The problem here is we are afraid of appeasing the tyrant without publicising that we already did - the west allowed this to happen already and we need to fix that urgently.
a1) Nazi leader Adolf Hitler violates the Treaty of Versaille and moves troops into the Rhineland.
a2) Russian President Putin invades Georgia on a pretext that was clearly prepared in advance - my apologies to the people of Georgia comparing the invasion of their country with a troop movement - I am doing this only to try and wake people up and present a reality not lessen your sacrifice or ignoring that the west was clearly silent.
b1) Nazi leader Adolf Hitler began the occupation of Czechoslovakia with the annexation of Czechoslovakia's northern and western border regions, known collectively as the Sudetenland and the west agreed and was silent.
b2) Russian President Putin annexed the Crimea region of the Ukraine and the west saw it but generally was silent.
c1) When Hitler marched his troops into Czechoslovakia in March 1939, it became clear that appeasement had failed and Chamberlain guaranteed to defend Poland if Germany invaded.
c2) Russian President Putin invaded eastern Ukraine the west made vague promises that did not even meet the promises to Ukraine when they surrendered their nuclear weapons (Google it, I have nothing to add).
What more do you want?, more appeasement? do not be lied to here we are almost past the point of no return the action now needs to be loud and clear or we will get more of this until that madman is at our door.
Appeasement was a method for the western allies i.e. the British and the French to give them time to wake up their populations to prepare for war and rearm for a new war, both nations did this but time ran out so France was occupied by Hitler. Historically Chamberlain is seen as a fool, in reality he bought us time but we need to use that time correctly! Fortunately for history the English channel afforded the British more time to prepare so they could hold the line but not move it back without help, this pushed Hitler to turn on his allies astonishingly the Russian's who appear to have learned the wrong part of this lesson and who are deemed to repeat his mistakes unless the people in Russia stand up to be counted to stop this inevitable collapse into insanity that Putin is pushing.
Seriously, read the article (and then I remembered where I was) he deserved to be banged up, changing jobs voluntary or not is a nasty fact of life in this economy. If you sabotage your ex employers systems then you should expect they will hire someone who isn't so stupid and is able to detect it. Business has money, what it doesn't have is patience. During a major problem they will simply hire temporary talent that will be smarter than you because they haven't spent the last few years doing a job with no destiny and can concentrate on one thing - what you did.
This trade for want of a better world is too small to even attempt to annoy not only your ex employees but more importantly all your ex colleges. This guy is clearly an idiot who should be taken away from a keyboard. On the flip side, frankly he is probably needing a better lawyer, to do something so stupid his defence should have been more mental or stress related assuming he even had a clue.
West Virginia, Division of Corrections - Take him home, where he belongs.....
Social Media is a tool that can be used by both sides.
What this guy has done to stop a bunch of people defending a park from destruction deserves prison time but a bigger offense is how little western media is reporting on it as they could have stopped this already. Because of this he will win this battle through force of arms alone, already a number of his people have died hopefully the number will remain low but 1 is already too many.
He will in the end loose the country and be forced to answer for his crimes, the west needs to distance itself from people like this now as perception of full support is a big part of the worldwide problem when it comes to dictators.
It wont happen of course, we great at repeating old mistakes.
But how long before a longer range detection system is invented that can be built into drones and track personal movements so that a direct targeted missile can be used to crack someones head open at the press of a button. This will go down well in certain parts of the world a whole new business will open up forging chips and replacing them it will make car registration theft look like a poor relation. Or we have the Chinese hackers steal birth records of US 1st Infantry division, wars by proxy indeed no risk here - move along...
It is a massive hit because it is a great show with an even better story and the options to watch it while paying for it are poor at best! This is a ridiculously large market that is being totally ignored by the army in suits who cling to what they believe to be the reality of their current income.
