Every other major company, has done that 10 years ago. There are entire software suites that do this. Having one admin for each machine or each rack is just not the way it is done.
In all the numbers were about 1000 admins, but you know all of those are going to be re-assigned, not fired.
(This is government, you can't really get Fired, just ask Kathleen Sebelius. Besides, they don't want to piss any of these people off. There is always a chance one or two of them will grow a conscious.)
7.3V of energy? USB provides 5V of power? Arggh. I think my head just asploded.
Watts that you say?
Static electricity from petting the cat can yield charge of many thousands of volts. Maybe our gadgets need to come with cat cradles.
Still, with every airport radar, tv station, radio station, power cable, the wires in the walls, and every other stray radio source, it would seem there is a lot of energy that could be intercepted before it all gets absorbed by the hillsides. I suspect you would need a pretty large collector on the outside of your house to gather enough for any worthwhile use.
Given that the NSA is recording everything, and probably has broken all your encryption keys, you would think the NSA would already know who to target for employment. Thus the obvious conclusion is that these ads are fakes or honeypots.
My thoughts exactly. Even hovering your mouse over those ads is probably recorded. This can't be much besides a "trial balloon" to see how much "chatter" they can induce.
Well your average geek (use what ever characteristics you want for the definition) tends to be a bit brighter than your average dim-bulb office pencil pusher or mill-rat.
They can look to recent examples and notice that we aren't safer from terrorists, that the total surveillance mentality hasn't served us well, and bomber set bombs even when the Russians warn us about them in advance. Furthermore simply talking in code while posting on slashdot (and 3 zillion other forums) can transmit messages for any sort of operation hidden in discussions of cat videos or ranting about some changes to Linux or IOS.
It doesn't work. It can't work. And Geeks realize this more than Joe Sixpack.
Enough advertising overcomes any negative consequences of your actions.
Pretty much this.!
By "owning" it in advertising and public speeches and press releases, they hope to pull a "Toyota" maneuver.
(When Toyota was facing run-away vehicles and brake problems with spectacular crashes, they began an ad campaign touting their safety. They are still at it today with a drumbeat of ads telling how safe their cars are and totally ignoring the massive recalls they were forced into. I suspect Toyota learned the technique from Iomega which did the same thing in the face of their Famous Click of Death drive series).
I predicted this some months ago. I suspect going forward they will just start saying in effect: "Yeah, we read your mail. Get over it." Now that its out in the open, they will become bolder and brasher, and no mere legal barriers will stand in their way, (not that they ever did). There are just enough useful idiots out there that believe this is a "good thing" that the NSA will probably get away with this tactic.
Technical solutions are going to have to be devised, better encryption, multi-path routing, etc. And instead of welcoming their contributions, crypto developers are going to have to understand that they can't be trusted.
No doubt Tesla and the other manufacturers will do something like Boeing did, and build thermal barriers into the battery and perhaps build in stronger penetration barriers. But I'm not sure you can protect against all fires when a car goes airborne and crashes into a concrete barrier. Nor does it even seem to be a priority in my view. That the driver walked away.
Except, it happened not 1 time, but 3 times, in a short period of time, to a car thats pretty unpopular simply because they can't produce that many at this point in time (not due to lack of buyers).
Wrong. Do your homework.
Only one was road debris.
The other one in mexico was a high speed crash into a concrete barrier after the car went airborne at over 100mph. The driver walked away. The Tennessee incident was also a crash, not road debris. Nobody was injured there either.
Most if this is due to improper firefighting technique. Go look a the twitter pictures. Fire fighters are just going to have to learn how to fight battery fires, because the problem is not unique to Tesla, it has also occurred in Chevy Volts.
Sure gas cars catch on fires after crashes, but how many of those catch on fire after running over road debris without crashing?
Far more gas cars catch fire for road debris strikes than Tesla cars. Look, its happened exactly ONE time, yet car fires happen every other day on average. U.S. fire departments responded to an estimated average of 152,300 automobile fires per year in 2006-2010. These fires caused an average of 209 civilian deaths, 764 civilian injuries, and $536 million in direct property damage.
And Tesla fires happen long after the strike or the crash, NOT instantaneously. And they don't explode.
The ONLY reason this is news is that it is hard to put out the fire. No one has died in a Tesla.
Why, it's not just bots! If you put a link out on a public web site, real people might even click on the link for you!
Real people don't have to click that link. Their computers and devices have web browsers that follow links ahead of time to improve browsing experience. Chrome calls this "Predict network actions to improve page load performance".
But such hits would come from a wide variety of IPs, not from Google.
