I have had the data related to this matter in my systems for the last two years.
I have no idea who is going to come out on top, or whether either side has any merit to their litigation.
I just keep the systems running. What the business does with them is their business. And apparently of interest to the readers of Arstechnica and Slashdot.
Based on the summary, the CEO seems to be saying that because corporations pay for advertising as a way to drive crappy 'news' to the forefront of the Internet, his site (which it is implied) has non-crappy 'content' that 'advertisers' (read corporations) will not pay for.
Is that a long winded way of telling his ex-employees that his business model/really/ is sound, but the man is keeping them down?
Please, go watch "The Untold History of the United States" by Oliver Stone before you spread any more ignorance about what drives Russian foreign policy, and who the aggressors in the world are.
Do you realize that the reason there is a radical Islamic government in charge of Iran is because the United States overthrew the moderate, populist government in the late 1970s and replaced it with a puppet dictator who was hated by his people? The response of those people was to welcome any group, no matter how extreme, who promised to reflect the will of the people against the Shah?
Of course you realize that after the US puppet was kicked out of Iran, the US then went ahead and armed Iraq with chemical weapons to use on the Iranians. The very same chemical weapons that were long gone by the time Bush got around to 'dealing with Saddam'.
Do you realize that al Qaeda was created by the CIA to destabilize Afghanstian and protect the petroleum empire that the British created, and the Americans inherited after WW2?
Are you at all familiar with the concept of "blow back" as it applies to covert operations?
Contrary to whatever propaganda you might have digested, the US's "general posture in the world" has been to threaten anyone who opposes us with nuclear weapons. The posture has been to loot 'third world' nations for the benefit of the multi-national corporations that own our government hook, line and sinker.
If you have one ounce of mortality left in your body, you would be ashamed if you opened your eyes and accepted the realities of how American foreign policy has been conducted since the end of WW2.
I setup a Honeywell ICS for a small power plant about a decade ago. Even back then, we had a completely separate and air gaped network for the plant systems. There was no reason for the regular plant employees to connect computers to the control network. The only devices on the network were the servers and the sensors / controllers. The operators sat in a control room at the console and ran the plant from there.
I am not a public figure or organization putting up a facade of running a fair and impartial electoral process.
Nice attempt at trying to obfuscate the discussion and completely dodge the point that I made. As you failed to do that, the point still stands.
Bringing transparency to a democratic process is not a threat.
The only people threatened by transparency are those who are up to no good. As I have said here multiple times before in the last few months, the government has done an excellent job of attacking the messenger (Russia) and ignoring the message (that the Democratic party is hopelessly corrupt).
It amazes me that anyone can view the political institutions here as the victims instead of the American people. Let's just ignore the fact that the Democratic party decided who they wanted to nominate before the primaries even started. Let's ignore the fact that they committed at least a couple of felonies when they broke campaign finance rules to throw as much support behind Clinton as they could.
Boo hoo hoo. The poor DNC had their dirty laundry aired all over the place and it might have cost them the election.
And I say this as someone who would have rather had Clinton than Trump any day. But I voted for neither, because they are both inept, corrupt and not the kind of person I want representing me or my interests.
As long as I'm ranting, it is not like the American people were denied visibility into what a cluster fuck Trump's entire career has been. I remember reading an article on the front page of the New York Times that laid out in excruciating detail all of his failures and shady dealings. Even his own party did not want the guy to represent them. That was not a conversation that was had behind closed doors. It was out there for everyone to see.
The sad fact is that the average voter is so fed up and disillusioned with the political process that given the choice between a corrupt, life time politician and a failed, bat shit crazy businessman, they picked bat shit crazy simply because he was different enough.
We were attacked, yet some choose to trivialize it as a political issue, instead of realizing that our election process, the basis of democracy in our our Republic, was attacked.
Let me get this straight. Bringing transparency to what is going on behinds the scenes is an attack on our Republic.
If you haven't watched it yet, "The Untold History of America" by Oliver Stone will open your eyes about what really underlies the position of the United States with relation to Russia.
