Yes and rightly so. This means everyone has had a good look at the change and checked the likelihood of it fscking up the entire service. If they approve and it goes down - they are in the shooting line, not your web-monkey-I-can-do-html-developer.
"Still, when more people like him are gone, you and the rest of your bureaucratic pals can have a much easier life, at least until his company comes along and eats your lunch."
Funnily enough, it's people like him who get kicked out, then they get me in to sift through his crap. At least I get paid properly for it I suppose.
"The real answer if you need flexibility with regards to "non-production stuff" is to not let IT have anything to do with it at all."
Ahah. Ha, ha, ha,ha...
"and a firewall between your network and theirs to prevent any viruses, or other effects,"
That is so 1990's thinking...
"It's not uncommon for companies to have a "developer", "staging", and "live" system setup..."
This portion is fine, creating a seperate maintenace and security team is just not workable in large institutions. Security and maintenance needs to be across the board if it's on the corporate LAN.
The only way to work your solution is *physical seperation* from the corporate LAN.
It's people like you in Banking that make my life a living nightmare. I'm grateful you've gone.
You're a web developer, you don't make the call on the significance of the system, the change, the potential impact or understand division of responsibility.
Hopefully your 'company' will grow and you will *eventually* learn what the phrase CHANGE CONTROL means and what it is for.
"If we pull it we definitely get hit on the service level agreement; if we put it in we've got a 50% chance of taking no hit and a 50% chance of an outage which we can absorb easily. Is this the best thing for the customer? No"
Your other points are correct, but this is wrong. It is the best thing for the customer. They don't want the outage, the SLA says so, so they don't want you to risk it either.
(Chooose the laws that apply in your country/industry)
You'll find that the Data Protection Act, FSA Regulations, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, the Bank Secrecy Act, and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act should be enough to get them in court.
Turn 313 85 Mechanised Infantry units fortified in Basra
Turn 314 "The citizens of Basra hate our culture and have..."
85 units down the drain without a fight....aaaaaaaarggh!
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How much do you think Civ can impact teaching history?
One of the things that made me stick with Civ was the real world/historical links of the game rather than the out and out fantasy of soe of the other turn-based strategy games out there. This piqued my interest and spurred me into reading up on countries and cultures I would not have otherwise.
Okay, this could probably be done with a huge modpack, but...
Integrating an historical encyclopedia into the game could work as the worlds first sucessful educational game (TM) - implemented at stages of the game such as end fo era, city creation, or encountering a nation could add to the real-world aspects of the game I so enjoy and also educate the younger generations.
Obviously you'd want this as an option rather than enforce it.
I agree. I think that the fossilization process exagerates the size of the original skeleton....And I'll keep believing that until I can be bothered to read a book on fossilization.:)
"...(Disclaimer: I'm the software engineer responsible for the main telescope server.)"
Okay, so unlikely to be responsible for the web server too, but surely professionalism or general comradeship would warn againt submitting your servers to a Slashdotting...
The real issue is that they are describing massive targetted attacks, which is why it's not regular spam/worm/trojan stuff.
Supposedly the targets are government and financial sector businesses.
Slashdot Mirror
"The device is the size of a golf ball, can be launched via an air-powered shooter attached to police vehicles..."
g e.jpg
In other news, Police Drive for New Recruits:
http://www.ok-golf.com/images/facilities/golf-ran
"Change Control mostly means ass-covering"
Yes and rightly so. This means everyone has had a good look at the change and checked the likelihood of it fscking up the entire service. If they approve and it goes down - they are in the shooting line, not your web-monkey-I-can-do-html-developer.
"Still, when more people like him are gone, you and the rest of your bureaucratic pals can have a much easier life, at least until his company comes along and eats your lunch."
Funnily enough, it's people like him who get kicked out, then they get me in to sift through his crap. At least I get paid properly for it I suppose.
"The real answer if you need flexibility with regards to "non-production stuff" is to not let IT have anything to do with it at all."
Ahah. Ha, ha, ha,ha...
"and a firewall between your network and theirs to prevent any viruses, or other effects,"
That is so 1990's thinking...
"It's not uncommon for companies to have a "developer", "staging", and "live" system setup..."
This portion is fine, creating a seperate maintenace and security team is just not workable in large institutions. Security and maintenance needs to be across the board if it's on the corporate LAN.
