DNSEC is not the same as writing a program. It is a service that does one thing. DNS.. Securely.
The protocols are ALREADY set, it is just a matter of configuration and implementation.
Again, other places have DNSEC working right, so what is so hard about getting it working here? I mean besides normal Bureaucratic Government Ineptitude?
Rathergate = Forging Official Documents with Microsoft Word and getting caught, and continuing the story because of an agenda fueled by idiology and not facts.
And if you DON'T care about using forged documents to forward a story that had ramifications on a National Presidential Election, then you're worse than Glenn Beck.
And the (R) winning Mass Senate seat IS the political ramifications, not the cause of it. The fact that you think that it isn't interesting other than what happens now, is really short sighted of you.
Because you're listening to whatever "journalists" are telling you, and thinking that they are helping you make up your mind on stuff is clearly not all it is cracked up to be, because you're missing the point. Brown came from 30 points behind in polls in about 1 month because of what was happening elsewhere. Your "journalists" (would that be Keith Olbermann??) think it is a bunch of "Teabagging Racists Homophobes".
To be honest, I don't trust the "News". From Global Warming to Exploding Trucks, to GWB is a draft dodger and we have the Documents to prove it, to whatever else they're lying about today. They are no better than Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity. But at least with them, I know their bias is out in the open, rather than hiding behind "objective journalism" label, which is just another lie.
And nobody told me to anything, I get my stories raw and unfiltered, and figure it out for myself, rather than let some overrated hack Journalist lie to me.
Let me ask you a question, did the US military invade and are now occupying Haiti? Depending on which "journalist" you're listening to, you might actually think we did. I happen to think the BHO admin responded properly there.
I have a theory about this, and it hasn't been mentioned in this thread that I've seen.
Apple is considering this deal because it will significantly weaken MS, and Google both.
Think if it this way, Apple has no dog in this show (Search), they don't care one way or another except for Google has Android, and MS is... well MS.
By having this deal, MS is funneling $ to Apple, for what? An icon on the iPhone? Apple knows that it would be fairly easy to ALSO install a Google Icon, and make it fairly easy for the average iPhone user to switch.
Best of both worlds, Apple gets $ from MS, and doesn't prevent people from moving to Google.
Digital Cameras have turned ordinary citizens into Reporters. Internet Blogging has given a forum away from elitists picking and choosing the stories.
who's going to actually go out and dig up stories in this brave new world of yours?
There are plenty of people who are willing. Or perhaps you want only "Trained professionals" telling us what to believe. You know, like the "Gun toting Red Neck Racist" at the "Teabagger party" (carefully edited vidio) who actually was an urban black "Gun Toting" guy. But that didn't fit the narrative of the "reporter".
I could mention things like Rathergate, Acorn and so on all broken by "Amateurs" Or how about the illegitimate child of Edwards broken by the National Enquirer, and quietly ignored by NYT for as long as they could?
Welcome to the new Media, which is found everywhere, and everyone is a Reporter. Of course this kind of Reporting doesn't fit well in the "well written nuanced articles" crowd.
Give me the raw story, unfiltered by a Reporter's bias, thank you very much.
Because if I had to read the NY Times' "High Quality Nuanced Story" about Rathergate, I'd still be waiting for it.
THIS is what the elitists don't understand, is that bias isn't always what is written, it is often what is omitted. Sticking stories on page 12, instead of Front Page, and Front page instead of page twelve.
Take the lead story for today, is it about Scott Brown's victory? Yeah, well, sort of. It is about "Democrats Regroup on Health After Losing Seat".
The LEAD story should have been Scott Brown, what led to the fall of Coakley, and the long term political ramifications of the Default (D) seat from Mass. going (R).
Of course, I would expect nothing less of a NYT High Quality Nuanced story.
And Having read the article in question, the (D) don't get the problem yet, even though it has been manifested for nearly 9 months. Rather they would just assume it is a bunch of "Tea Bagging, Homophobic, Racist" idiots (thank you Olbermann).