STEAM - start selling this and the rest of you wake up! I will buy and millions like me will also, do not make a company with minimal rights to distribute a partial list of shows nobody wants that or cares. Take multiple large established download clients and use them ALL with no exclusivity and you win, remember "When you play the game of thrones, either you win or you die".
Just saying.
People are pissed at being lied to about download speeds and do not trust what they are being told, worse the areas targeted for the "superfast" already have fast cheap internet connectivity, if you read the article it states this and the summary does not match it.
Ignoring the flagrant abuse of journalism which is the norm these days both in RL and/. this means only people with money to burn will take it, they exist but in a world economic downturn guess what - there are not so many.
Wrong on number two. Valve did not tell its Steam users about this intrusion. They did not send out any emails or Steam IMs to their members, they didn't mention this on the Steam news page, and in fact they didn't mention it anywhere on Steam at all. The only place this intrusion is mentioned is on the forum. They're happy as punch to tell me through Steam that I can buy freaking Wallace and Gromit for 66% off but they don't inform me that all that my personal information has been compromised? That is shameful.
When you start steam it provides you this message in the main popup box where they normally try to sell you preorder crap.
He could introduce himself as Professor Doblisnski from the Kiev University where he teaches advanced Nuclear Weapons programmes. Happily explain that your Mac contained an unfortunate amount of technical details on how to make and deploy a warhead using only kitchen supplies but was stolen by a Mulslim looking guy who has this IP address as tracked by your embassy security services. You could follow on with, my Embassy told me not to come here and inform you but as a human being I thought you should at least be warned, sorry cant stay on the phone I am leaving the area as all non essential embassy staff have been evacuated etc...
Ok you might not get the Macbook back but it will be the last one that particular guy steals and I am just guessing, but that IP law might not apply:)
It is a funny thing with steam, but I never understood why they did not start selling music and films this would have had such a dramatic impact on their income and customers, they already have a large customer base it is almost madness that they never moved this direction as it would have changed everything.
Right now unless the game is very special, if it is not on steam I do not buy it. This is not because I like steam but I just do not want the hassle of dozens of dvd's or multiple nonsense programs all doing the same thing and competing for resources and my time.
The winner in this "game" will be the tool that finds a way to integrate all these download tools into one easy to use interface that does not require a dozen usernames and passwords. This unfortunately would require the cooperation of most of these thieves and that is unlikely to happen before the sun goes cold.
Plinkett covered this in detail via http://redlettermedia.com/plinkett/
His reviews were easily the best thing about episode 1-3, GL is a great business man and nobody will take that away from him but he is the Microsoft of the film world.
Thanks Cwix (someone mark him informative), that explains it and displays my clear lack of knowledge on the subject, though I still think the pope should be told as they made this whole religion thing it might matter that they get some of the facts right.
If we use exactly the same standard that they use to judge what should be public information, then the names, email addresses, and passwords of everyone who calls himself/herself Anonymous should be public as well.
Paper books will never go away until book readers are disposable, can be read in bright sunlight, are fast and simple to use and have power that lasts forever.
While the publishers screw around with non compatible formats and DRM this will never happen and they probably have very little interest in this happening as they would loose any control they now have.
I had wondered why that scheming little hobbit was allowed to run around with stolen property and why nobody locked them all up and threw away the key. About time the truth came out and we start treating hobbits and wizards with the scorn they deserve promoting of course the sheer kindness of the Ork.
Unless I missed the memo there is no such thing as an American Government, if there was there should at least be a few Canadians to add some common sense to the mix. Trying to sue a country for what it does within the confines of it's own borders astonishing in it's arrogance. It is similar to the contempt shown by the foolish US senators who started a hearing on something that happened in Scotland.
Given how much the US Government currently owes China and more importantly how much it will owe China in the future this whole thing is amazing. Last time I checked nobody prods the Dragon with a stick unless they have a really good reason to think it will not rip their arm off.
Fortunately the Chinese are not stupid and will just ignore the silly man on the bench.
