Just what is the NSA up to here? Shouldn't they be busy heading off exactly this sort of thing? So what's their part of this action? That's right, they're busy facilitating the terrorists by weakening the security that could prevent this crap from happening so they can do the things they are never ever supposed to do. Screw protecting the country, they have law abiding citizens to spy on!

His complaint is valid because the foolish lawmakers handed the DEA their authority to schedule a drug. They should at least take that back.

THIS!

It's the same way that the initial solution to people MFing was to put a 2600 Hz notch filter on POTS lines. Then they moved signaling out of band except for the last mile. They assumed that was problem solved since trunks were protected with physical security.

They simply didn't anticipate a day when most of the population had a cellphone and a computer more powerful than their switch and where software defined radio was an actual thing that an individual could make or buy.

So you need to have some way to enter those characters when specifying a file name. Escap chars can handle some of that, but it really is best to not take chances where it can cause problems. For example, imagine a file named 'bobby; rm -rf /'

SureItDoes.

Of course, if not for the convention of all smalls in domain names we wouldn't get to snicker at expertsexchange.com

Because some characters have special significance to the shell. That includes * and ?. In the bad old days of dos, you could enter an arbitrary character code by holding Alt while entering the 3 digits on the keypad. Character 255 looked exactly like a space but was not equivalent. Imagine the confusion one could cause that way.

Sure, but the potential to mis-configure a subsystem that has big red asterisks around it anyway such that a trusted user might exceed authority is a far cry from a security vulnerability that might put a hole in my Christmas stocking. Other things to avoid include making /bin/bash suid root, chmod -R o+rwx /, etc etc.

During intermission, they can lead the audience in the chicken dance.

Yes, you do.

So to translate: News flash, designated admins can do admin things!

Put the cheetoes down so you can talk with your mouth instead of your butt.

By that criterion, sales and marketing are also cost centers. It would be ever so much cheaper to do business if you could just ship product at random and actually get paid. Buty you can't, so you need sales and marketing. It would be nice if the building would clean itself so you could skip janitorial without swimming in trash and filth but you can't.

Everything is a cost and in a well run business, everything in some way contributes to income. Get over it. Trying to divide entire functions into income or expense just demonstrates an incomplete and fragmented understanding of the system.

If anyone doesn't think IT is on the INCOME side, they should give the sales guys a pad and a pencil and shut down IT services for a week. Let's see how much INCOME they have then. Make that week during payroll and lets see what their INCOME looks like when nobody gets paid.

And still, MS won't make opening something and running something distinctly different actions.

A nuclear powered de-salination plant and pumping station. But good luck getting that built in Ca.

But not by volume.

But we have to ignore all of that because of what it implies our society and the living conditions of the junkies. We must resolutely hold the line. No 'facts' may deter us from the message that addiction is a moral failing and so the addict deserves his fate. Now, all rise and put your fingers in your ears and sing the new national anthem: "LA LA LA LA LA".