We thought the same in the UK until we had the current Coalition government. Yes it's not ideal to have a major and minor party (Conservative and Liberal, respectively) but at least it's one step closer to actually representing the will of the majority instead of the most popular of the choices available.
I keep saying that we need a proportional representation system, but the detractors always say that the right wing will get a place of power. Well, that's part of the public opinion. There's also the significant majority who aren't aligned that way, so we still end up with sane minds getting things done. The only difference is that 35% can't rule the other 65% just because the former got the largest single proportion of the votes. That just boggles my mind.
... the odds of the Australian government punishing Telestra (or themselves) seem low.
Your absolutely right. It's down to the populace to hold their government accountable. Vote them out of power, and make sure the next party you elect puts protections in place to ensure this never happens again.
If our backend stuff ran on Linux (school MIS system), we'd already be on it. If MS go annual release, as suggested, I assume that means shorter support cycle too. We wouldn't be able to afford the license upgrades.
There's a market for school MIS systems which run on F/OSS. Someone get coding one.
What planet do you live on, mate? Skype is too convenient to swap my family over. It's good for what it's meant for, which is video calling easily between geographically disparate people for casual conversation, e.g. Phoning your granny while on holiday in Spain.
I don't, and never have, discussed confidential topics over Skype. It's akin to putting your bank details in an unencrypted email.
Email is not confidential. It can be read in whole by any intermediary server between the source and destination, unless encrypted. I am at a loss as to why people don't treat it as its postal service allegory: A post card.
It has ever been this way, and is nothing new. People who send confidential information via unencrypted email simply don't know how email works.
If you know about it, you're in the firing line when shit hits the fan. If you work in a sector with specific regulations on data handling, eg PCI, HIPAA, Sarbanes Oxley, they're pretty much excluded from that sector. It is a due diligence failure on your part as the person recommending / implementing the system.
The TorBrowser Bundle requires you to download the TorBrowser Bundle, and then run the TorBrowser Bundle. Running Tales is as simple as downloading the ISO and burning it to a CD, then booting from the CD. It can even be run in a VM, though not recommended for the exceptionally paranoid.
However one can easily store a key on a remote server, and arrange for a cron job to delete that key if you failed to log in for a while. It would be a plausible explanation why the $5 wrench is not delivering the expected results.
That's great as long as they believe you. If they don't, well, that's a wrenchin'.
This is great and all, but the problem is that I don't feel oppressed.
I wake up in the morning to the chime of my overpriced foreign manufactured mobile phone alarm, get a cup of coffee from a machine that brews it for me while I sleep, I put on clothes which I've bought for this season. While I sit at my desk using my quite well spec'd office computer I eat cous cous and fresh oranges for lunch. I go home and watch entertainment shows created a continent away about the underdog sticking it to The Man, then I go back to sleep in my comfortable bed in my warm house, quite happy that someone, somewhere is doing some very nasty things so that little old me can have this comfortable life.
Now you're telling me that "they" are reading the email I sent to my grandmother about how the cat has finally been snipped, or the quick text message I sent to my girlfriend about not getting the chicken out tonight because I'm meeting friends after work? Well, why the hell would that matter? It doesn't affect me in the least.
Movie theaters have been doing it for decades. Pay to see the film, arrive at the supposed start time, watch 30 minutes of ads and 15 minutes of trailers.
In 50 years, see where those "socially compassionate" countries are. Not much more than 50 years ago Germany was one of the most successful police states the world has seen. Now it's a beacon to human rights advocates worldwide. The US, however, has gone completely the opposite way. 50 years is over 10 different regime "changes" for both the US and the UK at least, and two generations for any monarchy. A lot can change.
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We thought the same in the UK until we had the current Coalition government. Yes it's not ideal to have a major and minor party (Conservative and Liberal, respectively) but at least it's one step closer to actually representing the will of the majority instead of the most popular of the choices available.
I keep saying that we need a proportional representation system, but the detractors always say that the right wing will get a place of power. Well, that's part of the public opinion. There's also the significant majority who aren't aligned that way, so we still end up with sane minds getting things done. The only difference is that 35% can't rule the other 65% just because the former got the largest single proportion of the votes. That just boggles my mind.
Your absolutely right. It's down to the populace to hold their government accountable. Vote them out of power, and make sure the next party you elect puts protections in place to ensure this never happens again.
