"Though Microsoft plans to use the NGSCB "compartmentalizing" technology in future versions of Windows, the company is moving swiftly to support No Execute (NX) security technology in newer AMD and Intel processors. NX reduces memory buffer overruns that many hackers exploit to insert malicious code into Windows and allows developers to mark pages as nonexecutable. "
What we need is "No Executive" security technology. Even the greatest security tools can be hogswaddled by the pointy hair types.
Before I connect to the network to get anything, I have to follow my cheat sheet of programs to turn-off, un-install, or otherwise secure. Windows AND Unix.
Once that's finally finished, I have to start filling my browser's cache with pr0n!
I've been in companies with such "vendor support is mandatory" policies and guess what? While they INSIST on making lame s/w decisions because of some policy written by some internal-audit-accounting dweeb, they don't invest in a true dev/test/qa/prod environment.
They build some "fantastic" infrastructure, higher 1/2 the skillsets they need to properly support it, and then some pointy haired boss tells you to "Go test a Solaris 10 upgrade on that nice XP-Pro Dell laptop of your's son. Then, schedule an outage of the E15K tonight for the upgrade from Solaris 2.5." "But sir, I don't think that's a valid..." "Whoa! Are you telling me you're not Sun Certified? We've got to get that production server upgraded tonight! Audit is coming through tomorrow and we're like 7 1/2 versions behind!!!" "But sir, the application has not been certified to run on Solaris 10, and besides, we..." "Damnit son! Winners have a can-do attitude. Losers always have the excuses. Are you a loser son?"
And so it goes...
Also, doesn't it seem strange that many companies insist on support for any s/w tools they use, build some super-duper infrastructure, make it highly-available, mega-redundant, etc..., THEN the app is delivered via the Internet!?!? All of their customers/clients/branch offices must traverse the Internet to use the app. Where do they buy their Internet support contract? Their ISP? Well, that's nice! At least 4 of the 18 hops are covered.
Overall, those type of corporate decisions are the result of blind policy-following drones. In the case of DNS (and many other apps) redundancy and resilancy is built-in! Deployed properly, who cares if one of the DNS servers goes down for a few hours (or even days in some cases).
In my experiences, those panic 2am support calls are usually a result of poor change control, lack of testing, poor planning, and other (easily avoidable) problems.
...you are innocent until proven otherwise... In general, I would tend to agree with this statement! Although I'm not sure about the relevance of this concept here.
...you sound so ignorant... Yea, seems I didn't have all the facts. I read an old biography of John DeLorean last year since I am considering the purchase of a (non-time-travel-equipped) DeLorean. I think the book was written and released before the final "not guilty" ruling.
From Wikipedia: On October 19, 1982, De Lorean was charged with the crime of selling cocaine to undercover police (at the Los Angeles International Airport); De Lorean successfully defended himself with a procedural defense, arguing that the police had asked him to sell them the cocaine (and threatened him as a form of coercion); he was found "not guilty" due to entrapment on August 16, 1984. His attorney stated in Time (March 19, 1984), "This [was] a fictitious crime. Without the Government, there would be no crime."
...Let me guess, you are an American... True, but not a strong demonstration of insight on your part considering this is/. From the/.FAQ:"...Slashdot is run by Americans, after all, and the vast majority of our readership is in the U.S..."
Cool: Ignorance can be easily remedied! Unfortunately, being an anonymous-flaming-butt-monkey-trolling-coward is a difficult affliction to overcome.
Let's not forget that John D was busted for cocaine transport and use!
I'm all for legalized drug use, but hey, the man blatently broke the existing laws and flushed HIMSELF down the drain.
Put the tin hat back on and go figure out how the oil industry has secretly killed 6 different cold-fusion lab successes over the past 10 years. Hurry! Before they re-establish the sat-link to your implants!
Not everywhere dipshit. I have DSL with no modem, no in-home router, no h/w supplied by phone co. We live in a new subdivision that I think has fiber (don't know if that's relavent). But basically, the guy played with some wires in the outside plastic box on the side of my house, swapped out my RJ-11 faceplate jack with a 2-socket RJ-45 and RJ-11 jack. The RJ-11 is phone of course, and the RJ-45 goes right into my firewall. An actual, plain-old firewall, not a DSL combo box unit.
