I work as a contractor for a defense agency. Part of the requirements to work here include getting an A+ and/or Network+ and a Security+ cert. If I get deeper in this, I'll have to get a CISSP. Just more hoops to jump through to keep my job.
Pay wise, I make more than this guy as a contractor. Most of the GS guys here make less than I do. Working for an 8a versus one of the big guys (LM) does have its advantages.
When my daughter was in kindergarten they had a new thing called "invented spelling", and it was an unmitigated disaster. She still misspells many words the same way she misspelled them before she learned to read (she's 22 now).
The truble with new teaching technologies is that unlike medical experiments, you can't do them on animals first.
However, what they actually gave the Russians was mainly drivel that any 6th grader with access to wikipedia could write up. To attribute all of the advances in nuclear science made by the russians to the Rosenbergs, or similar spies, is absolutely retarded.
Really? Wikipedia? How old do you think the Internet is? It didn't even exist when this happened.
They've even launched a program to create stress-mitigating pharmaceuticals.
Sounds like something out of ST:TNG from the Q trial in the second episode. There is a drug available that helps mitigate the stress from a traumatic episode that was being tested a few years ago. I'm wondering if it's the same drug.
Either way, I think the way the gov't is treating our wounded vets is horrible. I really hope that the new test helps out better than what they're doing now.
You're just learning this lesson now? I don't claim affiliation to either of the big parties, but I saw through this guy right before he announced he was running. The whole 2008 election was ridiculous and completely run by news organizations. Obama should not be sitting where he is now, and quite frankly, he, like a lot of people in office (Pelosi), should be run out of office. The only reason any of them are in office is due to the backlash against GW Bush. I'm really tired of voting against someone, I would really rather vot for some one.
The last time China was called on this, several members of the US Congress had their machines pwned. The reply from China? "We are not advanced enough to do this." Whatever.
During these 10 years, there's been change in the target audience of Windows. Older versions of windows were designed specifically for office use. Windows 2000 and XP did not change this line and were still clearly aimed for business users.
So please explain Windows 95, 98, 98SE, and ME? Those are all HOME OSs. No really separate user directories, no granular file permissions, and really weak security. NOT something for office use, although I have seen them used in offices.
Really? I've had the OPPOSITE experience. I've had to fix more crap done by developers who thought they could do sysadmin work than I have dealing with other SAs.
Kudos for pointing out the bug. It just always baffles me why universities don't do things like using their students as cheap labor while giving them real-world examples of work in their chosen fields or using professors as consultants and advisors from time to time.
As an undergrad, if I came up with something in class that was new and marketable, I owned it, not the school. If I was a graduate student/member of faculty, anything I came up with in class/while working was owned by the school.
I personally blame Microsoft. Work with me on this. From the mid-1990s on, Microsoft took a good idea (MCSE), commoditized it, and just about anyone with some time, books, and money to burn on tests could pass the exams and become certified. So now you have a bunch of people who come out of a six week course with credentials building servers. And Windows servers are not very difficult to build. I've personally had to deal with people with NO IT skills who've built a Windows server and set up IIS and need help getting something working on it. Windows Server severely lowered the entry bar for people to get in, and really lowered the pay rate for those of us who can do the job.
We're in a transitional period of history, IMO (did I mention I'm a historian too?) where the status of employees as resources rather than liabilities is in danger from too many people thinking that better/faster/cheaper can apply to people as well as processes.
For some reason, every time I hear the term "Human Resources" I think of Soylent Green. Hmmm.
Yes, I find this point annoying. But the article is from Network World, by the "Cisco Security Expert." But the Nexus One gets 4 of the 9 phone security requirements, including screen lock, VPN, wireless security, and application sandboxing. The ones missed, besides the OS being open source, include application signing, corporate enforcement of security settings, hardware data encryption, and remote wiping capability. I would hope that the data encryption would be added at some point, and be better than the USB thumb drives from the story yesterday. I'm sure the others can be added later, although one of the nice things about this is not requiring the blessing of Google to run an app.
These aren't disks, they're USB thumb drives. The folks who "cracked" it just figured out a way to bypass the password and send a specific string that ALL of these devices use to access the data on these USB thumb drives. This seems to be endemic to these things. The info isn't encrypted, it's just locked with a password.
Yes, it could have. The Washington Post reported that the amount of this particular explosive that was used could have brought down the plane. Thanks for playing.
Anyone remember when CD-ROMs were just going mainstream? Remember all the multimedia encyclopedias that were available? Remember how cool it was to look up an article on something and be able to watch a video or hear a speech or something? Yeah... Notice how those have pretty much stopped being popular?
Yeah, funny thing, the Internet came along and wiped out the market for these.
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I work as a contractor for a defense agency. Part of the requirements to work here include getting an A+ and/or Network+ and a Security+ cert. If I get deeper in this, I'll have to get a CISSP. Just more hoops to jump through to keep my job.
Pay wise, I make more than this guy as a contractor. Most of the GS guys here make less than I do. Working for an 8a versus one of the big guys (LM) does have its advantages.
