Whatever they want, give it to them, because if your personal information is among their ransom then its all over. It doesnt matter what your toppings were, or when you ordered, or even why. Europe, and all the world, will know you to have intentionally and willfully placed an order for the worst american export since George Bush. Rumours will spread about your love for country music and before you know it, your allegance to nascar, cold budweiser, and jean shorts will be all but fact in the minds of your brethren.
i appreciate the effort that went into streamlining the user interface. Microsoft understands its customers have always wanted a reliable and efficient means to quickly download Firefox or Chrome, and IE12 delivers. Although the recycle bin isnt supported anymore, the icon now has advanced right-click features to permanently remove it from view faster than ever before. For Power users will enjoy the advanced 'uninstall' mode for IE12 found in the control panel as well.
Having worked in food service as a manager and a cook, Opentable has a rather guest/customer oriented understanding of how restaraunts and reservations actually work. As a restaraunt you can really only count on a reservation during 2 major holidays: valentines day and new years eve. Even then, about 20% will completely skip out on their reservation for any number of uncontrollable factors (i once had a rain storm that wiped out 3 hours of reserved dining.) Its irritating but sometimes you make out OK by backfilling walkins, but the trick is to not be given the scarlet letter of 'reservations only.'
most restaraunts avoid becoming too reliant on reservations, as there is an unspoken 1:8 rule that says for every person you turn away they remind 8 of their friends (including yelp) that you "only take reservations." Also once a restaraunt hits that fabled 1 year mark, reservations and foot traffic diminish reather precipitously. Pretty soon that 'opentbl' button on the PoS becomes the most unused thing on there. Its also worth mentioning that if you dont have opentable+pos then the manager or server at the lead PoS station is charged with ensuring that reservation is hand-marked, so theyll need email and need to be told to check it every 15 minutes (PoS slaves do not have applications.) Any server that gets busy during peak 'reservation time' and forgets to check now has to deal with customers screaming 'something something fucking opentable!' I have to hand it to restaraunts that flat-out refuse to handle reservations as well because apps like opentable have taken dining spots once frequented by locals and restricted them to foursquare clutching townies and business travelers for the majority of the week.
While impractical at scale, this is a very clever way to defeat things like DoD secured air-gap networks, and 20bps is easily capable of say, keylogging:)
Quartavious Davis, the plaintiff arguing for tracking privacy, was convicted of a first offense for a string of robberies and sentenced to 162 years in prison based largely on testimony from acquaintences. Davis is facing nothing short of biblical retribution for ever having dared to transgress against the law in the peoples republic of florida based 'mandatory minimums' and the court is basically saying "yes, police cannot use your cellphone to track you but we still have enough evidence anyway so fuck off and die in prison kthx"
other things that are known to happen in american democracy with seemingly little if any recourse:
Oil company dupes community groups into fighting EPA regulations
Major food company dupes citizens into fighting a tax on soda
Cigarette company dupes consumers into thinking smoking is a right, not a crippling addiction
President dupes country into fighting country with no WMD's
I mean im sure its a huge problem that people like fans and ticketholders are going to be targeted, but customers have always enjoyed being the target of crime. The real issue is that we decided to bring one of the most expensive, prestigious sports competitions with an array of elaborate infrastructure requirements and expsnsive hosting obligations to a country with a 25% poverty rate and epidemic levels of child starvation and violent crime. Sure it makes Brazillian politicians and the cloistered elite feel special but when you factor the average brazillian into the equation it was a pretty god damn wreckless decision to take two billion out of their economy and piss it away on a single sports event.
Again, the speed limit is critical as that is the maximum speed you are supposed to be traveling on american highways, no faster, and as such im considered at cruising speed. on a 3 lane highway, the left lane is for passing, and center lane(s) cruising. When you choose to drive slowly or enter or turn off the road, use the right lane. You. along with countless other drivers are incredible proof that its possible to pass a drivers test administered in the United States with no more than a passing interest in how highways or speed limits actually function.
there is no such thing as "keeping up with the flow of traffic." when it is in excess of the posted legal speed limit
call me a fogey but we cant handle flying cars and we certainly cant begin to handle hovering ones either.
