I've not lost any rights lately. Have you? Of course not.
how about the right to travel freely around the country on an airplane without having my bung-hole searched for things that might actually help terrorists cause the plane to crash? like nail clippers or tweezers (which is why I carry a knife made of ballistic nylon; totally undetectable w/o sticking your hand in my underwear waistband and grabbing my sack). either that or the TSA is just a bunch of queers who inherited the moron mindset from their big-brother butt-buddies at the FBI. his name wasn't Hoover for nothing.....
Out of all the postings I read, only one even came close to another suggestion.......look at the database. More specifically, Peachtree used to come with different database formats, like Btrieve or Access.
I used to support Btrieve and can tell you that it is one solid database. It was always the software apps built around it that were shite if there were problems. If you are having crashes, you need to check which database is being used. If it is Btrieve, then you may want to look at your code (Peachtree). Btrieve (now Pervasive at pervasive.com) comes in several different flavors of workgroup engine, server engine, standalone, enterprise, etc. if the accounting data is not in Btrieve data format, well....'nough said.
Chances are, if you are a victim of a crime, it's either random or committed by someone you know
gee, what would that add up to? maybe a 100%? you sure picked a winning statement there...either random or done by someone I know. what are the odds of THAT happening?
If you're majoring in NE then join the Navy as a Nuclear Officer. You should be able to coast thru Nuclear Power School with your education; just keep your mouth shut and your eyes & ears open. You also get your loans deferred, veterans preference for hiring when in the civil servant sector, and a number of other benefits like the GI Bill and Nuclear Officer yearly bonus (about $10k year extra). Speaking as a former enlisted navy nuke myself, I can attest to all this. Not saying it won't be hard, but you get good hands-on training.
one other side benefit you didn't mention. I have a ceiling fan in the living room that would go thru 40w fan light-bulbs like they grew on trees. I would replace at least 1-2 a month and these were supposed to be suited for fans and withstand heavy vibration. COuld never figure out what was causing the problem, vibration or burnout or power surges. I finally got sick of it and got those 15w lightbulbs in Home Depot abut 5-6 months ago. Yeah, they cost about 4 times as much, but I'm not constantly having to run to the store to get more lightbulbs as not one of them has burnt out yet. And if this keeps up, I won't have to replace them for a long time coming, thus saving me time and money and unnecessary aggravation.
I examine financial institutions (credit unions) in the area of IT controls and policies and procedures. I can tell you that the GLB Act basically specifies 3 things. They are:
-all data is private, you must keep it secure
-vendors handling your data must keep it at least as secure as you are required to
-I can't remember the 3rd at this time of night
Anyway, if I found out during the exam that the party who performed an "audit" only did a simple port scan, I certainly wouldn't hesitate in letting the credit union know that they were taken advantage of and their "security audit" was most likely unacceptable and could not be relied upon as showing due diligence in execution of their duties. I've had some extremely small credit unions tell me that their DSL Internet connection has a firewall....a Linksys cable/modem router and ZoneAlarm Pro! and they were serious!
Due to varying circumstances, I give a lot of leeway in what is required of these financial institutions. I don't necessarily require them to have an IDS or a firewall. It all depends on their particular circumstances. However, if there is even a possibility of remote access, I scrutinize their setups and make recommendations on what they can do to improve the situation and cover their asses.
while keeping in mind what everyone else has said, just remember that this is Germany. they will look straight at you and repeat exactly the same thing they just said as if they did not hear your question about what they just said. you will _need_ to have a German friend help you through the mazes of red-tape and bureaucracy. my father's German wife used to be the Deutsche Telekom liaison for the military in Wiesbaden. you would not believe how many military would not understand the system which is why they had her in the job. she made sure the military stationed over there understood all the ramifications of getting hooked up to DT. just be lucky you are military and won't have to be paying a horsepower tax or a t.v. tax
what's even worse is that some of the ATM's are now run on a TCP/IP network. consider that thought for a few seconds and then say "ooohhhh shiiiitt !!!!!"
