IT specialists for the city found that the system serving as the distribution point for the malware within the city’s network was a print server that handles printing jobs for Norfolk City Hall. However, an exact copy of the malware on that server may never be recovered, as city computer technicians quickly isolated and rebuilt the offending print server.
“Obviously, our first reaction was to shut it down and restore services, and at least initially we weren’t concerned about capturing [the malware] or setting it aside,” Cluff said.
Obviously, your reaction was wrong in every way. When a system is compromised you physically unplug it from the network and keep it powered on so that you can run forensics on it. Good work destroying any evidence you might have had about not only who performed this attack, but what weakness in your security they exploited to accomplish it. All that just to get a print server of all things back online as fast as possible.
The U1 seems like a cool idea. But two operating systems to maintain, with all of the loss of application fidelity that entails?
Count me out. And what is really the difference when I can just also carry a bluetooth keyboard with an iPad. What if someone makes an iPad case with bluetooth keyboard built in? Then how is the U1 really superior?
Even better, someone should attach the keyboard directly to the iPad. You could also have it fold up to protect the screen when it is not in use. And if you have a keyboard on it then it wouldn't be much more space to add some kind of mouse capability. Maybe like a touch pad of some sort. I think we may be on to something huge. Game changer.
Part of Rapture's great wonder was that it was just believable enough, if you squinted your brain a bit (or a lot), but this lathers on so much wild sci-fi that it's much harder to connect to it.
I'm a little bit afraid of the person who thought Bioshock was "believable".
Amazon is hard to say no to, because they move a lot of books. But they are cutting profit margins dangerously low for us.
Let me make sure I'm understanding you correctly. If the original price of $9.99 was "cutting profit margins dangerously low", then that means you were barely breaking even. An increase to $14.99 would mean that your company is now reaping a profit margin of more than 33%. Is that what you intended to say? In what way should we feel badly for your company?
That word bugs the hell out of me. It's like watching a "hacker" in the movies waving around a power glove while a graphic of a virus attacks things. And you used it 9 times in that summary. Just stop it.
But there is. For one thing the TTL will be one lower than "usual". You can hide that, but there are lots of other ways to detect it.
The TTL will be decremented because the packet passes through a router which is performing the NAT (Linksys, Netgear, whatever). By blocking hosts based upon TTL inspection wouldn't they would preclude anyone using a home router, or more importantly, having wireless access?
Its pretty hard to stop someone from using a NAT. Comcast can't really tell the difference between a NAT and a single machine without deep packet inspection.
I am pretty sure there is no difference between a "normal" and NAT packet once it leaves the router. It doesn't matter how much Comcast examines it.
That only makes sense if you consider a "commercial" to be the only form of advertisement possible. Given the magic of the internet, there are all sorts of things you can do. Mandatory ads before the show starts. Banners. In-show product placement. Close tie-ins to other web sites are easily facilitated. Etc.
I think it is quite telling of the industry in general that they cannot fathom anything that hasn't been done for the last 60 years already.
People who speak twice as loudly on the phone as they do in person bug the hell out of me. Also, people who pull their phones out during a movie to text, seemingly unaware that their phone is like a laser straight into our eyeballs.
Seriously - get overselves and STOP finding ways to make my job more difficult. MY job produces the revenue that pays YOUR salary.
To put it in a car analogy, it is like rolling through stop signs. It saves you one or two seconds each time you do it, but when you get caught you end up losing all the time you saved twenty-fold.
The "hoops" are in place for a reason. You may not get immediate gratification, but overall your job happens more efficiently.
Well, gee -- how about creating the equivalent of noscript for Adobe, then? That way, the user can decide for themselves if they want to run scripts in what they THOUGHT was just a formatted text document.
I don't have it installed on this machine, but I am pretty sure there is a setting to disable script support in all versions of Acrobat.
With the strong following that Apple has for its product lines and the underserved tablet market for personal computing i dont see this as unreasonable. provided they got the bugs out before investing in the hardware. a mass order will help Apple secure a better cost and that should bring about a better retail for the consumer.
As someone who has used and supported hundreds of tablets and convertibles, let me assure you the "tablet market" is right where it should be. Tablets require the user to give up a large amount of functionality in the form of a physical keyboard and mouse, and the return for this is minimal and extremely niche. While I do not doubt that Apple could do well selling these on brand alone, tablets are simply not a practical replacement for the standard notebook or desktop.
If it were really that good,
it would sniff the referrer on all
the HTTP requests and throttle Slashdot.
I'm sure this was meant in jest, but it doesn't work that way. They could instantly drop every packet in a DDoS attack and it wouldn't matter. By the time it hits their network the bandwidth is already gone.
No one should be running an administrator-level account for day-to-day work. It's a huge security risk. If there are tasks that absolutely require administrative rights to do with no workaround (rarely) then you create an administrator account that they log in to for that task only, then log back on to their normal account.
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IT specialists for the city found that the system serving as the distribution point for the malware within the city’s network was a print server that handles printing jobs for Norfolk City Hall. However, an exact copy of the malware on that server may never be recovered, as city computer technicians quickly isolated and rebuilt the offending print server. “Obviously, our first reaction was to shut it down and restore services, and at least initially we weren’t concerned about capturing [the malware] or setting it aside,” Cluff said.
Obviously, your reaction was wrong in every way. When a system is compromised you physically unplug it from the network and keep it powered on so that you can run forensics on it. Good work destroying any evidence you might have had about not only who performed this attack, but what weakness in your security they exploited to accomplish it. All that just to get a print server of all things back online as fast as possible.
