The PS3 allowed you to install linux when it first came out. People obvious abused it in bucket loads to play pirated games. When the PS3 came out, compared to the cost of a blu-ray it wasn't sooo bad. Sony doesn't publish PC games, so I can't speak on that... Overall,... I'm indifferent, these guys (Sony) have almost unlimited IT spending budgets typically, I'd blame the CIO before the CEO on what happened. There's probably some Sr. Sys Admin under there who thought s/he knew security better than they did. A NOC never killed anyone either as far as I know.
I'd hate to think it all comes down to how good your IT team is (even though I'm on one).
For this to be true, we'd have to assume that giving a speech last minute is enough to sway a voter to vote or change their votes, I disagree. Showing your face and saying a few choice words shouldn't be why people follow anybody, actions however...
Also LOL @ botching an application w a counter and geolocation capabilities.
You can word pick all you want, but the truth is yes: Stress is a part of life, you can be happy and still experience it, how you deal with stress in a positive manner tends to make people happy(ier). Let's take the theoretical 75k happiness threshold for example, some experts without a clue state that if you make 75k> you will most likely be happy (90%> I think). However, there's a flipside, most jobs over 75k tend to introduce a fair amount of stress in the workplace due to the responsibilities and deadlines. So it's not fair to say stress = unhappiness, it's just a part of life.
If China doesn't want to have open communication with the rest of the world, oh well. The internet isn't for everybody, however I've got to ask where are the Chinese people in all this if they truly care?
That's a really good starting point. Some preemptive action can prevent a lot of the most time consuming steps there. Creating a clear barrier between the intranet and extranet by keeping most ports open as internal only is a good step. Using tools that monitor the IPs of where users log in from (some time tracking systems do this) and setting up alerts for variances (ex. why is Joe from CO logging in from China). Google has started doing this recently. Users shouldn't be sharing or giving out passwords, there's not a whole lot you can do here if they besides give needs only access to them and important access only to people competent enough to understand the consequences of password sharing. Application level logging is great too, login audits & last mod by should be a part of every database / application relationship in the perfect world. Past that, right clicking disable in AD should take care of most of the problem. Oh, almost forgot, giving applications individualized logins is a great practice for this reason also: Joe wrote app A which logins in as AppAUser@domain.com, so you change that user's login in AD & the code, and you avoid the whole I don't know which app is using which account mess. Some places will never be able to change their admin passwords as a result of not following this practice, without downtime.
Lol, wish I had mod points left for this, x-CIA people tend to be unpleasant to deal with typically... Oh well, maybe one day they'll teach them that American citizens aren't Ruskies, or Al Queda.
If he's stressed out at work enough that he needs to smoke a dubee to relax at home, then yes, his life could be happier.
This is EXACTLY the type of thinking that needs to change to make weed socially acceptable. Would you say the same thing if I said I have a beer every night after work & chores? Some quack psychiatrists might try to argue alcoholism, but this shows just how stupid some of our medical "professionals" really are. Most people would give me a pat on the back and probably invite me to drink with them. Yet somehow, getting high in a different manner implies a problem. Weed is psychologically addictive in the same manner alcohol is, if you don't have a reason to stop drinking, or smoking, you're probably going to keep at it and as you keep at it, your tolerance increases. That's a tough argument though, as I'd say mj is wayyyy more psychologically addictive than alcohol, but then again it depends on the person, and life circumstances. Family & friends should help you avoid most of the addiction pitfalls when it comes to these two substances.
Or you can go & figure out how to cheat a UA silly. I'd have more respect for you then. UAs ask the question: can we hire you as a reliable employee & if you are clean you can pass and then it's back up in the air lol, but if you can't pass and aren't resourceful enough to figure out how to cheat, I wouldn't hire you, or anybody for that matter. It's exactly the kind of employee UAs are designed to keep out.
Drugs can increase performance in two regions in the coding world: long monotonous tasks that just aren't fun to do &... critical thinking. Some bugs / challenges require you to really descend into the code, far more than is normal for most people's cognition and some drugs take you there. Most don't, they're designed to allow people to have fun / forget their lives or something, not work. On general tasks though, like say adding a slew of textboxes and then wiring them up to data points, it requires just enough focus to not be monotonous, but not enough where you can focus in on it and work, you're constantly changing gears. All in all, I'd have to say they're counter-productive on a large scale, but have probably led to some coding gems sprinkled here and there in the coding world.
Out of scope: out-of-the-box thinking & it's effects on coding
You can be a top contributor and still be stressed... dur. Most people drink a beer or a glass in the evenings to relax, what people have been saying this ENTIRE TIME is that puffing a spliff to achieve that effect is exactly the same.
