Putting aside the fact that running an unsecured network should also be a punishable offence in this day and age, the kid was still in the wrong. Just because you can break into a network does not give you the right to do so. The question is whether or not he did it on purpose or if it was just another stupid Windows box attaching to the nearest open wireless access point (I've lost count of the number of times I've accidentally attached to my neighbour's WAP [1]... telling Windows not too is like pulling teeth).
I just hope the conviction isn't too harsh. A fine would be more appropriate than jail time.
[1] And yes, I have told him to fix it. Even did the neighbourly thing and secured his network for for him. The following day he removed my configuration because "he didn't like entering a password". He'll learn the hard way eventually.
Yes, because any commercial DVR that dares to include it and gets popular will be sued repeatedly until they remove the feature. In any case, the only thing it will lead to is those obnoxious adds that appear at the bottom of the screen during the show you're trying to watch becoming more prevalent, not to mention even more obnoxious (CourtTV is one bad example, their ads squishes the picture to 2/3 of its original size).
Like it or not, that's what pays for the TV we watch:(
I'm going to assume here that you must use Windows. Honestly, it's not much harder to lock down than Linux.
* It's relatively simple to lock down users with GPO where all they see is a start menu and specifically what you want to give them. Make sure you remove access to the C: drive. Be warned that there are ways around it so keep you eyes open. * If you MUST give them net access, force proxy and restrict the hell out of them. Teenagers will look at stuff they're not supposed to and are very creative at getting around firewalls:) Dan's Guardian is an excellent free solution that does content filtering. Squidguard also works well. The best advice is to block everything except what you want them to see. Ditch IE and use one of the Kiosk addons for Firefox or Mozilla (there are several). * Get ghostcast, or opforce, or something free and reimage them every night. You'll thank me later. * There'll be one or two kids (usually just one) that always manage to get around your restrictions. These are the kids that will one day have hugely successful IT careers. My experience is it's better to give them some extra responsibility to help YOU out, they'll thank you for it.
We played a game called "British Bulldogs", I'm sure variants exist worldwide. Similar to tag only two teams and one person is "it". Each team has a base, you charge the other teams base and the "it" tries to tag as many people as possible. Last one standing at the other teams base wins. Great fun, and:
Great, so for $13 a month I can listen to some no-talent shock jock making dumb comments with his idiot buddies? Woohoo. No thanks.
Howard Stern was mildly amusing when he was being censored, just to see how far he would push it. Now he's uncensored what little humour there was has been lost.
In my experience, people in the IT industry have a lower incidence of divorce in general. It is more likely that divorce happens because you do not prioritise what's really important (work vs. relationship). Blaming it on your job is just silly.
What is a 14 year old doing playing a game that is clearly rated for adults? Maybe the parents should have been regulating their child rather than relying on the industry to do it for them. Why aren't they simply the parents of the 14-year old?
Society is not responsible for bringing up your children. YOU are responsible for regulating what your kids can and cannot do. YOU are responsible for teaching them the difference between right and wrong. YOU are responsible for making sure they know the difference between what you can do in fantasy worlds (eg video games) and reality.
Are there any astronauts out there who are also certified surgeons? I'm sure there's been one but they're probably not all that common. I think I read somewhere that all astronauts are required to become paramedics (which makes good sense) so they would at least have SOME medical training, but that doesn't equate to poking around inside someone's body. Besides, if something goes horribly wrong on the ISS the patient would be in big trouble. Better to have it in a semi-controlled environment at least.
At some point, we will have permanent space stations with enough people to make having a qualified physician on board practical (if we ever get to 7 people I'm sure it'll become a necessity). As far as I know, we have never had a medical emergency in space but it is inevitable. This makes these kind of experiments important. All the same, I would not want to be that patient!
No, the.45 bullet will NOT knock you off your feet. Every action has an equal and opposite reaction, if the.45 slug knocked you over, the guy who fired it would be on his back also. What knocks you off your feet is the shock of your internal organs being turned to mush by the slug disintegrating inside your body. Essentially, you fall over from the pain.
They're not friends, that is self-evident from the show. Jamie and Adam's relationship seems purely professional and is built on mutual respect. The article states that Jamie does not, and has no desire to, spend any social time with Adam outside of the show but enjoys working with him.
What, you don't want to shell out several thousand dollars for Netbackup and a tape library??? What's your problem!? (OK, so I'm a little biased... supporting Netbackup is what keeps a roof over my head).
The number 1 mistake people make when doing backups: They write far, far too much data to their tapes. If I had a nickle for every time I saw a user backing up their swap partition and wondering why they where running out of tapes... well, it'd maybe get me a free meal a month. At a fast food joint. From the dollar menu. I digress. Make sure all of that 30Gb is stuff you genuinely can't get anywhere else. Oh, and RAR works great with all those important documents.
