Worried about exposed sshd? Install pam-abl and watch the brute force attackers waste their time.
Thanks for the link to pam-abl. That was the first I'd heard of it. Neat module.
Personally, I've always gone with RSAAuthentication yes PubkeyAuthentication yes PasswordAuthentication no
and I sleep well at night. Although I have to admit, I sure see an assload of this type of crap in the logs: May 9 11:12:38 imap sshd[15366]: reverse mapping checking getaddrinfo for ras-185-151.wntpr.net [196.12.185.151] failed - POSSIBLE BREAK-IN ATTEMPT! May 9 11:12:38 imap sshd[15366]: Invalid user matt4 from 196.12.185.151 May 9 11:12:44 imap sshd[15368]: reverse mapping checking getaddrinfo for ras-185-151.wntpr.net [196.12.185.151] failed - POSSIBLE BREAK-IN ATTEMPT! May 9 11:12:44 imap sshd[15368]: Invalid user mat4 from 196.12.185.151 May 9 11:12:46 imap sshd[15370]: reverse mapping checking getaddrinfo for ras-185-151.wntpr.net [196.12.185.151] failed - POSSIBLE BREAK-IN ATTEMPT! May 9 11:12:46 imap sshd[15370]: Invalid user mat from 196.12.185.151
Thank you ONCE AGAIN internet for broadening our horizons, whether we like it or not.
I guess I forgot the corollary to "if you can think of it, it's real, and you can find it on the Internet." Corollary: and there is already a porn site for it.
I'm at the office so I can't google *that* for you. You'll just have to trust the rules of the Internet.
I still speak perl occasionally, and since I still have parents I do occasionally have to experience Hebrew.
My condolences. On the perl, that is. Hebrew-speaking parents can be great fun. I don't have any myself, so I just have to live vicariously through others.
Again I'll point out, "not having the skills to make a zip gun" means not having a basic understanding of general physics. Don't be so hard on yourself.
Not believing that I could make a zip gun is functionally the same as not actually being able to make one. Even if I went to the trouble to look up plans on the Internet, I wouldn't trust myself to make a contraption that would be safe to fire.
A 3-D print file that has been made thousands of times and doesn't require any of my lack of carpentry/metalworking skills seems a little safer to me. Once the tech improves a bit, of course.
Well, it was not my intention to depress anybody. It's just slashdot, after all. I sincerely hope that you are able to settle on "funny" because otherwise, I fear that you might potentially be taking the Internet a little too seriously.
Question: Let's say you were reading a post that you found to be insightful, but at the end, it said, "I hate tragedy (27079)". Would you mod it up? If you had already modded it up, would you undo it?
I guess at this point you're really obligated to say that you'd accept the sig in good humor, so I won't await an answer. I'll just leave this one to you as a rhetorical exercise.
Anyway, after reading the sig, I no longer found the post to be insightful enough to merit an insightful mod from me. Surely other people with mod points will reach their own conclusions. It's not like I downmodded him or something, which would have been completely obnoxious.
Every now and then I get a headache, or muscle ache, or hurt myself in some way. Regardless of the source of the pain if I take paracetamol I get no noticeable pain relief, it feels exactly like taking a placebo.
Personally, I find that ibuprofen is a more effective over-the-counter pain reliever. It can cause people stomach problems, but I haven't experienced that personally. I think you need to already have ulcers or really take a lot of the stuff for it to mess up your stomach.
As someone who has a 3D printer, you glossed over the part on how to actually get it to work nicely for you, which is a pain in the butt and takes a long time, with lots and lots of frustrating trial and error. But since it's called "printing" it must just be as simple as clicking a mouse, right?
3-D printing technology is in its infancy. Remember how difficult it was to burn a CD in the late 90s? It would work correctly about 25% of the time, and the other 75% you'd end up with $10 coasters? It didn't take long before the tech became much more reliable (buffer underrun protection, etc.) and the media to become much less expensive.
You're an early adopter, so you get the pleasure of dealing with the tech while it's still a pain in the ass. Please be assured that your ass pain is a temporary situation, and the tech will improve by leaps and bounds over the coming years. It may not currently be as simple as bringing your new printer home from OfficeDepot, plugging it in, and printing a gun, but in 10 years, it will be.
Or Postgres, which is better than MySQL in numerous objective/technical ways and has been for years.
It's been a while since I've checked, but Postgres lacked native replication for many years, and when it finally got it, it was still pretty rough around the edges.
I can make a mysql cluster that will have roughly zero downtime (obviously we can never say "zero" because that's impossible). As of the last time I checked, that was not possible with postgres. Upgrades meant downtime. Major version upgrades meant export/import of data.
