In my book, it's not about fear. It's about responsibility for one's own actions. Since many computer users don't have enough of a clue to actually BE responsible for their own actions, I'm not going to allow those users access to the net via MY connection. That's my point. It's MY connection. I'm paying for it. I'm responsible for the activity that takes place on it. So therefore I don't want random clueless users bumming my connection and screwing things up for me, either with my ISP, or with law enforcement agencies.
I don't know the numbers on how often illegal porn happens. I will say that I've seen two people lose jobs over porn. And as far as hacking attempts, I'd say that's a far greater risk, my firewall logs verify that. All I'm saying is that I'm certainly not going to be the first guy on my block to go to jail because I allowed it to happen. I wouldn't be opposed to having a neighborhood co-op or something with people that I live next to and know to some degree, but even in that scenario, security would be my highest concern.
I can understand where $70 might bother joe average consumer. I'd personally love it considering I pay for business class DSL for my apartment. I know that when I buy my house, I'm definitely getting it wired for CAT5. Too bad there can't be "tech" communities where everyone wants that kind of service.
At this point I wouldn't consider 40GB large. I'm not busting your balls, I'm just saying....I have an 80GB, I would say that's on the large side. 100GB definitely qualifies as large. Since there are now 100+GB drives out there.
I just don't have that kind of trust in other people.
If I were to open my wireless access point to neighbors, I'm liable for their behavior. My DSL provider isn't going to want to hear "It wasn't me, it was my neighbor.". So if my neighbor gets busted for kiddy porn, or for hacking some vulnerable server out there, I don't want to be the one paying the fines/jail time, etc.
So for now, the only people that will be allowed access to my internet pipe are people I know and trust.
I have to agree with you. The thought that movie makers can just edit out what was once a powerful symbol of world commerce is almost as if to say, it was just a bad dream. It never really happened. Downright scary.
It still just boggles my mind that I can turn on the radio and hear it for free, but that no one has figured out a way that makes everyone happy to do it via the net.
I'm sure it's mostly to do with the fact that if I download music, they don't get the opportunity to ram BS advertising down my throat like they can with radio.
Maybe all these wankers should get out of the courtroom for a while, and move into the meeting room and get some damn details hammered out.
Then maybe the music listening public will finally get what it wanted to begin with.
I love it where they say IIS is targeted because of the widespread use of IIS. I'm thinking that maybe Microsoft should check in a little more often with Netcraft. If that statement were correct, Apache should be getting challenged more than twice as often as IIS.
Don't get me wrong....I'm NOT saying that Apache is perfect. Apache does however, seem to have a MUCH better track record for security breaches than IIS does.
Hell, that's one of the reasons I started using Linux, and applications like Apache and Qmail that run on Linux.
At the last place I worked, the management team put a ping pong table in the employee lunch room. I never used it during normal business hours. Only after hours, or if I happened to be working on the weekend. And good thing too, turns out that those who fell for the "ping pong bait" were generally "laid off" within a couple weeks.
I found out from an anonymous source that management was emailing back and forth about the people they were spotting playing ping pong.
Thank god they're taking a tougher stance this time. I'm a Speakeasy.net customer and I was notified yesterday via email that they will be pulling the plug on infected hosts shortly. Basically they are giving a small grace period to allow the users to clean up. After that, it's lights out.
I'm glad, because during the whole code red fiasco I was sending lists of speakeasy hosts that were infected (that I gathered from my Apache logs) in the hope that they would shut them down.
Now I know the infected hosts will be dealt with one way or another, and I can stop taking the time sending all those emails and actually do something productive.
You best choose which rights you can do without now....Because once they're gone, they're not coming back. It's definitely a hell of a lot easier to fight to keep what we have, than it is to fight for what we have already lost. But hey, the bright side is, some day you can tell your grandchildren....you know, I remember back in the good ole days, back when we had free speach, and civil liberties....I rest my case.