don't forget dealing with the fucking crazy drivers who come from all over the world to visit Mickey Mouse and his buddies. every region has a certain driving style.....Orlando has it all, including hot humid summers with lightning capitol Tampa Bay a short drive away and lots of bugs and other crap.
did my time at Naval Training Base Nuke School there . the only cool thing being so close to Cocoa Beach and Cape Canaveral. Watching a shuttle take off after dark is THE coolest thing! especially when the sunset is dark red and there are some clouds. you can see the thing light up the whole sky. awesome! as for the rest of the time, you heard my spiel.
sadly enough, the popular vote is NEVER important. the electoral college decides who gets to become president. they are not bound by the election results and can vote any way they want. historically speaking, however, there are less than a handful of times this has actually happened.
It's not that easy to get a gun illegally if you do not know the right people
bullshit. I can walk down the street and buy a gun from the guy around the corner without having to go thru any kind of federal background check. in fact, in order to avoid a background check (not that I would be prohibited from owning a weapon, it's just not the governments business to know my business), I bought my.410 gauge shotgun from my father who knows quite a bit more about weaponry than I do. He purchased the weapon from another individual. These weapons are not required to be registered in our state. He was the one who recommended a shotgun rather than a handgun. why? if you're a criminal getting ready to break into my house, what would you do if you heard me, thru my front door, jacking a round into my shotgun? you'd know that I was ready to bust your ass and you'd be taking your business elsewhere.
you must be what, 18-19 yrs old? otherwise, you would understand what it means to protect your family from criminals. I've lived in Germany, as well as in England and the US. Grew up there too since my father was stationed overseas. We rescued your country from a megalomaniacal asshole, one that TOOK guns away from the undesirables. And then he took their businesses and homes. And then he took their lives.
America IS the Land of the Free. Unlike Germany, I can say Heil Hitler in public if I so desire. whether or not I think it is appropriate is beside the point, we have freedom of speech without fear of retribution in this country. If that happened in Germany, why don't you tell the rest of/. readers what would happen? you obviously are one of those socialistic assholes who think that you know what is right for everyone else.
With great power comes great responsibility. Some people are able to handle it, some are not. With great freedom comes great liabilities. In this country, you are pretty much free to do as you please as long as you don't materially impinge on others.
I don't like a lot of things our President is doing. I don't like his taking away of civil rights (the Patriot Act) or his declaration that all people arrested for terrorism are not allowed to consult with lawyers. It stinks of a star chamber, something our founding fathers sought to avoid by establishing 3 branches, each with checks and balances on the others.
So, you see, it's not that we have fallen for the NRA "propaganda bullshit" as you so succinctly put it. It is you who has fallen for the "propaganda bullshit" of "if no one had weapons, we'd all be safe" and "people don't kill people, guns kill people".
Grow up, keep your mouth shut, observe society, do some living, then make a judgment. But only after you've gotten some real world-life experience.
please don't equate American government with American people. remember, Gore got the popular vote, not Bush. most of us think Bush is a fucking moron. every time I go thru airport security I give them hell. last time I said they were profiling me and being discriminatory, they said "no way", I said "so how did you pick me out?", "oh based on your attitude", "Ah-Hah! so you are profiling based on attitude!".... that shut them up
"It's where he made his millions, and it's all he knows"
only partially true. W never made a dime in the oil business. daddy's friends bailed his ass out every time. and as for him knowing anything, well, that's highly debata-table. (as Dumbass would say it)
billy billy billy.... if you gonna post to the list using a pseudonym, at least don't be so obvious about trying to cover for your position of "....not wanting to block the do-not-call list", "....doing it right the first time", and "....implementing it in the most effective manner". the taxpayers are smarter than that....
....so a solution that is portable by means of CD-R would be preferable.
