Nah, it's called putting too much faith in a shitty co-location provider. Would YOU trust your network with a company whose named means "a mass departure?"
Try Inflow, their people are smarter and their service is better.
Well thank you Walter Cronkite. Your educated opinion on what is and is not news is both refreshing and fascinating.
This may not be news in the traditional "Two children were found dead and partially eaten at a local bus stop today" sense, but to those of us who are or have been in an academic research role, this certainly is an interesting topic.
Hmm, let's see... 3D acceleration on laptops is a joke. (oh BOY, a Savage3d!). Laptop mice and keyboards suck. They're slow as hell compared to a desktop with the same RAM/CPU. They're overpriced. Their parts and repair costs are way more expensive, and the average DIY type of person can't change out parts on them.
as long as it takes two parents to work 9 to 5 just to get by. that means having the money to get SUV's TV's etc.. then those parents will not have the time to raise those kids..
Oh sweet christ give me a break...both of my parents worked 50-60 hours a week each while I was growing up just to make sure we got by. (i.e. food on the table, clothes on my back, etc) Yet, somehow, without the advent of cloning technology, they managed to make it to my football games, wrestling matches, and academic award ceremonies in school. They always showed they cared, and often asked how everything was going.
Yes I was left alone fairly often, but the attention and caring they showed me when they WERE around more than made up for it. It doesn't take a genius or a social worker to raise a child...it only takes some interest and compassion.
And if it doesn't work, then I'll deal with the support pages, and if all else fails, I'll warn people not to buy games from them... in an appropriate tone
Showing tolerance to badly QA'd software is a sign of a tried and true, die-hard Windows user. Why do you let Microsoft perpetuate the idea that it's permissible to have software not work correctly and then take their sweet fucking time shipping a fix? I just don't get it.
It's his battle cry. It's completely silly and arbitrary, and I'm not exactly sure why it's funny, but if you've ever seen the great gusto with which he bellows it, you can't help but chuckle.
Before I get to the point, I'd like to state that, to a degree, I have no problem with genetic manipulation to breed out certain "bad" traits, genetically passed-on diseases and such, that make for a miserable life for the afflicted person and all involved.
However...infertility happens in nature because of overpopulation...it's a mutation to control the size of the species' population. I'll ignore all the whining "But I have a right to have a child too!" comments...because, well, no you don't. (Not to mention most people I know shouldn't be allowed to have kids anyway as they're completely incompetent parents) Natural selection says we're breeding to friggin much...we're making more problems for ourselves by bypassing this. I actually wrote an essay for a class several years ago that proposed banning infertility treatment, and noted that it was well received by those with a little common sense and intuition, and was frowned upon by the "Me first" people that have problems visualizing anything that doesn't put their personal feelings first.
There are a lot of cool looking cars that don't go all that fast. My Dodge Avenger for example...looks sporty with the spoiler and mag wheels and all, but has a shitty-ass 2.5L V6 and gets terrible pickup. The charm of a sports car is not only the look but the power.
If they INSIST on being able to access their highly sensitive systems from an unsecured box, wouldn't they be better off using either A) an encrypted X-session or B) an encrypted Citrix / Terminal Server session?
Think about it...a virtual machine is still going to have access to RAM, ports, etc. Not to mention they're probably going to have each virtual machine running on private IP space over the same wire...that can be sniffed as well.
A central server that each person accesses through an encrypted link allows for secure network traffic, a central repository of the data in question, and allows for ACL's restricting which computers can even access it.
Sometimes the most elegeant solution isn't the most complex one.
Sure there are still risks associated, like hardware keystroke loggers, shoulder surfing, and shit like that, but that's a risk regardless, and I hope the DoD has measures in place to reduce physical security risks.
You know, the nice thing about Linux is no matter what distro you use, you can always update any software you think is "buggy" right from the developer's source. The only real difference in the distros is what goodies they include and where shit like startup scripts lie (which you can change around anyway if you know your way around Linux well enough)
We're all on the same side here. Distro wars don't help the cause at all.
