One of the clients that I manage, the cops came to their house. They asked the resident to allow the cops to setup security video cameras in my client's back yard. The client's back yard faced the back yard on the next street over of a suspect of a crime (not sure if drugs or something else). The cops came in and installed all their own video equipment to point at this other house to monitor them 24/7, from my client's property, NOT from a public location.
So, this is like your scenario of someone turning over security footage from their own cameras, only taking it one step further because the cops installed security cameras on private property (with permission of course... but what did they DO get get that permission, I don't know)
The question is though, what method are you using to test for these errors in the first place? How do you KNOW there has not been a read error occurring within the discs? This is a big reason why ZFS exists. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D...
This article has the same bullshit mentality that Windows 8 Metro has... The assumptions that windows MUST ALWAYS be full screen. Guess what? I NEVER do this, There is no point in doing it. I like having my windows tiled on top of each other where I can see the corners behind which ever window I'm working in, so when the status changes in another app, I can see it instantly. Switch between apps is as simple as clicking on the various VISIBLE windows, rather than switching away from the apps, to the taskbar, then back to the apps (think about this task in a multi-monitor setup). And on top of that, their only case study seems to be for reading fixed-width content? The whole world doesnt revolve around just this one type of information display...
If we're to believe Betteridge's law this time around... we're to believe that both Chernobyl is safe AND 60 Minutes didn't push propaganda!? NNNNOOOOO, I'M SO CONFUSED! I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO!
My wallet is on a chain which links to my belt loop on my pants. My wallet will not be lost. However, my phone doesn't have this same protection.
And seriously, how is a phone any less likely to be lost than a wallet? One of the two is out and about of the pocket a hell of a lot more often than the other.
Get a less noisy system. How hard is that to figure out?
Get a case that has one or two 120mm or larger fans for airflow. They generate much MUCH less noise than 80mm fans and still push enough air to keep the thing chilled.
Switch CPU/GPU fans to ones that only turn on when needed, and are off while the system is at a cool idle temp.
Switch your HDD out for an SSD, and use network storage for your bulk storage. Gigabit Ethernet is ~100MB/sec and so is a rotational disk, so you're not gonna see much different in performance here (assuming your network doesn't suck)
No matter how much effort goes into securing the transport layer, it means absolutely nothing if the end nodes themselves are insecure. Something as simple as a SQL injection or remote code execution could easily deanonymize an end node. With how quickly many of those sites sprung up, one of the current theories is lack of security on the end-points themselves is what was attacked, not the Tor network itself.
Since I was able to get off a wise ass crack joke for a first post, let me follow it up with something actually insightful for you other readers out there.
What makes a "good" or "bad" boss anyways? Well, this article is one that I've always lived by, and it explains things quite well for both us techies and for those who are not of the tech mindset and skill set.
While I'm sitting here reading about other people bitching about abstraction libraries such as jQuery, my first thought was actually about testing processes.
Pretty much everywhere I look online, projects are FLOODED with automated testing tools to ensure their code works. And sure enough, every bug that I submit has an "automated test" that didn't test that particular condition. Developers are relying more upon these testing tools and less upon actually USING their own services they're developing to ensure they work properly.
A great example: a recent bug I had to file was brain dead simple. File opening ignored current working directory, so if you changed directories, the file open command would still assume you're in the base directory. Why wasn't this caught? All of their file handling automated testing routines ONLY checked absolute paths, none checked relative paths. On top of that, when they finally did add relative path testing after my bug report, they only added it as relative to the base path, and not testing against current working directory.
Now, let's think about this for a second. How long has the concept of changing directories been around? While most of us will go "oh, DUH!" to the bug mentioned above, newer developers may simply not be in that same mindset, because they're not actively traversing their filesystems themselves. The automated toolkits are doing all that work for them, leaving the developers less experienced in this area, and thus less forethought when building the next generation of tools to test these exact sorts of issues. It is a downward spiral.
Yes, because this is SUCH a problem on sites like Twitter... where if a user feels a particular account is flooding their feed too much, they are just a click or two away from an "unfollow" button.
I don't need a computer telling me that I've had too much information and to restrict how often new content can appear on my feed, I'm quite capable of doing this myself!
Hey, remember back when Sony had the big PS4 announcement, and they brought Blizzard on stage. During this time, Blizzard said they would be showcasing a brand new IP at the following PAX East... and it turned out to be a fucking card game.
So is this what they were SUPPOSED to showcase a year and a half ago?
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Interesting on this point.
One of the clients that I manage, the cops came to their house. They asked the resident to allow the cops to setup security video cameras in my client's back yard. The client's back yard faced the back yard on the next street over of a suspect of a crime (not sure if drugs or something else). The cops came in and installed all their own video equipment to point at this other house to monitor them 24/7, from my client's property, NOT from a public location.
So, this is like your scenario of someone turning over security footage from their own cameras, only taking it one step further because the cops installed security cameras on private property (with permission of course... but what did they DO get get that permission, I don't know)
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Agreed! Page isn't loading, that was fast as hell.
