Spent two years working with prisons of every kind early in my tech career, I've probably worked with a third of the prisons federal and state for both the US and Canada. These are not environments where privacy is a good thing.
This is a very good thing for prisoners because a robot can't be bribed, threatened or tricked the same way a human can. Prison is a very ugly thing, violence, extortion and rape are very real threats that can happen daily. It also reduces the risk for the officers that are greatly outnumbered. Frankly it would be best for these robots to do well and become another export, we could certainly use them over here.
Lots of considerations should go into this. What happens when someone passes away, does their mutli-thousand dollar music collection somehow become magically worthless? What about someone going through a divorce or a bankruptcy? Can these be considered assets and taken from one person and granted to another?
The first sale doctrine needs to apply in common sense situations like this. If you buy something, including a license, it is only common sense that you would be able to resell it. That being said if a license is sold the original terms should also be accepted. I'm not advocating simply sharing it, I'm talking about removing it from one place putting it in another.
People would never tolerate the loss of first sale doctrine in any other aspect of their life as it would be absurd. Can you imagine toyota demanding a transfer fee or the right of first refusal when you want to sell your car?
It only sounds appealing on the sound bite. It's like people who think that if we just got rid of the IRS that we wouldn't have to pay taxes. I contracted for the TSA when they were just being formed and got my share of experience with the screeners that came before the TSA. Let's just say the TSA's standards were/much/ higher than private industries standards.
Private industry just might be cheaper, but this is one area where cheaper is not necessarily better. As a point of reference you can google places that outsource their police force to private industry and see how that worked out for the populace. Some things naturally lend themselves to be government work instead of private industry work and this is one of them. All that being said, if you don't like how they are doing things, than get the people in charge to make the changes.
Personally I'm of the opinion we put Bruce Schneier in charge of the TSA and let him have his way with it. Get rid of the security theater and implement some real security in it's place.
How's that arrogance of entitlement working out for your netflix? Was the level of customer loss worth almost doubling your prices while showing public disdain for your customers? You've traded some profitability and a high stock price for no profit and a shattered stock price.
Entitlement bad for business, bad for customers and bad for profits.
There is nothing more anti-capitalist than the exclusive contract. It's about time that the concept of the exclusive contract start to be found as the anti-competitive beast that it is.
I had to go through and edit smb.conf to add the following line:
'client ntlmv2 auto = Yes'
Why oh why the clients default to NTLM v1 instead of v2 when even Microsoft made this the default server setting in 2003 I couldn't tell you. I should file a bug report because the mac client corrupts your cached password password for AD when you have a GPO that requires NTLMv2 unless you hard code your clients to use NTLMv2. The net effect is that your mac clients DOS your windows based server with a corrupted password even if your server is physically powered off.
I don't know what will happen with 10.7 as they no longer have samba and I haven't yet had a chance to put it in the lab and find out.
Apple is absolutely clueless in all things enterprise. The fact that board members prefer and get mac's for personal desktops means nothing more than they have the power to get their personal preferences paid for by the company. The idea that Apple could easily get their offerings into the IT sector is laughable at best.
From imaging new computers with a standard image (PXE, you know the standard everyone in the world except apple uses), to the lack of virtualization (what do you mean I can't load Lion onto a VM on the lab server?) to the dearth of packaging tools (platypus!!!) to a lack of more than bare minimal AD support (why am I paying tens of thousands of dollars for a third party product like Quest just to get basic policy support?) to just now getting full disk encyrption in 10.7 (what do you mean partial disk encryption isn't HIPAA approved?), a lack of supporting NTLMv2 by default (let's drop it in 10.7 and replace Samba!) and so on and on.
It's not that tools are completely lacking, in some cases alternatives exist that require you to have an entirely separate infrastructure in place just to manage your macs (netboot instead of pxe etc). Apple makes absolutely no provisions for the enterprise environment. The entire enterprise mindset for managing apple computers doesn't even exist. Until I can manage an apple computer at a cost rate anywhere near what it costs me to manage a windows computer your suggestion that the enterprise is hungry for Apple is nothing more than fan boy level delusion.
The cost of secondary infrastructure and the additional costs in cleaning up after clueless mac uses (I thought mac's couldn't get viruses!!) is something that keeps them out of the enterprise and will continue to do so until mac finally get's the enterprise culture and starts accepting industry standards widely embraced by Windows and Unix operating systems and hardware.