IBM owns and develops several operating systems (i, AIX, z/OS, z/VM, z/TPF). I'm not really sure what you're referring to.
OS/2
The U1 seems like a cool idea. But two operating systems to maintain, with all of the loss of application fidelity that entails?
Count me out. And what is really the difference when I can just also carry a bluetooth keyboard with an iPad. What if someone makes an iPad case with bluetooth keyboard built in? Then how is the U1 really superior?
Even better, someone should attach the keyboard directly to the iPad. You could also have it fold up to protect the screen when it is not in use. And if you have a keyboard on it then it wouldn't be much more space to add some kind of mouse capability. Maybe like a touch pad of some sort. I think we may be on to something huge. Game changer.
Getting killed in a car accident, by contrast, is 4,300 times more likely.
That is probably very close to the same odds as being on a plane targeted by terrorists; look how calmly we are responding to that threat.
who thought the original was boring?
System Shock was far from boring.
What's the story with DRM on this game?
http://forums.2kgames.com/forums/showthread.php?t=55023
Part of Rapture's great wonder was that it was just believable enough, if you squinted your brain a bit (or a lot), but this lathers on so much wild sci-fi that it's much harder to connect to it.
I'm a little bit afraid of the person who thought Bioshock was "believable".
So they are letting people "opt in" to remove export controls. Who is liable if the code is subject to export restrictions, SF or the developer?
Is Google liable if I Gmail you restricted encryption algorithms?
Amazon is hard to say no to, because they move a lot of books. But they are cutting profit margins dangerously low for us.
Let me make sure I'm understanding you correctly. If the original price of $9.99 was "cutting profit margins dangerously low", then that means you were barely breaking even. An increase to $14.99 would mean that your company is now reaping a profit margin of more than 33%. Is that what you intended to say? In what way should we feel badly for your company?
That word bugs the hell out of me. It's like watching a "hacker" in the movies waving around a power glove while a graphic of a virus attacks things. And you used it 9 times in that summary. Just stop it.
But there is. For one thing the TTL will be one lower than "usual". You can hide that, but there are lots of other ways to detect it.
The TTL will be decremented because the packet passes through a router which is performing the NAT (Linksys, Netgear, whatever). By blocking hosts based upon TTL inspection wouldn't they would preclude anyone using a home router, or more importantly, having wireless access?
Its pretty hard to stop someone from using a NAT. Comcast can't really tell the difference between a NAT and a single machine without deep packet inspection.
I am pretty sure there is no difference between a "normal" and NAT packet once it leaves the router. It doesn't matter how much Comcast examines it.
That only makes sense if you consider a "commercial" to be the only form of advertisement possible. Given the magic of the internet, there are all sorts of things you can do. Mandatory ads before the show starts. Banners. In-show product placement. Close tie-ins to other web sites are easily facilitated. Etc. I think it is quite telling of the industry in general that they cannot fathom anything that hasn't been done for the last 60 years already.
I guess Conan should have had more commercials.
People who speak twice as loudly on the phone as they do in person bug the hell out of me. Also, people who pull their phones out during a movie to text, seemingly unaware that their phone is like a laser straight into our eyeballs.
Seriously - get overselves and STOP finding ways to make my job more difficult. MY job produces the revenue that pays YOUR salary.
To put it in a car analogy, it is like rolling through stop signs. It saves you one or two seconds each time you do it, but when you get caught you end up losing all the time you saved twenty-fold.
The "hoops" are in place for a reason. You may not get immediate gratification, but overall your job happens more efficiently.
Every time you die in-game you can write off the armor repair costs on your taxes!
... my Wii does not output in 1080p, will movies streamed by Netflix display in HD? If not, why bother?
The majority of the Netflix streams are 480 (DVD). The best ones top out at 720, and even those require permission from the studio to use.
Well, gee -- how about creating the equivalent of noscript for Adobe, then? That way, the user can decide for themselves if they want to run scripts in what they THOUGHT was just a formatted text document.
I don't have it installed on this machine, but I am pretty sure there is a setting to disable script support in all versions of Acrobat.
They spy on us with impunity and share the intelligence with our government. In return our government does the same for them.
Both countries get to perform full-scale spying on their own citizens without violating any laws or causing an uproar.
With the strong following that Apple has for its product lines and the underserved tablet market for personal computing i dont see this as unreasonable. provided they got the bugs out before investing in the hardware. a mass order will help Apple secure a better cost and that should bring about a better retail for the consumer.
As someone who has used and supported hundreds of tablets and convertibles, let me assure you the "tablet market" is right where it should be. Tablets require the user to give up a large amount of functionality in the form of a physical keyboard and mouse, and the return for this is minimal and extremely niche. While I do not doubt that Apple could do well selling these on brand alone, tablets are simply not a practical replacement for the standard notebook or desktop.
Any legislator that voted for these extensions should be voted out of office, no matter their party affiliation.
Or run into a pine tree at high rates of speed.
If it were really that good, it would sniff the referrer on all the HTTP requests and throttle Slashdot.
I'm sure this was meant in jest, but it doesn't work that way. They could instantly drop every packet in a DDoS attack and it wouldn't matter. By the time it hits their network the bandwidth is already gone.
This engine is not intended to just replace or emulate the existing tools in the industry, but will bring new ideas and technologies to the field.
Sweet! What are some examples of things this does that no other solution provides?
No one should be running an administrator-level account for day-to-day work. It's a huge security risk. If there are tasks that absolutely require administrative rights to do with no workaround (rarely) then you create an administrator account that they log in to for that task only, then log back on to their normal account.