Yeah, but Firewall-1 has it's own problems. The service proxies (i think they call them "security servers") are a joke, NAT and encryption slow the system dramatically. Avg 70 Mbs thruput on an a Nokia IP330 running FW-1 drops to about 2-3Mbs with 3DES encrypted VPN traffic. That doesn't include another ~20% overhead for NAT.
I won't even begin to talk about how shoddily thrown-together their Provider-1 management tool is...I'd almost swear microsoft coded it.
Anyway, point being I'm glad to see Linux's firewall technology get more current. Especially since it's open source....it'll be nice to actually get in and pour over the code.
At my job before this one, I came back from vacation, worked that friday (came back on a thurs) and then monday, my laptop was taken off my desk and my network connection pulled. Then, after I tracked down my boss, he told me they were firing me because I left a computer on over vacation. (I had 8 on my desk, you miss them sometimes) Two weeks later, an old vendor of mine calls me and tells me the 80 person company is down to 12 people.
Their stock was already plummeting, so I decided to exact revenge for such a lame layoff, and turned them in for pirating software and got them audited....they had been using a crack for their Checkpoint firewall software....all 8 firewalls. The succeeding fine and licensing fees hurt, I bet.
Let me tell you, the first time you have to take a job at a pay cut because the the IT industry is hiring a ton of cheap foreign IT labor (mark my words, it will start happening) you'll whistle another tune about every human being deserving a chance.
If we're not careful, we could go the way of the factory worker. Cheap, expendable, and easily replaced in foreign countries. (once their IT training gets up to par that is)
Who says you need to be a celebrity to be asked questions that the slashdot crowd would like to know the answers too? The majority of us here were in the same place as this kid is now, and would love some insight into how things work geek-wise in high school these days. Not only for the US readers, but many foreign readers seem interested too. Damn, dude, get off your high horse. If you're not interested in the review, don't read it.
Heh, seeing this post made me realize just how seriously people in Denver take Columbine. I'm from NY and we joked about it constantly. ("Man, we were busy yesterday...it was like freakin Columbine in there") Since I've moved to Denver, I've gotten nothing but hard looks any time I've made a Columbine comment, even from the jokingest of people. Go figure. It's like making holocaust jokes in Israel, I guess.
I once saw a palindrome that was a Latin phrase that, when read backwards, was its English translation. I'll be damned if I can remember it. I think I read it in Anguished English, by Richard Lederer.
>American squeamishness at nudity and sexual behaviour is really quite bizarre. I find it telling that we don't tolerate a bit of slap and tickle, but find graphic
enactments of brutality, even to the point of glorfication, acceptable, or at least more acceptable than depictions of sexuality.
That's because this country was founded by religious exiles from Europe, and has in it's roots Bible-thumping fundamentalism since day 1. If you've ever read the Bible, God and his followers react with violence to any "abnormal" sexual act. (i.e. not missionary position, in the dark, doors locked, lights off, with a spouse of the opposite gender) That's why our country is so fucked up. Thanks Jesus, you rule.
>For a start, the machines have 4 rotors. They are the ones used on the subs (like the ones the BRITS, NOT THE YANKS, got the codebook for on U571)
If you'd read, rather than skimmed, the article, you'd have seen that the device in question DID have four wheels, and the box was returned with one still attached and 3 missing.
These things are just as easy to get right you know.
It's not just because of the "free" mentality that pervades this open-source-minded user base....I think this applies to everyone.
It's that the vast majority of people have a hard time paying for something that is readily available for free elsewhere. That's why people trade MP3s instead of buying new CDs (debatable, yes, but it happens) use free operating systems, and why people will flock away from something free if it starts charging.
