Agree 100% Saw Avatar in 3D. great movie, but would have enjoyed it just as much in 2D I expect. Have no desire to watch sitcoms or football or soccer with 3D glasses on. Just annoying. Ok for an occasional movie, but viewing at home? Meh - not until they can project it:)
Your analogy is not quite right. Given what we now know, he was fired and asked for his passwords which was against their policy. The only person he could give the passwords to was the mayor. Knowing that - let's revisit this analogy. Small town police department rules say upon termination your gun must be turned in to the Police Chief only. You get terminated by the town manager and he asks for your gun. You say no way - only the chief is allowed to have it. By giving your gun to a civilian employee who may or may not have a clue how to use it or even properly store it creates a dangerous situation. So you stand your ground and when the chief is called over to deal with your supposed insubordination, you hand your gun to him like policy dictates and that's that.
Unless you can show that the SF policy in question designated any immediate supervisor as the Mayor's designee when it came to those passwords, you're blowing smoke. Many companies have strict guidelines as to who can ever ask for and receive the master passwords, certificate keys, etc. Often immediate supervisors cannot - scroll up and look for the 'security audit' post where someone's boss came in, argued with them for some time asking for the passwords, he refused as policy forbid it - only the company president and a handful of other people could ask for them,and shortly afterward the company president walked in thanking him for standin ghis ground - it had been an audit to make sure the policy was being followed
If what is being written about this is true - he had no way to escalate because he was already in jail when they asked for the passwords. Apparently he was arrested when he starting taking pictures of this woman rummaging through desks and computers. He made very clear he would only give the passwords to the Mayor - the ultimate authority over the network (akin to CEO/President of a company).
Yup - the telephone R&D companies had it right. No matter where I worked at Bell Northern Research (NORTEL's R&D arm before they destroyed it then went bankrupt), I was a Member of Scientific Staff, then a Sr Member of Scientific Staff, then Manager (and the higher level manager you were had a letter - D, C before you hit Director) If you chose the non management route you were an Individual Contributor like IC 7 and so on.
Nobody really cared about titles, just what area you worked in.
I know you are going for funny with a shot at Microsoft (will that work around here I wonder?:), but you did notice that Microsoft Security Essentials was one of the best in the test?;->
No kidding. I am not an MS fanboi by any stretch, but when they released Security Essentials, I gave it a whirl and have now swapped out AVG for it on everything I run AND recommend it to many of my clients (who usually are complaining about how slow their computer is since they installed NORTON 360 or they have a paid AV that expired years ago) It's lightweight, easy to us, has a very easy to understand user interface that isn't so graphical (*cough* N360), and it just works. Nice to see it garner some of the higher ratings in this test.
What amazes me is how much like Malware Norton, McAffee, and CA can be. Uninstalling them doesn't remove them completely. You HAVE to use their removal tool. I had to remove CA ISS the other day and it was painful. Had to remove it in pieces AND run a fix on the registry permissions which had been completely locked down to the point that 'Administrator' couldn't add/remove programs. So yeah - any time systems come into my shop, I recommend they drop whatever paid AV they're using and run MSE. No nag screens like AVG and it doesn't talk to you like Avast:) My only fear is that in a year they'll let it stagnate OR try to bloat it like the others. But if they keep it simple and go for the majority of infection vectors, hats off to them. Still won't make me use IE, but it's nice to see something like this come out of Redmond, even if they bought part of it.
Ever wondered why every drive has that small hole marked DO NOT COVER! It's an air vent with a filter on the inside to keep out contaminants to allow pressure to equalize
They weren't comparing their box to enterprise class systems as a solution for others. The point was *THEY* needed lots of cheap storage and quotes they got were insanely expensive. So they rolled their own and shared the design. Would you use one of these for direct storage? Only with high level redundancy on top of a cloud of these. But for their application, these work well IF they're taking the proper precautions at the higher levels (corruption, etc)
I think it's great they're trying to pull this off. Don't fault them for trying and offering their design.
