So, let's see.. we are getting attacks from China (some definitions of "attack" include a simple Ping), but since their networks are such a mess it ~might~ not be them? Silly...
Where there is smoke there is fire (or at least hot things). These attacks and actual break-ins by Chinese are actually coupled with proof they are using the information they collect. This should come as no surprise because they have NO respect for Intellectual Property, including military/government "Intellectual Property" aka "secrets". If they pirate DVDs, copy hardware/clothes/etc then they can do the same with military "stuff" - this should come as no surprise. No, no all people who copy an MP3 are capable of espionage.. unless it is a systematic and widespread market tolerated and encouraged by the host government.
Anyhow I think their network "noise" is a little too convenient. Russian organized crime operates servers in China, maybe they are in cahoots to form botnets to steal financial information as well as commercial/military Intellectual Property (the former more important to the Russian criminals and the latter more important to the Chinese Government).
That kid threw a snowball at my car!
Kids throw a lot of things, what makes you think it was that kid?
Cybercommand is just an amalgamation of current missions under one structure. There are "Information Warfare" units in operation right now. Also the DoD, even the entire Federal Government has such people in all compartments. Despite the sickening news about lost laptops and backup tapes and mishandled databases, there are quite a few "hackers" in government in general. They are military, civilian (Federal Pay Scale) as well as contractors.
Just like the legal department or even the marketing department of a large corporation might have guidelines they "take seriously", not all sheep follow (and some get lost). Just because Microsoft lacks secure software in places does not mean that there is a TOTAL disregard for security.
The Government is the same way. The Cybercommand is a better way to combine these efforts in the Air Force and show they are on the ball. The DoD is attacked EVERY DAY (every minute of every second of every day, more like it) so this is nothing new, other than an effort to unite standards and efforts.
It would be great to have the Air Force accept their role of "Propeller hats" vs "grunts". Too often the branches of the DoD get wound up about who is "hard" and the next thing you know everyone has new uniforms and contests for the harshest basic training. The truth of the Air Force is that they send officers into combat and the majority of the enlisted force is to support them (Army is the other way around). So I welcome the day of Air Force uniforms with elastic waists and airmen with nose rings, if it means that the "bad guys" are sent to/dev/null...
There is no mechanism to prevent Lt Snuffy from emailing his flight plan to anyone. There are official channels, but pilots are notorious for being arrogant so they do what they want. You can give a guy millions of dollars in training and equipment but still not stop them from acting like an idiot.
This is not really an IT problem in that you can't prevent a user from sending email. You can educate them (if they will listen, but who is a Sargent to tell a Colonel what to do), you could block "mildenhal.com" in the DNS but then you will have users complaining that they can't surf there. If it were me in the IT shop I would go to the users and tell them to use ".MIL" and their encryption, but not much else because you can't fix stupid.
Yes, RSS.... not the same as a client that is integrated with these social sites. A single place where not only can the user view "notes" but also reply to them.
My point was that social sites are growing, becoming more important and mainstream. One day such sites will overtake email, which is full of SPAM, Phishing and other concerns. Yes, RSS is nice... but not even close.
Oh yeah, corporate email? I'd bet 90% out there are Outlook and maybe 90% of those are Exchange backended. Thunderbird will not make inroads there with dwindling corporate support for POP3 and IMAP4 for the sake of the bastard Exchange protocol. Many corporate responses to Outlook alternative requests is to have the users go with "OWA" (intentionally broken on Firefox).
I would use a stand-alone mail client that could aggregate and allow me to use the social sites I frequent. Other than that I have no time, fire up firefox with 4 default tabs up.
I'd like to see an email client that hooked into all of these social networking sites that I use and aggregate the messages from those. I have a few friends that only got email accounts to join Facebook and MySpace (say what you want). My personal email relies much more on contact with web pages than actual "direct" email. Don't get me started with SMS messages (no, the phone kind not the M$ abomination).
I think it is a generational thing but soon email clients will go the way of the milkman, unless some smart company was to bridge the two.
Exactly! Think of the equation from Fight Club...
should we initiate a recall? Take the number of vehicles in the field (A) multiply it by the probable rate of failure (B) then multiply the result by the average out of court settlement (C). A times B times C equals X. If X is less than the cost of the recall, we don't do one. At least that is where I get all my business skills, like all of you actually took business management classes.
Even if they do block the "wicked p2p" networks (of course they only have a single purpose, piracy), laugh and start up TOR or a SSH proxy and...
Move on.
I am working the grill today at McDonalds, I hung up some napkins and drink covers to personalize my space. My boss is real mad, he lacks the creative spark that Steve Jobs has...
We all know moore's law was not infinite (nor is it even a law). Dual cores are just another step along the way, same with cell processors and programable arrays.
