I'll ask the question again: Has anyone here run into this before? What vendor?
That Wall Street Journal article reads more like an advertisement.
"If someone works 9 to 5 and all of a sudden their privileges are used at 3 in the morning, it needs to set off an alarm within the company," says Chip Tsantes, a Washington, D.C.-based principal at Ernst & Young who advises financial-services firms about security and other issues.
I don't know about you but I've often worked on systems at 3am. And on weekends. And holidays.
The company looks for triggers such as vulgar words, messages marked as high priority and privileged information such as credit-card numbers. While an employee may be sending a credit-card number to a family member, they just as easily could be trying to email the personal data of a customer.
Anyone in IT who sends a credit card number via email needs to be fired any way. They're just too stupid to have on staff.
Anyone sending anything at all like that through COMPANY email needs to be fired any way. They're too likely to cause a problem with legal discovery should a different lawsuit pop up.
And so on. So I'll ask again, has anyone here run into this before? What vendor?
Lots of people can do the same job as you do. Some do it better. Hopefully you're good enough at it that more than 50% will do it worse.
And at the same salary (or lower).
AND has your knowledge of the systems and the "why were they set up that way" tricks and traps so that they don't cause any unexpected down-time trying to "fix" something that is not really broken.
A more important question is why would anyone take anything said at "ITWorld" as factual?
Has anyone here run into this before? What vendor?
All of their examples seem wrong. The length of an email will change based upon the circumstances of that email. Is it advisory? Is it for documentation? Is it CYA?
First off, who thinks that having an Asian-sounding name would cause any problems in a programming interview? Isn't the OPPOSITE the case? Look at the computer science classes. There are a lot of Asians in them. And they're getting good grades.
Those "findings" are generalized and do not seem to apply to this discussion ("brogrammers" and sexism).
I just realized that I had been implicitly thinking of her as less educated, due to her Arabic accent when speaking English. Upon hearing her flawless French, I saw my implicit attitude change entirely.
So you thought that a woman who spoke THREE languages was "less educated" because she spoke your language with a heavy accent? Why was that?
I'm in the military, another male dominated career field, and I've seen that it can be hard for women to try to just fit in and work if they're being singled out even in small ways.
I was in the Army for seven years. Women get raped by the men they're working with. I think that's a bit different than a gender imbalance in the civilian programming field.
And whether the gender imbalance is due to overt sexism ("brogrammers") or something else.
First off, who thinks that having an Asian-sounding name would cause any problems in a programming interview? Isn't the OPPOSITE the case? Look at the computer science classes. There are a lot of Asians in them. And they're getting good grades.
Those "findings" are generalized and do not seem to apply to this discussion ("brogrammers" and sexism).
I just realized that I had been implicitly thinking of her as less educated, due to her Arabic accent when speaking English. Upon hearing her flawless French, I saw my implicit attitude change entirely.
You thought that a woman who spoke THREE languages was "less educated" because she spoke your language with a heavy accent?
The price difference between good qualtiy ethernet outlets from lesser known brands and those of popular brands will easily pay the extra cable, and if you factor in the extra switches you'll probably add in one room or another to satisfy demand will usually cover the extra price.
I don't understand that.
How can doubling the number of connections and ports in use "cover the extra price"?
It does not matter about "the price difference" unless you're spec'ing one brand but actually buying a different (less expensive) brand. In which case you might want to watch out for anyone reporting you for an ethics violation.
I see you aren't using more recent accounting and CRM/ERP packages and don't have people pushing multi-megabyte PowerPoint and video presentations around.
Does not matter. Because once it hits the VoIP with PoE for their phones it will be knocked down to 100Mb/s anyway.
gig-switch ---- VoIP-phone-with-PoE --- computer Means that the computer is only going to get 100Mb/s.
You want to run 2x as many lines as you need to so some people can get gig to the desktop? As long as someone above you is willing to sign off on the expenses and maintenance contracts.
And I'll still be spec'ing 100Mb/s switches with PoE for the phones.
It could be easily rephrased as follows: "If we the people don't consider our own privacy terribly valuable, we cannot count those very same people when in government office to consider privacy terribly valuable."
That's an excellent point.
I disagree. And I would expect a judge to know better.
Just because Alice does X does NOT mean that Bob also does X. And every judge should be able to understand that.
