There will always be someone trying to abuse systems like this. If this gets annoying enough then more than likely the law will change to include a service fee which is not high enough to be a problem, but would make a 'ddos' highly unlikely. Say something like 5 Euros.
I personally do not have an issue with facebook storing information about me. With one very big caveat. I want to know WHAT they have stored. I do not care where or why most of the time, but I want to know what.
If I could get a copy of ALL my facebook data in a convenient zip/rar file I'd go for it. I would be happy with that. But as long as they wont tell us WHAT they store, this law serves an important function.
The issue discussed was that while you can access CURRENT data with the 'copy all your data' function, facebook also stores everything you've deleted. This data is ONLY available if you get the physical copy type deal.
Your comment doesnt really apply to the deleted data:)
I would much rather download a game at 3megs a second from Steam or a similar service compared to having to install from a disc...
Which usually includes something like:
Insert disc.... Wait..... Start install.. Wait some more.... Swap discs... Guess what.. more waiting... Swap disc YET again... More waiting.... Swap back to 'play disc' or whatever... Wait for it to spin up yet again....
Yay, time to play! no..... 300 megs of patches first! GAAAH!
As opposed to "Install game." Wait 30 seconds... Click ok, next, next, next Leave computer, or hell play something else for a while... Play game.
I do software engineering for control systems and some of our software is fairly old... We're talking early 90s for the windows based configuration tools, and 70s for the actual hardware it resides on...
The software does not cache anything. There was no ram for this when it was written... This means that if you copy a sheet of function blocks to a new controller it manually reads through about 50000 files, and a huge nasty database and checks for duplicates on every single 'tag name' for blocks and input/output blocks... Copying 2-3kb of data generates anywhere from a gig to 15 gigs of hd-access... Yeah, this is a cluster-fuck.
In this specific case an SSD is a glorious piece of hardware. It cuts down the copy slowdown of this software suite by an insane amount. I used to spend maybe 10-15 hours a week just waiting for the software to move stuff from controller-to-controller but now dont have that issue at all.
The company I work for has about 122000 people last time they bragged in a department meeting, and have recently (this summer) moved to ONLY get new machines with solid state drives in them. There will be no spinning media in laptops.
Hell, we install SSDs in the control room clients on oil rigs even as there is a lot of vibration and heat/power consumption is a major issue there.. (The operators love us since it cuts down on the noise too:p)
Saying SSDs are too expensive is asinine now. The cost is tiny compared to the cost of having someone sit on their arse waiting for a slow pc...
While I might get yelled at by IT, it is kind of hard to debug a network connection between two pieces of software when the firewall on my laptop will not allow any traffic on 'non standard ports'....
Either do my job, or spend the day yelling at IT... meh^2
My T61 lenovo at work would spend 10 minutes before showing the login, and anywhere from 20 min to 40 min additional time after that to get a workable desktop.
I never shut the thing off unless I have to... It just takes too much time. Most other coworkers do not shut it down either... which has lead to security issues (in the minds of IT-IS) so we are now stuck with a system that automatically reboot machines if you do not hit a button to postpone... wonderful when you've had a 20 hour compile (yes, things can take that long on shitty software and hardware) broken by it....
Oh, and fetching stuff from a slow server on the other end of the continent is also painful.... quite painful.....
Or moving 80 gigs of data from one machine to the one next to it, and getting about 1megabyte/second due to a shitty corporate LAN that 'load balances' the switch to ensure that you dont 'hog the network'..... meh
That depends entirely on the trace material used to 'tag' the well. The trace molecules would also have to be stable under high pressure, high temperature and in the presence of all the OTHER chemicals used in the fracking process.
I like the idea of tagging the chemicals like this but calling it an 'easy solution' is a bit misleading. It is an easy concept, but not that easy to implement in practice:(
A significant portion of the pollution is not caused by the injected material though. It is caused by the hydrocarbons being released in the wrong place.
Some of the components of the underground deposits are fairly nasty... benzene, hexane, heptane and various other things.
Even A.B.B's own lawyer has publicly (in a newspaper interview) said that this is not a case of IF his client is convinced but what the outcome of said conviction will end up involving.
Mostly that is not in there because the software in question is not 'critical' and nobody wants to pay for the testing.
I do work in the oil/gas industry and for ESD (emergency shutdown) systems we now have to have SIL Certified controllers and software. This means libraries have to be SIL tested and certified along with all hardware used.
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It is a horrible assumption....
NEVER trust input from external sources... Ever...
I approve.... wholeheartedly!
* Drill a hole, pour in acid.
** Pro: Fast, cheap
** Con: Requires you to have access to an acid
* Drill a hole, pour in resin. :p
** Pro: Fast
** Con: Not so cheap due to the cost of the resin.. Unless you swipe it at work
* Explosives
** Pro: Fast, extremely effective and damn fun!
** Con: Most of the time illegal.... *cough*
There will always be someone trying to abuse systems like this. If this gets annoying enough then more than likely the law will change to include a service fee which is not high enough to be a problem, but would make a 'ddos' highly unlikely. Say something like 5 Euros.
I personally do not have an issue with facebook storing information about me. With one very big caveat. I want to know WHAT they have stored. I do not care where or why most of the time, but I want to know what.
If I could get a copy of ALL my facebook data in a convenient zip/rar file I'd go for it. I would be happy with that.
But as long as they wont tell us WHAT they store, this law serves an important function.
The issue discussed was that while you can access CURRENT data with the 'copy all your data' function, facebook also stores everything you've deleted. This data is ONLY available if you get the physical copy type deal.
Your comment doesnt really apply to the deleted data :)
I would much rather download a game at 3megs a second from Steam or a similar service compared to having to install from a disc...
Which usually includes something like:
Insert disc....
Wait.....
