However, in this case, no mention was made of bad attachments as justifications for voting against the bill.
As good as your point is, it is moot unless that is the reason behind all the nays (though it clear that the vote is a straight party line vote for the most part).
I restated the vote, and what the terms of it were.
You can look at the House record also. It says "Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 4844) to amend the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 to require any individual who desires to register or re-register to vote in an election for Federal office to provide the appropriate State election official with proof that the individual is a citizen of the US"
"Erlich is a Republican -- the party often maligned for exploiting flaws in electronic systems"
Essentially, republicans blamed for twisting the vote
Show evidence of Republicans or Democrats exploiting flaws in electronic voting - there might be some, but it is too easy to merely commit voter fraud via non IT means because you can pretend to be someone that died 5 years ago and people cannot ask you for your ID.
"What makes this particularly interesting is that Erlich is a Republican -- the party often maligned for exploiting flaws in electronic systems -- and his attempts to clean up Maryland's voting problems are being opposed by Democrats, the party that is usually complaining about electronic voting!"
That comment strikes me as overly partisan and anti-republican.
If you are going to mention efforts to clean up voting, mention the recent house vote.
"Contrary to popular myth, Hezbollah (unlike Hamas and the other Palestinian groups) prefers not to operate around civilians. Not for a concern for the civilians' safety -- they'll confiscate buildings to use as shooting positions if needed, whether their owners like it or not -- but for their own safety. Hamas operates openly as a sign of pride and defiance. However, by doing that, it only takes a tiny handful of defectors to point out to Israel where they are and what they're doing. Hezbollah, on the other hand, prefers to operate in areas where nobody is around to reduce the risk of being exposed by defectors."
On top of it, they never mention how US military overseas from Florida specifically (that overwhelmingly vote republican) didn't get their absentee ballots
He said "We found out the FLIR system would not survive temperatures below -5". There is a vast chasm between saying "this FLIR is not rated for -5" and saying "the FLIR would not survive temperatures below -5". I'm not sure on FLIR sensitivity to cold weather, but he is implying it would then break.
Oh another point, all tactical systems that handle classified material and are not in special facilities, e.g. a SCIF, need to be protected against TEMPEST / COMSEC & all that jazz. This is common knowledge for anyone with a SIGINT background in the mil/intel arena.
Obviously a cutter is built for shallow water work. That means near to shores not way out in the Atlantic Ocean. Big Antenna on the shore, camo'd in the trees, picks up classified comms - not unrealistic.
There is no such thing as paranoia when it comes to protecting classified material.
Initially, I was considered as written by an amateur, but then I noticed that part about you being a Marine. Figures!
Lockheed Martin is well known for crappy business practices. I had the misfortune of working with one of their products - The Defense Messaging System (DMS). They had one of those huge mega-indefinite supply contracts they milked for so many years....What a total piece of pigslop.
Many government contractors go out of their way to shaft the US government, all in the name of the dollar. I hate these unethical bastards!
Initially I watched the IBM videos and I was very impressed.
The first episode of the Microsoft video though, was beyond incredible, i'm talking about Heat gang exfiltrating the bank gunfight in LA kinda of quality.
First of all, ISS's vulnerability scanner has turned to such a piece of dog doo, I wouldn't touch it with a poop scooper. In 2005, it was installing an vulnerable MSDE onto windows boxes, and just patching the MSDE was enough to break compatibility (This vulnerability has been out for 3 months at the time). On the product side though, ISS's scanners have been thoroughly stomped by Tenable's Nessus and Eeye's Retina.
As far as ISS goes on the IDS/IPS side, their products went from leader to lackluster. Snort, Tipping point, and Intrushield - need I say more?
Then on the vulnerability database side, you have the X-Force DB being demolished by the innovative Open Source Vulnerability Database led by real security gurus like Jericho, not to mention the other DBs like Secunia, NVD, etc.
ISS = vaguely reminds me of CA, corporate types taking good products and not keeping them updated, not innovating, and just trying to suck the blood from corporate customers.
Most MMO players want PVP. Although more Americans want PVE type of servers, americans as a percentage of total MMO players cannot shift the balance towards PVE thanks to our asian MMO brethren that prefer PVP. (There is a study on this, but I don't have a URL for it)
Casual gamers are not competitive in WoW. They may hit 60. They will never have the big raid content, or obtain highend PVP rewards. If they were obtaining those things, they wouldn't be casual gamers because of the massive time contributions required for those rewards.
Shadowbane failed because of it's poor engine and sb.exe (notorious client error). Wolfpack made a huge mistake trying to roll their own...... Mythic's DAOC had a far superior engine at that same time, yet SB stole a large amount of market share from DAOC until the client flaws killed it.