For those looking for other resources tho, that DO load
http://samy.pl/evercookie/
https://panopticlick.eff.org/
The question is though, what method are you using to test for these errors in the first place? How do you KNOW there has not been a read error occurring within the discs? This is a big reason why ZFS exists. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D...
http://www.cnet.com/topics/net...
This article has the same bullshit mentality that Windows 8 Metro has... The assumptions that windows MUST ALWAYS be full screen. Guess what? I NEVER do this, There is no point in doing it. I like having my windows tiled on top of each other where I can see the corners behind which ever window I'm working in, so when the status changes in another app, I can see it instantly. Switch between apps is as simple as clicking on the various VISIBLE windows, rather than switching away from the apps, to the taskbar, then back to the apps (think about this task in a multi-monitor setup). And on top of that, their only case study seems to be for reading fixed-width content? The whole world doesnt revolve around just this one type of information display...
Because it has never been done before? http://bstring.sourceforge.net...
Because the URLs to images and full articles that easily fit within the 140 character limits is absolutely worthless to the discussion...
Perhaps it is!
"and sent a radio confirmation that it had successfully turned itself back on one and a half hours later"
Now we know where that gap in time came from.
In other news: construction workers building and maintaining city streets and highways are now held responsible for high speed chases.
If we're to believe Betteridge's law this time around... we're to believe that both Chernobyl is safe AND 60 Minutes didn't push propaganda!? NNNNOOOOO, I'M SO CONFUSED! I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO!
And IOS is the operating system powering Cisco routers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...
"It's bulky. It can be forgotten, or lost"
My wallet is on a chain which links to my belt loop on my pants. My wallet will not be lost. However, my phone doesn't have this same protection.
And seriously, how is a phone any less likely to be lost than a wallet? One of the two is out and about of the pocket a hell of a lot more often than the other.
Get a less noisy system. How hard is that to figure out?
Get a case that has one or two 120mm or larger fans for airflow. They generate much MUCH less noise than 80mm fans and still push enough air to keep the thing chilled.
Switch CPU/GPU fans to ones that only turn on when needed, and are off while the system is at a cool idle temp.
Switch your HDD out for an SSD, and use network storage for your bulk storage. Gigabit Ethernet is ~100MB/sec and so is a rotational disk, so you're not gonna see much different in performance here (assuming your network doesn't suck)
And to go beyond my computing age, let's have something a little older: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B...
"Heartbleed set the trend early this year"
Wait, this is NEW!? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B...
Compiled JavaScript, you say? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V...
No matter how much effort goes into securing the transport layer, it means absolutely nothing if the end nodes themselves are insecure. Something as simple as a SQL injection or remote code execution could easily deanonymize an end node. With how quickly many of those sites sprung up, one of the current theories is lack of security on the end-points themselves is what was attacked, not the Tor network itself.
Since I was able to get off a wise ass crack joke for a first post, let me follow it up with something actually insightful for you other readers out there.
What makes a "good" or "bad" boss anyways? Well, this article is one that I've always lived by, and it explains things quite well for both us techies and for those who are not of the tech mindset and skill set.
http://www.computerworld.com/a...
NO SHIT. We needed a paper to tell us what we already knew? Damn, why didn't I write that paper... Here goes.
"INCOMPETENT BOSSES ARE THE LEADING CAUSE OF CAPSLOCK RAGE ON THE INTERNET"
While I'm sitting here reading about other people bitching about abstraction libraries such as jQuery, my first thought was actually about testing processes.
Pretty much everywhere I look online, projects are FLOODED with automated testing tools to ensure their code works. And sure enough, every bug that I submit has an "automated test" that didn't test that particular condition. Developers are relying more upon these testing tools and less upon actually USING their own services they're developing to ensure they work properly.
A great example: a recent bug I had to file was brain dead simple. File opening ignored current working directory, so if you changed directories, the file open command would still assume you're in the base directory. Why wasn't this caught? All of their file handling automated testing routines ONLY checked absolute paths, none checked relative paths. On top of that, when they finally did add relative path testing after my bug report, they only added it as relative to the base path, and not testing against current working directory.
Now, let's think about this for a second. How long has the concept of changing directories been around? While most of us will go "oh, DUH!" to the bug mentioned above, newer developers may simply not be in that same mindset, because they're not actively traversing their filesystems themselves. The automated toolkits are doing all that work for them, leaving the developers less experienced in this area, and thus less forethought when building the next generation of tools to test these exact sorts of issues. It is a downward spiral.
Yes, because this is SUCH a problem on sites like Twitter... where if a user feels a particular account is flooding their feed too much, they are just a click or two away from an "unfollow" button.
I don't need a computer telling me that I've had too much information and to restrict how often new content can appear on my feed, I'm quite capable of doing this myself!
Progressive technological evolution, adding a new finger every year!
I thought this article would be about the sound chamber inside of the Amazon Echo, now I'm disapointed ... http://www.amazon.com/oc/echo
Hey, remember back when Sony had the big PS4 announcement, and they brought Blizzard on stage. During this time, Blizzard said they would be showcasing a brand new IP at the following PAX East... and it turned out to be a fucking card game.
So is this what they were SUPPOSED to showcase a year and a half ago?