Except for the fact that getting anything meaningful out of Blackhat requires $$$$$$$$. DEFCON is accessible by most people and you can still get a lot of good information. I don't see that DEFCON has been much different even from the original cons...still a bunch of booze, games, like-minded people, and if you want to get some decent information that is presented verbatim (as many of talks/Briefings are) at Blackhat you can do that, too.
You are right in that it is not as 'Con-ish' as most other large security style conferences but if you are looking for the straight-laced information approach, you probably have the money to go to the big'uns.
Err...all that means is that you pump in more surface air until you achieve the desired pressure in the cavern. I don't think they are talking about using existing pressurized air...they are talking about utilizing large pumps to continually fill the underground reservoir until a desired pressure is acheived, after which it is kept constant by adding more air as needed.
Ultimately I can even see the expulsion of the air in the reservoir passing through heat collection systems in the datacenter to cause expansion of the compressed, cooled air as it is exhausted, thereby creating even more pressure. This would serve the dual purpose of heat reduction in the facility and more potential energy from the usage of the now heated pressurized air. Hell you could even just pass the air through a pressurized pipe maze that runs across the ground's surface or the facility's roof and allows the sun to heat the air as it is released. Obviously this would not work as well at night but through a combination of techniques, additional pressure could be created to eke every last bit of energy out of the compressed air.
Using some engineering, PV==nRT can be made to work for you instead of against you.
The fact of the matter is that the ancient cables are still there and if the addition of simple noise-cancelling can increase the copper speed to allow existing infrastructure to carry greater amounts of data, why is it a waste of resources? Ultimately it may be BETTER to run fiber, but it is almost never CHEAPER. This is especially the case in old buildings where ripping out concrete walls is not feasible or drilling through them to run fiber is not cost effective.
I doubt you'll ever hear an argument that you shouldn't run modern cabling no matter what decade we live in - the problem is that the money just isn't there most of the time to do so to replace infrastructure that is existing.
I think you're fairly accurate...at least going off of recent revelations where the government is concerned.
- There hasn't been much truth in anything that has been said,
- the government has obviously been hiding info (that's without question, it has just become more public how deep the iceberg could possibly go recently),
- and that guy at the bar was me!!
Okay it wasn't really me, but I don't think there is any reason to be *sighing* about this as though you just pointed out how silly the previous poster's statement was. I don't really see much that is incorrect about the statement. Of course it is along the lines of the "Damn Gubmint ruinin' jobs and screwin' people over! Nothin' but liars and crooks!" attitude that makes all of us want to roll our eyes, but I'm having more and more of a difficult time not being that guy myself anymore and I'm not really sure how you can sigh and pretend that the ranting guy isn't at least partially right.
All I'm saying is the American Revolution was conceived of and organized in bars by angry ranting people...maybe not all those guys are jackasses.
PS: I'm not advocating a revolt here - fuck off to anyone from the NSA:)
In my experience, preachers' daughters' have zero shame. They only keep secrets from their mother and father for fear of punishment.
I like your analogy but would put it this way:
The preacher's daughter (US Citizenry) is forced to abide by ever-stricter rules as she gets older while being told she can do what she wants as long as daddy says it is 'right with the lord' (which apparently includes touching young boys so she SHOULD be okay!) She still smokes pot, drinks until she passes out, and blows all the guys at the party but when daddy finds out she is disowned and left to live on the streets.
The wet t-shirt girls (EU Citizenry) get up and bounce their titties all over but they can only do so where and when daddy says - and daddy KNOWS because they wearing a tracking anklet with cameras and microphones. Dad's pretty cool and he doesn't care if she smokes pot or drinks but if she says she doesn't like her anklet or that her dad is a dick, she's in trouble! If she goes against daddy's will once, he will sit her down and spank her firmly...a second time and here come the fuzzy handcuffs and assplay!
I think what I'm basically saying is that governments are asshole pedophiles...
I don't understand how this applies at all. Granted the US is harsher specifically about 'indecent exposure' but there aren't ANY societies (including the city of Stockholm) that just allow people to cruise down the street completely naked. There are definitely nude beaches but you can find those in the US also...maybe not in Dallas proper but there are definitely some in Texas.
Also, I find it a bit ridiculous that you're comparing a societal opposition to public nudity to societal opposition to races' or religions' differing social norms. Please visit this link for illustration of this concept.
Have you also lived in the US? Not trying to be abrasive or argumentative, I'm just curious.
Most people I know who have lived for an extended period of time in the US and European countries have mixed feelings. The general sense that I get is that in European countries, people are more comfortable lacking liberty because there is less pretense that the government has the best intentions of the people in mind whereas in the US, people are told that the government supports liberty while actively working to obstruct it to garner more control. Most of the people I've spoken with at length pretty much agree that the actual level of freedom is pretty much the same but just in different ways...essentially two sides of the same coin.
