The gov doesn't need you to sync your iPhone to find out where you have been, a short letter to your cell provider will be faster and hold up better in court.
I don't think the police were wrong to get involved. They found the data was going through their connection and it should be investigated. What I think would have been a better course of action would be for a couple of officers or suits to come by sit down and talk with the people, maybe take the machines to exonerate them completely and let them know what happened and to put a password on their router. If they found the guy was doing it then put him though the system and let him get it in prison that's what it's for. There are other options to enabling passwords as well, if you place the router properly inside your home and turn down the signal no one can use it regardless if there was security set up or not.
Right now roblimo is running furiously around trying to figure out how to merge the posts of the dupe to end all dupes without taking down the site. If you put your ear to the monitor you can hear the faint moans as another 'editor' gets jeered for doing an exemplary job.
Right now Zuckerberg might be known as the Billion Dollar Kid but that's really not the case. His company is valued at 50 Billion I don't really see that lasting because it's just all about paper. On paper Facebook looks huge and with MS and a few other big guys on the bandwagon they're are fewer companies to jump in on the idea. At the end of the day Zuckerberg was right it is all about exclusivity, it's the same reason people hang out at certain places but when every one shows up at your hangout and you can't kick them out you eventually find a better spot for yourself.
MySpace was exclusive in a way because it was the first of it's kind then it became well, lame. Then Facebook comes along and only the select few can join but now the bar is so low anyone with a pulse and a keyboard can join. Eventually something new will come along and it will split up the same way as it is in 'real life' every one will find their own coffee shops or dives and kill time there will be intermittent communication between the groups but they will mainly stay where they are.
The main idea I'm getting at is that in reality how much responsibility are these cloud / mainframe operators going to take? What kind of services can they really manage? Will they not only host my email/web server but administer it as well? If they get hacked or suffer some kind of catastrophic failure can I hold them legally responsible? At the end of the day you're just renting bits and clocks. If your email is misconfigured will they fix it? Will they advise your services should be encrypted and take the steps necessary to ensure your company really is running the way it should? I really doubt it. Most companies want to offer as little as possible when it comes to responsibility. Enough startups or small companies set up shop thinking all they have to do is pay and they will get what they need are sorely mistaken but if you can prove otherwise I would be great full to hear what you have to say.
So are we talking about web hosting here? What kind of data would you really want running off of a wire anyway? Sure a small company that is centered around filling web orders from a site doesn't need a data center but they never really got one. Email? For under a couple thousand employees you can pick up a Unix admin some small rack servers and NAS to host file / email / backups for likely less than most mainframes (ooops meant 'cloud'). All cloud computing is, is a company that specializes in VM's. You call them up they spawn a VM and send it through the billing app once a month. You want some snazzy service no worries we will sell it to you it's just that we now hire the consultants to get it going and charge you the markup.
You do realize that aside from sounding like a dumb ass that remote desktop has been offered as a default Ubuntu install for quite some time, you never get any docs with most windows software period and just for the fun of it take a random piece of software for windows and search for it on google and see the ratio of happy comments to frustrated comments cause it's not working.
Drivers ya I can see that, although there really isn't that much that is missing any more. Documentation though? Common there is so much documentation and so many forums on basically every error code in existence that documentation is just stupid to bring up. Finally "ease of use" most of the time when I hear this it is just about installing drivers but aside from all of that most distros similar to Ubuntu are pretty much just like windows. See icon -> double click, see another icon -> double click. Most of the time FOSS software tries to mimic the popular stuff anyway like OpenOffice vs MS Office. As it develops it gets better but the only real issue would likely be drivers.
Check this out. It's just a case that looks identical to the old C64 but with an Atom/ION2 combo, it runs Windows 7 "premium experience". Nothing really that special, you could probably just put a MicroATX board in an old C64 case and achieve the same. Not to hate or anything but I was kinda hoping for something like a dual boot BASIC or some sort of custom hardware that would let you at the registers but alas.
As someone who has worked unloading containers from overseas I have to say cooking books is fun. I've unloaded quite a few containers that came from Asia (China) that were not on skids but seemed to have made it the entire trip with boxes up to the top on both side but somehow empty in the middle, interesting to say the least.
