welcome to our political/economic reality. you have two options. Be paid up with the right people or Fail in a public forum (Texas in this case) as a result of not being paid up with the right people and hope for political pressure to get you through.
Tesla i feel has the option to go either way, but I applaud them taking the high road, pun intended, here.
The real problem only arises when you can't afford either option. In which case you just might be reaching for a larger market than you as a company can support.
Not saying it's the best system, or even sufficiently "good" to pass most tests for "ok". but it's been this way since the beginning. Tesla v Edison North v South Ford v the automobile industry blah blah blah
I might be alone in this, but if a law/decision is made that limits a person, group of people, company, or business model there needs to be safety or environmental reasons for it or IMO it is based on personal rhetoric or personal gain. Of course, in this world gone mad, finding someone to say that allowing direct to consumer marketing is killing children and polluting the gene pool is pretty easy. So who you are paying shifts... then what?
Seriously? What bank has that setup? you can distract the "security" team until the cows come home (even having just 1 "security" team.. that could be distracted is a bit.. odd here)
this is where having specialist in security are required for doing business. Layered defense. the security team dealing with the DDOS and the security team watching the wire transfer systems should have been alerted when their respective domains were affected. then when money starts going to the wrong places, a wire fraud team would be involved. if the money was coming from business accounts vs personal accounts, vs high value accounts, vs what have you.. each of those respective fraud and security teams would be working towards their own mitigation.
no.. these had to be small banks/credit unions without a proper layered defense.. OR a very very serious APT/collusion attack.
I had to ask myself: Why Sharks? Why not honey badgers? It didn't take long to figure out though that, unlike the sharks, honey badgers wouldn't wait for your call. They don't give a shit, they'd just launch the missiles and go eat a snake, they don't give a shit what happens next.
it's a good thing that all combatants wear uniforms and can be asked after they were blown up if they were a threat, because you know if not, a government might just have to report them as civilians because well, they wouldn't harbor TOO many people that might not like the US, that'd be like asking to have your palace/estate/mcmansion raided by SEALS or something.
We are where we are because every civilian in the world has watched and allowed it to happen, right back to fighting the "cold war" in the region(and far beyond that, but im trying to be region specific).
Not saying i'm for randomly shooting up a building full of people because there are a few confirmed combatants in there either, but politics are a bitch, and if the tables were turned we (US citizens) would have to bear the responsibility of letting our government go so freaking nuts I'm sure.
but if it's encrypted and used in that manner, it's harder to prove it wasn't you(despiste being just as easy to use in said manner). Leave it open, that way you've always got the "someone stole my wifi!" scapegoat.
dunno anything bout this 80/20 rule, but I can say, I went from dumb ass it job to dumb ass it job watching the people that wanted to learn the tech out pace those that wanted to "do their job".
When i started at the last of those jobs, on my second day I was handed a "new" tablet pc and asked if i could "make it work" with our image. I said I'd give it a shot. A few years later that same manager hired me to do technology research for his team. I'm pretty happy with it.
Be there, do what you can, and don't write checks you can't cash. If it's good, someone will pick up on it.
plus.. won seriously, there is a give and take. I hadn't really connected the dots on what all of this info meant until I met with microsoft research.. some of the really cool stuff they are doing, they can only do because they have systems in place that will collect a STUPID amount of data. regardless of if it's immediately apparent that it'll be needed.
you just can't allow a computer to make correlation and causation decisions without having the massive amount of info available to it.. that we as humans (with our fancy sensor arrays) take for granted.
On one hand.. this should require an opt-in the likes of which ANY company needs to "share" a customers data. on the other hand.. If you act like a fool in public, expect to end up on the news... and probably in it's advertisements.
there will always be people that are slow to adapt/adopt.. just the way these things work. as usual, this doesn't mean it's not happening.
I hadn't noticed really.. until I started looking at facebook again, but yup, they are out there. and I have been seeing more and more of em in twitter.
if they said they needed the extra punch to carve out the initial tunnels for a moonbase.. er a moonbase to be used to fight terrorism.. who would bat an eye?
this is the kind of crap that makes me furious at our post 9/11 government setup. Did you really have to outright deport them? you couldn't interview them and say.. hey, these are just a bunch of kids being annoying, not a threat to national security. but no.. let's knee jerk and be douche bags.
