Started using linux back in 95 because it was able to do some cool networking stuff that windows couldn't do (don't remember what that was any more). Used it for about a year until i got a new computer that had a win modem. Used it off and on for a few years after that. Got a job as a windows/novell sysadmin. Talked my bosses into letting me replace our broken sonic wall router with a linux based one. Started going into a linux help channel on irc and helping other people. Someone I helped came back a few months later asking if I wanted a job working from home on their linux based network. Eventually took their three shared hosted linux servers into a large, high availability network using nothing but linux devices (and a couple switches). Decided I had conquered linux and moved into software development which is what I had really been interested in all along.
that's only based on revenue. top 10 by market cap is apple, quanta, microsoft, google, ibm, asus, oracle, samsung, intel, cisco. 3 of the top 4 have a heavily vested interest in this. Even ibm, asus, intel and cisco have a slightly vested interest in it. Oh also, Sony only has about 12% of the market cap that apple has.
section 6.6 isn't a penetration test. section 6.6 requires an automated scan of your network to find out what software and version is running and verify that there are no listed vulnerabilities for that version of the software in nvd. As for sony, i've heard people say that prior to this whole fiasco, their card wouldn't go through on PSN because the credit card company had them on the list of untrusted merchants. This would mean that sony probably wasn't pci certified.
since it's a streaming service, the riaa is trying to claim that google needs to pay licensing fees. amazon and google have been saying they don't need to.
why would you even hire pen testers to point them at systems that don't contain the same software as your production? it's not like that's part of pci. As for the cost I can't really find anywhere that gives any cost of fines (though i have seen $500,000 per incident). I did however find an article saying it costs businesses on average $204 per customer for a data breach in the US (ranges from $750,000 to $31 million for total costs to companies).
it shows that the company wasn't concerned with security. If a company was doing everything in it's power to keep it's networks/data secure it would be hard to fault them... if there is proof that they knowingly ignored security problems then they would have more liability for any security failures.
yes. they have proven that they only care to protect their own intellectual property not the intellectual property they force their users to give them.
if it was "unpatched" that generally means that there were security bugs in the version of apache that was running (otherwise they would have just said it wasn't up to date which wouldn't matter). If this web server was within the same scope as their cc processing system that would probably be a pci failure (not sure what vulnerability was). No one is saying that this was some vulnerability that would have allowed an attacker to run arbitrary code as root on the server however it may have given an attacker information on how their network was set up allowing them to find a more dangerous security vulnerability. Also apache httpd server doesn't have a good record of being immune to attacks, it's just not known to have more than expected.
i didn't see anything you just said mentioned in the article.
while i'm hear though, i might as well add that the reason i finally switched away from slackware after 15 years of use was that I just didn't have the time any more for the package management on it. Slackware really needs to introduce some sort of dependency setup for the packages along with repositories.
i just switched from att uverse to cox internet service because of the new bandwidth caps on uverse. In the process I ended up getting double the speed i had with uverse for only $30 more.
I would image that newport beach gets very few people checking out books from it's library (shit i don't even know where it is). As you said, newport is very rich and most people there would opt to just buy a book and now with kindles/nooks checking books out from the library makes even less sense. Plus if you live in that area, you go to the massive huntington beach library if you want to go to a library.
That being said there are plenty of other ways they could be saving money that doesn't take away from something as important as education.
> Firstly, the fingerprints are not 'taken' but searched.
Pretty sure a warrant needs to be issued for the search part of "Search and Seizure."
> Secondly, I would like to hear more about the "many issues with the accuracy of fingerprints" because in my career as an AFIS engineer, I have never had an issue. According to a review of NISTs' review, "the best of them are accurate more than 99 percent of the time." 99% is pretty inaccurate in my opinion for something like this. That could mean that 1 out of 100 people pulled over my be falsely arrested. http://www.nist.gov/itl/iad/ig/fpvte03.cfm http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/07/040716080142.htm
your situation doesn't work because receiving a message from the future would alter the chemistry in your head, changing something vs the guy who never received anything and sent one back.
If however you sent a message back in time to someone else and told them to deliver it to you at some point after you send the message back in time it would create a shrodingers cat situation.
The reason that there's no great open source games is that there's no economy for it currently. Once someone figures out a good way to earn money from resources other than selling the game you'll see more open source games start popping up. Once mmo's start becoming more popular on mobile devices I think this will start changing. With MMOs you can collect a lot more money from monthly service rather than cost of goods.
Basically it will be, pay $1/month for this game or pay $1-$5 one time for the game. At that point it would be useful (at least not a detriment) to open source the games so that you can save some money on future development costs.
I don't pirate games, but I also don't usually buy any either. The reason for that is I really have no idea if a game is good or not until i play it. Therefor the only games I have bought for my phone are ones that offer a good free version that can continue to keep me entertained. I assume there are at least some pirates who think the same way. $1 may not be much, but I'm not about to throw away $20 looking for a game I enjoy which I would only be willing to pay a dollar or two for.
