The user base (IBM) seems to have been people that switched over from Windows to Mac by company policy, after the switch, the company sees less support calls. The people haven't necessarily changed much, they just switched their computers around and decreased their tech support.
I see the same thing, My time ratio on desktops is roughly 40/50/10 between Windows, Mac and Linux although we have a ratio of 15/80/5 of actually deployed machines. The problem is that Windows is just very time consuming and requires much more intensive support. This isn't due to viruses or security problems (anymore) but due to the requirement of heavy virus scanners for Windows (vs. built-in security to Mac and Linux), the higher prevalence of requiring admin rights on Windows machines and primarily because Windows drivers and functions just randomly fail to work. The other day, devices with Realtek drivers on Windows 7 and 10 switched from analog to digital because of a Windows update, just randomly, do an update, defaults output mode to digital.
Yes, but the problem here is all these services are using a singular DNS service which is under attack.
A good decade and a half ago, when I was part of a hosting company, we had the DNS for our customers across 3 or 4 different providers. That way, if for whatever reason one provider went out of business, the domains would continue to operate.
The problem is this: Github.com:
Name Server: NS1.P16.DYNECT.NET
Name Server: NS2.P16.DYNECT.NET
Name Server: NS3.P16.DYNECT.NET
Name Server: NS4.P16.DYNECT.NET
Twitter.com
Name Server: NS1.P34.DYNECT.NET
Name Server: NS2.P34.DYNECT.NET
Name Server: NS3.P34.DYNECT.NET
Name Server: NS4.P34.DYNECT.NET
Box.net Name Server: ns3.p05.dynect.net Name Server: ns1.p05.dynect.net Name Server: ns2.p05.dynect.net Name Server: ns4.p05.dynect.net
If for whatever reason DynDNS pulls the plug (which they have a history of for reasons of profit and incompetence), all these sites are down. It doesn't matter whether or not you're using Unicast or Anycast, if your provider 'dies' (or it's host providers like Amazon which also has a history of major outages) then your domain dies. And before you get all your glue records fixed, you're out at least 48-72 hours.
If it were truly distributed this wouldn't happen as DNS has inherent failovers. This is just an example of using "the cloud" box.net and other enterprise cloud software is also down. They're all using the same providers which is not as distributed as it promises.
I would say they're both as are most people in computer security these days. You cannot identify a state-level attacker, only guess. The Stuxnet is a great example, it's "probably" the US or Israel but you can't say for certain because it leaves no trace.
I must assume given the transparency of the attack this is just a corporate-level hacking group that happened to stumble upon the motherload and probably didn't even realize for months what they had.
I get those all the time. Phishers do include your e-mail address in e-mails, encoded or not. Spearphishing is actually targeted at a specific private app within a company, not an open, public e-mail system.
Additionally it's not illegal for Trump to run a private e-mail server, let alone a bad one. The media is glossing over a lot of the facts lately. It's sad that FoxNews has actually become 'fair and balanced' and for GOP-slanted news you have to go over to something like Infowars.
A) if you're on bleeding edge alpha, things will break B) if you're running 4.7 and don't know how to fix your own damn wifi, it's your own fault C) your wifi adapter sucks, get a good one
It's impossible for anything to be either carbon neutral or negative as you would have created a perpetuum mobile. You convert carbonated water in ethanol - you first have to carbonate the water, then convert it into ethanol by supplying power. If it were neutral, you could use the ethanol to power the device, if negative the carbonated water would act as a fuel.
The only way a thing is carbon neutral is if you prevent all carbon sinks from being destroyed and plant a significant amount of trees per cubic meter of CO2 produced.
Exactly, those Surface Pro's do not have the power to do "all that". They're underperforming and low-power as is, not nearly powerful enough to render multiple streaming videos while ingesting data. Some crappy app on top of that isn't going to resolve that. The best they can do is probably get a remote desktop to an actual laptop or desktop.
What exactly does the tablet need a network connection for? It's used to draw some pictures on it and get a text-based data feed. It has inconsistent performance drawing a picture on the screen, doing its basic "tablet" functions. Yeah, I've used the Surface Pro 1, 2 and 3, it's a piece of crap desktop OS pretending to be a tablet interface. I still have to connect a keyboard and mouse to do anything useful with it.
Ecuador has been heavily reliant on selling it's oil to maintain it's economy. A few years ago (a year or two after they took in Assange) they lost the $300M/y in US foreign aid, earlier this year they had a huge earthquake an asked the IMF for $3B.
With the US now almost completely self-reliant when it comes to oil and gas production, they probably thinking about losing a big customer when Clinton comes to power.
That's why LE is cheaper, you are forced to automate it causing you to spend way less time on certs. It's just part of setting up a web server and not all that complicated. Additionally both free and paid web panels now include (which you would be using if you don't know how to install a cert in less than 5m) a module that does it for you.
