Both seem to be installed in "C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Search Enhancement Pack\Search Helper\." Inside, there is a file called "SEPsearchhelperie.dll" that is responsible for the IE add-on and a "firefoxextension" folder responsible for Firefox.
See? It's surrounded by a SEP field. Nobody will notice it.
Still, it is nice to see Slartibartfast is gainfully employed...
No security is perfect, never has been, never will be.
And security isn't static. The attacks keep changing; defenses need to change to meet the attack. That means the defenses are reactive - they lag behind the attacks. That means the attacks will always work, at least for a little while, longer against companies and technologies that don't keep up.
Gee, I should become an industry analyst. I can state the obvious with the best of 'em.
Active glasses are old tech. I saw them demoed about 14 years ago - worked okay, a little distracting. But it wasn't at CES, it was Comdex. Well, okay, it was actually Adultdex, an "adult industry" tech/trade show that occurred at the Sahara during Comdex.
Pron really pushed the tech envelope back then....
I made the transition from tech to management, but it was voluntary - I wanted to make the move. My employer recognizes that not all techies want that (or would be particularly good at it), and so we work pretty hard to make sure there are non-management or non-supervisory career paths for our technical staff.
That said, it's my understanding that we're somewhat rare in this. Most employers seem to have the mindset that if you're not interested in moving beyond your technical role, you have no ambition. My best advise would be to talk to your employer, tell them you're happy with your current role and would prefer to excel there than move into a role that doesn't fit your strengths and skill set. They may respond well to that, but it's likely that they won't.
As I type this, I can get in to GMail just fine, but a friend in Texas can't (I'm in Nevada). Guess Google likes us better.
And kudos to the Google team for updating the status when they say they will. Looks like the script they use automatically puts current time + 1 hour in as the default next update time, and they're posting updates before that expire. Too many times, something simple like that gets overlooked.
Holes are always found - no method is 100% foolproof. The question is will the holes be usable? If the level of effort to exploit the holes is high enough, we may not see them exploited for some time. But the holes are there, and they will be found.
You're spot on target. This wasn't treason, it was standard political quid pro quo. Admittedly, it's sometimes hard to tell the two apart....
Dems may call it treason because she turned her back on the party line. But that's personal. IANAL, but to me, this looks like obstruction, maybe tampering with evidence. Not treason.
Not only that, it was a lame "feature." Three of the eeggs weren't even eeggs - one was a telnet site, one was a documented app feature, and one was a documented OS utility.
ddate really showed how lazy there were. 10 seconds in my browser and I had a full definition of what a Discordian date is. Including what YOLD means.
And someone got paid to put that "feature" together? Crap....
A lot of companies tend to treat backup or development environments as less important than their production environments, and have less protection for them.
Huge mistake.
You need to look not at the environment, but the data. If the data in your backup environment is the same as production, the protection needs to be the same. Same controls. Same technology. Same standards. Same restrictions. Same monitoring. Because the data in backup is just as valuable as the data in production.
"Don't need to worry about that stuff, it's just the backup." If someone steals it, do they still get credit card numbers, SSNs, account credentials? Can they still hurt the business if they delete it? Then you need to protect it like it's production.
Don't think about where the data is. Think about WHAT the data is. It's not about the environment, or the use. It's about the data.
I loved having a 9/80 schedule. When holidays came along, I either had three 3-day weekends in a row, or a 4-day weekend (if the holiday fell on my day off, I'd get either Thursday or Monday). No problems with getting called in or anything like that. The one time (in four years) that happened, I got a comp day off later in the month.
I think that's the crux of the matter. The comparison the cigarette labels is misleading. In that case, there has been an incontrovertible link between smoking and various diseases - even the tobacco industry now admits this. The link between violent video games and violent behavior is far more tenuous, supported somewhat by some anecdotal evidence, and strongly disputed by many behavioral scientists. I've got no problem with the label per se, IF it's accurate.
IIRC, Robert April was captain of the Enterprise during its final testing and shakedown, which was largely confined to local space (solar system). Christopher Pike was captian during the initial missions after the Enterprise was placed into active service, and was generally referred to as her first captain. Kirk was her second, more famous, captain.