Seriously, though. Why not use a tape drive? DDS tape drives sell for next to nothing on Ebay (my DDS-3 6 tape autochanger was less than $20). NTBackup is free and spans quite nicely. DDS4 tapes hold 20-30Gb of data and cost about the same as a high quality audio tape. Incidentally, Microsoft: Please modify NT backup to work with CD/DVD-RWs (or even DVD-RAMs). I wait for the feature with every new version of windows, it sounds like such a simple idea to me but they've never done it.
Small business:
Nero bundle a fairly decent backup product with their Burning ROM software. It's very reasonably priced. It comes free with many burners.
Backup Exec isn't much more expensive and works VERY well. Tapes only, though.
You're really, really cheap? Buy another hard drive and mirror your primary. 30Gb drives costs next to nothing.
1. "As much swap as you're ever likely to use in your environment." Which involves watching your swap usage over time and optimising it accordingly.
2. "1GB of swap per CPU". This was told to me by a Solaris admin, and I'm still not sure what he meant by it. Solaris is particularly good at handling swap dynamically, however.
Personally, I always assign double the RAM on the machine and have yet to run into problems. On my 2Gb VMWare box I hit about a 2Gb charge when all 4 virtual machines are hammering away nicely, with little or no slowdown (some more physical RAM wouldn't hurt a bit though, I expect). The extra 4Gb is there if something really silly happens.
The point is, the machine has 300Gb of drive space... if I wanted more swap I could easily add it. Drive space is cheap, why risk losing a production machine to something daft like a runaway process?
Helping kids less fortunate than himself by teaching them how to use a computer. Get local business invovled to donate said unfortunate kids a new computer. Oh, and find out from his parents why the hell they weren't monitoring his internet access, then prosecute them as well.
You are right, there has been improvements in indoor plumbing over the years but there has only been two major innovations (in my mind) that have benefitted the humble WC:
1. Automatic air freshners (let's be honest, faeces smell) 2. Automatic flushers (for the assholes [and their owners] in public bathrooms who do not flush).
What I would like to see is something other than toilet paper for cleaning oneself that's hygenic, clean and doesn't involve me shoving my hand up my arse. No, not a bidet, something simpler. Whoever invents that is going to be a billionaire (three seashells anyone?;-)).
Florida also has several self-defense statutes to protect victims (ostensibly). If someone attacked me in the street and I thought my life was in danger, I would be well within my legal rights to shoot them. I don't have the figures, but I suspect it has made some of the smarter criminals think twice. I hope so.
I know you're trying to be funny but I've seen what happens to a kid when they go on Ritalin. They turn into Zombies, and when they're NOT on the stuff they have no idea how to handle their emotions. So, you end up with a kid who previously had a few minor issues that could be addressed without pills (usually they just need more attention) who will now spend the rest of their life popping pills and in counselling just to stay normal.
I fucking hate people who put their kids on medicine.
Yes, that sounds like my Mother. If I claimed boredom, I'd get the standard lecture about how much she'd love to be bored and then handed a chore to do.
20 years later I find myself agreeing with her 100%:-)
When my 3 year old threw a tantrum because the toy I bought him didn't make any noises I vowed to start buying him more "manual" toys. The big issue nowadays with kids toys is that the kid doesn't need to play with them. They press a button, it does something cool and they sit and watch it. Yuck.
When I was a kid, such toys where very expensive and a treat you only got at christmas (that Millenium Falcon ruled!. Of course, now you can pick them up at [something]-Mart for a couple of dollars.
Since encouraging my own children to play with more traditional toys (cars, lego, etc.) I've seen their imaginations improve and less cries of "I'm bored!".
I have a full Active Directory environment, including SQL and Exchange clusters all running on my lab machine here. 5 virtual machines in total. Runs amazingly well considering. I love this product!
People who work for Geek squad are a) kids looking for some extra money, b) genuine computer geeks either at the beginning of their career or in between jobs. The b) category make up the minority and they do a great job. The a) category are either b) wannabes who do their best, or the VAST majority who really couldn't care less. Most entry level computer support jobs are like this. The pay is terrible, so unless you're passionate about the work you're not going to be particularly motivated to do a good job.
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Putting aside the fact that running an unsecured network should also be a punishable offence in this day and age, the kid was still in the wrong. Just because you can break into a network does not give you the right to do so. The question is whether or not he did it on purpose or if it was just another stupid Windows box attaching to the nearest open wireless access point (I've lost count of the number of times I've accidentally attached to my neighbour's WAP [1] ... telling Windows not too is like pulling teeth).
