NSA had the chance, in a court, to tell the truth. They declined. Why would they do thing any differently?
I think the first thing I want to hear from the NSA is how they are going to bring those to trial who were responsible for all the lies, breaking of laws, and how tax dollars got approved for a f#cking Holodeck.
I'll take Snowden's version all day long. He's got the facts and proof backing it up. NSA is just going to mudsling, spout rhetoric, run damage control and spin, spin, spin. There will be no truth.
politician: "I just got a shit ton of cash from KKK and Bros. to push for a new law so they can add raw sewage to their energy drink as a filler" Judge:"Wtf? The FDA would never approve that!" (Enter Bob. Head of FDA. Previous Monsanto lobbyist) politician:"Hey bob, I'll vote for that new GMO corn thing to ride on the coattails of HSF.32 if you approve this thing for KKK Bros." Bob:"It's a deal!" Judge:"I'll never allow this. It's inhumane!" Politician:"Fine, we'll go get a judge who will" (Enter Bill, new judge. Previously a lawyer for large soft drink company) Politician:"Here, sign this. The FDA approved it. We also worked out a deal to get more corn syrup in cola drinks" Bill: *scribble scribble* -- "There you go."
even when the phone is switched off, it continues to slowly ping cell towers
Got a source for that? According to Samsung and Nokia, they have no idea how that would be possible*. I'm not saying they aren't "under oath to lie about it", but if you're going to pimp that legend, at least enlighten us as to the source of your infallible research on the topic.
I've seen how much of a raging asshole Linuz can be.
I can understand how working for a loud mouthed prick is a real downer. Thing is, there are a lot of LMPs in this industry. Far more asshat managers than civilized ones. Do you think Ballmer, Jobs, Ellison are/were any better? If you are seriously interested in this line of work, don't let the LMPs run your future. Make your career moves wisely, and with professionalism, and you'll do well no matter how much of a "raging asshole" you previously worked for.
A spin-off of a previous attempt to clone Windows 95, development started in early 1998, and has continued with the incremental addition of features already found in Windows.*
The worm consists of a layered attack against three different systems:
The Windows operating system,
Siemens PCS 7, WinCC and STEP7 industrial software applications that run on Windows and
One or more Siemens S7 PLCs.
Perhaps ISS is running Wine, or there was an error in translation? Not saying Linux is impenetrable, just pointing out the facts (at least as I know them).
I'm very glad they have this in place. Just knowing they are policing themselves with laws made to fit within the policies they've made up makes me feel so much better now. I'll never have to worrry about privacy again.
Seems to me, that unless stated otherwise, I should be able to have a private conversation with someone (email, phone, etc) without having to worry about the conversation being recorded and accessed by someone for means which it was not intended.
If employers and health care providers are already "googling" people for information about rates and employability, imaging the same private companies accessing an NSA scoring system to gather the same insight. It's not just about people's personal lives, it's about demographically/socially/racially/etc. profiling people for profit.
For all Its faults, the NSA is more of a flawed character than an evil one.
Breaking the law and a patent disregard constitutional rights is a "flaw"? It's not "evil" to make a secret court that makes secret laws that nobody is allowed to see? What the NSA is engaged in is an egregious exercise in government spying and spending "gone wild". Running unchecked and unrestrained. How the hell does anyone get tax dollars approved to build a replica of a Holodeck?
We are not talking about a simple matter of other countries complaining they saw an SR71 blackbird over their air space, or that the shot down a US spy drone that wandered over their borders. We are talking about a government entity which has broken many laws and side-stepped the rules and regulations in place which were designed to prevent this exact thing from happening.
The NSA and it's ilk have set up a system with a generic rubber stamp where they can excuse everything they do because "It got approved, see the stamp?". How is it a "flaw" that the public cannot lie under oath, yet the NSA director is somehow excused from that? No, sorry. I don't see anything reasonable about the "job" they did. Reason left a long time ago and now we have a runaway train doing whatever it wants with no regard to the law. I'm sure there's plenty we don't know about yet.
