Wouldn't that be ironic. To preserve free thinking people will have to communicate using a mysterious black art....the printed page.
See this is the great fallacy of the net - that it would simply change the world. It didn't it won't and it never can. For if it was possible then the typewriter would have been the second or third greatest invention in the history of civilisation. Easy creation of content and easier access guarantees nothing if what you say falls on deaf ears or people are too busy getting their poles greased to pay attention.
Take a look at a mass media site like ABC News. The average article takes less than a minute to fully read at a 6th grade level. The front page is a testament to ADHD, the visual equivalent to Tourette's Syndrome. And be clear the most significant way to write pithy yet short focused articles is in response to something. If you didn't know anything about culture or politics then you would never get anything out of the one page articles that are the the genius of Lewis Lapham. Which is context you really don't need when you read the latest news cum stain on USAToday that correlates astrology with the weather.
So in the end it will be harcopy that survives and the ephemera of the web will be used to bolster television but not exist independently of it.
I can't wait for the next computer movie where Sandra Bullock gets to fly a crippled airliner taken over by terrorists by her laptop machine from the bathroom at the back of the plane while it's taking its payload of nerve gas to the Whitehouse on the day all the handicapped orphans are visiting and Sandra's personal life is all fucked up because the father figure/mentor she was sleeping with just kicked her out of bed to find himself as a volunteer worker for Tibetan Freedom.
You know some towelhead'll be kicking down the door and poor Sandra has to put the plane into a roll and stand it on one wing to knock the towelhead down then she bursts out the head door and chick-fu's his ass.
You know it'll be a titanium G4 that's bulletproof.
I didn't see in the art where wireless was proposed. Instead they would hand you a port to an armchair connector and run everyones connection through a wired hub. Wired as in not wireless although the actual connection will probably be Ethernet through a copper to fiber translator/repeater. Why fiber? To save weight of course.
Or the mystery of non existance. I had a 356 s90 and I never liked first gear. It was hard to find, mushy and tentative. After screwing with it I finally took it to a shop that worked on Porsche racing. The mechanic was some old Stuttgart gnome who looked me in the eye and said "vy do you care about first geeer, du only need it vunce."
dual Mak tube mono power amps, Phase Linear preamp, 24 band eq, compander, noisegate analyzer, Denon TT, Infinity elctrostatic panels, Voice of the Theater, subwoofer/Ampzilla, Sony 1" open reel.
Showed it to an audiophile and he said and I quote: "If all you want to hear is shit just plug it into the fucking television and be done with it."
There's no winning. There's a company that will digitally inject the sound of needle to vinyl into your CD tracks. Just for the warmth of the sound. How fucked up is that?
I have a math degree and a finance-econometrics MBA (with honors) and more than a few years in the field. My experience is that other than attempting to get hired out of school to a Big5 consulting company then it has little if any value unless you are SERIOUSLY considering working in IT for only a few years and have set your sights in Sr. Management, VC's or tech law.
The point is that we work in an industry that does not typically value advanced non technical degrees - unless - and this is a narrow use of it - to specifically get into a Big5 consulting hiring program which is specifically targetted at those people. If you get into a program like that then EVERYONE will have an MBA so it's pretty much just a door opener and a wash
Let's see the Mayo clinic did one study, the controls weren't described nor were the methods described and the subjects seemingly were just observed doing their normal jobs so there was no actual experimental plan. Even with that piece of shit methodology 1 in 9 had symptoms and 1 in 25 had severe clinical symptoms. Holy moly does anyone see anything wrong with this???
And oh yeah FOX news is the mouthpiece of the Republican Party - no too much of an agenda there.
Gartner has a long and glorious history of being a shill for MS and for the patently stupid. For chrissakes they invest in the companies they "study" and the managing directors also sit on the board of a VC firm that pours money into IPO companies that have "new and amazing technology on the brink of greatness !!!!"
And even if they weren't unethical criminals how often have the actually been right? Um....I'd say about a 0.15 probablity so to say or about 1 in 7.
That is, agree with what is considered ethical hacking in your own house since that's what you'll be doing. Many people here have stated the obvious: central location, proxy servers, web logs, firewalls and the like. If you put a broadband connection in someone's bedroom and let them have at it w/o restraint then all your agreements will probably go out the window. OTOH hand if you agree what is permissible behavior and demonstrate that you're willing to follow through then you're more than halfway there. The last thing I'd mention is that there is some threshold for tolerance as well. That is, you should allow for a passing grade not a binary pass/fail. There are always a few places that neither of you really know about and someone is going to stumble on accidently or with no particular intent - sometimes you have to give a pass. If not then you're doomed to failure because your standard will be impossible to meet. Unplug the net and give them restricted AOL instead.
