This kind of action scares me to death.....Please let me elaborate!!!
With the Federal Government taking away, or suppressing for the meantime, some of our given liberties, and let me say I think it will get a hell of a lot worse due to Sept. 11, that the Feds will probably be the force behind this that makes it a very popular and possibly mandatory type of service.
I personally will never buy another Microsoft Product ever again because of the way they are positioning themselves in the market. They will soon be Big Brother. It is really not the Feds we have to worry about it is Microsoft. They are the new evil that we have to watch. They will be worse in my opinion than the Terrorist that have brought so much tragedy to our lives. We must be cautious how much power we give to one entity. They already abuse the power they have and apparently the Feds aren't really going to do anything.
Maybe I watch too many movies and am far more paranoid than the average user, but when one corporation is positioning themselves to control a very important technology, we must be cautious as to how we allow them to do that.
Microsoft cannot be trusted with this kind of power that it would give them over users. I fear that we will have to retard to a secret net away from the controls of Microsoft if this plan of theirs comes to be.
Please boycott XP and any new Technology offered by Microsoft until the get a clue. Thank you for you time
I am a Security Consultant for a Company on the East Coast. We have an office here in the Midwest that I used to work at, but I got married a little over a year ago and my wife got a job in a City an hour and a half away. Since it was a bigger city we decided to move there and my boss was okay with me working from there (since he is on the East Coast anyway it didn't really matter if I was at the office or at home.
Okay that is the background....on to the point!
For the most part I enjoy telecommuting, but the problem is the new environment. I tend to miss the human interaction with people in the office. It is quite profound at times and I usually take it out on my wife(the frustrations that build in consequence of). Let me explain.....
Some of the frustration is out of being in a new environment where I have to build new friendships and new relations. I don't really know anyone around here so me and my wife don't get a lot of "away from each other" time which I feel can be very important in a relationship.
The second is that I associate our extra bedroom with the office. Consequently that is the only place my wife is keen on to have computers lying around. I have about 5 or so computers in there and I tend to associate one with work only stuff, but the environment of the room says WORK. Some of you might see my dillema. Now my passion for tinkering with computers is associated with work when I am within that room. Not something you want to happen. No one wants to be at work all the time, and according to my wife griping at me to put down the keyboards and spend time with her, that is the case.
Well, anyway that is my point of view on the topic. Bottom line....Make sure you know what you are getting into before you do it and put a time lock on the Playstation to not allow playing during work hours.:)
Well, my experience has been different I told the guys that I run a linux firewall front and formost on my connection to the cable modem and then even behind that and they had no problems what so ever
It sucks that this even happens, but yes morons make up most of tech support at lower levels
I have been a customer of excite for over a year now and have been pleased with what they have to offer.
Of course, here in Oklahoma the bandwidth is plentiful, except right at 5:00pm and for about 30 to 60 minutes thereafter.
I have even been impressed with their technical support. All you have to do is tell level one support things you know they can't comprehend and they bump you right along. Level 2 is pretty proficient in most regards. On to the point of this post....
In my opinion these ISPs are dropping out due to the burden of competing with simpler solutions, ie AOL and the like. Notice I did not say better solutions, just simpler to the average joe schmoe, I don't know a god damn thing about computers. These burdens I speak of is infrastructure. The cost of deploying the connectivity and not being able to convert the AOL magots.
They then tend to get into the pitfall that we need to conquer more areas and that gets them into dept and without a controlled growth rate that they can easily fund themselves they become so overwhelmed in debt that they topple under the load.
I am a security professional who audits government as well as commercial software and systems. The thing about these audits are that they rely almost solely on the person actually doing the audit(or sometimes the team performing the audit). The bad thing here is experience. While you may have peer reviews of your audit report, you might not have the experience to search or detect certain vulnerabilities, this is were most of the problems lie with certifications......they are only as good as the person doing the audit(or team). If that person(team) is not familiar with certain pitfalls, you end up with a flawed certification. Certainly the best thing to do in the case of development would be to put up a production model and let people hack away. That is the only way to determine possible holes in the system. I would never recommend someone putting anything into production with sensitive data until it is certain that most individuals cannot defeat your security. But of course there is usually little time for this in todays plans. To much money to lose if it doesn't get immediately shipped. I see no end to the trend of todays security any time in the next 20years.
--Too many holes so little time(You sick bastard!!...I was talking about software!)
