And now compare what's available on Netflix in the US with what's available in Sweden.
You know, the price of a burger menu is the same in the US as it is here, too, the difference is maybe that I had an appetizer here while I couldn't finish half of it in the US.
Well, I just found out that the WSJ has about as many viewers in a month as he has in two videos, so I guess there may be a motivation...
Honestly I couldn't care less how much money he makes. At least it doesn't look like he's trying to sell some bullshit to his (most likely teenager) audience, that already puts him ahead of a lot of douches out there.
Why should they be friendly to him? No reason, to be honest, But why should they slander him? There's about as much reason for this.
The problem is that there are rules that audits have to happen and that security risks that arise during such have to be assessed and evaluated. What none of these rules or guidelines (including PCI-DSS) details is how the issue has to be resolved or within which time frame. So companies usually commit to solving this issue, with a solution date that is in the vicinity of the horned red guy's basement apartment having heating problems.
First and foremost, people have been treated like cattle by the ad industry for way too long. Knowing that people can't do anything but grin and bear it, they became more and more obnoxious, and now that people can actually go and give them the finger, they come whining. Sorry, but fuck you. Even IF you treat me with respect now, it's too late to apologize. Dear advertising industry, please go and die. I'd love if you did it slowly and in agony, but for practicality reasons, just make it quick.
Aside of this, they're doing it wrong. This could be the most topical ad in the world they're showing, the ad that could change my life to the better, provide me with more money than I could want, make me rich and famous, unite me with the perfect partner that I will love for all eternity, and still I would not want anything but to get rid of that ad. Why? Because it gets into the way of what I wanted to do.
How does the average YouTube experience look like? At least to me, this looks like this: I think "hey, that's a song I want to hear" or "hey, that's a documentary I'd like to see", I go on YouTube, I find it, I click start and... an ad. That is not what I want. That is by no means what I want. I'm neither interested in this ad nor am I actually even noticing what it is for, all I do is search the "skip it" button, or if there isn't one, reload the page until you finally get an ad that is either 5 seconds long or does have a "skip it" button.
Ok, ok, "throwing what's left of the integrity they once had before getting gobbled up by Moloch, I mean, Murdoch" would have been better, I give you that.
I am a consultant. Most of the times, in the preparation to the audit you already know that all they really want is a CYA paper. They don't want to know about their security situation, they don't want to know how to remedy whatever security issues they may have, what they want is a document they can wave at whoever when the shit hits the fan to show that they had a security audit.
And believe it or not, that is actually already enough. Yes. You needn't be secure. All you have to do for your get-out-of-jail-card is to document your security issues.
Yes. You heard me. Knowing that you have a glaring security hole and not doing anything about it is ok. Not knowing that it's there isn't. Don't ask me why, I don't make the laws, I only abuse them.
And in turn the US didn't pay its UN duties for years, taxes the world and rips it off by having the maybe cheapest oil outside the middle east, simply by virtue of stealing it. So please...
We are going to play the my-user-id-is-lower-than-yours-so-I-am-right game? Ok, I'm in.
The problem is that he is right. And it's not even about nazi jokes. And, for the record, until a week ago all I know about that guy was that he is one of the "big" YouTubers. I neither knew nor cared just what he showed on his channel, all I knew is that I spend a lot of time watching YouTube and that I haven't seen a single one of his videos, so our interests apparently don't overlap too much.
Sadly that guy has now become the topic of channels I DO watch. Which in turn meant that I got way more information about the whole shit than I wanted. So what does go on here?
Apparently that guy made some "funny" videos. YMMV and it sure ain't hitting my particular style of comedy, but it seems that he's making some rather crude and not-too-PC comedy. At least that's what I got so far. And he's had his run-in with various "traditional" news media before who in turn don't report too favorably about him.
What caused the whole shit now was some webpage where you can pay people so they do what you want them to do and they make videos about it. According to him, all he wanted to do is show people just what kind of crap people will do for just 5 bucks. Was it tasteless? You bet. But what it also was is a commentary on our overly materialistic society where people will do anything for a quick and easy buck. That much he proved.
What happened next was the WSJ doing a montage of some of his earlier works by cutting it in such a way to make him appear like he was actually a Nazi. I took the time to actually watch the footage they took the snippets from, and what I can say is that they were taken WAY out of context. By the logic they applied they could turn Bruno Ganz into a Nazi because he played Hitler in The Downfall.