To your execu-weenie 'nerve center' where you take future customers so they can ooooh and aaaaahhhh over your help desk process. Hang them on the wall so the customers can see them while they walk down the hall.
Take the source for what it's worth. Isn't the newspaper source a decidedly conservative press with an axe to grind against the injured, as well as every other group it sees as a threat?
After all in this country, the US, we have an adminstration that makes pronouncements on the safe level of arsenic in the water not based on safety but on the cost to do it. And it threw out the Americans with Disabilities Act as it applies to municipal facilities solely on the cost to implement? So maybe it's the same thing here - politicized science that lobbyists trot out as truth?
Next thing you know they'll dicount mental illness because it's only in your mind.
Stealth is for minimizing the effectiveness for someone else's detection measures. So if smart figure out a reasonably effective way to find stealth planes and use that information in real time to track them and shoot them down then the burden shifts to stealth planes to devise effective countermeasures like the concept of 'chaff'. After all if you can't reliably aim at a plane it's almost as good as not being able to see it - unless you use massive weapons.
It's not possible to force people unless you compel them to install something like NAV and then locking it down with scheduled run they are powerless to control. Barring that you should be concerned with blocking the propagation of the malware. Put in mailscanning and mailblocking gateways assuming you support the same mail systems they support. And then put ingress/egree filters on your switches and routers to prevent unknown crud from flowing through whatever ports it wants. Disable the obvious like tftp, r* commands, limit the use of X, limit the use to nfs, udp traffic generally and stamp out fake dns servers. But of course none of this is entirely possible either.
Since the drive reads data in a track according to a somehwhat fuzzy technique that attempts to read most of the data most of the time from the area of the disk it expects to be able to read from, it is also true that data gets written only to approximate locations in a track. That is, there is bleed over into synch tracks and other areas which aren't typically overwritten by software commands. There are also redundant tracks that are used to compare read results so wiping out one logical track needs to be reflected in all logical tracks as well.
Otherwise they have to physically destroy the drives including crushing and burning.
The Active X controls are required only for the somewhat unusual download and installation and then can be disabled according to the author.
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You only have to enable ActiveX control downloading in order to install
Bugnosis -- you can disable it after installation. That makes it really no
different than downloading an.exe from us. The Bugnosis control that we
download isn't scriptable, so other Web sites and email users will find it
harder to abuse.
Regards,
David
Prof. David Martin
University of Denver Math/CS
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The installation requires Active X controls = on. So that makes the cure worse than the disease. I'll trade some privacy for not opening up my machine to remote execution Active X shit.
Large organizations have large numbers of people who ostensibly do tool evaluation and selection. The process itself is slow and expensive, parochial and error prone.
Vendor tools have a fixed cost of ownership based on what the vendor charges you. Add to that the cost of deployment. There are several components to that. One the physical cost of rolling it out. Two the cost of missing functions and having to replace them with more tools, a different process or paying the vendor to change the product. The time spent rolling it out. This is not trivial. Say for ssh tools you pay a vendor x thousands of dollars and most not all your macines are covered because they don't have an ssh for 'xyz123' OS. Now that's probably because there aren't that many of those around so the vendor will say no. Or lets say you need a different object model because your management console wasn't built to display 25000 objects that you have to track. So there's another fix and/or a completely different and more expensive way to deploy the tool to circumvent that problem. Then there are the plain broken things that don't work right or are completely dependant on something that doesn't work like no ssh support at all which ends up being a real PITA since now you have to do local management through the local console port.
Now in the open source world you have the costs incurred by being able to fix all of that. You can make whatever change you want and implement whatever functions you want. This assumes that the underlying functions actually can be built and aren't otherwise retricted by other licence problems like trying to write opensource ssh version 2 and not running afoul of the encryption libraries you would need to no that. OTOH you make all sorts of unusual changes like writing a high performance db for ddns/dhcp high speed zone transfers instead of the old crappy bind based flat sile gorp. Having said that don't underestimate the costs of having to build and maintain your own tools. Now that you have the ability to make all sorts of changes you will be expected to do so. You have to have some development discipline and good solid change management. And then you have to make sure that you can meet the performance requirements. A vendor tool might have been written for performance and for you reverse engineer the functions and run them in perl might not run fast enough. Or postgresql might not scale up large enough or what have you. And you're still not out of the licencing woods if the open source code has a licence that says basicall "I don't know it's not my problem - somebody might come after you" lawyers hate that shit.