Fact is, Google is not the only one who is crawling the Net. Yahoo does it as well as Bing, among others.
If the Google "bots" can be tricked into doing the "heavy lifting", so can the Yahoo "bots", Bing "bots", and "bots" from other search engines.
Lets not use the excuse that others have crawlers as well as Google, m'kay?
If you are going to crawl web pages, and follow links, you probably should check for cross-site scripting attacks in the links you crawl. One could make the case you just shouldn't follow such links (embeded sql), at all, but at the least they should be defanged so to speak.
This isn't the first time Crawlers have caused problems, and because of this, they are pretty much all now rate limited. Because they are rate limited, they impose virtually ZERO load. Any large influx of bot hits are a sign you aren't dealing with any of the big 5 crawlers.
And its not the first time things pretending to be a crawler have been used to attack a site. Google honors Robots.txt, so if the attack stops after placing robots.txt in all the relevant directories then it wasn't Google.
I think if you go back and read stories of the day, he THOUGHT he was doing the right thing, he wasn't trying to extort anything. The city wanted to start doing stupid/illegal things with their network, and he decided not to let them. I don't remember the details, but he was basically just going about his job, doing the right thing, but forgot they weren't HIS computers.
They seem to select for papers which will have a bit impact in the general press rather than necessarily for good ones.
Well, at least Nature admits as much in their Mission Statement:
First, to serve scientists through prompt publication of significant advances in any branch of science, and to provide a forum for the reporting and discussion of news and issues concerning science. Second, to ensure that the results of science are rapidly disseminated to the public throughout the world, in a fashion that conveys their significance for knowledge, culture and daily life.
Even big discoveries in small fields with no significant tie in to wider fields of science or daily life will not be accepted, which is fine. Their mission statement is fairly clear on that point. They are not focused field specific journals.
Except those paid journals have also had serious hoaxes foisted on them. You have to go to really really really really big journals like science or nature before there's enough credibility to protect against fraud.
Wait, you're saying Nature and Science don't get frauded? Seems to me both of those Journals were taken in by Jan Hendrik Schön. And paid journals also have turned down key papers, including Nature's total snub of Watson and Crick's 1953 paper on the structure of DNA.
Maybe these journals need to take a clue from your field.
Most colleges and even some high-schools run student papers through software packages to detect plagiarism and structural problems. In fact most careful students do the same thing before submitting papers.
You would think there would be a first layer of software detection that could throw up enough red flags to sent the papers back without any wasted efforts. Not JUST on plagiarism (which might be harder to check, since quoting other studies in a paper is often necessary), but also for the detection of "crazy-talk".
You read the summary? My eyes went on strike a quarter of the way through.
I wonder if this was one of those hoax submissions the author waves under our noses in his first paragraph. "Lets see is we can hoax those/. readers by telling them a story about hoax submissions."
There have been so many fast and furious features added over the last couple releases, not only to the kernel but also the various and sundry major components (like systemd) that taking a breather isn't going to hurt anything. There is nothing huge waiting in the wings that everyone needs next week.
Agreed, since the original comment specifies "a site I own" then colo is really the only one that meets that requirement.
Most people don't consider a COLO as something they own. You need someone else's permission to get in, yank your box, and it is also there for someone else to yank.
For simple local fire protection, sometimes a guy you trust may allow you to park a machine on his network, (better if its outside his firewall, that way you don't become a target for blame). Running my own business, I just sync from the office to a machine in my home. But because sync is not backup for user errors such as deleting entire directories, I also back up to an off site cloud in "contribution" mode where each change in files is retained and you can recover accidental deletes.
None of the services you mentioned are zero knowledge services. The all can and will hand your data to the first cop in the door with something vaguely resembling a warrant.
Spideroak claims to be zero knowledge, they don't have your keys and couldn't decrypt your Data if they were ordered to.
Unless or until they open source their client side software you have to take their word for this. Although they did say they would open source the client some time ago.
I have it backing up two different machines, and have not had it lose any files. It also can be used to sync machines but I use it for version backups (you can roll it back many increments).
Slashdot Mirror
You're not helping.
Whoosh.
Every other major company, has done that 10 years ago. There are entire software suites that do this.
Having one admin for each machine or each rack is just not the way it is done.
In all the numbers were about 1000 admins, but you know all of those are going
to be re-assigned, not fired.
(This is government, you can't really get Fired, just ask Kathleen Sebelius. Besides, they don't want to piss any of
these people off. There is always a chance one or two of them will grow a conscious.)
7.3V of energy? USB provides 5V of power? Arggh. I think my head just asploded.