The only way to work your solution is *physical seperation* from the corporate LAN.
It's people like you in Banking that make my life a living nightmare. I'm grateful you've gone.
You're a web developer, you don't make the call on the significance of the system, the change, the potential impact or understand division of responsibility.
Hopefully your 'company' will grow and you will *eventually* learn what the phrase CHANGE CONTROL means and what it is for.
You are rebuking the guy for suggesting he treat the IT department with respect...so what are you really suggesting he do?
"If we pull it we definitely get hit on the service level agreement; if we put it in we've got a 50% chance of taking no hit and a 50% chance of an outage which we can absorb easily. Is this the best thing for the customer? No"
Your other points are correct, but this is wrong. It is the best thing for the customer. They don't want the outage, the SLA says so, so they don't want you to risk it either.
It was a short story in Future Shock, IIRC.
You've commited a crime, at least under UK law, so I hope you're in the UK.
Section 1 of the Computer Misuse Act (1990) defines unauthorised actions that are intended to secure computers as a crime:
"1.--(1) A person is guilty of an offence if--
(a) he causes a computer to perform any function with intent to secure access to any program or data held in any computer;"
Not to mention you're also an ass.
Shop them to the fuzz.
(Chooose the laws that apply in your country/industry)
You'll find that the Data Protection Act, FSA Regulations, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, the Bank Secrecy Act, and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act should be enough to get them in court.
...is a picture of an office block news?
"It's mind-boggling."
Only a teacher would comment on default passwords like that.
Don't post your Slashdot ID on your CV...
"...nocturnal displays of glowing sea surfaces stretching outwards to the horizon"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3760124.stm
(whilst humming "The Thing The Should Not Be" - Metallica)
Ooooh handbags at fifty paces.
And you are exactly the wrong person to defend the elevator if you think anti-aircraft missiles will protect it adequately.
You are guilty of limited thinking, a fault in far too many involved in the defence industry.
I'm not ignorant. How dare you?
Okay, so I think the abandon city option might not be an viable here in the real world!
Turn 312 Mechanised Infantry defeat Spearmen, Basra Captured
Turn 313 85 Mechanised Infantry units fortified in Basra
Turn 314 "The citizens of Basra hate our culture and have..."
85 units down the drain without a fight....aaaaaaaarggh!
How much do you think Civ can impact teaching history?
One of the things that made me stick with Civ was the real world/historical links of the game rather than the out and out fantasy of soe of the other turn-based strategy games out there. This piqued my interest and spurred me into reading up on countries and cultures I would not have otherwise.
Okay, this could probably be done with a huge modpack, but...
Integrating an historical encyclopedia into the game could work as the worlds first sucessful educational game (TM) - implemented at stages of the game such as end fo era, city creation, or encountering a nation could add to the real-world aspects of the game I so enjoy and also educate the younger generations.
Obviously you'd want this as an option rather than enforce it.
You had me with you until "enforce it with a couple of Patriot missile batteries..." Now that's funny.
I agree. I think that the fossilization process exagerates the size of the original skeleton. ...And I'll keep believing that until I can be bothered to read a book on fossilization. :)
Half the article is irrelevant through age, which is amusing bacause it's one of his own criticisms on dealing with security.
"...(Disclaimer: I'm the software engineer responsible for the main telescope server.)"
Okay, so unlikely to be responsible for the web server too, but surely professionalism or general comradeship would warn againt submitting your servers to a Slashdotting...
Surely the point is to identify that you are being attacked, and how?
Then you can develop counter measures...no?
Your scenario falls under entrapment (in the UK anyhoo)
Why do you think the wheel was invented?
Some lazy-ass worker couldn't be bothered to do heavy carrying...
And don't tell me da Vinci's mother didn't used to tell him to get out in the sunlight more often and try to find a girlfriend.
Laziness - the mother of all invention.
Okay, they did eat it too so the law of the jungle applies - but you get the point...
One down, not many left to go:
5 15_030515_giantcatfish.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/05/0
Still who cares about extinction, if you can get a nice photo out of it?
The real issue is that they are describing massive targetted attacks, which is why it's not regular spam/worm/trojan stuff. Supposedly the targets are government and financial sector businesses.