The people who use Nginx commercially know _very well_ who F5 is, and we people who bring internal open source solutions to production environments know them both very well. Please believe me that we care, in much the same way we cared when Oracle bouught Sun and took over MySQL and Java copyrights and licenses.
Please, excuse my jealousy. I've only kept a few of my old gaming materials, in a box of beloved personal memorabilia. It's brought back lessons of knowing what to invest your very limited starting money in, and working with parties you could rely on to have other essential tools. Those lessons were invaluable later in scrums and in project planning for work.
> In addition there is no test for it. It's not well understood, all you can do is rule everything else out and CFS is the only thing left that fits the symptoms.
I'd expect that you know this from personal experience, but skepticism is the proper response to claims that cannot be scientifically established. There are enough claims, and enough good medical science, to establish that at least some cases of chronic fatigue syndrome are very real, and I hope that we can sympathize with the people experiencing it.
I can attest that it's been 45 years. I can remember the original Blackmoor and Grayhawk books being used by a gamemaster at a local game store. Part of the original fun of the game was the gamemasters, trying to juggle the maps and adventures to create a narrative and the players taking that narrative to places the gamemaster had never envisioned.
I'm afraid this will sound harsh, but it's not normally expressed so boldly. Economic success is a critical sign of oppression in Marxism, where oppression was seen as the primary source of economic success rather than the admittedly self-serving claims of merit or divine reward. Marxism is a key source of postmodernist politics.
I'm afraid to admit that I've been dealing lately with younger people who are well meaning, but not aware of the historical sources of their politics. They're also not aware of the previous attempts of their politics and the results of those.
He also stole. The fundamental thefts of DOS, of the Kernel for NT, and of numerous patents and copyrights, and the monopoly abuses of which Microsoft has been convicted demonstrate a long criminal history.
A great deal of my time is spent converting such misquotes and mis-statements into what the person must have really meant. It can be very difficult when the order or the technical specifications are re-interpreted by 3 or more managers, each of whom demands that it be summed up in a way _they_ can understand and pass along. It becomes especially difficult when the original request is for something opposite or non-standard, and the intervening managers transform the request into something they themselves expect or allow.
Might I oint out that genetic editing is already in progress, by performing testing of fetuses for their gender and aborting females? The over-population of young men in China is a predictable and not well managed result. The unforeseen consequences of more direct editing are an understandable concern.
I agree completely that the trade-offs can be complex and work out poorly. I simply sought to point out that there is a notable benefit to to the employees who are working fewer hours for the same weekly wage.
For bribes of that scale, the school can fund another student or two, or get a building built that they need for classes. I suspect the schools are upset because they did not get their _cut_ of the money, except as tuition.
I'd say the FCC. It requires a shift in technologies, to handle bundling the phone numbers of a customer and forcing Caller-ID to only use that list. I'm afraid the technologies were deliberately designed _not_ to support restriction of spoofing Caller-ID's.
The state or feds are exceedingly unlikely to pay for the cost of the school lawyers reviewing any evidence before it is turned over, or of briefing witnesses, whether there is a subpoena or nor would it cover the cost of teachers or school IT staff collecting data and organizing it for the case. There is also the cost of lost contributions to the school from such negative publicity. If you've ever worked with a college bureaucracy, you might have some idea just how burdensome their own paperwork can be to handle anything out of the norm, such as a criminal investigation.
> It's just a matter of how the consumer routers are setup by default
Since the most vulnerable ports are the same on all home devices, ports like 22, 80, 443, 8080, and 8443, the port needs to activated specifically for every device behind a NAT. The other ports cannot be exposed in normal NAT unless, again, they are selected and connected to a specific target. That is a built-in "turned off" state that is fundamental to NAT, and is not fundamental to firewalls. The default for firewalls, and for IPv6 routers due to their deliberate support of entirely routable devices, is "carry all traffic".
