What good is any sort of enterprise policy on an OS thats trivial to hack?
It isn't if the sysadmin and netadmin know what the hell they're doing.
Not to mention that all that group policy bullshit is proprietary, they don't even use open authentication methods, NTLM is just WAITING to be hacked.
Because MS has never implemented Kerberos, right? And most companies don't give a shit if MS has proprietary bullshit if it has all the features they need, like the aforementioned group policy, Exchange, Active Directory, etc.
There's a reason Google has banned the use of the toy OS for development machines, they don't want their information being stolen by hackers.
Because external threats are the only kind that exist! Oh, wait, there's also employee ineptitude, like plugging in a petri dish of a flash drive and opening up more gaping backdoors than you'll find at a massive gay orgy. Guess what? That's far less of a concern on a server as your sysadmin likely isn't going to be that stupid.
There are also other, easier ways to do what group policy does. I never found it to be even remotely useful, or even remotely make up for all the extra time necessary to manage Windows machines over their Linux and Mac counterparts.
Let me guess: The servers you've worked with never served more than 30 people, tops. Come back when you've actually worked in an enterprise setting. I'm not a huge fan of Windows Server (it can be a bitch to administer), but quite frankly, it does a lot of things far better as a workgroup server than Linux or OS X unless you can afford some in-house developers.
There's a difference between saying, "Your performance is subpar. You really need to pick up the slack" and "You're a rat-like, miserable little shit". There's a big difference between being cuttingly honest and just dickheaded.
So if a teacher publicly writes on her blog, "Johnny Wilson is a worthless little shitpile. I wish he'd jump off a goddamned bridge", that would be okay? She's in a position of authority over a bunch of minors. You expect the teenagers to be shitheads because they're TEENAGERS. You expect the teachers to be held to a higher standard because they're ADULTS. Pretty simple.
THIS. I anticipate a lot of kneejerking posts in this thread, but come on, she deserved it. When you continuously insult and degrade your students publicly, whether it's in person or online, don't be surprised when the school fires your ass, and for good reason.
I have a friend who teaches in high school. He comments about his students and their silliness from time to time on Facebook, but nothing even remotely like this. He has sense enough to do it very tactfully and in ways that are not degrading.
There is ONE childhood vaccine outside of flu shots that still has thimerosal in the US, and that's a DTaP shot and only one of several available, and even that may not be around anymore. Furthermore, we're talking about ethylmercury, not pure mercury, and in tiny amounts. You'll get greater exposure to mercury from eating a can of tuna. Also, an element and a compound containing said element are not the same thing.
Gee, did you even notice the distinction between this vaccine and seasonal vaccines, as in this one targets proteins that are far less likely to mutate?
Of course it does! All those dirty vaccines have mercury in them, and mercury causes autism! That doctor in the UK said so!
Oh, wait, you mean he completely cooked that study for his own gain? Well, mercury still causes autism! I'm not sure why, but I'm sure it does!
Oh, wait, you mean thimerosal was pulled from just about all childhood vaccines ten years ago and they no longer have any mercury in them? Well, they still cause autism! I don't know why, but I'm sure they do!
I usually don't refer to something as "bloatware" if it comes preinstalled. That's one thing. It's quite another for preinstalled software to automatically start running crap in the background when you boot. THAT is what I consider bloatware, but connotative and denotative and all that. If the software doesn't start pissing away CPU time once the OS fires up, then it's pretty unobtrusive.
So do a lot of other hackers. They still get caught. If the feds can track down the origin of a virus, they can find whoever did this. You'd think that the guy who got into Palin's email account would have done the same, but the idiot used a single US-based proxy.
Anonymous has been "fighting for free speech" for years by trying to hand opportunistic politicians a reason to crack down on it for YEARS. Posting CP to 4chan? Yeah, that'll do it! Raiding people, such as grieving family members by sending them pictures of their car-crashed dead? Yeah, that's a great move for free speech! Hacking Facebook accounts so they can send everyone on a friend's list scat porn? Yay for free speech! Then there's the Palin email "hacker", a guy who hardly turned out to be a free speech activist, just a raging idiot. Those are just a handful of examples out of many. For people who like to think they're championing the idea of free speech and online anonymity, they sure are doing their damnedest to wreck it for the rest of us.
Until now, most Anonymous raids (outside of Chanology, which was a pretty unique one) have been low-level enough to be largely ignored by the feds, but all that just changed. This isn't equivalent to the Boston Tea Party. I don't think the Sons of Liberty did it for the lulz.
Tell me about it. The DDoS was one thing, but this is a completely different story. Whoever was behind this is probably going to so some serious hard time.
