Then why not have a warning stating so when you connect to the domain instead of the user guessing what you are actually doing?
This is why the kid blew the whistle on the Root CA. You, the school's network admin, have every right to install Root CAs on every user that connects to your domain provided you tell them you are doing so. The reason the school's network administrator stopped it because it was not disclosed and do so in secret might be a legal violation. I won't be surprised if the school makes a statement later that they will do this and revert back to the way it was as per your argument.
D*MN! I wish we had that law stateside. Over here we are setting fire to the internet, the very thing we created, while the government vaccums up every piece of data and metadata and storing it for a later date. I can't help but think those in power here are interested in controlling the masses and blackmailing anyone that threatens that in the future if we, the people, become too dangerous for them.
I blame the Yankees that moved to New Amsterdam for that. The Dutch who settled there then to spell lots of words with "ij" in them. When written in longhand it looks like a "y" to us Yanks. Not knowing any better, being Yankees (from the Dutch insult meaning "Cheese Head", which many of us were), we started to use the strange "y" spellings here and it became part of standard Colonial English. Once a standard is set, even such a stupid standard, it is d*mn difficult to change it.
Here is an example. Remember the 640kb limit of DOS? Yet another stupid standard that plagued PCs for over 12 years, which in computer time is an eon and it could not be changed without killing DOS for good.
Sometimes the health of the individuals has no effect, or an inverse effect, on the survivability of the flu. Case in point, the Spanish Flu of 1918 killed more healthy young men than any other demographic. The healthy older people didn't generally get as sick and the small children seem to be made to survive fevers high enough to kill adults.
I had dealt with a "creative" person and the problem was her attitude was "you are doing everything wrong, adopt my idea now". In reality we were actually doing things the way we are doing them for a reason. We did adopt some of her ideas after refining them to do what was needed but at a "slow" pace. Anybody that cannot think through a new idea first and then show us why this new idea works better will not be listened to.
Actually I can't think of an engineering reason not to have flying cars. The biggest problems are making them affordable and make them auto-pilot themselves. You really, really don't want the average driver to actually fly cars or have the owner make 10 years worth of payments on it. The best hope now is an automatic piloted flying cars like the Terrafugia TF-X.
I hope his lawyer is able to appeal the case if this search warrant stands because any conviction would be fruit of a violation of the 4th Amendment.
Once again, capability does not equal intent nor action. If it did none of the enumerated rights in the Bill of Rights could be enforced and the US government would have the right to imprison everyone in the country because everyone knows how to use a rock to smash things, just like a Brazil Nut or Abel's head.
What gets me is that the US really doesn't really need Saudi oil as much as we did 30 years ago. We still buy it because it is "cheap". If we really wanted to we could get most of our oil shortfall from Canada and Mexico at a slightly higher price and we could use the Alaskan oil instead of selling it.
Do we really want to endorse this "barbaric" behavior against women in Saudi Arabia by buying as much of their oil as we do today so that we can save a mere 10 to 15 cents a gallon?
I am not a lawyer, but I know lying to the police is a crime in many of our states and in Federal law. Even telling the truth and misremebering things is considered a lie to the police, but our police can lie about anything and everything. In the states you should NEVER EVER lie to the police since that is a potentially punishable crime and will make it likely that you will be considered guilty of "something" by the police and the Prosecutor . That is why the advice is to answer no questions about a case until you talk to a lawyer is very sound.
And the out of context example of "he never liked the guy" is a valid example. I have seen it where the police were under pressure to find someone, anyone, to arrest for a crime, particularly a murder, then make up....er....find evidence against him, and then have the Prosecutor ramrod it through a trial since that DA is under the pressure to convict someone, anyone, of the crime. If anyone had witnessed the trial of the West Memphis 3 back in '93-'94, you know what I am talking about. The justice system, in some places in the states, is very broken indeed.
Oversight will not be enough to prevent the great reduction of genetic diversity since there will be an overwhelming demand for genetic engineering your children and choosing the same list of traits that everyone else will want. In fact we are now in a time when genetic diversity in world has been increasing since the invention of the locomotive train. When a species increases their genetic diversity they become more resistant to extinction while the opposite increases the risk of extinction. When genetic diversity is killed off one disease may kill off the entire species of man.
