With the blatant stupidity I have seen from our UK friends like this, it's amazing the Iroquois didn't kick your dumb asses all the way back across the Atlantic, not to mention the Hindus.
What, the stiff upper lip keep the blood from getting to your brain?
Your tiny little island, is unfortunately a big fan of censorship, eavesdropping, and other nanny-state BS so I know it might be hard to realize that some places, rights are held to be important aspects, even above some degree of safety sometimes.
Just pay sales all of it (it's easy to measure there) then use a ticketing system to compensate IT for the crap sales makes them do, and take that number OUT of the sales bonus.
Large last minute projects with no planning cost the most, of course. As do weekend hours, new software, etc. That guy that can't manage to learn how to right-click all of a sudden is a drag on the sales force and will get corrected or forced out.What good is pulling in lots of money if the back end of your organization is a time and money wasting disorganized pile. Lean it out and you'll live through the lean times when it can't be helped.
"Sorry, Mr. Happy McSmileyface your bonus is negative $1,500 this year. It'll be deducted from your next paycheck."
Windows has had an FTP client built into the GUI since Windows 2000. Perhaps before.
Open Windows Explorer (the one that shows the little yellow folders) and type "ftp://hostname" in the address bar. Authenticate. Poof. FTP access. Bonus, it looks just like any other file move to the user so they don't have to learn anything new. If they can drag and drop they can use FTP.
WebDav is a bit better in Windows, but requires a bunch of futzing with shortcuts. One of the recent security patches seems to have broken a lot of the functionality in it though.
A really evil person would seed their personal data with lots of child porn images, then block the same sites in a local HOSTS file so their own traffic doesn't go anywhere.
Which will in turn cause web traffic to honeypots or servers that will eventually be bagged and monitored by jack booted thugs working for some government who are going through the logs.
Then, anybody looking at the data gets a small but non-zero chance of assault by cop followed by PMITAP.
"What? I am not allowed to keep a list of URLs I shouldn't visit because they have illegal stuff on them? Why are you looking through my "security hosts file'?"
Which of course means it's one step away from being a full exploit, so it's OK?
System Installer is perfect software? It's version 1.0 and has never been updated because it was perfect the first time out?
I know thinking about security is a bit new for a lot of Mac users, so here's how it works:
Security is like an onion. It occurs in layers. It's absolutely true that you don't have to get all bent out of shape over one layer being compromised. Chances are, the others will take care of things. However, the attitude that that one compromised layer won't cause a problem and doesn't need to be fixed is a bad one. Because, you can always assume that each layer is flawed even if it has always worked perfectly in the past. Using a number of flawed layers that have flaws that don't add up to a hole is almost as good as perfect security. In fact, that's the best we can get. Because there is no "Perfect" involved. Ever.
Too bad perfect security doesn't exist. And, usable security that still lets you get work done is even farther from perfect.
In this case, letting a file get to the computer hard drive user space (not in some temp folder or memory) somewhere is a huge hole in a layer of the onion.
Training users about using an annoying log in to install (which means 'do this without thinking' the very DEFINITION of training) software is another hole. One we probably can't fix because it's human nature.
NOW, you are saying another layer isn't a big deal. Guess what, there aren't that many layers. Google's treatment of these shit sites is one layer, JavaScript and Browser security are other layers, the user interface is yet another one, and the user's brain is in there somewhere too.
You aren't doing good security if you ignore layers. Sometimes you make compromises, but know that in each layer there are flaws, and sometimes the simplest stuff stops the bad guys cold because all the other layers were gotten through. (I saw a server once that was saved on reboot from total rooting because the user was a Turk, and couldn't spell the directory path in English. Had he used a system variable %systemfolder% he would have been in. He got through everything else.)
So. Yes, Google should fix some of this stuff. However it's not their battle to fight. The folks over in Apple / Safari / JavaScript failed on this one big time.
In my opinion, Google needs to be spending a lot more time letting users control what they search and where they go. I really don't fucking care to visit a web server hosted in former soviet block countries EVER. I know Google has this information, why not use it? Added bonus, they can stay ahead of the search game by noting what users do. Here's a hint; if all the guys that search for instructions for stuff on the internet (which by definition is not Lusers) block a site, Google should too.
Sure, they want to go home. However, my choices as a law abiding citizen (like the guy in the story here) are to assume it's cops and lie on the floor, or assume it's bad guys and open fire.