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This kind of action scares me to death.....Please let me elaborate!!!
With the Federal Government taking away, or suppressing for the meantime, some of our given liberties, and let me say I think it will get a hell of a lot worse due to Sept. 11, that the Feds will probably be the force behind this that makes it a very popular and possibly mandatory type of service.
I personally will never buy another Microsoft Product ever again because of the way they are positioning themselves in the market. They will soon be Big Brother. It is really not the Feds we have to worry about it is Microsoft. They are the new evil that we have to watch. They will be worse in my opinion than the Terrorist that have brought so much tragedy to our lives. We must be cautious how much power we give to one entity. They already abuse the power they have and apparently the Feds aren't really going to do anything.
Maybe I watch too many movies and am far more paranoid than the average user, but when one corporation is positioning themselves to control a very important technology, we must be cautious as to how we allow them to do that.
Microsoft cannot be trusted with this kind of power that it would give them over users. I fear that we will have to retard to a secret net away from the controls of Microsoft if this plan of theirs comes to be.
Please boycott XP and any new Technology offered by Microsoft until the get a clue. Thank you for you time
I am a Security Consultant for a Company on the East Coast. We have an office here in the Midwest that I used to work at, but I got married a little over a year ago and my wife got a job in a City an hour and a half away. Since it was a bigger city we decided to move there and my boss was okay with me working from there (since he is on the East Coast anyway it didn't really matter if I was at the office or at home.
Okay that is the background....on to the point!
For the most part I enjoy telecommuting, but the problem is the new environment. I tend to miss the human interaction with people in the office. It is quite profound at times and I usually take it out on my wife(the frustrations that build in consequence of). Let me explain.....
Some of the frustration is out of being in a new environment where I have to build new friendships and new relations. I don't really know anyone around here so me and my wife don't get a lot of "away from each other" time which I feel can be very important in a relationship.
The second is that I associate our extra bedroom with the office. Consequently that is the only place my wife is keen on to have computers lying around. I have about 5 or so computers in there and I tend to associate one with work only stuff, but the environment of the room says WORK. Some of you might see my dillema. Now my passion for tinkering with computers is associated with work when I am within that room. Not something you want to happen. No one wants to be at work all the time, and according to my wife griping at me to put down the keyboards and spend time with her, that is the case.
Well, anyway that is my point of view on the topic. Bottom line....Make sure you know what you are getting into before you do it and put a time lock on the Playstation to not allow playing during work hours. :)
Well, my experience has been different I told the guys that I run a linux firewall front and formost on my connection to the cable modem and then even behind that and they had no problems what so ever
It sucks that this even happens, but yes morons make up most of tech support at lower levels
I have been a customer of excite for over a year now and have been pleased with what they have to offer.
Of course, here in Oklahoma the bandwidth is plentiful, except right at 5:00pm and for about 30 to 60 minutes thereafter.
I have even been impressed with their technical support. All you have to do is tell level one support things you know they can't comprehend and they bump you right along. Level 2 is pretty proficient in most regards. On to the point of this post....
In my opinion these ISPs are dropping out due to the burden of competing with simpler solutions, ie AOL and the like. Notice I did not say better solutions, just simpler to the average joe schmoe, I don't know a god damn thing about computers. These burdens I speak of is infrastructure. The cost of deploying the connectivity and not being able to convert the AOL magots.
They then tend to get into the pitfall that we need to conquer more areas and that gets them into dept and without a controlled growth rate that they can easily fund themselves they become so overwhelmed in debt that they topple under the load.
Well, my two cents, do with as you will
I am a security professional who audits government as well as commercial software and systems. The thing about these audits are that they rely almost solely on the person actually doing the audit(or sometimes the team performing the audit). The bad thing here is experience. While you may have peer reviews of your audit report, you might not have the experience to search or detect certain vulnerabilities, this is were most of the problems lie with certifications......they are only as good as the person doing the audit(or team). If that person(team) is not familiar with certain pitfalls, you end up with a flawed certification. Certainly the best thing to do in the case of development would be to put up a production model and let people hack away. That is the only way to determine possible holes in the system. I would never recommend someone putting anything into production with sensitive data until it is certain that most individuals cannot defeat your security. But of course there is usually little time for this in todays plans. To much money to lose if it doesn't get immediately shipped. I see no end to the trend of todays security any time in the next 20years.
--Too many holes so little time(You sick bastard!!...I was talking about software!)