The wonderful world of GATTACA is coming. For those that didn't see the movie this is the future where those people that are conceived naturally will be the new underclass and the test tube babies will be the new professional class. Your new resume is nothing more than a DNA sample and based off of the traits you were engineered for determines your line of work. Your parents will chose your profession type for you and you will be engineered with those traits that will be an asset to that kind of profession type. Employment laws, as they are partially enforced now, will not even put a dent in genetic discrimination that will be rampant in society. People like me, with genes for immune systems problems and moderate risk for heart attacks, will not be employable except for low-wage menial jobs. In fact almost none of us will be employable in middle class jobs nor will any bank loan money for your to start a business.
On the contrary! I have never been complacent when I was a programmers because "good" programming doesn't show up on an accountant's spreadsheet but cheap programming shows up as savings. We know that even superior western programmers are more likely to get the ax in outsourcing operations because they cost "too much". Failed programming projects are still not line item costs on the accountant's spreadsheet so therefore they don't exist to upper management.
There are many good Indian programmers now but their market is being continuously flooded with young and cheap programmers at an accelerated rate. The real reason the quality of programming is decreasing in the West is that many of us former programmers are just that, former programmers. We refuse to subject ourselves to the manic-depressive nature of today's programming job market. We have worked a few decades on quality programming and left the market leaving more inexperienced and cheaper programmers to fit the void. We are the ones with strong mathematical and scientific backgrounds and decided to go elsewhere to earn a living.
Companies will demand better quality but if they can't recognize it then nothing will change so eventually, just when the average Indian programmer is better than the average Western one, they will be priced out of the market and enter China or Bangladesh or Elbonia that charges 1/2 cent an hour. In business often cheap beats good.
This is why 3rd parties need to have a lawyer to protect their right against self incrimination. It is not a stretch to be forced to give testimony about someone else's actions and yet end up testifying against yourself for another crime because you didn't have a lawyer that would tell everyone that if you testify you could be prosecuted for another crime. A good lawyer will try to give immunity for the 3rd party's testimony if his/her client has not been charged with any crime as of yet.
The 5th Amendment is to prevent you from giving testimony against yourself and that is all, with the spouse exception which is a hold over from when the wife was all but property to her husband and the law viewed the married couple as one legal entity.
I am not a lawyer. What I learned about the Constitutional rights is based on only two college level courses. Caveat Emptor!
I think the biggest factor is the perception of the occupation. If an occupation is perceived as "male" then few females will go into it and if an occupation is perceived as "female" then few males will go into it. Why would the group of middle school and high school flute players in the Southeastern US in the 70's and 80's were almost all female while the professional flute players of that time was majority male? Why in America were there more females in programming in the 60's and 70's than today? Why in America is nursing, now a high paying job, overwhelmingly female but most Paramedics, some earning as low as 10% above minimum wage, are males? It is all about perception. Change the perception that Computer Science is a male thing and more females will do it.
Amen! Why can't the husband do some of these chores? I did. At the end of my marriage if I didn't do it or help my wife do it it would never get done, all on my income alone.
Of course, the interesting thing I suppose is how people in the US routinely allow themselves to get screwed over - especially in the IT field. Think about it - in every other profession other than IT, there's typically on-call pay if you have to carry the pager, potential compensation for overtime (yes, even if you're salaried, a lot of places do compensate for overtime) and many other rights and compensation that IT seems to have given up.....
In the US being on-call in IT is supposed to be part of the work, just like expecting to work extra hours when needed, and such. This is included in the salary requirements. That is why many IT jobs in America seem to "pay better" but in reality they do not since there is no additional compensation for being on-call or losing weekends or not being able to take vacation when scheduled.
The American Labor Unions did not adapt very well in the past few decades. They became very rigid and they are stuck in the 1950's as far as trying to recruit members. Our government doesn't help in that there are laws against retaliation against employees seeking to collectively bargain but all the employer has to do is lie and falsify reasons for termination and the labor board rarely does anything about it. For example WalMart calls all strikes as "labor stoppages" and deliberately put into place contradictory rules so that any manager can fire an employee for nearly anything. The states "right to work", meaning the right to at-will employment, makes it difficult to challenge most firings that are really retaliations or firing without cause.
