If the WikiLeaks "dirty" fightback taught the world anything then it was that the USA has too much control over critical worldwide infrastructure both technical and practical (Internet and Money) and it has shown that it cannot be trusted to control either. For reasons of their own most nations have been going along with the current world order as it was never openly abused and this allowed tacit approval, but as pressure grows from China, India and an emerging EU/Russia along with growing understanding from the people in these nations the world has in fact already irreparably changed. These sorts of activities will only hasten that change of power much to the detriment of the existing regimes. As the Chinese (and Mr Pratchett) say "May you live in Interesting times", it is a curse for a reason and these are interesting times.
It is very hard to explain people that changing passwords every month will LOWER the security.
If I had a penny for every time I had to say that....
So we force users to change passwords using complicated passwords, users being human (mostly) make typos and in coordination with mandatory locking after multiple password failures and there we have it a whole new department servicing user password problems and stability and functionality are thrown out of the window. Then came SOx but after that things just became silly, I wonder how many campaign contributions auditing and high tech security companies made.
IF you play this game the CIA will record your IP and sexy left leaning Swedish intellectual feminists will pick you up in the bar for drinks then invite you to their house, let you have sex with them, cook you breakfast, and then accuse you rape a month later.
They'll put out international 'red notices' for your arrest; Pursue you across international boundaries, and spread insidious false rumours of your poor performance in bed.
Instead of waiting a month walk into the police station yourself the following morning and "ask for advice" while explaining that you wanted to keep the condom on but she intentionally ripped it by deviously moving during intercourse, it would be interesting watching Sweden attempt to extradite her from her new home near Langley, I wonder if it would be pursued just as vigorously after all there is this nasty setting a precedent thing.
The next few weeks should be interesting, these releases are an incredible insight into the American political/security mind IF the data is as accurate as we are told to believe.
The only thing that has me a little bothered is so far each release that is in some way startling and makes a headline actually benefits the USA and does not hinder it in any way.
Saudi King Wants Iran attacked as do others - er DUH! we all know this, but it being quoted like this makes the USA look like the poor pawn who was being pushed to war but managed to avoid it - go USA!
Spying on the UN, well no shit, the UN is one of the most corrupt International organisations in the world, if you are not spying on it and the method of decision making you are foolish.
Negative personal references to other leaders, again all of them help the USA and the prior apology will make no impact as the word is out.
Anti British comments related to military activities in Afghanistan, well lets just say that is a two way street and the argument is a lot louder when the doors as closed, it might be useful to the US to get this in the open as the UK will not fight their corner in public and it might help keep the Brits quiet about their actual military opinions.
Basically we need more hard information and we need to trust the sources and this is difficult in this day and age, the DDOS on wiki was the only surprise today as it would only make the information more attractive not less, in the words of that dead Serenity robot rapist "you can't stop the signal mal".
Iran is a strategic opponent of the US. The US was already in Afghanistan, to its east. Now it's in Iraq, to its west.
Just to complete it, the US has also had a very large fleet to the south of Iran for quite a while, I am sure the Iranians feel very safe indeed.
I have always wondered if the majority of the Sept 11 murderers were Iranian and not the very close strategic ally Saudi Arabia, what flag would be flying in Tehran today?
Its ok to be proud of your own culture, but when you blame your own nation's and cultural failings on another culture's influence its complete horse shit. Not to mention this individual has a gross misunderstanding of what American culture even is.
This statement makes sense and I agree with it, he might indeed misunderstand "American culture" but as many have shown before you he is not alone in this.
Your job as a literate American is to prove him wrong, not the opposite.
That is not unique to the British. Apparently you've never heard of the Boston tea party, the American revolution, the American feminist movement, the Hippy movement, the Vietnam war deserters, and illegal file sharing.
The Americans were British during the first two - just sayin...
Feminist movement, deserters yeah you could be proud of that, but illegal file sharing? phew..
Sure thing. I view your whole post as a pompous diatribe of bull shit. You have an obvious superiority complex, and its completely unfounded in reality.
And it is confined to him and not you in any way, clearly..
It wont make any difference, they are not stating that they are tracking what you are doing just where you are going it is about building up a pattern of behavior which they can later use to identify why they didn't see little Mohamed would blow himself up and thus chastise the silly security services from missing the obvious pattern - that's the real danger. If your worried about the government knowing you watch pr0n on the Internet don't be, that is what 99% of people do.
The laws you need to worry about are when they start talking about keeping the content of these phone calls, emails and browsing - that day you had better have shares in EMC or any other large storage vendor as you will make a lot of money, the storage required to keep it would be phenomenal and with the computer scientists of today they would write it in jarbage and bloat the storage beyond usability meaning the only winner would be the guys with shares in large storage.
