Then again, we've been talking about this problem for a year and a half, yet there still are people stupid enough to be selling HDs with readable data that should be kept secret on them without doing DOD-level formatting.
It's amazing, isn't it, there are still IT directors out there who don't get their policy and procedure ideas from a close reading of Slashdot. I'm only half-joking, actuially, if a few more CIOs / CTOs were/. addicts the world would be a much better place...
I wonder whether Chatham, Cape Cod was named after the original Thames port of Chatham in Kent. Readers interested in learning more of the fine attractions and picturesque beauty of this
forgottencorner of England are referred to these interesting similar sites. Warning, readers from Maidstone, Gillingham or Sheppey should not follow these links...
Many a true work spoken in jest. When you get flow in a game, in programming, or in playing tennis, you're turning off part of your conscious mind and submerging yourself in the moment. I'd be willing to bet that an hour's meditation will do you more good than an hour fragging your mates, though.
It seems to me that grown-ups do not work for other people, but perhaps I am being too arrogant.
The way I cope with the cognitive dissonance of maintaining an identity, sense of self, "spirit" or "soul" if you like, is that I always consider myself to be working for myself even when I'm being directly employed. The only difference between being a sole trader / consultant and a wage slave is that both parties can walk away more easily. It's like a coffee cup and a donut - same topology, different shape... but topology is a more fundamental property than shape. People want stuff done. You do it. They give you money. Everything else is an implementation detail, surely? (If I had my Manic Street Preacher fan hat on I'd say it's the difference between working in a brothel and walking the streets...)
I like to think that this approach also helps me assess career situations in a clear-eyed manner. At the moment I work with mostly interesting, skilled, clever & knowledgeable people. I'm also learning a lot. On the other hand I'm being paid a bottom-of-the-range salary for what I do, regularly get jerked around by idiot managers without the grace to apologise for double-booking me so that I have to work bank holidays and late nights to get everything done in time. I'm aware of the trade-off, I factor in various other factors, and when the grief exceeds the gain I'll be off. Perhaps I'll take the plunge and write that searing insiders inditement of the 'Information Security Industry' that I've been brooding over for the last year or so. In fact that gives me an idea... thanks Bruce!:)
For all it's miriad faults (Sue McGregor springs to mind, Libby Purves, John Waite, Noel Edmonds, most of BBC1 these days,... uh, that's a longer list than I was thinking of;) the BBC is still one of the few things that give me any feeling of pride in the institutions of this country. I won't go so far as to say "proud to be British" - patriotism just isn't sportsmanlike IMHO.
oops, that's horribly out of date stuff;) Yes i was at college in Coleraine but was born in London, grew up in the SE of UK then the west country (Forest of Dean, rather strange & isolated corner on the welsh border.) Oddly enough one of my colleagues here (argh posting at work!) was just hunting for the location of the next customer he's been sent to which turned out to be in Banbridge (south of Belfast) which lead to an orgy of nostalgia as I looked at the multimap view of Portstewart's sand dunes & reminded myself I always wanted to go back there some time. Hmm this year, next year,...
& incidentally I also have family in Tralee and Dublin, in 1972 500,000 Irish cits left home and half a dozen hippies in a knackered old van headed out to Kerry including my dad's sister & her family.
right back to looking for exploits for Apache chunked encoding vuln on a MIPS...
So this recidivist spammer, who still doesn't care that what he's doing is wrong, and who is responsible for billions if not tens of billions of useless messages... is going to be in a known place... at a known time... in the USA.
As an employee for a large aerospace corporation, I'm beginning to recognize why space is so difficult. On the parts level, parts must be "space-qualified", which limits selection to a few choice vendors who, in applying rigorous mil-spec requirements to parts testing and screening, mark-up the price 15x. The only alternative is privately "up-screen" the part according to program requirements, which is also a lengthy and time-consuming process. When dealing with space, so many new concerns must be addressed. Radiation effects, outgassing, vibration impact from launch, severe thermal excursions, redundancies, etc. Each hi-tech subcomponent has to be built twice -- one for flight and one for intense qual unit testing. Close scrutiny of reported industry design flaws must be adhered to. There's been quite a stir relating to some flawed algorithms in Actel FPGAs.
