>If you think this is effective security, you probably hide your doorkey under the mat.
This fails the slashdot analogy test. It's draping an invisibility cloak over your house.
>Since you can't be bothered to look at the article I linked, which explains it in detail,
I don't need to read your silly little article to know what is obvious. What you are saying is DON'T as if it somehow some does harm to your network model. What harm comes of hiding your SSID? None.
You also do not engage in the statistical probability that most intrusions are caused by those looking for easy targets so there is actually some merit to hiding your SSID rather than broadcasting it. At least your quality of hacker would be better, if any. Unless what you are saying is somehow hiding my SSID broadcasts a challenge to said hackers, in which case I say, "good luck f***-nut a professional lives here".
Again, everything needs to fit in your little compartment about 'how things are done'. The fact is, things aren't always done that way for reasons you don't seem to want to understand. That's fine, but that's the moment you lose any sort of air of authority you claim.
At least you admit the truth: The ^ONLY^ reason to not require a GUI interface so you do not have to worry about video drivers running on a mission critical server
> Should that be done on a workstation using a VM?
Furthermore, right, because EVERYONE develops silly little apps they can test on their 2nd workstation. My God you're more far gone than I thought! LOL Classic neck-beard, 5 ft long.
>Well under windows they better fix that now shouldn't they?
I'm talking about UNIX fool.
>Trouble shooting on a server? Should that be done on a workstation using a VM? Developers using a server? Really? Even then wouldn't you run the X server on a workstation and use SSH tunneling to run the app on the server hardware? "If not using a VM".
Troubleshooting a GUI development server, yes. Not when you have 100s. It may run in init 3 with Xvfb most of the time, but X11 is still installed for when we need to actually see WTF is going on.
>Of course people may use a GUI on a server from time to time but to say that it is REQUIRED is just silly. WHo said it was required.
>As to your enterprise package that requires a GUI to install... Doesn't it make wonder what other scary silliness is in that package? Just saying... What does this have to do with anything? It's called reality. Websphere is just 'silly' enterprise app that actually requires a GUI to install for not reason other than kicks.
>Even then SSH Tunneling of X to the workstation seems like the way to go for that. Just saying.
You're just plain wrong. There are plenty of situations where SSH tunneling is neither desired nor practical. Get your head out of your ass and realize that there are many reasons to do so, and many shades of grey when it comes to running X11 on a multipurpose server. Not to mention you completely missed the point of what Microsoft is saying here.... 5 digits you ought to be ashamed of yourself.
> If you are running a GUI application on a server that is not just wrong but down right silly.
Let me guess you are old or inexperienced. By your UID I will assume you are simply old, so I'll bite.
Listen, fellow old-timer; I've been around the block myself cutting my teeth by the green and black glow, at 300Baud once I got my hands on one. I remember never having to worry about gui for over half my life and career. But you know what? I run a GUI server for testing code and centralizing output to a virtual frame buffer. It's nice to run in init 5 sometimes for troubleshooting. Sometimes developers actually use it. It is not workstation. Some enterprise software packages downright require a gui to install. Yes, unbelievably stupid is that is, it is reality. We do not live in a neck-bearded fantasy world where we all tan by the CLI.
Now none of this is to say I run X on a mission critical server running only one service (and running it well I might add!) but this hardly describes any Windows server under my purview. This is a big change for Windows, and well it's about time they direct developers to keep in mind. But this idea that GUI on servers is silly is woefully outdated.
The budget model clearly. Manufactuers like to make you think you can afford a reliable 1080P tv, but the truth is unless you wanted to drop 2-3k in the last 10 years or 1.5k in the last couple, you will come up short. These models (like Sony W/Z series for instance) are only as good as the components inside driving the screen.
With no fundamental difference between the LCD silicon or Plasma gas, the difference is in the quality of the capacitors and transistors in the machine itself. Not to mention the firmware.
I wish I had mod points for you. The moment you aren't concerned about it will the moment your caught up in a dragnet for viewing wikileaks, or go somewhere you're not supposed to IRL.
Whatever happened to spying at this level on ordinary citizens, simply being you know, WRONG?
> Could all the large movie studios, book publishers and other content owners pull it off?