Maybe he doesn't want to ever work for that "resume stain" even at ten times the price? Money is not the only thing to consider you know.
But I see your point. Do the "nice thing" for the employer and then offer to come back a year later as a 6 month contractor to fix this mess, at triple the price, when the outsourcing effort to Elbonia blows up in their face, leaving their vital systems in shambles due to the Elbonian programmers not understanding WTF management wants the software to do.
"Today you be the computer" - From Adam's Dilbert comic
Why would I give two weeks notice if it is clear my manager wants me out immediately but can't fire me for some reason? Quit immediately and give your manager and yourself some peace of mind.
You have done both yourselves a favor. You are into "I need freedom to get the most work done, hours be damned", and your employer seemed to be into "I need a warm body to do 'some work' during a very rigid time period. It is a culture clash and the best thing to do is actually quit with immediately and free both of you from this unnecessary battle of wills.
The solider volunteers for military service but the spouse and children, called military brats, get drafted. The spouse may have some say in the situation but the brats don't.
For those that wish to live in a "safe" world and eagerly accept the increasing limitations of freedom - "It is often safer to be in chains than to be free." - Franz Kafka
Morpheus - "...Welcome to the Desert of the Real. We have only bits and pieces of information but what we know for certain is that at some point in the early 21st century all of mankind was united in celebration. We marveled at our own magnificence as we gave birth to AI".
The company had a right to use GPS tracking on one of THEIR trucks. It is their equipment and they have a right to know where their drivers are. They also have the duty to make sure all truckers get their OSHA mandated rest period. Woe to any trucking firm that has GPS tracking and use it only for driving up profits instead for profit and safety enforcement for they will face the wrath of the Federal Government, as they should.
I have this too but it is for a specific purpose, to find out if I can get to the office and prep for an emergency in a given time slot. For disaster recovery we have to respond to any emergency all day every day. If another company had that policy I might say "bollocks" to that if they have the staff to handle anything at any time.
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Then why not have a warning stating so when you connect to the domain instead of the user guessing what you are actually doing?
This is why the kid blew the whistle on the Root CA. You, the school's network admin, have every right to install Root CAs on every user that connects to your domain provided you tell them you are doing so. The reason the school's network administrator stopped it because it was not disclosed and do so in secret might be a legal violation. I won't be surprised if the school makes a statement later that they will do this and revert back to the way it was as per your argument.
D*MN! I wish we had that law stateside. Over here we are setting fire to the internet, the very thing we created, while the government vaccums up every piece of data and metadata and storing it for a later date. I can't help but think those in power here are interested in controlling the masses and blackmailing anyone that threatens that in the future if we, the people, become too dangerous for them.
I blame the Yankees that moved to New Amsterdam for that. The Dutch who settled there then to spell lots of words with "ij" in them. When written in longhand it looks like a "y" to us Yanks. Not knowing any better, being Yankees (from the Dutch insult meaning "Cheese Head", which many of us were), we started to use the strange "y" spellings here and it became part of standard Colonial English. Once a standard is set, even such a stupid standard, it is d*mn difficult to change it.
Here is an example. Remember the 640kb limit of DOS? Yet another stupid standard that plagued PCs for over 12 years, which in computer time is an eon and it could not be changed without killing DOS for good.
Sometimes the health of the individuals has no effect, or an inverse effect, on the survivability of the flu. Case in point, the Spanish Flu of 1918 killed more healthy young men than any other demographic. The healthy older people didn't generally get as sick and the small children seem to be made to survive fevers high enough to kill adults.
I had dealt with a "creative" person and the problem was her attitude was "you are doing everything wrong, adopt my idea now". In reality we were actually doing things the way we are doing them for a reason. We did adopt some of her ideas after refining them to do what was needed but at a "slow" pace. Anybody that cannot think through a new idea first and then show us why this new idea works better will not be listened to.
Actually I can't think of an engineering reason not to have flying cars. The biggest problems are making them affordable and make them auto-pilot themselves. You really, really don't want the average driver to actually fly cars or have the owner make 10 years worth of payments on it. The best hope now is an automatic piloted flying cars like the Terrafugia TF-X.