WHat (I'm not sure what a W Hat is.) is readign and writing (You misspelled reading. Also, this should be 'are reading and writing'.) [first] (Unnecessary word...makes no sense in the context of the sentence. Also missing punctuation.)
first get your self some ability to read and write...now go back and try again...
first (needs capitalization) get your self (this is one word, yourself, unless you are talking about his Ego - learn about reflexive pronouns) some ability to read and write...now go back and try again... (overusage of the ellipsis - use actual punctuation)
what is human left or right.....anyhow?
what (You don't like capitalization, do you?) is human left or right (WHOOSH...human right as in "unalienable rights")..... (Super ellipsis - why?) anyhow? (Okay...you're fucking with me right? You implied a pause in your sentence with your very long ellipsis and then you make a statement but follow it with a question mark similar to the Anchorman faux pas "I'm Ron Burgundy?")
They can't keep uninsured unlicensed drivers off the road...but they can wiretap almost every digital communication made and make inferences as to personal relations and potential terrorist threats. Something tells me that if they really really wanted to focus on the uninsured/unlicensed, there would be a program wasting billions of education dollars to do it.
Sony specifically was definitely breached and customer data was stolen to the tune of 77 million users. Not only is that a breach, that is a holy-fuck-that's-almost-all-of-our-userbase style breach. You are correct in that some hacker says he has released all this information in an encrypted format and that if he gets punished, he will release it...no one knows that he actually has anything but millions of garbled text files with random character strings in them, though, and likely never will so that doesn't exactly compare with Sony's crazy breach. With regard to the following statement:
They were very upfront about backwards compatibility on PS3. From day zero they said this was a temporary feature to transition from Ps2 to PS3. It was also a huge reason for the cost overrun of the PS3 (EEs were still not cheap chips in 2007).
They actually were not up-front about removal of backwards compatibility at any time in the future after release and only when the chips became more expensive did they start removing it from most subsequent versions of the PS3. Given that fact, however, I will still say that some games are still backward compatible with the initial versions of the PS3. If, as you said, you still have the 60GB fat, you can still play those. However, I challenge you to find me the press release from Sony prior to the release of the PS3 that identified ANY future timeline in which backwards compatibility would be removed for any reason because I am pretty sure I would have seen that information in the research I did prior to release.
With regard to your points about Microsoft...I'm not defending them but I think you just don't like them. I'm not quite sure what you are referring to as a joypad but if you're talking about the controller, the PS3 controller is also proprietary...sooo....yeah. With regard to the non-standard HDD, I actually agree here with you so 1 point for us both. Also, HD-DVD players were an accessory...completely useless, you're right. The thing is, though, just because they tried to sell them doesn't make them dicks. Granted they should have incorporated Blu-ray from jump street but Sony was charging exorbitant licensing fees at that time purposely to keep them out of the 360 so who is the real dick here? Finally, these consoles were both released when HDMI was just becoming the standard for home theater connectivity. Sony had the foresight to include it, MS did not include it until subsequent versions. Even still, though, MS listed their features and specs on the box as did PS3 and the PS3 features were the only ones that were forcibly changed by the company after early adopters purchased the console.
Oh and btw...Netflix was the culprit behind having to have a streaming subscription and a DVD subscription and MS had nothing to do with it in the least. Not sure where you're getting your information but I think you might need to look some stuff up.
I'm prefacing this by saying my intent is not to insult and I can respect what you are saying and your reasoning.
I have been a hunter all of my life so part of the routine when I kill an animal is gutting and butchering it myself. For me and for anyone who works in an animal processing industry, the blood and gore associated with the meat is simply a step that has to be gone through in order to obtain the animal's meat for cooking and eating. Ultimately as slim has pointed out, this is a conditioned thing and it has actually been conditioned OUT of our day to day and our eating habits by things like large scale agriculture, transportation and shipping systems, grocery stores and the like. Because we no longer have to butcher our own meats to eat and survive, societies have become more sensitive to the bloody part of meat processing and ultimately, my personal opinion is that people have lost a critical amount of respect for the animals they eat because of it.
Slim says below that he enjoyed the pork all the more knowing exactly where it came from - some may see this as some sort of sadistic behavior or something but I identify with this because you connect on some level with the animal you are eating and you have an appreciation for what it takes to get your food to your plate at the basest level. While you may be put off by things like blood and gore, for us it is simply part of a process that we have to go through to get our foods. I can imagine that in almost every living person's near past, raising or hunting and subsequently butchering animals and the associated blood and gore was what fed you and your family.
