Move your revision control, backups, security, servers, etc stuff to India.
Don't listen to him. Look, I can get you a much better deal by nearshoring your IT operations with a Canadian firm who will then offshore to a firm in China. The Chinese firm will outsource to a contract company in Vietnam. Your cost will be next to nothing.
Uncomfortable with the plan? Think of it this way, you will easily be able to access^Wbuy back your business processes, security, and data at any time through a multitude of interesting and multilingual extortionists. Your company's operations will be mirrored across teh internets in a distributed network of black and not-so-black markets. You'll always have access to your company's IT operations regardless of how bad you mess things up in the USA.
I would love to see this discussion focused more on how the law should deal with willful negligence in developing/deploying security controls for financial, critical, and private computer systems.
What fascinatingly reckless and uninformed speculation. Why not just say "I am completely ignorant of any facts in this matter." It is easier to type and gets your point across a lot quicker.
The question is, how much of this information is being sold in other countries, perhaps in a more sophisticated manner?
USian? Go get your free credit report. Look closely at who has recently requested it. They're getting all kinds of information about you. Your bank, credit card company, mobile phone provider, broadband provider, power company, pretty much anyone with your name addy and social security number can sell your info to be requested by someone else at any time. This is a perfectly legal and legit practice. Regarding other countries, these businesses who outsource IT to India/China/Russia will locally all have this information to trade on the white and black market where there are even less data privacy laws.
I used to worry about identity theft and related crimes. I used to think I was the one in control and had the responsibility of securing my personal information. No, the companies that trade on personal info and credit have the control and the toothpaste is out of the tube. I can never secure the last 30 years of my information again, so why bother trying? All I can do is be vigilant in trying to detect fraud and deal with it on a case by case basis.
There is too much commerce at stake for governments to pass laws to ensure data privacy or make issuing credit more secure. Stop whining and start making arguments to your local politicians for doing what you want to be done.
The writer didn't put his thinking cap on. People use new OSes all the time. Think about all the gadgets techies (and even non-techies) buy every couple years and how many different OSes are involved:
PDA
mobile phone
VOIP phone
mp3 player
digital camera
gaming console
broadband router/wireless access point
DVD/PVR device
vehicle (multiples within a single car)
Chances are these are using OSes (sometimes very new) that people didn't use before the purchase. So what? The article seemed to focus on the desktop which is fine but that is only one OS out of dozens that people use every day. The desktop is arguably the most complex in terms of user interaction which leads it to be the something that people probably do not wish to keep remastering. I'm comfortable using several different desktop OSes and I still don't like to change my day-to-day computing environment. While the core of the issue from a user perspective may be a technical one at the convenience level the real issue is probably a marketing one. Plus, the licensing agreements between companies like Microsoft and Dell make it very difficult for another to get a foothold in the marketplace.
The end result should be that you don't know what OS in your desktop the same way that most people don't know what OS in their mobile phone, PDA, or mp3 player. It should be transparent and a non-issue for users. It should just work -- no matter what it is.
Advise for everyone: start using fake SSNs and DOBs whenever possible
Good god someone MOD PARENT DOWN. Your advice is credit fraud which could get someone who has the fake SSN in trouble... as well yourself. Besides, if you provide correct information everywhere else you could have multiple SSNs tagged to your credit report which is evidence of fraud. BAD ADVICE, DO NOT DO THIS. If you don't want to provide your real SSN/DoB then don't give it out.
The i18l wiki scope section calls out profanity and morality. This really caught my attention. There is no explanation of their inclusion in the wiki. Why are they listed separate from language translation? Could anyone explain if/how/why they are incorporating profanity and morality into their i18n plans?
Connectivity issues concerning Comcast can most likely be addressed by using an open DNS server among your Comcast ones. Try 4.2.2.4 - easy to remember!
You might also be the victim of a lame DoS attack. Participate in any flamewars recently? Send relevant portions of your incoming traffic logs to the respective ISPs for (in)action.
Another possible cause is one of the machines behind your firewall has been pwned and is now a spam zombie. Is your firewall blocking both incoming and outgoing?
Somewhere in there. Somewhere. I know it's right in front of me. The pattern. They say it's chaos, it can't be understood, too much complexity.
History it's there. Lurking, shaping. structuring, hiding, right beneath the surface.
The cycling of disease epidemics, the wax and wane of Caribou populations in the Arctic, sunspot cycles, the rise and fall of the Nile and yes! the New York Stock Exchange, they are all the same.
I'll find this structure, this order, this perfection.