I hope his lawyer is able to appeal the case if this search warrant stands because any conviction would be fruit of a violation of the 4th Amendment.
Once again, capability does not equal intent nor action. If it did none of the enumerated rights in the Bill of Rights could be enforced and the US government would have the right to imprison everyone in the country because everyone knows how to use a rock to smash things, just like a Brazil Nut or Abel's head.
What gets me is that the US really doesn't really need Saudi oil as much as we did 30 years ago. We still buy it because it is "cheap". If we really wanted to we could get most of our oil shortfall from Canada and Mexico at a slightly higher price and we could use the Alaskan oil instead of selling it.
Do we really want to endorse this "barbaric" behavior against women in Saudi Arabia by buying as much of their oil as we do today so that we can save a mere 10 to 15 cents a gallon?
I am not a lawyer, but I know lying to the police is a crime in many of our states and in Federal law. Even telling the truth and misremebering things is considered a lie to the police, but our police can lie about anything and everything. In the states you should NEVER EVER lie to the police since that is a potentially punishable crime and will make it likely that you will be considered guilty of "something" by the police and the Prosecutor . That is why the advice is to answer no questions about a case until you talk to a lawyer is very sound.
And the out of context example of "he never liked the guy" is a valid example. I have seen it where the police were under pressure to find someone, anyone, to arrest for a crime, particularly a murder, then make up....er....find evidence against him, and then have the Prosecutor ramrod it through a trial since that DA is under the pressure to convict someone, anyone, of the crime. If anyone had witnessed the trial of the West Memphis 3 back in '93-'94, you know what I am talking about. The justice system, in some places in the states, is very broken indeed.
Oversight will not be enough to prevent the great reduction of genetic diversity since there will be an overwhelming demand for genetic engineering your children and choosing the same list of traits that everyone else will want. In fact we are now in a time when genetic diversity in world has been increasing since the invention of the locomotive train. When a species increases their genetic diversity they become more resistant to extinction while the opposite increases the risk of extinction. When genetic diversity is killed off one disease may kill off the entire species of man.
The wonderful world of GATTACA is coming. For those that didn't see the movie this is the future where those people that are conceived naturally will be the new underclass and the test tube babies will be the new professional class. Your new resume is nothing more than a DNA sample and based off of the traits you were engineered for determines your line of work. Your parents will chose your profession type for you and you will be engineered with those traits that will be an asset to that kind of profession type. Employment laws, as they are partially enforced now, will not even put a dent in genetic discrimination that will be rampant in society. People like me, with genes for immune systems problems and moderate risk for heart attacks, will not be employable except for low-wage menial jobs. In fact almost none of us will be employable in middle class jobs nor will any bank loan money for your to start a business.
Be afraid. Be very afraid.
I see lots of billable hours in the future for fixing the coming mess.
On the contrary! I have never been complacent when I was a programmers because "good" programming doesn't show up on an accountant's spreadsheet but cheap programming shows up as savings. We know that even superior western programmers are more likely to get the ax in outsourcing operations because they cost "too much". Failed programming projects are still not line item costs on the accountant's spreadsheet so therefore they don't exist to upper management.
There are many good Indian programmers now but their market is being continuously flooded with young and cheap programmers at an accelerated rate. The real reason the quality of programming is decreasing in the West is that many of us former programmers are just that, former programmers. We refuse to subject ourselves to the manic-depressive nature of today's programming job market. We have worked a few decades on quality programming and left the market leaving more inexperienced and cheaper programmers to fit the void. We are the ones with strong mathematical and scientific backgrounds and decided to go elsewhere to earn a living.
Companies will demand better quality but if they can't recognize it then nothing will change so eventually, just when the average Indian programmer is better than the average Western one, they will be priced out of the market and enter China or Bangladesh or Elbonia that charges 1/2 cent an hour. In business often cheap beats good.
This is why 3rd parties need to have a lawyer to protect their right against self incrimination. It is not a stretch to be forced to give testimony about someone else's actions and yet end up testifying against yourself for another crime because you didn't have a lawyer that would tell everyone that if you testify you could be prosecuted for another crime. A good lawyer will try to give immunity for the 3rd party's testimony if his/her client has not been charged with any crime as of yet.