Are you friggin nuts? This seems to imply that any filtering at the kernel level will need to unwrap all the application specific jibber-jabber in this protocol to determine wtf it's supposed to do with it. That would be quite costly in terms of performance. No, I don't trust applications to handle the security of packet data coming in. Especially when some entity wants to bury support for the protocol in their own web browser. This just smells like all kinds of Hell naw .
Sintered metal often has a lot of microscopic voids in the resulting grain structure so I'm kind of surprised it withstood 50 rounds. The slamming of the action exacerbates the fracture tendency as well. It's basically proof-of-concept, but I'm curious how many rounds this thing would take before failing. I like their clever choice of Inconel even if used only for the barrel (not sure where they used it though).
efinitely fit the description "stuff that matters".
Yes, it matters on the whole. No, it doesn't really belong on a tech news website, but then again, a good percentage of the stuff coming through the firehose is tabloid tripe these days.
I don't have anything against helping people out but I read/. to get away from the drama of reality for awhile. You might as well put one of those stupid red tickers at the bottom of the page and be done with it.
the XBox is the best all-round device for the next generation.
What?? You can't play any 360 games on it, requires microsoft servers to run many of the games, it won't work without a Kinect plugged in and you have to let it phone home at least once a day. What's more you HAVE to have an xbox live gold SUBSCRIPTION to use it (can you say Maintenance agreeement anybody?) and the 500G hard drive inside is proprietary -- plus it costs $100 bucks more than PS4. You're high dude. Nobody wants that. Nobody except the Halo junkies.
Obviously, you want to change it... because? Jeez.
I think OP is trying to address the issue of having an infrastructure running on a bunch of home grown stuff supported by just a couple guys. If it works, great but when one or two or three of those guys leave, all of a sudden nobody knows how the thing works and you have a mess. If there is a mandated documentation ritual along with revision control, it helps, but that's probably not the case. OP is wondering if there is an open source solution out there already doing what they've duct-taped together. In my dealings with KVM, I'm guessing not. It's a great question to ask now rather than later.
leaving the store with no parasites attached to me.
Oh? What about.....
Want music? Itunes only. Upgrade hardrive? No. Ebook from Amazon? No. Boobies? Censored. Buy Apple? Koch profit*. App developer? Not until it's blessed. Someday. Child labor? wat**?
Not trying to be an ass, just pointing out that Apple isn't as squeaky clean as they would have you believe. Behind the "curtain" is just another megacorp doing all the typical megacorp crap.
Every single time something sh#tty happens which adversely affects the common population, there is a lobbyist. Has anything 'good' ever happened when these people were involved?
When are corporations going to be held responsible for the security of their customers' information?
It used to be that companies really feared being out of compliance with PCI standards but things must have changed. I don't know for certain but if I had to venture a guess, companies probably find it more appealing to take chances being non-compliant rather than invest in appropriate infrastructure (including competent staff) to support full PCI compliance .
It's *extremely* difficult to sell proper security to management based on potentials. They want numbers to plug into their spreadsheets to measure cost vs. benefit but when you are working with a gradient like a compromise those numbers fall anywhere from 0 to infinity depending on the depth of the compromise (think Stuxnet) and what assets are at risk (adobe Photoshop source code). For those reasons, many companies only implement the bare minimum and hope for the best.
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NSA had the chance, in a court, to tell the truth. They declined. Why would they do thing any differently?
I think the first thing I want to hear from the NSA is how they are going to bring those to trial who were responsible for all the lies, breaking of laws, and how tax dollars got approved for a f#cking Holodeck.
I'll take Snowden's version all day long. He's got the facts and proof backing it up. NSA is just going to mudsling, spout rhetoric, run damage control and spin, spin, spin. There will be no truth.
I never understand this thinking.
In the US, it seems to usually work like this:
politician: "I just got a shit ton of cash from KKK and Bros. to push for a new law so they can add raw sewage to their energy drink as a filler"
Judge:"Wtf? The FDA would never approve that!"
