Good ideas. I'd suggest going one step further and travel with a laptop you would not mind losing. For instance, when I upgrade systems, I typically keep the old one for travel, etc. Unless I really need to more powerful new system, the old one will usually do just fine for a few days. Why offer thieves a better payday than absolutely necessary?
The majority of the public won't understand that "should be able to decrypt on demand" is the same thing as a back door. To them, what he said was good and fair. This is just another case of a politician playing with words in order to manipulate the electorate.
Over the past 30 years (dang, that's a long time), I've worked at three multinationals. All three had this policy. It's unlikely that I happened upon three outliers, so I expect that this is the normal policy for large campuses. That being the case, if it was unreasonable, there would have been multiple large successful lawsuits and the lawyers for all the other big companies would have changed the policy. Large companies are risk-averse. The fact that this policy is still in place in many companies indicates that it is the right policy.
I get really tired for people dumping on large companies without warrant. When they deserve to be slammed, let's slam them, but dumping on them when it is not warranted is just as evil as anything they do.
I'm in the same boat - taking responsibility (I really don't want to claim ownership) of a ton of code that contains no comments, uses meaningless names, is poorly structured, and does things that some of our suppliers will not support. If your code is well-structured and uses meaningful names, you really don't need a lot of comments. I have encountered code in which the comments are wrong. IMO, incorrect comments are worse than no comments. When I see a comment, my initial reaction is to believe what it says. An incorrect comment sends me down a rabbit hold, wasting my time and leaving me frustrated and angry.
that spent nuclear waste ought to be stored in the same state in which it was originally used. If you don't want to deal with the waste, don't burn the fuel in the first place.
Having worked for a government agency, let me just say that the level of computer savvy, not even to mention the level of computer security savvy, in government is appalling. People who know better have to work very hard to keep their heads from exploding at the stuff that goes on in government. It is worse than in private industry because the likelihood of being fired is so low.
So, if I understand this correctly, his product uses a very different methodology to match DNA samples than do his competitors. In this case, his product gave a completely different result from the results generated by his competitors. Has anyone done an independent, double-blind study comparing the results of his product and those of his competitors? And I'm not talking about a handful of tests. I'm talking about thousands, or tens of thousands, of tests.
I can understand why the manufacturers don't want to do that. It may well show that, oh dear, the best product is wrong 5% of the time (not good). Or that product X is head and shoulders above the rest.
But seriously, what industry-wide testing has been done? We're staking peoples' lives to the efficacy of this technology. How effective is it?
Well, I know that the developers at my workplace would love to be able to make more of the decisions that affect them: choice of code versioning system, choice of languages, prioritization of some of the tasks, etc. But, by the same token, they really don't want to have to deal with their (internal) customer base the way that their manager does. A good manager is a good thing. A bad manager, not so much.
... but since year one, the program has morphed from a fairly geeky show into "Friends with Nerds". Meh. If I want sexual innuendo, there are other shows that do it better. Time to bring it to an end.
At one place of employment, we got a new manager who had a technical background. He took rather too much interest in our day-to-day details. Didn't like the CMS we were using, didn't like the language we were using, etc. Primary reason for the dislike was that they weren't technologies he was familiar with. He did eventually back off, but there was a lot of stress for a while. There are always tradeoffs.
Yes, I understand that VW cheated the regulators in terms of emissions. Fair enough. They cheated. They got caught. They should pay the price.
What I don't understand is end users being upset. In my life, I've purchased 5 cars to date (all new). Never has the emissions level of the vehicle been a factor, at any level, in my decision over which vehicle to purchase. Horsepower? Yes, Fuel efficiency? Yes. Cost? Yes. Emissions? Not even on the radar.
That should work well enough to block third-party apps from phoning home. If the manufacturer wants the device to phone home, a firewall on the device probably won't be effective. To be effective, you need the firewall to run on a separate device (ideally manufactured by someone other than the manufacturers of your computer and OS).
Concur. I started in the industry 29 years ago (dang). It was cool. It was fun. We actually got to build interesting new stuff. And, yes, there were boring patches, but a lot of the time I actually woke up Monday morning thinking "I get to go to work today."
Now, we struggle to get permission to implement best practices. Instead, management wants to perpetuate the mistakes we've made for the past N years.
Actually, the biggest issue I seem to be encountering is "me, me, me". I used to encounter a team ethos among most, if not all, of my co-workers. Now, nobody seems to care about the team or the mission. It's all about them, and if things don't go precisely their way, they do their best to make everyone miserable. What scares me about this is that I'm afraid of becoming like them. Maybe it's time to spiff up the resume. Any good SW development firms in Canada (Ontario and Quebec excepted)?
I get that you're not on-line for long. But, when you are on-line, what sort of bandwidth do you need? A few years ago, I looked into working from the family cottage on a quasi-permanent basis, but there was nothing really available that met my needs.
Satellite tends to be okay on the download, but, even if you can do upload via satellite (when I was looking, upload was by land line - ick), it's really slow.