Making that choice anything other than tragic is in the hands of the police, not the ordinary citizen. People in their homes have an entirely different class of rights and expectations that makes your traffic stop example not apply.
Clearly, there are situations where going in hot is warranted. However the idea someone apparently dumb enough to download CP from his own living room will be some sort of uber-trigger-happy criminal is just stupid. Someone doing that, thinks they aren't going to be detected and won't be ready for them in which case a polite knock, followed by arrest and seizure of the computer equipment will work just fine. Top that with the large number of outright address mistakes the dumb pigs make, it's ridiculous to think that people and pigs will not continue to get unnecessarily killed when there are mistakes made during investigations that result in this type of entry.
I just hope the pigs don't make that mistake at MY house. I keep a loaded AR-15 near my bed that is fully capable of both shooting through all my walls, but also personal body armor of the police on the other side of those walls*. The idea a law abiding citizen is both harmless and will always know not to shoot is absolutely false. With the behavior of the police in this situation, they damn well SHOULD be worried about going home because appear to have integrated fucking up into just about every investigation. Which in turn greatly increases their chances of getting killed by fault of their own investigation techniques when they cause someone to rightfully defend themselves.
No kidding. The measurement of "should we listen to him?" applied to journalism would make Jeraldo the greatest journalist ever and applied to politics would make Jesse Ventura the greatest politician ever, and applied to families, would make Peter North the best husband ever. "Appeals from authority" are a shitty way to do science. unity10 loses again.
Promotion means shit if it doesn't produce more money. And in 20 years in the business my best raises came from the old FU to the previous employer to move on. Even the smallest job switch is still over twice the dollars of any 5 year period of "raises". Even when promotions come, or more likely some "redefined job description" BS that includes all the higher up's work (or more likely, the work of some fool that knows some higher up who's dead weight they finally couldn't tolerate anymore) but no change in status, power, or pay. 30%, 50% jumps in salary just DONT HAPPEN unless you are the CEO or similar. If you are still a tech in any way, there's little extra money room to go for.
So quit. Make sure you are always polishing your resume, and getting skills that can be written down and skip over the company specific complicated crap you can't take with you. (Hint: if you learn their proprietary and crappy system well, guess what you'll be doing for the rest of your stay there? Being invaluable at your job means no promotion. Be good but not in a way that keeps you down.)
Except, you forget, this is a doctor we are dealing with. He'll skip the "ask forgiveness" part and skip right to the "I make more money than you" or "peal out of the parking lot in his BMW" step.
It's probably also AGAINST THE LAW. Christ. Submitter is an unmitigated moron. People are going to jail for HIPPA violations and you want to dump any old crap on the hospital network for a CALENDAR? Just use an external web based thing ya moron. Try Google Apps.
I'd have gone right to the pres and required you be fired immediately OP. Arrogant doctors are not to be let loose on the network without training wheels.
They requested the limit go up to screw with their competitors or to force them to bump up service for their customers without being able to ask for more payment. Suddenly that other ISP has to raise prices, or has to deal with less profit per customer because their "basic" service just cost more.
There was no altruistic motivation there, if you think there is, you are a fool that doesn't understand capitalism.
Tell those guys they should try a hound. Seriously. Just train it using known recent fallen rocks. It will figure out a common smell and learn from that.
Make sure you honor private property signs in Texas. That's my only other tip.
Slashdot Mirror
Round here they have "Sobriety Checkpoint Ahead" signs they put up about a block in front of a place where a U-turn would be illegal.
Then, they sit and bust people for the U-turns, and often catch them over the limit as well.
This, in a state where DUI checkpoints were ruled unconstitutional.
People are dumb. And the cops are out to get you and will lie to do it.
With the blatant stupidity I have seen from our UK friends like this, it's amazing the Iroquois didn't kick your dumb asses all the way back across the Atlantic, not to mention the Hindus.
What, the stiff upper lip keep the blood from getting to your brain?
Your tiny little island, is unfortunately a big fan of censorship, eavesdropping, and other nanny-state BS so I know it might be hard to realize that some places, rights are held to be important aspects, even above some degree of safety sometimes.
Unfortunately, staying with the twat ALSO can cause brain damage.
Do it differently.
Just pay sales all of it (it's easy to measure there) then use a ticketing system to compensate IT for the crap sales makes them do, and take that number OUT of the sales bonus.
