Sure, circumventing the college's acceptable use policy would never get him in any trouble; couldn't possibly get him kicked out even. This is definitely an insightful, helpful, and responsible response to the problem posed. It is not appropriate to address the problem through proper channels; or remind the IT Department that they exist to serve, support, and enable the educational purposes of the college.
Hopefully that'll bring this BS to an end, along with ending the jobs of the officers that continue to pull this stunt. Is getting a search warrant on someone really that time consuming?
The police regularly ignore the rules these days, it rarely ever costs anyone their job. In the future they will probably just not enter that particular info into evidence.
Yeah, but having convictions overturned due to failure to follow the law is a sign of incompetence. Consider this case centered around someone who was undeniably guilty of criminal activity, who will now walk free. That's not quite doing the job of Law Enforcement Officer, is it.
Yes it is! You can't break the law and uphold the law at the same time. It is a grave disservice to society letting this many go; but justice would be holding accountable those who failed to obey the law in order to put the bad guys away.
That which is publicly available and privately available are two very different things. Besides, there are only a handful of public TV channels; Cable isn't "public" (under most circumstances); nor is Satellite TV. And i can attest, we do have channels with porn all day long.
This is the case in Michigan. You may not enter an intersection unless you can also exit the intersection in a reasonable amount of time. Entering in the case of vehicles blocking your exit is considered blocking the intersection. It's not running a red, but cameras can't be the basis for tickets here either.
I work for a company where we use and resell Sophos. Sounds like your installation is misconfigured if it's impacting systems noticeably. The default settings aren't ideal.
Also, when I looked last year MSE & Forefront were consistently behind most of the major vendors in catching new viruses. This was a major factor in our decision to avoid Forefront (formerly called Antigen), and may have influenced your IT department's decision..
While I applaud all serious efforts to take down botnets; the fact that it was all done secretly by private corporations (and a little government nod) smacks of corporate warfare, and I have to wonder what kind of president this sets.
1. If they were smart it's easier to make money legally than illegally. 2. They have quite a few domains for a reason, and normally they don't all go dark at the exact same well-coordinated time.
Yeah, you really don't know what you're talking about at all. Batteries don't assertain life status by cycles like miles on a car. They take the actual Amp-Hour status of the batter and compare that to what the battery should perform at. There are a couple variances on how life status is measured, but they all boil down to a measure of how much charge it will hold. It has nothing to do with cycles (other than actually cycling the batter will slowly decrease it's ability to hold a charge).
Yes, but even with ACPI there is no "kill battery" function. The worst an OS can do is set the computer to maximum power consumption. If the battery can't handle maximum power consumption without damage then it's defective by design curtesy the laptop manufacturer.
Yeah, I've been working in IT for 12 years now, and for 4 different companies. One of them is exactly as you described. One day I got a call, the owner dropped his laptop off his desk. Guess who had to send his laptop hard drive to a data retrieval company to the tune of almost $3000 and 4 weeks. He also claims they didn't lose an somewhat major account because of this little misstep, but I would argue it was a major contributing factor.
Prison is not supposed to be a deterant or punishment. It's supposed to be for protection (of people outside) and reform.
However you accopmlish those two goals is good with me, just so long as it gets done. If D&D helps them become a law-abiding and safe citizen, then I'm all for it. Of course if the inverse is true, I am equally against it.
Let me guess, you're an overworked, underpaid, IT worker for a very small company. And with thinking like 'screw the policy and backups, it's good enough' that's the only place you'll ever be.
If you honestly work at a business where the boss both ignores your expert opinion and refuses to acknowledge their contempt for business continuity planning, you should probably be looking for employment elsewhere. You're never going anywhere in that business environment, and the business itself is likely never going anywhere positive either. Unemployment sucks (and I've been there), but a dead-end job can be worse (stress in the short-term, and employability in the long term).
I'm IT at my company. Two years ago a non-technical owner read an article about security where the article suggested passwords should be changed every other week in high security environments. We deal with sensitive data, so the owner thought this would be a good idea. It took quite a bit of convincing to get that idea out of his head, but you can imagine the results. Every's password would eventually be [favorte word][month][1-2] or similar.
We change passwords every 90 days as it is and I know of a user who was using [season][month #][day #], so something like "winter0121".
It's funny how much good advice there is on the Internet for passwords, and how often everyone ignores it.
It also depends on the name itself. When my wife graduated from college I told her she had to dump her Giggle4U###@aol.com address because it was horribly unprofessional. Now it's mostly her name @aol.com; she adamantly refuses to use "my" domain.