Turn lead into gold. The first. Right here. Right here. With math. The numbers of the stock market are my lead. When I find the pattern, then I will find gold.
Firstly, network/sysadmin is a job that never ends. Here's where it gets worse: if the company is successful like you hope it will be, the responsibilities will grow towards 100% of your time. The admin environment is constantly evolving with new opportunities and new threats. I've been there and done that with a similar sized company as the only admin. At first it was a real mess that had to be cleaned up: anti-virus software, tape backups, UPS, firewalls, disk quotas, etc. The it went into progress mode: more bandwidth, high-availability, PPP, VPN, streaming video/audio, on and on. More employees, traveling salespeople, hardware/software/storage/OS upgrades, satellite office, spam/worm filtering, crackers, the mail server is on fire and the VP of sales is screaming "the conference room projector doesn't work and my presentation is in 5 minutes!". It became too much for one person to handle fulltime and way too stressful for the money. I quit and they hired two people to replace me. There are probably thousands of similar stories like this on slashdot.
If you don't mind getting caught up in the storm it can be a fun ride and you'll learn a lot about different technologies. But if this isn't your career path then don't start, not even if they convince you that it will be until they find someone else.. it's never temporary. Just be careful what you're good at.
On average, each victim of identity theft spends $1,400 in out-of-pocket expenses and over 600 hours recovering from the crime. One common practice of those who buy from "Big Data" is to send unsolicited credit card offers. Those offers, dug out of the trash or picked right out of the mail itself, contain at a minimum name and address and indicate at least a minimum level of credit-worthiness are one of hundreds of enablers for identity theft.
Now we're getting somewhere. Identity theft is a crime. A number of federal and even state laws already exist that are applicable to identity theft. However the onus of safeguarding one's otherwise illegally obtainable personal information is left up to the individual, not Big Data or it's sources. How could Big Data be made reasonably accountable for safeguards against fraudulent credit applications, the actions of thieves, or how people dispose of their trash?
Identity theft boils down to credit application processing and safeguards (or lack thereof). Worse, the lack of recourse for victims when identity theft does occur. Credit, once difficult to obtain is now liberally given because it too is a large revenue generator. The combined effect of very little legal structure around credit validation and the minimal negative effect fraud has on profits leaves credit companies largely unaccountable (and apathetic) to crimes like identity theft. Accountability is again pushed back onto the individual -- the identity theft criminal. Any connections between credit company safeguards, identity fraud criminals, and Big Data's business model are not clear or even nonexistent.
One could argue that the core of identity theft issue is not Big Data but rather the companies that actually issue credit.
I'm enjoying this discussion. Do you have another example?
And for decades multi-million dollar industries of cigarette manufacturing completely disagreed that cigarette smoking causes cancer.
True, Big Tobacco disagreed but it was deception. They knew it was addictive and unhealthy and knew it for a long time even in the face of contrary evidence. There is scientific evidence to support the unhealthy and addictive facts related to direct and indirect cigarette smoking. Can the same be said with regard to the "dangers" of Big Data? If so, what is the evidence? If it exists, does it outweigh the benefits?
If that's the best you can do to support your position, you need to re-evaluate your beliefs.
There's a difference between discussing a topic and actually endorsing or believing in it. The position I took is sound. Whether or not it is the best remains to be seen. Taking the unpopular side of an argument is a lot more interesting to cogitate. Challenging one's beliefs is always a worthwhile endeavor. As an exercise, pretend you had to defend Big Data. How would you do it? What do you think your opponents would argue?
Not illegal YET and absolutely, provably harmful to many.
Similarly your acquisition of personal information is a significant enough enabler for you to do harm to the owner of that information that such possession should be outlawed.
A multi-million dollar industries of data collection and direct marketing completely disagrees with you. They believe personal information is a commodity to be collected, bought, and sold. This action is not illegal or harmful to anyone.
For counter-counter-example, there are many perfectly legal and countless highly profitable reasons to possess and sell personal information. This alone will make for a very difficult fight to create a "right to privacy" in a country like the USA. In fact, I can foresee additional laws created to guarantee the expressed right to access and sell personal information by companies and government entities.
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Move your revision control, backups, security, servers, etc stuff to India.
Don't listen to him. Look, I can get you a much better deal by nearshoring your IT operations with a Canadian firm who will then offshore to a firm in China. The Chinese firm will outsource to a contract company in Vietnam. Your cost will be next to nothing.
Uncomfortable with the plan? Think of it this way, you will easily be able to access^Wbuy back your business processes, security, and data at any time through a multitude of interesting and multilingual extortionists. Your company's operations will be mirrored across teh internets in a distributed network of black and not-so-black markets. You'll always have access to your company's IT operations regardless of how bad you mess things up in the USA.