Here in america you need look no further than your local road to confirm my assertion. just drive to lunch today and count how many people change lanes without a signal, make an illegal left across two lanes of opposing traffic, run red lights, cut eachother off, and tailgate. We're a fucking mess. On the highways every single vehicle routinely travels 15 miles or more above the speed limit, even though we've had reliable cruise control thats far superior to our own clumsy right foot for more than 3 decades. Drivers are glued to their phones or face down in the texting position for the majority of their commute. We're horrible at looking ahead and predicting when traffic will stop, instead choosing to slam on our brakes and let the other guy do his best to stop. Although every drivers manual reads we should slow down if someone wants to merge into our lane, we instinctually speed up or ignore them. Try an experiment: go the speed limit in the center lane of the highway and see how many furious drivers pound their horns and flash their headlights. Better yet, try driving in the left lane on a road that isnt limited access, a speed limit something around 35mph, and see how many people completely lose their minds despite the fact that what youre doing is entirely legal. And speed? The only time speed factors into any collision in america is when its fatal, and even then its only if the wreckage is catastrophic or the occupant a celebrity. We wrecklessly whip across 3 lanes of traffic and insist on maintaining our lead regardless of how congested the roads are. We categorically ignore speed limits in a construction zone despite a quad-damage boost to any citation received. We race along at all hours of day and in all seasons as if a collision would have no consequences to us, because we're all we think of.
The best innovation in automobiles has been to autonomize them, but compared to things like rail even an autonomous car is laughably inefficient and merely perpetuates a host of systemic and unsustainable problems related to automobiles nonetheleast of which is climate change.
Many man made materials are just as strong as steel, but the resilliency is the important part. steel can be wet, hot, dry, cold, and in many cases still be within an acceptable performance range for its intended use. particle board for example is often as strong as steel, but degradation under humidity makes it unsuitable for most applications.
C-Level: Red Hat has a new version of internet, we should install it. PHB:right away! PM! Red hat has an OS! lets install it PM: Of course! Engineering! how are we on the RHEL 7 project!? Senior Engineer: I dont remember getting one did I give it to you? Infrastructure group: you never approved our upgrade to RHEL 4 because it required Oracle downtime. You never agreed to the RHEL 3 upgrade because our proxy cant go down or the PHB cant get to facebook. We were told not to upgrade the RHEL 2 fileservers because the PHB keeps his motivational MP3's there. The only machine we have running RHEL6 is the one you made us install four days ago because you attended a webinar..so...i guess we'll have it upgraded by the end of the week. PHB: whoa there pump your brakes guys...dont touch that server. if you take it offline i might not be able to get to the webinar next year!
Jay Leno: clearly developed offensive chin to return punishing blows to his opponent Gary Busey: long forehead designed to absorb impact, but also more importantly channel telekenetic messages to ice tray full of cream cheese across room
the NSA's gadgets, to date, have been secret courts and gag orders. Anyone with a crowbar and a laptop can certainly wiretap an entire neighborhood, but it takes real skill to engineer a series of legal and political precidents and procedures around the power to get away with it. so, lets take a stab at it slashdot!
what i propose is an open-source means of manufacturing consent at the senate and congressional levels of government. The license for ensuring the president and cabinet members acquiesce to everything from rendition to secret torture camps should probably be 3-clause BSD. Warrantless GPS surveillance can use GNU radio, but the technology to forcibly demand the tracking device be returned should be licensed GPLv3. Im still stumped as to how we're going to get a CC licensed version of a gag order from a secret court
Saying it was a trick flagrantly ignores the fact that the vast majority of more than 75 nations would openly and gladly transfer snowden to the United States. As a nation all we'd have to do is threaten to withhold/offer to increase aid to the target nation and in turn theyd cough him up post-haste. this doesnt account for the numerous countries with dictatorial governments favorable to our interests in which we could simply just ask.