I for one have to say that I am insulted by this post. I served in America's armed forces for 11 years, I was in the gulf war, and I served with the 82nd Airborne division. Yet even now, as I watch my former brothers prepare to go war once again, you say that protecting my rights is spitting on the dead? How dare you even begin to make such broad generalizations. All I want for myself AND others is the freedoms that this country has always, and should always stand for.
Don't bother giving me any of that BS about national security either. Make the country more secure. Just do it through having armed forces at the airports, do it through better technology, such as a computer network that cross checks your name against known terrorist databases when you're purchasing a plane ticket, and many other ways.
But to even for a moment say that we, the American people should be fine with people digging through our lives, arresting us and holding us for questioning for whatever period they want without so much as a court order. Do you want to live in such a place?
If you do, it already exists. It's called China. Maybe you should talk to your company about relocating to a city more suited to your tastes.
In closing...all I have left to say is....what a wanker.
Sure, I download digital music. It keeps me from buying a CD that's as useful as a coaster.
If I like the sample that I've downloaded, I go to the store and buy the CD. At this point in time, downloaded music just doesn't have the quality that digital CD music does.
The place where my burner comes in handy, is ripping the music so that I can burn CDs that have multiple artists on on one CD so that I don't have to switch CDs every 2 or 3 songs while driving.
This is just my opinion....I like Dell. They are the only brand of workstation, laptop, or X86 server that I recommend. I've been using a Dell Latitude for a couple years now,and I've loved it. I just recently decided to upgrade to a Dell Latitude C800. 15.1" screen, 32MB video ram, 512MB system ram, 1Ghz, 20GB HDD, CDRW, DVD...Plus...they run Linux like a champ! I personally wanted a really powerful system, and I wanted it new with a warranty. I'm sure if you look carefully, and are patient, you could get a decent Dell C600 or C800 on eBay for somewhere near $1000.
If anyone thought about the fact that this 40% increase is due to accidentally clicking the popup when attempting to click the site the user visited instead. Advertising people can be such A**holes sometimes.
I only want to know one thing. What's in it for them? Because you know damn well they aren't doing it out of the kindness of their hearts, or for the love of open source.
Not in my world. I agree with the guy who said that a lot of Slashdoters assume that this is all developers. Not so. You may be able to read a book on Perl or C++ and then go sit at your PC and code something, compile it and test it, but try that in my field. If I want to learn about enterprise LAN/WAN switching, routing, or security, I can read every book on the topic I can get my hands on, but how do I compile and test it? Until you have your hands on a Cisco core switch, or a PIX firewall, you can't say for sure that the configurations you made from what you read will actually work the way you intended. But if I go take the class, I get the information I need, I get whatever lab equipment I need to put the theory to the test, and hopefully I can get real world experiences that the instructor has had on the topic as well. That kind of training is worth every dollar.
I'm not trying to bust your balls too hard, but do keep in mind that all of the major hardware vendors are shipping systems with Linux on them. My last company bought several Dell servers with Redhat preinstalled.
It's been my experience that most managers lack the sense to admit that they made a bad decision in selecting a company/service/product. They will always find some way to rationalize it. IMHO, the only way for you to win this is to let them find out the hard way for themselves, and hope they seek you out to fix the problems. If you approach them, they'll be suspicious that you're up to something, or even that it was you that created the holes just to get business.
The question was, does anyone see people not even interested in IT, and how it affects performance.
I've personally seen this at its worst. If IT workers are totally disinterested, they don't work on expanding existing skills and learning new ones. As the company moves forward with new technologies, they don't. They remain stagnant, and wonder why they aren't progressing in salary and position like the people who ARE interested in technology do.
That's just my 2 cents.
It'll be a little work, but the fun and enjoyment you'll get will be well worth it. You said you had friends at Amazon. That's good, you already have their email address schema (john.doe or john_doe @amazon.com). Hopefully in this case you are using MS outlook, or some other email client that allows auto reply, or auto forward. Set up a rule in the mail client that whenever an email is received from the spam address at Amazon, your email client autoforwards it to the CEO of Amazon.com, then moves it immediately to the trash. Every time you get one of the messages from then on, you'll know he's getting it too!!! You'll be amazed at the amount of fun you can have with this until he gets tired of it and gets you off the list!!
