So what you're saying is you're happy releasing and standing behind some software that is incompatible and useless for a large portion of popular servers on the internet?
If it's a tiny one person project, why not? The thing may be popular but things like storing the password in plain text for any malware to read shows that it's a one person hobby project with far less than professional effort.
Two things: 1/ It's a really good idea to not have the password in plain text. 2/ It's not difficult to implement. Yes you can go on about "perfect" but in this case it's like comparing a cereal packet code wheel solution to something intended to be used by adults.
You'd need totally new hardware, and your comms would be down until someone rewired everything to remove the previous security devices from the equation and deploy any replacements.
Sorry to reply again - but you are only talking about routers and firewalls? Replace them. Give them sensible rules based on what is behind them. Unless the org is HUGE that's not a massive deal, and if the org is huge they can bring in the resources to deal with a massive deal. You would be amazed in the amount of networking infrastructure that can be put together over a weekend with a few people working on it. What do you think happens when companies move offices to a greenfield site?
Maybe that came off a bit strong, but seriously, is the sort of place where only key employees know complete lockdown passwords the sort of place that is just going to outsource those positions and lose access? The sort of management that want to go all James Bond with a fluffy cat that way want to know those passwords themselves, or have it stored securely somewhere, in case their key employee gets hit by a bus or something. If they are not the company is probably effectively going to be roadkill soon in many ways since if they are putting in deliberate points of failure in one place they probably have them in many.
With the greatest possible respect that scenario is far more common in fiction than reality. How about we come back from the movies and get back on topic?
You jest (maybe?) but it would be fascinating to see what would happen if the entire IT department at one of these places really did resign en masse and literally just pick up their things and walk out the door.
I've picked up the pieces as a contractor after a similar situation of zero staff, but they had been laid off and escorted to the door by security. Apparently it happens a lot and is not seen as a disaster situation. Yes, it sucks and I don't agree with that sort of action but management in a lot of place typically doesn't care about potential IT meltdowns from losing all staff. Just bringing in a few people with a bit of a clue changes a site with zero documentation into something understood by the new crew quicker than you would think. No passwords? Physical access and boot media solves that. So your idea about places becoming no longer operationally viable applies less than you would think. Also unions are not so much about mass walkouts, they are more about making it difficult to replace people that have been blatantly screwed over. A mass walkout is pointless if they can just hire a new bunch that has no idea what happened to the old bunch.
No. India is getting too expensive. Last week I installed a stupidly expensive per seat bit of software on a few machines and the copyright on it is a company in Pakistan. Earlier versions came from Texas.
The really funny (or annoying) thing here is that a major donor to the Republican party - Diebold - lobbied hard with the Republican party to get their voting machines in place and now a guy who claims to represent the Republican party is sowing doubt about the electoral process because of those machines.
Instead of these losers screaming about their own mistakes how about they fix them?
It's just like the climate leak dump before the Copenhagen summit - a big pile of not much released to sow confusion and stop action. The same methods were used in both cases and fingers have been pointed at Russia both times. For blackmail there has to be something close to murder or having sex with thirteen year olds (I hope you behaved yourself on those trips to Russia Donald) to have an impact afterwards.
It's those damn spurs on his feet that kept him out of 'Nam (but not off the track team). How the fuck did this trust fund baby that sums up just about everything wrong with America end up getting so far?
Do I have to spell out "Scientology" in big capital letters for you? Just because you didn't see the obvious or understand the rest is no reason to act as if I had a background like Glenn Beck.
One where there is not a clear paper trail leading back to a blatantly obvious scam. How's that for a start? The equivalent of renaming dog to God should not be enough to evade the law and scam people via a loophole.
