I don't actually know many kids who can afford a regular XBox live subscription, unless they get a shedload more pocketmoney than I used to. In most cases the Live gamers will be teens and young adults. I'm sure the new generation on the whole has gotten over most of it's homophobia, but there will be many conservative adults still in the US wanting to make sure it is their morals and world view being expressed in these public channels.
OK, hands up anyone who actually uses ma.gnolia. Until now I had never even heard of them. For bookmarking, I use foxmarks. The are working on browser plugins for Safari and IE as well as Firefox, and so far I am very happy with this cloud service, as the data is still on each client that subscribes. Even if they dissappear tomorrow, all my bookmarks are still on my pc's.
maybe they should have made it possible to run IE7 and 8 at the same time. We were held back on ie6 at one client because of one partners website that broke in ie7. But the site was used extensively by our client. This also held up our so sp3 deployment as ie7 was part of this update. Now the client is smarter. All their critical systems are specified to work with at least firefox and ie so that if required only one out of the two browser platform might be held back next time.
The other issue is simultaneous worldwide distribution. I'm a BSG fan, but here in NZ the broadcast is way behind the US. Every SF blog on the planet is covering things happening in the show now, while we are 8 - 12 months behind. So what is a fan to do, thanks www.eztv.it 8)
...no viewership from me for hulu. Anywhere. First tv.com now boxee. It's a sign of these illogical times that hulu allow anyone to embed their videos in any web page, but then would force a application that sends hundreds of thousands of streams of traffic to them to drop their service.
Cable companies' (who are clearly pressuring content providers) subscriptions are already falling. I'm one of those people who have dropped it. Lest that trend continue though, we can't make it TOO easy for people to watch video online now, can we? Continually making it more difficult to get to online video won't save the cable companies' bloated overpriced businesses. It may well sacrifice hulu's, though...
Wow, thats so sad, now another tv source I cant see (as I dont happen to live in the land of the fee, sorry free)
But as boxee I believe is XBMC based, I guess there is no reason not to have it as a plugin that can be downloaded and installed 8)
Where I work, I am employed by a company that is contracted to run all the IT services for a government organisation. On our campus a re multiple parties, all with their own equipment, some of it not under our control. None of the senior management at the client have admin access, they are all just normal users with the permissions to do their jobs, however in our team, there are several people who do have admin access, and where possible, we use individual accounts and even we don't know the "Admin" password. However switches and routers are a bit special, they have a terminal password to allow remote access or through a local serial connection, and an "enable" password to give root access. Until now we have had common telnet/ssh passwords and common enable passwords, and these stored in a safe place. Only recently have we implemented an additional step where the enable password will now be our RSA tokens. Anyone placed in the right group will be able to administer a switch. Critical systems are monitored for tampering so we will be alerted if a config changes to allow simple password auth.
In this case it just seems like incompetence on many level where one person had all of the keys, and that was it.
Now if the engineer personally owned the routers and was paid to run them to provide services for the city, then he can definitely withhold the passwords, but if the city paid for the routers, and then hired him to manage them, the root passwords belong to the city, not the engineer. If a city official with the correct permissions asks for the passwords, then they are to be handed over. Anything else is just incompetence from the engineer. Setting traps like no saved configs, again is incompetence form the engineer. Not having hte configs exported out and backed up, again incompetence. Sound like the City stuffed up, had no clue and hired a dodgy engineer who also had no clue, or at best was just acting maliciously.
Probably find that if she had just fessed up and handed over the phone, than nothing untoward would have happened. My guess there is more to the story and this nice innocent youth could have been a repeat offender, and this was the tip of the iceburg. You never know.
To me it sounds like she made it hard for the staff, so they made it hard for her. My son already know if he fesses up the punishment is likely to be less than if I catch him in a lie. Version 1: Me: Did you break this window when playing ball today? Son: Yup, Billiy and I were, playnig and I kicked it ant the ball just went woosh in the window. Me, and you know I've asked you not to kick the ball around that part of the house, Son: yup. Me: Ok, help me clean up the mess, you go get the newspaper from the recycler while I sweep up. Son: But I was going down the shops with. Me: No, now you are helping clean up.