I am responsible for managing an enterprise environment that's 40% mac. If you don't know what your talking about and start spewing nonsense someone who does know if going to pop in and call you in it. Consider yourself called.
Fire the board, they showed their stripes years ago with Carly, and again with other bungled decisions. They have got to be the most incompetent board for any company of their size in the world. The board lost the HP way long ago, and it hasn't changed that much since then.
The whole rotting thing has got to go and the culture has to restored from the top. Nothing less will do.
You see how an editor would be handy, they could catch my typo of "on" instead of "one" and/fix/ it. As I so clearly demonstrated, editors are useful things.
All I want is at least one professional editor. Somebody to do basic things like check for dupes, make sure stories aren't wholesale ripped off, basic fact checking, that kind of thing. This is done by almost every other professional news media site out there, can Slashdot please make this/one/ change?
Apple fanatic trumps westboro fanatic. Perhaps the idiots from westboro will finally meet their fanatical match and go home with their tale between their legs?
Your logic is akin to saying that just because your health, financial, academic or other private records are magically now everyone's business just because they have been posted online.
Your financial records are still your/private/ financial records and should stay that way regardless of the fact that your financial records may have been sold on the black market. Just because someone has leaked a piece of data does not magically change the nature of that data.
Somehow I think you would be singing a different tune if it was your private data that had been posted for the world to see. I really hope you don't work in finance, academia, health or other similar industries.
There is still cause for concern and the concern is misdirected at Microsoft. The bigger cause for concern should be the Motherboard manufacturers. Look at the issue from their perspective. They pre-install a certain number of certificates at the factory (Windows 8...).
They then have the choice on whether or not they want you to be able to install additional certificates beyond what it came with from the factory. In order to do this they have to enable the feature to allow the certificate store to be updated or the feature to be turned off. They also have to manage additional new certificates and or supporting the user installing their own. That means that they have to provide tech support to allow you to do this. That means additional testing beyond what it comes from the factory, additional support costs for users having trouble and so on.
Their financial interest is arguably in making sure that the certificates they expect you to need are included and that you have no way to modify this as that costs them money for what they will perceive as a market that isn't worth catering to. There is also the added fact that a motherboard that is locked to a certain Operating System can't run a new Operating System when it comes out. That translates into planned obsolescence where the user/has/ to replace their motherboard when a shiny new OS comes out that they want.
There is only one thing I can think of that would prevent this issue from being widespread on most motherboards. Enterprise environments need to use tools like Altiris to deploy OS's with PXE boot. If an enterprise can't image their computer they can't use it in fleet deployments and they won't buy it. Of course this does nothing to protect home users that don't have this requirement.
Bottom line, UEFI is an issue, but not for the reasons that everyone thinks it is.
I'm sorry, but if you need to ask Slashdot on something like this than your not qualified to do what you want to do. Nothing personal but your only going to have hours to days before your website is hosting malware or gets turned into a spam relay.
They think this was all about stealing credit cards. A heist that large though plummets in value as it is too well known and the cards too readily canceled. I would imagine the market value for the stolen cards to be far less than a typical heist that doesn't become publicly known.
I really think this about punishing Sony for doing evil things. Whether you want to pick their DRM infatuation, pursuite of GeoHot, removal of other OS and any number of other things doesn't matter. Somebody was trying to send a message to Sony that in the real world a court room victory bought with the best lawyers you can find can still have a very real cost.
Estimates that put the cost of this in the billion dollar range have been making the news lately. Sony, you just need to ask yourself, was it worth a billion dollars, the loss of public goodwill and a number of pissed of developers? Whether or not Sony will stop playing hardball and start being the corporate bully is doubtful. In the end whoever did this will likely end up in prison, the only question is what lesson did Sony learn from this?
There's nothing fundamentally really that different from a management standpoint. The more you'll dive in the more your going to find that differences boil down to syntax. Your going to need to test your scripts, your going to need to have peer review, your going to need to use change control, maintenance windows and so on.
There is absolutely no reason for your process to be any different on the Windows side than the Unix side, and if it is than your process needs to be rebuilt. Process should always be tool agnostic and your operating system is simply a tool. If you know your best practices than the only thing you need to figure out is the syntax (tool, language etc) to do what you want to do.
