Slow down there city boy;-p
I get the gist of what you're saying and I totally agree with one small exception. You don't have to live in a large city to not be a commuter and there are plenty of fabulous tech jobs in small town america. I live in a town of 2,600 about 30 minutes from the suburbs of Kansas City. I live within walking distance from my office and within walking distance of the school, stores. Everything is right here. Sure we go to KC once or twice a month, but we sure aren't rushing around. The point I wanted to make was that rural america does offer some great tech jobs. Did I mention I'm 15 minutes from the lake? Life is good.
Awesome. So I assume anyone eating fast food shouldn't qualify for welfare, or anyone who drinks alcohol.
Or anyone who doesn't follow your approved lifestyle. I mean, think about all the joggers with knee injuries. Our tax dollars might be used to repair their self inflicted injury due to their life style choice.
Where does this logic end and who gets to decide what life style is correct?
Right now in Iran there are hundreds of thousands of people revolting from an oppressive state where morality and life styles have been dictated by the government. I understand your position, I don't honestly want to pay for problems that people create for themselves, but that is the price we pay to live in a Free Country that has progressive social reforms.
I'm sorry, but we DO live in a FREE COUNTRY, the only thing holding us back is our perception that we don't.
I'm sure there's some way to send an electrical signal through all the wires and create a time vortex of some kind. It'd be tricky, but I think it'll work. Of course, you might wind up trapped in a hostile time or even a violent alternate universe inhabited by giant fish-frogs. I suggest caution if you decide to do this. If I'm not mistaken you have to use 220 instead of the standard 110.
Check with your local hardware store in their time dilation isle, they usually stock converters if you get stuck with the wrong polarity. And remember to keep the humidity down when you turn it on, you don't want to fog anything up.
I almost fell out of my chair. I literally have a 32" TV that is half covered in post it notes containing bug reports and other issues.
Personally I find the TV method perfectly sufficient. I should also point out that the screen faces the door to my office, so it doubles as a mirror, thus I can see who's sneaking up on me.
Multi-purpose tools are always the best.
I just saw a short snippet on CNN, it looks like they have found some small evidence of human remains. Details appear to be sketchy. I would assume blood and hair traces, perhaps bones fragments are all they'll ever find.
My prayers and blessings go out to his loved ones. I hope this can give them the closure they need.
I'm kind of an old coot myself and it is funny how perceptions have changed in just ten years. There are so many people on here defending personal use of computer systems in the workplace that I find it amazing. It is no wonder so many companies are going right down the toilet. Where did this mentality come from?
Hourly or salary doesn't matter, if you're in a professional workplace then you should work like a professional. Leave the games and toys at home where they belong. That's why they call work 'Work'.
Screwing off is screwing off and anyone who defends it is living in denial.
Can we count Selena Sol? Even though she turned out to be a he. Seriously, Selena Sol was long thought to be a woman and rose to fame as such.
http://www.selenasol.com/selena/
You start off by saying 'In my experience major security breeches..."
My questions is 'If you're so awesome, then why do you have so much experience with major security breeches'? And if your experience with them tells you that "we didn't do a very good job when we created our layered security model", then wouldn't you be part of the 'we' in that statement?
I'd love to know more about this mythical layered security model that never fails. My advice is to patent it and then sell the concept to AT&T, Sprint, NASA and the Alaskan State Government, because they have all had 'major security breaches' within the last year. They could really use an IT guy who has a clue....
Companies that allow their users free reign over the Internet are asking for trouble and there is no magical 'layered security model' that works 100% of the time, if you believe this it is because you simply don't have the experience yet to know that you're wrong. When millions and sometimes Billions of dollars are at stake, then I'll just keep blocking MySpace, because honestly it has no place at work. Personal use of the Internet is not a right and it's restriction is no more draconian than companies that don't let their employees sleep on the couches in the lobby (but why not dude, they're couches, I have a right to sleep on them. Down with the Man!)
No, we should work smarter, not harder. We should stop participating in foolish habits simply because we can't wait until we get home to look at MySpace. If you think for a second that personal use of the Internet isn't costing companies big and small, then you're living in a fantasy world.
So if there's another solution to the security threat then I'd like to know about it. Please let me know how you keep your network safe with everyone surfing wherever they want, whenever they want.
How is managing the security of a network 'micromanagement'? Should all large companies just scrap their IT policy because it's 'micomanagement'?
I'm sorry, but in this particular case I think it is imperative for companies to manage their networks and if there is a problem with corporate security because someone can't wait until they get home to check their HotMail then that's the kind of 'micromanagement' that doesn't fall into the offensive, over the top, WTF are they thinking level of micromanagement to which reference.
