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I'm sorry, but the FREE MARKET is another way to say LINING FATCATS POCKETS when you mention Government contracts. The best thing that could be done is for the Gov't to relocate the admins that have known and loved those systems/servers for years, and help them work with the new structure. On some levels, they may even be able to let them telecommute and save on the relocation/cost of living adjustment for moving the data centers. Release admins through attrition, with 1100 data centers it shouldn't be hard to find people retiring over the next 5 years.
It's time to stop second and third sourcing positions that only end up degrading service and costing workers their retirement/benefits. The money saved looks great on paper, but with the FREE MARKET all it does is make it so the people that use the systems will have poorer service at the same cost.
This is why 401K and insurance premiums are rising, fewer and fewer people are receiving any employer assistance for them. Without employer assistance, few can justify paying the premiums that the insurance companies are used to charging. As state and federal government agencies follow the path to the FREE MARKET, the parts of the FREE MARKET that they prop up fail. There are times and places for the free market, inside our government isn't one of them.
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There in lies the problem. The fed will likely outsource to Raytheon or Northrup Grumman, who will again contract out to recruiting firms. Before I know it, I'll be getting calls and emails from people who clearly aren't even state-side asking if I'm willing to relocate for a 6 month contract. Of course it would be on my dime to move. That's why they can't get qualified people. Qualified people won't (don't) sub-contract for firms based in India to get paid the lowest going wage and relocate at the same time.
I know this because I get 5 to 10 emails/week asking me to relocate to the DC area for jobs that I've already seen posted on Ratheon or NG's websites. I work with plenty of multinationals, and can easily tell English Grammar from an Indian perspective. Not all Indians speak or write poor English, just the recruiters that have contacted me regarding subcontracting for the Fed through NG and Raytheon.
It's not just about cheaper. Corn fed cattle can be slaughtered in as early as 14 months, while grass fed cattle take 3-5 years. To be financially viable for cattle farmers, grass fed beef has to cost at least double the price of corn fed. Antibiotics are also used in cattle to reduce the amount of bacteria that make it into our food supply. Sure it makes antibiotic resistant strains of bacteria, but so many people like to have their steak "walked past the grill."
A Faraday Box would make this a non-issue. The problem is what else do you use that you'd be blocking? You would lose cell service inside your home. For Radio and TV (if you even care about antiquated communication, but then there's HD) you may be able to wire antennas to the exterior, but you'd have to check with the complex's association bi-laws --which likely to enforce a "clean" look.
It's not the company I'm currently working for, thankfully. It is, however, a number of companies that I have worked for in the past. I was never part of any decision making process as far as company-wide browser standardization at those companies. In the one company in which I was involved in decisions like that, I was sure to encourage using LAMP for the servers precisely to avoid being stuck to browser specific extensions.
The problem isn't just that they ignore IT when we recommend increasing security to an appropriate level, its that we get FIRED when there is a compromise after we've been ignored.
Don't forget that those same 3rd party vendors will then outsource those jobs to a 4th party. It will entirely be filled with contractors making good money, but no benefits. It will once again be a way for corporations and our own government to wiggle out covering retirement or health care. It's a far right wing win on all counts: Big money for defense, check Big money for private industry, check No government insurance for public servants, check No retirement planning for the middle class, check
All of us that have been gainfully employed for being able to actually work in IT would become modern day partisans in any such event. It would be a rare opportunity to do our worst to other people's systems with the full knowledge of what has unintentionally brought us pain for years. That said, unlike common partisans we do think for ourselves. Many of us would need to be convinced that we were indeed on the side of what we consider good before we took an offensive approach.
AFAIK very few IT workers have decided that they needed to be part of any cyber warfare that could have coincided with the Iraq or Afganistan wars.
Umm, more often than not/. readers click on the link to the forum where they can post about it, not the actual article. I'm assuming that's what you meant by click on the article, you don't actually believe that 80% of./ actually RTFA do you?
