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| 2005/2/6-7 [Uncategorized] UID:36076 Activity:nil |
2/5 Did anyone catch SNL tonight and know the name of that second
song by the guest band, Keane (sp?) ? |
| 2005/2/6-7 [Computer/HW/Laptop, Computer/SW/Security] UID:36077 Activity:very high |
2/6 Our parent company is considering forbidding us from taking laptops
off the premises due to possible src code loss. Considering that
many of us work from home the majority of the time, this does not
sit well. We need to come up with a proposal for keeping the
src (or entire disk) on an encyrpted drive. I used PGP desktop
a while back but never did any disk intensive activity (eg compilation)
on it. Has anyone been subjected to similar measures and have any
suggestions? Thanks.
\_ Yeah, plenty of companies are hiring. Start looking for another
job now.
\_ I love my job. Not interested in a new one. -op
\_ Do you think this is the last PHB decision they will make?
You love it now, but this is just a harbinger of things
to come. I am sorry I cannot be more positive. There has
got to be some way of encrypting things for you but I
don't know what it is.
\_ Maybe not, CHKP is an agent of the Mossad, so I wouldn't
put anything past them, but, regardless, i need to wait
a few more years for the remainder of my options to vest.
-op
\_ Write up a reasoned explanation of why this won't help. Particularly
in a technical field (development), it's always near trivial to find
ways around this unless they completely isolate your work network
from the internet. (i.e. you can't go to websites, check popmail,
etc) If there are any such "holes" that those evil, evil employees
could just copy the code out through, encrypting it locally won't
help.
\_ The issue is not that they don't want employees stealing the
src, the issue is that laptops are prime targets for theft and
if someone were to get their laptop stolen, release of the
src code would be disasterous. Of course there are plenty
of ways to get around it. -op
\_ Out of curiosity, does anyone know how often data from
stolen laptops ends up getting into the wrong hands?
I would have guessed that most laptops get stolen
by crackheads who sell them to the local pawn shop for a
hundred dollars, who then erases the harddrive and sells
it for two hundred to some random moron. At what point in
this chain does data get sent to some competing software
company? Are there people out there making a living
cruising the silicon valley pawn shops for sellable data on
stolen hard drives?
\_ magnetic tape, flashdrive/CF/SD/etc, laptop HD in a USB/FW case ...
iPod/etc ...
\_ Again I'm not looking for ways to take src code home. I'm
looking for a reasonable solution for securing the data on
the laptop to mollify their concerns and to prevent me
from having to jump through such hoops. I still have VPN
access to CVS from my desktop at home and if it were to come to
it would just ditch the laptop. -op
\_ it was meant as examples to give your company to prove
how fucking stupid they are.
\_ Uhm, if you have VPN access to the company what makes
the company think that someone can't just steal your
computer at home and get the source code there? I'm sure
that you encrypt your data, but that's not a guarentee
that someone else who works under similar conditions will.
Anyway, what's so important about the source code? MS had
its source code for Winblows leaked, it's not like someone
is going to go and develop a competing product anytime soon.
And if your software is that valuable, people can just
reverse it through brute-force decompilation and analysis.
\_ It looks like PGP Corporate deployed using smart cards or tokens
(e.g. RSA SecurID doodads) is probably what you want. I just
glanced at the marketing drivel on the website so you'll need to
read further to be sure, but this looks like a reasonable place to
start:
http://www.pgp.com/products/desktop/disk
-dans
\_ We had very good success with Safeguard Easy (both boot sector
protection and on-the-fly disk crypto.) If you're feeling
adventurous, you can play with MS EFS on top, but your PKI
admins had better know what they're doing. -John
\_ Most responses don't really understand the problem. Working in
an environment where much of our software is classified as a
munition, I do. It is about accountability more than actual
prevention of theft. They *know* you can steal the source and
if they were concerned about that they'd do what the DoD does
and make you leave it at work. They are concerned about the
laptop being stolen. Whether or not it is easy to obtain the
source by hacking into the system over VPN is irrelevant. In
our particular case, it is just disallowed. Period. You can
take the executables, but not the source. I, too, am interested
in a good solution but I think none exists. However, I do not
understand why the desktop is allowed. That is just as much of
a no-no.