(Enter Bob. Head of FDA. Previous Monsanto lobbyist)
politician:"Hey bob, I'll vote for that new GMO corn thing to ride on the coattails of HSF.32 if you approve this thing for KKK Bros."
Bob:"It's a deal!"
Judge:"I'll never allow this. It's inhumane!"
Politician:"Fine, we'll go get a judge who will"
(Enter Bill, new judge. Previously a lawyer for large soft drink company)
Politician:"Here, sign this. The FDA approved it. We also worked out a deal to get more corn syrup in cola drinks"
Bill: *scribble scribble* -- "There you go."
No accidents so far
That's like playing Russian Roulette and claiming it's safe since you've never shot yourself yet.
even when the phone is switched off, it continues to slowly ping cell towers
Got a source for that? According to Samsung and Nokia, they have no idea how that would be possible*. I'm not saying they aren't "under oath to lie about it", but if you're going to pimp that legend, at least enlighten us as to the source of your infallible research on the topic.
[*] http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/11/samsung-nokia-say-they-dont-know-how-to-track-a-powered-down-phone/
I've seen how much of a raging asshole Linuz can be.
I can understand how working for a loud mouthed prick is a real downer. Thing is, there are a lot of LMPs in this industry. Far more asshat managers than civilized ones. Do you think Ballmer, Jobs, Ellison are/were any better? If you are seriously interested in this line of work, don't let the LMPs run your future. Make your career moves wisely, and with professionalism, and you'll do well no matter how much of a "raging asshole" you previously worked for.
..er, forget it.
Gotta hand it to the guy, he's got some tenacity.
A spin-off of a previous attempt to clone Windows 95, development started in early 1998, and has continued with the incremental addition of features already found in Windows.*
[*] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReactOS
Strange, Stuxnet is a Windows program*.
The worm consists of a layered attack against three different systems:
The Windows operating system,
Siemens PCS 7, WinCC and STEP7 industrial software applications that run on Windows and
One or more Siemens S7 PLCs.
Perhaps ISS is running Wine, or there was an error in translation? Not saying Linux is impenetrable, just pointing out the facts (at least as I know them).
[*] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet
I'm very glad they have this in place. Just knowing they are policing themselves with laws made to fit within the policies they've made up makes me feel so much better now. I'll never have to worrry about privacy again.
Privacy is never a given
Seems to me, that unless stated otherwise, I should be able to have a private conversation with someone (email, phone, etc) without having to worry about the conversation being recorded and accessed by someone for means which it was not intended.
If employers and health care providers are already "googling" people for information about rates and employability, imaging the same private companies accessing an NSA scoring system to gather the same insight. It's not just about people's personal lives, it's about demographically/socially/racially/etc. profiling people for profit.
For all Its faults, the NSA is more of a flawed character than an evil one.
Breaking the law and a patent disregard constitutional rights is a "flaw"? It's not "evil" to make a secret court that makes secret laws that nobody is allowed to see? What the NSA is engaged in is an egregious exercise in government spying and spending "gone wild". Running unchecked and unrestrained. How the hell does anyone get tax dollars approved to build a replica of a Holodeck?
We are not talking about a simple matter of other countries complaining they saw an SR71 blackbird over their air space, or that the shot down a US spy drone that wandered over their borders. We are talking about a government entity which has broken many laws and side-stepped the rules and regulations in place which were designed to prevent this exact thing from happening.
The NSA and it's ilk have set up a system with a generic rubber stamp where they can excuse everything they do because "It got approved, see the stamp?". How is it a "flaw" that the public cannot lie under oath, yet the NSA director is somehow excused from that? No, sorry. I don't see anything reasonable about the "job" they did. Reason left a long time ago and now we have a runaway train doing whatever it wants with no regard to the law. I'm sure there's plenty we don't know about yet.