There is a good reason that Obama only wagged his finger at Russia over the Ukraine.
The stage that is being set is very frightening. Any information that does not conform to what the powers that be want the people to hear is being labeled interference. The final touches on wide scale internet censorship are being put into place.
The capability of the internet to provide an alternative source of information and discourse is being eviscerated. It is happening faster than I thought it would. For the longest time, the government had more or less complete control of the media and the public discourse. The internet threatened that, but the DNC leaks finally made the government show their hand.
It just will not do to have anybody, internal whistleblowers or foreign governments pointing out the hypocrisy of the United States government. If the people actually realized that they were being manipulated by the government and that the entire electoral process and American Dream are just a sham, they might....
Oh fuck it, who am I kidding? Nobody gives a shit as long as the television / internet works and there is some food in the fridge.
I work in the legal technology field and this is a huge challenge for the industry. There have been warnings going around for the last year about hackers targeting law firms, and those warnings are likely a response to this.
Law firms are easy targets. Lawyers are full of hubris and not very computer savvy. Law firms are always trying to pinch pennies and IT budgets are often first on the chopping block. Because the firms do not truly understand computers or security, it is difficult to get them to spend the money necessary to secure their networks.
Your analogy does not work because the PCs still had a keyboard plug. PC makers did not decide that users no longer need to connect keyboards to their computers.
Apple on the other hand decided that people with headphones do not need to connect them to their phones / music players. But, apparently enough people really do need to make the connection, so Apple went ahead and developed an adapter. But they are not providing the adapter for free. It is an added expense that was previously not there.
Did Apple charge buyers of the previous generations of iPhones extra for being able to connect their headphones? Of course not. But now Apple has found a way to charge extra for functionality that used to be included.
To shift back to your flawed analogy, when PCs went from AT to PS2 plugs, the peripheral vendors included adapters for free. They also did it when they went from PS2 to USB. Apple on the other hand, the special snowflake of a company that they are with billions of profits stashed overseas, decided to squeeze a bit more revenue out of their customers. But of course they did it in their elitist, Apple-esque way so that the legions of Apple fans feel superior for paying extra to leave such an old, and outdated interface like the headphone jack behind.
Because why keep a jack built into the phone, when you can remove it and charge extra for an adapter!
See, this is what happens when there are too many MBAs in the world.
For 2017, I predict that Apple is going to remove the dial pad screen and sell an external, lightning adapter compatible dial pad. It will be modern retro for all the hip technologists out there. Those who really want to stand out from their peers will have the rotary phone accessory.
What I got out of the whole Snowden situation was confirmation of the fact that everyone who is really competent ends up contracting. Snowden worked for Dell, Booz Allen and a couple other companies.
I am sure that the best and the brightest are figuring that out.
The fact that "cyber security" is the buzzword of 2017 is also feeding into it. Every major and minor consulting firm in the US is trying to start up a cyber security practice. There are more positions to fill than people to fill them.
If the NSA really needs the talent, they will pay for it. It's called "staff augmentation". And Dell, Booz, and the rest of the MIC contractors will be happy to fill those positions with contractors.
And all of the above comes from people lacking discipline and integrity. If they had their own agendas, they would fact check the alternatives being offered to them.
The issue is, that for them, what is being offered to them are not alternatives. They are REAL. Teh intarwebz are reals. CNN is Double Plus REALS!!! What they see on the screen, and listen to on the radio in the car, and watch on television are the only reality that they know.
Nobody wants to admit that their buttons are being pushed. Nope. Not in America. The land of free will and freedom of choice.
I would not be so skeptical. I used to read a lot of Zero Hedge. I still read RT.com from time to time. If you accept that ALL news has a bias, it becomes apparent. In the case of ZeroHedge, their bias is that economy is about to crash, again. And the price of gold is about to skyrocket, any day now. And the American political system sucks, which they are actually correct on.
Propaganda is entwined with the reality of nation states. The United States puts out propaganda about Russia. They do the same in return.
With the internet, the propaganda is more obvious and easier to spread.