Of course you don't have to worry about the vendor killing your tool. You do have to worry about being able to finish the job and hoping the developers don't quit.
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Let's have a 'Day of Shame' and email all of our criminal mp3's back to the record companies.
We're sorry you can have them back now. I hope Don Henley didn't lose his house.
So when I bring my Ford Taurus in for servicing and the tech replaces one of the on board computers so that it shuts down the engine if any subsequent servicing is performed at any place other than a dealership....Well that's just my reward for ignoring the invisible free hand of commerce...
Please remember Einstein that AT&T was and IBM was nearly broken up for behavior like this - the hard coupling of hardware and service and software.
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I have a filter that drops any mail I am copied on instead of my name in the TO field. I tell people this. If you only want to CYA don't bother me - I won't read it. I probably won't read it anyway unless you also call me and ask me to. For all short stuff we use an IM app - usually because we're all on the phone most of the time.
Pushing all of the development risk to the artists and all of the revenue side of the equation between the consumer and the artist is not going to change how artists are compensated one iota. Record companies will continue to collect 98% of the backend revenue and large chunk of the front end 'coopted sales' piece as well.
Movie companies will continue to shift all of the risk to development and production companies while banks finance the whole shebang and movie companies take in 80%+ of all gross revenue the first two weeks of theatrical show and 100% of the video sales. Artists will continue to get the proverbial shitty end of the stick.
Be a professional litigant. Collect thousands of otherwise useless emaill adresses and then sue spammers in the name of each email address. Even with 50 bucks per - if you have 1000 addresses then you could collect the price of a new Boxter even after legal fees.
I mean poor little old IBM I mean MS I mean ATT I mean AOL built their shit their way and offer it up to you out of the goodness of their hearts. You're just a bunch of spoiled rich kid commie faggot devil worshippers who don't know the Bright White Light of Truth (tm) when you see it. Next thing you know and people will start objecting to crappy code and iron fisted closed architectures and we'll all be living in Rooski-land and our trophy brides will be fat Ukranians wearing babushkas and having a mole.
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Wouldn't that be ironic. To preserve free thinking people will have to communicate using a mysterious black art....the printed page.
See this is the great fallacy of the net - that it would simply change the world. It didn't it won't and it never can. For if it was possible then the typewriter would have been the second or third greatest invention in the history of civilisation. Easy creation of content and easier access guarantees nothing if what you say falls on deaf ears or people are too busy getting their poles greased to pay attention.
Take a look at a mass media site like ABC News. The average article takes less than a minute to fully read at a 6th grade level. The front page is a testament to ADHD, the visual equivalent to Tourette's Syndrome. And be clear the most significant way to write pithy yet short focused articles is in response to something. If you didn't know anything about culture or politics then you would never get anything out of the one page articles that are the the genius of Lewis Lapham. Which is context you really don't need when you read the latest news cum stain on USAToday that correlates astrology with the weather.
So in the end it will be harcopy that survives and the ephemera of the web will be used to bolster television but not exist independently of it.
I can't wait for the next computer movie where Sandra Bullock gets to fly a crippled airliner taken over by terrorists by her laptop machine from the bathroom at the back of the plane while it's taking its payload of nerve gas to the Whitehouse on the day all the handicapped orphans are visiting and Sandra's personal life is all fucked up because the father figure/mentor she was sleeping with just kicked her out of bed to find himself as a volunteer worker for Tibetan Freedom.
You know some towelhead'll be kicking down the door and poor Sandra has to put the plane into a roll and stand it on one wing to knock the towelhead down then she bursts out the head door and chick-fu's his ass.
You know it'll be a titanium G4 that's bulletproof.
I didn't see in the art where wireless was proposed. Instead they would hand you a port to an armchair connector and run everyones connection through a wired hub. Wired as in not wireless although the actual connection will probably be Ethernet through a copper to fiber translator/repeater. Why fiber? To save weight of course.
Or the mystery of non existance. I had a 356 s90 and I never liked first gear. It was hard to find, mushy and tentative. After screwing with it I finally took it to a shop that worked on Porsche racing. The mechanic was some old Stuttgart gnome who looked me in the eye and said "vy do you care about first geeer, du only need it vunce."
And that as they say, is that.
dual Mak tube mono power amps, Phase Linear preamp, 24 band eq, compander, noisegate analyzer, Denon TT, Infinity elctrostatic panels, Voice of the Theater, subwoofer/Ampzilla, Sony 1" open reel.