Printed books will never die out until ebook readers are good enough quality to read in bright sunlight, have batteries that last forever and are cheap enough to leave on the beach while you go for a swim.
But Seriously... In the end it was a lack of BP's oversight to watch over everything to prevent this type of disaster.. This is probably the biggest thing that wrong with big business and politics.. There is no accountability anymore (If there ever was). This appears to be a PR Campaign to draw attention away from BP's faults.. In the end the only lesson that will be learned will be that a good PR campaign after a disaster can work wonders.
Close, it was the lack of governmental oversight, lax regulations and what seems a lot like corruption in government circles to anything related to black gold. This is why the boss man came out pointing fingers at BP before anyone knew what happened, this helped stop people looking for other causes albeit temporarily.
Frankly, I'm kind of amazed that Microsoft hasn't been able to make stronger inroads with SQL Server in more of the Oracle shops.
This is because nobody trusts them, stability in the business world is very important. In today's world customer affecting is the buzz word, downtime, negative impact or data loss are all very bad publicity and this can damage a companies earnings quite significantly and many customers will vote with their feet in the higher tech areas.
Yeah, you can't run SQL Server on anything but Windows, but honestly, 90% of the big businesses I have personally seen using Oracle are running it on Windows anyway.
You and I have clearly seen very different BIG businesses, I would say out of 300+ databases my current company operate less than 5 are SQL Server databases.
Microsoft should seem like a big, stable, sueable-in-case-of-catastrophe kind of company to all the same kinds of managers who would be scared to death of adopting an Open Source solution even in the cases in which they're clearly superior across the board.
Certainly Microsoft are not going anywhere but that is the end of their stability assurance, SQL Server is considered a toy, if that be accurate or no I am not one to say but it is this perception that they are fighting and loosing.
SQL Server has ridiculously better tools included (it's telling that to work on an Oracle database you generally use someone else's tool and never the ones Oracle provides because they're expensive, terrible, or both -- in some cases you're even better off using an Open Source tool a decade old) and is a lot less expensive.
Oracle comes packaged with many detailed diagnostic tools not everything has or requires fancy GUI's, the tools available are good, now without someone who knows how to use them (i.e. a good DBA) to avoid, identify or repair issues then for sure you are in trouble. Price is always important in this world but in larger shops at least in the range you refer, a broken product can simply make or break and if this happens because your DBA doesn't have a clue what he is doing that can be an expensive mistake but has nothing to do with the tools at his/her disposal.
I don't get it. Oracle DBAs managing to advocate for their own job security?
I started out as a sysadmin but having been a full time Oracle DBA for over a decade now and still enjoying my job it might be that I tend to be a little protective... maybe... possibly =)
This has _zero_ to do with 9/11 unless any and all Arabs are considered terrorists connected with 9/11.
That is exactly the problem, anyone of Arab decent is a terrorist until proven otherwise in this unfortunate age. If you want to test this try to travel via a US airport with an Arab friend, good luck in customs and I hope you both make the next flight.
They can do what they want. I don't care. It's a damned VIDEO GAME. And I'll play it, too, regardless. There are much more offensive things than then Taliban in games right now.
Like the price of the dam things or being forced to close process explorer to play a game and don't get me started on windows flipping live.
Play Mafia 2 when it comes out, that will help anyone work off their unresolved anger issues with cops without actually going to jail for real.
There is a big difference between real life and games, the only people who have a problem with the Taliban in such a game clearly can not distinguish between the two or miss the point of having a war game based on this war zone.
The lack of political knowledge is not just limited to the French, in this case sit quiet let them waste a huge amount of French taxpayers money and then watch it get bypassed in seconds. Then watch the recriminations and social bickering reach such a level that no other right thinking government will try this again.
Then we can sleep well and laugh about it, but if we all start laughing now they might realise their mistake and make it complicated for everyone, the last thing we need is this to be successful.
That reminds me, where did I leave that mile long pipe? I must have dropped it somewhere, if found please call...
Assume it will launch and hit the moon (given BP's luck it will) then knock it off its axis and crash into North America causing the west coast to sink into the Pacific and I guess Mr DontBlama will put that bill on BP as well but dont worry BP money is endless right?......
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So I can't use a Mastercard to pay for Usenet service, then?
The first rule of Usenet is, you do not talk about Usenet.
