there are plenty of instances where a business may purchase software that's very expensive and only get one license for the user who needs it. unfortunately many professional packages still use dongles and at 20k a pop you aren't letting anyone take them home. so yes, there are frequent reasons you might need access to a pc. i know in my work place we use geological modeling software that's 20k per dongle and it needs a total beast of a pc to run, so the users of that sometimes need to log into their work station remotely, be it from head office or home.
passwords are still the most portable lightweigth authentication method out there, that's why. I had a system that got caught by this when a user with shell access set a weakish password. the user was sandboxed with only a limited whitelist of applications they could execute, so no harm done, but i did log all of the bot's attempts and the IRC channel it connected to along with passwords to other bots. it was very interesting to take the attack a part, at it's core it runs a simple dictionary attack and once it's in attempts to launches the same attack on the root password (no chance mine is 9+ random characters), plants a trojan in/temp (which failed in my case) and then connects to an IRC channel and awaits instructions which were pharsed using a simple perl script (which also failed). it then starts scanning for other victims using another perl script.
the activity on the channel indicated brazilian hackers. the thing that suprised me the most though was the amaturish and fragile nature of the process, instead of insulating the whole package so it could operate in a sandbox it atcually relied heavily on installed dependancies which i suspect means it was targeting the default install of one linux distro.
when will lawyer types understand the world is more complex than litigation. even if sachs win this it's too late, they've given him all the credibility he needs just by reacting to it.
if they just ignored it and called it blatantly untrue, he'd slip off the radar never to been seen again. the other side to this is that there are lots of guys like this blogger who take up causes like this just to try get their 15 minutes. this guy strikes me as one of this self rightgeous types.
umm don't kid yourself into thinking IT will make the sane decision based on the best technical choice - look at the dribble that comes out of slashdot.
no, the question is, can we risk it. i mean safety comes first. what if your gps, radar, radio AND your eyes all stop working a the same time as this million to one iceberg appears?!?! jesus people just take such big risks. think of the children.
why would they want to indeed, the mistake is you think the DPRK are doing any analytical thinking of their own. i don't believe they would be stupid enough to attack japan. but don't make the mistake of thinking they are the victims of unfair treatment by the big bad USA just because they are communist. After all china is a communist state as well yet the USA and china have a comparitively hugs and kisses relationship.
bottom line, is the world doesn't trust countries run by crackpot dictators, and rightly so.
TRWTF here is he is doing work for family, even worse family which clearly has no idea.
15 years for any equipment is exceptional, not the norm. any spastic knows this. either backup or virtualise the current system if he is happy with it, and install on a $500 dell or something similarly cheap.
remember hardware is getting cheaper all the time, so your better off going cheap now and buying a $500 one every 5 years than buy a $1500 one thinking it'll last longer.
epic fail. this wasn't the law chasing them out of town, it was an angry mob attempting to pin the blame for their recent breakin's on google, which is completely retarded. here are the facts:
1. photographing in a public place is NOT illegal
2. theives don't use google to find victims - they find people who don't secure their homes properly by casing the property
3. if these residents secured their properties properly, they wouldn't have been broken into.
people crying over google street view are just knuckle draggers who don't understand the technology and remind me of monkeys grunting at fire like it's the first time they've seen it.
what i find even more astounding is this action was endorsed by a GROUP of adults. you'd think in the 4 - 5 adults involved in this one of them would have the fucking sense to stop this.
When i have kids i'm raising them to fight back against crap like this. I'd be wanting to press sexual assult charges against the school employee's that conducted this search. all they had was some other students word, which is NOT enough.
no, lots of people objected they just weren't listened to, due mostly to all those mediums being controlled by big media companies who only cared about their vested interests. another more recent reason is verly likely to the attitude "it doesn't matter i have the internet". now that that last resort is under fire and it's become something they can personally contribute to, people are getting involved.
I could see why countries were internet access isn't common but technology is at a reasonible level would require lots of programmers.
language barreries would be the other reason - no off the self versions of software in your native language.
hopfully we spend more money on such scientific endevours from now on rather than blowing up the middle east or trying to convert the unwilling to democracy.
it's ironic but i really think oil wasn't the reason for invading iraq - it would have been cheaper to just BUY their oil.
encryption combined with a proxy outside of the filtering nation and you have just by passed their most advanced attempts. i can't believe this is even posted on slashdot (ok yes i can..)
you can setup encryption that's so strong they don't have a hope in hell of breaking it, and even if they started going after proxy providers (remmeber their in another country) it's a cat and mouse game they just can't win - you can change your proxy with a few key strokes.
rubbish. i've been hearing people spouting the line "at the rate IPv4 addresses are running out" for almost a decade now but no one ever actually has any hard facts to back that we are running out at some kind of rapid rate.
