500 servers is like 10-20 racks. That's a very small datacenter in the company's basement or perhaps 1 mainframe with 500 instances that was recently (in the last decade) converted to a cluster. Either way, if a worldwide system is located in a single datacenter, I'd say the latter is probably the case which is currently IBM's modus operandi when a customer wants to upgrade an old mainframe
Elaborate how? It has been happening all over with LGBTQ and other sex-positive communities. A few years ago, leadership said we needed to make our community more 'safe' especially to females and minorities (minorities within a minority group).
Everybody agreed, we had recently had an issue with an abusive personality getting into an otherwise private community as well as the advent of social media groups doing 'their own thing' not even knowing about our organization that existed. The main problem was imho exposure to the Internet-faring public, word of mouth kind of went out of the window 10 years ago.
At that point, the community started splitting on how to proceed. The long-term members (35yo+) wanted more exposure to the outside world through advertisements, revamping the website, social media outreach. The younger members, particularly subgroups of college students instead wanted to make the organization a 'safer place' by more stringent requirements and disciplinary procedure.
The second proposal was voted down by the majority but upheld by the leadership through a loophole that allows them to decide when a vote doesn't get >75% participation which was previously never used. Then the 'everyone is a rapist' people came out of the woodwork and people were being thrown out for frivolous things based on single testimony, no defense because after all "everyone's story is valid". Off course after 2 or 3 people got thrown out (the first few got a "well perhaps there was an issue"), people stopped trusting the leadership and subsequently the organization and many started leaving. And now it's got half the membership, won't be able to pay it's bills much longer and is on it's death bed and the same people that started this whole thing are throwing their hands up "well, what happened".
They attempt to ouster me as well, because criticizing their belief system and pointing out the problems was 'triggering' somebody, I defended myself so I didn't get the shame of being on the same level as the abusive personalities, but I no longer want to support the organization.
Then why have planes at all? If you can just shoot a missile, you can shoot a missile from the ground or a boat half way across the world. Besides having a few missiles, planes are usually depicted as flying machine guns. Or perhaps the methods of fighting have changed so much that we're just building swords only to see the enemy coming at us with tanks.
You basically have two types of trolls these days, there is the spammers and people spewing all sorts of predictable BS (like here on Slashdot you have the GNAA and Goatse). They are easy to block with Bayesian filtering or even plain blacklists. Then there are the more modern 3rd wave feminist trolls, they behave like they have a valid point and may even get a following of people agreeing with them, yet they make a community toxic by designating pretty much all dissent as "personal attacks". I've seen it happen recently in an otherwise healthy 20yo community, in less than 3 years it was destroyed by leadership trying to make the organization a "safe place" and more than half the membership left mostly voluntarily after key members were forced out.
I think Twitter has more of the second problem: trying to make a platform available that is "safe" for everyone meaning it will only ever be good for a single person because any dissent will be viewed as unacceptable speech.
The e-mails have already been stolen, the server has been offline for quite some time. Hillary would be insane to continue using any instance of Microsoft Exchange 2003 on an unpatched Windows 2003. It's impossible for the Russian to 'find' the e-mails by hacking into her offline e-mail server.
As much as I don't like Trump (or Hillary for that matter), I don't see in the quote where he says "please hack my opponent's offline server". He says, you got them, you find them and release them which I would prefer at this time as well (full disclosure). Most likely though, the Russians, not being as stupid or naive as most of our voting populace is going to hold onto them as a bargaining chip for when Hillary becomes president. "So you don't want us to have this nuke, well, I'm sure you don't want us to release the name of this pool boy".
Everyone should be asking both Hillary and the Russians for full disclosure (what was in the e-mails and what do you actually have respectively) because it IS going to come back and bite the US, perhaps even if she doesn't get elected.
CERN already worked by confirming the Higgs Boson as well as a host of other ideas. The rest is just gravy and largely highly theoretical physics just waiting to be either disproved or confirmed. Either result is good.
Could've said the same about Einsteins theories and in fact the same things were said: we have a perfectly good model with Newton, this just adds more complexity for a hypothetical, at that point largely undiscovered, giant universe.
However as GPS eventually showed, you don't need space larger than our own solar system to use either theory of relativity. Within 100 years, people will laud these discoveries at CERN for their "Chinese toys" like we do Einstein for ours.
