Why is the Beagle only noted for Darwin when the other Captains are mentioned by name ? Robert Fitzroy was the captain of the Beagle on Darwins voyage, and it is his logs that are being digitized.
I was a member of the WoT back in '99. It took several weeks (nearly a month) to find accessible notaries, and their method of meeting was suspect to say the least. For one I had to travel 30 miles to another town and meet in a supermarket car park. After I got my cert. no-one I sent signed messages to knew how to handle it - encryption was pointless. I let it lapse after about a year, and haven't bothered since.
Unfortunately, unless the govt. mandates personal electronic signatures, it ain't going to happen. And no-one will want to use it under govt. mandate anyway. This stuff is geek only territory.
If you believe that, then this article is about you. There is NEVER any need for a direct root login.
all disabling root login does is prevent the following: ssh -l root some.domain.com You can still login with ssh -l user some.domain.com and once connected you can su to gain root. The whole idea is to isolate root from the outside world, restricting root access to localhost only. Or are you happy with the world having direct access to the single most important account on the machine ?
PermitRootLogin no: Preventing root login is impractical for transferring files outside of your own user account.
WTF ? PermitRootLogin is referring to the initial SSH login. You can still login as a regular user, then su to root. You can then put files ANYWHERE on the system and chown them to the relevant user. Similar to disallowing root login as a local user, once you're in, if you have sufficient privileges you can su to root. Disallow password based logins and you restrict the possible users to only those with an installed key, and you restrict the keys to only those who should have one. See how we narrow down the vectors of attack ? Unless you are in the habit of giving wheel membership to everybody on the system there should only be one user with access to root. Allowing direct root login via password is ASKING for trouble when they try to brute force the password. If they succeed they are already in command of your system.
Which control panel software uses a root login ? Please name it so I can avoid it like the plague.
As for users having difficulty with puTTY, don't give them shell accounts. If they can't work out how to use puTTY they don't have the skills to use the shell on a shared machine. And if they are using puTTY anyway, they are not using a linux client, further evidence of their unfamiliarity with the shell environment. If they want a shell account, make them buy a virtual machine rather than share a host.
I've always been sceptical of claims that linux is just as insecure as windows, but with the stupid comments I see on this thread, I'm beginning to change my mind. The system is fine, it's the fucking stupid would-be admins who are the problem. Read a fucking book, follow the best practices set out in the documentation for the service. They are not there to increase your convenience, they are there to increase security. Yes you can ignore them, but don't you dare say you haven't been warned. You never improve security by removing layers of protection. Calling basic security "laughably stupid" says more about you than you would probably like.
This advice is not unnecessary. If PasswordAuthentication is turned off, they can guess away until the universe dies. Also not allowing root logins is pretty basic procedure for any service. I always have SSH turned off anyway, if I need it I have a web based CP where I can turn it on.
Standard procedure for any linux server is to turn off all services you are not currently using, and to use the firewall to initially close all ports, opening only those which you need. If possible restrict SSH logins to your own IP address too. Even with Public Key Auth my logs get filled with thousands of attempts to use passwords which need clearing out and reporting, better to prevent them even trying. Let me guess - you run Ubuntu.
No they don't. I can create an alias, register the domain, then when the process is done, I delete the alias. If I want to admin the domain such that the email becomes vital, I just recreate the alias temporarily. What do you mean by "transfer" ? I can make any changes I like to my DNS records without needing email (and have been doing for over 10 years).
I hold a.sh domain and whois just says the domain is not available. You have to go to the registrars site and search from there, where it gives my personal details EXCEPTING my email address and phone number. So scraping is not possible, unless they want to snail mail spam me, which apparently is far too much work as I have never had postal spam resulting from it. I also hold some.com domains, and although my email and phone are listed directly, my email is @gmail.com so spam is dealt with at that end.
I disagree with the notion that the stones were dragged from Wales. Surely if the stone was so impressive, the henge would have been built near the actual source. The whole area would have been sacred, and mined into temples. Alternatively, there were ice sheets extending down pretty much as far as Wiltshire, certainly covering the Bristol Channel. The whole area was probably littered with drop stones brought from Wales, which have been spotted and collected by the ancient builders. And I'm pretty sure there was a TV program regarding Bluehenge some years ago. This is standard Daily Fail "news".