It seem not jut your information, but also you friends.
I noticed this for some apps:
Access my friends' information
Birthdays, Religious and political views, Family members and relationship statuses, Significant others and relationship details, Home towns, Current locations, Likes, music, TV, movies, books, quotes, Activities, Interests, Education history, Work history, Online presence, Websites, Groups, Events, Notes, Photos, Videos, Photos and videos of them, 'About me' details and Facebook statuses
Why on earth would Facebook want to give this information to third parties, and worse to ones you have not given permission to, but your friend has.
Because you cannot sell what nobody want's to buy, information is what they can sell, the real question is why do people want to buy this information.
You're in IT. Like it or not, you're SUPPORT staff - your job solely consists of helping me do mine. If I damned well want to use my computer to do X it's your job to make this possible. That's what you are paid for. I'm sure you could keep a nice little network if it weren't for us users doing annoying things like using our computers to do work. If I want to run MATLAB from home, you make it damned possible for me to do that. If I want my email in a separate Thunderbird folder on my laptop, you do that. Otherwise there's no point in having you.
I'm sure this will come as a shock to a lot of you, but it isn't the goal of every enterprise to have a neat little network. And the time I spend having to get my password reset because the bit monkey insists that I change it every 6 weeks and that it contain at least 10 letters, 2 numbers and 2 non-alphanumeric characters? That's time wasted from me making money that keeps us all in business.
To put it bluntly: I don't give a damn what you're happy with - it's what I'M happy with that counts. Do your job well and you're a force multiplier, but remember that your function is to multiply MY output.
I think this is a major part of the problem, many people in IT seem to forget that they are there to help, much of the enforcement actually makes IT a department nobody want's to deal with. This has the impact that people try hard to work around the IT people all the time which creates an unhelpful environment. This then causes a knee jerk reaction to increase the enforcement which becomes a self fulfilling prophecy where IT support is considered at best unhelpful at worst useless.
As the distance between enforcing control and helping people is getting larger, it is no surprise that many IT departments get outsourced and yes in the majority of cases this made the situation worse because it is much harder dealing with essentially another company that has different goals to yours.
I do not know what the solution might be, but perhaps allowing the user more control is at least a step in the correct direction.
Does anybody know if this was a global database or one region only?
cheers.
It was regional, as another posted pointed out Vodafone uses different systems all over the world.
It is bad news certainly but unless the person who built the web interface was an idiot it should have no way to extract all customer data in one go. Either way, Vodafone promised more information and we can be certain that will happen as VF is not really a single company anymore than the EU is a single country. It should be interesting as the others will be very peeved this close to the annual SOx audit and the ball is dropped like this.
I read about the Skype outage just today and all 5 installations I own were the problematic version because I wanted the 3+ video conference which I imagine was very popular over the holiday season especially for families living around the world. I have now updated them all of course but the outage was the mistake of Skype and their misdirection to point at users was clearly silly, saying ok sorry we dropped the ball would have been more accurate as having such a serious problem while pretending it was the users failing to upgrade that caused it just compounded that mistake.
A single article on Slashdot stating sorry we at Skype messed up, please install a patch to repair our garbage or our whole network will collapse would do it. To be fair a small percentage would start researching how to crash said network on purpose, but that cat is now out of the bag anyway now.
Amen, the number of times I have dumped on products because of the lack of a CLI is almost rude and funnily enough it saves a lot in licensing costs so "almost" everyone is happy. Pretty pictures and buttons will get you past the management and sales but if you come near my systems with your "button pushing monkey" toys expect your time in the building to be very short indeed.