At my company, we are to say the least "grossly" understaffed. Our support ratio is totally ouf whack, and if something breaks, the engineer who will most likely be able to solve the issue, or the closest engineer if it's something that all are able to handle is called. For that service, we get to keep our job. We don't get any comp time, or comp pay. We are paid decent salaries, but just because we had to get out of bed doesn't mean we get a bonus.
Just thought you'd like to know how the other half lives.
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In my book, it's not about fear. It's about responsibility for one's own actions. Since many computer users don't have enough of a clue to actually BE responsible for their own actions, I'm not going to allow those users access to the net via MY connection. That's my point. It's MY connection. I'm paying for it. I'm responsible for the activity that takes place on it. So therefore I don't want random clueless users bumming my connection and screwing things up for me, either with my ISP, or with law enforcement agencies.
I don't know the numbers on how often illegal porn happens. I will say that I've seen two people lose jobs over porn. And as far as hacking attempts, I'd say that's a far greater risk, my firewall logs verify that. All I'm saying is that I'm certainly not going to be the first guy on my block to go to jail because I allowed it to happen. I wouldn't be opposed to having a neighborhood co-op or something with people that I live next to and know to some degree, but even in that scenario, security would be my highest concern.
I can understand where $70 might bother joe average consumer. I'd personally love it considering I pay for business class DSL for my apartment. I know that when I buy my house, I'm definitely getting it wired for CAT5. Too bad there can't be "tech" communities where everyone wants that kind of service.
At this point I wouldn't consider 40GB large. I'm not busting your balls, I'm just saying....I have an 80GB, I would say that's on the large side. 100GB definitely qualifies as large. Since there are now 100+GB drives out there.
If I were to open my wireless access point to neighbors, I'm liable for their behavior. My DSL provider isn't going to want to hear "It wasn't me, it was my neighbor.". So if my neighbor gets busted for kiddy porn, or for hacking some vulnerable server out there, I don't want to be the one paying the fines/jail time, etc.
So for now, the only people that will be allowed access to my internet pipe are people I know and trust.
I have to agree with you. The thought that movie makers can just edit out what was once a powerful symbol of world commerce is almost as if to say, it was just a bad dream. It never really happened. Downright scary.
I'm sure it's mostly to do with the fact that if I download music, they don't get the opportunity to ram BS advertising down my throat like they can with radio.
Maybe all these wankers should get out of the courtroom for a while, and move into the meeting room and get some damn details hammered out.
Then maybe the music listening public will finally get what it wanted to begin with.
MUSIC
Don't get me wrong....I'm NOT saying that Apache is perfect. Apache does however, seem to have a MUCH better track record for security breaches than IIS does.
Hell, that's one of the reasons I started using Linux, and applications like Apache and Qmail that run on Linux.
I found out from an anonymous source that management was emailing back and forth about the people they were spotting playing ping pong.
Just my .02 cents....
It looks to me as though Microsoft is designing one great big virus.
I'm glad, because during the whole code red fiasco I was sending lists of speakeasy hosts that were infected (that I gathered from my Apache logs) in the hope that they would shut them down.
Now I know the infected hosts will be dealt with one way or another, and I can stop taking the time sending all those emails and actually do something productive.
Until now why the CCIEs at my last company called it "Broken Ring".
You best choose which rights you can do without now....Because once they're gone, they're not coming back. It's definitely a hell of a lot easier to fight to keep what we have, than it is to fight for what we have already lost. But hey, the bright side is, some day you can tell your grandchildren....you know, I remember back in the good ole days, back when we had free speach, and civil liberties....I rest my case.
Don't bother giving me any of that BS about national security either. Make the country more secure. Just do it through having armed forces at the airports, do it through better technology, such as a computer network that cross checks your name against known terrorist databases when you're purchasing a plane ticket, and many other ways.
But to even for a moment say that we, the American people should be fine with people digging through our lives, arresting us and holding us for questioning for whatever period they want without so much as a court order. Do you want to live in such a place?
