All he did was attach to an OPEN SHARE DRIVE on the Senate LAN. I would have thought this would have been cleared up months ago- Republicans apologize to Democrats, and Democrats start password protecting your share drives!
While it would be a good idea for the Republicans to apologize for what they did and a excellent idea for the Democrats to protect their shared drives with passwords, that's not the point.
Whether the shared drive was open or not is irrelevant. What matters is the forms almost every government employee signs that basically state that what they see at work stays at work and is NOT to be discussed with anyone under penalty of criminal prosecution. Along with that is another form dealing with computer security which says that you are NOT supposed to go poking around on government computer networks into systems, directories, and databases that you are not authorized to access. If you do find an open resource, you are supposed to REPORT IT TO YOUR SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR so that the problem can be corrected, not advertise the fact to your coworkers or share company secrets with competitors.
By attaching to an open share (that he should not have had access to), not informing the systems administrators of the problem, and sharing the Democratic party's memos with his Republican higher-ups, he broke the agreements on those legally-binding forms he signed. Now he is being investigated and is on his way to being prosecuted. If he didn't want to abide by the rules set forth on those forms, he should have said "No Thanks" and found a job elsewhere.
Neither party is innocent; both have employed a variety of dirty tricks over the years to try and sabotage the other. I'd bet that his bosses knew what he was doing and even encouraged it. Unfortunately, Mr. Miranda didn't have the intestinal fortitude or personal integrity to stand up and say "No, that's not the correct thing to do!" to his bosses. He KNEW what would happen if he broke the rules, he broke them anyway, and now he's paying the price.
I do agree this country needs a change in it's political system: we need candidates and government employees who take personal responsibility for their actions, voters who will get off their couches and VOTE (even if it's for None Of The Above), and an end to putting up with people in public office who lie, cheat, and steal. If we continue to elect people based on popularity contests and group-think, we deserve what we get. We need to vote for people who have honesty, integrity, compassion, and a willingness to do what is right even when it's the unpopular thing to do. More importantly, we need to embrace those attributes as well and reflect them in the way that we live.
Plants' ability to generate energy has been optimized by evolution, so a spinach plant is extremely efficient, churning out a lot of energy relative to its size and weight.
From http://physlink.com/: As a side note, you may be interested to know many foods have naturally occuring radioactive isotopes present in them already. For example bananas and spinach have potassium 40.
Wow! Now we can have all those nuclear-powered gadgets the people in the 1950's thought we'd have! Just one question: How long before someone figures out how to make it explode?
You're right, Men are from Mars and Women are from Venus. But just think of the business opportunity of setting up a shuttle service between the two planets! Now, were can I get a stretch-shuttle....?
that the motherboard and CPU combo that he shows on his blog has no memory on it? Must be one of those magical motherboards to be running Solaris 10 with no memory.
Everyone is just toeing the party line, and that is dangerous.
Seems to me that something similar to this happened in Iraq when Saddam took power. After he had people in the Iraqi government who didn't agree with him murdered, the rest toed the line. Intimidation in any form can be used to put a dictatorship in power.
Patriotism is doing what is best for the country as a whole (even though everyone may not agree) instead of doing what is best for a single political party's cronies.
IANAL and IANAPO (I am not a police officer), but how to you "induce" someone to commit an illegal act? If the person has criminal tendencies they are (eventually) going to do something criminal.
How can the RIAA believe that Apple and the other makers of MP3/WMA/etc players are trying to "induce" people into stealing music? My iPod has a very legitimate use: holding my entire music library in MP3 form so I can enjoy it anywhere I go (BTW: I own all the CDs I've ripped to MP3). I really don't care to carry 500+ CDs on me at all times so I can pop the right on into a CD player when the mood hits me.
Sidenote - IBM should bring out said headless box, black alu case like the NeXT with a single G5 in it clocked a 2gighz and a 100% linux compat mobo.... That would soon become a cult item I imagine - but apple would have a fit because it would encorage all the unix geeks on their platform to swap and it would encorage a strong user base of a ppc linux to get going. So, like I say, not going to happen. Actually, can someone enlighten the thread as to who *owns* the G5? Could IBM do this?
