The Shuttle program was great for what it was and I am sad to see it go. However, I welcome the idea of an Apollo like program to inspire, distract, and encourage pushing the envelope again. I think the world needs some vision beyond what is terrestrial these days.
Last time I looked, you *buy* equipment, not rent it. It's like a car company telling you you can't put the latest glass pack exhaust system on your car, those shinny spinning rims, or ground effects because it isn't in the EUDA (End-User Driving Agreement). Or worse yet, what about making improvements to your house, oops, I mean the bank's house. Where does this stop? If you buy it you buy it unless they specifically want to come out and say what they appear to really mean, you don't own anything. One sure way to crater the economy further is to take away peoples rights to personal property. All in the name of "unrealized" or unearned profits. I wish I could do that:S...
I for one I am out of the business in general. I hate the snickering "geek" moniker everyone thinks is so funny cheapening the trade. Then again you get the other folks who are in order of magnitude grateful for your resurrection. I miss the enterprise level tech support/sys admin though. Tough economy and cheaper by the dozen sys admins have dried up that well. At least at the end of the day you got paid without the "how much?" complaints, you know that someone supported/appreciated *you*, and you got to play with the cool toys (ahem, tools) not something picked up somewhere cheap without source disks and/or licenses. Be careful out there...
Yes, my thoughts exactly. Let us not forget either that this was supposedly a "cyber security" company and the couldn't even protect there own sh*t. WTFO!
I see a lot of comments about "dummies." Management needs to take a look at themselves as well. They hold the purse strings and the power of decision. In cases I have been exposed to, it's not the admins that are dropping the ball, it is the people making the decisions about things they do not appreciate or understand. Don't get me started on the overwhelming and pervasive attitude of users, "you mean I have to remember my password!?!"
I have always considered the ramifications of the Internet where society comes in, how it effects the citizenry, how it effect economics, demographics and the like. With all of this unrest in the middle east I am reconsidering that topic. Repressive regimes seem to have a better time when the society is completely isolated from the rest of the world. With the pervasiveness of the Internet and global communications, the notion of isolation has become much harder to achieve. I wonder how new governments will form, what political form they will take and what their longevity will look like given the fact communication is so open and difficult to repress. Are we seeing the beginning of the end to repression, isolation and dictatorship? If so, what is the likelihood that, in time, most world governments will look the same?
I have often wondered how much it would cost to build new shuttles? The technology is better now, cheaper, and there are plans obviously. No expert here, just a question.
Oh, and another thought. I think it is amazing that we have gone so far down the PC (political correctness) trail that somewhere along the way we forgot how to listen, argue (as in illustrating a point), and resolve issues. Anymore it is a competition of who has the biggest equipment, who is paying the bills, who your friends are, or what organization you belong to. Management (the City in this case) should listen, the employee(s) should be encouraged to argue their grievance, more listening and then a mutually beneficial solution should follow. Not always of course, but at least that should be the goal regardless of sex, creed, affiliation, and all those other things we are not supposed to judge one another by; even though everyone does.
If the City is afraid of someone airing dirty laundry good. They should be; they are accountable for their actions. If they are afraid of the one or two nut jobs out there making a bad name for everyone else, say so and let it work itself out. Something like, "The comments of employees are in no way a reflection of of the City of Blah." Rights are not something easily "un-eroded"
Ya think!? Seriously, the thing that concerns me the most is very caustic blend between any give management team and IT. I've been around a long time and have seen way too many occurances of exceptions in Infosec that are just unbelievable.
I just recently had to make a payment on something and asked the bank how I could contact someone to arrange the details. I got a nice little e-mail from someone in management that I could call anyone with the payment details or I could just "e-mail" my name cc#, cvc, and exp date of my card. What? Are you kidding? A financial institution and a management person committing the cardinal sin of the banking business? I am still highly PO'd and still wondering what the F to do with that. I'd like to make an example out of all of this, but I fear I am much to small to have a big enough voice. However, if the very people we expect to maintain our financial information can't; how are we to expect anything more from anyone else unless there is a price to pay for such lunacy.
Back on track, the reason we are so hackable; there is no accountability except for those poor folks in the basement trying to secure things. The public side doesn't give a sh*t, management doesn't until they are embarrased, and the guy in the basement turning the gears loses his/her job. The American way, no?