If you do, it already exists. It's called China. Maybe you should talk to your company about relocating to a city more suited to your tastes.
In closing...all I have left to say is....what a wanker.
Sure, I download digital music. It keeps me from buying a CD that's as useful as a coaster.
If I like the sample that I've downloaded, I go to the store and buy the CD. At this point in time, downloaded music just doesn't have the quality that digital CD music does.
The place where my burner comes in handy, is ripping the music so that I can burn CDs that have multiple artists on on one CD so that I don't have to switch CDs every 2 or 3 songs while driving.
This is just my opinion....I like Dell. They are the only brand of workstation, laptop, or X86 server that I recommend. I've been using a Dell Latitude for a couple years now ,and I've loved it. I just recently decided to upgrade to a Dell Latitude C800. 15.1" screen, 32MB video ram, 512MB system ram, 1Ghz, 20GB HDD, CDRW, DVD...Plus...they run Linux like a champ! I personally wanted a really powerful system, and I wanted it new with a warranty. I'm sure if you look carefully, and are patient, you could get a decent Dell C600 or C800 on eBay for somewhere near $1000.
If anyone thought about the fact that this 40% increase is due to accidentally clicking the popup when attempting to click the site the user visited instead. Advertising people can be such A**holes sometimes.
I only want to know one thing. What's in it for them? Because you know damn well they aren't doing it out of the kindness of their hearts, or for the love of open source.
Not in my world. I agree with the guy who said that a lot of Slashdoters assume that this is all developers. Not so. You may be able to read a book on Perl or C++ and then go sit at your PC and code something, compile it and test it, but try that in my field. If I want to learn about enterprise LAN/WAN switching, routing, or security, I can read every book on the topic I can get my hands on, but how do I compile and test it? Until you have your hands on a Cisco core switch, or a PIX firewall, you can't say for sure that the configurations you made from what you read will actually work the way you intended. But if I go take the class, I get the information I need, I get whatever lab equipment I need to put the theory to the test, and hopefully I can get real world experiences that the instructor has had on the topic as well. That kind of training is worth every dollar.
I'm not trying to bust your balls too hard, but do keep in mind that all of the major hardware vendors are shipping systems with Linux on them. My last company bought several Dell servers with Redhat preinstalled.
It's been my experience that most managers lack the sense to admit that they made a bad decision in selecting a company/service/product. They will always find some way to rationalize it. IMHO, the only way for you to win this is to let them find out the hard way for themselves, and hope they seek you out to fix the problems. If you approach them, they'll be suspicious that you're up to something, or even that it was you that created the holes just to get business.
The question was, does anyone see people not even interested in IT, and how it affects performance. I've personally seen this at its worst. If IT workers are totally disinterested, they don't work on expanding existing skills and learning new ones. As the company moves forward with new technologies, they don't. They remain stagnant, and wonder why they aren't progressing in salary and position like the people who ARE interested in technology do. That's just my 2 cents.
I've installed Redhat 7.0 on a machine recently with an 81GB Maxtor. Now THAT'S porn storage!!
It'll be a little work, but the fun and enjoyment you'll get will be well worth it. You said you had friends at Amazon. That's good, you already have their email address schema (john.doe or john_doe @amazon.com). Hopefully in this case you are using MS outlook, or some other email client that allows auto reply, or auto forward. Set up a rule in the mail client that whenever an email is received from the spam address at Amazon, your email client autoforwards it to the CEO of Amazon.com, then moves it immediately to the trash. Every time you get one of the messages from then on, you'll know he's getting it too!!! You'll be amazed at the amount of fun you can have with this until he gets tired of it and gets you off the list!!
At my company, we are to say the least "grossly" understaffed. Our support ratio is totally ouf whack, and if something breaks, the engineer who will most likely be able to solve the issue, or the closest engineer if it's something that all are able to handle is called. For that service, we get to keep our job. We don't get any comp time, or comp pay. We are paid decent salaries, but just because we had to get out of bed doesn't mean we get a bonus. Just thought you'd like to know how the other half lives.