A lecture about drinking presented by Jack Daniel?:-|
The response for stress in IT Security isn't any different than those in other high-stress careers like Fire. EMS, or Law Enforcement, but the local peer support group is much smaller in the IT field. If a firefighter has bad EMS or fire call, I have 30 guys in my own station that are going through or have went through the same thing. How many people in your organization can emphasize with your IT security stress?
Source: Firefighter/EMT with 28 years of experience.
If it's the original theatrical release as I saw it as a 6-year-old way back in 1977, then I'm stoked. If it's one of the later re-releases after George Lucas mucked around with the story (Han shot first!) and effects, then Turner Broadcasting can put them on a shelf and leave them there.
On a possibly related note, Wells Fargo is selling about $2 billion in insurance business in 54 locations to USI Insurance. http://www.insurancejournal.co...
I stumbled across this website a couple of years ago and I'll occasionally use it to rip the audio from YouTube. I primarily download audio that I can't find other places, like live songs or rare performances. As a reformed Pirate Bay avid user, I now very rarely download any audio now that I don't pay for.
As for quality, I typically find that it's adequate for general use.... working out, playing through motorcycle speakers, etc. A true audiophile won't like the quality, but most of us can't tell the difference.
A movie will certainly have a computer composed soundtrack soon... but in 8-bit. Think Avatar 2 with "The Legend of Zelda" soundtrack running in the background.
The governor is a billionaire coal barron, and he's doing his best to revive coal as well. One major problem is that natural gas has taken over and the coal market just isn't there now. Aside from that, the cost to mine coal is way higher than it is for natural gas. To mine coal, you have to hire hundreds of miners, buy or lease really expensive equipment, dig a hole a couple of miles into the ground, then transport the product via truck or rail car to the buyer. To get natural gas, you drill a hole in the ground, insert a pipe, and connect it to other pipes.
Then, you have to factor in foreign competition. I used to work in IT for a coal company at the beginning of my career (mid '90s), and in spite of doing $160 million in business per year, we went bankrupt. It was cheaper then to mine coal in China and ship it to our local power plants than it was to mine it locally. I'm not sure that the coal market it to that point yet, but I expect to return to those days. Coal truck drivers here were making over $70k per year while their foreign counterparts were doing that for a fraction of the money.
Ironically, my office is in what used to be the headquarters for Columbia Gas Transmission in Charleston, WV, but that was bought out last year by TransCanada and several people were laid off. However, I don't work in the gas industry.
You're assuming that they laid eyes on each and every email. Once indexed in a software package like FTK or Encase, you could filter out all the emails from AdultFriendFinder.com AshleyMadison.com as well as Weiner pictures sent to a variety of barely legal and underage girls, leaving you with a very small set of emails to review.
In all sincerity, forensic software packages would make this easily possible due to indexing. You'd index these emails, hash all data, and drop the duplicates from the earlier discovery. Then, you could quickly drop all incoming spam and irrelevant emails by reviewing the To / From / CC / BCC list, then searching the resulting emails for keywords, resulting in a small group of emails that a handful of analysts could review in a short period of time.
I also own a 2014 Grand Cherokee... well, my live-in girlfriend does. I remember one day when she attempted to put it in park so that she could run into a convenience store for a moment, and she actually shifted into reverse. The whole time she was in the store, the car sat there in gear, and the only thing that kept the Jeep from rolling into traffic was the hill holder feature kept the car in place. Even when I drive it, I have to be very careful that I get the transmission into the correct gear.
"The Alamo Drafthouse movie theater in Dallas, Texas, will be showing Team America: World Police in place of The Interview on Dec. 27 at 7 p.m."
http://www.hollywoodreporter.c...
What timing... I take delivery of my first hybrid today, a 2012 Toyota Prius. I did some basic math in making my decision, so I'll share:
This vehicle will replace a 2005 Chevy Uplander that we drove an average of 27,500 miles per year. The Uplander is getting 17.9 MPG at this point (according to the onboard computer), consuming 1,536 gallons of fuel annually. At the current price of $3.95 per gallon in my area, it costs $6,068 per year in just fuel (87 octane). Running the numbers again for the Prius, and assuming 45MPG, fuel will cost $2,413 per year... a savings of $3,655 annually, or $304 per month. Even after my wife added all the bells and whistles and extended warranty (she did that while I was out of the room), we will only be seeing a net outlay of $170 per month. And when my 13-year-old son goes to college, he will take this vehicle with him.