It is possible to configure firewalls to provide similar levels of protection. But if you survey any dozen corporate firewalls or private firewalls, I would bet that you would find that most of them have quite large default vulnerabilities. NAT does not replace firewalls or capable routers with their more powerful and complex features. But it provides a far better, far more secure default security stance than an unconfigured unmanaged, consumer firewall with its default exposuer of every single device on at least the common ports.
In my limited experience, raccoons also show up in suburban areas. They compete for food with feral cats, I did not mean to imply that feral cats would typically win in battles with them. Mice and rats are omnivores, and can live on food supplies that cats cannot, such as fruit and grain. And the idea that mice and rats steer clear or urban areas is not well founded. They raid homes, and warehouses, and are quite common in human homes and workplaces.
I'm not insisting that controlling cat populations is a bad thing. I'm suggesting that one has to be cautious of consequences. And the idea that "catch and release" programs all understand the consequences of what they're doing is also not well-founded.
> NAT is no more secure than a firewall and a firewall is simpler and more straightforward.
In a technology sense, it can be. But the default behavior of NAT is so much safer than the default configurations of firewalls that it is, in effect, much more effective. The need to manually configure which port goes to which device, _before_ any traffic is carried, and the lack of an option to simply open up all traffic for all devices to the outside world automatically cuts the vulnerability exposure profoundly. I'm quite familiar with the argument, and have repeatedly found that the reasons for not using NAT are more subtly applied to using firewalls, and the networks that refuse to use NAT have consistently wound up far more exposed and vulnerable.
If I may point out: for anyone who has other responsibilities, such as a single mother or student, working fewer hours for the same take-home pay is still an improvement. It might not be the choice that person would make over more pay for the same hours, but 20 hours/week leaves more time for kids, for study, or for a second part-time job.
Wouldn't it be cheaper to just breed coyotes, which are quite good at controlling cat populations?
On a more serious note, this seems like a policy that could have profound, unintended consequences, such as local increases in skunk, raccoon, rat, mice, and ever species that feral cats eat or compete with for prey. Those can also be disease vectors.
The approach you describe seems quite functional. It still requires a device with the registered token inside the modest, typically NAT'ed provate network. I would expect the use of that device would make the person owning that registered device responsible for the traffic coming from that private subnet. Is there any hint in this case of the student's hardware being hacked or rooted, or perhaps of dormitory network hijinx, that would explain the evidence?
That is interesting, and a subtlety I was not aware of. I might have been aware 5 years ago: thank you for pointing it out.
It doesn't solve the allegations in the claims by Helwig seem credible. Those allegations describe just the sort of illegal behavior I've personally caught software developers, including kernel developers doing with GPL licensed code and their own proprietary optimization or drivers.
Because the publicity for a student being convicted of multiple felonies is _worse_ than the publicity for expelling her. Also, the standard of proof for felony convictions is much higher. A student at a disciplinary hearing does not have the USA's constitutional protections against self incrimination, and does not have the same "beyond a reasonable doubt" standard of proof. It's faster, and it is normally _much_ cheaper to settle internally.
Not if you use even an ordinary router with NAT. This remains one of the compelling reasons to use NAT, the level of visibility and exposure with an externally exposed IP address of any sort is much higher. There's less chance of a scan randomly detecting an IP address with IPv6, but exposing your IPv6 addresses directly to the Internet means that you're reliant on much higher levels of firewall protection and integration than with even a simple NAT setup. There is no reason to use IPv6 in any home environment where traffic is expected to reach _out_ to the Interenet, rather than to provide exposed services on any device in your local network.
Many developers of the "IoT", or Internet of Things, believe that all devices should be publicly accessibie. There are many compelling reasons to disagree with this.
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It's St. Patrick's day, and I've a glass with decent whiskey in it. It seems an appropriate day for a bit cultural appropriation.
The people who use Nginx commercially know _very well_ who F5 is, and we people who bring internal open source solutions to production environments know them both very well. Please believe me that we care, in much the same way we cared when Oracle bouught Sun and took over MySQL and Java copyrights and licenses.
