This is why I've always thought that corporations equaling a private person (in the eyes of the law) was a gross error. I've been thinking for quite some time now that corporations should be reclassified as a form of government (or recognized as a government body). With that being said, all corporations should have the same restrictions placed on corporations that the US government has. No search and seizure without a warrant, nothing done without "whitelisting" (specifically granting them powers, instead of them doing whatever they want and a law restricts their actions after the fact), corporations should not have a vote (only real people), etc. Furthermore, US Government officials would be still forbidden from "taking bribes from foreign government officials" would also fix the whole....... campaign contribution scheme. Just ideas...
Ironically, your tagline fits your post "-1 Wrong".
The solution you're suggestion is fixing the symptom, NOT the problem.
The problem is unreasonable search and seizure. That is the problem we should be tackling.
Interesting, why re-inforce the front door when you leave the window wide open? This is where defense in depth comes in. Had the owner, I dunno, setup 802.1x or something on the open ports, or required each port to VPN into the real network, then this could have been avoided with a simple brick and window solution.
Either way, you can't really stop a determined attacker, you can merely slow them down and fend them off. Well, the paitent ones anyway.
It really is a shame this environmental disaster happend. My view tends to interpert this as "everything has failed" sceanario. Typically, we would want to stick the responsible parties to clean-up this mess and have some type of a negative consequence. Realistically, the negative consequence will be passed onto the consumers, while the company continues business as normal.
This system is backwards, as it rewards failures. People can/will just do nothing except buy gas (as we're dependant on it).
What would you do to have BP feel the consequences of this sceanario without the management to try and pass the buck (and in the corporations eye's, buck = responsibility) to the consumers?
Not to say it'll happen, but it'll be interesting if his user credentials or other sensitive information gets compromised. Most of the time, taking 5 minutes out of your day to proactivley take care of something is worth the 5 days of follow-up fixing.
While in the home world, it may be acceptable to just allow automatic updates. However, in the mission critical business world, allowing automatic updates without testing the patches increases the risk of something to go wrong.
It has happened plenty of times in the past, that some vendor pushes out an automatic update, and boom! BSOD. I also remembering a couple of times, a bad virus def. being pushed out automatically and flaging normal system DLL files as a trojan.
For instance, I had a dream ~5 years ago that I got this new job, and this office, and it had this particular layout. When I got to my new position two weeks ago, its exactally like I remembered.
Also, I told my wife 7 years ago that I would die in 7 years in December. What ended up happening is that my father died 7 years after I initally told her in December. My father and I have the same name. So I know I wasn't "incorrectly remembering" because I actually told my wife that information.
My personal problem with that text (as I actually had a conversation about this very topic the other day), is how about when my brain "glitches" and shows me things that happen well* in advance. *Well meaning years in advance.
Which I came up with so long ago is: Time is a measurement of location and actions. Location: The relative point you were at in space, includes local (Earth) and/or celestial location. Actions: What you were doing at the time.
In history, we measure where we were and what we were doing. In present, where we are now and what we're doing. In future, where we will be and what we will be doing.
I would have to agree with your "Sensitive data should not be stored on a computer that can be carried away or easily accessed, with or without encryption." statement!
Lets not forget the limitations on encryption. If it can be decrypted, all it takes is time. Regardless who has the keys. Hell, sometimes event if it wasn't ment to be decrypted, it can be with sufficient resources (ie; Rainbow Tables).
Both have the readahead speed tweaked. Played with different schedulers and their respective properties. Turned off/on Hyperthreading. Write cache settings on the controller itself. Still no go.
Does anyone know anything about the horrible performance issues with the Megaraid2 driver in FC6 (2.6.20 kernel performs at about 30% of the 2.4.31 kernel as far as Disk IO is concerned)? It appears to be a driver issue.
The hardware I'm running on is a Dell PowerEdge 2950/1950s with a PERC4 (LSI Raid Controller). Two SCSI drives that are mirroring (forgot which RAID level that is off hand).
I wonder if this issue has been resolved in the 2.6.21 Kernel.
A little background regarding this incident that I can recall (covered days ago on other places, can't remember where);
1. Offender is a known "Gordon Street" gang banger in Los Angeles. 2. Offender had a warrant out for his arrest for accepting stolen goods. 3. Offender was running from the police officers before they had tackled them. 4. In the video, you can see the offender grabbing the officer's inner thigh before the officer started to punch the offender.