And I watched the results on TV, Live. I saw Coakley concede, Brown rejoice, and Olbermann rant all live.
I don't need someone to tell me what I saw. I'll make up my own mind, thank you very much.
Most people are missing the point. What we're witnessing is the buggy whips in the age of automobiles transition.
Newspapers and Magazines are the buggy whips of our times, fighting to stay relevant in an age that has passed them by.
When Katie Curic asked Sarah Palin what newspapers and magazines she read, Palin should have responded "I don't read Newspapers, I read the news on the internet", and mentioned that all the news stories of the day have been driven by sites like Drudge, LittleGreenFootballs and Daily Kos, and Huffington Post, not by NYT or Washington Post.
The traditional "National News Media" is fast becoming irrelevant, because information dissemination is faster than a Newspaper can be printed.
Information is moving (literally) at the speed of light (Internet). By the time NYT puts it on the front page, it is often 24 hours too late to be of much use.
Siebel crap needs to be replaced if they haven't fixed their shit to work with IE 7 or better yet, simply for one fact... Vista/7 only comes with IE7, and it is getting nearly impossible to find XP capable machine (XP Drivers).
Now it might be that you can't afford the latest upgrade, but that is a problem going down the whole Commercial Software route in the first place.
I'll assume for the moment you support more left wing type ideas than libertarian style views.
Here are a list of a few items which I consider Left Wing Religious Ideologies, which are not based on anything but the religion of "progressives".
Robin Hood Tax policies, Abortion, Global Warming/Earth First, Political Correctness, Equality of results, Class/Race/Ethnicity, (D) good/(R) bad.
The fact is, there is plenty of blame for shit to go all around. If you think progressive (again, still assuming) politics is pure and holy, you're just as retarded as those you protest.
Here is one "Progressive" rant.
In Scott Brown we have an irresponsible, homophobic, racist, reactionary, ex-nude model, teabagging supporter of violence against woman and against politicians with whom he disagrees.
Why is this guy still on the air? Oh right! Because Scott Brown is (R), and progressives are pure and holy.
Because, shallow simplistic plots are sometimes necessary for shallow simplistic leadership to see themselves in the mirror. Even the leadership that thinks themselves so special and smarter than the rest of us.
A movie like Avatar can help people form more complex thoughts and ideas, such as respecting people's "religious" views even if you think they are silly.
It used to be people would call me, and I could resolve the problem in a few minutes or even less. Now, the user has to fill in a ticket, submit it. I have to get it, prioritize it, schedule it, document it, track it, note it, clear it, and close it.
The three minute problem now takes fifteen, all so we can have metrics we can use for ITIL. It sucks because it doesn't account for the little things people need, and tracking the little things people need takes more time than actually doing them does.
This is when the process matters more than the results do. "The System Work" bureaucrats don't look at the results, they look at the processes.
Having an internet connection is a security risk. Probably a bigger one than running Audacity.
It isn't about puckered a-holes, it is about not being able to quantify risk appropriately. I ran into the same level of thinking in my boss (IT Supervisor no less) who thought that using BitTorrent to Download Ubuntu "was letting unauthorized access to company computers", I mentioned that all sorts of outside computers have access to company computers via web browsers, and perhaps we should block connections on Port 80 as well.
And Web Browsing on the ONLY Company Approved Web Browser (IE) is VERY risky, and has been for years. And yet, it remains company policy to not recommend Firefox, Chrome or Safari.
Yup, exactly. My response back when this happened to me was verbatim what they had said, except replacing the Product currently being used....
Were you authorised to show these people Acrobat Reader 9.2? Who gave you permission to to install Acrobat Reader 9.2 on their machines? Did you fully evaluate Acrobat Reader 9.2 to certify that it is the Best of Breed? Are their security implications to using Acrobat Reader 9.2? Who is now responible for maintaining Acrobat Reader 9.2? Who is going to train users on its use? Has it been fully documented?
