It's really hard to beat radio waves telling someone to setup a roadblock 10 miles down the road.
It takes time to set up a road block (the relevant assets may not be near the intersection you want to block it at), so the offending vehicle might have blown by it already.
If the police decide to put the road block even further down the highway, and the car has a police scanner, the driver could change route to avoid the block.
This means that manufacturers can start importing designs from europe that are designed to run on ultra low sulphur diesel fuel. These designs are MUCH less polluting then engines designed for low grade diesel.
How will "engines designed for low grade diesel" react to LS diesel oil?
Third party app programmers get lazy because Windows doesn't require them to make their software runnable in unprivileged user mode.
This is because of Windows' legacy as a DOS shell. DOS, of course, having no filesystem or OS service protections of any kind, which spanned into Win95/98 and thus the Win32 API.
So, it's still Microsoft's fault, for not giving MS-DOS rudimentary security features.
Yet another case of Get It Out The Door instead of Do It Right The First (or 2nd or 3rd) Time.
Ha, if your employer deals with 3TB of data on a daily basis then I'm willing to bet that you work for a very big employer with deep pockets. BS excuses like the one you made are exactly why companies like Citibank paid millions in fines for not encrypting data when backup tapes were lost. I think your company needs a new CSO, or we'll probably see your company in the headlines soon.
Those machines are owned by various state government agencies. We house them and operate them, with specific contractual obligations and tasks, in our datacenter.
P.S. - Re-read the part about CC numbers being encrypted.
P.P.S. - I don't know what kind of tapes that Citibank lost, but if they were mainframe tapes, I just would not be worried about bad guys picking thru them. I would not be worried either if IronMountain lost a tape with my data on it either. Of course, if it had a tarball of an Oracle database, then I'd be worried...
P.P.S. - When I get a new company-owned laptop (since I telecommute) later this year, it will be encrypted using PGP Desktop. Companywide mandate for all laptops.
But really, morphine is far less addictive than, say, nicotine, or alprazolam. Those benzodiazepines are murder (sometimes literally) for withdrawal.
The side effects of nicotine don't seem that bad. (Although inhaling burning hot gasses and all the other particulate crud that are in the typical nicotine delivery system sure don't appeal to me very much.
The overhead of encrypting 3TB of database data every night would require 9 extra CPUs. Which would mean higher licensing fees from Oracle, 3 completely new AlphaServers from HP (since the backplanes are currently maxed out), new tape drives (the current ones are getting long in the tooth) etc, etc.
So, we encrypt vital columns like CC number and rely on security-thru-obscurity (not that many places run OpenVMS anymore).
someone else's poorly-maintained Linux box; the one that the admin thinks is impenetrable, because it runs Linux, and so hasn't updated it or even looked at it in ages.
Sacrilege! Sacrilege, you Windows fanboi!!!! How dare you criticize the Holy Penguin!!!!!!!!!!
So what? You want to replace that with systems that are ALL vulnerable to multiple attacks regardless of the competence of the administrator?
What gives you that idea?
Because I recognize that Linux distros are not perfect, not all SysAdmins are up to snuff, and not all security bugs in all *ix apps have been discovered and patched, you think I am a Windows fanboi?
Just by the virtue of the large number of x86 Linux servers exposed... there must be thousands of systems
As if the only difference was numbers. The other difference, or so claim the FUDsters, is that "Linux is for servers." You know, like banks and businesses that handle real money. Given the profile and importance of those targets, you would think they would be hit all the time and that we would hear about it as we hear of IIS exploits. For some reason we don't hear anything, despite the very open nature of the people running the software. It would seem that there's more at work than numbers here.
Re-read my post, and then think.
Some Linux servers will be vulnerable. Even if only 0.1% of Linux systems are vulnerable thru SysAdmin neglect or unfixed bugs, if there are 10^6 systems there will be 1000 vulberable systems.
(I say servers because Linux desktops tend not to expose services to the Internet.)
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It takes time to set up a road block (the relevant assets may not be near the intersection you want to block it at), so the offending vehicle might have blown by it already.
If the police decide to put the road block even further down the highway, and the car has a police scanner, the driver could change route to avoid the block.
How will "engines designed for low grade diesel" react to LS diesel oil?
Will they need to be retuned?
Are the Safari libraries "core dependencies for scads of other software"?
I bet not.