Perhaps your entire game should be free and make money off advertising instead? Then you don't have to worry about pirates.
I think it should have more to do with the minutes viewed rather than the cost of an actual show. If a company such as netflix assumes that you can watch 720 hours of shows a month and gives the show distributors 7 cents for each minute their shows are watched, then they can charge the viewer $52.92 a month and be able to pay the distributors from the money received from the consumer even if the consumer watched shows all day long. That would mean a 24 minute episode of something (which is the normal time of a 30 minute show) would receive $1.68 per viewing. Also most viewers wouldn't watch anywhere near 24 hours worth of "television" a day so there would be a shit load of profit for netflix. Personally I'd be willing to pay $52.92 (not much more) if i could select any tv show or any movie I could possibly want to watch at the time I wanted to watch it.
Of course then comes the question of how many televisions you have in your house which you want to watch simultaneously, but that could all be sorted out without much change to the cost.
This made me take a look at cox as well since I currently have uverse. Cox in my area has the "Ultimate Package" which is a 50/5 connection (for $99/month but there's a deal for $49 for the first 3 months). Their 25/2 which is about the same speed as Uverse is the same price as Uverse. From what I can find from what people have reported is that this is a 300GB cap but cox never enforces their caps. So I think I'll be calling up ATT to cancel my uverse subscription this week.
"Students under 16 are required to be in school, so if they are truant we have to spend resources to sends truancy officer after them, then the kids have to show up in court, etc."
That's a state by state thing. I went to school 5 miles from anaheim and was truent enough to get kicked out of 4 schools between 7th and 10th grade. There were no truancy officers sent to come after me or even call my parents. There was no court I had to attend. All that happened was that there would be a meeting between me, my parents and the principle where it would be decided that the best thing for me was to start going to a continuation or alternative school (which I would end up getting kicked out of as well).
What exactly do you think these things are going to do? If my school gave me one of these things, i may have used it but not to check in.
i doubt that any of the kids were the ones to volunteer. also anaheim is a pretty ghetto so a comparison to the "hoods of baltimore" wouldn't be that far off.
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maybe they're just so smart that they encode messages in all of their posts and the misspellings and bad grammar are a way to decipher the key.
Started using linux back in 95 because it was able to do some cool networking stuff that windows couldn't do (don't remember what that was any more). Used it for about a year until i got a new computer that had a win modem. Used it off and on for a few years after that. Got a job as a windows/novell sysadmin. Talked my bosses into letting me replace our broken sonic wall router with a linux based one. Started going into a linux help channel on irc and helping other people. Someone I helped came back a few months later asking if I wanted a job working from home on their linux based network. Eventually took their three shared hosted linux servers into a large, high availability network using nothing but linux devices (and a couple switches). Decided I had conquered linux and moved into software development which is what I had really been interested in all along.
pci compliance standards aren't really that good, especially for determining web application security.
that's only based on revenue. top 10 by market cap is apple, quanta, microsoft, google, ibm, asus, oracle, samsung, intel, cisco. 3 of the top 4 have a heavily vested interest in this. Even ibm, asus, intel and cisco have a slightly vested interest in it. Oh also, Sony only has about 12% of the market cap that apple has.
section 6.6 isn't a penetration test. section 6.6 requires an automated scan of your network to find out what software and version is running and verify that there are no listed vulnerabilities for that version of the software in nvd. As for sony, i've heard people say that prior to this whole fiasco, their card wouldn't go through on PSN because the credit card company had them on the list of untrusted merchants. This would mean that sony probably wasn't pci certified.
since it's a streaming service, the riaa is trying to claim that google needs to pay licensing fees. amazon and google have been saying they don't need to.
why would you even hire pen testers to point them at systems that don't contain the same software as your production? it's not like that's part of pci. As for the cost I can't really find anywhere that gives any cost of fines (though i have seen $500,000 per incident). I did however find an article saying it costs businesses on average $204 per customer for a data breach in the US (ranges from $750,000 to $31 million for total costs to companies).
http://www.securityprivacyandthelaw.com/2010/05/articles/cybersecurity-cybercrime/ponemon-study-finds-average-cost-of-data-breach-was-34-million-in-2009/
it shows that the company wasn't concerned with security. If a company was doing everything in it's power to keep it's networks/data secure it would be hard to fault them... if there is proof that they knowingly ignored security problems then they would have more liability for any security failures.
yes. they have proven that they only care to protect their own intellectual property not the intellectual property they force their users to give them.
if it was "unpatched" that generally means that there were security bugs in the version of apache that was running (otherwise they would have just said it wasn't up to date which wouldn't matter). If this web server was within the same scope as their cc processing system that would probably be a pci failure (not sure what vulnerability was). No one is saying that this was some vulnerability that would have allowed an attacker to run arbitrary code as root on the server however it may have given an attacker information on how their network was set up allowing them to find a more dangerous security vulnerability. Also apache httpd server doesn't have a good record of being immune to attacks, it's just not known to have more than expected.
