Because most people don't want to either move to an area where they can get "business class" broadband (or buy colo service), purchase their server, install and configure and be responsible for all the setup and continued maintenance (including security patches, etc). They just want to write their blog, which more than likely is not about any of those topics.
Frankly, I suspect that most people will never have heard of this case. A quick Google for the case gives first-page results that are mainly on blogs. Market Watch and Reason Magazine are the only two reasonably well-known publications on the first page of Google results (some people might argue scotus blog, but let's face it, that blog caters to a niche's niche and no one would have heard of it if cameras had been allowed inside the Supreme Court for the Obamacare ruling). I subscribe to Wall Street Journal and Reason, and if this story was every played up in either of those, then I must have totally missed it, because this is the first time I'm hearing of it.
Rather than making people determined to buy American, I suspect that most people will go along doing as they always have, completely oblivious of this ruling, until such time as they finally get screwed by it. However, by that time it will be too late, and much like TSA and the security state, kids will just grow up accepting that's the way things are and reacting in disbelief when their parents or grandparents tell them there was ever a time when people could engage in commerce without interference or that cell phones used to only have 2 'apps' -- one that made calls and one that stored ~10-20 phone numbers and that was it.
Now, I except the ruling will be in our favor, but if its not, I also see new business opportunities to take advantage of the situation. Much like titling companies, you'll probably see companies pop up to take care of all the necessary legal hassle associated with prepping used cars or whatever have you for sale, taking a cut of the proceeds. Hell, I just might start one myself.
I'm surprised that I haven't seen more of a fuss about this kicked up by conservation/environmental groups, though. Blocking the used/second hand market would be disastrous for the environment, since people would have to keep buying newly made durable goods. That's not even to mention the economic effect it would have on the poor who rely on the used car market.
However, I really just can't see any situation in which people go on a 'Buy American' kick because of this.
I don't think many people, if any, here should be surprised by this. However, if you really want to see just what the extent of OSINT that you can acquire on people starting with something as simple and common as an email address, check out Maltgeo (http://paterva.com/web5/). That thing is great for building OSINT-based profiles on individuals and organizations.
Not to mention the fact that 20 years later you could still access the information in its original format without having to hunt down expensive converters for out-dated technology. There's a reason paper has been around for thousands of years and is still in use.
I'm putting my money on being intended to curb the inevitable no matter which way the attempt to amend the Venezuelan constitution to keep Chavez from another term turns out. But I might just be cynical:)
Security flaws are derived from incorrectness and lack of fault tolerance. It's part-in-parcel, and if you don't design security in from the start, it'll just become harder and harder to retrofit into the product later.
And both of those were pretty sweet back in the day. However, these days, most of the people I know, including those who have their own domains and could run their own mail servers if they so wish, just push everything to a hosted app service for mail, such as google mail. With always-on, broadband connections to the home and our phones, being able to auto-pop email after establishing a dial-up PPP connection isn't something that we "use everyday," as was the initial claim. He's pretty much a has-been, and also I heard he was some sort of nazi or something and thought he disappeared like 10 years ago.
Possibly Twitter is buying into all the hype about how they're basically responsible for revolution and social change in the Middle East and is doing this to become further entrenched as the tool of choice for political dissidents? I'm pretty sure that's the type of business model that lands your products on trade restriction lists prettt quickly, but I can't see what else they want this for.
At work I have a Dell T7500 workstation with 4 monitors. I was running Fedora for a while on it, tried Ubuntu but when they moved to Unity it broke everything so bad I couldn't do any work. So I put Windows 7 Ultimate on it. I loaded RHEL6 and FreeBSD 8 in VMWare, connect to them with PuTTY and continue to run a combination of FreeBSD, OpenBSD, RedHat, CentOS, Ubuntu, Debian, etc on various servers (bare metal and in ESX). This works out quite nicely for me.
I bought myself a Lenovo Thinkpad T420i, and it to runs Windows 7 Ultimate with RHEL and FreeBSD in VMWare. I could not be happier with this laptop or my workflow on it.
