I'd agree that a lot of media is FUD with regards to this subject, but a lot of it is fed by security groups. In fact within the company I work for I could hardly get any response or concern to the Conficker virus, because the management group has seen so many of these alerts.
Over the past 3 years, I've seen computer security budgets getting squeezed more and more for lack of concern, mostly because security companies have yelled "Fire" way to much.
With regards to government laws, the latest inundation (by sales and security consultants) with regards to email storage was enough to pretty much get management to ignore any future warnings about legal threats. Because during the investigation and discussion with legal it was determined we were better off just changing the policy with regards to storing email vs maintaining an email storage system.
Somebody else mentioned SPAM, which I would consider the biggest cost and threat to commerce on the web. But right now some of the biggest spammers I deal with are security and computer consultant companies sending emails stating here is the next biggest threat and here is the next biggest thing you have to have.
Right now I'm looking for the security web site which reiterates most of the information you have in your post and links to an application which would require less than 2 hours maintenance a week and could tell me whether something or someone is on my network doing bad things. And it needs to cost monetarily next to nothing. (Okay I'm dreaming)
I'd also settle for a web site that provides reasonably good information on securing services , something where you can go from basic security settings and drill down to more detail (accurate updated and comprehensive information), even with a payment model (like expert exchange). I have run into so many web sites with inaccurate or poorly documented information on simple things such as authentication settings (Usually they are outdated with no version information, but sometimes they are just flat out wrong, as in no one even tested it).
It's not a nameless or faceless "terrorist" group that is costing our businesses, shutting down our infrastructure, tangling our air traffic control, our power grid, or our hospitals. The people promoting Windows and Microsoft technologies have real names and faces and walk among us every day. Take them out and we've won the first round. It could be as simple as organizing a large scale round up under the RICO Act [cornell.edu].
Haven't you been paying attention. These nameless faceless people have lots of money and political clout. So good luck getting the government or getting the main stream to help resolve this issue.
By the way, I think maybe your tinfoil is wrapped to tight.
There have been other cases where the reporting of journalists has been kept on the down low. Most recently in North Korea.
The new theory being if it isn't or doesn't become a political issue, then the captors have less of a bargaining chip.
Now if harm were to come to one of these reporters and it isn't reported, then I think we have a real problem.
But for now considering the emotional reaction the media ( I'm considering internet media here also) tries to stir up in these cases, I think it's a bad thing.
I don't think that/. should have even said anything about it.
I would rather the government quietly talk to these people without the pressure of the media. In this manner they are more likely to find out who exactly has them. And if harm comes to them we turn the captors over to the Isreali's.
The biggest flaw in this argument is that after 7 years we haven't been able to find Osama Bin Lauden. But there is also an assumption that we have really been trying.
In my opinion we really haven't been trying to find him or we would have by now or we have found him and nobody is really working that hard to do anything about it.
I would at least hope that they could reach a middle ground.
In the past the state of Texas chose Physics text books without anyone having a physics background. The same for the curriculum. I saw some of the original tests which were going to be used for standardized performance examinations and the questions appeared to come from electrician tests. A number of graduate students were asked to peruse the examination, I think basically all of us sat there and looked over the exam for about 5 minutes and said WTF. We then thought that, well we hadn't read through it enough and started looking for anything about electro-magnetic fields. We found one question. It seemed obvious to us that there intention was to turn the second semester of Physics into a vocational school for electricians.
I have since met a number of graduates from high school here and somewhere this apparently got turned back around. But it really kind of worried me that they were even considering this.
I recently purchased a Season on disc. Got it home and found that I couldn't run it on my computer. I was pissed.
Prior to this I leaned toward being against downloading. Now I just don't care what downloaders get.
We used Sophos for 2 years and quit using it because of the overhead to computers and because they required a Windows Server. Since switching back to Symantec we have not had any complaints with regards to AV taking up to much overhead. But then again we went with a product which most of the client base requested, so they may not complain because it was there choice.
We have about the same amount of trouble pushing AV out as we did with Sophos, but have had fewer problems with clients getting updates.
We only have a 1year contract with Symantec and we are hoping to find a solution which can be monitored and administrated from a Linux server in the next six months.
No for various reasons we just hate the Republican party right now.
