"...detailed analysis by DHS and the FBI has found no evidence of a cyber intrusion or any other malicious activity."
All this means is professional spin doctors were called in as damage control.
First off, there is a cracker out there with screen dumps from another cracked SCADA system. Coincidence? Yeah, right.
Secondly, the compromise was originally believed to have been the result of the SCADA vendor being cracked. Also, an IP address from a Russian source was found. If there was no compromise, I would still really be interested as to why a Russian IP address was found connecting to US infrastructure.
Thirdly, the cracker's pastebin post* sounds quite accurate of the DHS in general: "...the DHS tend to downplay how absolutely FUCKED the state of national infrastructure is."
> 75% off is a seriously deep discount, what did she expect would happen?
Yeah, I don't understand the logic here. Perhaps a 75% discount on a dozen is small enough to "eat" (haaaa) on a low volume but when you throw in an order for 102,000 you're expected to get orders filled immediately and operating costs skyrocket.
> Microsoft may be many things, but they have always respected privacy.
Are you serious? Windows has been the most abused platform in terms of privacy for the last 20 years. Do you realize how much Windows malware has led to identity theft/privacy breaches? IRC backdoors, Login scrapers, keyloggers, Active-X/IE exploits.. the list goes on-and-on. Microsoft has been egregiously negligent in doing anything to stop it and pimping up the Windows phone as a "privacy" solution is laughable at best.
These politicians need to put their heads down and work out how to get all that money back that's been lining the panties of the 1% for the last 30 years. What do they think the end-game is here? Do they plan on just relocating to with a big fat wallet or something after the country dries up?
> Since the physical serial cable cannot send any data to the machine on the embedded network, it would take a physical attack in order to compromise the boxes.
Very clever. Eliminates network component completely. Is there no way to cause a remote buffer exploit at the downstream end?
SCADA systems were sold en masse under the presumption that they were "secure" because they were not connected to public networks. It will be interesting to see which entities did, or did not, follow their policies. Stuxnet was a USB infection but it was still able to route over the internet to phone home. I'm going to bet that a lot of SCADA networks are implemented to allow egress packets. It will be interesting to see how many SCADA systems are actually "isolated".
When you see 7,000 people camped outside a store for 2 days waiting to get their grubby little paws on the latest gadget (apple, android, pc, xbox, whatever) it's a clear sign that people have Too Much (tm).
When people have Too Much (excess) there is senseless waste. It's the waste which drives the demand which drives the pollution. It's not just China. It's not just Apple. It's manufacturers responding to a demand.
Looks like all the game titles are Humble Bundle games. Don't get me wrong, I love the HB games and I think it's great that Linux is getting some gaming love but when I can just download, tar xvfz &&./runme , I don't see the point of this. Are other titles available? Does this mean EA is going to start doing Linux ports through this?
> It might also help you not look like a complete fucking retard if you paid attention to the > phrase : Protesters can return after the park is cleared.
You're only reading half the story. They are not allowed to bring anything back in after the park is "cleared". http://i.imgur.com/TMxmg.jpg
It's a clear attempt to sabotage the entire right to assemble/protest.
As far as the "private property" argument, something about that sounds dubious. If it were a private corp who owned prime space in downtown new york you can damn betcha it would have apartments stacked up as far and wide as legally possible.
Fedora is a test bed for software slated to be implemented in RHEL. You are running a distro which has only enough focus on stability to get the package built. That is not to say *buntu is 100% bug-free either but Fedora's purpose is for testing.
Games: Linux has some fairly decent games but I still can't go to amazon and pull down the "Linux" option from a drop-down. So, I dual boot.
Office: Libreoffice is nowhere near ready for primetime when importing/exporting a complicated Word doc. Maybe one day, but not today
Calendaring+Email: Exchange is deeply rooted in corporate IT. Admins can easily click through a few buttons to setup what's needed. The ease of setup allows managers to hire help at a fraction of the cost of a Unix admin to care & feed a postfix+dovecot+webdav alternative.
Apple is pretty but it's history repeating itself (like Microsoft in the mid 90s). Too many people drinking the kool-aid screaming "stfu and take my money". I wouldn't touch it for corporate IT.
The last thing an ego-maniacal millionaire is going to do is give up his "hard-earned" money. At some point in the wealth process money becomes the _only_ measuring stick of success. It's not that you need more, rather it's that you want more. It's like an addiction. The only way a law like this would pass is if there were a bigger payoff awaiting those who would support it.