Showed it to an audiophile and he said and I quote: "If all you want to hear is shit just plug it into the fucking television and be done with it."
There's no winning. There's a company that will digitally inject the sound of needle to vinyl into your CD tracks. Just for the warmth of the sound. How fucked up is that?
I have a math degree and a finance-econometrics MBA (with honors) and more than a few years in the field. My experience is that other than attempting to get hired out of school to a Big5 consulting company then it has little if any value unless you are SERIOUSLY considering working in IT for only a few years and have set your sights in Sr. Management, VC's or tech law.
The point is that we work in an industry that does not typically value advanced non technical degrees - unless - and this is a narrow use of it - to specifically get into a Big5 consulting hiring program which is specifically targetted at those people. If you get into a program like that then EVERYONE will have an MBA so it's pretty much just a door opener and a wash
Let's see the Mayo clinic did one study, the controls weren't described nor were the methods described and the subjects seemingly were just observed doing their normal jobs so there was no actual experimental plan. Even with that piece of shit methodology 1 in 9 had symptoms and 1 in 25 had severe clinical symptoms. Holy moly does anyone see anything wrong with this???
And oh yeah FOX news is the mouthpiece of the Republican Party - no too much of an agenda there.
Oh pulllllleeeeeeze !!!!!
Gartner has a long and glorious history of being a shill for MS and for the patently stupid. For chrissakes they invest in the companies they "study" and the managing directors also sit on the board of a VC firm that pours money into IPO companies that have "new and amazing technology on the brink of greatness !!!!"
And even if they weren't unethical criminals how often have the actually been right? Um....I'd say about a 0.15 probablity so to say or about 1 in 7.
That is, agree with what is considered ethical hacking in your own house since that's what you'll be doing. Many people here have stated the obvious: central location, proxy servers, web logs, firewalls and the like. If you put a broadband connection in someone's bedroom and let them have at it w/o restraint then all your agreements will probably go out the window. OTOH hand if you agree what is permissible behavior and demonstrate that you're willing to follow through then you're more than halfway there. The last thing I'd mention is that there is some threshold for tolerance as well. That is, you should allow for a passing grade not a binary pass/fail. There are always a few places that neither of you really know about and someone is going to stumble on accidently or with no particular intent - sometimes you have to give a pass. If not then you're doomed to failure because your standard will be impossible to meet. Unplug the net and give them restricted AOL instead.
To your execu-weenie 'nerve center' where you take future customers so they can ooooh and aaaaahhhh over your help desk process. Hang them on the wall so the customers can see them while they walk down the hall.
Take the source for what it's worth. Isn't the newspaper source a decidedly conservative press with an axe to grind against the injured, as well as every other group it sees as a threat?
After all in this country, the US, we have an adminstration that makes pronouncements on the safe level of arsenic in the water not based on safety but on the cost to do it. And it threw out the Americans with Disabilities Act as it applies to municipal facilities solely on the cost to implement? So maybe it's the same thing here - politicized science that lobbyists trot out as truth?
Next thing you know they'll dicount mental illness because it's only in your mind.
Stealth is for minimizing the effectiveness for someone else's detection measures. So if smart figure out a reasonably effective way to find stealth planes and use that information in real time to track them and shoot them down then the burden shifts to stealth planes to devise effective countermeasures like the concept of 'chaff'. After all if you can't reliably aim at a plane it's almost as good as not being able to see it - unless you use massive weapons.
It's not possible to force people unless you compel them to install something like NAV and then locking it down with scheduled run they are powerless to control. Barring that you should be concerned with blocking the propagation of the malware. Put in mailscanning and mailblocking gateways assuming you support the same mail systems they support. And then put ingress/egree filters on your switches and routers to prevent unknown crud from flowing through whatever ports it wants. Disable the obvious like tftp, r* commands, limit the use of X, limit the use to nfs, udp traffic generally and stamp out fake dns servers. But of course none of this is entirely possible either.
Since the drive reads data in a track according to a somehwhat fuzzy technique that attempts to read most of the data most of the time from the area of the disk it expects to be able to read from, it is also true that data gets written only to approximate locations in a track. That is, there is bleed over into synch tracks and other areas which aren't typically overwritten by software commands. There are also redundant tracks that are used to compare read results so wiping out one logical track needs to be reflected in all logical tracks as well.
Otherwise they have to physically destroy the drives including crushing and burning.
They do nuclear weapons detonation simulations and modelling. They use the computing model as a substitute for REAL testing.