The following is a list of security vulnerabilities that have been fixed in just apache httpd server 2.2
http://httpd.apache.org/security/vulnerabilities_22.html
i didn't see anything you just said mentioned in the article.
while i'm hear though, i might as well add that the reason i finally switched away from slackware after 15 years of use was that I just didn't have the time any more for the package management on it. Slackware really needs to introduce some sort of dependency setup for the packages along with repositories.
i just switched from att uverse to cox internet service because of the new bandwidth caps on uverse. In the process I ended up getting double the speed i had with uverse for only $30 more.
yeah, it would be interesting to inject some code into the device to cause it to tell phones to send all data it gathers to some email/website.
touchscreens however are unique as you can use designs as your password instead of having to enter characters.
I would image that newport beach gets very few people checking out books from it's library (shit i don't even know where it is). As you said, newport is very rich and most people there would opt to just buy a book and now with kindles/nooks checking books out from the library makes even less sense. Plus if you live in that area, you go to the massive huntington beach library if you want to go to a library.
That being said there are plenty of other ways they could be saving money that doesn't take away from something as important as education.
> Firstly, the fingerprints are not 'taken' but searched.
Pretty sure a warrant needs to be issued for the search part of "Search and Seizure."
> Secondly, I would like to hear more about the "many issues with the accuracy of fingerprints" because in my career as an AFIS engineer, I have never had an issue.
According to a review of NISTs' review, "the best of them are accurate more than 99 percent of the time." 99% is pretty inaccurate in my opinion for something like this. That could mean that 1 out of 100 people pulled over my be falsely arrested.
http://www.nist.gov/itl/iad/ig/fpvte03.cfm
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/07/040716080142.htm
i have a 10.4 install on my intel based mac mini.
your situation doesn't work because receiving a message from the future would alter the chemistry in your head, changing something vs the guy who never received anything and sent one back.
If however you sent a message back in time to someone else and told them to deliver it to you at some point after you send the message back in time it would create a shrodingers cat situation.
The reason that there's no great open source games is that there's no economy for it currently. Once someone figures out a good way to earn money from resources other than selling the game you'll see more open source games start popping up. Once mmo's start becoming more popular on mobile devices I think this will start changing. With MMOs you can collect a lot more money from monthly service rather than cost of goods.
Basically it will be, pay $1/month for this game or pay $1-$5 one time for the game. At that point it would be useful (at least not a detriment) to open source the games so that you can save some money on future development costs.
I don't pirate games, but I also don't usually buy any either. The reason for that is I really have no idea if a game is good or not until i play it. Therefor the only games I have bought for my phone are ones that offer a good free version that can continue to keep me entertained. I assume there are at least some pirates who think the same way. $1 may not be much, but I'm not about to throw away $20 looking for a game I enjoy which I would only be willing to pay a dollar or two for.
Perhaps your entire game should be free and make money off advertising instead? Then you don't have to worry about pirates.
I think it should have more to do with the minutes viewed rather than the cost of an actual show. If a company such as netflix assumes that you can watch 720 hours of shows a month and gives the show distributors 7 cents for each minute their shows are watched, then they can charge the viewer $52.92 a month and be able to pay the distributors from the money received from the consumer even if the consumer watched shows all day long. That would mean a 24 minute episode of something (which is the normal time of a 30 minute show) would receive $1.68 per viewing. Also most viewers wouldn't watch anywhere near 24 hours worth of "television" a day so there would be a shit load of profit for netflix. Personally I'd be willing to pay $52.92 (not much more) if i could select any tv show or any movie I could possibly want to watch at the time I wanted to watch it.
Of course then comes the question of how many televisions you have in your house which you want to watch simultaneously, but that could all be sorted out without much change to the cost.
This made me take a look at cox as well since I currently have uverse. Cox in my area has the "Ultimate Package" which is a 50/5 connection (for $99/month but there's a deal for $49 for the first 3 months). Their 25/2 which is about the same speed as Uverse is the same price as Uverse. From what I can find from what people have reported is that this is a 300GB cap but cox never enforces their caps. So I think I'll be calling up ATT to cancel my uverse subscription this week.
"Students under 16 are required to be in school, so if they are truant we have to spend resources to sends truancy officer after them, then the kids have to show up in court, etc."
That's a state by state thing. I went to school 5 miles from anaheim and was truent enough to get kicked out of 4 schools between 7th and 10th grade. There were no truancy officers sent to come after me or even call my parents. There was no court I had to attend. All that happened was that there would be a meeting between me, my parents and the principle where it would be decided that the best thing for me was to start going to a continuation or alternative school (which I would end up getting kicked out of as well).
What exactly do you think these things are going to do? If my school gave me one of these things, i may have used it but not to check in.
i doubt that any of the kids were the ones to volunteer. also anaheim is a pretty ghetto so a comparison to the "hoods of baltimore" wouldn't be that far off.
I agree. We need to have a multi-peer verification system for authoritative domains.