Motorola, IBM, Apple All three of these companies participated in the development of the original PowerPC series of CPUs based on the technology for IBM's POWER series of RISC CPUs. IBM is the primary manufacturer of the CPUs with Motorola making some for industrial purposes. Apple buys it's CPUs from IBM. There has even been speculation that we'll see the G5 CPUs in low to midrange pSeries workstations in the near future.
What Alexander Yuvchenko and the others went through that night was incredible. They and the men who built the protective shell around the reactor are heroes for risking their lives to prevent radiation from escaping. I certainly wish that people like this would be treated well instead of being stigmatized. They risked their lives and did the right thing instead of running away.
Must be nice to have the time to worry about whether it should be the "I"nternet or the "i"nternet, "e-"mail or "e"mail. Don't people have "B"etter things to do with their lives?
The "aim" is to get more ladies interested in pursuing a career in the sciences, not to treat them like sex objects. Part of a professional work and/or learning environment is to value the input and efforts of all team members regardless of their gender/age/beliefs.
Those men who insist that they should be allowed to do the stereotypical "man" things because of their glandular secretions belittles men as a gender. Part of life is learning self-control and when to ignore "biological imperatives" so that you can successfully interact with the world at large and ladies in particular. Ladies do appreciate it when you treat them as an equal and show them the respect they deserve.
As a three-time heart patient I'm wondering the same thing. Last thing I want to hear from St. Peter is that the heart-lung machine they had me on crashed.
As someone who was born with a congenital heart defect, has had three surgeries, and has been ticking with an artificial valve for the last 22 year, I'd be worried about not having a pulse.
One of the things doctors/surgeons have noticed with heart patients that have their hearts stopped is that they lose all sense of time. I noticed it after my surgeries. I don't know if anyone has done research into the beating of the heart and the mechanisms in the brain that allow us to perceive the passage of time. Does the beat of the heart interact with the area(s) of the brain that perceive the passge of time? Do other bodily processes require a heartbeat for a "timeing signal"? I'm sure there are other questions to ask about this subject.
Show me a man with a song in his heart and I'll show you a man with an AM/FM pacemaker!
1. What kind of music should go with which kind of plant? Roses for Guns N Roses? Potted plants for Grateful Dead music? 2. Do we really want plants that make funny noises? I've got coworkers for that. 3. Do the plants really like the music? Has anyone done a survey? 4. Is Slashdot really the proper forum for this posting?
Most military bases have banned PDAs, USB Flash drives, iPods (and variants), cell phones, and any other device that can be connected to a computer and can store data. Some have even gone as far as removing diskette drives and banning CD-RW and DVD-RW drives on new systems. I have seen incidents where people decided to put classified military data on a flash drive or floppy to take it home to work on it. This happened even after people sign an agreement and go through repeated training sessions where they spell out what will happen if they do something like this.
Corporations are having to deal with this same problem as portable devices can now be used to store data or take pictures that could compromise sensitive data. However, this has always been an issue. A systems administrator could walk out of work with and 4mm or 8mm tape full of sensitive/classified data and no one would know. It boils down to a matter of trust and integrity; do you trust the people who use/administer your systems? Have they shown the integrity in other matters that would indicate they can be trusted with more sensitive matters?
Unfortunately, it only takes one person in a sensitive position to screw it up for everyone else.
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That a Sun Solaris add should pop-up when I want to read the replys to this story.
All he did was attach to an OPEN SHARE DRIVE on the Senate LAN. I would have thought this would have been cleared up months ago- Republicans apologize to Democrats, and Democrats start password protecting your share drives!
While it would be a good idea for the Republicans to apologize for what they did and a excellent idea for the Democrats to protect their shared drives with passwords, that's not the point.
Whether the shared drive was open or not is irrelevant. What matters is the forms almost every government employee signs that basically state that what they see at work stays at work and is NOT to be discussed with anyone under penalty of criminal prosecution. Along with that is another form dealing with computer security which says that you are NOT supposed to go poking around on government computer networks into systems, directories, and databases that you are not authorized to access. If you do find an open resource, you are supposed to REPORT IT TO YOUR SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR so that the problem can be corrected, not advertise the fact to your coworkers or share company secrets with competitors.