I thought they had a solution called M$ Technet, usually carries the service packs as they come out. while it doesn't normally carry hotfixes, I don't see why you can't download those to your server as a 'corporate' install option, and then burn those to cd-rom. while that doesn't really take care of the patch-push issue, you might be able to work the burned cd's into the scenario either by pushing those out to the systems' hard drive at login time and then having them run a batch script to patch the system.
the unwritten question in his request is "has anybody else run across this scenario"? but No, you just basically told him to f*ck off with your "....why anyone bothers to post this to Ask/......". having dealt with government entities myself, I know how they can stick it to you. they may not know their rural residents are using this service and may not care. they may also throw a hissy fit cause the local j.p. ain't getting his cut of the cable franchise or whatever. the point being, your only valid point was "talk to a lawyer". but yet, even that was stupid advice because YOU did not tell him to locate a lawyer familiar with this aspect of the government laws. you sure as hell don't hire a divorce attorney for this kind of work. your score was a 5? shit, you should be modded down to FlameBait 1.
then find out what is in the city. other than that, pick your own category of stuff to check out thru-out the country. btw, the baseball park thing has already been done
the other thing to take into account is that most school districts pay you for the time you actually teach and you only get paid once per month. so? you try and live on a once per month paycheck AND then remember to save money to pay your bills for the 3-month summer. if I had to do that, I'd have to save $3500/mortgage, $600/utilities, $1200/carpayment, $1000/general expenses, $300/insurance. anything else I miss? I'm a gov't worker who gets paid once-a-month now and you have to be careful on what you spend.
why do you think teachers teach summer school? not just for the hell of it.
If you are called to serve, remember to refuse to take any oath to uphold the law.
I will take that oath to administer justice as appropriate.
Democratically enacted laws? What a load of horse shit! You mean laws passed by senators and congressman only looking out for the welfare of their donors/constituents (Eli Lilly and oil companies come to mind). And what about all the extraneous crap thrown into the latest piece of law coming out of D.C.? Do we really need a federally funded 'Hacker Research Center' at Texas A&M?
Why is it that duly elected officials that goto to D.C. always feel that they are above the law and have to play favorites? Why is it that a majority of them seem to have law degrees or political science majors? I very seriously doubt that our Founding Fathers envisioned having congressmen serve year after self-serving year. They meant it to be more like giving a few years of service to your neighbors and then returning to your regular day job.
When was the last time that Congress gave themselves a raise? Oh, that's right, they really don't have to because they voted themselves a law to give themselves annual payraises! When was the last time that a high-priced lawyer said "You know, I really don't need a salary of $150,000, I can get by on $50,000"? And don't even try to feed me a line of "I have to charge high rates to pay my employees." We're not talking about rates, we're talking about salary. But don't feel that because I'm picking on lawyers that I'm ragging on you personally. I'm ragging on the whole corrupt system.
You're probably one of those prosecuting lawyers in court who say "Ignorance is no excuse for breaking the law". Well, guess what? These people said exactly the opposite, and you probably support them in their position. Or do you? You for or against the DMCA? I bet you'd like to convict Jon Johansen, wouldn't you? After all, he broke the DMCA law, NO MATTER HOW FLAWED.
You're supposed to be an educated lawyer, capable of seeng and debating all sides of the issue and you still don't get it. When democratically elected congresspeople screw with their constituents by passing bad laws, and it is impossible to get that law repealed because of backroom deals, jury nullification is the only way to make other people take notice. If jury nullification is performed and the prosecutor and judge were looking for a conviction, this negates their bias by letting your peers judge you, not the prosecutor or judge. Jury nullification allows for changing the rules as society sees fit, not as the prosecutor or judge or the backroom deals dictate!
And where did I call you a butthead? gee, sounds like you really aren't a lawyer to me (or maybe just a very poor one) if you made that simple mistake of mis-quoting me. Remember that when you are called for jury duty to tell them that you will apply the evidence and the law strictly as it is laid out because you "cannot think for yourself and the people who passed the [stupid] law must be right 'cause that's why they done been 'lected, so they must be smarter than me."
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I can just see it now
-I graduate from Bill Gates High
-goto Steve Balmer Community College
-transfer to Microsoft University
Go to work for (insert name of your favorite Linux vendor)!
98lbs doesn't sound much until you have to do what I did and realize that it has no FREAKIN' HANDLES! ;-)
:)
but the 98lb girlfriend does, in multiple locations, and she can hold on to you to help "stabilize" the position you are in
so, you're saying they're carrying around an empty sack of nothing?