Russia is one of a handful of successful foreign nations with the power, both economically and militarily to resist whatever the US asks for. Sending cia agents to him for rendition is a suicide mission, both militarily and politically. We are beholden to 5% of our oil supply from Russia, and the last time we offered an economic incentive was when we bought up a few hundred nuclear missiles from them and converted the payload to nuclear fuel in the 80's so we arent exactly an economic juggernaut in their world.
snowden was smart to take the Russian offer. He was going to expose clandestine secrets about the United States government that fly in the face of the constitution and our rule of law, and Russia saw nothing but gain from his efforts. finally, after 50 years of chest thumping freedom and swinging-dick foreign policy, a piping hot dish of humble pie had been prepared to which America would reluctantly have to at least take a bite and say, "Politically we're no less reprehensible than any other nation. we just have better propaganda."
Culturally, from what i can gather, its become acceptible in America to lie in order to sell damned near anything. Our breakfast cereals tout everything from brain vitamins to anti-cancer properties and our fruit juices insist theyre some kind of godlike elixer of everything from bone health to limitless endurance. Now technically we're supposed to have regulatory agencies to police this sort of action, but american regulatory agencies are double-booked with mandates to simultaneously promote and police their industry. Theyre as useful as wheels on a fish, and at best they affirm product recalls due to life-threatening contamination.
If youve never tried to buy a car in america, its largely the same. theres no concern for your budget or real money as it pertains to your specific earnings. The entire event is predicated with an understanding that you as a customer will finance your purchase, so there isnt much to stop a sale aside from gas prices. youll be sold on christlike reliability and power, and fuel economy where applicable. Big questions like maintenance costs and carbon footprint are avoided.
so when a trade deal comes down the pipe and it sounds too good to be true, take it from us (it is.) We were sold NAFTA and in turn we lost our manufacturing to south america. We were told goods and services would be cheaper to produce, and in a perverse sort of way they were. WalMart peddled sweatshop clothing and chinese plastic trinkets at rock-bottom prices to a middle class that now basically had no alternative but to concede to their purchase now that they had to take a job at a call center for a fraction of what they made at their old workplace. Countries like Viet Nam and Nicaragua which historically resisted our "free trade" came around to our idea of the marketplace once sponsored rebel groups like the Contra razed their hospitals and blew up their schools for daring to vote a candidate that didnt embrace capitalism.
what we call trade is pretty laughable. American cars are made in mexico and china, and we ardently prop the automotive industry with bailouts we quixotically insist will create or maintain jobs without realizing the goal of our trade policy is to extinguish the costliest element of our commerce, the american worker. when we say EU trade agreement we mean to target your poorest countries to assemble wiring harnesses for slave labor. We mean to flood your markets with corn and other commodities that will render your farmers bankrupt, just as we have in Mexico. We want you to use dangerous chemical processes because former east block countries with socialized medicine and laughable environmental standards amounts to very little concern for when we poison an entire city and leave So heed this warning:
we as a nation have left no stone unturned in our relentless quest to crush the world in poverty, desolation, and ruin under the sunny phrase 'free trade.' We wish to render you wholly dependent upon American goods, be they healthy or not, because it makes our next war that much easier to secure your consent to participate.
1. What is the most unusual location you have written a program from?
while working for a major automotive manufacturer in the south, I once wrote a perl script from 40 feet off the ground in a hydraulic lift to update firmware across several switches in the plant. I was replacing a switch that had been tucked away near a sodium vapour lamp and had melted.
2. What is the most unusual circumstance under which you have written a program?
during a celebratory lunch for our team I acted as the on-call engineer, and ended up spending an hour writing a python script to set watchdog bmc timers on servers. I never ate, and cant even remember what speech the manager gave.
