obviously the reality of your situation is a little more indepth than how you first authored it.
if you are running critical production hardware and software tools and are in a key R&D position, IT's platforms should be conforming to your equipment and not the reverse. This is how I manage my environment in pharma. I dont dictate the equipment R&D need to be effective, however *where possible*, they need to be effectively managed by existing infrastructure and process.
I know of many places that block wireless access on laptops and mobile devices, it can be a pain in the ass but many people still believe them to be a security risk.
8:30am for a backup? I think your network admin should be shot in a village square.
Obviously they havent grown up, maybe just out. Sorry to have bitten but your previous post sounded more like a whinge about management rather than an issue from wintel to mac. Mac's need to be managed just as surely as any other OS in any other environment.
are you for real?
Everything you have posted is the basis for managing any enterprise environment. Its not paranoia, its basic controls and security. If you dont recognize it, why are you even here?
You brought your USB nerf rocker launcher from thinkgeek to work? Great! it wont fire because we now lock down USB to stop conficker? Too bad. There are people with real issues that didnt come with a USB dongle in a box of hopes and dreams.
Wireless security thats secretive? I guess they couldnt afford the skywriter to write the passwords at 15,000 feet.
Oh you cant install software? Good! If i gave my users rights to install software I would be up to my man boobs in itunes and google toolbar malware inside an hour.
Our backup and update routine interferes with your lifestyle? Too bad. These get scheduled when most people shouldnt be at work anyway, unless they are still trying to get their usb nerf weapons to power up for a dawn attack.
Your IT department grew up and managed the environment to meet the business needs. Boo hoo they are doing their jobs.
Not in control of your own destiny? What drama! Must be a mac user.
I recently made the big jump for our IT department from windows to ubuntu. We havent looked back and it has been a great learning experience for many. We now have a department that is a viral resistant island in our windows heavy environment. The only things I missed was Visio for network diagrams and IE for sharepoint access, which we provide via a simple XP vbox. Everything critical however is done via ubuntu. We have lost nothing and gained much. I think in many cases the decision to NOT switch is based on ignorance of the platform and fear of interoperability, rather than on solid factual information. In a business environment its a no brainer.
Theres nothing at all wrong with your Carbon footprint using an old car. Lets say you get a new one every 3 years, regardless of the energy consumption of the car itself, the energy and resources used in building a new car is quite alot. Pressed steel, oil based plastic bumpers, mouldings, interior parts, glass, paints, miles worth of wiring and electrical components, dozens of sensors, and the thousands of spare parts that need to be made to support a new model by the manufacturer. All produced by nice large factories who are about as carbon neutral as that brown coal power station.
However you have one car over 30 years, instead of 10 cars over 30 years, and lets face it, a recon head, a dizzy and a wheel bearing arent alot at all for 30 years of use parts wise. I'd say you are doing well really.
You are an automotive recycler. Be proud!
yes they would.
they can shine it, spin it, turn it into a prism, make it look like a disco mirror ball. It wont matter.
The kinetic energy of the laser would turn it into pink mist, like shooting butterflies with shotguns. Lasers arent like high powered rays of sunlight;-)
Rogue Weather Ballons mixed with swamp gas, which is focusing light from nearby venus and the moon into fiery balls. The light is then refracted by pollution, causing psychotropic flashing sequences which cause mass hallucination of small aliens gang probing you in the night. Everyone knows this. Now move along civilian, nothing to see here.;-)
from the Galactic Weekly: "The Great Celestial Empire put down a revolt of primitive Earth creatures this week, by firing rubber asteroids into the crowd."
Erricson Chick: Hi will you take a photo of me and my girlfriend with my new phone? Coors Guy: Sure! Here hold my refreshing coors lite while I do it! Miller guy: Hey watch the elbows buddy! I nearly dropped my Miller! Its full of beer goodness godamnit! GM Chick: Hey who's new Sierra is that out front? Coke Chick: Who cares, does this bikini make me look fat, I've been drinking diet coke all week! GM Chick: Shutup! Toshiba Guy: Girls dont fight! Here lets play some games on this NEW Toshiba laptop! Colt Guy: Everyone FREEZE! This is a stickup! Notice i'm holding the new Colt.45 pistol with tungsten slide........
The kind of guy who can pick up a model or an actress at a bar, OWNS that bar, and several more like it across the Country, is 95 years old, has several major diseases and drags an oxygen tent around with him.
I think its important to note a few things, though I disagree with the terms 'mature' and 'immature' being slung about. They have no basis in the argument. The DDOS was done, end of fact. Motivation behind it is obvious given the legislation that will pass into law, arming the RIAA politically to enforcing their own brand of justice in the best traditions of the frontier, which I believe the Internet still is. I think ZDNet may even in some small way, see the act as justified, as in your previous post, they did not in fact spend time explaining to us how bad DDOS was, and how the perpetrators are the scourge of the internet etc. It seemed more along lines of this was done, this is why, and now some words from the people who brought it upon themselves.