Anyway, I'm well aware of the technical deficiencies of MySQL. Like anything else in life, when you choose something, it's a trade-off. Do you care more about minimizing downtime or well-known out-of-spec behaviors? There's no right or wrong answer to that. It's all in what you can live with for any given application.
The only reason this is going to gain any legislation traction will be due to A) frenzied knee-jerk reactionaries running amok screaming "Think of the children!" B) Politicians proxying legislation from corporations with an agenda in one direction or the other.
This is different from Zip guns in the following way: most people who would be outraged by Zip guns can't make one themselves, so they assume that since they are so smart and couldn't make one, that this can't be a real problem. Indeed, I probably don't have the skills to make a Zip gun, so it just doesn't seem real to me.
A 3-D printed gun, on the other hand, requires zero metalworking or woodworking skills. All you need to be able to do is to buy a 3-D printer and download plans from the Internet. That just seems way more real to your average clueless person like me. Sort of an "I'm an idiot, and if I could make one of these, then it's too goddamn easy" kind of reaction.
If your dog is licking his balls excessively, it could be a sign of skin irritation, infection, or injury. In other words, if your dog is really going to town on his balls, that means that there's probably something wrong with him.
Similarly, if an IT "professional" abuses his authorities to wreak havoc on an organization, there is probably something wrong with him, too.
Why do people ever think that it's a good idea to leave a trail of destruction behind them?
It doesn't make you clever, you're just abusing access. Any idiot screw things up.
There's a huge potential downside for you: if you get caught, you face prosecution, or at the very least, a negative recommendation.
And obviously there is no upside for you. It's not like your tantrum is going to get you that job/promotion/whatever. You want them to miss you because they used to have such great quality work products from you, and now they don't have them anymore.
Awesome work, not tantrums, is what will keep you in a happy professional career.
Intent vs. accident. School vs. non-school (we have a lot of knee-jerk laws in response to school attacks that severely penalize anything mixing 'weapons' and 'school'). BB gun vs. bomb.
Look, I am 100% in agreement that the prosecutor and police are in the wrong here, charging her under school violence statutes. They're showing a total lack of discretion (and frankly common sense). This should have been handled by the school with a short suspension and project on safe handling of household chemicals.
I didn't read anything about the BB gun kid, but just off the top of my head, there are several differences between the BB gun kid and the Drano bomb kid.
First, you have intent. BB gun incident was probably an accident, yet Drano bomb was intentional.
Second, you have gun vs. bomb. Bombs are treated more harshly than guns.
Third, you have school vs. at home. There were a lot of hastily-written laws written in the wake of school attacks that severely penalize mixing weapons with school property. Her "offense" was at school, and his was at home (I think?).
Fourth, you have victim vs. no victim. Obviously this one goes against the BB gun kid, not the Drano bomb kid.
So really, I don't think that we can look at the Drano bomb kid being black and saying that it must be racism. The two allegations are very different.
Finally, please don't construe this as advocating the harsh treatment that Drano girl has received. As I've pointed out elsewhere, I think that this incident should have been handled by the school, not the police, and that a suspension and project on safe handling of household chemicals would have been appropriate punishment.
But as someone who (as a kid) did more than my share of disruptive, loud, messy things, I can tell you that even before 9/11 and IEDs and "zero tolerance" doing this in a school bathroom would have resulted in punishment.
This isn't about whether or not she should have been punished. Making a Drano bomb was wrong, and making it on school property was even wronger. Her actions definitely merited disciplinary action.
The issue here is the proportionality of it all. Did the punishment fit the crime? Personally, I believe that the punishment was insanely excessive. Beyond all common sense. If it were my call to make, I would have given her a 1 week school suspension, required her to write a written apology to the classmates who were in the area for putting them in danger, and required her to write a report on the safe handling of household chemicals.
Do you really think that you should today still have to answer for all of the stupid shit that you did when you were a teenager? I wouldn't want to live in such a world, either. But that's what's being done to this kid. I don't give a shit what sex she was, what color she was, or about any of the other distractions in the summary. Wrong is wrong, and that transcends everything. What's being done to this kid is wrong.
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Worried about exposed sshd? Install pam-abl and watch the brute force attackers waste their time.
Thanks for the link to pam-abl. That was the first I'd heard of it. Neat module.
Personally, I've always gone with
RSAAuthentication yes
PubkeyAuthentication yes
PasswordAuthentication no
and I sleep well at night. Although I have to admit, I sure see an assload of this type of crap in the logs:
May 9 11:12:38 imap sshd[15366]: reverse mapping checking getaddrinfo for ras-185-151.wntpr.net [196.12.185.151] failed - POSSIBLE BREAK-IN ATTEMPT!