Hollywood shoulda called me - I've known this stuff for 40 years....
This is just disappointing. I had Sequoia pegged as one of the good guys. When we selected them here in Nevada, they willingly submitted to every test, including review by the gaming board (who know a thing or two about fairness and anti-tampering in electronic devices - they have to certify all slot and video gaming machines). Sequoia passed the tests, including having a paper trail. That's not to say they're perfect or infallible, but they sure seemed cooperative and focused in the right direction.
This just doesn't fit with their actions back then. Has there been a change in management?
He's an entertainer. Putting the focus on himself is not only his job, but it's part of his act. I mean, four nights a week, he introduces a guest and then steals the applause that would usually welcome that guest. Stealing the stage from the likes of Hillary, Obama, Mit, Fred, Rudy - that's second nature to him.
When a satirist can steal (or come close to stealing) the political process, it says more about the political process than it does about the satirist. He isn't making politics into a joke. He's simply pointing out that it is.
I'm reminded or comedian Pat Paulson, a regular fixture on the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour back in the late 60's (yes, I'm showing my age). He was a perennial (fake) presidential candidate back then. He managed to get on the ballot a few times, and came in second to George H.W. Bush in the North Dakota Republican primary, and second to Bill Clinton in the 1996 New Hampshire primary.
But what I remember best was his bid to get on the California primary in '96. He had twice the number of required signatures on his petition, paid the fees, filed well in advance of the deadline, but was still denied. March Fong Yu, California Secretary of State, explained the denial as "he's not serious about the campaign."
Paulson's response: "You mean those other guys are?"
The Nigerian government simply discovered $47.5 Million in a suspense account at The Central Bank Of Nigeria Apex Bank that had resulted from an over-invoiced contract, executed, commissioned and paid for about five years (5) ago by a foreign contractor. Best part is, they only had to promise Ballmer 20% of the funds, with 5% going to fees, and they kept the other 75%. Ballmer simply gave them his personal bank account number....
Find managers who have styles that you like and respond well to, that have teams that are regarded as highly effective, and that have good reputations with other management types. Talk to them, learn from them, as them for advice. When I transitioned from desktop support to management, I talked to my father (who worked his way up in the glass industry from apprentice to Executive VP, and knew nothing about computers). Learned a ton, and it's helped me greatly.
Also, don't be afraid of asking your upline for guidance and direction. He/she will know that this is your first foray into management, and if they're any good at all, will expect you to ask questions. It's not a sign of weakness to ask when you don't know something.
Finally, think about the bosses you've had over the course of your career. Do the things you liked them doing, avoid the things you didn't like. This is one of the best ways to find what your own management style is.
Voters would be able to see that their vote counted in the right direction, and unless someone else knows your private key, nobody would be able to tell who you voted for.
That "unless" part is the biggest problem with this approach. Digitally signing the ballot eliminates the anonymity of it. On measures that are controversial or highly contentious (stem cell research, gay marriage, abortion, legalization of drugs, to name a few), people need to be able to cast their votes without fear of reprisal or being ostracized be their community. If I'm digitally signing my ballot, that creates a solid link between me and my votes, which may make me reluctant to vote in ways that don't conform with the views of my neighbors.
Of course, the Government has a solid reputation of keeping secrets, so there's no chance that the ballot data could be stolen, hacked or otherwise compromised, or have their contents improperly made available to the general public. And encryption never, ever gets cracked. And the public would never fall for any tricks to get them to divulge their passphrase or surrender their key (for example, a phishing site claiming to be a Voter Verification Portal). Nope, the security here is 100%, nothing to worry about, just go about your business....
It's not surprising at all. Nothing is pure evil, or pure good. On many things, the evil may far outweigh the good, as is the case with heroin or cocaine (or nicotine in its most common state), but that doesn't mean there isn't some good that can be derived. The challenge will be to disconnect the good elements from the highly addictive ones.
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See? It's surrounded by a SEP field. Nobody will notice it.
Still, it is nice to see Slartibartfast is gainfully employed...
