I am just mitigating an oracle financials app that is hard-coded to have read/write access to files in the windows/system folder. Locally and on the server! Yowch.
This is a big issue. IANAL, but I think there is a legal casse here. You may have signed this away by contract, so...
Under this configuration, there is no way that you company - if publicly traded - can meet the mandated compliance under SOX, etc. This doesn't touch the fact that you have now lowered authorization and access controls to a level that is inferior to MS-DOS.
And why does the DB vendor care? They assume all value is locked under their own controls - and the OS is insignificant. Bad shot. If you are a domain admin, you can always work your way into something - even put a keylogger on the financial controllers desktop, and capture the precious secrets for logging into the system.
With his weird license? God. He writes good software. He's even a bloody certified genius, but he's amost as insufferable as Dave Weiner. Don't try and submit a patch - unless you are just donating to his case, and want nothing as a contributor. Also, be prepared for the contempt of his responses.
Besides, who wants software written by a cartoon bear?
The tax system is part of a shell game operated to benefit the private owners of the banks in the Federal Reserve system.
This is the root cause of inflation - which has reduced the spending power of the dollar to five cents, compared to when th eFederal Reserve was instituted in 1913. All of this, in spite of ever-increasing "productivity gains".
Untill you understand how the US economy is financed, and who benefits, and who bears the real cost... All pronouncements about "capitalism" and "taxes" are nonsensical. We live in a Matrix of International banking, and there are very few red pills.
01 March 2006 NewScientist.com news service Susan Brown IMAGINE getting inside the mind of a shark: swimming silently through the ocean, sensing faint electrical fields, homing in on the trace of a scent, and navigating through the featureless depths for hour after hour.
We may soon be able to do just that via electrical probes in the shark's brain. Engineers funded by the US military have created a neural implant designed to enable a shark's brain signals to be manipulated remotely, controlling the animal's movements, and perhaps even decoding what it is feeling.
That team is among a number of groups around the world that have gained ethical approval to develop implants that can monitor and influence the behaviour of animals, from sharks and tuna to rats and monkeys. These researchers hope such implants will improve our understanding of how the animals interact with their environment, as well as boosting research into tackling human paralysis.
More controversially, the Pentagon hopes to exploit sharks' natural ability to glide quietly through the water, sense delicate electrical gradients and follow chemical trails. By remotely guiding the sharks' movements, they hope to transform the animals into stealth spies, perhaps capable of following vessels without being spotted. The project, funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), based in Arlington, Virginia, was presented at the Ocean Sciences Meeting in Honolulu, Hawaii, last week.
Neural implants consist of a series of electrodes that are embedded into the animal's brain, which can then be used to stimulate various functional areas. Biologist Jelle Atema of Boston University and his students are using them to "steer" spiny dogfish in a tank via a phantom odour. As the dogfish swims about, the researchers beam a radio signal from a laptop to an antenna attached to the fish at one end and sticking up out of the water at the other. The electrodes then stimulate either the right or left of the olfactory centre, the area of the brain dedicated to smell. The fish flicks round to the corresponding side in response to the signal, as if it has caught a whiff of an interesting smell: the stronger the signal, the more sharply it turns.
The team is not the first to attempt to control animals in this way. John Chapin of the State University of New York Health Science Center in Brooklyn has used a similar tactic to guide rats through rubble piles (New Scientist, 25 September 2004, p 21). Chapin's implant stimulates a part of the brain that is wired to their whiskers, so the rats instinctively turn toward the tickled side to see what has brushed by. Chapin rewards that response by stimulating a pleasure centre in the rats' brains. Using this reward process, he has trained the rodents to pause for 10 seconds when they smell a target chemical such as RDX, a component of plastic explosives.
The New York Police Department is considering recruiting Chapin's rats to its disaster response team, where they could be used to detect bombs or even trapped people, and Chapin met them to discuss the possibility last month.
However, Chapin's "mind patch" only works in one direction: he can stimulate movement or reward an action, but he cannot directly measure what the rat smells, which is why he has to train them to reveal what they are sensing. DARPA's shark researchers, in contrast, want to use their implant to detect and decipher the different patterns of neural activity that indicate the animal has detected an ocean current, a scent or an electrical field. The implant sports a small pincushion of wires that sink into the brain to record activity from many neurons at once. The team plans to program a microprocessor to recognise which patterns of brain activity correlate with which scents.
Atema plans to use the implants to study how sharks track chemical trails. We know that sharks have an extremely acute sense of smell, but exactly how the animals deploy that sense in the wild has so far been a matter of co
Awww. That's too bad. I was thinking it would be really Kewl if these were powered by Linux!
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"Lean, mean, Debian killiing machines! They can turn Al Qaida women and children into gooey, red paste by violating Asimov's Robots Rules of Order, and still not violate GPL!"
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You and I know that - but the solution of the consulant who built this was to add DOMAIN USERS to DOMAIN ADMINS.
Sometimes, a man's got to learn how to think.
I am just mitigating an oracle financials app that is hard-coded to have read/write access to files in the windows/system folder. Locally and on the server! Yowch.
Yeah. Or isolate on a Citrix / Term Serv box, and buplish only over ICA/RDP.
Explain to them that they cannot acheive SOX compliance, and that violations are punishable by jail-terms for responsible c-level officers.
Oracle.
This is a big issue. IANAL, but I think there is a legal casse here. You may have signed this away by contract, so...