Watts that you say?
Static electricity from petting the cat can yield charge of many thousands of volts.
Maybe our gadgets need to come with cat cradles.
Still, with every airport radar, tv station, radio station, power cable, the wires in the walls, and every other stray radio source, it would seem there is a lot of energy that could be intercepted before it all gets absorbed by the hillsides. I suspect you would need a pretty large collector on the outside of your house to gather enough for any worthwhile use.
Given that the NSA is recording everything, and probably has broken all your encryption keys, you would think the NSA would already know who to target for employment. Thus the obvious conclusion is that these ads are fakes or honeypots.
My thoughts exactly. Even hovering your mouse over those ads is probably recorded.
This can't be much besides a "trial balloon" to see how much "chatter" they can induce.
Well your average geek (use what ever characteristics you want for the definition) tends to be a bit brighter than your average dim-bulb office pencil pusher or mill-rat.
They can look to recent examples and notice that we aren't safer from terrorists, that the total surveillance mentality hasn't served us well, and bomber set bombs even when the Russians warn us about them in advance. Furthermore simply talking in code while posting on slashdot (and 3 zillion other forums) can transmit messages for any sort of operation hidden in discussions of cat videos or ranting about some changes to Linux or IOS.
It doesn't work. It can't work. And Geeks realize this more than Joe Sixpack.
They fire everyone, and now they have to hire people? Imagine that.
Who got fired? (Other than Snowden). Even Snowden's company still in under contract.
Enough advertising overcomes any negative consequences of your actions.
Pretty much this.!
By "owning" it in advertising and public speeches and press releases, they hope to pull a "Toyota" maneuver.
(When Toyota was facing run-away vehicles and brake problems with spectacular crashes, they began an ad campaign touting their safety. They are still at it today with a drumbeat of ads telling how safe their cars are and totally ignoring the massive recalls they were forced into. I suspect Toyota learned the technique from Iomega which did the same thing in the face of their Famous Click of Death drive series).
I predicted this some months ago. I suspect going forward they will just start saying in effect: "Yeah, we read your mail. Get over it." Now that its out in the open, they will become bolder and brasher, and no mere legal barriers will stand in their way, (not that they ever did). There are just enough useful idiots out there that believe this is a "good thing" that the NSA will probably get away with this tactic.
Technical solutions are going to have to be devised, better encryption, multi-path routing, etc. And instead of welcoming their contributions, crypto developers are going to have to understand that they can't be trusted.
Of course the real problem is that there simply isn't enough data available. Three times in as many months could be a fluke. Or it could be a pattern.
When you add in the other electric vehicles that suffered from battery fires, the problem is reasonably well understood. The fires occur WELL AFTER the crash event. You have a fairly long time to exit these vehicles.
No doubt Tesla and the other manufacturers will do something like Boeing did, and build thermal barriers into the battery and perhaps build in stronger penetration barriers. But I'm not sure you can protect against all fires when a car goes airborne and crashes into a concrete barrier. Nor does it even seem to be a priority in my view. That the driver walked away.
Except, it happened not 1 time, but 3 times, in a short period of time, to a car thats pretty unpopular simply because they can't produce that many at this point in time (not due to lack of buyers).
Wrong. Do your homework.
Only one was road debris.
The other one in mexico was a high speed crash into a concrete barrier after the car went airborne at over 100mph. The driver walked away.
The Tennessee incident was also a crash, not road debris. Nobody was injured there either.
Most if this is due to improper firefighting technique. Go look a the twitter pictures. Fire fighters are just going to have to learn how to fight battery fires, because the problem is not unique to Tesla, it has also occurred in Chevy Volts.
That's apples an oranges.
Sure gas cars catch on fires after crashes, but how many of those catch on fire after running over road debris without crashing?
Far more gas cars catch fire for road debris strikes than Tesla cars. Look, its happened exactly ONE time, yet car fires happen every other day on average.
U.S. fire departments responded to an estimated average of 152,300 automobile fires per year in 2006-2010. These fires caused an average of 209 civilian deaths, 764 civilian injuries, and $536 million in direct property damage.
And Tesla fires happen long after the strike or the crash, NOT instantaneously. And they don't explode.
The ONLY reason this is news is that it is hard to put out the fire.
No one has died in a Tesla.
Wait, originals for the way-back machine?
Why, it's not just bots! If you put a link out on a public web site, real people might even click on the link for you!
Real people don't have to click that link. Their computers and devices have web browsers that follow links ahead of time to
improve browsing experience. Chrome calls this "Predict network actions to improve page load performance".
