Posts by Crazy Operations Guy 2513 publicly visible posts • joined 29 Jun 2009
Well, the button colors kinda give it away as well. The pictured device is using the SNES controller port type, which used gray and purple buttons. It wasn't until a later version of the SNES when the four-color buttons started appearing on controllers, long after the partnership melted down.
Once all is said and done, you aren't going to be saving that much cash moving to cloud services. You have to bring in consultants to come in and size what you'd need in the cloud to replicate what you get on your current boxes, then you need more consultants to come in and fix your code to work with that new cloud, then you'll need even more consultants to come in to integrate the cloud bits back into your monitoring systems. And during this migration, you'll be paying for both your own stuff and the cloud, which can make for some pretty eye-watering purchase orders...
The cloud is great when you need another datacenter, you have some kid of public-facing service that can get hammered at a moment's notice, or you need some extra boxes while you wait on the delivery of more boxes / DC expansion / network upgrade / etc.
That the problem with deciding between "Increase security just a bit" and "substantially improve performance"... While the performance hit is fairly trivial nowadays, there was never a reason to change it. Users demand things be fast and pretty, they don't care about security...
"Also because it is opensource, you can fix it yourself"
I am a staunch supporter of Open Source, but I have to say that arguments like this help no one and only serve to ruin the image of Open Source in the people's minds when they find out what is involved to "fix it yourself". That argument just alienates people that would otherwise love Open Source because they have neither the time nor skills nor inclination to write and/or apply patches to random pieces of software.
Simple solution: save anything even slightly subversive to a Micro-SD card, infinitely easier to hide than a book (and easier to make copies and distribute). With even very simple compression, you can hide an entire library's worth of books behind a postage stamp. Digital information is also so much easier to copy and distribute, you can pop a card into a phone and transfer every piece of banned writing in a matter of a few minutes, or code up a simple P2P torrent like system over Bluetooth (like Fire Chat) and you can disseminate information to a whole city by just passing through it.
I assume you mean IP addresses... MAC addresses are only used on the local network segment. But even then, you can use whatever MAC you want so long as its not already in use on the network segment and has the 16th bit in the address set (to differentiate it from a multicast address). I've seen quite a bit of MAC spoofing on public networks since most non_free wifi spots authenticate with it, so if you grab one of a machine that is disconnecting, you can steal the session and get a free connection.
"Also the DMCA contains a law enforcement/intelligence services free pass."
Yeah, US intelligence services and Law Enforcement...
"Oh, and the DMCA is a USA law, and this is GCHQ we are talking about."
So sue GCHQ in a US federal court. People use those courts to sue foreign countries all the time. Or maybe in Texas's courts, who just love copyright laws.
But overall, I just want to see it happen, I am not saying it would produce any sort of benefit for anyone, just a symbolic gesture to the GCHQ that breaking our security products is uncool.
As most companies would argue, reverse-engineering software like this is a violation of various patents and is circumventing copyright mechanisms, so thus would be fair game under the DMCA...
I also wonder if they bothered getting proper licenses for those products anyway. Might be a fun lawsuit to see the government hoisted up by shitty laws they rushed through...
I've had similar thoughts back when I was a kid with television. The channels would block all the explicit stuff before my parents went to bed, so they remained unaware of what is broadcast late at night on the movies channels, but I sure wasn't.
I found it quite ironic that the thing set up to protect children did exactly that, except it was protecting young boys from their parents...
I"d think that a simple setting in the setup utility would work. Allow updates to be written to a purely-storage section of the UEFI chip and then when you reboot, and option would appear in the setup utility and would ask whether you want to apply the update or not.
I would think that with all the breached organizations offering free credit monitoring and identify theft protection, I;d think that the average American would be getting these services for free for the rest of their lives.
First there was Target, then Home Depot, the Anthem Insurance, and now this....
The rationalization that disallowing personal information to leave a country is expensive is idiotic... Sure it'll cost some money. Putting a couple servers in a datacenter isn't all that expensive and may be cheaper since you'd save a lot of money on network transit fees, plus your services will have a lot lower latency for the customer. It would also give a company a much better uptime if everything is distributed rather than in one or two bit barns on the other side of the planet.... Beside, isn't it much better to keep data near where it will be used?
I'd think that by the time 2025 rolls around, I'd think that there'd be a purpose-built protocol / network for M2M. Although I'd like to see a sort of hybrid network developed that would run both consumer internet and cellular communications to replace both WiFi and 4G, preferably some kind of mesh-network to greatly improve available bandwidth.