This is because of Windows' legacy as a DOS shell. DOS, of course, having no filesystem or OS service protections of any kind, which spanned into Win95/98 and thus the Win32 API.
So, it's still Microsoft's fault, for not giving MS-DOS rudimentary security features.
Yet another case of Get It Out The Door instead of Do It Right The First (or 2nd or 3rd) Time.
I've been using OpenVMS now for 16 years, and I can't imagine a connection between SYSGEN and the Windows Registry.
An authoritative link which confirms your assertion would be helpful.
not to bad design per se, but to poor practices -- things like documentation, structural transparency, consistent use of system policies, etc.
You forgot "marketing's brain-dead desire to be 'user-friendly'".
On large systems, does good design ever spring forth from poor practices? No.
I'll take more chances with my own self than with my children's lives and well-being.
A sadistic perv sees my documents, sees children's pictures, thus:
- knows where we live
- knows what my children look like
- knows where they've been on vacation, what they like to do, where they go to school, etc
- tracks them down
- strikes up conversations with them
- seems to be a family friend, since he knows so much about us
- convinces one of them to get in the car
- rapes him/her
- kills him/her
- dumps body in the river, never to be seen again
- goes on to the next target
- family is destroyed
Hypothetical, yes, but It Could Happen.Not like Weird Al? You must be Communist. Or live in Oregon. Or both.
Japanese who grew up post-WW2 are taller than those who grew up pre-WW2?
Why? Better nutrition, of course.
That's called "malnutrition".
Why would I travel out of the greatest, best, most wonderful country ever?
Well, ok, Prague makes the best beer, and Belgium is right up there. But other than that...
They won't do that until 2620.
"noo-ne" is slang (at least in the southern US) for a baby's pacifier.
and from TFA, it appears their intention was to ensure whatever word they used didn't already have significant meaning in popular culture.
Angstrom, Joule, Candella.
They don't have "significant meaning in popular culture" either, but you would not go around redefining those words, would you?
Respratory depression is pretty bad.
Those machines are owned by various state government agencies. We house them and operate them, with specific contractual obligations and tasks, in our datacenter.
P.S. - Re-read the part about CC numbers being encrypted.
P.P.S. - I don't know what kind of tapes that Citibank lost, but if they were mainframe tapes, I just would not be worried about bad guys picking thru them. I would not be worried either if IronMountain lost a tape with my data on it either. Of course, if it had a tarball of an Oracle database, then I'd be worried...
P.P.S. - When I get a new company-owned laptop (since I telecommute) later this year, it will be encrypted using PGP Desktop. Companywide mandate for all laptops.
The side effects of nicotine don't seem that bad. (Although inhaling burning hot gasses and all the other particulate crud that are in the typical nicotine delivery system sure don't appeal to me very much.
Morphine's side-effects seem pretty nasty, though.
Morphine is grossly underprescribed, like most pain killers
Agree with you there.
because of the DEA terror campaign against people with chronic pain.
No, the DEA "remembers" that 400,000 Civil War vets came down with the "Soldier's Disease" (addiction to morphine).
They really shouldn't be so anal about it, but it's difficult for bureaucracies to find a happy medium when setting policy.
And neither is acetamenophin(sp?).
What he should have said was:
No.
Why not?
Cost.
The overhead of encrypting 3TB of database data every night would require 9 extra CPUs. Which would mean higher licensing fees from Oracle, 3 completely new AlphaServers from HP (since the backplanes are currently maxed out), new tape drives (the current ones are getting long in the tooth) etc, etc.
So, we encrypt vital columns like CC number and rely on security-thru-obscurity (not that many places run OpenVMS anymore).
If that were true, OpenOffice and FireFox would be dominant.
The vast majority of people just don't like change.
Sacrilege! Sacrilege, you Windows fanboi!!!! How dare you criticize the Holy Penguin!!!!!!!!!!
What gives you that idea?
Because I recognize that Linux distros are not perfect, not all SysAdmins are up to snuff, and not all security bugs in all *ix apps have been discovered and patched, you think I am a Windows fanboi?
Re-read my post, and then think.
Some Linux servers will be vulnerable. Even if only 0.1% of Linux systems are vulnerable thru SysAdmin neglect or unfixed bugs, if there are 10^6 systems there will be 1000 vulberable systems.
(I say servers because Linux desktops tend not to expose services to the Internet.)