Are you friggin nuts? This seems to imply that any filtering at the kernel level will need to unwrap all the application specific jibber-jabber in this protocol to determine wtf it's supposed to do with it. That would be quite costly in terms of performance. No, I don't trust applications to handle the security of packet data coming in. Especially when some entity wants to bury support for the protocol in their own web browser. This just smells like all kinds of Hell naw .
This site has a ton of them. It must be someone's excel file laying on a web server share or something.
Sintered metal often has a lot of microscopic voids in the resulting grain structure so I'm kind of surprised it withstood 50 rounds. The slamming of the action exacerbates the fracture tendency as well. It's basically proof-of-concept, but I'm curious how many rounds this thing would take before failing. I like their clever choice of Inconel even if used only for the barrel (not sure where they used it though).
efinitely fit the description "stuff that matters".
Yes, it matters on the whole. No, it doesn't really belong on a tech news website, but then again, a good percentage of the stuff coming through the firehose is tabloid tripe these days.
I don't have anything against helping people out but I read /. to get away from the drama of reality for awhile. You might as well put one of those stupid red tickers at the bottom of the page and be done with it.
Because this doesn't seem like tech news
the XBox is the best all-round device for the next generation.
What?? You can't play any 360 games on it, requires microsoft servers to run many of the games, it won't work without a Kinect plugged in and you have to let it phone home at least once a day. What's more you HAVE to have an xbox live gold SUBSCRIPTION to use it (can you say Maintenance agreeement anybody?) and the 500G hard drive inside is proprietary -- plus it costs $100 bucks more than PS4. You're high dude. Nobody wants that. Nobody except the Halo junkies.
Obviously, you want to change it... because? Jeez.
I think OP is trying to address the issue of having an infrastructure running on a bunch of home grown stuff supported by just a couple guys. If it works, great but when one or two or three of those guys leave, all of a sudden nobody knows how the thing works and you have a mess. If there is a mandated documentation ritual along with revision control, it helps, but that's probably not the case. OP is wondering if there is an open source solution out there already doing what they've duct-taped together. In my dealings with KVM, I'm guessing not. It's a great question to ask now rather than later.
It seems like a giant project that was hurried, kind of like a Windows Vista.
FTFY:
It seems like a giant project that was bastardized, kind of like a Microsoft standard.
leaving the store with no parasites attached to me.
Oh? What about.....
Want music? Itunes only.
Upgrade hardrive? No.
Ebook from Amazon? No.
Boobies? Censored.
Buy Apple? Koch profit*.
App developer? Not until it's blessed. Someday.
Child labor? wat**?
Not trying to be an ass, just pointing out that Apple isn't as squeaky clean as they would have you believe. Behind the "curtain" is just another megacorp doing all the typical megacorp crap.
[*] http://macdailynews.com/2013/09/10/koch-brothers-make-offer-of-7-billion-for-apple-supplier-molex/
[**] http://appleinsider.com/articles/12/01/25/former_executives_accuse_apple_of_ignoring_supplier_labor_abuses
Relax. I'm pretty sure nobody here is a crow, gull, housefly, moth, fox, frog, shark or whale.
Every single time something sh#tty happens which adversely affects the common population, there is a lobbyist. Has anything 'good' ever happened when these people were involved?
Users also need to exercise caution
There will never be a phrase in computing history which has never been more heavily disregarded.
When are corporations going to be held responsible for the security of their customers' information?
It used to be that companies really feared being out of compliance with PCI standards but things must have changed. I don't know for certain but if I had to venture a guess, companies probably find it more appealing to take chances being non-compliant rather than invest in appropriate infrastructure (including competent staff) to support full PCI compliance .
It's *extremely* difficult to sell proper security to management based on potentials. They want numbers to plug into their spreadsheets to measure cost vs. benefit but when you are working with a gradient like a compromise those numbers fall anywhere from 0 to infinity depending on the depth of the compromise (think Stuxnet) and what assets are at risk (adobe Photoshop source code). For those reasons, many companies only implement the bare minimum and hope for the best.
creates a divide by zero error in google's datacenter