UO had a great PVP system during the tank mage era. This was for PVPers, against other PVPers, and so people without adequate skills became cannon fodder.
Your opinion about North American MMOs is accurate, but as a whole for the overall MMO market, PVP is preferred.
If you compared this to UO endgame, or Shadowbane endgame, those games actually *BEGAN* at level/skill softcaps. Hitting 60 in WoW starts the instance grinding softcap instead.
Popularity does not mean satisfaction. Primacy in the market does not mean superiority either. It could be merely because a better alternative does not exist, or how horrible the other competing solutions are, or a game learning curve issue.
Considering how many MMOs have actually been a market success versus the recent number of failures, perhaps the average board poster should be more involved in game development or requirements solicitation?
WoW's requirements for nonstop grinding instances isn't fun.
MMO gamers want balanced skill-based pvp, functional economies not exploited by chinese-farmers, the freedom to create unique player-made content (like Shadowbane/EVE-Online), and to determine their own friends/enemies rather than being forced into pre-made "factions".
WoW fails in all those regards.
MMO gamers would move, provided a good improvement emerged.
The vast majority of endgame play revolves around endless rep farming, honor farming in BGs, and doing yet another instance run.
So many PVPers played WOW, only to find out how bad the PVP system really is. Risk free pvp. Nothing remotely comparable to UO during the tank mage era. Instead, overgeared dimwits burning cooldowns. != skill. This led to a huge PVPer exodus from WoW.
Soon, there will be a huge exodus of the sheep out of WoW, I'm not sure to which game yet though.
If mosquito and similar tools are not moving towards VMMs, I'd be very suprised. After all, it is a logical step (From VM as a payload, to a VMM as a payload).
"In the same time frame, it has shipped Windows XP Home Edition, Windows XP Professional Edition, Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, Windows XP Media Center Edition, Windows XP Media Center Edition 2004, Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 (and 2005 UR2), Windows XP Tablet PC Edition, Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005, Windows XP Home and Professional N Editions, Windows XP with Service Pack 2 (SP2, absolutely a big Windows upgrade), Windows XP Embedded, Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCs, and Windows XP Starter Edition in various languages." from http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/macosx_leopar d_preview.asp
These are not all really unique versions of Windows per se. More like full versions and varying versions of crippleware with stripped out functionality.
Windows XP Home Edition - Windows with no domain functionality Windows XP Professional Edition - Windows with domain functionality, not much changed from 2000 except crappier IO Windows XP Professional x64 Edition - Windows on 64 bit, very buggy, little driver support Windows XP Media Center Edition - Windows with some tacked on media functionality Windows XP Media Center Edition 2004 - Windows with some tacked on media functionality, rebranded Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 - Windows with some tacked on media functionality, rebranded again Windows XP Tablet PC Edition - Windows with a touch sensitive monitor and some minor mods Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005 - Windows with a touch sensitive monitor and some minor mods, rebranded Windows XP Home and Professional N Editions - Windows without Windows Media player, for Euros! Windows XP with Service Pack 2 - Windows with less bugs, but a crappy firewall. Windows XP Embedded - Windows stripped down for devices Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCs - Fat client display Windows XP Starter Edition - Windows Home-esque crippleware
If you think about the overall changes from Windows 2000, to Windows XP, Windows as a whole has not really changed that much.
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It is true, bills can have bad attachments.
However, in this case, no mention was made of bad attachments as justifications for voting against the bill.
As good as your point is, it is moot unless that is the reason behind all the nays (though it clear that the vote is a straight party line vote for the most part).
I restated the vote, and what the terms of it were.
You can look at the House record also. It says "Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 4844) to amend the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 to require any individual who desires to register or re-register to vote in an election for Federal office to provide the appropriate State election official with proof that the individual is a citizen of the US"
I put that into plain english.
Going to claim that is biased too? Checkmate.
This sentence
"Erlich is a Republican -- the party often maligned for exploiting flaws in electronic systems"
Essentially, republicans blamed for twisting the vote
Show evidence of Republicans or Democrats exploiting flaws in electronic voting - there might be some, but it is too easy to merely commit voter fraud via non IT means because you can pretend to be someone that died 5 years ago and people cannot ask you for your ID.
"What makes this particularly interesting is that Erlich is a Republican -- the party often maligned for exploiting flaws in electronic systems -- and his attempts to clean up Maryland's voting problems are being opposed by Democrats, the party that is usually complaining about electronic voting!"
That comment strikes me as overly partisan and anti-republican.
If you are going to mention efforts to clean up voting, mention the recent house vote.
Democrats voted *AGAINST* requirements for presenting your ID to vote in federal elections http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2006/roll456.xml
Stop it with the biased post making supabeast.
