For those Americans here who are of voting age, I suggest you start voicing opinions to congress speak to your management if you are in the telco/networking field and make noise. All this "wah wah wah" on a forum is pointless. Sure I can hear you, the trolls can hear you, but I doubt political parties can hear you. Start filling up those blogs of parties who want to "strike a pose" on the technology sector "We're hip... We have a blog"... Oh so you do Senator Whatever... Start/.'ing them for straightforward answers, comments and plans. Anything else is just linenoise
Agreed more developers are needed if you're into the OS/Software based gears of the machine...;) I like networking, networking forensics and anomolies. Its been my belief for a strong time though that a qualified systems/network engineer/admin should have the capabilities of mitigating certain conditions. Of course auditing code should not be one of them, but monitoring Bugtraq and the like should be;)
The Worthlessness of the CISSP certification. It depends what cert you're after. Right now I'm studying for the CCIE Security certification. Does it matter? Yes I do believe this is one of the ones that do. Why? You're not just reading to pass a test. If it were that easy, there would be more than 906 CCIE Security engineers worldwide. GIAC vs. CISSP? I'd take a GIAC over a CISSP any time. I've met CISSP's who understood the concept of an attack, an attacker, but couldn't perform an attack to save their lives. I believe in the security industry, one should know everything from the ground up. So what you understand the core of it all... My opinion. As for MS certs', sure if you want to live in an MS world. Same goes for Sun, etc.,
This reminds me of an issue I recently had with my ISP... Packet loss @ 12% so I call the provider...
Cust svce. Can you reboot, etc., etc., etc. Me... Sure why not... yadda yadda Cust svce. Can you click on the start menu Me No. I don't use Windows Cust svce. Please hold... Cust svce. Are you using OSX? Me No. I use Solaris (Sun Desktop on a Dull unInspiron 6000) Cust svce. Please hold... Cust svce. (supervisor gets on now) Can you please click on the start menu... Me No. I told the other person I use Solaris... Cust svce. Well we don't support Solaris!
Solaris nor OSX nor Windows nor BSD had anything to do with their cruddy connectivity. The actual conversation took a little longer than that with more e-stupidity from their customer service and I had to pretty much deal with it to a degree... My options? 1) Find a provider who would support/understand basic networking, etc. 2) Deal with it...
This is what happened summarily, so I can see why dull would become filled with uber non Windows FUD. Imagine having to explain to Alibaba... Sorry I meant Charlie in India that his MCSE studies are worthless and they now need to retrain him in Linux... Man that would earn developers a whopping.10 (US) more thus offsetting dull's stock prices a whopping.001 per share. Not in Dull's best interest.
RIAA Attorney: Did you know that by downloading music you were doing something illegal? Little Girl: wots eleegul? RIAA Attorney: Don't play dumb missy. I'll ask again. So when you download Bratney Spears did you think you were doing something wrong? Little Girl: I love my Bratney neener neener RIAA Attorney: ANSWER THE QUESTION Little Girl: *sobs* RIAA Attorney: DID YOU KNOW THAT BY SHARING MUSIC YOU HEAR FOR FREE ON THE RADIO YOU WERE DOING SOMETHING WRONG RIAA Attorney: DID YOU KNOW THAT YOU COULD GO TO JAIL FOR A VERY LONG TIME Little Girl: DID YOU KNOW THAT AL CAPONE DIED IN JAIL Girl's Attorney: OBJECTION YOUR HONOR Little Girl: *sobbing RIAA Attorney: FINE YOUR HONOR (looks at little girl) YOU'RE GOING AWAY FOR A LONG TIME MISSY RIAA trolls/employees: This guy is good!