Give us a couple of years and we might hate Democrats.
Currently I just hate the Democrats less.
Two, he's a Canadian and we are sucking up to him because we would like to live in a country with National Healthcare and one of the most stable banking systems in the world. The recession in Canada is caused more by the fact everyone else is in a recession. They have laws which are enforced to prevent banks from pulling some of the crap American banks were involved in.
And also the giving him sympathy points, because none of his teams made it to the Stanley Cup Finals.
Geez, where the hell do you work, that you have time to go through that much investigation to resolve a problem that occurs once every 2 to 4 months, when a simple reboot would remove the symptoms.
You should print this out and frame it. So that 10 years from now while your in the same current position, you can be smug with the knowledge that you are intellectually superior to the rest of us.
Run a lot faster and cheaper to implement.
If it is something that is intensive in calculations, I'll use C++, then transfer the results in and out of MATLAB using a database.
MATLAB costs $2000 dollars for a base system add another $1000 dollars if you want to run it on multiple cores on the same machine. If you want to run it on multiple machines then it's another $6000.
So we are talking $8000 to start running it on multiple machines.
If you want to compile a Matlab program and run it on another machine, that's another $5000 +++.
So that's FORTRAN, C++ running on multiple machines with the ability to distribute a compiled version $0.
and what the hell does that have to do with the article. Taxes were never mentioned in the article.
I gamble and I pay taxes on my winnings if I get caught I go to jail. In gambling on poker and horse racing I find tax laws and enforcement much more restrictive. If I win big I have to sign for my winnings and taxes are withheld at 28% immediately. I can move money in and out of my Etrade account without a problem no matter how much I won, I'm free to invest it gamble it somewhere else or buy whatever I want with it. (usually hookers)
In both cases I just have to pay taxes on it when they are due.
Reporting on my income taxes is pretty much the same for both
I have to report each gambling transaction, how much I put in, and how much I got out.
From my perspective as an investor in gaming and using another business as an example, this would be tantamount to stopping all imports of Chinese goods until the Chinese companies reported their profits on those goods and payed the taxes. Wal-Mart would be out of business in about a month.
But I'm kind of used to the stigma that is attached in the US on non-standard gambling. One day pretty soon I'll leave, because there are cases where laws are enforced arbitrarily within the US (usually state by state and within state) and I don't want to be a victim. Just my choice.
I mean it was so bad for awhile nobody really was sure which states it was legal to gamble on horse racing in and one company would handle your transactions and another would.
In grade school we set up a government without taxes and it pretty much worked without taxation. Well unless you consider the kisses I gave Lisa a form of taxation, I mean she was Pres.
Been there and done that. You will find that it will continue. Like everyone says document your time. When the fires stop walk out the door as soon as the day ends. If the previous week you have nothing but fire days, work overtime say 4 days, and work weekends, then explain to your boss that you are going to need to leave today on time. Make up an excuse, it's really none of their business (believe it or not). Gradually work in weekends where you are going out of town answer some phone messages, but don't go in for a problem. I actually went on vacation once to where cell phones didn't work. They didn't want to fork over the money for a sat phone. Well I didn't tell them that a sat phone was the only way to reach me, I just left a land line where they could reach me and leave a message.
It took me about six months to get it to a more reasonable lifestyle.
Oh, if your worried that if you don't jump to their every whim or you won't get promoted, well guess what, you aren't getting promoted anyway. That guy who runs to the boss everytime he replaces a keyboard, he's going to get promoted.
Just remember, you're doing this job for experience. You'll get your promotion when you move on.
Of course if you want experience in something and the only way to gain it is by working long hours then limit your time (6 months tops). If you are working on the project but not gaining experience, you are just there to handle the minial stuff while others are working on what you want to work on, then talk with your boss. If nothing changes after a week, wait another week and start pairing down your hours.
As soon as you understand the game that is being played and play it with the leverage you have the better off you are going to be (financially and health wise). Just because they say they care about you doesn't mean they really do. Just because you like them and they say they care about you doesn't mean they care about you. When they drop a wad of money and say they care, then they really care. My biggest wad was 17%.
Good luck with that, in some Asian cultures this is the way the help is treated and yeah they are bringing it here.