Shortly after I bought the Thinkpad, work bought me a brand new 15"MBP. The specs are nice -- 8GB of RAM, Core i7 processor, etc. I fucking hate it. Its mostly the fault of the hardware, honestly. I had replaced a 13" MBP with the Thinkpad for that very same reason. The keyboard is the worst thing ever, missing all sorts of keys that I actually use to do work. Sure, I know I can do Fn + Up to page up and Fn + Down to page down, but get this: if I'm in tmux in an Terminal window, I have to edit the keyboard preferences for the Terminal theme I'm using to send VT100 control codes to the shell, otherwise I can't use the scroll buffer in a tmux pane because Terminal intercepts the key request and uses it to move the scroll bar. If the answer to anything on a mac involves having to remember \033[~5 means page up, then I don't think Apple is really living up to the hype. Of course maybe that's a 1% vs 99% sort of thing. I don't have these issues on my Thinkpad or my T7500.
When I was in high school I ran FreeBSD, RedHat and Slackware on my desktop. In the last few years I have become so angry at every desktop environment for *nix, as well as shitty support for suspend/resume. I can't take it anymore. I have work to do, and I don't have time to let driver issues and poor design choices get in my way. It's the same reason why the control and data servers for my automated malware sandbox at work all run RHEL -- FreeBSD driver issues with the RAID cards and I didn't want to spend the time to do the work-around. I had deadlines to meet.
I used to hate me some Windows, but Windows 7 is such a breath of fresh air that its amazing. I don't have any issues with it at all, plus nothing on Mac or Linux comes close to Visio.
I guess it depends on the industry you're in and what type of military people you are attracting. My company is in the network security arena. We have many ex military people, especially in professional services. When you have large military/government contracts, having people who know the inner workings of your customer and can look at your own products/solutions from the perspective of their experiences with it as a user in that environment is incredibly helpful. The active or easily renewed security clearances is also a big plus.
I suppose what you get out of hiring ex-military people is the same as what you get out of hiring anyone -- what skills/experience/aptitude they have and how you can leverage it.
I heard the iconic Mac startup sound file was initially called "sosume" because of their lawsuit with the Beatle's company back in the day as they were afraid it might constitute music production or some such. I may have seen that article on hear a while back, actually.
Well, there is a big difference between talking to your phone and talking to another person using the phone. Talking to pretty much any inanimate object, and also some of your dumber animals, is going to make you look either dumb of crazy. Honestly, I suspect half the people I see with bluetooth headsets to be actually schizophrenic and talking to the voices in their head instead of having an actual conversation with a real person.
the file system hierarchy makes perfectly good sense -- the absolute basics are in/bin, distribution/system stuff is in/usr/bin and anything that an administrator installs for that particular box is in/usr/local/bin. Substitute sbin for sysadmin-y binaries. I guess maybe it doesn't matter as long as it doesn't take off, since I can just not use Fedora ever again, but frankly I like things just they way they are. The weird places that Ubuntu stashes things is already enough of a hassle when you have an extremely heterogeneous environment like I do at work.
Because of binary file formats, binary fonts, etc. All data is just data, including code. A is the same as \x41 which is the op code for INC EAX, for example. That's effectively a NOP as far as shell code is concerned, though. Others do other things, of course. It's the same reason you can do exploits in PDF or other file format attacks.
About half of the open petitions are calling for sacking the drug czar because she won't individually respond to each of other bunch of pot legalization petitions. The petitions that aren't about drugs are poorly written, probably by people on drugs. This attempt at "transparent government" and "opening the process" just throws fuel on the fire for everyone who thinks those are bad ideas. I'm not saying i'm against transparency and whatnot, just that this sort of thing chips away and what faith I have left in humanity to try and better itself. Maybe its just that the people who have time to fill out online petitions have a significant overlap with the people who want to get stoned all the time.
CentOS has really fallen behind the mark. It took them forever to get. out the door and by then rhel had already made a new release. The servers I put rhel on get base updates much sooner than the centos boxes and with epel and rpm fusion, im not for want of anything on those boxes. Then again I have an ungodly number of rhel licenses available and my company partners with red hat. I used to like CentOS but for a while it was looking like I would see mass deployment of IPv6 sooner than CenOS 6.