Look, I enjoy reading the FUD on Slashdot, mostly because I love watching it get lambasted by people that know what they're talking/writing about. On primary news sites the masses stupidly either agree with the FUD or dismiss it for the wrong reasons, CNN is starting to seem like 4chan. On Slashdot you get people that have worked with the subject matter since it was in its infancy, or have spent much of their careers working with it. Please bring on the FUD and get it to the front page. It needs to be exposed for the shite it is.
IE 6 will still be alive (and unfortunately not so well) in the corporate workplace all over the nation. In fact many companies are also breathing a sigh of relief along with us techies, but for different reasons. They don't want their users watching videos while they should be working. They are very likely happy that YouTube won't be supporting a browser that many of their critical one off, undersupported, buggy, POS (both versions of the acronym apply) IE 6 only apps do.
I'm sorry, I did figure this out. No one was convicted of criminal defamation, which would suggest that they were charged with it. 3 out of 4 were convicted of failure to comply with privacy code. This could be viewed several ways, the judge was rational and wanted someone with deep pockets to get the privacy code repealed/reviewed/replaced (understand enough about the US judicial system, but no clue how this might work in Italy.)
The fact that all 4 were found not guilty of a more severe sounding offense seems to be good news. The fact that one person was found not guilty of anything also seems to suggest that there is little insanity taking place here.
Nevertheless, a judge in Milan today convicted 3 of the 4 defendants — David Drummond, Peter Fleischer and George Reyes — for failure to comply with the Italian privacy code. All 4 were found not guilty of criminal defamation.
Atty: Your honor, the suspect is a Morman Fundamentalist.
Judge: And you have proof of this?
Atty: He cliams 35 dependants on his state taxes.
Judge: Subpoena granted.
Have you not actually played any Flash based games? They suck down local resources and actually are pretty bandwidth intensive every time they load. You run into an asundry of other variables such as browser caching and quotas on user directories. As much as I'd prefer they use OpenGL, I'd really prefer they not do this at all. YMMV, but it will be very easy for me to ignore anything with this tech. It will, however, be really frustrating if this tech becomes as ubiquitous as Flash.
As evidence:
The average price in New Jersey is 2.47 per gallon, and the average fuel price in Pennsylvania is 2.73 per gallon. New Jersey has a law that all pumps MUST be full service, so they have to hire at least one extra attendant, this does nothing to the price in comparison to prices in neighboring states. I am not suggesting that the minimum raise be increased, Economics 101 states that the net affect of minimum wage IS teenagers and college students with less work experience while the economy catches up to absorb the difference. I am suggesting that gas stations start paying their employees a living wage and provide reasonable benefits, and then brag like hell.
Bruce Schneier, CTO for BT Counterpane and author of the Schneier on Security blog, says attackers in Europe are also moving skimming devices inside gas pumps as a way to avoid detection. He says the perpetrators could be insiders, but it's unclear. "The moral is that they are getting better and better at this," Schneier says.
If you live in Europe, this is probably the case, if you live in the US it's a device about the size of a SIM card in the reader:
Sgt. Troy Arnold from the Sandy police department told a local news outlets that the device in the 7-Eleven gas pump was the size of a cellular phone SIM card and was affixed to the card reader inside the pump. "It's a small device -- Bluetooth, the size of a SIM card -- that is attached to the actual credit card reader. And as we are placing our credit cards or debit cards into these gas pumps... it's not collecting, but it's just transmitting the account information, the credit card number, to a different device that's within the range of the Bluetooth technology,"
It wouldn't take too much hardware or programming effort to build a detection system into cop cars, at least a 2 receiver triangulation device to pinpoint bluetooth transmitters would do it. Alas, I think they'd rather spend the money and payroll on catching speeders here.
He'd be better off marketing wind power, if it's Delmarva, but Solar, really? I costed out installing solar panels in Virginia. It turned out that they wouldn't pay for themselves before needing repair/end of warranty. And what exactly happens when Gallium-Arsenide, which contains arsenic, leeches into ground water when the general population disposes of photovoltaics irresponsibly?