Your grandparents probably considered this part of daily life and thought nothing of it...pretty interesting how quickly our cultural conditioning can change in my opinion. On the flip-side of the coin it would be interesting to see how quickly that conditioning would disappear if we went through a major agricultural shortage or something along those lines.
HEY! You need to calm down with that! They are professional in an indie-hip-I'm_way_cooler_than_you-progressive-warmfuzzy way that you just wouldn't understand!
Seriously, though...I'm completely with you. As a nerd I can appreciate a progressive work environment that is more comfortable and less corporate chic/stuffy but we are going way too far these days. Kittens and ponies...you might as well tell girls that are seriously interested in web development "Get into rails development so you can make shitty pages like we all used to when we were 15!" If you're supposed to appeal to women and show them that they can do it too, at least try to make it somewhat professional so it will appeal to adults instead of children. It doesn't need to be corporate, just not ponies and kittens...holy hell.
This exact same thing happens on your side of the fence, too. Liberals bemoan the 'archaic' conservative viewpoint and how much it hinders their view of a progressive world where the government gives you everything you need to live all the time.
Know what I think? You're all a bunch of yo-yos. Shut up ya yo-yos. Until you wake the fuck up and realize that there aren't only two options out there, we are going to be stuck in this ridiculous slap fight in which we accomplish nothing. Liberals and Conservatives are both sides of the exact same coin and they have a vested interest in keeping us going back and forth at each others' throats. The longer they do this, the more people lose focus of the fact that the government is supposed to be an extension of the people's will. Instead, we have more liberties taken away, more power bestowed upon the governing 'class', and more politicians sipping tea in their white towers thinking about how great it is to be the king.
Grow up. You might as well be arguing Santa Claus vs the Easter Bunny for how effective either of them are at running the country.
We have about 25,000 BYOD users and ferociously protect our IP. I wish you luck in your crusade against the customers you serve. It seems to be working out for the RIAA/MPAA.
I don't understand your rationale that company security policies are some 'crusade' against the customers that company serves. Customers are not the same as employees...
Maybe the 'BYOD users' you are talking about are your customers and in that case, you probably have some other heavy security mechanisms to prevent those users from manipulating your IP. Either way, your business is not a candidate for NAC and your input is pretty much irrelevant.
If the terms of your employment are that you BYOD and comply with company security policies then you do that or you don't have a job. I'm not saying you're wrong...I also believe they should be responsible for providing you with a company resource to comply with security policies. In fact, almost every company with a BYOD policy actually does do this and BYOD is simply a policy that allows users to work in a more convenient fashion with their own equipment.
Almost every BYOD policy I've seen implemented is due to complaints about not being able to get on the corporate network with their iPad or connect to the corporate network with their personal laptop via VPN. In the case where users want that access, it is up to the company to either allow it and enforce security on those BYOD devices just like they are company resources or to disallow them entirely and tell the personnel to eat it. All the BYOD policies I've ever seen that require a user provide their own equipment operate through Virtual Desktops anyway so there are no strict compliance rulesets for the devices people use..just simply that they have web browser access and can install a Citrix agent or something along those lines.
MAC address spoofing doesn't help vs a well implemented NAC solution as the MAC address of the connecting device is not the only authentication factor. Many NAC solutions even require agents to be installed on the connected machine so that an analysis of installed software and hardware can be performed as an additional authenticator and many will pre-scan connecting devices for offending/unsecure software and quarantine them in a segregated network with no routing abilities.
Once implemented, a NAC isn't an incredible hassle to manage and 802.1X even allows for a port to be re-enabled once the offending device is disconnected from the port so you don't have to manually reenable the port every time someone plugs in an unauthorized resource. It is extremely costly, however, and the effort integrate it properly so that it can't be bypassed by simple means is huge so a NAC is not a great solution unless your industry or company requires it.
There is a definite cost to implementing NAC but I'm confused as to how you believe a home device with malware is going to authenticate itself. There are many complex malware programs out there that can attempt a variety of attack vectors but none complex enough to bypass a NAC solution worth its' salt with anything but the baddest 0-day exploits.
There was a BlackHat presentation made in relation to NAC that presents some of these potential attack vectors (http://www.blackhat.com/presentations/bh-dc-07/Arkin/Presentation/bh-dc-07-Arkin-ppt-up.pdf), however in a fully secured, fully featured NAC deployment, the likelihood is almost zero. Like you said, the cost of the solution and the time and resources devoted to implementation are all high so it really needs to be an industry requirement or something of the like but a well implemented NAC solution in tandem with well developed security policies provides an extremely high level of security. IAANSE (Network Security Engineer)
Your company has no secure resources that you or your superiors are worried about then and you are not a candidate for NAC as the parent poster was. That or your company's IT staff, including you, is actually the incompetent group and if you ever get compromised by an outsider with malicious intent, you're fucked.
