This means their people are working writing/testing the patch too. I wonder how much nicer it might be for the internet backbones to take a holiday off.
around here there are generally 50+ qualified applicants for every real IT/development job
It's the same around here, but almost all of them currently have well paying jobs. They're just in the habit of constantly shifting jobs. It sucks because it prevents those applicants without jobs from getting seen in the musical chairs game.
To play along as a hardcore Linux user:
The notifications area should be a dynamic desktop which looks like an xterm and constantly greps for the relevant syslog lines. And you'd better not highlight the search text. I want plain text without attention grabbing. Green on black prefered, but I suppose you could make it configurable.
Although that's the way it usually works, according to the DM's guide, I should be able to get it via any type of victory, including trickery or cooperation.
I saw this stuff ramp up on my systems earlier this year, but it dropped off before the Dec 2nd/. article. Now I've just got the standard brute forcers using one IP address for several hundred attempts (presumambly hundreds; they never get too far). My guess at the time was that they had compromised all the machines they needed or had gotten too many of their zombies targeted by others and where waiting until the zombies got a new DHCP lease.
It scared me at first because I thought: wow, fail2ban and denyhosts can't handle this (denyhosts.net syncing isn't open source), but then I looked at it from a sniper analogy (sorry, been playing too many army games lately):
We can't tell where the enemy is, and every once in a while, they let loose with a machine gun blast, so we'd just snipe that one guy (throw up a firewall, maybe report to authorities) and wait again. Now, they're shooting one machine gun round every hour, but they have enough people that it's like one gunner who moves around a lot. So, now our snipers can mow the lot of them down (assuming there are enough sysadmins that can be bothered to report zombies to ISPs). Soon they'll discover that the old method yielded a better ratio of success/casualties.
Problem is, if you block IPs for attempting bad usernames and one of the botnet zombies gets a chance to connect a second or third time, then the botnet will start targeting that username (since it "knows" it's valid). A better approach would be to _randomly_ block IPs that attempt bad usernames, but after enough sampling, the botnet could determine which username attempts never get blocked immediately and would focus on those. Best approach of all would be to give out no information regarding validity of usernames, and just ban on failed attempts regardless of UID, sharing the ban list with other servers to help mitigate the distributed IPs. If a legit user is trying to ssh in, and gets banned, they should have your phone number / email address.
FTFA:
"The definition of personality," she said, "is having repetition in your responses, for example, being consistently bold, or consistently shy, or consistently aggressive."
She went on to say that any individual octopus had random, inconsistent, reactions to the same stimuli on any random day.
Typical scientist: "The definition of personality is robotic, consistent response to stimulus."
A blog dedicated to driving and politics adds that a similar, if darker, practice has taken hold in England, where bad guys cruise the streets looking for a car similar to their own. They then duplicate its plates in a more durable form, and thereafter drive around with little fear of trouble from the police.
Teaching felons how to make licenses seems to have failed.;)
With say, a pre-built laptop or desktop, you could mitigate the chances of widespread hardware failures because if you got it from Dell, HP, Toshiba or what ever brand you prefer, chances are they aren't getting their parts from the same sources.
The automatic update system in Windows is far from perfect, and doesn't allow users the granularity of saying "yes, update my browser but no, leave the rest of my system alone."
I'm more of a Linux man, but I know this is wrong. If you set auto updates to download and notify for installation, you can choose which updates to apply.
King's Quest V(?) was deviously annoying in that respect. You could cast a spell that needed gold, and you could use either the easy to find gold needle (which you need later), or a difficult to find gold coin.
You might have blocked out idle, so you might not know that the bleed has gone both ways. There have been serious science stories that some editor decided "Hmm, that sounds funny" and put into the idle section.
Oh ho! He say "Nice day," but he covered with rain!
He say this when your know is not really nice day.
Yes. He say the opposite. Is funny.
-Vlad, the foreign guy from work who taught Peter about sarcasm.
But Apple's mice _don't_ have two buttons. They have one big button with multiple sensors underneath. This results in two or more failed right-clicks in a row quite often. Apple could have made distinct buttons when they added the scrollball, but it'd make their mice less pretty.
Well played, master troll. You knew Linux live CDs pass these tests regularly with old and young alike. MS Windows is the OS that fails these tests (particularly installation; often no NIC drivers). You got myself and others to respond. Hopefully you're a Linux advocate using reverse psychology...
I don't think parent is meant as Flamebait. It's the eventual result of Microsoft incompatibility (at least it would be in most IT shops). If you remove MS Office compatibility from OpenOffice, and Samba from Linux, unless you're in a university or some other place that does number crunching, the only use for Linux would be as a webserver. With rdesktop, Samba, et al, I'm able to gradually nudge my users into a *nix world by using only Linux on my laptop (which I take to meetings just to show off compiz).
Cause frankly I have no clue how aiming a sniper rifle will work when you have to sight past your fingers.
If I were to program the inputs for a touch screen FPS, I'd make it so that you bring your thumb and index finger together where the person's head is visible.
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This means their people are working writing/testing the patch too. I wonder how much nicer it might be for the internet backbones to take a holiday off.
around here there are generally 50+ qualified applicants for every real IT/development job
It's the same around here, but almost all of them currently have well paying jobs. They're just in the habit of constantly shifting jobs. It sucks because it prevents those applicants without jobs from getting seen in the musical chairs game.