Maybe it is better for some to indirectly benefit than directly. By now it's pretty much a guarantee the money is going to somebody in a nice neat briefcase why ruin that with all the paperwork and bureaucracy of a government approval? We have to face it that drugs are no longer even a little bit of a secret to anyone period. We know by majority who is processing and shipping the substance and we know logistically it comes directly from there to here, otherwise friendly intermediaries are known but because each one wants a piece of the cash this number is kept to a complete minimum. Satellites in orbit, planes in the sky and boats in the water all looking for these guys and no nose in North America ever goes unfulfilled funny how that happens. If these drug runners tried to go up against a Navy Battleship these guys would shit themselves then likely die very quickly and consecutively and at least that way the money spent chasing around street quantities would be much less since there would be almost none. There is no way a trained, advanced and able nation could not take measures to protect themselves from all of this at least in a much more efficient fashion then they are presently.
If you're revamping your data center to SSD's cause of boot times you're doing something really wrong. There is no way you should be able to reap any kind of cost benefit from that amount of boot time. Even workstations normally get left on most of the year anyway and IT should only be patching rebooting during off hours anyway. Not sure where you expect to gain any kind of benefit by cutting your boot times maybe you could let me know?
While I agree with you shill/troll bots will be the new virus/malware/black all I see now is an obvious shill counter shilled[sic] then that post being shilled, no one is actually talking about the underlying tech. I think it is about time to set up honeypot threads and really watch how these beasts behave and poke them with sharp pointy sticks. On a side note WTF has happened at/. guys! This is becoming a load of garbage just bitching about who's buzz word is better than some other, did all the geeks and EE's die this past few years or did they just move on to other things? Seriously I've heard enough apologists for all three of the holy trinity (MS,Apple,Linux) to make this all a hilarious joke. I have dropped my bookmark and am moving on to ScienceDaily maybe come back in a few months to see if the boards are nailed to the windows.
Kinda makes you wonder though, if so many people are against pornography that they had made it law, why would they need the law since none of them would look at it anyway?
The network he had access to was a hospital's LAN. He wanted to use it to DDOS which would result in saturating much of the hospital's LAN to begin with and possibly screwing with equipment in the mean time. If he hacked into a Starbucks or a McDonalds to do the same I wouldn't care as much but his stupidity overreached on this one.
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The gov doesn't need you to sync your iPhone to find out where you have been, a short letter to your cell provider will be faster and hold up better in court.
I don't think the police were wrong to get involved. They found the data was going through their connection and it should be investigated. What I think would have been a better course of action would be for a couple of officers or suits to come by sit down and talk with the people, maybe take the machines to exonerate them completely and let them know what happened and to put a password on their router. If they found the guy was doing it then put him though the system and let him get it in prison that's what it's for. There are other options to enabling passwords as well, if you place the router properly inside your home and turn down the signal no one can use it regardless if there was security set up or not.
MAC address spoofing is about as common as WEP cracking don't fool your self it's not protecting anything.
Too true, something about emperors and clothes comes to mind...
So where is the name and contact info?
Right now roblimo is running furiously around trying to figure out how to merge the posts of the dupe to end all dupes without taking down the site. If you put your ear to the monitor you can hear the faint moans as another 'editor' gets jeered for doing an exemplary job.
Right now Zuckerberg might be known as the Billion Dollar Kid but that's really not the case. His company is valued at 50 Billion I don't really see that lasting because it's just all about paper. On paper Facebook looks huge and with MS and a few other big guys on the bandwagon they're are fewer companies to jump in on the idea. At the end of the day Zuckerberg was right it is all about exclusivity, it's the same reason people hang out at certain places but when every one shows up at your hangout and you can't kick them out you eventually find a better spot for yourself.
MySpace was exclusive in a way because it was the first of it's kind then it became well, lame. Then Facebook comes along and only the select few can join but now the bar is so low anyone with a pulse and a keyboard can join. Eventually something new will come along and it will split up the same way as it is in 'real life' every one will find their own coffee shops or dives and kill time there will be intermittent communication between the groups but they will mainly stay where they are.
Ces't la vie.
The main idea I'm getting at is that in reality how much responsibility are these cloud / mainframe operators going to take? What kind of services can they really manage? Will they not only host my email/web server but administer it as well? If they get hacked or suffer some kind of catastrophic failure can I hold them legally responsible? At the end of the day you're just renting bits and clocks. If your email is misconfigured will they fix it? Will they advise your services should be encrypted and take the steps necessary to ensure your company really is running the way it should? I really doubt it. Most companies want to offer as little as possible when it comes to responsibility. Enough startups or small companies set up shop thinking all they have to do is pay and they will get what they need are sorely mistaken but if you can prove otherwise I would be great full to hear what you have to say.