If you can get cellular data with tethering, that's not too bad, but you'd want to check on reliability and the actual limits imposed by the provider.
WiFi might do, but possible issues include reliability (what happens when it goes down), access (how many people share the connection, and does the provider really want to have you working through the connection), and security (shared WiFi?).
There are some rural providers that provide wireless connections to individual customers (the antennae look like small microwave antennae). That may be a possibility for you, but I"ve no idea on the cost.
I'd love to be able to work that remotely. Totally not possible with my current job. Sigh
Question: Does Windows 10 spy on what you do using a VM? If not, run your preferred *NIX variant in a VM under Windows 10 and do whatever you like.
If it does spy on your activities within a VM, consider flipping things around: *NIX running a VM that contains Windows 10.
I do understand that there is value to MS in sending data home and, yes, there is some value to us in having data sent home to MS. That said, if it is out of my control, the cost is far greater than any value I receive, so it ain't gonna happen. I was intending to upgrade one of my computers to Windows 10 Enterprise, but until I can confirm that no data get phoned home outside my control, not a chance. And in case Satya is listening, yes, I've managed to discourage my employer from upgrading to Windows 10 (given that security is a major consideration for us, data being phoned home outside of our control is a non-starter).
Fair enough, but looking at the paper itself, two of the three authors live in the Netherlands, so unless they intend to travel to old Blighty, they don't live in the judge's jurisdiction. Also, presumably the paper was peer reviewed and it's possible that some of the reviewers also do not live in England and might "accidentally" release the paper into the wild.
It would probably be more accurate to say that "punishment does not prevent ALL crime." Having once had a parking ticket, I go out of my way to avoid them. As far as cyclists go, yes, there are many who dreadfully abuse our traffic laws. Then again, I can just as easily say that about automobile drivers (and, no, I'm not talking about speeding, even though I'm certain I've heard reports that speeding is one of the key factors in driver fatalities). I drive a little over 100KM/week (i.e. fewer KMs than I cycle) stupid, dangerous, and decidely illegal, things I see drivers do each week boggles my mind. Some of them really seem to have no idea that there is any other human being on the planet. Suffice to say that, regardless of their mode of transport (car, bike, foot), we are surrounded by an ocean of clueless imbeciles so, hey, let's be careful out there.
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Good ideas. I'd suggest going one step further and travel with a laptop you would not mind losing. For instance, when I upgrade systems, I typically keep the old one for travel, etc. Unless I really need to more powerful new system, the old one will usually do just fine for a few days. Why offer thieves a better payday than absolutely necessary?
The majority of the public won't understand that "should be able to decrypt on demand" is the same thing as a back door. To them, what he said was good and fair. This is just another case of a politician playing with words in order to manipulate the electorate.
Math is hard.
Or, more accurately, math is believed to be hard.
Or, more completely, math is believed to be hard by humans, a species known to be shy on intelligence.
(no pun intended).
If the system cannot change while I'm watching, how am I able to watch moving pictures on my TV?
Over the past 30 years (dang, that's a long time), I've worked at three multinationals. All three had this policy. It's unlikely that I happened upon three outliers, so I expect that this is the normal policy for large campuses. That being the case, if it was unreasonable, there would have been multiple large successful lawsuits and the lawyers for all the other big companies would have changed the policy. Large companies are risk-averse. The fact that this policy is still in place in many companies indicates that it is the right policy.
I get really tired for people dumping on large companies without warrant. When they deserve to be slammed, let's slam them, but dumping on them when it is not warranted is just as evil as anything they do.
This.
I'm in the same boat - taking responsibility (I really don't want to claim ownership) of a ton of code that contains no comments, uses meaningless names, is poorly structured, and does things that some of our suppliers will not support. If your code is well-structured and uses meaningful names, you really don't need a lot of comments. I have encountered code in which the comments are wrong. IMO, incorrect comments are worse than no comments. When I see a comment, my initial reaction is to believe what it says. An incorrect comment sends me down a rabbit hold, wasting my time and leaving me frustrated and angry.
that spent nuclear waste ought to be stored in the same state in which it was originally used. If you don't want to deal with the waste, don't burn the fuel in the first place.
Having worked for a government agency, let me just say that the level of computer savvy, not even to mention the level of computer security savvy, in government is appalling. People who know better have to work very hard to keep their heads from exploding at the stuff that goes on in government. It is worse than in private industry because the likelihood of being fired is so low.
This. This is exactly the question I wanted to ask.
I can understand why the manufacturers don't want to do that. It may well show that, oh dear, the best product is wrong 5% of the time (not good). Or that product X is head and shoulders above the rest.
But seriously, what industry-wide testing has been done? We're staking peoples' lives to the efficacy of this technology. How effective is it?
It sounds like you really aren't interested in the promotion. Did you have a choice in the matter?
Well, I know that the developers at my workplace would love to be able to make more of the decisions that affect them: choice of code versioning system, choice of languages, prioritization of some of the tasks, etc. But, by the same token, they really don't want to have to deal with their (internal) customer base the way that their manager does. A good manager is a good thing. A bad manager, not so much.