IANAL and certainly know nothing of this British Libel law, so I'll go ahead and ask: Is the submitter now at risk of a libel suit from the British Government for so egregiously insulting the nation's legal system and free speech rights? Could the submitter be liable in a libel suit for falsely comparing Britain to China in regards to Human Rights?
If not, then clearly he is mistaken in his assessment.
Can't you see by his Slashdot ID that he's an old-school/.er? They never RTFA and rely on karma whores [guilty] to provide the information from the article in a very short and to the point snippet of quote.
DNSSEC was designed to protect the Internet from certain attacks, such as DNS cache poisoning [0]. It is a set of extensions to DNS, which provide: a) origin authentication of DNS data, b) data integrity, and c) authenticated denial of existence.
Here I thought the loan guarantee was only mentioned because it has put some attention back on nuclear, and this is a bad time for a plant to get negative attention.
There is no form of power generation that will exclude all other forms of power generation. There are areas of the world which don't get consistent sunlight, aren't close to any usable hydroelectric, and have inconsistent wind. Power in those areas is limited to 3 main choices: coal, oil and nuclear. As far as I can tell, the plant in question is in Vermont. Solar with current technology isn't even viable in Virginia which gets more daylight.
Yes, you'll have to sometimes make expensive repairs, which you'll then pass on in the form of rate hikes. That's life in the nuclear business.
I'm sorry, but that's actually life in any business. If you want to stay in business for long, you don't lie and you make repairs as needed.
Taking responsibility as you have awareness will bury your name in the media, if it gets attention at all. Ignoring and denying culpability ensures public attention and disgrace. Your shareholders would rather their shares see a valley from your honesty, it's a cliff when you get caught in a lie.
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I'm sorry, but the FREE MARKET is another way to say LINING FATCATS POCKETS when you mention Government contracts. The best thing that could be done is for the Gov't to relocate the admins that have known and loved those systems/servers for years, and help them work with the new structure. On some levels, they may even be able to let them telecommute and save on the relocation/cost of living adjustment for moving the data centers. Release admins through attrition, with 1100 data centers it shouldn't be hard to find people retiring over the next 5 years.
It's time to stop second and third sourcing positions that only end up degrading service and costing workers their retirement/benefits. The money saved looks great on paper, but with the FREE MARKET all it does is make it so the people that use the systems will have poorer service at the same cost.
This is why 401K and insurance premiums are rising, fewer and fewer people are receiving any employer assistance for them. Without employer assistance, few can justify paying the premiums that the insurance companies are used to charging. As state and federal government agencies follow the path to the FREE MARKET, the parts of the FREE MARKET that they prop up fail. There are times and places for the free market, inside our government isn't one of them.
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There in lies the problem. The fed will likely outsource to Raytheon or Northrup Grumman, who will again contract out to recruiting firms. Before I know it, I'll be getting calls and emails from people who clearly aren't even state-side asking if I'm willing to relocate for a 6 month contract. Of course it would be on my dime to move. That's why they can't get qualified people. Qualified people won't (don't) sub-contract for firms based in India to get paid the lowest going wage and relocate at the same time.
I know this because I get 5 to 10 emails/week asking me to relocate to the DC area for jobs that I've already seen posted on Ratheon or NG's websites. I work with plenty of multinationals, and can easily tell English Grammar from an Indian perspective. Not all Indians speak or write poor English, just the recruiters that have contacted me regarding subcontracting for the Fed through NG and Raytheon.
It's not just about cheaper. Corn fed cattle can be slaughtered in as early as 14 months, while grass fed cattle take 3-5 years. To be financially viable for cattle farmers, grass fed beef has to cost at least double the price of corn fed. Antibiotics are also used in cattle to reduce the amount of bacteria that make it into our food supply. Sure it makes antibiotic resistant strains of bacteria, but so many people like to have their steak "walked past the grill."
