That applies to the enterprise customers. How many terrorist groups have set up a BES server? I don't think that the protections on general public users are nearly the same.
Note that I'm not supportive of the Indian government's demands, but not because they're entirely infeasible, as some have suggested. They need to learn to keep doing some things the hard way.
He toured the math lecture circuit for a while a few years ago with apparently little difficulty being in the spotlight, and then relatively suddenly shut himself away from not just the public, but pretty much everyone. This does suggest that something happened that altered his mental state. It's not necessarily bad: perhaps he found a possible solution to another problem and has simply locked himself away from the world to work on it.
Do you really trust using a random SSL proxy for getting out? That's likely to cause even more problems, because you almost certainly do not know who owns the proxy and what they're doing with your traffic. If the guy has to do anything sensitive like banking, his ability to do so safely has dropped precipitously.
Apparently, typesetting is one of those things that can grab hold of you and never let go. I know a couple of people who were trained in typesetting, and they can't seem to help but criticize the kerning and leading of... well, just about everything printed.
Carmack and Sid are just as important. For many years, Carmack was laying the groundwork for the advancement of game engines, while Sid was innovating interfaces and unique gameplay methods. I think both have slipped in current importance somewhat, but neither is laying slack.
Works on space projects and still designs game engines.
He also married one of the world's most awesome women, Anna Kang. On their honeymoon, she let a pair of computers be set up in the hotel room so that he could program when the mood struck him. No woman I know would allow such a thing to happen.
Those are all things that one could do, but I think you give AOL a little too much credit. Having known people who have worked at AOL not just in customer service but also working on the servers in the data center, that level of sophistication just isn't there, at least on a large scale when it comes to the IM infrastructure.
As for where they're routed and logged internally, that is anyone's guess. Direct connections are not terribly common anymore for the privacy and security reasons that someone mentioned elsewhere in this topic. Logging messages is a lot easier than all the tunneling and manipulation that you suggest. As the messages mostly seem to route through their datacenters, it would be trivial to set up a mechanism to log them. No need to ship them off to overseas datacenters or alter return packets.
As an experiment, I logged out of all of my IM connections, and reconnected only ICQ, then watched it in Wireshark. The connection went to 205.188.8.188, a reverse lookup of which resolves to bos-d037b-rdr1.blue.aol.com. I use Digsby primarily, and I thought that may have something to do with it, so I downloaded ICQ 7 into a VM and traced that traffic. The DNS query was for api.screenname.aol.com, and the login attempt went to 207.200.74.251, which resolves to openauthprod-vn01.evip.aol.com.
ICQ switched to AOL's OSCAR protocol several years ago. There is a definite link between the backend architectures of the two programs. AOL largely sold the name, and perhaps included some rights to use the protocol.
It depends on where you work. In most places, you won't see all of them. Where I've worked for a little over six years now, I've seen four of the six, though the possible Asperger's syndrome person was in networking, not programming. The sneering, arrogant IT guys are certainly there, as are those who insult while trying to help. And the competing gadgeteers? Three of them in my group of six people, all messing with their phones all day long.
I'm not perfect: I've lost my temper, treated others as below me, and tinkered with my own phone on work hours, but some people seem to take pride in the above mannerisms. Those are the ones that make life for new techs difficult.
Oh, it gets called out all right. The problem is that more often than not, if you call it out, they escort you out- it's often times a fine line between pointing out something as being insane and some middle or upper manager feeling you're being insubordinate.
Very true in many cases. That said, if you have the ability to speak up with less fear of getting disciplined, by all means, do so. It may do nothing, or it may get things changed for the better. While I am under no illusion that anyone is irreplaceable, sometimes a person has skills or knowledge that makes it difficult to fire or even discipline them. I have used this to my advantage on occasion, drafting pointed letters on how I see the workplace from the trenches. It has gone to select members of management who are not the general MBA-speak drones, and it seems only to have earned their trust in me.
But you can't be a slacker and complain. You have to be someone who is hard-working and gets good reviews (and being hard to replace doesn't hurt) before your complaints will be seen as anything more than whining.
Ancestry.com has something similar for its scanned documents. I've corrected numerous census and draft registration records, with a notification anywhere from a few days to a few weeks later that the changes had been accepted into the database, presumably after confirmation.
That's because the USA isn't a democracy, either. It's a republic at both the state and federal level, something guaranteed in the Constitution. Voters elect people who are delegated the powers to act on their behalf, including the appointment of cabinet members and judges and impeachment and trial of same.