Linux does everything I need my comp to do except play games, but don't get me wrong; I think BSD is great. It's a great option. I'm glad the alternative exists. It has just got a loooonng way to go to catch-up with Linux. Consider all the legal wrangling in it's past. Libraries have had to be hacked up, cut up, forked and fondled. You can't just download/untar/compile (Ports ain't all that either). It's a whole new kind of dependency hell. If I wanted the experience of heating my living room via CPU I'd run Gentoo first.
From a desktop perspective, It's taken over 20 years for OpenGL and the underlying X libraries on Linux to evolve far enough to be able to play Unreal Tournament or Quake 3 Arena, edit an MPEG, do a screencast, or even get a desktop screenshot. Yet, after 20 years things are still buggy and slow and difficult. I still can't pull down the OS Options menu on amazon and pick a Linux option when I buy the latest game (and Wine is just pathetic for gaming).
If the unix desktop was all that great these days we'd see lots of mainstream inroads being made across the *nix platforms in general. Switching to BSD would be easy but it's not.It's too difficult. Yeah, Macintosh is BSD but what you get is another highly polished proprietary, paid-for, hacked up OS that nobody is quite sure what hell is going on with. Nothing compiles on it unless you write in objective C or succumb to the Apple kool-aid-kult. I'd still run Gentoo.
Actually it is. The way these things get fixed are by making people aware of the problem. No software is absolutely bug free. As much as some people would like to stick their fingers in their ears and say "la-la-la not a problem...", there are just as many us who would like to fix the issue. So, yes this is news.
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Really don't know what else to say.
"...detailed analysis by DHS and the FBI has found no evidence of a cyber intrusion or any other malicious activity."
All this means is professional spin doctors were called in as damage control.
First off, there is a cracker out there with screen dumps from another cracked SCADA system. Coincidence? Yeah, right.
Secondly, the compromise was originally believed to have been the result of the SCADA vendor being cracked. Also, an IP address from a Russian source was found. If there was no compromise, I would still really be interested as to why a Russian IP address was found connecting to US infrastructure.
Thirdly, the cracker's pastebin post* sounds quite accurate of the DHS in general:
"...the DHS tend to downplay how absolutely FUCKED the state of national infrastructure is."
* - http://pastebin.com/Wx90LLum
All those emails about Global Warming... see?
> 75% off is a seriously deep discount, what did she expect would happen?
Yeah, I don't understand the logic here. Perhaps a 75% discount on a dozen is small enough to "eat" (haaaa) on a low volume but when you throw in an order for 102,000 you're expected to get orders filled immediately and operating costs skyrocket.
> And this does not make Jacob ('Bring Me My Machine Gun') Zuma and his cronies look too good.
True, but when you have the machine gun (or/and all the money) you don't care what anyone thinks of you.
> Microsoft may be many things, but they have always respected privacy.
Are you serious? Windows has been the most abused platform in terms of privacy for the last 20 years. Do you realize how much Windows malware has led to identity theft/privacy breaches? IRC backdoors, Login scrapers, keyloggers, Active-X/IE exploits.. the list goes on-and-on. Microsoft has been egregiously negligent in doing anything to stop it and pimping up the Windows phone as a "privacy" solution is laughable at best.
These politicians need to put their heads down and work out how to get all that money back that's been lining the panties of the 1% for the last 30 years. What do they think the end-game is here? Do they plan on just relocating to with a big fat wallet or something after the country dries up?
The kind of unmistakeable boom which starts with a frustrated howl followed by the sound of 101 tiny plastic keys hitting the floor.
> Since the physical serial cable cannot send any data to the machine on the embedded network, it would take a physical attack in order to compromise the boxes.
Very clever. Eliminates network component completely. Is there no way to cause a remote buffer exploit at the downstream end?
SCADA systems were sold en masse under the presumption that they were "secure" because they were not connected to public networks. It will be interesting to see which entities did, or did not, follow their policies. Stuxnet was a USB infection but it was still able to route over the internet to phone home. I'm going to bet that a lot of SCADA networks are implemented to allow egress packets. It will be interesting to see how many SCADA systems are actually "isolated".