DFI told us that this board is just a reference design and that the board that we'll see come to market will have a unique cooler design that will be very impressive. I can't wait to install one of these babies in my machine then take off the covers and see the ugly insides 24/7. The noise, the wires, the dust accumulating! I think I need a bigger cooler cause I'm getting so hot
One night in Paris or some other movie will outsell them both. Sounds funny or trollish but its likely true. Now if they could only make a LC||BSD||SCILF series... (Linux,BSD,Solaris)
Nielsen's new commercial data include an average viewer total for all of a show's commercials when it airs, as well as averages for those who watch commercials on a DVR up to seven days later. Did it occur to Nielen that it probably takes users a little longer to get use to the new functions on a DVR so they likely haven't even understood the concept "Oh man you mean I don't have to watch commercials!". I'd like to see them re-take these numbers in 3 month intervals and watch those numbers drop like the stock market during the dotcom depression
the site posted the 128-bit key as a method of decrypting a small haiku that they placed on the same page, noting that it just might accidentally (wink, wink) be the same key that will decrypt new high-definition discs as well
I couldn't find that Haiku... Was it:
Broken it is now
Silly little execs
More Free DVD's
a woman who says her cat is clearly visible through the living room window of her second-floor apartment using Street View Funny... I wonder how come no one complains when the DoT, DoJ and other stupidly acronymed agencies throw cameras on every street corner... Out of sight out of mind for some. No one outside of spectators (those who don't actually see through the camera's lens) knows what these cameras see or record yet they assume based on naive premise "the government would never..." Sure the gov would never, that doesn't mean there couldn't possibly be a pedophile or peeping tom working for the government and seeing into one's private life 24/7.
I wish there could be like true blue public forum based discussions on these matters so people can get a true perspective of reality before wanting their 15 minutes of fame. Would I be mad if Google passed me by on the street while I was scratching my crotch... No. Would I be upset if they filmed my cat? No. Home? No. Would I be mad if it was constant (so called antiterrorism foobar cams)... Yes.
There is no agreed definition of "cyber crime". From a strictly legal point of view, it can be questioned whether there is any need for the term at all - it could be argued that "cyber space" is just a new specific instrument used to commit crimes which are not new at all. The term may thus be most interesting from an operational point of view, i.e. the operational instruments and procedures to fight against this type of crime must be developed.
With that said, as an American, I can almost indicate any connection to me as being an illegal one and cost the German taxpayers a bucketload of money with false claims. Let's consider the following scenario.. Ping. Simple administrative tool, can also be used for DoS attacks. Suppose I start a business... eFishSkinSales.com that sells fish skins... I find a German counterpart GermanFishSkin.com... I take their IP addressing and spoof a pingflood to my routers and send German authorities the logfiles. Would they know what a spoof is for one. How about the following... A German websurfer visits my page and does not close his browser. For the next nMinutes where n equals the amount of time he has his browser on my page, he will make repeated GET's thus resulting in a DoS attack of the lamest kind. What then. Are browsers hacking tools?
Let's take it a step further into XSS (cross site scripting)... The browser IS THE TOOL. Should all browsers be banned now. Oh those Germans. I know... What about a German, with a shell on a server in America developing tools. Now those tools don't reside ANYWHERE in Germany then what. I would have laughed that law all the way to the bitbucket. But... You're likely dealing with e-Incompetent lawmakers driving Beamers and Benz' who care little about the advances in LIFE as a whole thanks to computing both good and bad (malicious hacking has forced companies to improve themselves).
Jobs dressing room:
Jobs in the background squeezing the head off a Bill Gates bobblehead doll... "As a kid I broke more windows than an urban problemed child on ritalin in an abandoned factory full of windows and an endless supply of rocks. I hate you"
Gates dressing room:
"Who thought it would be funny to send me Apple pie? I want him DEAD! I want his family DEAD! I want his house burned to the GROUND! I wanna go there in the middle of the night and I wanna PISS ON HIS ASHES! (Untouchables movie quote)
The government's job is to assure that the market actually functions correctly.
Incorrect... It's job is to keep away from business affairs but set laws to keep the playing field level.
"Fuck with a market that you already have too much power over, and we will make sure your powers are greatly reduced".
In that perfect market of yours sounds groovy, you would have to have congresspeople that wouldn't bow to contributor pressure but the fact remains, politics have become the root of all business evil in this country... Politicians right about now will say anything to swing a vote and McCain is no different from any one of the other vampires running for office
You missed the sarcasm... It was intended to explain that, regardless of the fact that Gentoo removed root logins or so for security purposes, the does not remove the possibility of escalated privileges for someone who shouldn't have them..