If the WikiLeaks "dirty" fightback taught the world anything then it was that the USA has too much control over critical worldwide infrastructure both technical and practical (Internet and Money) and it has shown that it cannot be trusted to control either. For reasons of their own most nations have been going along with the current world order as it was never openly abused and this allowed tacit approval, but as pressure grows from China, India and an emerging EU/Russia along with growing understanding from the people in these nations the world has in fact already irreparably changed. These sorts of activities will only hasten that change of power much to the detriment of the existing regimes. As the Chinese (and Mr Pratchett) say "May you live in Interesting times", it is a curse for a reason and these are interesting times.
It is very hard to explain people that changing passwords every month will LOWER the security.
If I had a penny for every time I had to say that ....
So we force users to change passwords using complicated passwords, users being human (mostly) make typos and in coordination with mandatory locking after multiple password failures and there we have it a whole new department servicing user password problems and stability and functionality are thrown out of the window. Then came SOx but after that things just became silly, I wonder how many campaign contributions auditing and high tech security companies made.
IF you play this game the CIA will record your IP and sexy left leaning Swedish intellectual feminists will pick you up in the bar for drinks then invite you to their house, let you have sex with them, cook you breakfast, and then accuse you rape a month later.
They'll put out international 'red notices' for your arrest; Pursue you across international boundaries, and spread insidious false rumours of your poor performance in bed.
Instead of waiting a month walk into the police station yourself the following morning and "ask for advice" while explaining that you wanted to keep the condom on but she intentionally ripped it by deviously moving during intercourse, it would be interesting watching Sweden attempt to extradite her from her new home near Langley, I wonder if it would be pursued just as vigorously after all there is this nasty setting a precedent thing.
Dont worry, this is in hand, many other XKCD predictions have come true.
http://xkcd.com/834/
fear of death is more common among women than men.
This part of the research is flawed, the reason for men not fearing death is having been married they now look forward to death.
The only thing that has me a little bothered is so far each release that is in some way startling and makes a headline actually benefits the USA and does not hinder it in any way.
Saudi King Wants Iran attacked as do others - er DUH! we all know this, but it being quoted like this makes the USA look like the poor pawn who was being pushed to war but managed to avoid it - go USA!
Spying on the UN, well no shit, the UN is one of the most corrupt International organisations in the world, if you are not spying on it and the method of decision making you are foolish.
Negative personal references to other leaders, again all of them help the USA and the prior apology will make no impact as the word is out.
Anti British comments related to military activities in Afghanistan, well lets just say that is a two way street and the argument is a lot louder when the doors as closed, it might be useful to the US to get this in the open as the UK will not fight their corner in public and it might help keep the Brits quiet about their actual military opinions.
Basically we need more hard information and we need to trust the sources and this is difficult in this day and age, the DDOS on wiki was the only surprise today as it would only make the information more attractive not less, in the words of that dead Serenity robot rapist "you can't stop the signal mal".
Iran is a strategic opponent of the US. The US was already in Afghanistan, to its east. Now it's in Iraq, to its west.
Just to complete it, the US has also had a very large fleet to the south of Iran for quite a while, I am sure the Iranians feel very safe indeed. I have always wondered if the majority of the Sept 11 murderers were Iranian and not the very close strategic ally Saudi Arabia, what flag would be flying in Tehran today?
What bothers me, is that more people do not understand exactly what you just said here..
Its ok to be proud of your own culture, but when you blame your own nation's and cultural failings on another culture's influence its complete horse shit. Not to mention this individual has a gross misunderstanding of what American culture even is.
This statement makes sense and I agree with it, he might indeed misunderstand "American culture" but as many have shown before you he is not alone in this.
Your job as a literate American is to prove him wrong, not the opposite.
That is not unique to the British. Apparently you've never heard of the Boston tea party, the American revolution, the American feminist movement, the Hippy movement, the Vietnam war deserters, and illegal file sharing.
The Americans were British during the first two - just sayin... Feminist movement, deserters yeah you could be proud of that, but illegal file sharing? phew..
Sure thing. I view your whole post as a pompous diatribe of bull shit. You have an obvious superiority complex, and its completely unfounded in reality.
And it is confined to him and not you in any way, clearly..
It wont make any difference, they are not stating that they are tracking what you are doing just where you are going it is about building up a pattern of behavior which they can later use to identify why they didn't see little Mohamed would blow himself up and thus chastise the silly security services from missing the obvious pattern - that's the real danger. If your worried about the government knowing you watch pr0n on the Internet don't be, that is what 99% of people do.
The laws you need to worry about are when they start talking about keeping the content of these phone calls, emails and browsing - that day you had better have shares in EMC or any other large storage vendor as you will make a lot of money, the storage required to keep it would be phenomenal and with the computer scientists of today they would write it in jarbage and bloat the storage beyond usability meaning the only winner would be the guys with shares in large storage.
