Apple have gone to great lengths to hide anyone who's name is not Steve Jobs and created a cult of personality around Jobs himself. The perception is now bigger than the man. That would become quite dangerous if the man were to disappear.
Most people dont even know that it was Steve Jobs who designed the Iphone's antenna and outer casing. That it was Steve Jobs that was responsible for the Iphone antenna problems. Apple has attached the name and image of Steve Jobs to everything, reality has no basis here, it's all about perception.
Lots of companies released tablets. They sucked, largely because they don't actually solve any real problem. Then Apple released a tablet and marketed the hell out of it. Now lots of other companies are releasing tablets, which uniformly suck because they don't actually solve a real problem.
Anecdote time! Out of the five people I know with iPads (who also each own iPhones and Macs), two have stopped using their iPads in favor of their phones.
".example" is recommended for use in documentation or as examples.
".invalid" is intended for use in online construction of domain names that are sure to be invalid and which it is obvious at a glance are invalid.
Guess they should read the rfc.
RFC 2606 Reserved Top Level DNS Names June 1999...
3. Reserved Example Second Level Domain Names
The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) also currently has the
following second level domain names reserved which can be used as
examples.
"The world was shocked again today, as the third in what appears to be a coordinated effort of mass-shunning by Amish Radicals occurred in Pennsylvania. Let's go live to Jennifer at the scene..."
"It was chaos here in Lancaster as an Amish man and his family road into town on his horse and buggy yesterday. People here have learned to fear the slow approach of a clip-clop sound. It might be a mounted policeman, or it might be the sign of something more sinister."
Cut to an ordinary citizen "I had no idea what he was going to do, but I could tell from the look in his eye he wasn't going to talk to me"
Back to Jennifer "And that's exactly what he did. His entire family spoke to no one the entire trip. It was a public shunning, the strongest measure of condemnation the Amish use."
Cut to guy in car "I heard they were peaceful, but there was real violence in that si-o-lence"
"And so we're here at the home of the Shunners, ready to find out why they're lashing out at America." Knock Knock Knock
"Hello! I'm here from Big Cable News Channel! Why are you shunning America?"
"I'm not shunning you, English, I just don't want to talk to you."
"And just like that, a crisis has been averted. We can have peace with our neighbors by talking with them. This is Big Cable News Channel News-Show Foreign Correspondent Jennifer Miller signing off."
Religion persists only because people have an use for it.
Assuming from the outset (as you seem to) that all religion is inherently false, there is one segment of society that morality and the afterlife as portrayed by most religions help keep in check: sociopaths. As long as a sociopath believes they won't get caught doing something and it seems to their benefit, they'll do it. Sleep with your wife, steal from you, frame you for another theft so your wife divorces you, and much worse... If they believe that God is watching, or that Karma will swing back around on them, or that they'll reincarnate as a worm (actually not strong enough of a motivator since even the worm state is temporary, and the memory wouldn't reincarnate), then they'll be watchful of what they do. They won't be any better inwardly; their outward signs of altruism and love would be motivated purely by fear or desire to "suck up" to God, but at least they'll be better members of overall society.
Now assume that one of the religions is correct (or portions of some of them), and an extra use arises: passing along actual truth. Considering that believers of religions believe this last one to be true, then this use-case will remain as long as the religions themselves remain.
Damnit, beaten by 10 mins. That's what I get for researching a comment!
I bet you're the kind who takes the time to RTAF before posting, too.
I don't know what the rest of your comment said after "kind", but I bet it was horribly racist. Who has two thumbs and doesn't read comments? This guy!
How do you do that wireless stuff secretly? I'm sure that along with the cell/internet/(radio? tv?) blackout, there are restrictions on personal wireless broadcast devices. The police don't need to listen to the traffic, just detect your router. "Police! This is a raid! We've triangulated a wireless signal to this residence. Nobody move!"
No, it's time for/. to fix its slashcode. Not every laptop/netbook out there has dual cores or greater yet. I didn't even try the new interface on my phone, but I have noticed that even the classic interface is slower on my phone with the new graphics, and when in horizontal aspect, the stories remain "vertical" with a big gray emptiness on the right side./. has become severely buggy.
No you don't. If your data is important, it's common to back-up off-site to a place, where the admins only have read/append access. A cheap way of doing that is to agree with another company to "swap backups"; they back up at your site and you at theirs. Naturally, the back-ups are encrypted.
"Criss-cross."
"Huh?"
"You bone our backups, I bone yours. No one would ever suspect until it's too late. Criss-cross."
"What, are you high? I like my job. I'll trash your backups for a crate of beer, but don't touch my company's backups."
"So we're agreed?"
