Comment Re:Mini fix (Score 1) 89
Didn't you hear? He got approved for a second umlaut. His name is now: Mikkö Hyppönen
Didn't you hear? He got approved for a second umlaut. His name is now: Mikkö Hyppönen
Military uses packet sizes of 1500 bytes. We should limit the packet sizes for TCP to 768 bytes for civilian (non law-enforcement) use. Law-enforcement can use 1500 byte packets only after going through special training. This will help mitigate the threat posed by cyber warfare - and it makes as much sense as any other policy being proposed.
I wonder if the CEO donated to the 'wrong' party this past election. This sounds an awful lot like revenge.
It is what has gotten my 5 year old engaged.
Leftist hate liberty. They hate choice. They hate agency. Yet, they claim to carry the banner of freedom and compassion. Nearly every policy they put forth is a slippery slope for the removal of freedoms - always enshrined in the banner of good health, or 'for the children' or 'think of the poor'. It is not enough to say that smoking is bad, it must be banned! Look, I don't smoke, but I really don't care if you do smoke - it has no impact on me. Smoking doesn't make you a bad person. I've often asked - would you rather your son/daughter cheat in school, or smoke? I'm no longer shocked by the number of people who would rather have their kids cheat, than pick up a habit that - though difficult to break - does not have any effect on their moral character.
Well, if a piece of Cisco network equipment goes down that is covered contractually, they must ship a replacement. With a company as huge as Verizon, there are parts being shipped out *all* the time, and defective parts shipped back *all* the time. If you have 30 days to ship parts back, and the parts don't come back, the procedure is to initiate emails, then escalate from there. Quite often, Verizon gets involved trying to track down the missing parts, trying to solve the mystery - and never is able to resolve the issue until they see a pattern emerge and start to investigate.
The problem is that when conducting business, you must assume that your counterpart is working with you in good faith. In this instance, you have a man-in-the-middle who is transacting the business and defrauding both parties. It takes some time to find that 'leak', especially when you are doing billions a year in network gear, and RMA's of 10's of millions, and this person is doing fraud in the range of 100k+/yr. Then the person doing the fraud is using disposable phones, disposable numbers, and so tracing the fraud down after-the-fact is even more difficult.
Verizon has been targeted many times. They would steal network equipment, then call Cisco to get an advance replacement RMA, which would take their stolen equipment and double it. Then they would sell the gear on the 'Grey Market' for Cisco hardware. They focused primarily on Cisco 12000 line cards, where an individual card sells for $100k+ and are installed in a redundant fashion.
Then they started just getting serial numbers for equipment and starting RMA's for that, and selling it on the Grey market. When Cisco called to get the status on the return... Verizon would reply with "what return".
I helped track one of these cats back in early 2000's - once he found we were hot on his trail, he abandoned his Bentley, and his Mansion and fled back home to Russia - where he lives currently. Interestingly, this same type of scam popped up in eastern Europe shortly after his relocation.
Our suspect had a friend who worked in security at one of the Verizon data centers. He would grant 'back-door' access to a facility, and permit the theft of the hardware. Stories abound of this guy being too poor to buy gas one day, borrowing $50 from friends in order to make to to the airport to fly out to New York then from New York to California, then California back home - pulling a massive roll of C notes from his pocket and repaying the $50 loan + a couple of C-notes to show his gratitude.
Perhaps the reason we hear about this happening with Verizon was that they became aware of the scam early, then kept tracking the perps until they were finally able to catch them. Kudos to Verizon Security for being able to close the loop on this one. These cases are extremely hard to track and crack.
http://www.zdnet.com/level-3-falls-victim-to-data-centre-robbery-3039284520/
Guaranteed Gold Medal at the Olympics?
But it has those creepy 5 finger toes...
Yeah, I'll have to think about that.
Wrong video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWQZNXEKkaU
This is the video that has the dirt on the cooler...
The brits alread did this, years ago. Watch & Enjoy:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4423562351831425828
WHAT? There is PORN on the INTERNETS?
I demand PROOF!!
The Spirit that inhabits your body, that is the recording medium. When you die, you take all those memories and everything you've learned with you. It's really quite simple. The spirit is the recording medium, and the the human brain is the spiritual to physical interface adapter.
Essentially, those neurons are nothing more than your hard drive cable. The scientists can see the data traveling down the cable, then they can see the data traveling back, then they wonder... 'hmm, how on EARTH does this cable store so much data?' It would all be so much easier to understand if they would just acknowledge the existence of a hard drive.
Never did I say, nor imply that Stratfor publishes guar gum futures, nor would New York Times.
The New York Times and all other mainstream news sources for that matter, do not report the news, they report their opinions on the news. They exclude from their reporting anything that does not fit with their agenda.
If you are looking for hard information, it is pointless to turn to the media sources anywhere. That is where the value of Stratfor comes in.
Want to hear a joke? It's called "The New York Times".
Media these days is so slanted that every news piece has an agenda. If you were to rely on the popular media for your news and information, well, you can forget about being well informed. They excel at filtering out information that disagrees with their world view.
At its essence, Stratfor is a news company. They gather 'Intelligence' from the 'field' and put it out there. They tell you what is going on, in a boots-on-the-groud point of view. They provide enough background to give context, the news, and what this could mean to the future of the region - and that's it. They don't do human interest stories. It is not your typical news. That is what Open Source Intelligence is.
So you read through the 'intel' they gather, and unless you have a particular interest in the region, or a business need for the information, it is boring stuff... So?
I know a company that imports guar gum, an ingredient that is used primarily in food products. The primary manufacturers of the product are in Pakistan. They are continually researching what is going on at the local level in Pakistan, not just the stuff that makes the headlines. Stratfor provides that info, as boring as that is. They also monitor situations in the regions their product is transported through, lest there be any supply disruptions. They want to be able to have contingency plans, such as leaning more on a supplier from India, even though the price may be higher, there is less chance of supply disruption, etc.
Were you expecting it to be the stuff that movies are made of?
Give me a break.
Anonymous hookups?
http://xkcd.com/364/
It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one.