DHS -> gotta go, you're a waste of money TSA -> gotta go, private security should be handling this job and the airlines should get terrorist insurance DEA -> gotta stay, but stay in this country, you're not a reverse CIA CIA -> you can not make money, accept that your operations NEED a paper trail
I didn't say that. What I meant to strongly imply is that DDoS is totally counterproductive and accomplishes less than nothing. Someone else on here pointed out that airing dirty laundry of the bad guys might at least accomplish something. All this DDoS attack does is stir up the public's fear of anarchy and crime so that their elected representatives can scare them into supporting some nasty bit of freedom-stealing legislation that affects all of us.
Beating down SOPA by rallying all the sheep in the world was a triumph. This DDoS thing is a textbook example of shooting oneself in the foot for no purpose.
don't forget that some of the breaches have occurred... during a DDoS
soon the internet will be reduced to posting xkcd comics back and forth... and millions of years from now, when the first hard drives are finally restored, they will think they are hieroglyphs, and we.. while a generally advanced civilization, resorted to an alphabet that was 4095 comics long.. because I believe in the Randall.. but really.. who needs more than 4 gigs?
Really, we are a nation that wants a "free market" well.. unless it's working against us. I commend them for taking advantage.
We don't need laws, or restrictions, or anything other than a reality check for the business majors. Supply and demand. We demanded high paying cush jobs without much on the requirements sides other than "a degree" regardless of what it was. So we got em.. specialized jobs went elsewhere, we were the "big picture" thinkers, don't talk to me about the pump being backwards, there are people for that.
I've always noticed it in corporate america.. but it's been slamming me in my face more and more as I discover to be considered "good" at my job, I need to properly explain what something does, and direct questions about "how it does it" to people who will explain the "how", rather than learn the "how" myself.. if I learn/do it for myself.. I have failed, and probably won't be getting the next project I request.
Slashdot Mirror
welcome to our political/economic reality.
you have two options.
Be paid up with the right people
or
Fail in a public forum (Texas in this case) as a result of not being paid up with the right people and hope for political pressure to get you through.
Tesla i feel has the option to go either way, but I applaud them taking the high road, pun intended, here.
The real problem only arises when you can't afford either option. In which case you just might be reaching for a larger market than you as a company can support.
Not saying it's the best system, or even sufficiently "good" to pass most tests for "ok". but it's been this way since the beginning.
Tesla v Edison
North v South
Ford v the automobile industry
blah blah blah
I might be alone in this, but if a law/decision is made that limits a person, group of people, company, or business model there needs to be safety or environmental reasons for it or IMO it is based on personal rhetoric or personal gain. Of course, in this world gone mad, finding someone to say that allowing direct to consumer marketing is killing children and polluting the gene pool is pretty easy. So who you are paying shifts... then what?
Seriously? What bank has that setup?
you can distract the "security" team until the cows come home (even having just 1 "security" team.. that could be distracted is a bit.. odd here)
this is where having specialist in security are required for doing business. Layered defense.
the security team dealing with the DDOS and the security team watching the wire transfer systems should have been alerted when their respective domains were affected.
then when money starts going to the wrong places, a wire fraud team would be involved. if the money was coming from business accounts vs personal accounts, vs high value accounts, vs what have you.. each of those respective fraud and security teams would be working towards their own mitigation.
no.. these had to be small banks/credit unions without a proper layered defense.. OR a very very serious APT/collusion attack.
I had to ask myself: Why Sharks? Why not honey badgers? It didn't take long to figure out though that, unlike the sharks, honey badgers wouldn't wait for your call. They don't give a shit, they'd just launch the missiles and go eat a snake, they don't give a shit what happens next.
FTFY
http://www.shapeways.com/
pretty close to that
it's a good thing that all combatants wear uniforms and can be asked after they were blown up if they were a threat, because you know if not, a government might just have to report them as civilians because well, they wouldn't harbor TOO many people that might not like the US, that'd be like asking to have your palace/estate/mcmansion raided by SEALS or something.
We are where we are because every civilian in the world has watched and allowed it to happen, right back to fighting the "cold war" in the region(and far beyond that, but im trying to be region specific).
Not saying i'm for randomly shooting up a building full of people because there are a few confirmed combatants in there either, but politics are a bitch, and if the tables were turned we (US citizens) would have to bear the responsibility of letting our government go so freaking nuts I'm sure.
but if it's encrypted and used in that manner, it's harder to prove it wasn't you(despiste being just as easy to use in said manner). Leave it open, that way you've always got the "someone stole my wifi!" scapegoat.
when filtered incorrectly...
dunno anything bout this 80/20 rule, but I can say, I went from dumb ass it job to dumb ass it job watching the people that wanted to learn the tech out pace those that wanted to "do their job".
