I work for an educational software company. Speaking with some people at districts these days you find them speaking of teens generally being more tech savvy these days. It says he used a stolen login. That's not hard to acquire considering some people are quite lax with their password strength. The slashdot crowd would be appalled by some of the passwords I see teachers and district workers have using our software. I'd be willing to bet they use the same passwords for their districts, as well as their personal emails. We try to enforce passwords for some people, but many use integration to authenticate from their own LDAP or whatever. It doesn't say which remote software he used, but a compromised login, some "Video Professor", and some "GoTo My PC" I am sure it doesn't take a genius get into some school remotely. I say this with the clause that _some_ school districts have actually hired people that know how to run a network/systems such that this kind of thing could have never happened, but again I see it time and time again that some schools districts are WIDE OPEN to problems such as this. I won't even get into how some of these student information systems are as far as security, but put it this way, if you had Notepad and some shared drive accessible, it's game over in some cases if some student stumbles across these data files.
While the parent does come off as flamebait. It does make a good point. I am going into my third semester of my masters in CPSC and at least 50% of the classes so far that I have taken are centered around just what the poster is asking. So in that regard, seriously, maybe the question should have been worded slightly different. The poster probably does have a knowledge of engineering at least in its most general regards, perhaps he is just hoping that there will be some highly welcomed responses from some of the professionals / old timers here on ye old/. After all, my most self admired coding practices came from asking or watching others. Which is another good reason to fire up the SVN / CVS client and check out some good open source projects and take a look for yourself to what practices look good, and which don't.
That only will stop/detour threats coming directly from China's IP block you listed. If they are using a proxy or through some already compromised machine, perhaps even in your own public IP block, then you might as well drop ALL packets entirely because you'd never be able to tell. Better yet, you might as well disconnect the ethernet since that is the only way to guarantee any REMOTE access. Now if someone breaches your data center, or where ever your system is stored, all bets are off. We all know if you need something to be on the internet, then there is NEVER 100% guaranteed free of security breaches. There are only marginally SAFER ways to house your system, for example not attached to internet with armed guards (and I am not joking), and even then, still not 100% secure from other physical threats.
With that said, I understand none of this is practical at all, and I am sure some people will benefit from your link.
Open Komodo or Komodo Edit - It's free, cross-platform, and code-completion is the best I have seen in a PHP IDE (Although it does much more than just PHP). It will pull up methods from classes that you have instantiated that it has parsed from your "include" or "require" calls. Every PHP coder I have turned it on to love it. Although there are a few bugs with tab spacing, but I imagine those will be ironed out soon enough.
The Pro version also include XDebug capabilities, amount others, which can completely eliminate the old quick and dirty "echo" debugging.... I know I know so bad, so bad
While I agree the parent post is anecdotal, and I do agree mostly with your comment, the most truth of your statement is the part about Americans valuing college differently. I am currently getting my masters degree in Computer Science. During my undergrad, I'd say the spread of race among the student was pretty diverse and spread equally. Now yes most of the students getting the better grades were in fact foreign students, but it was not always true to that either. A lot of the American national students that were getting the grades where those that thought outside the box, studied more than what was just being taught, and learned new things in their interests in computers. Surprisingly enough, most of that smaller group of people were those who dabbled into Linux (could be entirely unrelated, or is it?). With that said, those American students mostly just wanted to get their B-C grades, and get their degree in Computer Science riding the wave that they would get a high paying programming job once they got their diploma (some of these guys couldn't tell a pointer from an address, or even what dereferencing was for that matter, neither here nor there). Fast forward to masters program. I am 1 of 2 white people in all of my classes, and probably only 4-5 American citizens. Why is this? A large number of Americans don't feel like a masters is worth it? I don't know, but what I do know is that all of the foreign students (Chinese, Korean, Pakistani, Jordanian, Indian, what have you) go to school full time, and that is all they do. Now while I am an A-B student, if I went to school abroad you'd better believe I'd probably have a 4.0 GPA. You also have to factor in a few more things. These guys come here to go to school, so they take classes with people in their same culture. It really helps to study with more people to understand concepts. Final point, even though I do think as well that foreign students should be regulated, it will never happen. Have you seen the price of tuition for foreigners? They are almost triple, so who is making the money? The schools, because of the top of my head, it does not cost anymore to teach a foreigner than it does a national, and schools are somewhat of a business so they must profit to prosper. Now that could be totally wrong as there may be other reasons for that, but I am not the person to ask that.