I've read posts condemning it as the "wrong message" and I've seen people applaud it as a taste of their own medicine. I see it as an action, in a war that has consisted of words and new laws for far too long. Whoever did it, be they 12 or 112, has at least done something other then waste words on deaf ears.
What we have, is an entire industry/culture/community that has been targeted by governments worldwide, and is victimized by legislation.
Mostly because of the old "Our laws don't currently give us the ability to prosecute Internet offenders" excuse. Which on the surface seems a reasonable argument. But it is simple control, and projection of power. Many of the things we have done previously before being legislated to death are now illegal, and we are now offenders. Now the law has anointed a new sheriff.
I don't believe we are wrong for taking a shot at the sheriff with his own rifle. We are protecting our culture, which unless I'm mistaken, is hardly unjustified. We are protecting our property now, our physical devices and our software. This is also justified. Protection does not have to consist merely of defensive action, offensive actions must take place to ensure an end to matter. We cannot talk out way out of this, we have tried.
An aggressive minority living amongst a mostly apathetic majority gave birth to the American Revolution. As it progressed it became more popular amongst other groups in the population. They defended their property, their culture, their money and their way of life, by the only means they had available. Open and guerilla warfare. We have more sophisticated tools available now, where a war may not need bloodshed, but would hurt an enemy where he lives. His bottom line. And who amongst us should bow our heads and live under the rule of a mere company(collection of companies represented by an entity)? None of them elected, none of them accountable, until their profits fall, and only then to the shareholders. Should we do, or be any less, then our forbears?
We are as justified in action, no less then any other culture defending itself and its village.
As the bill seems not to allow general network related attacks in the traditional sense of Denial of Service, does this leave the door open for the writing of malicious viral code to remove, or disable files?
What other methods could be used, and how would they be delivered to the target?
No matter the methods, I agree that vigilante justice seems to be the general theme of this bill. There seems to be no simple way to disable the targeted data, without performing a previously recognized and legislated criminal act.
Asteroid or no asteroid, I am not breaking in on my nap time.
8AM: Awaken to sounds of sporadic gunfire in my neighbourhood. Refuse to shower or brush teeth. Feast on Breakfast consisting mainly of bacon and coco pops. Place large axe through current PC and monitor, drag battered Case outside to tie to the bumper of the neighbours car.
8AM: Wearing only boxers, fluffy bunny slippers and an assault rifle borrowed from some dead guy who caught a bullet on my lawn, drive down highway at 100mph in neighbours car, PC Case clattering and sparking behind. Neighbour is in the Trunk. His wife is it home with a satisfied look on her face.
10AM: Abandon Car infront of Bill Gates residence. Knock repeatedly on door, but no answer. It appears Bill did leave on that Russian escape transport after all as appeared on the last news broadcast a week ago. Find several MS Marketing managers, execute them gangland style.
12 Noon: Hungry. Stop to steal pop n fresh from local quickie mart. Proceed on killing spree. Follow a Microbus packed with hippies on highway, pull them over for a chat.
12:10PM: Smoking a joint as large as my arm, I have commandeered an I max theater, I slap in my copy of "Mars Attacks" and eat 1 week old popcorn. Its full of buttery goodness.
3PM: Emerge from IMax in refreshed state, steal deck chairs from Walmart, and seek a suitable place to watch the impact with a case of beer.
4PM: Watch asteroid streak overhead, and miss Earth entirely. Seems they miscalculated the trajectory as well as the size. Feeling very dissappointed, I continue the killing spree.
Air conditioning and Code Red share the same birthday? this has gotta be a setup by those hackers who live in the desert, funded by the CIA to perpetuate their hidden alien agenda!
Or.... it might be a coincidence....
I guess the mystery will live on forever until tuesday, about 8pm.
Owner: WTF do you mean engine detonation??
Mechanic: It ran out of oil and coolant!
Owner: Why didnt the warning lights say something??
MS Lawyer: This conversation is over, please collect your assorted volvo parts and leave the premises. I'm calling security.