The point is, asking questions about CutePDF (or whatever) that you're not asking about "commercial" software is a double standard that should be questioned every time.
In my case I was using OpenOffice instead of Office 2007, and the answer I got back was "because everyone else has it", along with something about support by Microsoft. I just mentioned SUN, HP, and IBM using and supporting OpenOffice, and said "not everyone is using MS Office".
Of course many people were asking if they could go back to Office 2003 because they couldn't figure out Office 2007's "ribbon" thingie, which was exactly why I used OpenOffice.
BTW, about 1/3 of the company now uses OpenOffice intead.
I'm running similar code on my site, and yet many of the "visitors" are still using IE6. I suspect most of those are bots, because of the traffic pattern looking for Registration and Forum pieces.
It is sad when you can spot a bot by the UserAgent.
Google needed Firefox. Well not specifically Firefox, but a browser other than IE. They could have gone to Opera, but Opera was already "corporate" software.
So now that Google has developed Chrome, they really don't need Firefox much longer. And as part of my "default" Firefox install, AdBlock doesn't fit into Google's corporate strategy.
I like Chrome, but as long as I don't have AdBlock for it, I'll keep using Firefox. Once you get used to the Internet relatively free of crap ads blinking in your face, telling you your the One Millionth Visitor, you can't go back to it.
I believe a far better approach is to identify rumors and conspiracies, and use an existing official vehicle to debunk them.
Yeah, that's the problem right there. Propaganda used to cover up things with "official" versions.
You obviously don't understand the nature of conspiracy theories. These people DON'T trust what they're being told, and quite frankly, I can understand why. Our Government Lies, as part of policy. And it doesn't matter if there is a (D) or an (R) after the administration either.
The only thing you can do with these types is ignore them, or join them. There is no other choice. Any other option just feeds the conspiracy.
And the REALLY odd thing about some of the conspiracies out there are the strange bedfellows it creates, from the far right and far left feeding the "9/11 was an inside job" theory.
The far right guys think it was because GWB is a NWO operative, and the left thinks it was because of oil (or whatever, there are about 1/2 doz excuses for either group out there).
Hi, I represent the Obama Administration, and accordingly you are labeled a "Right wing Extremist" and we've placed you and your group under our surveillance program. We have or will shortly infiltrate your group with our agent(s).
Janet is now preparing her next "The system worked" speech.
You put people into groups, gVoice will screen accordingly. I never hear telemarketers. My voice message for unknown people is "This is my phone number, however I don't know who you are, so leave a message and a call back number, and I will return your call. Otherwise, stop calling me, because I'll never answer."
It works like a charm. People who REALLY want to get a hold of me, will leave a message.
Ah yes, Layer 8 in the OSI model. Know that one very well.
Tech is interesting in cost analysis, and I would NEVER tell someone that it will save them any $ what-so-ever. Because really, it won't. It just increases productivity.
Instead of spending hours doing something, you now can do it better in less time. That time is now applied to other endeavors which weren't ever possible before.
I can do most of my suggestions for very low or even no costs. IT is just a matter of taking the time to set up my procedures in the first place.
Trust me, I work in education, and many teachers don't like change, and don't want to learn, and they tend to think they know more than they do.
I hope Sunstein gets crucified for even suggesting that.
Let me know when that actually happens, rather than "hope". And exactly what would you accept as "being crucified" analog?
I will be surprised if anything is made of this other than the "ooops, I got caught" apology, and maybe a slap on the wrist. Nothing would make me happier than if I had to eat some crow.
He should be FIRED. He is not qualified to be in that position if that is how he thinks.
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DNSEC is not the same as writing a program. It is a service that does one thing. DNS .. Securely.
The protocols are ALREADY set, it is just a matter of configuration and implementation.