I've had a Shuttle XPC on my desk for a while - ie the drive light is visible at a glance. So anytime I'm noticing a lag or delay,I'll glance at the drive light and more often then not it's 'on' as some app churns a ton of data to the drive for whatever reason. Point is, I find myself glancing at the drive light often enough I can see where an SSD would be a huge improvement. If the 80GB drives drop to $150 or so at some point - expect more people to start thinking it's worthwhile...
I had given it up for dead - but it looks to have come back to life as part of kablink. v 3.7.x was recently released.
iFolder is by far the best multi platform file sync setup out there. You get web access, killer account management, and a fairly seamless integration into OS file managers. But it was rough around the edges and the server crashed often. Now that it seems to have been brought back to life I'll have to give it a go. It really worked well back in the day. And yes - it supports SSL encryption for file transport and the files are encrypted on the server.
Here here! While not a sub 100k, I've been reading Slashdot for many years, commenting here and there, and reading almost every headline that comes across, more so than any blog or web site. I always chuckle at the trolls who mock anyone who posts an Ask Slashdot question about something that doesn't rise to the level of quantum theory. Yet as an IT professional, I've discovered a number of new technologies, if not directly from a/. story, than from the inevitable net searches that a story may trigger and may point me in an entirely different direction. That's not a bad thing. Sure - if you take your advice verbatim from a bunch of/. commentors - you deserve what you get. But many of us find/. to be at times a very useful resource and at others, just fun to read.
Thanks for 10 great years Taco, even if I was a couple years late to the party. The day/. dies is the day the tubes cease to exist.
As previous posters have said, this is a tricky problem to solve. iFolder probably handles it the best out of most of the products I've tried. You can create folders easily, the background task is very lightweight to transmit changes, and best of all is the SSL web interface to the folders, which was simple, polished, and easy to use. It's multi platform too. When Novell released the code, I figured there would be significant development of it because this was such a common problem, especially as Novell has put a small group of developers onto the project as well. But that never materialized. Community support was non-existent and Novell retasked the iFolder team and development hit a wall. It's sad because of how well laid out it was. The backend was pretty scary in terms of what it ran on, but v3.6 was trying to fix that. I've been running v3.4 to sync around a dozen different folders across probably 25 users, with granular permissions. It's been great, but I really was hoping 3.6 would see the light of day... SVN shows some churn, but not a whole lot. Looks mostly like bug fixes, but the build system is completely broken - builds used to post daily.
The article quotes a school principal who pointed out that the NeoOffice website warns users to expect problems and bugs: 'That's not the sort of software we should be expecting kids in New Zealand to be using.'
Just because Microsoft doesn't include this disclaimer on their website doesn't make MS Office any less buggy. This guy's students have been using buggy software their whole lives, from MS and others. Welcome to the information age. At least NeoOffice is being upfront about it.
I worked for NORTEL's R&D Labs (formerly Bell Northern Research) back in the mid/late 90s and they did this kind of stuff all the time. Our R&D Network was heavily overloaded at the time and we needed to get 100Mbps switched to the desktop badly. So the network guys speced out a kick butt system from Fore - ATM backbone with fiber to the edge switches and 100Mbps to the desktops. Spent a ton of money on it and it worked great. We also were in the initial middle of our first 802.11 deployment at the time. They installed a bunch of Aironet's access points which worked very well as wireless laptops became more prevalent.
NORTEL bought Bay Networks that year - most of the new network infrastructure was barely a year old. And all of it was ripped out and replaced with Bay Networks gear in short order. The worst part was the gear they replaced it with wasn't up to the Fore level for the backbone - that took another year or two as I recall for the Bay stuff to equal it.
I can see the PR argument for it I guess, but geez, what a colossal waste of money. I can see migrating to your own stuff as part of the refresh cycle, but why waste so much money just to avoid having to explain that 'yes, we have a competitors network installed prior to the buyout and it helps our engineers compare our products to the competition' or something.