3. What is the most unusual computing platform that you wrote a program from?
I once wrote a program through a dmx512 board to control conference room lighting and a projector. 5 buttons, one joystick, and a week of hell. i also programmed a 4 button sequence that triggers 'disco mode'
4. What is the most unusual application program that you wrote?"
A major insurance company i worked for had an HR office that could never remember to shut off the coffee maker. After several fire department visits I repurposed an old PDU from the datacenter and wired the thing up so the HR department had to send an email to get the coffee maker to turn on for 5 minutes. This started out as a joke, and unfortunately received praise from the office for 'upgrading the coffee maker':(
its not because our product is stagnant and overpriced, its because you're too stupid and didnt buy it. but dont worry, we told you about being stupid so now you can switch.
call me paranoid but this talk had the potential to piss on quite a number of parades. Bill essentailly confirms that china is at worst a lawless tech threat, and at best a moneyhole into which the government forks cash to various 'cyber' threat mitigation projects shuffled along by government contractors and agencies in search of stable budgets. bills correct: once you preface any attack with "cyber" then tricky things like investigations, justifications, risk assessments and the like all sublimate into thin air and the cash to fix it lands in your lap. and to quote from TFPPT:
There are aspects of your submission that is entirely true,
but they are also common knowledge. We can agree that China
plays a large part as 'boogeyman' it's a popular
discussion point, however we don't think it's the right
fit for DEF CON main stage. Some of the reasons we feel that
way are that your presentation is
heavy on opinion
,
current
news
and
personal perspective
, but for it to be considered
for the DEF CON stage
we'd need more official intelligence
such as.gov. backing it up.
TL;DR: DEF CON sponsors and the government alike both cash in on the bogeyman. if this year we feature a talk about moderation and responsible reaction to FUD, more than a few vendors booths might start looking a little foolish. We elect to keep the CON front-and-center this year.
Owning a pub or a restaraunt means you have systems like Micros and Aloha as your Point of Sale machines. Losing these during a night when you're expected to process $7,000 an hour in credit card transactions is basically game over. getting your PoS hacked means a sizeable number of regular customers will never, ever return. Working on the 1:8 rule (1 bad experience translates to 8 bad stories) you'll take an identifiable hit that might cost you a new draught line or a much needed walk-in freezer repair.
Understanding hubs, switches, and general network connectivity helps greatly. shaving 2 seconds off a credit card transaction because you know QoS and packet shaping translates into happier customers and faster sales...your bartenders spend more time slinging product instead of standing at the register. If you know how to run cat5 you can basically put a PoS anywhere, anytime. it helps during summer if you want/have a patio because your servers are now twice as quick as the competition next door. Learning to restrict PoS systems to local networks and how to segment and protect the customers who want free wifi and the luxury of a credit card transaction is something of a benefit as well. Speaking as a pub owner, when my neighborhood cable internet died and I knew how to configure my android tablet as a stand-in 4g router for credit cards, I watched two bars close early and had to call in an extra bartender to handle my friday night crowd.
scientific journal: earlier tests unsuccessful as we've managed to teleport ryans carbonara pasta lunch into the aegean sea (could not recover.) Update: telimetry meeting at 2:00 to discuss experimental teleportation of a cat 8 miles above the research chamber. projects will no longer be colloquially referred to as 'operation cat splat' informational: research staff will immediately discontinue teleportation of chicken vindaloo from the west end of town. building maintenance will be on site this afternoon to correct the eleven pounds of vindaloo in the break room water cooler
The american notion that we should continuously purchase new things as quickly as possible so as to ensure our continued virility and happiness is whats really the problem. Imagine if instead of remaking a movie half a dozen times, we contented ourselves with the original and cultivated an appreciation for film as not just a disposable commodity but an art. Instead of butter-churning 10 sequels we stopped trying to milk storylines for box office parity. If instead of buying ever newer and larger televisions, we contented ourselves to only upgrade when and if the technological advancement were warranted and only if the purchase did not remove or restrict features already present. If instead of e-readers we maintained a small library of books we enjoyed, and when we were through donated them to a library. If Blu-ray and DVD werent packaged so extensively in a misguided attempt to thwart theft and instead came in a simple cardboard sleeve im certain a sizeable quantity of energy would be saved.