I don't know, but I'm guessing that the fundamental reason these testing and development processes are needed isn't so much that space is a massively more challenging environment (though obviously it's at the top end of the scale.) The fundamental problem is the cost of going there to fix something that breaks. Long term manned spacecraft such as ISS and Mir will and have had ad-hoc repairs to stuff that's worn out or broken on orbit & which had a safety impact. Apart from Hubble, I don't know of any unmanned spacecraft that have been repaired. The result is that stuff *can't* break. Once it's up there, it can't be fixed. This is one reason why manned missions to anywhere beyond the inner planets just can not work, ever, no matter what. Unpopular opinion I know, but personally I'm still loving my 2h daily session looking at the latest raw images from the Mars Rovers:)
Hmmm, up to a point Lord Copper. The insidious evil of the UK tabloids have managed to poison popular opinion against all forms of European cooperation.
This is why Blair is so cautious about a referendum. (As a lib dem supporter myself I'm definitely a Europhile - which is not to say that the EU isn't in serious need of reform of course.)
Anecdote: my local Sainsburys is flogging England football shirts, beer & crisps etc in advance of the forthcoming (?) Euro 2004 football tournament. They're attracting attention with a TV playing nothing but full-length replays of the England-Germany 5-1 match.
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Many races believe [the universe] was created by some sort of god, though the Jatravartid people of Viltvodle VI firmly believed that the entire universe was infact sneezed out of the nose of a being called teh "great Green Arkleseizure". The Jatravartids, small blue creatures with more than fifty arms each who were therefore unique in having invented the aerosol deoderant before the wheel, lived in perpetual fear of a time called "the coming of the Great White Hankerchief". However, the Great Green Arkleseizure theory is not widely accepted
outside Viltvodle VI...
From the intro to the first book IIRC, and from memory so probably wrong in places.
Shit, how sad is it that I can recite this stuff verbatim? ah well that's what comes of falling asleep listening to the radio shows every night for 20 years. OK I exaggerate a little for comic effect but one grilf did give me plenty of grief over it. (The others just left...;)
I never understood those still pics of Townshend in mid-windmill but having heard the music properly now at last, I think I get it;)
And the first few bars when the drums kick in makes me think there should be a statue of Keith Moon on every High St. Hmmm I wonder if keithmoonisgod.org is taken?
Incidentally I bought the new Streets album at the same time (variety == spice of life innit!) and this is also very, very good.
and on a completely unrelated note why did your comment sound like an irish accent in my head before I even saw your nick? weird.
These games also reflect the boundless imagination of their creators...
One of the best games ever written was Jumping Jack. Five black horizontal lines up the screen. A tiny animated stick figure. Gaps appear and slide along the lines. Jack has to jump up through the holes onto the level above until he reaches the top of the screen.
When something 10% as addictive appears on one of these new-fangled console things I'll be interested... until then, who cares? I can see better animation in shampoo ads, bigger explosions in and old lame crap from Blockbuster and more convincing acting in a George Lucas movie...
any new way to save money that could be put to use in a better way is something to look at.
How about having a whip-round for the cash needed to get a nice professional hit done on the Minister for Bullshi^h^h^h Health? I'm only half-joking - any country that has a health minister who recommends potatoes, garlic and lemon juice as a cure for AIDS & who is NOT then sacked in disgrace on the spot, has _serious_ problems:/
(google for "Mantu AIDS M'Beki" for the gory details...) Anyway this is completely O/T.
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It's amazing, isn't it, there are still IT directors out there who don't get their policy and procedure ideas from a close reading of Slashdot. I'm only half-joking, actuially, if a few more CIOs / CTOs were /. addicts the world would be a much better place...
Sorry, in-joke for the Voresters out there.