May 9 11:12:38 imap sshd[15366]: Invalid user matt4 from 196.12.185.151
May 9 11:12:44 imap sshd[15368]: reverse mapping checking getaddrinfo for ras-185-151.wntpr.net [196.12.185.151] failed - POSSIBLE BREAK-IN ATTEMPT!
May 9 11:12:44 imap sshd[15368]: Invalid user mat4 from 196.12.185.151
May 9 11:12:46 imap sshd[15370]: reverse mapping checking getaddrinfo for ras-185-151.wntpr.net [196.12.185.151] failed - POSSIBLE BREAK-IN ATTEMPT!
May 9 11:12:46 imap sshd[15370]: Invalid user mat from 196.12.185.151
Thank you ONCE AGAIN internet for broadening our horizons, whether we like it or not.
I guess I forgot the corollary to "if you can think of it, it's real, and you can find it on the Internet." Corollary: and there is already a porn site for it.
I'm at the office so I can't google *that* for you. You'll just have to trust the rules of the Internet.
It'd be kinda weird to do it alone!
I agree! But once again, the Internet proves that if you can think of it, it exists.
If you think that looks like cartoon swears, you should see old Sendmail configuration files...
Sorry, I only practice S&M with a partner.
I'm glad that you enjoy perl. To me, it just looks like Q*bert swearing.
Hope you got to see some good youtube videos!
I still speak perl occasionally, and since I still have parents I do occasionally have to experience Hebrew.
My condolences. On the perl, that is. Hebrew-speaking parents can be great fun. I don't have any myself, so I just have to live vicariously through others.
The music I get, but how does this tie in with the Perl code? Is this the madness one falls into after graduating from basic Perl Zealotry?
The perl code fits with the lyrics of the song. I'm guessing that this was your typical geeky "because I can" type exercise.
That's actually pretty good. I've never been happier that I speak Hebrew. And perl.
Me either. Of course, I've spoken neither Hebrew nor Perl for approximately 10 years, but we'll just ignore that.
Again I'll point out, "not having the skills to make a zip gun" means not having a basic understanding of general physics. Don't be so hard on yourself.
Not believing that I could make a zip gun is functionally the same as not actually being able to make one. Even if I went to the trouble to look up plans on the Internet, I wouldn't trust myself to make a contraption that would be safe to fire.
A 3-D print file that has been made thousands of times and doesn't require any of my lack of carpentry/metalworking skills seems a little safer to me. Once the tech improves a bit, of course.
Aha. So you probably also thought that his signature was crass and undeserving of a reward, no?
Well, it was not my intention to depress anybody. It's just slashdot, after all. I sincerely hope that you are able to settle on "funny" because otherwise, I fear that you might potentially be taking the Internet a little too seriously.
Question: Let's say you were reading a post that you found to be insightful, but at the end, it said, "I hate tragedy (27079)". Would you mod it up? If you had already modded it up, would you undo it?
I guess at this point you're really obligated to say that you'd accept the sig in good humor, so I won't await an answer. I'll just leave this one to you as a rhetorical exercise.
It makes you sound just a teensy bit uptight.
I've been accused of worse.
Anyway, after reading the sig, I no longer found the post to be insightful enough to merit an insightful mod from me. Surely other people with mod points will reach their own conclusions. It's not like I downmodded him or something, which would have been completely obnoxious.
Every now and then I get a headache, or muscle ache, or hurt myself in some way. Regardless of the source of the pain if I take paracetamol I get no noticeable pain relief, it feels exactly like taking a placebo.
Personally, I find that ibuprofen is a more effective over-the-counter pain reliever. It can cause people stomach problems, but I haven't experienced that personally. I think you need to already have ulcers or really take a lot of the stuff for it to mess up your stomach.
Commenting to undo my upmod. Read your sig.
As someone who has a 3D printer, you glossed over the part on how to actually get it to work nicely for you, which is a pain in the butt and takes a long time, with lots and lots of frustrating trial and error. But since it's called "printing" it must just be as simple as clicking a mouse, right?
3-D printing technology is in its infancy. Remember how difficult it was to burn a CD in the late 90s? It would work correctly about 25% of the time, and the other 75% you'd end up with $10 coasters? It didn't take long before the tech became much more reliable (buffer underrun protection, etc.) and the media to become much less expensive.
You're an early adopter, so you get the pleasure of dealing with the tech while it's still a pain in the ass. Please be assured that your ass pain is a temporary situation, and the tech will improve by leaps and bounds over the coming years. It may not currently be as simple as bringing your new printer home from OfficeDepot, plugging it in, and printing a gun, but in 10 years, it will be.
Or Postgres, which is better than MySQL in numerous objective/technical ways and has been for years.
It's been a while since I've checked, but Postgres lacked native replication for many years, and when it finally got it, it was still pretty rough around the edges.
