I would say the go-to guy is the LAST person to get promoted. They either: 1) Take on too much from others and become abused, distracted, and begin to hate their job or 2) Don't get promoted simply because after 2 years of being the go-to guy, replacing him would be a nightmare and it is cheaper to just hire for the upper spot and keep him where he is
With Webcams and software to share your desktops, communicating over the net is getting close to being just as easy as walking down to the guys cubicle.
I would much rather have someone IM / e-mail me vs walk down to my office and interrupt me. With the IM/e-mail, I get to control when the response is, so I can continue working if I am in the zone. The second someone stops by and barges in to ask a stupid question, I am no longer in the zone and am stuck spending 15 minutes getting back to that point once they leave.
Lower? Prices have pretty much stabalized at ~$50 / 8th.
Also, CA is a horrid example... You need to go look at Colorado these days, as the cultivation & sale is completely legal from the county to the state now. The only thing you need to worry about is the feds.
Quick question? do you think that the feds will bother the state? The second they do, expect to see some big lawsuits that may help kickstart / finish the "war"
You are forgetting decades worth of spending activity that the government / 3rd party can sift through and find patterns.
They may not be able to use those patterns to directly track you down digitally, but they can begin to figure out how you think when it comes to purchasing, food, supplies, gadgets, etc.
You also are forgetting misdirection... you need to make sure you start preparing your social circle for the fact that you will be out of contact / travelling for a while, as to not raise much suspicion. Anything you can do to start disrupting those patterns will help 10fold down the road.
Take for example Verizon FioS... one of their machines widgets was actually a top ten currently watching [Sports / news / drama / etc] show listing.
I could see that the top show people on FioS are watching is "Survivor" or "24"
Why do channel execs still care about this neilsen rating? I can almost guarantee that Verizon (lets limit this to FioS or any "cable box is required provider") has data that is 10000x more useful than any Nielsen data shows.
Assuming proper meta data for the commercials, shows, content in general, I bet they could show you:
- How often someone fast forwards through commercial X - How many users have the show on their DVR; How many days after the show aired and was recorded that the user actually watched it; If they skipped the commercials; What show the user was watching INSTEAD of the one they recorded (extremely important as it tells you your primary competitor). - The channel they spend the most time on - Channels they visit frequently, but never really stay on it more than a few minutes (glimpse into how the channel surfers mind works)
This list is just the EASY data you can pull. Imagine the data mining potential for this. Tie this into the users subscription data, and you have a good idea of age. IF you wanted even more data, just offer your subscribers a 20 dollars off for one month coupon for filling out a simple survey asking them their relationship status, how many kids they have, etc.
Double up and implement a rating systems where the user gets prompted after a show to rate it. have it come up as a semi transparent layer (just a simple picture of 5 empty stars or something) and if the user presses a 1-5 on his controller during those few seconds its on screen, count it as a rating. Allow them only one rating per "episode" (so you can't have someone sitting there with a recorded copy of the show and constantly giving it a 5 rating).
Google is probably one of the most advanced companies when it comes to modifying their algorithm based on simulations / tests / etc they send out to a small subset of their user base. It makes sense then, that if they had a few hundred of these for their employees, the amount of information they would gather from all that driving would help drive this product to the market in years, not decades.
With all the advanced redundant power, networking, etc, you could even have the servers made or adapted to allow for seamless picking...
So you go to your data center, ask for Server X1B7, picker grabs it and brings it to the room / office you are in... all seamless and without losing network or power. The room could even be designed to look and feel like a old-school datacenter.
No, he means wipe, reload with proper baseline image, and go onto other problems.
It really isn't that hard these days to PXE boot a machine and create and deploy images. Hell there are multiple freeware packages out there that help you do this if you don't have the cash to purchase a solution.
On my end, it literally is a few clicks (or running a batch script that kicks off the process) and the PC will: - Reboot - Boot up to WinPE for imaging - image deploys to station - script runs to dynamically load correct hardware drivers (Hardware independent imaging) - PC reboots - sysprep takes over and reloads any other drivers (the image was preloaded with DriverPacks, so sysprep scans the driverpacks directory and can dynamically load those too - IE sound, video, chipset etc). - PC reboots - PC gets joined to domain and reboots again - Software gets installed (assuming the image didn't already have software on it) - PC reboots
User can now use PC.