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Whatever they want, give it to them, because if your personal information is among their ransom then its all over. It doesnt matter what your toppings were, or when you ordered, or even why. Europe, and all the world, will know you to have intentionally and willfully placed an order for the worst american export since George Bush. Rumours will spread about your love for country music and before you know it, your allegance to nascar, cold budweiser, and jean shorts will be all but fact in the minds of your brethren.
i appreciate the effort that went into streamlining the user interface. Microsoft understands its customers have always wanted a reliable and efficient means to quickly download Firefox or Chrome, and IE12 delivers. Although the recycle bin isnt supported anymore, the icon now has advanced right-click features to permanently remove it from view faster than ever before. For Power users will enjoy the advanced 'uninstall' mode for IE12 found in the control panel as well.
Having worked in food service as a manager and a cook, Opentable has a rather guest/customer oriented understanding of how restaraunts and reservations actually work. As a restaraunt you can really only count on a reservation during 2 major holidays: valentines day and new years eve. Even then, about 20% will completely skip out on their reservation for any number of uncontrollable factors (i once had a rain storm that wiped out 3 hours of reserved dining.) Its irritating but sometimes you make out OK by backfilling walkins, but the trick is to not be given the scarlet letter of 'reservations only.'
most restaraunts avoid becoming too reliant on reservations, as there is an unspoken 1:8 rule that says for every person you turn away they remind 8 of their friends (including yelp) that you "only take reservations." Also once a restaraunt hits that fabled 1 year mark, reservations and foot traffic diminish reather precipitously. Pretty soon that 'opentbl' button on the PoS becomes the most unused thing on there. Its also worth mentioning that if you dont have opentable+pos then the manager or server at the lead PoS station is charged with ensuring that reservation is hand-marked, so theyll need email and need to be told to check it every 15 minutes (PoS slaves do not have applications.) Any server that gets busy during peak 'reservation time' and forgets to check now has to deal with customers screaming 'something something fucking opentable!' I have to hand it to restaraunts that flat-out refuse to handle reservations as well because apps like opentable have taken dining spots once frequented by locals and restricted them to foursquare clutching townies and business travelers for the majority of the week.
While impractical at scale, this is a very clever way to defeat things like DoD secured air-gap networks, and 20bps is easily capable of say, keylogging :)
Quartavious Davis, the plaintiff arguing for tracking privacy, was convicted of a first offense for a string of robberies and sentenced to 162 years in prison based largely on testimony from acquaintences. Davis is facing nothing short of biblical retribution for ever having dared to transgress against the law in the peoples republic of florida based 'mandatory minimums' and the court is basically saying "yes, police cannot use your cellphone to track you but we still have enough evidence anyway so fuck off and die in prison kthx"
other things that are known to happen in american democracy with seemingly little if any recourse:
Oil company dupes community groups into fighting EPA regulations
Major food company dupes citizens into fighting a tax on soda
Cigarette company dupes consumers into thinking smoking is a right, not a crippling addiction
President dupes country into fighting country with no WMD's
I mean im sure its a huge problem that people like fans and ticketholders are going to be targeted, but customers have always enjoyed being the target of crime. The real issue is that we decided to bring one of the most expensive, prestigious sports competitions with an array of elaborate infrastructure requirements and expsnsive hosting obligations to a country with a 25% poverty rate and epidemic levels of child starvation and violent crime. Sure it makes Brazillian politicians and the cloistered elite feel special but when you factor the average brazillian into the equation it was a pretty god damn wreckless decision to take two billion out of their economy and piss it away on a single sports event.
Again, the speed limit is critical as that is the maximum speed you are supposed to be traveling on american highways, no faster, and as such im considered at cruising speed. on a 3 lane highway, the left lane is for passing, and center lane(s) cruising. When you choose to drive slowly or enter or turn off the road, use the right lane. You. along with countless other drivers are incredible proof that its possible to pass a drivers test administered in the United States with no more than a passing interest in how highways or speed limits actually function.
there is no such thing as "keeping up with the flow of traffic." when it is in excess of the posted legal speed limit
call me a fogey but we cant handle flying cars and we certainly cant begin to handle hovering ones either.