I would love to see this discussion focused more on how the law should deal with willful negligence in developing/deploying security controls for financial, critical, and private computer systems.
The chart has an option for "Legacy Systems" which sounds way too general. I mean, isn't everything currently running in production legacy?
That said, I would suggest doing some searches on various other sites whose opinion you value. Chances are it has been asked there before as well.
I particularly enjoy seeing all the "dupe!" comments and jokes being moderated as -1, Redundant. Slashdot is certainly an Irony Free Zone.
Dibs on your comment for the next dupe!
What fascinatingly reckless and uninformed speculation. Why not just say "I am completely ignorant of any facts in this matter." It is easier to type and gets your point across a lot quicker.
The question is, how much of this information is being sold in other countries, perhaps in a more sophisticated manner?
USian? Go get your free credit report. Look closely at who has recently requested it. They're getting all kinds of information about you. Your bank, credit card company, mobile phone provider, broadband provider, power company, pretty much anyone with your name addy and social security number can sell your info to be requested by someone else at any time. This is a perfectly legal and legit practice. Regarding other countries, these businesses who outsource IT to India/China/Russia will locally all have this information to trade on the white and black market where there are even less data privacy laws.
I used to worry about identity theft and related crimes. I used to think I was the one in control and had the responsibility of securing my personal information. No, the companies that trade on personal info and credit have the control and the toothpaste is out of the tube. I can never secure the last 30 years of my information again, so why bother trying? All I can do is be vigilant in trying to detect fraud and deal with it on a case by case basis.
There is too much commerce at stake for governments to pass laws to ensure data privacy or make issuing credit more secure. Stop whining and start making arguments to your local politicians for doing what you want to be done.
BTW, I'm still waiting impatiently for Apple's post-Newton PDA offering. I've got $500 set aside, Steve.
The writer didn't put his thinking cap on. People use new OSes all the time. Think about all the gadgets techies (and even non-techies) buy every couple years and how many different OSes are involved:
Chances are these are using OSes (sometimes very new) that people didn't use before the purchase. So what? The article seemed to focus on the desktop which is fine but that is only one OS out of dozens that people use every day. The desktop is arguably the most complex in terms of user interaction which leads it to be the something that people probably do not wish to keep remastering. I'm comfortable using several different desktop OSes and I still don't like to change my day-to-day computing environment. While the core of the issue from a user perspective may be a technical one at the convenience level the real issue is probably a marketing one. Plus, the licensing agreements between companies like Microsoft and Dell make it very difficult for another to get a foothold in the marketplace.
The end result should be that you don't know what OS in your desktop the same way that most people don't know what OS in their mobile phone, PDA, or mp3 player. It should be transparent and a non-issue for users. It should just work -- no matter what it is.
Could someone explain why in 2005 do we even need top level domains?
Advise for everyone: start using fake SSNs and DOBs whenever possible
Good god someone MOD PARENT DOWN. Your advice is credit fraud which could get someone who has the fake SSN in trouble... as well yourself. Besides, if you provide correct information everywhere else you could have multiple SSNs tagged to your credit report which is evidence of fraud. BAD ADVICE, DO NOT DO THIS. If you don't want to provide your real SSN/DoB then don't give it out.
I don't know of a single outsourcing project that has been finished correctly.
Not all projects are intended to be, as you say, "finished correctly".
The i18l wiki scope section calls out profanity and morality. This really caught my attention. There is no explanation of their inclusion in the wiki. Why are they listed separate from language translation? Could anyone explain if/how/why they are incorporating profanity and morality into their i18n plans?
If you're doing more or less HTML/JavaScript and some light PHP/JSP/ASP/CF/whatever it depends on how much money you want to spend.
If you don't want to spend any money check these out.
If you want to spend money I recommend Dreamweaver if you don't want to know what's going on or HomeSite if you do want to know what's going on.
You might also be the victim of a lame DoS attack. Participate in any flamewars recently? Send relevant portions of your incoming traffic logs to the respective ISPs for (in)action.
Another possible cause is one of the machines behind your firewall has been pwned and is now a spam zombie. Is your firewall blocking both incoming and outgoing?
According to that chart the drop dead date for support for win2k is 2010, not 2005. There is still plenty of time to procrastinate.
I thought Cryptonomicon was required reading here. I guess times have changed. Use Morse Code.
http://dewasoft.com/privacy/kldetector.htm
Somewhere in there.
Somewhere. I know it's right
in front of me. The pattern.
