Sure, the "we pay your ass, do it when I tell you to!" card is played all the time in corporate culture however a skilled and experienced security professional knows how to deal with that. It goes along the lines of "you may me to do my job to the best of my ability, if you want a yes-man then fire me and hire an intern".
Corporate culture is not an excuse in infosec, especially for a security company. If corporate culture IS like that, then change the corporate culture. If you cannot or do not know how to change the culture, then don't get a job in a leadership position.
I am an Infragard member. I was working for a university research group and was required to join Infragard as a part of this research. I did not like the idea of being forced to join an organization I knew little to nothing about so I did research into the organization first. I read up on all of the conspiracy theories about Infragard and spoke with some members before joining.
The conspiracy theories link this organization to "big brother" programs that encourage people to spy on their neighbors. This is not actually the case with Infragard - as far as I can tell.
From what I can see, this organization is put into place for very good reasons. Look into the Russian action in Georgia last year - a large component of that military action was cyber-based. The Russians took over the Georgian infrastructure (electric, news and radio) far before tanks rolled into Georgian territory. If the US is ever attacked on a large scale, our infrastructure will be the first strike. Infragard allows a secured group of IT professionals to be "in the loop" on potential threats that cannot be made widely public yet. It also allows these professionals to collaborate on security issues in real time - as they happen.
Say a new worm was propagating across major infrastructure networks. An administrator at the water company finds evidence of this worm and sends a message to Infragard asking if anybody else has seen it. A person working at the electric company reads that message and notices that it matches something they are addressing as well. The issue may be quickly escalated and addressed appropriately. If these individuals had to deal with conventional reporting then the link between two critical infrastructure networks experiencing the same problem at the same time may be missed.
In my experience Infragard does not care a bit about individuals ripping a CD or something. This is about bridging the gap between law enforcement and IT professionals in order to minimize the time it takes to address a potential cyber threat on critical infrastructure.
Registering your IT skills with Infragard is optional, not mandatory. This is not as evil as it sounds and I see much more upside to this than downside.
There is this handy tool that can go through all of the HTML for you and do all kinds of custom formatting, cleaning up and simplification custom per your specifications!
Not trying to feed the flames or anything, but I think he means "invisible" not in the sense that it does not exist, but in the sense that terrorism does not have a face. In it's nature, terrorism only exists with fear. If it is not able to spread fear, then it no longer exists.
Now, we as humans tend to fear what we do not understand or cannot put a face on. Terrorism is not a country, it is not a group led by one man, it is nothing that we have fought with conventional war techniques.. it is 'invisible' like the boogey man - one minute it is not there, and the next minute four planes are hijacked.
The problem is that instead of trying to learn about the people that utilize terrorism as a war tactic, we try to treat the terrorists as conventional adversaries. This is very likely not to work as the one thing that you must do when at war is to know everything about your enemy. If the people of the United States were given more information to know and understand the enemy and the rationale behind their thinking, then the people of the United States would possibly be less afraid of and more diligent against acts of terror.
Instead, we listen to color codes and run around wondering when the next skyscraper is going to fall.
Close... but this would put it into perspective... the general market in the US does not demand such gadgets as much as the market in the US demands SUVs with V10 engines, 4,500 sqft homes with no yards, and unlimited porterhouse steaks -all for a family of 3.
In Japan, miniturization is much more important and 'cool' than in the US. Hell, half of the US population has too fat of fingers to use these neat gadgets anyway!
Anyone else in the same boat? Yes and no. I agree with your point, and I vote third party a lot in local elections, but I do not in the presedential because there will NOT be a 3rd party president until the 3rd party gains a strong base (from city/state elections).
I hate the term 'throwing away' your vote, because I do not believe that. I just think that you have to look at the larger picture than to use your vote to put the spotlight on election reform. Your vote will likely just cause undesired results even if you think the state will be a landslide in either way.
...the effects or cleanup costs of Windows trojans, worms, viruses, or spyware?
Okay, but remember, they will then come up with the argument that the only reason that these things are not on Linux is because the people that write the trojans, worms, viruses, and spyware target the largest audience. Thus, if Linux were to gain the majority of the desktop market, these would be just as common therefore not a factor in comparing TCO as it would be a wash.
Not that I believe that, but that is the argument.