NOOOOOOOOOOOO! "GOTO" is EEEEEEVILLLLLLLLLL!
while (1) {
print "FUCK";
}
No security is perfect, never has been, never will be.
And security isn't static. The attacks keep changing; defenses need to change to meet the attack. That means the defenses are reactive - they lag behind the attacks. That means the attacks will always work, at least for a little while, longer against companies and technologies that don't keep up.
Gee, I should become an industry analyst. I can state the obvious with the best of 'em.
Active glasses are old tech. I saw them demoed about 14 years ago - worked okay, a little distracting. But it wasn't at CES, it was Comdex. Well, okay, it was actually Adultdex, an "adult industry" tech/trade show that occurred at the Sahara during Comdex.
Pron really pushed the tech envelope back then....
I made the transition from tech to management, but it was voluntary - I wanted to make the move. My employer recognizes that not all techies want that (or would be particularly good at it), and so we work pretty hard to make sure there are non-management or non-supervisory career paths for our technical staff.
That said, it's my understanding that we're somewhat rare in this. Most employers seem to have the mindset that if you're not interested in moving beyond your technical role, you have no ambition. My best advise would be to talk to your employer, tell them you're happy with your current role and would prefer to excel there than move into a role that doesn't fit your strengths and skill set. They may respond well to that, but it's likely that they won't.
As I type this, I can get in to GMail just fine, but a friend in Texas can't (I'm in Nevada). Guess Google likes us better.
And kudos to the Google team for updating the status when they say they will. Looks like the script they use automatically puts current time + 1 hour in as the default next update time, and they're posting updates before that expire. Too many times, something simple like that gets overlooked.
Hey, my laptop can tweet when I press the keys. Same things with my Crackberry. Time to take out a patent!
Richard Daystrom's, of course.
And you call yourself a nerd....
Holes are always found - no method is 100% foolproof. The question is will the holes be usable? If the level of effort to exploit the holes is high enough, we may not see them exploited for some time. But the holes are there, and they will be found.
He deserves to be called out. Misspelled "Nimoy" too. Unforgivable.
You're spot on target. This wasn't treason, it was standard political quid pro quo. Admittedly, it's sometimes hard to tell the two apart....
Dems may call it treason because she turned her back on the party line. But that's personal. IANAL, but to me, this looks like obstruction, maybe tampering with evidence. Not treason.
Not only that, it was a lame "feature." Three of the eeggs weren't even eeggs - one was a telnet site, one was a documented app feature, and one was a documented OS utility.
ddate really showed how lazy there were. 10 seconds in my browser and I had a full definition of what a Discordian date is. Including what YOLD means.
And someone got paid to put that "feature" together? Crap....
A lot of companies tend to treat backup or development environments as less important than their production environments, and have less protection for them.
Huge mistake.
You need to look not at the environment, but the data. If the data in your backup environment is the same as production, the protection needs to be the same. Same controls. Same technology. Same standards. Same restrictions. Same monitoring. Because the data in backup is just as valuable as the data in production.
"Don't need to worry about that stuff, it's just the backup." If someone steals it, do they still get credit card numbers, SSNs, account credentials? Can they still hurt the business if they delete it? Then you need to protect it like it's production.
Don't think about where the data is. Think about WHAT the data is. It's not about the environment, or the use. It's about the data.
I loved having a 9/80 schedule. When holidays came along, I either had three 3-day weekends in a row, or a 4-day weekend (if the holiday fell on my day off, I'd get either Thursday or Monday). No problems with getting called in or anything like that. The one time (in four years) that happened, I got a comp day off later in the month.
I'd take a 9/80 schedule in a heartbeat.
I think that's the crux of the matter. The comparison the cigarette labels is misleading. In that case, there has been an incontrovertible link between smoking and various diseases - even the tobacco industry now admits this. The link between violent video games and violent behavior is far more tenuous, supported somewhat by some anecdotal evidence, and strongly disputed by many behavioral scientists. I've got no problem with the label per se, IF it's accurate.
IIRC, Robert April was captain of the Enterprise during its final testing and shakedown, which was largely confined to local space (solar system). Christopher Pike was captian during the initial missions after the Enterprise was placed into active service, and was generally referred to as her first captain. Kirk was her second, more famous, captain.
