From what I have heard on the news about the status of building safety I would agree but, they need aid first. Let's not put the cart before the horse here. Haiti needs a lot of things and they all have a priority.
Uh, they need things like water *yesterday* [...]
Keep in mind all the 'aid' that was rushed into the areas devastated by Katrina... Truck loads of clothing and food that rotted in place as a result of little to no planning on how to get the aid to those who need it. I fully understand the desire to rush in and save the day, sadly that is most likely to result in wasting time and effort and can make things worse.
While I like some of the suggestions, although I would say FireFly is more in need of a transfusion (hmmm, or maybe the network execs need a brain transplant), they lack a certain level of moldy-ness.
How about Ultraman or Johnnie Socko and His Flying Robot but, please leave in the bad dubbing.
But contrary to my own opinion, one assistant told me that it would be more useful for a programmer compared to the first subject. Then again, he's not a programmer.
In general I would say, it's a good think you asked for programmer geeks to comment and didn't take the math geeks advice. My wife, an early childhood teacher, took a math class titled "Teaching Math for Early Childhood Educators". It was taught my someone in the Math PhD Program where she was taking her education classes at the time.
When they suggested to the instructor that they would never use what they were being taught (note: there were special educators in this class as well), his response was "Sure you'll use it, it's fun and easy." Several of them couldn't control their laughter. I was tutoring her thought matrix algebra and teaching her the shortcuts (He only taught them formal methods). She still gives me that "I will set you ablaze" look when it comes to mind, guess we can survive anything.
The good advice is to take what interests you, what you think you can survive and seems to apply to what you want to do as a programmer pretty much in that order. I'm a member of the more math can never hurt when your a programmer but, it might lead to divorce.
Guess, that depends on how the problem occurred?!? What security measure failed and why? Is it as simple as someone just being human, lack of education?
We seem much too willing to spend too much time and money to solve problems where the cost-benefit ratio is all wrong. I want to be safe but, I want to live my life. I would like a bit more life at the cost of a bit less safety. I don't feel safer, I just feel annoyed.
> Heck even working at Walmart for $8/hour would be an improvement than listening > to all the bitching club members/users. At least Walmart pays.
True but, that would be very near that fine line between getting paid and being insulted to your face. Can't say that I could put up with much of being bitched at for $8.00/hr.
It's no more that parents fault than rape is the victim's fault. At worst the parents were negligent. Sadly there is not a lot of info on the story, so it is hard to make that call. The parents might be only clueless.
Seems the only thing we can be certain of is that the girl felt the need to meet and trust someone she had never met rather than a parent, friend or mentor.
This is a sick thing that happened and I think the guy should be jailed for life or worse but, what were the parents doing?!? I have to teenagers and while I won't delude myself in thinking I know everything that goes on in their lives, I have a fair idea about most of it (I hope).
I am in my son's WOW guild so I know them, I play Halo on occasion (it sucks getting my ass kicked so much) with him and his other friends. They are welcome in my house as long as they follow the rules.
I know my daughter likes manga, anime, country music, who her friends are, know their names and individual interests etc. etc.etc. Quality time is total b#$$s%^&, you have to spend time with them and know what is going on in their lives.
Wonder if her parents ever looked at her MySpace to see what she thinks, likes or is worried about...
MySpace it not at fault here, something is/was going on in that girl's life that put her in a position to want to go off and meet someone without telling her parents or at least without escort. The ball was not in MySpace's court.
I was asked by my boss (IT Manager) to put together a list of all the security projects I had talked to him about over the last year or so, for a meeting the next day. Should have put time into determining costs, resources, etc. but, hadn't done it before and didn't have time now.
We were to present these ideas, little over a dozen of them, to our VP on the business side of the company. Projects ranged from migrating systems to the DMZ to implementing Single Sign On.
All the projects were approved by the VP and could he please have them all by June, it was February...
We (the IT professionals) are responsible for IT security, which means we have to make them get it. If we propose a security solution and it is rejected we still tend to get the short end, i.e. fired.
I have talked till I am blue in the face about threats and what can be done about them and in many cases finally gave up. Something like "I gave them all the information, I explained it to them not once not twice and they still said no. So Management has accepted the risk."
Ala-peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, the breach I proposed a plan to protect against of mitigate occurs... Inka-dinka doo I'm out of a job.
I looked at keystone (http://www.stonekeep.com/keystone.html) and rather liked it. We ended up using Track-It! from Blue Ocean. The basic version (what we have) is sort of limited but, the Enterprise version seems promising.