Here in america you need look no further than your local road to confirm my assertion. just drive to lunch today and count how many people change lanes without a signal, make an illegal left across two lanes of opposing traffic, run red lights, cut eachother off, and tailgate. We're a fucking mess. On the highways every single vehicle routinely travels 15 miles or more above the speed limit, even though we've had reliable cruise control thats far superior to our own clumsy right foot for more than 3 decades. Drivers are glued to their phones or face down in the texting position for the majority of their commute. We're horrible at looking ahead and predicting when traffic will stop, instead choosing to slam on our brakes and let the other guy do his best to stop. Although every drivers manual reads we should slow down if someone wants to merge into our lane, we instinctually speed up or ignore them. Try an experiment: go the speed limit in the center lane of the highway and see how many furious drivers pound their horns and flash their headlights. Better yet, try driving in the left lane on a road that isnt limited access, a speed limit something around 35mph, and see how many people completely lose their minds despite the fact that what youre doing is entirely legal. And speed? The only time speed factors into any collision in america is when its fatal, and even then its only if the wreckage is catastrophic or the occupant a celebrity. We wrecklessly whip across 3 lanes of traffic and insist on maintaining our lead regardless of how congested the roads are. We categorically ignore speed limits in a construction zone despite a quad-damage boost to any citation received. We race along at all hours of day and in all seasons as if a collision would have no consequences to us, because we're all we think of.
The best innovation in automobiles has been to autonomize them, but compared to things like rail even an autonomous car is laughably inefficient and merely perpetuates a host of systemic and unsustainable problems related to automobiles nonetheleast of which is climate change.
Many man made materials are just as strong as steel, but the resilliency is the important part. steel can be wet, hot, dry, cold, and in many cases still be within an acceptable performance range for its intended use. particle board for example is often as strong as steel, but degradation under humidity makes it unsuitable for most applications.
C-Level: Red Hat has a new version of internet, we should install it.
PHB:right away! PM! Red hat has an OS! lets install it
PM: Of course! Engineering! how are we on the RHEL 7 project!?
Senior Engineer: I dont remember getting one did I give it to you?
Infrastructure group: you never approved our upgrade to RHEL 4 because it required Oracle downtime. You never agreed to the RHEL 3 upgrade because our proxy cant go down or the PHB cant get to facebook. We were told not to upgrade the RHEL 2 fileservers because the PHB keeps his motivational MP3's there. The only machine we have running RHEL6 is the one you made us install four days ago because you attended a webinar..so...i guess we'll have it upgraded by the end of the week.
PHB: whoa there pump your brakes guys...dont touch that server. if you take it offline i might not be able to get to the webinar next year!
Jay Leno: clearly developed offensive chin to return punishing blows to his opponent
Gary Busey: long forehead designed to absorb impact, but also more importantly channel telekenetic messages to ice tray full of cream cheese across room
if (check_network_speed() == '-1'){
if (our_nets_check_ok() && systems_latency_ok()){
print "the $network is crowded";
}
}
the NSA's gadgets, to date, have been secret courts and gag orders. Anyone with a crowbar and a laptop can certainly wiretap an entire neighborhood, but it takes real skill to engineer a series of legal and political precidents and procedures around the power to get away with it. so, lets take a stab at it slashdot!
what i propose is an open-source means of manufacturing consent at the senate and congressional levels of government. The license for ensuring the president and cabinet members acquiesce to everything from rendition to secret torture camps should probably be 3-clause BSD. Warrantless GPS surveillance can use GNU radio, but the technology to forcibly demand the tracking device be returned should be licensed GPLv3. Im still stumped as to how we're going to get a CC licensed version of a gag order from a secret court
Saying it was a trick flagrantly ignores the fact that the vast majority of more than 75 nations would openly and gladly transfer snowden to the United States. As a nation all we'd have to do is threaten to withhold/offer to increase aid to the target nation and in turn theyd cough him up post-haste. this doesnt account for the numerous countries with dictatorial governments favorable to our interests in which we could simply just ask.