"you would either have a situation where nobody could agree on who to attack next, leading to horrible gridlock as a large group of stubborn individuals refuse to follow anyone else"
And this is how the vast majority of attempted raids on 4chan turn out. You're missing the point. While there are those who know how to manipulate the mass better than others, most of it is just striking the right note that enough people hop onboard to get the ball rolling. Once a raid snowballs far enough on/b/, there will be enough people hopping onboard to wind up making someone's life hell. It's more a matter of whether or not your proposal properly meets the mood of the usual misanthropic, bored teenagers that make up the bulk of 4chan. I never even remotely insinuated that they have no connection to human nature or emotion and I don't know where the hell you got it. Most/b/tards are some of the worst that human nature has to offer.
But by all means, keep drawing utterly ludicrous assumptions from my posts that were never even insinuated in the first place, asshole.
No, you do not understand Anonymous. I'm not sure if anyone really does, but you're QUITE off the mark. Anonymous has no "core group of fanatics" because at any one time, Anonymous is engaged in fifty different things on different scales, and that "core group of fanatics" is never the same across all of them. Most raids in Anonymous have no "core group". Someone makes a suggestion, gets the snowball rolling downhill, and once it accumulates enough mass, all you can do is watch. This is the case with most Anonymous raids. Sometimes a person or subgroup of Anonymous can try to lead a raid, but they can only do so much as the misanthropic bastards start running amok. In the case of the DDoS attacks here, there were likely a number of these subgroups all jockeying for a piece of the action. There are still no "senior members" of Anonymous and there are no "co-founders" of Anonymous. Moot is the closest thing to a founder, but even he knows that he's somehow created a monster that cannot be controlled.
I think your primary mistake was calling Anonymous a "movement". That is complete crap. They're not a movement. They really have no goals or aspirations other than fucking around on the internet, maybe in IRL if they feel brave. They're a huge, unorganized mass of bored teenagers, for the most part. They don't have a cause. They're not trying to affect social change. They may hop on a cause from time to time (ie, the DDoS raids we've seen or Chanology), but it isn't long before they become bored and move on to something else or internal bickering fractures whatever they're trying to do. You cannot remove the "core fanatics" because there is no single core, assuming Anonymous really has a core to begin with.
Sure, there are people who get things started, but once it picks up (and 99%+ of all the proposed crap in Anonymous goes nowhere amid cries of "NYPA!"), there really isn't much organization. Some people may try to orchestrate things. A few may even succeed. But these people are in no way leaders of Anonymous. They just happen to be the guys who got a snowball rolling downhill. After that, all anyone can really do is watch to see what happens as more and more people hop on the bandwagon. Someone posts instructions, people pass them around, people modify them, people make their own version, and a chorus of voices chime in with suggestions (among other things). The most you'll usually see are smaller subgroups, but again, these subgroups are often never permanent or even much beyond short-lived and constantly shifting.
Yeah, if that isn't proof that the writer of this article doesn't know what the hell he's talking about, I don't know what is. There are no "senior members" of Anonymous. Someone could claim to be an oldfag, but that's about it. And a co-founder of Anonymous? REALLY? Where are they coming up with this horseshit?
They caught some guys who were running a specific group, not "senior members" or "co-founders" of Anonymous.
Illegal? [citation needed]. This is a shared database for law enforcement, you tinfoil twit. It's to allow federal to local agencies to share data, which means a lot less digging and waiting around for records when the cops are trying to catch a serial killer. Do you even THINK about this sort of thing or do you just kneejerk the moment you see "federal" and "database" in the same story?
Most standalone NAS products (especially cheaper ones) are really crappy. Depending on the budget, it might be better to throw together a cheap Atom box and toss FreeNAS on it. You'll get FAR better performance and features out of that for the price. Standalone NAS boxes tend to have alarmingly awful network speeds.
The iPod Touch is still an iPod (albeit not the "classic" model), and it's still selling well. You're right in that the classic iPod has been overtaken by iPhones and iPads. Gee, that's funny, Apple products evolved to fit market needs! Imagine that! Furthermore, the iPhone is doing just fine and, in case you didn't notice, Apple has sold MILLIONS of iPads. The iPad isn't waning. It's just getting started. The thing has been selling like hotcakes and shows no signs of slowing down. "They" are all talking about Android phones? No, not really. Apple's US marketshare in smartphones has been holding steady at about 26% or so while RIM and WM continue getting eaten away.
What you wish were happening and what is actually happening in the market are two different things.
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What good is any sort of enterprise policy on an OS thats trivial to hack?
It isn't if the sysadmin and netadmin know what the hell they're doing.
Not to mention that all that group policy bullshit is proprietary, they don't even use open authentication methods, NTLM is just WAITING to be hacked.