So how does my home entertainment center read the discs? Do you suppose they will mandate that every consumer must purchase new cd-playback devices to be compatable? How do they phase this in? The hit on the industry would be disasterous and then after that hit, the encryption will be cracked... so who loses? The recording industry and the consumers..
Okay, I stole this form a CDMag article, it answers your question.
I've read several e-mails and forum posts that claim anything over 24 frames per second is a waste, since the human eye cannot see anything faster than that. Proponents of this belief often site the 24 FPS rate of movies as proof. This is a complete fallacy. The human eye can see images far faster than 1/24th of a second in duration. There are records of experiments with fighter pilots where images of enemy planes were flashed before them for less than 1/100th of a second, and the pilots could not only spot it, but identify the plane as well. Granted, fighter pilots represent the upper limit of human vision. The fluorescent lights we're all familiar with actually blink on and off 120 times a second, since they light up as current passes through them and the alternating current standard to the U.S. fluctuates back and forth at 60Hz. Still, we see a steady stream of light because we can't process visual changes at that rate.
The point is that we can recognize shapes and movement in much smaller increments of time than 1/24th or even 1/30th of a second (color is slower to respond, but that's the way the human eye works). Video and film get by with 24 FPS (30 for broadcast video) because they capture all the visual information for that entire fraction of a second. When a movie camera snaps 24 pictures every second, each one captures all the movement for that 24th of a second. This is why you see all that blur when you freeze the picture on a single frame during an action scene, and why the blur goes away when the scene is played at full speed.
Computers don't do this, however. Each image displayed represents "zero time." That is, if it takes your computer 1/24th of a second to render the next frame, it only shows an instantaneous snapshot of the new position of everything, but doesn't show any of the visual information of the movement during that 1/24th of a second. If it did, you could freeze your game and everything moving would be blurry. The motion blur capabilities touted by some video cards doesn't work like a movie camera does, either. It only blends together previous drawings of objects, rather than actually representing all the motion "in between" frames. If you don't think you can see more than 24fps, turn your monitor's refresh rate down to 60Hz and watch how it flickers.
Eye experts say that a video refresh of 50 times a second is the minimum necessary to represent smooth movement without flickering for the average human eye. The key, of course, is to keep the frame rate up above 50 all the time. Benchmarks almost always measure an average frame rate, when it's the swing that matters--a game that runs at a constant 30 FPS will almost certainly look smoother than one that runs at 45 most of the time, but sometimes drops to 25. Though the frame rate required to really enjoy a game varies, one axiom remains true: there's no such thing as a frame rate that is too high.
Exactly. Where I live we have well over 150 people per acre yet my best option is a $49/month cablemodem which seems to get about 3mb/s down, not even sure what upstream is but it is weak. You would think that is a location as dense as mine I would have better options... I suspect I would if there were actual competition.
I got my account a few months ago and I have had only one invite to use. I figured I would get more but there was that one only. Are they even issuing invites anymore???
Still got mine from the developer program. I had it hooked up to the CueCat barcode reader and was setting it up so it would track all items in the kitchen and generate grocery lists when items are depleted. I wanted to go a step further and xfef the items on hand with a recipe database so you could quickly figure out what you could make with what you have and also determine what you need to buy to satisfy the requirements for a given recipe.
But alas, I got bored and now the little sucker is collecting dust in a closet.
It should work with or without their servers. I have blocked DVD-X Platinum from accessing the internet via my firewall. No problems.
As for registration, if their servers are down and not processing legit registration requests, just get a... um, utility off the web to help it get the software that you purchased to work.
Am I the only stupid idiot that thinks it would not be terribly complicated to have a printer and redundant NVRAM? Hell, throw in mirrored HDs too, they do not have to be that large.
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Sure, the "we pay your ass, do it when I tell you to!" card is played all the time in corporate culture however a skilled and experienced security professional knows how to deal with that. It goes along the lines of "you may me to do my job to the best of my ability, if you want a yes-man then fire me and hire an intern".
Corporate culture is not an excuse in infosec, especially for a security company. If corporate culture IS like that, then change the corporate culture. If you cannot or do not know how to change the culture, then don't get a job in a leadership position.
Why is this so hard??
I am an Infragard member. I was working for a university research group and was required to join Infragard as a part of this research. I did not like the idea of being forced to join an organization I knew little to nothing about so I did research into the organization first. I read up on all of the conspiracy theories about Infragard and spoke with some members before joining.
