While I don't disagree that virus writers shouldn't get some correction (be it therapy, jail time, or a few whacks with a cane), if you were stupid enough to not have backups of your thesis, you shouldn't be a bloody doctor.
"Sure, the dual tbird appro should handle 10000 users"
omitting, of course, if it was all written in clean tight C, instead of java.
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Probably even more entertaining - the "best on the left" scheme. Arguably a variant of what you mention, since the best are usually most often read as well.:)
Sure, the US can start reneging on agreements and contracts. The rest of the world will just label it a Rogue State, and cease dealing with it.
You aren't as big as you think you are. Losing Canada and China (for two) as trading partners would hurt you a hell of a lot, and the blatant disregard for all agreements that you imply the US should be able to get away with would cause that.
Once we threw our own finks out of office, that is.
I can think of two simple benefits off the top of my head.
First, you can have experiments that are easily monitored, altered, and corrected. It's probably cheaper to have an astronaut do the work than to design (and pay for the lift of) the mechanics to do so.
Second, by having experiments inside the permanent structure of the station, you don't need to reproduce the wheel every time you send up an experiment (shielding for radiation and dust, airtight containment, temperature control, etc etc). The station provides all that.
A lot of this could be done with the shuttle - but only as long as it doesn't take too long. I think the max time on orbit for a shuttle is only a couple of weeks, but I'm probably way off. Using the station, you can run a three month long experiment or more... which is really handy if you're studying something like the effect of microgravity on successive generations bred and raised in it.
(As an aside, how they get the mice to have sex in zero g, I'll never figure out.;) )
Gah! Posting to revoke the mistaken mod. I meant "Insightful" and bumped the scrollwheel before clicking, turning it into "Redundant". NOT what I wanted to do.
I was in Korea from Sept 7-14 (what a GREAT time to be travelling.... oy) and the wierdest/coolest thing I saw while I was there was a TV channel dedicated to competetive game playing.
While I was there, I saw Tribes 2, Starcraft, what looked like Street Fighter (insert version here), Ghost Recon, Counterstrike, and several other games I didn't recognize at all.
Hmm... unless that was just altered, there's an "and" in there on the "no bypassing the homepage" line. It's "no bypassing by links that conceal where they're going", basically.
I can't see the point of the rule, myself... so you thought you were clicking a link for Hot Teen Babes, and ended up on KPMG? BFD. Better than the other way around!
Very good point there, and I feel like a schmuck for forgetting that.:)
I know that cisco switches can be configured in a very paranoid setup, so that if the mac address changes, it locks the port. That's one method to attack the problem, but ye gods, the manpower that'd take....
just don't hook one single system up to the Internet. Establish a private network (not VPN - actually private) for the entire thing.
Use dedicated hosting boxes, with ALL DYNAMIC FUNCTIONS OFF, that run NOTHING but the http server on the public interface. The secure FTP server runs on a dialup connection that only connects to the private network, with hardware authentication of the modems to each other.
Choose a bare-bones http server, with no bells and whistles. Both IIS and Apache are out. Maybe thttpd? Not familiar enough with it, to be honest.
Yes, you're going to have to work around not having dynamic portions or ubiquitous connectivity, but you're having to choose, flexibility or security.
Would this make for an enjoyable online olympics? Probably not, but that wasn't really what the story addressed.:)
People come up with an idea, are enthused about it, pursue it for a while, become bored, and leave it.
Companies spring into being, try to market things, and make it or don't.
Everything is cyclical and fluid, on the net even more so. People will congregate like a flock of birds, then fly apart. Be happy that you were the focal point of a congregation for a while, that you brought interesting things and thoughts to somebody, and move on.
Some of us feel that wireless security, even set up stringently, is just asking for it.
I'll keep with the wires, for now, thanks.
Some of us also have large investments already in place that use "the 20th century paradigm", this lets us easily add capacity where needed, without either turning the whole network into a mishmash, or adding Yet Another Security Hole.