I wonder *how* one measures anything going that slow considering there isn't something *tangible* to watch and measure... I wish the article could have explained this as I am now lost wondering... Which is faster, a slug, three toed sloth, helium or plasma...
Snippet... you just run your credit card through a reader built into the table (or, when RFID cards have become the norm, just slap your card on the tabletop) and your new phone is paid for. And the casinos are looking into this to? I guess some black/grey hatters will be heading over to http://www.rfidvirus.org/ in pre-anticipation of those Texas Hold-em games...
I've snipped out the worst reasons as per Wiki entry:
A file "fsync" will commit to disk all pending modifications on the filesystem. That is, an "fsync" on a file will flush out all deferred (cached) operations to the filesystem (not the pool) in which the file is located. This can make some fsync() slow when running alongside a workload which writes a lot of data to filesystem cache.
ZFS encourages creation of many filesystems inside the pool (for example, for quota control), but importing a pool with thousands of filesystems is a slow operation (can take minutes).
ZFS filesystem on-the-fly compression/decompression is single-threaded. So, only one CPU per zpool is used.
ZFS eats a lot of CPU when doing small writes (for example, a single byte). There are two root causes, currently being solved: a) Translating from znode to dnode is slower than necessary because ZFS doesn't use translation information it already has, and b) Current partial-block update code is very inefficient.
ZFS Copy-on-Write operation can degrade on-disk file layout (file fragmentation) when files are modified, decreasing performance.
ZFS blocksize is configurable per filesystem, currently 128KB by default. If your workload reads/writes data in fixed sizes (blocks), for example a database, you should (manually) configure ZFS blocksize equal to the application blocksize, for better performance and to conserve cache memory and disk bandwidth.
ZFS only offlines a faulty harddisk if it can't be opened. Read/write errors or slow/timeouted operations are not currently used in the faulty/spare logic.
When listing ZFS space usage, the "used" column only shows non-shared usage. So if some of your data is shared (for example, between snapshots), you don't know how much is there. You don't know, for example, which snapshot deletion would give you more free space.
Current ZFS compression/decompression code is very fast, but the compression ratio is not comparable to gzip or similar algorithms.
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For those Americans here who are of voting age, I suggest you start voicing opinions to congress speak to your management if you are in the telco/networking field and make noise. All this "wah wah wah" on a forum is pointless. Sure I can hear you, the trolls can hear you, but I doubt political parties can hear you. Start filling up those blogs of parties who want to "strike a pose" on the technology sector "We're hip... We have a blog" ... Oh so you do Senator Whatever... Start /.'ing them for straightforward answers, comments and plans. Anything else is just linenoise
Monsanto is the world's largest seed company (after its January 2005 acquisition of Seminis for US$1.4 billion).
The company's 2004 pro forma seed revenues (including Seminis) were US$2.8 billion.
Monsanto's GM crops and traits accounted for almost 90% of the total GM crop area worldwide in 2004
Monsanto controls 41% of the global maize market and over one-fourth of the commercial soybean market (both conventional and GM seed).
Monsanto and Terminator
This is old news... Like 2000 old news...
Agreed more developers are needed if you're into the OS/Software based gears of the machine... ;) I like networking, networking forensics and anomolies. Its been my belief for a strong time though that a qualified systems/network engineer/admin should have the capabilities of mitigating certain conditions. Of course auditing code should not be one of them, but monitoring Bugtraq and the like should be ;)
The Worthlessness of the CISSP certification. It depends what cert you're after. Right now I'm studying for the CCIE Security certification. Does it matter? Yes I do believe this is one of the ones that do. Why? You're not just reading to pass a test. If it were that easy, there would be more than 906 CCIE Security engineers worldwide. GIAC vs. CISSP? I'd take a GIAC over a CISSP any time. I've met CISSP's who understood the concept of an attack, an attacker, but couldn't perform an attack to save their lives. I believe in the security industry, one should know everything from the ground up. So what you understand the core of it all... My opinion. As for MS certs', sure if you want to live in an MS world. Same goes for Sun, etc.,
This reminds me of an issue I recently had with my ISP... Packet loss @ 12% so I call the provider...