I've looked through resume's before. First thing I look for is a professional polish (including your e-mail address or other obvious dumbass-flags; if you can't make a resume look professional, you're never getting hired by me); then I look for 'experience' related stuff. I'm sure most employers are similar.
Polarized stereographic theaters require an expensive silver based paint to be used for the screen. Normal projectors can be used, but have to have polarization filters fitted to them at the proper angles (and of course you need two separate projects). The screen is usually the largest cost.
Wait a minute.. You propose that releasing source code and buying a license from a monopoly are two punishments on the exact same level?
I'll tell you what, since you obviously (and I'll get a jury to agree) infringed on my copyright of the number #30649052, you need to buy Windows Server 2008 DataCenter licenses for all of your home computers, and all of your friends, relatives, etc. Oh, and you don't actually get to keep any of that software you just bought. Does that sound fair?
They're not asking for the MTV version of NASA. It simply would be nice to get a little mix going. Sure, sometimes you want to see every detail of how they drove into a field an picked up 3 cosmonauts for hours on end. Other times it might be nice if they cut it down to the technically interesting parts. There is a happy medium in between the two extremes you have proposed. One where the die-hards still get their detail fix; and the rest of us intellectuals can learn something without being bored to tears. You are right that it we're looking for the 10 second version at a 2nd grade reading level we need to flip over to CNN.
I agree, the public is just going to crucify the company. We need to move forward, fix the problems, and make sure they don't happen again.
On the other hand, this might be a great learning exercise for academia. It might be nice if accredited institutions could review a portion of the details in the interests of study cases; particularly a business ethics class (no that's not an oxymoron).
Real adults don't try to justify the means by the ends. She made an online threat (the means), and perhaps she meant for it to amount to venting (the intended ends), but that's not what happened.
I don't have time to waste keeping one account up to date. I can't image keeping track of two. When do you find time to code, hack, and generally do geeky stuff?
I'm a fan of FreeBSD too, but don't let your zelotry cloud your judgement. The FreeBSD development process is geared toward producing "correct" code as opposed to "feature rich" code. This is apples and oranges, you can't say one is "better" than the other. What you can claim is that one is more suitable to a well definied set of requirement than the other.
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Sure, circumventing the college's acceptable use policy would never get him in any trouble; couldn't possibly get him kicked out even. This is definitely an insightful, helpful, and responsible response to the problem posed. It is not appropriate to address the problem through proper channels; or remind the IT Department that they exist to serve, support, and enable the educational purposes of the college.
Hopefully that'll bring this BS to an end, along with ending the jobs of the officers that continue to pull this stunt.
Is getting a search warrant on someone really that time consuming?
The police regularly ignore the rules these days, it rarely ever costs anyone their job. In the future they will probably just not enter that particular info into evidence.
Yeah, but having convictions overturned due to failure to follow the law is a sign of incompetence. Consider this case centered around someone who was undeniably guilty of criminal activity, who will now walk free. That's not quite doing the job of Law Enforcement Officer, is it.
Yes it is! You can't break the law and uphold the law at the same time. It is a grave disservice to society letting this many go; but justice would be holding accountable those who failed to obey the law in order to put the bad guys away.
That which is publicly available and privately available are two very different things. Besides, there are only a handful of public TV channels; Cable isn't "public" (under most circumstances); nor is Satellite TV. And i can attest, we do have channels with porn all day long.
This is the case in Michigan. You may not enter an intersection unless you can also exit the intersection in a reasonable amount of time. Entering in the case of vehicles blocking your exit is considered blocking the intersection. It's not running a red, but cameras can't be the basis for tickets here either.
I work for a company where we use and resell Sophos. Sounds like your installation is misconfigured if it's impacting systems noticeably. The default settings aren't ideal.
Also, when I looked last year MSE & Forefront were consistently behind most of the major vendors in catching new viruses. This was a major factor in our decision to avoid Forefront (formerly called Antigen), and may have influenced your IT department's decision..
While I applaud all serious efforts to take down botnets; the fact that it was all done secretly by private corporations (and a little government nod) smacks of corporate warfare, and I have to wonder what kind of president this sets.
1. If they were smart it's easier to make money legally than illegally.
2. They have quite a few domains for a reason, and normally they don't all go dark at the exact same well-coordinated time.
Yeah, you really don't know what you're talking about at all. Batteries don't assertain life status by cycles like miles on a car. They take the actual Amp-Hour status of the batter and compare that to what the battery should perform at. There are a couple variances on how life status is measured, but they all boil down to a measure of how much charge it will hold. It has nothing to do with cycles (other than actually cycling the batter will slowly decrease it's ability to hold a charge).