AC says: "So you are advocating/. be put down? Free speech includes the good and the bad." and then "Your "stalking" claim is really disingenuous; I really think you are trying to cloud the issue and make it about sexism when really there are laws that protect against harrassment."
Actually, I never advocated any type of speech restriction on these clowns so don't put words in my mouth. I simply pointed out these guys were doing much more than making libelous statements on a forums and were harassing and stalking women who asked that their pictures be taken down and made a note that trying to get the police to do something about it would be difficult (OH! this guy is following me with a cellphone) would be difficult. I agree that if we enforced existing laws more often we'd be less likely to have people kneejerking our fundamental rights away.
It's not just libel and slander - it's stalking. These guys go after any woman asking that her picture be taken down from these contests like a pack of rabid dogs. They were following these girls into the gym and at class taking cellphone pictures of them, etc.
He's still confusing the two. If I buy something and pay sales tax on it, then sell it and make a profit - that's income. It doesn't matter if it's a business or individual. If sales tax was paid on the item when I bought it - it increases the cost basis - but when it's sold - any 'gain' is and should be counted as income. Just because he's an individual and not a business is irrelevant. And as the TFA notes, they are only looking for people with 100+ transactions with value in excess of $5000. Anyone fitting that criteria is a business.
It's clear you do not understand tax law and what you are talking about is quite simple. If you are buying goods to resell, you can buy them without paying sales-tax if you have the appropriate registration/license/etc with your state. The idea is exactly what you refer to. If you will be selling to an individual and collecting sales tax, the states shouldn't tax YOUR purchase from your supplier as well. It works best for both. The state gets to charge sales tax on the highest $ transaction and it makes your life easier (plus increases your margin) So if you're paying sales tax on the goods you buy, get a resale certificate and send it to your suppliers. Then you can buy your inventory tax free because it's for resale.
What this post is about, however, is INCOME tax. It has nothing to do with sales tax. You buy widgets for $100 and sell them for $150 on ebay - you are making $50 profit - that's income and it should be taxed like any other income generating work. You aren't getting a bum deal more than anyone else. You're making money, ie income, and thats taxable.
Good for the IRS - no reason eBay sellers should get a free ride because their income isn't reported.
It's not overblown at all. Just like the earlier article about the RIAA sending cease and desist just because you were in a swarm, not actually up or downloading. This professor was doing something completely legal and as asked by law enforcement to stop - it is inferred because they could not monitor his activities. This has a chilling effect. Notice that it wasn't just an IT person requesting he stop - he showed up with two detectives - who probably instigated the entire thing.
Common sense would dictate that the detectives, doing their jobs and trying to investigate an online scam, ask the professor some questions to determine if he was involved. But instead they asked him to stop doing something legal, tried to get him to NOT share something with his students, and used some vague provisions of an IT policy to back it up. This is a direct attack on academic freedom - 'Thou shalt not tell your students about this' and even worse, telling him not to use Tor himself - obviously because they couldn't track what he was doing.
Overblown? Hardly - we are losing our rights bit by bit by bit and people who think something like this is 'overblown' are part of the reason. By the time you all realize you've lost most of your rights it'll be too late.
Not if you want top actually get to the site you're looking for, or more specifically the actual page. Packet inspection hardware has become blazingly fast and they can easily inspect your traffic for GET requests and simply store that (ie the URL you are going to). Your browser can't really change that without breaking itself.
What would be nice is if people were able to organize into a loose federation and start putting up simple SSL proxy servers across the net that keep no logs. Only problem is bandwidth costs money and if it got popular, Gonzalez would likely use his goons to try and shut it down. I'd put one up in a heartbeat if I had the disposable income, which these days, alas, I do not.
While they are both game consoles, there is a big price differential between a Wii and a PS3. It makes sense that the Wii would sell more units. While it has a nifty controller, power wise it's on par with the PS2 which sold like gangbusters this past holiday season. Compare it to those numbers for a telling look.