Version 2: Me: Me: Did you break this window when playing ball today? Son: nope, Me: Its your ball I've found, and the window wasn't broken earler, are you sure you didn't see it happen? Son: Nope. Me: You and Billy were here before, Are you sure you know nothing about it? Son: Nope. Me: I'm sorry, I dont believe you, especially as Billy already told me that you were playing ball here when the window broke, so now you are grounded for a week, so no Soccer tomorrow, and no computertime.... etc
There should be no luxuries and no wealth earned except for demonstrated good behaviour, or participating and completing successfully further education, or correctional programs for drug abuse etc.
So why aren't the crims out there breaking rocks and making licence plates instead of curling up in front of the TV with a guitar? It's prison, for crying out loud, not a holiday camp.
Now I think for a commercial prison, should be paid a base rate for each prisoner, slightly below the cost of their upkeep, but paid a bonus well in excess of this for prisoners who are returned to society and show a very low rate of return. This would promote profit in rehabilitation, not bums on benches in the prison mess.
I hear there is some real estate opened up in cuba that might be suitable. Nice detention yars, lots of guards with dogs, and very little access for the inmates to representation or trial. That would be a great place to send Judges who are bent.
The problem with boot passwords given to users or even self generate is they will eventually write them down somewhere, or give it to their spouse/children so they can play WoW on daddy/mommys laptop. Passwords are only safe if you can force them to be refreshed at a certain time period and not repeated.
I use truecrypt on external drives under Linux, Windows and OS X. In most cases I cant tell the volume is encrypted in performance terms, but I guess with slow flash drives it doesn't really matter that much.
The biggest issue from a network admins point of view is managing the encryption keys and passwords for 1000+ users. Truecrypt does not address this at all. We use Checkpoint Pointsec for corporate use, but lots of problems with users forgetting the passwords and locking themselves out completely. They have to call our helpdesk to get a one time token code to unlock. OK during the day, but expensive after hours.
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I don't actually know many kids who can afford a regular XBox live subscription, unless they get a shedload more pocketmoney than I used to. In most cases the Live gamers will be teens and young adults. I'm sure the new generation on the whole has gotten over most of it's homophobia, but there will be many conservative adults still in the US wanting to make sure it is their morals and world view being expressed in these public channels.
Hey, Ferro, you been drooling in the landing bay again?
OK, hands up anyone who actually uses ma.gnolia. Until now I had never even heard of them.
For bookmarking, I use foxmarks. The are working on browser plugins for Safari and IE as well as Firefox, and so far I am very happy with this cloud service, as the data is still on each client that subscribes. Even if they dissappear tomorrow, all my bookmarks are still on my pc's.
It also doesn't work on my Mac or my linux box. Damn them!
I wonder if these sites look at their stats and say "well, we don't get many non ie clients, so there isn't much point supporting them."
maybe they should have made it possible to run IE7 and 8 at the same time. We were held back on ie6 at one client because of one partners website that broke in ie7. But the site was used extensively by our client. This also held up our so sp3 deployment as ie7 was part of this update. Now the client is smarter. All their critical systems are specified to work with at least firefox and ie so that if required only one out of the two browser platform might be held back next time.
The other issue is simultaneous worldwide distribution.
I'm a BSG fan, but here in NZ the broadcast is way behind the US. Every SF blog on the planet is covering things happening in the show now, while we are 8 - 12 months behind. So what is a fan to do, thanks www.eztv.it 8)
...no viewership from me for hulu. Anywhere. First tv.com now boxee. It's a sign of these illogical times that hulu allow anyone to embed their videos in any web page, but then would force a application that sends hundreds of thousands of streams of traffic to them to drop their service.
Cable companies' (who are clearly pressuring content providers) subscriptions are already falling. I'm one of those people who have dropped it. Lest that trend continue though, we can't make it TOO easy for people to watch video online now, can we? Continually making it more difficult to get to online video won't save the cable companies' bloated overpriced businesses. It may well sacrifice hulu's, though...
Wow, thats so sad, now another tv source I cant see (as I dont happen to live in the land of the fee, sorry free)
But as boxee I believe is XBMC based, I guess there is no reason not to have it as a plugin
that can be downloaded and installed 8)
Or in the US -
criminal court: Murder - Not guilty
In civil court: pain and suffering to the family of the victim - guilty - pay 10 million
And I thought you couldnt be tried for the same crime twice. Oh well, only in America, land of the free.
Where I work, I am employed by a company that is contracted to run all the IT services for a government organisation. On our campus a re multiple parties, all with their own equipment, some of it not under our control.
None of the senior management at the client have admin access, they are all just normal users with the permissions to do their jobs, however in our team, there are several people who do have admin access, and where possible, we use individual accounts and even we don't know the "Admin" password.