So no one in the history of mankind ever had a store account ? Identify yourself and the payment is taken care of discretely and automatically ? Just because it's "on the internet" does not make it patentable. And people were doing it before, and people are still doing it now. One Click is just a marketing phrase describing a widely held practice, one that was widely held before the patent was granted. Why do you think there was such a fuss when the patent was granted ?
And using the fact that no-one did it before as a non-obviousness filter is stupid. Most sensible companies didn't do it because of the extra security concerns involved, not because they didn't think of it. As an e-commerce developer at the time, I didn't do it because I didn't like the idea of my details being held by an invisible third party. I therefore didn't place others in that situation.
The judge ordered the ISP to deactivate the account. What you do depends on what the judge tells you. If my website gets taken down damn right I'll point the name somewhere else. Until I've been taken to court and been prosecuted why wouldn't I ?
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Somehow I think your username gives away your bias. So STFU.
You don't need to log in to run level 1. You are already in. Edit the kernel parameters by adding 1 to the end. Do this from the grub screen before booting the desired kernel . It's called single user mode. Or follow this.
Transmitting power over a mere 50cm is NOT a useful invention.
Ok, How about using this in electric vehicles ? Run lines in the road surface which transmit to a receiver under the car ? Eliminates the battery charging / longevity issue and allows you to go where-ever the road goes. Also cuts down on weight in the car. There aren't many cars that have a ground clearance of 20".
Maybe the real issue is with your short-sightedness.
Who *ever* said anything about official sanctioned Asylum Seekers??
Apart from the fact there is no such thing as an "official sanctioned asylum seeker" until AFTER they have been through the process ? The summary, and I assume the article are talking about that process. This plan is to test asylum seekers to see if they come from the place they claim to come from. If they are illegal they are illegal. They are not claiming to be from anywhere because they are not subject to the interrogation at the border. And I never said I agreed with the method.
As to your other points, I can travel less than 5 miles and see open countryside stretching for hundreds of square miles. The UK is not just London or Manchester. And why should 3 people need a house covering half an acre ? Why should one person need a house covering half an acre ? Or is it just a case of me me me as usual ?
The reason we import so much food is because it's cheaper. We could produce all our own food, but that would eat into corporate profits, and we can't have that now, can we.
Why are you so interested, seeing as you obviously don't live here ? Are you against invasive racial testing, or against illegal immigration, or just racist ? Get a life.
Depends. Are you factoring in the cost of the exploration, drilling, pipelines, refineries, service stations and pollution to your £1 per litre, or are you just whining about initial capital costs of "green" energy while ignoring those of dirty energy ? Cost to produce is not the same as cost to buy at the pump.
Gasoline contains the equivalent of about 9.67 kWh per litre. Electricity costs in the UK, average 10 pence per kWh. So they cost roughly the same to the end users. But oil is dirty and polluting, and non-renewable. Electricity is not necessarily polluting and can be generated from a variety of sustainable resources. Also, all litres of gasoline are not equal. Starting from rest gasoline is far less efficient, and doesn't get much better. Electric motors run at near constant efficiency. Yes there are start up costs, but bear in mind the billions in subsidies the oil companies have had to develop new oil and gas fields, and that only a few countries have exploitable fossil fuel reserves.
No, it is not reasonable. How long does it take to drive 1000 miles ? At 60mph it takes nearly 17 hours. At 80mph it takes 12.5 hours. And that is average speed. Most people are not going to drive anything like 12 hours in a stretch. And you are never going to find an electrical outlet anywhere within 1000 miles other than your home ?
No it doesn't. Take a beer bottle, fill it 3/4 full with petrol, insert a rag to act as stopper and fuse. Light fuse. Throw in such a way that it breaks on impact. The impact breaks the glass showering the surrounding area with petrol which is then ignited by the fuse. It doesn't explode, it spreads fire. (see also Molotov Cocktail)
There is no such thing as counterfeit Windows. Nobody is building their own OS and trying to pass it off as Genuine Windows. The Windows that "pirates" use is the same as the Windows that sells in the high street shop, or gets supplied by Dell. What is at issue is whether it is a legally licenced copy, not whether it's a genuine or fake copy.
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Why is the Beagle only noted for Darwin when the other Captains are mentioned by name ? Robert Fitzroy was the captain of the Beagle on Darwins voyage, and it is his logs that are being digitized.
Receptors ? You mean receivers or recipients. Unless you were talking about protein molecules or nerve endings.