I think Intel was blind-sided by Opteron and it was all due to corporate huburis when their 64bit solution failed to take hold. After declaring that no one wanted 64bit CPUs, they found out otherwise and had to hastily copy AMD's technology and call it 64emt. The are currently playing catch-up to a company that used to exist simply to copy Intel -- that has got to hurt.
The only way Intel can get back in front is to appear to leapfrog AMD, the only people they need to convince is the CIOs, technology reporters for ZD publishing and other Dell/Intel fanboys. The best way is to beat AMD to the dual-core punch.
AMD is taking their time to do it right, Intel is not. Look at the memory controller issue. The architecture they are going with looks half-assed. If they screw it up bad enough it will make AMD's dual core CPUs less attractive and take the wind from their sails.
I have a dual Pentium PRO I am still quite fond of, I don't think developers have to go too far to see the benefit of multiple CPU systems. The dual core systems are simply to increase performance and decrease hardware (motherboard and RAM) costs.
Apple has offered Dual-CPU systems for a long time, but they are more than just a company for teachers to buy computers from. They also sell systems to graphic artists, publishing houses and many other places that benefit from dual-CPU systems. It's just the Apple shotgun approach, they are aming at their market which includes many levels of users. It's not their intention that Grandma should have a dual CPU 64bit system (unless she is a Lightwave user looking to decrease render times).
Multiple core CPUs have been AMDs dream for a long time now. This is just Intel not wanting to look stupid on the 64bit front any longer. They are making sloppy decisions to try to beat AMD to market so Dell can use such "innovations" in their ads.
Did anyone who read the article stop to understand what the NSA is and what they will be doing? I didn't think so.
The NSA is the last agency in the government which is not "100% Microsoft". They are the last agency which trusts no one but tolerates Unix and works on SeLinux. In the government you have every possible email server, firewall and other devices with little concern for interoperability or security. NSA is the only agency paranoid enough to truly secure our pitiful government and their contracted paper MCSEs. Expect big things if this were to truly happen (also expect to see a rise in *nix Government jobs open up all over the US).
I don't know why this is "news for Nerds" in the first place.
I deal with spyware infections every day, even without people randomly installing crap a simple mistype of a URL and thanks to an ActiveX vulnerability you have spyware (an NT admin infected a server that way).
All of that is moot thanks to programs like this. Installing the latest crack of photoshop CS is just asking for trouble.
I advocate people stick with OSS for Win32. GIMP, OpenOffice and countless others. I don't need to steal programs to use my computers.
One nitpick of the parent post: M$ is integrating GIANT anti-spyware (not Search-and-Destroy)...
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Up there with "Tie him to the comfy chair"..
No one expects a Spanish Ping!
So, let's see.. we are getting attacks from China (some definitions of "attack" include a simple Ping), but since their networks are such a mess it ~might~ not be them? Silly...
Where there is smoke there is fire (or at least hot things). These attacks and actual break-ins by Chinese are actually coupled with proof they are using the information they collect. This should come as no surprise because they have NO respect for Intellectual Property, including military/government "Intellectual Property" aka "secrets". If they pirate DVDs, copy hardware/clothes/etc then they can do the same with military "stuff" - this should come as no surprise. No, no all people who copy an MP3 are capable of espionage.. unless it is a systematic and widespread market tolerated and encouraged by the host government.
Anyhow I think their network "noise" is a little too convenient. Russian organized crime operates servers in China, maybe they are in cahoots to form botnets to steal financial information as well as commercial/military Intellectual Property (the former more important to the Russian criminals and the latter more important to the Chinese Government).
That kid threw a snowball at my car! Kids throw a lot of things, what makes you think it was that kid?
Cybercommand is just an amalgamation of current missions under one structure. There are "Information Warfare" units in operation right now. Also the DoD, even the entire Federal Government has such people in all compartments. Despite the sickening news about lost laptops and backup tapes and mishandled databases, there are quite a few "hackers" in government in general. They are military, civilian (Federal Pay Scale) as well as contractors.
/dev/null...
Just like the legal department or even the marketing department of a large corporation might have guidelines they "take seriously", not all sheep follow (and some get lost). Just because Microsoft lacks secure software in places does not mean that there is a TOTAL disregard for security.
The Government is the same way. The Cybercommand is a better way to combine these efforts in the Air Force and show they are on the ball. The DoD is attacked EVERY DAY (every minute of every second of every day, more like it) so this is nothing new, other than an effort to unite standards and efforts.
It would be great to have the Air Force accept their role of "Propeller hats" vs "grunts". Too often the branches of the DoD get wound up about who is "hard" and the next thing you know everyone has new uniforms and contests for the harshest basic training. The truth of the Air Force is that they send officers into combat and the majority of the enlisted force is to support them (Army is the other way around). So I welcome the day of Air Force uniforms with elastic waists and airmen with nose rings, if it means that the "bad guys" are sent to
There is no mechanism to prevent Lt Snuffy from emailing his flight plan to anyone. There are official channels, but pilots are notorious for being arrogant so they do what they want. You can give a guy millions of dollars in training and equipment but still not stop them from acting like an idiot.