In my opinion, although this offender did get what he deserve regarding the first set of punches, I believe the officer went a little overboard on the second set of punches (first set is to let go of his inner thigh, the second set was to get him to submit to a roll-over for handcuffing).
Thats just my thoughts, please excersize your independant thinking!
This is bad, I believe I am an affected customer. This morning I had random charges on the credit card that I used to pay my AT&T bill with. Although it is a little relief that the report says that they did not take any social security numbers (which I do not believe I gave it to them anyways), I hope there is something I can do to keep myself proactive in protecting my identity. Anyone have any suggestions (other can canceling my CC#, which has already happened)?
Also, for anyone else, follow in my footsteps: DO NOT GIVE THE PHONE CALLERS ANY PERSONAL INFORMATION. PERIOD. If there is an issue, call your bank number personally on a known verified phone number and have the clerk verify ALL NAMES AND NUMBERS AND REASONS. (I've gotten calls already with people asking for my account information this morning as well from unverified numbers. Its happening).
Well, now after talking to a manager at tech support (they've called me back on an open ticket issue), the fix is to:
1. Get a refund of Microsoft Points (via proving your innocense that you've swapped the console). 2. Create a brand new silver account 3. Apply the Microsoft Points refund to the new silver account. 4. Purchase games on the new silver account.
Well, the proposed solution seems fine and dandy, untill you have to swap out your console again.
So fast forward to the 5th console swap (not out of proportion, due to that fact I'm close on my fifth one). Repeat the above steps!! How many accounts do you need to prove to get them to lookup the purchase history for a refund? How many times do you need to give out your credit card number? What? Ouch. (Verified by asking the manager regarding multiple console swaps.)
Hey, I just thought of something, how many subscribers does Xbox Live have? Any duplicates?!
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This is why I've always thought that corporations equaling a private person (in the eyes of the law) was a gross error. I've been thinking for quite some time now that corporations should be reclassified as a form of government (or recognized as a government body). With that being said, all corporations should have the same restrictions placed on corporations that the US government has. No search and seizure without a warrant, nothing done without "whitelisting" (specifically granting them powers, instead of them doing whatever they want and a law restricts their actions after the fact), corporations should not have a vote (only real people), etc. Furthermore, US Government officials would be still forbidden from "taking bribes from foreign government officials" would also fix the whole ....... campaign contribution scheme. Just ideas ...
Ironically, your tagline fits your post "-1 Wrong". The solution you're suggestion is fixing the symptom, NOT the problem. The problem is unreasonable search and seizure. That is the problem we should be tackling.
Interesting, why re-inforce the front door when you leave the window wide open? This is where defense in depth comes in. Had the owner, I dunno, setup 802.1x or something on the open ports, or required each port to VPN into the real network, then this could have been avoided with a simple brick and window solution. Either way, you can't really stop a determined attacker, you can merely slow them down and fend them off. Well, the paitent ones anyway.
It really is a shame this environmental disaster happend. My view tends to interpert this as "everything has failed" sceanario. Typically, we would want to stick the responsible parties to clean-up this mess and have some type of a negative consequence. Realistically, the negative consequence will be passed onto the consumers, while the company continues business as normal. This system is backwards, as it rewards failures. People can/will just do nothing except buy gas (as we're dependant on it). What would you do to have BP feel the consequences of this sceanario without the management to try and pass the buck (and in the corporations eye's, buck = responsibility) to the consumers?
We will be footing the bill, not you. With higher gas prices that is.
Kinda interesting no one mentioned Guruplug yet. http://www.globalscaletechnologies.com/t-guruplugdetails.aspx
Wait, they still deal with this archaic tool called a search warrant? Get with the times, they don't need 'em anymore.
Not to say it'll happen, but it'll be interesting if his user credentials or other sensitive information gets compromised.
Most of the time, taking 5 minutes out of your day to proactivley take care of something is worth the 5 days of follow-up fixing.
While in the home world, it may be acceptable to just allow automatic updates. However, in the mission critical business world, allowing automatic updates without testing the patches increases the risk of something to go wrong.
It has happened plenty of times in the past, that some vendor pushes out an automatic update, and boom! BSOD. I also remembering a couple of times, a bad virus def. being pushed out automatically and flaging normal system DLL files as a trojan.
Both, actually.
For instance, I had a dream ~5 years ago that I got this new job, and this office, and it had this particular layout. When I got to my new position two weeks ago, its exactally like I remembered.
Also, I told my wife 7 years ago that I would die in 7 years in December. What ended up happening is that my father died 7 years after I initally told her in December. My father and I have the same name. So I know I wasn't "incorrectly remembering" because I actually told my wife that information.