They wouldn't bomb London, they would bomb Equador. Yes, it is confusing, but Westminster will probably be okay with it if they actually went ahead and did it.
Earlier this month, it emerged that Hillary Clinton reportedly wanted to “drone” WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange when she was the US secretary of state.
If he had nothing of value, I doubt they would go to such lengths as droning a guy in an embassy.
It is rather odd that a sovereign embassy gets it's Internet cut by the host state and nobody bothers repairing it. If it was just an outage, it would've been fixed before it got on Slashdot but so far and I would guess that embassies have more than one method of linking to the Internet.
Either these security researchers ARE the NSA or they are full of shit.
The entire article is conjecture, trying to tie Trump into a series of actions by a "foreign" anonymous hacking collective. The problem is that this hacking collective has gone after a lot of things they see as humanitarian or democratic issues. If it was Mother Russia funding them they wouldn't go after targets so loudly, they wouldn't have gone after Syria or Iran, Russian allies and they sure as hell wouldn't have published it to Wikileaks.
If I were a director at a government hacker agency, the primary method would be stealthy, I wouldn't use American controlled URL shortening services and I would let Clinton win because it's the only controllable candidate and I have dirt on her. What does Russia have to gain with a megalomaniac in the White House? They can't control Trump, if he is the way the media portrays him, he won't care that you gave him $100M, he will drop anyone including his own running mate when it inconveniences him.
If I see a person pointing a gun at me without clear reason to do so, I'd still run them over (or most likely try to avoid, because the impact could render your car unusable) , uniformed or not.
The same that happens when a psychopath does it currently. People die and hopefully he dies along with them or goes to jail. You can take your hands of the wheel as-is, it won't stop your car from barreling down a group of disabled kids. In the "future" this won't be any different, if you instruct your machine to kill or cause it to kill intentionally you are still responsible.
We used to have this thing called journalists, they would actually fact check and investigate matters like these. They would encourage people to leak documents and protect their sources identities (where we get things like Deepthroat and Watergate). Now the SAME journalists (including Carl Bernstein) that protected Deepthroat and exposed Watergate are being scolded for 'working with the enemy' by calling Hillary reckless and a liar.
These days, the media is just an extension of the political establishment and the only 'fact checking' being done about Hillary is either referred to HillaryClinton.com (no joke) or copied straight from there.
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The user base (IBM) seems to have been people that switched over from Windows to Mac by company policy, after the switch, the company sees less support calls. The people haven't necessarily changed much, they just switched their computers around and decreased their tech support.
I see the same thing, My time ratio on desktops is roughly 40/50/10 between Windows, Mac and Linux although we have a ratio of 15/80/5 of actually deployed machines. The problem is that Windows is just very time consuming and requires much more intensive support. This isn't due to viruses or security problems (anymore) but due to the requirement of heavy virus scanners for Windows (vs. built-in security to Mac and Linux), the higher prevalence of requiring admin rights on Windows machines and primarily because Windows drivers and functions just randomly fail to work. The other day, devices with Realtek drivers on Windows 7 and 10 switched from analog to digital because of a Windows update, just randomly, do an update, defaults output mode to digital.
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Yes, but the problem here is all these services are using a singular DNS service which is under attack.
A good decade and a half ago, when I was part of a hosting company, we had the DNS for our customers across 3 or 4 different providers. That way, if for whatever reason one provider went out of business, the domains would continue to operate.
The problem is this:
Github.com:
Name Server: NS1.P16.DYNECT.NET
Name Server: NS2.P16.DYNECT.NET
Name Server: NS3.P16.DYNECT.NET
Name Server: NS4.P16.DYNECT.NET
Twitter.com
Name Server: NS1.P34.DYNECT.NET
Name Server: NS2.P34.DYNECT.NET
Name Server: NS3.P34.DYNECT.NET
Name Server: NS4.P34.DYNECT.NET
Box.net
Name Server: ns3.p05.dynect.net
Name Server: ns1.p05.dynect.net
Name Server: ns2.p05.dynect.net
Name Server: ns4.p05.dynect.net
If for whatever reason DynDNS pulls the plug (which they have a history of for reasons of profit and incompetence), all these sites are down. It doesn't matter whether or not you're using Unicast or Anycast, if your provider 'dies' (or it's host providers like Amazon which also has a history of major outages) then your domain dies. And before you get all your glue records fixed, you're out at least 48-72 hours.
If it were truly distributed this wouldn't happen as DNS has inherent failovers. This is just an example of using "the cloud" box.net and other enterprise cloud software is also down. They're all using the same providers which is not as distributed as it promises.
And what else do you think is coming out of those cooling towers... hint: evaporated water.
I would say they're both as are most people in computer security these days. You cannot identify a state-level attacker, only guess. The Stuxnet is a great example, it's "probably" the US or Israel but you can't say for certain because it leaves no trace.
I must assume given the transparency of the attack this is just a corporate-level hacking group that happened to stumble upon the motherload and probably didn't even realize for months what they had.