Of course this takes time, but working at a call center, it makes it so easy to wipe an entire group of 50-100+ stations at one time. I can have a new image deployed within 4 hours to a large group of computers.
Those aren't competing products. Maybe complimentary, but definitely not competing.
Nagios, ZenOSS, SolarWinds, etc are all Network Management Systems - Did you not see the screenshot? InTune is more on par with Altiris ITMS, KACE, etc.
1) Write an OS within NaCl - creating an OS within a browser based OS within an OS within a VM on bare metal. 2) Place adverts on all levels 3).... 4) Profit?
"I don't see a problem Judge, as a corporation, there are no legal obligations for me to sell books by 'negros' or 'jews'. Since I know you will be asking for it next, I have let my lawyers forward you our current compliance standards for EOE."
This of course avoids the eventual termination of his job by the board, and most likely the end of that guys career for making such a decision.
You can advertise the BMW to the farmville players who spend hundreds of dollars a month on the virtual currency, simply to be ranked highest in their group of friends.
But how does one go about and PROVE that the encryption was used to willfully hide evidence? If they can't see the data, how do they know it is evidence of a crime?
Also, what kind of moron would go around talking about how he destroyed evidence to ANYONE? Considering the only way they could secure a good case against you is either video of you destroying the evidence or audio of you talking about it, you shouldn't be talking openly about it.
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If you OWE the IRS money, they can demand payment for up to 10 years of back tax payments.
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Id disagree.
I would say the go-to guy is the LAST person to get promoted. They either:
1) Take on too much from others and become abused, distracted, and begin to hate their job or
2) Don't get promoted simply because after 2 years of being the go-to guy, replacing him would be a nightmare and it is cheaper to just hire for the upper spot and keep him where he is
With Webcams and software to share your desktops, communicating over the net is getting close to being just as easy as walking down to the guys cubicle.
I would much rather have someone IM / e-mail me vs walk down to my office and interrupt me. With the IM/e-mail, I get to control when the response is, so I can continue working if I am in the zone. The second someone stops by and barges in to ask a stupid question, I am no longer in the zone and am stuck spending 15 minutes getting back to that point once they leave.
Lower? Prices have pretty much stabalized at ~$50 / 8th.
Also, CA is a horrid example... You need to go look at Colorado these days, as the cultivation & sale is completely legal from the county to the state now. The only thing you need to worry about is the feds.
Quick question? do you think that the feds will bother the state? The second they do, expect to see some big lawsuits that may help kickstart / finish the "war"
You are forgetting decades worth of spending activity that the government / 3rd party can sift through and find patterns.
They may not be able to use those patterns to directly track you down digitally, but they can begin to figure out how you think when it comes to purchasing, food, supplies, gadgets, etc.
You also are forgetting misdirection... you need to make sure you start preparing your social circle for the fact that you will be out of contact / travelling for a while, as to not raise much suspicion. Anything you can do to start disrupting those patterns will help 10fold down the road.
WHY does anyone give a shit about Nielsen?
Take for example Verizon FioS... one of their machines widgets was actually a top ten currently watching [Sports / news / drama / etc] show listing.
I could see that the top show people on FioS are watching is "Survivor" or "24"
Why do channel execs still care about this neilsen rating? I can almost guarantee that Verizon (lets limit this to FioS or any "cable box is required provider") has data that is 10000x more useful than any Nielsen data shows.
Assuming proper meta data for the commercials, shows, content in general, I bet they could show you:
- How often someone fast forwards through commercial X
- How many users have the show on their DVR; How many days after the show aired and was recorded that the user actually watched it; If they skipped the commercials; What show the user was watching INSTEAD of the one they recorded (extremely important as it tells you your primary competitor).
- The channel they spend the most time on
- Channels they visit frequently, but never really stay on it more than a few minutes (glimpse into how the channel surfers mind works)
This list is just the EASY data you can pull. Imagine the data mining potential for this. Tie this into the users subscription data, and you have a good idea of age. IF you wanted even more data, just offer your subscribers a 20 dollars off for one month coupon for filling out a simple survey asking them their relationship status, how many kids they have, etc.