Making money on the internet is just fine and dandy. I'm all about capitalism. But don't be incredibly shocked folks don't come in droves to use your service that you charge for if someone else has the same service for free. You have the right to TRY and make money in a capitalist society but, if you have a bad business model, you're not earning anything but a swift Chapter 11 in the rear.
That's what's so great about the internet. You have to offer something unique and interesting that DRIVES the consumer to pay for it, or you're not gonna be around long. So far, here's what makes money: pr0n, advertising, e-commerce sites that sell software or *gasp* real physical items, dating services/locator services (helping people meet/find people), and uhh....that's about it. If you can think of anything that doesn't fall into those categories that is doing well financially, I'll buy you a steak.
Considering you can get all those services you mentioned for free at other sites, if Yahoo did start charging for them, you'd have easily found alternatives. Sure, you'd have to go to different sites for each of them, but thats what bookmarks are for.
Face it, the vast majority of the revenue generated on the 'net for companies that don't actually sell anything is from advertisers paying for banner ad click-thrus. More and more people have started to realize that it's easy ignore or block the banners, so web sites that get most of their income this way are looking for alternatives. Whoever thinks of a way for a web site that doesn't actually sell a product or service to make money without banner ads is going to be rich.
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This really doesn't solve the problem of centralizing it though....a client is a client, wether it's an installed program or part of the OS, encrypted tunnel or open TCP/UDP session. There still needs to be a centralized server where the data (or indexes of the data) is stored and authentication of the user base occurs.
I wish there was an easy solution, but the only thing *I* can think of is for the main server to be hosted in a country where they give a rat's ass about American copyright laws.
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Its called being lazy and unresourceful.
Nah, it's called putting too much faith in a shitty co-location provider. Would YOU trust your network with a company whose named means "a mass departure?"
Try Inflow, their people are smarter and their service is better.
Well thank you Walter Cronkite. Your educated opinion on what is and is not news is both refreshing and fascinating.
This may not be news in the traditional "Two children were found dead and partially eaten at a local bus stop today" sense, but to those of us who are or have been in an academic research role, this certainly is an interesting topic.
Thank you for your support.
why don't you just... buy a laptop?
Hmm, let's see... 3D acceleration on laptops is a joke. (oh BOY, a Savage3d!). Laptop mice and keyboards suck. They're slow as hell compared to a desktop with the same RAM/CPU. They're overpriced. Their parts and repair costs are way more expensive, and the average DIY type of person can't change out parts on them.
Any other questions?
as long as it takes two parents to work 9 to 5 just to get by. that means having the money to get SUV's TV's etc.. then those parents will not have the time to raise those kids..
Oh sweet christ give me a break...both of my parents worked 50-60 hours a week each while I was growing up just to make sure we got by. (i.e. food on the table, clothes on my back, etc) Yet, somehow, without the advent of cloning technology, they managed to make it to my football games, wrestling matches, and academic award ceremonies in school. They always showed they cared, and often asked how everything was going.
Yes I was left alone fairly often, but the attention and caring they showed me when they WERE around more than made up for it. It doesn't take a genius or a social worker to raise a child...it only takes some interest and compassion.
And if it doesn't work, then I'll deal with the support pages, and if all else fails, I'll warn people not to buy games from them... in an appropriate tone
Showing tolerance to badly QA'd software is a sign of a tried and true, die-hard Windows user. Why do you let Microsoft perpetuate the idea that it's permissible to have software not work correctly and then take their sweet fucking time shipping a fix? I just don't get it.
It's his battle cry. It's completely silly and arbitrary, and I'm not exactly sure why it's funny, but if you've ever seen the great gusto with which he bellows it, you can't help but chuckle.
Before I get to the point, I'd like to state that, to a degree, I have no problem with genetic manipulation to breed out certain "bad" traits, genetically passed-on diseases and such, that make for a miserable life for the afflicted person and all involved.