Sadly, I don't recall all the details... I ran across a bug in a Fortran function, believe it was toint(). Given a character it was supposed (documented) to return the integer value of that character but, nothing was working right.
We later learned that it was returning the ascii value of the character, so after a little subtraction all was well.
This is what I get for trying to dynamically format text in Fortran.
The Submit and Preview buttons are too close together <sigh>.
Continuing...
Under our legal system a corporation is a legal person and it protects the officers of the corporation from personal liability in may cases. Microsoft, according to the findings of fact, is a monopoly. Microsoft did not make any decisions though, its corporate officers did. After this is all said and done, right or wrong, those persons will still have jobs, will still be rich, and are unlikely to suffer any real consequences.
I would like to see the decision makers suffer personally for the monopolistic behavior of their corporation. Would personal fines and jail time be out of order?
If I become rich and powerful, I can use my riches and power to become richer and more powerful. After having siphoned off billions of dollars into my own coffers, my corporation can be sued but, I am still a billionare. Where is this scheme does justice prevail?
Their definition of an automated tool really means "graphical front end to those grubby text commands".
They have no appreciation for the modularity of unix, and they look longingly at Windows servers.
Many admins and others also lack an appreciation for and understanding of WYSIWYG versus WYSIAYG. A GUI is often a nice place to start but, what does the GUI do and how does it work? I would rather have the option to do things the way I want or the way I understand them and not be limited by the imagination and ideas of an application developer.
We are going through similar growing pains right now. Mostly developers have local rights with the understanding they have to fix most/all of their own problems esp. if they deal with the local machine.
Most of the developers will fix the problems themselves for fear of losing face. Developers tend not be a problem until we start talking about servers and then the turf war begins.
Our real problems in this arena come from general users are have taken to accusing us of thinking they are too stupid to install software and manage their machines. We just don't want to deal with a different rule for each and every employee, a couple of classed is not big deal but, it can quickly become ridiculous. No one every wants to believe that the crux of the problem is that seemly innocuous Brittney Spears screen saver they downloaded and installed.
A balance must be struck between security and the inconvenience of the user. Of course after a break-in, theft, or e-mail virus infection the balance changes.
Yes like many things people will see this as a good thing. (i.e. finger printed at birth, annual 'official' photos, DNA samples, regular retinal scans) Shortly their after someone will find a way around this technology with yet another technology.
Like the Extrmetech article states you need more than one method of authentication to have a good identification system. Most people will find this too inconvenient to deal with and will find their own ways to circumvent the system to accomodate their own laziness.
Hmmm, next you will only to be able to read it on an Intel Processor, running Windows 20??, with your right eye closed in a room by yourself.
Assuming/. readers are some of the few people in the U.S., or the world for that matter, that ever read EULAs, or other license agreements it is doubtful the masses will ever know they have done anything wrong. At least in the sense of technically or legally wrong.
Most people still think they own books, software, etc. like they own their home, car or that snazzy pocket protector. Businesses will continue to get away with ludicrous agreements until that masses suddenly wake up. Of course that alarm on that clock seems to be set well into the future.
The first time I saw the PS2 commercial I was intrigued by the graphics, animation and the pseudo-science. One of those sounds neat, what if kind of things.
Then you go on to learn this is an ad for the PlayStation 2 or PS2. I remember working on something called a PS2 that was made by IBM several years ago, which died the death of bad marketing and proprietary stuff.
It just struck me funny that someone would willing nickname their product after a computer that went the way of the Edsel.
We are using a using an Overland Library Express with two DLT 7000's and a cartridge that holds 10 tapes (we had some cash and I am basically lazy) with ARCserveIT.
While I really can't stand ARCserveIT, I do like the Overland Unit. The drives and the tapes have proved to be highly reliable and easy to use. ARCserveIT might not be so bad if I was only backing up NT servers.
I would have preferred to stick with AMANDA. While AMANDA can be a bit of a bear to get running, of course this was my first install, it is highly reliable and stable. Support from the developers and users was always timely and helpful. One of the many things to like about AMANDA is that in the event of a catastrophe that native Unix utils (tar, gzip, dump, ufsdump, etc.) can be used to recover the data from the tapes.
Until most consumers understand the technology and what it can/can't do or at least or legislators begin to understand we will be dealing with things like the DMCA and UTICA. If most people truly understood what was in shrinkwrapped EULA's and what they meant they would prolly be outraged.
Many legislators are ignorant of such technologies and the only people talking to them are from industry and they are only interested in protecting their precious copyrights.