I can make a mysql cluster that will have roughly zero downtime (obviously we can never say "zero" because that's impossible). As of the last time I checked, that was not possible with postgres. Upgrades meant downtime. Major version upgrades meant export/import of data.
Anyway, I'm well aware of the technical deficiencies of MySQL. Like anything else in life, when you choose something, it's a trade-off. Do you care more about minimizing downtime or well-known out-of-spec behaviors? There's no right or wrong answer to that. It's all in what you can live with for any given application.
It's not revelent until the AMAZON RDS adopts MariaDB over MySQL 5.5!
Isn't most of the point of RDS that you don't really have to care what's under the hood?
The only reason this is going to gain any legislation traction will be due to A) frenzied knee-jerk reactionaries running amok screaming "Think of the children!" B) Politicians proxying legislation from corporations with an agenda in one direction or the other.
This is different from Zip guns in the following way: most people who would be outraged by Zip guns can't make one themselves, so they assume that since they are so smart and couldn't make one, that this can't be a real problem. Indeed, I probably don't have the skills to make a Zip gun, so it just doesn't seem real to me.
A 3-D printed gun, on the other hand, requires zero metalworking or woodworking skills. All you need to be able to do is to buy a 3-D printer and download plans from the Internet. That just seems way more real to your average clueless person like me. Sort of an "I'm an idiot, and if I could make one of these, then it's too goddamn easy" kind of reaction.
Why does a dog lick his balls. Because he can...
An apt comparison.
If your dog is licking his balls excessively, it could be a sign of skin irritation, infection, or injury. In other words, if your dog is really going to town on his balls, that means that there's probably something wrong with him.
Similarly, if an IT "professional" abuses his authorities to wreak havoc on an organization, there is probably something wrong with him, too.
Why do people ever think that it's a good idea to leave a trail of destruction behind them?
It doesn't make you clever, you're just abusing access. Any idiot screw things up.
There's a huge potential downside for you: if you get caught, you face prosecution, or at the very least, a negative recommendation.
And obviously there is no upside for you. It's not like your tantrum is going to get you that job/promotion/whatever. You want them to miss you because they used to have such great quality work products from you, and now they don't have them anymore.
Awesome work, not tantrums, is what will keep you in a happy professional career.
I associate the EMC brand with "shitty, expensive storage that crashes all the time", but maybe that's just me and my personal experience.
Is there a law against tinfoil and cleaner yet?
If you use them to make a bomb, then yes.
Intent vs. accident. School vs. non-school (we have a lot of knee-jerk laws in response to school attacks that severely penalize anything mixing 'weapons' and 'school'). BB gun vs. bomb.
Look, I am 100% in agreement that the prosecutor and police are in the wrong here, charging her under school violence statutes. They're showing a total lack of discretion (and frankly common sense). This should have been handled by the school with a short suspension and project on safe handling of household chemicals.
I didn't read anything about the BB gun kid, but just off the top of my head, there are several differences between the BB gun kid and the Drano bomb kid.
First, you have intent. BB gun incident was probably an accident, yet Drano bomb was intentional.
Second, you have gun vs. bomb. Bombs are treated more harshly than guns.
Third, you have school vs. at home. There were a lot of hastily-written laws written in the wake of school attacks that severely penalize mixing weapons with school property. Her "offense" was at school, and his was at home (I think?).
Fourth, you have victim vs. no victim. Obviously this one goes against the BB gun kid, not the Drano bomb kid.
So really, I don't think that we can look at the Drano bomb kid being black and saying that it must be racism. The two allegations are very different.
Finally, please don't construe this as advocating the harsh treatment that Drano girl has received. As I've pointed out elsewhere, I think that this incident should have been handled by the school, not the police, and that a suspension and project on safe handling of household chemicals would have been appropriate punishment.
But as someone who (as a kid) did more than my share of disruptive, loud, messy things, I can tell you that even before 9/11 and IEDs and "zero tolerance" doing this in a school bathroom would have resulted in punishment.
This isn't about whether or not she should have been punished. Making a Drano bomb was wrong, and making it on school property was even wronger. Her actions definitely merited disciplinary action.
The issue here is the proportionality of it all. Did the punishment fit the crime? Personally, I believe that the punishment was insanely excessive. Beyond all common sense. If it were my call to make, I would have given her a 1 week school suspension, required her to write a written apology to the classmates who were in the area for putting them in danger, and required her to write a report on the safe handling of household chemicals.
Do you really think that you should today still have to answer for all of the stupid shit that you did when you were a teenager? I wouldn't want to live in such a world, either. But that's what's being done to this kid. I don't give a shit what sex she was, what color she was, or about any of the other distractions in the summary. Wrong is wrong, and that transcends everything. What's being done to this kid is wrong.