\_ I would just take the source code home and be done with it. |
| 2005/2/6 [Reference/RealEstate] UID:36078 Activity:very high 54%like:36081 |
2/6 Gambling on housing:
http://csua.org/u/az4
\_ I would say I hope these speculators loose their shirts and go
\_ ObYermom
bankrupt, but that's an understatement. I hope they get tarred
and feathered, and get cancer from the tar. Fuck all real estate
speculating parasite bastards.
\_ Yep. A good friend told me oh 6 months ago that the smart Vegas
real estate types were all moving money out of Vegas and into
Phoenix. I imagine those guys will move out now that the dumb
money is moving in.
\_ Seriously, can't these people find something to invest in the
grows the economy instead of just screwing the little guy?
\_ Ergo, the need for fair market, rather than simply "free".
\_ Market must be fairly regulated for all citizens, comrade.
\_ To be frank, the controlled housing market around here is
screwing me far for than the housing speculators.
\_ I have no proof, and don't really know what I'm talking
about, but I'll bet dollars to donuts those laws that
make a "controlled" housing market were written by
politicians who are in the pocket of real estate
speculators. In the end, this is why I've come to be
anti-regulation: regulation will always be written by
the shitheads, and I'd rather fight them in the free
market than live in a world where they write the laws.
\_ Actually, it's much simpler than that. For whatever
reason, no matter what type of system you have,
whether it be heavily regulated or not, whether
it is communist, capitalist, fuedalist, etc.
there will always be people who learn how to
beat and cheat the system to their own advantage.
So, it really doesn't matter what you do, there
will always be have and have nots, and the have
nots will always outnumber the haves. The only
way to have true equality is to make everyone
equal, and that's not going to happen because
doing so would result in a meltdown in society. |
| 2005/2/6 [Computer/Domains, Computer/SW/Mail] UID:36079 Activity:nil |
2/06 i forward my soda mail to another machine running
spamassassin, but every mail that passes through soda gets
3.1 SPF_HELO_SOFTFAIL SPF: HELO does not match SPF record (softfail)
[SPF failed: Please see http://spf.pobox.com/why.html?sender=berkeley.edu&ip=128.32.112.233&receiver=gradlab.ucsd.edu]
i tried following the instructions on
http://spf.pobox.com/faq.html#forwarding
but that didn't fix anything. what am i doing wrong?
\_ It looks like you specified your sender address as user@berkeley.edu
instead of user@csua.berkeley.edu. If you post the whole message
with headers (put it in /csua/tmp or something), we can probably
give more specific advice.
\_ /csua/tmp/fwd-mail-header.txt
i don't specify a sender address anywhere - i just
have a destination email address in my .forward
thanks for helping.
\_ Thanks. Could you please make it readable?
\_ sure :)
\_ The .forward file is what doesn't work with SPF -- you
need to erase your .forward file, and use one of the
.procmailrc rules they suggest instead. (It looks like
you have both right now, but that's not going to work:
the .forward file takes precedence, and it's not looking
at your .procmailrc at all.) |
| 2005/2/6-7 [Transportation/Car, Transportation/Car/Hybrid] UID:36080 Activity:high |
2/6 Hey MOTD -- My car is going to die soon, and I was wondering if anyone
has any suggestions for replacements. My car is a 1998 ford taurus,
24v Duratec engine. It has good power, is very roomy, and was very
reliable until it hit 100k miles. I'm not married to another ford
(or even to an american), but I can't really afford more than $30k
(and 30 is really the upper end). Ideally, I'd like something similar.
TIA.
\_ The Toyota Avalon is pretty nice. 280hp, roomy comparable to the
ford, decent features, hovering right at the $30k mark.
\_ Easy, get a Honda Accord or a Toyota Corolla. Relatively cheap,
dependable, and if you get the better models it'll hold up its
value. It should give you at least 10 years if not more.
\_ If you don't want to buy a bland Accord or Camry perhaps
you should consider a Subaru Legacy or Outback. Both would
fit w/in your budget (the basic Legacy/Outback is btwn $21K
and $25K, while the Legacy Turbo GT is btwn $26K and $30K).