If your simply asking what tools you should use to do scripting or deployment, than you need to look at tools like Altiris, SCCM and so on. If your looking for tools for packaging applications than you would at tools like Wise Packaging Studio. What you really haven't done is explained your need very well. Are you trying to manipulate certain things about exchange with a script? Are you trying to export or import SQL database data with your script?
If you want to run a script on just a few systems than you can schedule the server to run scripts manually and you just need to supply the scripts. If your looking to deploy something on a consistent basis than a combination of GPO's and Active Directory can work quite well. If your looking to automate the distribution of a series of scripts based on certain characteristics of your systems than it would be hard to beat Altiris. If you want to run custom queries or actions than WMI based scripting can do some pretty neat things.
Feel free to message me offline, where I work I'm responsible for the management of both Windows and Mac based systems and do this for a living on a daily basis.
Keep it simple, just disable flash in entirety. You will reduce your power consumption as flash is a poorly coded. Run the numbers with and without flash and see what a difference it makes. This is arguably one of the reasons Steve Jobs won't allow flash on the IOS...
This is absolutely brilliant, a stroke of genius. With a large part of everything being made in China, and piracy absolutely rampant in China this could an incredible effect on restoring jobs to this country. Microsoft has also just figured out how to resolve the outsourcing problem (that they greatly contributed to making) that has wrecked this countries economy and sold out it's future. This may be the best jobs program this country has ever seen, we should spread this idea around.
Just as many republicans contributed to Nader in 2000 to defeat Gore, we should contribute financially to seeing this law successfully implemented. Now we just need to get the AFL-CIO and similar organizations to back this.
Your not quite on track their. The legislation is needed to dissuade the guards and other workers from smuggling in the phones. After all they of all people ought to be following the law. I'm sure if they knew they could pass from jailer to inmate if they got caught it would have a chilling effect on currently rampant smuggling...
Is it just me, or I could swear that I 'bought' my ps3 and it said nothing about a cable box like rental on the box. Why is it so hard for Sony to understand that this is my property and to leave it well enough alone? If they want to arbitrarily execute code on other people's property it crosses the line to hacking and that's criminal to in most jurisdictions.
What they have done is no different that the cable company demanding root level access to your computer in order to go online. People would be outraged there, why should a game console (which is just a dedicated computer) be any different?
Wow, several months late in their less than timely follow through. Wikileaks has gone on the record as saying they were going to donate $50,000 to Manning's defense. Does it surprise anyone that when it came time to follow through they fell through? All told they've raised at least $150,000 just from the heavily edited helicopter video alone. Of which they can only be bothered to spend $15,000 on his behalf. Take the $150,000 from the video and $50,000 pledge and you get a $185,000 profit for Wikileaks on those two items alone, not counting everything they raised from the cables.
Look, I know that fifteen thousand and fifty thousand both start with 'fift', but that doesn't mean they are anywhere near the same amount. I don't know about in Europe, but in America raising money for a cause and refusing to use it for a cause is considered a pretty serious felony fraud. This of it this way, less than 1 dollar in 3 that was pointedly raised for his defense was actually donated. Consider all the other money wikileaks has gotten from the rest of Manning's contributions and you'll see just how badly Wikileaks hung Manning out to dry. On a personal level, considering his treasonous actions could result in anywhere from 52 years in prison up to the death penalty, it's nice too see wikileaks living up to it's potential and hanging him out to dry.
It's not Assanges' place to say or not. He is not a professional in international relations or any number of other fields that could give him any basis to offer a qualified opinion on whether or not the damages from releasing documents would be harmful or not.
Nobody elected Assange, he is no king, he's just an anarchist with an audience. He has no right to release anybodies private information. Even the members of his own organization have rebelled against his heavy handed tactics, in some cases quite publicly so.
I found a NYT article that talks about proving exactly such a thing. That is what trials almost certain to be upcoming trial will almost certainly be for. It's the difference between a classified document landing on a reporters desktop (which has gone to court with the report cleared before) and the reporter actively encouraging the person to give them such information.
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Instead we got /Billions/ of dollars in tax money that subsidized private industry and made it possible for us to play those very video games.
