They pose an increasing risk because they'll use all their devices on your company's network, but they're more security aware than older employees?
That's such an oxymoron. It's like the article is likening using open-source and social software with snorting coke off a dead hooker's tits. Oh, but they won't sleep with the hooker!
I strongly disagree!
I've rarely seen anyone under 40 install bonzii buddy or webshots and other such spywares on their office computer. The majority of work comes from fixing the security snafus of older employees. I just don't see how using firefox and pidgin can be a more of a security risk than IE and AOL.
I've been taking c++ classes lately. This sort of thing has been going on for almost a decade with those sort of classes. Now, go to any c++ forum or irc channel and they just won't do your homework for you. They will, however, help you figure out how to use the language to accomplish your task.
Is that cheating? of course not, as many professors tell you to use these forums to get help.
Ryerson University is simply behind the times and so are its professors. Some universities are like this. I'll bet Ryerson also keeps a hit list of students for the RIAA and MPAA.
he's not going to prison because US law protects whistle blowers. That kind of unfettered access is illegal. And the FBI knows it. Is it time for the director to make a graceful exit?
First thing that came to mind when I read the headline was, they ran a simulation. Every time they ran it, the mexicans broke through the virtual fence like some an angry horde of mongols a la south park. This really is disappointing to me. I'm going to seriously consider whether I want to board an aircraft made by the company who couldn't engineer a fence within hours. It's a fence. I can engineer a fence that will stop mexicans. My mom could engineer a fence that will stop mexicans. The issue isn't really a fence though. Since we saw that Anderson Cooper special where he went into a tunnel built by drug mules, we know a fence won't stop them entirely.
I live in West Miami. I should have been affected by the outage, but I believe I get my power from the west coast.
My power flickered off for a second.
Here's the really interesting part.
I'm a comcast customer. While the whole of south FL was offline, here's what I was getting on speedtest.net
Speedtest Results
101Mbits!!! A 6Mbit cable line was getting 100Mbits while everyone else was offline. What gives? Why all the blocking? Why all the hating, comcast?
I'm a comcast customer. Maybe not for long though. I can't even load google today. I literally can't load www.google.com in my browser. I also can't load a few other sites, tpb included.
I don't pay for comcast's shit services like their homepage, or their "chill" games useless turd. I certainly don't give a crap about their new mobile portal. To those of us who want Internet access, we want Internet access.
We want fast, unfiltered, unfettered access to the Internet. That was what I thought I was getting. If comcast wasn't spending so much money on the shit and whistles, they could afford to allow us the bandwidth they promised. 20% of the customers use 90% of the bandwidth, big fucking surprise. That's the way it is. The other 80% just don't need 20Mbits for youtube and myspace. I happen to play a lot of games and download Linux distros and video and applications a plenty. I need the bandwidth. Comcast playing traffic cop is just fucking wrong. They're trying to ensure that everyone gets the same amount of bandwidth. That's not what you promised jack-asses.
You have a good point about flash's platform availability. I'm not a fanboy, but it really is a de facto web standard platform for content presentation. Microsoft's deal is just damn sneaky. No one is buying into silverlight. I just don't think it's necessary. Just use flash. I know, that is a fanboy thing to say.
Flash isn't really broken. Forcing people to install silverlight to view content they've been viewing fine for years with something they install once.
Quite frankly, adobe has a better record on quality than MS.
Those of us in the southern part of the state tend to be liberal. Not even liberal. Just not conservative.
Celebrating the birth of my first son last month gives me the right to weigh in on stuff like this.
I remember a time when evolution was taught in the schools of south florida as a scientific theory which happened to be as true as other scientific theories like gravity.
It has been only recently that this 'christian' revival has started to grip society in larger numbers. I witnessed a 'church' grow from a storefront behind a local grocery store, to a large corporation with tens of thousands of members and a quite large property complex with multiple new buildings. You know who you are calvary! Organizations like this have spread to every community in America. They shun science in favor of fiction. They try to tell you how to live your life.