I currently own a 2003 Outback Wagon (basic, $22K in 2003)
and I think that it is the best car I have ever owned.
Some drawbacks of a Subaru are (1) the AWD decreases your
gas mileage by 1 or 2 MPG over a non-AWD car such as a
Camry, (2) the tires are more expensive to replace than
on a Camry/Accord, (3) there aren't as many Subaru dealers
as Honda/Toyota, and (4) there isn't a good way to listen
to music from an iPod (no cassette player/line in).
The Mazda 6 (as mentioned below) is another alternative,
but I mainly chose the Outback over the 6 b/c the Outback
had more interior room so I could carry more mtbs.
--ranga
\_ specs please. MPG, 0-60, HP.
\_ Readily available on the subaru website. -OP
\_ the Accord beats Subaru on all 3 (MPG, speed, HP)
\_ This is true, but you should consider the
fact that the Subaru has AWD and can be
driven off road.
\_ mtbs = mountain bikes? doesn't that muddy up the car?
what's wrong a rack? and why did you choose the outback
over the legacy? the outback has significantly worse brakes.
\_ I haven't had a big problem w/ mud. The car came w/
a big rubber mat that can be washed out. I considered
a roof rack but I decided that most of the time I
could just get by w/o it by sticking my bike inside.
a big rubber mat that can be washed out.
I don't normally need to carry more than one bike,
so I didn't want to invest in a rack. When I need
to take more than 1 bike, I try to borrow a rack
from a friend.
The main reason I chose the outback over the legacy
was that the outback had 0% financing (legacy was
2.9%) and there was a dealer incentive of $600 so
over 2 yrs the outback worked out cheaper. The
outback also has slightly better ground clearance
and the dealer threw in the rdg for free which
helps if you want to drive it off road (which I
don't really do a lot of these days).
I didn't really know about the brakes when I
bought the car, so far I haven't noticed any
problems.
If I was buying today, I might still choose the
Outback b/c of the ground clearance but in all
other aspects the Legacy is preferable.
\_ Yeah I doubt the brake thing is that big a deal but
it was something my Dad considered when buying. The
Outback looks a lot flashier with the macho flared
fenders. I don't think most people really need
better ground clearance. I'm considering getting one
of the two myself. I like to be able to throw a bike
in the back of a car but I think I'd hesitate with
a nice carpeted trunk. I've used a truck a lot and
it always builds up dirt and mud back there. Maybe
if I got a tarp to cover everything back there... the
rubber mat thing I think only covers the very back.
\_ Prius.
\_ What about the Ford Five Hundred? It's supposed to be decent but
boring, and the dealers will probably have to add incentives.
\_ Does it have to be a brand new car? What's wrong with the
current one? It will definitely cost less to fix the one you
have and/or wait until it really dies. Camry, Altima, and Accord
compete with the Taurus along with Mazda 6 and similar. All are
under $30K. Personally, I'd think about buying a Lexus, even if
it is a year old. If not that then how about an Avalon? I have
firsthand experience with 2 Avalons and they are Lexus-lite.
\_ Nah, it doesn't have to be brand new. My current car might have
a busted head gasket. Cost to repair would exceed or equal the
kelly bluebook value.
\_ Yes, but still less than a new car. About $2K.
\_ Or, even better, seel the current jalopy to a junkyard
and buy another used card. http://acauction.com!
\_ Yah, that's pretty much my plan; I'm just polling
\_ Yah, that's pretty much my plan; I'm just trolling
to see what motd people are interested in, or have
experience with.
\_ Look buddy, $30K is a lot, do you really want to spend that
much money on something that will depreciate 1/4-1/3 of its
value the first year you buy it? Here is my recommendation.
Buy a decent USED Japanese car from someone (Civic, Accord),
and don't buy from dealers. You'll spend 1/2 of what you
originally planned and can save the other 1/2 for something
else nice, like kitchen/bathroom remodeling or save it for
your kids' college tuition.
Here is my second recommendation. If you MUST spend $30K,
you can get a car that has enough room for fat asses like
me (+200 pounds), has 255HP, ***37MPG***, and goes 0-60 in
6 seconds. It is called the Honda Accord Hybrid.