I too, completely agree, those long hours don't seem as bad because you're working for yourself. And once you've cleared the "learning" hurdle, you've achieved independence. 40 hours carry their own set of stresses and scary situations, what if your manager retires and the person that replaces him/her is garbage? Or what if those 40 hours look more like 60?
The difference is there is little to no fall back I suppose short of savings / reserves, but you can get fired anyday and still be in the same boat if you don't have reserves. The biggest thing is self-motivation and a certain level of competency.
Android has always "been up there" with the iPhone, though maybe not as the leader, but not far either, it's just that Android is broken up into many phone models, iphone only has a couple at a time usually. What this means is that more Androids of a single type of phone were sold than a single type of iphone (which probably accounted for most of the sales being the more recent one). It is a ways bias though since the S3 is a lot newer of a product than the iphone 4s.
This is why security professionals have the rep that they do... and why all our base belong to the Chinese hackers. And yes I agree, his idea is regressive.
Yes... firefox is really rooted into your system, registry read writes, lso's, appData, it doesn't need ANY of this to run, well maybe... appData, but I'd argue they should just use Sync (which is pretty cool btw). When I can sandbox a browser and have it run without breaking, the point of tfa will be achieved, but I've run firefox portable before, and performance leaves something to be desired, also I'm not sure how much of a footprint it leaves on your system.
Also the author of the article doesn't have a clue, the "facebook" app isn't a browser, nor will it ever be, it's an API-enabled application. You can write it right now by selecting new windows form from visual studio and downloading the facebook api, so *shrug*. Why don't we? Well.. there's the browser, from which you can throw a bookmark on your desktop from.
Good example, no politician has yet been reprimanded for playing golf (I'm sure a lot of them do), I think this whole scenario reflects on how acceptable social norms are shifting. There was a time that PC gaming automatically labeled you a nerd with no social skills or chance of acquiring them. Golf has always been accepted, especially by rich white men.
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Where George Lucas rapes Indiana Jones? Ya it's kind of like that, but w Han Solo.
Have been code-named corona these last few years?? Seems like every org's got a project named corona nowadays.
GPU cracking gets at most things nowadays...
The PS3 allowed you to install linux when it first came out. People obvious abused it in bucket loads to play pirated games. When the PS3 came out, compared to the cost of a blu-ray it wasn't sooo bad. Sony doesn't publish PC games, so I can't speak on that... Overall,... I'm indifferent, these guys (Sony) have almost unlimited IT spending budgets typically, I'd blame the CIO before the CEO on what happened. There's probably some Sr. Sys Admin under there who thought s/he knew security better than they did. A NOC never killed anyone either as far as I know.
Either way space cows ASAP.
I'd hate to think it all comes down to how good your IT team is (even though I'm on one).
For this to be true, we'd have to assume that giving a speech last minute is enough to sway a voter to vote or change their votes, I disagree. Showing your face and saying a few choice words shouldn't be why people follow anybody, actions however...
Also LOL @ botching an application w a counter and geolocation capabilities.
You can word pick all you want, but the truth is yes: Stress is a part of life, you can be happy and still experience it, how you deal with stress in a positive manner tends to make people happy(ier). Let's take the theoretical 75k happiness threshold for example, some experts without a clue state that if you make 75k> you will most likely be happy (90%> I think). However, there's a flipside, most jobs over 75k tend to introduce a fair amount of stress in the workplace due to the responsibilities and deadlines. So it's not fair to say stress = unhappiness, it's just a part of life.
If China doesn't want to have open communication with the rest of the world, oh well. The internet isn't for everybody, however I've got to ask where are the Chinese people in all this if they truly care?
That's a really good starting point. Some preemptive action can prevent a lot of the most time consuming steps there. Creating a clear barrier between the intranet and extranet by keeping most ports open as internal only is a good step. Using tools that monitor the IPs of where users log in from (some time tracking systems do this) and setting up alerts for variances (ex. why is Joe from CO logging in from China). Google has started doing this recently. Users shouldn't be sharing or giving out passwords, there's not a whole lot you can do here if they besides give needs only access to them and important access only to people competent enough to understand the consequences of password sharing. Application level logging is great too, login audits & last mod by should be a part of every database / application relationship in the perfect world. Past that, right clicking disable in AD should take care of most of the problem. Oh, almost forgot, giving applications individualized logins is a great practice for this reason also: Joe wrote app A which logins in as AppAUser@domain.com, so you change that user's login in AD & the code, and you avoid the whole I don't know which app is using which account mess. Some places will never be able to change their admin passwords as a result of not following this practice, without downtime.