On one occasion I saw a middle manager crying because she wasn't getting any respect from one of the other managers. We had to make it clear to her, it had nothing to do with the fact that she was a women, he didn't respect any of us.
Until last year we had a Windows 3.1 system being used in production. If you start out with 40 or more, one of them is bound to last an amazingly long time. Well actually if you move parts around you can create one that will last a long time.
Currently where I work there is a guy who refuses to write a problem ticket. Sometimes he would even go to higher management complaining that we hadn't fixed a problem that he hadn't told us about.
So whenever he made stupid requests we began filling in the problem report for him and describing in detail how easy it was fix, like if he had just restarted his computer, closed down maybe ten of the 40 apps he had open or if he had just restarted his app. If it wasn't a stupid problem we would figure a way to mention an app installed against policy and how that could have been the result of the problem.
The unfortunate thing about this is that it has been going on for more than 40 years and they still haven't fixed it.
So basically we can bitch and moan about it all we want and it just isn't going to get fixed. They don't want it fixed or changed.
A case in point is the recent political fight over vouchers. I as a tax payer without children saw no problem with vouchers, but the teachers unions did.
If they want to take whatever it cost to educate a kid and use the parents discretion to get them into a different school more power to them. I'd rather the kid get educated now than wait for them to fix the system.
Minimum requirement should be to teach kids how to wear a baseball cap. If they show up wearing gangster outfits, security should be allowed to fire 45's at them.
Just tell them it's said "They weren't wearing the correct colors".
maybe we should just convince the asians that they should run there schools like businesses.
Anyway, I have worked with a lot of Chinese and Indians that were educated in their home country. They are not that impressive. The ones that I work with that were educated here are consistently impressive. So I don't think it's the schools. Although they did come from some of our top ranked Academic schools.
I'd look elsewhere for a reason for their high achievement in this coding competition.
Worst part is that the NSA will probably hire them.
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I'd agree that a lot of media is FUD with regards to this subject, but a lot of it is fed by security groups. In fact within the company I work for I could hardly get any response or concern to the Conficker virus, because the management group has seen so many of these alerts.
Over the past 3 years, I've seen computer security budgets getting squeezed more and more for lack of concern, mostly because security companies have yelled "Fire" way to much.
With regards to government laws, the latest inundation (by sales and security consultants) with regards to email storage was enough to pretty much get management to ignore any future warnings about legal threats. Because during the investigation and discussion with legal it was determined we were better off just changing the policy with regards to storing email vs maintaining an email storage system.
Somebody else mentioned SPAM, which I would consider the biggest cost and threat to commerce on the web. But right now some of the biggest spammers I deal with are security and computer consultant companies sending emails stating here is the next biggest threat and here is the next biggest thing you have to have.
Right now I'm looking for the security web site which reiterates most of the information you have in your post and links to an application which would require less than 2 hours maintenance a week and could tell me whether something or someone is on my network doing bad things. And it needs to cost monetarily next to nothing. (Okay I'm dreaming)
I'd also settle for a web site that provides reasonably good information on securing services , something where you can go from basic security settings and drill down to more detail (accurate updated and comprehensive information), even with a payment model (like expert exchange). I have run into so many web sites with inaccurate or poorly documented information on simple things such as authentication settings (Usually they are outdated with no version information, but sometimes they are just flat out wrong, as in no one even tested it).
It's not a nameless or faceless "terrorist" group that is costing our businesses, shutting down our infrastructure, tangling our air traffic control, our power grid, or our hospitals. The people promoting Windows and Microsoft technologies have real names and faces and walk among us every day. Take them out and we've won the first round. It could be as simple as organizing a large scale round up under the RICO Act [cornell.edu].
Haven't you been paying attention. These nameless faceless people have lots of money and political clout. So good luck getting the government or getting the main stream to help resolve this issue.
By the way, I think maybe your tinfoil is wrapped to tight.
Why didn't they just send this review in a twitter, if it's so popular?
There have been other cases where the reporting of journalists has been kept on the down low. Most recently in North Korea. /. should have even said anything about it.
The new theory being if it isn't or doesn't become a political issue, then the captors have less of a bargaining chip.
Now if harm were to come to one of these reporters and it isn't reported, then I think we have a real problem.