I remember using Dr. WebSpider on Caldera DR-DOS (now SCO) was probably my first browser. Also a pretty good TCP/IP stack for the day, wasn't vulnerable to ping of death.
I heard something about tetracycline and other chemicals being fairly prevalent in our waterways, especially where waste water enters rivers and streams.
But those companies paid/pay for your information even though it's crap and they will continue doing so as it works for ~1% of the population they send it to. So these types of companies will continue selling them crap information and stay in business and you'll continue receiving spam, just in case you react to one of them.
Faster? No way an ambulance is faster. They have to get to you which in a city can take up to an hour, more in the country, do a preliminary check, then bring you to the hospital where they do a preliminary check again. You're losing at least 15-30m waiting for an ambulance and their triage, that is significant for any kind of life threatening issue (heart attack, pulmonary embolism, stroke,...). Plus those vehicles although priority don't actually drive all that fast. If you have an automated car or better yet a driver that can get you there while safely running some red lights or speed zones, you're usually better off.
No, my use case is accurately splitting a High Definition 4:3 resolution from a computer to two outputs without HDCP interfering. I actually have a common use case that's prevented by HDCP and thus requires an "illegal stripper". I could use SDI (one of the outputs supports it) or other professional non-HDCP crippled HD "legally" if I want to invest another $10k or so in "professional and licensed" gear but I did it for ~$100.
End-to-end HDCP protection within the OS doesn't allow you to copy the framebuffer either (VNC just shows a black window instead of playback). That's why Windows Vista and up, if your hardware supports end-to-end HDCP will use HDCP for the entire OS some time during boot even if you don't need playback of any media. OS X at least only enables HDCP if iTunes or other protected content requires it, but otherwise (DVD playback etc) it doesn't give the gray snow on the second display.
It just illustrates I could easily convert a so-called protected signal digitally without any loss of resolution or artifacts because there are plenty of Chinese knockoffs that inadvertently let you do it. The system is broken.
silicon dust has been saying that for at least 6 years now. I have one of their first HDHomeRuns and they said CableCard support was "soon". Now they don't even support my HDHR anymore and instead want me to buy a brand new one to get the latest firmware.
I can buy HDMI to whatever converters that support HDCP. The $15 HDMI splitters for example pretend to be a HDCP compliant Samsung TV and then copy the digital signal without HDCP onto the outputs AND it works.
The problem being off course they don't accurately copy EDID and thus they don't work for anything but "TV" resolutions but a "good" splitter will correctly support EDID and by extension HDCP and then you get snow on the second display when HDCP content is displayed (or when a Windows machine is connected). So I'm still needing to strip out the HDCP signal in order to have Windows work on a split HDMI signal (so I'm using a programmable EDID in between the source and the splitter).
That's Hollywood accounting though. The movie WILL make it's $100M and more, just not in the first weekend. Off course the studios will cry that it's a loss because it didn't make $1B the first weekend and thus they'll qualify for a number of government grants and bailouts while not paying their employees and artists. http://www.theatlantic.com/bus...
It WILL gain a following (all really bad movies and all superhero movies do after all) and it will make it up in DVD sales and later on TV. There is not a single movie in the last half century that has never made it's expenses back, you just can't believe what the studio tells you about it.
According to the people that want this, their workforce should consist of 50% black, 50% women, 50% black women and 50% LGBT and no white males, white males are all racists and rapists.
Most space people live in are already fully wired paid for by your taxes. They don't each need a set of wires, they just need to share the infrastructure the tax payer has paid for. These companies have been getting billions per year to build out their infrastructure yet none of them do. The FCC needs to hold all these companies to their promises they made or withdraw further funding.
In case of law enforcement, it is. That is what the qualified immunity doctrine establishes - law enforcement can be fairly reasonably ignorant of the law. Again, if it is reasonable to expect that someone didn't know that what they did is too broad or illegal without having a law degree, they are immune. If something is established procedure in a police department, the individual officers are immune.
