Either silently starting IIS is a ploy to boost numbers. Or they figure MCSEs are too dense to read prerequisites*, so they just do stuff without asking/telling.
*This might be unfair. Its possible that they did something and got a Mr. Clippy popup that informed them of the step. But they just selected "Do it" and forgot. So, yeah. Dense.
This is a count of sites running web services, right? Not volume served out by each brand of server.
Microsoft has had the practice of starting IIS on practically every server for the purpose of providing a web management interface. In some cases, without informing the system admin.
Anecdote:
Many years ago, when I managed a few Intranet sites at Boeing (SunOS, HP-UX, AIX, Linux), we had a variant of the Code Red worm infecting IIS systems. Admins of *NIX systems could see the propagation of the worm payload in our web logs, even though our systems were immune*. We collected the source IPs of infected systems and turned them over to computing security. The next thing we knew, we'd get calls from Windows server admins, claiming that their systems could not be infected, as they were not running IIS. "Look again." Configuring many services automatically triggers a start of IIS. And now you've got a service running that the admins don't know that they have to keep patched. So even when Microsoft released a fix, it never got applied since many admins figured it wasn't applicable to them. I would venture a guess that most Windows Server (and many client) systems are running IIS, even if it only displays the default installation page.
*Typical Apache/*NIX systems just replied with a 404 since the target DLL didn't exist. But I wrote a Perl CGI that would capture the query source and fire back a Windows popup message to the effect that their machine was broadcasting an infection. I was surprised to see how many people with client (desktop) systems called me to ask when was going on.
And in this case, visibility works to your advantage. No sane manager is going to spend real money for a contractor on a project that is designed to fail. Particularly when the result could be going before some executive committee who has the contractor's notes in hand to explain the expenditure.
But this is National Public Radio. Radio. So you'd expect them to formulate some solution that keeps them, or radio in general, in the loop.
So its an FM receiver with an EAS decoder and it uses an Android device as a display. Why not just send EAS text out via SMS/Twitter broadcasts?* Because this isn't National Public Interwebs, that's why.
*Actually, this is done already. But the radio folks were feeling a bit left out.
Ah yes. The old "we bought the land" argument. Turks took land from the Arabs and sold it to the Jews. Land that Arabs consider to be 'land of our ancestors'. So this is why the Arabs sided with the British. They expected to get their confiscated property back. Just like European Jews got theirs back from the Nazis after WWII. But they got screwed. Or more like the British got sick and tired of getting killed by Jewish settlers and gave the protectorate up after WW II when the UN gave then an excuse.
But my primary point is: The resulting violence is a property dispute. Its not a fundamental hatred between neighboring Jews and Arabs. But it has grown into a political pawn for other powers in the region. Nowhere else in the world is Antisemitism tolerated as a government policy of another nation. The whole culture of victimization has been useful within the Jewish community to raise support for Israel as well as motivate individuals to excel in various professions. Great. But the rest of us don't want to hear about ongoing persecution when its a problem that Israel could pull the plug on any time it wanted.
I can see first line management get just as paranoid over such a device as the employees. Bad managers lead to unmotivated employees and goofing off. Guess who gets fired.
Maybe. Maybe you were hired because you are disconnected from the company politics and culture. Talk to the customer and the previous developer (really bad sign if they discourage the latter). Get an idea what went wrong and negotiate your terms based upon avoiding the same pitfalls.
Some of the most interesting projects I've worked have been ones that the locals couldn't solve because they had to live there after the dust settled (see sig line).
One reason companies hire contractors for jobs like this is visibility. You represent an actual cash outlay and (unless they are swimming in contractors like a Microsoft) upper management wants to know why. Some middle management PHB fuckup can't hide you like they could a direct employee.
It wasn't until 1929 that there was much of a conflict between Arabs and Jews and that was stirred up by one prominent Arab, Mufti Haj Amin al-Husseini, who hated the Jews
And you know why? Because they were tired of losing Arab land to settlers. Settlers who had been arriving since the late 1800's during the Ottoman Empire with a political agenda to take control of the region. Any wonder some Arabs were upset? Until that time, Semitic Jews had very little trouble with the Arab population. It wasn't until after Russia and Eastern European Jews started to arrive with the idea of controlling the region that tensions rose. Granted, the Jews had real trouble in Europe until after WWII. But now, that region is arguably the safest place to be Jewish. So the whole continuing persecution idea is imagined outside of the Middle East, where it is an ongoing territorial dispute.