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From what I have heard on the news about the status of building safety I would agree but, they need aid first. Let's not put the cart before the horse here. Haiti needs a lot of things and they all have a priority.
Uh, they need things like water *yesterday* [...]
Keep in mind all the 'aid' that was rushed into the areas devastated by Katrina... Truck loads of clothing and food that rotted in place as a result of little to no planning on how to get the aid to those who need it. I fully understand the desire to rush in and save the day, sadly that is most likely to result in wasting time and effort and can make things worse.
While I like some of the suggestions, although I would say FireFly is more in need of a transfusion (hmmm, or maybe the network execs need a brain transplant), they lack a certain level of moldy-ness.
How about Ultraman or Johnnie Socko and His Flying Robot but, please leave in the bad dubbing.
But contrary to my own opinion, one assistant told me that it would be more useful for a programmer compared to the first subject. Then again, he's not a programmer.
In general I would say, it's a good think you asked for programmer geeks to comment and didn't take the math geeks advice. My wife, an early childhood teacher, took a math class titled "Teaching Math for Early Childhood Educators". It was taught my someone in the Math PhD Program where she was taking her education classes at the time.
When they suggested to the instructor that they would never use what they were being taught (note: there were special educators in this class as well), his response was "Sure you'll use it, it's fun and easy." Several of them couldn't control their laughter. I was tutoring her thought matrix algebra and teaching her the shortcuts (He only taught them formal methods). She still gives me that "I will set you ablaze" look when it comes to mind, guess we can survive anything.
The good advice is to take what interests you, what you think you can survive and seems to apply to what you want to do as a programmer pretty much in that order. I'm a member of the more math can never hurt when your a programmer but, it might lead to divorce.
Guess, that depends on how the problem occurred?!? What security measure failed and why? Is it as simple as someone just being human, lack of education?
We seem much too willing to spend too much time and money to solve problems where the cost-benefit ratio is all wrong. I want to be safe but, I want to live my life. I would like a bit more life at the cost of a bit less safety. I don't feel safer, I just feel annoyed.
> Heck even working at Walmart for $8/hour would be an improvement than listening
> to all the bitching club members/users. At least Walmart pays.
True but, that would be very near that fine line between getting paid and being insulted to your face. Can't say that I could put up with much of being bitched at for $8.00/hr.
So your eye can magically tell the difference between "reflected" and "emitted" photons ?
In a word yes... Can't you tell the difference 'twix looking at a monitor and looking at a picture of a monitor?
When you use a white background on a monitor, your effectively staring into a light bulb. 'Member when your Mom told you not to stare at the sun?
It's no more that parents fault than rape is the victim's fault. At worst the parents were negligent. Sadly there is not a lot of info on the story, so it is hard to make that call. The parents might be only clueless.
Seems the only thing we can be certain of is that the girl felt the need to meet and trust someone she had never met rather than a parent, friend or mentor.
This is a sick thing that happened and I think the guy should be jailed for life or worse but, what were the parents doing?!? I have to teenagers and while I won't delude myself in thinking I know everything that goes on in their lives, I have a fair idea about most of it (I hope).
I am in my son's WOW guild so I know them, I play Halo on occasion (it sucks getting my ass kicked so much) with him and his other friends. They are welcome in my house as long as they follow the rules.
I know my daughter likes manga, anime, country music, who her friends are, know their names and individual interests etc. etc.etc. Quality time is total b#$$s%^&, you have to spend time with them and know what is going on in their lives.
Wonder if her parents ever looked at her MySpace to see what she thinks, likes or is worried about...
MySpace it not at fault here, something is/was going on in that girl's life that put her in a position to want to go off and meet someone without telling her parents or at least without escort. The ball was not in MySpace's court.
I was asked by my boss (IT Manager) to put together a list of all the security projects I had talked to him about over the last year or so, for a meeting the next day. Should have put time into determining costs, resources, etc. but, hadn't done it before and didn't have time now.
We were to present these ideas, little over a dozen of them, to our VP on the business side of the company. Projects ranged from migrating systems to the DMZ to implementing Single Sign On.
All the projects were approved by the VP and could he please have them all by June, it was February...
It goes something like this...
We (the IT professionals) are responsible for IT security, which means we have to make them get it. If we propose a security solution and it is rejected we still tend to get the short end, i.e. fired.
I have talked till I am blue in the face about threats and what can be done about them and in many cases finally gave up. Something like "I gave them all the information, I explained it to them not once not twice and they still said no. So Management has accepted the risk."