Just wanted to point out that these industries are the not the Titans they purport to be on TV. I'm willing to bet that if they tried a content cartel the world economy would barely notice. A trillion dollars is chump change in the world economy these days.
There was once a time when weren't all connected to the hivemind. It wasn't that long ago. All I'm saying is turn off your phone in the mall if it bothers you that much.
To be honest, I'm an advocate for privacy and it doesn't bother me one bit. So what if they know I like A&W rootbeer and buy Calvin Klein underwear (but only if its 30-50% off).
You identifying information is never encrypted unless you are running some sort of TOR setup.
This falls under legal unencrypted signal capture. If you consider DirectTV which is encrypted, but you can't encrypt the location of the satellite. This means all manners of persons and objects pick up its signal as a matter of existence. It is perfectly legal for you to pick up their signal. It's illegal to decrypt the contents of the signal. ' In this case your phone is going "YOOOHOOO! I'm AF:23:D4:12:34:55 any one out there want to party"? Store says "Nice to meet you AF:23:D4:12:34:55. No, but would you like to buy this nice shirt on sale for 50% off"? You say "Yes here is my credit card 1234 1230 2321 12323 shh please don't share my unencrypted number with anyone!" Store winks and says "We won't! Honest!". The store is honest, but they will know that 12341230 2321 12323 is your credit card number and you carry a transmitter with address AF:23:D4:12:34:55. They will then share the fact that they made a 50% sale on a particular sweater to this address/CC combination. You are no longer anonymous.
Will they use this information to solicit further sweater sales to your door? Possibly. Will they use this information to steal all your money and leave you destitute? Probably not.
Just turn off your phone and give them less unencrypted information. It makes all the difference to simply STOP BROADCASTING.
This doesn't totally seem true. Amiga 1500 had a shell I could write code on out of the box. I wrote many an obscene program at the K-Mart when I was younger and the NES was busy.
I have these. They work as advertised. They don't get as dim as incandecents. Also, my chandelier breaker goes when I have 5 25W (60W) in it. Works with 3. I can't figure out for the life of me why this would happen with LED bulbs. I think I have problem with my wiring so I don't expect this to be a problem for you.
The math though is pretty convincing. I've changed 6 out of 12 lights so far. I'm expecting to save about 8-10$ / elec bill once I've replaced them all. Should pay for itself in about 2 years.
It's 2 heads for 5$ cheapest where I am. Bread is double that, for the unhealthy fortified bread. That's store brand bread btw. Chicken skin and bone intact: 2-3.99/lb Bonesless you have to be kidding me? That's like 4.99-6.99 a lb
This was 2 years ago..... the latest data I could find. Food and meat prices have jumped over 50% from that time:
My car got "broken" in to in my driveway a couple of weeks ago. I feel foolish because I don't normally leave my car unlocked but likely happened in just the way you suggest.
They got everything of "value" alright! They missed my 300$ Eureka tent and my raybans and a few other goodies I could have fenced in less than 20 mins. As far as I can tell they took nothing just rifled through my car looking for an ipod or something. LOL. Suburbanites one mortgage payment away from robbing the local branch I suppose....
I agree, the Internet is designed to perceive infringement laws as damage and will simply route around it (and develop any technological sophistication required, along the way). It matters not, that this is done by human actors and isn't completely autonomous, but the Internet is our first crack at building non-biological organisms- it may not be perfect but I have faith in the creators.:)
You're on/. buddy. You have 6digits, you know the drill. It's like you're a car and you're in a traffic jam complaining to the cars in front of you that you're in a hurry and just want to get home.
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>If you think this is effective security, you probably hide your doorkey under the mat.
This fails the slashdot analogy test. It's draping an invisibility cloak over your house.
>Since you can't be bothered to look at the article I linked, which explains it in detail,
I don't need to read your silly little article to know what is obvious. What you are saying is DON'T as if it somehow some does harm to your network model. What harm comes of hiding your SSID? None.
You also do not engage in the statistical probability that most intrusions are caused by those looking for easy targets so there is actually some merit to hiding your SSID rather than broadcasting it. At least your quality of hacker would be better, if any. Unless what you are saying is somehow hiding my SSID broadcasts a challenge to said hackers, in which case I say, "good luck f***-nut a professional lives here".