The Active X controls are required only for the somewhat unusual download and installation and then can be disabled according to the author.
.exe from us. The Bugnosis control that we
------------
You only have to enable ActiveX control downloading in order to install
Bugnosis -- you can disable it after installation. That makes it really no
different than downloading an
download isn't scriptable, so other Web sites and email users will find it
harder to abuse.
Regards,
David
Prof. David Martin
University of Denver Math/CS
The installation requires Active X controls = on. So that makes the cure worse than the disease. I'll trade some privacy for not opening up my machine to remote execution Active X shit.
Large organizations have large numbers of people who ostensibly do tool evaluation and selection. The process itself is slow and expensive, parochial and error prone.
Vendor tools have a fixed cost of ownership based on what the vendor charges you. Add to that the cost of deployment. There are several components to that. One the physical cost of rolling it out. Two the cost of missing functions and having to replace them with more tools, a different process or paying the vendor to change the product. The time spent rolling it out. This is not trivial. Say for ssh tools you pay a vendor x thousands of dollars and most not all your macines are covered because they don't have an ssh for 'xyz123' OS. Now that's probably because there aren't that many of those around so the vendor will say no. Or lets say you need a different object model because your management console wasn't built to display 25000 objects that you have to track. So there's another fix and/or a completely different and more expensive way to deploy the tool to circumvent that problem. Then there are the plain broken things that don't work right or are completely dependant on something that doesn't work like no ssh support at all which ends up being a real PITA since now you have to do local management through the local console port.
Now in the open source world you have the costs incurred by being able to fix all of that. You can make whatever change you want and implement whatever functions you want. This assumes that the underlying functions actually can be built and aren't otherwise retricted by other licence problems like trying to write opensource ssh version 2 and not running afoul of the encryption libraries you would need to no that. OTOH you make all sorts of unusual changes like writing a high performance db for ddns/dhcp high speed zone transfers instead of the old crappy bind based flat sile gorp. Having said that don't underestimate the costs of having to build and maintain your own tools. Now that you have the ability to make all sorts of changes you will be expected to do so. You have to have some development discipline and good solid change management. And then you have to make sure that you can meet the performance requirements. A vendor tool might have been written for performance and for you reverse engineer the functions and run them in perl might not run fast enough. Or postgresql might not scale up large enough or what have you. And you're still not out of the licencing woods if the open source code has a licence that says basicall "I don't know it's not my problem - somebody might come after you" lawyers hate that shit.
Of course you don't have to worry about the vendor killing your tool. You do have to worry about being able to finish the job and hoping the developers don't quit.
Let's have a 'Day of Shame' and email all of our criminal mp3's back to the record companies.
We're sorry you can have them back now. I hope Don Henley didn't lose his house.
So when I bring my Ford Taurus in for servicing and the tech replaces one of the on board computers so that it shuts down the engine if any subsequent servicing is performed at any place other than a dealership....Well that's just my reward for ignoring the invisible free hand of commerce...
Please remember Einstein that AT&T was and IBM was nearly broken up for behavior like this - the hard coupling of hardware and service and software.
Fuck You Get Out
I have a filter that drops any mail I am copied on instead of my name in the TO field. I tell people this. If you only want to CYA don't bother me - I won't read it. I probably won't read it anyway unless you also call me and ask me to. For all short stuff we use an IM app - usually because we're all on the phone most of the time.
Pushing all of the development risk to the artists and all of the revenue side of the equation between the consumer and the artist is not going to change how artists are compensated one iota. Record companies will continue to collect 98% of the backend revenue and large chunk of the front end 'coopted sales' piece as well.
Movie companies will continue to shift all of the risk to development and production companies while banks finance the whole shebang and movie companies take in 80%+ of all gross revenue the first two weeks of theatrical show and 100% of the video sales. Artists will continue to get the proverbial shitty end of the stick.
Be a professional litigant. Collect thousands of otherwise useless emaill adresses and then sue spammers in the name of each email address. Even with 50 bucks per - if you have 1000 addresses then you could collect the price of a new Boxter even after legal fees.
I mean poor little old IBM I mean MS I mean ATT I mean AOL built their shit their way and offer it up to you out of the goodness of their hearts. You're just a bunch of spoiled rich kid commie faggot devil worshippers who don't know the Bright White Light of Truth (tm) when you see it. Next thing you know and people will start objecting to crappy code and iron fisted closed architectures and we'll all be living in Rooski-land and our trophy brides will be fat Ukranians wearing babushkas and having a mole.