Politics aside, the Patriot Act opened a pandora's box and I sense that we will hear much more about Thomas Blake and his comments as time goes on, just as we dealt with the "Red Scare" when Mr. Hoover was in office, and various other Constitutional violations over time. Reading over what Mr. Blake did, he did try to follow the rules when whistle blowing and he let a LOT of people know who SHOULD have fixed the problem before he went public. And instead, he was prosecuted. But did the problems get fixed?
Several years ago when I was a young service member and working for around $25K a year to develop software for the military, I was told that the military was moving away from GOTS solutions and was mandating that everyone move to COTS software. They replaced my position with contractors that made $75K a year and ultimately with multi hundred million dollar contracts with contracting firms who "integrate" in COTS solutions. Granted having become one of those contractors myself and having over doubled my pay in that time frame, I do have to admit I appreciate that cheaper COTS solution.
Though I do often times wonder to myself if the Government centralized their development efforts, tracked industry standards for producing secure code, and further developed some of the charming projects they have worked on (like SELinux) what the world would be like today. Just think, instead of knowing a huge ass hole is in your current revision of router code, you could simply send it off to the developers to repair. No lack of a $100K+ support contract to prevent you from getting a patch...
The largest, smartest, and fastest search engine... Access to most of our cell phones (contact lists, voicemails, text messages, etc)... New Docs/Drive website that makes it easy to create office documents... Google Voice... Pictures of my house that people can virtually drive past... What doesn't Google know? Can't imagine why people would be hesitant to start filling the Google coffers with the intimate details of their social network...
As tempting as it might be to point the finger at the FBI for not investigating the attack based on some sort of bias against hackers, I think the more relevant reason would be the fact that the Pirate Bay isn't an American company. A more pointed view on this would be if www.2600.com was DDoS'd whether or not the FBI would investigate that.
No more Justin Beiber. But a good question to follow up on this is how the media companies, who rely on the income generated by the playing of such music would think of such a system.
Well, it's only a matter of time before the hashes get loaded into a DPI solution that's sitting at the ISP demarcation points and then yes, they CAN block the text too.
It's not illegal in Iraq or Afganistan to make copies of copy written movies. In fact, troops are allowed to keep and import one copy of each pirated material they obtain overseas. Now, Mr. Strachman having made the copies in the US did break the law. Sad thing is though, those copies he made can come back to the US and be completely legit.... Hopefully, the MPAA will simply leave him alone because the material could have just as easily been obtained from the "Hajji Shop" for $3 a disk.
I would not be in the least bit surprised if a class action suit against the government (or something of that nature) was launched from all those who had legitimate files on Megaupload. Imagine if the USG shut down Youtube when it was first starting up. But truthfully, we are as a society held to the laws we make. To quote a lawyer once while I was in court, "If people don't like the laws, they should change them."
Been working in the IT field for 15 years and I've never seen overtime. Even when I was called in during the middle of the night or working the 60 hour week to get the schedule done on time.
I took a two week business trip to Canberra, AUS last summer (um, Northern Hemisphere summer). Might I add that it was a BEAUTIFUL place! I got to speak to a few local nationals who work in the IT sector and to peruse the local newspaper. Apparently at the time, there was a negative unemployment rate in the IT sector and the pay reflected it. So you might consider the Dewn Unda, Mate.
And just think? You can go skiing in July!;)
So what exactly does an illegal downloaded MP3 on an iPod look like? And can a Canadian boarder guard tell the difference between that and one that was ripped at home with a legitimate CD and encoded using LAME?
Sounds like a novel (tougue in cheek) approach to cracking down on illegal file swapping, but something inside me thinks the idea is fundimentally flawed.
Meanwhile, somewhere else in the city.... NiN's made 900K on the release of With Teeth under a recording contract through traditional music distrobution systems.... They made 1.6M with Ghosts I-IV released under Creative Commons on their website a month ago.... Food for thought.
Well, I for one am quite happy that my Yahoo experiences will continue to work as buggy as ever in my Firefox browser. I'm also pleased that my extensive photo collection in Flickr didn't just become the sole property of Microsoft. It would pain my to think that I just benefitted them in some way...
