I dunno. We researched this when implemented a year ago and decided the best way to handle was just disavow entire countries we don't want to do business with. I believe redirecting that traffic to a VPN provider would be in some way acknowledging support or service to them and then make us fall under the compliance directives.
If I wanted to be under EU rules, I'd go back and live there (was stationed there for several years on business as Schengen expat) and pay 50% taxes again. No thanks
Funny thing IIRC those EU dictators have posited that even blocking EU IP addresses makes a site fall under compliance. There was discussion that EU citizens using a VPN to circumvent blocks would still be considered protected by EU rules. Ridiculous. Then there was the notion that when an EU citizen is physically in the USA using Internet resources that those USA-only companies were now forced to be compliant with EU rules. Absurd
Thank you but no, EU don't own the Internet. Certainly don't own my USA Internet
I use iptables script fed from dynamic public country subnet lists on my WHM reseller server to block all EU countries. Been doing it since the last data nonsense from them. I've got small customers with US-only clients.
Hope they get this idiot charged and release their name.
Every time one of these "inside" IT type persons does something against an employer by using their privileged access to their systems, it makes it more difficult for all of us to operate within our own companies. And don't try to fault me by the "ex-employee" logic. Any one of us knows full well we could fsck with a former employer's systems even if they think they've locked us out.
Those in our field that violate the trust placed in us by employers should be drawn and quartered, tarred and feathered. At they very least named and shamed.
And don't give me that crap about "You get what you pay for." That is absolutely untrue in IT.
THAT is absolutely untrue. You might not be skilled or experienced enough to command a premium, and may not be able to discern others that are, but many of us have built a lifetime of quality work and commitment to education that makes us far more valuable than your average Google-searching server-rebooting monkey IT consultant. Yes, as with almost everything, you do get what you pay for.
Invest in yourself and never apologize for being worth.
Soo much integration. Given that integration was inward facing, but it was awesome. At the same time centralized and distributed user accounts, databases, replication, forms, email. All that. I worked for several companies that had massive installs of that stuff and it was truly amazing to see the creativeness abound in various departments.
In some ways it was difficult and become kind of arcane. But at the time, there was very little that did a comparable job of all those tasks.
Yeah, most of the DB's became a mess of incompetence and misadventure. Yes, the technical talent became very expensive and in dwindling supply. Like a lot of products, its downfall was its regressive and self-defeating pricing.
I believe High Sierra lets you use any Mac as a Time Machine target through the Settings->Sharing configuration. One of the new features included to offset elimination of Time Capsule products?
Put all your infrastructure under the physical control of some other entity well beyond your reach and then discover they can summarily turn it off and refuse to respond - Duh!
I just love Windows 8.1 with Update 1 installed. IMNSHO it's the most underrated MS OS of all time.
Should have been called Windows 9, but I'm aware of the potentially programmatical impasse that might have caused with Win9x apps. Of so they said IIRC
Windows 10 is way too intrusive and I simply don't like it.
Yeah, yeah it's all about execution. Thanks for reminding grown-ups about the intro discussion to any business 101 class on any planet in the universe.
I'll wait while you find a way to determine source code theft from a compiled proprietary binary made by people that know how to obfuscate and disturb the original code to make the compiled binary version unrecognizable when compared to the original binary or source. Those "look and feel" lawsuits are super duper hard to win.
Like most everything involving IP theft from putting data on The Cloud --- "You'll never know"
I trust you don't actually believe that in the whole of Microsoft there will be 0% farming of Github private. Someone, I would, will be casually trolling through those directories as soon as MS buys the admin password.
Sing it brother. MS makes the dumbest fucking operating systems that we all are forced to use. I hear 2018 is the year of Linux on the Desktop. Just like 2017 was, 2016, 2015....1999--
I use it as my primary for personal and work, but I'd never tell an uninformed person to use Linux on their PC unless I wanted to get calls for months about how to do something. So they get Microtrash and we just tell the uninformed to buy a new PC every 3 years to fix the tech problems on their current one. I have no shame sending Geek Squad business to copy a friend's data to a new PC. I value my time more than I value friends.
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I dunno. We researched this when implemented a year ago and decided the best way to handle was just disavow entire countries we don't want to do business with. I believe redirecting that traffic to a VPN provider would be in some way acknowledging support or service to them and then make us fall under the compliance directives.
If I wanted to be under EU rules, I'd go back and live there (was stationed there for several years on business as Schengen expat) and pay 50% taxes again. No thanks
Funny thing IIRC those EU dictators have posited that even blocking EU IP addresses makes a site fall under compliance. There was discussion that EU citizens using a VPN to circumvent blocks would still be considered protected by EU rules. Ridiculous. Then there was the notion that when an EU citizen is physically in the USA using Internet resources that those USA-only companies were now forced to be compliant with EU rules. Absurd
Thank you but no, EU don't own the Internet. Certainly don't own my USA Internet
Block them all.
