In this case one should also remember that the US has similar programs that explicitly target Russia and China. And so, perhaps, it would make sense to better protect one's own networks than to blame the Russians and the Chinese for every security breach. Even if they are responsible. Especially if they are responsible. This way the Pentagon may only appear vulnerable, as opposed to vulnerable AND incompetent.
"Gembe detailed how he'd cracked the company's network, first entering through an account that had no password, then ramping up to root access using remote CGI exploits and scanning software."
So the genius-sysadmin had an open account on the system, which was used by the hacker, who then scanned for vulnerabilities and found a cgi hole. Is this what they call hacking these days? Sounds to me that the person Valve should be after are the numbnuts in charge of network and server security.
I don't know where you work, but unstable servers are usually a result of poor planning by system architects, insufficient funding, or inexperienced sysadmins. If I had any servers that were continuously unstable for the reasons you listed, I would lose my job. Sometimes you do have to support a system that has been outgrown by its users and applications, but there is no funding to get an upgrade and so you have to make do. This would be a valid reason for system instability. But to say that the server is crashing all the time because you installed all kinds of garbage on it without first doing the necessary checking and testing - just because some software vendor released a patch - is simply an admission of incompetence or just plain laziness. Most servers I work with are high-performance computing boxes used for CFD, FEM and other HPC tasks. Believe me, these systems run at full capacity most of the time. This is why you need these operating systems and this is why these machines cost so much. And your point of view is a perfect illustration of what I wrote in the previous post.
Why should anyone bother submitting a bug report? If it's a minor issue and I have a workaround - sure, I'll submit a bug report. But if a system is completely unusable with Ubuntu, I will better spend my time finding a working alternative. Having said that, as a Unix sysadmin I have nothing against Ubuntu, other than using it on a server is not the best idea: there are many far more stable alternatives. The problem with most Linux aficionados out there is that few of them worked in a real production environment of a big datacenter. These guys may know how to configure Apache and MySQL on their Ubuntu PC, but they don't see a difference between getting something to work and getting it to be fast and reliable under constant heavy load.
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It's either intelligence or it's not. The issue of varying degrees of intelligence should not concern AI developers at this time. They'll have to cross that bridge when they come to it. Right now they can't even see the bridge. I always found this intriguing: why would your average comp-sci specialist think he can recreate in code such a uniquely biological phenomenon as intelligence? Why not start with something simpler? Like, maybe, have one Vista PC fuck another to produce a new service pack?
Banks and insurance industry treat IT as overhead and so they get what they pay for. Not to mention that most of these companies outsource IT support to the lowest bidder, which, in turn is either based in India, China, etc. or has subcontractors in these countries. The impact on security is not unexpected. I work with some of these guys on a regular basis and I am not particularly impressed with their technical skills or their adherence to security procedures. Not to say they don't have competent people, it's just their numbers are heavily diluted with amateurs.
Have you been drinking today? You make no sense whatsoever. I am not even talking about your arguments - I can't get past your syntax. Are you saying its OK for the government to rummage through personal data on your laptop without probable cause as long as they pay shipping to send it back to you? What about searching your house without a warrant - would this be OK if they clean up after themselves?
Clinton administration "gave us free internet?" I don't know about you, but I am still paying for mine. Or are you talking about Al Gore inventing the Internet?:-) Russia's recovery is in part due to oil and natural gas prices, but - and I am sure you know this and just trying to be dramatic - there is much more to it. Eight years of Bush's presidency gave Russia a breather and many Russians, while still anti-American, sometimes quietly thank Dubya and his entourage of political misfits. While Bush was busy wasting the unique advantage the US gained with the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Putin was quite happy to offer his help to most crackpot ideas emerging from the White House and watch oil prices grow and American economy fall apart.
Neocon ideology is not tied to Bush and Cheney, or even to the GOP. It's an expression of US nationalism and superpower mentality. Many Russians will argue that Clinton administration with Albright's "new world order" was a far more potent realization of neocon ideology, while Bush represents a limited - albeit more militaristic - form of neo-conservatism. Historically, USSR and later Russia found it easier to establish common ground with Republican administrations in the US. Not to mention that Bush with his idiotic foreign policies probably was more instrumental to Russia's economic recovery than Putin, who just provided political stability while aptly exploiting America's numerous foreign policy flops.
So why are Russia or China worse than the gang of thieving neocons in the White House? Personally, I have more confidence in the UN than in the State of Kentucky.
The point is that in a democracy, of which, we assume, the US is an example, people deserve generally their governments. When an idiot is granted the highest power in the country, the winning majority gets what it thought it deserved and desired, while the losing minority also gets what it deserved for failing to talk sense into the majority. What you think you see happening with the prices of real estate is not the issue here. The issue here is what is happening with the prices of real estate. There is no my economy and your economy, just like there is no my mathematics and your mathematics. Competence or lack thereof is all that matters.