When i started at the last of those jobs, on my second day I was handed a "new" tablet pc and asked if i could "make it work" with our image. I said I'd give it a shot. A few years later that same manager hired me to do technology research for his team. I'm pretty happy with it.
Be there, do what you can, and don't write checks you can't cash. If it's good, someone will pick up on it.
well crap, I've been spelling it wrong the whole time.. no wonder it never works like it should
Or what we, in the Linux community, call "software"*. ^^
* after all required dependancies are hunted down from the ends of the earth and/or compiled from source and installed.
no that was pre 9/11
the first amendment now only covers advertising.
plus.. won
seriously, there is a give and take. I hadn't really connected the dots on what all of this info meant until I met with microsoft research.. some of the really cool stuff they are doing, they can only do because they have systems in place that will collect a STUPID amount of data. regardless of if it's immediately apparent that it'll be needed.
you just can't allow a computer to make correlation and causation decisions without having the massive amount of info available to it.. that we as humans (with our fancy sensor arrays) take for granted.
they are the 15%! and make their money off of the backs of the other 95% of us! (+- 10%)
you forgot the true department store of our time
the internet.
see thread on handing it over to the U.N. pls
On one hand.. this should require an opt-in the likes of which ANY company needs to "share" a customers data.
on the other hand.. If you act like a fool in public, expect to end up on the news... and probably in it's advertisements.
there will always be people that are slow to adapt/adopt.. just the way these things work.
as usual, this doesn't mean it's not happening.
I hadn't noticed really.. until I started looking at facebook again, but yup, they are out there. and I have been seeing more and more of em in twitter.
So I guess our founding fathers were Terrorists then....
they were.. against England
if they said they needed the extra punch to carve out the initial tunnels for a moonbase.. er a moonbase to be used to fight terrorism.. who would bat an eye?
this is the kind of crap that makes me furious at our post 9/11 government setup.
Did you really have to outright deport them? you couldn't interview them and say.. hey, these are just a bunch of kids being annoying, not a threat to national security. but no.. let's knee jerk and be douche bags.
DHS -> gotta go, you're a waste of money
TSA -> gotta go, private security should be handling this job and the airlines should get terrorist insurance
DEA -> gotta stay, but stay in this country, you're not a reverse CIA
CIA -> you can not make money, accept that your operations NEED a paper trail
so on.. and so on.. and so on..
or of course.. Hale-bopp!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997
funding barred for human cloning maybe?
I didn't say that. What I meant to strongly imply is that DDoS is totally counterproductive and accomplishes less than nothing. Someone else on here pointed out that airing dirty laundry of the bad guys might at least accomplish something. All this DDoS attack does is stir up the public's fear of anarchy and crime so that their elected representatives can scare them into supporting some nasty bit of freedom-stealing legislation that affects all of us.
Beating down SOPA by rallying all the sheep in the world was a triumph. This DDoS thing is a textbook example of shooting oneself in the foot for no purpose.
don't forget that some of the breaches have occurred... during a DDoS
soon the internet will be reduced to posting xkcd comics back and forth... and millions of years from now, when the first hard drives are finally restored, they will think they are hieroglyphs, and we.. while a generally advanced civilization, resorted to an alphabet that was 4095 comics long.. because I believe in the Randall.. but really.. who needs more than 4 gigs?
Really, we are a nation that wants a "free market" well.. unless it's working against us.
I commend them for taking advantage.
We don't need laws, or restrictions, or anything other than a reality check for the business majors. Supply and demand. We demanded high paying cush jobs without much on the requirements sides other than "a degree" regardless of what it was. So we got em.. specialized jobs went elsewhere, we were the "big picture" thinkers, don't talk to me about the pump being backwards, there are people for that.
I've always noticed it in corporate america.. but it's been slamming me in my face more and more as I discover to be considered "good" at my job, I need to properly explain what something does, and direct questions about "how it does it" to people who will explain the "how", rather than learn the "how" myself.. if I learn/do it for myself.. I have failed, and probably won't be getting the next project I request.
Nope, it's entirely accurate. In related news, people who quote my Slashdot posts owe me $1m in lost revenue.
that's bum duh duh duh dum bum, not bum duh duh duh DUM bum.. sounds nothing like "under pressure"