Actually max speed limit in CA is 70 mph on highways or rural areas Speed Limit Laws, so 10 mph difference _legally_ (I-15 to Vegas is 70 mph). But we all know if there is no traffic (hardly ever in So Cal), every one goes 80-90 mph and if there is you can barely get over 5 mph. 91 E on any given day between I-55 and I-15 (~20 miles) you have anywhere from 1-2 hours of stop and go and I heard it is the worst freeway in the nation. I don't even think a driver-less car will help in heavy traffic, although, if they allow it, you may be able to get your happy hour started early without getting a DUI. Might be a bette way to pass the time.
I am glad to see a welcoming of alternate fuel sources. Maybe this is in the right direction for moving away from foreign fuel dependencies??
On a comical, but realistic side note. Would we be able to tell which nanobots are powered by pot smokers??? Reduced mobility, along with lower counts could cause significant problems with bots powered by sperm from marijuana usage. Just a thought!
In Soviet Russia, asteroid steals your memory that an asteroid ever existed! Because I have never heard of such an asteroid existing! This article is non-sense!
DirectoryIndex directive handles default file to default to in a particular set of listed files, and will ONLY show all files in directory if there is no file found in the list AND Indexes directive is also present. DirectoryIndex
IANAL, but modifying URL's is not against the law as far as I know. But it's what is done with the found information in the modified URL(s) that could land you in crowbar hotel.
While I failed to mention that "following the money" wasn't entirely a bad idea (just to note that), and after hearing your arguments I would say you sound educated on CC companies, but after working with an e-commerce company for 2 years prior to now I can say getting a merchant account to process transactions is not as difficult as you suggest, but you're right they are strict on consequences and items of sale. Secondly, if CC companies are spamming, isn't that the pot calling the kettle black? If that is true as you state, then yes get the government should get involved with auditing these companies. Regardless of the facts about CC companies. This will definitely not eliminate spam entirely, in fact it would only put a dent. But it would be a step in the fight. There are plenty of other spam vectors (as the original article was based one viruses) not related to sale of items. Some spam also does nothing, no sale of items, no hot stock, nothing, some gibberish story and that's it. Christ what a waste of bandwidth. Hell I already receive enough spam on my domains, I don't need your forwarded spam as I am sure I already have a copy of those;-)
"restrict use of credit card payments for spam advertised goods"
How do you expect them to do that? Disallow legitimate CC purchases or Viagra, Male Enhancements, stocks, and Spyware protection? Would CC companies fail approval for statements that contain those keywords? I would imagine your reciept does not say "Viagra", it's possible it would say "V14Gr4" before it said the prior. New sites pop up daily, it's not like they can track domains or IP's either. Sounds like yet another step back restricting our freedoms as Americans. I DO NOT want to be restricted by my government to things which I can and can't buy legally online (those items that are legal at least). Not to mention if someone is purchasing from some no name site, then the site might as well pass their CC info on to the next person willing to accept it I mean the fact that they are spamming to get sales should say something as it is.
Point is, if spam gets to the inbox, it's too late!!!! Spam has gotten so bad in general, people just need to be educated that everything in their inbox should be considered spam, unless it is from a trusted source. PPK validation, (try and teach that to grandma or your mother). Too bad educating people and/or PPK is not a realistic solution either for most people, there are just too many people that lack computer ethics/skills.
Well that used to be my motto, at least for my servers. But I really just got tired of having to compile things that I could not get with slackpkg or slapt. I have switched to Debian for my servers I alleviated my headaches with compiling apps (those not included or available). Mind you if you needed something that WAS available with slackpkg or slapt then it was a great system. And even still a better system to have a locked down tight server. I would rank it up there with Gentoo in certain aspects (of course not installation).
Since I will probably quest to install Slack again someday, does anyone know if it comes with a GUI installer yet? I have not installed since Slack 10 so maybe my question is obviously dated, but it is a valid one at that!
Can anyone explain WTF is really going on? I mean it seems like every day in recent days M$ is buying another Linux vendor. When and don't quote me, but didn't they say a year or years back perhaps that Linux was not a threat? But what does "embracing" Linux say (I say that loosely as I don't know their intentions) about M$ when they were not threatened nor interested in Linux but dropping all this cold hard cash? To me it just sounds like they are doing the old saying, "If you can't beat em... join em" How long until M$ claims full IP on Linux? This is scary shit if you ask me. I for one DON'T welcome these Evil Empire Overloads. No you can't have your cake and eat it too!!! Or maybe they can?
