Whenever I visit Slashdot and there's a topic where people have the chance to put their knowledge to the test, I always see a huge number of people claiming that they did wonderfully at the test. And yet, in real life, hardly anyone ever performs at such superheroic levels, whether dumb, average or intelligent
Go join MENSA, skippy. We have ego's to boost here to help us drudge through our work day.
I thought it printed LEGO creations from LEGO blocks.
Y’know, your average 3D printer... but with LEGO bricks.
That would be cool.
What would be *really really* cool if you can make a 3D LEGO printer that prints another 3D LEGO printer, and so on until you see how it degrades over a 1000 iterations...
People obviously don't know shit of what is happenning in Africa. Just last week there were more violence in the DRC. People have responded to the current economic collapse by eating less. How much will it matter to them whether Linux or Windows are installed on their computers?
Power cuts here in Nigeria happens every day. You have malaria, aids, corrupt politicians and a hundred other problems here. The roads are in dire need of repair. The Niger delta is in a state of emergency thanks to MEND.
Trust me, it doesn't mean shit. Anyways, when people want something here, they do not care about things like copy protection, they just take it.
Why are people always so emotional about the small things, and totally miss the big things?
Penny wise, pound foolish.
.. you could have some real fun. Imagine taking GPS transmitter from car A and car B and putting it in police cars C and D. It will end in a never ending pursuit between the police cars. "Oh no Jim, he's behind us"
I've thought about this kind of setup; would be very useful for where and how I use my laptops. I have access to 3G, Wi-Fi and other networks.
HOWEVER, these are a combination of proxied and un-proxied links. Load balancing will not work on proxied links, unless I'm wrong and there is some trick you can make Squid do to do proxy-level load balancing?
The math is not correct.
Antenna effects nonwithstanding, electromagnetic waves propagate according to R^3, not R^2 - since we live in a 3D / sphere world and not a 2D / disc world. Big difference.
Of course, in reality the propagation depends on the kind of antenna you use, which is a more complex function depending on elevation, direction and distance.
As another commenter pointed out, you can't use the design and form-factor of a harmless device when packaging an extremely dangerous device, because you will confuse and possibly harm people unintentionally. Would you package rat poison to look like candy bars or perhaps like a nice slice of deliciously moist cake? Warning labels protect people. They may not serve to protect the buyer of a given device, because they generally tend to know what they're buying and what it's used/not used for; but it can serve to protect somebody unfamiliar with the device, somebody who may happen upon it by random chance. If I owned one of these lights, I would have a sticker on it that said "DO NOT POINT AT FACE. EVER. SRSLY."
You have a good point, but as The design of everyday things state, labels are signs of bad design.
Good design might put in the following safeguards:
* Make the light power up slower, thus protecting people from getting blinded when switching it on.
* Make the beam wider, with intensity variant between outer rim and inner spot.
* Put in detectors for cornea reflection.
* Put in a mini thermostat to switch off on high temperatures.
Recently, they requested we do an "open source strategy", which in essence is the plan looking forward a few years to cut over everything to open source solutions.
* The database and reporting layers are Oracle 10g.
* The hospital system application system runs on top of the Oracle 10g Business intelligence suite.
* The system is run on 3 servers per hospital site. Two of the servers are configured to use RHEL and one is running Windows Server 2003. Medium term planning (after the system is stabilized) include cutover from the Windows servers to the Linux servers.
* The system utilizes a client on workstations that is browser based. Initial design of this client includes ActiveX controls, which limits the use of the clients to Windows based workstations. Further down the road, testing on MONO based clients are options.
* Major customization and integration has taken place as part of a large project.
All in all, it is quite easy to switch systems to Linux, since Oracle is portable. It would also put a lower load on the servers and bandwidth. Note however that the biggest expenditure is still the Oracle licenses and the Windows licenses pales in comparison, and changeover would also cost money... so, is this not a case of penny pinching?
Wow, this sounds like the kind of phone a ninja would use if he was to use a phone! Maybe we should ask a ninja his opinion on it?
It'll be perfect for this Cybernetic Cloaking (TM) feature that this Androids platform provides!
Why is it a bad thing to run a database with an open port on the Internet? This is may not be a problem if:
- The DB is properly protected against injection
- User logon to the DB is via secure keys
- The DB is patched
- The user that the DB daemon runs at has only read rights to binary files and only write rights to the DB files
- DB users are segregated properly.
In the end, for the complicated stuff the amount of security you need depends on the risk associated with what you need to protect.