A Faraday Box would make this a non-issue. The problem is what else do you use that you'd be blocking? You would lose cell service inside your home. For Radio and TV (if you even care about antiquated communication, but then there's HD) you may be able to wire antennas to the exterior, but you'd have to check with the complex's association bi-laws --which likely to enforce a "clean" look.
Mod parent as troll, please. Absolutely nothing to do with the current topic, and is persuing an agenda for a different arena.
It's not the company I'm currently working for, thankfully. It is, however, a number of companies that I have worked for in the past. I was never part of any decision making process as far as company-wide browser standardization at those companies. In the one company in which I was involved in decisions like that, I was sure to encourage using LAMP for the servers precisely to avoid being stuck to browser specific extensions.
The problem isn't just that they ignore IT when we recommend increasing security to an appropriate level, its that we get FIRED when there is a compromise after we've been ignored.
Don't forget that those same 3rd party vendors will then outsource those jobs to a 4th party. It will entirely be filled with contractors making good money, but no benefits. It will once again be a way for corporations and our own government to wiggle out covering retirement or health care. It's a far right wing win on all counts:
Big money for defense, check
Big money for private industry, check
No government insurance for public servants, check
No retirement planning for the middle class, check
All of us that have been gainfully employed for being able to actually work in IT would become modern day partisans in any such event. It would be a rare opportunity to do our worst to other people's systems with the full knowledge of what has unintentionally brought us pain for years. That said, unlike common partisans we do think for ourselves. Many of us would need to be convinced that we were indeed on the side of what we consider good before we took an offensive approach.
AFAIK very few IT workers have decided that they needed to be part of any cyber warfare that could have coincided with the Iraq or Afganistan wars.
Umm, more often than not /. readers click on the link to the forum where they can post about it, not the actual article. I'm assuming that's what you meant by click on the article, you don't actually believe that 80% of ./ actually RTFA do you?
Look, I enjoy reading the FUD on Slashdot, mostly because I love watching it get lambasted by people that know what they're talking/writing about. On primary news sites the masses stupidly either agree with the FUD or dismiss it for the wrong reasons, CNN is starting to seem like 4chan. On Slashdot you get people that have worked with the subject matter since it was in its infancy, or have spent much of their careers working with it. Please bring on the FUD and get it to the front page. It needs to be exposed for the shite it is.
IE 6 will still be alive (and unfortunately not so well) in the corporate workplace all over the nation. In fact many companies are also breathing a sigh of relief along with us techies, but for different reasons. They don't want their users watching videos while they should be working. They are very likely happy that YouTube won't be supporting a browser that many of their critical one off, undersupported, buggy, POS (both versions of the acronym apply) IE 6 only apps do.
I'm sorry, I did figure this out. No one was convicted of criminal defamation, which would suggest that they were charged with it. 3 out of 4 were convicted of failure to comply with privacy code. This could be viewed several ways, the judge was rational and wanted someone with deep pockets to get the privacy code repealed/reviewed/replaced (understand enough about the US judicial system, but no clue how this might work in Italy.)
The fact that all 4 were found not guilty of a more severe sounding offense seems to be good news. The fact that one person was found not guilty of anything also seems to suggest that there is little insanity taking place here.
Nevertheless, a judge in Milan today convicted 3 of the 4 defendants — David Drummond, Peter Fleischer and George Reyes — for failure to comply with the Italian privacy code. All 4 were found not guilty of criminal defamation.
Source: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/serious-threat-to-web-in-italy.html
I thought that they were convicted, and that was the problem. Am I missing what the actual conviction was, or is it a typo/freudian wishfull thinking?
FYI: No Mormons or Religions were slandered in above post.
Atty: Your honor, the suspect is a Morman Fundamentalist.
Judge: And you have proof of this?
Atty: He cliams 35 dependants on his state taxes.
Judge: Subpoena granted.