The Prius owners that I know are extremely satisfied, and one has had his since 2003. Although there are many other factors to consider, my monthly budget is certainly a major factor. I'm viewing this purchase this way: I'm buying a new car for $170 per month.
I'm a 20-year veteran of Fire and EMS, and I love what I do. In that time, I've seen some really nasty stuff (both accidental and intentional) like dead babies, shotgun suicides, etc. But I watched one of the beheading videos as well... and I wasn't ready for what I saw (or even worse, heard). It bothered me for a very long time because the sound of a dying man screaming through a gash in his throat is pretty fucking brutal.
One thing that I've not seen discussed is a POI (Point of Interest) database. There are tons of these on the Internet that you can download and then upload to your GPS unit. As a Volunteer firefighter, I developed a POI database of every Fire Department in my state for use by the Fire Marshal's office. They are uploading them to their GPS units in the Investigator's vehicles. In addition, I'm developing a POI database of every fire hydrant in my department's jurisdiction in order to make water-supply location much easier. Then we will purchase a GPS unit for each fire apparatus and use the database regularly.
Just a couple weeks ago, we used GPS units in a very rural area with heavy tree cover to assist in finding a mentally handicapped person who had wandered away from home. With no reliable cell signal, and with dense forest, we would have been lucky to have been able to use a smartphone to track or log our movements. Once we layed out the search area and followed the GPS data, we were able to find him and return him to his family.
Along those same lines, we have landed the local aeromedial helicopter in rural areas using coordinates from our handheld GPS unit.
If you are only using your GPS for turn-by-turn directions, you are only scratching the surface. These units offer so much more. Oh, and did I mention that a GPS unit doesn't require a data plan?
Excuse my luck of HTML skill, but let me quote from CNN: (http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/07/08/pickens.plan/)
"Power from thousands of wind turbines that would line the corridor could be distributed throughout the country via electric power transmission lines and could fuel power plants in large population hubs, the oil baron said.
Fueling these plants with wind power would then free up the natural gas historically used to power them, and would mean that natural gas could replace foreign oil as fuel for motor vehicles, he said."
And I have no problem with T. Boone Pickens making money off this venture. You don't think that the ICGs and Massey Coal companies don't roll in the cash? And what environmental impact does coal have? Ever seen mountaintop removal? How about the emission reports from coal fired power plants? How about the homes and towns destroyed because the coal companies changed the water runoff for their sites?
Yes, we have coal to mine, but it normally comes at a high price.
About a month ago, I was travelling on I-68/I-70 in Maryland, over the Cumberland Gap, when I saw a several wind turbines in the distance. After I got over the neat factor (even though we have them here in WV), I quickly realized that with each revolution of those turbines, we could/would be cleaning up the environment that much more. That alone makes me back this program 100%. Will it reduce foreign dependency as well? Let's hope so.
But, we are all going to have to get over seeing them as ugly or migratory-bird killers for this program to work. I truly want a future where we use very little foreign energy, and we harness renewable energy sources. I say we get those new turbines into the wild as quickly as possible. T. Boone Pickens, get to work!
In this state, too many people smell like Old Milwaukee, Copenhagen, ramps (see also leeks/scallions), and plain old funk. Don't believe me? Go to a county fair just once...
Gee... I thought the whole country was a Constitution-Free zone at this point. I guess that the remaining third of the country is in a Limited-Constitution zone.
The longer that I dwell on his words, the more relevant this quote (falsely attributed to Benjamin Franklin) is to me: "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither safety nor liberty."
So a newly appointed government official announces something that we in the network world have known for years and suddenly it is news? I think that anyone who has any amount of experience in computers would know this by now. If I had a dollar for every attack on my network from Asia, I'd take us all to lunch.
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A lecture about drinking presented by Jack Daniel? :-|
The response for stress in IT Security isn't any different than those in other high-stress careers like Fire. EMS, or Law Enforcement, but the local peer support group is much smaller in the IT field. If a firefighter has bad EMS or fire call, I have 30 guys in my own station that are going through or have went through the same thing. How many people in your organization can emphasize with your IT security stress?
Source: Firefighter/EMT with 28 years of experience.
