Using router ACLs to block ports is pretty much the same thing as using iptables on Linux to filter ports. So, IOW, yes, blocking unnecessary ports on a router means that the router is a firewall. Something is filtering packets and even if it's called a router and not a firewall, that's the function it is serving.
You realize that Win2k3 does turn off most services by default, and Win2k8 takes this even further by not installing them at all. Really? Then why did he say that they had to turn them off?
Windows and IIS...rock solid and secure! www.microsoft.com is on Windows Server 2008/IIS7, MSDN/TechNet are migrating to Win2k8/IIS7, and update.microsoft.com is on Windows Server 2003/IIS6. We do all the normal shut-off-unused-services practices that line up with MS published security guidance and we utilize GFS images to ensure standardized builds of systems. This guy is brainwashed. There should be no unused services turned on by default! Admins shouldn't have to shutoff unused services -- they shouldn't be enabled unless necessary. Also, rock solid and secure? Uh, didn't I read an article not too long ago about how the update.microsoft.com site was broken into?
Microsoft designs a system by which you can install binary software packages on Microsoft servers (or third party servers) using some program that ships with the OS. Then, that program could periodically update the OS. Fantastic! Maybe they could call it... uhh... Windows Update! Or Microsoft Update! Yeah!
That's not true. XP SP1 solved a glaring flaw in some IDE chipset drivers that caused machines to boot into a BSOD and sometimes even caused massive filesystem corruption.
Right. It's PHP and Perl, right? So that means you already have the code. You can modify it already, you just, until now, couldn't distribute modified copies. All that really means is a license change and, well, in the meantime, didn't everybody already kinda move to WordPress anyhow?
Well, here's someone who makes your case for you, but the real question is how will we know what will happen unless we find out? There would be, I'm sure, protocols in place to avoid contamination problems. If Jonas Salk hadn't injected himself and his family with his polio vaccine, polio might be quite a bit more rampant today.
Well, technically speaking the dinosaurs weren't "cloned" in the book -- they used transgenic techniques. I'm not entirely certain if the DNA has to be living, but these techniques are very complicated and often do not succeed until many, many attempts have been made.
Agreed. I fear Earth will soon face an epidemic of The Andromeda Strain . After all Crichton was a doctor, he should know. A lot of what's in Crichton's work is pseudoscience at best. Take Jurassic Park. None of the DNA that has been captured from dinosaur fossils is in good enough condition to produce a clone... and all likelihood no sample will ever be found that could be used for cloning. It's also mentioned that all life is inherently female and that it's only the introduction of the Y chromosome that makes a zygote male. Not quite. What really happens is that there are X sperm and Y sperm. So, from conception, a zygote already carries the sex chromosome. Now it is true that the Y chromosome doesn't get activated until sometime after development when a certain hormone gets introduced. The failure of the Y chromosome to activate is actually the cause of a rare but serious disease.
I've been reading Crichton's Next and I have to say that it's got some good science in there -- but there's a lot of pseudoscience in there too.
So, I wouldn't take The Andromeda Strain as gospel for what might happen. Samples taken from the moon obviously haven't wiped out life on Earth, why should we believe that samples taken from Mars would?
How is it that some of us wonder and wander and some of us do not? The average IQ in the United States is only in the high 90s? (Note: I am an American, so, no I'm not eurotrolling)
There is no such thing as a "forward slash". There is only "slash" and "backslash". What I want to know is why does every newbie user think that "\" == "slash" and "/" == "backslash"?
Wait for it to get dark. Take out your camera. Now get in your car (or SUV, truck, motorcycle, tank, whatever -- I presume you have some sort of motorized land vehicle) and drive out past the city limits. Continue driving until you reach an area with very few buildings, no lights, etc. You know. They call this "the country" or "the rural area" or something like that. Park your car and get out. Now you should be able to see these "stars". Take pictures. Good luck!
None of these are good examples. The Chinese laborer is not the product. The shoe designer is not the product.
The musician on the cover of the CD is the product. When they sell a Flyleaf album, they're not selling little plastic discs, they're not even selling songs -- they're selling Flyleaf! Flyleaf is the product. They don't make the product, they don't design the product, they are the product.