This is my documentation that if someone from google wants to buy the best in personal/corporate submarines, it's over here -> http://www.ussubmarines.com/submarines/phoenix_1000.php3 Check it out, you will be impressed if you haven't seen it before. How much for the finders fee? I might be able to right my own ship if everything works out;-)
I'm not qualified to have much of an opinion about these things, but I will be watching with the utmost curiosity where AT&T will wind up now that they have lost their exclusivity with the Apple crowd. Any predictions out there? Methinks it looks bad for AT&T...
I am absolutely freaking tired of living in fear of what if. I have been at this for more than 15 years and I have seen it all. I work hard, I dedicate myself to the systems, my employer and employees only to be studied like I am some kind of loose cannon. I am tired of it! Rant over...
Interesting notion. What would happen if there were a boycott/strike of any given company? For fear of reprisal, I am not picking one out, but cash flow being what it is, take just one and collectively refuse to pay our bill for a month or refuse to buy from them for a month. What would happen?
And... Is it just coincidence that some of the more notable names in recent happenings are the likes of Made Off (Madoff) and You can tell (Uchitel)? I wonder...
Anymore it appears that the very people (us) that make it possible for these companies to make money, are eating their customers. Personally, I am less likely to think outside the box, start a business, or do anything that might seem risky because the price is so high anymore. I am lot less likely to advocate, trust, or patronize any company either for the same reasons; there is absolutely no benefit to me, I am mearly a means to an end, and the notion of the customer is always right doen't exist anymore. Zero tolerance and FyPm (it's an acronym; think really hard) is creating a senario for economic seizure. My 2c...
Did it strike anyone else that this feels like a SCO type of argument? Technology company turns litigious in a last gasp to remain relevant. Just a thought...
This is unbelievable in no other terms. Either they are baiting and switching relying on the assumed ignorance of the public or there is a real problem with this organization. ANYONE responsible for data knows that they better have a backup, a plan, and a successful set of tests, period. I personally like the manager speak that basically says, "I don't know WTF happened" and we have to re-enter everything. When will this lack of accountability where it comes to systems, computers and data stop? My favorite analogy is we all learned how to drive a car and are held to account for our actions on the road, why not computers? Seriously. Anyone remember STNG episode 43; Samaritan Snare (I think), "Make it go..."
It's not that anyone discontinued anything. It's that, baring inside information, they are managing to piss off people to the point of departure. Call it cultural divide or what ever you like, I expected Oracle's not so friendly treatment regardless of their "press release" to the contrary. Harsh to say, but I believe Oracle would eat their young provided it made business sense. At least Sun left these guys to their own devices. Don't get me wrong, I am not a OOo evangelist, but I do appreciate what the open source community has meant for the industry.
I saw this coming as much as I knew the sun (no pun intended) would come up in the morning. Oracle is all about profit (as they well should be) but I am extremely disappointed they could not leave Sun's open source efforts alone. I have the same fear of inevitability regarding Cisco/Skype. Oh well, it was fun while it lasted, right?
"Department of Solar Security and Global Warming has raised the threat level from Yellow (hot) to Red (really f'n hot). Although widespread power outages and satellite failures are expected, most of the resulting problems will be due to over use of air conditioners. We appreciate the hysteria created when Y2K forecasts caused widespread panic; however, DSSGW strenuously recommends that citizens vote Democratic during this next election to appease the Solar God of Politico thus saving the women and children from solaritis." Really? Sounds like another example of manufactured stress and "never let a good crisis go to waste" exercise. Enough already...
Adobe's next release should this merger happen will be called Adobe ME (Microsoft Edition) which will be closely related to Windows ME. Not only that, it will be integrated in the Windows Explorer further adding value and innovation to our customers by allowing many exciting media manipulation tasks without having to load additional programs!
Min. Sys. Requirements: Dual quad processors, 48 GB Memory, Flux capacitor and 10 TB of usable storage.
ROFL. Good morning...
My real problem with this is that people are flawed to begin with. If you cannot express yourself without fear of reprisal now or in the future then what is the point? Not to mention people make mistakes, learn from them, and hopefully grow as a result. To expect perfection or a squeaky clean pedigree is faulty reasoning to begin with. I understand wanting the best people, but sometimes those people are the ones who made the biggest mistakes. Life is NOT nor will it ever be black and white, rather shades of grey.