Two claimers, & uhh... maybe you should? You wouldn't look any less retarded than you already are :)
Lol, wish I had mod points left for this, x-CIA people tend to be unpleasant to deal with typically... Oh well, maybe one day they'll teach them that American citizens aren't Ruskies, or Al Queda.
If he's stressed out at work enough that he needs to smoke a dubee to relax at home, then yes, his life could be happier.
This is EXACTLY the type of thinking that needs to change to make weed socially acceptable. Would you say the same thing if I said I have a beer every night after work & chores? Some quack psychiatrists might try to argue alcoholism, but this shows just how stupid some of our medical "professionals" really are. Most people would give me a pat on the back and probably invite me to drink with them. Yet somehow, getting high in a different manner implies a problem. Weed is psychologically addictive in the same manner alcohol is, if you don't have a reason to stop drinking, or smoking, you're probably going to keep at it and as you keep at it, your tolerance increases. That's a tough argument though, as I'd say mj is wayyyy more psychologically addictive than alcohol, but then again it depends on the person, and life circumstances. Family & friends should help you avoid most of the addiction pitfalls when it comes to these two substances.
Or you can go & figure out how to cheat a UA silly. I'd have more respect for you then. UAs ask the question: can we hire you as a reliable employee & if you are clean you can pass and then it's back up in the air lol, but if you can't pass and aren't resourceful enough to figure out how to cheat, I wouldn't hire you, or anybody for that matter. It's exactly the kind of employee UAs are designed to keep out.
Drugs can increase performance in two regions in the coding world: long monotonous tasks that just aren't fun to do &... critical thinking. Some bugs / challenges require you to really descend into the code, far more than is normal for most people's cognition and some drugs take you there. Most don't, they're designed to allow people to have fun / forget their lives or something, not work. On general tasks though, like say adding a slew of textboxes and then wiring them up to data points, it requires just enough focus to not be monotonous, but not enough where you can focus in on it and work, you're constantly changing gears. All in all, I'd have to say they're counter-productive on a large scale, but have probably led to some coding gems sprinkled here and there in the coding world.
Out of scope: out-of-the-box thinking & it's effects on coding
You can be a top contributor and still be stressed... dur. Most people drink a beer or a glass in the evenings to relax, what people have been saying this ENTIRE TIME is that puffing a spliff to achieve that effect is exactly the same.
I too, completely agree, those long hours don't seem as bad because you're working for yourself. And once you've cleared the "learning" hurdle, you've achieved independence. 40 hours carry their own set of stresses and scary situations, what if your manager retires and the person that replaces him/her is garbage? Or what if those 40 hours look more like 60?
The difference is there is little to no fall back I suppose short of savings / reserves, but you can get fired anyday and still be in the same boat if you don't have reserves. The biggest thing is self-motivation and a certain level of competency.
Android has always "been up there" with the iPhone, though maybe not as the leader, but not far either, it's just that Android is broken up into many phone models, iphone only has a couple at a time usually. What this means is that more Androids of a single type of phone were sold than a single type of iphone (which probably accounted for most of the sales being the more recent one). It is a ways bias though since the S3 is a lot newer of a product than the iphone 4s.
Rofl you must be 5' tall.
And that's why the media's involved at this point, want to stand up to the big guys? Involve a larger audience and apply PR pressure.
It's called a hosts file actually.
This is why security professionals have the rep that they do... and why all our base belong to the Chinese hackers. And yes I agree, his idea is regressive.
Yes... firefox is really rooted into your system, registry read writes, lso's, appData, it doesn't need ANY of this to run, well maybe... appData, but I'd argue they should just use Sync (which is pretty cool btw). When I can sandbox a browser and have it run without breaking, the point of tfa will be achieved, but I've run firefox portable before, and performance leaves something to be desired, also I'm not sure how much of a footprint it leaves on your system.
Also the author of the article doesn't have a clue, the "facebook" app isn't a browser, nor will it ever be, it's an API-enabled application. You can write it right now by selecting new windows form from visual studio and downloading the facebook api, so *shrug*. Why don't we? Well.. there's the browser, from which you can throw a bookmark on your desktop from.
They're also arrogant enough to try and pass the costs on to the customer...
Good example, no politician has yet been reprimanded for playing golf (I'm sure a lot of them do), I think this whole scenario reflects on how acceptable social norms are shifting. There was a time that PC gaming automatically labeled you a nerd with no social skills or chance of acquiring them. Golf has always been accepted, especially by rich white men.
Where does using oxen to lay down fiber lines come in? :)