That's the low hanging fruit. Cults are more difficult. The early history of the Mormons and some of the evangelical groups makes it a bit difficult to show that new cults are not just there for the benefit of their leaders. There's a bunch in evangelical Christian guise near me that started just because the leader wanted to collect boys to fuck - including his own nephew. However the leader has passed on leaving a very popular if somewhat strange bunch that is very politically active (disturbingly so). Isn't it funny the someone who was fucking children was pushing hard for internet censorship? Cults do shit like that.
Yes, the poster messed up but the book isn't really fascism as we know it either. Politically it is the Roman Republic in space which is not a bad model to use in SF and Heinlein turned it into a more believable space empire than anyone else I can think of (others generally don't go into detail and use it for plot) . Yes I where the word fascism comes from but Heinlein's space Romans do not resemble the English definition. As for pinning the views on the author (despite various characters even giving justifications and explanations in the text), his book "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" has politics that is almost the opposite (and just as believable in the situation.
The thing that annoyed me the most about the movie, which had about as little to do with the book as Abrams version of Trek had to do with others, is that the troops just ran around like sheep getting killed by bugs instead of working together like in the book.
The problem with the Titanic is that it failed because of an engineering failure
Minor nitpick - I used to think that too but what changed my mind was an opinion article that had been written at the time by Joseph Conrad, you can read it on Project Gutenberg. The ship hit the iceberg at speed. Whether the steel was brittle or not and whether the compartments were large or not is unlikely to have saved it. It's not as obvious situation as the "Liberty Ships" of poor design, poorer materials and where it was politically expedient to ignore the problem for as long as possible.
Back to nuclear - "economic rationalism" is why it's not being used much. China, Russia and until recently France were not encumbered by that view so they didn't see anything wrong with huge projects with huge capital costs so long as they provided a return in the long run. In most of the west small things with rapid returns are the only things seen as viable - and you can't build a viable nuclear power station to fit that bill. You need a lot of steam to have something that gives you decent MW/$. They can be tiny reactors, in fact that is a very good idea, so long as you have a lot of them feeding a few enormous turbines. If you don't have a lot of steam waste a lot of the energy you put in just to overcome friction while if you have a lot a steam even low pressures can spin a turbine (hence multiple passes in modern steam turbines as the steam gets used again and again until it is very low pressure). Nuclear power projects are by their nature large. If it isn't large it's either an experimental thing or in some way connected with weapon production and not a nuclear power project all.
Even so, nuclear is the only power source that can power a modern society.
Time for a major nitpick - nuclear is best at very large unit sizes running 24/7/365 - base load. It is crap at following demand especially with sharp peaks in demand. There is no "one true energy", there are types of base load generators and peak load generators. If you don't have a mix it ends up being a mess. Among other power sources those little windmills providing less power than an aircraft engine can be brought online a few at a time to make up the difference between demand and base load supply. They compete with gas turbines not nukes, hydro or coal. It's fine to be a fan, but quotes like the one you've used above are somewhat divergent from reality and look a bit cargo-cultish.
He was several of those but yes, in a different way. Why he was chosen was almost as much of a mystery as to why it was decided that Trump was the best choice.
Think back to all the others that were running in your lifetime to get an idea of how pathetic.
Dan Farmer (I think?) was talking about hiding payloads in the white space of DNS packets?
I have not heard that but there have been implementations of building a VPN using tunnelling via DNS for places that have firewalls stopping most traffic.
Either Trump is in the pay of Russia, or he's a dangerous nut who will start a war with Russia
Why not both? He's screwed over a lot of people who paid him for something he never delivered. It's sort of a joke, but so is Trump.
If the fake sincerity encasing the wall lie wasn't enough of a warning sign he's got a bridge to sell you. And no - I'm not cheering for Hillary either. Why can't someone point out that Trump is a liar without some "but Hillary uses email" shit coming up?
I loath conspiracy theories but if there was ever the case to made for one it would be a Trump / Russia one.
You missed the other bit of Russian strangeness - Trump has borrowed quite a lot from Russian banks to fund his campaign. They are loans not gifts so not illegal and that's probable all they are, but still if this was a movie script it would be thrown away for being far too unbelievable.