My personal problem with that text (as I actually had a conversation about this very topic the other day), is how about when my brain "glitches" and shows me things that happen well* in advance. *Well meaning years in advance.
Which I came up with so long ago is: Time is a measurement of location and actions.
Location: The relative point you were at in space, includes local (Earth) and/or celestial location.
Actions: What you were doing at the time.
In history, we measure where we were and what we were doing.
In present, where we are now and what we're doing.
In future, where we will be and what we will be doing.
It looks like OSes couldn't escape the economic downturn as well.
I would have to agree with your "Sensitive data should not be stored on a computer that can be carried away or easily accessed, with or without encryption." statement!
Physical security *ALWAYS* trumps logical security.
Lets not forget the limitations on encryption. If it can be decrypted, all it takes is time. Regardless who has the keys. Hell, sometimes event if it wasn't ment to be decrypted, it can be with sufficient resources (ie; Rainbow Tables).
Haven't tried that yet, but I'll give it a shot. Thanks for the info!
I was measuring the performance with Bonnie++. Below are the results:
Debian Sarge 2.4.31:
-Per Chr- --Block-- -Rewrite-
512M 30215 99 303716 100 112504 22 (Sequential Output)
Fedora Core 6 2.6.20:
-Per Chr- --Block-- -Rewrite-
512M 6222 12 4344 1 5066 1 (Sequential Output)
Both have the readahead speed tweaked. Played with different schedulers and their respective properties. Turned off/on Hyperthreading. Write cache settings on the controller itself. Still no go.
Does anyone know anything about the horrible performance issues with the Megaraid2 driver in FC6 (2.6.20 kernel performs at about 30% of the 2.4.31 kernel as far as Disk IO is concerned)? It appears to be a driver issue.
The hardware I'm running on is a Dell PowerEdge 2950/1950s with a PERC4 (LSI Raid Controller). Two SCSI drives that are mirroring (forgot which RAID level that is off hand).
I wonder if this issue has been resolved in the 2.6.21 Kernel.
Yep, there is always a loss in translation between English and Marketing.
A little background regarding this incident that I can recall (covered days ago on other places, can't remember where);
1. Offender is a known "Gordon Street" gang banger in Los Angeles.
2. Offender had a warrant out for his arrest for accepting stolen goods.
3. Offender was running from the police officers before they had tackled them.
4. In the video, you can see the offender grabbing the officer's inner thigh before the officer started to punch the offender.
In my opinion, although this offender did get what he deserve regarding the first set of punches, I believe the officer went a little overboard on the second set of punches (first set is to let go of his inner thigh, the second set was to get him to submit to a roll-over for handcuffing).
Thats just my thoughts, please excersize your independant thinking!
Does that mean they're required to distribute the source code?
The last time I checked, the DOD has an enterprise license for RedHat Enterprise Linux.
Hey, its a new high tech way for "passing gas" hah!
In Soviet Russia, car drives you!
This is bad, I believe I am an affected customer. This morning I had random charges on the credit card that I used to pay my AT&T bill with. Although it is a little relief that the report says that they did not take any social security numbers (which I do not believe I gave it to them anyways), I hope there is something I can do to keep myself proactive in protecting my identity. Anyone have any suggestions (other can canceling my CC#, which has already happened)?
Also, for anyone else, follow in my footsteps: DO NOT GIVE THE PHONE CALLERS ANY PERSONAL INFORMATION. PERIOD. If there is an issue, call your bank number personally on a known verified phone number and have the clerk verify ALL NAMES AND NUMBERS AND REASONS. (I've gotten calls already with people asking for my account information this morning as well from unverified numbers. Its happening).
Well, now after talking to a manager at tech support (they've called me back on an open ticket issue), the fix is to:
1. Get a refund of Microsoft Points (via proving your innocense that you've swapped the console).
2. Create a brand new silver account
3. Apply the Microsoft Points refund to the new silver account.
4. Purchase games on the new silver account.
Well, the proposed solution seems fine and dandy, untill you have to swap out your console again.
So fast forward to the 5th console swap (not out of proportion, due to that fact I'm close on my fifth one). Repeat the above steps!! How many accounts do you need to prove to get them to lookup the purchase history for a refund? How many times do you need to give out your credit card number? What? Ouch. (Verified by asking the manager regarding multiple console swaps.)
Hey, I just thought of something, how many subscribers does Xbox Live have? Any duplicates?!