No, not really. With wifi you are not actually authenticating the identity of the person using the connection. Not unless you assign a police officer to stand guard next to every wifi NIC and check photo IDs. With wifi all you can hope to authenticate is the identity of the "user" - a mythical creature that exists only in the password file. This "user" is allowed to enter because he knows a secret handshake. But you still have no idea who he is.
The problem really started with you. And here's how. You elected the government, which adopted legislation, which enabled the lenders to give loans to unreliable borrowers, who would buy hugely overpriced houses they could not afford, that would go down in value because they were never worth their price in the first place, sending real estate business down the drain, closely followed by construction, mortgage, and insurance industries, that form the core of the country's financial system, which is controlled and guaranteed by the government, which borrowed trillions from EU, Japan, China and Russia to fight wars abroad for no particular reason, which dropped the value of the dollar, which caused energy prices to skyrocket, which accelerated our country's economic recession, which made it necessary for the government to spend more of your money to prop up this whole pyramid scheme we call the "free market". And how did all of this start? With too many of us voting for the idiot who couldn't spell "economy", let alone understand it.
Russia's "Bazalt" naval weapons manufacturer recently proposed arming commercial vessels with automatic grenade launchers to deter pirates. There is an idea for Google! They can start with grenades and later upgrade to anti-ship missiles. Or just build an aircraft carrier and save on future operating costs and upgrades:)
It is well known that the athletic performance of women undergoes significant changes
Sounds to me like the authors of the article confuse athletic performance with physical ability. But let me put the last nail in this theory: look at the history of Olympic and World Championship women's gymnastics victories since the first age limit was introduced in 1980 and you will see that the vast majority of medals went to older gymnasts and not to 14- and 16-year-olds. As it turns out, what matters is not the width of athlete's hips but skills and consistency in their performances. And consistency comes with psychological maturity.
Why would I wonder if it's "anti-Indian"? Who da hell cares? India is the primary source of underqualified IT labor. If anything, we should thank India's colleges for giving IT offshoring a bad name.
This is an interesting theory, but it rings hollow. Are younger athletes better able withstand the psychological pressure of high-profile competitions than their more mature opponents? Gymnastics is not just about flexibility but about skill and control as well. Slender hips, less BMI? Only someone pissed off about his team losing would believe this nonsense.
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In this case one should also remember that the US has similar programs that explicitly target Russia and China. And so, perhaps, it would make sense to better protect one's own networks than to blame the Russians and the Chinese for every security breach. Even if they are responsible. Especially if they are responsible. This way the Pentagon may only appear vulnerable, as opposed to vulnerable AND incompetent.
Send secret messages to neighbors: stick your ass out of the window and fart in Morse code.
It seems sometime in the past y few years /. geeks were replaced by /. retards. I don't remember getting the memo...
"Gembe detailed how he'd cracked the company's network, first entering through an account that had no password, then ramping up to root access using remote CGI exploits and scanning software."
So the genius-sysadmin had an open account on the system, which was used by the hacker, who then scanned for vulnerabilities and found a cgi hole. Is this what they call hacking these days? Sounds to me that the person Valve should be after are the numbnuts in charge of network and server security.
I don't know where you work, but unstable servers are usually a result of poor planning by system architects, insufficient funding, or inexperienced sysadmins. If I had any servers that were continuously unstable for the reasons you listed, I would lose my job. Sometimes you do have to support a system that has been outgrown by its users and applications, but there is no funding to get an upgrade and so you have to make do. This would be a valid reason for system instability. But to say that the server is crashing all the time because you installed all kinds of garbage on it without first doing the necessary checking and testing - just because some software vendor released a patch - is simply an admission of incompetence or just plain laziness. Most servers I work with are high-performance computing boxes used for CFD, FEM and other HPC tasks. Believe me, these systems run at full capacity most of the time. This is why you need these operating systems and this is why these machines cost so much. And your point of view is a perfect illustration of what I wrote in the previous post.
Why should anyone bother submitting a bug report? If it's a minor issue and I have a workaround - sure, I'll submit a bug report. But if a system is completely unusable with Ubuntu, I will better spend my time finding a working alternative. Having said that, as a Unix sysadmin I have nothing against Ubuntu, other than using it on a server is not the best idea: there are many far more stable alternatives. The problem with most Linux aficionados out there is that few of them worked in a real production environment of a big datacenter. These guys may know how to configure Apache and MySQL on their Ubuntu PC, but they don't see a difference between getting something to work and getting it to be fast and reliable under constant heavy load.
This stuff isn't just happening in the UK.
True, but you deserved it - we didn't.
It's either intelligence or it's not. The issue of varying degrees of intelligence should not concern AI developers at this time. They'll have to cross that bridge when they come to it. Right now they can't even see the bridge. I always found this intriguing: why would your average comp-sci specialist think he can recreate in code such a uniquely biological phenomenon as intelligence? Why not start with something simpler? Like, maybe, have one Vista PC fuck another to produce a new service pack?