Pretty much seems like the entire point of this site. News for nerds...did we as nerds stop caring about hardware suddenly? I was not included in this memo.
I am pretty sure the left is doing just as good a job at tanking the US (if not better). Left and right are both part of the same social clubs and circles and regardless of their differences in public political opinions, these guys on both sides of the fence are friends when they are not hanging out in their white towers with their noses above their 'constituents'. Unless we get over attitudes like this where you place all your blame on the 'other side' and blindly decry that yours is the side of right, we will continue the downward spiral into the drain.
I understand you were trying to be funny (and you were) but this Turd Sandwich vs. Giant Douche mentality makes me want to to go back in time and baby shake everyone into retardation or death.
Most times it is all about budget. If you can purchase a fully redundant infrastructure environment, you can suffer end-of-life failures and replace those devices with newer equipment, even out of warranty. You also get the benefit of having backup in the event of an infrastructure failure. Ideally, we would all have a fully redundant infrastructure to start with and then periodically rip it all out and replace it with newer/modern equipment after EOL/EOS...the problem is that, in my experience, the new products completely replace the old products within a few years, thus making the choice for you. The best approach you can have IMO, is a staggered one that allows you to operate and use the equipment you have already while improving in critical areas such as your core switching/routing and then staging replacements of less critical resources like edge switches. It goes like this:
Day 1: Purchase initial gear for company and cold standby spares for edge devices if possible
3 years later: Purchase redundant distribution and core infrastructure devices with newer technology as well as approx. 1 edge switch with newer technology for every 5 edge devices. Migrate all critical routing and switching tasks to new infrastructure as the primary path while still allowing failback to the older, redundant architecture (even at a loss of speed...your goal is uptime). Also migrate critical resources at the edge to the newer switches while keeping the older switches as cold standby spares.
3 years later: Completely replace all EOL/EOS distribution and core infrastructure with newer technology and sell the older equipment on eBay. Also purchase edge switch replacements for all devices older than 4 years if possible. The newer switches should be kept as cold standby spares.
The reasoning behind a complete edge switch replacement every 6 years is due to technology improvements (i.e. FastE -> GbE -> 10GbE -> 40GbE -> etc.) This may not be important for all environments and it may not be possible as every 6 years you have a higher expense in edge replacements than any time during the interim. A way around this is to purchase spares or replacements yearly as part of a Capitol Expenditure budget rather than a projects budget requiring approvals.
Ultimately you end up with redundant core infrastructure that is never older than 6 years and with active core infrastructure that is never older than 3 years. Also, you either stagger replacements of edge switches as well as having cold spares or you replace all edge switches every 6 years and still have cold spares in the event of a device failure. You end up keeping up with technology (albeit maybe a year or so behind the 'latest and greatest' depending on budget), you have redundancy in the event that a device is EOL/EOS and cannot be replaced, and you have periodic refreshes of the redundant architecture that keeps your critical services running.
And who said Chivalry is dead? Granted there are a lot of assholes out there just throwing around their BDSM fetish porn all willy-nilly, but I would say most are like you and me and keep that shit under wraps until at least the second date.
Informed speculation is exactly what advances the scientific process. If you want to be a librarian of others' knowledge and only work within the sphere of existing information and theory then you provide nothing new to the scientific community except to further back up what we already know.
Your opinion is the exact reason that most pre-graduate school science classes are garbage...the professors teaching the subject have no imagination and therefore cannot present topics in anything but a dry, unenthusiastic drawl that kills the motivation of potential creative thinkers to seek out new knowledge and to advance our species' understanding of the nature of things. The author is not stating that this new research is anything close to finding a 99.9% solid theory...FTA:
Our results suggest a potentially general thermodynamic model of adaptive behavior as a nonequilibrium process in open systems.
Their results suggest a potentially general thermodynamic model of adaptive behavior as a nonequilibrium process in open systems. In other words, more research needs to be done but their initial review and experimental process based on recent advancements in other fields points to a result which he has published a paper around. First, How is this not science? And second, How is this not exactly the type of science that moves our knowledge and understanding forward in the best way? Even if he is proven to be wrong, his results are enticing and can lead others to consider how these results can be differently applied.
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Agreed. It makes me want to vomit in my mouth a bit.
Except for the fact that getting anything meaningful out of Blackhat requires $$$$$$$$. DEFCON is accessible by most people and you can still get a lot of good information. I don't see that DEFCON has been much different even from the original cons...still a bunch of booze, games, like-minded people, and if you want to get some decent information that is presented verbatim (as many of talks/Briefings are) at Blackhat you can do that, too.