I guess they were thinking Americans still had some brain cells left. The reaction of Boston was absolutely amazing. These things had been up in cities across the country, for over a week in some cases. None of the other cities went into full fear of terror orgasm mode. It was a circuit board with blinking LEDs. You can buy all sorts of electronic kits with blinking LEDs in any shape. Stores have blinking LED signs everywhere. I would hope that ANY bomb tech looking at a flat circuit board with blinking lights and some batteries would think 'theres no explosives' To me they were smart (most like unintentionally) to have it be a painted board like that. It was CLEAR to anyone with half a clue - these weren't bombs. But they had to go and blow them all up just to be safe. If it had been in some kind of case - maybe THEN I could see the concern - but even then. If you are a terrorist, why the hell would you put bright flashing LEDs on your bomb to draw attention to it? The explosion will be attention grabbing enough.
Seriously. If I'm walking down the street and drop a PCI card in Boston, will I be arrested for inciting fear of terrorism?
The government of Boston and Mass should be absolutely embarrassed. They looked like absolute fools. I hate these guys are still in jail - but they'll be out soon enough and you can tell they have the right attitude - their press conference was priceless.
Remember that stupid color warning from DHS? The one that would bounce from yellow to orange every time Bush needed attention for himself? It's still on Orange. It'll be on Orange when I'm dead and gone. How pointless. I'm surprised they didn't bump it to Red just to strip us of our rights for a day just for fun because some kids stuck light brites to walls.
Of course I expect that little flashing circuit boards of LEDs will be showing up for months in all sorts of places. They'll just have to make sure they attach the 'THIS IS NOT A BOMB (tm)' sticker to it if they put any up in Boston.
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Agree 100% Saw Avatar in 3D. great movie, but would have enjoyed it just as much in 2D I expect. Have no desire to watch sitcoms or football or soccer with 3D glasses on. Just annoying. Ok for an occasional movie, but viewing at home? Meh - not until they can project it :)
Did you check to see if it was opened 'Read-Only'? Sounds like it.
Your analogy is not quite right. Given what we now know, he was fired and asked for his passwords which was against their policy. The only person he could give the passwords to was the mayor. Knowing that - let's revisit this analogy. Small town police department rules say upon termination your gun must be turned in to the Police Chief only. You get terminated by the town manager and he asks for your gun. You say no way - only the chief is allowed to have it. By giving your gun to a civilian employee who may or may not have a clue how to use it or even properly store it creates a dangerous situation. So you stand your ground and when the chief is called over to deal with your supposed insubordination, you hand your gun to him like policy dictates and that's that. Unless you can show that the SF policy in question designated any immediate supervisor as the Mayor's designee when it came to those passwords, you're blowing smoke. Many companies have strict guidelines as to who can ever ask for and receive the master passwords, certificate keys, etc. Often immediate supervisors cannot - scroll up and look for the 'security audit' post where someone's boss came in, argued with them for some time asking for the passwords, he refused as policy forbid it - only the company president and a handful of other people could ask for them ,and shortly afterward the company president walked in thanking him for standin ghis ground - it had been an audit to make sure the policy was being followed
If what is being written about this is true - he had no way to escalate because he was already in jail when they asked for the passwords. Apparently he was arrested when he starting taking pictures of this woman rummaging through desks and computers. He made very clear he would only give the passwords to the Mayor - the ultimate authority over the network (akin to CEO/President of a company).
Yup - the telephone R&D companies had it right. No matter where I worked at Bell Northern Research (NORTEL's R&D arm before they destroyed it then went bankrupt), I was a Member of Scientific Staff, then a Sr Member of Scientific Staff, then Manager (and the higher level manager you were had a letter - D, C before you hit Director) If you chose the non management route you were an Individual Contributor like IC 7 and so on. Nobody really cared about titles, just what area you worked in.