"Contrary to popular myth, Hezbollah (unlike Hamas and the other Palestinian groups) prefers not to operate around civilians. Not for a concern for the civilians' safety -- they'll confiscate buildings to use as shooting positions if needed, whether their owners like it or not -- but for their own safety. Hamas operates openly as a sign of pride and defiance. However, by doing that, it only takes a tiny handful of defectors to point out to Israel where they are and what they're doing. Hezbollah, on the other hand, prefers to operate in areas where nobody is around to reduce the risk of being exposed by defectors."
What the hell is this youtube video then?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aur_DmTIw70
And this one
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68yOJVQA51E
I'm calling BS. Take your propaganda off of slashdot - I know how to use google!
On top of it, they never mention how US military overseas from Florida specifically (that overwhelmingly vote republican) didn't get their absentee ballots
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http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ART
http://www.thegreenpapers.com/News/20001128-1.htm
http://www.cwv.org/milvote/milvote.htm
http://archives.cnn.com/2000/ALLPOLITICS/stories/
http://www.uhuh.com/laws/milivote.htm
http://www.aim.org/media_monitor/A2901_0_2_0_C/
http://www.mcsm.org/vetsvote.html
Switch out your Postgresql database for a Mysql database running on speedy ISAM tables.
VROOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!
Is that the sound of your database speeding up, or your data integrity disappearing?
Only Rasmus Lerdorf really knows...
Select which Microsoft thing you hate most:
(1) Clippy
(2) BSOD
(3) Unremovable Windows Vista Startup Sound *NEW*
(4) WGA
(5) DLL Hell
He said "We found out the FLIR system would not survive temperatures below -5". There is a vast chasm between saying "this FLIR is not rated for -5" and saying "the FLIR would not survive temperatures below -5". I'm not sure on FLIR sensitivity to cold weather, but he is implying it would then break.
Oh another point, all tactical systems that handle classified material and are not in special facilities, e.g. a SCIF, need to be protected against TEMPEST / COMSEC & all that jazz. This is common knowledge for anyone with a SIGINT background in the mil/intel arena.
Obviously a cutter is built for shallow water work. That means near to shores not way out in the Atlantic Ocean. Big Antenna on the shore, camo'd in the trees, picks up classified comms - not unrealistic.
There is no such thing as paranoia when it comes to protecting classified material.
Initially, I was considered as written by an amateur, but then I noticed that part about you being a Marine. Figures!
Lockheed Martin is well known for crappy business practices. I had the misfortune of working with one of their products - The Defense Messaging System (DMS). They had one of those huge mega-indefinite supply contracts they milked for so many years....What a total piece of pigslop.
Many government contractors go out of their way to shaft the US government, all in the name of the dollar. I hate these unethical bastards!
After reading Anandtech and Tom's hardware for years, just looking at the site hurt my eyes.
Both of these videos series are great.
Initially I watched the IBM videos and I was very impressed.
The first episode of the Microsoft video though, was beyond incredible, i'm talking about Heat gang exfiltrating the bank gunfight in LA kinda of quality.
Definitely worth watching.
First of all, ISS's vulnerability scanner has turned to such a piece of dog doo, I wouldn't touch it with a poop scooper. In 2005, it was installing an vulnerable MSDE onto windows boxes, and just patching the MSDE was enough to break compatibility (This vulnerability has been out for 3 months at the time). On the product side though, ISS's scanners have been thoroughly stomped by Tenable's Nessus and Eeye's Retina.
As far as ISS goes on the IDS/IPS side, their products went from leader to lackluster. Snort, Tipping point, and Intrushield - need I say more?
Then on the vulnerability database side, you have the X-Force DB being demolished by the innovative Open Source Vulnerability Database led by real security gurus like Jericho, not to mention the other DBs like Secunia, NVD, etc.
ISS = vaguely reminds me of CA, corporate types taking good products and not keeping them updated, not innovating, and just trying to suck the blood from corporate customers.
$40 is hardly "very expensive"
Start looking at some indepth engineering books, where $100 - 200 a book is the norm. Then, start talking about expensive.
I saw this at Defcon in the Immunitysec booth. Dave had some nice demos going on, and he was also showing offn t.html
Visualsploit http://www.immunitysec.com/documentation/vs_nipri
Silica is a full port of Canvas onto the Nokia, not "allows simulated hacking attacks", instead "full exploitation framework".
Canvas licensing creams Core Impact (3kish vs. 30k).
CEH is like an "i'm a newbie badge" for security. Think of it as one step below security+
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Anyone can pick up a book and learn how to run vuln scanners or use prepackaged exploits.
If people want to go to some real security training, I recommend http://www.immunitysec.com/education-overview.sht
Dave Aitel is both technically brilliant and incredibly funny - a rare combination.
The West and Islam never fought before oil was discovered in the Middle East?