For the simple stuff like avoiding getting pnwd, just check you daemon user, file system rights, remove privilege escallation - and you're miles ahead of what a firewall can offer.
As far as the printf argument goes, this is rather the "format string vulnerability" that you refer to, and has nothing to do with return values. Anyways, why not just use high-level languages with bounds checking functions when you interface to the web like normal people? Face it, C++ sucks for web stuff, only hairy men in underground labs use it on web pages...
Please do look at my comment history before making such statements.
Like any IT admin, I don't give a flying f for whichever vendor, fanboi, holy wars etc. that goes on, just so long it works. As far as astroturfing is concerned, I can see the FUD factor implied here, but it is not intended.
Compare the fanboi movement in Slashdot: mostly Google, Apple, Linux,.... see a pattern?
I'm currently doing some IT contract work for a South African Government department, and can see some flaws in this:
- The average user is not very educated in IT. If something *minor* changes, you will get a helpdesk call. - The level of IT skills at this point in time is low. The major complement of IT staff at departments are contractors. Very little skills transfer is taking place to permanent staff, and they just mostly sit around and do nothing. - Implementing change management will be an issue. The change needs to be across the board, which will decrease efficiency for at least 6 months, since Government does not plan ahead until it is too late. I see this effect in a current project where no cut-over period was catered for between and old system and a new system. - Document formatting inside Government departments is *terrible*. I foresee that this will worsen the situation.
Aside from this, the Government has draft policy to go to open source. While I do not have anything against Open Source in a business environment, I foresee a lot of problems in this regard. Which, of course, is good for contractors:)
A hosted MAPI / Exchange account is much much better than IMAP.
Granted, you pay $7 per month for it, but it syncs your calendar, tasks, contacts, email and notes all in one shot across PC, laptop and mobile.
- Time limit the amount of subscriptions from a single IP.. start with 1/2 hour, exponentially upping the delays between subscriptions. Greylist IP addresses with known abuses. Add CAPTCHA to remove greylisting with delays built in.
- Change the enrolment process around, e.g. move enrolment fields between different signup pages.
- Obfusticate the naming and location of the CAPTCHA file > give it a URL with a different pattern each time)
- Put in false positives for the CAPTCHA pictures > fifty one-pixel semi-equivalent URL embedded GIFS
- Put in false positives for the signup form at the top/bottom of the page, hide them with color=white.
- Enforce invite-only subscriptions, like Gmail used to do.
- Use out of band methods such as SMS messaging for signup.
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Go join MENSA, skippy. We have ego's to boost here to help us drudge through our work day.
So, I guess Brick-top was wrong then. Who is going to tell him?
What would be *really really* cool if you can make a 3D LEGO printer that prints another 3D LEGO printer, and so on until you see how it degrades over a 1000 iterations...
People obviously don't know shit of what is happenning in Africa. Just last week there were more violence in the DRC. People have responded to the current economic collapse by eating less. How much will it matter to them whether Linux or Windows are installed on their computers?
Power cuts here in Nigeria happens every day. You have malaria, aids, corrupt politicians and a hundred other problems here. The roads are in dire need of repair. The Niger delta is in a state of emergency thanks to MEND.
Trust me, it doesn't mean shit. Anyways, when people want something here, they do not care about things like copy protection, they just take it.
Why are people always so emotional about the small things, and totally miss the big things?
Penny wise, pound foolish.
.. you could have some real fun. Imagine taking GPS transmitter from car A and car B and putting it in police cars C and D. It will end in a never ending pursuit between the police cars. "Oh no Jim, he's behind us"
To the intelligent stories to make one-liner responses.
I've thought about this kind of setup; would be very useful for where and how I use my laptops. I have access to 3G, Wi-Fi and other networks.
HOWEVER, these are a combination of proxied and un-proxied links. Load balancing will not work on proxied links, unless I'm wrong and there is some trick you can make Squid do to do proxy-level load balancing?
The math is not correct.
Antenna effects nonwithstanding, electromagnetic waves propagate according to R^3, not R^2 - since we live in a 3D / sphere world and not a 2D / disc world. Big difference.
Of course, in reality the propagation depends on the kind of antenna you use, which is a more complex function depending on elevation, direction and distance.
I thought Valentine left on 14 February?
You have a good point, but as The design of everyday things state, labels are signs of bad design.
Good design might put in the following safeguards:
* Make the light power up slower, thus protecting people from getting blinded when switching it on.
* Make the beam wider, with intensity variant between outer rim and inner spot.
* Put in detectors for cornea reflection.
