I don't care what kind of logical permissions scheme you have in place. any disgruntled (ob: Ever seen a gruntled sysadmin?) sysadmin can do massive damage even without the rights to do so. Physical Access is key.
in many data centers a small fire is enough to cause massive damage... smoke particles in hard drives, and (potentially) wet electronics
a "nicely" modified piece of cat5 can in some cases fry a switch
EPO button can be a pain to recover from
remove a drive
flash the bios with a bad bios-image
the options are endless
use your imagination
I wonder what she would have gotten if she had left a small incendiary device... on a timer could do the same thing.
I'd like to see google services fix the computer that "Joe in accounting" just "updated"
seriously though... There is something to be said for physical presence. I can remote control computers, yes, but when the network connection isn't working, I have to physically get my hands on it. "just ship it out"... 9 times out of 10, it's a silly setting that an even sillier user changed, that they shouldn't have
I had a Nokia 6110 (I think it was), and it survived everything... drops, snow, water... the works
The one thing it didn't survive however was the snowblower:-( It had falled out of my pocket in the morning, and I hadn't noticed, and my granfather-in-law snow blowed it
It's 2007. Unless you live in the middle of nowhere, the school, or at the very least, the district, has a professional IT staff. I beg to differ... I Do live in the middle of nowhere, and our school does have a full time professional IT staff. There are two of us, supporting 800-ish students, and 100-ish staff members. he have about 150 Macs, and about 300 Wintel based machines, as well as web-, email-, file-, testing-, and moodle- servers (Yes Online testing, in the boonies)
It's enough to keep us busy the whole time.
We're between three buildings (High School, Administration Building, and elementary-middle school) that are within 500 yards of each other. and as for "Formal IT Policies" we have more "Formal IT Policies" than you can shake a stick at, Many of which are state requirements.
All software goes through IT, however the teachers tell us what they *need*, functionality wise, and the suggest titles. We then find titles that will work, we test them, and license them appropriately. The exception to this rule however is "Classroom/Educational Software" where we are not curriculum experts, we defer to them: If the software they want can be licensed appropriately, we will license it, and install it.
oh, and P.S. while we can't require it, because some of the state tools require IE (damn them all to hell) Firefox is the Recommended web-browser, and set as the default on all computers
It's too late to do anything at this point. Pretty much once it hits the floor, everybody known which way they're going to vote... If they even get your letters before the vote.
Not to say it isn't worth trying, but don't get your hopes up
What's the point of a 50's style ICBM? I mean it looks nice in parades, but that's about it. If you launch the sucker the whole world will know within a matter of seconds, any freshman in college will be able to calculate it's starting point, and half of those by the time it lands, a computer will have that within microseconds, at which point there's more missiles headed your way than you can shake your stick at.
Effectively, they're a very good form of suicide, yeah, you take down some of your target, but unless you can take out *ALL* of your target, you're going to have some very pissed off people... with nukes.
It'd be much more effective to smuggle in some sort of device, even with the "heightened border security" that we have these days.
*Thinking thinking* Ya'know... big hard round missile... maybe their compensating for something:-p
What's even worse is when I have to call tech support (Yes it does happen sometimes, usually for license issues), and they ask "Okay sir, what is your serial number?" Me: "Nine seven Charlie foxtrot hotel romeo two..." them: "What?"
(*) No one will be able to find the guy or collect the money (*) Requires too much cooperation from spammers
Specifically, your plan fails to account for
(*) Lack of centrally controlling authority for email The whole point of this plan is that those are wrong. If you can make it illegal for process transactions for things like online casinos, you can make it illegal for things like online pharmacies.
You're not controlling the e-mail, but you're controlling the money. if they can't accept "Visa/MC/AMEX/Discover/Diners/etc." they won't make as much money. paypal is the same way.
Yes, the "mark" could still send a check, but at that point you know exactly where the check went, and you get the copy (electronic) back.
I think this plan has half a chance of working... however, then I think we'll start seeing more phishing... and I really would hate to see more laws
This may not be useful for your everyday Joe on the street, but it'll probably be used as another layer for the Nomex bomb suits they already wear while disarming a bomb. You mean those suits that all they're good for is to make the remains more identifiable...