When you see 7,000 people camped outside a store for 2 days waiting to get their grubby little paws on the latest gadget (apple, android, pc, xbox, whatever) it's a clear sign that people have Too Much (tm).
When people have Too Much (excess) there is senseless waste. It's the waste which drives the demand which drives the pollution. It's not just China. It's not just Apple. It's manufacturers responding to a demand.
Looks like all the game titles are Humble Bundle games. Don't get me wrong, I love the HB games and I think it's great that Linux is getting some gaming love but when I can just download, tar xvfz && ./runme , I don't see the point of this. Are other titles available? Does this mean EA is going to start doing Linux ports through this?
Knowing the capacities tends to favor negotiations.
They are evidently no longer basing operations within the Beta Quadrant!
Take picture of handouts/whiteboard.
> It might also help you not look like a complete fucking retard if you paid attention to the
> phrase : Protesters can return after the park is cleared.
You're only reading half the story. They are not allowed to bring anything back in after the park is "cleared".
http://i.imgur.com/TMxmg.jpg
It's a clear attempt to sabotage the entire right to assemble/protest.
As far as the "private property" argument, something about that sounds dubious. If it were a private corp who owned prime space in downtown new york you can damn betcha it would have apartments stacked up as far and wide as legally possible.
A judge even thinks so this morning too.
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/266582-order-re-liberty-park/
Someone made a nice song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=timfvNgr_Q4
> Surely, in a democracy, every law should be in its people's best interest, no?
Yes. But in this case the 'people' is the corporations.
Fedora is a test bed for software slated to be implemented in RHEL. You are running a distro which has only enough focus on stability to get the package built. That is not to say *buntu is 100% bug-free either but Fedora's purpose is for testing.
Games: Linux has some fairly decent games but I still can't go to amazon and pull down the "Linux" option from a drop-down. So, I dual boot.
Office: Libreoffice is nowhere near ready for primetime when importing/exporting a complicated Word doc. Maybe one day, but not today
Calendaring+Email: Exchange is deeply rooted in corporate IT. Admins can easily click through a few buttons to setup what's needed. The ease of setup allows managers to hire help at a fraction of the cost of a Unix admin to care & feed a postfix+dovecot+webdav alternative.
Apple is pretty but it's history repeating itself (like Microsoft in the mid 90s). Too many people drinking the kool-aid screaming "stfu and take my money". I wouldn't touch it for corporate IT.
The last thing an ego-maniacal millionaire is going to do is give up his "hard-earned" money. At some point in the wealth process money becomes the _only_ measuring stick of success. It's not that you need more, rather it's that you want more. It's like an addiction. The only way a law like this would pass is if there were a bigger payoff awaiting those who would support it.
IBM is in talks with Eset to produce cobol version of it's software.
The graph obviously shows China and the US are the top consumers of electricity trying to get FreeBSD compiled to run on their desktop.
Linux does everything I need my comp to do except play games, but don't get me wrong; I think BSD is great. It's a great option. I'm glad the alternative exists. It has just got a loooonng way to go to catch-up with Linux. Consider all the legal wrangling in it's past. Libraries have had to be hacked up, cut up, forked and fondled. You can't just download/untar/compile (Ports ain't all that either). It's a whole new kind of dependency hell. If I wanted the experience of heating my living room via CPU I'd run Gentoo first.
From a desktop perspective, It's taken over 20 years for OpenGL and the underlying X libraries on Linux to evolve far enough to be able to play Unreal Tournament or Quake 3 Arena, edit an MPEG, do a screencast, or even get a desktop screenshot. Yet, after 20 years things are still buggy and slow and difficult. I still can't pull down the OS Options menu on amazon and pick a Linux option when I buy the latest game (and Wine is just pathetic for gaming).
If the unix desktop was all that great these days we'd see lots of mainstream inroads being made across the *nix platforms in general. Switching to BSD would be easy but it's not.It's too difficult. Yeah, Macintosh is BSD but what you get is another highly polished proprietary, paid-for, hacked up OS that nobody is quite sure what hell is going on with. Nothing compiles on it unless you write in objective C or succumb to the Apple kool-aid-kult. I'd still run Gentoo.
> This isn't really news
Actually it is. The way these things get fixed are by making people aware of the problem. No software is absolutely bug free. As much as some people would like to stick their fingers in their ears and say "la-la-la not a problem...", there are just as many us who would like to fix the issue. So, yes this is news.