Start install..
Wait some more....
Swap discs...
Guess what.. more waiting...
Swap disc YET again...
More waiting....
Swap back to 'play disc' or whatever...
Wait for it to spin up yet again....
Yay, time to play! no..... 300 megs of patches first! GAAAH!
As opposed to "Install game."
Wait 30 seconds...
Click ok, next, next, next
Leave computer, or hell play something else for a while...
Play game.
The first blurb on the wikipedia article spoils about the first 20 minutes of the pilot. That is all.....
Hardly a spoiler for a 2-season show :p
Intelligence and Wisdom are two very different things ;)
Public facing server listens for SSH on port 443 which is at my apartment.
I can route any port on my work machine at work through said tunnel to the workstation at home which is NOT accessible from the internet directly.
Unless you can connect to the SSH port, you will not get to the machine.
And on the work machine I'd do "mstsc localhost 12345" or whatever port I decide to use.
This is primarily because most ports are blocked at work, but it also avoids those fixed-port worms quite nicely.
Set up SSH, you can do port tunneling that way.
I have port 443 on my server set up to accept SSH, that way I can get through 99% of 'work' type firewalls and get to my stuff :)
Anyone stuck without the funds to do a proper upgrade of a system because management does not think MD5 is an issue worth 'fixing'.
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
hit "y" if needed.
Yay, done with maintenance for a while.
I have yet to have an issue with the machine and I've been using it for 4 years as a fileserver, media-center, router and various other tasks.
That requires physical access to the corporate office though.
Wireless doesnt.
Most places that is a fairly important difference.
I love my SSD at work.
I do software engineering for control systems and some of our software is fairly old... We're talking early 90s for the windows based configuration tools, and 70s for the actual hardware it resides on...
The software does not cache anything. There was no ram for this when it was written... This means that if you copy a sheet of function blocks to a new controller it manually reads through about 50000 files, and a huge nasty database and checks for duplicates on every single 'tag name' for blocks and input/output blocks... Copying 2-3kb of data generates anywhere from a gig to 15 gigs of hd-access...
Yeah, this is a cluster-fuck.
In this specific case an SSD is a glorious piece of hardware. It cuts down the copy slowdown of this software suite by an insane amount. I used to spend maybe 10-15 hours a week just waiting for the software to move stuff from controller-to-controller but now dont have that issue at all.
The company I work for has about 122000 people last time they bragged in a department meeting, and have recently (this summer) moved to ONLY get new machines with solid state drives in them. There will be no spinning media in laptops.
Hell, we install SSDs in the control room clients on oil rigs even as there is a lot of vibration and heat/power consumption is a major issue there.. (The operators love us since it cuts down on the noise too :p)
Saying SSDs are too expensive is asinine now. The cost is tiny compared to the cost of having someone sit on their arse waiting for a slow pc...
Unless you disable the services in safe-mode.
While I might get yelled at by IT, it is kind of hard to debug a network connection between two pieces of software when the firewall on my laptop will not allow any traffic on 'non standard ports'....
Either do my job, or spend the day yelling at IT... meh^2
My T61 lenovo at work would spend 10 minutes before showing the login, and anywhere from 20 min to 40 min additional time after that to get a workable desktop.
I never shut the thing off unless I have to... It just takes too much time.
Most other coworkers do not shut it down either... which has lead to security issues (in the minds of IT-IS) so we are now stuck with a system that automatically reboot machines if you do not hit a button to postpone... wonderful when you've had a 20 hour compile (yes, things can take that long on shitty software and hardware) broken by it....
Oh, and fetching stuff from a slow server on the other end of the continent is also painful.... quite painful.....
Or moving 80 gigs of data from one machine to the one next to it, and getting about 1megabyte/second due to a shitty corporate LAN that 'load balances' the switch to ensure that you dont 'hog the network'..... meh
That depends entirely on the trace material used to 'tag' the well.
The trace molecules would also have to be stable under high pressure, high temperature and in the presence of all the OTHER chemicals used in the fracking process.
I like the idea of tagging the chemicals like this but calling it an 'easy solution' is a bit misleading. It is an easy concept, but not that easy to implement in practice :(
A significant portion of the pollution is not caused by the injected material though. It is caused by the hydrocarbons being released in the wrong place.
Some of the components of the underground deposits are fairly nasty... benzene, hexane, heptane and various other things.
Even A.B.B's own lawyer has publicly (in a newspaper interview) said that this is not a case of IF his client is convinced but what the outcome of said conviction will end up involving.
Sadly the person signing the developer's time-sheet isnt usually the one incurring the cost down the line...
That kind of disconnect makes for shitty code and shitty efficiency overall :(
Mostly that is not in there because the software in question is not 'critical' and nobody wants to pay for the testing.
I do work in the oil/gas industry and for ESD (emergency shutdown) systems we now have to have SIL Certified controllers and software. This means libraries have to be SIL tested and certified along with all hardware used.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safety_Integrity_Level
Is this the kind of failure rate and safety factoring you are referring to? :)
Yup, common issue.
I dont bother with it anymore...
Yes, you failed to read ;)
"Those applications are configured on windows."
You -configure- said applications on windows, and deploy code/configuration/whatever to the dedicated controller.
I work in the field too, and have noticed a shift towards .NET
And I'm glad.... I've spent several years configuring HMI displays based on VB6 GDI activeX components.... kill me :p
Yeah, this kind of blocking is causing those countries to become "outcasts" on the net.
Quite unfortunate, but that is how it goes. Hopefully the amount of crap coming out of those countries will drop as they become more stable.
Banning all of Latvian and Russian ips have reduced the number of random exploit hammerings on my servers by 99%
Sad but true... and I dont have any users (and dont plan on getting any) from those countries anyway so why not :p