There is something very, very wrong going on here, and by that I don't mean that guy paying those other two guys to present that "death to all jews" banner. This is being taken way, WAY out of proportion, and I'd really like to know why. What did that guy do that made the WSJ so afraid that they go out of their way, even throwing their journalistic integrity into the gutter, just to destroy him?
And then what? Origin and Windows store taking over?
Please kill me when that happens. Because then I might actually have to switch to consoles to play games, and even though I hate them with a passion that would be the lesser evil.
Looking at the job market, there's plenty of them out there. Well, so far they're just fake when it comes to sensible payment, but what else do you want?
1) He knows that these things are not for public consumption. 2) He knows that they're jokes.
In other words, he passes the bullshit talk version of the FCC mark. He does not cause it where it matters and can handle it when it happens to him. He's most likely not some mimosa who gets all worked up over someone telling a fucking JOKE while at the same time telling those jokes in privacy without embarrassing me.
Many companies in that field are currently hiring, and it's fairly easy to get a job at one of them (though, as you may imagine, they don't pay 10 grand a day, they keep that part for themselves and pay you way less instead...).
Freelancing is something you could start doing when you managed to make yourself known in the field. There's some ways you can accomplish that, first of course by working for a security consulting company and making yourself known to customers who then want you to work for them. You can of course try to become one of the few household names when it comes to IT security, though this is a tough road and you should be VERY good for this to fly. Few can do that.
As you can imagine, in this field a lot hangs on trust. Why would I trust you to not only be good but also to not backstab me? It takes a while to build a reputation, your best bet for that is to rely on the trust companies have in established security firms (whether that trust is well placed is often debatable, I know...).
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And now compare what's available on Netflix in the US with what's available in Sweden.
You know, the price of a burger menu is the same in the US as it is here, too, the difference is maybe that I had an appetizer here while I couldn't finish half of it in the US.
And they are ignored everywhere.
Well, I just found out that the WSJ has about as many viewers in a month as he has in two videos, so I guess there may be a motivation...
Honestly I couldn't care less how much money he makes. At least it doesn't look like he's trying to sell some bullshit to his (most likely teenager) audience, that already puts him ahead of a lot of douches out there.
Why should they be friendly to him? No reason, to be honest, But why should they slander him? There's about as much reason for this.
Why would I try something I know I cannot do?
Unfortunately I do not have the ties necessary to sell user profiles and profiling data.
The problem is that there are rules that audits have to happen and that security risks that arise during such have to be assessed and evaluated. What none of these rules or guidelines (including PCI-DSS) details is how the issue has to be resolved or within which time frame. So companies usually commit to solving this issue, with a solution date that is in the vicinity of the horned red guy's basement apartment having heating problems.
Advertising outlived its welcome, though.
First and foremost, people have been treated like cattle by the ad industry for way too long. Knowing that people can't do anything but grin and bear it, they became more and more obnoxious, and now that people can actually go and give them the finger, they come whining. Sorry, but fuck you. Even IF you treat me with respect now, it's too late to apologize. Dear advertising industry, please go and die. I'd love if you did it slowly and in agony, but for practicality reasons, just make it quick.
Aside of this, they're doing it wrong. This could be the most topical ad in the world they're showing, the ad that could change my life to the better, provide me with more money than I could want, make me rich and famous, unite me with the perfect partner that I will love for all eternity, and still I would not want anything but to get rid of that ad. Why? Because it gets into the way of what I wanted to do.
How does the average YouTube experience look like? At least to me, this looks like this: I think "hey, that's a song I want to hear" or "hey, that's a documentary I'd like to see", I go on YouTube, I find it, I click start and ... an ad. That is not what I want. That is by no means what I want. I'm neither interested in this ad nor am I actually even noticing what it is for, all I do is search the "skip it" button, or if there isn't one, reload the page until you finally get an ad that is either 5 seconds long or does have a "skip it" button.
This is why the whole thing doesn't work.
If you want the last people who do anything online without adblocker finally cave in and find out how to use it, that's the way to do it.
The actual question is, are there people who actually notice that ad?
Ok, ok, "throwing what's left of the integrity they once had before getting gobbled up by Moloch, I mean, Murdoch" would have been better, I give you that.
Oh that's what they were doing when they were gyrating and flailing. I thought it's, you know, some sort of weird rain dance.
This.
I am a consultant. Most of the times, in the preparation to the audit you already know that all they really want is a CYA paper. They don't want to know about their security situation, they don't want to know how to remedy whatever security issues they may have, what they want is a document they can wave at whoever when the shit hits the fan to show that they had a security audit.