Because MS has never implemented Kerberos, right? And most companies don't give a shit if MS has proprietary bullshit if it has all the features they need, like the aforementioned group policy, Exchange, Active Directory, etc.
There's a reason Google has banned the use of the toy OS for development machines, they don't want their information being stolen by hackers.
Because external threats are the only kind that exist! Oh, wait, there's also employee ineptitude, like plugging in a petri dish of a flash drive and opening up more gaping backdoors than you'll find at a massive gay orgy. Guess what? That's far less of a concern on a server as your sysadmin likely isn't going to be that stupid.
There are also other, easier ways to do what group policy does. I never found it to be even remotely useful, or even remotely make up for all the extra time necessary to manage Windows machines over their Linux and Mac counterparts.
Let me guess: The servers you've worked with never served more than 30 people, tops. Come back when you've actually worked in an enterprise setting. I'm not a huge fan of Windows Server (it can be a bitch to administer), but quite frankly, it does a lot of things far better as a workgroup server than Linux or OS X unless you can afford some in-house developers.
Is the student on the school's payroll?
There's a difference between saying, "Your performance is subpar. You really need to pick up the slack" and "You're a rat-like, miserable little shit". There's a big difference between being cuttingly honest and just dickheaded.
If you can't tell the difference between an adult and a minor then you are almost certainly the latter.
So if a teacher publicly writes on her blog, "Johnny Wilson is a worthless little shitpile. I wish he'd jump off a goddamned bridge", that would be okay? She's in a position of authority over a bunch of minors. You expect the teenagers to be shitheads because they're TEENAGERS. You expect the teachers to be held to a higher standard because they're ADULTS. Pretty simple.
Anyone got a link to a cached copy of it? I'm interested in seeing just what was written.
THIS. I anticipate a lot of kneejerking posts in this thread, but come on, she deserved it. When you continuously insult and degrade your students publicly, whether it's in person or online, don't be surprised when the school fires your ass, and for good reason.
I have a friend who teaches in high school. He comments about his students and their silliness from time to time on Facebook, but nothing even remotely like this. He has sense enough to do it very tactfully and in ways that are not degrading.
Dimethylmercury != ethylmercury.
There is ONE childhood vaccine outside of flu shots that still has thimerosal in the US, and that's a DTaP shot and only one of several available, and even that may not be around anymore. Furthermore, we're talking about ethylmercury, not pure mercury, and in tiny amounts. You'll get greater exposure to mercury from eating a can of tuna. Also, an element and a compound containing said element are not the same thing.
Gee, did you even notice the distinction between this vaccine and seasonal vaccines, as in this one targets proteins that are far less likely to mutate?
Of course it does! All those dirty vaccines have mercury in them, and mercury causes autism! That doctor in the UK said so!
Oh, wait, you mean he completely cooked that study for his own gain? Well, mercury still causes autism! I'm not sure why, but I'm sure it does!
Oh, wait, you mean thimerosal was pulled from just about all childhood vaccines ten years ago and they no longer have any mercury in them? Well, they still cause autism! I don't know why, but I'm sure they do!
I usually don't refer to something as "bloatware" if it comes preinstalled. That's one thing. It's quite another for preinstalled software to automatically start running crap in the background when you boot. THAT is what I consider bloatware, but connotative and denotative and all that. If the software doesn't start pissing away CPU time once the OS fires up, then it's pretty unobtrusive.
So do a lot of other hackers. They still get caught. If the feds can track down the origin of a virus, they can find whoever did this. You'd think that the guy who got into Palin's email account would have done the same, but the idiot used a single US-based proxy.
Anonymous has been "fighting for free speech" for years by trying to hand opportunistic politicians a reason to crack down on it for YEARS. Posting CP to 4chan? Yeah, that'll do it! Raiding people, such as grieving family members by sending them pictures of their car-crashed dead? Yeah, that's a great move for free speech! Hacking Facebook accounts so they can send everyone on a friend's list scat porn? Yay for free speech! Then there's the Palin email "hacker", a guy who hardly turned out to be a free speech activist, just a raging idiot. Those are just a handful of examples out of many. For people who like to think they're championing the idea of free speech and online anonymity, they sure are doing their damnedest to wreck it for the rest of us.
Until now, most Anonymous raids (outside of Chanology, which was a pretty unique one) have been low-level enough to be largely ignored by the feds, but all that just changed. This isn't equivalent to the Boston Tea Party. I don't think the Sons of Liberty did it for the lulz.
Tell me about it. The DDoS was one thing, but this is a completely different story. Whoever was behind this is probably going to so some serious hard time.