Many a true work spoken in jest. When you get flow in a game, in programming, or in playing tennis, you're turning off part of your conscious mind and submerging yourself in the moment. I'd be willing to bet that an hour's meditation will do you more good than an hour fragging your mates, though.
I like to think that this approach also helps me assess career situations in a clear-eyed manner. At the moment I work with mostly interesting, skilled, clever & knowledgeable people. I'm also learning a lot. On the other hand I'm being paid a bottom-of-the-range salary for what I do, regularly get jerked around by idiot managers without the grace to apologise for double-booking me so that I have to work bank holidays and late nights to get everything done in time. I'm aware of the trade-off, I factor in various other factors, and when the grief exceeds the gain I'll be off. Perhaps I'll take the plunge and write that searing insiders inditement of the 'Information Security Industry' that I've been brooding over for the last year or so. In fact that gives me an idea... thanks Bruce! :)
sorry, sorry,I just couldn't resist...
For all it's miriad faults (Sue McGregor springs to mind, Libby Purves, John Waite, Noel Edmonds, most of BBC1 these days,... uh, that's a longer list than I was thinking of ;) the BBC is still one of the few things that give me any feeling of pride in the institutions of this country. I won't go so far as to say "proud to be British" - patriotism just isn't sportsmanlike IMHO.
& incidentally I also have family in Tralee and Dublin, in 1972 500,000 Irish cits left home and half a dozen hippies in a knackered old van headed out to Kerry including my dad's sister & her family.
right back to looking for exploits for Apache chunked encoding vuln on a MIPS...
I just read a nice description of them as "landslide drums" - that catches the feeling quite nicely
Brave man! Not to mention, reckless...
I don't know, but I'm guessing that the fundamental reason these testing and development processes are needed isn't so much that space is a massively more challenging environment (though obviously it's at the top end of the scale.) The fundamental problem is the cost of going there to fix something that breaks. Long term manned spacecraft such as ISS and Mir will and have had ad-hoc repairs to stuff that's worn out or broken on orbit & which had a safety impact. Apart from Hubble, I don't know of any unmanned spacecraft that have been repaired. The result is that stuff *can't* break. Once it's up there, it can't be fixed. This is one reason why manned missions to anywhere beyond the inner planets just can not work, ever, no matter what. Unpopular opinion I know, but personally I'm still loving my 2h daily session looking at the latest raw images from the Mars Rovers :)
Anecdote: my local Sainsburys is flogging England football shirts, beer & crisps etc in advance of the forthcoming (?) Euro 2004 football tournament. They're attracting attention with a TV playing nothing but full-length replays of the England-Germany 5-1 match.
jesus that's _awful_
Shit, how sad is it that I can recite this stuff verbatim? ah well that's what comes of falling asleep listening to the radio shows every night for 20 years. OK I exaggerate a little for comic effect but one grilf did give me plenty of grief over it. (The others just left...;)
And the first few bars when the drums kick in makes me think there should be a statue of Keith Moon on every High St. Hmmm I wonder if keithmoonisgod.org is taken?
Incidentally I bought the new Streets album at the same time (variety == spice of life innit!) and this is also very, very good.
and on a completely unrelated note why did your comment sound like an irish accent in my head before I even saw your nick? weird.
90 cents?!? Here in the UK I've just paid 82p per litre which I think is probably over $1 USD.
"Yeaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!"
I just bought a Best of the Who just for "Won't Get Fooled Again". 8 1/2 minutes of pure fucking genius.
When something 10% as addictive appears on one of these new-fangled console things I'll be interested... until then, who cares? I can see better animation in shampoo ads, bigger explosions in and old lame crap from Blockbuster and more convincing acting in a George Lucas movie...
How about having a whip-round for the cash needed to get a nice professional hit done on the Minister for Bullshi^h^h^h Health? I'm only half-joking - any country that has a health minister who recommends potatoes, garlic and lemon juice as a cure for AIDS & who is NOT then sacked in disgrace on the spot, has _serious_ problems :/
(google for "Mantu AIDS M'Beki" for the gory details...) Anyway this is completely O/T.