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The Shuttle program was great for what it was and I am sad to see it go. However, I welcome the idea of an Apollo like program to inspire, distract, and encourage pushing the envelope again. I think the world needs some vision beyond what is terrestrial these days.
Last time I looked, you *buy* equipment, not rent it. It's like a car company telling you you can't put the latest glass pack exhaust system on your car, those shinny spinning rims, or ground effects because it isn't in the EUDA (End-User Driving Agreement). Or worse yet, what about making improvements to your house, oops, I mean the bank's house. Where does this stop? If you buy it you buy it unless they specifically want to come out and say what they appear to really mean, you don't own anything. One sure way to crater the economy further is to take away peoples rights to personal property. All in the name of "unrealized" or unearned profits. I wish I could do that :S...
I for one I am out of the business in general. I hate the snickering "geek" moniker everyone thinks is so funny cheapening the trade. Then again you get the other folks who are in order of magnitude grateful for your resurrection. I miss the enterprise level tech support/sys admin though. Tough economy and cheaper by the dozen sys admins have dried up that well. At least at the end of the day you got paid without the "how much?" complaints, you know that someone supported/appreciated *you*, and you got to play with the cool toys (ahem, tools) not something picked up somewhere cheap without source disks and/or licenses. Be careful out there...
Yes, my thoughts exactly. Let us not forget either that this was supposedly a "cyber security" company and the couldn't even protect there own sh*t. WTFO!
I see a lot of comments about "dummies." Management needs to take a look at themselves as well. They hold the purse strings and the power of decision. In cases I have been exposed to, it's not the admins that are dropping the ball, it is the people making the decisions about things they do not appreciate or understand. Don't get me started on the overwhelming and pervasive attitude of users, "you mean I have to remember my password!?!"
Same, nearly identical, treatment for flightprosim.com knock off of flightgear.org. Shame....
I have always considered the ramifications of the Internet where society comes in, how it effects the citizenry, how it effect economics, demographics and the like. With all of this unrest in the middle east I am reconsidering that topic. Repressive regimes seem to have a better time when the society is completely isolated from the rest of the world. With the pervasiveness of the Internet and global communications, the notion of isolation has become much harder to achieve. I wonder how new governments will form, what political form they will take and what their longevity will look like given the fact communication is so open and difficult to repress. Are we seeing the beginning of the end to repression, isolation and dictatorship? If so, what is the likelihood that, in time, most world governments will look the same?
I have often wondered how much it would cost to build new shuttles? The technology is better now, cheaper, and there are plans obviously. No expert here, just a question.
Oh, and another thought. I think it is amazing that we have gone so far down the PC (political correctness) trail that somewhere along the way we forgot how to listen, argue (as in illustrating a point), and resolve issues. Anymore it is a competition of who has the biggest equipment, who is paying the bills, who your friends are, or what organization you belong to. Management (the City in this case) should listen, the employee(s) should be encouraged to argue their grievance, more listening and then a mutually beneficial solution should follow. Not always of course, but at least that should be the goal regardless of sex, creed, affiliation, and all those other things we are not supposed to judge one another by; even though everyone does.
If the City is afraid of someone airing dirty laundry good. They should be; they are accountable for their actions. If they are afraid of the one or two nut jobs out there making a bad name for everyone else, say so and let it work itself out. Something like, "The comments of employees are in no way a reflection of of the City of Blah." Rights are not something easily "un-eroded"
Ya think!? Seriously, the thing that concerns me the most is very caustic blend between any give management team and IT. I've been around a long time and have seen way too many occurances of exceptions in Infosec that are just unbelievable. I just recently had to make a payment on something and asked the bank how I could contact someone to arrange the details. I got a nice little e-mail from someone in management that I could call anyone with the payment details or I could just "e-mail" my name cc#, cvc, and exp date of my card. What? Are you kidding? A financial institution and a management person committing the cardinal sin of the banking business? I am still highly PO'd and still wondering what the F to do with that. I'd like to make an example out of all of this, but I fear I am much to small to have a big enough voice. However, if the very people we expect to maintain our financial information can't; how are we to expect anything more from anyone else unless there is a price to pay for such lunacy. Back on track, the reason we are so hackable; there is no accountability except for those poor folks in the basement trying to secure things. The public side doesn't give a sh*t, management doesn't until they are embarrased, and the guy in the basement turning the gears loses his/her job. The American way, no?