Support doesnt just mean getting a number to call. It means getting your security and bg fixes in a timely manner. If the OP communicates that sentiment and is still shut down then I hope this system isn't public facinbecause that's just going to be asking for it.
Well, Bobby Jindal (LA Governor) is a super-supporter of Rick Perry and that part of the Republican Party has always had a hard on for Andrew Jackson and his "the bank -- I will kill it!" quote.
I think you're confusing this with the Great Depression. The problem right now is that the banks have plenty of money, they just won't lend it. That means businesses can't get lines of credit to increase payroll, which means low hiring, high unemployment, etc. People can't (in some cases won't) get/use credit to make purchases, which means lower demand for products, so less reason for businesses to hire anyway.
The FDIC ensures that, up to a certain level, you'll get the face value of your money back in the case the bank goes under/gets robbed/whatever. We have that because of what happened in the 20s/30s We do not, however, actually have that problem now.
I switched from a Storm to a Droid Pro yesterday. I was strongly considering the newest BlackBerry bold. Feature-wise, it was pretty much 1:1 with the Droid Pro -- wife, touch screen, etc. BlackBerry OS 7 is actually pretty nice, the keyboard is a lot more ergonomic than the Droid Pro's, and it has the sweet track pad in addition to keyboard and touch screen. It does wifi, html5, the whole works.
That said, I went with the Droid Pro because it was about $200 cheaper than the Black Berry and for personal use is more flexible. I still get device and SD card encryption and whatnot, and it was pretty much a steal (I bought it online during the 4-day super sale Verizon was having... I got the phone for $29.95 -- can't really beat that with a stick).
BlackBerry doesn't really need to compete in the consumer market any more than than Apple needs to compete in the enterprise. They each have their respective markets covered and anything else is gravy. If you're looking at it as a personal phone, you'll probably be disappointed, but you're also not really in the target market at that point. I'm kind of old school -- email, some web browsing, text or IM messages from time to time, so a BB would do me just fine, because I value the security more than the 'cool' factor of having the new shiny.
If this new OS works out, though, then on my next upgrade I very well may switch back to BB, because frankly their hardware is just resilient as a all get out. For all the things I can complain about with the Storm, I've never owned another phone that I could drop, have tumble down concrete stairs, hitting each one, and still be perfectly fine when it finally got to the bottom.
I started learning C on FreeBSD 2.2.8 when I was in the 8th grade. In 9th grade, the internet was still a much wilder place than it is today, and felt a lot friendlier and smaller. As such, I didn't really see anything wrong with emailing random "public figures" to ask them questions. Of course, some didn't respond, some were rude assholes (Linus, I'm looking at you...), but some were truly amazing. In the amazing category would be Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, both of whom would answer my emails promptly and regularly. I corresponded with both of them for the better part of a year and a half, before doing things like getting a girl friend. Both Ken and Dennis were more than happy to hep me out with questions, give me advice and steer me in the right direction.
I wish I still had those emails but, alas, I don't. Of all the digital "property" I wish I had never lost, those emails are pretty much the only thing on the list. I don't know where I would be in life, or what I would be doing, if it weren't for the work they did and their guidance when I was younger. Dennis might be the first "famous" person that I've ever felt like the world was poorer in some way for losing.
Yeah, except for all those OS X machines (the kernel is largely Mach with a BSD subsystem, but all the user land stuff was pretty much jacked from FreeBSD and NetBSD. Hell, Apple hired a large number of the people who were in the FreeBSD core team when I was in high school). JunOS is basically FreeBSD, too, if you use any Juniper stuff. Some of my app and DB servers at work are FreeBSD, and I have a new Juniper router ready to go into the new lab when its done being built. Then again, as my name suggests, I might be a little bias.
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Because most people don't want to either move to an area where they can get "business class" broadband (or buy colo service), purchase their server, install and configure and be responsible for all the setup and continued maintenance (including security patches, etc). They just want to write their blog, which more than likely is not about any of those topics.