Spent two years working with prisons of every kind early in my tech career, I've probably worked with a third of the prisons federal and state for both the US and Canada. These are not environments where privacy is a good thing.
This is a very good thing for prisoners because a robot can't be bribed, threatened or tricked the same way a human can. Prison is a very ugly thing, violence, extortion and rape are very real threats that can happen daily. It also reduces the risk for the officers that are greatly outnumbered. Frankly it would be best for these robots to do well and become another export, we could certainly use them over here.
Lots of considerations should go into this. What happens when someone passes away, does their mutli-thousand dollar music collection somehow become magically worthless? What about someone going through a divorce or a bankruptcy? Can these be considered assets and taken from one person and granted to another?
The first sale doctrine needs to apply in common sense situations like this. If you buy something, including a license, it is only common sense that you would be able to resell it. That being said if a license is sold the original terms should also be accepted. I'm not advocating simply sharing it, I'm talking about removing it from one place putting it in another.
People would never tolerate the loss of first sale doctrine in any other aspect of their life as it would be absurd. Can you imagine toyota demanding a transfer fee or the right of first refusal when you want to sell your car?
It only sounds appealing on the sound bite. It's like people who think that if we just got rid of the IRS that we wouldn't have to pay taxes. I contracted for the TSA when they were just being formed and got my share of experience with the screeners that came before the TSA. Let's just say the TSA's standards were /much/ higher than private industries standards.
Private industry just might be cheaper, but this is one area where cheaper is not necessarily better. As a point of reference you can google places that outsource their police force to private industry and see how that worked out for the populace. Some things naturally lend themselves to be government work instead of private industry work and this is one of them. All that being said, if you don't like how they are doing things, than get the people in charge to make the changes.
Personally I'm of the opinion we put Bruce Schneier in charge of the TSA and let him have his way with it. Get rid of the security theater and implement some real security in it's place.
How's that arrogance of entitlement working out for your netflix? Was the level of customer loss worth almost doubling your prices while showing public disdain for your customers? You've traded some profitability and a high stock price for no profit and a shattered stock price.
Entitlement bad for business, bad for customers and bad for profits.
There is nothing more anti-capitalist than the exclusive contract. It's about time that the concept of the exclusive contract start to be found as the anti-competitive beast that it is.
I had to go through and edit smb.conf to add the following line:
'client ntlmv2 auto = Yes'
Why oh why the clients default to NTLM v1 instead of v2 when even Microsoft made this the default server setting in 2003 I couldn't tell you. I should file a bug report because the mac client corrupts your cached password password for AD when you have a GPO that requires NTLMv2 unless you hard code your clients to use NTLMv2. The net effect is that your mac clients DOS your windows based server with a corrupted password even if your server is physically powered off.
I don't know what will happen with 10.7 as they no longer have samba and I haven't yet had a chance to put it in the lab and find out.
Apple is absolutely clueless in all things enterprise. The fact that board members prefer and get mac's for personal desktops means nothing more than they have the power to get their personal preferences paid for by the company. The idea that Apple could easily get their offerings into the IT sector is laughable at best.
From imaging new computers with a standard image (PXE, you know the standard everyone in the world except apple uses), to the lack of virtualization (what do you mean I can't load Lion onto a VM on the lab server?) to the dearth of packaging tools (platypus!!!) to a lack of more than bare minimal AD support (why am I paying tens of thousands of dollars for a third party product like Quest just to get basic policy support?) to just now getting full disk encyrption in 10.7 (what do you mean partial disk encryption isn't HIPAA approved?), a lack of supporting NTLMv2 by default (let's drop it in 10.7 and replace Samba!) and so on and on.
It's not that tools are completely lacking, in some cases alternatives exist that require you to have an entirely separate infrastructure in place just to manage your macs (netboot instead of pxe etc). Apple makes absolutely no provisions for the enterprise environment. The entire enterprise mindset for managing apple computers doesn't even exist. Until I can manage an apple computer at a cost rate anywhere near what it costs me to manage a windows computer your suggestion that the enterprise is hungry for Apple is nothing more than fan boy level delusion.