Again, everything needs to fit in your little compartment about 'how things are done'. The fact is, things aren't always done that way for reasons you don't seem to want to understand. That's fine, but that's the moment you lose any sort of air of authority you claim.
At least you admit the truth: The ^ONLY^ reason to not require a GUI interface so you do not have to worry about video drivers running on a mission critical server
>Don't.
So, let me see if I have this straight. Don't hide because it's pointless? Stand in the middle of the street because you'll get hit by a bus anyway?
Seems like I'm going to have to remove /. from my daily reading list if this "logic" is considered Informative.
> Should that be done on a workstation using a VM?
Furthermore, right, because EVERYONE develops silly little apps they can test on their 2nd workstation. My God you're more far gone than I thought! LOL
Classic neck-beard, 5 ft long.
>Well under windows they better fix that now shouldn't they?
I'm talking about UNIX fool.
>Trouble shooting on a server? Should that be done on a workstation using a VM? Developers using a server? Really? Even then wouldn't you run the X server on a workstation and use SSH tunneling to run the app on the server hardware? "If not using a VM".
Troubleshooting a GUI development server, yes. Not when you have 100s. It may run in init 3 with Xvfb most of the time, but X11 is still installed for when we need to actually see WTF is going on.
>Of course people may use a GUI on a server from time to time but to say that it is REQUIRED is just silly.
WHo said it was required.
>As to your enterprise package that requires a GUI to install... Doesn't it make wonder what other scary silliness is in that package? Just saying...
What does this have to do with anything? It's called reality. Websphere is just 'silly' enterprise app that actually requires a GUI to install for not reason other than kicks.
>Even then SSH Tunneling of X to the workstation seems like the way to go for that. Just saying.
You're just plain wrong. There are plenty of situations where SSH tunneling is neither desired nor practical. Get your head out of your ass and realize that there are many reasons to do so, and many shades of grey when it comes to running X11 on a multipurpose server. Not to mention you completely missed the point of what Microsoft is saying here.... 5 digits you ought to be ashamed of yourself.
> If you are running a GUI application on a server that is not just wrong but down right silly.
Let me guess you are old or inexperienced. By your UID I will assume you are simply old, so I'll bite.
Listen, fellow old-timer; I've been around the block myself cutting my teeth by the green and black glow, at 300Baud once I got my hands on one. I remember never having to worry about gui for over half my life and career. But you know what? I run a GUI server for testing code and centralizing output to a virtual frame buffer. It's nice to run in init 5 sometimes for troubleshooting. Sometimes developers actually use it. It is not workstation. Some enterprise software packages downright require a gui to install. Yes, unbelievably stupid is that is, it is reality. We do not live in a neck-bearded fantasy world where we all tan by the CLI.
Now none of this is to say I run X on a mission critical server running only one service (and running it well I might add!) but this hardly describes any Windows server under my purview. This is a big change for Windows, and well it's about time they direct developers to keep in mind. But this idea that GUI on servers is silly is woefully outdated.
The budget model clearly. Manufactuers like to make you think you can afford a reliable 1080P tv, but the truth is unless you wanted to drop 2-3k in the last 10 years or 1.5k in the last couple, you will come up short. These models (like Sony W/Z series for instance) are only as good as the components inside driving the screen.
With no fundamental difference between the LCD silicon or Plasma gas, the difference is in the quality of the capacitors and transistors in the machine itself. Not to mention the firmware.
No, I get one every week at least once (and every time it is updated).
I wish I had mod points for you. The moment you aren't concerned about it will the moment your caught up in a dragnet for viewing wikileaks, or go somewhere you're not supposed to IRL.
Whatever happened to spying at this level on ordinary citizens, simply being you know, WRONG?
> Could all the large movie studios, book publishers and other content owners pull it off?
Just wanted to point out that these industries are the not the Titans they purport to be on TV. I'm willing to bet that if they tried a content cartel the world economy would barely notice. A trillion dollars is chump change in the world economy these days.
The face of intersteller travel .... Tetsuo?
http://www.bbakira.co.uk/cels/iancox/main/mutate1.jpg
I'm with you brother, not these left lane lingering ACs.
