Posts by barbara.hudson

Re: Guns...

Many of them are recording video on an sd card. Take the card out and watch the video of the flight from start to ... well ... termination.

Re: transformers of all sorts of sizes, shapes and use

You missed the first movie - they scanned vehicles and then took the same shape. (Hey, there was nothing else on the local English stations, and the local French one usually runs a few movies back-to-back. Saw Source Code 3x that way).

Re: @wolfetone

Actually, some of those back ends ARE written in c. The web server I had to write certainly was, we just hid it by having all queries end with a ".php" extension. Like to see anyone crack that by trying to exploit any of the known php or apache bugs.

Same as if someone tried to do a windows directory list, send them one. After all, it's just a plain ascii file, not a real directory list (which would have revealed it was running on a *nix machine). Bored? Turn their attacks back on their machines, delete a few things ...

Same as another place, all the queries were processed in c. Made it much easier to detect malformed data by examining it byte-by-byte as it was coming in over the network. Any parameter exceeding the maximum design length, immediately issue a redirect to goatse.cx, farmsex, or any one of 10 nasty sites in a round robin que, then immediately cut the connection without bothering to receive the rest of the data.

Nasty AND nasty fast.

Also, a lot of those back end services rely on databases written in c, or on runtimes written in c. And OSes written in c. Even the JRE. Don't knock c.

Re: personal system

And for the news, spending 15 minutes in one-minute chunks throughout the first 45 telling us that they're going to be bringing us the weather sometime soon ... and then taking 5 minutes to tell us something that they could have done in 30 seconds.

Between that and padding out their "reporting" with what so-and-so said on Facebook/Twitter/whatever, I end up watching the French news instead. At least it's not 90% filler.

Nothing can beat the old Mark 1 Eyeball. The leaks that Trump is worried about don't need actual copies (which can be faked anyway), but reliable sources who have seen the policies in question (perhaps by being there while they were discussed, even if they were never committed to any sort of physical or electronic form).

All the "checking people's phones and computers" and setting up data protection procedures are useless in such cases.