Also, if you do the above technical solution, and your site isn't super mission-critical, new sysadmins will recognize that you're not trusting them. Some will respect you for that, and be happy that you're concerned with security and uptime. Others will take it personally and one more straw will be added to their camel-like backs. Of course, once you implement a "perfect" protection from rogue admins (better than what I posted), you're free to treat all but one of them like @^$&... unless the last man standing was friends with the other guys.
In other words, this always comes down to people and trust. Unless you use robots as sysadmins, you can't be assured that you'll be safe from rogues.
Is there a back-up, site mirroring, privilege, or other strategy you'd recommend so we have protection from an Admin gone bad?
Sounds like you already have a technical solution for cleanup. If it were me, I'd have two locked server rooms, and each sysadmin is only allowed into one server room. Each room has half of the original servers, and half of mirrored servers from the other room. The mirrored servers rsync from the original servers regularly, with a resticted user account with sudo access only to rsync (plus the options in/etc/sudoers to restrict rsync to only backup particular directories, otherwise it could overwrite/etc/passwd and/etc/shadow on the original server).
Also, a third offsite place to store lots of long term backups.
In other words, if you want a technical solution to a simple HR problem, you're looking at spending a lot of money. I would suggest instead to keep your sysadmins happy, either with flexible work schedules, firing PHBs who infuriate them (or putting a technically competent middle-manager in between the idiot and your IT staff), or increasing their salaries slightly (less than it would cost to double/triple your hardware expenditure).
Assuming you're using the javascripty version of Discussion2
Take a look at your process list. Your browser is eating at least one of your cores. open a few more/. windows. Feel the burn. My single core machine was dying with just one window open. I had to go back to Discussion1 and flag/. with noscript. http://slashdot.org/users.pl?op=editcomm
visibility of ALL public government officials emails starting with Boehner and Pelosi. I dont care that much about crap from Alaska, but I do want to read what the people holding the real puppet strings are emailing about. Does MSNBC have the sack for that?
Here you go:
Dear [Redacted],
Thank you for [Redacted] my [Redacted]. I [Redacted] [Redacted] [Redacted] toothpaste in my [Redacted] while you [Redacted] on a cherry [Redacted] Episcopalian [Redacted] extension cord [Redacted] wetness [Redacted] with a parking ticket.
Thank you, [Redacted]
That's the quality you get with any FOIA request, and why it's taking so long for Palin's emails. I guarantee they're forcing people to meet for a couple hours of overtime once a week and argue whether the word "is" should be redacted in the third email. Then they order pizza and beer on the state dime. Next week, next word.
As a friend mentioned during a FOIA discussion, it's easy to do a Meat-space Denial of Service on a public entity by requesting "all of X" records, and forcing them to go through and redact. It's even worse when they ask for "all of X" where X is a department in NASA with highly trained people, like engineers or scientists. And they have to redact it instead of letting some bureaucrat decide what should be included. Just imagine a case like this where everyone and their mother did a FOIA request. It's a DMsDoS!
Isolated tribes aren't traveling hundreds of lightyears minimum in a space machine, it's safe to assume that someone aboard there spacecraft understand advanced math and math based communication (such as signaling prime numbers).
Maybe signaling prime numbers isn't obvious to them as a sign of sentience because everything on their planet uses primes in some manner? Perhaps they think OOgleBOOgleGrAH is the perfect sign of sentience. Or maybe sentience is relatively unimportant to them, and they're looking for "5". If a sentient species intelligently asks back "5 what?", the first species knows they aren't "5" and ignores or kills them (not for religion, sport, disgust, efficiency, food, or anything we'd understand. they do it for "89").
Then your species has built its radio receivers to produce sounds or smells or tastes or tactile warming or *sauce* to *taste*. We're not going to send stuff out in any medium other than radio waves, so we're going to rely on the aliens to change our radio pulses into something they can experience. Hopefully they don't directly experience radio waves, else we might have a big problem down the line: http://www.amazon.com/Blonde-Bombshell-Tom-Holt/dp/0316086991
and all that is assuming something yah is 1+3 what if "1+"is represented as a Y with an empty space where the second addend is placed, thus an entirely different character, and there is no separate "+" character?
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Yeah but communists are inherently retarded, so it's extra funny. Have you seen their baseball?
I think you forgot that Cuba is communist. They play great baseball.
Sometimes a duplicate story is important. Monday morning is a nice time to re-hash a warning that some tech folk might not have seen over the weekend.
Apple have gone to great lengths to hide anyone who's name is not Steve Jobs and created a cult of personality around Jobs himself. The perception is now bigger than the man. That would become quite dangerous if the man were to disappear. Most people dont even know that it was Steve Jobs who designed the Iphone's antenna and outer casing. That it was Steve Jobs that was responsible for the Iphone antenna problems. Apple has attached the name and image of Steve Jobs to everything, reality has no basis here, it's all about perception.