So are we talking about web hosting here? What kind of data would you really want running off of a wire anyway? Sure a small company that is centered around filling web orders from a site doesn't need a data center but they never really got one. Email? For under a couple thousand employees you can pick up a Unix admin some small rack servers and NAS to host file / email / backups for likely less than most mainframes (ooops meant 'cloud'). All cloud computing is, is a company that specializes in VM's. You call them up they spawn a VM and send it through the billing app once a month. You want some snazzy service no worries we will sell it to you it's just that we now hire the consultants to get it going and charge you the markup.
So this is the "I watched the Zuckerberg movie and lets comment on it as it really happened" thread?
Comparing Harley owners to Apple fanboys, that is at least worth one internet.
You do realize that aside from sounding like a dumb ass that remote desktop has been offered as a default Ubuntu install for quite some time, you never get any docs with most windows software period and just for the fun of it take a random piece of software for windows and search for it on google and see the ratio of happy comments to frustrated comments cause it's not working.
Drivers ya I can see that, although there really isn't that much that is missing any more. Documentation though? Common there is so much documentation and so many forums on basically every error code in existence that documentation is just stupid to bring up. Finally "ease of use" most of the time when I hear this it is just about installing drivers but aside from all of that most distros similar to Ubuntu are pretty much just like windows. See icon -> double click, see another icon -> double click. Most of the time FOSS software tries to mimic the popular stuff anyway like OpenOffice vs MS Office. As it develops it gets better but the only real issue would likely be drivers.
Who's to say that earth is not the ghetto of the universe?
Check this out. It's just a case that looks identical to the old C64 but with an Atom/ION2 combo, it runs Windows 7 "premium experience". Nothing really that special, you could probably just put a MicroATX board in an old C64 case and achieve the same. Not to hate or anything but I was kinda hoping for something like a dual boot BASIC or some sort of custom hardware that would let you at the registers but alas.
As someone who has worked unloading containers from overseas I have to say cooking books is fun. I've unloaded quite a few containers that came from Asia (China) that were not on skids but seemed to have made it the entire trip with boxes up to the top on both side but somehow empty in the middle, interesting to say the least.
Yes, yes I am. Well if what you were trying to say was "no idea" that is.
How did they get the amount of consumption when they realistically had no idea of the amount available to consume?
Maybe it is better for some to indirectly benefit than directly. By now it's pretty much a guarantee the money is going to somebody in a nice neat briefcase why ruin that with all the paperwork and bureaucracy of a government approval? We have to face it that drugs are no longer even a little bit of a secret to anyone period. We know by majority who is processing and shipping the substance and we know logistically it comes directly from there to here, otherwise friendly intermediaries are known but because each one wants a piece of the cash this number is kept to a complete minimum. Satellites in orbit, planes in the sky and boats in the water all looking for these guys and no nose in North America ever goes unfulfilled funny how that happens. If these drug runners tried to go up against a Navy Battleship these guys would shit themselves then likely die very quickly and consecutively and at least that way the money spent chasing around street quantities would be much less since there would be almost none. There is no way a trained, advanced and able nation could not take measures to protect themselves from all of this at least in a much more efficient fashion then they are presently.
If you're revamping your data center to SSD's cause of boot times you're doing something really wrong. There is no way you should be able to reap any kind of cost benefit from that amount of boot time. Even workstations normally get left on most of the year anyway and IT should only be patching rebooting during off hours anyway. Not sure where you expect to gain any kind of benefit by cutting your boot times maybe you could let me know?
While I agree with you shill/troll bots will be the new virus/malware/black all I see now is an obvious shill counter shilled[sic] then that post being shilled, no one is actually talking about the underlying tech. I think it is about time to set up honeypot threads and really watch how these beasts behave and poke them with sharp pointy sticks. On a side note WTF has happened at /. guys! This is becoming a load of garbage just bitching about who's buzz word is better than some other, did all the geeks and EE's die this past few years or did they just move on to other things? Seriously I've heard enough apologists for all three of the holy trinity (MS,Apple,Linux) to make this all a hilarious joke. I have dropped my bookmark and am moving on to ScienceDaily maybe come back in a few months to see if the boards are nailed to the windows.
Kinda makes you wonder though, if so many people are against pornography that they had made it law, why would they need the law since none of them would look at it anyway?
Click, click.
Lol sad but true. Low expectations FTW.
The network he had access to was a hospital's LAN. He wanted to use it to DDOS which would result in saturating much of the hospital's LAN to begin with and possibly screwing with equipment in the mean time. If he hacked into a Starbucks or a McDonalds to do the same I wouldn't care as much but his stupidity overreached on this one.