I get those all the time. Phishers do include your e-mail address in e-mails, encoded or not. Spearphishing is actually targeted at a specific private app within a company, not an open, public e-mail system.
Since when is Trump handling highly classified information that should be part of public record through personal accounts in order to hide bribery?
Additionally it's not illegal for Trump to run a private e-mail server, let alone a bad one. The media is glossing over a lot of the facts lately. It's sad that FoxNews has actually become 'fair and balanced' and for GOP-slanted news you have to go over to something like Infowars.
A) if you're on bleeding edge alpha, things will break
B) if you're running 4.7 and don't know how to fix your own damn wifi, it's your own fault
C) your wifi adapter sucks, get a good one
It's impossible for anything to be either carbon neutral or negative as you would have created a perpetuum mobile. You convert carbonated water in ethanol - you first have to carbonate the water, then convert it into ethanol by supplying power. If it were neutral, you could use the ethanol to power the device, if negative the carbonated water would act as a fuel.
The only way a thing is carbon neutral is if you prevent all carbon sinks from being destroyed and plant a significant amount of trees per cubic meter of CO2 produced.
Exactly, those Surface Pro's do not have the power to do "all that". They're underperforming and low-power as is, not nearly powerful enough to render multiple streaming videos while ingesting data. Some crappy app on top of that isn't going to resolve that. The best they can do is probably get a remote desktop to an actual laptop or desktop.
What exactly does the tablet need a network connection for? It's used to draw some pictures on it and get a text-based data feed. It has inconsistent performance drawing a picture on the screen, doing its basic "tablet" functions. Yeah, I've used the Surface Pro 1, 2 and 3, it's a piece of crap desktop OS pretending to be a tablet interface. I still have to connect a keyboard and mouse to do anything useful with it.
Ecuador has been heavily reliant on selling it's oil to maintain it's economy. A few years ago (a year or two after they took in Assange) they lost the $300M/y in US foreign aid, earlier this year they had a huge earthquake an asked the IMF for $3B.
With the US now almost completely self-reliant when it comes to oil and gas production, they probably thinking about losing a big customer when Clinton comes to power.
That's why LE is cheaper, you are forced to automate it causing you to spend way less time on certs. It's just part of setting up a web server and not all that complicated. Additionally both free and paid web panels now include (which you would be using if you don't know how to install a cert in less than 5m) a module that does it for you.
They wouldn't bomb London, they would bomb Equador. Yes, it is confusing, but Westminster will probably be okay with it if they actually went ahead and did it.
Either way, it's a physical data link going into an embassy. There is no saying who or what exactly uses it within the embassy.
Earlier this month, it emerged that Hillary Clinton reportedly wanted to “drone” WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange when she was the US secretary of state.
If he had nothing of value, I doubt they would go to such lengths as droning a guy in an embassy.
It is rather odd that a sovereign embassy gets it's Internet cut by the host state and nobody bothers repairing it. If it was just an outage, it would've been fixed before it got on Slashdot but so far and I would guess that embassies have more than one method of linking to the Internet.
Either these security researchers ARE the NSA or they are full of shit.
The entire article is conjecture, trying to tie Trump into a series of actions by a "foreign" anonymous hacking collective. The problem is that this hacking collective has gone after a lot of things they see as humanitarian or democratic issues. If it was Mother Russia funding them they wouldn't go after targets so loudly, they wouldn't have gone after Syria or Iran, Russian allies and they sure as hell wouldn't have published it to Wikileaks.
If I were a director at a government hacker agency, the primary method would be stealthy, I wouldn't use American controlled URL shortening services and I would let Clinton win because it's the only controllable candidate and I have dirt on her. What does Russia have to gain with a megalomaniac in the White House? They can't control Trump, if he is the way the media portrays him, he won't care that you gave him $100M, he will drop anyone including his own running mate when it inconveniences him.
That's why let's encrypt is free.
If I see a person pointing a gun at me without clear reason to do so, I'd still run them over (or most likely try to avoid, because the impact could render your car unusable) , uniformed or not.
The same that happens when a psychopath does it currently. People die and hopefully he dies along with them or goes to jail. You can take your hands of the wheel as-is, it won't stop your car from barreling down a group of disabled kids. In the "future" this won't be any different, if you instruct your machine to kill or cause it to kill intentionally you are still responsible.
We used to have this thing called journalists, they would actually fact check and investigate matters like these. They would encourage people to leak documents and protect their sources identities (where we get things like Deepthroat and Watergate). Now the SAME journalists (including Carl Bernstein) that protected Deepthroat and exposed Watergate are being scolded for 'working with the enemy' by calling Hillary reckless and a liar.
These days, the media is just an extension of the political establishment and the only 'fact checking' being done about Hillary is either referred to HillaryClinton.com (no joke) or copied straight from there.
The denial is strong with this one. Not sure if you've been reading the same e-mails as the rest of the world.