Hollywood shoulda called me - I've known this stuff for 40 years....
It's a gigantic sphere of single socks, nonworking ball point pens, car keys, reading glasses, coffee mugs....
Well, they have to go somewhere....
This is just disappointing. I had Sequoia pegged as one of the good guys. When we selected them here in Nevada, they willingly submitted to every test, including review by the gaming board (who know a thing or two about fairness and anti-tampering in electronic devices - they have to certify all slot and video gaming machines). Sequoia passed the tests, including having a paper trail. That's not to say they're perfect or infallible, but they sure seemed cooperative and focused in the right direction.
This just doesn't fit with their actions back then. Has there been a change in management?
He's an entertainer. Putting the focus on himself is not only his job, but it's part of his act. I mean, four nights a week, he introduces a guest and then steals the applause that would usually welcome that guest. Stealing the stage from the likes of Hillary, Obama, Mit, Fred, Rudy - that's second nature to him.
When a satirist can steal (or come close to stealing) the political process, it says more about the political process than it does about the satirist. He isn't making politics into a joke. He's simply pointing out that it is.
I'm reminded or comedian Pat Paulson, a regular fixture on the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour back in the late 60's (yes, I'm showing my age). He was a perennial (fake) presidential candidate back then. He managed to get on the ballot a few times, and came in second to George H.W. Bush in the North Dakota Republican primary, and second to Bill Clinton in the 1996 New Hampshire primary.
But what I remember best was his bid to get on the California primary in '96. He had twice the number of required signatures on his petition, paid the fees, filed well in advance of the deadline, but was still denied. March Fong Yu, California Secretary of State, explained the denial as "he's not serious about the campaign."
Paulson's response: "You mean those other guys are?"
310 of us wrote him in anyway....
The Nigerian government simply discovered $47.5 Million in a suspense account at The Central Bank Of Nigeria Apex Bank that had resulted from an over-invoiced contract, executed, commissioned and paid for about five years (5) ago by a foreign contractor. Best part is, they only had to promise Ballmer 20% of the funds, with 5% going to fees, and they kept the other 75%. Ballmer simply gave them his personal bank account number....
A few suggestions:
Okay, yes, I was just pulling words out of the thesaurus at the end there....
Find managers who have styles that you like and respond well to, that have teams that are regarded as highly effective, and that have good reputations with other management types. Talk to them, learn from them, as them for advice. When I transitioned from desktop support to management, I talked to my father (who worked his way up in the glass industry from apprentice to Executive VP, and knew nothing about computers). Learned a ton, and it's helped me greatly.
Also, don't be afraid of asking your upline for guidance and direction. He/she will know that this is your first foray into management, and if they're any good at all, will expect you to ask questions. It's not a sign of weakness to ask when you don't know something.
Finally, think about the bosses you've had over the course of your career. Do the things you liked them doing, avoid the things you didn't like. This is one of the best ways to find what your own management style is.
That "unless" part is the biggest problem with this approach. Digitally signing the ballot eliminates the anonymity of it. On measures that are controversial or highly contentious (stem cell research, gay marriage, abortion, legalization of drugs, to name a few), people need to be able to cast their votes without fear of reprisal or being ostracized be their community. If I'm digitally signing my ballot, that creates a solid link between me and my votes, which may make me reluctant to vote in ways that don't conform with the views of my neighbors.
Of course, the Government has a solid reputation of keeping secrets, so there's no chance that the ballot data could be stolen, hacked or otherwise compromised, or have their contents improperly made available to the general public. And encryption never, ever gets cracked. And the public would never fall for any tricks to get them to divulge their passphrase or surrender their key (for example, a phishing site claiming to be a Voter Verification Portal). Nope, the security here is 100%, nothing to worry about, just go about your business....
It's not surprising at all. Nothing is pure evil, or pure good. On many things, the evil may far outweigh the good, as is the case with heroin or cocaine (or nicotine in its most common state), but that doesn't mean there isn't some good that can be derived. The challenge will be to disconnect the good elements from the highly addictive ones.