* Put in a mini thermostat to switch off on high temperatures.
Haveany of you guys ever been a sysadmin? Get real!
Three reasons why this is an utterly stupid idea:
1. Backup
2. Patching
3. Synchronization
Recently, they requested we do an "open source strategy", which in essence is the plan looking forward a few years to cut over everything to open source solutions.
* The database and reporting layers are Oracle 10g.
* The hospital system application system runs on top of the Oracle 10g Business intelligence suite.
* The system is run on 3 servers per hospital site. Two of the servers are configured to use RHEL and one is running Windows Server 2003. Medium term planning (after the system is stabilized) include cutover from the Windows servers to the Linux servers.
* The system utilizes a client on workstations that is browser based. Initial design of this client includes ActiveX controls, which limits the use of the clients to Windows based workstations. Further down the road, testing on MONO based clients are options.
* Major customization and integration has taken place as part of a large project.
All in all, it is quite easy to switch systems to Linux, since Oracle is portable. It would also put a lower load on the servers and bandwidth. Note however that the biggest expenditure is still the Oracle licenses and the Windows licenses pales in comparison, and changeover would also cost money... so, is this not a case of penny pinching?
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Its not about the flash whiz-bang, its about making something existing more usable, practical, and simpler.
Wow, this sounds like the kind of phone a ninja would use if he was to use a phone! Maybe we should ask a ninja his opinion on it?
It'll be perfect for this Cybernetic Cloaking (TM) feature that this Androids platform provides!
Why is it a bad thing to run a database with an open port on the Internet? This is may not be a problem if:
- The DB is properly protected against injection
- User logon to the DB is via secure keys
- The DB is patched
- The user that the DB daemon runs at has only read rights to binary files and only write rights to the DB files
- DB users are segregated properly.
In the end, for the complicated stuff the amount of security you need depends on the risk associated with what you need to protect.
For the simple stuff like avoiding getting pnwd, just check you daemon user, file system rights, remove privilege escallation - and you're miles ahead of what a firewall can offer.
As far as the printf argument goes, this is rather the "format string vulnerability" that you refer to, and has nothing to do with return values. Anyways, why not just use high-level languages with bounds checking functions when you interface to the web like normal people? Face it, C++ sucks for web stuff, only hairy men in underground labs use it on web pages...
Please oh please post a link to the code?
Like any IT admin, I don't give a flying f for whichever vendor, fanboi, holy wars etc. that goes on, just so long it works. As far as astroturfing is concerned, I can see the FUD factor implied here, but it is not intended.
Compare the fanboi movement in Slashdot: mostly Google, Apple, Linux,
I'm currently doing some IT contract work for a South African Government department, and can see some flaws in this:
:)
- The average user is not very educated in IT. If something *minor* changes, you will get a helpdesk call.
- The level of IT skills at this point in time is low. The major complement of IT staff at departments are contractors. Very little skills transfer is taking place to permanent staff, and they just mostly sit around and do nothing.
- Implementing change management will be an issue. The change needs to be across the board, which will decrease efficiency for at least 6 months, since Government does not plan ahead until it is too late. I see this effect in a current project where no cut-over period was catered for between and old system and a new system.
- Document formatting inside Government departments is *terrible*. I foresee that this will worsen the situation.
Aside from this, the Government has draft policy to go to open source. While I do not have anything against Open Source in a business environment, I foresee a lot of problems in this regard. Which, of course, is good for contractors
A hosted MAPI / Exchange account is much much better than IMAP.
Granted, you pay $7 per month for it, but it syncs your calendar, tasks, contacts, email and notes all in one shot across PC, laptop and mobile.
If we combine this with Internet dating, will I finally find my soul mate?
Don't filter Wikipedia. It is a useful site. Rather block HTTP POST instructions to Wikipedia.
You never had a girlfriend complain?
- Time limit the amount of subscriptions from a single IP.. start with 1/2 hour, exponentially upping the delays between subscriptions. Greylist IP addresses with known abuses. Add CAPTCHA to remove greylisting with delays built in. - Change the enrolment process around, e.g. move enrolment fields between different signup pages. - Obfusticate the naming and location of the CAPTCHA file > give it a URL with a different pattern each time) - Put in false positives for the CAPTCHA pictures > fifty one-pixel semi-equivalent URL embedded GIFS - Put in false positives for the signup form at the top/bottom of the page, hide them with color=white. - Enforce invite-only subscriptions, like Gmail used to do. - Use out of band methods such as SMS messaging for signup.