Law enforcement is immune from most criminal acts (Qualified Immunity) unless they "willfully and knowingly" violate someone's constitutional rights and there is no objective reasonableness to their actions. Those are a lot of tests, nobody is going to jail here because nobody ever decided they "shouldn't" and as many morons here on/. utter "but it was in public" - to the average slashdotter and by extension average law enforcement agents it is 'reasonable' to just plant video and audio feeds everywhere in public without a warrant because it is 'public', no expectation of privacy.
This ruling is also very narrow. The judge didn't say that planting random camera's and microphones everywhere in the city is illegal under the 4th amendment, he just said that if someone is unaware of their existence AND they are separating themselves from the general public into a private conversation it is illegal to continue surveillance.
I think the 'hushed tone' and 'expectation of privacy' is key here. You can expect everything you say in public to be overheard. If you take steps to avoid eavesdropping, then it becomes a private conversation. With current technology, you can overhear things being said behind a closed door, that doesn't make it 'public'.
There are various attacks being brought up. These chips and terminals have really weak PRNGs with poor entropy, we're talking about embedded chips barely 1sq.cm. that were "cheap" 15 years ago. They have the processing capacity of a SIM card (if you remember those).
One way is to downgrade the crypto to "acceptable" levels. You intercept the negotiation between the chip and the bank and the first number of authentications will be at higher levels of crypto (think 128 bit), your "fake" terminal instead sends a response that the crypto is unavailable; the card-bank then downgrade levels until you get to 56 bits or something you can easily crack.
Additionally it's possible to do a pre-play attack. You basically challenge the chip with a number of fake queries during a real transaction (eg challenge the chip for a $1000 payment from another place and record the response) and then just replay the response the card gave you from a cloned card when you make a "real" $1000 payment.
Krebs recently posted a picture of an EMV skimmer found at Walmart capable of skimming the PINs. The skimmers retail for ~$200-300. There are hundreds of stories out there from people that have had their "chip-and-pin" stolen and not getting reimbursed by the bank because it's "impossible".
Attacks on EMV have been proven possible for several years now by researchers, after researchers heard of stories about cloned pin-and-chips being refused for reimbursement. You really think criminals haven't gotten any better in half a decade?
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500 servers is like 10-20 racks. That's a very small datacenter in the company's basement or perhaps 1 mainframe with 500 instances that was recently (in the last decade) converted to a cluster. Either way, if a worldwide system is located in a single datacenter, I'd say the latter is probably the case which is currently IBM's modus operandi when a customer wants to upgrade an old mainframe
Elaborate how? It has been happening all over with LGBTQ and other sex-positive communities. A few years ago, leadership said we needed to make our community more 'safe' especially to females and minorities (minorities within a minority group).
Everybody agreed, we had recently had an issue with an abusive personality getting into an otherwise private community as well as the advent of social media groups doing 'their own thing' not even knowing about our organization that existed. The main problem was imho exposure to the Internet-faring public, word of mouth kind of went out of the window 10 years ago.
At that point, the community started splitting on how to proceed. The long-term members (35yo+) wanted more exposure to the outside world through advertisements, revamping the website, social media outreach. The younger members, particularly subgroups of college students instead wanted to make the organization a 'safer place' by more stringent requirements and disciplinary procedure.
The second proposal was voted down by the majority but upheld by the leadership through a loophole that allows them to decide when a vote doesn't get >75% participation which was previously never used. Then the 'everyone is a rapist' people came out of the woodwork and people were being thrown out for frivolous things based on single testimony, no defense because after all "everyone's story is valid". Off course after 2 or 3 people got thrown out (the first few got a "well perhaps there was an issue"), people stopped trusting the leadership and subsequently the organization and many started leaving. And now it's got half the membership, won't be able to pay it's bills much longer and is on it's death bed and the same people that started this whole thing are throwing their hands up "well, what happened".
They attempt to ouster me as well, because criticizing their belief system and pointing out the problems was 'triggering' somebody, I defended myself so I didn't get the shame of being on the same level as the abusive personalities, but I no longer want to support the organization.
Then why have planes at all? If you can just shoot a missile, you can shoot a missile from the ground or a boat half way across the world. Besides having a few missiles, planes are usually depicted as flying machine guns. Or perhaps the methods of fighting have changed so much that we're just building swords only to see the enemy coming at us with tanks.