Please, excuse my jealousy. I've only kept a few of my old gaming materials, in a box of beloved personal memorabilia. It's brought back lessons of knowing what to invest your very limited starting money in, and working with parties you could rely on to have other essential tools. Those lessons were invaluable later in scrums and in project planning for work.
This wonderful XKCD comic appeared very shortly after Gary Gygax, one of the main authors of D&D, passed away.
https://xkcd.com/393/
> In addition there is no test for it. It's not well understood, all you can do is rule everything else out and CFS is the only thing left that fits the symptoms.
I'd expect that you know this from personal experience, but skepticism is the proper response to claims that cannot be scientifically established. There are enough claims, and enough good medical science, to establish that at least some cases of chronic fatigue syndrome are very real, and I hope that we can sympathize with the people experiencing it.
> There are a also a lot of snake oil cures
And, I'm sad to say, some fraudulent claims.
I can attest that it's been 45 years. I can remember the original Blackmoor and Grayhawk books being used by a gamemaster at a local game store. Part of the original fun of the game was the gamemasters, trying to juggle the maps and adventures to create a narrative and the players taking that narrative to places the gamemaster had never envisioned.
I'm afraid this will sound harsh, but it's not normally expressed so boldly. Economic success is a critical sign of oppression in Marxism, where oppression was seen as the primary source of economic success rather than the admittedly self-serving claims of merit or divine reward. Marxism is a key source of postmodernist politics.
I'm afraid to admit that I've been dealing lately with younger people who are well meaning, but not aware of the historical sources of their politics. They're also not aware of the previous attempts of their politics and the results of those.
He also stole. The fundamental thefts of DOS, of the Kernel for NT, and of numerous patents and copyrights, and the monopoly abuses of which Microsoft has been convicted demonstrate a long criminal history.
A great deal of my time is spent converting such misquotes and mis-statements into what the person must have really meant. It can be very difficult when the order or the technical specifications are re-interpreted by 3 or more managers, each of whom demands that it be summed up in a way _they_ can understand and pass along. It becomes especially difficult when the original request is for something opposite or non-standard, and the intervening managers transform the request into something they themselves expect or allow.
Might I oint out that genetic editing is already in progress, by performing testing of fetuses for their gender and aborting females? The over-population of young men in China is a predictable and not well managed result. The unforeseen consequences of more direct editing are an understandable concern.
The XKCD cartoon was for Spirit, but it captured this feeling for Rover as well.
https://xkcd.com/695/
I agree completely that the trade-offs can be complex and work out poorly. I simply sought to point out that there is a notable benefit to to the employees who are working fewer hours for the same weekly wage.
For bribes of that scale, the school can fund another student or two, or get a building built that they need for classes. I suspect the schools are upset because they did not get their _cut_ of the money, except as tuition.
I'd say the FCC. It requires a shift in technologies, to handle bundling the phone numbers of a customer and forcing Caller-ID to only use that list. I'm afraid the technologies were deliberately designed _not_ to support restriction of spoofing Caller-ID's.
The state or feds are exceedingly unlikely to pay for the cost of the school lawyers reviewing any evidence before it is turned over, or of briefing witnesses, whether there is a subpoena or nor would it cover the cost of teachers or school IT staff collecting data and organizing it for the case. There is also the cost of lost contributions to the school from such negative publicity. If you've ever worked with a college bureaucracy, you might have some idea just how burdensome their own paperwork can be to handle anything out of the norm, such as a criminal investigation.
> It's just a matter of how the consumer routers are setup by default
Since the most vulnerable ports are the same on all home devices, ports like 22, 80, 443, 8080, and 8443, the port needs to activated specifically for every device behind a NAT. The other ports cannot be exposed in normal NAT unless, again, they are selected and connected to a specific target. That is a built-in "turned off" state that is fundamental to NAT, and is not fundamental to firewalls. The default for firewalls, and for IPv6 routers due to their deliberate support of entirely routable devices, is "carry all traffic".