Most MMO players want PVP. Although more Americans want PVE type of servers, americans as a percentage of total MMO players cannot shift the balance towards PVE thanks to our asian MMO brethren that prefer PVP. (There is a study on this, but I don't have a URL for it)
Casual gamers are not competitive in WoW. They may hit 60. They will never have the big raid content, or obtain highend PVP rewards. If they were obtaining those things, they wouldn't be casual gamers because of the massive time contributions required for those rewards.
Shadowbane failed because of it's poor engine and sb.exe (notorious client error). Wolfpack made a huge mistake trying to roll their own...... Mythic's DAOC had a far superior engine at that same time, yet SB stole a large amount of market share from DAOC until the client flaws killed it.
UO had a great PVP system during the tank mage era. This was for PVPers, against other PVPers, and so people without adequate skills became cannon fodder.
Your opinion about North American MMOs is accurate, but as a whole for the overall MMO market, PVP is preferred.
I'm not bitter.
WoW has its merits, primarily pre 60.
However, the endgame is a continual sore point.
If you compared this to UO endgame, or Shadowbane endgame, those games actually *BEGAN* at level/skill softcaps. Hitting 60 in WoW starts the instance grinding softcap instead.
Popularity does not mean satisfaction.
Primacy in the market does not mean superiority either.
It could be merely because a better alternative does not exist, or how horrible the other competing solutions are, or a game learning curve issue.
Considering how many MMOs have actually been a market success versus the recent number of failures, perhaps the average board poster should be more involved in game development or requirements solicitation?
Raiding, rep farming, and honor grinding = sums up all of WoW endgame.
WoW's requirements for nonstop grinding instances isn't fun.
MMO gamers want balanced skill-based pvp, functional economies not exploited by chinese-farmers, the freedom to create unique player-made content (like Shadowbane/EVE-Online), and to determine their own friends/enemies rather than being forced into pre-made "factions".
WoW fails in all those regards.
MMO gamers would move, provided a good improvement emerged.
WoW is a horrible game.
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The vast majority of endgame play revolves around endless rep farming, honor farming in BGs, and doing yet another instance run.
So many PVPers played WOW, only to find out how bad the PVP system really is. Risk free pvp. Nothing remotely comparable to UO during the tank mage era. Instead, overgeared dimwits burning cooldowns. != skill. This led to a huge PVPer exodus from WoW.
Soon, there will be a huge exodus of the sheep out of WoW, I'm not sure to which game yet though.
Promising candidates include:
http://www.darkfallonline.com/
http://www.vanguardsoh.com/
http://www.warhammeronline.com/english/home/index
I'm not so sure Anthony Liguori is right.
t ml more detail at http://static.ephemeralsecurity.com/mosvm/Mosref%2 0Howto.html and the continual move toward VM
Most people in the security community are well aware of http://www.ephemeralsecurity.com/mosref demo at http://static.ephemeralsecurity.com/mosvm/demo1.h
If mosquito and similar tools are not moving towards VMMs, I'd be very suprised. After all, it is a logical step (From VM as a payload, to a VMM as a payload).
"In the same time frame, it has shipped Windows XP Home Edition, Windows XP Professional Edition, Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, Windows XP Media Center Edition, Windows XP Media Center Edition 2004, Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 (and 2005 UR2), Windows XP Tablet PC Edition, Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005, Windows XP Home and Professional N Editions, Windows XP with Service Pack 2 (SP2, absolutely a big Windows upgrade), Windows XP Embedded, Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCs, and Windows XP Starter Edition in various languages." from http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/macosx_leopar d_preview.asp
These are not all really unique versions of Windows per se. More like full versions and varying versions of crippleware with stripped out functionality.
Windows XP Home Edition - Windows with no domain functionality
Windows XP Professional Edition - Windows with domain functionality, not much changed from 2000 except crappier IO
Windows XP Professional x64 Edition - Windows on 64 bit, very buggy, little driver support
Windows XP Media Center Edition - Windows with some tacked on media functionality
Windows XP Media Center Edition 2004 - Windows with some tacked on media functionality, rebranded
Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 - Windows with some tacked on media functionality, rebranded again
Windows XP Tablet PC Edition - Windows with a touch sensitive monitor and some minor mods
Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005 - Windows with a touch sensitive monitor and some minor mods, rebranded
Windows XP Home and Professional N Editions - Windows without Windows Media player, for Euros!
Windows XP with Service Pack 2 - Windows with less bugs, but a crappy firewall.
Windows XP Embedded - Windows stripped down for devices
Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCs - Fat client display
Windows XP Starter Edition - Windows Home-esque crippleware
If you think about the overall changes from Windows 2000, to Windows XP, Windows as a whole has not really changed that much.