I just hope the conviction isn't too harsh. A fine would be more appropriate than jail time.
[1] And yes, I have told him to fix it. Even did the neighbourly thing and secured his network for for him. The following day he removed my configuration because "he didn't like entering a password". He'll learn the hard way eventually.
Yes, because any commercial DVR that dares to include it and gets popular will be sued repeatedly until they remove the feature. In any case, the only thing it will lead to is those obnoxious adds that appear at the bottom of the screen during the show you're trying to watch becoming more prevalent, not to mention even more obnoxious (CourtTV is one bad example, their ads squishes the picture to 2/3 of its original size).
:(
Like it or not, that's what pays for the TV we watch
Very clear skies tonight over Florida so looked great, could see the boosters dropping off as well. Thanks for the fireworks show, NASA!
I'm going to assume here that you must use Windows. Honestly, it's not much harder to lock down than Linux.
:) Dan's Guardian is an excellent free solution that does content filtering. Squidguard also works well. The best advice is to block everything except what you want them to see. Ditch IE and use one of the Kiosk addons for Firefox or Mozilla (there are several).
* It's relatively simple to lock down users with GPO where all they see is a start menu and specifically what you want to give them. Make sure you remove access to the C: drive. Be warned that there are ways around it so keep you eyes open.
* If you MUST give them net access, force proxy and restrict the hell out of them. Teenagers will look at stuff they're not supposed to and are very creative at getting around firewalls
* Get ghostcast, or opforce, or something free and reimage them every night. You'll thank me later.
* There'll be one or two kids (usually just one) that always manage to get around your restrictions. These are the kids that will one day have hugely successful IT careers. My experience is it's better to give them some extra responsibility to help YOU out, they'll thank you for it.
We played a game called "British Bulldogs", I'm sure variants exist worldwide. Similar to tag only two teams and one person is "it". Each team has a base, you charge the other teams base and the "it" tries to tag as many people as possible. Last one standing at the other teams base wins. Great fun, and:
* Promotes teamwork
* Promotes excercise
* Promotes tactical thinking
Sure, sometimes kids get hurt. Kids are going to get hurt no matter what you do, it's part of growing up. Deal with it.
Great, so for $13 a month I can listen to some no-talent shock jock making dumb comments with his idiot buddies? Woohoo. No thanks.
Howard Stern was mildly amusing when he was being censored, just to see how far he would push it. Now he's uncensored what little humour there was has been lost.
In my experience, people in the IT industry have a lower incidence of divorce in general. It is more likely that divorce happens because you do not prioritise what's really important (work vs. relationship). Blaming it on your job is just silly.
What is a 14 year old doing playing a game that is clearly rated for adults? Maybe the parents should have been regulating their child rather than relying on the industry to do it for them. Why aren't they simply the parents of the 14-year old?
Society is not responsible for bringing up your children. YOU are responsible for regulating what your kids can and cannot do. YOU are responsible for teaching them the difference between right and wrong. YOU are responsible for making sure they know the difference between what you can do in fantasy worlds (eg video games) and reality.
Are there any astronauts out there who are also certified surgeons? I'm sure there's been one but they're probably not all that common. I think I read somewhere that all astronauts are required to become paramedics (which makes good sense) so they would at least have SOME medical training, but that doesn't equate to poking around inside someone's body. Besides, if something goes horribly wrong on the ISS the patient would be in big trouble. Better to have it in a semi-controlled environment at least.
At some point, we will have permanent space stations with enough people to make having a qualified physician on board practical (if we ever get to 7 people I'm sure it'll become a necessity). As far as I know, we have never had a medical emergency in space but it is inevitable. This makes these kind of experiments important. All the same, I would not want to be that patient!
No, the .45 bullet will NOT knock you off your feet. Every action has an equal and opposite reaction, if the .45 slug knocked you over, the guy who fired it would be on his back also. What knocks you off your feet is the shock of your internal organs being turned to mush by the slug disintegrating inside your body. Essentially, you fall over from the pain.
They're not friends, that is self-evident from the show. Jamie and Adam's relationship seems purely professional and is built on mutual respect. The article states that Jamie does not, and has no desire to, spend any social time with Adam outside of the show but enjoys working with him.
They do? Where? Most people hate the classic theme in my experience. Maybe most in the IT world, but certainly not consumers.
SCSI adapters suitable for a DDS drive cost about $15.
What, you don't want to shell out several thousand dollars for Netbackup and a tape library??? What's your problem!? (OK, so I'm a little biased... supporting Netbackup is what keeps a roof over my head).