Banks and insurance industry treat IT as overhead and so they get what they pay for. Not to mention that most of these companies outsource IT support to the lowest bidder, which, in turn is either based in India, China, etc. or has subcontractors in these countries. The impact on security is not unexpected. I work with some of these guys on a regular basis and I am not particularly impressed with their technical skills or their adherence to security procedures. Not to say they don't have competent people, it's just their numbers are heavily diluted with amateurs.
For starters, read the law before talking rubbish.
Have you been drinking today? You make no sense whatsoever. I am not even talking about your arguments - I can't get past your syntax. Are you saying its OK for the government to rummage through personal data on your laptop without probable cause as long as they pay shipping to send it back to you? What about searching your house without a warrant - would this be OK if they clean up after themselves?
Clinton administration "gave us free internet?" I don't know about you, but I am still paying for mine. Or are you talking about Al Gore inventing the Internet? :-) Russia's recovery is in part due to oil and natural gas prices, but - and I am sure you know this and just trying to be dramatic - there is much more to it. Eight years of Bush's presidency gave Russia a breather and many Russians, while still anti-American, sometimes quietly thank Dubya and his entourage of political misfits. While Bush was busy wasting the unique advantage the US gained with the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Putin was quite happy to offer his help to most crackpot ideas emerging from the White House and watch oil prices grow and American economy fall apart.
Neocon ideology is not tied to Bush and Cheney, or even to the GOP. It's an expression of US nationalism and superpower mentality. Many Russians will argue that Clinton administration with Albright's "new world order" was a far more potent realization of neocon ideology, while Bush represents a limited - albeit more militaristic - form of neo-conservatism. Historically, USSR and later Russia found it easier to establish common ground with Republican administrations in the US. Not to mention that Bush with his idiotic foreign policies probably was more instrumental to Russia's economic recovery than Putin, who just provided political stability while aptly exploiting America's numerous foreign policy flops.
So why are Russia or China worse than the gang of thieving neocons in the White House? Personally, I have more confidence in the UN than in the State of Kentucky.
The point is that in a democracy, of which, we assume, the US is an example, people deserve generally their governments. When an idiot is granted the highest power in the country, the winning majority gets what it thought it deserved and desired, while the losing minority also gets what it deserved for failing to talk sense into the majority. What you think you see happening with the prices of real estate is not the issue here. The issue here is what is happening with the prices of real estate. There is no my economy and your economy, just like there is no my mathematics and your mathematics. Competence or lack thereof is all that matters.
With wifi, it's "authenticate who they are."
No, not really. With wifi you are not actually authenticating the identity of the person using the connection. Not unless you assign a police officer to stand guard next to every wifi NIC and check photo IDs. With wifi all you can hope to authenticate is the identity of the "user" - a mythical creature that exists only in the password file. This "user" is allowed to enter because he knows a secret handshake. But you still have no idea who he is.
Not true. A Russian astronaut is a cosmonaut. And so are American and Chinese astronauts. Who's an "astronaut" then? Nobody. You missed your chance.
The problem really started with you. And here's how. You elected the government, which adopted legislation, which enabled the lenders to give loans to unreliable borrowers, who would buy hugely overpriced houses they could not afford, that would go down in value because they were never worth their price in the first place, sending real estate business down the drain, closely followed by construction, mortgage, and insurance industries, that form the core of the country's financial system, which is controlled and guaranteed by the government, which borrowed trillions from EU, Japan, China and Russia to fight wars abroad for no particular reason, which dropped the value of the dollar, which caused energy prices to skyrocket, which accelerated our country's economic recession, which made it necessary for the government to spend more of your money to prop up this whole pyramid scheme we call the "free market". And how did all of this start? With too many of us voting for the idiot who couldn't spell "economy", let alone understand it.
One would think SafeNet comes up with a better defense than that. Stupidity as a strategy for legal defense is not going to work for them.
Perhaps this also explains my lack of appetite :)
Russia's "Bazalt" naval weapons manufacturer recently proposed arming commercial vessels with automatic grenade launchers to deter pirates. There is an idea for Google! They can start with grenades and later upgrade to anti-ship missiles. Or just build an aircraft carrier and save on future operating costs and upgrades :)
Where did they run the poll? India?
It is well known that the athletic performance of women undergoes significant changes
Sounds to me like the authors of the article confuse athletic performance with physical ability. But let me put the last nail in this theory: look at the history of Olympic and World Championship women's gymnastics victories since the first age limit was introduced in 1980 and you will see that the vast majority of medals went to older gymnasts and not to 14- and 16-year-olds. As it turns out, what matters is not the width of athlete's hips but skills and consistency in their performances. And consistency comes with psychological maturity.
Why would I wonder if it's "anti-Indian"? Who da hell cares? India is the primary source of underqualified IT labor. If anything, we should thank India's colleges for giving IT offshoring a bad name.
This is an interesting theory, but it rings hollow. Are younger athletes better able withstand the psychological pressure of high-profile competitions than their more mature opponents? Gymnastics is not just about flexibility but about skill and control as well. Slender hips, less BMI? Only someone pissed off about his team losing would believe this nonsense.