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I know you are going for funny with a shot at Microsoft (will that work around here I wonder? :), but you did notice that Microsoft Security Essentials was one of the best in the test? ;->
No kidding. I am not an MS fanboi by any stretch, but when they released Security Essentials, I gave it a whirl and have now swapped out AVG for it on everything I run AND recommend it to many of my clients (who usually are complaining about how slow their computer is since they installed NORTON 360 or they have a paid AV that expired years ago) It's lightweight, easy to us, has a very easy to understand user interface that isn't so graphical (*cough* N360), and it just works. Nice to see it garner some of the higher ratings in this test.
What amazes me is how much like Malware Norton, McAffee, and CA can be. Uninstalling them doesn't remove them completely. You HAVE to use their removal tool. I had to remove CA ISS the other day and it was painful. Had to remove it in pieces AND run a fix on the registry permissions which had been completely locked down to the point that 'Administrator' couldn't add/remove programs. So yeah - any time systems come into my shop, I recommend they drop whatever paid AV they're using and run MSE. No nag screens like AVG and it doesn't talk to you like Avast :) My only fear is that in a year they'll let it stagnate OR try to bloat it like the others. But if they keep it simple and go for the majority of infection vectors, hats off to them. Still won't make me use IE, but it's nice to see something like this come out of Redmond, even if they bought part of it.
Ever wondered why every drive has that small hole marked DO NOT COVER! It's an air vent with a filter on the inside to keep out contaminants to allow pressure to equalize
They weren't comparing their box to enterprise class systems as a solution for others. The point was *THEY* needed lots of cheap storage and quotes they got were insanely expensive. So they rolled their own and shared the design. Would you use one of these for direct storage? Only with high level redundancy on top of a cloud of these. But for their application, these work well IF they're taking the proper precautions at the higher levels (corruption, etc) I think it's great they're trying to pull this off. Don't fault them for trying and offering their design.
I've had a Shuttle XPC on my desk for a while - ie the drive light is visible at a glance. So anytime I'm noticing a lag or delay,I'll glance at the drive light and more often then not it's 'on' as some app churns a ton of data to the drive for whatever reason. Point is, I find myself glancing at the drive light often enough I can see where an SSD would be a huge improvement. If the 80GB drives drop to $150 or so at some point - expect more people to start thinking it's worthwhile...
I had given it up for dead - but it looks to have come back to life as part of kablink. v 3.7.x was recently released. iFolder is by far the best multi platform file sync setup out there. You get web access, killer account management, and a fairly seamless integration into OS file managers. But it was rough around the edges and the server crashed often. Now that it seems to have been brought back to life I'll have to give it a go. It really worked well back in the day. And yes - it supports SSL encryption for file transport and the files are encrypted on the server.
Thanks for 10 great years Taco, even if I was a couple years late to the party. The day /. dies is the day the tubes cease to exist.
As previous posters have said, this is a tricky problem to solve. iFolder probably handles it the best out of most of the products I've tried. You can create folders easily, the background task is very lightweight to transmit changes, and best of all is the SSL web interface to the folders, which was simple, polished, and easy to use. It's multi platform too. When Novell released the code, I figured there would be significant development of it because this was such a common problem, especially as Novell has put a small group of developers onto the project as well. But that never materialized. Community support was non-existent and Novell retasked the iFolder team and development hit a wall. It's sad because of how well laid out it was. The backend was pretty scary in terms of what it ran on, but v3.6 was trying to fix that. I've been running v3.4 to sync around a dozen different folders across probably 25 users, with granular permissions. It's been great, but I really was hoping 3.6 would see the light of day... SVN shows some churn, but not a whole lot. Looks mostly like bug fixes, but the build system is completely broken - builds used to post daily.
NORTEL bought Bay Networks that year - most of the new network infrastructure was barely a year old. And all of it was ripped out and replaced with Bay Networks gear in short order. The worst part was the gear they replaced it with wasn't up to the Fore level for the backbone - that took another year or two as I recall for the Bay stuff to equal it.
