Totally agree that it sounds like it will be a scatter gun at range and wildly inaccurate with an unguided projectile, that's not such a big deal in naval combat. The distances are vast and it's not like there's civilians to accidentally hit.
Naval bombardment of land targets is a whole other story, however.
I agree with you.
However, the government needs so such pretexts and does what it wants when it wants and explains it later. It can kill its own citizens on its own soil in defiance of founding documents with no more repercussion than some tsking from a minority of its (surviving) citizens.
Keep in mind your friend doesn't know the invisible parents motivation. I was/am an uninvolved parent from the perspective of the PTA and only ever met with my kids' teachers when it was a scheduled conference. But I talked to them every night about what they learned in school and worked hard to undo the idiot teachings (like Columbus was a wonderful person who loved the native americans, go America!). Now that they're in a high school, we often have conversations about the situation in Syria/Ukraine, the ways advertising undermines someone's self-esteem, beginning economic theory and the like. Basically, I treat school as a wikipedia article - fine for background information and the like, but not to be used to develop a real understanding or opinion on a topic.
Not a stitch of it is seen or known about by any of their teachers.
The other side of the coin is the over-active parents who go in to argue an A-. Sure, they're involved, they care, and they want their kid to succeed, but are they doing anything to achieve those goals? Nope.
I'll back up what he says and put my name to it. I work for a reseller and I've deployed and managed FireEye, Palo Alto, Cisco, Sourcefire, and Juniper (ScreenOS and the JunOS mess) appliances. They all have their strengths and weaknesses, although they aren't obviously equal..
Fireye's false positive rate is damn low in comparison to it's competitors. Sourcefire with FireSIGHT is pretty awesome as well (passive fingerprinting of endpoint traffic automatically correlated against breach attempts aka filtering out 99% of false positives for you once it's seen enough traffic on your network), and Palo Altos when you turn on AV, AS, Vuln + Wildfire drop everything suspicious - no human needed so alerts don't necessarily need to be acted on immediately. I've yet to hear of a false positive that was rated as critical or high and that's in dozens or possibly hundreds of installations that I've seen of PA firewalls.
The biggest problem I've seen in a lot of FireEye deployments is they stick it on a TAP port to so the thing can't just drop the suspicious traffic it detects. Half of what it's protecting is dumbass users blindly clicking links that lead to malware sites. That's a hard problem to stop unless you're perimeter security is setup right, and if it's not, all you get from FireEye is endless alerts that there's another dumbass user in your environment. FireEye is freakin badass at detecting and correlating multi-vector attacks like what happened with Target. If the Target admins had put it in inline blocking, there would have been no incident.
The hammer quite a bit. The modern hammers with sprung steel heads, claws (and other attachments) and ergonomic handles especially those designed to mitigate RSI have in fact changed significantly.
And how many of those would you consider incremental improvements of the same fundamental design and how many of those were on the level of trying to put the hammerhead in the middle of the handle?
If you're in the US and store your data outside of the US, I imagine you are all but guaranteeing that the NSA collects your data since one end of the connection is 'foreign'.
Rock and a hard place.
which is a little more believable, though still not true unless you're speaking about a very specific time frame in Apple stock price. And market cap, please.
Um, Apple is _THE_ most successful company on the planet, by a wide margin.
GE, 3M, IBM, Wal-mart, Nike, Exxon, AT&T, J&J and most of the finance industry disagree with you. What was your metric for "successful" again? Smartphone production or something?
Seriously, Slashdotters have such a strong sense of "I know how to do it right and they clearly don't so let me spell it out for you..."
Real life example - I (back when I had an FB account) "like"d NewYork RoadRunners. Anyone who has ever talked to me about them knows that I vehemently detest them on multiple grounds, but they happen to be the organizers of the NY Marathon and have a practical monopoly on street permits for all the other smaller races. NYRR started releasing information about when registration opened for popular races (in this case - the Brooklyn Half-Marathon) on FB only and no where else. If you didn't "like" them, you wouldn't know that registration had opened and in that races case, it sold out in 8 hours.
Therefore I liked them just so I could see their newsfeed but I would NEVER EVER want to promote them in any way, shape, or form.
If I had known you could hide your likes back in my FB days, I would have done so happily.
How much effort is involved in having an undercover officer blend in with a semi-impromptu, decentralized protest? Particularly when it's happening in a high tourist and business income neighborhood.
And of course, this is the same NYPD that can spare four officers to stand around a remote Queens or Brooklyn subway station and search the bags of every one out of a thousand people who go through.
Because one is offered up as a black and white fact on a murky grey area and the other is offered up with the caveat that it's a dominant view. As soon as it's proven in court and not just debate papers, feel free to drop the caveat.
Slashdot Mirror
Do you have a source? Asking because I'm interested.
Totally agree that it sounds like it will be a scatter gun at range and wildly inaccurate with an unguided projectile, that's not such a big deal in naval combat. The distances are vast and it's not like there's civilians to accidentally hit.
Naval bombardment of land targets is a whole other story, however.
"Watch" and "investigate" are two very different verbs.