I use iptables script fed from dynamic public country subnet lists on my WHM reseller server to block all EU countries. Been doing it since the last data nonsense from them. I've got small customers with US-only clients.
Fuck the EU
...this time it's really gonna happen. Not like the 25 other yearly Slashdot posts proclaiming that
Super cereal
...Dell Windows desktops and a data rack in every room filled with old Cisco gear to keep us warm.
Oh the humanity!
...while TK'ing everyone and making Hitler jokes
Now that the binawar is won, let's welcome home our digital warriors. Sunglasses for all!
Hope they get this idiot charged and release their name.
Every time one of these "inside" IT type persons does something against an employer by using their privileged access to their systems, it makes it more difficult for all of us to operate within our own companies. And don't try to fault me by the "ex-employee" logic. Any one of us knows full well we could fsck with a former employer's systems even if they think they've locked us out.
Those in our field that violate the trust placed in us by employers should be drawn and quartered, tarred and feathered. At they very least named and shamed.
You sir, win the Internet with that comment. I hope the OP of your reply has a strong constitution.
Dropping the mic with "year of Linux on the desktop" shows your age. That's been the White Whale of Slashdot for decades
And don't give me that crap about "You get what you pay for." That is absolutely untrue in IT.
THAT is absolutely untrue. You might not be skilled or experienced enough to command a premium, and may not be able to discern others that are, but many of us have built a lifetime of quality work and commitment to education that makes us far more valuable than your average Google-searching server-rebooting monkey IT consultant. Yes, as with almost everything, you do get what you pay for.
Invest in yourself and never apologize for being worth.
Windows 8.1 with Update 1 and all the later patches.
Best Windows Ever, which is why MS must kill it to force Win10 upgrade
The Cloud Strikes Back
Unforgivable. A lot of people let this go on for a long time. Sounds truly idiotic
Read the article a few times. This is pretty amazing stuff. Truly ingenious way of looking at the task
Soo much integration. Given that integration was inward facing, but it was awesome. At the same time centralized and distributed user accounts, databases, replication, forms, email. All that. I worked for several companies that had massive installs of that stuff and it was truly amazing to see the creativeness abound in various departments.
In some ways it was difficult and become kind of arcane. But at the time, there was very little that did a comparable job of all those tasks.
Yeah, most of the DB's became a mess of incompetence and misadventure. Yes, the technical talent became very expensive and in dwindling supply. Like a lot of products, its downfall was its regressive and self-defeating pricing.
I believe High Sierra lets you use any Mac as a Time Machine target through the Settings->Sharing configuration. One of the new features included to offset elimination of Time Capsule products?
Time to protest and loot a Starbucks. "Hands off my Notepad"
Put all your infrastructure under the physical control of some other entity well beyond your reach and then discover they can summarily turn it off and refuse to respond - Duh!
The Cloud Stikes Back!
munchies
I just love Windows 8.1 with Update 1 installed. IMNSHO it's the most underrated MS OS of all time.
Should have been called Windows 9, but I'm aware of the potentially programmatical impasse that might have caused with Win9x apps. Of so they said IIRC
Windows 10 is way too intrusive and I simply don't like it.
Nowadays, it seems everyone does.
Yeah, yeah it's all about execution. Thanks for reminding grown-ups about the intro discussion to any business 101 class on any planet in the universe.
I'll wait while you find a way to determine source code theft from a compiled proprietary binary made by people that know how to obfuscate and disturb the original code to make the compiled binary version unrecognizable when compared to the original binary or source. Those "look and feel" lawsuits are super duper hard to win.
Like most everything involving IP theft from putting data on The Cloud --- "You'll never know"
I trust you don't actually believe that in the whole of Microsoft there will be 0% farming of Github private. Someone, I would, will be casually trolling through those directories as soon as MS buys the admin password.
Sing it brother. MS makes the dumbest fucking operating systems that we all are forced to use. I hear 2018 is the year of Linux on the Desktop. Just like 2017 was, 2016, 2015....1999--
I use it as my primary for personal and work, but I'd never tell an uninformed person to use Linux on their PC unless I wanted to get calls for months about how to do something. So they get Microtrash and we just tell the uninformed to buy a new PC every 3 years to fix the tech problems on their current one. I have no shame sending Geek Squad business to copy a friend's data to a new PC. I value my time more than I value friends.
LMFAO angry much? Sheesh. You sir, clearly have Low-T.
Must have angry posted while looking at the "Don't turn off your computer message"