Double up and implement a rating systems where the user gets prompted after a show to rate it. have it come up as a semi transparent layer (just a simple picture of 5 empty stars or something) and if the user presses a 1-5 on his controller during those few seconds its on screen, count it as a rating. Allow them only one rating per "episode" (so you can't have someone sitting there with a recorded copy of the show and constantly giving it a 5 rating).
WHAT? NINE THOUSAND!?
The difference would be that we would get to see who is bribing who... You will also need to make it illegal to not report your bribes.
Google is probably one of the most advanced companies when it comes to modifying their algorithm based on simulations / tests / etc they send out to a small subset of their user base. It makes sense then, that if they had a few hundred of these for their employees, the amount of information they would gather from all that driving would help drive this product to the market in years, not decades.
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To add:
With all the advanced redundant power, networking, etc, you could even have the servers made or adapted to allow for seamless picking...
So you go to your data center, ask for Server X1B7, picker grabs it and brings it to the room / office you are in... all seamless and without losing network or power. The room could even be designed to look and feel like a old-school datacenter.
try phidgets.
No, he means wipe, reload with proper baseline image, and go onto other problems.
It really isn't that hard these days to PXE boot a machine and create and deploy images. Hell there are multiple freeware packages out there that help you do this if you don't have the cash to purchase a solution.
On my end, it literally is a few clicks (or running a batch script that kicks off the process) and the PC will:
- Reboot
- Boot up to WinPE for imaging
- image deploys to station
- script runs to dynamically load correct hardware drivers (Hardware independent imaging)
- PC reboots
- sysprep takes over and reloads any other drivers (the image was preloaded with DriverPacks, so sysprep scans the driverpacks directory and can dynamically load those too - IE sound, video, chipset etc).
- PC reboots
- PC gets joined to domain and reboots again
- Software gets installed (assuming the image didn't already have software on it)
- PC reboots
User can now use PC.
Of course this takes time, but working at a call center, it makes it so easy to wipe an entire group of 50-100+ stations at one time. I can have a new image deployed within 4 hours to a large group of computers.
I tried Kaseya - it crashed my x64 Win 7 machine the second I installed it...
Took me forever to scrub the agent off.
OpenNMS FTW :)
Those aren't competing products. Maybe complimentary, but definitely not competing.
Nagios, ZenOSS, SolarWinds, etc are all Network Management Systems - Did you not see the screenshot? InTune is more on par with Altiris ITMS, KACE, etc.
So that means:
1) Write an OS within NaCl - creating an OS within a browser based OS within an OS within a VM on bare metal. ....
2) Place adverts on all levels
3)
4) Profit?
How would that be a 1st amendment right?
"I don't see a problem Judge, as a corporation, there are no legal obligations for me to sell books by 'negros' or 'jews'. Since I know you will be asking for it next, I have let my lawyers forward you our current compliance standards for EOE."
This of course avoids the eventual termination of his job by the board, and most likely the end of that guys career for making such a decision.
You have any links to the war journal to prove that?
Define crime.
Do what everyone else does... create a dummy checking account and link it up with Paypal.
Anytime you pull money out of Paypal and it posts, transfer that money to a different back account.
Paypal can't withdraw money from a bank account that has no money in it.
You can advertise the BMW to the farmville players who spend hundreds of dollars a month on the virtual currency, simply to be ranked highest in their group of friends.
Truecrypt supports hardware acceleration.
(may not be helpful to you with a netbook, but others should know)
I am thinking they already do something like this to save on MAN / WAN bandwidth.
Have any material for deploying a smartcard + simple password security system for a small 100 computer or less company? ideally open-source :)
It is harder and more expensive than it seems.
But how does one go about and PROVE that the encryption was used to willfully hide evidence? If they can't see the data, how do they know it is evidence of a crime?
Also, what kind of moron would go around talking about how he destroyed evidence to ANYONE? Considering the only way they could secure a good case against you is either video of you destroying the evidence or audio of you talking about it, you shouldn't be talking openly about it.
"Loose lips sink ships"