I use "low security" passwords at multiple sites. I have 4, to satisfy the most common requirements of pwd utilities. I use these at sites like/. where in the grand scheme of things it doesn't matter if I'm compromised. Then I have unique passwords for all financial sites like amazon. Finally I have hard passwords. I only can remember one, and it is to a TC volume on a USB key. I keep the key with me (and have several backups). This is for domain pwds, bank pwds, google account, etc. where there would be real harm possible.
Actually I think Rush also exercises the 2nd amendment IIRC.
That said, while I tend to agree with Rush more often than not, I think that both of those two men are extreme. I also think that is good. The day extremest views are suppressed is the day I can start my countdown to being censored as well.
KKK Black Panthers (what's left at least) Rush Michael that coast to coast guy (what's his name?) all are good signs that our constitution works (even if I think they are kookey) -nB
PCI / PCIe x1 are both ~1Gbps max throughput (not counting overhead, that's raw bus speed). All the other PCIe's scale linerly, thus a PCIe x4 is 4Gbps bus speed.
After communications protocol over the bus that speed drops (not sure how much). There are other factors as well but what it all comes down to is PCI or PCIe can really handle only about 500Mbps per link.
yes. I have systems at home that are personal systems. I do not encrypt those. You want my MP3 collection? fine have it. On my dev machine (and its backups, USB keys etc.) I run truecrypt. I use the bootable crypt filesystem etc. The reason for this is that I do consulting work. I do not want to let some of this stuff out for any reason.
sure there is. It is basic mitigation against a compromised account. If an account is silently compromised by login creds then after the password change the account is once again secure.
I beg to differ. We use PGP whole disk encryption and let me tell you, you notice the difference between two machines, one with crypto, one without. That said, it's the company's machine. If they want it to be slower but more secure that's their call.
Also, on normal tasks this difference may be nominal, but if you're doing a backup and/or virus scan, and doing something else that requires CPU you will bog badly. -nB
you are correct. hybridizing is genetic engineering at its most basic level. However, it is inherently safer as mother nature puts limits on how far you can go before you fail to get offspring (corn + poison ivy), or the offspring is sterile (horse + zebra). -nB
FWIW I think the terminator seeds are a good thing. Specifically I think that any other GMs (like BT) should *have* to be terminator seeds, such that if they escaped to the wild hopefully they would die out quickly. In theory the terminator gene should prevent escape to the wild, but we all know that in practice theory never holds out 100%. -nB
Don't forget Huskey tools. After Craftsman decided to close their US plants and ship their manufacturing to China, Home Depot bought the plant and re-hired the people... I'll buy American, I don't shop WalMart, etc. I'm desperately trying to vote with my dollars but it feels like spitting in the wind.
We don't need more laws (though I wouldn't mind higher tariffs on.cn goods), what we need is a national awareness campaign about what it means to buy from WallMart and their ilk. I propose that some of those "bailout BS" dollars be used to hire JibJab to make national pride and awareness shorts, without any government censorship, and to place them on TV in add slots all throughout the day. -nB
That's really not fair either. Many bugs that are security related are a result of interactions that people simply didn't think of as possible. While bug free code is desirable, and possible, would you be willing to pay 10 times more for a "provable" product? 100 times more?
Look at the space shuttle code. Provable software with an average of something like 2 man years per line of code on average? Is that realistic for consumer or even pro commercial software?
On the flip side I abhor this type of disclosure as well. I think 0 days should be forwarded to the vendor and given at least 90 days before release. Hell set a timer on it, even say the following timeline would be ok(ish): discover exploit: notify vendor notification + 1 week: notify world of nonspecific vuln in product notification + 1 month: notify world of type of vulnerability notification + 2 months: notify world of specific vuln notification + 3 months: notify world with exploit code. -nB
Bzzzt! Fair use can also include commercial activity: US Code Title15, Chapter22, Subchapter III, ss1125,(d)(1)(B)(i)(IV). Fair use includes comparative advertising, comment, criticism, or parody, even where done for profit. (granted, none of these cover the cups...)
Ah, The monetary responsibility is entirely mine. There is no contest there. I would love to pay it off.
What is not my fault is that the government has seen fit to meddle with previously agreed contracts such that now I am under a thumb that would have never been there otherwise. -nB
I use netflix. I will still use netflix. I do not download movies or songs from torrent sites because the risk is too high. I do download BBC material I can not watch in the states (hopefully some day they will take me up on my offer to give them money for this).
something even simpler: I have a _large_ amount of debt. It is *all* on credit cards. The average interest rate was 3.5%apr I was making all payments just fine thank you (paying a little above the minimum, not taking out any new debt and making progress to be fully paid off in ~10 years).