If it's the original theatrical release as I saw it as a 6-year-old way back in 1977, then I'm stoked. If it's one of the later re-releases after George Lucas mucked around with the story (Han shot first!) and effects, then Turner Broadcasting can put them on a shelf and leave them there.
"Dave, stop. Stop, will you? Stop, Dave. Will you stop, Dave? Stop, Dave. I'm afraid."
The first episode will star Jayqwellin, D-Nice, and Ay-Ay-Ron.
On a possibly related note, Wells Fargo is selling about $2 billion in insurance business in 54 locations to USI Insurance. http://www.insurancejournal.co...
I stumbled across this website a couple of years ago and I'll occasionally use it to rip the audio from YouTube. I primarily download audio that I can't find other places, like live songs or rare performances. As a reformed Pirate Bay avid user, I now very rarely download any audio now that I don't pay for.
As for quality, I typically find that it's adequate for general use.... working out, playing through motorcycle speakers, etc. A true audiophile won't like the quality, but most of us can't tell the difference.
A movie will certainly have a computer composed soundtrack soon... but in 8-bit. Think Avatar 2 with "The Legend of Zelda" soundtrack running in the background.
The governor is a billionaire coal barron, and he's doing his best to revive coal as well. One major problem is that natural gas has taken over and the coal market just isn't there now. Aside from that, the cost to mine coal is way higher than it is for natural gas. To mine coal, you have to hire hundreds of miners, buy or lease really expensive equipment, dig a hole a couple of miles into the ground, then transport the product via truck or rail car to the buyer. To get natural gas, you drill a hole in the ground, insert a pipe, and connect it to other pipes.
Then, you have to factor in foreign competition. I used to work in IT for a coal company at the beginning of my career (mid '90s), and in spite of doing $160 million in business per year, we went bankrupt. It was cheaper then to mine coal in China and ship it to our local power plants than it was to mine it locally. I'm not sure that the coal market it to that point yet, but I expect to return to those days. Coal truck drivers here were making over $70k per year while their foreign counterparts were doing that for a fraction of the money.
Ironically, my office is in what used to be the headquarters for Columbia Gas Transmission in Charleston, WV, but that was bought out last year by TransCanada and several people were laid off. However, I don't work in the gas industry.
You're assuming that they laid eyes on each and every email. Once indexed in a software package like FTK or Encase, you could filter out all the emails from AdultFriendFinder.com AshleyMadison.com as well as Weiner pictures sent to a variety of barely legal and underage girls, leaving you with a very small set of emails to review.
In all sincerity, forensic software packages would make this easily possible due to indexing. You'd index these emails, hash all data, and drop the duplicates from the earlier discovery. Then, you could quickly drop all incoming spam and irrelevant emails by reviewing the To / From / CC / BCC list, then searching the resulting emails for keywords, resulting in a small group of emails that a handful of analysts could review in a short period of time.
FYI... I'm a forensic investigator.
I also own a 2014 Grand Cherokee... well, my live-in girlfriend does. I remember one day when she attempted to put it in park so that she could run into a convenience store for a moment, and she actually shifted into reverse. The whole time she was in the store, the car sat there in gear, and the only thing that kept the Jeep from rolling into traffic was the hill holder feature kept the car in place. Even when I drive it, I have to be very careful that I get the transmission into the correct gear.
Where is Team America when you really need them?
"The Alamo Drafthouse movie theater in Dallas, Texas, will be showing Team America: World Police in place of The Interview on Dec. 27 at 7 p.m." http://www.hollywoodreporter.c...
What timing... I take delivery of my first hybrid today, a 2012 Toyota Prius. I did some basic math in making my decision, so I'll share:
This vehicle will replace a 2005 Chevy Uplander that we drove an average of 27,500 miles per year. The Uplander is getting 17.9 MPG at this point (according to the onboard computer), consuming 1,536 gallons of fuel annually. At the current price of $3.95 per gallon in my area, it costs $6,068 per year in just fuel (87 octane). Running the numbers again for the Prius, and assuming 45MPG, fuel will cost $2,413 per year... a savings of $3,655 annually, or $304 per month. Even after my wife added all the bells and whistles and extended warranty (she did that while I was out of the room), we will only be seeing a net outlay of $170 per month. And when my 13-year-old son goes to college, he will take this vehicle with him.