I don't like the war, or any war for that matter, just as much as the next guy. And while I did think your sarcasm was quite amusing, your point about spending 1/10 on the other stuff alone won't work. Hindsight is 20/20, we already wrote the checks, now our butts need to cash them, we have been writing them for thousands of years (no not the US in general humanity). Or else they are going to bounce those checks and we are going to be up shit creek without a paddle. Even if this war-on-terror never began, do you honestly think diplomacy alone will WIN in the sense of not having threats to us. NO! Why you ask I will tell you. Terrorists and your so called evil-doers have agendas. lets say for example we were friendly with all nations. That does not mean all nations will be in that same boat. So Al-Queda doesn't like Jews! Well there you go, now you have a conflict outside our make believe agenda, do we sit idle as they are our ally? Or do we take sides? Which side will you be on? While your solution is a Perfect scenario for an Imperfect world! It will never happen.
While you can spin this any way you want for or against gun control, you point you are making states that every person that can legally carry a gun in your country is not crazy (hard to believe there isn't at least one) and if it has never happened, it never will??? Wow, your fantasy world is great, where can I get a flight there? Guns don't kill people, people kill people.In addition, I have heard of an incident in a country WITH STRICT, nearly a complete ban on gun control (I believe it was an East Asia country) a man walked into a school and killed a number of children with a knife. Gun control is NOT the answer, it is only means for political agendas on both sides of the tracks.
Slashdot Mirror
Reputable source? Hmmm... I don't see the green bar.
And good thing it's not in France, those lil boogers might get eaten and emails would be lost in a series of tubes. Intestinal tubes that is!
I work for an educational software company. Speaking with some people at districts these days you find them speaking of teens generally being more tech savvy these days. It says he used a stolen login. That's not hard to acquire considering some people are quite lax with their password strength. The slashdot crowd would be appalled by some of the passwords I see teachers and district workers have using our software. I'd be willing to bet they use the same passwords for their districts, as well as their personal emails. We try to enforce passwords for some people, but many use integration to authenticate from their own LDAP or whatever. It doesn't say which remote software he used, but a compromised login, some "Video Professor", and some "GoTo My PC" I am sure it doesn't take a genius get into some school remotely. I say this with the clause that _some_ school districts have actually hired people that know how to run a network/systems such that this kind of thing could have never happened, but again I see it time and time again that some schools districts are WIDE OPEN to problems such as this. I won't even get into how some of these student information systems are as far as security, but put it this way, if you had Notepad and some shared drive accessible, it's game over in some cases if some student stumbles across these data files.
While the parent does come off as flamebait. It does make a good point. I am going into my third semester of my masters in CPSC and at least 50% of the classes so far that I have taken are centered around just what the poster is asking. So in that regard, seriously, maybe the question should have been worded slightly different. The poster probably does have a knowledge of engineering at least in its most general regards, perhaps he is just hoping that there will be some highly welcomed responses from some of the professionals / old timers here on ye old /. After all, my most self admired coding practices came from asking or watching others. Which is another good reason to fire up the SVN / CVS client and check out some good open source projects and take a look for yourself to what practices look good, and which don't.
C++ is NOT a "Microsoft language".
That only will stop/detour threats coming directly from China's IP block you listed. If they are using a proxy or through some already compromised machine, perhaps even in your own public IP block, then you might as well drop ALL packets entirely because you'd never be able to tell. Better yet, you might as well disconnect the ethernet since that is the only way to guarantee any REMOTE access. Now if someone breaches your data center, or where ever your system is stored, all bets are off. We all know if you need something to be on the internet, then there is NEVER 100% guaranteed free of security breaches. There are only marginally SAFER ways to house your system, for example not attached to internet with armed guards (and I am not joking), and even then, still not 100% secure from other physical threats.
With that said, I understand none of this is practical at all, and I am sure some people will benefit from your link.
As of now "whatcouldpossiblygowrong" has not been tagged. And thanks for that. It's one of those from the "reallygettingoldtagdept"
Open Komodo or Komodo Edit - It's free, cross-platform, and code-completion is the best I have seen in a PHP IDE (Although it does much more than just PHP). It will pull up methods from classes that you have instantiated that it has parsed from your "include" or "require" calls. Every PHP coder I have turned it on to love it. Although there are a few bugs with tab spacing, but I imagine those will be ironed out soon enough.