Then someone thought it would be a good idea to make the minimum payments go from 2% of balance to 5% of balance... All of a sudden my minimum payments go up 250%! Two hundred fifty fucking percent! what was ~$1000/month is now $2500/month (rounding up a bit here, but not much).
Pray tell, how am I supposed to pay this off? Add to this that the federal requirements for any balance liquidation program specifies a 60 month term, so even with a "hardship" this all has to be amortized to 5 years and I am facing the reality of bankruptcy. This is *not* my fault. I took on this debt in good faith and was never late. Then our prez thinks it's a good idea to force us into a situation where we have no choice but to fail. WTF is my bailout?
I have one creditor (Chase Bank) who has threatened litigation already.
I don't blame the credit companies directly, though I think they should have pointed out the number of accounts that would likely go delinquent when this was implemented by the government, and lobbied against it.
since when is a nuke hard to create? You find me some decent u235 and I'll make you a nuke. I can source *everything else* easily. I can do the machining. I also will take your nuke and give it to the fishes over by Bikini Atol and set it off rather than let you use it on a civilian population. Ironically that would likely scare the US a lot more. [oh shit mode] They just proved they have NUKES!!!!111~ [/oh shit mode]
Anyway, nukes are not hard. High yield and/or "clean" nukes are hard, but a terrorist likely cares only a bit about the first and likely wants to avoid the second. Frankly, I can think of literally 5 or 6 ways to actively attack the infrastructure (planes fall out of the sky at random, certain other vehicles with certain payloads have interesting failures, etc.) that would be nearly impossible to avoid against. and if you want to actually go BOOM then just load up with nails and dynamite and stand in line to get on a plane. When you're in the middle of the security queue push the button...
I'm more afraid they get their hands on smallpox either by a plant here at the CDC (they seem to be able to recruit some pretty smart people / doctors...) or by bribe to someone in Moscow. That would truly suck. -nB
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or like me was much older and adopted out, then later found his bio family?
Ok, so both our analogy's are broken...
Let's go get a pint at the pub and exchange ad hominems next.
Cheers
I use "low security" passwords at multiple sites. /. where in the grand scheme of things it doesn't matter if I'm compromised.
I have 4, to satisfy the most common requirements of pwd utilities. I use these at sites like
Then I have unique passwords for all financial sites like amazon.
Finally I have hard passwords. I only can remember one, and it is to a TC volume on a USB key. I keep the key with me (and have several backups). This is for domain pwds, bank pwds, google account, etc. where there would be real harm possible.
except she was willing to pay their duplication costs, just to get them produced. Which breaks your analogy just like a sledgehammer to David.
CBS is still being asshatish though. I'm sure we can agree on that.
And can ideas really be treasonous?
Yes, they can.
Plotting to violently overthrow the government is treasonous, and an idea (as well as collusion, conspiracy, etc.)
Actually I think Rush also exercises the 2nd amendment IIRC.
That said, while I tend to agree with Rush more often than not, I think that both of those two men are extreme. I also think that is good. The day extremest views are suppressed is the day I can start my countdown to being censored as well.
KKK
Black Panthers (what's left at least)
Rush
Michael
that coast to coast guy (what's his name?)
all are good signs that our constitution works (even if I think they are kookey)
-nB
gotten at the 0xCAFE 0F DEAD BEEF
FWIW:
PCI / PCIe x1 are both ~1Gbps max throughput (not counting overhead, that's raw bus speed).
All the other PCIe's scale linerly, thus a PCIe x4 is 4Gbps bus speed.
After communications protocol over the bus that speed drops (not sure how much). There are other factors as well but what it all comes down to is PCI or PCIe can really handle only about 500Mbps per link.
-nB
yes.
I have systems at home that are personal systems. I do not encrypt those. You want my MP3 collection? fine have it. On my dev machine (and its backups, USB keys etc.) I run truecrypt. I use the bootable crypt filesystem etc. The reason for this is that I do consulting work. I do not want to let some of this stuff out for any reason.
sure there is.
It is basic mitigation against a compromised account.
If an account is silently compromised by login creds then after the password change the account is once again secure.
I beg to differ.
We use PGP whole disk encryption and let me tell you, you notice the difference between two machines, one with crypto, one without. That said, it's the company's machine. If they want it to be slower but more secure that's their call.
Also, on normal tasks this difference may be nominal, but if you're doing a backup and/or virus scan, and doing something else that requires CPU you will bog badly.
-nB
you are correct.
hybridizing is genetic engineering at its most basic level. However, it is inherently safer as mother nature puts limits on how far you can go before you fail to get offspring (corn + poison ivy), or the offspring is sterile (horse + zebra).
-nB
FWIW I think the terminator seeds are a good thing.