The conspiracy theories link this organization to "big brother" programs that encourage people to spy on their neighbors. This is not actually the case with Infragard - as far as I can tell.
From what I can see, this organization is put into place for very good reasons. Look into the Russian action in Georgia last year - a large component of that military action was cyber-based. The Russians took over the Georgian infrastructure (electric, news and radio) far before tanks rolled into Georgian territory. If the US is ever attacked on a large scale, our infrastructure will be the first strike. Infragard allows a secured group of IT professionals to be "in the loop" on potential threats that cannot be made widely public yet. It also allows these professionals to collaborate on security issues in real time - as they happen.
Say a new worm was propagating across major infrastructure networks. An administrator at the water company finds evidence of this worm and sends a message to Infragard asking if anybody else has seen it. A person working at the electric company reads that message and notices that it matches something they are addressing as well. The issue may be quickly escalated and addressed appropriately. If these individuals had to deal with conventional reporting then the link between two critical infrastructure networks experiencing the same problem at the same time may be missed.
In my experience Infragard does not care a bit about individuals ripping a CD or something. This is about bridging the gap between law enforcement and IT professionals in order to minimize the time it takes to address a potential cyber threat on critical infrastructure.
Registering your IT skills with Infragard is optional, not mandatory. This is not as evil as it sounds and I see much more upside to this than downside.
There is this handy tool that can go through all of the HTML for you and do all kinds of custom formatting, cleaning up and simplification custom per your specifications!
It is called an intern.
10mil divisions - each holds a byte
Furthermore, how does "one [magnetic] orientation or the other" equate to a byte?
This article is complete B.S.
Not trying to feed the flames or anything, but I think he means "invisible" not in the sense that it does not exist, but in the sense that terrorism does not have a face. In it's nature, terrorism only exists with fear. If it is not able to spread fear, then it no longer exists.
Now, we as humans tend to fear what we do not understand or cannot put a face on. Terrorism is not a country, it is not a group led by one man, it is nothing that we have fought with conventional war techniques.. it is 'invisible' like the boogey man - one minute it is not there, and the next minute four planes are hijacked.
The problem is that instead of trying to learn about the people that utilize terrorism as a war tactic, we try to treat the terrorists as conventional adversaries. This is very likely not to work as the one thing that you must do when at war is to know everything about your enemy. If the people of the United States were given more information to know and understand the enemy and the rationale behind their thinking, then the people of the United States would possibly be less afraid of and more diligent against acts of terror.
Instead, we listen to color codes and run around wondering when the next skyscraper is going to fall.
Close... but this would put it into perspective... the general market in the US does not demand such gadgets as much as the market in the US demands SUVs with V10 engines, 4,500 sqft homes with no yards, and unlimited porterhouse steaks -all for a family of 3.
In Japan, miniturization is much more important and 'cool' than in the US. Hell, half of the US population has too fat of fingers to use these neat gadgets anyway!
by entering 1138 on one of the menus.
Wait, so you are saying that this company came out with an app that will show me the same thing that I could get by typing 1138?
How fucking lazy have we become?! I would RTFA but I am too lazy.
This sounds too fun to work!
(Might try it out tonight...)
Anyone else in the same boat?
Yes and no. I agree with your point, and I vote third party a lot in local elections, but I do not in the presedential because there will NOT be a 3rd party president until the 3rd party gains a strong base (from city/state elections).
I hate the term 'throwing away' your vote, because I do not believe that. I just think that you have to look at the larger picture than to use your vote to put the spotlight on election reform. Your vote will likely just cause undesired results even if you think the state will be a landslide in either way.
Ha! I did not catch that part! RTFA Failure...
Yes, they are there but you just would never know it. NICE FUD!
...the effects or cleanup costs of Windows trojans, worms, viruses, or spyware?
Okay, but remember, they will then come up with the argument that the only reason that these things are not on Linux is because the people that write the trojans, worms, viruses, and spyware target the largest audience. Thus, if Linux were to gain the majority of the desktop market, these would be just as common therefore not a factor in comparing TCO as it would be a wash.
Not that I believe that, but that is the argument.
Modded "Funny" but I have a hard time figuring out whether or not you are being sarcastic!
How about Red Bull and Vodka? Or Jagrbombs (sp?)? These drinks are VERY popular and are basically alcohol + caffeine.