Does the DSL come over the phone lines? In most cases, yes. Does that imply that it must term at an RJ-11 jack? No.
A possible drawback is that I must use that RJ-45 -I cannot move to other jacks in my house. But thanks to wireless, who cares?
Despite your dipshitedness, I agree with the second comment: +5 funny on my original post is lame.
Maybe a little time spent on market research would have been helpful at some point over the past 4 years of your life. Not to be overly critical, but hey, the IT market has been in a decline (flaming death spiral) for quite a while now.
If you program, or system administrate, or database administrate, or whatever for the love of it; that's great. Stay in school or go into teaching. If you want an IT career to pay the bills, then you'd better move to India, reduce your engrish skills, and make your kids work at the shoe factory. Not sure how many ethnics I offended, but I hope it's a lot. [Activate pre-flame force field with modular variations: "Lighten up!"]
If you have a job offer, take it and keep looking. So what if you accept something today and change your mind (or get a better offer) between now and graduation. Afraid you'll burn a bridge? Not to bruise any egos, but they'll have already forgotten you exist before your letter hits the recycle bin. Besides, think anyone at that company will lose any sleep when the pink slips start flying and you're the newbie first in line to walk the plank? Forget it. They don't give two sh!tz about you.
Management and business types, and of course home users, don't think security is a big complex model. They think "oh, we have a firewall... we're safe" and that's the end of it.
IT and computer types, don't think computers in business are used to generate money. They think "oh, it doesn't matter how many dollars per minute we lose if that system is down, we MUST apply this patch that was posted 4.2 minutes ago or crackers will take over the world! NO! We can't wait until the scheduled outage window this evening! Must..... apply.... now.... Ahhhhh!"
By the way, you will now be prompted to re-enter your challenge-token-based password every 200 keystrokes. 3 failed attempts in a 10 day period will result in a 36-hour deactivation of your account. Reactivation will require tracking down the sys-admin who is too busy implementing SSH version 12 so the connection between his laptop and PDA can't be laser vibration targeted which could result in the theft of 43 cheat code text files for Everquesting Online Adventures.
Passwords suck for admins and users. Biometrics? Hopefully soon! Easier for users, more secure for admins. BUT, also more expensive. If the common password approach used in most enviornments was too negativley costly, we'd all be using something different/better.
Although tipoes can make an e-mail seem more real, this one seems to have too many. It's almost like someone tried too hard. Yes, I receive typoed e-mails from collegues, but seldom are they as bad as this "leaked" letter.
Perhaps this is a real e-mail, perhaps it's not. Even the poster "cannot certify its authenticity..." Regardless of truth, it sure is entertaining to watch this type of content fuel the conspiracy theorists!
That's almost exactly what happened to me! When I started my sys-admin career years ago, one of my first tasks was to install a web/mail/ftp anti-virus gateway from a major anti-virus company. I fought with this turd through 4 months of patches, direct developer support, etc... Although I was a noob, I wasn't a total moron either. This thing was crap.
Finally, we got it sort-of working. Then someone from McAfee(oops) marketing approached me about being published in a major news/industry publication. They sent me 3 "quotes" for me to choose from. I would be the so-called network and unix security "expert". Nevermind the fact that I was still fumbling with sendmail and vi.
Since I was young, I was pretty tempted to have been published as a network/unix security expert in 1997 (for those that remember, this was not a bad time for salary jumping!) However, since I was young AND idealistic, I told McAfee they could shove it up their a$$.
Nowadays, I'm getting old and cynical. I would only agree to being quoted in a quote they provide if an Xbox with 3 titles was included.
With the proliferation of cracks/hacks to online gaming cheats, imagine a clan that developed a way to skim $0.01 from each member of the [fill-in-game] community.
OR, what if you could combine "on-line gambling" with pay-per-play on-line games. Imagine a scenario where your PayPal account is credited $0.05 foe each head shot kill, or deducted $0.10 for each death you experience attributed to being killed by a head shot. Not really gambling, but you get the lightbulb.