Frankly, I suspect that most people will never have heard of this case. A quick Google for the case gives first-page results that are mainly on blogs. Market Watch and Reason Magazine are the only two reasonably well-known publications on the first page of Google results (some people might argue scotus blog, but let's face it, that blog caters to a niche's niche and no one would have heard of it if cameras had been allowed inside the Supreme Court for the Obamacare ruling). I subscribe to Wall Street Journal and Reason, and if this story was every played up in either of those, then I must have totally missed it, because this is the first time I'm hearing of it.
Rather than making people determined to buy American, I suspect that most people will go along doing as they always have, completely oblivious of this ruling, until such time as they finally get screwed by it. However, by that time it will be too late, and much like TSA and the security state, kids will just grow up accepting that's the way things are and reacting in disbelief when their parents or grandparents tell them there was ever a time when people could engage in commerce without interference or that cell phones used to only have 2 'apps' -- one that made calls and one that stored ~10-20 phone numbers and that was it.
Now, I except the ruling will be in our favor, but if its not, I also see new business opportunities to take advantage of the situation. Much like titling companies, you'll probably see companies pop up to take care of all the necessary legal hassle associated with prepping used cars or whatever have you for sale, taking a cut of the proceeds. Hell, I just might start one myself.
I'm surprised that I haven't seen more of a fuss about this kicked up by conservation/environmental groups, though. Blocking the used/second hand market would be disastrous for the environment, since people would have to keep buying newly made durable goods. That's not even to mention the economic effect it would have on the poor who rely on the used car market.
However, I really just can't see any situation in which people go on a 'Buy American' kick because of this.
I don't think many people, if any, here should be surprised by this. However, if you really want to see just what the extent of OSINT that you can acquire on people starting with something as simple and common as an email address, check out Maltgeo (http://paterva.com/web5/). That thing is great for building OSINT-based profiles on individuals and organizations.
I don't know. It seems like a perfectly reasonable solution to Gnome3 or Unity.
Not to mention the fact that 20 years later you could still access the information in its original format without having to hunt down expensive converters for out-dated technology. There's a reason paper has been around for thousands of years and is still in use.
That's just called the price of admission.
I'm putting my money on being intended to curb the inevitable no matter which way the attempt to amend the Venezuelan constitution to keep Chavez from another term turns out. But I might just be cynical :)
Security flaws are derived from incorrectness and lack of fault tolerance. It's part-in-parcel, and if you don't design security in from the start, it'll just become harder and harder to retrofit into the product later.
Thanks to RoR, there is an alarmingly high number of people in the "both" category on the "Hipster or IT Person" venn diagram.
And both of those were pretty sweet back in the day. However, these days, most of the people I know, including those who have their own domains and could run their own mail servers if they so wish, just push everything to a hosted app service for mail, such as google mail. With always-on, broadband connections to the home and our phones, being able to auto-pop email after establishing a dial-up PPP connection isn't something that we "use everyday," as was the initial claim. He's pretty much a has-been, and also I heard he was some sort of nazi or something and thought he disappeared like 10 years ago.
I think things are going relatively well in Tunisia at this point, if not Egypt/Syria/Yemen.
Possibly Twitter is buying into all the hype about how they're basically responsible for revolution and social change in the Middle East and is doing this to become further entrenched as the tool of choice for political dissidents? I'm pretty sure that's the type of business model that lands your products on trade restriction lists prettt quickly, but I can't see what else they want this for.
At work I have a Dell T7500 workstation with 4 monitors. I was running Fedora for a while on it, tried Ubuntu but when they moved to Unity it broke everything so bad I couldn't do any work. So I put Windows 7 Ultimate on it. I loaded RHEL6 and FreeBSD 8 in VMWare, connect to them with PuTTY and continue to run a combination of FreeBSD, OpenBSD, RedHat, CentOS, Ubuntu, Debian, etc on various servers (bare metal and in ESX). This works out quite nicely for me.