I have a buddy who works for Sprint. Recently there has been MAJOR issues there will network intrusion, all traced back to personal use of the network (mostly involving Malware). I'm curious what kind of solution you would suggest considering your support of personal use of the Internet at work.
I would also like to point out that my particular company has just under 100 employees and we're having these issues as well. What kind of solution would you implement? I'm serious, because I don't want to block MySpace (I've caught a lot of grief over it). If there is another solution then I'd sure like to know about.
I don't fully agree. I think you pose a valid arguement when considering salaried employees. But I manage a network of 80+ users and only a handfull are salary.
I spend lots of time cleaning up viruses that come from personal emails, personal surfing and personal abuse of the network. It's not 25% of the people doing this, it's 100% of them doing it 25% of the time. Yes, we've fired the worst offenders and warnings are given.
But we live in a day and age where Flash Ads from cnn.com can infect a system with Malware, I don't feel personal use of the networks is appropriate at all (yes I know I'm reading Slashdot at 10:30 in the morning, but I get a lot of job related info from this sites news sources, so I consider it a valid use of the network).
I don't consider this a non-story because I forwarded to my boss to help him understand the issues I face with this very topic. Personal use of corporate networks cost lots of money and that leads to lower productivity and lower revenues. In an economy where we're bleeding money (especially in the large corporate world) I fail to see how this is a non-story.
But can those horse apples travel faster than the speed of light?
Yes they can.
If Horse Apple A was going one direction at 3/4 of the speed of light in relation to Horse Apple B.
And if Horse Apple C was going in the opposite direction past Horse Apple B at 3/4 the speed of light, then an observer on Horse Apple A would in fact see Horse Apple C passing at 1 1/2 the speed of light.
So Horse Apple A and Horse Apple C are traveling away from each other at a speed greater than light in relation to their speed passing Horse Apple B.
My advice; Buy the horse and sell it's waste products to NASA for the shuttle replacement. Then they can be hot shit astronauts.
So this influence and it's effect move faster than the speed of light?
If we're seeing the effect of something that is beyond the limits of how far light could have traveled, then wouldn't this result in the passing of information (ie the effect of gravitational force we believe we're seeing) in a manner faster than the speed of light.
For the record, I do not believe space is expanding, I believe everything in it is shrinking. It wasn't a big bang, it's a big shrink.
Tricky. It took me a second to realize that wasn't the actual dialogue box. I admit I skimmed the article and fell right into it. My scrutiny scanner must be broken.
Then I read the comments and had to go back, where I found a link to a pic of one of the real dialogue boxes. Not even close. Good example of how you can slant a person's perception with media.
The study itself bothers me because it can't look at home use, where I think the vast bulk of foolish behavior occurs.
Exactly! They aren't trying to find terrorists. They're trying to find malcontents, people who don't fit the model for the society we're creating. People who want some serious change of power and leadership.
Who is going to protect us from those who are suppose to protect us? Can we get a scanner that tells us if a member of the department of Homeland Security is nearby? I'd feel safer knowing where they are and what they're doing. It's sad, but I'm less scared of 'terrorists' than I am of our own government and what it is rapidly becoming.
Fortunately I believe in the American process and I don't think it'll go much further before we cast our votes and resolve at least a few of the issues...just in time for some new ones.
In our particular case we sell Cars Online (lots of them). I'm the only 'IT' employee, but we have seven people working in our Internet Department. Six months ago we let one of our Sales Guys go. A few weeks later our website starts getting TONS of junk form submissions. I found the IP it was being submitted from and on a hunch I compared it with our remote access logs (we allow our Internet Sales Guys remote access to the network so they can work leads that come in late at night and on the weekends). That was only the start of his games. He tried jacking around with some of our accounts and even got our eBay account locked up for most of a day. In the end I called him and confronted him about it. I let him know there was clear evidence he was doing it and if it continued we'd press charges.
I guess my point is anyone who uses a computer at work can be a potential hazard. He had no real technical skills and he was completely locked out, yet he was still an IT threat. Employers need to realize that any employee, not just their IT staff, can become an issue with security and network stability.
But it kept asking me 'if I really wanted to do that, then it asked for my admin password, then it asked if I really wanted to enter my password, then it told me I needed to authorize my admin account to approve admin tasks, but first I had to validate my activation.
when I did finally get a chance to see it, all that was there was a giant blue screen...asking for permission to crash. I clicked yes.
What's really sad is...I'm a Microsoft fan (duck).
Slashdot Mirror
Slow down there city boy ;-p
I get the gist of what you're saying and I totally agree with one small exception. You don't have to live in a large city to not be a commuter and there are plenty of fabulous tech jobs in small town america.
I live in a town of 2,600 about 30 minutes from the suburbs of Kansas City.
I live within walking distance from my office and within walking distance of the school, stores. Everything is right here. Sure we go to KC once or twice a month, but we sure aren't rushing around.