Can you suggest other cool pay-per-play (or get paid for performance) micro-incentives?
According to Phantom.net, the "creed comes to life March 31st 2004 at our Phantom online store where customers can customize their own Phantom Gaming Service to meet their individual needs." They go on to refer to March 31st 2004 as the "e-commerce launch" ROTFLMAO!!!!
There website reads like a vaporware/dot.bomb parody. Oh PLEEEASE let me submit my credit card information to the "Phantom Online Store"!
As the predictable debate of parent-responsability vs. I-want-laws-and-regulations-to-think-for-me-and-my -family rages on, I'm glad that I still love playing games today as much as I did 23 years ago!
Even though the games my son is playing now are safe "kiddie titles", I'm still involved since it's something we can have fun with togeather. This participation establishes me, the parent, as a part of this kind of entertainment. Obviously, this approach would be frustrating for parents who prefer to rely on electronic boxes to distract/babysit their kids for a while.
And if you pay attention to most of the games, they generally fall into a few easy to recognize genres. Yea, they might have a kiddie coat of paint and silly sound effects, but the platforming/puzzle/problem solving fundamentals are still intact. This means I can still enjoy the titles my son is playing even if I'm forced into fetch-quests with Sponge-Bob.
The original story is another subtle example of how the sheep (our society) continue to be taught that it is someone else's responsability to protect them (police vs. personal firearms), care for them (medicare/prescriptions), and think for them (laws, regulations, signage).
Yea, if we could just make a few more laws, a couple more regulations, and just one more industry-oversight committee, we could finally achieve social utopia were we would all be able to stare blankly at Seinfield re-runs forever! [/sarcasm]
Does A. Russell Jones know anything about security??? It doesn't appear so from this article. This reads like something written by some un-informed CNN reporter from 1989. Did this guy do any investigation before spewing forth such ignorant dribble???
Governments "get what they pay for"? Are you kidding me? Governments typically pay FAR MORE for FAR LESS than any other organizations on the planet! Mainly due to incompetent employees paid on time of service rather than actual performance.
"sooner or later, governments that rely on free open source software will put their country's and their citizens' data in harm's way." Yea, so let's stick with the far more secure options of MS-Windows, etc...
"Instead, the security breach will be placed into the open source software from inside, by someone working on the project." Yea, cause there has never been an instance of a paid employee/developer inserting an Easter egg, back door, or other malicious code.
"As anyone can create and market a distribution, it's not far-fetched to imagine a version subsidized and supported by organizations that may not have U.S. or other government interests at heart." I know my government is mostly stupid and ignorant, but I doubt "Joe's garageware jonix distribution" would make it through the laborious bidding process.
"the widespread perception that Linux is more secure than Windows, despite the fact that both products are riddled with software security holes." Agreed. The difference is, we can actually learn about the presence of open-source holes MUCH faster than closed source. (See recent/.ed article!)
"Can Self-Policing Work?" Of course not! And that's exactly what closed-source is: self-policing! Open-source is open policing and scrutinizing by virtually anyone and everyone. Hmmmm... Should I rely on the QA/security efforts of a 10-20 person team who better play good politics to keep their jobs and/or get raises? OR, Should I consider the QA/security efforts of 100's of thousands of unapologetic experts?
My first job out of collage:), I was met with a similar "we-own-all" contract. Of course, it wasn't presented until I had been on the job for a few weeks. The contract was dropped off with my employee handbook, hall pass, forehead barcode, etc...
I stalled on signing it. Was bothered by the IT secretary for a while. "Lost" it for a while. Then "misplaced" it for a while. Was given another copy. Stalled. Eventually, the IT secretary forgot about it and was luckily moved on to a different AVP team. Our paths diverged further as our relationship became lost forever in a series of intellectual power re-appropriation plans.
Obviously, this won't work in all environments. But it is amazing how much you can get away with in a big corporate drone environment. My gosh, look at the id10ts surrounding you that they *won't* fire!