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The problem here is we are afraid of appeasing the tyrant without publicising that we already did - the west allowed this to happen already and we need to fix that urgently.
a1) Nazi leader Adolf Hitler violates the Treaty of Versaille and moves troops into the Rhineland.
a2) Russian President Putin invades Georgia on a pretext that was clearly prepared in advance - my apologies to the people of Georgia comparing the invasion of their country with a troop movement - I am doing this only to try and wake people up and present a reality not lessen your sacrifice or ignoring that the west was clearly silent.
b1) Nazi leader Adolf Hitler began the occupation of Czechoslovakia with the annexation of Czechoslovakia's northern and western border regions, known collectively as the Sudetenland and the west agreed and was silent.
b2) Russian President Putin annexed the Crimea region of the Ukraine and the west saw it but generally was silent.
c1) When Hitler marched his troops into Czechoslovakia in March 1939, it became clear that appeasement had failed and Chamberlain guaranteed to defend Poland if Germany invaded.
c2) Russian President Putin invaded eastern Ukraine the west made vague promises that did not even meet the promises to Ukraine when they surrendered their nuclear weapons (Google it, I have nothing to add).
What more do you want?, more appeasement? do not be lied to here we are almost past the point of no return the action now needs to be loud and clear or we will get more of this until that madman is at our door.
Appeasement was a method for the western allies i.e. the British and the French to give them time to wake up their populations to prepare for war and rearm for a new war, both nations did this but time ran out so France was occupied by Hitler. Historically Chamberlain is seen as a fool, in reality he bought us time but we need to use that time correctly! Fortunately for history the English channel afforded the British more time to prepare so they could hold the line but not move it back without help, this pushed Hitler to turn on his allies astonishingly the Russian's who appear to have learned the wrong part of this lesson and who are deemed to repeat his mistakes unless the people in Russia stand up to be counted to stop this inevitable collapse into insanity that Putin is pushing.
Seriously, read the article (and then I remembered where I was) he deserved to be banged up, changing jobs voluntary or not is a nasty fact of life in this economy. If you sabotage your ex employers systems then you should expect they will hire someone who isn't so stupid and is able to detect it. Business has money, what it doesn't have is patience. During a major problem they will simply hire temporary talent that will be smarter than you because they haven't spent the last few years doing a job with no destiny and can concentrate on one thing - what you did.
This trade for want of a better world is too small to even attempt to annoy not only your ex employees but more importantly all your ex colleges. This guy is clearly an idiot who should be taken away from a keyboard. On the flip side, frankly he is probably needing a better lawyer, to do something so stupid his defence should have been more mental or stress related assuming he even had a clue.
West Virginia, Division of Corrections - Take him home, where he belongs.....
Social Media is a tool that can be used by both sides.
What this guy has done to stop a bunch of people defending a park from destruction deserves prison time but a bigger offense is how little western media is reporting on it as they could have stopped this already. Because of this he will win this battle through force of arms alone, already a number of his people have died hopefully the number will remain low but 1 is already too many.
He will in the end loose the country and be forced to answer for his crimes, the west needs to distance itself from people like this now as perception of full support is a big part of the worldwide problem when it comes to dictators.
It wont happen of course, we great at repeating old mistakes.
As if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.
Just imagine if someone "discovers" that TCP/IP is being used to transfer these illegal BT packets all over the internets...
Jesus don't give them ideas, these people do think that way and are silly enough to try it.
But how long before a longer range detection system is invented that can be built into drones and track personal movements so that a direct targeted missile can be used to crack someones head open at the press of a button. This will go down well in certain parts of the world a whole new business will open up forging chips and replacing them it will make car registration theft look like a poor relation. Or we have the Chinese hackers steal birth records of US 1st Infantry division, wars by proxy indeed no risk here - move along...
It is a massive hit because it is a great show with an even better story and the options to watch it while paying for it are poor at best! This is a ridiculously large market that is being totally ignored by the army in suits who cling to what they believe to be the reality of their current income. STEAM - start selling this and the rest of you wake up! I will buy and millions like me will also, do not make a company with minimal rights to distribute a partial list of shows nobody wants that or cares. Take multiple large established download clients and use them ALL with no exclusivity and you win, remember "When you play the game of thrones, either you win or you die". Just saying.