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"Reductio ad Hitlerum!" This is hardly the time or place for references to Harry Potter.
obviously the reality of your situation is a little more indepth than how you first authored it. if you are running critical production hardware and software tools and are in a key R&D position, IT's platforms should be conforming to your equipment and not the reverse. This is how I manage my environment in pharma. I dont dictate the equipment R&D need to be effective, however *where possible*, they need to be effectively managed by existing infrastructure and process. I know of many places that block wireless access on laptops and mobile devices, it can be a pain in the ass but many people still believe them to be a security risk. 8:30am for a backup? I think your network admin should be shot in a village square. Obviously they havent grown up, maybe just out. Sorry to have bitten but your previous post sounded more like a whinge about management rather than an issue from wintel to mac. Mac's need to be managed just as surely as any other OS in any other environment.
are you for real? Everything you have posted is the basis for managing any enterprise environment. Its not paranoia, its basic controls and security. If you dont recognize it, why are you even here? You brought your USB nerf rocker launcher from thinkgeek to work? Great! it wont fire because we now lock down USB to stop conficker? Too bad. There are people with real issues that didnt come with a USB dongle in a box of hopes and dreams. Wireless security thats secretive? I guess they couldnt afford the skywriter to write the passwords at 15,000 feet. Oh you cant install software? Good! If i gave my users rights to install software I would be up to my man boobs in itunes and google toolbar malware inside an hour. Our backup and update routine interferes with your lifestyle? Too bad. These get scheduled when most people shouldnt be at work anyway, unless they are still trying to get their usb nerf weapons to power up for a dawn attack. Your IT department grew up and managed the environment to meet the business needs. Boo hoo they are doing their jobs. Not in control of your own destiny? What drama! Must be a mac user.
I recently made the big jump for our IT department from windows to ubuntu. We havent looked back and it has been a great learning experience for many. We now have a department that is a viral resistant island in our windows heavy environment. The only things I missed was Visio for network diagrams and IE for sharepoint access, which we provide via a simple XP vbox. Everything critical however is done via ubuntu. We have lost nothing and gained much. I think in many cases the decision to NOT switch is based on ignorance of the platform and fear of interoperability, rather than on solid factual information. In a business environment its a no brainer.
Theres nothing at all wrong with your Carbon footprint using an old car. Lets say you get a new one every 3 years, regardless of the energy consumption of the car itself, the energy and resources used in building a new car is quite alot. Pressed steel, oil based plastic bumpers, mouldings, interior parts, glass, paints, miles worth of wiring and electrical components, dozens of sensors, and the thousands of spare parts that need to be made to support a new model by the manufacturer. All produced by nice large factories who are about as carbon neutral as that brown coal power station. However you have one car over 30 years, instead of 10 cars over 30 years, and lets face it, a recon head, a dizzy and a wheel bearing arent alot at all for 30 years of use parts wise. I'd say you are doing well really. You are an automotive recycler. Be proud!
Not unless you know a better way to implant information into people heads. bullets. with little adverts on them.
yes they would. they can shine it, spin it, turn it into a prism, make it look like a disco mirror ball. It wont matter. The kinetic energy of the laser would turn it into pink mist, like shooting butterflies with shotguns. Lasers arent like high powered rays of sunlight;-)
It's gotta be weather balloons. It's always weatherballoons. Big, fiery, exploding weatherballoons
Rogue Weather Ballons mixed with swamp gas, which is focusing light from nearby venus and the moon into fiery balls. The light is then refracted by pollution, causing psychotropic flashing sequences which cause mass hallucination of small aliens gang probing you in the night. Everyone knows this.
Now move along civilian, nothing to see here.;-)
if god hit me in the head with a 30kg chunk of ice, i know what he was trying to tell me.
"Tag! You're it."
from the Galactic Weekly: "The Great Celestial Empire put down a revolt of primitive Earth creatures this week, by firing rubber asteroids into the crowd."
LOL.
Erricson Chick: Hi will you take a photo of me and my girlfriend with my new phone? .45 pistol with tungsten slide........
Coors Guy: Sure! Here hold my refreshing coors lite while I do it!
Miller guy: Hey watch the elbows buddy! I nearly dropped my Miller! Its full of beer goodness godamnit!
GM Chick: Hey who's new Sierra is that out front?
Coke Chick: Who cares, does this bikini make me look fat, I've been drinking diet coke all week!
GM Chick: Shutup!
Toshiba Guy: Girls dont fight! Here lets play some games on this NEW Toshiba laptop!
Colt Guy: Everyone FREEZE! This is a stickup! Notice i'm holding the new Colt
The kind of guy who can pick up a model or an actress at a bar, OWNS that bar, and several more like it across the Country, is 95 years old, has several major diseases and drags an oxygen tent around with him.
I think its important to note a few things, though I disagree with the terms 'mature' and 'immature' being slung about. They have no basis in the argument. The DDOS was done, end of fact. Motivation behind it is obvious given the legislation that will pass into law, arming the RIAA politically to enforcing their own brand of justice in the best traditions of the frontier, which I believe the Internet still is. I think ZDNet may even in some small way, see the act as justified, as in your previous post, they did not in fact spend time explaining to us how bad DDOS was, and how the perpetrators are the scourge of the internet etc. It seemed more along lines of this was done, this is why, and now some words from the people who brought it upon themselves.