Generally, in an industrial good industry, it works like this. In general the COGS of any business is somewhere in the neighborhood of 50% of if it's asking price. So, here's an example:
Consider this distribution model:
End user <--- Retailer <--- Wholesaler <:--- Distributor <--- Manufacturer
The item retails for $100. Assuming each business has adds a 50% markup:
but the Michigan Left seemed like a more intuitive way to get other people out of the habit of blocking traffic. I'll bet you've never drove in the Detroit area during rush hour on weekday. You know those lanes you get into to start the Michigan left? Yeah, well, usually, they're nowhere near long enough and you end up with a line of cars in the left lane stopped because nobody can get through because of all the nitwits who aren't smart enough to just go the next "turn around."
You might think it's a smart idea, but as a general rule, most Michigan natives think it's stupid.
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Women have been posting here for years now. You don't pay much attention, do you?
Using router ACLs to block ports is pretty much the same thing as using iptables on Linux to filter ports. So, IOW, yes, blocking unnecessary ports on a router means that the router is a firewall. Something is filtering packets and even if it's called a router and not a firewall, that's the function it is serving.
If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck...
Anecote != data
That is all.
Thank you.
That's not true. XP SP1 solved a glaring flaw in some IDE chipset drivers that caused machines to boot into a BSOD and sometimes even caused massive filesystem corruption.
Thing is that there's a gazillion blogging CMSes out there. Why write another one?
Right. It's PHP and Perl, right? So that means you already have the code. You can modify it already, you just, until now, couldn't distribute modified copies. All that really means is a license change and, well, in the meantime, didn't everybody already kinda move to WordPress anyhow?
Well, here's someone who makes your case for you, but the real question is how will we know what will happen unless we find out? There would be, I'm sure, protocols in place to avoid contamination problems. If Jonas Salk hadn't injected himself and his family with his polio vaccine, polio might be quite a bit more rampant today.
Well, technically speaking the dinosaurs weren't "cloned" in the book -- they used transgenic techniques. I'm not entirely certain if the DNA has to be living, but these techniques are very complicated and often do not succeed until many, many attempts have been made.
I believe there's a pilot in Nigeria underway. Here's another person from Nigeria's view of the OLPC.
I've been reading Crichton's Next and I have to say that it's got some good science in there -- but there's a lot of pseudoscience in there too.
So, I wouldn't take The Andromeda Strain as gospel for what might happen. Samples taken from the moon obviously haven't wiped out life on Earth, why should we believe that samples taken from Mars would?
Well, I thought of that since I live in Florida, but I do realize that not everyone has ready access to the open seas.
Hey! I just got hit by a small meteor, you insensitive clod! Ouch!
There is only "slash" and "backslash". What I want to know is why does every newbie user think that "\" == "slash" and "/" == "backslash"?
Wait for it to get dark. Take out your camera. Now get in your car (or SUV, truck, motorcycle, tank, whatever -- I presume you have some sort of motorized land vehicle) and drive out past the city limits. Continue driving until you reach an area with very few buildings, no lights, etc. You know. They call this "the country" or "the rural area" or something like that. Park your car and get out. Now you should be able to see these "stars". Take pictures. Good luck!
None of these are good examples.
The Chinese laborer is not the product. The shoe designer is not the product.
The musician on the cover of the CD is the product. When they sell a Flyleaf album, they're not selling little plastic discs, they're not even selling songs -- they're selling Flyleaf! Flyleaf is the product. They don't make the product, they don't design the product, they are the product.
So did your distrust change after reading the article more carefully? Do you still feel that the image of the cat on the left is altered?
I dunno about you, but this stuff gives me the creeps. Then again, I have been reading Next by Michael Crichton.
Generally, in an industrial good industry, it works like this. In general the COGS of any business is somewhere in the neighborhood of 50% of if it's asking price. So, here's an example:
Consider this distribution model:
End user <--- Retailer <--- Wholesaler <:--- Distributor <--- Manufacturer
The item retails for $100. Assuming each business has adds a 50% markup:
Retailer <--- Wholesaler <:--- Distributor <--- Manufacturer
$100 $50 $25 $12
So, out of a $100, the manufacturer gets $12 or about an 1/8th of that $100 retail price.
Are you telling me you really think that the artist gets $2.50 royalty for each $20 CD sold?
'Cause if you are, you're crazy.
It's more like pennies.
You might think it's a smart idea, but as a general rule, most Michigan natives think it's stupid.
No, no -- you've got it all wrong! You dodgy Brits don't drive on the right side of the road, but we do!
That looks dangerous.