(nudge nudge wink wink)
thank you! thank you very much! you're too kind.
shagadelic baby!
I've not lost any rights lately. Have you? Of course not.
how about the right to travel freely around the country on an airplane without having my bung-hole searched for things that might actually help terrorists cause the plane to crash? like nail clippers or tweezers (which is why I carry a knife made of ballistic nylon; totally undetectable w/o sticking your hand in my underwear waistband and grabbing my sack). either that or the TSA is just a bunch of queers who inherited the moron mindset from their big-brother butt-buddies at the FBI. his name wasn't Hoover for nothing.....
(hiding behind its lapdog SCOum)
:)
I think you mean SCrOtum
Out of all the postings I read, only one even came close to another suggestion.......look at the database. More specifically, Peachtree used to come with different database formats, like Btrieve or Access.
I used to support Btrieve and can tell you that it is one solid database. It was always the software apps built around it that were shite if there were problems. If you are having crashes, you need to check which database is being used. If it is Btrieve, then you may want to look at your code (Peachtree). Btrieve (now Pervasive at pervasive.com) comes in several different flavors of workgroup engine, server engine, standalone, enterprise, etc. if the accounting data is not in Btrieve data format, well....'nough said.
Chances are, if you are a victim of a crime, it's either random or committed by someone you know
gee, what would that add up to? maybe a 100%? you sure picked a winning statement there...either random or done by someone I know. what are the odds of THAT happening?
If you're majoring in NE then join the Navy as a Nuclear Officer. You should be able to coast thru Nuclear Power School with your education; just keep your mouth shut and your eyes & ears open. You also get your loans deferred, veterans preference for hiring when in the civil servant sector, and a number of other benefits like the GI Bill and Nuclear Officer yearly bonus (about $10k year extra). Speaking as a former enlisted navy nuke myself, I can attest to all this. Not saying it won't be hard, but you get good hands-on training.
one other side benefit you didn't mention. I have a ceiling fan in the living room that would go thru 40w fan light-bulbs like they grew on trees. I would replace at least 1-2 a month and these were supposed to be suited for fans and withstand heavy vibration. COuld never figure out what was causing the problem, vibration or burnout or power surges. I finally got sick of it and got those 15w lightbulbs in Home Depot abut 5-6 months ago. Yeah, they cost about 4 times as much, but I'm not constantly having to run to the store to get more lightbulbs as not one of them has burnt out yet. And if this keeps up, I won't have to replace them for a long time coming, thus saving me time and money and unnecessary aggravation.
Kevin-
contact me offlist would you?
jataaah_dyk@hotmail.com
thx
TAC
I examine financial institutions (credit unions) in the area of IT controls and policies and procedures. I can tell you that the GLB Act basically specifies 3 things.
They are:
-all data is private, you must keep it secure
-vendors handling your data must keep it at least as secure as you are required to
-I can't remember the 3rd at this time of night
Anyway, if I found out during the exam that the party who performed an "audit" only did a simple port scan, I certainly wouldn't hesitate in letting the credit union know that they were taken advantage of and their "security audit" was most likely unacceptable and could not be relied upon as showing due diligence in execution of their duties. I've had some extremely small credit unions tell me that their DSL Internet connection has a firewall....a Linksys cable/modem router and ZoneAlarm Pro! and they were serious!
Due to varying circumstances, I give a lot of leeway in what is required of these financial institutions. I don't necessarily require them to have an IDS or a firewall. It all depends on their particular circumstances. However, if there is even a possibility of remote access, I scrutinize their setups and make recommendations on what they can do to improve the situation and cover their asses.
while keeping in mind what everyone else has said, just remember that this is Germany. they will look straight at you and repeat exactly the same thing they just said as if they did not hear your question about what they just said. you will _need_ to have a German friend help you through the mazes of red-tape and bureaucracy.