I agree with you.
However, the government needs so such pretexts and does what it wants when it wants and explains it later. It can kill its own citizens on its own soil in defiance of founding documents with no more repercussion than some tsking from a minority of its (surviving) citizens.
Not a stitch of it is seen or known about by any of their teachers.
The other side of the coin is the over-active parents who go in to argue an A-. Sure, they're involved, they care, and they want their kid to succeed, but are they doing anything to achieve those goals? Nope.
I'll back up what he says and put my name to it. I work for a reseller and I've deployed and managed FireEye, Palo Alto, Cisco, Sourcefire, and Juniper (ScreenOS and the JunOS mess) appliances. They all have their strengths and weaknesses, although they aren't obviously equal. .
Fireye's false positive rate is damn low in comparison to it's competitors. Sourcefire with FireSIGHT is pretty awesome as well (passive fingerprinting of endpoint traffic automatically correlated against breach attempts aka filtering out 99% of false positives for you once it's seen enough traffic on your network), and Palo Altos when you turn on AV, AS, Vuln + Wildfire drop everything suspicious - no human needed so alerts don't necessarily need to be acted on immediately. I've yet to hear of a false positive that was rated as critical or high and that's in dozens or possibly hundreds of installations that I've seen of PA firewalls.
The biggest problem I've seen in a lot of FireEye deployments is they stick it on a TAP port to so the thing can't just drop the suspicious traffic it detects. Half of what it's protecting is dumbass users blindly clicking links that lead to malware sites. That's a hard problem to stop unless you're perimeter security is setup right, and if it's not, all you get from FireEye is endless alerts that there's another dumbass user in your environment. FireEye is freakin badass at detecting and correlating multi-vector attacks like what happened with Target. If the Target admins had put it in inline blocking, there would have been no incident.
As a network engineer in NYC, what are you talking about?
AFAIK, not a single nuclear power station has yet been decommissioned and cleaned up anywhere in the world
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T... Still has the "what do we do with nuclear waste?" problem, but it was decommissioned anyway.
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The hammer quite a bit. The modern hammers with sprung steel heads, claws (and other attachments) and ergonomic handles especially those designed to mitigate RSI have in fact changed significantly.
And how many of those would you consider incremental improvements of the same fundamental design and how many of those were on the level of trying to put the hammerhead in the middle of the handle?
Wildly off-topic, but the reference is so rare. One of the greatest games that ever lived!
Citation please.
I'll start.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/states-gun-laws-fewest-gun-deaths-study-article-1.1281756
If you're in the US and store your data outside of the US, I imagine you are all but guaranteeing that the NSA collects your data since one end of the connection is 'foreign'.
Rock and a hard place.
Slashdot has the worst form of moderation, except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.
Ben Franklin doesn't know crap about encryption
-Abraham Lincoln
Strong words demanding accountability from an AC, heh.
_THE_ most successful company on the planet
to
For any investor Apple has been THE success story
which is a little more believable, though still not true unless you're speaking about a very specific time frame in Apple stock price. And market cap, please.
Um, Apple is _THE_ most successful company on the planet, by a wide margin.
GE, 3M, IBM, Wal-mart, Nike, Exxon, AT&T, J&J and most of the finance industry disagree with you. What was your metric for "successful" again? Smartphone production or something?
Seriously, Slashdotters have such a strong sense of "I know how to do it right and they clearly don't so let me spell it out for you..."
No shit, right?
Many of the beer guts are on outer boro people where a car culture is much more prevalent.
you made a very fine argument for classifying yourself as a former (as opposed to current) geek.
As if referring to herself as a "macgrrl" and then referencing a 10+ year old OS didn't already do that.
But I'm angry and want to rant! ;) That privilege argument, when made earnestly, drives me up the wall.
Fair enough, my bad.
You seem to forget that this is America and we are entitled to the right of free movement as repeatedly upheld by the Supreme Court. Flying is NOT a "privilege", it's a right.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_movement_under_United_States_law
What phone are you using? I've carried BBs for the last 6 years and never had one need to be charged more than once every couple days.
Real life example - I (back when I had an FB account) "like"d NewYork RoadRunners. Anyone who has ever talked to me about them knows that I vehemently detest them on multiple grounds, but they happen to be the organizers of the NY Marathon and have a practical monopoly on street permits for all the other smaller races. NYRR started releasing information about when registration opened for popular races (in this case - the Brooklyn Half-Marathon) on FB only and no where else. If you didn't "like" them, you wouldn't know that registration had opened and in that races case, it sold out in 8 hours.
Therefore I liked them just so I could see their newsfeed but I would NEVER EVER want to promote them in any way, shape, or form.
If I had known you could hide your likes back in my FB days, I would have done so happily.
And of course, this is the same NYPD that can spare four officers to stand around a remote Queens or Brooklyn subway station and search the bags of every one out of a thousand people who go through.
Because one is offered up as a black and white fact on a murky grey area and the other is offered up with the caveat that it's a dominant view. As soon as it's proven in court and not just debate papers, feel free to drop the caveat.