ICQ? Wow, I think we just had a post arrive through a wormhole from the 1990s.
Yes even ICQ, I still contact many people via ICQ, ok I am using Trillian but some people do not want to change their chat clients.
People are pissed at being lied to about download speeds and do not trust what they are being told, worse the areas targeted for the "superfast" already have fast cheap internet connectivity, if you read the article it states this and the summary does not match it. Ignoring the flagrant abuse of journalism which is the norm these days both in RL and /. this means only people with money to burn will take it, they exist but in a world economic downturn guess what - there are not so many.
Wrong on number two. Valve did not tell its Steam users about this intrusion. They did not send out any emails or Steam IMs to their members, they didn't mention this on the Steam news page, and in fact they didn't mention it anywhere on Steam at all. The only place this intrusion is mentioned is on the forum. They're happy as punch to tell me through Steam that I can buy freaking Wallace and Gromit for 66% off but they don't inform me that all that my personal information has been compromised? That is shameful.
When you start steam it provides you this message in the main popup box where they normally try to sell you preorder crap.
He could introduce himself as Professor Doblisnski from the Kiev University where he teaches advanced Nuclear Weapons programmes. Happily explain that your Mac contained an unfortunate amount of technical details on how to make and deploy a warhead using only kitchen supplies but was stolen by a Mulslim looking guy who has this IP address as tracked by your embassy security services. You could follow on with, my Embassy told me not to come here and inform you but as a human being I thought you should at least be warned, sorry cant stay on the phone I am leaving the area as all non essential embassy staff have been evacuated etc...
:)
Ok you might not get the Macbook back but it will be the last one that particular guy steals and I am just guessing, but that IP law might not apply
It is a funny thing with steam, but I never understood why they did not start selling music and films this would have had such a dramatic impact on their income and customers, they already have a large customer base it is almost madness that they never moved this direction as it would have changed everything. Right now unless the game is very special, if it is not on steam I do not buy it. This is not because I like steam but I just do not want the hassle of dozens of dvd's or multiple nonsense programs all doing the same thing and competing for resources and my time. The winner in this "game" will be the tool that finds a way to integrate all these download tools into one easy to use interface that does not require a dozen usernames and passwords. This unfortunately would require the cooperation of most of these thieves and that is unlikely to happen before the sun goes cold.
Plinkett covered this in detail via http://redlettermedia.com/plinkett/ His reviews were easily the best thing about episode 1-3, GL is a great business man and nobody will take that away from him but he is the Microsoft of the film world.
Thanks Cwix (someone mark him informative), that explains it and displays my clear lack of knowledge on the subject, though I still think the pope should be told as they made this whole religion thing it might matter that they get some of the facts right.
Dam, so Jesus was a Chiropractor? someone should tell the pope.
If we use exactly the same standard that they use to judge what should be public information, then the names, email addresses, and passwords of everyone who calls himself/herself Anonymous should be public as well.
Ah you opened the door to the obligatory link :)
http://xkcd.com/834/
Paper books will never go away until book readers are disposable, can be read in bright sunlight, are fast and simple to use and have power that lasts forever.
While the publishers screw around with non compatible formats and DRM this will never happen and they probably have very little interest in this happening as they would loose any control they now have.
I had wondered why that scheming little hobbit was allowed to run around with stolen property and why nobody locked them all up and threw away the key. About time the truth came out and we start treating hobbits and wizards with the scorn they deserve promoting of course the sheer kindness of the Ork.
Unless I missed the memo there is no such thing as an American Government, if there was there should at least be a few Canadians to add some common sense to the mix. Trying to sue a country for what it does within the confines of it's own borders astonishing in it's arrogance. It is similar to the contempt shown by the foolish US senators who started a hearing on something that happened in Scotland.
Given how much the US Government currently owes China and more importantly how much it will owe China in the future this whole thing is amazing. Last time I checked nobody prods the Dragon with a stick unless they have a really good reason to think it will not rip their arm off.