Personally, I will stick to Guinness+(Jameson/Bailey's)
Oddly, there was a recent case in NYC where the elevator 'fell' - up!
Story
He is in Detroit (likely a suburb). For whatever reason, a Ram 2500 is a commuter vehicle there. I have yet to figure that out...
I love the swipe scanner that I have been using on my Ipaq H5450 for the past few years.
(I always wondered why this was not common on laptops when it has been common on my PDA for so long...)
So how does my home entertainment center read the discs? Do you suppose they will mandate that every consumer must purchase new cd-playback devices to be compatable? How do they phase this in? The hit on the industry would be disasterous and then after that hit, the encryption will be cracked... so who loses? The recording industry and the consumers..
Okay, I stole this form a CDMag article, it answers your question.
I've read several e-mails and forum posts that claim anything over 24 frames per second is a waste, since the human eye cannot see anything faster than that. Proponents of this belief often site the 24 FPS rate of movies as proof. This is a complete fallacy. The human eye can see images far faster than 1/24th of a second in duration. There are records of experiments with fighter pilots where images of enemy planes were flashed before them for less than 1/100th of a second, and the pilots could not only spot it, but identify the plane as well. Granted, fighter pilots represent the upper limit of human vision. The fluorescent lights we're all familiar with actually blink on and off 120 times a second, since they light up as current passes through them and the alternating current standard to the U.S. fluctuates back and forth at 60Hz. Still, we see a steady stream of light because we can't process visual changes at that rate.
The point is that we can recognize shapes and movement in much smaller increments of time than 1/24th or even 1/30th of a second (color is slower to respond, but that's the way the human eye works). Video and film get by with 24 FPS (30 for broadcast video) because they capture all the visual information for that entire fraction of a second. When a movie camera snaps 24 pictures every second, each one captures all the movement for that 24th of a second. This is why you see all that blur when you freeze the picture on a single frame during an action scene, and why the blur goes away when the scene is played at full speed.
Computers don't do this, however. Each image displayed represents "zero time." That is, if it takes your computer 1/24th of a second to render the next frame, it only shows an instantaneous snapshot of the new position of everything, but doesn't show any of the visual information of the movement during that 1/24th of a second. If it did, you could freeze your game and everything moving would be blurry. The motion blur capabilities touted by some video cards doesn't work like a movie camera does, either. It only blends together previous drawings of objects, rather than actually representing all the motion "in between" frames. If you don't think you can see more than 24fps, turn your monitor's refresh rate down to 60Hz and watch how it flickers.
Eye experts say that a video refresh of 50 times a second is the minimum necessary to represent smooth movement without flickering for the average human eye. The key, of course, is to keep the frame rate up above 50 all the time. Benchmarks almost always measure an average frame rate, when it's the swing that matters--a game that runs at a constant 30 FPS will almost certainly look smoother than one that runs at 45 most of the time, but sometimes drops to 25. Though the frame rate required to really enjoy a game varies, one axiom remains true: there's no such thing as a frame rate that is too high.
by Jason Cross
Exactly. Where I live we have well over 150 people per acre yet my best option is a $49/month cablemodem which seems to get about 3mb/s down, not even sure what upstream is but it is weak. You would think that is a location as dense as mine I would have better options... I suspect I would if there were actual competition.
I got my account a few months ago and I have had only one invite to use. I figured I would get more but there was that one only. Are they even issuing invites anymore???
Sorry, I vote that Old School is actually quite funny. Personally, I loved it! /We're going streaking!!!
Still got mine from the developer program. I had it hooked up to the CueCat barcode reader and was setting it up so it would track all items in the kitchen and generate grocery lists when items are depleted. I wanted to go a step further and xfef the items on hand with a recipe database so you could quickly figure out what you could make with what you have and also determine what you need to buy to satisfy the requirements for a given recipe.
But alas, I got bored and now the little sucker is collecting dust in a closet.
It should work with or without their servers. I have blocked DVD-X Platinum from accessing the internet via my firewall. No problems.
... um, utility off the web to help it get the software that you purchased to work.
As for registration, if their servers are down and not processing legit registration requests, just get a
Boy, I loved my 300A. Should have kept it and framed the little sucker. Great chip for the cost.
Am I the only stupid idiot that thinks it would not be terribly complicated to have a printer and redundant NVRAM? Hell, throw in mirrored HDs too, they do not have to be that large.
Perhaps I am missing something???