In general, security through obscurity is a waste of time. Similar to moving your "secret" webserver up to port 8888, it may buy you a *tiny* bit of "security" by being slightly tougher to find, but these types of configs don't fundamentally improve your overall security.
My biggest fear when I hear of these stories is that your typical sys-admin will spend 4 days implementing secret-knock perl scripts and then return to the life of surfing pr0n, ignoring log files, applying patches once a quarter, and writing long-winded/. posts.
I'm really surprised you/.ers care where he broadcasts from. He's a radio presenter, not a TV journalist. Some of your points might be interesting if it was TV journalist standing in front of a Gainsville, FL courthouse claiming to be "live at the [Boston suburb] courthouse..."
What if he was in a suburban studio just outside of Boston, would that be okay? What about a studio in New York City?
What if he's in his usual downtown Boston studio and presenting the weather and temps for a distant suburb? Is that deceitful?
So, what is the allowed mileage range before it becomes deceitful?
BTW: Atlanta local TV news has the opposite problem. They feel compelled to send a reporter and camera crew to every damn street corner for LIVE UDPATES about EVERY SINGLE lame story they cover. On the 6am news I have to watch some poor sap freezing his ass off so he can report "LIVE from the Atlanta Fulton County government building that won't be open for another 3 hours anyways" "Behind me you can see the steps that so-n-so will be walking up when they arrive for their hearing 8 DAYS from now."
You're totally lying if you didn't mutter "mozirra" out loud, think back to that last Saturday afternoon TV matinee or visit to the dry cleaners, and chuckle!
Why other posters so sensitive? Racism, bigotry, sexism, driving, and sex are some of the best topics of comedy!
I'm stirr rorring on the froor raughing!.....hehehee
Good point! It's not like Lego replaced any of the older designs -they always added to the repwotoire(?!?) of pieces to choose from. A better way of looking at the issue is to consider what is commonly available when you shop mainstream outlets for Lego sets.
Although few of the old pieces have ever been technically discontinued, many have been effectively discontinued through highly selective and focused marketing strategies "at the shelf".
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What we need is "No Executive" security technology. Even the greatest security tools can be hogswaddled by the pointy hair types.
[/obligitory upper-management jab]
Before I connect to the network to get anything, I have to follow my cheat sheet of programs to turn-off, un-install, or otherwise secure. Windows AND Unix.
Once that's finally finished, I have to start filling my browser's cache with pr0n!
I've been in companies with such "vendor support is mandatory" policies and guess what? While they INSIST on making lame s/w decisions because of some policy written by some internal-audit-accounting dweeb, they don't invest in a true dev/test/qa/prod environment.
They build some "fantastic" infrastructure, higher 1/2 the skillsets they need to properly support it, and then some pointy haired boss tells you to "Go test a Solaris 10 upgrade on that nice XP-Pro Dell laptop of your's son. Then, schedule an outage of the E15K tonight for the upgrade from Solaris 2.5." "But sir, I don't think that's a valid..." "Whoa! Are you telling me you're not Sun Certified? We've got to get that production server upgraded tonight! Audit is coming through tomorrow and we're like 7 1/2 versions behind!!!" "But sir, the application has not been certified to run on Solaris 10, and besides, we..." "Damnit son! Winners have a can-do attitude. Losers always have the excuses. Are you a loser son?"And so it goes...
Also, doesn't it seem strange that many companies insist on support for any s/w tools they use, build some super-duper infrastructure, make it highly-available, mega-redundant, etc..., THEN the app is delivered via the Internet!?!? All of their customers/clients/branch offices must traverse the Internet to use the app. Where do they buy their Internet support contract? Their ISP? Well, that's nice! At least 4 of the 18 hops are covered.
Overall, those type of corporate decisions are the result of blind policy-following drones. In the case of DNS (and many other apps) redundancy and resilancy is built-in! Deployed properly, who cares if one of the DNS servers goes down for a few hours (or even days in some cases).
In my experiences, those panic 2am support calls are usually a result of poor change control, lack of testing, poor planning, and other (easily avoidable) problems.
Hi you!