Fortunately the Chinese are not stupid and will just ignore the silly man on the bench.
Why is this modded funny?
Because you are asking addicts to give up their crack and expecting them to say "oh ok sorry about that".
It seem not jut your information, but also you friends.
I noticed this for some apps:
Access my friends' information Birthdays, Religious and political views, Family members and relationship statuses, Significant others and relationship details, Home towns, Current locations, Likes, music, TV, movies, books, quotes, Activities, Interests, Education history, Work history, Online presence, Websites, Groups, Events, Notes, Photos, Videos, Photos and videos of them, 'About me' details and Facebook statuses
Why on earth would Facebook want to give this information to third parties, and worse to ones you have not given permission to, but your friend has.
Because you cannot sell what nobody want's to buy, information is what they can sell, the real question is why do people want to buy this information.
You're in IT. Like it or not, you're SUPPORT staff - your job solely consists of helping me do mine. If I damned well want to use my computer to do X it's your job to make this possible. That's what you are paid for. I'm sure you could keep a nice little network if it weren't for us users doing annoying things like using our computers to do work. If I want to run MATLAB from home, you make it damned possible for me to do that. If I want my email in a separate Thunderbird folder on my laptop, you do that. Otherwise there's no point in having you.
I'm sure this will come as a shock to a lot of you, but it isn't the goal of every enterprise to have a neat little network. And the time I spend having to get my password reset because the bit monkey insists that I change it every 6 weeks and that it contain at least 10 letters, 2 numbers and 2 non-alphanumeric characters? That's time wasted from me making money that keeps us all in business.
To put it bluntly: I don't give a damn what you're happy with - it's what I'M happy with that counts. Do your job well and you're a force multiplier, but remember that your function is to multiply MY output.
I think this is a major part of the problem, many people in IT seem to forget that they are there to help, much of the enforcement actually makes IT a department nobody want's to deal with. This has the impact that people try hard to work around the IT people all the time which creates an unhelpful environment. This then causes a knee jerk reaction to increase the enforcement which becomes a self fulfilling prophecy where IT support is considered at best unhelpful at worst useless.
As the distance between enforcing control and helping people is getting larger, it is no surprise that many IT departments get outsourced and yes in the majority of cases this made the situation worse because it is much harder dealing with essentially another company that has different goals to yours.
I do not know what the solution might be, but perhaps allowing the user more control is at least a step in the correct direction.
Does anybody know if this was a global database or one region only?
cheers.
It was regional, as another posted pointed out Vodafone uses different systems all over the world.
It is bad news certainly but unless the person who built the web interface was an idiot it should have no way to extract all customer data in one go. Either way, Vodafone promised more information and we can be certain that will happen as VF is not really a single company anymore than the EU is a single country. It should be interesting as the others will be very peeved this close to the annual SOx audit and the ball is dropped like this.
I read about the Skype outage just today and all 5 installations I own were the problematic version because I wanted the 3+ video conference which I imagine was very popular over the holiday season especially for families living around the world. I have now updated them all of course but the outage was the mistake of Skype and their misdirection to point at users was clearly silly, saying ok sorry we dropped the ball would have been more accurate as having such a serious problem while pretending it was the users failing to upgrade that caused it just compounded that mistake.
A single article on Slashdot stating sorry we at Skype messed up, please install a patch to repair our garbage or our whole network will collapse would do it. To be fair a small percentage would start researching how to crash said network on purpose, but that cat is now out of the bag anyway now.
2. DON'T make the administrative interface a GUI.
Amen, the number of times I have dumped on products because of the lack of a CLI is almost rude and funnily enough it saves a lot in licensing costs so "almost" everyone is happy. Pretty pictures and buttons will get you past the management and sales but if you come near my systems with your "button pushing monkey" toys expect your time in the building to be very short indeed.