Again, other places have DNSEC working right, so what is so hard about getting it working here? I mean besides normal Bureaucratic Government Ineptitude?
1) Yeah? And?
2) IT wasn't unrealistic.
How long does it take to implement?
1) Get deadline
2) Start product evaluations
3) Pick Product(s)
4) Implement Product
5) Write Howto: for all the idiots out there
If we use 3 Months (1/4 year) for each step, we're looking at 1 year, three months to implement, including figuring out time lines for implementation.
Once you start rolling out, you cookie cutter as much as you can, so you have easy, consistent configurations and implementations.
I don't get why it takes so long.
And while everyone is watching Heffalump, The Woozles are taking over the world!
Rathergate = Forging Official Documents with Microsoft Word and getting caught, and continuing the story because of an agenda fueled by idiology and not facts.
And if you DON'T care about using forged documents to forward a story that had ramifications on a National Presidential Election, then you're worse than Glenn Beck.
And the (R) winning Mass Senate seat IS the political ramifications, not the cause of it. The fact that you think that it isn't interesting other than what happens now, is really short sighted of you.
Because you're listening to whatever "journalists" are telling you, and thinking that they are helping you make up your mind on stuff is clearly not all it is cracked up to be, because you're missing the point. Brown came from 30 points behind in polls in about 1 month because of what was happening elsewhere. Your "journalists" (would that be Keith Olbermann??) think it is a bunch of "Teabagging Racists Homophobes".
To be honest, I don't trust the "News". From Global Warming to Exploding Trucks, to GWB is a draft dodger and we have the Documents to prove it, to whatever else they're lying about today. They are no better than Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity. But at least with them, I know their bias is out in the open, rather than hiding behind "objective journalism" label, which is just another lie.
And nobody told me to anything, I get my stories raw and unfiltered, and figure it out for myself, rather than let some overrated hack Journalist lie to me.
Let me ask you a question, did the US military invade and are now occupying Haiti? Depending on which "journalist" you're listening to, you might actually think we did. I happen to think the BHO admin responded properly there.
I have a theory about this, and it hasn't been mentioned in this thread that I've seen.
Apple is considering this deal because it will significantly weaken MS, and Google both.
Think if it this way, Apple has no dog in this show (Search), they don't care one way or another except for Google has Android, and MS is ... well MS.
By having this deal, MS is funneling $ to Apple, for what? An icon on the iPhone? Apple knows that it would be fairly easy to ALSO install a Google Icon, and make it fairly easy for the average iPhone user to switch.
Best of both worlds, Apple gets $ from MS, and doesn't prevent people from moving to Google.
Well that and BING Is Not Google.
It is only MOSTLY dead.
Yeah, it is the same FCC which will enforce the other "Puritan" view called .... "Fairness Doctrine".
And yes, I agree, stick to regulating the wavelengths and not what rides on them.
Digital Cameras have turned ordinary citizens into Reporters. Internet Blogging has given a forum away from elitists picking and choosing the stories.
There are plenty of people who are willing. Or perhaps you want only "Trained professionals" telling us what to believe. You know, like the "Gun toting Red Neck Racist" at the "Teabagger party" (carefully edited vidio) who actually was an urban black "Gun Toting" guy. But that didn't fit the narrative of the "reporter".
I could mention things like Rathergate, Acorn and so on all broken by "Amateurs" Or how about the illegitimate child of Edwards broken by the National Enquirer, and quietly ignored by NYT for as long as they could?
Welcome to the new Media, which is found everywhere, and everyone is a Reporter. Of course this kind of Reporting doesn't fit well in the "well written nuanced articles" crowd.
High-Quality Nuanced Story = Bias filtered BS.
Give me the raw story, unfiltered by a Reporter's bias, thank you very much.
Because if I had to read the NY Times' "High Quality Nuanced Story" about Rathergate, I'd still be waiting for it.
THIS is what the elitists don't understand, is that bias isn't always what is written, it is often what is omitted. Sticking stories on page 12, instead of Front Page, and Front page instead of page twelve.