The 5th Amendment is to prevent you from giving testimony against yourself and that is all, with the spouse exception which is a hold over from when the wife was all but property to her husband and the law viewed the married couple as one legal entity.
I am not a lawyer. What I learned about the Constitutional rights is based on only two college level courses. Caveat Emptor!
I think the biggest factor is the perception of the occupation. If an occupation is perceived as "male" then few females will go into it and if an occupation is perceived as "female" then few males will go into it. Why would the group of middle school and high school flute players in the Southeastern US in the 70's and 80's were almost all female while the professional flute players of that time was majority male? Why in America were there more females in programming in the 60's and 70's than today? Why in America is nursing, now a high paying job, overwhelmingly female but most Paramedics, some earning as low as 10% above minimum wage, are males? It is all about perception. Change the perception that Computer Science is a male thing and more females will do it.
Amen! Why can't the husband do some of these chores? I did. At the end of my marriage if I didn't do it or help my wife do it it would never get done, all on my income alone.
Of course, the interesting thing I suppose is how people in the US routinely allow themselves to get screwed over - especially in the IT field. Think about it - in every other profession other than IT, there's typically on-call pay if you have to carry the pager, potential compensation for overtime (yes, even if you're salaried, a lot of places do compensate for overtime) and many other rights and compensation that IT seems to have given up.....
In the US being on-call in IT is supposed to be part of the work, just like expecting to work extra hours when needed, and such. This is included in the salary requirements. That is why many IT jobs in America seem to "pay better" but in reality they do not since there is no additional compensation for being on-call or losing weekends or not being able to take vacation when scheduled.
The American Labor Unions did not adapt very well in the past few decades. They became very rigid and they are stuck in the 1950's as far as trying to recruit members. Our government doesn't help in that there are laws against retaliation against employees seeking to collectively bargain but all the employer has to do is lie and falsify reasons for termination and the labor board rarely does anything about it. For example WalMart calls all strikes as "labor stoppages" and deliberately put into place contradictory rules so that any manager can fire an employee for nearly anything. The states "right to work", meaning the right to at-will employment, makes it difficult to challenge most firings that are really retaliations or firing without cause.
Maybe he doesn't want to ever work for that "resume stain" even at ten times the price? Money is not the only thing to consider you know.
But I see your point. Do the "nice thing" for the employer and then offer to come back a year later as a 6 month contractor to fix this mess, at triple the price, when the outsourcing effort to Elbonia blows up in their face, leaving their vital systems in shambles due to the Elbonian programmers not understanding WTF management wants the software to do.
"Today you be the computer" - From Adam's Dilbert comic
Why would I give two weeks notice if it is clear my manager wants me out immediately but can't fire me for some reason? Quit immediately and give your manager and yourself some peace of mind.
You have done both yourselves a favor. You are into "I need freedom to get the most work done, hours be damned", and your employer seemed to be into "I need a warm body to do 'some work' during a very rigid time period. It is a culture clash and the best thing to do is actually quit with immediately and free both of you from this unnecessary battle of wills.
The solider volunteers for military service but the spouse and children, called military brats, get drafted. The spouse may have some say in the situation but the brats don't.
For those that wish to live in a "safe" world and eagerly accept the increasing limitations of freedom - "It is often safer to be in chains than to be free." - Franz Kafka
Morpheus - "...Welcome to the Desert of the Real. We have only bits and pieces of information but what we know for certain is that at some point in the early 21st century all of mankind was united in celebration. We marveled at our own magnificence as we gave birth to AI".
The company had a right to use GPS tracking on one of THEIR trucks. It is their equipment and they have a right to know where their drivers are. They also have the duty to make sure all truckers get their OSHA mandated rest period. Woe to any trucking firm that has GPS tracking and use it only for driving up profits instead for profit and safety enforcement for they will face the wrath of the Federal Government, as they should.
I have this too but it is for a specific purpose, to find out if I can get to the office and prep for an emergency in a given time slot. For disaster recovery we have to respond to any emergency all day every day. If another company had that policy I might say "bollocks" to that if they have the staff to handle anything at any time.