You basically have two types of trolls these days, there is the spammers and people spewing all sorts of predictable BS (like here on Slashdot you have the GNAA and Goatse). They are easy to block with Bayesian filtering or even plain blacklists. Then there are the more modern 3rd wave feminist trolls, they behave like they have a valid point and may even get a following of people agreeing with them, yet they make a community toxic by designating pretty much all dissent as "personal attacks". I've seen it happen recently in an otherwise healthy 20yo community, in less than 3 years it was destroyed by leadership trying to make the organization a "safe place" and more than half the membership left mostly voluntarily after key members were forced out.
I think Twitter has more of the second problem: trying to make a platform available that is "safe" for everyone meaning it will only ever be good for a single person because any dissent will be viewed as unacceptable speech.
The e-mails have already been stolen, the server has been offline for quite some time. Hillary would be insane to continue using any instance of Microsoft Exchange 2003 on an unpatched Windows 2003. It's impossible for the Russian to 'find' the e-mails by hacking into her offline e-mail server.
As much as I don't like Trump (or Hillary for that matter), I don't see in the quote where he says "please hack my opponent's offline server". He says, you got them, you find them and release them which I would prefer at this time as well (full disclosure). Most likely though, the Russians, not being as stupid or naive as most of our voting populace is going to hold onto them as a bargaining chip for when Hillary becomes president. "So you don't want us to have this nuke, well, I'm sure you don't want us to release the name of this pool boy".
Everyone should be asking both Hillary and the Russians for full disclosure (what was in the e-mails and what do you actually have respectively) because it IS going to come back and bite the US, perhaps even if she doesn't get elected.
CERN already worked by confirming the Higgs Boson as well as a host of other ideas. The rest is just gravy and largely highly theoretical physics just waiting to be either disproved or confirmed. Either result is good.
Could've said the same about Einsteins theories and in fact the same things were said: we have a perfectly good model with Newton, this just adds more complexity for a hypothetical, at that point largely undiscovered, giant universe.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik...
However as GPS eventually showed, you don't need space larger than our own solar system to use either theory of relativity. Within 100 years, people will laud these discoveries at CERN for their "Chinese toys" like we do Einstein for ours.
People HAVE seen mine, I must be the most intelligent person around here.
I remember using Dr. WebSpider on Caldera DR-DOS (now SCO) was probably my first browser. Also a pretty good TCP/IP stack for the day, wasn't vulnerable to ping of death.
I heard something about tetracycline and other chemicals being fairly prevalent in our waterways, especially where waste water enters rivers and streams.
But those companies paid/pay for your information even though it's crap and they will continue doing so as it works for ~1% of the population they send it to. So these types of companies will continue selling them crap information and stay in business and you'll continue receiving spam, just in case you react to one of them.
Faster? No way an ambulance is faster. They have to get to you which in a city can take up to an hour, more in the country, do a preliminary check, then bring you to the hospital where they do a preliminary check again. You're losing at least 15-30m waiting for an ambulance and their triage, that is significant for any kind of life threatening issue (heart attack, pulmonary embolism, stroke,...). Plus those vehicles although priority don't actually drive all that fast. If you have an automated car or better yet a driver that can get you there while safely running some red lights or speed zones, you're usually better off.
No, my use case is accurately splitting a High Definition 4:3 resolution from a computer to two outputs without HDCP interfering. I actually have a common use case that's prevented by HDCP and thus requires an "illegal stripper". I could use SDI (one of the outputs supports it) or other professional non-HDCP crippled HD "legally" if I want to invest another $10k or so in "professional and licensed" gear but I did it for ~$100.
End-to-end HDCP protection within the OS doesn't allow you to copy the framebuffer either (VNC just shows a black window instead of playback). That's why Windows Vista and up, if your hardware supports end-to-end HDCP will use HDCP for the entire OS some time during boot even if you don't need playback of any media. OS X at least only enables HDCP if iTunes or other protected content requires it, but otherwise (DVD playback etc) it doesn't give the gray snow on the second display.
It just illustrates I could easily convert a so-called protected signal digitally without any loss of resolution or artifacts because there are plenty of Chinese knockoffs that inadvertently let you do it. The system is broken.
silicon dust has been saying that for at least 6 years now. I have one of their first HDHomeRuns and they said CableCard support was "soon". Now they don't even support my HDHR anymore and instead want me to buy a brand new one to get the latest firmware.