If you're sitting on top of a bomb when it goes off, I don't care what you're wearing... you're toast. If I have to disarm a bomb... I'm either going to succeed, fail & buy the farm, or know I'm going to fail, and walk away. don't give me a suit that keeps me from running if I have to, give me my dykes, a voltmeter, a pair of good running shoes, and a black T-Shirt with big yellow letters: Bomd Squad Technician - If you see me running, try to catch up!
not sure if it meets your deffinition of "federal statue" but there's this little document called... oh what was it again... "The Constitution"
Amendment V
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia, when in actual service in time of war or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation. (Emphasis mine) it doesn't say "No citizen", or "No person except, enemy combatants"... it says, very simply and plainly. "No Person"
We we arested the devil incarnate for whatever... be it aiding terrorism, petty larcany, or sedition, I would expect him to be given the same rights as any other person, citizen or not
These are not US citizens; therefore, the Bill of Rights + Constitution do not apply. These are not uniformed soldiers of a sovereign state; therefore, Geneva Conventions do not apply. But we treat them far better than any other military would treat them. Run that by me again... where in the Constitution, or any of it's amendments does it claim that the rights are only for citizens. in the few cases where it does care (i.e. Voting) it uses the term citizen, as opposed to "the people"
I think you'd be hard pressed to argue that the bill of rights only applies to citizens, and not everybody under US law.
for the most part yes. Our desktops and laptops are set to use the file server for most storage. I know there's some stuff we miss, but we do what we can
Weekly backups? Damn, I'm wasting tapes then. Small public school and we make nightly backups of *EVERYTHING* our rotation goes like this: 2 sets of Monday - Thursday tapes, that rotate. 5 sets of Friday tapes, Friday 1 is always the first Friday of the month, Friday 2, the second, etc.
That we we always have 2 weeks worth of full back-ups, 1 months worth of weekly backups, and the Friday 5 tape only gets used once a quarter. On top of that student records and financial data is all backed up separately as well, and we keep the student data effectively forever (as required by law - until the confirmed death of the student). and the financial data for the required length of time as well.
Question: "Do you discriminate against particular types of online content?"
Answer: "No. There is no discrimination based on the type of content. Our customers enjoy unfettered access to all the content, services, and applications that the Internet has to offer. We respect our customers' privacy and we don't monitor specific customer activities on the Internet or track individual online behavior such as which Web sites they visit. Therefore, we do not know whether any individual user is visiting BitTorrent or any other site." That is a very carefully crafted response. in their response they subtly defined BitTorrent as a "site". and they're saying the don't monitor what sites you visit. that may well be true, but they are skirting the issue. likewise, they are subtly trying to redefine "Online content" to mean "http[s+]://*" and they don't filter based on *Content*, so that's true
News... typically something *NEW* - see section 1.b.
Main Entry:
news Listen to the pronunciation of news Pronunciation:
\nüz, nyüz\ Function:
noun plural but singular in construction Usage:
often attributive Date:
15th century
1 a: a report of recent events b: previously unknown information c: something having a specified influence or effect 2 a: material reported in a newspaper or news periodical or on a newscast b: matter that is newsworthy
and in other news... water is wet, the pope is catholic, and the earth is 1 au from the sun.... news at 11
A quick check shows that they are offering 32 different types of IBM/Lenovo Batteries...
checking my Thinkpad battery... there's the IBM Logo, the "International Business Machines" Registered Trademark. the "Manufactured for IBM by..." mark, 2 Different FRU part Numbers.
There's 5 Million dollars just for that 1 battery... PLUS any profits made
assuming that that's an average number of Markings that would be infringing... they're looking at 610 MILLION dollars in damages, PLUS whatever profits were made.
Lets not get into the power-bricks that they're selling too.
Yeah, IBM's out for blood, and bone marrow on this one.
Reminds me of a good joke: A Soviet, An American and an Austria are talking in a bar Soviet: You see, where I come from, we have the best system of laws: if it's not allowed, it is forbidden American: No, no, no, you have it backwards, in the USA we have the best system: If it's not forbidden, then it is allowed Austrian: Bah, both of you are wrong, we know what we're doing when it comes to the law: If it's forbidden, then it is allowed!
