"Your best bet it to hire a management consultant to review the practices of your IT department to see where they are failing and and how to correct it."
Comcast did this. They did not like the answer so they fired the consultant and threw out everything he found and said.
"Head of IT doesn't really need to know that much tech. His blind trust in his underlings might be an issue, but lack of technical skills is not really an issue."
Yeah because proposing projects he read about in CTO magazine and running with them even though they are technically stupid is a good thing?
Contact your Representatives and DEMAND that the PATRIOT act be repealed. It is wrong that it ever became permanent and was supposed to only be a temp measure.. IT is being abused and is an abomination to everything that america holds dear.
Write a LETTER and an email you your representatives now and demand they repeal it. Without the PATRIOT act, Everything crumbles at their feet.
"Develop software - production software - in an interpreted language?" What the hell do you think Java and C# are? Compared to C and C++ they are interpreted languages.
You are doing AC wrong then. you do know you can use multiple VPN's to easily hide from them. the NSA is and law enforcement is actually not as good people think they are. Some of the multihop VPN services out there do not log anything, and if you did it right you don't have any account information tracking back at you (prepaid VISA bought off of ebay.... you do know that is why they are sold on ebay right? Prepaid phones to act as burners as well, etc... Ebay is a great source for black market goodies)
Problem is most people are lazy and will use the same route all the time or even worse, will do this from their home or work. Really basic Hacker 101 tricks from the early 80's 90's are all that is needed to easily thwart the US government in trying to track you or who you are if you really want to put in the effort to do it. It takes meticulous attention to detail and to NEVER do the same thing twice. That and living in a state of paranoia all the time. I had a friend in the 90's that lived this way to avoid capture because of his computer crimes, haven't heard from him since 2001 when he asked for an update on the health of his mother, I assume he made it out of the country safely and is not a pile of bones that is in a shallow grave some where in mexico.
He was a clever one, The seemingly always random foreign email address's I responded to always bounced, so I assumed he had hacked several email servers and was retrieving a copy of the bounce from the server logs, he did get the emails I responded to from what I could tell of his communications back. I think today he would have made one of the Best NSA hackers on the planet.
"There will be no fee to transfer your title to someone else"
Bet you $100 that this is only available if you are paying for a GOLD account, therefore you DO have a transfer fee, the cost of paying for an account that many dont use.
Our accounting department has a $40,000 a year licensing fee for the software they use. Guarantee Govt has special vertical market software that costs as much.
That is the cost of using windows. If they went thin clients and an OS that doesn't need regular tuesday patchings they could save far more money. Heck they can even have some windows on the server for those few that actually need it and still have an easier life. Same thin client can boot to the Standard OS or to the Windows OS and yes with AD integration so you have single sign on.
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"Your best bet it to hire a management consultant to review the practices of your IT department to see where they are failing and and how to correct it."
Comcast did this. They did not like the answer so they fired the consultant and threw out everything he found and said.
"Head of IT doesn't really need to know that much tech. His blind trust in his underlings might be an issue, but lack of technical skills is not really an issue."
Yeah because proposing projects he read about in CTO magazine and running with them even though they are technically stupid is a good thing?
Contact your Representatives and DEMAND that the PATRIOT act be repealed. It is wrong that it ever became permanent and was supposed to only be a temp measure.. IT is being abused and is an abomination to everything that america holds dear.
Write a LETTER and an email you your representatives now and demand they repeal it. Without the PATRIOT act, Everything crumbles at their feet.
"Develop software - production software - in an interpreted language?"
What the hell do you think Java and C# are? Compared to C and C++ they are interpreted languages.
You win the cookie! It's at 56545 76553 43432 98617 61517 48483 In the Blue Box, next to the homeless man rambling about how the CIA ate his brain.
720p dashcams that cost $40.00 have been all over ebay for well over a year now. News for Nerds, from 2 years ago....
If your pass has SSSS on it, go and get some viagra to take before your screening. Let that TSA agent deal with that extra member in the way.
You are doing AC wrong then. you do know you can use multiple VPN's to easily hide from them. the NSA is and law enforcement is actually not as good people think they are. Some of the multihop VPN services out there do not log anything, and if you did it right you don't have any account information tracking back at you (prepaid VISA bought off of ebay.... you do know that is why they are sold on ebay right? Prepaid phones to act as burners as well, etc... Ebay is a great source for black market goodies)
Problem is most people are lazy and will use the same route all the time or even worse, will do this from their home or work. Really basic Hacker 101 tricks from the early 80's 90's are all that is needed to easily thwart the US government in trying to track you or who you are if you really want to put in the effort to do it. It takes meticulous attention to detail and to NEVER do the same thing twice. That and living in a state of paranoia all the time. I had a friend in the 90's that lived this way to avoid capture because of his computer crimes, haven't heard from him since 2001 when he asked for an update on the health of his mother, I assume he made it out of the country safely and is not a pile of bones that is in a shallow grave some where in mexico.
He was a clever one, The seemingly always random foreign email address's I responded to always bounced, so I assumed he had hacked several email servers and was retrieving a copy of the bounce from the server logs, he did get the emails I responded to from what I could tell of his communications back. I think today he would have made one of the Best NSA hackers on the planet.
Yes, the 90% of sheeple that though that the PATRIOT act was a good thing.
Really? Then the NSA can read this...
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The NSA can not break civilian grade Open Source encryption.
Non US or US ally hosted encrypted communication channel email? Yes.
What you suggested? nope.
To pay oil company executives a visit... Those guys make the Italian mafia look like pussies.
They can tell EA to shove it in their ass. EA will not survive without the Xbox platform.
$60? that's from the discount bin. Everything is pointing at that the Xbox One games will retail for $80.00
This platform will be hacked at the speed of light BECAUSE of all these draconian restrictions.
"There will be no fee to transfer your title to someone else"
Bet you $100 that this is only available if you are paying for a GOLD account, therefore you DO have a transfer fee, the cost of paying for an account that many dont use.
Unless it's not grade data but raw data. Everyone is ASSUMING it's final calculated scores.
Really? so who I was responding to about Patch tuesday and the patching testing requirements is all bureaucratic bullshit?
Or did you decide to go way off topic on the discussion and should have posted instead under the main story...
Then it is brand new, I flew out of DFW 30 days ago and they were not there. Although I did not use Terminal E.
Exactly. Want to know that a politician is lying? Their mouth is moving.
They pay 2 dingos and a bushman a month.
Our accounting department has a $40,000 a year licensing fee for the software they use.
Guarantee Govt has special vertical market software that costs as much.
Pretty sure it includes the salary of some useless middle and upper managers in that number.
That is the cost of using windows. If they went thin clients and an OS that doesn't need regular tuesday patchings they could save far more money. Heck they can even have some windows on the server for those few that actually need it and still have an easier life. Same thin client can boot to the Standard OS or to the Windows OS and yes with AD integration so you have single sign on.
And mine is on the desktop under the web browser window.