Under this configuration, there is no way that you company - if publicly traded - can meet the mandated compliance under SOX, etc. This doesn't touch the fact that you have now lowered authorization and access controls to a level that is inferior to MS-DOS.
And why does the DB vendor care? They assume all value is locked under their own controls - and the OS is insignificant. Bad shot. If you are a domain admin, you can always work your way into something - even put a keylogger on the financial controllers desktop, and capture the precious secrets for logging into the system.
you say container, I say pointer...
With his weird license? God. He writes good software. He's even a bloody certified genius, but he's amost as insufferable as Dave Weiner. Don't try and submit a patch - unless you are just donating to his case, and want nothing as a contributor. Also, be prepared for the contempt of his responses.
Besides, who wants software written by a cartoon bear?
Making recursive statements - like this one.
You'd need to get 'em IFF - screening "friendlies" for elimination of false positives and friendly fire.
The shark's enemy? Or "ours'? :-)
Man is the enemy of the shark - many thousands of which are killed by humans every year.
The tax system is part of a shell game operated to benefit the private owners of the banks in the Federal Reserve system.
This is the root cause of inflation - which has reduced the spending power of the dollar to five cents, compared to when th eFederal Reserve was instituted in 1913. All of this, in spite of ever-increasing "productivity gains".
Untill you understand how the US economy is financed, and who benefits, and who bears the real cost... All pronouncements about "capitalism" and "taxes" are nonsensical. We live in a Matrix of International banking, and there are very few red pills.
The lady is no friend to real opposition and champions of the people of America.
_ mckinney_seniority.html
http://www.blackcommentator.com/171/171_blankfort
http://www.counterpunch.org/donham12092004.html
People of privilege will always risk their complete destruction
rather than surrender any material part of their advantage.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith
This means Pelosi would sell you to the glue factory, if it meant keeping her mansion in Pacific Heights.
This is the correct ENGLISH spelling, used in all parts of the English-speaking world, except for the USA.
You have the best nick evar.
You will see a large, light absorbing, black monolith - howling Ligeti - in the center of the nebula.
How big is her tank?
People are on the list...
01 March 2006
NewScientist.com news service
Susan Brown
IMAGINE getting inside the mind of a shark: swimming silently through the ocean, sensing faint electrical fields, homing in on the trace of a scent, and navigating through the featureless depths for hour after hour.
We may soon be able to do just that via electrical probes in the shark's brain. Engineers funded by the US military have created a neural implant designed to enable a shark's brain signals to be manipulated remotely, controlling the animal's movements, and perhaps even decoding what it is feeling.
That team is among a number of groups around the world that have gained ethical approval to develop implants that can monitor and influence the behaviour of animals, from sharks and tuna to rats and monkeys. These researchers hope such implants will improve our understanding of how the animals interact with their environment, as well as boosting research into tackling human paralysis.
More controversially, the Pentagon hopes to exploit sharks' natural ability to glide quietly through the water, sense delicate electrical gradients and follow chemical trails. By remotely guiding the sharks' movements, they hope to transform the animals into stealth spies, perhaps capable of following vessels without being spotted. The project, funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), based in Arlington, Virginia, was presented at the Ocean Sciences Meeting in Honolulu, Hawaii, last week.
Neural implants consist of a series of electrodes that are embedded into the animal's brain, which can then be used to stimulate various functional areas. Biologist Jelle Atema of Boston University and his students are using them to "steer" spiny dogfish in a tank via a phantom odour. As the dogfish swims about, the researchers beam a radio signal from a laptop to an antenna attached to the fish at one end and sticking up out of the water at the other. The electrodes then stimulate either the right or left of the olfactory centre, the area of the brain dedicated to smell. The fish flicks round to the corresponding side in response to the signal, as if it has caught a whiff of an interesting smell: the stronger the signal, the more sharply it turns.
The team is not the first to attempt to control animals in this way. John Chapin of the State University of New York Health Science Center in Brooklyn has used a similar tactic to guide rats through rubble piles (New Scientist, 25 September 2004, p 21). Chapin's implant stimulates a part of the brain that is wired to their whiskers, so the rats instinctively turn toward the tickled side to see what has brushed by. Chapin rewards that response by stimulating a pleasure centre in the rats' brains. Using this reward process, he has trained the rodents to pause for 10 seconds when they smell a target chemical such as RDX, a component of plastic explosives.
The New York Police Department is considering recruiting Chapin's rats to its disaster response team, where they could be used to detect bombs or even trapped people, and Chapin met them to discuss the possibility last month.
However, Chapin's "mind patch" only works in one direction: he can stimulate movement or reward an action, but he cannot directly measure what the rat smells, which is why he has to train them to reveal what they are sensing. DARPA's shark researchers, in contrast, want to use their implant to detect and decipher the different patterns of neural activity that indicate the animal has detected an ocean current, a scent or an electrical field. The implant sports a small pincushion of wires that sink into the brain to record activity from many neurons at once. The team plans to program a microprocessor to recognise which patterns of brain activity correlate with which scents.
Atema plans to use the implants to study how sharks track chemical trails. We know that sharks have an extremely acute sense of smell, but exactly how the animals deploy that sense in the wild has so far been a matter of co
Sory it's so rough in Pittsburgh...
Subtle trolling.
You know why.
That's what we need, for the geeken to build up their biceps - if you know what I mean! ;-)
That deleted the files on my sister's computer.
The things are too small to see!