... Sorry I meant Charlie in India that his MCSE studies are worthless and they now need to retrain him in Linux... Man that would earn developers a whopping .10 (US) more thus offsetting dull's stock prices a whopping .001 per share. Not in Dull's best interest.
Cust svce. Can you reboot, etc., etc., etc.
Me... Sure why not... yadda yadda
Cust svce. Can you click on the start menu
Me No. I don't use Windows
Cust svce. Please hold...
Cust svce. Are you using OSX?
Me No. I use Solaris (Sun Desktop on a Dull unInspiron 6000)
Cust svce. Please hold...
Cust svce. (supervisor gets on now) Can you please click on the start menu...
Me No. I told the other person I use Solaris...
Cust svce. Well we don't support Solaris!
Solaris nor OSX nor Windows nor BSD had anything to do with their cruddy connectivity. The actual conversation took a little longer than that with more e-stupidity from their customer service and I had to pretty much deal with it to a degree... My options? 1) Find a provider who would support/understand basic networking, etc. 2) Deal with it...
This is what happened summarily, so I can see why dull would become filled with uber non Windows FUD. Imagine having to explain to Alibaba
RIAA Attorney: Did you know that by downloading music you were doing something illegal?
Little Girl: wots eleegul?
RIAA Attorney: Don't play dumb missy. I'll ask again. So when you download Bratney Spears did you think you were doing something wrong?
Little Girl: I love my Bratney neener neener
RIAA Attorney: ANSWER THE QUESTION
Little Girl: *sobs*
RIAA Attorney: DID YOU KNOW THAT BY SHARING MUSIC YOU HEAR FOR FREE ON THE RADIO YOU WERE DOING SOMETHING WRONG
RIAA Attorney: DID YOU KNOW THAT YOU COULD GO TO JAIL FOR A VERY LONG TIME
Little Girl: DID YOU KNOW THAT AL CAPONE DIED IN JAIL
Girl's Attorney: OBJECTION YOUR HONOR
Little Girl: *sobbing
RIAA Attorney: FINE YOUR HONOR (looks at little girl) YOU'RE GOING AWAY FOR A LONG TIME MISSY
RIAA trolls/employees: This guy is good!
DFI told us that this board is just a reference design and that the board that we'll see come to market will have a unique cooler design that will be very impressive. I can't wait to install one of these babies in my machine then take off the covers and see the ugly insides 24/7. The noise, the wires, the dust accumulating! I think I need a bigger cooler cause I'm getting so hot
One night in Paris or some other movie will outsell them both. Sounds funny or trollish but its likely true. Now if they could only make a LC||BSD||SCILF series ... (Linux,BSD,Solaris)
Shame on you. I'm reporting you to the RIAA/MPAA for not watching commercials you illegal recorder you
Nielsen's new commercial data include an average viewer total for all of a show's commercials when it airs, as well as averages for those who watch commercials on a DVR up to seven days later. Did it occur to Nielen that it probably takes users a little longer to get use to the new functions on a DVR so they likely haven't even understood the concept "Oh man you mean I don't have to watch commercials!". I'd like to see them re-take these numbers in 3 month intervals and watch those numbers drop like the stock market during the dotcom depression
was sarcasm ... *rolls eyes* [NOTE: this slashdot-thread eye rolling is patented under the GPLv3]
the site posted the 128-bit key as a method of decrypting a small haiku that they placed on the same page, noting that it just might accidentally (wink, wink) be the same key that will decrypt new high-definition discs as well
I couldn't find that Haiku... Was it:
Broken it is now
Silly little execs
More Free DVD's
a woman who says her cat is clearly visible through the living room window of her second-floor apartment using Street View Funny... I wonder how come no one complains when the DoT, DoJ and other stupidly acronymed agencies throw cameras on every street corner... Out of sight out of mind for some. No one outside of spectators (those who don't actually see through the camera's lens) knows what these cameras see or record yet they assume based on naive premise "the government would never..." Sure the gov would never, that doesn't mean there couldn't possibly be a pedophile or peeping tom working for the government and seeing into one's private life 24/7.