my father's German wife used to be the Deutsche Telekom liaison for the military in Wiesbaden. you would not believe how many military would not understand the system which is why they had her in the job. she made sure the military stationed over there understood all the ramifications of getting hooked up to DT. just be lucky you are military and won't have to be paying a horsepower tax or a t.v. tax
what's even worse is that some of the ATM's are now run on a TCP/IP network. consider that thought for a few seconds and then say "ooohhhh shiiiitt !!!!!"
don't forget dealing with the fucking crazy drivers who come from all over the world to visit Mickey Mouse and his buddies. every region has a certain driving style.....Orlando has it all, including hot humid summers with lightning capitol Tampa Bay a short drive away and lots of bugs and other crap.
did my time at Naval Training Base Nuke School there . the only cool thing being so close to Cocoa Beach and Cape Canaveral. Watching a shuttle take off after dark is THE coolest thing! especially when the sunset is dark red and there are some clouds. you can see the thing light up the whole sky. awesome! as for the rest of the time, you heard my spiel.
sadly enough, the popular vote is NEVER important. the electoral college decides who gets to become president. they are not bound by the election results and can vote any way they want. historically speaking, however, there are less than a handful of times this has actually happened.
It's not that easy to get a gun illegally if you do not know the right people
.410 gauge shotgun from my father who knows quite a bit more about weaponry than I do. He purchased the weapon from another individual. These weapons are not required to be registered in our state. He was the one who recommended a shotgun rather than a handgun. why? if you're a criminal getting ready to break into my house, what would you do if you heard me, thru my front door, jacking a round into my shotgun? you'd know that I was ready to bust your ass and you'd be taking your business elsewhere.
/. readers what would happen? you obviously are one of those socialistic assholes who think that you know what is right for everyone else.
bullshit. I can walk down the street and buy a gun from the guy around the corner without having to go thru any kind of federal background check.
in fact, in order to avoid a background check (not that I would be prohibited from owning a weapon, it's just not the governments business to know my business), I bought my
you must be what, 18-19 yrs old? otherwise, you would understand what it means to protect your family from criminals. I've lived in Germany, as well as in England and the US. Grew up there too since my father was stationed overseas.
We rescued your country from a megalomaniacal asshole, one that TOOK guns away from the undesirables. And then he took their businesses and homes. And then he took their lives.
America IS the Land of the Free. Unlike Germany, I can say Heil Hitler in public if I so desire. whether or not I think it is appropriate is beside the point, we have freedom of speech without fear of retribution in this country. If that happened in Germany, why don't you tell the rest of
With great power comes great responsibility. Some people are able to handle it, some are not. With great freedom comes great liabilities. In this country, you are pretty much free to do as you please as long as you don't materially impinge on others.
I don't like a lot of things our President is doing. I don't like his taking away of civil rights (the Patriot Act) or his declaration that all people arrested for terrorism are not allowed to consult with lawyers. It stinks of a star chamber, something our founding fathers sought to avoid by establishing 3 branches, each with checks and balances on the others.
So, you see, it's not that we have fallen for the NRA "propaganda bullshit" as you so succinctly put it. It is you who has fallen for the "propaganda bullshit" of "if no one had weapons, we'd all be safe" and "people don't kill people, guns kill people".
Grow up, keep your mouth shut, observe society, do some living, then make a judgment. But only after you've gotten some real world-life experience.
please don't equate American government with American people. remember, Gore got the popular vote, not Bush. most of us think Bush is a fucking moron. every time I go thru airport security I give them hell. last time I said they were profiling me and being discriminatory, they said "no way", I said "so how did you pick me out?", "oh based on your attitude", "Ah-Hah! so you are profiling based on attitude!" .... that shut them up
"It's where he made his millions, and it's all he knows"
only partially true. W never made a dime in the oil business. daddy's friends bailed his ass out every time. and as for him knowing anything, well, that's highly debata-table. (as Dumbass would say it)
billy billy billy.... if you gonna post to the list using a pseudonym, at least don't be so obvious about trying to cover for your position of "....not wanting to block the do-not-call list", "....doing it right the first time", and "....implementing it in the most effective manner". the taxpayers are smarter than that....
....so a solution that is portable by means of CD-R would be preferable.