And if you do, take pictures and post them with no protection so we can all enjoy it.
Printed books will never die out until ebook readers are good enough quality to read in bright sunlight, have batteries that last forever and are cheap enough to leave on the beach while you go for a swim.
You've been hit by you've been hit by a smooth criminal....
So they would want you to keep the phone on and the microphone working 24x7 because nobody could possibly think of a way to exploit that - right?
1984 - I think they called it a telescreen.
But Seriously... In the end it was a lack of BP's oversight to watch over everything to prevent this type of disaster.. This is probably the biggest thing that wrong with big business and politics.. There is no accountability anymore (If there ever was). This appears to be a PR Campaign to draw attention away from BP's faults.. In the end the only lesson that will be learned will be that a good PR campaign after a disaster can work wonders.
Close, it was the lack of governmental oversight, lax regulations and what seems a lot like corruption in government circles to anything related to black gold. This is why the boss man came out pointing fingers at BP before anyone knew what happened, this helped stop people looking for other causes albeit temporarily.
Frankly, I'm kind of amazed that Microsoft hasn't been able to make stronger inroads with SQL Server in more of the Oracle shops.
This is because nobody trusts them, stability in the business world is very important. In today's world customer affecting is the buzz word, downtime, negative impact or data loss are all very bad publicity and this can damage a companies earnings quite significantly and many customers will vote with their feet in the higher tech areas.
Yeah, you can't run SQL Server on anything but Windows, but honestly, 90% of the big businesses I have personally seen using Oracle are running it on Windows anyway.
You and I have clearly seen very different BIG businesses, I would say out of 300+ databases my current company operate less than 5 are SQL Server databases.
Microsoft should seem like a big, stable, sueable-in-case-of-catastrophe kind of company to all the same kinds of managers who would be scared to death of adopting an Open Source solution even in the cases in which they're clearly superior across the board.
Certainly Microsoft are not going anywhere but that is the end of their stability assurance, SQL Server is considered a toy, if that be accurate or no I am not one to say but it is this perception that they are fighting and loosing.
SQL Server has ridiculously better tools included (it's telling that to work on an Oracle database you generally use someone else's tool and never the ones Oracle provides because they're expensive, terrible, or both -- in some cases you're even better off using an Open Source tool a decade old) and is a lot less expensive.
Oracle comes packaged with many detailed diagnostic tools not everything has or requires fancy GUI's, the tools available are good, now without someone who knows how to use them (i.e. a good DBA) to avoid, identify or repair issues then for sure you are in trouble. Price is always important in this world but in larger shops at least in the range you refer, a broken product can simply make or break and if this happens because your DBA doesn't have a clue what he is doing that can be an expensive mistake but has nothing to do with the tools at his/her disposal.
I don't get it. Oracle DBAs managing to advocate for their own job security?
I started out as a sysadmin but having been a full time Oracle DBA for over a decade now and still enjoying my job it might be that I tend to be a little protective... maybe... possibly =)
This has _zero_ to do with 9/11 unless any and all Arabs are considered terrorists connected with 9/11.
That is exactly the problem, anyone of Arab decent is a terrorist until proven otherwise in this unfortunate age. If you want to test this try to travel via a US airport with an Arab friend, good luck in customs and I hope you both make the next flight.
They can do what they want. I don't care. It's a damned VIDEO GAME. And I'll play it, too, regardless. There are much more offensive things than then Taliban in games right now.
Like the price of the dam things or being forced to close process explorer to play a game and don't get me started on windows flipping live.
no one likes cops.
Play Mafia 2 when it comes out, that will help anyone work off their unresolved anger issues with cops without actually going to jail for real. There is a big difference between real life and games, the only people who have a problem with the Taliban in such a game clearly can not distinguish between the two or miss the point of having a war game based on this war zone.
http://xkcd.com/725/
The lack of political knowledge is not just limited to the French, in this case sit quiet let them waste a huge amount of French taxpayers money and then watch it get bypassed in seconds. Then watch the recriminations and social bickering reach such a level that no other right thinking government will try this again. Then we can sleep well and laugh about it, but if we all start laughing now they might realise their mistake and make it complicated for everyone, the last thing we need is this to be successful.
Do you drive a car?
That reminds me, where did I leave that mile long pipe? I must have dropped it somewhere, if found please call... Assume it will launch and hit the moon (given BP's luck it will) then knock it off its axis and crash into North America causing the west coast to sink into the Pacific and I guess Mr DontBlama will put that bill on BP as well but dont worry BP money is endless right?......