It is possible to configure firewalls to provide similar levels of protection. But if you survey any dozen corporate firewalls or private firewalls, I would bet that you would find that most of them have quite large default vulnerabilities. NAT does not replace firewalls or capable routers with their more powerful and complex features. But it provides a far better, far more secure default security stance than an unconfigured unmanaged, consumer firewall with its default exposuer of every single device on at least the common ports.
In my limited experience, raccoons also show up in suburban areas. They compete for food with feral cats, I did not mean to imply that feral cats would typically win in battles with them. Mice and rats are omnivores, and can live on food supplies that cats cannot, such as fruit and grain. And the idea that mice and rats steer clear or urban areas is not well founded. They raid homes, and warehouses, and are quite common in human homes and workplaces.
I'm not insisting that controlling cat populations is a bad thing. I'm suggesting that one has to be cautious of consequences. And the idea that "catch and release" programs all understand the consequences of what they're doing is also not well-founded.
> NAT is no more secure than a firewall and a firewall is simpler and more straightforward.
In a technology sense, it can be. But the default behavior of NAT is so much safer than the default configurations of firewalls that it is, in effect, much more effective. The need to manually configure which port goes to which device, _before_ any traffic is carried, and the lack of an option to simply open up all traffic for all devices to the outside world automatically cuts the vulnerability exposure profoundly. I'm quite familiar with the argument, and have repeatedly found that the reasons for not using NAT are more subtly applied to using firewalls, and the networks that refuse to use NAT have consistently wound up far more exposed and vulnerable.
If I may point out: for anyone who has other responsibilities, such as a single mother or student, working fewer hours for the same take-home pay is still an improvement. It might not be the choice that person would make over more pay for the same hours, but 20 hours/week leaves more time for kids, for study, or for a second part-time job.
Wouldn't it be cheaper to just breed coyotes, which are quite good at controlling cat populations?
On a more serious note, this seems like a policy that could have profound, unintended consequences, such as local increases in skunk, raccoon, rat, mice, and ever species that feral cats eat or compete with for prey. Those can also be disease vectors.
The approach you describe seems quite functional. It still requires a device with the registered token inside the modest, typically NAT'ed provate network. I would expect the use of that device would make the person owning that registered device responsible for the traffic coming from that private subnet. Is there any hint in this case of the student's hardware being hacked or rooted, or perhaps of dormitory network hijinx, that would explain the evidence?
That is interesting, and a subtlety I was not aware of. I might have been aware 5 years ago: thank you for pointing it out.
It doesn't solve the allegations in the claims by Helwig seem credible. Those allegations describe just the sort of illegal behavior I've personally caught software developers, including kernel developers doing with GPL licensed code and their own proprietary optimization or drivers.
Am I understanding that page correctly? Are there only 5 veterinary programs in Canada?
Because the publicity for a student being convicted of multiple felonies is _worse_ than the publicity for expelling her. Also, the standard of proof for felony convictions is much higher. A student at a disciplinary hearing does not have the USA's constitutional protections against self incrimination, and does not have the same "beyond a reasonable doubt" standard of proof. It's faster, and it is normally _much_ cheaper to settle internally.
Not if you use even an ordinary router with NAT. This remains one of the compelling reasons to use NAT, the level of visibility and exposure with an externally exposed IP address of any sort is much higher. There's less chance of a scan randomly detecting an IP address with IPv6, but exposing your IPv6 addresses directly to the Internet means that you're reliant on much higher levels of firewall protection and integration than with even a simple NAT setup. There is no reason to use IPv6 in any home environment where traffic is expected to reach _out_ to the Interenet, rather than to provide exposed services on any device in your local network.
Many developers of the "IoT", or Internet of Things, believe that all devices should be publicly accessibie. There are many compelling reasons to disagree with this.