Russia is one of a handful of successful foreign nations with the power, both economically and militarily to resist whatever the US asks for. Sending cia agents to him for rendition is a suicide mission, both militarily and politically. We are beholden to 5% of our oil supply from Russia, and the last time we offered an economic incentive was when we bought up a few hundred nuclear missiles from them and converted the payload to nuclear fuel in the 80's so we arent exactly an economic juggernaut in their world.
snowden was smart to take the Russian offer. He was going to expose clandestine secrets about the United States government that fly in the face of the constitution and our rule of law, and Russia saw nothing but gain from his efforts. finally, after 50 years of chest thumping freedom and swinging-dick foreign policy, a piping hot dish of humble pie had been prepared to which America would reluctantly have to at least take a bite and say, "Politically we're no less reprehensible than any other nation. we just have better propaganda."
Culturally, from what i can gather, its become acceptible in America to lie in order to sell damned near anything. Our breakfast cereals tout everything from brain vitamins to anti-cancer properties and our fruit juices insist theyre some kind of godlike elixer of everything from bone health to limitless endurance. Now technically we're supposed to have regulatory agencies to police this sort of action, but american regulatory agencies are double-booked with mandates to simultaneously promote and police their industry. Theyre as useful as wheels on a fish, and at best they affirm product recalls due to life-threatening contamination.
If youve never tried to buy a car in america, its largely the same. theres no concern for your budget or real money as it pertains to your specific earnings. The entire event is predicated with an understanding that you as a customer will finance your purchase, so there isnt much to stop a sale aside from gas prices. youll be sold on christlike reliability and power, and fuel economy where applicable. Big questions like maintenance costs and carbon footprint are avoided.
so when a trade deal comes down the pipe and it sounds too good to be true, take it from us (it is.) We were sold NAFTA and in turn we lost our manufacturing to south america. We were told goods and services would be cheaper to produce, and in a perverse sort of way they were. WalMart peddled sweatshop clothing and chinese plastic trinkets at rock-bottom prices to a middle class that now basically had no alternative but to concede to their purchase now that they had to take a job at a call center for a fraction of what they made at their old workplace. Countries like Viet Nam and Nicaragua which historically resisted our "free trade" came around to our idea of the marketplace once sponsored rebel groups like the Contra razed their hospitals and blew up their schools for daring to vote a candidate that didnt embrace capitalism.
what we call trade is pretty laughable. American cars are made in mexico and china, and we ardently prop the automotive industry with bailouts we quixotically insist will create or maintain jobs without realizing the goal of our trade policy is to extinguish the costliest element of our commerce, the american worker. when we say EU trade agreement we mean to target your poorest countries to assemble wiring harnesses for slave labor. We mean to flood your markets with corn and other commodities that will render your farmers bankrupt, just as we have in Mexico. We want you to use dangerous chemical processes because former east block countries with socialized medicine and laughable environmental standards amounts to very little concern for when we poison an entire city and leave So heed this warning:
we as a nation have left no stone unturned in our relentless quest to crush the world in poverty, desolation, and ruin under the sunny phrase 'free trade.' We wish to render you wholly dependent upon American goods, be they healthy or not, because it makes our next war that much easier to secure your consent to participate.
1. What is the most unusual location you have written a program from?
while working for a major automotive manufacturer in the south, I once wrote a perl script from 40 feet off the ground in a hydraulic lift to update firmware across several switches in the plant. I was replacing a switch that had been tucked away near a sodium vapour lamp and had melted.
2. What is the most unusual circumstance under which you have written a program?
during a celebratory lunch for our team I acted as the on-call engineer, and ended up spending an hour writing a python script to set watchdog bmc timers on servers. I never ate, and cant even remember what speech the manager gave.