The Pro version also include XDebug capabilities, amount others, which can completely eliminate the old quick and dirty "echo" debugging.... I know I know so bad, so bad
While I agree the parent post is anecdotal, and I do agree mostly with your comment, the most truth of your statement is the part about Americans valuing college differently. I am currently getting my masters degree in Computer Science. During my undergrad, I'd say the spread of race among the student was pretty diverse and spread equally. Now yes most of the students getting the better grades were in fact foreign students, but it was not always true to that either. A lot of the American national students that were getting the grades where those that thought outside the box, studied more than what was just being taught, and learned new things in their interests in computers. Surprisingly enough, most of that smaller group of people were those who dabbled into Linux (could be entirely unrelated, or is it?). With that said, those American students mostly just wanted to get their B-C grades, and get their degree in Computer Science riding the wave that they would get a high paying programming job once they got their diploma (some of these guys couldn't tell a pointer from an address, or even what dereferencing was for that matter, neither here nor there). Fast forward to masters program. I am 1 of 2 white people in all of my classes, and probably only 4-5 American citizens. Why is this? A large number of Americans don't feel like a masters is worth it? I don't know, but what I do know is that all of the foreign students (Chinese, Korean, Pakistani, Jordanian, Indian, what have you) go to school full time, and that is all they do. Now while I am an A-B student, if I went to school abroad you'd better believe I'd probably have a 4.0 GPA. You also have to factor in a few more things. These guys come here to go to school, so they take classes with people in their same culture. It really helps to study with more people to understand concepts. Final point, even though I do think as well that foreign students should be regulated, it will never happen. Have you seen the price of tuition for foreigners? They are almost triple, so who is making the money? The schools, because of the top of my head, it does not cost anymore to teach a foreigner than it does a national, and schools are somewhat of a business so they must profit to prosper. Now that could be totally wrong as there may be other reasons for that, but I am not the person to ask that.
My two Abe Lincolns
Actually max speed limit in CA is 70 mph on highways or rural areas Speed Limit Laws, so 10 mph difference _legally_ (I-15 to Vegas is 70 mph). But we all know if there is no traffic (hardly ever in So Cal), every one goes 80-90 mph and if there is you can barely get over 5 mph. 91 E on any given day between I-55 and I-15 (~20 miles) you have anywhere from 1-2 hours of stop and go and I heard it is the worst freeway in the nation. I don't even think a driver-less car will help in heavy traffic, although, if they allow it, you may be able to get your happy hour started early without getting a DUI. Might be a bette way to pass the time.
Yup been there done that.
I issued the standard Homerism, "DOH". Why did I do that?
Fortunately we have a KVM/IP device connected to my machine that saved a trip to the data center and two hours of traffic into LA during rush hour.
I am glad to see a welcoming of alternate fuel sources. Maybe this is in the right direction for moving away from foreign fuel dependencies??
On a comical, but realistic side note. Would we be able to tell which nanobots are powered by pot smokers??? Reduced mobility, along with lower counts could cause significant problems with bots powered by sperm from marijuana usage. Just a thought!
This also became the first 5000 yr old jawbreaker when someone tried to chew it.
In Soviet Russia, asteroid steals your memory that an asteroid ever existed! Because I have never heard of such an asteroid existing! This article is non-sense!
DirectoryIndex directive handles default file to default to in a particular set of listed files, and will ONLY show all files in directory if there is no file found in the list AND Indexes directive is also present. DirectoryIndex
IANAL, but modifying URL's is not against the law as far as I know. But it's what is done with the found information in the modified URL(s) that could land you in crowbar hotel.