From Wikipedia: On October 19, 1982, De Lorean was charged with the crime of selling cocaine to undercover police (at the Los Angeles International Airport); De Lorean successfully defended himself with a procedural defense, arguing that the police had asked him to sell them the cocaine (and threatened him as a form of coercion); he was found "not guilty" due to entrapment on August 16, 1984. His attorney stated in Time (March 19, 1984), "This [was] a fictitious crime. Without the Government, there would be no crime."
Cool: Ignorance can be easily remedied! Unfortunately, being an anonymous-flaming-butt-monkey-trolling-coward is a difficult affliction to overcome.
Let's not forget that John D was busted for cocaine transport and use!
I'm all for legalized drug use, but hey, the man blatently broke the existing laws and flushed HIMSELF down the drain.
Put the tin hat back on and go figure out how the oil industry has secretly killed 6 different cold-fusion lab successes over the past 10 years. Hurry! Before they re-establish the sat-link to your implants!
Not everywhere dipshit. I have DSL with no modem, no in-home router, no h/w supplied by phone co. We live in a new subdivision that I think has fiber (don't know if that's relavent). But basically, the guy played with some wires in the outside plastic box on the side of my house, swapped out my RJ-11 faceplate jack with a 2-socket RJ-45 and RJ-11 jack. The RJ-11 is phone of course, and the RJ-45 goes right into my firewall. An actual, plain-old firewall, not a DSL combo box unit.
Does the DSL come over the phone lines? In most cases, yes. Does that imply that it must term at an RJ-11 jack? No.
A possible drawback is that I must use that RJ-45 -I cannot move to other jacks in my house. But thanks to wireless, who cares?
Despite your dipshitedness, I agree with the second comment: +5 funny on my original post is lame.
"Mommy, why did the RJ-45 face plate burst out of the wall in a show of sparks?"
/.'d w/ 0 of 0 posts? Well, at least everyone's trying to take a look before posting a witty remark.
PS: do NOT mod this post up
Maybe a little time spent on market research would have been helpful at some point over the past 4 years of your life. Not to be overly critical, but hey, the IT market has been in a decline (flaming death spiral) for quite a while now.
If you program, or system administrate, or database administrate, or whatever for the love of it; that's great. Stay in school or go into teaching. If you want an IT career to pay the bills, then you'd better move to India, reduce your engrish skills, and make your kids work at the shoe factory. Not sure how many ethnics I offended, but I hope it's a lot. [Activate pre-flame force field with modular variations: "Lighten up!"]
If you have a job offer, take it and keep looking . So what if you accept something today and change your mind (or get a better offer) between now and graduation. Afraid you'll burn a bridge? Not to bruise any egos, but they'll have already forgotten you exist before your letter hits the recycle bin. Besides, think anyone at that company will lose any sleep when the pink slips start flying and you're the newbie first in line to walk the plank? Forget it. They don't give two sh!tz about you.
Look out for number one! That's YOU!
Management and business types, and of course home users, don't think security is a big complex model. They think "oh, we have a firewall... we're safe" and that's the end of it.
IT and computer types, don't think computers in business are used to generate money. They think "oh, it doesn't matter how many dollars per minute we lose if that system is down, we MUST apply this patch that was posted 4.2 minutes ago or crackers will take over the world! NO! We can't wait until the scheduled outage window this evening! Must..... apply.... now.... Ahhhhh!"
By the way, you will now be prompted to re-enter your challenge-token-based password every 200 keystrokes. 3 failed attempts in a 10 day period will result in a 36-hour deactivation of your account. Reactivation will require tracking down the sys-admin who is too busy implementing SSH version 12 so the connection between his laptop and PDA can't be laser vibration targeted which could result in the theft of 43 cheat code text files for Everquesting Online Adventures.Passwords suck for admins and users. Biometrics? Hopefully soon! Easier for users, more secure for admins. BUT, also more expensive. If the common password approach used in most enviornments was too negativley costly, we'd all be using something different/better.
Although tipoes can make an e-mail seem more real, this one seems to have too many. It's almost like someone tried too hard. Yes, I receive typoed e-mails from collegues, but seldom are they as bad as this "leaked" letter.
