If you're running the mail server, you have the tls/ssl keys, which means you can decrypt the packets before inspecting them. However, your typical mail server isn't going to bother doing that and the people who know how likely have fixed the issue or don't use exim anyway.
/tmp should always be mounted noexec anyway, though. Bestt to apply any necessary patches. Meanwhile, most IDS/IPS systems should catch this... its not like the payload is exactly covert or anything.
Exim is the MTA that cPanel-enabled servers use, so there is quite a large install base, particularly in the consumer-oriented web hosting space. Except a brief run of ha-ha before the mail spools get moved off to their own partition which is mounted no-exec.
I thought states/counties removed lawyers from the jury pool to make it more fair? I heard this somewhere I can't remember, so I might be wrong but it seems like a reasonable thing to do. I'd also think that even if you were called in for selection that one side or the other would have you on their first round of exclusions just to make it easier for them.
Chinese Telecom perpetrated a specific route 'attack' a few months ago where they advertised via their BGP feed more specific routes (longer netmask prefixes) for a few blocks, thus any other AS who's BGP feed had been updated with the bogus data was selecting the route to China rather than the route to the actual destination. This can either cause minor disruption, or taken advantage of to sniff all the traffic which is incoming towards the affected hosts. Whether China did it for specifically malicious purposes really isn't clear, but its happened by mistake in the past. It's a known issue in the design of the protocol and policies, and doesn't really take an 'exploit' so much as someone advertising a/22 for a block they may or may not own which preempts the legitimate/20.
Yes, civil rights are irrelevant to a discussion about free speech, but free speech is irrelevant to a discussion about who corporations choose to do business with. If they don't want to work with Wikileaks then that's their business. If they were pressured by the government, then this isn't going to get them to change their mind because the consequences of giving in very well might outweigh the consequences of not giving in and that just means that these companies aren't the best target if you're actually trying to affect change.
If this DOS-mob isn't actually trying to make the payment processors change their mind and allow them to continue contributing to Wikileaks then the argument about free speech isn't relevant anyway, because its just being used as an excuse to justify a destructive act that they're doing just for the sake of being destructive and any sense of nobility should be dispensed with.
The participants are probably a mixture of those who have noble intentions and those who are just looking for a bandwagon to be on, just like practically everything else in life. However, those looking for an excuse tend to be the ones who go overboard and get everyone painted with the same brush. It'll happen in this case, too, without a doubt, plus there is likely no change forthcoming as a result.
Back to my original point, this just seems like a very ill-advised idea, regardless of the merits of the argument.
Private companies have no requirement to respect anyone's freedom of speech or press and have every right to refuse to do business with other individuals or entities. Of course, you'll probably counter with some broad interpretation of the this being interstate commerce and civil rights and public accommodations and whatnot. Of course, I don't think card processors are public accommodations and at any rate, Wikileaks isn't a 'US Person' and doesn't have civil rights.
I'm not saying 'do nothing' when actual rights are actually being violated by people/organizations whose action can be considered a violation. PayPal, Visa and Mastercard don't fall under that definition though, and making an attack on them on behalf of an organization which is already on shaky ground is a pretty good way to get it (Wikileaks) and its supporters on a list right next to Hezballah and the FARC.
Regardless of the merits of Wikileaks and the service/information that the supply, I really don't see this as a productive response by their supporters. Rather, it just makes it appear as if a significantly-sized contingent of destructive, if not criminally-minded people support Wikileaks. It may or may not be Wikileaks' fault but the fact that groups are using, albeit incorporeal, violent action to pursue their political agenda is pretty much the definition of terrorism and they're really just making it easier for the government and media to paint Wikileaks with that brush. A campaign against companies which are at the heart of the modern economy is easy enough to paint as a threat to economic stability and therefore "national security" and is probably going to come back to bite them in the ass, one way or another.
Of course, they're going to do what they're going to do. As long as they don't knock out the credit card processing capabilities then it won't affect me since I never go to the websites of these companies. But still, as they say on The Boondocks: "that's not a good look" and will probably have no positive outcome for those participating in the action.
Blank CDs and waltzing aside, his job function did provide him legitimate access to information. He wasn't just "some PFC" in terms of what most people would think of with that description: someone fresh out of basic training and likely just some infantry grunt.