I bought myself a Lenovo Thinkpad T420i, and it to runs Windows 7 Ultimate with RHEL and FreeBSD in VMWare. I could not be happier with this laptop or my workflow on it.
Shortly after I bought the Thinkpad, work bought me a brand new 15"MBP. The specs are nice -- 8GB of RAM, Core i7 processor, etc. I fucking hate it. Its mostly the fault of the hardware, honestly. I had replaced a 13" MBP with the Thinkpad for that very same reason. The keyboard is the worst thing ever, missing all sorts of keys that I actually use to do work. Sure, I know I can do Fn + Up to page up and Fn + Down to page down, but get this: if I'm in tmux in an Terminal window, I have to edit the keyboard preferences for the Terminal theme I'm using to send VT100 control codes to the shell, otherwise I can't use the scroll buffer in a tmux pane because Terminal intercepts the key request and uses it to move the scroll bar. If the answer to anything on a mac involves having to remember \033[~5 means page up, then I don't think Apple is really living up to the hype. Of course maybe that's a 1% vs 99% sort of thing. I don't have these issues on my Thinkpad or my T7500.
When I was in high school I ran FreeBSD, RedHat and Slackware on my desktop. In the last few years I have become so angry at every desktop environment for *nix, as well as shitty support for suspend/resume. I can't take it anymore. I have work to do, and I don't have time to let driver issues and poor design choices get in my way. It's the same reason why the control and data servers for my automated malware sandbox at work all run RHEL -- FreeBSD driver issues with the RAID cards and I didn't want to spend the time to do the work-around. I had deadlines to meet.
I used to hate me some Windows, but Windows 7 is such a breath of fresh air that its amazing. I don't have any issues with it at all, plus nothing on Mac or Linux comes close to Visio.
I guess it depends on the industry you're in and what type of military people you are attracting. My company is in the network security arena. We have many ex military people, especially in professional services. When you have large military/government contracts, having people who know the inner workings of your customer and can look at your own products/solutions from the perspective of their experiences with it as a user in that environment is incredibly helpful. The active or easily renewed security clearances is also a big plus.
I suppose what you get out of hiring ex-military people is the same as what you get out of hiring anyone -- what skills/experience/aptitude they have and how you can leverage it.
I heard the iconic Mac startup sound file was initially called "sosume" because of their lawsuit with the Beatle's company back in the day as they were afraid it might constitute music production or some such. I may have seen that article on hear a while back, actually.
Well, there is a big difference between talking to your phone and talking to another person using the phone. Talking to pretty much any inanimate object, and also some of your dumber animals, is going to make you look either dumb of crazy. Honestly, I suspect half the people I see with bluetooth headsets to be actually schizophrenic and talking to the voices in their head instead of having an actual conversation with a real person.
the file system hierarchy makes perfectly good sense -- the absolute basics are in /bin, distribution/system stuff is in /usr/bin and anything that an administrator installs for that particular box is in /usr/local/bin. Substitute sbin for sysadmin-y binaries. I guess maybe it doesn't matter as long as it doesn't take off, since I can just not use Fedora ever again, but frankly I like things just they way they are. The weird places that Ubuntu stashes things is already enough of a hassle when you have an extremely heterogeneous environment like I do at work.
Because of binary file formats, binary fonts, etc. All data is just data, including code. A is the same as \x41 which is the op code for INC EAX, for example. That's effectively a NOP as far as shell code is concerned, though. Others do other things, of course. It's the same reason you can do exploits in PDF or other file format attacks.
About half of the open petitions are calling for sacking the drug czar because she won't individually respond to each of other bunch of pot legalization petitions. The petitions that aren't about drugs are poorly written, probably by people on drugs. This attempt at "transparent government" and "opening the process" just throws fuel on the fire for everyone who thinks those are bad ideas. I'm not saying i'm against transparency and whatnot, just that this sort of thing chips away and what faith I have left in humanity to try and better itself. Maybe its just that the people who have time to fill out online petitions have a significant overlap with the people who want to get stoned all the time.