The cost of secondary infrastructure and the additional costs in cleaning up after clueless mac uses (I thought mac's couldn't get viruses!!) is something that keeps them out of the enterprise and will continue to do so until mac finally get's the enterprise culture and starts accepting industry standards widely embraced by Windows and Unix operating systems and hardware.
I am responsible for managing an enterprise environment that's 40% mac. If you don't know what your talking about and start spewing nonsense someone who does know if going to pop in and call you in it. Consider yourself called.
Fire the board, they showed their stripes years ago with Carly, and again with other bungled decisions. They have got to be the most incompetent board for any company of their size in the world. The board lost the HP way long ago, and it hasn't changed that much since then.
The whole rotting thing has got to go and the culture has to restored from the top. Nothing less will do.
You see how an editor would be handy, they could catch my typo of "on" instead of "one" and /fix/ it. As I so clearly demonstrated, editors are useful things.
All I want is at least one professional editor. Somebody to do basic things like check for dupes, make sure stories aren't wholesale ripped off, basic fact checking, that kind of thing. This is done by almost every other professional news media site out there, can Slashdot please make this /one/ change?
Apple fanatic trumps westboro fanatic. Perhaps the idiots from westboro will finally meet their fanatical match and go home with their tale between their legs?
Your logic is akin to saying that just because your health, financial, academic or other private records are magically now everyone's business just because they have been posted online.
Your financial records are still your /private/ financial records and should stay that way regardless of the fact that your financial records may have been sold on the black market. Just because someone has leaked a piece of data does not magically change the nature of that data.
Somehow I think you would be singing a different tune if it was your private data that had been posted for the world to see. I really hope you don't work in finance, academia, health or other similar industries.
There is still cause for concern and the concern is misdirected at Microsoft. The bigger cause for concern should be the Motherboard manufacturers. Look at the issue from their perspective. They pre-install a certain number of certificates at the factory (Windows 8...).
They then have the choice on whether or not they want you to be able to install additional certificates beyond what it came with from the factory. In order to do this they have to enable the feature to allow the certificate store to be updated or the feature to be turned off. They also have to manage additional new certificates and or supporting the user installing their own. That means that they have to provide tech support to allow you to do this. That means additional testing beyond what it comes from the factory, additional support costs for users having trouble and so on.
Their financial interest is arguably in making sure that the certificates they expect you to need are included and that you have no way to modify this as that costs them money for what they will perceive as a market that isn't worth catering to. There is also the added fact that a motherboard that is locked to a certain Operating System can't run a new Operating System when it comes out. That translates into planned obsolescence where the user /has/ to replace their motherboard when a shiny new OS comes out that they want.
There is only one thing I can think of that would prevent this issue from being widespread on most motherboards. Enterprise environments need to use tools like Altiris to deploy OS's with PXE boot. If an enterprise can't image their computer they can't use it in fleet deployments and they won't buy it. Of course this does nothing to protect home users that don't have this requirement.
Bottom line, UEFI is an issue, but not for the reasons that everyone thinks it is.
I'm sorry, but if you need to ask Slashdot on something like this than your not qualified to do what you want to do. Nothing personal but your only going to have hours to days before your website is hosting malware or gets turned into a spam relay.
They think this was all about stealing credit cards. A heist that large though plummets in value as it is too well known and the cards too readily canceled. I would imagine the market value for the stolen cards to be far less than a typical heist that doesn't become publicly known.
I really think this about punishing Sony for doing evil things. Whether you want to pick their DRM infatuation, pursuite of GeoHot, removal of other OS and any number of other things doesn't matter. Somebody was trying to send a message to Sony that in the real world a court room victory bought with the best lawyers you can find can still have a very real cost.
Estimates that put the cost of this in the billion dollar range have been making the news lately. Sony, you just need to ask yourself, was it worth a billion dollars, the loss of public goodwill and a number of pissed of developers? Whether or not Sony will stop playing hardball and start being the corporate bully is doubtful. In the end whoever did this will likely end up in prison, the only question is what lesson did Sony learn from this?
The definition of FUD in the dictionary needs to be updated with this as the cited example.
There's nothing fundamentally really that different from a management standpoint. The more you'll dive in the more your going to find that differences boil down to syntax. Your going to need to test your scripts, your going to need to have peer review, your going to need to use change control, maintenance windows and so on.