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If it's a tiny one person project, why not?
The thing may be popular but things like storing the password in plain text for any malware to read shows that it's a one person hobby project with far less than professional effort.
Two things:
1/ It's a really good idea to not have the password in plain text.
2/ It's not difficult to implement.
Yes you can go on about "perfect" but in this case it's like comparing a cereal packet code wheel solution to something intended to be used by adults.
Sorry to reply again - but you are only talking about routers and firewalls? Replace them. Give them sensible rules based on what is behind them. Unless the org is HUGE that's not a massive deal, and if the org is huge they can bring in the resources to deal with a massive deal. You would be amazed in the amount of networking infrastructure that can be put together over a weekend with a few people working on it. What do you think happens when companies move offices to a greenfield site?
Maybe that came off a bit strong, but seriously, is the sort of place where only key employees know complete lockdown passwords the sort of place that is just going to outsource those positions and lose access? The sort of management that want to go all James Bond with a fluffy cat that way want to know those passwords themselves, or have it stored securely somewhere, in case their key employee gets hit by a bus or something.
If they are not the company is probably effectively going to be roadkill soon in many ways since if they are putting in deliberate points of failure in one place they probably have them in many.
With the greatest possible respect that scenario is far more common in fiction than reality.
How about we come back from the movies and get back on topic?
Cutting payroll often means a performance bonus for them even if profits and share price drop like a rock.
I've picked up the pieces as a contractor after a similar situation of zero staff, but they had been laid off and escorted to the door by security. Apparently it happens a lot and is not seen as a disaster situation. Yes, it sucks and I don't agree with that sort of action but management in a lot of place typically doesn't care about potential IT meltdowns from losing all staff. Just bringing in a few people with a bit of a clue changes a site with zero documentation into something understood by the new crew quicker than you would think. No passwords? Physical access and boot media solves that.
So your idea about places becoming no longer operationally viable applies less than you would think. Also unions are not so much about mass walkouts, they are more about making it difficult to replace people that have been blatantly screwed over. A mass walkout is pointless if they can just hire a new bunch that has no idea what happened to the old bunch.
No. India is getting too expensive.
Last week I installed a stupidly expensive per seat bit of software on a few machines and the copyright on it is a company in Pakistan. Earlier versions came from Texas.
The really funny (or annoying) thing here is that a major donor to the Republican party - Diebold - lobbied hard with the Republican party to get their voting machines in place and now a guy who claims to represent the Republican party is sowing doubt about the electoral process because of those machines.
Instead of these losers screaming about their own mistakes how about they fix them?
It's just like the climate leak dump before the Copenhagen summit - a big pile of not much released to sow confusion and stop action. The same methods were used in both cases and fingers have been pointed at Russia both times.
For blackmail there has to be something close to murder or having sex with thirteen year olds (I hope you behaved yourself on those trips to Russia Donald) to have an impact afterwards.
It's those damn spurs on his feet that kept him out of 'Nam (but not off the track team).
How the fuck did this trust fund baby that sums up just about everything wrong with America end up getting so far?
"Accidentally" shoot down a few US planes over Syria.
Then stop using those fucking stupid Diebold machines and you won't have so much uncertainty.
Do I have to spell out "Scientology" in big capital letters for you?
Just because you didn't see the obvious or understand the rest is no reason to act as if I had a background like Glenn Beck.
One where there is not a clear paper trail leading back to a blatantly obvious scam.
How's that for a start?
The equivalent of renaming dog to God should not be enough to evade the law and scam people via a loophole.
That's the low hanging fruit. Cults are more difficult. The early history of the Mormons and some of the evangelical groups makes it a bit difficult to show that new cults are not just there for the benefit of their leaders. There's a bunch in evangelical Christian guise near me that started just because the leader wanted to collect boys to fuck - including his own nephew. However the leader has passed on leaving a very popular if somewhat strange bunch that is very politically active (disturbingly so). Isn't it funny the someone who was fucking children was pushing hard for internet censorship? Cults do shit like that.
