Posts by Wzrd1 2274 publicly visible posts • joined 7 Dec 2012
"And how is this any different from any politician or large corporate?"
You're obviously not from the United States. Six of one, half dozen of the other.
Where else do you think those eight billion dollar campaigns funding comes from?
The United States of America has the best government that money can buy.
Something this US citizen noticed decades ago.
Just think, this US citizen has to put up with this idiocy each and every day.
Well, there is one upside, Rush is losing listeners faster than a dying rat loses fleas. The advertisers are pulling out, as they're losing customers because of his phenomenally offensive moonbats.
Unless it is a newly discovered gas gradient.
Or my lost pen.
Or an odd mineral never seen before on Mars, which would be a stretch.
Hopefully, not a sign of my family Mars wilderness excursion. We always have practiced "leave no trace behind".
But then, I was a Cube Scout. Octagons were obscene to us.
"A thousand years is the right sort of timescale to evaluate climate change."
Bullshit, a century is more than enough to measure a change and find the cause.
At a thousand years, should the current observations and computed changes occur, Old Blighty will be a tiny island at its highest point and most of the productive crop areas on this planet will be either inundated or drier than the central Sahara.
If you want to take that risk for your progeny, I'd not have a problem with it, save for one thing.
You're trying to drag my progeny into the same hell you want to experiment with.
Therein, we have conflict.
I'm no keyboard warrior.
Indeed, as climate change happens over centuries and longer, this claim is simply one thing; bullshit on rye, being called a Reuben sandwich.
Now, if there was a provable claim that increased CO or CO2 caused, in controlled studies, shorter tongues on carpenter bees (US "bumblebees"), they *might* be onto something.
Curves can be derived upon base exposures of various colonies. It's not like those bees are rare.
That El Reg latched onto this, with a known anti-climate change bias that is due to sponsorship, yes, that is explainable.
I'll not discuss your occasional flip flop on climate change, however note your paid for stance. If you want the full information disclosed, I'll happily do so. Just think FANX.
What I concern myself with is this; You seem to desire a return of the Great Smog.
To be honest, I really don't care if Old Blighty does return to the Great Smog and the deaths and disease that ensued.
But, I'll kindly ask you not to try to champion that against my nation.
Lest I abuse my office and leak information I have access to that would badly damage your credibility.
Well, if the employee is absent for registration, OPM can always ask the Chinese ambassador for a copy of that employee's fingerprints.
Actually, two smart cards are used, a regular user account and an elevated user account to work on the machines.
The system was considered insurmountable, while I chuckled at the notion. Shortly after, the middleware was abused to compromised the machine remotely.
A couple of minor tweaks resulted in the ability to compromised the box when that employee is logged in with their smart card.
Whenever someone comes up with a better mousetrap, some bastard bioengineers a smarter mouse.
Interestingly, the one doing the bioengineering has a contract with the mousetrap company.
"They claim fingerprints are better because they are more secure and less likely to be stolen. Really?"
We kept multiple fingers registered on a fingerprint time clock registration system at a hospital I worked at. One cut, a burn, etc can keep the scanner from registering the employee being present for work, with wage loss resulting.
Eventually, the fingerprint feature was given up in disgust, as even the hospital CIO/VP couldn't register in with the bloody thing and only the ID card swipe was used.
Largely because the hospital BOFH was getting irritated and several time clocks near the IT shop had suspicious laser holes through the case and circuitry that corresponded in direction to the closet where the security androids were stored. And the horrific accident with the elevator next to the HR department, which was odd, as HR was on the ground floor and no elevator was ever installed in that building.
*Every* time I have had a background check for my clearance, my fingerprints are taken.
After all, I should have to prove that I am me and not somebody else equally ugly as me.
My DNA is on file as well, secondary to military service, so that my remains may be easier to identify.
Now, how many CIA operatives fingerprints were in that grab, who now will have one hell of a time covertly entering China as a businessperson?
Indeed, as I recall, around that time, Alaska was in a latitude akin to where New England lies today.
Meanwhile, modern science has decided that quite a few, if not all dinosaurs were warm blooded.
So, there'd be *some* snow, on occasion. But, food was always available, as warm bloodedness rather requires a constant source of food or hibernation, which is a bit absent in the animal kingdom for reptiles.
"...but isn't it like swimming upstream sometimes?"
Yep.
But then, I'm a professional dick. I helped raise two children and hundreds of Privates into proper soldiers.
So, I'm a persistent dick that trends toward near 100% accuracy on facts, which also makes me a pedantic dick.
"What's ios fuelled vomit ?"
Vomit that is far more corrosive than hydrogen fluoride.
Triggered by "inconveniences" created by Apple OS upgrades.
If you're a Microsoft centric type, think of upgrading from Windows 7 to Windows 8.
Crap. I just spit up a bit into my drinking glass and now it's fused into a corroded puddle.
As Bluetooth service on the Apple device turns off, that's an OS problem, not an application problem.
As a MacBook Pro user, let's just say that I'm underwhelmed with some of Apple's quality assurance, when it comes to software releases. You'd think that they took notes from the Windows NT4 team.
"You do realise that inside the WEP wifi connection there is strong encryption for the actual data payload right?"
Erm, you did *not* mistake WEP as secure, did you?
Seriously?!
I'm hoping that you meant WPA2, lest one and all consider you a village idiot.
SSL is more secure and it isn't the same layer of the OSI model. *That* should be the beginning of the session level security, the encryption of network traffic adding an additional layer to the security.
Although, if the app isn't written with security in mind, the session could be captured from the device itself before going into the initial encryption. See Home Depot for an example of a device level attack.
First, writing a secure app, then encrypting the IP level traffic with a hard encryption method, then have a secure encrypted wireless session (which for a mobile telephone is not WEP, WPA or FART).
