I always wonder about these stories. They are obviously so ate up with their infrastructure that they don't know how to properly configure, maintain, and secure it. So how, then, do they detect the breach, which is usually far more difficult than protecting the stuff in the first place.
That's the most important. I currently work for a government agency. Yeah, we're doomed. The private sector doesn't do nearly as bad, especially smaller companies (1000 or so employeees) who are smart enough to hire bright, security-minded admins.
Please stop damming our fscking rivers. Dams are arguably the most eco-unfriendly source of power in existence. I swear the Army corps of engineers also won't be happy until every river in this country has been turned into a lake.
WebOS is ok. The only exploit I recall is the SMS exploit that hit everyone else too. They were quick to fix it. It's linux, so you can easily write your own iptables rules, disble services, etc. No jailbreak required for this. It's an open platform by design, and HP/Palm supported its community rather than try to lock them out.
... given the general below-mediocre quality of the contractors and government employees that work for the DoD, and the amount of senseless policies for policy's sake claiming to be for 'security' but, uh, no, not really. The people in charge are the worst.
I just started working for DoD again, and want to punch people in the face all day long.
They should have given more love and better advertising to the Pre. I moved from ATT to Sprint just to get one. And at the time, I would never have even known it existed had a friend not told me about it.
Also, Sprint is the only carrier I know of that charges per minute to forward calls. When at home, I used to forward to my vonage line so people could get in touch with me. That was a wakeup on the first bill from sprint!
Isn't if funny how places are profiting off of the business model that the **AA should be using? There is a demand for a pay service to get unencumbered content at high speed. All of those profits could be going to them, but they continue on their path.
Just set up your own trackers with client side certificates. Charge a monthly fee for the cert. Done. OHhhhh, but people might share their certs! So what. You still profit off of something where you already realized your the intended profits in the theaters.
This is why I prefer working at companies that use open source software for the core of their systems. You are able to teach yourself and stay up to date on what is going on, and maybe even give back. All of that documentation is out there just for you to learn. And you can set up any number of scenarios in your labs without having to buy licenses for things that likely won't work for you anyway. Let's not forget that we no longer have to deal with constant harrassment from sales droids, instead focusing on growing our own skillset while benefiting the company.
'Training" is for "consultants" working for places like the DoD. I've never met a group more dedicated to striving for mediocrity, including government employees and contractors alike. Your value is seen as what you've been trained in. The majority of those folks simply don't know how to think, only how to regurgitate feature sets of commercial products that the government is overpaying for.
in my experience, Zimbra is a bloated pig with its share of availability problems as well. I hate the whole "let's take a bunch of open source pieces but just throw them together as an inflexible blob of crap in/opt" approach. The installer leaves a lot to be desired as well, with key components around setting proper permissions resulting in an install that will never work until you manually fix it.
I *still* get spam from real accounts of my friends. I believe the spammers got ahold of the password lists from all of this and have been using it to spam from legitimate accounts by actually logging into them?
Why do you need to rewrite math textbooks at all? It's not like our basic math has fundamentally changed in decades. Just print more of the old stuff. Hell, the publishers can even profit more as some becomes public domain, right?
I support them by going to movies in theaters that are worth it. Where is all of this right to profit by selling DVDs and such? If the movie is good enough, they'll make their profits in the theaters. Torrents should be advertisement. "Hey, this was actually pretty good. Next time something done by the same actors/producer/writer I'll check it out in the theater"
Same here. I'm more of a passive TV show watcher, so not ready to give up the satellite quite yet. But for movies, torrents on an NFS share with WDTV Live can't be beat. It just works. And that's the main reason I chose the WDTV Live. Yes, I did say NFS. Check it out:
I've missed the elegance and flexibility of Windowmaker and have always wished that it had stayed current. Looking forward to having a great way forward vs. that unity garbage!!
Not every computer is a phone, kiosk, or video game console. Stop forcing a phone UI everywhere. General use computers are not meant for single task at a time.
All applications maximize by default? WTF? Yeah, that's 'efficient' use of real estate on my high resolution widescreen.
(which their IT department probably warned them to change when the accounts got set up, of course)
If the IT department was simply handing that out rather than an initial random password, they are just as wrong. I particularly love how my 401K access was initially first initial, last name, last 4 of the sssn.
Now implement synergy, native cards for multitasking, unobtrusive notifications, and a gesture area with intuitive, consistent gestures throughout the OS and all applications.
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I always wonder about these stories. They are obviously so ate up with their infrastructure that they don't know how to properly configure, maintain, and secure it. So how, then, do they detect the breach, which is usually far more difficult than protecting the stuff in the first place.
That statement does not even make any sense. Science is not trust based beyond agreeing upon how it is communicated through math and physics.