When my daughter was in kindergarten they had a new thing called "invented spelling", and it was an unmitigated disaster. She still misspells many words the same way she misspelled them before she learned to read (she's 22 now).
The truble with new teaching technologies is that unlike medical experiments, you can't do them on animals first.
I see you have truble spelling, too.
However, what they actually gave the Russians was mainly drivel that any 6th grader with access to wikipedia could write up. To attribute all of the advances in nuclear science made by the russians to the Rosenbergs, or similar spies, is absolutely retarded.
Really? Wikipedia? How old do you think the Internet is? It didn't even exist when this happened.
He's a CONTRACTOR, not a federal employee. That's why he makes what he does. The federal government doesn't hire IT staff, that's contracted out.
That was done already on an episode of "Fairly Odd Parents."
They've even launched a program to create stress-mitigating pharmaceuticals.
Sounds like something out of ST:TNG from the Q trial in the second episode. There is a drug available that helps mitigate the stress from a traumatic episode that was being tested a few years ago. I'm wondering if it's the same drug.
Either way, I think the way the gov't is treating our wounded vets is horrible. I really hope that the new test helps out better than what they're doing now.
Who's going to be the first to ride one of these in a rodeo? I'm surprised no one even mentioned this.
You're just learning this lesson now? I don't claim affiliation to either of the big parties, but I saw through this guy right before he announced he was running. The whole 2008 election was ridiculous and completely run by news organizations. Obama should not be sitting where he is now, and quite frankly, he, like a lot of people in office (Pelosi), should be run out of office. The only reason any of them are in office is due to the backlash against GW Bush. I'm really tired of voting against someone, I would really rather vot for some one.
Godwin!
"No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country."
The last time China was called on this, several members of the US Congress had their machines pwned. The reply from China? "We are not advanced enough to do this." Whatever.
During these 10 years, there's been change in the target audience of Windows.
Older versions of windows were designed specifically for office use.
Windows 2000 and XP did not change this line and were still clearly aimed for business users.
So please explain Windows 95, 98, 98SE, and ME? Those are all HOME OSs. No really separate user directories, no granular file permissions, and really weak security. NOT something for office use, although I have seen them used in offices.
Geez, I didn't say it was a failure, I just asked if it was the shortest mission.
Aside from the craft that was splattered across the Martian Landscape, is this the shortest lived mission to Mars so far?
No, they were excellent developers, just crappy SAs.
Really? I've had the OPPOSITE experience. I've had to fix more crap done by developers who thought they could do sysadmin work than I have dealing with other SAs.
Kudos for pointing out the bug. It just always baffles me why universities don't do things like using their students as cheap labor while giving them real-world examples of work in their chosen fields or using professors as consultants and advisors from time to time.
As an undergrad, if I came up with something in class that was new and marketable, I owned it, not the school. If I was a graduate student/member of faculty, anything I came up with in class/while working was owned by the school.
I personally blame Microsoft. Work with me on this. From the mid-1990s on, Microsoft took a good idea (MCSE), commoditized it, and just about anyone with some time, books, and money to burn on tests could pass the exams and become certified. So now you have a bunch of people who come out of a six week course with credentials building servers. And Windows servers are not very difficult to build. I've personally had to deal with people with NO IT skills who've built a Windows server and set up IIS and need help getting something working on it. Windows Server severely lowered the entry bar for people to get in, and really lowered the pay rate for those of us who can do the job.
We're in a transitional period of history, IMO (did I mention I'm a historian too?) where the status of employees as resources rather than liabilities is in danger from too many people thinking that better/faster/cheaper can apply to people as well as processes.
For some reason, every time I hear the term "Human Resources" I think of Soylent Green. Hmmm.
He used a boat?
Yes, I find this point annoying. But the article is from Network World, by the "Cisco Security Expert." But the Nexus One gets 4 of the 9 phone security requirements, including screen lock, VPN, wireless security, and application sandboxing. The ones missed, besides the OS being open source, include application signing, corporate enforcement of security settings, hardware data encryption, and remote wiping capability. I would hope that the data encryption would be added at some point, and be better than the USB thumb drives from the story yesterday. I'm sure the others can be added later, although one of the nice things about this is not requiring the blessing of Google to run an app.
These aren't disks, they're USB thumb drives. The folks who "cracked" it just figured out a way to bypass the password and send a specific string that ALL of these devices use to access the data on these USB thumb drives. This seems to be endemic to these things. The info isn't encrypted, it's just locked with a password.
Yes, it could have. The Washington Post reported that the amount of this particular explosive that was used could have brought down the plane. Thanks for playing.
Anyone remember when CD-ROMs were just going mainstream? Remember all the multimedia encyclopedias that were available? Remember how cool it was to look up an article on something and be able to watch a video or hear a speech or something? Yeah... Notice how those have pretty much stopped being popular?
Yeah, funny thing, the Internet came along and wiped out the market for these.