The government org I work with just finished their upgrades to XP. It will be 5 or more years before we see Vista grace our desktops. There is much work to be done, The NSA has to tear it to shreds, produce reasonably nasty lock-downs that prevent the average user from doing much of anything, there's the obligatory installation of half a dozen auto-upgrade/patching/content checking tools that need to be verified as working, then there's the mandatory wait period for X number of service releases to be released. The fact that that DOT is stating that tells me their not following the process;)
sarcasm: Ok, correct me if I'm wrong, isn't the British Police the home of Scottland Yard? Aren't they a police force that secures one of the largest cities in the world? Would it no be inconceivable that they might have an IT budget? Perhaps one that might even support a computer forensics facility? With, I don't know, security professionals skilled at intrusion and such? Just a thought.. I'm sure those backwoods idiots working in the British Police just might, maybe, be a little more skillful than you are giving them credit for.
you'll want to set anon=-1 which will disable connection attempts that don't have a username associated to it, then you'll want to use the access option to limit what users can connect to the shares (obviously root wouldn't be on that list), then you'll want to use the nosuid and nosgid options to prevent suid scripts and such from stealing root. If you're running NIS+ you'll want to use the secure option too. And finally, you'll probably want to ensure that shared files are not world writable. But that's just me;)
Just because the blog world has abused it for headlines doesn't mean thats its only use.
Yeah, with it in the OS/IE/Whatever across 96% of the systems out there, the preprocessor used to parse the title element that can be fooled by substituting a large number of unicode characters to create a buffer overflow can be used to run nice little applications that allow bad guys to forward email from anywhere in the world....
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Politics aside, the Patriot Act opened a pandora's box and I sense that we will hear much more about Thomas Blake and his comments as time goes on, just as we dealt with the "Red Scare" when Mr. Hoover was in office, and various other Constitutional violations over time. Reading over what Mr. Blake did, he did try to follow the rules when whistle blowing and he let a LOT of people know who SHOULD have fixed the problem before he went public. And instead, he was prosecuted. But did the problems get fixed?
Several years ago when I was a young service member and working for around $25K a year to develop software for the military, I was told that the military was moving away from GOTS solutions and was mandating that everyone move to COTS software. They replaced my position with contractors that made $75K a year and ultimately with multi hundred million dollar contracts with contracting firms who "integrate" in COTS solutions. Granted having become one of those contractors myself and having over doubled my pay in that time frame, I do have to admit I appreciate that cheaper COTS solution. Though I do often times wonder to myself if the Government centralized their development efforts, tracked industry standards for producing secure code, and further developed some of the charming projects they have worked on (like SELinux) what the world would be like today. Just think, instead of knowing a huge ass hole is in your current revision of router code, you could simply send it off to the developers to repair. No lack of a $100K+ support contract to prevent you from getting a patch...
I'm sure I'll get dinged on this, but isn't this a decade off? Should Valve be looking at releasing Steam clients for iOS and Android at this point?
The largest, smartest, and fastest search engine... Access to most of our cell phones (contact lists, voicemails, text messages, etc)... New Docs/Drive website that makes it easy to create office documents... Google Voice... Pictures of my house that people can virtually drive past... What doesn't Google know? Can't imagine why people would be hesitant to start filling the Google coffers with the intimate details of their social network...
As tempting as it might be to point the finger at the FBI for not investigating the attack based on some sort of bias against hackers, I think the more relevant reason would be the fact that the Pirate Bay isn't an American company. A more pointed view on this would be if www.2600.com was DDoS'd whether or not the FBI would investigate that.
No more Justin Beiber. But a good question to follow up on this is how the media companies, who rely on the income generated by the playing of such music would think of such a system.
Well, it's only a matter of time before the hashes get loaded into a DPI solution that's sitting at the ISP demarcation points and then yes, they CAN block the text too.
It's not illegal in Iraq or Afganistan to make copies of copy written movies. In fact, troops are allowed to keep and import one copy of each pirated material they obtain overseas. Now, Mr. Strachman having made the copies in the US did break the law. Sad thing is though, those copies he made can come back to the US and be completely legit. ... Hopefully, the MPAA will simply leave him alone because the material could have just as easily been obtained from the "Hajji Shop" for $3 a disk.