There are VAST numbers of IP's that are unused in IPv4. And what exactly is wrong with NAT? 10's of millions use it without issue.
it doesn't look anymore expensive than paying for hosting else where to serve your files, and it's a damn sight better than expecting us to pay for it. i sense this story is an attempt at the usual/. sony hate nonense
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i agree with the rest though
the activity on the channel indicated brazilian hackers. the thing that suprised me the most though was the amaturish and fragile nature of the process, instead of insulating the whole package so it could operate in a sandbox it atcually relied heavily on installed dependancies which i suspect means it was targeting the default install of one linux distro.
he should have had a proper contract. he's no different to every other idiot that gambles and loses.
call me jaded, don't i don't see lawyers not advising legal action. that's simply not what we see happening in the courts these days.
if they just ignored it and called it blatantly untrue, he'd slip off the radar never to been seen again. the other side to this is that there are lots of guys like this blogger who take up causes like this just to try get their 15 minutes. this guy strikes me as one of this self rightgeous types.
timothy/kdawson are nothing else if not consistent in they shitty shitty reporting standards
this is the kind of quality stories i've come to expect from kdawson/timothy.
and you wonder why we all choke with laughter when you expect to be considered journalists.
umm don't kid yourself into thinking IT will make the sane decision based on the best technical choice - look at the dribble that comes out of slashdot.
no, the question is, can we risk it. i mean safety comes first. what if your gps, radar, radio AND your eyes all stop working a the same time as this million to one iceberg appears?!?! jesus people just take such big risks. think of the children.
bottom line, is the world doesn't trust countries run by crackpot dictators, and rightly so.
15 years for any equipment is exceptional, not the norm. any spastic knows this. either backup or virtualise the current system if he is happy with it, and install on a $500 dell or something similarly cheap.
remember hardware is getting cheaper all the time, so your better off going cheap now and buying a $500 one every 5 years than buy a $1500 one thinking it'll last longer.
but wait - i thought open source was awesome and couldn't fail?!
1. photographing in a public place is NOT illegal
2. theives don't use google to find victims - they find people who don't secure their homes properly by casing the property
3. if these residents secured their properties properly, they wouldn't have been broken into.
people crying over google street view are just knuckle draggers who don't understand the technology and remind me of monkeys grunting at fire like it's the first time they've seen it.
what i find even more astounding is this action was endorsed by a GROUP of adults. you'd think in the 4 - 5 adults involved in this one of them would have the fucking sense to stop this.
When i have kids i'm raising them to fight back against crap like this. I'd be wanting to press sexual assult charges against the school employee's that conducted this search. all they had was some other students word, which is NOT enough.
no, lots of people objected they just weren't listened to, due mostly to all those mediums being controlled by big media companies who only cared about their vested interests. another more recent reason is verly likely to the attitude "it doesn't matter i have the internet". now that that last resort is under fire and it's become something they can personally contribute to, people are getting involved.
learn to paragraph, for the love of god.
I could see why countries were internet access isn't common but technology is at a reasonible level would require lots of programmers. language barreries would be the other reason - no off the self versions of software in your native language.
it's ironic but i really think oil wasn't the reason for invading iraq - it would have been cheaper to just BUY their oil.
it's a timothy/kdawson story. facts and fact checking have no place in it.
australia doesn't. Facts Fail.
you can setup encryption that's so strong they don't have a hope in hell of breaking it, and even if they started going after proxy providers (remmeber their in another country) it's a cat and mouse game they just can't win - you can change your proxy with a few key strokes.
There are VAST numbers of IP's that are unused in IPv4. And what exactly is wrong with NAT? 10's of millions use it without issue.
I say IPv6 is a solution looking for a problem.
it doesn't look anymore expensive than paying for hosting else where to serve your files, and it's a damn sight better than expecting us to pay for it. i sense this story is an attempt at the usual /. sony hate nonense
... for not preventing street side sellers.