Yes, but most "At-Will" states are worded in such a way that it's "At-Will" unless you are covered by a collective bargining agreement (Read: Unionized)
Slashdot Mirror
I don't care what kind of logical permissions scheme you have in place. any disgruntled (ob: Ever seen a gruntled sysadmin?) sysadmin can do massive damage even without the rights to do so. Physical Access is key.
in many data centers a small fire is enough to cause massive damage... smoke particles in hard drives, and (potentially) wet electronics
a "nicely" modified piece of cat5 can in some cases fry a switch
EPO button can be a pain to recover from
remove a drive
flash the bios with a bad bios-image
the options are endless
use your imagination
I wonder what she would have gotten if she had left a small incendiary device... on a timer could do the same thing.
I'd like to see google services fix the computer that "Joe in accounting" just "updated"
seriously though... There is something to be said for physical presence. I can remote control computers, yes, but when the network connection isn't working, I have to physically get my hands on it. "just ship it out"... 9 times out of 10, it's a silly setting that an even sillier user changed, that they shouldn't have
It is all VR... the fact that everything tastes like chicken just proves it... the taste for everything else just hasn't been implimented yet
I had a Nokia 6110 (I think it was), and it survived everything... drops, snow, water... the works
:-( It had falled out of my pocket in the morning, and I hadn't noticed, and my granfather-in-law snow blowed it
The one thing it didn't survive however was the snowblower
It's enough to keep us busy the whole time.
We're between three buildings (High School, Administration Building, and elementary-middle school) that are within 500 yards of each other. and as for "Formal IT Policies" we have more "Formal IT Policies" than you can shake a stick at, Many of which are state requirements.
All software goes through IT, however the teachers tell us what they *need*, functionality wise, and the suggest titles. We then find titles that will work, we test them, and license them appropriately. The exception to this rule however is "Classroom/Educational Software" where we are not curriculum experts, we defer to them: If the software they want can be licensed appropriately, we will license it, and install it.
oh, and P.S. while we can't require it, because some of the state tools require IE (damn them all to hell) Firefox is the Recommended web-browser, and set as the default on all computers
It's too late to do anything at this point. Pretty much once it hits the floor, everybody known which way they're going to vote... If they even get your letters before the vote.
Not to say it isn't worth trying, but don't get your hopes up
What's the point of a 50's style ICBM? I mean it looks nice in parades, but that's about it. If you launch the sucker the whole world will know within a matter of seconds, any freshman in college will be able to calculate it's starting point, and half of those by the time it lands, a computer will have that within microseconds, at which point there's more missiles headed your way than you can shake your stick at.
:-p
Effectively, they're a very good form of suicide, yeah, you take down some of your target, but unless you can take out *ALL* of your target, you're going to have some very pissed off people... with nukes.
It'd be much more effective to smuggle in some sort of device, even with the "heightened border security" that we have these days.
*Thinking thinking* Ya'know... big hard round missile... maybe their compensating for something
What's even worse is when I have to call tech support (Yes it does happen sometimes, usually for license issues), and they ask "Okay sir, what is your serial number?"
Me: "Nine seven Charlie foxtrot hotel romeo two..."
them: "What?"
In Maine about a year ago there were a few murders of people listed in the Online Sex Offender Database.
Why is this "news" just because it's California, or because his DB entry was wrong?
(*) Requires too much cooperation from spammers
Specifically, your plan fails to account for
(*) Lack of centrally controlling authority for email The whole point of this plan is that those are wrong. If you can make it illegal for process transactions for things like online casinos, you can make it illegal for things like online pharmacies.
You're not controlling the e-mail, but you're controlling the money. if they can't accept "Visa/MC/AMEX/Discover/Diners/etc." they won't make as much money. paypal is the same way.
Yes, the "mark" could still send a check, but at that point you know exactly where the check went, and you get the copy (electronic) back.