I would not be in the least bit surprised if a class action suit against the government (or something of that nature) was launched from all those who had legitimate files on Megaupload. Imagine if the USG shut down Youtube when it was first starting up. But truthfully, we are as a society held to the laws we make. To quote a lawyer once while I was in court, "If people don't like the laws, they should change them."
With everyone switching to tablets and the traditional PC market on the decline, there's no need to hook up a monitor.
Been working in the IT field for 15 years and I've never seen overtime. Even when I was called in during the middle of the night or working the 60 hour week to get the schedule done on time.
I took a two week business trip to Canberra, AUS last summer (um, Northern Hemisphere summer). Might I add that it was a BEAUTIFUL place! I got to speak to a few local nationals who work in the IT sector and to peruse the local newspaper. Apparently at the time, there was a negative unemployment rate in the IT sector and the pay reflected it. So you might consider the Dewn Unda, Mate. And just think? You can go skiing in July! ;)
So what exactly does an illegal downloaded MP3 on an iPod look like? And can a Canadian boarder guard tell the difference between that and one that was ripped at home with a legitimate CD and encoded using LAME? Sounds like a novel (tougue in cheek) approach to cracking down on illegal file swapping, but something inside me thinks the idea is fundimentally flawed. Meanwhile, somewhere else in the city.... NiN's made 900K on the release of With Teeth under a recording contract through traditional music distrobution systems. ... They made 1.6M with Ghosts I-IV released under Creative Commons on their website a month ago. ... Food for thought.
Well, I for one am quite happy that my Yahoo experiences will continue to work as buggy as ever in my Firefox browser. I'm also pleased that my extensive photo collection in Flickr didn't just become the sole property of Microsoft. It would pain my to think that I just benefitted them in some way...
Flickr has much better permission settings than Youtube, so that's definately a bonus, but 90 sec[eot] (Ran out of time.)
I'm still waiting for the lawsuit from the RIAA for the Sanford Marker company for their circumvention device commonly referred to as a Sharpie....
The government org I work with just finished their upgrades to XP. It will be 5 or more years before we see Vista grace our desktops. There is much work to be done, The NSA has to tear it to shreds, produce reasonably nasty lock-downs that prevent the average user from doing much of anything, there's the obligatory installation of half a dozen auto-upgrade/patching/content checking tools that need to be verified as working, then there's the mandatory wait period for X number of service releases to be released. The fact that that DOT is stating that tells me their not following the process ;)
sarcasm: Ok, correct me if I'm wrong, isn't the British Police the home of Scottland Yard? Aren't they a police force that secures one of the largest cities in the world? Would it no be inconceivable that they might have an IT budget? Perhaps one that might even support a computer forensics facility? With, I don't know, security professionals skilled at intrusion and such? Just a thought.. I'm sure those backwoods idiots working in the British Police just might, maybe, be a little more skillful than you are giving them credit for.
Now, I'll need one for my cell phone too... Wonder if it'll effect signal quality?
Yes, but a version of KDE or Gnome as old as Win98 ran circles around it.
Well, as long as you do go driving your Jag in the desert, you probably won't have much to worry about.
A bit off topic, but good info anyways...
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you'll want to set anon=-1 which will disable connection attempts that don't have a username associated to it, then you'll want to use the access option to limit what users can connect to the shares (obviously root wouldn't be on that list), then you'll want to use the nosuid and nosgid options to prevent suid scripts and such from stealing root. If you're running NIS+ you'll want to use the secure option too. And finally, you'll probably want to ensure that shared files are not world writable. But that's just me
Just because the blog world has abused it for headlines doesn't mean thats its only use.
Yeah, with it in the OS/IE/Whatever across 96% of the systems out there, the preprocessor used to parse the title element that can be fooled by substituting a large number of unicode characters to create a buffer overflow can be used to run nice little applications that allow bad guys to forward email from anywhere in the world....
Oh wait... That's been done already... D'Oh
Thus less crashes.