3. What is the most unusual computing platform that you wrote a program from?
I once wrote a program through a dmx512 board to control conference room lighting and a projector. 5 buttons, one joystick, and a week of hell. i also programmed a 4 button sequence that triggers 'disco mode'
4. What is the most unusual application program that you wrote?"
A major insurance company i worked for had an HR office that could never remember to shut off the coffee maker. After several fire department visits I repurposed an old PDU from the datacenter and wired the thing up so the HR department had to send an email to get the coffee maker to turn on for 5 minutes. This started out as a joke, and unfortunately received praise from the office for 'upgrading the coffee maker' :(
%s/sponsors/vendors
its not because our product is stagnant and overpriced, its because you're too stupid and didnt buy it. but dont worry, we told you about being stupid so now you can switch.
There are aspects of your submission that is entirely true, but they are also common knowledge. We can agree that China plays a large part as 'boogeyman' it's a popular discussion point, however we don't think it's the right fit for DEF CON main stage. Some of the reasons we feel that way are that your presentation is heavy on opinion , current news and personal perspective , but for it to be considered for the DEF CON stage we'd need more official intelligence such as .gov. backing it up .
TL;DR: DEF CON sponsors and the government alike both cash in on the bogeyman. if this year we feature a talk about moderation and responsible reaction to FUD, more than a few vendors booths might start looking a little foolish. We elect to keep the CON front-and-center this year.
Owning a pub or a restaraunt means you have systems like Micros and Aloha as your Point of Sale machines. Losing these during a night when you're expected to process $7,000 an hour in credit card transactions is basically game over. getting your PoS hacked means a sizeable number of regular customers will never, ever return. Working on the 1:8 rule (1 bad experience translates to 8 bad stories) you'll take an identifiable hit that might cost you a new draught line or a much needed walk-in freezer repair.
Understanding hubs, switches, and general network connectivity helps greatly. shaving 2 seconds off a credit card transaction because you know QoS and packet shaping translates into happier customers and faster sales...your bartenders spend more time slinging product instead of standing at the register. If you know how to run cat5 you can basically put a PoS anywhere, anytime. it helps during summer if you want/have a patio because your servers are now twice as quick as the competition next door. Learning to restrict PoS systems to local networks and how to segment and protect the customers who want free wifi and the luxury of a credit card transaction is something of a benefit as well. Speaking as a pub owner, when my neighborhood cable internet died and I knew how to configure my android tablet as a stand-in 4g router for credit cards, I watched two bars close early and had to call in an extra bartender to handle my friday night crowd.
scientific journal: earlier tests unsuccessful as we've managed to teleport ryans carbonara pasta lunch into the aegean sea (could not recover.)
Update: telimetry meeting at 2:00 to discuss experimental teleportation of a cat 8 miles above the research chamber. projects will no longer be colloquially referred to as 'operation cat splat'
informational: research staff will immediately discontinue teleportation of chicken vindaloo from the west end of town. building maintenance will be on site this afternoon to correct the eleven pounds of vindaloo in the break room water cooler
The american notion that we should continuously purchase new things as quickly as possible so as to ensure our continued virility and happiness is whats really the problem. Imagine if instead of remaking a movie half a dozen times, we contented ourselves with the original and cultivated an appreciation for film as not just a disposable commodity but an art. Instead of butter-churning 10 sequels we stopped trying to milk storylines for box office parity. If instead of buying ever newer and larger televisions, we contented ourselves to only upgrade when and if the technological advancement were warranted and only if the purchase did not remove or restrict features already present. If instead of e-readers we maintained a small library of books we enjoyed, and when we were through donated them to a library. If Blu-ray and DVD werent packaged so extensively in a misguided attempt to thwart theft and instead came in a simple cardboard sleeve im certain a sizeable quantity of energy would be saved.
http://www.libressl.org/
seriously pumping openssl full of cash at this point is like buying new deck chairs for the titanic.
will it still be able to download Firefox and Chromium?