\_ "Nah, it doesn't have to be brand new." and
"Yah, that's pretty much my plan;". Did you even read the
thread, or are you just naturally this jerky?
\_ Basically, the last sentence is the only relevant piece of
information in your post for the OP's question.
\_ there's something really really really wrong with putting 255HP
in an oh-so-boring family sedan. It makes a lot of sense for a
sportscar, but Honda Accord? 0-60 in 6 sec? It is just wrong.
\_ What about Saturn? Any good? They have a neat little roadster
coming out for $25K. Another option: Mini-Cooper.
\_ Eh, neither is terribly roomy. Check out the original post. |
| 2005/2/6-7 [Reference/RealEstate] UID:36081 Activity:high 54%like:36078 |
2/6 Gambling on housing:
http://www.csua.org/u/az4 (to the schmuck who put in the boobs, thanks)
\_ whoo! http://tinyurl.com/5jk9o
\_ I would say I hope these speculators loose their shirts and go
\_ ObYermom
bankrupt, but that's an understatement. I hope they get tarred
and feathered, and get cancer from the tar. Fuck all real estate
speculating parasite bastards.
\_ Yep. A good friend told me oh 6 months ago that the smart Vegas
real estate types were all moving money out of Vegas and into
Phoenix. I imagine those guys will move out now that the dumb
money is moving in.
\_ Seriously, can't these people find something to invest in the
grows the economy instead of just screwing the little guy?
\_ Ergo, the need for fair market, rather than simply "free".
\_ Market must be fairly regulated for all citizens, comrade.
\_ To be frank, the controlled housing market around here is
screwing me far for than the housing speculators.
\_ I have no proof, and don't really know what I'm talking
about, but I'll bet dollars to donuts those laws that
make a "controlled" housing market were written by
politicians who are in the pocket of real estate
speculators. In the end, this is why I've come to be
anti-regulation: regulation will always be written by
the shitheads, and I'd rather fight them in the free
market than live in a world where they write the laws.
\_ Actually, it's much simpler than that. For whatever
reason, no matter what type of system you have,
whether it be heavily regulated or not, whether
it is communist, capitalist, fuedalist, etc.
there will always be people who learn how to
beat and cheat the system to their own advantage.
So, it really doesn't matter what you do, there
will always be have and have nots, and the have
nots will always outnumber the haves. The only
way to have true equality is to make everyone
equal, and that's not going to happen because
doing so would result in a meltdown in society.
\_ Well, that, and it would be wrong.
\_ What is wrong with real estate speculation?
\_ When speculators take over, they end up driving
the prices up way beyond what people in that
area can afford, meaning that people who live there
get screwed and end up spending way more money on
houseing or just gettin gdriven out of the area.
If the speculating frenzy is not connected with
real economic growth of the area, everyone gets
totally fucked except for the early speculators
who screwed the later speculators. I've lost my
apartment three times in as many years to these
fuckers, and at least one of the places I had to
leave is actually still sitting vacant now, two
years after I had to move out. No, I don't live
in the Bay Area.
\_ Just for clarity, where do you live?
\_ New Haven, CT.
\_ Yale has been buying up whole city blocks
around the campus for years now. It took
real estate speculators this long to
capitalize on this?
\_ Gee, that's too bad for you. Do you need big
government to keep the bad evil capitalists
away at night too?
\_ Hey, asshole, I was the one advocating
deregulation. Just because I think something
should be legal doesn't mean I don't hate
the bastards who do it.
\_ Have trouble reading, moron? I was
saying the government IS the problem
usually. There's miles of wide open
completely unused land around here
(literally), but it remains unused
because the local government says that
it can't be built on. As far as I can
tell, this is simply to keep land
prices as high as possible.
\_ You have to hand it to this guy, he's a
skilled troll. He managed to elicit a
"asshole" and a "moron" from people who
agree with him on this issue. Funny.
\_ You know, the owner of my favorite neighborhood
lunch place retired and her son took over the
running of the place. You know what the bastard
did? He decided to go upscale, changed the
menu, and raised prices! Now the place sits
half-empty, and I have to get my lunches from
another restaurant. There should be a law
against restaurants changing owners and raising
prices. |