This is not really an IT problem in that you can't prevent a user from sending email. You can educate them (if they will listen, but who is a Sargent to tell a Colonel what to do), you could block "mildenhal.com" in the DNS but then you will have users complaining that they can't surf there. If it were me in the IT shop I would go to the users and tell them to use ".MIL" and their encryption, but not much else because you can't fix stupid.
Yes, RSS.... not the same as a client that is integrated with these social sites. A single place where not only can the user view "notes" but also reply to them.
My point was that social sites are growing, becoming more important and mainstream. One day such sites will overtake email, which is full of SPAM, Phishing and other concerns. Yes, RSS is nice... but not even close.
Oh yeah, corporate email? I'd bet 90% out there are Outlook and maybe 90% of those are Exchange backended. Thunderbird will not make inroads there with dwindling corporate support for POP3 and IMAP4 for the sake of the bastard Exchange protocol. Many corporate responses to Outlook alternative requests is to have the users go with "OWA" (intentionally broken on Firefox).
I would use a stand-alone mail client that could aggregate and allow me to use the social sites I frequent. Other than that I have no time, fire up firefox with 4 default tabs up.
I'd like to see an email client that hooked into all of these social networking sites that I use and aggregate the messages from those. I have a few friends that only got email accounts to join Facebook and MySpace (say what you want). My personal email relies much more on contact with web pages than actual "direct" email. Don't get me started with SMS messages (no, the phone kind not the M$ abomination).
I think it is a generational thing but soon email clients will go the way of the milkman, unless some smart company was to bridge the two.
Even if they do block the "wicked p2p" networks (of course they only have a single purpose, piracy), laugh and start up TOR or a SSH proxy and... Move on.
Is RMS ever happy? I am going to start a project "One Puppy per child" and the first one goes to Stallman.
I am working the grill today at McDonalds, I hung up some napkins and drink covers to personalize my space. My boss is real mad, he lacks the creative spark that Steve Jobs has...
We all know moore's law was not infinite (nor is it even a law). Dual cores are just another step along the way, same with cell processors and programable arrays.
I think Intel was blind-sided by Opteron and it was all due to corporate huburis when their 64bit solution failed to take hold. After declaring that no one wanted 64bit CPUs, they found out otherwise and had to hastily copy AMD's technology and call it 64emt. The are currently playing catch-up to a company that used to exist simply to copy Intel -- that has got to hurt.
The only way Intel can get back in front is to appear to leapfrog AMD, the only people they need to convince is the CIOs, technology reporters for ZD publishing and other Dell/Intel fanboys. The best way is to beat AMD to the dual-core punch.
AMD is taking their time to do it right, Intel is not. Look at the memory controller issue. The architecture they are going with looks half-assed. If they screw it up bad enough it will make AMD's dual core CPUs less attractive and take the wind from their sails.
I have a dual Pentium PRO I am still quite fond of, I don't think developers have to go too far to see the benefit of multiple CPU systems. The dual core systems are simply to increase performance and decrease hardware (motherboard and RAM) costs.
Apple has offered Dual-CPU systems for a long time, but they are more than just a company for teachers to buy computers from. They also sell systems to graphic artists, publishing houses and many other places that benefit from dual-CPU systems. It's just the Apple shotgun approach, they are aming at their market which includes many levels of users. It's not their intention that Grandma should have a dual CPU 64bit system (unless she is a Lightwave user looking to decrease render times). Multiple core CPUs have been AMDs dream for a long time now. This is just Intel not wanting to look stupid on the 64bit front any longer. They are making sloppy decisions to try to beat AMD to market so Dell can use such "innovations" in their ads.
I am a MCSE. I got it when it meant something, before the "boot camps" turned out all the drones.
Did anyone who read the article stop to understand what the NSA is and what they will be doing?
I didn't think so.
The NSA is the last agency in the government which is not "100% Microsoft". They are the last agency which trusts no one but tolerates Unix and works on SeLinux. In the government you have every possible email server, firewall and other devices with little concern for interoperability or security. NSA is the only agency paranoid enough to truly secure our pitiful government and their contracted paper MCSEs. Expect big things if this were to truly happen (also expect to see a rise in *nix Government jobs open up all over the US).
I don't know why this is "news for Nerds" in the first place.
I deal with spyware infections every day, even without people randomly installing crap a simple mistype of a URL and thanks to an ActiveX vulnerability you have spyware (an NT admin infected a server that way).
All of that is moot thanks to programs like this. Installing the latest crack of photoshop CS is just asking for trouble.
I advocate people stick with OSS for Win32. GIMP, OpenOffice and countless others. I don't need to steal programs to use my computers.
One nitpick of the parent post: M$ is integrating GIANT anti-spyware (not Search-and-Destroy)...