FTFY -- Apple Marketing^w^wSteve Jobs
If I didn't have to explain the joke, you necessarily found it funny on some level. ;)
Lots of companies released tablets. They sucked, largely because they don't actually solve any real problem. Then Apple released a tablet and marketed the hell out of it. Now lots of other companies are releasing tablets, which uniformly suck because they don't actually solve a real problem.
Anecdote time! Out of the five people I know with iPads (who also each own iPhones and Macs), two have stopped using their iPads in favor of their phones.
".example" is recommended for use in documentation or as examples.
".invalid" is intended for use in online construction of domain names that are sure to be invalid and which it is obvious at a glance are invalid.
Guess they should read the rfc.
RFC 2606 Reserved Top Level DNS Names June 1999 ...
3. Reserved Example Second Level Domain Names
The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) also currently has the
following second level domain names reserved which can be used as
examples.
example.com
example.net
example.org
Invented? More like scavenged from the wreck of a time traveling alien spaceship populated with ghost pirates.
there should've been like...two Internets.
There are two internets. You don't get to use to new cool one because it's reserved. There are lots of other dark internets too.
"The world was shocked again today, as the third in what appears to be a coordinated effort of mass-shunning by Amish Radicals occurred in Pennsylvania. Let's go live to Jennifer at the scene..."
"It was chaos here in Lancaster as an Amish man and his family road into town on his horse and buggy yesterday. People here have learned to fear the slow approach of a clip-clop sound. It might be a mounted policeman, or it might be the sign of something more sinister."
Cut to an ordinary citizen "I had no idea what he was going to do, but I could tell from the look in his eye he wasn't going to talk to me"
Back to Jennifer "And that's exactly what he did. His entire family spoke to no one the entire trip. It was a public shunning, the strongest measure of condemnation the Amish use."
Cut to guy in car "I heard they were peaceful, but there was real violence in that si-o-lence"
"And so we're here at the home of the Shunners, ready to find out why they're lashing out at America." Knock Knock Knock
"Hello! I'm here from Big Cable News Channel! Why are you shunning America?"
"I'm not shunning you, English, I just don't want to talk to you."
"And just like that, a crisis has been averted. We can have peace with our neighbors by talking with them. This is Big Cable News Channel News-Show Foreign Correspondent Jennifer Miller signing off."
Religion persists only because people have an use for it.
Assuming from the outset (as you seem to) that all religion is inherently false, there is one segment of society that morality and the afterlife as portrayed by most religions help keep in check: sociopaths. As long as a sociopath believes they won't get caught doing something and it seems to their benefit, they'll do it. Sleep with your wife, steal from you, frame you for another theft so your wife divorces you, and much worse... If they believe that God is watching, or that Karma will swing back around on them, or that they'll reincarnate as a worm (actually not strong enough of a motivator since even the worm state is temporary, and the memory wouldn't reincarnate), then they'll be watchful of what they do. They won't be any better inwardly; their outward signs of altruism and love would be motivated purely by fear or desire to "suck up" to God, but at least they'll be better members of overall society.
Now assume that one of the religions is correct (or portions of some of them), and an extra use arises: passing along actual truth. Considering that believers of religions believe this last one to be true, then this use-case will remain as long as the religions themselves remain.
Damnit, beaten by 10 mins. That's what I get for researching a comment!
I bet you're the kind who takes the time to RTAF before posting, too.
I don't know what the rest of your comment said after "kind", but I bet it was horribly racist. Who has two thumbs and doesn't read comments? This guy!
How do you do that wireless stuff secretly? I'm sure that along with the cell/internet/(radio? tv?) blackout, there are restrictions on personal wireless broadcast devices. The police don't need to listen to the traffic, just detect your router. "Police! This is a raid! We've triangulated a wireless signal to this residence. Nobody move!"
In Star Wars, they were happy to view blue staticy blobs for their Holos. Who cares about the color at this stage in the game?
Maybe it's time to upgrade?
No, it's time for /. to fix its slashcode. Not every laptop/netbook out there has dual cores or greater yet. I didn't even try the new interface on my phone, but I have noticed that even the classic interface is slower on my phone with the new graphics, and when in horizontal aspect, the stories remain "vertical" with a big gray emptiness on the right side. /. has become severely buggy.
No you don't. If your data is important, it's common to back-up off-site to a place, where the admins only have read/append access. A cheap way of doing that is to agree with another company to "swap backups"; they back up at your site and you at theirs. Naturally, the back-ups are encrypted.
"Criss-cross."
"Huh?"
"You bone our backups, I bone yours. No one would ever suspect until it's too late. Criss-cross."
"What, are you high? I like my job. I'll trash your backups for a crate of beer, but don't touch my company's backups."
"So we're agreed?"
