Posts by Crazy Operations Guy

Re: Odd world.

Certainly an odd world were people kill each other because they think that their book that tells them that killing is wrong is the right one and thus they must kill anyone who doesn't agree...

You could say the same about BlackBerry

Except they don't have the disadvantage of being in the USA where access to your data is one crooked judge away (Any judge working for a secret court is the epitome of amoral and corrupt).

Re: Dear Mr. Katzenberg

My smart phone has a Micro-HDMI port on it and I can connect it to a large TV, what size does that count as?

Re: I know, why don't they...

That one last ad before the show returns is usually added by the producers of the show rather than the channel, which is why the ident marker shows up.

Re: Gotta love their level of understanding

Persons downloading the report might be able to access the personal data if the document had some kind of embedded queries to a database rather than the data itself (Some pieces of report creation software will do this so it appears that the document is always fresh).

There is also the possibility (But I highly doubt it) that the document could have had some kind of DRM scheme attached to it (such as Microsoft AD-RMS)

Re: Why need a separate lamp and battery?

So that if the audio connector is accidentally removed before the tone is stopped (via closing microscope App or turning the lamp off) then you don't deafen the user or waste the batteries on bluetooth devices (Bluetooth transceivers will filter out inaudible tones to stop feedback loops but the internal speakers will not)

"Do you know who I am?"

When people try that line on me, I usually will respond with "If you really are important, then why are you here in person rather than have someone else take care of it for you?"

Try HSBC, trusted by drug rings, black markets, rogue states and terrorists for well over a decade. They may be evil, but they don't fuck over their customers (At least not as much as other banks) and seem to be immune from the NSA, CIA, MI*, GCHQ, FSB, et al.

Re: "and setup a small pfsense box"

Or just use OpenBSD and the built-in pf rather than its derivative.

Re: Location of the Microsoft/Crypto folder depends on the Windows version

Doesn't matter where it is, those files are encrypted anyway. You should be accessing them through the Certificates Manger in the MMC.

Re: " toughest substance in the known universe"

Indeed, a few months ago I helped my parents with their garden and unearthed a Lego from when they were kids (about 45 years). It was even in near-pristine condition, especially compared to the nearly-disintegrated plastic bucket that we also found that was from a mere 15 years ago. Seriously, what the hell are the made of? I think they will still be around even after the heat-death of the universe.

Re: "They have supplies to keep them in orbit for many, many days,"

They'll carry about a week's worth of provisions with them in case of emergency, specifically if something goes wrong at any point in the trip.

As for waste, it is either recycled back into fresh water or stowed in sealed bags and placed in the same compartments the food was carried up in. What better ballast material than something that has the same weight and consistency of what was there before; a balanced spacecraft is a happy spacecraft.

Re: erm...

You forgot the entropy of all the bureaucrats taking their cuts.

Re: Security

Exactly,

I have two problems with modern ads:

1) I am wasting cpu cycles and memory to have these things shown due to the hundreds or even thousands of lines of Javascript or Flash/ActionScript running from somewhere else, which brings me to:

2) All that code is hosted on a server that neither myself nor the organization running the website can control and the advertisers don't have much of an incentive to police so long as the money keeps rolling in.

I wouldn't mind advertisements that were just basic JPGs or GIFs hosted on the website itself. I also wouldn't mind if the website shipped its access logs off to the advertiser to analyze, they already end up with all that information and a lot more with the current ad systems.

Re: Much as I dislike Facebook, I wish...

I had tinkered with the idea of a social-network backed email system some time ago. It would be easy to determine if something is spam in real time with the data they have. If a message is sent to multiple people (or very similar messages are being sent) you'd just check to see if there is some sort of link between the recipients such as going to the same schools, having friends in common, etc. Otherwise you'd block the message as spam.

Re: Duh.

Or even the human body, other living creatures, smoke detectors, bricks, bananas, ceramics, and many other things that release ionizing radiation, which even though is on the level of nano- or pico-sieverts, is still more than a cell phone has ever produced.

Re: I've always hated the term 'DMZ' in relation to networks

'If your answer to that is "but I can control that from a central place" you have just indicated a new APT target, and therein lies the rub.'

You seem to have missed the point. In most networks, anyone inside the company could be launching point for attack, my point is to reduce the number of possible targets. I would rather have the IT department's systems and working harder to protect them than having to worry about the thousand other machines in the company that can access the management interfaces of the critical servers.

Also your comparison to a company that only has a single key is flawed in that I can replace my machines whenever I want and it wouldn't affect a damn thing, where a key needs to be replaced everywhere.

RE: SD cards / Read only

You do know that the little 'read-only' switch on the side of the card is merely a suggestion to the host, right?

In the operating system, the only thing that happens when you try to write to a card that is 'read-only' is that the OS will bitch at you, if you use the OS's built-in that is. However, you can just send the raw write command and data directly to the card without any problem.

However there is a read-only fuse built into the card you might have used, but then that would mean you are using old, vulnerable software since you can never reset it back to read-write.

What you should have done was to set your partitions to read-only except for /home, /tmp and /var/log. To update, you would mount the device you are booting from on another machine,edit fstab to be RW and then reboot to the device and update, reboot back into other OS and reset fstab to mark everything read-only. Of course this assumes you are using an OS that is intelligent enough to partition its data properly and not just cram everything in to one giant partition.

Re: Try ibiblio.org ..

Simpler than that:

The US doesn't allow you to export crypto software, but Canada does.

Neither, the algorithm they built was able to detect 68% of the known-spam accounts and incorrectly identified 5% of the known-good accounts as spam.

The algorithm wasn't running for 4 months either, the data they were using was on accounts that have been active for 4 months without being flagged but were determined to be spam accounts.

Re: Probably the most expensive 60g anyone will ever buy..

Or HP toner

At one point that stuff ended up costing more than pure, uncut cocaine.

Re: Politics v engineering

That's a side panel, not a solar panel. Also, every space-faring nation/organization puts their flag on the side.

Re: More not being evil coming up

I think its more like that guy in his late 30's buying a $500 hat to show that he "is still hip with the kids" and not some kind of corporate sell-out.