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Unionization would be complete unsuccessful in an industry where entires countries of scabs can easily cross the virtual picket line. You can't off-shrore plumbers, electricians or jobs like that, though
The Greek and Pagan influences on the poem were there because the classical tropes were necessary to the Epic form of the poem. Milton was a Calvinist and a Cromwell supporter. This may seem like a juxtaposition today, but it was pretty much par for the course back then.
Except that's not my job anymore, and fighting spammers and dealing with blacklists for several hours a day isn't interesting, fun or particularly productive.
Email, on the server-side, is an io-bound process. That is, disk usage is a concern every bit as much as memory and bandwidth. I've seen spam kick loads on servers that would be running ~2-5 up to around a 15. Dropping the spammer in the firewall brought the load down almost immediately. I then had to remove all the mail they were pushing to us from the queue so I could force-deliver the legitimate mail, as the queue had become severely backed up, and mails that should have gone through right away had been backed up for several hours. The server had been in critical for CPU for several hours in nagios before I came in and fixed it because the people on the previous shift hadn't thought to check the mail queue, despite the fact the mail queue was also in critical on that server.
Spam is a plague like no other. It's a vector for phishing and infection and causes verifiable harm in and of itself.
Well, first remember that National Socialism isn't Fascism. It's just similar. Italian Fascism was an attempt to regain the prestige of the Roman Empire combined with an odd form of Syndicalism which was influenced by the fact that Mussolini grew up in a Communist household, his father being an active party member. Mussolini's paper, Il Popolo, began as a Socialist paper that went more Syndicalist and finally, after WWI, became the nucleus for Fascist ideology.
The Nazis are almost irrelevant to a discussion of Fascism in Italy. Mussolini was in charge of Parliament by 1922, while Hitler was in prison after the attempted rising in Munich. In Rome at least, possibly other cities in Italy as well and I just didn't notice, manhole covers and other public infrastructure items bare the SPQR (Senatus Populusque Romani) marking, which was re-introduced by Mussolini, iirc, as part of his bid to draw a link between himself and his movement and old Rome. Even the fasces themselves were the Roman symbol of authority, identifying the consuls at the time, being carried before them in procession by their retinue of lictors.
Fascism isn't just a synonym for "really bad right-wing thing" which many, in some sort of post-Trotskiest mindset, want to believe. Hitler wasn't a fascist, neither was Francisco Franco. just saying.
Well, the deal with either college fund or the SS "Trust Fund" is that they money is pre-delegated for a purpose and should not be touched for anything else. Is it "less stupid" to "borrow" money interest-free against that for other projects? I suppose, but its no less irresponsible, as you're not going to be able to get that capital back as its tied up elsewhere, and eventually you're going to have to pay up when the kid goes to college/the boomers retire.
Raiding on account to cover another may not increase the deficit, but it just shifts the debt around. The specified fund accounts are there to cover the cost of a debt you plan on incurring, and taking money from the fund will mean you're short when its time to pay up.
This whole situation is bullshit and so convoluted that I suspect many people with economics or accounting degrees might get confused from time to time. I'm sure I only barely understand it, and that's probably why this has gone on for so long -- people can't tell they're being fleeced.
Scarcity isn't going to create value. If no one wants something because its useless, then its not worth anything. Gold is valuable due it its usefulness and its scarcity.
Borrowing from social security to pay for non-social-security-related expenses is like borrowing from your kid's college fund to pay for a new deck. Yes, you've increased your wealth in terms of material assets, but it's not like you can liquidate the deck to pay back the college fund later. So, the government has to borrow to pay back the cookie jar. The debt isn't reduced, it just gets muddled.
As to your response re: teachers, you seem to harp on one part of a list to try and make the person you're replying to sound dumb. Soldiers, civil servants at various levels, etc, can start at 18 and retire after 20 years. And not all of those soldiers get shot at. Desk clerks, supply sergeants, etc, can all retire after never having seen action. Of course, there is a chance they could be made to if the situation were dire enough.
Federal dollars do go to the states to pay for education, so teacher salaries are going to be a part of that. However, it's likely not statistically significant, but to say that its not at least a little bit related is just being sloppy at best.
Frankly, this country has been on an unsustainable path since Andrew Jackson was President. We've finally reached the breaking point because we can't expand anymore. We've propped up all the countries we could expand into in order to get cheap labor and a new market without having to spend on infrastructure or let them vote, but they're realizing that they don't really need us anymore. We've spent too much, borrowed too much and let it get out of control.