I wish there could be like true blue public forum based discussions on these matters so people can get a true perspective of reality before wanting their 15 minutes of fame. Would I be mad if Google passed me by on the street while I was scratching my crotch... No. Would I be upset if they filmed my cat? No. Home? No. Would I be mad if it was constant (so called antiterrorism foobar cams)... Yes.
www.infiltrated.net/scripts/venomous ... Easily portable to BSD
That's humorous (in a scary way) considering the following:
... eFishSkinSales.com that sells fish skins... I find a German counterpart GermanFishSkin.com... I take their IP addressing and spoof a pingflood to my routers and send German authorities the logfiles. Would they know what a spoof is for one. How about the following... A German websurfer visits my page and does not close his browser. For the next nMinutes where n equals the amount of time he has his browser on my page, he will make repeated GET's thus resulting in a DoS attack of the lamest kind. What then. Are browsers hacking tools?
The commission communication "towards a general policy on the fight against cyber crime"
There is no agreed definition of "cyber crime". From a strictly legal point of view, it can be questioned whether there is any need for the term at all - it could be argued that "cyber space" is just a new specific instrument used to commit crimes which are not new at all. The term may thus be most interesting from an operational point of view, i.e. the operational instruments and procedures to fight against this type of crime must be developed.
With that said, as an American, I can almost indicate any connection to me as being an illegal one and cost the German taxpayers a bucketload of money with false claims. Let's consider the following scenario.. Ping. Simple administrative tool, can also be used for DoS attacks. Suppose I start a business
Let's take it a step further into XSS (cross site scripting)... The browser IS THE TOOL. Should all browsers be banned now. Oh those Germans. I know... What about a German, with a shell on a server in America developing tools. Now those tools don't reside ANYWHERE in Germany then what. I would have laughed that law all the way to the bitbucket. But... You're likely dealing with e-Incompetent lawmakers driving Beamers and Benz' who care little about the advances in LIFE as a whole thanks to computing both good and bad (malicious hacking has forced companies to improve themselves).
Set up a small little Asterisk server in your place and transfer them into hell http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+Telema rketer+Torture
As captured by planted Microphones...
Jobs dressing room:
Jobs in the background squeezing the head off a Bill Gates bobblehead doll... "As a kid I broke more windows than an urban problemed child on ritalin in an abandoned factory full of windows and an endless supply of rocks. I hate you"
Gates dressing room:
"Who thought it would be funny to send me Apple pie? I want him DEAD! I want his family DEAD! I want his house burned to the GROUND! I wanna go there in the middle of the night and I wanna PISS ON HIS ASHES! (Untouchables movie quote)
The government's job is to assure that the market actually functions correctly.
Incorrect... It's job is to keep away from business affairs but set laws to keep the playing field level.
"Fuck with a market that you already have too much power over, and we will make sure your powers are greatly reduced".
In that perfect market of yours sounds groovy, you would have to have congresspeople that wouldn't bow to contributor pressure but the fact remains, politics have become the root of all business evil in this country... Politicians right about now will say anything to swing a vote and McCain is no different from any one of the other vampires running for office
You missed the sarcasm... It was intended to explain that, regardless of the fact that Gentoo removed root logins or so for security purposes, the does not remove the possibility of escalated privileges for someone who shouldn't have them..
I wonder *how* one measures anything going that slow considering there isn't something *tangible* to watch and measure... I wish the article could have explained this as I am now lost wondering... Which is faster, a slug, three toed sloth, helium or plasma...
Oh... I get it so one could never - or should I say no one would ever attempt to escalate privileges. I like their security methods already...
Snippet... you just run your credit card through a reader built into the table (or, when RFID cards have become the norm, just slap your card on the tabletop) and your new phone is paid for. And the casinos are looking into this to? I guess some black/grey hatters will be heading over to http://www.rfidvirus.org/ in pre-anticipation of those Texas Hold-em games...
http://milek.blogspot.com/2007/04/hw-raid-vs-zfs-s oftware-raid-part-iii.html