Corporations cannot be jailed, so criminal charges against them are a lot like civil charges, meaning only a monetary punishment.
It's still a financial punishment, but criminal convictions of a corporation can also lead to limits on the company's ability to get contracts from governments. Using BP as an example since it's fresh in the news and criminal charges are being contemplated, the federal government has remedies in addition to fines that can be pursued, including loss of existing contracts (BP has a $2 billion contract with the USAF for fuel), loss of leases, and prohibition of bidding for future contracts and leases.
The service was delivered in Colorado, and so no, they are not conducting business in NY. If they send a private jet to pick you up from NY, then part of the service is delivered there, and hence they are doing business in both places. It depends on where the service or good is delivered, not where the transaction takes place.
What you call brush control devices use jets of propane or similar gases. Flamethrowers in the military sense (which are now extremely rare in the US, even in the military) use a gel or liquid fuel that is usually not completely burned by the time it reaches the target, thereby leaving a flaming substance that allows an easier transfer of the heat to the target. Those that use propane stop delivering heat once the flame jet is removed.
I respect Stallman's contributions and the fact that he is one of the extreme ends of the fight over free vs. non-free, and I recognize the extremists as often necessary in preventing the status quo from moving too far too quickly. The man is still a loon, though. The rarity with which he accepts others' differing points of view is fairly significant, and he can be very abrasive in trying to get his point across -- not the way to win converts. Every so often, one of the few people I've helped at least try Linux asks me who he is, and I'm usually embarrassed to explain him because they inevitably come across some rant of his. I end up telling them that he's like the old copies of Red Hat Linux we keep around -- occasionally useful, but not well-maintained and with questionable stability in the modern environment.
Fedora's been doing a pretty decent job of stripping out all of the non-free software. Licenses are a constant issue, and the Fedora Project maintains a long list of licenses that they will and will not accept. There's also their list of forbidden items (not the same as the list of license conflicts), which includes proprietary binary drivers, Flash, Sun Java, Moonlight, and TrueCrypt. Those limitations are the main reason for the existence of RPMFusion (and Livna for libdvdcss).
No, the machine isn't just a prop. Their questions are guided by indications from the machine. Come up as probably truthful not only based on what the machine shows, but also the tone and timbre of your voice, the way your eyes move, how questions are phrased... They have a whole gamut. You could be in good shape on all but the machine, but if the machine shows something questionable, they may well head further down that path.
It's not perfect, though, and they know it, which is why it's only part of the process. There are psychiatrists and other mental health experts as well as investigators who look to dig up anything that could affect the subject's integrity. It's a large and complex process, but the polygraph is generally considered to be the scariest part for first-timers.
A colleague used to work at the CIA, with Top Secret/SCIF clearance. He's told me a little about the process, including the polygraphs. The examiners there are not like what you see on TV (including what was seen on P&T). They are very good at what they do, and able to surprise the test subject on a variety of topics because no matter how much you think they know, they know more. Furthermore, they do their best (and their best is very good) to put the subject off-kilter. As the testing for employment and higher security clearances is lengthy, they have a great deal of time to work on the subject.
(He told me that he managed to upset one of the examiners who asked him if he'd ever engaged in incest. Most subjects would probably be offended or puzzled; he was very amused, and ended up laughing so much the examiner had to stop the test because it was affecting the readings.)
As time goes on, you get used to it, and it becomes routine. But for the first-timers, it can be terrifying.
They expire only if they have an expiration date (which they frequently do). They can be rescinded or modified by the executive orders of future presidents, however. Reagan signed EO 12667, regarding access to presidential records, in 1989. It was revoked by Bush in 2001, and restored by Obama in 2009.
No, they're talking about drones conducting their flights entirely in US airspace, but outside of restricted zones and MOAs. The opportunities are significant: agricultural monitoring (and maybe spraying), emergency communications in disaster areas, and border monitors come to mind.
The highest-mileage variant was sold when smog was largely not a problem anymore. By the early 1990s, smog alerts were rare, and serious smog alerts were almost unheard-of.
I'm not advocating removal of all emission controls. But when the mileage of a given vehicle is so far ahead of the rest of the pack, a special consideration should be made for it to give it a bit of leeway instead of nerfing it by 20%.
The original SUVs, like the Ford Explorer and the Suburban before it, were built on truck chassis, and a number of them still are. Some are now built on car chassis, and a few have hybrid chassis.
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That applies to the enterprise customers. How many terrorist groups have set up a BES server? I don't think that the protections on general public users are nearly the same.