Also, if you do the above technical solution, and your site isn't super mission-critical, new sysadmins will recognize that you're not trusting them. Some will respect you for that, and be happy that you're concerned with security and uptime. Others will take it personally and one more straw will be added to their camel-like backs. Of course, once you implement a "perfect" protection from rogue admins (better than what I posted), you're free to treat all but one of them like @^$&... unless the last man standing was friends with the other guys.
In other words, this always comes down to people and trust. Unless you use robots as sysadmins, you can't be assured that you'll be safe from rogues.
Is there a back-up, site mirroring, privilege, or other strategy you'd recommend so we have protection from an Admin gone bad?
Sounds like you already have a technical solution for cleanup. If it were me, I'd have two locked server rooms, and each sysadmin is only allowed into one server room. Each room has half of the original servers, and half of mirrored servers from the other room. The mirrored servers rsync from the original servers regularly, with a resticted user account with sudo access only to rsync (plus the options in /etc/sudoers to restrict rsync to only backup particular directories, otherwise it could overwrite /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow on the original server).
Also, a third offsite place to store lots of long term backups.
In other words, if you want a technical solution to a simple HR problem, you're looking at spending a lot of money. I would suggest instead to keep your sysadmins happy, either with flexible work schedules, firing PHBs who infuriate them (or putting a technically competent middle-manager in between the idiot and your IT staff), or increasing their salaries slightly (less than it would cost to double/triple your hardware expenditure).
Assuming you're using the javascripty version of Discussion2 /. windows. Feel the burn. My single core machine was dying with just one window open. I had to go back to Discussion1 and flag /. with noscript. http://slashdot.org/users.pl?op=editcomm
Take a look at your process list. Your browser is eating at least one of your cores. open a few more
Solaris nisplus has a history of only dealing with the first eight characters for passwords, but if this is true, it means they are running a _very_ old system.
They might also be using single-DES. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypt_(Unix)#Traditional_DES-based_scheme
visibility of ALL public government officials emails starting with Boehner and Pelosi. I dont care that much about crap from Alaska, but I do want to read what the people holding the real puppet strings are emailing about. Does MSNBC have the sack for that?
Here you go:
Dear [Redacted],
Thank you for [Redacted] my [Redacted]. I [Redacted] [Redacted] [Redacted] toothpaste in my [Redacted] while you [Redacted] on a cherry [Redacted] Episcopalian [Redacted] extension cord [Redacted] wetness [Redacted] with a parking ticket.
Thank you, [Redacted]
That's the quality you get with any FOIA request, and why it's taking so long for Palin's emails. I guarantee they're forcing people to meet for a couple hours of overtime once a week and argue whether the word "is" should be redacted in the third email. Then they order pizza and beer on the state dime. Next week, next word.
The only person stupider than her is Michele Bachmann, who isn't even bright enough to look into the network cameras
You deserve your Troll rating just for this comment. Michele Bachmann looked into the appropriate camera. Just because CNN/MSNBC didn't pony up for a feed off that camera doesn't mean she's dumb.
http://www.startribune.com/politics/blogs/114802314.html?elr=KArksLckD8EQDUoaEyqyP4O:DW3ckUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUnciaec8O7EyUsl
As a friend mentioned during a FOIA discussion, it's easy to do a Meat-space Denial of Service on a public entity by requesting "all of X" records, and forcing them to go through and redact. It's even worse when they ask for "all of X" where X is a department in NASA with highly trained people, like engineers or scientists. And they have to redact it instead of letting some bureaucrat decide what should be included. Just imagine a case like this where everyone and their mother did a FOIA request. It's a DMsDoS!
Isolated tribes aren't traveling hundreds of lightyears minimum in a space machine, it's safe to assume that someone aboard there spacecraft understand advanced math and math based communication (such as signaling prime numbers).
Maybe signaling prime numbers isn't obvious to them as a sign of sentience because everything on their planet uses primes in some manner? Perhaps they think OOgleBOOgleGrAH is the perfect sign of sentience. Or maybe sentience is relatively unimportant to them, and they're looking for "5". If a sentient species intelligently asks back "5 what?", the first species knows they aren't "5" and ignores or kills them (not for religion, sport, disgust, efficiency, food, or anything we'd understand. they do it for "89").
My species is blind you insensitive clod. :)
Then your species has built its radio receivers to produce sounds or smells or tastes or tactile warming or *sauce* to *taste*. We're not going to send stuff out in any medium other than radio waves, so we're going to rely on the aliens to change our radio pulses into something they can experience. Hopefully they don't directly experience radio waves, else we might have a big problem down the line: http://www.amazon.com/Blonde-Bombshell-Tom-Holt/dp/0316086991
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and all that is assuming something yah is 1+3 what if "1+"is represented as a Y with an empty space where the second addend is placed, thus an entirely different character, and there is no separate "+" character?