Are we certain that VW is the only company cheating? Experience shows that there is rarely only one bad apple in the barrel.
... but since year one, the program has morphed from a fairly geeky show into "Friends with Nerds". Meh. If I want sexual innuendo, there are other shows that do it better. Time to bring it to an end.
At one place of employment, we got a new manager who had a technical background. He took rather too much interest in our day-to-day details. Didn't like the CMS we were using, didn't like the language we were using, etc. Primary reason for the dislike was that they weren't technologies he was familiar with. He did eventually back off, but there was a lot of stress for a while. There are always tradeoffs.
Yes, I understand that VW cheated the regulators in terms of emissions. Fair enough. They cheated. They got caught. They should pay the price.
What I don't understand is end users being upset. In my life, I've purchased 5 cars to date (all new). Never has the emissions level of the vehicle been a factor, at any level, in my decision over which vehicle to purchase. Horsepower? Yes, Fuel efficiency? Yes. Cost? Yes. Emissions? Not even on the radar.
What am I missing?
Given that xcode is free (as in comes with OS X), why would you get it from a source other than Apple?
That should work well enough to block third-party apps from phoning home. If the manufacturer wants the device to phone home, a firewall on the device probably won't be effective. To be effective, you need the firewall to run on a separate device (ideally manufactured by someone other than the manufacturers of your computer and OS).
Concur. I started in the industry 29 years ago (dang). It was cool. It was fun. We actually got to build interesting new stuff. And, yes, there were boring patches, but a lot of the time I actually woke up Monday morning thinking "I get to go to work today."
Now, we struggle to get permission to implement best practices. Instead, management wants to perpetuate the mistakes we've made for the past N years.
Actually, the biggest issue I seem to be encountering is "me, me, me". I used to encounter a team ethos among most, if not all, of my co-workers. Now, nobody seems to care about the team or the mission. It's all about them, and if things don't go precisely their way, they do their best to make everyone miserable. What scares me about this is that I'm afraid of becoming like them. Maybe it's time to spiff up the resume. Any good SW development firms in Canada (Ontario and Quebec excepted)?
I get that you're not on-line for long. But, when you are on-line, what sort of bandwidth do you need? A few years ago, I looked into working from the family cottage on a quasi-permanent basis, but there was nothing really available that met my needs.
Satellite tends to be okay on the download, but, even if you can do upload via satellite (when I was looking, upload was by land line - ick), it's really slow.
If you can get cellular data with tethering, that's not too bad, but you'd want to check on reliability and the actual limits imposed by the provider.
WiFi might do, but possible issues include reliability (what happens when it goes down), access (how many people share the connection, and does the provider really want to have you working through the connection), and security (shared WiFi?).
There are some rural providers that provide wireless connections to individual customers (the antennae look like small microwave antennae). That may be a possibility for you, but I"ve no idea on the cost.
I'd love to be able to work that remotely. Totally not possible with my current job. Sigh
Mesh netting over the yard?
Question: Does Windows 10 spy on what you do using a VM? If not, run your preferred *NIX variant in a VM under Windows 10 and do whatever you like.
If it does spy on your activities within a VM, consider flipping things around: *NIX running a VM that contains Windows 10.
I do understand that there is value to MS in sending data home and, yes, there is some value to us in having data sent home to MS. That said, if it is out of my control, the cost is far greater than any value I receive, so it ain't gonna happen. I was intending to upgrade one of my computers to Windows 10 Enterprise, but until I can confirm that no data get phoned home outside my control, not a chance. And in case Satya is listening, yes, I've managed to discourage my employer from upgrading to Windows 10 (given that security is a major consideration for us, data being phoned home outside of our control is a non-starter).
Fair enough, but looking at the paper itself, two of the three authors live in the Netherlands, so unless they intend to travel to old Blighty, they don't live in the judge's jurisdiction. Also, presumably the paper was peer reviewed and it's possible that some of the reviewers also do not live in England and might "accidentally" release the paper into the wild.
It would probably be more accurate to say that "punishment does not prevent ALL crime." Having once had a parking ticket, I go out of my way to avoid them. As far as cyclists go, yes, there are many who dreadfully abuse our traffic laws. Then again, I can just as easily say that about automobile drivers (and, no, I'm not talking about speeding, even though I'm certain I've heard reports that speeding is one of the key factors in driver fatalities). I drive a little over 100KM/week (i.e. fewer KMs than I cycle) stupid, dangerous, and decidely illegal, things I see drivers do each week boggles my mind. Some of them really seem to have no idea that there is any other human being on the planet. Suffice to say that, regardless of their mode of transport (car, bike, foot), we are surrounded by an ocean of clueless imbeciles so, hey, let's be careful out there.
Am I the only one who thought that they ought to have posted the paper on-line on a site outside the jurisdiction of the judge in question?
I'm all in favour of responsible disclosure, but years should not be required to resolve a serious security flaw.