I can buy HDMI to whatever converters that support HDCP. The $15 HDMI splitters for example pretend to be a HDCP compliant Samsung TV and then copy the digital signal without HDCP onto the outputs AND it works.
The problem being off course they don't accurately copy EDID and thus they don't work for anything but "TV" resolutions but a "good" splitter will correctly support EDID and by extension HDCP and then you get snow on the second display when HDCP content is displayed (or when a Windows machine is connected). So I'm still needing to strip out the HDCP signal in order to have Windows work on a split HDMI signal (so I'm using a programmable EDID in between the source and the splitter).
That's Hollywood accounting though. The movie WILL make it's $100M and more, just not in the first weekend. Off course the studios will cry that it's a loss because it didn't make $1B the first weekend and thus they'll qualify for a number of government grants and bailouts while not paying their employees and artists. http://www.theatlantic.com/bus...
It WILL gain a following (all really bad movies and all superhero movies do after all) and it will make it up in DVD sales and later on TV. There is not a single movie in the last half century that has never made it's expenses back, you just can't believe what the studio tells you about it.
So basically Musk is the Trump of technologies? It's a smart move that makes him millions of dollars and it isn't illegal.
According to the people that want this, their workforce should consist of 50% black, 50% women, 50% black women and 50% LGBT and no white males, white males are all racists and rapists.
Most space people live in are already fully wired paid for by your taxes. They don't each need a set of wires, they just need to share the infrastructure the tax payer has paid for. These companies have been getting billions per year to build out their infrastructure yet none of them do. The FCC needs to hold all these companies to their promises they made or withdraw further funding.
Does it have the Windows logo when you start up? Then you got malware installed.
In case of law enforcement, it is. That is what the qualified immunity doctrine establishes - law enforcement can be fairly reasonably ignorant of the law. Again, if it is reasonable to expect that someone didn't know that what they did is too broad or illegal without having a law degree, they are immune. If something is established procedure in a police department, the individual officers are immune.
Law enforcement is immune from most criminal acts (Qualified Immunity) unless they "willfully and knowingly" violate someone's constitutional rights and there is no objective reasonableness to their actions. Those are a lot of tests, nobody is going to jail here because nobody ever decided they "shouldn't" and as many morons here on /. utter "but it was in public" - to the average slashdotter and by extension average law enforcement agents it is 'reasonable' to just plant video and audio feeds everywhere in public without a warrant because it is 'public', no expectation of privacy.
This ruling is also very narrow. The judge didn't say that planting random camera's and microphones everywhere in the city is illegal under the 4th amendment, he just said that if someone is unaware of their existence AND they are separating themselves from the general public into a private conversation it is illegal to continue surveillance.
I think the 'hushed tone' and 'expectation of privacy' is key here. You can expect everything you say in public to be overheard. If you take steps to avoid eavesdropping, then it becomes a private conversation. With current technology, you can overhear things being said behind a closed door, that doesn't make it 'public'.
There are various attacks being brought up. These chips and terminals have really weak PRNGs with poor entropy, we're talking about embedded chips barely 1sq.cm. that were "cheap" 15 years ago. They have the processing capacity of a SIM card (if you remember those).
One way is to downgrade the crypto to "acceptable" levels. You intercept the negotiation between the chip and the bank and the first number of authentications will be at higher levels of crypto (think 128 bit), your "fake" terminal instead sends a response that the crypto is unavailable; the card-bank then downgrade levels until you get to 56 bits or something you can easily crack.
Additionally it's possible to do a pre-play attack. You basically challenge the chip with a number of fake queries during a real transaction (eg challenge the chip for a $1000 payment from another place and record the response) and then just replay the response the card gave you from a cloned card when you make a "real" $1000 payment.
Krebs recently posted a picture of an EMV skimmer found at Walmart capable of skimming the PINs. The skimmers retail for ~$200-300. There are hundreds of stories out there from people that have had their "chip-and-pin" stolen and not getting reimbursed by the bank because it's "impossible".
Attacks on EMV have been proven possible for several years now by researchers, after researchers heard of stories about cloned pin-and-chips being refused for reimbursement. You really think criminals haven't gotten any better in half a decade?