"you would either have a situation where nobody could agree on who to attack next, leading to horrible gridlock as a large group of stubborn individuals refuse to follow anyone else"
/b/, there will be enough people hopping onboard to wind up making someone's life hell. It's more a matter of whether or not your proposal properly meets the mood of the usual misanthropic, bored teenagers that make up the bulk of 4chan. I never even remotely insinuated that they have no connection to human nature or emotion and I don't know where the hell you got it. Most /b/tards are some of the worst that human nature has to offer.
And this is how the vast majority of attempted raids on 4chan turn out. You're missing the point. While there are those who know how to manipulate the mass better than others, most of it is just striking the right note that enough people hop onboard to get the ball rolling. Once a raid snowballs far enough on
But by all means, keep drawing utterly ludicrous assumptions from my posts that were never even insinuated in the first place, asshole.
Um...Wikipedia has very little in common with Anonymous. Wikipidia is organized with a structure and a purpose. Anonymous is none of the above.
No, you do not understand Anonymous. I'm not sure if anyone really does, but you're QUITE off the mark. Anonymous has no "core group of fanatics" because at any one time, Anonymous is engaged in fifty different things on different scales, and that "core group of fanatics" is never the same across all of them. Most raids in Anonymous have no "core group". Someone makes a suggestion, gets the snowball rolling downhill, and once it accumulates enough mass, all you can do is watch. This is the case with most Anonymous raids. Sometimes a person or subgroup of Anonymous can try to lead a raid, but they can only do so much as the misanthropic bastards start running amok. In the case of the DDoS attacks here, there were likely a number of these subgroups all jockeying for a piece of the action. There are still no "senior members" of Anonymous and there are no "co-founders" of Anonymous. Moot is the closest thing to a founder, but even he knows that he's somehow created a monster that cannot be controlled.
I think your primary mistake was calling Anonymous a "movement". That is complete crap. They're not a movement. They really have no goals or aspirations other than fucking around on the internet, maybe in IRL if they feel brave. They're a huge, unorganized mass of bored teenagers, for the most part. They don't have a cause. They're not trying to affect social change. They may hop on a cause from time to time (ie, the DDoS raids we've seen or Chanology), but it isn't long before they become bored and move on to something else or internal bickering fractures whatever they're trying to do. You cannot remove the "core fanatics" because there is no single core, assuming Anonymous really has a core to begin with.
Sure, there are people who get things started, but once it picks up (and 99%+ of all the proposed crap in Anonymous goes nowhere amid cries of "NYPA!"), there really isn't much organization. Some people may try to orchestrate things. A few may even succeed. But these people are in no way leaders of Anonymous. They just happen to be the guys who got a snowball rolling downhill. After that, all anyone can really do is watch to see what happens as more and more people hop on the bandwagon. Someone posts instructions, people pass them around, people modify them, people make their own version, and a chorus of voices chime in with suggestions (among other things). The most you'll usually see are smaller subgroups, but again, these subgroups are often never permanent or even much beyond short-lived and constantly shifting.
Gee, seeing as how we're talking about Anonymous, I think 4chan lingo might just be apropos, don't you?
Yeah, if that isn't proof that the writer of this article doesn't know what the hell he's talking about, I don't know what is. There are no "senior members" of Anonymous. Someone could claim to be an oldfag, but that's about it. And a co-founder of Anonymous? REALLY? Where are they coming up with this horseshit? They caught some guys who were running a specific group, not "senior members" or "co-founders" of Anonymous.
Illegal? [citation needed]. This is a shared database for law enforcement, you tinfoil twit. It's to allow federal to local agencies to share data, which means a lot less digging and waiting around for records when the cops are trying to catch a serial killer. Do you even THINK about this sort of thing or do you just kneejerk the moment you see "federal" and "database" in the same story?
THIS. So much this. Netgear is garbage. I've seen one product of theirs out of dozens that didn't fail on multiple levels.
Most standalone NAS products (especially cheaper ones) are really crappy. Depending on the budget, it might be better to throw together a cheap Atom box and toss FreeNAS on it. You'll get FAR better performance and features out of that for the price. Standalone NAS boxes tend to have alarmingly awful network speeds.
The iPod Touch is still an iPod (albeit not the "classic" model), and it's still selling well. You're right in that the classic iPod has been overtaken by iPhones and iPads. Gee, that's funny, Apple products evolved to fit market needs! Imagine that! Furthermore, the iPhone is doing just fine and, in case you didn't notice, Apple has sold MILLIONS of iPads. The iPad isn't waning. It's just getting started. The thing has been selling like hotcakes and shows no signs of slowing down. "They" are all talking about Android phones? No, not really. Apple's US marketshare in smartphones has been holding steady at about 26% or so while RIM and WM continue getting eaten away.
What you wish were happening and what is actually happening in the market are two different things.