Take the lead story for today, is it about Scott Brown's victory? Yeah, well, sort of. It is about "Democrats Regroup on Health After Losing Seat".
The LEAD story should have been Scott Brown, what led to the fall of Coakley, and the long term political ramifications of the Default (D) seat from Mass. going (R).
Of course, I would expect nothing less of a NYT High Quality Nuanced story.
And Having read the article in question, the (D) don't get the problem yet, even though it has been manifested for nearly 9 months. Rather they would just assume it is a bunch of "Tea Bagging, Homophobic, Racist" idiots (thank you Olbermann).
And I watched the results on TV, Live. I saw Coakley concede, Brown rejoice, and Olbermann rant all live.
I don't need someone to tell me what I saw. I'll make up my own mind, thank you very much.
You can't even get a shave and a haircut for that anymore.
Most people are missing the point. What we're witnessing is the buggy whips in the age of automobiles transition.
Newspapers and Magazines are the buggy whips of our times, fighting to stay relevant in an age that has passed them by.
When Katie Curic asked Sarah Palin what newspapers and magazines she read, Palin should have responded "I don't read Newspapers, I read the news on the internet", and mentioned that all the news stories of the day have been driven by sites like Drudge, LittleGreenFootballs and Daily Kos, and Huffington Post, not by NYT or Washington Post.
The traditional "National News Media" is fast becoming irrelevant, because information dissemination is faster than a Newspaper can be printed.
Information is moving (literally) at the speed of light (Internet). By the time NYT puts it on the front page, it is often 24 hours too late to be of much use.
Siebel crap needs to be replaced if they haven't fixed their shit to work with IE 7 or better yet, simply for one fact ... Vista/7 only comes with IE7, and it is getting nearly impossible to find XP capable machine (XP Drivers).
Now it might be that you can't afford the latest upgrade, but that is a problem going down the whole Commercial Software route in the first place.
I'll assume for the moment you support more left wing type ideas than libertarian style views.
Here are a list of a few items which I consider Left Wing Religious Ideologies, which are not based on anything but the religion of "progressives".
Robin Hood Tax policies, Abortion, Global Warming/Earth First, Political Correctness, Equality of results, Class/Race/Ethnicity, (D) good/(R) bad.
The fact is, there is plenty of blame for shit to go all around. If you think progressive (again, still assuming) politics is pure and holy, you're just as retarded as those you protest.
Here is one "Progressive" rant.
Why is this guy still on the air? Oh right! Because Scott Brown is (R), and progressives are pure and holy.
Because, shallow simplistic plots are sometimes necessary for shallow simplistic leadership to see themselves in the mirror. Even the leadership that thinks themselves so special and smarter than the rest of us.
A movie like Avatar can help people form more complex thoughts and ideas, such as respecting people's "religious" views even if you think they are silly.
Oh gawd, you too???
It used to be people would call me, and I could resolve the problem in a few minutes or even less. Now, the user has to fill in a ticket, submit it. I have to get it, prioritize it, schedule it, document it, track it, note it, clear it, and close it.
The three minute problem now takes fifteen, all so we can have metrics we can use for ITIL. It sucks because it doesn't account for the little things people need, and tracking the little things people need takes more time than actually doing them does.
This is when the process matters more than the results do. "The System Work" bureaucrats don't look at the results, they look at the processes.
Having an internet connection is a security risk. Probably a bigger one than running Audacity.
It isn't about puckered a-holes, it is about not being able to quantify risk appropriately. I ran into the same level of thinking in my boss (IT Supervisor no less) who thought that using BitTorrent to Download Ubuntu "was letting unauthorized access to company computers", I mentioned that all sorts of outside computers have access to company computers via web browsers, and perhaps we should block connections on Port 80 as well.
