Disqus - Latest Comments for bob dole

Re: Pat Buchanan: GOP voters are racist

bob dole — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 22:16:17 -0000

I don't think the risk comes from GOP voters taking exception to a candidate talking to minority voters. It comes from the chance of a gaffe, particularly in a forum with an unfamiliar electorate. Imagine what would happen if Rudy let slip "Some of my best friends are black" -- the media would eat him for lunch. And what reward would he get for a standout performance? Little if any, for the reasons Pat mentioned.

Re: My jet’s pretty big, how big is yours?

bob dole — Mon, 12 Sep 2005 06:34:04 -0000

Dwayne: Where do you get the energy to electrolyze the water and generate hydrogen? Plants use sunlight, but we haven't figured out how to emulate mother nature and her efficiency in that regard. Given that the largest sources of electricity are coal, natural gas and petroleum-fired plants (~70% of total electricity generated in the US), the production of hydrogen fuel does indeed involve a lot of hydrocarbons. http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/electricity/epm/epm_sum.html

Re: Netidentity Email Outage: 19 Hours and Counting

bob dole — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 14:30:54 -0000

On Friday I noticed the netidentity service was starting to go buggy when it would ERASE any messages after hitting the send button with the message "Could not connect. Try again later." What kind of programmer writes a webmail client that deletes a message in the event of a server-side failure??

Let's hope the recession puts Tucows out of business and Ross Rader into a soup kitchen line where he belongs.

Re: Netidentity Email Outage: 19 Hours and Counting

bob dole — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 19:22:42 -0000

Looks like one of the highly capable Tucows "technicians" accidentally unplugged the Atari 2600 email server while performing an "upgrade." Here is their spin, yet again showing their utter lack of knowledge of the need for REDUNDANT systems and BACKUPS.

Email Service Bulletin
Posted By: Ross Rader On: 10 Jan 2009 10:45 AM
Details At the completion of the mail maintenance window yesterday evening, hardware issue caused a failure in the mail system for some of our customers.

At the completion of the mail maintenance window yesterday evening, hardware issue caused a failure in the mail system for some of our customers. We are uncertain how many of our NetIdentity and Domain Direct customers have been affected by this failure, but we expect that it is most, if not all, of our customers.

The OpenSRS Email team is estimating that it will take approximately 16 hours to fully restore mail service for all customers and is projecting that this will complete around 10pm EST this evening.

Details are not fully available at this point, so we will report more later when we hear more from the engineering team, but at this point, it looks like one of the Network Appliance servers that houses the mail stores is suffering from some sort of a manufacturing defect (i.e. bad hardware) and will need to be swapped out and the data restored. The OpenSRS team is working closely with the team from Network Appliance to resolve this issue.

During this period, you may be unable to send or receive email and may experience "Service Unavailable" errors if you are using webmail. None of your inbound mail has been lost, we are queuing all inbound mail and it will be delivered to your mailbox when the mail service has been fixed.

Re: Netidentity Email Outage: 19 Hours and Counting

bob dole — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 09:11:46 -0000

Incompetent Tucows promised restored service at 11pm. It's 8am the next day and although I can get into my account, NONE of the emails from yesterday have arrived. So it has been down 24 hours and counting.

I sent a test email to myself around 8am yesterday, so it's not fixed until I receive that. I say we all short sell Tucows stock and send Ross Rader to the poorhouse.

Re: iTunes: Change Video from Movies to TV Shows | Music | Tech-Recipes

bob dole — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 13:37:18 -0000

In iTunes 8 it is under the options tab and instead of "Video Kind" it is called "Media Kind".

Re: 9/19 Is The New 9/11: The Day The SEC Terrorists Tried To Bring Down America

bob dole — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 14:30:51 -0000

Comparing a day in which it became harder for you to make some quick money, to a day in which thousands of people lost their lives, is truly tasteless. 9/19 is nothing like 9/11.

Re: iDefense Underbids on Vista Vulnerabilities

bob dole — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 22:07:28 -0000

Thus Dr. Ptacek has revealed his salary to be 260k a year ;) Lucky him!

Re: Quicktime Security Update for MOAB-01-01-2007

bob dole — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 17:52:00 -0000

What other choice could they possibly have made besides acking MOAB?