The point I wanted to make was that rural america does offer some great tech jobs.
Did I mention I'm 15 minutes from the lake? Life is good.
Awesome. So I assume anyone eating fast food shouldn't qualify for welfare, or anyone who drinks alcohol.
Or anyone who doesn't follow your approved lifestyle. I mean, think about all the joggers with knee injuries. Our tax dollars might be used to repair their self inflicted injury due to their life style choice.
Where does this logic end and who gets to decide what life style is correct?
Right now in Iran there are hundreds of thousands of people revolting from an oppressive state where morality and life styles have been dictated by the government. I understand your position, I don't honestly want to pay for problems that people create for themselves, but that is the price we pay to live in a Free Country that has progressive social reforms.
I'm sorry, but we DO live in a FREE COUNTRY, the only thing holding us back is our perception that we don't.
Thank You! I bet my buddy here that someone in the first 10 comments would mention Tesla.
Of course he still thinks we're talking about music.
I'm sure there's some way to send an electrical signal through all the wires and create a time vortex of some kind. It'd be tricky, but I think it'll work. Of course, you might wind up trapped in a hostile time or even a violent alternate universe inhabited by giant fish-frogs. I suggest caution if you decide to do this. If I'm not mistaken you have to use 220 instead of the standard 110.
Check with your local hardware store in their time dilation isle, they usually stock converters if you get stuck with the wrong polarity. And remember to keep the humidity down when you turn it on, you don't want to fog anything up.
Just a thought.
Ja wird das Sprechen von englisch fast angefordert, aber in der Lage seiend zu denken und Arbeit in vielen Sprachen ist besser.
I almost fell out of my chair. I literally have a 32" TV that is half covered in post it notes containing bug reports and other issues. Personally I find the TV method perfectly sufficient. I should also point out that the screen faces the door to my office, so it doubles as a mirror, thus I can see who's sneaking up on me. Multi-purpose tools are always the best.
Bob Dillian and a tiny bong.
Side effects? Like the munchies? Evil plant...I mean drug.
I just saw a short snippet on CNN, it looks like they have found some small evidence of human remains. Details appear to be sketchy. I would assume blood and hair traces, perhaps bones fragments are all they'll ever find.
My prayers and blessings go out to his loved ones. I hope this can give them the closure they need.
I'm kind of an old coot myself and it is funny how perceptions have changed in just ten years. There are so many people on here defending personal use of computer systems in the workplace that I find it amazing. It is no wonder so many companies are going right down the toilet. Where did this mentality come from?
Hourly or salary doesn't matter, if you're in a professional workplace then you should work like a professional. Leave the games and toys at home where they belong. That's why they call work 'Work'.
Screwing off is screwing off and anyone who defends it is living in denial.
If your network deals with Financial information then you're required by law to audit them every quarter.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gramm-Leach-Bliley_Act
However I think every 3 months is too big of a gap to catch problems before they arise.
Can we count Selena Sol? Even though she turned out to be a he. Seriously, Selena Sol was long thought to be a woman and rose to fame as such. http://www.selenasol.com/selena/
You start off by saying 'In my experience major security breeches..."
My questions is 'If you're so awesome, then why do you have so much experience with major security breeches'? And if your experience with them tells you that "we didn't do a very good job when we created our layered security model", then wouldn't you be part of the 'we' in that statement?
I'd love to know more about this mythical layered security model that never fails. My advice is to patent it and then sell the concept to AT&T, Sprint, NASA and the Alaskan State Government, because they have all had 'major security breaches' within the last year. They could really use an IT guy who has a clue....
Companies that allow their users free reign over the Internet are asking for trouble and there is no magical 'layered security model' that works 100% of the time, if you believe this it is because you simply don't have the experience yet to know that you're wrong. When millions and sometimes Billions of dollars are at stake, then I'll just keep blocking MySpace, because honestly it has no place at work. Personal use of the Internet is not a right and it's restriction is no more draconian than companies that don't let their employees sleep on the couches in the lobby (but why not dude, they're couches, I have a right to sleep on them. Down with the Man!)
I used it to smash up that printer that kept giving the 'PC Load Letter' error.
Don't worry though, it's a Swingline, they're real high quality staplers.
No, we should work smarter, not harder. We should stop participating in foolish habits simply because we can't wait until we get home to look at MySpace. If you think for a second that personal use of the Internet isn't costing companies big and small, then you're living in a fantasy world.
So if there's another solution to the security threat then I'd like to know about it. Please let me know how you keep your network safe with everyone surfing wherever they want, whenever they want.
How is managing the security of a network 'micromanagement'? Should all large companies just scrap their IT policy because it's 'micomanagement'?