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I think he was referring to the front page only, thus his comment about "Read More". It doesn't seem to alter at all with the number of comments each substory has (nor should it).
They don't need to be pushing that much power at all.
I had a CB a few years back, that was just a tiny bit "tweaked". Instead of 4 watts on main and 12 on sideband, it pushed around 6 and 16.
Once, I was sitting in my truck in front of my parents house, chatting with some CB friends. I came back in, and my parents had heard the whole thing! It turned out that the length of the SPEAKER CABLE was an exact match for the wavelength of one of the channels (or a multiple thereof, not positive which).
The amp was on, but not playing anything, and somehow it picked up this signal off the speaker wire and spat it back out, amplified slightly, just enough for my folks to hear it.
A 300W rig (which I never saw, people would get ridiculous power from a simple 30W amp) would let me do that from two klicks away, easy.
That guy misses the point when he talks about dynamic range...
If DVD audio is to be believed, then you could record a dynamic range wide enough to capture a jet engine's loudness. This is not possible to reproduce on current analog equipment without distortion and serious damage to your hearing.
Isn't severe damage to my hearing the point? I -want- to hear those 105mm howitzers at real volume! Why else would I have that 5 meter subwoofer built into my foundation?
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While I don't disagree that virus writers shouldn't get some correction (be it therapy, jail time, or a few whacks with a cane), if you were stupid enough to not have backups of your thesis, you shouldn't be a bloody doctor.
That last line is making me have to BS my boss.
"Sure, the dual tbird appro should handle 10000 users"
omitting, of course, if it was all written in clean tight C, instead of java.
Probably even more entertaining - the "best on the left" scheme. Arguably a variant of what you mention, since the best are usually most often read as well. :)
Sure, the US can start reneging on agreements and contracts. The rest of the world will just label it a Rogue State, and cease dealing with it.
You aren't as big as you think you are. Losing Canada and China (for two) as trading partners would hurt you a hell of a lot, and the blatant disregard for all agreements that you imply the US should be able to get away with would cause that.
Once we threw our own finks out of office, that is.
I can think of two simple benefits off the top of my head.
;) )
First, you can have experiments that are easily monitored, altered, and corrected. It's probably cheaper to have an astronaut do the work than to design (and pay for the lift of) the mechanics to do so.
Second, by having experiments inside the permanent structure of the station, you don't need to reproduce the wheel every time you send up an experiment (shielding for radiation and dust, airtight containment, temperature control, etc etc). The station provides all that.
A lot of this could be done with the shuttle - but only as long as it doesn't take too long. I think the max time on orbit for a shuttle is only a couple of weeks, but I'm probably way off. Using the station, you can run a three month long experiment or more... which is really handy if you're studying something like the effect of microgravity on successive generations bred and raised in it.
(As an aside, how they get the mice to have sex in zero g, I'll never figure out.
Gah! Posting to revoke the mistaken mod. I meant "Insightful" and bumped the scrollwheel before clicking, turning it into "Redundant". NOT what I wanted to do.
Sigh, been at work too long, it's the link prior to the BOFH article. :/
The runon tag is the BOFH article. :)
Just can't keep a good Bastard down!
I was in Korea from Sept 7-14 (what a GREAT time to be travelling.... oy) and the wierdest/coolest thing I saw while I was there was a TV channel dedicated to competetive game playing.
While I was there, I saw Tribes 2, Starcraft, what looked like Street Fighter (insert version here), Ghost Recon, Counterstrike, and several other games I didn't recognize at all.
As UserFriendly recently put it... that's the "Chief Take-the-blame Officer". Sounds like this one's on the ball!
Hmm... unless that was just altered, there's an "and" in there on the "no bypassing the homepage" line. It's "no bypassing by links that conceal where they're going", basically.
I can't see the point of the rule, myself... so you thought you were clicking a link for Hot Teen Babes, and ended up on KPMG? BFD. Better than the other way around!