I can see the PR argument for it I guess, but geez, what a colossal waste of money. I can see migrating to your own stuff as part of the refresh cycle, but why waste so much money just to avoid having to explain that 'yes, we have a competitors network installed prior to the buyout and it helps our engineers compare our products to the competition' or something.
Isn't this just the Energytower renamed?
Actually, I never advocated any type of speech restriction on these clowns so don't put words in my mouth. I simply pointed out these guys were doing much more than making libelous statements on a forums and were harassing and stalking women who asked that their pictures be taken down and made a note that trying to get the police to do something about it would be difficult (OH! this guy is following me with a cellphone) would be difficult. I agree that if we enforced existing laws more often we'd be less likely to have people kneejerking our fundamental rights away.
RTFP next time instead of imagining what it said.
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Problem is, guess how much traction any of these women would get going to the police trying to get them to go after these guys.
He's still confusing the two. If I buy something and pay sales tax on it, then sell it and make a profit - that's income. It doesn't matter if it's a business or individual. If sales tax was paid on the item when I bought it - it increases the cost basis - but when it's sold - any 'gain' is and should be counted as income. Just because he's an individual and not a business is irrelevant. And as the TFA notes, they are only looking for people with 100+ transactions with value in excess of $5000. Anyone fitting that criteria is a business.
What this post is about, however, is INCOME tax. It has nothing to do with sales tax. You buy widgets for $100 and sell them for $150 on ebay - you are making $50 profit - that's income and it should be taxed like any other income generating work. You aren't getting a bum deal more than anyone else. You're making money, ie income, and thats taxable.
Good for the IRS - no reason eBay sellers should get a free ride because their income isn't reported.
Common sense would dictate that the detectives, doing their jobs and trying to investigate an online scam, ask the professor some questions to determine if he was involved. But instead they asked him to stop doing something legal, tried to get him to NOT share something with his students, and used some vague provisions of an IT policy to back it up. This is a direct attack on academic freedom - 'Thou shalt not tell your students about this' and even worse, telling him not to use Tor himself - obviously because they couldn't track what he was doing.
Overblown? Hardly - we are losing our rights bit by bit by bit and people who think something like this is 'overblown' are part of the reason. By the time you all realize you've lost most of your rights it'll be too late.
What would be nice is if people were able to organize into a loose federation and start putting up simple SSL proxy servers across the net that keep no logs. Only problem is bandwidth costs money and if it got popular, Gonzalez would likely use his goons to try and shut it down. I'd put one up in a heartbeat if I had the disposable income, which these days, alas, I do not.
While they are both game consoles, there is a big price differential between a Wii and a PS3. It makes sense that the Wii would sell more units. While it has a nifty controller, power wise it's on par with the PS2 which sold like gangbusters this past holiday season. Compare it to those numbers for a telling look.
Seriously. If I'm walking down the street and drop a PCI card in Boston, will I be arrested for inciting fear of terrorism?
The government of Boston and Mass should be absolutely embarrassed. They looked like absolute fools. I hate these guys are still in jail - but they'll be out soon enough and you can tell they have the right attitude - their press conference was priceless.
Remember that stupid color warning from DHS? The one that would bounce from yellow to orange every time Bush needed attention for himself? It's still on Orange. It'll be on Orange when I'm dead and gone. How pointless. I'm surprised they didn't bump it to Red just to strip us of our rights for a day just for fun because some kids stuck light brites to walls.
Of course I expect that little flashing circuit boards of LEDs will be showing up for months in all sorts of places. They'll just have to make sure they attach the 'THIS IS NOT A BOMB (tm)' sticker to it if they put any up in Boston.
If they include a x86_64 browser plugin they'll be heros. It's 2007 and Sun still refuses to release a 64-bit browser JRE plugin because..... why?