The second the money is transferred, one of the relevant government would notice and arrest the person responsible right after freezing their assets... Receiving money for spilling a secret agreement like this could be considered treason. So who would be close enough to the trade talks to get a copy yet value their life at less than $100,000?
I should've known better than to express my personal opinion about a game on the internet...
Other than taking a lot of time, I love minecraft (on a similar level to complaining that your child keeps you up all night; its understood that you love the thing, but still get annoyed). Its just that with my work schedule and social obligations, I have little time to relax by myself so all I want to do is dive into a virtual world for a couple of hours where there are no ridiculous deadlines, no complaining users, and no python scripts failing tasks that the script has completed successfully thousands of times before.
I would've thought that something this important would have a lot of redundancy built in, like a complete backup facility. Or possibly wire all the air control systems in the EU together so that if any single country's system went out, a neighboring authority could pick it up nearly instantaneously. Hell, I would like to see the entire world stitched together for something like this, where if the control towers in Los Angles went down, routing of the traffic could be picked up by control center in Germany. Of course such a system would be air-gapped from the internet, possibly using redundant fiber and satellite controls.
I love how he believes that CSI and Big Bang Theory are good shows... Both are full of flat, 1-dimentional characters completely misunderstanding technology, formulaic and predictable plots, and cost way too much to produce. Also, CSI is getting cancelled because of how much it cost to produced each episode, and I don't think that Big Bang Theory is long for this world for the same reason (Why exactly do they need to pay Barbie $1,000,000 an episode?)
The Windows Store is to get apps that work on all the various Windows platform, including Windows Phone and Windows RT. Mozilla, Steam, and LibreOffice don't work on those... Half the point of the store is to give you a similar experience on all of Microsoft's products unlike the dichotomies between OS X and iOS or Linux and Android.
Indeed. The only apps that I've noticed that aren't in the Windows Store are Lyft and Tinder; but in place of those, I have Uber and self-respect... Otherwise it has what I care about. But then I'm a business user, so no need for a lot of the bullshit that floods the Android and Apple stores.
Noting in the article is specific to "the cloud". Those are all issues that were present long before market droids started slapping "Cloud" onto every piece of technology they came across.
The cloud is nothing more than a bunch of VMs stapled together with some management software, nothing special abut that, people were doing it for years. IBM had been selling compute time on a carved up mainframe that was shared between several users. Later, we ended up with slices on the Big Iron where each piece can be moved between pieces of iron with little-to-no down time. Not all that different than what the cloud does now and this was happening the Berlin wall was still up...
Why would traffic need to go to the US anyway? Singapore is wired in to the SEA-ME-WE pipes as well as several massive pipes connecting to China, India, Taiwan, Hong Kong, South Korea, and points beyond. Any website or internet service anyone would want either is mirrored in Singapore already, in a nearby country, or is of trivial significance.
I've been getting scam calls from malware-infected phones lately. The call appears to come from a friend or coworker, and then when I go to look at their phone, lo and behold, right on the file system is an app (random string of characters) that doesn't show up in the phone's UI that has managed to get permissions to make phone calls and access the address book with a pike of audio files hanging out in the directory.
What a load of bullshit.
First off, Putin wasn't in charge of Russia during the Monica Lewinsky Scandal, that would be Medvedev... Second, Putin does own a cell phone, there are plenty of pictures of him using one, plus numerous videos of him doing so as well. Third, there would be no way in hell that Bill would have been able to transfer any sort of money to Russia without a so much scrutiny to make it impossible, let alone an internationally controlled organization such as the IMF.
In the US, the RICO act allows for confiscating anything that was purchased from the proceeds of a crime. The FBI, DEA, and the other organizations have taken cars, phones, and even houses. They can make you homeless if make even a single mortgage payment using even a single penny that was gained from crime. They can then turn around and use that property for whatever they want, including selling it and dumping the cash into their budgets, and if it turns out that you were innocent, they'll give you the profit they made on the sale (Usually only 10%, but many times less than the actual value of the item).
Yeah, I remember reading about how GPS satellites have to be engineered with both general AND special relativity taken into account, in addition to such things as the speed of propagation of Electromagnetic waves in atmosphere and, to a lesser extent, the gravitation lensing effect.
Having illogically defined time zones already makes synchronizing with astronomical time pointless. I suppose it would make a bit of sense if our time zones where split correctly so that local 'noon' was at the point where the sun was directly 'overhead'.
This whole leap seconds stuff, to me, is about as useful as moving the distance markers along the highway because the pavement expands and contracts with age. Sure moving it a few centimeters would make it more accurate, but you'd have to disrupt the flow of traffic to do it, and its such a small change that almost no one will ever notice the change itself, only the side effects.
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