However...infertility happens in nature because of overpopulation...it's a mutation to control the size of the species' population. I'll ignore all the whining "But I have a right to have a child too!" comments...because, well, no you don't. (Not to mention most people I know shouldn't be allowed to have kids anyway as they're completely incompetent parents) Natural selection says we're breeding to friggin much...we're making more problems for ourselves by bypassing this. I actually wrote an essay for a class several years ago that proposed banning infertility treatment, and noted that it was well received by those with a little common sense and intuition, and was frowned upon by the "Me first" people that have problems visualizing anything that doesn't put their personal feelings first.
But what do I know, I'm just a geek.
How do we figure out whether a consultant claiming to know FreeBSD actually has a clue?
The same way you find out if an NT consultant or Cisco consultant has a clue. INTERVIEW them.
There's no certification path, there's no paper to back this up, nothing
I think hordes of paper MCSE's have proven that having a certification is not the same as knowing what you're doing.
There are a lot of cool looking cars that don't go all that fast. My Dodge Avenger for example...looks sporty with the spoiler and mag wheels and all, but has a shitty-ass 2.5L V6 and gets terrible pickup. The charm of a sports car is not only the look but the power.
If they INSIST on being able to access their highly sensitive systems from an unsecured box, wouldn't they be better off using either A) an encrypted X-session or B) an encrypted Citrix / Terminal Server session?
Think about it...a virtual machine is still going to have access to RAM, ports, etc. Not to mention they're probably going to have each virtual machine running on private IP space over the same wire...that can be sniffed as well.
A central server that each person accesses through an encrypted link allows for secure network traffic, a central repository of the data in question, and allows for ACL's restricting which computers can even access it.
Sometimes the most elegeant solution isn't the most complex one.
Sure there are still risks associated, like hardware keystroke loggers, shoulder surfing, and shit like that, but that's a risk regardless, and I hope the DoD has measures in place to reduce physical security risks.
You know, the nice thing about Linux is no matter what distro you use, you can always update any software you think is "buggy" right from the developer's source. The only real difference in the distros is what goodies they include and where shit like startup scripts lie (which you can change around anyway if you know your way around Linux well enough)
We're all on the same side here. Distro wars don't help the cause at all.
Yeah, but Firewall-1 has it's own problems. The service proxies (i think they call them "security servers") are a joke, NAT and encryption slow the system dramatically. Avg 70 Mbs thruput on an a Nokia IP330 running FW-1 drops to about 2-3Mbs with 3DES encrypted VPN traffic. That doesn't include another ~20% overhead for NAT.
I won't even begin to talk about how shoddily thrown-together their Provider-1 management tool is...I'd almost swear microsoft coded it.
Anyway, point being I'm glad to see Linux's firewall technology get more current. Especially since it's open source....it'll be nice to actually get in and pour over the code.
Heh, I've used the 1-888-NOPIRACY thing. It works.
The best was logging into the firewalls and adding a cron job that runs 'fw unload all@localhost' every hour. Turns em into VERY expensive routers.
At my job before this one, I came back from vacation, worked that friday (came back on a thurs) and then monday, my laptop was taken off my desk and my network connection pulled. Then, after I tracked down my boss, he told me they were firing me because I left a computer on over vacation. (I had 8 on my desk, you miss them sometimes) Two weeks later, an old vendor of mine calls me and tells me the 80 person company is down to 12 people.
Their stock was already plummeting, so I decided to exact revenge for such a lame layoff, and turned them in for pirating software and got them audited....they had been using a crack for their Checkpoint firewall software....all 8 firewalls. The succeeding fine and licensing fees hurt, I bet.
Companies suck.
Let me tell you, the first time you have to take a job at a pay cut because the the IT industry is hiring a ton of cheap foreign IT labor (mark my words, it will start happening) you'll whistle another tune about every human being deserving a chance.
