The dance moves of the successful guy, are exactly how my brother dances. He hogs the dance floor, he's coordinated, he's fit and good looking. The girls love him... and the guys, since he is a gay figure skater. But the point being, it's about being confident, or in my brother's case, narcissistic. He even tried to pick himself up, in the mirror at a gay nightclub, one night.
Typically, I find that the engineers that work in these industries (automotive/transport/white goods/manufacturing) have very little motivation to think about security. The pressure is all on building features into products. They are generally led by electrical or mechanical engineering managers, who are pushed with limited budgets and time-to-market constraints to get something out the door. So they do the most limited research on how to add widget X to the product. As engineers, their dangerous enough to think they know how to program, when most of their experience is microcontrollers or some simple scripting. Security is something that just adds cost in most of their minds.
Exactly my thoughts. Who says we have to stick with a 2.5" or 3.5" form factor. There are many ways to pack more bits into a package if you stop thinking of SSDs as a spinning wheel of rust.
No, government agencies don't really examine the source code, but they insist on developers of those products following recognised engineering standards. Those standards include silly things like: FMEAs, Hazard logs, Independant Safety Audits, Compliance Statements, Safety Certification and a whole raft of evidence that your software and systems are as safe as you could possibly make it. There are specific standards, like CENELEC SIL ratings in Europe and other countries.
If something does screw up, you get to stand before the corroner or TSB or equivalent and then have to defend yourself in court. So while the govn't doesn't need to audit the systems directly, they can insist on setting the standards to adhere to.
You could try something that gets you outdoor more, like civil or electrical engineering. Stay away from MechEng, as they usually end up in factory maintainance roles or as CAD people. With Electrical, you could move into one of the environmental areas, like solar / wind / alterantive energy, where your computer/software skills are very useful.
I'm with you. I'm in a similar situation, where first + last name == me on a google search. A little white pages search and bingo, you have my address, facebook friends == DOB then as a bonus on goodle you get that guestbook I signed 20 years ago. That one, I'd really wish would go away; the original site is gone but the mailing list archives have a life of their own.
But really, that's not the point as, can Blizzard legally publish names of underage posters? I think there are more than a few laws relating to that.
This is fine, until someone else puts a permanent base there. Then they will have the high ground; literally. The gravity well on the moon is so much less than earth, that kinetic weapons will work so much better from it. Hence, it is a strategic imperitive that someone will utilise the moon for a weapons platform at some stage.
Not really being a grammer Nazi, what "themightythor" and I both realised was that "cartography" (map making) wasn't anything like what the poster meant. I guessing that the appropriate word was "caligraphy" (the art of writing). Not to be confused with caligula.
In Australia recently, all DNA evidence was thrown out of court because of the "poorly maintained" thing in the State of Victoria. It appears the forensics lab got caught with bad paperwork and contaminated samples. Following from that is a High Court challenge to DNA evidence being allowed as the sole claim for guilt. The upshot of that, is that police will not even be able to get arrest warrents on DNA evidence alone. They might have to do some good old fashioned detective work.
In fact I would go so far to say that running much of the patent-pending software on a machine that's design to run generic software is anything but an improvement of that machine.
And that was exactly my final year Physics project, in 1984. Take a slide image, shine a laser through it, put that through a lense. The FFT would be formed at the focal point. We then could apply frequency filters (as another slide) and with another lense I could reconstruct the image (less filtered images). So with modern technology, ie LCD screens and cameras, you could dynamically FFT, filter and reconstruct moving images in real time.
It's called a brick at this point. I've got a pile of them in the back yard, which I could slap a sticker on, call them HD quality set-top boxes. or even better Quad HD, and make a tidy profit.
Paper trail or not, they're screwed. Problem is that the IT folk are still required to follow the laws of the land. In this case the law is no kiddie porn. I'm not in IT myself, but am an engineer and if management tells me to do something that is illegal, I am duty bound to to them so. Sometime management, hasn't thought it through and they realise the error, othertimes, well let's just say a quiet word to the legal dept, often sets them right. As professionals, the Law requires us to know what laws are applicable in the application of our daily jobs. Ignorance is not an excuse.