It's called defense in depth.
Bollocks one layer? Still encrypted with secure, tough encryption.
"I'm sure there are similar solutions available for Android..."
My wife is an artist, who accepts commissions and also sells pre-prepared works. She uses a reader that has software for both iphone and android (we use android).
I'm considering adding paypal as well, to further diversify payment sources, as all charge 2.5 - 3% per transaction, which is a *lot* lower than the commercial credit card processing firms charge.
Those rechargeable units come from card processing companies that charge anything between 5% and 10% per transaction.
If you don't have enough transactions to their liking, they come by at night and break your legs.
OK, they don't do that, they start charging fees.
I can't find this service's fee amount, but it's likely they'd charge a similar amount to the leading competitors if they ever come to the US.
Most of the vendors like that in the US, counting PayPal charge around 2.5 - 3%. The big card payment vendors charge far more than that, 5% and up. That's where that minimum purchase bit comes in in the small mom and pop shops.
A smarter, more tech savvy mom and pop shop would use someone like Paypal or Square Trade or similar service, which is a lot less expensive than those large credit card processing leeches.
That's what my wife does for her artwork sales.
More likely it can be construed that the CIO of the hosting service hired a competent information security team to secure the servers.
The CSO would then consult the legal team to ascertain which disclosures should be made, terms of use displayed and disclosure of information sharing performed.
Most of these sites use pages identical to one another, candidate regardless, it appears thus far to be approximately 3 main hosting services and two or three odd ones out.
About the only TOR based website I visited was the original Silk Road. I nearly crapped myself when I saw handguns for sale, to be posted anywhere in the world.
Don't mistake my surprise, I'm a US citizen and own a number of firearms, for both hunting and competition shooting, but the damned things should only be sold with a background check, in a nation that permits such weapons to be sold.
@PeterGriffin, I work for a Fortune 200 company, in an office equidistant between the Friendship Annex of the NSA and the NSA headquarters. While that location may sound precise, it's not really.
We use TOR at work to research suspicious traffic and websites, I personally have my own node on a virtual machine to research such on a regular basis. We use TOR for non-attribution work.
Your 'criminals use it, so I won't' principle is equal to wanting to tear up the highway system because criminals use them.
Do you use knives to cut your food, prepare your food, etc? Criminals use them as weapons, will you now discard your kitchen knives because a very few criminals also use them as weapons?
When the valid, lawful uses of a technology greatly outnumber the illicit usages, one retains that technology.
I do believe that the ancient Athenians had the right of it to prohibit the idios from voting.
It'd be either on JWICS, an independent network that holds top secret and sensitive compartmentalized information or on SIPRnet, an independent network that holds confidential and secret information.
Most of the information on JWICS is the stuff that would start WWIII, or more commonly, excruciatingly boring information about really mundane things discovered by classified things, how nation sponsored APT malware works, who shot JR and similar boring crap. Well, that and how to build a thermonuclear weapon, if you have access to that specialized, segregated part of the network.
SIPRnet has the more interesting things, which nation did what, how and why that would cause trouble if it was openly disclosed, who sponsored which APT, *every* intelligence hit on where Osama bin Laden was thought to be, Apache gunship gunsight videos, a few SAS, US SF, US SEAL team, US Ranger team missions (the really interesting ones are on JWICS, the rest on SIPR), embarrassing thinks, such as what diplomats actually think of their foreign peers, etc.
DoD instituted encryption of data at rest after the cyberattack debacle of 2008. By late 2009, encryption was ordered and instituted for all portable systems and media.
That said, it's easier to get the data from a running system, after an idiot downloads something cool in the e-mail or goes to a compromised watering hole.
The 2008 cyberattack was initiated by a few USB flash drives scattered in a parking lot, the idiots who configured the systems didn't follow the DoD baseline that disabled autorun and didn't bother with antivirus scan on insert.
But, my installation didn't have that problem, as I had fought major battles to get onto the authorized DoD baseline configuration and I configured antivirus to be paranoid about what got plugged in. We still had detections from one unit coming back from an infected AOR, but detection and deletion occurred and we had the machine wiped and baselined on principle.
The idiots were lauded as heroes for working thousands of hours of contract overtime, whereas I was the villein for not being an idiot like them.
What can one say other than, idiots prevail only in government. Businesses taking that kind of loss sack the idiots.
Retaining the idiots in management.
Oh, after the DoD emptied out every US and European system administrator, plus the NSA of system administrators to clean up the mess to a tune of one billion dollars, within a month, the infection returned via the same vector - the infected drives that the idiots never scanned and cleaned.
The second wave cleanup costs remain classified.
But, the contracting vendor made a fortune cleaning up the mess that its workers created - twice.
When the POTUS says it's an act of war or Congress declares it, I'll listen.
When the FBI announces information/network warfare was used, it's a lot different.
This was the tools of network centric war used against a corporation, interestingly, a Japanese corporation. There's still a bit of angst over some shenanigans conducted by Japan during WWII over in those parts.
Meanwhile, North Korean network centric warfare types are trained by the PRC.
The upside is, the PRC will reign in their misbehaving satellite nation, when the problems become noteworthy, with a minimum of chopping North Korea's internet access that is provided by the PRC.
As for PRC units, an NDA prohibits discussion of that mess.
"The only hang up, as always, is cost and insurance companies as many of them still claim that micro-processor knees are "experimental" and won't cover them."
Indeed, back in the early 1990's, a man I knew of died, as coronary bypass surgery was considered experimental by his medical insurance company.
Today, spinal disc replacement is considered experimental by most US medical insurance companies, but bony spinal fixation is their standard, ignoring later disc failures by increased stresses.
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