They say it's chaos, it can't
be understood, too much
complexity.
History it's there.
Lurking, shaping.
structuring, hiding, right
beneath the surface.
The cycling of disease epidemics,
the wax and wane of Caribou populations
in the Arctic, sunspot cycles,
the rise and fall of the
Nile and yes! the New York Stock
Exchange, they are all the
same.
I'll find this structure,
this order, this perfection.
Turn lead into gold.
The first. Right here. Right
here. With math. The numbers
of the stock market are my
lead. When I find the
pattern, then I will find
gold.
Firstly, network/sysadmin is a job that never ends. Here's where it gets worse: if the company is successful like you hope it will be, the responsibilities will grow towards 100% of your time. The admin environment is constantly evolving with new opportunities and new threats. I've been there and done that with a similar sized company as the only admin. At first it was a real mess that had to be cleaned up: anti-virus software, tape backups, UPS, firewalls, disk quotas, etc. The it went into progress mode: more bandwidth, high-availability, PPP, VPN, streaming video/audio, on and on. More employees, traveling salespeople, hardware/software/storage/OS upgrades, satellite office, spam/worm filtering, crackers, the mail server is on fire and the VP of sales is screaming "the conference room projector doesn't work and my presentation is in 5 minutes!". It became too much for one person to handle fulltime and way too stressful for the money. I quit and they hired two people to replace me. There are probably thousands of similar stories like this on slashdot.
If you don't mind getting caught up in the storm it can be a fun ride and you'll learn a lot about different technologies. But if this isn't your career path then don't start, not even if they convince you that it will be until they find someone else.. it's never temporary. Just be careful what you're good at.
On average, each victim of identity theft spends $1,400 in out-of-pocket expenses and over 600 hours recovering from the crime. One common practice of those who buy from "Big Data" is to send unsolicited credit card offers. Those offers, dug out of the trash or picked right out of the mail itself, contain at a minimum name and address and indicate at least a minimum level of credit-worthiness are one of hundreds of enablers for identity theft.
Now we're getting somewhere. Identity theft is a crime. A number of federal and even state laws already exist that are applicable to identity theft. However the onus of safeguarding one's otherwise illegally obtainable personal information is left up to the individual, not Big Data or it's sources. How could Big Data be made reasonably accountable for safeguards against fraudulent credit applications, the actions of thieves, or how people dispose of their trash?
Identity theft boils down to credit application processing and safeguards (or lack thereof). Worse, the lack of recourse for victims when identity theft does occur. Credit, once difficult to obtain is now liberally given because it too is a large revenue generator. The combined effect of very little legal structure around credit validation and the minimal negative effect fraud has on profits leaves credit companies largely unaccountable (and apathetic) to crimes like identity theft. Accountability is again pushed back onto the individual -- the identity theft criminal. Any connections between credit company safeguards, identity fraud criminals, and Big Data's business model are not clear or even nonexistent.
One could argue that the core of identity theft issue is not Big Data but rather the companies that actually issue credit.
I'm enjoying this discussion. Do you have another example?
And for decades multi-million dollar industries of cigarette manufacturing completely disagreed that cigarette smoking causes cancer.
True, Big Tobacco disagreed but it was deception. They knew it was addictive and unhealthy and knew it for a long time even in the face of contrary evidence. There is scientific evidence to support the unhealthy and addictive facts related to direct and indirect cigarette smoking. Can the same be said with regard to the "dangers" of Big Data? If so, what is the evidence? If it exists, does it outweigh the benefits?
If that's the best you can do to support your position, you need to re-evaluate your beliefs.
There's a difference between discussing a topic and actually endorsing or believing in it. The position I took is sound. Whether or not it is the best remains to be seen. Taking the unpopular side of an argument is a lot more interesting to cogitate. Challenging one's beliefs is always a worthwhile endeavor. As an exercise, pretend you had to defend Big Data. How would you do it? What do you think your opponents would argue?
Not illegal YET and absolutely, provably harmful to many.
Examples please.
Similarly your acquisition of personal information is a significant enough enabler for you to do harm to the owner of that information that such possession should be outlawed.
A multi-million dollar industries of data collection and direct marketing completely disagrees with you. They believe personal information is a commodity to be collected, bought, and sold. This action is not illegal or harmful to anyone.
For counter-counter-example, there are many perfectly legal and countless highly profitable reasons to possess and sell personal information. This alone will make for a very difficult fight to create a "right to privacy" in a country like the USA. In fact, I can foresee additional laws created to guarantee the expressed right to access and sell personal information by companies and government entities.