Most people seem to be missing the point. It's not about attendance. It's about tracking.
Who is a common source of funding for the Universities in the USoA? It's the Govt.
So you don't think there is some overt infuence being exerted to get the RFID system in place by the Govt. Of course the arguments are about attendance and quality of education, but that is to defect from the real goal. It's to get the sheeple used to being tracked everywhere they go.
Next:- "We have RFID tags in large office buildings, to protect us or track work attendance". Real reason, get us used to more intrusions.
Next:- Well introduce RFID into Supermarkets, shopping malls, restaurants to protect us from the terrorists and help stop crime". Real reason, numb us more.
Next:- Well introduce RFID into you homes and cars, because we don't care by now". Result. "Papers please" and there's no way out..
This is the brave new world of the information age that is waiting for us, paid for and owned by the multinational coorporations. But I'll think I'll move back into my cave.
Depends on Country.
I travel through asia a lot and find that the Mecure, Grand Mecure, Sofitel, etc.. offer Wifi with the room. It's not the greatest speeds, but even fixed copper is generally slow in parts of asia. For our company, it's a part of the decision making process.
I'm sitting at my desk reading this on my 17" - 1920 x 1200 Dell laptop I got a few years ago. Funny thing is I can't find an equivalent for a reasonable price anymore and it's getting long in the tooth.
It's a bit like the SSD market. SLCs were progressing with prices dropping as R&D budgets were thrown into them. It was looking like cheap / reliable SSDs were on the horizon. Suddenly MLC units came out and it's as if time stopped for SLCs. Granted that comsumer SSDs got cheaper, but at the cost of the longevity and reliability.
I suppose that the article may be correct from a purely technical perspective. But, it doesn't take into account the reasons behind which scientists are looking to pulsars and white dwarfs for a gold standard. Atomic clocks will only maintain time while we are technologically advanced. ie, they do not maintain time during or after any of singularity events that may happen. So if there is an event disruptive to civilisation, the clocks stop, but the pulsars,etc, will still be there. Thus any subsequent intelligent, technological society would be able to maintain a continuous time reference if they so desired and any of the original reference material was available.
Funny you say your boss can call you on your personal phone in an emergency. In Australia (state of Victoria), privacy laws prevent your boss from doing just that. The HR department is obligated to maintain your personal details, but not to give it to your boss/manager. There might be exceptions for life'n'death situations, but then the HR or safety representative would still do the contacting, not your boss. Having said that, there's nothing stopping said manager from using the White Pages to find your details, however, I'd pretty much be pissed off if that happened. That's why I don't give my personal numbers to my manager. I have a company phone, but only for use while on company business.
It's easy to see why any company is ok with this (or more acurately part of the company). It comes down to $$$$$$$$. If I don't own it, then it doesn't appear on the books as capital and the company saves money. You see, a manager doesn't want to pay for anything they don't have to. In fact a lot of their bonuses revolve around reducing costs and this would seem an easy way to achieve that. I.e pass some of the cost onto the employee.
I personally carry two phones, one personal and one for the company. At night when I go home, I turn the company phone off. Out of office is my time and they're not paying me for it. The only time I leave it on after hours, is when I'm overseas for site work. Then I will redirect my personal phone to the and office phone to the work mobile.
This is for two reasons:
1: I shouldn't have to bear the global roaming costs of familiy and friends wanting to call me.
2: Safety, in case the local county rep needs to inform me of dangerous situations and arrange evacuation medical aid, etc....
I the company wanted me to use a personal phone for company business, then my view is that will be on my terms, not theirs. Including the ability to download and run whatever software I want on it. No way would I submit to their placing remote wipe software or other "security" measures on my property. Their responsibility is to protect the companies property, not mine. Conversely, I will protect my property.