On the second map there, I see EAFB... I really have to wonder if it was AP-less, or if he just didn't go by there....
;)
Anyone in that area, and curious enough to risk getting shot?
I haven't heard of anybody dying from a crashed server.
Won't anybody think about the children?
(child processes, that is)
But I thought Trojans reduced the risk!
Very good point there, and I feel like a schmuck for forgetting that. :)
I know that cisco switches can be configured in a very paranoid setup, so that if the mac address changes, it locks the port. That's one method to attack the problem, but ye gods, the manpower that'd take....
just don't hook one single system up to the Internet. Establish a private network (not VPN - actually private) for the entire thing.
:)
Use dedicated hosting boxes, with ALL DYNAMIC FUNCTIONS OFF, that run NOTHING but the http server on the public interface. The secure FTP server runs on a dialup connection that only connects to the private network, with hardware authentication of the modems to each other.
Choose a bare-bones http server, with no bells and whistles. Both IIS and Apache are out. Maybe thttpd? Not familiar enough with it, to be honest.
Yes, you're going to have to work around not having dynamic portions or ubiquitous connectivity, but you're having to choose, flexibility or security.
Would this make for an enjoyable online olympics? Probably not, but that wasn't really what the story addressed.
So, this guy is in charge of securing MS corporate systems, based on their own insecure OS.
My thoughts were:
A) poor bastard.
B) man, he must be GOOD. MS rarely gets hit as bad as the public, so he must be doing SOMETHING right....
:/
People come up with an idea, are enthused about it, pursue it for a while, become bored, and leave it.
Companies spring into being, try to market things, and make it or don't.
Everything is cyclical and fluid, on the net even more so. People will congregate like a flock of birds, then fly apart. Be happy that you were the focal point of a congregation for a while, that you brought interesting things and thoughts to somebody, and move on.
*shrug*
True, but the range on that is quite a bit shorter, and requires special hardware, not a generic 802.11b card picked up at the local computer shop.
Some of us feel that wireless security, even set up stringently, is just asking for it.
I'll keep with the wires, for now, thanks.
Some of us also have large investments already in place that use "the 20th century paradigm", this lets us easily add capacity where needed, without either turning the whole network into a mishmash, or adding Yet Another Security Hole.
I think he was referring to the front page only, thus his comment about "Read More". It doesn't seem to alter at all with the number of comments each substory has (nor should it).
You're using the wrong word.
You say "publically", but you mean "announced to security lists".
I guarantee you there's another "public" of scriptkiddies who have been sharing it for a while.
Also, THIS WAS NOT FULL DISCLOSURE. I don't see exploit code in there. All I see is "there's a serious problem with this package, upgrade it here!".
We've been barraged for a couple months on Shaw @Home to set up new shaw.ca addresses.
They don't need to be pushing that much power at all.
I had a CB a few years back, that was just a tiny bit "tweaked". Instead of 4 watts on main and 12 on sideband, it pushed around 6 and 16.
Once, I was sitting in my truck in front of my parents house, chatting with some CB friends. I came back in, and my parents had heard the whole thing! It turned out that the length of the SPEAKER CABLE was an exact match for the wavelength of one of the channels (or a multiple thereof, not positive which).
The amp was on, but not playing anything, and somehow it picked up this signal off the speaker wire and spat it back out, amplified slightly, just enough for my folks to hear it.
A 300W rig (which I never saw, people would get ridiculous power from a simple 30W amp) would let me do that from two klicks away, easy.
That guy misses the point when he talks about dynamic range...
If DVD audio is to be believed, then you could record a dynamic range wide enough to capture a jet engine's loudness. This is not possible to reproduce on current analog equipment without distortion and serious damage to your hearing.
Isn't severe damage to my hearing the point? I -want- to hear those 105mm howitzers at real volume! Why else would I have that 5 meter subwoofer built into my foundation?
;)