I have never understood the point of using a Bitcoin ATM versus buying through an exchange like Coinbase. It just seems like a gimmick. Why would someone on the street need to convert between fiat and cryptocurrency? If you have cash wouldn't you just pay with your cash?
Bitcoin's great for storing and transferring value. No one can take your coins without your private key and you can do international transfers yourself. Purchasing with Bitcoin, on the other hand, is not terribly practical. Not many vendors accept it compared to fiat and the confirmation times are way too long for in-person purchases.
Those guys would have been much better off spending their time and money creating Bitcoin wagering games playable over the Internet.
Maybe I'm showing my age, but why do I keep hearing a lot of talk about "coding" and hardly anything about computer science? Does the world really need more people that can program a computer, but who are clueless about topics like data structures, algorithmic complexity, grammars, etc?
Are you restricted from using common techniques to protect your system during the competition? Wouldn't one simply make their services unreachable by the attackers and declare victory? Doing basic things like filtering packets and requiring that clients present security certificates are going to be pretty much impossible to bypass.
I used to work at Bank of America, they had their Internet facing routers set to ping microsoft.com and to remove themselves from the pool if the pings didn't come back. Sure enough, microsoft.com had issues one day and the entire BofA organization lost Internet access.
I should get to chose which records are kept about my health.
Agreed. I don't understand what is so difficult about giving the patient their own electronic healthcare records and letting them be responsible for providing that information to healthcare providers.
Why does a patient need their medical records in a form that can be be instantly transmitted on a global computer network? Also, I would think that you shouldn't need a detailed medical history to treat most acute things, chronic illnesses excluded. Does knowing that I had my adenoids removed as a child, or that I was treated for an STD in college really help you set my broken arm?
But that is exactly the problem with a PhD. There aren't that many "research scientist" jobs out there (especially in a crappy economy) and companies are hesitant to hire someone with an advanced degree to perform work that is below their skill level.
I would expect a PhD level person to be running their own company and providing consulting services. If they are interviewing for a job in QA or application support I just wonder how exactly they got here.
Someone correct me if I'm mistaken, but doesn't this exploit depend on programs not validating input?
The example given in the post to oss-security mentions HTTP request headers containing malicious data being passed into CGI programs which then call out to Bash. Wouldn't taint-checking input eliminate that attack vector?
I'll get there eventually, but for now I'm content to play it how I like, level up my character, collect stuff, and see more and more of the world they've built.
I too had a ton of fun exploring the map and not just advancing the story. The problem you will run into is that the game basically breaks once you reach a high enough level.
The longer I played the game the more I noticed things that became completely pointless, like making food. Once you can enchant top-level gear, there's no reason to open chests. You will start noticing all of the dungeons look the same and there's really no variety to the mobs you encounter, especially those roaming the countryside. Once your level tops out, there's no way to learn new skills and no way to re-spec your character.
I played through the Mage's questline and maxed my character's level. As soon as that happened I realized that the mechanics just weren't good enough to keep me playing until I finished all of the content.
I'm almost 40, so maybe that explains it, but WTF is with people who cannot put their devices down and just pay attention to what's going on around them?
What exactly so compelling that you can't take ten or fifteen minutes away from it to walk somewhere?
The parent did this to themselves. You use cvsup to track code changes when you're building a system from source. It is not used to perform upgrades of installed ports; that's what portupgrade is for.
It sounds like he was doing an in-place build and nuked his drive. If you care about your data you shouldn't take the risk of attempting this.
Don't forget the excellent portability of ZFS filesystems!
With ZFS you can move a drive between FreeBSD, Linux and MacOS systems. AFAIK the only other filesystem you can do this with is FAT32 and you lose a lot of features if you go that route. This is a big deal when you've got terabytes of data on drives and a heterogenous computing environment.
Will an experienced admin (20+ years *NIX) that's currently using RackSpace (dedicated and cloud) learn anything from this book? It's so hard to tell from this review.
I've been using RackSpace for a few months now and I find that it's not much different than hosting the servers myself except I don't have to deal with things like router/switch configuration and hardware replacements.
I would definitely recommend getting a camera to protect yourself. It's unfortunate, but some drivers will flat-out lie about what happened to cause a crash and try to blame you for their mistake. If you have video evidence they can't pull crap like that.
SysV init is most certainly not broken. You can use/etc/inittab to have the system keep services alive, or wrap your startup command in a while(true) loop.
Cities like Chicago are installing cellphone tracking devices to monitor pedestrian traffic.
http://readwrite.com/2014/09/0...http://articles.chicagotribune...
There's one at the top of a light pole in front of the Board of Trade on Jackson St. It looks like a small, black, round trash can.
That's why you include a fee with your Bitcoin transaction. The larger the fee the more quickly you should get confirms back.
Bitcoin really wasn't designed to be used as a currency; payment just happened to be one of the first applications developed using the protocol. If you need confirmation speed, you should take a look at Litecoin.
Back in the mid-90's, when I just getting started, the web development company I was working for in Chicago got hacked via some remote exploit in IRIX. It was a small business with only six people, but the local FBI branch did send an agent over to collect information when we notified them of the breach.
I've been using *nix systems for about 23 years so maybe I'm just old school, but what exactly is so difficult about compiling and packaging third-party software yourself?
These days most everything uses autotools and it's pretty simple to create the necessary files for the packaging system.
As for support, isn't that why you hire experienced people that can help themselves?
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I have never understood the point of using a Bitcoin ATM versus buying through an exchange like Coinbase. It just seems like a gimmick. Why would someone on the street need to convert between fiat and cryptocurrency? If you have cash wouldn't you just pay with your cash?