Perhaps this is a real e-mail, perhaps it's not. Even the poster "cannot certify its authenticity..." Regardless of truth, it sure is entertaining to watch this type of content fuel the conspiracy theorists!
That's almost exactly what happened to me! When I started my sys-admin career years ago, one of my first tasks was to install a web/mail/ftp anti-virus gateway from a major anti-virus company. I fought with this turd through 4 months of patches, direct developer support, etc... Although I was a noob, I wasn't a total moron either. This thing was crap.
Finally, we got it sort-of working. Then someone from McAfee(oops) marketing approached me about being published in a major news/industry publication. They sent me 3 "quotes" for me to choose from. I would be the so-called network and unix security "expert". Nevermind the fact that I was still fumbling with sendmail and vi.
Since I was young, I was pretty tempted to have been published as a network/unix security expert in 1997 (for those that remember, this was not a bad time for salary jumping!) However, since I was young AND idealistic, I told McAfee they could shove it up their a$$.
Nowadays, I'm getting old and cynical. I would only agree to being quoted in a quote they provide if an Xbox with 3 titles was included.
With the proliferation of cracks/hacks to online gaming cheats, imagine a clan that developed a way to skim $0.01 from each member of the [fill-in-game] community.
OR, what if you could combine "on-line gambling" with pay-per-play on-line games. Imagine a scenario where your PayPal account is credited $0.05 foe each head shot kill, or deducted $0.10 for each death you experience attributed to being killed by a head shot. Not really gambling, but you get the lightbulb.
Can you suggest other cool pay-per-play (or get paid for performance) micro-incentives?
Wow! I think this is like my first post to get modded up. This is soooo cool. Thanks g[uys|als]!
'Course, now I'll probably get lamed down for this follow-up. Oh well... :-(
According to Phantom.net, the "creed comes to life March 31st 2004 at our Phantom online store where customers can customize their own Phantom Gaming Service to meet their individual needs." They go on to refer to March 31st 2004 as the "e-commerce launch" ROTFLMAO!!!!
There website reads like a vaporware/dot.bomb parody. Oh PLEEEASE let me submit my credit card information to the "Phantom Online Store"!
Try phantom.net instead of infiniumlabs.com. Of course, it'll probably be
Gee, I can't rely 100% on the label? No sh*#!
As the predictable debate of parent-responsability vs. I-want-laws-and-regulations-to-think-for-me-and-my -family rages on, I'm glad that I still love playing games today as much as I did 23 years ago!
Even though the games my son is playing now are safe "kiddie titles", I'm still involved since it's something we can have fun with togeather. This participation establishes me, the parent, as a part of this kind of entertainment. Obviously, this approach would be frustrating for parents who prefer to rely on electronic boxes to distract/babysit their kids for a while.
And if you pay attention to most of the games, they generally fall into a few easy to recognize genres. Yea, they might have a kiddie coat of paint and silly sound effects, but the platforming/puzzle/problem solving fundamentals are still intact. This means I can still enjoy the titles my son is playing even if I'm forced into fetch-quests with Sponge-Bob.
The original story is another subtle example of how the sheep (our society) continue to be taught that it is someone else's responsability to protect them (police vs. personal firearms), care for them (medicare/prescriptions), and think for them (laws, regulations, signage).
Yea, if we could just make a few more laws, a couple more regulations, and just one more industry-oversight committee, we could finally achieve social utopia were we would all be able to stare blankly at Seinfield re-runs forever! [/sarcasm]
Does A. Russell Jones know anything about security??? It doesn't appear so from this article. This reads like something written by some un-informed CNN reporter from 1989. Did this guy do any investigation before spewing forth such ignorant dribble???
Governments "get what they pay for"? Are you kidding me? Governments typically pay FAR MORE for FAR LESS than any other organizations on the planet! Mainly due to incompetent employees paid on time of service rather than actual performance.
"sooner or later, governments that rely on free open source software will put their country's and their citizens' data in harm's way." Yea, so let's stick with the far more secure options of MS-Windows, etc...