It's gotten to the point where no one on the left or the right really has the will to do anything about it, or a plan that's worth a damn if they do. Combined with lowered standards in education (my mother is a public high school teacher and has been for the last 15 years or so. New requirements that all students graduate in 4 years have created a situation where now teacher's aren't allowed to give any grade lower than a 40 and grades have been readjusted to a 10-point scale, making it practically impossible to fail no matter what. She's so angry about it she's about ready to just give up and go find a new job that doesn't suck (AB from an ivy league school and a MA in her subject, she's not going to be hurting to find work)), this is pretty much the death knell of America.
People always seem to drag this one out, but fail to understand what Mussolini meant by corporatism. Fascism is at its core a merging of Nationalism and Syndicalism. The corporation is a syndicate, which is a vertical trade union in which binds management and labor together. Its more like a guild.
Each "corporation"/syndicate/guild elects deputies to the Chamber of Deputies, who are there to represent the interests of the industry as well as to speak on its behalf as experts in the field. Thus members of the transportation syndicate, who would include workers from railroads, airlines and the shipping industry, would be responsible for crafting the legislation that the executive committee, and ultimately the dictator, would be responsible for signing off on. This avoids the problem of having lawyers with no concept of how things work writing laws with regards to agriculture, communications, etc.
Under Fascism there would have been no Ted "series of tubes" Stevens. The election for telecommunications representatives to the chamber of deputies would have been democratic through all levels of membership, from cable monkey to executive. The best people would be chosen to represent the interests of the guild and people with no clue get no say.
Honestly, having read extensively treatments on various political ideologies in the left, right and center, by those who adhere to them as well as by those who critique them, the picture I got of fascism honestly doesn't sound half bad compared to some of the other harebrained bullshit people have come up with in the past.
The time of robber barons, chain gangs of Chinese and Irish immigrants slaving away on the rail road, the indian wars, pinkerton guards and the army busting strikes, etc? Yeah, man... that was totally fucking awesome.
She'd have more time if she'd go focus on her kids rather than trying to play at politics. But that wouldn't be very modern of her (but then, neither is trying to block the pr0n).
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If you're running the mail server, you have the tls/ssl keys, which means you can decrypt the packets before inspecting them. However, your typical mail server isn't going to bother doing that and the people who know how likely have fixed the issue or don't use exim anyway.
/tmp should always be mounted noexec anyway, though. Bestt to apply any necessary patches. Meanwhile, most IDS/IPS systems should catch this... its not like the payload is exactly covert or anything.
Exim is the MTA that cPanel-enabled servers use, so there is quite a large install base, particularly in the consumer-oriented web hosting space. Except a brief run of ha-ha before the mail spools get moved off to their own partition which is mounted no-exec.
I thought states/counties removed lawyers from the jury pool to make it more fair? I heard this somewhere I can't remember, so I might be wrong but it seems like a reasonable thing to do. I'd also think that even if you were called in for selection that one side or the other would have you on their first round of exclusions just to make it easier for them.
Chinese Telecom perpetrated a specific route 'attack' a few months ago where they advertised via their BGP feed more specific routes (longer netmask prefixes) for a few blocks, thus any other AS who's BGP feed had been updated with the bogus data was selecting the route to China rather than the route to the actual destination. This can either cause minor disruption, or taken advantage of to sniff all the traffic which is incoming towards the affected hosts. Whether China did it for specifically malicious purposes really isn't clear, but its happened by mistake in the past. It's a known issue in the design of the protocol and policies, and doesn't really take an 'exploit' so much as someone advertising a /22 for a block they may or may not own which preempts the legitimate /20.
Yes, civil rights are irrelevant to a discussion about free speech, but free speech is irrelevant to a discussion about who corporations choose to do business with. If they don't want to work with Wikileaks then that's their business. If they were pressured by the government, then this isn't going to get them to change their mind because the consequences of giving in very well might outweigh the consequences of not giving in and that just means that these companies aren't the best target if you're actually trying to affect change.
If this DOS-mob isn't actually trying to make the payment processors change their mind and allow them to continue contributing to Wikileaks then the argument about free speech isn't relevant anyway, because its just being used as an excuse to justify a destructive act that they're doing just for the sake of being destructive and any sense of nobility should be dispensed with.
The participants are probably a mixture of those who have noble intentions and those who are just looking for a bandwagon to be on, just like practically everything else in life. However, those looking for an excuse tend to be the ones who go overboard and get everyone painted with the same brush. It'll happen in this case, too, without a doubt, plus there is likely no change forthcoming as a result.