In a world where people tweet about their sexual experiences and eager thousands read about them the morning after, it may well be reasonable for law enforcement, in pursuit of terrorists and criminals, to spy with high-powered binoculars through people's bedroom windows or put concealed cameras in public restrooms.
Dear Penthouse, I've read the letters that people sent into you for years but I never thought that I'd be sending one in. It all started...
That judge is an idiot who is attempting to use "teh innerwebs" as justification for increased surveillance.
People have been doing everything he's talking about for YEARS. It just did not have the immediacy that it has now. But that should not make an iota of difference.
They are not FORBIDDEN to ask but they will usually AVOID those questions because once they have that information they have to demonstrate that they did NOT refuse employment based upon it (should they not hire you and should you sue them).
The legal system being what it is... it is just safer for them to not ask and therefore there is no way they could be using that information in their hiring decision.
Remember, HR is not there for YOU. HR is there to protect the company from lawsuits that you can bring.
The Seattle police department had (as of last year) a similar requirement as part of their background check on applicants.
In that specific case I can see it being more reasonable. After all, they're already going to interview your friends and family and dig through your financial history.
Focus your Facebook account on your off-hours hobby of DJ'ing for gay Jewish inter-racial couples retreats.
Then let them explain themselves if they don't hire you. They'd have to demonstrate how your off-hours activity did NOT influence their hiring process.
After they kind of implied that your off-hours hobbies WOULD influence their hiring decision.
It's a lose-lose for them. I don't see why any company with any intelligent HR person would even broach the subject of "social media" with applicants.
If I buy something I want the LEGAL ability to sell that same item to someone else.
And I want them to have the LEGAL ability to sell that item to someone else. And so on and so on.
I'd worry that what sells for $10 today (no resale allowed!) will sell for $15 tomorrow (no resale allowed). And then $25. $50. $100. But with the same "no resale allowed" limit.
You're postulating a situation where: The ISP is owned by a certificate authority that is, by default, trusted by your browser vendor and that certificate authority is creating certificates for 3rd party websites without the 3rd party websites' permission in order to facilitate man-in-the-middle attacks so that the ISP can inject ads into your session.
I would imagine the backlash would kill both the ISP and that certificate authority.
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I'll ask the question again:
Has anyone here run into this before? What vendor?
That Wall Street Journal article reads more like an advertisement.
I don't know about you but I've often worked on systems at 3am. And on weekends. And holidays.
Anyone in IT who sends a credit card number via email needs to be fired any way. They're just too stupid to have on staff.
Anyone sending anything at all like that through COMPANY email needs to be fired any way. They're too likely to cause a problem with legal discovery should a different lawsuit pop up.
And so on. So I'll ask again, has anyone here run into this before? What vendor?
Only if you are replaceable.
Lots of people can do the same job as you do. Some do it better. Hopefully you're good enough at it that more than 50% will do it worse.
And at the same salary (or lower).
AND has your knowledge of the systems and the "why were they set up that way" tricks and traps so that they don't cause any unexpected down-time trying to "fix" something that is not really broken.
A more important question is why would anyone take anything said at "ITWorld" as factual?
Has anyone here run into this before? What vendor?
All of their examples seem wrong. The length of an email will change based upon the circumstances of that email. Is it advisory? Is it for documentation? Is it CYA?
First off, who thinks that having an Asian-sounding name would cause any problems in a programming interview? Isn't the OPPOSITE the case? Look at the computer science classes. There are a lot of Asians in them. And they're getting good grades.
Those "findings" are generalized and do not seem to apply to this discussion ("brogrammers" and sexism).
So you thought that a woman who spoke THREE languages was "less educated" because she spoke your language with a heavy accent? Why was that?
I was in the Army for seven years. Women get raped by the men they're working with. I think that's a bit different than a gender imbalance in the civilian programming field.
And whether the gender imbalance is due to overt sexism ("brogrammers") or something else.
First off, who thinks that having an Asian-sounding name would cause any problems in a programming interview? Isn't the OPPOSITE the case? Look at the computer science classes. There are a lot of Asians in them. And they're getting good grades.
Those "findings" are generalized and do not seem to apply to this discussion ("brogrammers" and sexism).
You thought that a woman who spoke THREE languages was "less educated" because she spoke your language with a heavy accent?
WTF?