So, tbh, you don't know shit,
Evidently more than you. My family is from that region. For several millennia. We've watched the Persians, Greeks, Romans, Turks, British and French come and go. So the current politics of that region are recent history.
Because when the power goes down for a significant length of time, so do the local cell towers. A significant length of time where I live can be a week or more. And that happens one every year or so.
Sitting in some cyber arsenal, awaiting use. The problem with cyber attacks is that once discovered, they can be defended against. So from a tactical point of view, they are best kept in reserve until the case for their use is overwhelming.
As a part of Operation Orchard, it is theorized that Israel may have disabled Syrian air defense via back doors in their IT systems. If so, the existance of such back doors was revealed by a post mortem analysis and the holes in the systems plugged. So that would be a case of a one time use. It had better be worthwhile (and arguably, it was).
The cyber weapons in the hands of criminal organizations are best used in a very low key manner, so as not to attract attention and patches. Criminals are probably continuing to bleed some credit cards for $9.85 here and there, hoping to stay under the radar for as long as possible.
I don't disagree with you. But are any regulators really in a position to evaluate skills and certifications in today's rapidly changing and fragmented world of software? If not, this just becomes an exercise in rubber stamp regulation. If the schools do have to do a lot of compliance work to certify their curriculum, then the cost to update it may be so high that they keep teaching the same stuff year after year. Because it was approved.
Women pull each other down to their own level. Men either help (mentoring) each other or just stay out of the way. Books have been written about how women have to 'stick together' and not compete. But that basically comes down to shunning anyone who dares to climb above the least common denominator of the group.
One result is that many women who do make it up the ladder have an attitude toward other women that basically says, "Fuck them. They stabbed me in the back for getting ahead. They are on their own."
It sort of makes sense if you read the way that the atmosphere is being mapped. Using the Doppler shift to detect when a brighter spot is approaching or receding can give some data on the longitude of these spots. The latitude data may be more difficult (but not impossible) to deduce.
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The moment a machine is poofed from thin air that solves our food, water and space travel needs
Aliens landed on my lawn and presented me with such a machine. I took it apart.
Don't tell me. Tell Microsoft.
Either silently starting IIS is a ploy to boost numbers. Or they figure MCSEs are too dense to read prerequisites*, so they just do stuff without asking/telling.
*This might be unfair. Its possible that they did something and got a Mr. Clippy popup that informed them of the step. But they just selected "Do it" and forgot. So, yeah. Dense.
This is a count of sites running web services, right? Not volume served out by each brand of server.
Microsoft has had the practice of starting IIS on practically every server for the purpose of providing a web management interface. In some cases, without informing the system admin.
Anecdote:
Many years ago, when I managed a few Intranet sites at Boeing (SunOS, HP-UX, AIX, Linux), we had a variant of the Code Red worm infecting IIS systems. Admins of *NIX systems could see the propagation of the worm payload in our web logs, even though our systems were immune*. We collected the source IPs of infected systems and turned them over to computing security. The next thing we knew, we'd get calls from Windows server admins, claiming that their systems could not be infected, as they were not running IIS. "Look again." Configuring many services automatically triggers a start of IIS. And now you've got a service running that the admins don't know that they have to keep patched. So even when Microsoft released a fix, it never got applied since many admins figured it wasn't applicable to them. I would venture a guess that most Windows Server (and many client) systems are running IIS, even if it only displays the default installation page.
*Typical Apache/*NIX systems just replied with a 404 since the target DLL didn't exist. But I wrote a Perl CGI that would capture the query source and fire back a Windows popup message to the effect that their machine was broadcasting an infection. I was surprised to see how many people with client (desktop) systems called me to ask when was going on.
And in this case, visibility works to your advantage. No sane manager is going to spend real money for a contractor on a project that is designed to fail. Particularly when the result could be going before some executive committee who has the contractor's notes in hand to explain the expenditure.
But this is National Public Radio. Radio. So you'd expect them to formulate some solution that keeps them, or radio in general, in the loop.
So its an FM receiver with an EAS decoder and it uses an Android device as a display. Why not just send EAS text out via SMS/Twitter broadcasts?* Because this isn't National Public Interwebs, that's why.
*Actually, this is done already. But the radio folks were feeling a bit left out.