Back to my original point, this just seems like a very ill-advised idea, regardless of the merits of the argument.
Private companies have no requirement to respect anyone's freedom of speech or press and have every right to refuse to do business with other individuals or entities. Of course, you'll probably counter with some broad interpretation of the this being interstate commerce and civil rights and public accommodations and whatnot. Of course, I don't think card processors are public accommodations and at any rate, Wikileaks isn't a 'US Person' and doesn't have civil rights.
I'm not saying 'do nothing' when actual rights are actually being violated by people/organizations whose action can be considered a violation. PayPal, Visa and Mastercard don't fall under that definition though, and making an attack on them on behalf of an organization which is already on shaky ground is a pretty good way to get it (Wikileaks) and its supporters on a list right next to Hezballah and the FARC.
Regardless of the merits of Wikileaks and the service/information that the supply, I really don't see this as a productive response by their supporters. Rather, it just makes it appear as if a significantly-sized contingent of destructive, if not criminally-minded people support Wikileaks. It may or may not be Wikileaks' fault but the fact that groups are using, albeit incorporeal, violent action to pursue their political agenda is pretty much the definition of terrorism and they're really just making it easier for the government and media to paint Wikileaks with that brush. A campaign against companies which are at the heart of the modern economy is easy enough to paint as a threat to economic stability and therefore "national security" and is probably going to come back to bite them in the ass, one way or another.
Of course, they're going to do what they're going to do. As long as they don't knock out the credit card processing capabilities then it won't affect me since I never go to the websites of these companies. But still, as they say on The Boondocks: "that's not a good look" and will probably have no positive outcome for those participating in the action.
How will we know who has balls and who doesn't if the TSA doesn't find out for us?
Blank CDs and waltzing aside, his job function did provide him legitimate access to information. He wasn't just "some PFC" in terms of what most people would think of with that description: someone fresh out of basic training and likely just some infantry grunt.
Unionization would be complete unsuccessful in an industry where entires countries of scabs can easily cross the virtual picket line. You can't off-shrore plumbers, electricians or jobs like that, though
Yeah, wikileaks' information is probably much more reliable, especially on matters concerning African elephants.
You mean after eating Taco Bell?
The Greek and Pagan influences on the poem were there because the classical tropes were necessary to the Epic form of the poem. Milton was a Calvinist and a Cromwell supporter. This may seem like a juxtaposition today, but it was pretty much par for the course back then.
Also, are there other immortals? Or are you the only one (and will remain the only one)?
There can be only one!
Except that's not my job anymore, and fighting spammers and dealing with blacklists for several hours a day isn't interesting, fun or particularly productive.
Email, on the server-side, is an io-bound process. That is, disk usage is a concern every bit as much as memory and bandwidth. I've seen spam kick loads on servers that would be running ~2-5 up to around a 15. Dropping the spammer in the firewall brought the load down almost immediately. I then had to remove all the mail they were pushing to us from the queue so I could force-deliver the legitimate mail, as the queue had become severely backed up, and mails that should have gone through right away had been backed up for several hours. The server had been in critical for CPU for several hours in nagios before I came in and fixed it because the people on the previous shift hadn't thought to check the mail queue, despite the fact the mail queue was also in critical on that server.
Spam is a plague like no other. It's a vector for phishing and infection and causes verifiable harm in and of itself.
No, killing him would make him the message, and that would be worth something.
Well, first remember that National Socialism isn't Fascism. It's just similar. Italian Fascism was an attempt to regain the prestige of the Roman Empire combined with an odd form of Syndicalism which was influenced by the fact that Mussolini grew up in a Communist household, his father being an active party member. Mussolini's paper, Il Popolo, began as a Socialist paper that went more Syndicalist and finally, after WWI, became the nucleus for Fascist ideology.
The Nazis are almost irrelevant to a discussion of Fascism in Italy. Mussolini was in charge of Parliament by 1922, while Hitler was in prison after the attempted rising in Munich. In Rome at least, possibly other cities in Italy as well and I just didn't notice, manhole covers and other public infrastructure items bare the SPQR (Senatus Populusque Romani) marking, which was re-introduced by Mussolini, iirc, as part of his bid to draw a link between himself and his movement and old Rome. Even the fasces themselves were the Roman symbol of authority, identifying the consuls at the time, being carried before them in procession by their retinue of lictors.