Re: Quicktime Security Update for MOAB-01-01-2007

bob dole — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 21:04:25 -0000

@ Mr. G
That's 2nd Ltd. Dole to you civilian! Anyway, if that's all you meant (heh, I think you're refering to maynor...and I think maynor needs to make the flaw public and then someone needs to RE the apple patch to see if it's the same thing) then you could have at least mentioned M$ specifically since they say in their stuff that they won't thank people who don't disclose nicely :)

@ Mr. G and Patrick
It would be better to say 15 *was* a count of all vulnerabilities they *were* aware of at the time of reporting. CVEs are assigned first come first served basis starting from 00:00 Jan/1. Interestingly (since I was following the issue), at the time it was active, all 1-14 before it were reserved but not filled in. I see now that subsequently 14 has been filled in...that still leaves 13 undisclosed vulnerabilities that someone is sitting on...of course if that was accurate inference, then what do we think about CVE-2006-0011? :)

Re: Rutkowska on Cheating Physical Memory Acquisition: Details

bob dole — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 16:24:07 -0000

what is a CSR? Cyclic shift register? :)

Re: PWN2OWN: CanSecWest’s OS X Challenge

bob dole — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 12:38:10 -0000

You need to go read Dragos's post on the apple-focus list. He explains that that stuff will probably be opened up eventually.

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/142/464216...

Re: A Roundup Of Leopard Security Features

bob dole — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 23:38:19 -0000

The first thing I did was run out and try to see ASLR in action with a simple printf the function pointer main()...I saw what you say, addresses not changing...however I don't think it's necessarily a correct test...while searching around I saw this in the ld man page

" -pie This makes a special kind of main executable that is position independent (PIE). On Mac OS X 10.5, the OS will load a PIE at a ran-
dom address each time it is executed. You cannot create a PIE from .o files compiled with -mdynamic-no-pic. That means the codegen
is less optimal, but the address randomization adds some security.
"

and then I noticed that my gcc -v doesn't include ld anywhere in it, must less have anything related to this -pie option...

something to look into anyway, as I dropped it there and had to move on and wait for proper documentation of what's going on ;)

Also, can you explain what you did with the cron test with guest? I just want to try it (for instance to see it opening a backdoor listener)

Re: A Roundup Of Leopard Security Features

bob dole — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 23:41:30 -0000

I'm not bob btw :)

Re: A Roundup Of Leopard Security Features

bob dole — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 12:22:56 -0000

@Ralf

If you want to see the code signing interact with the per-application firewall, open the developer tool "BigTop"...it adds itself with a "allow all incoming connections" rule

p.s. this IS retarded having this conversation via blog comments rather than mailing list...

Re: A Roundup Of Leopard Security Features

bob dole — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 19:21:51 -0000

@Ralf
Seriously, that is exactly the type of question to put on the apple-focus list instead...this will all get sorted out in time, but you need to have it somewhere with more visibility than buried 87 comments down on a blog post!

I mean, I definitely support this discussion 100%, but I don't like reading it like this, with everything jumbled together

Come on Thomas...step up and move the discussion to a reasonable location

Re: A Roundup Of Leopard Security Features

bob dole — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 22:32:28 -0000

umm...Tom, did you ever try that cron -e thing you suggested? Because it doesn't work (which I didn't really think it would) since cron stuff is handled by launchd, not crontab proper...

Re: What We’ve Since Learned About Leopard Security Features

bob dole — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 23:05:22 -0000

I'm just curious on the firewall comment...what OS comes with a outbound firewall enabled by default? It seems more like something which was on your wishlist and which you only are mentioning because you're disappointed...It seems like there are plenty of other things you could put on that same wishlist and call out in this article :S

Re: Seven Deadly Pen Test Sins

bob dole — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 19:59:30 -0000

oh come now, you just posted that so that I would continue to read this site even though I see no content day after day...

Re: Grand Theft Auto IV Locking Up

bob dole — Sat, 03 May 2008 23:12:36 -0000

Easy solution to this, just goto your Network options and disconnect from the net. The game is trying to get on the station online and it's holding it up for some reason. Just get off the net and load the game, easy as could be.

Re: Iran president’s blog used to spread malware

bob dole — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 20:28:16 -0000

spreads malware only to microsoft brand browsers ...

Re: The startup sound in Vista …

bob dole — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 01:50:44 -0000

Dee Ddeee Dee....Microsoft. The Sony example sucks, I don't use my video camera 10 hours a day and have to reboot it at least 2. I don't want to hear anything. ANYTHING. No clicks, no songs, jingles.. nothing.

Stop. Shut up.

Re: The startup squeeze

bob dole — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 09:17:28 -0000

Quoting Robert: "Vic: these are profitable companies with strong balance sheets. I’m even hearing IBM is having a tough time getting credit. This is a credit crunch. Do you now get it? Even people and businesses with GREAT credit are having trouble getting credit. That is why this is really troubling to me."

Robert, you sound like an idiot stating the obvious.

Re: Special Message to Disinfo.com Users

bob dole — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 17:58:03 -0000

The page doesn't always load correctly. The text always shows up, but the formatting (css?) sometimes doesn't. I could see this making the site look bad to a new user.