Large last minute projects with no planning cost the most, of course. As do weekend hours, new software, etc. That guy that can't manage to learn how to right-click all of a sudden is a drag on the sales force and will get corrected or forced out.What good is pulling in lots of money if the back end of your organization is a time and money wasting disorganized pile. Lean it out and you'll live through the lean times when it can't be helped.
"Sorry, Mr. Happy McSmileyface your bonus is negative $1,500 this year. It'll be deducted from your next paycheck."
Eat shit.
Chrome and Firefox and whatever else run just fine on operating systems that came with IE 6 and IE7.
Install one of them. Use your buggy shit on your own network and stop screwing around on the internet on company time before I call HR.
Windows has had an FTP client built into the GUI since Windows 2000. Perhaps before. Open Windows Explorer (the one that shows the little yellow folders) and type "ftp://hostname" in the address bar. Authenticate. Poof. FTP access. Bonus, it looks just like any other file move to the user so they don't have to learn anything new. If they can drag and drop they can use FTP. WebDav is a bit better in Windows, but requires a bunch of futzing with shortcuts. One of the recent security patches seems to have broken a lot of the functionality in it though.
A really evil person would seed their personal data with lots of child porn images, then block the same sites in a local HOSTS file so their own traffic doesn't go anywhere.
Which will in turn cause web traffic to honeypots or servers that will eventually be bagged and monitored by jack booted thugs working for some government who are going through the logs.
Then, anybody looking at the data gets a small but non-zero chance of assault by cop followed by PMITAP.
"What? I am not allowed to keep a list of URLs I shouldn't visit because they have illegal stuff on them? Why are you looking through my "security hosts file'?"
Which of course means it's one step away from being a full exploit, so it's OK?
System Installer is perfect software? It's version 1.0 and has never been updated because it was perfect the first time out?
I know thinking about security is a bit new for a lot of Mac users, so here's how it works:
Security is like an onion. It occurs in layers. It's absolutely true that you don't have to get all bent out of shape over one layer being compromised. Chances are, the others will take care of things. However, the attitude that that one compromised layer won't cause a problem and doesn't need to be fixed is a bad one. Because, you can always assume that each layer is flawed even if it has always worked perfectly in the past. Using a number of flawed layers that have flaws that don't add up to a hole is almost as good as perfect security. In fact, that's the best we can get. Because there is no "Perfect" involved. Ever.
Too bad perfect security doesn't exist. And, usable security that still lets you get work done is even farther from perfect.
In this case, letting a file get to the computer hard drive user space (not in some temp folder or memory) somewhere is a huge hole in a layer of the onion.
Training users about using an annoying log in to install (which means 'do this without thinking' the very DEFINITION of training) software is another hole. One we probably can't fix because it's human nature.
NOW, you are saying another layer isn't a big deal. Guess what, there aren't that many layers. Google's treatment of these shit sites is one layer, JavaScript and Browser security are other layers, the user interface is yet another one, and the user's brain is in there somewhere too.
You aren't doing good security if you ignore layers. Sometimes you make compromises, but know that in each layer there are flaws, and sometimes the simplest stuff stops the bad guys cold because all the other layers were gotten through. (I saw a server once that was saved on reboot from total rooting because the user was a Turk, and couldn't spell the directory path in English. Had he used a system variable %systemfolder% he would have been in. He got through everything else.)
So. Yes, Google should fix some of this stuff. However it's not their battle to fight. The folks over in Apple / Safari / JavaScript failed on this one big time.
In my opinion, Google needs to be spending a lot more time letting users control what they search and where they go. I really don't fucking care to visit a web server hosted in former soviet block countries EVER. I know Google has this information, why not use it? Added bonus, they can stay ahead of the search game by noting what users do. Here's a hint; if all the guys that search for instructions for stuff on the internet (which by definition is not Lusers) block a site, Google should too.
Where are most of the unpatched, hacked, etc. XP Machines?
Getting "our guys" to upgrade may make it a lot easier to use wider-reaching destruction overseas.
Strategic advantages aren't just for nuclear weapons.
Except in this case, the pigs were lying through incompetence or lying through plain old lying.
It's not "vigorously investigating" if you are trying your best to break the law and expecting them not to catch you.
That's the act of a criminal, in fact.
Sure, they want to go home. However, my choices as a law abiding citizen (like the guy in the story here) are to assume it's cops and lie on the floor, or assume it's bad guys and open fire.