True, there's an entire huge category of Japanese Animation more closely inspired by the book than the movie was.
Yes, the poster messed up but the book isn't really fascism as we know it either.
Politically it is the Roman Republic in space which is not a bad model to use in SF and Heinlein turned it into a more believable space empire than anyone else I can think of (others generally don't go into detail and use it for plot) . Yes I where the word fascism comes from but Heinlein's space Romans do not resemble the English definition.
As for pinning the views on the author (despite various characters even giving justifications and explanations in the text), his book "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" has politics that is almost the opposite (and just as believable in the situation.
The thing that annoyed me the most about the movie, which had about as little to do with the book as Abrams version of Trek had to do with others, is that the troops just ran around like sheep getting killed by bugs instead of working together like in the book.
Minor nitpick - I used to think that too but what changed my mind was an opinion article that had been written at the time by Joseph Conrad, you can read it on Project Gutenberg. The ship hit the iceberg at speed. Whether the steel was brittle or not and whether the compartments were large or not is unlikely to have saved it. It's not as obvious situation as the "Liberty Ships" of poor design, poorer materials and where it was politically expedient to ignore the problem for as long as possible.
Back to nuclear - "economic rationalism" is why it's not being used much. China, Russia and until recently France were not encumbered by that view so they didn't see anything wrong with huge projects with huge capital costs so long as they provided a return in the long run. In most of the west small things with rapid returns are the only things seen as viable - and you can't build a viable nuclear power station to fit that bill. You need a lot of steam to have something that gives you decent MW/$. They can be tiny reactors, in fact that is a very good idea, so long as you have a lot of them feeding a few enormous turbines. If you don't have a lot of steam waste a lot of the energy you put in just to overcome friction while if you have a lot a steam even low pressures can spin a turbine (hence multiple passes in modern steam turbines as the steam gets used again and again until it is very low pressure). Nuclear power projects are by their nature large. If it isn't large it's either an experimental thing or in some way connected with weapon production and not a nuclear power project all.
Time for a major nitpick - nuclear is best at very large unit sizes running 24/7/365 - base load. It is crap at following demand especially with sharp peaks in demand. There is no "one true energy", there are types of base load generators and peak load generators. If you don't have a mix it ends up being a mess. Among other power sources those little windmills providing less power than an aircraft engine can be brought online a few at a time to make up the difference between demand and base load supply. They compete with gas turbines not nukes, hydro or coal. It's fine to be a fan, but quotes like the one you've used above are somewhat divergent from reality and look a bit cargo-cultish.
These days as with many things it turns out "there is an app for that":
www.vpnoverdns.com
He was several of those but yes, in a different way.
Why he was chosen was almost as much of a mystery as to why it was decided that Trump was the best choice.
Think back to all the others that were running in your lifetime to get an idea of how pathetic.
I have not heard that but there have been implementations of building a VPN using tunnelling via DNS for places that have firewalls stopping most traffic.
Why not both? He's screwed over a lot of people who paid him for something he never delivered.
It's sort of a joke, but so is Trump.
If the fake sincerity encasing the wall lie wasn't enough of a warning sign he's got a bridge to sell you.
And no - I'm not cheering for Hillary either. Why can't someone point out that Trump is a liar without some "but Hillary uses email" shit coming up?
You missed the other bit of Russian strangeness - Trump has borrowed quite a lot from Russian banks to fund his campaign. They are loans not gifts so not illegal and that's probable all they are, but still if this was a movie script it would be thrown away for being far too unbelievable.
He was kind of pathetic compared with anyone who has ended up in the White House so what do you expect?
Only if China and the rest of the world sleeps for the entire time. Does not sound so good if they do not.