I have to question your abilities of a System Admin if you've gone to the extremes of securing your servers in all the appropriate manners, yet you still cry foul if you are hacked.
That's about half right.
There's a trade off between usability and risk. Balancing those should not be done seperately by each individual system adminstrator. Especially not in each individual moment. I don't always agree with the security policies I'm directed to enforce ( I think they're frequently too lax ) but I also realize that it's not my call and it's not my money that would be spent to fix the holes. Even lax policies are better than decisions made on the spur of the moment.
OTOH, it doesn't make sense to "cry foul" if you get hacked due to an exploit that was perceived as low risk. It makes better sense to take a good hard look at your risk evaluation.
The university should spend money on hiring some admins with better computer skills and teaching skills rather than paying lawyers.
This is naive.
Computing security isn't about individual admins. Choosing to make it about individual admins while ignoring policy and process is guaranteeing that security lapses will occur.
Recumbents are not magic. There are things they do well and things they don't do well. Like climbing, they really suck at climbing. There's LOTS of that in the major tours, so riding a recumbent would be a good strategy for winning the lanterne rouge.
And the NFL, MLB, NBA and FIFA, etc. Let's not kid ourselves. There's a show of an anti-doping movement in Pro sports, but it's just for show. Barry Bonds is still playing. NFL rosters are full of 300 lb linemen who can run the 40 yard dash in 5 seconds. There used to be none. What changed? "BETTER NUTRITION!" Oh, yeah.
The governing bodies may not care, but anabolic steroids and the steroids used for medical treatments are very different.
The governing bodies are not all the same. Google "operation puerto". The blood recovered from Dr. Fuentes refrigerator was identified as belonging to cyclists and football (soccer) players and iot was turned over to the respective governing bodies.
The UCI investigated vigorously. Ullrich retired. Basso was banned for 2 years, etc.
One of the things about Anonymous that makes it different than most groups is that there are no real leaders and that, due to its very nature, nobody really knows anyone else in the group short of a few people...
You probably should have read the thread before you responded.
I'm arguing against the idea that installing a dictator in power gives you special rights in perpetuity.
By default, messing around with the governments in other countries is "wrong". It'll get you into trouble. Justifying it takes more than saying "Yeah, but we did it there before."
When everyone can destroy satellites, why should the US allied sats survive ?
You damn liberals can't let this go a second before kicking off your ASAT Control agenda. Our right to own ASATs was guaranteed by the founding fathers in the second amendment. Don't you realize that when ASATs are outlawed, only outlaws will have ASATs? ASATs don't kill satellites, faceless government bureaucracies do.
given a choice between China running over the world or the US I would much prefer the latter
Yeah, but you're not given a choice. Give it 50 years or so and China WILL be running all over the world. Don't get me wrong, I'm all for giving you a vote in this. I just don't see the mechanism.
There was no need to show off, we had already shot down a satellite in 1985.
That's classified and no one's supposed to know! Talking about that will get you a room at Gitmo. Oh wait. 1985? Ah, I was thinking of the one we shot down in 1987. You're OK. My bad.
What they've done is taken the same old thing that wasn't clearly understood and put the label "data mining" on it. Now that it's been labeled, some will feel like we've got a better handle on it than we did before.
Then it's kind of misleading to say you met your wife "on line",
Only true if he's talking to someone who thinks "online" means "we were using web browsers to access our myspace accounts." But he can't be held responsible for the confusion of someone THAT clueless.
There are only 2 ways to be: Conservative and Liberal. Conservative is synonymous with Republican and Liberal is a synonym for Democrat. Every news network is in agreement on this. Don't buck the system!
The candidates most aligned with the conservative base are unlikely to win a national election against either of the Democratic contenders. Would they prefer McCain to beat Clinton/Obama in a national election, or Romney to lose to the Democrats?
Honest question here: when did Romney become "aligned with the conservative base"? Isn't that a recent thing? Couldn't become slightly misaligned after he's nominated?
How can someone claim to be a Christian and at the same time selectively disregard his God's words?
I'm honestly curious as I've never come across someone with your beliefs.
I'm going to assume you're Christian. Have you ever noticed contradictions in the Bible? Those are generally resolved by discounting the importance of portions of the Bible. Have you ever noticed how many different flavors of Christianity there are? That's because Apostolics emphasize some portions of the Bible and discount others while Lutherans emphasize and discount other portions.
in software and package deals, maybe, but in hardware?
I don't think it's a hardware vs software issue. I've seen an awful lot of purchasing decisions made with little understanding of the actual requirement. Sometimes a salesman pushes a solution as an answer to everything and the check gets written. Other times someone buys the biggest, most expensive thing made because they don't know exactly what's needed. They want to cover all the possibilities that might occur and the most versatile things tend to be the most expensive. True for both hardware and software.
There are doping leagues for baseball, basketball, and football? I've never heard of that. Are you talking about a European thing?