You are right in that it is not as 'Con-ish' as most other large security style conferences but if you are looking for the straight-laced information approach, you probably have the money to go to the big'uns.
Err...all that means is that you pump in more surface air until you achieve the desired pressure in the cavern. I don't think they are talking about using existing pressurized air...they are talking about utilizing large pumps to continually fill the underground reservoir until a desired pressure is acheived, after which it is kept constant by adding more air as needed.
Ultimately I can even see the expulsion of the air in the reservoir passing through heat collection systems in the datacenter to cause expansion of the compressed, cooled air as it is exhausted, thereby creating even more pressure. This would serve the dual purpose of heat reduction in the facility and more potential energy from the usage of the now heated pressurized air. Hell you could even just pass the air through a pressurized pipe maze that runs across the ground's surface or the facility's roof and allows the sun to heat the air as it is released. Obviously this would not work as well at night but through a combination of techniques, additional pressure could be created to eke every last bit of energy out of the compressed air.
Using some engineering, PV==nRT can be made to work for you instead of against you.
The fact of the matter is that the ancient cables are still there and if the addition of simple noise-cancelling can increase the copper speed to allow existing infrastructure to carry greater amounts of data, why is it a waste of resources? Ultimately it may be BETTER to run fiber, but it is almost never CHEAPER. This is especially the case in old buildings where ripping out concrete walls is not feasible or drilling through them to run fiber is not cost effective.
I doubt you'll ever hear an argument that you shouldn't run modern cabling no matter what decade we live in - the problem is that the money just isn't there most of the time to do so to replace infrastructure that is existing.
I think you're fairly accurate...at least going off of recent revelations where the government is concerned.
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- There hasn't been much truth in anything that has been said,
- the government has obviously been hiding info (that's without question, it has just become more public how deep the iceberg could possibly go recently),
- and that guy at the bar was me!!
Okay it wasn't really me, but I don't think there is any reason to be *sighing* about this as though you just pointed out how silly the previous poster's statement was. I don't really see much that is incorrect about the statement. Of course it is along the lines of the "Damn Gubmint ruinin' jobs and screwin' people over! Nothin' but liars and crooks!" attitude that makes all of us want to roll our eyes, but I'm having more and more of a difficult time not being that guy myself anymore and I'm not really sure how you can sigh and pretend that the ranting guy isn't at least partially right.
All I'm saying is the American Revolution was conceived of and organized in bars by angry ranting people...maybe not all those guys are jackasses.
PS: I'm not advocating a revolt here - fuck off to anyone from the NSA
In my experience, preachers' daughters' have zero shame. They only keep secrets from their mother and father for fear of punishment.
I like your analogy but would put it this way:
The preacher's daughter (US Citizenry) is forced to abide by ever-stricter rules as she gets older while being told she can do what she wants as long as daddy says it is 'right with the lord' (which apparently includes touching young boys so she SHOULD be okay!) She still smokes pot, drinks until she passes out, and blows all the guys at the party but when daddy finds out she is disowned and left to live on the streets.
The wet t-shirt girls (EU Citizenry) get up and bounce their titties all over but they can only do so where and when daddy says - and daddy KNOWS because they wearing a tracking anklet with cameras and microphones. Dad's pretty cool and he doesn't care if she smokes pot or drinks but if she says she doesn't like her anklet or that her dad is a dick, she's in trouble! If she goes against daddy's will once, he will sit her down and spank her firmly...a second time and here come the fuzzy handcuffs and assplay!
I think what I'm basically saying is that governments are asshole pedophiles...
Sure...Panama is good except when they use excessive force to quell protesters and kill innocent civilians. Or when they take a page out of the textbook from the early years of the United States and force indigenous peoples to relocate in order to build a dam.
Costa Rica is neato unless you can't have children and want to use science. Also, make sure you're not gay.
This was a 5 minute search. Not saying that the US is better...just saying that these aren't better either necessarily.
I don't understand how this applies at all. Granted the US is harsher specifically about 'indecent exposure' but there aren't ANY societies (including the city of Stockholm) that just allow people to cruise down the street completely naked. There are definitely nude beaches but you can find those in the US also...maybe not in Dallas proper but there are definitely some in Texas.
Also, I find it a bit ridiculous that you're comparing a societal opposition to public nudity to societal opposition to races' or religions' differing social norms. Please visit this link for illustration of this concept.
Have you also lived in the US? Not trying to be abrasive or argumentative, I'm just curious.
