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no I'm going to tell you that you don't know what the fuck you're talking about. there is no forcing a route through my server. I don't route packets. I am a leaf node. -- Rob

well that speaks volumes about the breadth of your knowledge. you may have deep knowledge in your subjects, but your breadth is suffering. Linux is considered a tier 1 server OS by many major software vendors. (and before you ask, I'll offer up IBM and Oracle. you have heard of them right?) The military (before you claim they don't use it) uses linux in many of it's projects as part of the COTS initiative. Your contracts may not use it. But trust me. It's taken hold. -- Rob

these critical infrastructure systems are the ones that would need to comply. Not the webserver that I run. It would apply to the root dns servers that are mostly privately owned, also to privately owned network gear on core networks, but not the web, file, mail and other servers on these networks as those are not critical infrastructure. -- Rob

refer to my earlier post regarding training. If racking the slide is part of the weapon presentation, and it's practiced it would only add half a second or so. maybe if you didn't have one in a chamber it would be effectively a brick, but you don't train that way. -- Rob

and that right there is part of what got us into this mess. "look at me! I have lots of credit!" likely followed by the thought "if I pay the mortgage off a cash advance from card x, and pay the cash advance from card Y's transfer, I think I can make the benz payment." -- Rob

in texas, section 9 outlines when you are allowed to use force and deadly force. http://tlo2.tlc.state.tx.us/statutes/docs/PE/content/htm/pe.002.00.000009.00.htm#9.01.00 my favorite subsection title is 9.22 "NECESSITY" (he needed killin') if you own or carry a gun in TX, sec 9 should be known to you. It's worth reading. Sec 46 tells you where you can and can't carry, but if you have a CHL, you already know that. (if your instructor is worth a dime that is) -- Rob

yeah. it was an amex. They started mailing them out to everyone it seemed like. I think the new status symbol is going to be cash. (or maybe it always was) -- Rob

The other night at dinner I saw 2 guys arguing over the check with their amex platinum cards. I used to have a plat card. Back when having one meant something I had one. Now, they're everywhere (cancelled mine as part of my debt payoff plan). I thought to myself... "what's the next platinum card". The answer (I thought) was obvious. what do you think? -- Rob

the bankruptcy courts are there for a reason. they don't dismiss debt out of hand like they used to but if there isn't sufficient income to cover debts and living expenses they can (and do) make adjustments. Let's also not be naive. The reason this law is being proposed is because there are a bunch of middle-class folks that have been over-spending for the past 10 years (not excluding myself here) and digging a hole that's hard to get out of. Those same folks made some phone calls, put some nice dinners on their platinum cards, and got this bill written. -- Rob

it makes them more complicated, but it's the same situation. laws regarding who can marry whom. a polygamist can have drafted a few legal documents that would add another legally equivalent spouse to a plural marriage (almost completely equivalent that is) and have that union blessed by a pastor of their faith. but then the government decides they're married and all hell breaks loose. What if there were 3 gay men that had such documents drafted and their union blessed by some pastor somewhere? would that ever be considered polygamy? how is that different than a man and 2 women who have the same set of docs and blessings (without the state marriage licenses)?? -- Rob

hell yeah... misery loves company and all that. -- Rob

depending on the state you're in, you may and not know it. It's referred to as common law marriage. Different states have different definitions for it. co-habitation and mixing of finances are usually 2 of the points of definition. -- Rob

both problems that can be solved through legal documents. The problem with that answer is that it's much more complicated for homosexual couples to generate those documents than it is for heteros to get married. civil unions for all I say. -- Rob

pgp is your friend. they can sniff all the packets of my personal emails. good luck with that. -- Rob

I had the same idea (it's only logical isn't it?) a couple of years ago. It just so happens that pastors get credentials from the state to perform civil unions at the same time they're performing the religious ceremony. And the marriage certificate we have is essentially our document of civil union. just seems that it should be that easy no matter the pairing of the sexes. -- Rob

pert of my last gig was social engineering vulnerability tests. It's still a threat. And one in use. I'd put it in the top 5. Certainly not #9. and yes, I do have the arrogance down pat. it's one of the tools in the bag. and I'd say it's closer to 9 years twice. I pretty much have 2 major skillsets, 9-years in each or so. I won't claim to have advanced both at the same time. edit: (but this isn't an IT dsw thread.) -- Rob

sorry didn't mean to drag it off-topic onto an IT DSW. bottom line is that topographical inf about a network is still the intellectual property of the company that put that network together. They may hand it over voluntarially if they wish, or be compelled through a warrant. I don't believe the proposal as you've quoted it would extend to the data on the network though. -- Rob

you're a manager aren't you? And if you had to google "cyber attack vectors" to come up with a list, you must be one of the admins we refer to who has 1 year of experience 20 times. Though you seem a bit more informed than that. I'd say 4 years 5 times. (haven't heard the term "sysad" since 1992-ish, so that's about 4 years into my tenure. I'll give you that much benefit of the doubt.) -- Rob

uh... the guy from the fun house called about his mirror.... -- Rob

and you apparently still take SANS seriously. I started ignoring them about the time I picked up my second 400+ server data center about 10 years ago. if they don't list social engineering until number 9, how can you take the list seriously? -- Rob

hey... I've been meaning to re-current myself.. sounds like a good time :) -- Rob

as long as you train such that chambering the round is part of your draw process, you're not hurting yourself that much. I carry condition 1 because that's how I train. at home, my pistol is either in a gun safe, or on my waist secured in it's holster (with trigger covered). So I don't feel the same need to add the extra step. -- Rob

Yes it does. Not using it will cause smartasses to magically appear. Oh so true! yup... I'll own that title :) -- Rob

a few years ago the timing was right that I got to see the ionized trail the shuttle left across the sky over TX for one of the night landings. about 45sec from horizon to horizon with a bright trail left the whole way. was very cool -- Rob

fixed do you see that URL button when you type in a post? It does something. -- Rob