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The dance moves of the successful guy, are exactly how my brother dances. He hogs the dance floor, he's coordinated, he's fit and good looking. The girls love him... and the guys, since he is a gay figure skater. But the point being, it's about being confident, or in my brother's case, narcissistic. He even tried to pick himself up, in the mirror at a gay nightclub, one night.
Obviously, you need to be an Einstein to navigate the Austrian Patent Office website.
Typically, I find that the engineers that work in these industries (automotive/transport/white goods/manufacturing) have very little motivation to think about security. The pressure is all on building features into products. They are generally led by electrical or mechanical engineering managers, who are pushed with limited budgets and time-to-market constraints to get something out the door. So they do the most limited research on how to add widget X to the product. As engineers, their dangerous enough to think they know how to program, when most of their experience is microcontrollers or some simple scripting. Security is something that just adds cost in most of their minds.
Exactly my thoughts. Who says we have to stick with a 2.5" or 3.5" form factor. There are many ways to pack more bits into a package if you stop thinking of SSDs as a spinning wheel of rust.
If something does screw up, you get to stand before the corroner or TSB or equivalent and then have to defend yourself in court. So while the govn't doesn't need to audit the systems directly, they can insist on setting the standards to adhere to.
You could try something that gets you outdoor more, like civil or electrical engineering. Stay away from MechEng, as they usually end up in factory maintainance roles or as CAD people. With Electrical, you could move into one of the environmental areas, like solar / wind / alterantive energy, where your computer/software skills are very useful.
But really, that's not the point as, can Blizzard legally publish names of underage posters? I think there are more than a few laws relating to that.
Now who's laughing at me; sitting in my moms basement wearing my tinfoil hat. Better get more foil for the rest of my body.
This is fine, until someone else puts a permanent base there. Then they will have the high ground; literally. The gravity well on the moon is so much less than earth, that kinetic weapons will work so much better from it. Hence, it is a strategic imperitive that someone will utilise the moon for a weapons platform at some stage.
Not really being a grammer Nazi, what "themightythor" and I both realised was that "cartography" (map making) wasn't anything like what the poster meant. I guessing that the appropriate word was "caligraphy" (the art of writing). Not to be confused with caligula.
So, do you remember man walking on the moon? Well I do! What is sad; is we haven't gone back in your lifetime.
As an Australian, I'm seriously glad I don't live in Queensland as well. It's the equivalent of the Deep South for us.
As the old saying goes...
"If someone moves to Queensland, from Victoria, they raise the average IQ of both states."
That was my intent.
In Australia recently, all DNA evidence was thrown out of court because of the "poorly maintained" thing in the State of Victoria. It appears the forensics lab got caught with bad paperwork and contaminated samples. Following from that is a High Court challenge to DNA evidence being allowed as the sole claim for guilt. The upshot of that, is that police will not even be able to get arrest warrents on DNA evidence alone. They might have to do some good old fashioned detective work.
In fact I would go so far to say that running much of the patent-pending software on a machine that's design to run generic software is anything but an improvement of that machine.
So when do we get our hypersonic flying cars, that Sci-fi has been predicting for decades? Then I don't have to catch the train or go to an "airport".
And that was exactly my final year Physics project, in 1984. Take a slide image, shine a laser through it, put that through a lense. The FFT would be formed at the focal point. We then could apply frequency filters (as another slide) and with another lense I could reconstruct the image (less filtered images). So with modern technology, ie LCD screens and cameras, you could dynamically FFT, filter and reconstruct moving images in real time.
It's called a brick at this point. I've got a pile of them in the back yard, which I could slap a sticker on, call them HD quality set-top boxes. or even better Quad HD, and make a tidy profit.
Paper trail or not, they're screwed. Problem is that the IT folk are still required to follow the laws of the land. In this case the law is no kiddie porn. I'm not in IT myself, but am an engineer and if management tells me to do something that is illegal, I am duty bound to to them so. Sometime management, hasn't thought it through and they realise the error, othertimes, well let's just say a quiet word to the legal dept, often sets them right. As professionals, the Law requires us to know what laws are applicable in the application of our daily jobs. Ignorance is not an excuse.