"Instead, the security breach will be placed into the open source software from inside, by someone working on the project." Yea, cause there has never been an instance of a paid employee/developer inserting an Easter egg, back door, or other malicious code.
"As anyone can create and market a distribution, it's not far-fetched to imagine a version subsidized and supported by organizations that may not have U.S. or other government interests at heart." I know my government is mostly stupid and ignorant, but I doubt "Joe's garageware jonix distribution" would make it through the laborious bidding process.
"the widespread perception that Linux is more secure than Windows, despite the fact that both products are riddled with software security holes." Agreed. The difference is, we can actually learn about the presence of open-source holes MUCH faster than closed source. (See recent /.ed article!)
"Can Self-Policing Work?" Of course not! And that's exactly what closed-source is: self-policing! Open-source is open policing and scrutinizing by virtually anyone and everyone. Hmmmm... Should I rely on the QA/security efforts of a 10-20 person team who better play good politics to keep their jobs and/or get raises? OR, Should I consider the QA/security efforts of 100's of thousands of unapologetic experts?
My first job out of collage :), I was met with a similar "we-own-all" contract. Of course, it wasn't presented until I had been on the job for a few weeks. The contract was dropped off with my employee handbook, hall pass, forehead barcode, etc...
I stalled on signing it. Was bothered by the IT secretary for a while. "Lost" it for a while. Then "misplaced" it for a while. Was given another copy. Stalled. Eventually, the IT secretary forgot about it and was luckily moved on to a different AVP team. Our paths diverged further as our relationship became lost forever in a series of intellectual power re-appropriation plans.
Obviously, this won't work in all environments. But it is amazing how much you can get away with in a big corporate drone environment. My gosh, look at the id10ts surrounding you that they *won't* fire!
In general, security through obscurity is a waste of time. Similar to moving your "secret" webserver up to port 8888, it may buy you a *tiny* bit of "security" by being slightly tougher to find, but these types of configs don't fundamentally improve your overall security.
/. posts.
My biggest fear when I hear of these stories is that your typical sys-admin will spend 4 days implementing secret-knock perl scripts and then return to the life of surfing pr0n, ignoring log files, applying patches once a quarter, and writing long-winded
The green bastards probably added window stickers depicting cartoon characatures of Spirit urinating on Beagle 2.
ASCII art of peeing spacecraft blocked by
I'm really surprised you /.ers care where he broadcasts from. He's a radio presenter, not a TV journalist. Some of your points might be interesting if it was TV journalist standing in front of a Gainsville, FL courthouse claiming to be "live at the [Boston suburb] courthouse..."
What if he was in a suburban studio just outside of Boston, would that be okay? What about a studio in New York City?
What if he's in his usual downtown Boston studio and presenting the weather and temps for a distant suburb? Is that deceitful?
So, what is the allowed mileage range before it becomes deceitful?
BTW: Atlanta local TV news has the opposite problem. They feel compelled to send a reporter and camera crew to every damn street corner for LIVE UDPATES about EVERY SINGLE lame story they cover. On the 6am news I have to watch some poor sap freezing his ass off so he can report "LIVE from the Atlanta Fulton County government building that won't be open for another 3 hours anyways" "Behind me you can see the steps that so-n-so will be walking up when they arrive for their hearing 8 DAYS from now."
HAHAHAHAAAA! ROTFLMAO!!!
You're totally lying if you didn't mutter "mozirra" out loud, think back to that last Saturday afternoon TV matinee or visit to the dry cleaners, and chuckle!
Why other posters so sensitive? Racism, bigotry, sexism, driving, and sex are some of the best topics of comedy!
I'm stirr rorring on the froor raughing!.....hehehee
Good point! It's not like Lego replaced any of the older designs -they always added to the repwotoire(?!?) of pieces to choose from. A better way of looking at the issue is to consider what is commonly available when you shop mainstream outlets for Lego sets.
Although few of the old pieces have ever been technically discontinued, many have been effectively discontinued through highly selective and focused marketing strategies "at the shelf".
Imagine the product recalls and consumer relations crisis that would ensue from exploding lego bricks!
"AHHH! MOM! I blew my finger off and the carpet's on fire!"