Bitcoin's great for storing and transferring value. No one can take your coins without your private key and you can do international transfers yourself. Purchasing with Bitcoin, on the other hand, is not terribly practical. Not many vendors accept it compared to fiat and the confirmation times are way too long for in-person purchases.
Those guys would have been much better off spending their time and money creating Bitcoin wagering games playable over the Internet.
Maybe I'm showing my age, but why do I keep hearing a lot of talk about "coding" and hardly anything about computer science? Does the world really need more people that can program a computer, but who are clueless about topics like data structures, algorithmic complexity, grammars, etc?
Are you restricted from using common techniques to protect your system during the competition? Wouldn't one simply make their services unreachable by the attackers and declare victory? Doing basic things like filtering packets and requiring that clients present security certificates are going to be pretty much impossible to bypass.
Facts cannot be copyrighted. A collection of function signatures compromising an API are just a bunch of facts, thus not eligible.
I used to work at Bank of America, they had their Internet facing routers set to ping microsoft.com and to remove themselves from the pool if the pings didn't come back. Sure enough, microsoft.com had issues one day and the entire BofA organization lost Internet access.
I should get to chose which records are kept about my health.
Agreed. I don't understand what is so difficult about giving the patient their own electronic healthcare records and letting them be responsible for providing that information to healthcare providers.
Why does a patient need their medical records in a form that can be be instantly transmitted on a global computer network? Also, I would think that you shouldn't need a detailed medical history to treat most acute things, chronic illnesses excluded. Does knowing that I had my adenoids removed as a child, or that I was treated for an STD in college really help you set my broken arm?
If Ebola is so hard to spread, then how do you explain doctors in hazmat suits contracting the virus?
But that is exactly the problem with a PhD. There aren't that many "research scientist" jobs out there (especially in a crappy economy) and companies are hesitant to hire someone with an advanced degree to perform work that is below their skill level.
I would expect a PhD level person to be running their own company and providing consulting services. If they are interviewing for a job in QA or application support I just wonder how exactly they got here.
Someone correct me if I'm mistaken, but doesn't this exploit depend on programs not validating input?
The example given in the post to oss-security mentions HTTP request headers containing malicious data being passed into CGI programs which then call out to Bash. Wouldn't taint-checking input eliminate that attack vector?
Send them a bootable disc or USB stick with a Linux or BSD distro on it. They can use a second USB stick for any data they want to retain.
I too had a ton of fun exploring the map and not just advancing the story. The problem you will run into is that the game basically breaks once you reach a high enough level.
The longer I played the game the more I noticed things that became completely pointless, like making food. Once you can enchant top-level gear, there's no reason to open chests. You will start noticing all of the dungeons look the same and there's really no variety to the mobs you encounter, especially those roaming the countryside. Once your level tops out, there's no way to learn new skills and no way to re-spec your character.
I played through the Mage's questline and maxed my character's level. As soon as that happened I realized that the mechanics just weren't good enough to keep me playing until I finished all of the content.
Yeah, it's in all of those books you probably didn't read.
I really hated all of the text content that Skyrim dumped on you. If I wanted to read a book, I would read a book.
I'm almost 40, so maybe that explains it, but WTF is with people who cannot put their devices down and just pay attention to what's going on around them?
What exactly so compelling that you can't take ten or fifteen minutes away from it to walk somewhere?
The parent did this to themselves. You use cvsup to track code changes when you're building a system from source. It is not used to perform upgrades of installed ports; that's what portupgrade is for.
It sounds like he was doing an in-place build and nuked his drive. If you care about your data you shouldn't take the risk of attempting this.
Don't forget the excellent portability of ZFS filesystems!
With ZFS you can move a drive between FreeBSD, Linux and MacOS systems. AFAIK the only other filesystem you can do this with is FAT32 and you lose a lot of features if you go that route. This is a big deal when you've got terabytes of data on drives and a heterogenous computing environment.
This data should be carried by the patient, not stored in some centralized database ripe for harvesting by third parties.
Will an experienced admin (20+ years *NIX) that's currently using RackSpace (dedicated and cloud) learn anything from this book? It's so hard to tell from this review.
I've been using RackSpace for a few months now and I find that it's not much different than hosting the servers myself except I don't have to deal with things like router/switch configuration and hardware replacements.
I would definitely recommend getting a camera to protect yourself. It's unfortunate, but some drivers will flat-out lie about what happened to cause a crash and try to blame you for their mistake. If you have video evidence they can't pull crap like that.
SysV init is most certainly not broken. You can use /etc/inittab to have the system keep services alive, or wrap your startup command in a while(true) loop.
...or add an entry for the service in /etc/inittab and specify the respawn option.
Cities like Chicago are installing cellphone tracking devices to monitor pedestrian traffic. http://readwrite.com/2014/09/0... http://articles.chicagotribune... There's one at the top of a light pole in front of the Board of Trade on Jackson St. It looks like a small, black, round trash can.
That's why you include a fee with your Bitcoin transaction. The larger the fee the more quickly you should get confirms back.
Bitcoin really wasn't designed to be used as a currency; payment just happened to be one of the first applications developed using the protocol. If you need confirmation speed, you should take a look at Litecoin.
Back in the mid-90's, when I just getting started, the web development company I was working for in Chicago got hacked via some remote exploit in IRIX. It was a small business with only six people, but the local FBI branch did send an agent over to collect information when we notified them of the breach.
I've been using *nix systems for about 23 years so maybe I'm just old school, but what exactly is so difficult about compiling and packaging third-party software yourself?
These days most everything uses autotools and it's pretty simple to create the necessary files for the packaging system.
As for support, isn't that why you hire experienced people that can help themselves?
I think the takeaway here is to not work on your birthday.