The older I get, the more I realize that everyone has an agenda. Zero Hedge has an agenda. The Washington Post has an agenda. The Communist Party of China has an agenda.
The thing is, life is short. At this point, I do not have time to focus on other people's agendas unless they intersect with and further my own.
This whole "Russian Hackers Fucking with Democracy" is the greatest propaganda coup of all time. It still blows my mind that the media managed to completely obfuscate all of the evil shit that the Democratic party and Hillary Clinton were up to by bringing the Russian bogey man out of the closet. (Not that it matters, but I didn't vote for Clinton or Trump).
In my brief 40 years as an American, I was born into a world where we were supposed to be scared of Russians. To being told that the Russians weren't a threat. To being told that the Islamists that the CIA funded to fight the Russians were the threat. To now being told that the Russians and the disciples of those we trained to fight the Russians are a threat.
To be honest, I think the biggest threat to America at this point is America. Between the ignorance of the electorate and the iron grip that the military industrial complex has on the economy and the government, we are like the big, retarded bully who doesn't even know why he's angry, but sure as hell is going to beat the shit out of anyone who calls him retarded.
While this is a serious flaw and it is good to know that it has been fixed, it is easily avoidable. I can't speak for other Azure customers, but my organization does not use the default Microsoft OS images. We provide our own. If there is an issue in our base builds, it is because our internal security team screwed up.
Azure is an okay platform, but it is also a very new platform. The old adage of "Trust but verify." definitely applies.
I mostly trust that Microsoft can put together a clean Windows Server build, but we still bring our own. I would not trust Microsoft to secure a Linux build.
You are not the only person who has said that swing states matter and that one person, one vote exacerbates the problem.
I do not understand the logic there.
My understanding of swing states is that they are those states where the number of voters on either side is close to equal, and therefore it is possible to influence enough members of one party to 'swing' the state to the other side.
If that understanding is correct, the only reason that matters is because those states have electors that are 'up for grabs'. If you do away with electors, swing states go away. Every American is equal, no matter where they live. They all have access to television, radio and the internet.
If anything, it seems like doing away with electors and swing states would expose a lot of the double speak that candidates do. By that, I mean that they currently tailor their message to the audiences in various states.
What am I missing? How does getting rid of the EC make the swing state issue even more of an issue?
New York and California do get to dictate who is President of the entire country.
"The number of electors in each state is equal to the number of members of Congress to which the state is entitled.." (from Wikipedia)
The strategy of focusing on the most populous states still holds true under the Electoral College.
Doing away with the Electoral College puts every American on equal footing. Americans in California would not receive more attention from the candidates than Americans in Montana.
One person, one vote. Let the majority elect the President. The House of Representatives is there to represent the States. The Senate is there to provide a 'fair' body that is not influenced by population. The Supreme Court is there to resolve any issues that the other branches cannot sort out on their own.
The Electoral College is a relic from a time before the telephone, the radio and other modern means of conveying the will of the people to the central seat of government.
While on the surface this seems like a good idea, there is no getting through to ideologues. People flock to those questionable web sites because they provide a narrative that those people want to hear. It re-enforces their world view.
A browser fact checker would be derided as a tool 'of the man' or whatever other such nonsense. A censorship tool meant to marginalize and diminish those who dare to speak truth to power.
Having said that, a fact checker would go a long way towards helping those who are still on the fence about any particular issue. By building it into the browser, those who might not make the extra effort to check Snopes or Wikipedia will at least have some sort of sanity checking introduced into their lives.
They would need to bring another tool to bear on that. Something like Content Analytics or anything else that provides concept clustering. Maybe something along the lines of BrainSpace.
That would make sense. I have not seriously administered an Exchange server since 2003 and only had passing familiarity with the application's 2007 version.
The processing tools do not rely on the server to tell them which emails are duplicates. They do what Snowden suggested. Hash the emails and then compare the hash values.
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I have had the data related to this matter in my systems for the last two years.
I have no idea who is going to come out on top, or whether either side has any merit to their litigation.
I just keep the systems running. What the business does with them is their business. And apparently of interest to the readers of Arstechnica and Slashdot.