But such hits would come from a wide variety of IPs, not from Google.
TFA seems to place all the faults on Google.
Fact is, Google is not the only one who is crawling the Net. Yahoo does it as well as Bing, among others.
If the Google "bots" can be tricked into doing the "heavy lifting", so can the Yahoo "bots", Bing "bots", and "bots" from other search engines.
Lets not use the excuse that others have crawlers as well as Google, m'kay?
If you are going to crawl web pages, and follow links, you probably should check for cross-site scripting attacks in the links you crawl.
One could make the case you just shouldn't follow such links (embeded sql), at all, but at the least they should be defanged so to speak.
This isn't the first time Crawlers have caused problems, and because of this, they are pretty much all now rate limited. Because they are rate limited, they impose virtually ZERO load. Any large influx of bot hits are a sign you aren't dealing with any of the big 5 crawlers.
And its not the first time things pretending to be a crawler have been used to attack a site.
Google honors Robots.txt, so if the attack stops after placing robots.txt in all the relevant directories then it wasn't Google.
You Lie.
He programmed no boobie traps. He simply withheld passwords.
I think if you go back and read stories of the day, he THOUGHT he was doing the right thing, he wasn't trying to extort anything.
The city wanted to start doing stupid/illegal things with their network, and he decided not to let them. I don't remember the
details, but he was basically just going about his job, doing the right thing, but forgot they weren't HIS computers.
Wouldn't this be the place to list good examples? I'm most curious... Thanks!
Start here, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nature_(journal)#Controversies
They seem to select for papers which will have a bit impact in the general press rather than necessarily for good ones.
Well, at least Nature admits as much in their Mission Statement:
First, to serve scientists through prompt publication of significant advances in any branch of science, and to provide a forum for the reporting and discussion of news and issues concerning science. Second, to ensure that the results of science are rapidly disseminated to the public throughout the world, in a fashion that conveys their significance for knowledge, culture and daily life.
Even big discoveries in small fields with no significant tie in to wider fields of science or daily life will not be accepted, which is fine. Their mission statement is fairly clear on that point. They are not focused field specific journals.
Except those paid journals have also had serious hoaxes foisted on them. You have to go to really really really really big journals like science or nature before there's enough credibility to protect against fraud.
Wait, you're saying Nature and Science don't get frauded?
Seems to me both of those Journals were taken in by Jan Hendrik Schön.
And paid journals also have turned down key papers, including Nature's total snub of Watson and Crick's 1953 paper on the structure of DNA.
Maybe these journals need to take a clue from your field.
Most colleges and even some high-schools run student papers through software packages to detect plagiarism and
structural problems. In fact most careful students do the same thing before submitting papers.
You would think there would be a first layer of software detection that could throw up enough red flags to sent the papers back without any wasted efforts. Not JUST on plagiarism (which might be harder to check, since quoting other studies in a paper is often necessary), but also for the detection of "crazy-talk".
You read the summary? My eyes went on strike a quarter of the way through.
I wonder if this was one of those hoax submissions the author waves under our noses in his first paragraph. /. readers by telling them a story about hoax submissions."
"Lets see is we can hoax those
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even if just to fix some "bugs" that don't even exist,
Let's see, Linus thinks there are bugs needing to be fixed, and some random AC says they don't exist.
Decisions, decisions.
There have been so many fast and furious features added over the last couple releases, not only to the kernel but also the various and sundry major components (like systemd) that taking a breather isn't going to hurt anything. There is nothing huge waiting in the wings that everyone needs next week.
Take the time to fix everything you can find.
Agreed, since the original comment specifies "a site I own" then colo is really the only one that meets that requirement.
Most people don't consider a COLO as something they own. You need someone else's permission to get in, yank your box, and it is also there for someone else to yank.
For simple local fire protection, sometimes a guy you trust may allow you to park a machine on his network, (better if its outside his firewall, that way you don't become a target for blame). Running my own business, I just sync from the office to a machine in my home. But because sync is not backup for user errors such as deleting entire directories, I also back up to an off site cloud in "contribution" mode where each change in files is retained and you can recover accidental deletes.
None of the services you mentioned are zero knowledge services. The all can and will hand your data to the first cop in the door with something vaguely resembling a warrant.
Spideroak claims to be zero knowledge, they don't have your keys and couldn't decrypt your Data if they were ordered to.
Unless or until they open source their client side software you have to take their word for this. Although they did say they would open source the client some time ago.
I have it backing up two different machines, and have not had it lose any files. It also can be used to sync machines but I use it for version backups (you can roll it back many increments).