Note that I'm not supportive of the Indian government's demands, but not because they're entirely infeasible, as some have suggested. They need to learn to keep doing some things the hard way.
He toured the math lecture circuit for a while a few years ago with apparently little difficulty being in the spotlight, and then relatively suddenly shut himself away from not just the public, but pretty much everyone. This does suggest that something happened that altered his mental state. It's not necessarily bad: perhaps he found a possible solution to another problem and has simply locked himself away from the world to work on it.
It's not an either-or situation. Negating the one risk does not mean that the other is irrelevant.
Do you really trust using a random SSL proxy for getting out? That's likely to cause even more problems, because you almost certainly do not know who owns the proxy and what they're doing with your traffic. If the guy has to do anything sensitive like banking, his ability to do so safely has dropped precipitously.
Apparently, typesetting is one of those things that can grab hold of you and never let go. I know a couple of people who were trained in typesetting, and they can't seem to help but criticize the kerning and leading of... well, just about everything printed.
Carmack and Sid are just as important. For many years, Carmack was laying the groundwork for the advancement of game engines, while Sid was innovating interfaces and unique gameplay methods. I think both have slipped in current importance somewhat, but neither is laying slack.
Works on space projects and still designs game engines.
He also married one of the world's most awesome women, Anna Kang. On their honeymoon, she let a pair of computers be set up in the hotel room so that he could program when the mood struck him. No woman I know would allow such a thing to happen.
Those are all things that one could do, but I think you give AOL a little too much credit. Having known people who have worked at AOL not just in customer service but also working on the servers in the data center, that level of sophistication just isn't there, at least on a large scale when it comes to the IM infrastructure.
As for where they're routed and logged internally, that is anyone's guess. Direct connections are not terribly common anymore for the privacy and security reasons that someone mentioned elsewhere in this topic. Logging messages is a lot easier than all the tunneling and manipulation that you suggest. As the messages mostly seem to route through their datacenters, it would be trivial to set up a mechanism to log them. No need to ship them off to overseas datacenters or alter return packets.
As an experiment, I logged out of all of my IM connections, and reconnected only ICQ, then watched it in Wireshark. The connection went to 205.188.8.188, a reverse lookup of which resolves to bos-d037b-rdr1.blue.aol.com. I use Digsby primarily, and I thought that may have something to do with it, so I downloaded ICQ 7 into a VM and traced that traffic. The DNS query was for api.screenname.aol.com, and the login attempt went to 207.200.74.251, which resolves to openauthprod-vn01.evip.aol.com.
ICQ switched to AOL's OSCAR protocol several years ago. There is a definite link between the backend architectures of the two programs. AOL largely sold the name, and perhaps included some rights to use the protocol.
It depends on where you work. In most places, you won't see all of them. Where I've worked for a little over six years now, I've seen four of the six, though the possible Asperger's syndrome person was in networking, not programming. The sneering, arrogant IT guys are certainly there, as are those who insult while trying to help. And the competing gadgeteers? Three of them in my group of six people, all messing with their phones all day long.
I'm not perfect: I've lost my temper, treated others as below me, and tinkered with my own phone on work hours, but some people seem to take pride in the above mannerisms. Those are the ones that make life for new techs difficult.
Oh, it gets called out all right. The problem is that more often than not, if you call it out, they escort you out- it's often times a fine line between pointing out something as being insane and some middle or upper manager feeling you're being insubordinate.
Very true in many cases. That said, if you have the ability to speak up with less fear of getting disciplined, by all means, do so. It may do nothing, or it may get things changed for the better. While I am under no illusion that anyone is irreplaceable, sometimes a person has skills or knowledge that makes it difficult to fire or even discipline them. I have used this to my advantage on occasion, drafting pointed letters on how I see the workplace from the trenches. It has gone to select members of management who are not the general MBA-speak drones, and it seems only to have earned their trust in me.
But you can't be a slacker and complain. You have to be someone who is hard-working and gets good reviews (and being hard to replace doesn't hurt) before your complaints will be seen as anything more than whining.
Ancestry.com has something similar for its scanned documents. I've corrected numerous census and draft registration records, with a notification anywhere from a few days to a few weeks later that the changes had been accepted into the database, presumably after confirmation.
That's because the USA isn't a democracy, either. It's a republic at both the state and federal level, something guaranteed in the Constitution. Voters elect people who are delegated the powers to act on their behalf, including the appointment of cabinet members and judges and impeachment and trial of same.
Corporations cannot be jailed, so criminal charges against them are a lot like civil charges, meaning only a monetary punishment.