I've read posts condemning it as the "wrong message" and I've seen people applaud it as a taste of their own medicine. I see it as an action, in a war that has consisted of words and new laws for far too long. Whoever did it, be they 12 or 112, has at least done something other then waste words on deaf ears.
What we have, is an entire industry/culture/community that has been targeted by governments worldwide, and is victimized by legislation.
Mostly because of the old "Our laws don't currently give us the ability to prosecute Internet offenders" excuse. Which on the surface seems a reasonable argument. But it is simple control, and projection of power. Many of the things we have done previously before being legislated to death are now illegal, and we are now offenders. Now the law has anointed a new sheriff.
I don't believe we are wrong for taking a shot at the sheriff with his own rifle. We are protecting our culture, which unless I'm mistaken, is hardly unjustified. We are protecting our property now, our physical devices and our software. This is also justified. Protection does not have to consist merely of defensive action, offensive actions must take place to ensure an end to matter. We cannot talk out way out of this, we have tried.
An aggressive minority living amongst a mostly apathetic majority gave birth to the American Revolution. As it progressed it became more popular amongst other groups in the population. They defended their property, their culture, their money and their way of life, by the only means they had available. Open and guerilla warfare. We have more sophisticated tools available now, where a war may not need bloodshed, but would hurt an enemy where he lives. His bottom line. And who amongst us should bow our heads and live under the rule of a mere company(collection of companies represented by an entity)? None of them elected, none of them accountable, until their profits fall, and only then to the shareholders. Should we do, or be any less, then our forbears?
We are as justified in action, no less then any other culture defending itself and its village.
As the bill seems not to allow general network related attacks in the traditional sense of Denial of Service, does this leave the door open for the writing of malicious viral code to remove, or disable files?
What other methods could be used, and how would they be delivered to the target?
No matter the methods, I agree that vigilante justice seems to be the general theme of this bill. There seems to be no simple way to disable the targeted data, without performing a previously recognized and legislated criminal act.
Was her name "Molly Mounts" ?
llama in a trailer park... oh so you HAVE met my ex wife then;-)
Asteroid or no asteroid, I am not breaking in on my nap time.
8AM: Awaken to sounds of sporadic gunfire in my neighbourhood. Refuse to shower or brush teeth. Feast on Breakfast consisting mainly of bacon and coco pops. Place large axe through current PC and monitor, drag battered Case outside to tie to the bumper of the neighbours car.
8AM: Wearing only boxers, fluffy bunny slippers and an assault rifle borrowed from some dead guy who caught a bullet on my lawn, drive down highway at 100mph in neighbours car, PC Case clattering and sparking behind. Neighbour is in the Trunk. His wife is it home with a satisfied look on her face.
10AM: Abandon Car infront of Bill Gates residence. Knock repeatedly on door, but no answer. It appears Bill did leave on that Russian escape transport after all as appeared on the last news broadcast a week ago. Find several MS Marketing managers, execute them gangland style.
12 Noon: Hungry. Stop to steal pop n fresh from local quickie mart. Proceed on killing spree. Follow a Microbus packed with hippies on highway, pull them over for a chat.
12:10PM: Smoking a joint as large as my arm, I have commandeered an I max theater, I slap in my copy of "Mars Attacks" and eat 1 week old popcorn. Its full of buttery goodness.
3PM: Emerge from IMax in refreshed state, steal deck chairs from Walmart, and seek a suitable place to watch the impact with a case of beer.
4PM: Watch asteroid streak overhead, and miss Earth entirely. Seems they miscalculated the trajectory as well as the size. Feeling very dissappointed, I continue the killing spree.
pull it into earth orbit.
Well im fresh out of tractor beams today, and I think at 28km/s I wont be pulling along side it in the Pinto. But fear not it will have a use!
We will finally be rid of Britney Spears.
Smithers! Release the flying monkeys!
What about the chances of the Asteroid landing on a Llama? I'm taking bets!
Air conditioning and Code Red share the same birthday? this has gotta be a setup by those hackers who live in the desert, funded by the CIA to perpetuate their hidden alien agenda! Or.... it might be a coincidence.... I guess the mystery will live on forever until tuesday, about 8pm.
"Happy Birthday Code Red, Happy Birthday Code Red, Bill sucks with his coding, Happy Birthday Code Red."
Now blow out the flaming servers, and make a wish.
Or are the terms Hackers & Terrorists becomming more closely related in recent days?
How long before hacking becomes synonomous with terrorism in the Media?
And who is then next?
Owner: WTF do you mean engine detonation?? Mechanic: It ran out of oil and coolant! Owner: Why didnt the warning lights say something?? MS Lawyer: This conversation is over, please collect your assorted volvo parts and leave the premises. I'm calling security.