I was a member of the WoT back in '99. It took several weeks (nearly a month) to find accessible notaries, and their method of meeting was suspect to say the least. For one I had to travel 30 miles to another town and meet in a supermarket car park. After I got my cert. no-one I sent signed messages to knew how to handle it - encryption was pointless. I let it lapse after about a year, and haven't bothered since.
Unfortunately, unless the govt. mandates personal electronic signatures, it ain't going to happen. And no-one will want to use it under govt. mandate anyway. This stuff is geek only territory.
Who mentioned the 2CV (apart from you) ? The DS is nothing like a 2CV, and is considered an icon.
Oh, it's alright once you're in the groove.
If you believe that, then this article is about you. There is NEVER any need for a direct root login.
all disabling root login does is prevent the following:
ssh -l root some.domain.com
You can still login with
ssh -l user some.domain.com
and once connected you can su to gain root. The whole idea is to isolate root from the outside world, restricting root access to localhost only. Or are you happy with the world having direct access to the single most important account on the machine ?
WTF ? PermitRootLogin is referring to the initial SSH login. You can still login as a regular user, then su to root. You can then put files ANYWHERE on the system and chown them to the relevant user. Similar to disallowing root login as a local user, once you're in, if you have sufficient privileges you can su to root.
Disallow password based logins and you restrict the possible users to only those with an installed key, and you restrict the keys to only those who should have one. See how we narrow down the vectors of attack ? Unless you are in the habit of giving wheel membership to everybody on the system there should only be one user with access to root. Allowing direct root login via password is ASKING for trouble when they try to brute force the password. If they succeed they are already in command of your system.
Which control panel software uses a root login ? Please name it so I can avoid it like the plague.
As for users having difficulty with puTTY, don't give them shell accounts. If they can't work out how to use puTTY they don't have the skills to use the shell on a shared machine. And if they are using puTTY anyway, they are not using a linux client, further evidence of their unfamiliarity with the shell environment. If they want a shell account, make them buy a virtual machine rather than share a host.
I've always been sceptical of claims that linux is just as insecure as windows, but with the stupid comments I see on this thread, I'm beginning to change my mind. The system is fine, it's the fucking stupid would-be admins who are the problem. Read a fucking book, follow the best practices set out in the documentation for the service. They are not there to increase your convenience, they are there to increase security. Yes you can ignore them, but don't you dare say you haven't been warned. You never improve security by removing layers of protection. Calling basic security "laughably stupid" says more about you than you would probably like.
This advice is not unnecessary. If PasswordAuthentication is turned off, they can guess away until the universe dies. Also not allowing root logins is pretty basic procedure for any service. I always have SSH turned off anyway, if I need it I have a web based CP where I can turn it on.
Standard procedure for any linux server is to turn off all services you are not currently using, and to use the firewall to initially close all ports, opening only those which you need. If possible restrict SSH logins to your own IP address too. Even with Public Key Auth my logs get filled with thousands of attempts to use passwords which need clearing out and reporting, better to prevent them even trying.
Let me guess - you run Ubuntu.
No they don't. I can create an alias, register the domain, then when the process is done, I delete the alias. If I want to admin the domain such that the email becomes vital, I just recreate the alias temporarily. What do you mean by "transfer" ? I can make any changes I like to my DNS records without needing email (and have been doing for over 10 years).
I hold a .sh domain and whois just says the domain is not available. You have to go to the registrars site and search from there, where it gives my personal details EXCEPTING my email address and phone number. So scraping is not possible, unless they want to snail mail spam me, which apparently is far too much work as I have never had postal spam resulting from it. I also hold some .com domains, and although my email and phone are listed directly, my email is @gmail.com so spam is dealt with at that end.
I disagree with the notion that the stones were dragged from Wales. Surely if the stone was so impressive, the henge would have been built near the actual source. The whole area would have been sacred, and mined into temples. Alternatively, there were ice sheets extending down pretty much as far as Wiltshire, certainly covering the Bristol Channel. The whole area was probably littered with drop stones brought from Wales, which have been spotted and collected by the ancient builders. And I'm pretty sure there was a TV program regarding Bluehenge some years ago. This is standard Daily Fail "news".