Fascism isn't just a synonym for "really bad right-wing thing" which many, in some sort of post-Trotskiest mindset, want to believe. Hitler wasn't a fascist, neither was Francisco Franco. just saying.
Well, the deal with either college fund or the SS "Trust Fund" is that they money is pre-delegated for a purpose and should not be touched for anything else. Is it "less stupid" to "borrow" money interest-free against that for other projects? I suppose, but its no less irresponsible, as you're not going to be able to get that capital back as its tied up elsewhere, and eventually you're going to have to pay up when the kid goes to college/the boomers retire.
Raiding on account to cover another may not increase the deficit, but it just shifts the debt around. The specified fund accounts are there to cover the cost of a debt you plan on incurring, and taking money from the fund will mean you're short when its time to pay up.
This whole situation is bullshit and so convoluted that I suspect many people with economics or accounting degrees might get confused from time to time. I'm sure I only barely understand it, and that's probably why this has gone on for so long -- people can't tell they're being fleeced.
Scarcity isn't going to create value. If no one wants something because its useless, then its not worth anything. Gold is valuable due it its usefulness and its scarcity.
Borrowing from social security to pay for non-social-security-related expenses is like borrowing from your kid's college fund to pay for a new deck. Yes, you've increased your wealth in terms of material assets, but it's not like you can liquidate the deck to pay back the college fund later. So, the government has to borrow to pay back the cookie jar. The debt isn't reduced, it just gets muddled.
As to your response re: teachers, you seem to harp on one part of a list to try and make the person you're replying to sound dumb. Soldiers, civil servants at various levels, etc, can start at 18 and retire after 20 years. And not all of those soldiers get shot at. Desk clerks, supply sergeants, etc, can all retire after never having seen action. Of course, there is a chance they could be made to if the situation were dire enough.
Federal dollars do go to the states to pay for education, so teacher salaries are going to be a part of that. However, it's likely not statistically significant, but to say that its not at least a little bit related is just being sloppy at best.
Frankly, this country has been on an unsustainable path since Andrew Jackson was President. We've finally reached the breaking point because we can't expand anymore. We've propped up all the countries we could expand into in order to get cheap labor and a new market without having to spend on infrastructure or let them vote, but they're realizing that they don't really need us anymore. We've spent too much, borrowed too much and let it get out of control.
It's gotten to the point where no one on the left or the right really has the will to do anything about it, or a plan that's worth a damn if they do. Combined with lowered standards in education (my mother is a public high school teacher and has been for the last 15 years or so. New requirements that all students graduate in 4 years have created a situation where now teacher's aren't allowed to give any grade lower than a 40 and grades have been readjusted to a 10-point scale, making it practically impossible to fail no matter what. She's so angry about it she's about ready to just give up and go find a new job that doesn't suck (AB from an ivy league school and a MA in her subject, she's not going to be hurting to find work)), this is pretty much the death knell of America.
People always seem to drag this one out, but fail to understand what Mussolini meant by corporatism. Fascism is at its core a merging of Nationalism and Syndicalism. The corporation is a syndicate, which is a vertical trade union in which binds management and labor together. Its more like a guild.
Each "corporation"/syndicate/guild elects deputies to the Chamber of Deputies, who are there to represent the interests of the industry as well as to speak on its behalf as experts in the field. Thus members of the transportation syndicate, who would include workers from railroads, airlines and the shipping industry, would be responsible for crafting the legislation that the executive committee, and ultimately the dictator, would be responsible for signing off on. This avoids the problem of having lawyers with no concept of how things work writing laws with regards to agriculture, communications, etc.
Under Fascism there would have been no Ted "series of tubes" Stevens. The election for telecommunications representatives to the chamber of deputies would have been democratic through all levels of membership, from cable monkey to executive. The best people would be chosen to represent the interests of the guild and people with no clue get no say.
Honestly, having read extensively treatments on various political ideologies in the left, right and center, by those who adhere to them as well as by those who critique them, the picture I got of fascism honestly doesn't sound half bad compared to some of the other harebrained bullshit people have come up with in the past.
The time of robber barons, chain gangs of Chinese and Irish immigrants slaving away on the rail road, the indian wars, pinkerton guards and the army busting strikes, etc? Yeah, man... that was totally fucking awesome.
She'd have more time if she'd go focus on her kids rather than trying to play at politics. But that wouldn't be very modern of her (but then, neither is trying to block the pr0n).