Based on the summary, the CEO seems to be saying that because corporations pay for advertising as a way to drive crappy 'news' to the forefront of the Internet, his site (which it is implied) has non-crappy 'content' that 'advertisers' (read corporations) will not pay for.
Is that a long winded way of telling his ex-employees that his business model /really/ is sound, but the man is keeping them down?
Please, go watch "The Untold History of the United States" by Oliver Stone before you spread any more ignorance about what drives Russian foreign policy, and who the aggressors in the world are.
Do you realize that the reason there is a radical Islamic government in charge of Iran is because the United States overthrew the moderate, populist government in the late 1970s and replaced it with a puppet dictator who was hated by his people? The response of those people was to welcome any group, no matter how extreme, who promised to reflect the will of the people against the Shah?
Of course you realize that after the US puppet was kicked out of Iran, the US then went ahead and armed Iraq with chemical weapons to use on the Iranians. The very same chemical weapons that were long gone by the time Bush got around to 'dealing with Saddam'.
Do you realize that al Qaeda was created by the CIA to destabilize Afghanstian and protect the petroleum empire that the British created, and the Americans inherited after WW2?
Are you at all familiar with the concept of "blow back" as it applies to covert operations?
Contrary to whatever propaganda you might have digested, the US's "general posture in the world" has been to threaten anyone who opposes us with nuclear weapons. The posture has been to loot 'third world' nations for the benefit of the multi-national corporations that own our government hook, line and sinker.
If you have one ounce of mortality left in your body, you would be ashamed if you opened your eyes and accepted the realities of how American foreign policy has been conducted since the end of WW2.
I setup a Honeywell ICS for a small power plant about a decade ago. Even back then, we had a completely separate and air gaped network for the plant systems. There was no reason for the regular plant employees to connect computers to the control network. The only devices on the network were the servers and the sensors / controllers. The operators sat in a control room at the console and ran the plant from there.
I am not a public figure or organization putting up a facade of running a fair and impartial electoral process.
Nice attempt at trying to obfuscate the discussion and completely dodge the point that I made. As you failed to do that, the point still stands.
Bringing transparency to a democratic process is not a threat.
The only people threatened by transparency are those who are up to no good. As I have said here multiple times before in the last few months, the government has done an excellent job of attacking the messenger (Russia) and ignoring the message (that the Democratic party is hopelessly corrupt).
It amazes me that anyone can view the political institutions here as the victims instead of the American people. Let's just ignore the fact that the Democratic party decided who they wanted to nominate before the primaries even started. Let's ignore the fact that they committed at least a couple of felonies when they broke campaign finance rules to throw as much support behind Clinton as they could.
Boo hoo hoo. The poor DNC had their dirty laundry aired all over the place and it might have cost them the election.
And I say this as someone who would have rather had Clinton than Trump any day. But I voted for neither, because they are both inept, corrupt and not the kind of person I want representing me or my interests.
As long as I'm ranting, it is not like the American people were denied visibility into what a cluster fuck Trump's entire career has been. I remember reading an article on the front page of the New York Times that laid out in excruciating detail all of his failures and shady dealings. Even his own party did not want the guy to represent them. That was not a conversation that was had behind closed doors. It was out there for everyone to see.
The sad fact is that the average voter is so fed up and disillusioned with the political process that given the choice between a corrupt, life time politician and a failed, bat shit crazy businessman, they picked bat shit crazy simply because he was different enough.
We were attacked, yet some choose to trivialize it as a political issue, instead of realizing that our election process, the basis of democracy in our our Republic, was attacked.
Let me get this straight. Bringing transparency to what is going on behinds the scenes is an attack on our Republic.
Okay....
If you haven't watched it yet, "The Untold History of America" by Oliver Stone will open your eyes about what really underlies the position of the United States with relation to Russia.
There is a good reason that Obama only wagged his finger at Russia over the Ukraine.
The stage that is being set is very frightening. Any information that does not conform to what the powers that be want the people to hear is being labeled interference. The final touches on wide scale internet censorship are being put into place.