Have you not actually played any Flash based games? They suck down local resources and actually are pretty bandwidth intensive every time they load. You run into an asundry of other variables such as browser caching and quotas on user directories. As much as I'd prefer they use OpenGL, I'd really prefer they not do this at all. YMMV, but it will be very easy for me to ignore anything with this tech. It will, however, be really frustrating if this tech becomes as ubiquitous as Flash.
I'm sorry, but in psuedo code:
Price != Cost + desired margin(profit)
Price == demand/supply
As evidence:
The average price in New Jersey is 2.47 per gallon, and the average fuel price in Pennsylvania is 2.73 per gallon. New Jersey has a law that all pumps MUST be full service, so they have to hire at least one extra attendant, this does nothing to the price in comparison to prices in neighboring states. I am not suggesting that the minimum raise be increased, Economics 101 states that the net affect of minimum wage IS teenagers and college students with less work experience while the economy catches up to absorb the difference. I am suggesting that gas stations start paying their employees a living wage and provide reasonable benefits, and then brag like hell.
Bruce Schneier, CTO for BT Counterpane and author of the Schneier on Security blog, says attackers in Europe are also moving skimming devices inside gas pumps as a way to avoid detection. He says the perpetrators could be insiders, but it's unclear. "The moral is that they are getting better and better at this," Schneier says.
If you live in Europe, this is probably the case, if you live in the US it's a device about the size of a SIM card in the reader:
Sgt. Troy Arnold from the Sandy police department told a local news outlets that the device in the 7-Eleven gas pump was the size of a cellular phone SIM card and was affixed to the card reader inside the pump. "It's a small device -- Bluetooth, the size of a SIM card -- that is attached to the actual credit card reader. And as we are placing our credit cards or debit cards into these gas pumps ... it's not collecting, but it's just transmitting the account information, the credit card number, to a different device that's within the range of the Bluetooth technology,"
It wouldn't take too much hardware or programming effort to build a detection system into cop cars, at least a 2 receiver triangulation device to pinpoint bluetooth transmitters would do it. Alas, I think they'd rather spend the money and payroll on catching speeders here.
He'd be better off marketing wind power, if it's Delmarva, but Solar, really? I costed out installing solar panels in Virginia. It turned out that they wouldn't pay for themselves before needing repair/end of warranty. And what exactly happens when Gallium-Arsenide, which contains arsenic, leeches into ground water when the general population disposes of photovoltaics irresponsibly?
IANAL and certainly know nothing of this British Libel law, so I'll go ahead and ask:
Is the submitter now at risk of a libel suit from the British Government for so egregiously insulting the nation's legal system and free speech rights? Could the submitter be liable in a libel suit for falsely comparing Britain to China in regards to Human Rights?
If not, then clearly he is mistaken in his assessment.
Can't you see by his Slashdot ID that he's an old-school /.er? They never RTFA and rely on karma whores [guilty] to provide the information from the article in a very short and to the point snippet of quote.
DNSSEC was designed to protect the Internet from certain attacks, such as DNS cache poisoning [0]. It is a set of extensions to DNS, which provide: a) origin authentication of DNS data, b) data integrity, and c) authenticated denial of existence.
Taken from DNSSEC.net
Here I thought the loan guarantee was only mentioned because it has put some attention back on nuclear, and this is a bad time for a plant to get negative attention.
There is no form of power generation that will exclude all other forms of power generation. There are areas of the world which don't get consistent sunlight, aren't close to any usable hydroelectric, and have inconsistent wind. Power in those areas is limited to 3 main choices: coal, oil and nuclear. As far as I can tell, the plant in question is in Vermont. Solar with current technology isn't even viable in Virginia which gets more daylight.
Yes, you'll have to sometimes make expensive repairs, which you'll then pass on in the form of rate hikes. That's life in the nuclear business.
I'm sorry, but that's actually life in any business. If you want to stay in business for long, you don't lie and you make repairs as needed.
Taking responsibility as you have awareness will bury your name in the media, if it gets attention at all. Ignoring and denying culpability ensures public attention and disgrace. Your shareholders would rather their shares see a valley from your honesty, it's a cliff when you get caught in a lie.