No decent American would morn his death.
I'm certain his family will mourn his loss.
Didn't you hear? He's dying, and Apple needs him.
To play along as a hardcore Linux user:
The notifications area should be a dynamic desktop which looks like an xterm and constantly greps for the relevant syslog lines. And you'd better not highlight the search text. I want plain text without attention grabbing. Green on black prefered, but I suppose you could make it configurable.
Your code word checks out. You can un-anonymize yourself.
when you take it from my cold, dead hands.
Although that's the way it usually works, according to the DM's guide, I should be able to get it via any type of victory, including trickery or cooperation.
I saw this stuff ramp up on my systems earlier this year, but it dropped off before the Dec 2nd /. article. Now I've just got the standard brute forcers using one IP address for several hundred attempts (presumambly hundreds; they never get too far). My guess at the time was that they had compromised all the machines they needed or had gotten too many of their zombies targeted by others and where waiting until the zombies got a new DHCP lease.
It scared me at first because I thought: wow, fail2ban and denyhosts can't handle this (denyhosts.net syncing isn't open source), but then I looked at it from a sniper analogy (sorry, been playing too many army games lately):
We can't tell where the enemy is, and every once in a while, they let loose with a machine gun blast, so we'd just snipe that one guy (throw up a firewall, maybe report to authorities) and wait again. Now, they're shooting one machine gun round every hour, but they have enough people that it's like one gunner who moves around a lot. So, now our snipers can mow the lot of them down (assuming there are enough sysadmins that can be bothered to report zombies to ISPs). Soon they'll discover that the old method yielded a better ratio of success/casualties.
Problem is, if you block IPs for attempting bad usernames and one of the botnet zombies gets a chance to connect a second or third time, then the botnet will start targeting that username (since it "knows" it's valid). A better approach would be to _randomly_ block IPs that attempt bad usernames, but after enough sampling, the botnet could determine which username attempts never get blocked immediately and would focus on those. Best approach of all would be to give out no information regarding validity of usernames, and just ban on failed attempts regardless of UID, sharing the ban list with other servers to help mitigate the distributed IPs. If a legit user is trying to ssh in, and gets banned, they should have your phone number / email address.
FTFA:
"The definition of personality," she said, "is having repetition in your responses, for example, being consistently bold, or consistently shy, or consistently aggressive."
She went on to say that any individual octopus had random, inconsistent, reactions to the same stimuli on any random day.
Typical scientist: "The definition of personality is robotic, consistent response to stimulus."
A blog dedicated to driving and politics adds that a similar, if darker, practice has taken hold in England, where bad guys cruise the streets looking for a car similar to their own. They then duplicate its plates in a more durable form, and thereafter drive around with little fear of trouble from the police.
Teaching felons how to make licenses seems to have failed. ;)
Can I have his /. UID number? In 20 years, I see myself as a four digit man.
With say, a pre-built laptop or desktop, you could mitigate the chances of widespread hardware failures because if you got it from Dell, HP, Toshiba or what ever brand you prefer, chances are they aren't getting their parts from the same sources.
Bad Capacitors
The automatic update system in Windows is far from perfect, and doesn't allow users the granularity of saying "yes, update my browser but no, leave the rest of my system alone."
I'm more of a Linux man, but I know this is wrong. If you set auto updates to download and notify for installation, you can choose which updates to apply.
King's Quest V(?) was deviously annoying in that respect. You could cast a spell that needed gold, and you could use either the easy to find gold needle (which you need later), or a difficult to find gold coin.
You might have blocked out idle, so you might not know that the bleed has gone both ways. There have been serious science stories that some editor decided "Hmm, that sounds funny" and put into the idle section.
Oh ho! He say "Nice day," but he covered with rain!
He say this when your know is not really nice day.
Yes. He say the opposite. Is funny.
-Vlad, the foreign guy from work who taught Peter about sarcasm.
There, fixed that for you.
-1 for use of uncommon sarcasm punctuation. ( ~ )
Maybe autism is early-onset dementia, and the victims are without years of experience and habit to fall back on to appear normal.
But Apple's mice _don't_ have two buttons. They have one big button with multiple sensors underneath. This results in two or more failed right-clicks in a row quite often. Apple could have made distinct buttons when they added the scrollball, but it'd make their mice less pretty.
Well played, master troll. You knew Linux live CDs pass these tests regularly with old and young alike. MS Windows is the OS that fails these tests (particularly installation; often no NIC drivers). You got myself and others to respond. Hopefully you're a Linux advocate using reverse psychology...
Say NO to Microsoft compatability.
Say no to wide-spread Linux usage!
I don't think parent is meant as Flamebait. It's the eventual result of Microsoft incompatibility (at least it would be in most IT shops). If you remove MS Office compatibility from OpenOffice, and Samba from Linux, unless you're in a university or some other place that does number crunching, the only use for Linux would be as a webserver. With rdesktop, Samba, et al, I'm able to gradually nudge my users into a *nix world by using only Linux on my laptop (which I take to meetings just to show off compiz).
She must be playing pre-4th edition. Gnome Saying?
Cause frankly I have no clue how aiming a sniper rifle will work when you have to sight past your fingers.
If I were to program the inputs for a touch screen FPS, I'd make it so that you bring your thumb and index finger together where the person's head is visible.
"I'm crushing your head!"