Yes, but even with ACPI there is no "kill battery" function. The worst an OS can do is set the computer to maximum power consumption. If the battery can't handle maximum power consumption without damage then it's defective by design curtesy the laptop manufacturer.
Yeah, I've been working in IT for 12 years now, and for 4 different companies. One of them is exactly as you described. One day I got a call, the owner dropped his laptop off his desk. Guess who had to send his laptop hard drive to a data retrieval company to the tune of almost $3000 and 4 weeks. He also claims they didn't lose an somewhat major account because of this little misstep, but I would argue it was a major contributing factor.
That's great that they can contend with our F-22. But what happens when we have a few dozen pilots each remotely commanding a Squadron of UAV?
Honestly, I don't know why people waste their time trying to catch up with something that's already totally outdated.
Prison is not supposed to be a deterant or punishment. It's supposed to be for protection (of people outside) and reform.
However you accopmlish those two goals is good with me, just so long as it gets done. If D&D helps them become a law-abiding and safe citizen, then I'm all for it. Of course if the inverse is true, I am equally against it.
Let me guess, you're an overworked, underpaid, IT worker for a very small company. And with thinking like 'screw the policy and backups, it's good enough' that's the only place you'll ever be.
If you honestly work at a business where the boss both ignores your expert opinion and refuses to acknowledge their contempt for business continuity planning, you should probably be looking for employment elsewhere. You're never going anywhere in that business environment, and the business itself is likely never going anywhere positive either. Unemployment sucks (and I've been there), but a dead-end job can be worse (stress in the short-term, and employability in the long term).
I'm IT at my company. Two years ago a non-technical owner read an article about security where the article suggested passwords should be changed every other week in high security environments. We deal with sensitive data, so the owner thought this would be a good idea. It took quite a bit of convincing to get that idea out of his head, but you can imagine the results. Every's password would eventually be [favorte word][month][1-2] or similar.
We change passwords every 90 days as it is and I know of a user who was using [season][month #][day #], so something like "winter0121".
It's funny how much good advice there is on the Internet for passwords, and how often everyone ignores it.
It also depends on the name itself. When my wife graduated from college I told her she had to dump her Giggle4U###@aol.com address because it was horribly unprofessional. Now it's mostly her name @aol.com; she adamantly refuses to use "my" domain.
I've looked through resume's before. First thing I look for is a professional polish (including your e-mail address or other obvious dumbass-flags; if you can't make a resume look professional, you're never getting hired by me); then I look for 'experience' related stuff. I'm sure most employers are similar.
Polarized stereographic theaters require an expensive silver based paint to be used for the screen. Normal projectors can be used, but have to have polarization filters fitted to them at the proper angles (and of course you need two separate projects). The screen is usually the largest cost.
Wait a minute.. You propose that releasing source code and buying a license from a monopoly are two punishments on the exact same level?
I'll tell you what, since you obviously (and I'll get a jury to agree) infringed on my copyright of the number #30649052, you need to buy Windows Server 2008 DataCenter licenses for all of your home computers, and all of your friends, relatives, etc. Oh, and you don't actually get to keep any of that software you just bought. Does that sound fair?
They're not asking for the MTV version of NASA. It simply would be nice to get a little mix going. Sure, sometimes you want to see every detail of how they drove into a field an picked up 3 cosmonauts for hours on end. Other times it might be nice if they cut it down to the technically interesting parts. There is a happy medium in between the two extremes you have proposed. One where the die-hards still get their detail fix; and the rest of us intellectuals can learn something without being bored to tears. You are right that it we're looking for the 10 second version at a 2nd grade reading level we need to flip over to CNN.
I could go for thousands of links being attributed to incompetence.
But we're talking about 14.8 MILLION dead links.
I agree, the public is just going to crucify the company. We need to move forward, fix the problems, and make sure they don't happen again.
On the other hand, this might be a great learning exercise for academia. It might be nice if accredited institutions could review a portion of the details in the interests of study cases; particularly a business ethics class (no that's not an oxymoron).
Real adults don't try to justify the means by the ends.
She made an online threat (the means), and perhaps she meant for it to amount to venting (the intended ends), but that's not what happened.
I don't have time to waste keeping one account up to date. I can't image keeping track of two. When do you find time to code, hack, and generally do geeky stuff?
I'm a fan of FreeBSD too, but don't let your zelotry cloud your judgement. The FreeBSD development process is geared toward producing "correct" code as opposed to "feature rich" code. This is apples and oranges, you can't say one is "better" than the other. What you can claim is that one is more suitable to a well definied set of requirement than the other.
To answer the question: Take the old printer to local electronics recycling facility. Most cities have at least one place these days.