But for now considering the emotional reaction the media ( I'm considering internet media here also) tries to stir up in these cases, I think it's a bad thing.
I don't think that
I would rather the government quietly talk to these people without the pressure of the media. In this manner they are more likely to find out who exactly has them. And if harm comes to them we turn the captors over to the Isreali's.
The biggest flaw in this argument is that after 7 years we haven't been able to find Osama Bin Lauden. But there is also an assumption that we have really been trying.
In my opinion we really haven't been trying to find him or we would have by now or we have found him and nobody is really working that hard to do anything about it.
"Elections don't matter, it's the thought that counts".
I would at least hope that they could reach a middle ground.
In the past the state of Texas chose Physics text books without anyone having a physics background. The same for the curriculum. I saw some of the original tests which were going to be used for standardized performance examinations and the questions appeared to come from electrician tests. A number of graduate students were asked to peruse the examination, I think basically all of us sat there and looked over the exam for about 5 minutes and said WTF. We then thought that, well we hadn't read through it enough and started looking for anything about electro-magnetic fields. We found one question. It seemed obvious to us that there intention was to turn the second semester of Physics into a vocational school for electricians.
I have since met a number of graduates from high school here and somewhere this apparently got turned back around. But it really kind of worried me that they were even considering this.
We're hosed
I recently purchased a Season on disc. Got it home and found that I couldn't run it on my computer. I was pissed.
Prior to this I leaned toward being against downloading. Now I just don't care what downloaders get.
Where is my return in damages?
We used Sophos for 2 years and quit using it because of the overhead to computers and because they required a Windows Server. Since switching back to Symantec we have not had any complaints with regards to AV taking up to much overhead. But then again we went with a product which most of the client base requested, so they may not complain because it was there choice.
We have about the same amount of trouble pushing AV out as we did with Sophos, but have had fewer problems with clients getting updates.
We only have a 1year contract with Symantec and we are hoping to find a solution which can be monitored and administrated from a Linux server in the next six months.
No for various reasons we just hate the Republican party right now.
Give us a couple of years and we might hate Democrats.
Currently I just hate the Democrats less.
Two, he's a Canadian and we are sucking up to him because we would like to live in a country with National Healthcare and one of the most stable banking systems in the world.
The recession in Canada is caused more by the fact everyone else is in a recession. They have laws which are enforced to prevent banks from pulling some of the crap American banks were involved in.
And also the giving him sympathy points, because none of his teams made it to the Stanley Cup Finals.
Republicans just think they are more conservative than the Communist Party.
Geez, where the hell do you work, that you have time to go through that much investigation to resolve a problem that occurs once every 2 to 4 months, when a simple reboot would remove the symptoms.
You should print this out and frame it. So that 10 years from now while your in the same current position, you can be smug with the knowledge that you are intellectually superior to the rest of us.
what does FORTRAN do that Matlab can't?
Run a lot faster and cheaper to implement.
If it is something that is intensive in calculations, I'll use C++, then transfer the results in and out of MATLAB using a database.
MATLAB costs $2000 dollars for a base system add another $1000 dollars if you want to run it on multiple cores on the same machine. If you want to run it on multiple machines then it's another $6000.
So we are talking $8000 to start running it on multiple machines.
If you want to compile a Matlab program and run it on another machine, that's another $5000 +++.
So that's FORTRAN, C++ running on multiple machines with the ability to distribute a compiled version $0.
MatLab $13000.
Oh, you were using the student version.
and what the hell does that have to do with the article. Taxes were never mentioned in the article.
I gamble and I pay taxes on my winnings if I get caught I go to jail. In gambling on poker and horse racing I find tax laws and enforcement much more restrictive. If I win big I have to sign for my winnings and taxes are withheld at 28% immediately. I can move money in and out of my Etrade account without a problem no matter how much I won, I'm free to invest it gamble it somewhere else or buy whatever I want with it. (usually hookers)
In both cases I just have to pay taxes on it when they are due.
Reporting on my income taxes is pretty much the same for both
I have to report each gambling transaction, how much I put in, and how much I got out.