I think this plan has half a chance of working... however, then I think we'll start seeing more phishing... and I really would hate to see more laws
If you're sitting on top of a bomb when it goes off, I don't care what you're wearing... you're toast. If I have to disarm a bomb... I'm either going to succeed, fail & buy the farm, or know I'm going to fail, and walk away. don't give me a suit that keeps me from running if I have to, give me my dykes, a voltmeter, a pair of good running shoes, and a black T-Shirt with big yellow letters:
Bomd Squad Technician - If you see me running, try to catch up!
not sure if it meets your deffinition of "federal statue" but there's this little document called... oh what was it again... "The Constitution"
Amendment V
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia, when in actual service in time of war or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.
(Emphasis mine)
it doesn't say "No citizen", or "No person except, enemy combatants"... it says, very simply and plainly. "No Person"
We we arested the devil incarnate for whatever... be it aiding terrorism, petty larcany, or sedition, I would expect him to be given the same rights as any other person, citizen or not
I think you'd be hard pressed to argue that the bill of rights only applies to citizens, and not everybody under US law.
for the most part yes. Our desktops and laptops are set to use the file server for most storage. I know there's some stuff we miss, but we do what we can
DDR: Deutsche Demokratische Republik ... The German Democratic Republic... East Germany
Weekly backups? Damn, I'm wasting tapes then. Small public school and we make nightly backups of *EVERYTHING*
our rotation goes like this:
2 sets of Monday - Thursday tapes, that rotate.
5 sets of Friday tapes, Friday 1 is always the first Friday of the month, Friday 2, the second, etc.
That we we always have 2 weeks worth of full back-ups, 1 months worth of weekly backups, and the Friday 5 tape only gets used once a quarter. On top of that student records and financial data is all backed up separately as well, and we keep the student data effectively forever (as required by law - until the confirmed death of the student). and the financial data for the required length of time as well.
Answer: "No. There is no discrimination based on the type of content. Our customers enjoy unfettered access to all the content, services, and applications that the Internet has to offer. We respect our customers' privacy and we don't monitor specific customer activities on the Internet or track individual online behavior such as which Web sites they visit. Therefore, we do not know whether any individual user is visiting BitTorrent or any other site." That is a very carefully crafted response. in their response they subtly defined BitTorrent as a "site". and they're saying the don't monitor what sites you visit. that may well be true, but they are skirting the issue. likewise, they are subtly trying to redefine "Online content" to mean "http[s+]://*" and they don't filter based on *Content*, so that's true
News... typically something *NEW* - see section 1.b.
Main Entry:
news Listen to the pronunciation of news
Pronunciation:
\nüz, nyüz\
Function:
noun plural but singular in construction
Usage:
often attributive
Date:
15th century
1 a: a report of recent events b: previously unknown information c: something having a specified influence or effect 2 a: material reported in a newspaper or news periodical or on a newscast b: matter that is newsworthy
and in other news... water is wet, the pope is catholic, and the earth is 1 au from the sun.... news at 11
A quick check shows that they are offering 32 different types of IBM/Lenovo Batteries...
..." mark, 2 Different FRU part Numbers.
checking my Thinkpad battery... there's the IBM Logo, the "International Business Machines" Registered Trademark. the "Manufactured for IBM by
There's 5 Million dollars just for that 1 battery... PLUS any profits made
assuming that that's an average number of Markings that would be infringing... they're looking at 610 MILLION dollars in damages, PLUS whatever profits were made.
Lets not get into the power-bricks that they're selling too.
Yeah, IBM's out for blood, and bone marrow on this one.
Reminds me of a good joke:
A Soviet, An American and an Austria are talking in a bar
Soviet: You see, where I come from, we have the best system of laws: if it's not allowed, it is forbidden
American: No, no, no, you have it backwards, in the USA we have the best system: If it's not forbidden, then it is allowed
Austrian: Bah, both of you are wrong, we know what we're doing when it comes to the law: If it's forbidden, then it is allowed!
response to (2)
VMWare, works perfectly for me
Logically, if a master key exists, you can't assume that only the "Good Guys" have said master key
maybe I'll just start zip-tieing my luggage shut
that you know of...
:-p
They might have carted him off, and be impersonating him, waiting for you to incriminate yourself
Ever heard of IBM? as in "I've Been Moved"?
They used to practice moving people around so frequently that they'd quit... all perfectly legal
Yes, but most "At-Will" states are worded in such a way that it's "At-Will" unless you are covered by a collective bargining agreement (Read: Unionized)