By attaching to an open share (that he should not have had access to), not informing the systems administrators of the problem, and sharing the Democratic party's memos with his Republican higher-ups, he broke the agreements on those legally-binding forms he signed. Now he is being investigated and is on his way to being prosecuted. If he didn't want to abide by the rules set forth on those forms, he should have said "No Thanks" and found a job elsewhere.
Neither party is innocent; both have employed a variety of dirty tricks over the years to try and sabotage the other. I'd bet that his bosses knew what he was doing and even encouraged it. Unfortunately, Mr. Miranda didn't have the intestinal fortitude or personal integrity to stand up and say "No, that's not the correct thing to do!" to his bosses. He KNEW what would happen if he broke the rules, he broke them anyway, and now he's paying the price.
I do agree this country needs a change in it's political system: we need candidates and government employees who take personal responsibility for their actions, voters who will get off their couches and VOTE (even if it's for None Of The Above), and an end to putting up with people in public office who lie, cheat, and steal. If we continue to elect people based on popularity contests and group-think, we deserve what we get. We need to vote for people who have honesty, integrity, compassion, and a willingness to do what is right even when it's the unpopular thing to do. More importantly, we need to embrace those attributes as well and reflect them in the way that we live.
Plants' ability to generate energy has been optimized by evolution, so a spinach plant is extremely efficient, churning out a lot of energy relative to its size and weight.
From http://physlink.com/: As a side note, you may be interested to know many foods have naturally occuring radioactive isotopes present in them already. For example bananas and spinach have potassium 40.
Wow! Now we can have all those nuclear-powered gadgets the people in the 1950's thought we'd have!
Just one question: How long before someone figures out how to make it explode?
You're right, Men are from Mars and Women are from Venus. But just think of the business opportunity of setting up a shuttle service between the two planets! Now, were can I get a stretch-shuttle....?
Even when he tries to do something nice, he gets flamed. The man just donated 20 million to the school. give him a break
Arm, leg, neck, or back?
that the motherboard and CPU combo that he shows on his blog has no memory on it? Must be one of those magical motherboards to be running Solaris 10 with no memory.
A good coat of fire gets rid of unholy smells quite nicely!
Everyone is just toeing the party line, and that is dangerous.
Seems to me that something similar to this happened in Iraq when Saddam took power. After he had people in the Iraqi government who didn't agree with him murdered, the rest toed the line. Intimidation in any form can be used to put a dictatorship in power.
Especially since bulletproof deals with physical objects, and nothing, not anything, can ever be made hacker-proof.
Really? Many black-hat hackers in prison for commiting crimes have found their cells hacker-proof. At the very least, extremely hacker-resistant.
Just think of all the time we'll save by typing "slashdot" instead of "slashdot.org"!
Patriotism is doing what is best for the country as a whole (even though everyone may not agree) instead of doing what is best for a single political party's cronies.
Actually, I already owned most of the CDs BEFORE the iPod came along. These days, I buys CDs from indepedant bands and other musicians.
Friends don't let friends buy Britany Spears music!
IANAL and IANAPO (I am not a police officer), but how to you "induce" someone to commit an illegal act? If the person has criminal tendencies they are (eventually) going to do something criminal.
How can the RIAA believe that Apple and the other makers of MP3/WMA/etc players are trying to "induce" people into stealing music? My iPod has a very legitimate use: holding my entire music library in MP3 form so I can enjoy it anywhere I go (BTW: I own all the CDs I've ripped to MP3). I really don't care to carry 500+ CDs on me at all times so I can pop the right on into a CD player when the mood hits me.
Idiots....
Well,
- move-to-a-new-town" blues?
It's good to hear that Ericsson isn't going to be "toothless".
But is the shift going to cause the engineers to sing the "gonna-get-laid-off-if-I-don't-pull-up-stakes-and
Sidenote - IBM should bring out said headless box, black alu case like the NeXT with a single G5 in it clocked a 2gighz and a 100% linux compat mobo.... That would soon become a cult item I imagine - but apple would have a fit because it would encorage all the unix geeks on their platform to swap and it would encorage a strong user base of a ppc linux to get going. So, like I say, not going to happen. Actually, can someone enlighten the thread as to who *owns* the G5? Could IBM do this?