There is absolutely no reason for your process to be any different on the Windows side than the Unix side, and if it is than your process needs to be rebuilt. Process should always be tool agnostic and your operating system is simply a tool. If you know your best practices than the only thing you need to figure out is the syntax (tool, language etc) to do what you want to do.
If your simply asking what tools you should use to do scripting or deployment, than you need to look at tools like Altiris, SCCM and so on. If your looking for tools for packaging applications than you would at tools like Wise Packaging Studio. What you really haven't done is explained your need very well. Are you trying to manipulate certain things about exchange with a script? Are you trying to export or import SQL database data with your script?
If you want to run a script on just a few systems than you can schedule the server to run scripts manually and you just need to supply the scripts. If your looking to deploy something on a consistent basis than a combination of GPO's and Active Directory can work quite well. If your looking to automate the distribution of a series of scripts based on certain characteristics of your systems than it would be hard to beat Altiris. If you want to run custom queries or actions than WMI based scripting can do some pretty neat things.
Feel free to message me offline, where I work I'm responsible for the management of both Windows and Mac based systems and do this for a living on a daily basis.
Keep it simple, just disable flash in entirety. You will reduce your power consumption as flash is a poorly coded. Run the numbers with and without flash and see what a difference it makes. This is arguably one of the reasons Steve Jobs won't allow flash on the IOS...
This is absolutely brilliant, a stroke of genius. With a large part of everything being made in China, and piracy absolutely rampant in China this could an incredible effect on restoring jobs to this country. Microsoft has also just figured out how to resolve the outsourcing problem (that they greatly contributed to making) that has wrecked this countries economy and sold out it's future. This may be the best jobs program this country has ever seen, we should spread this idea around.
Just as many republicans contributed to Nader in 2000 to defeat Gore, we should contribute financially to seeing this law successfully implemented. Now we just need to get the AFL-CIO and similar organizations to back this.
Your not quite on track their. The legislation is needed to dissuade the guards and other workers from smuggling in the phones. After all they of all people ought to be following the law. I'm sure if they knew they could pass from jailer to inmate if they got caught it would have a chilling effect on currently rampant smuggling...
Is it just me, or I could swear that I 'bought' my ps3 and it said nothing about a cable box like rental on the box. Why is it so hard for Sony to understand that this is my property and to leave it well enough alone? If they want to arbitrarily execute code on other people's property it crosses the line to hacking and that's criminal to in most jurisdictions.
What they have done is no different that the cable company demanding root level access to your computer in order to go online. People would be outraged there, why should a game console (which is just a dedicated computer) be any different?
Wow, several months late in their less than timely follow through. Wikileaks has gone on the record as saying they were going to donate $50,000 to Manning's defense. Does it surprise anyone that when it came time to follow through they fell through? All told they've raised at least $150,000 just from the heavily edited helicopter video alone. Of which they can only be bothered to spend $15,000 on his behalf. Take the $150,000 from the video and $50,000 pledge and you get a $185,000 profit for Wikileaks on those two items alone, not counting everything they raised from the cables.
Look, I know that fifteen thousand and fifty thousand both start with 'fift', but that doesn't mean they are anywhere near the same amount. I don't know about in Europe, but in America raising money for a cause and refusing to use it for a cause is considered a pretty serious felony fraud. This of it this way, less than 1 dollar in 3 that was pointedly raised for his defense was actually donated. Consider all the other money wikileaks has gotten from the rest of Manning's contributions and you'll see just how badly Wikileaks hung Manning out to dry. On a personal level, considering his treasonous actions could result in anywhere from 52 years in prison up to the death penalty, it's nice too see wikileaks living up to it's potential and hanging him out to dry.
It's not Assanges' place to say or not. He is not a professional in international relations or any number of other fields that could give him any basis to offer a qualified opinion on whether or not the damages from releasing documents would be harmful or not.
Nobody elected Assange, he is no king, he's just an anarchist with an audience. He has no right to release anybodies private information. Even the members of his own organization have rebelled against his heavy handed tactics, in some cases quite publicly so.
I found a NYT article that talks about proving exactly such a thing. That is what trials almost certain to be upcoming trial will almost certainly be for. It's the difference between a classified document landing on a reporters desktop (which has gone to court with the report cleared before) and the reporter actively encouraging the person to give them such information.