This reminds me of the mayor of Fort Lauderdale (a member of a 'christian church') trying to spend $200k of public money on robotic toilets for the beach so he could prevent gay sex. Seeing how the sister municipality of wilton manors is one of the largest gay enclaves on the planet, he got smacked down pretty fast.
Keep your religion in your 'church'.
Evolution has been publicly accepted for decades. I want it taught in public schools.
All taken from my father's job at Data General, which he retired from around 10 years ago.(Just after EMC raped DG)
5. setting the Host ID on a SCSI controller. 4. making custom serial terminal cables. 3. aligning a r/w head on a magnetic tape drive with an oscilloscope. 2. running hardware diagnostics. 1. troublshooting a tokenring network.
The only skill he now uses at his retirement job (walmart, which is required by law) is customer service.
Granted, things were easier then when you had a terminal which just couldn't catch a virus.
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They pose an increasing risk because they'll use all their devices on your company's network, but they're more security aware than older employees?
That's such an oxymoron. It's like the article is likening using open-source and social software with snorting coke off a dead hooker's tits. Oh, but they won't sleep with the hooker!
I strongly disagree!
I've rarely seen anyone under 40 install bonzii buddy or webshots and other such spywares on their office computer. The majority of work comes from fixing the security snafus of older employees. I just don't see how using firefox and pidgin can be a more of a security risk than IE and AOL.
In a long winded post about IT and management.
In business school, they teach the PHB's if you're not management and you're not productive, you're not worth much.
managers understand they don't produce anything. They also understand that IT doesn't produce anything.
The disconnect comes in where management refuses to treat IT staff as equals or colleagues or contemporaries.
Management is somewhat elitist in this regard. IT staff manage equipment in much the same way that PHBs manage people, only more effective.
how do I prevent them from attacking my computer over the Internet.
What state agency do I contact about making a complaint?
I've been taking c++ classes lately. This sort of thing has been going on for almost a decade with those sort of classes. Now, go to any c++ forum or irc channel and they just won't do your homework for you. They will, however, help you figure out how to use the language to accomplish your task.
Is that cheating? of course not, as many professors tell you to use these forums to get help.
Ryerson University is simply behind the times and so are its professors. Some universities are like this. I'll bet Ryerson also keeps a hit list of students for the RIAA and MPAA.
well shit. I for one, welcome our new texan overlords.
he's not going to prison because US law protects whistle blowers. That kind of unfettered access is illegal. And the FBI knows it. Is it time for the director to make a graceful exit?
I was just about to comment about that.
Eisenhower was right.
Diebold shouldn't exist.
I survived through Andrew, Harvey, Irene, Katrina, Wilma, and Ernesto. I never lost phone service once. bellsouth did a pretty good job there.
sure, I lost power, which was on the same pole as phone. FPL doesn't exactly do well.
I guess we know what japan's priorities are.
you must have bought the cheapo laptop with the cheapo battery.
I bought a mid-level laptop with the big battery because I'm not stupid.
I didn't buy the blu-ray drive because it was $360.
I can run my lappy on full brightness and wifi for over 3 hours.
First thing that came to mind when I read the headline was, they ran a simulation. Every time they ran it, the mexicans broke through the virtual fence like some an angry horde of mongols a la south park. This really is disappointing to me. I'm going to seriously consider whether I want to board an aircraft made by the company who couldn't engineer a fence within hours. It's a fence. I can engineer a fence that will stop mexicans. My mom could engineer a fence that will stop mexicans. The issue isn't really a fence though. Since we saw that Anderson Cooper special where he went into a tunnel built by drug mules, we know a fence won't stop them entirely.
oh wait!
hydrogen is the most plentiful fucking element in the entire universe!
who actually believes it should be more expensive than gasoline?
oops, here it is
I live in West Miami. I should have been affected by the outage, but I believe I get my power from the west coast. My power flickered off for a second. Here's the really interesting part. I'm a comcast customer. While the whole of south FL was offline, here's what I was getting on speedtest.net Speedtest Results 101Mbits!!! A 6Mbit cable line was getting 100Mbits while everyone else was offline. What gives? Why all the blocking? Why all the hating, comcast?
what for?
what's wrong with trying to drum up a little readership?