LOL
What? The stereotype of the unwashed nerd living on high caffeine drinks and noodle-food who spends all night hacking code?
Or are you talking about the bullshit from InfoWorld where the "nerds" spend all night drinking and disparaging women?
From TFA:
"subtle sexism"? I can see subtle sexism being a problem. And not just in programming. But that doesn't mesh with "brogrammers".
I don't understand that.
How can doubling the number of connections and ports in use "cover the extra price"?
It does not matter about "the price difference" unless you're spec'ing one brand but actually buying a different (less expensive) brand. In which case you might want to watch out for anyone reporting you for an ethics violation.
Does not matter. Because once it hits the VoIP with PoE for their phones it will be knocked down to 100Mb/s anyway.
gig-switch ---- VoIP-phone-with-PoE --- computer
Means that the computer is only going to get 100Mb/s.
You want to run 2x as many lines as you need to so some people can get gig to the desktop? As long as someone above you is willing to sign off on the expenses and maintenance contracts.
And I'll still be spec'ing 100Mb/s switches with PoE for the phones.
Yes, I'm sure that those people tortured back then really did practice black magic with the Devil.
Or maybe torture just gets confessions whether they're factual or not.
I thought the moral was "Evaluate the responsibilities to be assigned based upon performance".
How many times does an alarm have to signal a possible false positive before you put a secondary alarm in place?
I disagree. And I would expect a judge to know better.
Just because Alice does X does NOT mean that Bob also does X. And every judge should be able to understand that.
Dear Penthouse, I've read the letters that people sent into you for years but I never thought that I'd be sending one in. It all started ...
That judge is an idiot who is attempting to use "teh innerwebs" as justification for increased surveillance.
People have been doing everything he's talking about for YEARS. It just did not have the immediacy that it has now. But that should not make an iota of difference.
You start patenting the ideas NOW. Just as the competition is announced. But you make them ambiguous enough that they can fit almost anything.
And don't forget to also patent the same thing with "on a computer" added.
They are not FORBIDDEN to ask but they will usually AVOID those questions because once they have that information they have to demonstrate that they did NOT refuse employment based upon it (should they not hire you and should you sue them).
The legal system being what it is ... it is just safer for them to not ask and therefore there is no way they could be using that information in their hiring decision.
Remember, HR is not there for YOU.
HR is there to protect the company from lawsuits that you can bring.
The Seattle police department had (as of last year) a similar requirement as part of their background check on applicants.
In that specific case I can see it being more reasonable. After all, they're already going to interview your friends and family and dig through your financial history.
Focus your Facebook account on your off-hours hobby of DJ'ing for gay Jewish inter-racial couples retreats.
Then let them explain themselves if they don't hire you. They'd have to demonstrate how your off-hours activity did NOT influence their hiring process.
After they kind of implied that your off-hours hobbies WOULD influence their hiring decision.
It's a lose-lose for them. I don't see why any company with any intelligent HR person would even broach the subject of "social media" with applicants.
Banks don't need security once we get over this "blame the victim" mentality.
After all, I'm sure we all store thousands of social security numbers at home.
See his profile. A single comment.
http://slashdot.org/~ExpertCoder
1. Release a free version on iPhone or Android or Steam.
2. Get name recognition.
3. Go to Kickstarter and pitch your new game (or improved version of your original game).
4. "Upgrade" your free game with quick ads pointing to your Kickstarter project.
But I admit that I am radical that way.
If I buy something I want the LEGAL ability to sell that same item to someone else.
And I want them to have the LEGAL ability to sell that item to someone else. And so on and so on.
I'd worry that what sells for $10 today (no resale allowed!) will sell for $15 tomorrow (no resale allowed). And then $25. $50. $100. But with the same "no resale allowed" limit.
What could THE NAVY possibly get from used game consoles?
And why go that route to get it?
Just to be clear about that ...
You're postulating a situation where:
The ISP
is owned by a certificate authority
that is, by default, trusted by your browser vendor
and that certificate authority
is creating certificates for 3rd party websites
without the 3rd party websites' permission
in order to facilitate man-in-the-middle attacks
so that the ISP can inject ads into your session.
I would imagine the backlash would kill both the ISP and that certificate authority.
Unless you have specifically trusted whatever certificate authority server the ISP put up to do that.
Well, if you use Firefox that is.
If the connection between you and the website is encrypted, no one can add code to it.