The number 1 mistake people make when doing backups: They write far, far too much data to their tapes. If I had a nickle for every time I saw a user backing up their swap partition and wondering why they where running out of tapes... well, it'd maybe get me a free meal a month. At a fast food joint. From the dollar menu. I digress. Make sure all of that 30Gb is stuff you genuinely can't get anywhere else. Oh, and RAR works great with all those important documents.
Seriously, though. Why not use a tape drive? DDS tape drives sell for next to nothing on Ebay (my DDS-3 6 tape autochanger was less than $20). NTBackup is free and spans quite nicely. DDS4 tapes hold 20-30Gb of data and cost about the same as a high quality audio tape. Incidentally, Microsoft: Please modify NT backup to work with CD/DVD-RWs (or even DVD-RAMs). I wait for the feature with every new version of windows, it sounds like such a simple idea to me but they've never done it.
Small business:
Nero bundle a fairly decent backup product with their Burning ROM software. It's very reasonably priced. It comes free with many burners.
Backup Exec isn't much more expensive and works VERY well. Tapes only, though.
You're really, really cheap? Buy another hard drive and mirror your primary. 30Gb drives costs next to nothing.
1. "As much swap as you're ever likely to use in your environment." Which involves watching your swap usage over time and optimising it accordingly.
2. "1GB of swap per CPU". This was told to me by a Solaris admin, and I'm still not sure what he meant by it. Solaris is particularly good at handling swap dynamically, however.
Personally, I always assign double the RAM on the machine and have yet to run into problems. On my 2Gb VMWare box I hit about a 2Gb charge when all 4 virtual machines are hammering away nicely, with little or no slowdown (some more physical RAM wouldn't hurt a bit though, I expect). The extra 4Gb is there if something really silly happens.
The point is, the machine has 300Gb of drive space... if I wanted more swap I could easily add it. Drive space is cheap, why risk losing a production machine to something daft like a runaway process?
I mean, why not... let's be honest you WILL watch it just for curiousity even if you hate it. At least it's not Enterprise.
HDTV Star Trek sounds cool to me anyway.
Helping kids less fortunate than himself by teaching them how to use a computer. Get local business invovled to donate said unfortunate kids a new computer. Oh, and find out from his parents why the hell they weren't monitoring his internet access, then prosecute them as well.
You are right, there has been improvements in indoor plumbing over the years but there has only been two major innovations (in my mind) that have benefitted the humble WC:
;-)).
1. Automatic air freshners (let's be honest, faeces smell)
2. Automatic flushers (for the assholes [and their owners] in public bathrooms who do not flush).
What I would like to see is something other than toilet paper for cleaning oneself that's hygenic, clean and doesn't involve me shoving my hand up my arse. No, not a bidet, something simpler. Whoever invents that is going to be a billionaire (three seashells anyone?
I really could care less, but anyway:
zone "cm" { type delegation-only; };
There, annoying problem solved.
Florida also has several self-defense statutes to protect victims (ostensibly). If someone attacked me in the street and I thought my life was in danger, I would be well within my legal rights to shoot them. I don't have the figures, but I suspect it has made some of the smarter criminals think twice. I hope so.
I know you're trying to be funny but I've seen what happens to a kid when they go on Ritalin. They turn into Zombies, and when they're NOT on the stuff they have no idea how to handle their emotions. So, you end up with a kid who previously had a few minor issues that could be addressed without pills (usually they just need more attention) who will now spend the rest of their life popping pills and in counselling just to stay normal.
I fucking hate people who put their kids on medicine.
Yes, that sounds like my Mother. If I claimed boredom, I'd get the standard lecture about how much she'd love to be bored and then handed a chore to do.
:-)
20 years later I find myself agreeing with her 100%
When my 3 year old threw a tantrum because the toy I bought him didn't make any noises I vowed to start buying him more "manual" toys. The big issue nowadays with kids toys is that the kid doesn't need to play with them. They press a button, it does something cool and they sit and watch it. Yuck.
When I was a kid, such toys where very expensive and a treat you only got at christmas (that Millenium Falcon ruled!. Of course, now you can pick them up at [something]-Mart for a couple of dollars.
Since encouraging my own children to play with more traditional toys (cars, lego, etc.) I've seen their imaginations improve and less cries of "I'm bored!".
I have a full Active Directory environment, including SQL and Exchange clusters all running on my lab machine here. 5 virtual machines in total. Runs amazingly well considering. I love this product!
People who work for Geek squad are a) kids looking for some extra money, b) genuine computer geeks either at the beginning of their career or in between jobs. The b) category make up the minority and they do a great job. The a) category are either b) wannabes who do their best, or the VAST majority who really couldn't care less. Most entry level computer support jobs are like this. The pay is terrible, so unless you're passionate about the work you're not going to be particularly motivated to do a good job.