I thought they had a solution called M$ Technet, usually carries the service packs as they come out. while it doesn't normally carry hotfixes, I don't see why you can't download those to your server as a 'corporate' install option, and then burn those to cd-rom. while that doesn't really take care of the patch-push issue, you might be able to work the burned cd's into the scenario either by pushing those out to the systems' hard drive at login time and then having them run a batch script to patch the system.
the unwritten question in his request is "has anybody else run across this scenario"? but No, you just basically told him to f*ck off with your "....why anyone bothers to post this to Ask /. .....". having dealt with government entities myself, I know how they can stick it to you. they may not know their rural residents are using this service and may not care. they may also throw a hissy fit cause the local j.p. ain't getting his cut of the cable franchise or whatever. the point being, your only valid point was "talk to a lawyer". but yet, even that was stupid advice because YOU did not tell him to locate a lawyer familiar with this aspect of the government laws. you sure as hell don't hire a divorce attorney for this kind of work. your score was a 5? shit, you should be modded down to FlameBait 1.
then find out what is in the city. other than that, pick your own category of stuff to check out thru-out the country. btw, the baseball park thing has already been done
the other thing to take into account is that most school districts pay you for the time you actually teach and you only get paid once per month. so? you try and live on a once per month paycheck AND then remember to save money to pay your bills for the 3-month summer. if I had to do that, I'd have to save $3500/mortgage, $600/utilities, $1200/carpayment, $1000/general expenses, $300/insurance. anything else I miss?
I'm a gov't worker who gets paid once-a-month now and you have to be careful on what you spend.
why do you think teachers teach summer school? not just for the hell of it.
If you are called to serve, remember to refuse to take any oath to uphold the law.
I will take that oath to administer justice as appropriate.
Democratically enacted laws? What a load of horse shit! You mean laws passed by senators and congressman only looking out for the welfare of their donors/constituents (Eli Lilly and oil companies come to mind). And what about all the extraneous crap thrown into the latest piece of law coming out of D.C.? Do we really need a federally funded 'Hacker Research Center' at Texas A&M?
Why is it that duly elected officials that goto to D.C. always feel that they are above the law and have to play favorites? Why is it that a majority of them seem to have law degrees or political science majors? I very seriously doubt that our Founding Fathers envisioned having congressmen serve year after self-serving year. They meant it to be more like giving a few years of service to your neighbors and then returning to your regular day job.
When was the last time that Congress gave themselves a raise? Oh, that's right, they really don't have to because they voted themselves a law to give themselves annual payraises! When was the last time that a high-priced lawyer said "You know, I really don't need a salary of $150,000, I can get by on $50,000"? And don't even try to feed me a line of "I have to charge high rates to pay my employees." We're not talking about rates, we're talking about salary. But don't feel that because I'm picking on lawyers that I'm ragging on you personally. I'm ragging on the whole corrupt system.
You're probably one of those prosecuting lawyers in court who say "Ignorance is no excuse for breaking the law". Well, guess what? These people said exactly the opposite, and you probably support them in their position. Or do you? You for or against the DMCA? I bet you'd like to convict Jon Johansen, wouldn't you? After all, he broke the DMCA law, NO MATTER HOW FLAWED.
You're supposed to be an educated lawyer, capable of seeng and debating all sides of the issue and you still don't get it. When democratically elected congresspeople screw with their constituents by passing bad laws, and it is impossible to get that law repealed because of backroom deals, jury nullification is the only way to make other people take notice. If jury nullification is performed and the prosecutor and judge were looking for a conviction, this negates their bias by letting your peers judge you, not the prosecutor or judge. Jury nullification allows for changing the rules as society sees fit, not as the prosecutor or judge or the backroom deals dictate!
And where did I call you a butthead? gee, sounds like you really aren't a lawyer to me (or maybe just a very poor one) if you made that simple mistake of mis-quoting me.
Remember that when you are called for jury duty to tell them that you will apply the evidence and the law strictly as it is laid out because you "cannot think for yourself and the people who passed the [stupid] law must be right 'cause that's why they done been 'lected, so they must be smarter than me."