For those of us with our own blogs, how on earth do you get readers without tooting your own horn?
I'm a comcast customer. Maybe not for long though. I can't even load google today.
I literally can't load www.google.com in my browser. I also can't load a few other sites, tpb included.
I don't pay for comcast's shit services like their homepage, or their "chill" games useless turd. I certainly don't give a crap about their new mobile portal.
To those of us who want Internet access, we want Internet access.
We want fast, unfiltered, unfettered access to the Internet. That was what I thought I was getting. If comcast wasn't spending so much money on the shit and whistles, they could afford to allow us the bandwidth they promised. 20% of the customers use 90% of the bandwidth, big fucking surprise. That's the way it is. The other 80% just don't need 20Mbits for youtube and myspace. I happen to play a lot of games and download Linux distros and video and applications a plenty. I need the bandwidth. Comcast playing traffic cop is just fucking wrong. They're trying to ensure that everyone gets the same amount of bandwidth. That's not what you promised jack-asses.
You have a good point about flash's platform availability. I'm not a fanboy, but it really is a de facto web standard platform for content presentation.
Microsoft's deal is just damn sneaky. No one is buying into silverlight. I just don't think it's necessary. Just use flash. I know, that is a fanboy thing to say.
Flash isn't really broken. Forcing people to install silverlight to view content they've been viewing fine for years with something they install once.
Quite frankly, adobe has a better record on quality than MS.
Those of us in the southern part of the state tend to be liberal. Not even liberal. Just not conservative.
Celebrating the birth of my first son last month gives me the right to weigh in on stuff like this.
I remember a time when evolution was taught in the schools of south florida as a scientific theory which happened to be as true as other scientific theories like gravity.
It has been only recently that this 'christian' revival has started to grip society in larger numbers. I witnessed a 'church' grow from a storefront behind a local grocery store, to a large corporation with tens of thousands of members and a quite large property complex with multiple new buildings. You know who you are calvary! Organizations like this have spread to every community in America. They shun science in favor of fiction. They try to tell you how to live your life.
This reminds me of the mayor of Fort Lauderdale (a member of a 'christian church') trying to spend $200k of public money on robotic toilets for the beach so he could prevent gay sex. Seeing how the sister municipality of wilton manors is one of the largest gay enclaves on the planet, he got smacked down pretty fast.
Keep your religion in your 'church'.
Evolution has been publicly accepted for decades. I want it taught in public schools.
here's my top 5 obsolete skills.
All taken from my father's job at Data General, which he retired from around 10 years ago.(Just after EMC raped DG)
5. setting the Host ID on a SCSI controller.
4. making custom serial terminal cables.
3. aligning a r/w head on a magnetic tape drive with an oscilloscope.
2. running hardware diagnostics.
1. troublshooting a tokenring network.
The only skill he now uses at his retirement job (walmart, which is required by law) is customer service.
Granted, things were easier then when you had a terminal which just couldn't catch a virus.
when publishers start making games (real games) run on Linux, I'll switch my desktop.
When adobe ports their library to Linux, design houses and all sorts of content houses will switch their workstations.
When intuit ports their library, more small businesses will switch. (thanks to people like me)
It's the Software Stupid!
It will be interesting to see if artists et al can actually collect on this case. Since I don't believe tpb is actually violating swedish law.
This WPS business is a giant turd.
No one has ever gotten it to work. I don't know why they put it in routers.
I prevents you from actually connecting to an AP.
I guess this is the security. If you can't actually connect to an AP you can't hack it.
walls, buildings, mountains, planets...