CentOS has really fallen behind the mark. It took them forever to get. out the door and by then rhel had already made a new release. The servers I put rhel on get base updates much sooner than the centos boxes and with epel and rpm fusion, im not for want of anything on those boxes. Then again I have an ungodly number of rhel licenses available and my company partners with red hat. I used to like CentOS but for a while it was looking like I would see mass deployment of IPv6 sooner than CenOS 6.
Support doesnt just mean getting a number to call. It means getting your security and bg fixes in a timely manner. If the OP communicates that sentiment and is still shut down then I hope this system isn't public facinbecause that's just going to be asking for it.
Well, Bobby Jindal (LA Governor) is a super-supporter of Rick Perry and that part of the Republican Party has always had a hard on for Andrew Jackson and his "the bank -- I will kill it!" quote.
I think you're confusing this with the Great Depression. The problem right now is that the banks have plenty of money, they just won't lend it. That means businesses can't get lines of credit to increase payroll, which means low hiring, high unemployment, etc. People can't (in some cases won't) get/use credit to make purchases, which means lower demand for products, so less reason for businesses to hire anyway.
The FDIC ensures that, up to a certain level, you'll get the face value of your money back in the case the bank goes under/gets robbed/whatever. We have that because of what happened in the 20s/30s We do not, however, actually have that problem now.
I switched from a Storm to a Droid Pro yesterday. I was strongly considering the newest BlackBerry bold. Feature-wise, it was pretty much 1:1 with the Droid Pro -- wife, touch screen, etc. BlackBerry OS 7 is actually pretty nice, the keyboard is a lot more ergonomic than the Droid Pro's, and it has the sweet track pad in addition to keyboard and touch screen. It does wifi, html5, the whole works.
That said, I went with the Droid Pro because it was about $200 cheaper than the Black Berry and for personal use is more flexible. I still get device and SD card encryption and whatnot, and it was pretty much a steal (I bought it online during the 4-day super sale Verizon was having... I got the phone for $29.95 -- can't really beat that with a stick).
BlackBerry doesn't really need to compete in the consumer market any more than than Apple needs to compete in the enterprise. They each have their respective markets covered and anything else is gravy. If you're looking at it as a personal phone, you'll probably be disappointed, but you're also not really in the target market at that point. I'm kind of old school -- email, some web browsing, text or IM messages from time to time, so a BB would do me just fine, because I value the security more than the 'cool' factor of having the new shiny.
If this new OS works out, though, then on my next upgrade I very well may switch back to BB, because frankly their hardware is just resilient as a all get out. For all the things I can complain about with the Storm, I've never owned another phone that I could drop, have tumble down concrete stairs, hitting each one, and still be perfectly fine when it finally got to the bottom.
I started learning C on FreeBSD 2.2.8 when I was in the 8th grade. In 9th grade, the internet was still a much wilder place than it is today, and felt a lot friendlier and smaller. As such, I didn't really see anything wrong with emailing random "public figures" to ask them questions. Of course, some didn't respond, some were rude assholes (Linus, I'm looking at you...), but some were truly amazing. In the amazing category would be Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, both of whom would answer my emails promptly and regularly. I corresponded with both of them for the better part of a year and a half, before doing things like getting a girl friend. Both Ken and Dennis were more than happy to hep me out with questions, give me advice and steer me in the right direction.
I wish I still had those emails but, alas, I don't. Of all the digital "property" I wish I had never lost, those emails are pretty much the only thing on the list. I don't know where I would be in life, or what I would be doing, if it weren't for the work they did and their guidance when I was younger. Dennis might be the first "famous" person that I've ever felt like the world was poorer in some way for losing.
Yeah, except for all those OS X machines (the kernel is largely Mach with a BSD subsystem, but all the user land stuff was pretty much jacked from FreeBSD and NetBSD. Hell, Apple hired a large number of the people who were in the FreeBSD core team when I was in high school). JunOS is basically FreeBSD, too, if you use any Juniper stuff. Some of my app and DB servers at work are FreeBSD, and I have a new Juniper router ready to go into the new lab when its done being built. Then again, as my name suggests, I might be a little bias.