It's still a financial punishment, but criminal convictions of a corporation can also lead to limits on the company's ability to get contracts from governments. Using BP as an example since it's fresh in the news and criminal charges are being contemplated, the federal government has remedies in addition to fines that can be pursued, including loss of existing contracts (BP has a $2 billion contract with the USAF for fuel), loss of leases, and prohibition of bidding for future contracts and leases.
The service was delivered in Colorado, and so no, they are not conducting business in NY. If they send a private jet to pick you up from NY, then part of the service is delivered there, and hence they are doing business in both places. It depends on where the service or good is delivered, not where the transaction takes place.
What you call brush control devices use jets of propane or similar gases. Flamethrowers in the military sense (which are now extremely rare in the US, even in the military) use a gel or liquid fuel that is usually not completely burned by the time it reaches the target, thereby leaving a flaming substance that allows an easier transfer of the heat to the target. Those that use propane stop delivering heat once the flame jet is removed.
I respect Stallman's contributions and the fact that he is one of the extreme ends of the fight over free vs. non-free, and I recognize the extremists as often necessary in preventing the status quo from moving too far too quickly. The man is still a loon, though. The rarity with which he accepts others' differing points of view is fairly significant, and he can be very abrasive in trying to get his point across -- not the way to win converts. Every so often, one of the few people I've helped at least try Linux asks me who he is, and I'm usually embarrassed to explain him because they inevitably come across some rant of his. I end up telling them that he's like the old copies of Red Hat Linux we keep around -- occasionally useful, but not well-maintained and with questionable stability in the modern environment.
Fedora's been doing a pretty decent job of stripping out all of the non-free software. Licenses are a constant issue, and the Fedora Project maintains a long list of licenses that they will and will not accept. There's also their list of forbidden items (not the same as the list of license conflicts), which includes proprietary binary drivers, Flash, Sun Java, Moonlight, and TrueCrypt. Those limitations are the main reason for the existence of RPMFusion (and Livna for libdvdcss).
No, the machine isn't just a prop. Their questions are guided by indications from the machine. Come up as probably truthful not only based on what the machine shows, but also the tone and timbre of your voice, the way your eyes move, how questions are phrased... They have a whole gamut. You could be in good shape on all but the machine, but if the machine shows something questionable, they may well head further down that path.
It's not perfect, though, and they know it, which is why it's only part of the process. There are psychiatrists and other mental health experts as well as investigators who look to dig up anything that could affect the subject's integrity. It's a large and complex process, but the polygraph is generally considered to be the scariest part for first-timers.
A colleague used to work at the CIA, with Top Secret/SCIF clearance. He's told me a little about the process, including the polygraphs. The examiners there are not like what you see on TV (including what was seen on P&T). They are very good at what they do, and able to surprise the test subject on a variety of topics because no matter how much you think they know, they know more. Furthermore, they do their best (and their best is very good) to put the subject off-kilter. As the testing for employment and higher security clearances is lengthy, they have a great deal of time to work on the subject.
(He told me that he managed to upset one of the examiners who asked him if he'd ever engaged in incest. Most subjects would probably be offended or puzzled; he was very amused, and ended up laughing so much the examiner had to stop the test because it was affecting the readings.)
As time goes on, you get used to it, and it becomes routine. But for the first-timers, it can be terrifying.
They expire only if they have an expiration date (which they frequently do). They can be rescinded or modified by the executive orders of future presidents, however. Reagan signed EO 12667, regarding access to presidential records, in 1989. It was revoked by Bush in 2001, and restored by Obama in 2009.
No, they're talking about drones conducting their flights entirely in US airspace, but outside of restricted zones and MOAs. The opportunities are significant: agricultural monitoring (and maybe spraying), emergency communications in disaster areas, and border monitors come to mind.
The highest-mileage variant was sold when smog was largely not a problem anymore. By the early 1990s, smog alerts were rare, and serious smog alerts were almost unheard-of.
I'm not advocating removal of all emission controls. But when the mileage of a given vehicle is so far ahead of the rest of the pack, a special consideration should be made for it to give it a bit of leeway instead of nerfing it by 20%.
One of the most terrifying things to hear from the CIO is, "They place well in Gartner's Magic Quadrant."
Cisco does this regularly. That does not mean that Cisco is a good choice. In fact, in most instances, I prefer to stay as far from Cisco as possible.
The original SUVs, like the Ford Explorer and the Suburban before it, were built on truck chassis, and a number of them still are. Some are now built on car chassis, and a few have hybrid chassis.