Ah yes. The old "we bought the land" argument. Turks took land from the Arabs and sold it to the Jews. Land that Arabs consider to be 'land of our ancestors'. So this is why the Arabs sided with the British. They expected to get their confiscated property back. Just like European Jews got theirs back from the Nazis after WWII. But they got screwed. Or more like the British got sick and tired of getting killed by Jewish settlers and gave the protectorate up after WW II when the UN gave then an excuse.
But my primary point is: The resulting violence is a property dispute. Its not a fundamental hatred between neighboring Jews and Arabs. But it has grown into a political pawn for other powers in the region. Nowhere else in the world is Antisemitism tolerated as a government policy of another nation. The whole culture of victimization has been useful within the Jewish community to raise support for Israel as well as motivate individuals to excel in various professions. Great. But the rest of us don't want to hear about ongoing persecution when its a problem that Israel could pull the plug on any time it wanted.
Just your boss? Or your bosses boss as well?
I can see first line management get just as paranoid over such a device as the employees. Bad managers lead to unmotivated employees and goofing off. Guess who gets fired.
Maybe. Maybe you were hired because you are disconnected from the company politics and culture. Talk to the customer and the previous developer (really bad sign if they discourage the latter). Get an idea what went wrong and negotiate your terms based upon avoiding the same pitfalls.
Some of the most interesting projects I've worked have been ones that the locals couldn't solve because they had to live there after the dust settled (see sig line).
One reason companies hire contractors for jobs like this is visibility. You represent an actual cash outlay and (unless they are swimming in contractors like a Microsoft) upper management wants to know why. Some middle management PHB fuckup can't hide you like they could a direct employee.
A seismograph?
photo of their naughty bits
A minor offense for some, no doubt.
It wasn't until 1929 that there was much of a conflict between Arabs and Jews and that was stirred up by one prominent Arab, Mufti Haj Amin al-Husseini, who hated the Jews
And you know why? Because they were tired of losing Arab land to settlers. Settlers who had been arriving since the late 1800's during the Ottoman Empire with a political agenda to take control of the region. Any wonder some Arabs were upset? Until that time, Semitic Jews had very little trouble with the Arab population. It wasn't until after Russia and Eastern European Jews started to arrive with the idea of controlling the region that tensions rose. Granted, the Jews had real trouble in Europe until after WWII. But now, that region is arguably the safest place to be Jewish. So the whole continuing persecution idea is imagined outside of the Middle East, where it is an ongoing territorial dispute.
So, tbh, you don't know shit,
Evidently more than you. My family is from that region. For several millennia. We've watched the Persians, Greeks, Romans, Turks, British and French come and go. So the current politics of that region are recent history.
Village? I can spit on Bill Gates' house from my place.
TV sets with vacuum tubes. Dad had already been opening that and testing the tubes at Radio Shack for years before Macs came on the market.
Now get off my lawn, kid!
Because when the power goes down for a significant length of time, so do the local cell towers. A significant length of time where I live can be a week or more. And that happens one every year or so.
Sitting in some cyber arsenal, awaiting use. The problem with cyber attacks is that once discovered, they can be defended against. So from a tactical point of view, they are best kept in reserve until the case for their use is overwhelming.
As a part of Operation Orchard, it is theorized that Israel may have disabled Syrian air defense via back doors in their IT systems. If so, the existance of such back doors was revealed by a post mortem analysis and the holes in the systems plugged. So that would be a case of a one time use. It had better be worthwhile (and arguably, it was).
The cyber weapons in the hands of criminal organizations are best used in a very low key manner, so as not to attract attention and patches. Criminals are probably continuing to bleed some credit cards for $9.85 here and there, hoping to stay under the radar for as long as possible.
I don't disagree with you. But are any regulators really in a position to evaluate skills and certifications in today's rapidly changing and fragmented world of software? If not, this just becomes an exercise in rubber stamp regulation. If the schools do have to do a lot of compliance work to certify their curriculum, then the cost to update it may be so high that they keep teaching the same stuff year after year. Because it was approved.
Women pull each other down to their own level. Men either help (mentoring) each other or just stay out of the way. Books have been written about how women have to 'stick together' and not compete. But that basically comes down to shunning anyone who dares to climb above the least common denominator of the group.
One result is that many women who do make it up the ladder have an attitude toward other women that basically says, "Fuck them. They stabbed me in the back for getting ahead. They are on their own."
It sort of makes sense if you read the way that the atmosphere is being mapped. Using the Doppler shift to detect when a brighter spot is approaching or receding can give some data on the longitude of these spots. The latitude data may be more difficult (but not impossible) to deduce.