The Prius owners that I know are extremely satisfied, and one has had his since 2003. Although there are many other factors to consider, my monthly budget is certainly a major factor. I'm viewing this purchase this way: I'm buying a new car for $170 per month.
I'm a 20-year veteran of Fire and EMS, and I love what I do. In that time, I've seen some really nasty stuff (both accidental and intentional) like dead babies, shotgun suicides, etc. But I watched one of the beheading videos as well... and I wasn't ready for what I saw (or even worse, heard). It bothered me for a very long time because the sound of a dying man screaming through a gash in his throat is pretty fucking brutal.
If this tastes like crap, then no one will buy it... well, except for frat boys and the local street people.
Should Mavis Beacon go into exile before the Feds close in on her?
How about "Kill em all, let ME sort them out" written in red?
I'm hoping that this is the death blow for the RIAA.
I guess I'm in a niche market then.
One thing that I've not seen discussed is a POI (Point of Interest) database. There are tons of these on the Internet that you can download and then upload to your GPS unit. As a Volunteer firefighter, I developed a POI database of every Fire Department in my state for use by the Fire Marshal's office. They are uploading them to their GPS units in the Investigator's vehicles. In addition, I'm developing a POI database of every fire hydrant in my department's jurisdiction in order to make water-supply location much easier. Then we will purchase a GPS unit for each fire apparatus and use the database regularly.
Just a couple weeks ago, we used GPS units in a very rural area with heavy tree cover to assist in finding a mentally handicapped person who had wandered away from home. With no reliable cell signal, and with dense forest, we would have been lucky to have been able to use a smartphone to track or log our movements. Once we layed out the search area and followed the GPS data, we were able to find him and return him to his family.
Along those same lines, we have landed the local aeromedial helicopter in rural areas using coordinates from our handheld GPS unit.
If you are only using your GPS for turn-by-turn directions, you are only scratching the surface. These units offer so much more. Oh, and did I mention that a GPS unit doesn't require a data plan?
Excuse my luck of HTML skill, but let me quote from CNN: (http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/07/08/pickens.plan/)
"Power from thousands of wind turbines that would line the corridor could be distributed throughout the country via electric power transmission lines and could fuel power plants in large population hubs, the oil baron said.
Fueling these plants with wind power would then free up the natural gas historically used to power them, and would mean that natural gas could replace foreign oil as fuel for motor vehicles, he said."
And I have no problem with T. Boone Pickens making money off this venture. You don't think that the ICGs and Massey Coal companies don't roll in the cash? And what environmental impact does coal have? Ever seen mountaintop removal? How about the emission reports from coal fired power plants? How about the homes and towns destroyed because the coal companies changed the water runoff for their sites?
Yes, we have coal to mine, but it normally comes at a high price.
About a month ago, I was travelling on I-68/I-70 in Maryland, over the Cumberland Gap, when I saw a several wind turbines in the distance. After I got over the neat factor (even though we have them here in WV), I quickly realized that with each revolution of those turbines, we could/would be cleaning up the environment that much more. That alone makes me back this program 100%. Will it reduce foreign dependency as well? Let's hope so.
But, we are all going to have to get over seeing them as ugly or migratory-bird killers for this program to work. I truly want a future where we use very little foreign energy, and we harness renewable energy sources. I say we get those new turbines into the wild as quickly as possible. T. Boone Pickens, get to work!
A very valid point. And with that industry comes legislators from that community or with direct ties, as well as a strong music industry lobby.
And, this stands in stark contrast to what is happening in Michigan with the state government versus the RIAA.
In this state, too many people smell like Old Milwaukee, Copenhagen, ramps (see also leeks/scallions), and plain old funk. Don't believe me? Go to a county fair just once...
Gee... I thought the whole country was a Constitution-Free zone at this point. I guess that the remaining third of the country is in a Limited-Constitution zone.
The longer that I dwell on his words, the more relevant this quote (falsely attributed to Benjamin Franklin) is to me: "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither safety nor liberty."
If The Pirate Bay is a sting, I'm about to be in a world of shit.
So a newly appointed government official announces something that we in the network world have known for years and suddenly it is news? I think that anyone who has any amount of experience in computers would know this by now. If I had a dollar for every attack on my network from Asia, I'd take us all to lunch.