Most people I know who have lived for an extended period of time in the US and European countries have mixed feelings. The general sense that I get is that in European countries, people are more comfortable lacking liberty because there is less pretense that the government has the best intentions of the people in mind whereas in the US, people are told that the government supports liberty while actively working to obstruct it to garner more control. Most of the people I've spoken with at length pretty much agree that the actual level of freedom is pretty much the same but just in different ways...essentially two sides of the same coin.
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WHat (I'm not sure what a W Hat is.) is readign and writing (You misspelled reading. Also, this should be 'are reading and writing'.) [first] (Unnecessary word...makes no sense in the context of the sentence. Also missing punctuation.)
first get your self some ability to read and write ...now go back and try again ...
first (needs capitalization) get your self (this is one word, yourself, unless you are talking about his Ego - learn about reflexive pronouns) some ability to read and write ...now go back and try again ... (overusage of the ellipsis - use actual punctuation)
what is human left or right.....anyhow?
what (You don't like capitalization, do you?) is human left or right (WHOOSH...human right as in "unalienable rights") ..... (Super ellipsis - why?) anyhow? (Okay...you're fucking with me right? You implied a pause in your sentence with your very long ellipsis and then you make a statement but follow it with a question mark similar to the Anchorman faux pas "I'm Ron Burgundy?")
I hope you're joking.
They can't keep uninsured unlicensed drivers off the road...but they can wiretap almost every digital communication made and make inferences as to personal relations and potential terrorist threats. Something tells me that if they really really wanted to focus on the uninsured/unlicensed, there would be a program wasting billions of education dollars to do it.
Just wanted to inform you that not just Sony has been breeched.
Sony has not put pants on? Breeched...breached... :) On less of a grammar nazi point, though, I think you're confused about the breach in question: http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/04/26/us-sony-stoldendata-idUSTRE73P6WB20110426
Sony specifically was definitely breached and customer data was stolen to the tune of 77 million users. Not only is that a breach, that is a holy-fuck-that's-almost-all-of-our-userbase style breach. You are correct in that some hacker says he has released all this information in an encrypted format and that if he gets punished, he will release it...no one knows that he actually has anything but millions of garbled text files with random character strings in them, though, and likely never will so that doesn't exactly compare with Sony's crazy breach. With regard to the following statement:
They were very upfront about backwards compatibility on PS3. From day zero they said this was a temporary feature to transition from Ps2 to PS3. It was also a huge reason for the cost overrun of the PS3 (EEs were still not cheap chips in 2007).
They actually were not up-front about removal of backwards compatibility at any time in the future after release and only when the chips became more expensive did they start removing it from most subsequent versions of the PS3. Given that fact, however, I will still say that some games are still backward compatible with the initial versions of the PS3. If, as you said, you still have the 60GB fat, you can still play those. However, I challenge you to find me the press release from Sony prior to the release of the PS3 that identified ANY future timeline in which backwards compatibility would be removed for any reason because I am pretty sure I would have seen that information in the research I did prior to release.
With regard to your points about Microsoft...I'm not defending them but I think you just don't like them. I'm not quite sure what you are referring to as a joypad but if you're talking about the controller, the PS3 controller is also proprietary...sooo....yeah. With regard to the non-standard HDD, I actually agree here with you so 1 point for us both. Also, HD-DVD players were an accessory...completely useless, you're right. The thing is, though, just because they tried to sell them doesn't make them dicks. Granted they should have incorporated Blu-ray from jump street but Sony was charging exorbitant licensing fees at that time purposely to keep them out of the 360 so who is the real dick here? Finally, these consoles were both released when HDMI was just becoming the standard for home theater connectivity. Sony had the foresight to include it, MS did not include it until subsequent versions. Even still, though, MS listed their features and specs on the box as did PS3 and the PS3 features were the only ones that were forcibly changed by the company after early adopters purchased the console.
Oh and btw...Netflix was the culprit behind having to have a streaming subscription and a DVD subscription and MS had nothing to do with it in the least. Not sure where you're getting your information but I think you might need to look some stuff up.
I'm prefacing this by saying my intent is not to insult and I can respect what you are saying and your reasoning.
I have been a hunter all of my life so part of the routine when I kill an animal is gutting and butchering it myself. For me and for anyone who works in an animal processing industry, the blood and gore associated with the meat is simply a step that has to be gone through in order to obtain the animal's meat for cooking and eating. Ultimately as slim has pointed out, this is a conditioned thing and it has actually been conditioned OUT of our day to day and our eating habits by things like large scale agriculture, transportation and shipping systems, grocery stores and the like. Because we no longer have to butcher our own meats to eat and survive, societies have become more sensitive to the bloody part of meat processing and ultimately, my personal opinion is that people have lost a critical amount of respect for the animals they eat because of it.