Oddly, I was pretty sure that the doping leagues were named MLB, the NBA and the NFL and I didn't know what those non-doping leagues he was talking about were. The NFL, in particular, seems suspect. No IOC oversite, no WADA, and a bunch of 300 lb guys who can run the 40 yard dash in 5 seconds.
Synergy is the greatest word ever. You can apply it TO anything to mean anything and you always sound like you know what you're talking about ESPECIALLY if you have no clue.
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I have to question your abilities of a System Admin if you've gone to the extremes of securing your servers in all the appropriate manners, yet you still cry foul if you are hacked.
That's about half right.
There's a trade off between usability and risk. Balancing those should not be done seperately by each individual system adminstrator. Especially not in each individual moment. I don't always agree with the security policies I'm directed to enforce ( I think they're frequently too lax ) but I also realize that it's not my call and it's not my money that would be spent to fix the holes. Even lax policies are better than decisions made on the spur of the moment.
OTOH, it doesn't make sense to "cry foul" if you get hacked due to an exploit that was perceived as low risk. It makes better sense to take a good hard look at your risk evaluation.
The university should spend money on hiring some admins with better computer skills and teaching skills rather than paying lawyers.
This is naive.
Computing security isn't about individual admins. Choosing to make it about individual admins while ignoring policy and process is guaranteeing that security lapses will occur.
I wouldn't use a recumbent for a race up a mountain, but I also don't saw wood with a hammer. That's just me.
Recumbents are not magic. There are things they do well and things they don't do well. Like climbing, they really suck at climbing. There's LOTS of that in the major tours, so riding a recumbent would be a good strategy for winning the lanterne rouge.
And the NFL, MLB, NBA and FIFA, etc. Let's not kid ourselves. There's a show of an anti-doping movement in Pro sports, but it's just for show. Barry Bonds is still playing. NFL rosters are full of 300 lb linemen who can run the 40 yard dash in 5 seconds. There used to be none. What changed? "BETTER NUTRITION!" Oh, yeah.
The governing bodies may not care, but anabolic steroids and the steroids used for medical treatments are very different.
The governing bodies are not all the same. Google "operation puerto". The blood recovered from Dr. Fuentes refrigerator was identified as belonging to cyclists and football (soccer) players and iot was turned over to the respective governing bodies.
The UCI investigated vigorously. Ullrich retired. Basso was banned for 2 years, etc.
FIFA lost the blood samples. OOPS!
I was going to go for "19 percent? Isn't that GW Bush's approval rating?"
Kind of similar.
You probably should have read the thread before you responded.
I'm arguing against the idea that installing a dictator in power gives you special rights in perpetuity.
By default, messing around with the governments in other countries is "wrong". It'll get you into trouble. Justifying it takes more than saying "Yeah, but we did it there before."
And after that, could we review the difference between comedians and mathematicians?
You damn liberals can't let this go a second before kicking off your ASAT Control agenda. Our right to own ASATs was guaranteed by the founding fathers in the second amendment. Don't you realize that when ASATs are outlawed, only outlaws will have ASATs? ASATs don't kill satellites, faceless government bureaucracies do.
Etc., etc., etc.
Yeah, but you're not given a choice. Give it 50 years or so and China WILL be running all over the world. Don't get me wrong, I'm all for giving you a vote in this. I just don't see the mechanism.
That's classified and no one's supposed to know! Talking about that will get you a room at Gitmo. Oh wait. 1985? Ah, I was thinking of the one we shot down in 1987. You're OK. My bad.
Our parliament is bi? Oh man, what a scandal THIS will turn out to be!
What they've done is taken the same old thing that wasn't clearly understood and put the label "data mining" on it. Now that it's been labeled, some will feel like we've got a better handle on it than we did before.
Only true if he's talking to someone who thinks "online" means "we were using web browsers to access our myspace accounts." But he can't be held responsible for the confusion of someone THAT clueless.
There are only 2 ways to be: Conservative and Liberal. Conservative is synonymous with Republican and Liberal is a synonym for Democrat. Every news network is in agreement on this. Don't buck the system!
Absolutely. And we wouldn't dream of having it any other way! Well, maybe we would if we could but we can't, so why even talk about it?
Honest question here: when did Romney become "aligned with the conservative base"? Isn't that a recent thing? Couldn't become slightly misaligned after he's nominated?
I'm going to assume you're Christian. Have you ever noticed contradictions in the Bible? Those are generally resolved by discounting the importance of portions of the Bible. Have you ever noticed how many different flavors of Christianity there are? That's because Apostolics emphasize some portions of the Bible and discount others while Lutherans emphasize and discount other portions.
Everyone does it.
Oddly, I was pretty sure that the doping leagues were named MLB, the NBA and the NFL and I didn't know what those non-doping leagues he was talking about were. The NFL, in particular, seems suspect. No IOC oversite, no WADA, and a bunch of 300 lb guys who can run the 40 yard dash in 5 seconds.
Synergy is the greatest word ever. You can apply it TO anything to mean anything and you always sound like you know what you're talking about ESPECIALLY if you have no clue.
Use it randomly.