUED a geek card should turn it in immediately.
Uhm, no. I run Windows (XP, 2003, 2008)
And Linux (Fedora, Suse, CentOS)
And FreeBSD, and Mac OS X.
I think game companies are finally starting to figure this out (where MMO's are concerned). I was in the AoC open beta and had a lot of problems with the beta client (debugging code was compiled in and turned on), but I've heard from the early access people that the RTM client was smooth as silk, a huge improvement over the different beta clients and actually playable on machines 1-2 years old. And of course Mythic pushed back the release of Warhammer Online, which hopefully means they'll get it straight for a smooth launch.
All the things done for casual players considered, the R&D of Bliizzard is still focussed on the power gamer (Nihilum&Co). 90% of all instanced content (SSC and higher) will only be seen by a small minoritry of all players (~15%)
Actually, many more people see high end raid content than you might think. Wowjutsu is a site that crawls the Armory and compiles stats and progress for guilds and servers, and it also breaks down the percentage of the population that sees raid instances and even specific bosses (it does this by looking at the gear worn by a player when it goes through the Armory). According to the latest run 57.5% of the WoW population has seen The Eye and 62.65% have seen Serpentshrine Caverns, though much less have seen the end bosses Lady Vashj and Kael'Thas. I've noticed that since Blizz removed attunement the percentage of the population that's set foot into Mount Hyjal and Black Temple has increased quite a bit.
Now, it does take a lot of dedication and effort to be successful at raiding and continually progress, at least 20+ hours per week would need to be spent just on raiding itself, not including time spent getting money and consumables. This is what my guild found out after having problems with the new 25 man raiding format when The Burning Crusade came out. We were a raiding guild that had been through AQ40 and were close to being ready for Naxx when TBC came out, but we had a lot of problems making the transition to a 25 man raid and spent a lot of months banging our head against Gruul and Mags. We then instituted new rules and a new guild rank for raiding and our progress took off shortly after that. We went from struggling with Gruul and Mags to whacking away at Illidan himself in 8 months. It may not be the fastest progression but it's enough to make us one of the top 4 horde raiding guilds on our server. On average our hardcore raiders spend 20+ hours a week on raiding, and probably another few hours getting money and consumables for raiding. We have required attendance for raids (3 times a week, but most people raid 5 times a week) and required stats for the different classes/specs. We aren't as hardcore as most successful raiding guilds, we allow non raiders and casual raiders into the guild, we have some class/specs that the hardcore guilds wouldn't think of bringing to a raid, and our stat requirements are probably lower than the other hardcore raiding guilds, but it's been working for us and we're all having a lot of fun.
Basically, if your guild wants to progress through the 25 man raids at a steady pace then you need to have discipline and dedication from 25+ people, and you need to be able to work as a team and not go at each others throats when you hit some adversity.
Surely that would be normal in a beta?
I would expect that in closed beta, or maybe an early open stress test beta, but something done 2 weeks before the game is released? It was already RTM'd, and most people taking the time to subscribe to fileplanet to participate were looking to get a feel for the game to help decide if they would buy it. At that late stage it would seem that an open beta was more of a PR exercise to generate buzz for the game, so it wouldn't make sense to release a very sloppy client. That's just my 2 cents.
How do we go from this to a headline reading Identity Theft Hits the Root Servers?
because 3 seperate entities falsely advertised the routes to the IP block that contained the old IP address, 198.32.64.12, and ran bogus L root servers that answered queries from traffic that ended up where it shouldn't have been. Only ep.net was authorized to advertise that netblock.
nonsense. the article is very clear: here's what happened: icann hosted L-root on ip addresses they didn't have an exclusive right to use. they decided to stop doing that and moved L-root to somewhere else. shortly thereafter someone else decided to operate a name server on the very same IP addresses. that's *what* happened. perhaps you meant to say that the article doesn't say *why* it happened. that would be a fair criticism.
you're missing something here. It wasn't just that "someone" else decided to operate a bogus L root server on that IP address, it's that several someones were doing this. The article states there were FOUR of these running on the OLD ip address. so you had the newly IP'd correct L server, and 4 bogus L servers (one of which was being run by ICANN itself), all using the same old IP address.
How could this happen you ask? because 3 entities not authorized to announce they host that IP block did so anyway, so there were 4 different routes to that IP block on the Internet, resulting in 4 possible places you could end up at when sending DNS queries to the old address, 198.32.64.12.
So basically there are 2 concerns here, one is that a couple of Internet entities were advertising routes for an IP block they were not authorized to advertise, and that they were running a bogus L root server from that IP block on it's old address. Bill Manning owned the IP block so his ISP was authorized to advertise that route, and it might be obvious why ICANN was also advertising a route for it as well (to try to get that traffic going to the old IP address for root lookups), but why were Community DNS and Diyixian.com advertising that route and running a bogus L root server?