Ala-peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, the breach I proposed a plan to protect against of mitigate occurs... Inka-dinka doo I'm out of a job.
I looked at keystone (http://www.stonekeep.com/keystone.html) and rather liked it. We ended up using Track-It! from Blue Ocean. The basic version (what we have) is sort of limited but, the Enterprise version seems promising.
Those least likely to actually read the fine print of the patent are the lawyers who will be adding to the legal flotsam by bringing the lawsuits...
Thawte's prices stayed the same immediately after Verisign bought them. It was inevitable that Thawte's pricing would begin to increase at some point.
Service and support has been great and after I learned that we have a Duns number most of the paper work went away.
Sadly, I don't recall all the details... I ran across a bug in a Fortran function, believe it was toint(). Given a character it was supposed (documented) to return the integer value of that character but, nothing was working right.
We later learned that it was returning the ascii value of the character, so after a little subtraction all was well.
This is what I get for trying to dynamically format text in Fortran.
Continuing...
Under our legal system a corporation is a legal person and it protects the officers of the corporation from personal liability in may cases. Microsoft, according to the findings of fact, is a monopoly. Microsoft did not make any decisions though, its corporate officers did. After this is all said and done, right or wrong, those persons will still have jobs, will still be rich, and are unlikely to suffer any real consequences.
I would like to see the decision makers suffer personally for the monopolistic behavior of their corporation. Would personal fines and jail time be out of order?
If I become rich and powerful, I can use my riches and power to become richer and more powerful. After having siphoned off billions of dollars into my own coffers, my corporation can be sued but, I am still a billionare. Where is this scheme does justice prevail?
They have no appreciation for the modularity of unix, and they look longingly at Windows servers.
Many admins and others also lack an appreciation for and understanding of WYSIWYG versus WYSIAYG. A GUI is often a nice place to start but, what does the GUI do and how does it work? I would rather have the option to do things the way I want or the way I understand them and not be limited by the imagination and ideas of an application developer.
We are going through similar growing pains right now. Mostly developers have local rights with the understanding they have to fix most/all of their own problems esp. if they deal with the local machine.
Most of the developers will fix the problems themselves for fear of losing face. Developers tend not be a problem until we start talking about servers and then the turf war begins.
Our real problems in this arena come from general users are have taken to accusing us of thinking they are too stupid to install software and manage their machines. We just don't want to deal with a different rule for each and every employee, a couple of classed is not big deal but, it can quickly become ridiculous. No one every wants to believe that the crux of the problem is that seemly innocuous Brittney Spears screen saver they downloaded and installed.
A balance must be struck between security and the inconvenience of the user. Of course after a break-in, theft, or e-mail virus infection the balance changes.
Yes like many things people will see this as a good thing. (i.e. finger printed at birth, annual 'official' photos, DNA samples, regular retinal scans) Shortly their after someone will find a way around this technology with yet another technology.
Like the Extrmetech article states you need more than one method of authentication to have a good identification system. Most people will find this too inconvenient to deal with and will find their own ways to circumvent the system to accomodate their own laziness.
Even leases can often be transfered and are much easier to understand that EULA's.
Assuming /. readers are some of the few people in the U.S., or the world for that matter, that ever read EULAs, or other license agreements it is doubtful the masses will ever know they have done anything wrong. At least in the sense of technically or legally wrong.
Most people still think they own books, software, etc. like they own their home, car or that snazzy pocket protector. Businesses will continue to get away with ludicrous agreements until that masses suddenly wake up. Of course that alarm on that clock seems to be set well into the future.
Sigh!
Then you go on to learn this is an ad for the PlayStation 2 or PS2. I remember working on something called a PS2 that was made by IBM several years ago, which died the death of bad marketing and proprietary stuff.
It just struck me funny that someone would willing nickname their product after a computer that went the way of the Edsel.
While I really can't stand ARCserveIT, I do like the Overland Unit. The drives and the tapes have proved to be highly reliable and easy to use. ARCserveIT might not be so bad if I was only backing up NT servers.
I would have preferred to stick with AMANDA. While AMANDA can be a bit of a bear to get running, of course this was my first install, it is highly reliable and stable. Support from the developers and users was always timely and helpful. One of the many things to like about AMANDA is that in the event of a catastrophe that native Unix utils (tar, gzip, dump, ufsdump, etc.) can be used to recover the data from the tapes.
Many legislators are ignorant of such technologies and the only people talking to them are from industry and they are only interested in protecting their precious copyrights.