"No one will ever make money on the internet!" :-D
This is my documentation that if someone from google wants to buy the best in personal/corporate submarines, it's over here -> http://www.ussubmarines.com/submarines/phoenix_1000.php3 Check it out, you will be impressed if you haven't seen it before. How much for the finders fee? I might be able to right my own ship if everything works out ;-)
I'm not qualified to have much of an opinion about these things, but I will be watching with the utmost curiosity where AT&T will wind up now that they have lost their exclusivity with the Apple crowd. Any predictions out there? Methinks it looks bad for AT&T...
I am absolutely freaking tired of living in fear of what if. I have been at this for more than 15 years and I have seen it all. I work hard, I dedicate myself to the systems, my employer and employees only to be studied like I am some kind of loose cannon. I am tired of it! Rant over...
Interesting notion. What would happen if there were a boycott/strike of any given company? For fear of reprisal, I am not picking one out, but cash flow being what it is, take just one and collectively refuse to pay our bill for a month or refuse to buy from them for a month. What would happen?
And... Is it just coincidence that some of the more notable names in recent happenings are the likes of Made Off (Madoff) and You can tell (Uchitel)? I wonder...
Anymore it appears that the very people (us) that make it possible for these companies to make money, are eating their customers. Personally, I am less likely to think outside the box, start a business, or do anything that might seem risky because the price is so high anymore. I am lot less likely to advocate, trust, or patronize any company either for the same reasons; there is absolutely no benefit to me, I am mearly a means to an end, and the notion of the customer is always right doen't exist anymore. Zero tolerance and FyPm (it's an acronym; think really hard) is creating a senario for economic seizure. My 2c...
Did it strike anyone else that this feels like a SCO type of argument? Technology company turns litigious in a last gasp to remain relevant. Just a thought...
This is unbelievable in no other terms. Either they are baiting and switching relying on the assumed ignorance of the public or there is a real problem with this organization. ANYONE responsible for data knows that they better have a backup, a plan, and a successful set of tests, period. I personally like the manager speak that basically says, "I don't know WTF happened" and we have to re-enter everything. When will this lack of accountability where it comes to systems, computers and data stop? My favorite analogy is we all learned how to drive a car and are held to account for our actions on the road, why not computers? Seriously. Anyone remember STNG episode 43; Samaritan Snare (I think), "Make it go..."
It's not that anyone discontinued anything. It's that, baring inside information, they are managing to piss off people to the point of departure. Call it cultural divide or what ever you like, I expected Oracle's not so friendly treatment regardless of their "press release" to the contrary. Harsh to say, but I believe Oracle would eat their young provided it made business sense. At least Sun left these guys to their own devices. Don't get me wrong, I am not a OOo evangelist, but I do appreciate what the open source community has meant for the industry.
I saw this coming as much as I knew the sun (no pun intended) would come up in the morning. Oracle is all about profit (as they well should be) but I am extremely disappointed they could not leave Sun's open source efforts alone. I have the same fear of inevitability regarding Cisco/Skype. Oh well, it was fun while it lasted, right?
"Department of Solar Security and Global Warming has raised the threat level from Yellow (hot) to Red (really f'n hot). Although widespread power outages and satellite failures are expected, most of the resulting problems will be due to over use of air conditioners. We appreciate the hysteria created when Y2K forecasts caused widespread panic; however, DSSGW strenuously recommends that citizens vote Democratic during this next election to appease the Solar God of Politico thus saving the women and children from solaritis." Really? Sounds like another example of manufactured stress and "never let a good crisis go to waste" exercise. Enough already...
Adobe's next release should this merger happen will be called Adobe ME (Microsoft Edition) which will be closely related to Windows ME. Not only that, it will be integrated in the Windows Explorer further adding value and innovation to our customers by allowing many exciting media manipulation tasks without having to load additional programs! Min. Sys. Requirements: Dual quad processors, 48 GB Memory, Flux capacitor and 10 TB of usable storage. ROFL. Good morning...
My real problem with this is that people are flawed to begin with. If you cannot express yourself without fear of reprisal now or in the future then what is the point? Not to mention people make mistakes, learn from them, and hopefully grow as a result. To expect perfection or a squeaky clean pedigree is faulty reasoning to begin with. I understand wanting the best people, but sometimes those people are the ones who made the biggest mistakes. Life is NOT nor will it ever be black and white, rather shades of grey.