If we're not careful, we could go the way of the factory worker. Cheap, expendable, and easily replaced in foreign countries. (once their IT training gets up to par that is)
Who says you need to be a celebrity to be asked questions that the slashdot crowd would like to know the answers too? The majority of us here were in the same place as this kid is now, and would love some insight into how things work geek-wise in high school these days. Not only for the US readers, but many foreign readers seem interested too. Damn, dude, get off your high horse. If you're not interested in the review, don't read it.
Heh, seeing this post made me realize just how seriously people in Denver take Columbine. I'm from NY and we joked about it constantly. ("Man, we were busy yesterday...it was like freakin Columbine in there") Since I've moved to Denver, I've gotten nothing but hard looks any time I've made a Columbine comment, even from the jokingest of people. Go figure. It's like making holocaust jokes in Israel, I guess.
Well, NOW you can't because you've posted to this forum and cannot spend moderator points here. Goofball.
So if someone goes over an entire class C only checking on port 31337 (Back Orifice default port) that's not a scan? What would you call that?
Satan, oscillate my metallic sonatas
I once saw a palindrome that was a Latin phrase that, when read backwards, was its English translation. I'll be damned if I can remember it. I think I read it in Anguished English, by Richard Lederer.
>American squeamishness at nudity and sexual behaviour is really quite bizarre. I find it telling that we don't tolerate a bit of slap and tickle, but find graphic
enactments of brutality, even to the point of glorfication, acceptable, or at least more acceptable than depictions of sexuality.
That's because this country was founded by religious exiles from Europe, and has in it's roots Bible-thumping fundamentalism since day 1. If you've ever read the Bible, God and his followers react with violence to any "abnormal" sexual act. (i.e. not missionary position, in the dark, doors locked, lights off, with a spouse of the opposite gender) That's why our country is so fucked up. Thanks Jesus, you rule.
>For a start, the machines have 4 rotors. They are the ones used on the subs (like the ones the BRITS, NOT THE YANKS, got the codebook for on U571)
If you'd read, rather than skimmed, the article, you'd have seen that the device in question DID have four wheels, and the box was returned with one still attached and 3 missing.
These things are just as easy to get right you know.
It's not just because of the "free" mentality that pervades this open-source-minded user base....I think this applies to everyone.
It's that the vast majority of people have a hard time paying for something that is readily available for free elsewhere. That's why people trade MP3s instead of buying new CDs (debatable, yes, but it happens) use free operating systems, and why people will flock away from something free if it starts charging.
Making money on the internet is just fine and dandy. I'm all about capitalism. But don't be incredibly shocked folks don't come in droves to use your service that you charge for if someone else has the same service for free. You have the right to TRY and make money in a capitalist society but, if you have a bad business model, you're not earning anything but a swift Chapter 11 in the rear.
That's what's so great about the internet. You have to offer something unique and interesting that DRIVES the consumer to pay for it, or you're not gonna be around long. So far, here's what makes money: pr0n, advertising, e-commerce sites that sell software or *gasp* real physical items, dating services/locator services (helping people meet/find people), and uhh....that's about it. If you can think of anything that doesn't fall into those categories that is doing well financially, I'll buy you a steak.
Considering you can get all those services you mentioned for free at other sites, if Yahoo did start charging for them, you'd have easily found alternatives. Sure, you'd have to go to different sites for each of them, but thats what bookmarks are for.
Face it, the vast majority of the revenue generated on the 'net for companies that don't actually sell anything is from advertisers paying for banner ad click-thrus. More and more people have started to realize that it's easy ignore or block the banners, so web sites that get most of their income this way are looking for alternatives. Whoever thinks of a way for a web site that doesn't actually sell a product or service to make money without banner ads is going to be rich.
This really doesn't solve the problem of centralizing it though....a client is a client, wether it's an installed program or part of the OS, encrypted tunnel or open TCP/UDP session. There still needs to be a centralized server where the data (or indexes of the data) is stored and authentication of the user base occurs.
I wish there was an easy solution, but the only thing *I* can think of is for the main server to be hosted in a country where they give a rat's ass about American copyright laws.