Specifically I think that any other GMs (like BT) should *have* to be terminator seeds, such that if they escaped to the wild hopefully they would die out quickly. In theory the terminator gene should prevent escape to the wild, but we all know that in practice theory never holds out 100%.
-nB
better yet, does *he* nuke food?
average leakage out of an old microwave is vastly more than what radiates from an 802.11 AP.
-nB
Don't forget Huskey tools.
After Craftsman decided to close their US plants and ship their manufacturing to China, Home Depot bought the plant and re-hired the people...
I'll buy American, I don't shop WalMart, etc. I'm desperately trying to vote with my dollars but it feels like spitting in the wind.
We don't need more laws (though I wouldn't mind higher tariffs on .cn goods), what we need is a national awareness campaign about what it means to buy from WallMart and their ilk.
I propose that some of those "bailout BS" dollars be used to hire JibJab to make national pride and awareness shorts, without any government censorship, and to place them on TV in add slots all throughout the day.
-nB
That's really not fair either.
Many bugs that are security related are a result of interactions that people simply didn't think of as possible. While bug free code is desirable, and possible, would you be willing to pay 10 times more for a "provable" product? 100 times more?
Look at the space shuttle code. Provable software with an average of something like 2 man years per line of code on average? Is that realistic for consumer or even pro commercial software?
On the flip side I abhor this type of disclosure as well. I think 0 days should be forwarded to the vendor and given at least 90 days before release. Hell set a timer on it, even say the following timeline would be ok(ish):
discover exploit: notify vendor
notification + 1 week: notify world of nonspecific vuln in product
notification + 1 month: notify world of type of vulnerability
notification + 2 months: notify world of specific vuln
notification + 3 months: notify world with exploit code.
-nB
no to mention that should count as prior art...
Bzzzt!
Fair use can also include commercial activity:
US Code Title15, Chapter22, Subchapter III, ss1125,(d)(1)(B)(i)(IV). Fair use includes comparative advertising, comment, criticism, or parody, even where done for profit.
(granted, none of these cover the cups...)
I specified torrent as opposed to internet...
Ah,
The monetary responsibility is entirely mine.
There is no contest there. I would love to pay it off.
What is not my fault is that the government has seen fit to meddle with previously agreed contracts such that now I am under a thumb that would have never been there otherwise.
-nB
I use netflix.
I will still use netflix.
I do not download movies or songs from torrent sites because the risk is too high.
I do download BBC material I can not watch in the states (hopefully some day they will take me up on my offer to give them money for this).
something even simpler:
I have a _large_ amount of debt.
It is *all* on credit cards.
The average interest rate was 3.5%apr
I was making all payments just fine thank you (paying a little above the minimum, not taking out any new debt and making progress to be fully paid off in ~10 years).
Then someone thought it would be a good idea to make the minimum payments go from 2% of balance to 5% of balance...
All of a sudden my minimum payments go up 250%!
Two hundred fifty fucking percent!
what was ~$1000/month is now $2500/month (rounding up a bit here, but not much).
Pray tell, how am I supposed to pay this off?
Add to this that the federal requirements for any balance liquidation program specifies a 60 month term, so even with a "hardship" this all has to be amortized to 5 years and I am facing the reality of bankruptcy. This is *not* my fault. I took on this debt in good faith and was never late. Then our prez thinks it's a good idea to force us into a situation where we have no choice but to fail. WTF is my bailout?
I have one creditor (Chase Bank) who has threatened litigation already.
I don't blame the credit companies directly, though I think they should have pointed out the number of accounts that would likely go delinquent when this was implemented by the government, and lobbied against it.
since when is a nuke hard to create?
You find me some decent u235 and I'll make you a nuke.
I can source *everything else* easily.
I can do the machining.
I also will take your nuke and give it to the fishes over by Bikini Atol and set it off rather than let you use it on a civilian population. Ironically that would likely scare the US a lot more.
[oh shit mode]
They just proved they have NUKES!!!!111~
[/oh shit mode]
Anyway, nukes are not hard. High yield and/or "clean" nukes are hard, but a terrorist likely cares only a bit about the first and likely wants to avoid the second. Frankly, I can think of literally 5 or 6 ways to actively attack the infrastructure (planes fall out of the sky at random, certain other vehicles with certain payloads have interesting failures, etc.) that would be nearly impossible to avoid against. and if you want to actually go BOOM then just load up with nails and dynamite and stand in line to get on a plane. When you're in the middle of the security queue push the button...
I'm more afraid they get their hands on smallpox either by a plant here at the CDC (they seem to be able to recruit some pretty smart people / doctors...) or by bribe to someone in Moscow. That would truly suck.
-nB
subtle difference
I don't want to work there, made it clear, but said "for this much" I'll do it anyway.
I see your point though.