That's the most important. I currently work for a government agency. Yeah, we're doomed. The private sector doesn't do nearly as bad, especially smaller companies (1000 or so employeees) who are smart enough to hire bright, security-minded admins.
Yeah, really. Forensics 101.
Please stop damming our fscking rivers. Dams are arguably the most eco-unfriendly source of power in existence. I swear the Army corps of engineers also won't be happy until every river in this country has been turned into a lake.
WebOS is ok. The only exploit I recall is the SMS exploit that hit everyone else too. They were quick to fix it. It's linux, so you can easily write your own iptables rules, disble services, etc. No jailbreak required for this. It's an open platform by design, and HP/Palm supported its community rather than try to lock them out.
... given the general below-mediocre quality of the contractors and government employees that work for the DoD, and the amount of senseless policies for policy's sake claiming to be for 'security' but, uh, no, not really. The people in charge are the worst.
I just started working for DoD again, and want to punch people in the face all day long.
They should have given more love and better advertising to the Pre. I moved from ATT to Sprint just to get one. And at the time, I would never have even known it existed had a friend not told me about it.
Also,
Sprint is the only carrier I know of that charges per minute to forward calls. When at home, I used to forward to my vonage line so people could get in touch with me. That was a wakeup on the first bill from sprint!
I wouldn't trust what they say about hardware, let alone Linuxy stuff.
Isn't if funny how places are profiting off of the business model that the **AA should be using? There is a demand for a pay service to get unencumbered content at high speed. All of those profits could be going to them, but they continue on their path.
Just set up your own trackers with client side certificates. Charge a monthly fee for the cert. Done. OHhhhh, but people might share their certs! So what. You still profit off of something where you already realized your the intended profits in the theaters.
This is why I prefer working at companies that use open source software for the core of their systems. You are able to teach yourself and stay up to date on what is going on, and maybe even give back. All of that documentation is out there just for you to learn. And you can set up any number of scenarios in your labs without having to buy licenses for things that likely won't work for you anyway. Let's not forget that we no longer have to deal with constant harrassment from sales droids, instead focusing on growing our own skillset while benefiting the company.
'Training" is for "consultants" working for places like the DoD. I've never met a group more dedicated to striving for mediocrity, including government employees and contractors alike. Your value is seen as what you've been trained in. The majority of those folks simply don't know how to think, only how to regurgitate feature sets of commercial products that the government is overpaying for.
in my experience, Zimbra is a bloated pig with its share of availability problems as well. I hate the whole "let's take a bunch of open source pieces but just throw them together as an inflexible blob of crap in /opt" approach. The installer leaves a lot to be desired as well, with key components around setting proper permissions resulting in an install that will never work until you manually fix it.
I *still* get spam from real accounts of my friends. I believe the spammers got ahold of the password lists from all of this and have been using it to spam from legitimate accounts by actually logging into them?
Why do you need to rewrite math textbooks at all? It's not like our basic math has fundamentally changed in decades. Just print more of the old stuff. Hell, the publishers can even profit more as some becomes public domain, right?
I run my own servers as the designers intended. I trust myself with my information. I think.
I support them by going to movies in theaters that are worth it. Where is all of this right to profit by selling DVDs and such? If the movie is good enough, they'll make their profits in the theaters. Torrents should be advertisement. "Hey, this was actually pretty good. Next time something done by the same actors/producer/writer I'll check it out in the theater"
See my post above. WD TV Live plus with wdlxtv firmware gives you this and a lot more.
Same here. I'm more of a passive TV show watcher, so not ready to give up the satellite quite yet. But for movies, torrents on an NFS share with WDTV Live can't be beat. It just works. And that's the main reason I chose the WDTV Live. Yes, I did say NFS. Check it out:
http://b-rad.cc/wdlxtv/
http://wiki.wdlxtv.com/Main_Page
I've missed the elegance and flexibility of Windowmaker and have always wished that it had stayed current. Looking forward to having a great way forward vs. that unity garbage!!
Not every computer is a phone, kiosk, or video game console. Stop forcing a phone UI everywhere. General use computers are not meant for single task at a time.
All applications maximize by default? WTF? Yeah, that's 'efficient' use of real estate on my high resolution widescreen.
... gets to work on his new laser-detonated liquid explosive.
Shouldn't it be 'Linux *mobile/desktop* of the future'? I certainly don't want a html/css/javascript based set of back end servers, thanks.
If the IT department was simply handing that out rather than an initial random password, they are just as wrong. I particularly love how my 401K access was initially first initial, last name, last 4 of the sssn.
Now implement synergy, native cards for multitasking, unobtrusive notifications, and a gesture area with intuitive, consistent gestures throughout the OS and all applications.
I use a smart card. And I seem to have lost it.