And believe it or not, that is actually already enough. Yes. You needn't be secure. All you have to do for your get-out-of-jail-card is to document your security issues.
Yes. You heard me. Knowing that you have a glaring security hole and not doing anything about it is ok. Not knowing that it's there isn't. Don't ask me why, I don't make the laws, I only abuse them.
And in turn the US didn't pay its UN duties for years, taxes the world and rips it off by having the maybe cheapest oil outside the middle east, simply by virtue of stealing it. So please...
Indeed. I think internet is definitely one of the bear necessities of life.
I couldn't think of many. Even in the most backwater areas I found people running around with mobile phones.
We are going to play the my-user-id-is-lower-than-yours-so-I-am-right game? Ok, I'm in.
The problem is that he is right. And it's not even about nazi jokes. And, for the record, until a week ago all I know about that guy was that he is one of the "big" YouTubers. I neither knew nor cared just what he showed on his channel, all I knew is that I spend a lot of time watching YouTube and that I haven't seen a single one of his videos, so our interests apparently don't overlap too much.
Sadly that guy has now become the topic of channels I DO watch. Which in turn meant that I got way more information about the whole shit than I wanted. So what does go on here?
Apparently that guy made some "funny" videos. YMMV and it sure ain't hitting my particular style of comedy, but it seems that he's making some rather crude and not-too-PC comedy. At least that's what I got so far. And he's had his run-in with various "traditional" news media before who in turn don't report too favorably about him.
What caused the whole shit now was some webpage where you can pay people so they do what you want them to do and they make videos about it. According to him, all he wanted to do is show people just what kind of crap people will do for just 5 bucks. Was it tasteless? You bet. But what it also was is a commentary on our overly materialistic society where people will do anything for a quick and easy buck. That much he proved.
What happened next was the WSJ doing a montage of some of his earlier works by cutting it in such a way to make him appear like he was actually a Nazi. I took the time to actually watch the footage they took the snippets from, and what I can say is that they were taken WAY out of context. By the logic they applied they could turn Bruno Ganz into a Nazi because he played Hitler in The Downfall.
There is something very, very wrong going on here, and by that I don't mean that guy paying those other two guys to present that "death to all jews" banner. This is being taken way, WAY out of proportion, and I'd really like to know why. What did that guy do that made the WSJ so afraid that they go out of their way, even throwing their journalistic integrity into the gutter, just to destroy him?
And then what? Origin and Windows store taking over?
Please kill me when that happens. Because then I might actually have to switch to consoles to play games, and even though I hate them with a passion that would be the lesser evil.
Looking at the job market, there's plenty of them out there. Well, so far they're just fake when it comes to sensible payment, but what else do you want?
In social media, I usually write something like "exotic dancer" into the profession field.
You get way more interesting private questions that way than when writing "IT security professional".
And I'd hire him as soon as I find this out. Why?
1) He knows that these things are not for public consumption.
2) He knows that they're jokes.
In other words, he passes the bullshit talk version of the FCC mark. He does not cause it where it matters and can handle it when it happens to him. He's most likely not some mimosa who gets all worked up over someone telling a fucking JOKE while at the same time telling those jokes in privacy without embarrassing me.
Yes, I want that guy.
And 3 feet tall with a flat head, so they can give you a blowjob while at the same time offering a surface to rest your beer on, right?
Somehow I guess I now know how a suicide bomber feels after blowing himself up, expecting 72 virgins and finds himself in the middle of a LAN party...
Erh... you ARE aware that there were 8 years between the "Bush Crime Family" and the hairpiece? Why didn't that one do anything?
And more interestingly, why doesn't he get any blame?
You can break the speed limit, but height limits are not so easy to bargain with.
Many companies in that field are currently hiring, and it's fairly easy to get a job at one of them (though, as you may imagine, they don't pay 10 grand a day, they keep that part for themselves and pay you way less instead...).
Freelancing is something you could start doing when you managed to make yourself known in the field. There's some ways you can accomplish that, first of course by working for a security consulting company and making yourself known to customers who then want you to work for them. You can of course try to become one of the few household names when it comes to IT security, though this is a tough road and you should be VERY good for this to fly. Few can do that.
As you can imagine, in this field a lot hangs on trust. Why would I trust you to not only be good but also to not backstab me? It takes a while to build a reputation, your best bet for that is to rely on the trust companies have in established security firms (whether that trust is well placed is often debatable, I know...).
We're talking a few days to maybe a month. That month could maybe hit the 6 digits, actually, if you want something or someone special.