Slim says below that he enjoyed the pork all the more knowing exactly where it came from - some may see this as some sort of sadistic behavior or something but I identify with this because you connect on some level with the animal you are eating and you have an appreciation for what it takes to get your food to your plate at the basest level. While you may be put off by things like blood and gore, for us it is simply part of a process that we have to go through to get our foods. I can imagine that in almost every living person's near past, raising or hunting and subsequently butchering animals and the associated blood and gore was what fed you and your family.
Your grandparents probably considered this part of daily life and thought nothing of it...pretty interesting how quickly our cultural conditioning can change in my opinion. On the flip-side of the coin it would be interesting to see how quickly that conditioning would disappear if we went through a major agricultural shortage or something along those lines.
HEY! You need to calm down with that! They are professional in an indie-hip-I'm_way_cooler_than_you-progressive-warmfuzzy way that you just wouldn't understand!
Seriously, though...I'm completely with you. As a nerd I can appreciate a progressive work environment that is more comfortable and less corporate chic/stuffy but we are going way too far these days. Kittens and ponies...you might as well tell girls that are seriously interested in web development "Get into rails development so you can make shitty pages like we all used to when we were 15!" If you're supposed to appeal to women and show them that they can do it too, at least try to make it somewhat professional so it will appeal to adults instead of children. It doesn't need to be corporate, just not ponies and kittens...holy hell.
This exact same thing happens on your side of the fence, too. Liberals bemoan the 'archaic' conservative viewpoint and how much it hinders their view of a progressive world where the government gives you everything you need to live all the time.
Know what I think? You're all a bunch of yo-yos. Shut up ya yo-yos. Until you wake the fuck up and realize that there aren't only two options out there, we are going to be stuck in this ridiculous slap fight in which we accomplish nothing. Liberals and Conservatives are both sides of the exact same coin and they have a vested interest in keeping us going back and forth at each others' throats. The longer they do this, the more people lose focus of the fact that the government is supposed to be an extension of the people's will. Instead, we have more liberties taken away, more power bestowed upon the governing 'class', and more politicians sipping tea in their white towers thinking about how great it is to be the king.
Grow up. You might as well be arguing Santa Claus vs the Easter Bunny for how effective either of them are at running the country.
We have about 25,000 BYOD users and ferociously protect our IP. I wish you luck in your crusade against the customers you serve. It seems to be working out for the RIAA/MPAA.
I don't understand your rationale that company security policies are some 'crusade' against the customers that company serves. Customers are not the same as employees...
Maybe the 'BYOD users' you are talking about are your customers and in that case, you probably have some other heavy security mechanisms to prevent those users from manipulating your IP. Either way, your business is not a candidate for NAC and your input is pretty much irrelevant.
If the terms of your employment are that you BYOD and comply with company security policies then you do that or you don't have a job. I'm not saying you're wrong...I also believe they should be responsible for providing you with a company resource to comply with security policies. In fact, almost every company with a BYOD policy actually does do this and BYOD is simply a policy that allows users to work in a more convenient fashion with their own equipment.
Almost every BYOD policy I've seen implemented is due to complaints about not being able to get on the corporate network with their iPad or connect to the corporate network with their personal laptop via VPN. In the case where users want that access, it is up to the company to either allow it and enforce security on those BYOD devices just like they are company resources or to disallow them entirely and tell the personnel to eat it. All the BYOD policies I've ever seen that require a user provide their own equipment operate through Virtual Desktops anyway so there are no strict compliance rulesets for the devices people use..just simply that they have web browser access and can install a Citrix agent or something along those lines.
MAC address spoofing doesn't help vs a well implemented NAC solution as the MAC address of the connecting device is not the only authentication factor. Many NAC solutions even require agents to be installed on the connected machine so that an analysis of installed software and hardware can be performed as an additional authenticator and many will pre-scan connecting devices for offending/unsecure software and quarantine them in a segregated network with no routing abilities.
Once implemented, a NAC isn't an incredible hassle to manage and 802.1X even allows for a port to be re-enabled once the offending device is disconnected from the port so you don't have to manually reenable the port every time someone plugs in an unauthorized resource. It is extremely costly, however, and the effort integrate it properly so that it can't be bypassed by simple means is huge so a NAC is not a great solution unless your industry or company requires it.
There is a definite cost to implementing NAC but I'm confused as to how you believe a home device with malware is going to authenticate itself. There are many complex malware programs out there that can attempt a variety of attack vectors but none complex enough to bypass a NAC solution worth its' salt with anything but the baddest 0-day exploits.