I'm sorry, but in this particular case I think it is imperative for companies to manage their networks and if there is a problem with corporate security because someone can't wait until they get home to check their HotMail then that's the kind of 'micromanagement' that doesn't fall into the offensive, over the top, WTF are they thinking level of micromanagement to which reference.
I have a buddy who works for Sprint. Recently there has been MAJOR issues there will network intrusion, all traced back to personal use of the network (mostly involving Malware). I'm curious what kind of solution you would suggest considering your support of personal use of the Internet at work.
I would also like to point out that my particular company has just under 100 employees and we're having these issues as well. What kind of solution would you implement? I'm serious, because I don't want to block MySpace (I've caught a lot of grief over it). If there is another solution then I'd sure like to know about.
It was stapled to my TPS report.
I don't fully agree. I think you pose a valid arguement when considering salaried employees. But I manage a network of 80+ users and only a handfull are salary.
I spend lots of time cleaning up viruses that come from personal emails, personal surfing and personal abuse of the network. It's not 25% of the people doing this, it's 100% of them doing it 25% of the time. Yes, we've fired the worst offenders and warnings are given.
But we live in a day and age where Flash Ads from cnn.com can infect a system with Malware, I don't feel personal use of the networks is appropriate at all (yes I know I'm reading Slashdot at 10:30 in the morning, but I get a lot of job related info from this sites news sources, so I consider it a valid use of the network).
I don't consider this a non-story because I forwarded to my boss to help him understand the issues I face with this very topic. Personal use of corporate networks cost lots of money and that leads to lower productivity and lower revenues. In an economy where we're bleeding money (especially in the large corporate world) I fail to see how this is a non-story.
But can those horse apples travel faster than the speed of light?
Yes they can.
If Horse Apple A was going one direction at 3/4 of the speed of light in relation to Horse Apple B.
And if Horse Apple C was going in the opposite direction past Horse Apple B at 3/4 the speed of light, then an observer on Horse Apple A would in fact see Horse Apple C passing at 1 1/2 the speed of light.
So Horse Apple A and Horse Apple C are traveling away from each other at a speed greater than light in relation to their speed passing Horse Apple B.
My advice; Buy the horse and sell it's waste products to NASA for the shuttle replacement. Then they can be hot shit astronauts.
So this influence and it's effect move faster than the speed of light?
If we're seeing the effect of something that is beyond the limits of how far light could have traveled, then wouldn't this result in the passing of information (ie the effect of gravitational force we believe we're seeing) in a manner faster than the speed of light.
For the record, I do not believe space is expanding, I believe everything in it is shrinking. It wasn't a big bang, it's a big shrink.
funny. you quack me up.
Tricky. It took me a second to realize that wasn't the actual dialogue box. I admit I skimmed the article and fell right into it. My scrutiny scanner must be broken.
Then I read the comments and had to go back, where I found a link to a pic of one of the real dialogue boxes. Not even close. Good example of how you can slant a person's perception with media.
The study itself bothers me because it can't look at home use, where I think the vast bulk of foolish behavior occurs.
Exactly! They aren't trying to find terrorists. They're trying to find malcontents, people who don't fit the model for the society we're creating. People who want some serious change of power and leadership.
Who is going to protect us from those who are suppose to protect us? Can we get a scanner that tells us if a member of the department of Homeland Security is nearby? I'd feel safer knowing where they are and what they're doing. It's sad, but I'm less scared of 'terrorists' than I am of our own government and what it is rapidly becoming.
Fortunately I believe in the American process and I don't think it'll go much further before we cast our votes and resolve at least a few of the issues...just in time for some new ones.
In our particular case we sell Cars Online (lots of them). I'm the only 'IT' employee, but we have seven people working in our Internet Department. Six months ago we let one of our Sales Guys go. A few weeks later our website starts getting TONS of junk form submissions. I found the IP it was being submitted from and on a hunch I compared it with our remote access logs (we allow our Internet Sales Guys remote access to the network so they can work leads that come in late at night and on the weekends). That was only the start of his games. He tried jacking around with some of our accounts and even got our eBay account locked up for most of a day. In the end I called him and confronted him about it. I let him know there was clear evidence he was doing it and if it continued we'd press charges.
I guess my point is anyone who uses a computer at work can be a potential hazard. He had no real technical skills and he was completely locked out, yet he was still an IT threat. Employers need to realize that any employee, not just their IT staff, can become an issue with security and network stability.
But it kept asking me 'if I really wanted to do that, then it asked for my admin password, then it asked if I really wanted to enter my password, then it told me I needed to authorize my admin account to approve admin tasks, but first I had to validate my activation.
when I did finally get a chance to see it, all that was there was a giant blue screen...asking for permission to crash. I clicked yes.
What's really sad is...I'm a Microsoft fan (duck).