However switches and routers are a bit special, they have a terminal password to allow remote access or through a local serial connection, and an "enable" password to give root access. Until now we have had common telnet/ssh passwords and common enable passwords, and these stored in a safe place. Only recently have we implemented an additional step where the enable password will now be our RSA tokens. Anyone placed in the right group will be able to administer a switch.
Critical systems are monitored for tampering so we will be alerted if a config changes to allow simple password auth.
In this case it just seems like incompetence on many level where one person had all of the keys, and that was it.
Now if the engineer personally owned the routers and was paid to run them to provide services for the city, then he can definitely withhold the passwords, but if the city paid for the routers, and then hired him to manage them, the root passwords belong to the city, not the engineer. If a city official with the correct permissions asks for the passwords, then they are to be handed over. Anything else is just incompetence from the engineer.
Setting traps like no saved configs, again is incompetence form the engineer. Not having hte configs exported out and backed up, again incompetence.
Sound like the City stuffed up, had no clue and hired a dodgy engineer who also had no clue, or at best was just acting maliciously.
To me it sound liek the incompetents in charge of him did not make sure the root passwords to critical systems were known by at least two people.
Probably find that if she had just fessed up and handed over the phone, than nothing untoward would have happened. My guess there is more to the story and this nice innocent youth could have been a repeat offender, and this was the tip of the iceburg. You never know.
To me it sounds like she made it hard for the staff, so they made it hard for her.
My son already know if he fesses up the punishment is likely to be less than if I catch him in a lie.
Version 1: Me: Did you break this window when playing ball today?
Son: Yup, Billiy and I were, playnig and I kicked it ant the ball just went woosh in the window.
Me, and you know I've asked you not to kick the ball around that part of the house,
Son: yup.
Me: Ok, help me clean up the mess, you go get the newspaper from the recycler while I sweep up.
Son: But I was going down the shops with.
Me: No, now you are helping clean up.
Version 2: .... etc
Me: Me: Did you break this window when playing ball today?
Son: nope,
Me: Its your ball I've found, and the window wasn't broken earler, are you sure you didn't see it happen?
Son: Nope.
Me: You and Billy were here before, Are you sure you know nothing about it?
Son: Nope.
Me: I'm sorry, I dont believe you, especially as Billy already told me that you were playing ball here when the window broke, so now you are grounded for a week, so no Soccer tomorrow, and no computertime
But I bet it is damned hard applying to Harvard when your return address is Cell-1a, Juvenile Detention Facility, Pennsylvania.
There should be no luxuries and no wealth earned except for demonstrated good behaviour, or participating and completing successfully further education, or correctional programs for drug abuse etc.
So why aren't the crims out there breaking rocks and making licence plates instead of curling up in front of the TV with a guitar? It's prison, for crying out loud, not a holiday camp.
Now I think for a commercial prison, should be paid a base rate for each prisoner, slightly below the cost of their upkeep, but paid a bonus well in excess of this for prisoners who are returned to society and show a very low rate of return.
This would promote profit in rehabilitation, not bums on benches in the prison mess.
I hear there is some real estate opened up in cuba that might be suitable.
Nice detention yars, lots of guards with dogs, and very little access for the inmates to representation or trial. That would be a great place to send Judges who are bent.
They should go to a nice little state pen, and room with a guy called Bubba, who likes to drop the soap in the showers.
Checkpoint
The problem with boot passwords given to users or even self generate is they will eventually write them down somewhere, or give it to their spouse/children so they can play WoW on daddy/mommys laptop.
Passwords are only safe if you can force them to be refreshed at a certain time period and not repeated.
I use truecrypt on external drives under Linux, Windows and OS X. In most cases I cant tell the volume is encrypted in performance terms, but I guess with slow flash drives it doesn't really matter that much.
The biggest issue from a network admins point of view is managing the encryption keys and passwords for 1000+ users. Truecrypt does not address this at all.
We use Checkpoint Pointsec for corporate use, but lots of problems with users forgetting the passwords and locking themselves out completely. They have to call our helpdesk to get a one time token code to unlock. OK during the day, but expensive after hours.
Dammnnn iPhone keyboarddd 8)
Our filrewall looks at incomming connections and evaluates the strings against SQL injection tactics. Helps reduce the risk anyway 8)
At primary school one of my teachers insisted in trying to cure my lefthandedness. my handwriting is still terrible to this day thanks to this 8)