There was a BlackHat presentation made in relation to NAC that presents some of these potential attack vectors (http://www.blackhat.com/presentations/bh-dc-07/Arkin/Presentation/bh-dc-07-Arkin-ppt-up.pdf), however in a fully secured, fully featured NAC deployment, the likelihood is almost zero. Like you said, the cost of the solution and the time and resources devoted to implementation are all high so it really needs to be an industry requirement or something of the like but a well implemented NAC solution in tandem with well developed security policies provides an extremely high level of security. IAANSE (Network Security Engineer)
Your company has no secure resources that you or your superiors are worried about then and you are not a candidate for NAC as the parent poster was. That or your company's IT staff, including you, is actually the incompetent group and if you ever get compromised by an outsider with malicious intent, you're fucked.
Pretty much seems like the entire point of this site. News for nerds...did we as nerds stop caring about hardware suddenly? I was not included in this memo.
I am pretty sure the left is doing just as good a job at tanking the US (if not better). Left and right are both part of the same social clubs and circles and regardless of their differences in public political opinions, these guys on both sides of the fence are friends when they are not hanging out in their white towers with their noses above their 'constituents'. Unless we get over attitudes like this where you place all your blame on the 'other side' and blindly decry that yours is the side of right, we will continue the downward spiral into the drain.
I understand you were trying to be funny (and you were) but this Turd Sandwich vs. Giant Douche mentality makes me want to to go back in time and baby shake everyone into retardation or death.
Most times it is all about budget. If you can purchase a fully redundant infrastructure environment, you can suffer end-of-life failures and replace those devices with newer equipment, even out of warranty. You also get the benefit of having backup in the event of an infrastructure failure. Ideally, we would all have a fully redundant infrastructure to start with and then periodically rip it all out and replace it with newer/modern equipment after EOL/EOS...the problem is that, in my experience, the new products completely replace the old products within a few years, thus making the choice for you. The best approach you can have IMO, is a staggered one that allows you to operate and use the equipment you have already while improving in critical areas such as your core switching/routing and then staging replacements of less critical resources like edge switches. It goes like this:
Day 1: Purchase initial gear for company and cold standby spares for edge devices if possible
3 years later: Purchase redundant distribution and core infrastructure devices with newer technology as well as approx. 1 edge switch with newer technology for every 5 edge devices. Migrate all critical routing and switching tasks to new infrastructure as the primary path while still allowing failback to the older, redundant architecture (even at a loss of speed...your goal is uptime). Also migrate critical resources at the edge to the newer switches while keeping the older switches as cold standby spares.
3 years later: Completely replace all EOL/EOS distribution and core infrastructure with newer technology and sell the older equipment on eBay. Also purchase edge switch replacements for all devices older than 4 years if possible. The newer switches should be kept as cold standby spares.
The reasoning behind a complete edge switch replacement every 6 years is due to technology improvements (i.e. FastE -> GbE -> 10GbE -> 40GbE -> etc.) This may not be important for all environments and it may not be possible as every 6 years you have a higher expense in edge replacements than any time during the interim. A way around this is to purchase spares or replacements yearly as part of a Capitol Expenditure budget rather than a projects budget requiring approvals.
Ultimately you end up with redundant core infrastructure that is never older than 6 years and with active core infrastructure that is never older than 3 years. Also, you either stagger replacements of edge switches as well as having cold spares or you replace all edge switches every 6 years and still have cold spares in the event of a device failure. You end up keeping up with technology (albeit maybe a year or so behind the 'latest and greatest' depending on budget), you have redundancy in the event that a device is EOL/EOS and cannot be replaced, and you have periodic refreshes of the redundant architecture that keeps your critical services running.
And who said Chivalry is dead? Granted there are a lot of assholes out there just throwing around their BDSM fetish porn all willy-nilly, but I would say most are like you and me and keep that shit under wraps until at least the second date.
Your opinion is the exact reason that most pre-graduate school science classes are garbage...the professors teaching the subject have no imagination and therefore cannot present topics in anything but a dry, unenthusiastic drawl that kills the motivation of potential creative thinkers to seek out new knowledge and to advance our species' understanding of the nature of things. The author is not stating that this new research is anything close to finding a 99.9% solid theory...FTA:
Our results suggest a potentially general thermodynamic model of adaptive behavior as a nonequilibrium process in open systems.
Their results suggest a potentially general thermodynamic model of adaptive behavior as a nonequilibrium process in open systems. In other words, more research needs to be done but their initial review and experimental process based on recent advancements in other fields points to a result which he has published a paper around. First, How is this not science? And second, How is this not exactly the type of science that moves our knowledge and understanding forward in the best way? Even if he is proven to be wrong, his results are enticing and can lead others to consider how these results can be differently applied.