There was once a time when weren't all connected to the hivemind. It wasn't that long ago. All I'm saying is turn off your phone in the mall if it bothers you that much.
To be honest, I'm an advocate for privacy and it doesn't bother me one bit. So what if they know I like A&W rootbeer and buy Calvin Klein underwear (but only if its 30-50% off).
> Internet does NOT "route around sensorship",
How on earth is this garbage modded insightful?
You identifying information is never encrypted unless you are running some sort of TOR setup.
This falls under legal unencrypted signal capture. If you consider DirectTV which is encrypted, but you can't encrypt the location of the satellite. This means all manners of persons and objects pick up its signal as a matter of existence. It is perfectly legal for you to pick up their signal. It's illegal to decrypt the contents of the signal.
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In this case your phone is going "YOOOHOOO! I'm AF:23:D4:12:34:55 any one out there want to party"? Store says "Nice to meet you AF:23:D4:12:34:55. No, but would you like to buy this nice shirt on sale for 50% off"? You say "Yes here is my credit card 1234 1230 2321 12323 shh please don't share my unencrypted number with anyone!" Store winks and says "We won't! Honest!". The store is honest, but they will know that 12341230 2321 12323 is your credit card number and you carry a transmitter with address AF:23:D4:12:34:55. They will then share the fact that they made a 50% sale on a particular sweater to this address/CC combination. You are no longer anonymous.
Will they use this information to solicit further sweater sales to your door? Possibly. Will they use this information to steal all your money and leave you destitute? Probably not.
Just turn off your phone and give them less unencrypted information. It makes all the difference to simply STOP BROADCASTING.
This doesn't totally seem true. Amiga 1500 had a shell I could write code on out of the box. I wrote many an obscene program at the K-Mart when I was younger and the NES was busy.
I have these. They work as advertised. They don't get as dim as incandecents. Also, my chandelier breaker goes when I have 5 25W (60W) in it. Works with 3. I can't figure out for the life of me why this would happen with LED bulbs. I think I have problem with my wiring so I don't expect this to be a problem for you.
The math though is pretty convincing. I've changed 6 out of 12 lights so far. I'm expecting to save about 8-10$ / elec bill once I've replaced them all. Should pay for itself in about 2 years.
Where do you pay Broccoli -- $1.12/lb?
It's 2 heads for 5$ cheapest where I am. /lb Bonesless you have to be kidding me? That's like 4.99-6.99 a lb
Bread is double that, for the unhealthy fortified bread. That's store brand bread btw.
Chicken skin and bone intact: 2-3.99
This was 2 years ago..... the latest data I could find. Food and meat prices have jumped over 50% from that time:
http://www3.agr.gc.ca/apps/aimis-simia/rp/index-eng.cfm?report_format_type_code=11&action=gR&signature=35B31A62666C5EB5E8F3901657969FB1&pdctc=&r=17&pTpl=1&btnDownload=View
I dont know but the big three here in Canada all offer data-only plans. All the small companies do as well.
My car got "broken" in to in my driveway a couple of weeks ago. I feel foolish because I don't normally leave my car unlocked but likely happened in just the way you suggest.
They got everything of "value" alright! They missed my 300$ Eureka tent and my raybans and a few other goodies I could have fenced in less than 20 mins. As far as I can tell they took nothing just rifled through my car looking for an ipod or something. LOL. Suburbanites one mortgage payment away from robbing the local branch I suppose....
Something about pearly gates I imagine.
Yes, they need to name it ENTERTAINMENT 720
(a message brought to you buy E720)
His Right to Free Speech is only with regards to the Government.
As far as I know you do not have the right to say whatever you want anywhere in the world.
I agree, the Internet is designed to perceive infringement laws as damage and will simply route around it (and develop any technological sophistication required, along the way). It matters not, that this is done by human actors and isn't completely autonomous, but the Internet is our first crack at building non-biological organisms- it may not be perfect but I have faith in the creators. :)
You're on /. buddy. You have 6digits, you know the drill. It's like you're a car and you're in a traffic jam complaining to the cars in front of you that you're in a hurry and just want to get home.