If our backend stuff ran on Linux (school MIS system), we'd already be on it. If MS go annual release, as suggested, I assume that means shorter support cycle too. We wouldn't be able to afford the license upgrades.
There's a market for school MIS systems which run on F/OSS. Someone get coding one.
What planet do you live on, mate? Skype is too convenient to swap my family over. It's good for what it's meant for, which is video calling easily between geographically disparate people for casual conversation, e.g. Phoning your granny while on holiday in Spain.
I don't, and never have, discussed confidential topics over Skype. It's akin to putting your bank details in an unencrypted email.
Email is not confidential. It can be read in whole by any intermediary server between the source and destination, unless encrypted. I am at a loss as to why people don't treat it as its postal service allegory: A post card.
It has ever been this way, and is nothing new. People who send confidential information via unencrypted email simply don't know how email works.
Yes, it's a security hole.
If you know about it, you're in the firing line when shit hits the fan. If you work in a sector with specific regulations on data handling, eg PCI, HIPAA, Sarbanes Oxley, they're pretty much excluded from that sector. It is a due diligence failure on your part as the person recommending / implementing the system.
I'm an IT manager in WI and the closest HP user support and sales agent is in Illinois
They definitely have people they don't let you talk to, and I'm betting those guys wrote this account into the software.
I like to picture you actually saying "d zero zero d" to prove you have mad skills.
If you think the Feds you knew were there were the only Feds there, you're an idiot.
DEF CON: It's Feds all the way down.
And if they decide to remotely overwrite your data with zeros because some goobment goon tells them to? How would you know before it's too late?
Shenanigans. You didn't use "synergies" or "paradigm shift" once.
I was wondering if somebody set up us
... the bomb?
The TorBrowser Bundle requires you to download the TorBrowser Bundle, and then run the TorBrowser Bundle. Running Tales is as simple as downloading the ISO and burning it to a CD, then booting from the CD. It can even be run in a VM, though not recommended for the exceptionally paranoid.
How is this not convenient?
Or download the AOSP code, strip out the tracking functions and compile it yourself.
However one can easily store a key on a remote server, and arrange for a cron job to delete that key if you failed to log in for a while. It would be a plausible explanation why the $5 wrench is not delivering the expected results.
That's great as long as they believe you. If they don't, well, that's a wrenchin'.
Well, obviously the way to handle this is to find your manager and...
Keelhaul that filthy land lubber, send him down to the depths below!
Make that bastard walk the plank, with a bottle of rum and a Yo ho ho!
Pretty NSFW, sound is mandatory
Yes yes YES. I'm utterly astounded that I didn't mention this. Thanks for pointing it out!
Encrypt the hard drive. Insure against theft. Forget about it if it's stolen.
This is great and all, but the problem is that I don't feel oppressed.
I wake up in the morning to the chime of my overpriced foreign manufactured mobile phone alarm, get a cup of coffee from a machine that brews it for me while I sleep, I put on clothes which I've bought for this season. While I sit at my desk using my quite well spec'd office computer I eat cous cous and fresh oranges for lunch. I go home and watch entertainment shows created a continent away about the underdog sticking it to The Man, then I go back to sleep in my comfortable bed in my warm house, quite happy that someone, somewhere is doing some very nasty things so that little old me can have this comfortable life.
Now you're telling me that "they" are reading the email I sent to my grandmother about how the cat has finally been snipped, or the quick text message I sent to my girlfriend about not getting the chicken out tonight because I'm meeting friends after work? Well, why the hell would that matter? It doesn't affect me in the least.
In Soviet Ankh-Morpork, your Luggage bags YOU !
FTFY.
Dude, do you even vendor lock in? They won't want interoperability, they want return business!
Have you learned nothing in the past decade about how corporations are out to fuck you over for a buck?!~
That's presumably why you're posting "anonymously".
FTFY.
Movie theaters have been doing it for decades. Pay to see the film, arrive at the supposed start time, watch 30 minutes of ads and 15 minutes of trailers.
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Off topic, but pertinent to your post.
In 50 years, see where those "socially compassionate" countries are. Not much more than 50 years ago Germany was one of the most successful police states the world has seen. Now it's a beacon to human rights advocates worldwide. The US, however, has gone completely the opposite way. 50 years is over 10 different regime "changes" for both the US and the UK at least, and two generations for any monarchy. A lot can change.