Motorola, IBM, Apple
All three of these companies participated in the development of the original PowerPC series of CPUs based on the technology for IBM's POWER series of RISC CPUs. IBM is the primary manufacturer of the CPUs with Motorola making some for industrial purposes. Apple buys it's CPUs from IBM. There has even been speculation that we'll see the G5 CPUs in low to midrange pSeries workstations in the near future.
You can find out more about the history of the PowerPC CPUs here: http://arstechnica.com/cpu/004/ppc-1/ppc-1-1.html
What Alexander Yuvchenko and the others went through that night was incredible. They and the men who built the protective shell around the reactor are heroes for risking their lives to prevent radiation from escaping. I certainly wish that people like this would be treated well instead of being stigmatized. They risked their lives and did the right thing instead of running away.
Alexander, I salute you!
You mean we have TWO political parties in America?
I always thought we had only ONE.
Wow, you mean we have a choice?
Must be nice to have the time to worry about whether it should be the "I"nternet or the "i"nternet, "e-"mail or "e"mail. Don't people have "B"etter things to do with their lives?
I "G"uess not.....
The "aim" is to get more ladies interested in pursuing a career in the sciences, not to treat them like sex objects. Part of a professional work and/or learning environment is to value the input and efforts of all team members regardless of their gender/age/beliefs.
Those men who insist that they should be allowed to do the stereotypical "man" things because of their glandular secretions belittles men as a gender. Part of life is learning self-control and when to ignore "biological imperatives" so that you can successfully interact with the world at large and ladies in particular. Ladies do appreciate it when you treat them as an equal and show them the respect they deserve.
Why is hospital equipment running windows?
As a three-time heart patient I'm wondering the same thing. Last thing I want to hear from St. Peter is that the heart-lung machine they had me on crashed.
Gives a whole new meaning to BSoD.
As someone who was born with a congenital heart defect, has had three surgeries, and has been ticking with an artificial valve for the last 22 year, I'd be worried about not having a pulse.
One of the things doctors/surgeons have noticed with heart patients that have their hearts stopped is that they lose all sense of time. I noticed it after my surgeries. I don't know if anyone has done research into the beating of the heart and the mechanisms in the brain that allow us to perceive the passage of time. Does the beat of the heart interact with the area(s) of the brain that perceive the passge of time? Do other bodily processes require a heartbeat for a "timeing signal"? I'm sure there are other questions to ask about this subject.
Show me a man with a song in his heart and I'll show you a man with an AM/FM pacemaker!
1. What kind of music should go with which kind of plant? Roses for Guns N Roses? Potted plants for Grateful Dead music?
2. Do we really want plants that make funny noises? I've got coworkers for that.
3. Do the plants really like the music? Has anyone done a survey?
4. Is Slashdot really the proper forum for this posting?
A working electronically controlled EAS may be a product that people would want to buy.....
I'd want to buy one for every Pointy-Haired Boss I've had to help with their computer...
Most military bases have banned PDAs, USB Flash drives, iPods (and variants), cell phones, and any other device that can be connected to a computer and can store data. Some have even gone as far as removing diskette drives and banning CD-RW and DVD-RW drives on new systems. I have seen incidents where people decided to put classified military data on a flash drive or floppy to take it home to work on it. This happened even after people sign an agreement and go through repeated training sessions where they spell out what will happen if they do something like this.
Corporations are having to deal with this same problem as portable devices can now be used to store data or take pictures that could compromise sensitive data. However, this has always been an issue. A systems administrator could walk out of work with and 4mm or 8mm tape full of sensitive/classified data and no one would know. It boils down to a matter of trust and integrity; do you trust the people who use/administer your systems? Have they shown the integrity in other matters that would indicate they can be trusted with more sensitive matters?
Unfortunately, it only takes one person in a sensitive position to screw it up for everyone else.
what does it do while you're shopping / in a meeting / at work?
Puts a new twist on Grand Theft Auto; a car that takes itself for a joyride.