The capability of the internet to provide an alternative source of information and discourse is being eviscerated. It is happening faster than I thought it would. For the longest time, the government had more or less complete control of the media and the public discourse. The internet threatened that, but the DNC leaks finally made the government show their hand.
It just will not do to have anybody, internal whistleblowers or foreign governments pointing out the hypocrisy of the United States government. If the people actually realized that they were being manipulated by the government and that the entire electoral process and American Dream are just a sham, they might....
Oh fuck it, who am I kidding? Nobody gives a shit as long as the television / internet works and there is some food in the fridge.
You beat me to it. I was about to say that given the number of senior citizens on the road down there, the cars are practically driverless already.
I work in the legal technology field and this is a huge challenge for the industry. There have been warnings going around for the last year about hackers targeting law firms, and those warnings are likely a response to this.
Law firms are easy targets. Lawyers are full of hubris and not very computer savvy. Law firms are always trying to pinch pennies and IT budgets are often first on the chopping block. Because the firms do not truly understand computers or security, it is difficult to get them to spend the money necessary to secure their networks.
My suspicion is that they are piling the charges on in hopes of getting a conviction on at least some of them.
Your analogy does not work because the PCs still had a keyboard plug. PC makers did not decide that users no longer need to connect keyboards to their computers.
Apple on the other hand decided that people with headphones do not need to connect them to their phones / music players. But, apparently enough people really do need to make the connection, so Apple went ahead and developed an adapter. But they are not providing the adapter for free. It is an added expense that was previously not there.
Did Apple charge buyers of the previous generations of iPhones extra for being able to connect their headphones? Of course not. But now Apple has found a way to charge extra for functionality that used to be included.
To shift back to your flawed analogy, when PCs went from AT to PS2 plugs, the peripheral vendors included adapters for free. They also did it when they went from PS2 to USB. Apple on the other hand, the special snowflake of a company that they are with billions of profits stashed overseas, decided to squeeze a bit more revenue out of their customers. But of course they did it in their elitist, Apple-esque way so that the legions of Apple fans feel superior for paying extra to leave such an old, and outdated interface like the headphone jack behind.
Because why keep a jack built into the phone, when you can remove it and charge extra for an adapter!
See, this is what happens when there are too many MBAs in the world.
For 2017, I predict that Apple is going to remove the dial pad screen and sell an external, lightning adapter compatible dial pad. It will be modern retro for all the hip technologists out there. Those who really want to stand out from their peers will have the rotary phone accessory.
What I got out of the whole Snowden situation was confirmation of the fact that everyone who is really competent ends up contracting. Snowden worked for Dell, Booz Allen and a couple other companies.
I am sure that the best and the brightest are figuring that out.
The fact that "cyber security" is the buzzword of 2017 is also feeding into it. Every major and minor consulting firm in the US is trying to start up a cyber security practice. There are more positions to fill than people to fill them.
If the NSA really needs the talent, they will pay for it. It's called "staff augmentation". And Dell, Booz, and the rest of the MIC contractors will be happy to fill those positions with contractors.
And all of the above comes from people lacking discipline and integrity. If they had their own agendas, they would fact check the alternatives being offered to them.
The issue is, that for them, what is being offered to them are not alternatives. They are REAL. Teh intarwebz are reals. CNN is Double Plus REALS!!! What they see on the screen, and listen to on the radio in the car, and watch on television are the only reality that they know.
Nobody wants to admit that their buttons are being pushed. Nope. Not in America. The land of free will and freedom of choice.
I would not be so skeptical. I used to read a lot of Zero Hedge. I still read RT.com from time to time. If you accept that ALL news has a bias, it becomes apparent. In the case of ZeroHedge, their bias is that economy is about to crash, again. And the price of gold is about to skyrocket, any day now. And the American political system sucks, which they are actually correct on.
Propaganda is entwined with the reality of nation states. The United States puts out propaganda about Russia. They do the same in return.
With the internet, the propaganda is more obvious and easier to spread.
The older I get, the more I realize that everyone has an agenda. Zero Hedge has an agenda. The Washington Post has an agenda. The Communist Party of China has an agenda.
