Posts by Random Q Hacker

Re: CAPTCHAs can FOAD.

My thoughts exactly, why am I providing free labor to google? Especially where a website makes me go through the ordeal more than once. Did I turn from human to robot in the last 30 minutes? Perhaps the AI apocalypse is closer than we think!

Re: That's nothing

While working for a certain large appliance manufacturer, I noticed huge rolls of plastic in the data center. Apparently the datacenter was built at great expense immediately below the dishwasher testing facility. Should a spill occur, the entire unix admin staff were to rush across campus to cover the systems, starting with those most important to the business.

Someone was paid a lot of money to put that datacenter there, and a lot more for that fancy remediation plan...

Re: Evolutionary Stategy

Like Restful queries used to be called GET queries, or Material design used to be called flat, lazy, and boring. Kids these days...

Re: I don't get it

It depends. If we all get 2.2% more income at the expense of desperately needed social and medical programs, it would be wrong. If the 2.2% bump is just a bribe so we ignore a much higher percentage going to billionaires, that too is wrong. If it were 2.2% coming from government waste, the war on drugs, and efficiency gains, then it would be great.

Re: Undisclosed number of bitcoin

It works like this all the way down to traffic court. They trump up the charges, and you can either fight them with an expensive lawyer over a series of $300 court appearances, or just plea to lesser charges and pay once for them to leave you alone. "Ju$tice"

Re: Obvious problem here.

Poor Lee, sounds like your vendors are driving you to madness. Maybe outsourcing basic school functions to the cloud wasn't the best idea after all. Do the kids not eat lunch when AWS is down?

Whitelist by hostname, demand some consistency from your vendors.

Re: This is when I know I'm getting old...

Mage, most are not anonymous, as every transaction is recorded in the blockchain and known exchanges can be subpoenaed to obtain transaction records. As opposed to the many banks that laundered money for drug cartels and destroyed records becore being investigated.

The problem they solve is having all your money in the hands of the 1%, making them rich, and paying an arm and a leg for the privilege.

Systems like Bitcoin Cash are fast and scalable. Personally, I still appreciate real cash as well for true anonymity, though I suspect it will be harder and harder to make it counterfeit-resistant.

Re: Advertisers won't be happy.

Remember back in the 90s when micropayments were supposed to be the future? Somehow that never took off, even now with the advent of cryptocurrencies. Perhaps it's the idea of paying for something you currently get for free. Or your web browser being tricked into giving away your money.

Afghanistan seems to be able to resist our occupation fairly well with half-century old technology. In fact, name a war the US has truly "won" since WWII. Oh sure we may defeat a standing army, but quelling an armed population seems to be near impossible for us.

Re: only IT is a toxic places for women to work in ....

Haha Nick, welcome to the real world, where it's who you know and not what you know that gets you promoted. But if you can relax a little, and GET TO KNOW your coworkers you can go far.

Right now you're concentrating on grades and projects, but have you considered the true value of school is the connections you will make that will enrich your life? Lifelong friendships? Business connections? Trusted advisors? A pipeline of future employees? Think big, and enjoy life while doing so.

They "need" to store it because police and spooks pay good money for the data. Selling out their customers to the government is another revenue stream:

"AT&T stores customer data as far back as 2008, and charges from $100,000 to over $1 million a year for law enforcement agencies to access this data. This program, called Project Hemisphere, gives law enforcement access to your phone records without a warrant, at the cost of millions of taxpayer dollars."

http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/security/a23567/att-phone-records-police/

Re: Tax the firm not the tech.

Great point, how many jobs would be created and technology invested in if multinationals actually payed their fair share of taxes? Still need people to fix roads and public works too, if the money is there to do it.

Re: Lockstep RIP

VMware does this too. In fact, running everything in VM where it can be snapshotted, rolled back, etc probably makes a lot of sense for these missions...

Re: Kudos to all involved

My guess is yaq utilizes auth or certificates or other web server based security, which is enabled on the internal server, but not the external one. Probably some other developer or team decided it was very neat and scalable to have all vhosts on one big virtual filesystem. A quick fix would be some internal/external read permissions on that file system. But really, prod/dev/internal should be separated all the way down the stack to avoid things like this. Google can afford a few more hosts to accomplish this.

Re: Could probably do solar monitoring

I did something like that in the noughts. Ran a DSL and dialup ISP and used SNMP readings on signal strength and connect speeds per customer to diagnose changes over time (speed complaint corresponds to drop in signal which corresponds to rainy weather, so we tell the customer to check their outside lines/box for leaks). You could actually gauge amount of rain in a storm by the aggregate drop in signals or connect speed. Thought about solar weather but never followed up on that idea.

Re: Not the whole story:

No big deal if I insert some firmware or modify the initramfs to contain a kernel module? Particularly if done to a vm or over remote console where I already have some connectivity?

Re: Reel 'em in

Indeed. "Trickle down works" but only from Worstall's orifices to the comments section.

"Piracy based emulation"

That's an awful big assumption to make, considering how many people own stacks of NES games. The idea that the company you pay $700 to for a 'premium' experience is the one that doesn't trust it's own users is repulsive to me. I have more than enough big brother in my oligarchy as it is...

False Flags

Of course, sometimes the more violent protestors are actually police in disguise, trying to entrap other protestors or justify breaking up the protest. A few were caught on tape during G8 meetings, running back to their cop buddies after they got outed by peaceful protestors!