Finally we have the Jin, please pass the tonic ;-P
While I failed to mention that "following the money" wasn't entirely a bad idea (just to note that), and after hearing your arguments I would say you sound educated on CC companies, but after working with an e-commerce company for 2 years prior to now I can say getting a merchant account to process transactions is not as difficult as you suggest, but you're right they are strict on consequences and items of sale. Secondly, if CC companies are spamming, isn't that the pot calling the kettle black? If that is true as you state, then yes get the government should get involved with auditing these companies. Regardless of the facts about CC companies. This will definitely not eliminate spam entirely, in fact it would only put a dent. But it would be a step in the fight. There are plenty of other spam vectors (as the original article was based one viruses) not related to sale of items. Some spam also does nothing, no sale of items, no hot stock, nothing, some gibberish story and that's it. Christ what a waste of bandwidth. Hell I already receive enough spam on my domains, I don't need your forwarded spam as I am sure I already have a copy of those ;-)
"restrict use of credit card payments for spam advertised goods"
How do you expect them to do that? Disallow legitimate CC purchases or Viagra, Male Enhancements, stocks, and Spyware protection? Would CC companies fail approval for statements that contain those keywords? I would imagine your reciept does not say "Viagra", it's possible it would say "V14Gr4" before it said the prior. New sites pop up daily, it's not like they can track domains or IP's either. Sounds like yet another step back restricting our freedoms as Americans. I DO NOT want to be restricted by my government to things which I can and can't buy legally online (those items that are legal at least). Not to mention if someone is purchasing from some no name site, then the site might as well pass their CC info on to the next person willing to accept it I mean the fact that they are spamming to get sales should say something as it is.
Point is, if spam gets to the inbox, it's too late!!!! Spam has gotten so bad in general, people just need to be educated that everything in their inbox should be considered spam, unless it is from a trusted source. PPK validation, (try and teach that to grandma or your mother). Too bad educating people and/or PPK is not a realistic solution either for most people, there are just too many people that lack computer ethics/skills.
Once you go Slack, you never go back!
Well that used to be my motto, at least for my servers. But I really just got tired of having to compile things that I could not get with slackpkg or slapt. I have switched to Debian for my servers I alleviated my headaches with compiling apps (those not included or available). Mind you if you needed something that WAS available with slackpkg or slapt then it was a great system. And even still a better system to have a locked down tight server. I would rank it up there with Gentoo in certain aspects (of course not installation).
Since I will probably quest to install Slack again someday, does anyone know if it comes with a GUI installer yet? I have not installed since Slack 10 so maybe my question is obviously dated, but it is a valid one at that!
Especially those with a list of apps, mashups or what ever the buzzword is today on top of that without links. Make your own decisions. BTW I only count 8.
There is also the printable version
- FileWave
- NetOctopus
- LANrev
- Radmind
- ManageSoft
- LANDesk
- Timbuktu
- NTRsupport
Can anyone explain WTF is really going on? I mean it seems like every day in recent days M$ is buying another Linux vendor. When and don't quote me, but didn't they say a year or years back perhaps that Linux was not a threat? But what does "embracing" Linux say (I say that loosely as I don't know their intentions) about M$ when they were not threatened nor interested in Linux but dropping all this cold hard cash? To me it just sounds like they are doing the old saying, "If you can't beat em ... join em" How long until M$ claims full IP on Linux? This is scary shit if you ask me. I for one DON'T welcome these Evil Empire Overloads. No you can't have your cake and eat it too!!! Or maybe they can?
I don't like the war, or any war for that matter, just as much as the next guy. And while I did think your sarcasm was quite amusing, your point about spending 1/10 on the other stuff alone won't work. Hindsight is 20/20, we already wrote the checks, now our butts need to cash them, we have been writing them for thousands of years (no not the US in general humanity). Or else they are going to bounce those checks and we are going to be up shit creek without a paddle. Even if this war-on-terror never began, do you honestly think diplomacy alone will WIN in the sense of not having threats to us. NO! Why you ask I will tell you. Terrorists and your so called evil-doers have agendas. lets say for example we were friendly with all nations. That does not mean all nations will be in that same boat. So Al-Queda doesn't like Jews! Well there you go, now you have a conflict outside our make believe agenda, do we sit idle as they are our ally? Or do we take sides? Which side will you be on? While your solution is a Perfect scenario for an Imperfect world! It will never happen.
While you can spin this any way you want for or against gun control, you point you are making states that every person that can legally carry a gun in your country is not crazy (hard to believe there isn't at least one) and if it has never happened, it never will??? Wow, your fantasy world is great, where can I get a flight there? Guns don't kill people, people kill people.In addition, I have heard of an incident in a country WITH STRICT, nearly a complete ban on gun control (I believe it was an East Asia country) a man walked into a school and killed a number of children with a knife. Gun control is NOT the answer, it is only means for political agendas on both sides of the tracks.
Animated version Google vs. Viacom
Boy would I want to put my firmware followed by some RAM into her box .... o O 0 (one can dream can't I)