Most people seem to be missing the point. It's not about attendance. It's about tracking.
Who is a common source of funding for the Universities in the USoA? It's the Govt.
So you don't think there is some overt infuence being exerted to get the RFID system in place by the Govt. Of course the arguments are about attendance and quality of education, but that is to defect from the real goal. It's to get the sheeple used to being tracked everywhere they go.
Next:- "We have RFID tags in large office buildings, to protect us or track work attendance". Real reason, get us used to more intrusions.
Next:- Well introduce RFID into Supermarkets, shopping malls, restaurants to protect us from the terrorists and help stop crime". Real reason, numb us more.
Next:- Well introduce RFID into you homes and cars, because we don't care by now". Result. "Papers please" and there's no way out..
This is the brave new world of the information age that is waiting for us, paid for and owned by the multinational coorporations. But I'll think I'll move back into my cave.
Depends on Country. I travel through asia a lot and find that the Mecure, Grand Mecure, Sofitel, etc.. offer Wifi with the room. It's not the greatest speeds, but even fixed copper is generally slow in parts of asia. For our company, it's a part of the decision making process.
I'm sitting at my desk reading this on my 17" - 1920 x 1200 Dell laptop I got a few years ago. Funny thing is I can't find an equivalent for a reasonable price anymore and it's getting long in the tooth.
It's a bit like the SSD market. SLCs were progressing with prices dropping as R&D budgets were thrown into them. It was looking like cheap / reliable SSDs were on the horizon. Suddenly MLC units came out and it's as if time stopped for SLCs. Granted that comsumer SSDs got cheaper, but at the cost of the longevity and reliability.
I suppose that the article may be correct from a purely technical perspective. But, it doesn't take into account the reasons behind which scientists are looking to pulsars and white dwarfs for a gold standard. Atomic clocks will only maintain time while we are technologically advanced. ie, they do not maintain time during or after any of singularity events that may happen. So if there is an event disruptive to civilisation, the clocks stop, but the pulsars,etc, will still be there. Thus any subsequent intelligent, technological society would be able to maintain a continuous time reference if they so desired and any of the original reference material was available.
Funny you say your boss can call you on your personal phone in an emergency. In Australia (state of Victoria), privacy laws prevent your boss from doing just that. The HR department is obligated to maintain your personal details, but not to give it to your boss/manager. There might be exceptions for life'n'death situations, but then the HR or safety representative would still do the contacting, not your boss. Having said that, there's nothing stopping said manager from using the White Pages to find your details, however, I'd pretty much be pissed off if that happened. That's why I don't give my personal numbers to my manager. I have a company phone, but only for use while on company business.
It's easy to see why any company is ok with this (or more acurately part of the company). It comes down to $$$$$$$$. If I don't own it, then it doesn't appear on the books as capital and the company saves money. You see, a manager doesn't want to pay for anything they don't have to. In fact a lot of their bonuses revolve around reducing costs and this would seem an easy way to achieve that. I.e pass some of the cost onto the employee.
I personally carry two phones, one personal and one for the company. At night when I go home, I turn the company phone off. Out of office is my time and they're not paying me for it. The only time I leave it on after hours, is when I'm overseas for site work. Then I will redirect my personal phone to the and office phone to the work mobile.
This is for two reasons:
1: I shouldn't have to bear the global roaming costs of familiy and friends wanting to call me.
2: Safety, in case the local county rep needs to inform me of dangerous situations and arrange evacuation medical aid, etc....
I the company wanted me to use a personal phone for company business, then my view is that will be on my terms, not theirs. Including the ability to download and run whatever software I want on it. No way would I submit to their placing remote wipe software or other "security" measures on my property. Their responsibility is to protect the companies property, not mine. Conversely, I will protect my property.