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Comment But what about the hiatus? (Score 1, Flamebait) 200

There hasn't been warming for over a decade, but the warming/change advocates have ignored that because it confounded their model - until a bit ago, when they sized upon the ocean as a heatsink due to another study.

How many billions of dollars have been wasted chasing that chimera?

If they really cared about reducing their carbon footprint, they'd all kill themselves. As a westerner, they have a massive carbon footprint that they'll never erase. At least that way they'd be able to give back by fertilizing a tree or something. Of course, if they choose cremation that'll release even more carbon and waste, since they'll need an urn of some sort.

Comment Re:Wrong Title (Score 2) 499

The article says that they asked her about a group affiliated to the two groups with which she associated, and specifically if she ever was part of a terrorist group.

I doubt she had any idea that the third group even existed. Not sure what to think, except her response must not have been to their liking.

Sucks to be her.

Comment Captcha rate limiting error message? (Score 1) 142

I've been thinking about this over the last few days, ever since the story popped up in wired.

If they exceed the captcha's rate limit, the captcha -might- leak information in its rate-limiting error message. The message would be something like "your server at IP has exceeded its request limit."

This is likely because if you exceed the rate limit you'd kind of want to know which one of your front-ends was be the bad one.

Nobody really would test that sort of thing either.

Comment Coincidence? Or conspiracy? (Score 4, Interesting) 107

Like college age kids, meteors seem to always travel in packs. The Chelyabinsk one was said not to be related to 2012Da/367943 Duende, but it sure is a hell of a coincidence that close flying meteors have an "unrelated friend" that impacts the Earth.

Maybe we got the ugly friend?

Comment Security and liability: think Target (Score 1) 137

The media says Target was breached due to a compromise at their HVAC vendor. Do you want to be the vendor that gets hit with a liability suit because someone broke in through your network?

It's obvious from your question that you're not really sure what you're doing. SNMP? That's for network crap, not for server and application level stuff. Why would you even talk about SNMP? Why would you even want a VPN into the customer network?

If you need access to your server, write it into your support contract, and ask the vendor for a VPN login. Then the vendor can turn that login on and off when an outage occurs. Then just use NewRelic for monitoring (assuming your machine can get out).

If you need continuous access to your server, write it into your support contract, then make sure that (1) you really need it, and (2)your security is better than your customers' security.

Or, if you want to screw everyone, just run a TeamViewer instance on it and connect to it on the sly. I'm sure your customers would love that, but that's what you're basically asking them to allow you to do.

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