So no one in the history of mankind ever had a store account ? Identify yourself and the payment is taken care of discretely and automatically ? Just because it's "on the internet" does not make it patentable. And people were doing it before, and people are still doing it now. One Click is just a marketing phrase describing a widely held practice, one that was widely held before the patent was granted. Why do you think there was such a fuss when the patent was granted ?
And using the fact that no-one did it before as a non-obviousness filter is stupid. Most sensible companies didn't do it because of the extra security concerns involved, not because they didn't think of it. As an e-commerce developer at the time, I didn't do it because I didn't like the idea of my details being held by an invisible third party. I therefore didn't place others in that situation.
The judge ordered the ISP to deactivate the account. What you do depends on what the judge tells you. If my website gets taken down damn right I'll point the name somewhere else. Until I've been taken to court and been prosecuted why wouldn't I ?
Somehow I think your username gives away your bias. So STFU.
You don't need to log in to run level 1. You are already in. Edit the kernel parameters by adding 1 to the end. Do this from the grub screen before booting the desired kernel . It's called single user mode. Or follow this.
Ok,
How about using this in electric vehicles ? Run lines in the road surface which transmit to a receiver under the car ? Eliminates the battery charging / longevity issue and allows you to go where-ever the road goes. Also cuts down on weight in the car. There aren't many cars that have a ground clearance of 20".
Maybe the real issue is with your short-sightedness.
Utter shite. TRADEMARK is the term, not copyright, and unless Mr Toyota was building cars then he doesn't have to do anything.
Apart from the fact there is no such thing as an "official sanctioned asylum seeker" until AFTER they have been through the process ? The summary, and I assume the article are talking about that process. This plan is to test asylum seekers to see if they come from the place they claim to come from. If they are illegal they are illegal. They are not claiming to be from anywhere because they are not subject to the interrogation at the border. And I never said I agreed with the method.
As to your other points, I can travel less than 5 miles and see open countryside stretching for hundreds of square miles. The UK is not just London or Manchester. And why should 3 people need a house covering half an acre ? Why should one person need a house covering half an acre ? Or is it just a case of me me me as usual ?
The reason we import so much food is because it's cheaper. We could produce all our own food, but that would eat into corporate profits, and we can't have that now, can we.
Why are you so interested, seeing as you obviously don't live here ? Are you against invasive racial testing, or against illegal immigration, or just racist ? Get a life.
Yes dear, the battery in my car is flat so I can't start the engine. Triple A will be here in about an hour, then I can come home.
Is this false dichotomy day on slashdot ?
Depends. Are you factoring in the cost of the exploration, drilling, pipelines, refineries, service stations and pollution to your £1 per litre, or are you just whining about initial capital costs of "green" energy while ignoring those of dirty energy ? Cost to produce is not the same as cost to buy at the pump.
Gasoline contains the equivalent of about 9.67 kWh per litre. Electricity costs in the UK, average 10 pence per kWh. So they cost roughly the same to the end users. But oil is dirty and polluting, and non-renewable. Electricity is not necessarily polluting and can be generated from a variety of sustainable resources. Also, all litres of gasoline are not equal. Starting from rest gasoline is far less efficient, and doesn't get much better. Electric motors run at near constant efficiency. Yes there are start up costs, but bear in mind the billions in subsidies the oil companies have had to develop new oil and gas fields, and that only a few countries have exploitable fossil fuel reserves.
No, it is not reasonable. How long does it take to drive 1000 miles ? At 60mph it takes nearly 17 hours. At 80mph it takes 12.5 hours. And that is average speed. Most people are not going to drive anything like 12 hours in a stretch. And you are never going to find an electrical outlet anywhere within 1000 miles other than your home ?
No it doesn't. Take a beer bottle, fill it 3/4 full with petrol, insert a rag to act as stopper and fuse. Light fuse. Throw in such a way that it breaks on impact. The impact breaks the glass showering the surrounding area with petrol which is then ignited by the fuse. It doesn't explode, it spreads fire. (see also Molotov Cocktail)
Why, do we use a different Sun or atmosphere than poorer nations ? Crops are crops.
Wrong. They disabled PhysX when a non-nVidia graphics card is powering the display. The presence of another graphics card is not the driving issue.
There is no such thing as counterfeit Windows. Nobody is building their own OS and trying to pass it off as Genuine Windows. The Windows that "pirates" use is the same as the Windows that sells in the high street shop, or gets supplied by Dell. What is at issue is whether it is a legally licenced copy, not whether it's a genuine or fake copy.