From my perspective as an investor in gaming and using another business as an example, this would be tantamount to stopping all imports of Chinese goods until the Chinese companies reported their profits on those goods and payed the taxes. Wal-Mart would be out of business in about a month. But I'm kind of used to the stigma that is attached in the US on non-standard gambling. One day pretty soon I'll leave, because there are cases where laws are enforced arbitrarily within the US (usually state by state and within state) and I don't want to be a victim. Just my choice. I mean it was so bad for awhile nobody really was sure which states it was legal to gamble on horse racing in and one company would handle your transactions and another would. In grade school we set up a government without taxes and it pretty much worked without taxation. Well unless you consider the kisses I gave Lisa a form of taxation, I mean she was Pres.
Man don't tell them that.
I was hoping this would be a good way to get rid of half of those kitten killing crap moderators.
Been there and done that. You will find that it will continue. Like everyone says document your time. When the fires stop walk out the door as soon as the day ends. If the previous week you have nothing but fire days, work overtime say 4 days, and work weekends, then explain to your boss that you are going to need to leave today on time. Make up an excuse, it's really none of their business (believe it or not). Gradually work in weekends where you are going out of town answer some phone messages, but don't go in for a problem. I actually went on vacation once to where cell phones didn't work. They didn't want to fork over the money for a sat phone. Well I didn't tell them that a sat phone was the only way to reach me, I just left a land line where they could reach me and leave a message.
It took me about six months to get it to a more reasonable lifestyle.
Oh, if your worried that if you don't jump to their every whim or you won't get promoted, well guess what, you aren't getting promoted anyway. That guy who runs to the boss everytime he replaces a keyboard, he's going to get promoted.
Just remember, you're doing this job for experience. You'll get your promotion when you move on.
Of course if you want experience in something and the only way to gain it is by working long hours then limit your time (6 months tops). If you are working on the project but not gaining experience, you are just there to handle the minial stuff while others are working on what you want to work on, then talk with your boss. If nothing changes after a week, wait another week and start pairing down your hours.
As soon as you understand the game that is being played and play it with the leverage you have the better off you are going to be (financially and health wise). Just because they say they care about you doesn't mean they really do. Just because you like them and they say they care about you doesn't mean they care about you. When they drop a wad of money and say they care, then they really care. My biggest wad was 17%.
Good luck with that, in some Asian cultures this is the way the help is treated and yeah they are bringing it here.
On one occasion I saw a middle manager crying because she wasn't getting any respect from one of the other managers. We had to make it clear to her, it had nothing to do with the fact that she was a women, he didn't respect any of us.
Yeah, f#$% the waiter
Nice requests always appear to be urgent to me.
Until last year we had a Windows 3.1 system being used in production. If you start out with 40 or more, one of them is bound to last an amazingly long time. Well actually if you move parts around you can create one that will last a long time.
Currently where I work there is a guy who refuses to write a problem ticket. Sometimes he would even go to higher management complaining that we hadn't fixed a problem that he hadn't told us about.
So whenever he made stupid requests we began filling in the problem report for him and describing in detail how easy it was fix, like if he had just restarted his computer, closed down maybe ten of the 40 apps he had open or if he had just restarted his app. If it wasn't a stupid problem we would figure a way to mention an app installed against policy and how that could have been the result of the problem.
The unfortunate thing about this is that it has been going on for more than 40 years and they still haven't fixed it.
So basically we can bitch and moan about it all we want and it just isn't going to get fixed. They don't want it fixed or changed.
A case in point is the recent political fight over vouchers. I as a tax payer without children saw no problem with vouchers, but the teachers unions did.
If they want to take whatever it cost to educate a kid and use the parents discretion to get them into a different school more power to them. I'd rather the kid get educated now than wait for them to fix the system.
Minimum requirement should be to teach kids how to wear a baseball cap. If they show up wearing gangster outfits, security should be allowed to fire 45's at them.
Just tell them it's said "They weren't wearing the correct colors".
maybe we should just convince the asians that they should run there schools like businesses.
Anyway, I have worked with a lot of Chinese and Indians that were educated in their home country. They are not that impressive. The ones that I work with that were educated here are consistently impressive. So I don't think it's the schools. Although they did come from some of our top ranked Academic schools.
I'd look elsewhere for a reason for their high achievement in this coding competition.
Worst part is that the NSA will probably hire them.
Someone has been drinking kool-aid from the Republicans.
So, I think I can answer the question if they have obtained obscurity.