Making that choice anything other than tragic is in the hands of the police, not the ordinary citizen. People in their homes have an entirely different class of rights and expectations that makes your traffic stop example not apply.
Clearly, there are situations where going in hot is warranted. However the idea someone apparently dumb enough to download CP from his own living room will be some sort of uber-trigger-happy criminal is just stupid. Someone doing that, thinks they aren't going to be detected and won't be ready for them in which case a polite knock, followed by arrest and seizure of the computer equipment will work just fine. Top that with the large number of outright address mistakes the dumb pigs make, it's ridiculous to think that people and pigs will not continue to get unnecessarily killed when there are mistakes made during investigations that result in this type of entry.
I just hope the pigs don't make that mistake at MY house. I keep a loaded AR-15 near my bed that is fully capable of both shooting through all my walls, but also personal body armor of the police on the other side of those walls*. The idea a law abiding citizen is both harmless and will always know not to shoot is absolutely false. With the behavior of the police in this situation, they damn well SHOULD be worried about going home because appear to have integrated fucking up into just about every investigation. Which in turn greatly increases their chances of getting killed by fault of their own investigation techniques when they cause someone to rightfully defend themselves.
* It also shoots through schools.
No kidding. The measurement of "should we listen to him?" applied to journalism would make Jeraldo the greatest journalist ever and applied to politics would make Jesse Ventura the greatest politician ever, and applied to families, would make Peter North the best husband ever. "Appeals from authority" are a shitty way to do science. unity10 loses again.
It's one of the few things they sell that's actually worth the price. Heck, even the mouse pads are overly expensive.
Quit.
It's as simple as that.
Quit, after finding another job that is.
Promotion means shit if it doesn't produce more money. And in 20 years in the business my best raises came from the old FU to the previous employer to move on. Even the smallest job switch is still over twice the dollars of any 5 year period of "raises". Even when promotions come, or more likely some "redefined job description" BS that includes all the higher up's work (or more likely, the work of some fool that knows some higher up who's dead weight they finally couldn't tolerate anymore) but no change in status, power, or pay. 30%, 50% jumps in salary just DONT HAPPEN unless you are the CEO or similar. If you are still a tech in any way, there's little extra money room to go for.
So quit. Make sure you are always polishing your resume, and getting skills that can be written down and skip over the company specific complicated crap you can't take with you. (Hint: if you learn their proprietary and crappy system well, guess what you'll be doing for the rest of your stay there? Being invaluable at your job means no promotion. Be good but not in a way that keeps you down.)
No kidding. Re-install it with Windows Media Edition and watch Battlestar Galactica and Anime on it. Don't burn it! Duh.
Except, you forget, this is a doctor we are dealing with. He'll skip the "ask forgiveness" part and skip right to the "I make more money than you" or "peal out of the parking lot in his BMW" step.
It's probably also AGAINST THE LAW. Christ. Submitter is an unmitigated moron. People are going to jail for HIPPA violations and you want to dump any old crap on the hospital network for a CALENDAR? Just use an external web based thing ya moron. Try Google Apps.
I'd have gone right to the pres and required you be fired immediately OP. Arrogant doctors are not to be let loose on the network without training wheels.
What, one time use credit card numbers are impossible to make? Banks don't want a solution. Banks want a solution FOR FREE*.
*As in, taxpayers line their pockets yet again.
In other words, it wasn't a Jordi Laforge problem, it was a Montgomery Scott problem.
Occam's Razor is useful for making determinations about what is true among several possible explanations.
It is not, however, useful for helping you come up with the explanations in the first place. As was needed here.
They requested the limit go up to screw with their competitors or to force them to bump up service for their customers without being able to ask for more payment. Suddenly that other ISP has to raise prices, or has to deal with less profit per customer because their "basic" service just cost more.
There was no altruistic motivation there, if you think there is, you are a fool that doesn't understand capitalism.
Tell those guys they should try a hound. Seriously. Just train it using known recent fallen rocks. It will figure out a common smell and learn from that. Make sure you honor private property signs in Texas. That's my only other tip.
And do you need to be at the gym in 26 minutes?
"A full tank of gas, it's dark out, and we're wearing sunglasses."
Not "practically" all art. ALL art.
I can whip out my dick and piss on any object there is, any delivery mechanism there is, and add my choice to the 'former art'.
Art. Engages.
Ebert, that dumb motherfucker, doesn't know what art is.