The thing is, life is short. At this point, I do not have time to focus on other people's agendas unless they intersect with and further my own.
This whole "Russian Hackers Fucking with Democracy" is the greatest propaganda coup of all time. It still blows my mind that the media managed to completely obfuscate all of the evil shit that the Democratic party and Hillary Clinton were up to by bringing the Russian bogey man out of the closet. (Not that it matters, but I didn't vote for Clinton or Trump).
In my brief 40 years as an American, I was born into a world where we were supposed to be scared of Russians. To being told that the Russians weren't a threat. To being told that the Islamists that the CIA funded to fight the Russians were the threat. To now being told that the Russians and the disciples of those we trained to fight the Russians are a threat.
To be honest, I think the biggest threat to America at this point is America. Between the ignorance of the electorate and the iron grip that the military industrial complex has on the economy and the government, we are like the big, retarded bully who doesn't even know why he's angry, but sure as hell is going to beat the shit out of anyone who calls him retarded.
Propaganda Russianizes You
I mean, it's MS...you *expect* that crap! Or, at least one should.
Exactly. I say this all the time, "If Microsoft always got things right, I would be out of a job."
While this is a serious flaw and it is good to know that it has been fixed, it is easily avoidable. I can't speak for other Azure customers, but my organization does not use the default Microsoft OS images. We provide our own. If there is an issue in our base builds, it is because our internal security team screwed up.
Azure is an okay platform, but it is also a very new platform. The old adage of "Trust but verify." definitely applies.
I mostly trust that Microsoft can put together a clean Windows Server build, but we still bring our own. I would not trust Microsoft to secure a Linux build.
The MBP with FCP still does not hold a candle to Avid's Media Composer and associated hardware solutions.
You are not the only person who has said that swing states matter and that one person, one vote exacerbates the problem.
I do not understand the logic there.
My understanding of swing states is that they are those states where the number of voters on either side is close to equal, and therefore it is possible to influence enough members of one party to 'swing' the state to the other side.
If that understanding is correct, the only reason that matters is because those states have electors that are 'up for grabs'. If you do away with electors, swing states go away. Every American is equal, no matter where they live. They all have access to television, radio and the internet.
If anything, it seems like doing away with electors and swing states would expose a lot of the double speak that candidates do. By that, I mean that they currently tailor their message to the audiences in various states.
What am I missing? How does getting rid of the EC make the swing state issue even more of an issue?
How did this get modded Insightful?
New York and California do get to dictate who is President of the entire country.
"The number of electors in each state is equal to the number of members of Congress to which the state is entitled.." (from Wikipedia)
The strategy of focusing on the most populous states still holds true under the Electoral College.
Doing away with the Electoral College puts every American on equal footing. Americans in California would not receive more attention from the candidates than Americans in Montana.
One person, one vote. Let the majority elect the President. The House of Representatives is there to represent the States. The Senate is there to provide a 'fair' body that is not influenced by population. The Supreme Court is there to resolve any issues that the other branches cannot sort out on their own.
The Electoral College is a relic from a time before the telephone, the radio and other modern means of conveying the will of the people to the central seat of government.
While on the surface this seems like a good idea, there is no getting through to ideologues. People flock to those questionable web sites because they provide a narrative that those people want to hear. It re-enforces their world view.
A browser fact checker would be derided as a tool 'of the man' or whatever other such nonsense. A censorship tool meant to marginalize and diminish those who dare to speak truth to power.
Having said that, a fact checker would go a long way towards helping those who are still on the fence about any particular issue. By building it into the browser, those who might not make the extra effort to check Snopes or Wikipedia will at least have some sort of sanity checking introduced into their lives.
They would need to bring another tool to bear on that. Something like Content Analytics or anything else that provides concept clustering. Maybe something along the lines of BrainSpace.
That would make sense. I have not seriously administered an Exchange server since 2003 and only had passing familiarity with the application's 2007 version.
The processing tools do not rely on the server to tell them which emails are duplicates. They do what Snowden suggested. Hash the emails and then compare the hash values.