And Web Browsing on the ONLY Company Approved Web Browser (IE) is VERY risky, and has been for years. And yet, it remains company policy to not recommend Firefox, Chrome or Safari.
Yup, exactly. My response back when this happened to me was verbatim what they had said, except replacing the Product currently being used ....
The point is, asking questions about CutePDF (or whatever) that you're not asking about "commercial" software is a double standard that should be questioned every time.
In my case I was using OpenOffice instead of Office 2007, and the answer I got back was "because everyone else has it", along with something about support by Microsoft. I just mentioned SUN, HP, and IBM using and supporting OpenOffice, and said "not everyone is using MS Office".
Of course many people were asking if they could go back to Office 2003 because they couldn't figure out Office 2007's "ribbon" thingie, which was exactly why I used OpenOffice.
BTW, about 1/3 of the company now uses OpenOffice intead.
I'm running similar code on my site, and yet many of the "visitors" are still using IE6. I suspect most of those are bots, because of the traffic pattern looking for Registration and Forum pieces.
It is sad when you can spot a bot by the UserAgent.
Google needed Firefox. Well not specifically Firefox, but a browser other than IE. They could have gone to Opera, but Opera was already "corporate" software.
So now that Google has developed Chrome, they really don't need Firefox much longer. And as part of my "default" Firefox install, AdBlock doesn't fit into Google's corporate strategy.
I like Chrome, but as long as I don't have AdBlock for it, I'll keep using Firefox. Once you get used to the Internet relatively free of crap ads blinking in your face, telling you your the One Millionth Visitor, you can't go back to it.
Sorry Google.
Yeah, that's the problem right there. Propaganda used to cover up things with "official" versions.
You obviously don't understand the nature of conspiracy theories. These people DON'T trust what they're being told, and quite frankly, I can understand why. Our Government Lies, as part of policy. And it doesn't matter if there is a (D) or an (R) after the administration either.
The only thing you can do with these types is ignore them, or join them. There is no other choice. Any other option just feeds the conspiracy.
And the REALLY odd thing about some of the conspiracies out there are the strange bedfellows it creates, from the far right and far left feeding the "9/11 was an inside job" theory.
The far right guys think it was because GWB is a NWO operative, and the left thinks it was because of oil (or whatever, there are about 1/2 doz excuses for either group out there).
Job Creation? REALLY? (and not, this isn't a bash on Obama, but rather on all the idiots in charge in Washington for the last 12 years).
Only one way to "create" jobs, that is to get DC and the State Capitols out of the way of small businesses.
Hi, I represent the Obama Administration, and accordingly you are labeled a "Right wing Extremist" and we've placed you and your group under our surveillance program. We have or will shortly infiltrate your group with our agent(s).
Janet is now preparing her next "The system worked" speech.
GoogleVOICE does.
You put people into groups, gVoice will screen accordingly. I never hear telemarketers. My voice message for unknown people is "This is my phone number, however I don't know who you are, so leave a message and a call back number, and I will return your call. Otherwise, stop calling me, because I'll never answer."
It works like a charm. People who REALLY want to get a hold of me, will leave a message.
Ah yes, Layer 8 in the OSI model. Know that one very well.
Tech is interesting in cost analysis, and I would NEVER tell someone that it will save them any $ what-so-ever. Because really, it won't. It just increases productivity.
Instead of spending hours doing something, you now can do it better in less time. That time is now applied to other endeavors which weren't ever possible before.
I can do most of my suggestions for very low or even no costs. IT is just a matter of taking the time to set up my procedures in the first place.
Trust me, I work in education, and many teachers don't like change, and don't want to learn, and they tend to think they know more than they do.
Let me know when that actually happens, rather than "hope". And exactly what would you accept as "being crucified" analog?
I will be surprised if anything is made of this other than the "ooops, I got caught" apology, and maybe a slap on the wrist. Nothing would make me happier than if I had to eat some crow.
He should be FIRED. He is not qualified to be in that position if that is how he thinks.