On the surface, yes. But, there are a number of options available for transport privacy that do not require using a VPN (provided you actually trust Cloudflare not to use your data and are savvy enough to setup one of the options) https://developers.cloudflare....
IMO this post shld be taken down. It is not a technology discussion and it's definitely not "stuff that matters". I personally know liberal arts majors, one of whom has degrees in music and nothing else who are likely more experienced and qualified in security than 99% of the security folks on/.
Good step onto the slippery slope of becoming yet-another-Reddit. But, if one needs clickbait for ad revenue, one will do just about anything.
(Mostly replying to the ending sentence of the post)
Unless Apple really has a complete QA failure with a future OS upgrade or new device release, they will remain in front of the other device manufacturers for a very long time. They will be free to pick-and-choose which interesting & successful bits they steal and then super-engineer/implement from Android, Palm, Microsoft, etc and continue their lead.
I'm still convinced these netbook/tablet rumors are just that - rumors.
So far, the United States has been the only country insane enough to actually use atomic/nuclear weapons offensively (pretty much to kill scores of civilians). How does that give us the right to prevent other countries from doing the same thing? The "civilized" world has no moral high ground to stand on for this issue.
He (and you) *are* naive. Those "countries who really have no business with them" don't give a hoot about what the international community thinks and have demonstrated - consistently - that they are immune from this "pressure" you speak of.
Obama continues to undermine the leadership position of the United States in the world through statements like this and also continues to show how much he just does not "get it".
I wish non-security folks would stop reporting on security "stuff"... I can't wait for NPR, CNN and Fox to run with this "breaking news!" tonight or tomorrow.
Trust me. I'd love to ditch Verizon. Too many relatives on it (pretty much free calls on the plan, then) and the best coverage for my travelling/living/working corridor (PA to NJ). With a minimum of two hours of driving each day, four kids and a 24/7 on-call job, no way I can afford to miss a call or not be able to call. Despite my hatred for the trendy RAZR, I finally broke down and got one since I can sync addresses and calendar to it from OS X (perhaps the only Verizon phone that can).
I'd even pick this up if the price-point were a bit better (I'm not really complaining since there's a *ton* of tech in that phone and it's worth the money) and I could get a halfway decent plan from Cingular (or get work to pick up the monthly cost and make this my work phone).
It's really going to tick me off when my counterparts in Belgium just stick their card in this thing and start playing (once it's cleared in Europe).
I also noticed that they will have the ability to sync from a PC (at least contacts). I'm curious as to what data source...Outlook? iTunes 8 with contacts (does iTunes for Windows already have contacts)?
What will also be cool is that - if this really runs OS X, then the modders will be out en-masse to kick up the functionality even further.
I still hold out hope for Cocoa apps in Xcode on this. Widgets are nice (and it will be interesting to see if DashCode encourages folks to make things for their iPhone).
While Jobs didn't talk much about Leopard, Xcode or the other great stuff Apple has coming this year, I can picture a nice scenario where one will be able to choose "iPhone Project" in Xcode and code like they would (albeit with a very different GUI notion) for the Mac. I also suspect that DashCode was released just to make it easier to build custom widgets for this thing.
If you can buy it without the Cingular/AT&T service from Apple, then it might be worth the cost, since the WiFi/Bluetooth is cool enough and I already have Verizon (along with the entire fam).
5hrs life, tho... gonna be tough if you use it as a cell phone.
Well, for starters, you should be making an image installation disk for your fresh installs that incorporates (or, in MS terms - "slipstreams") what you need into it. This is especially handy if you don't have the same hardware. Check out nLite - http://www.nliteos.com/nlite.html - for more details on how easy it can be to do this. This saves hours of time. Days, if you have tons of boxes to refresh.
Next you'll need a WSUS - http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserversystem/updat eservices/default.mspx - box somewhere on your network which will take care of those monthly downloads for you and only do the heavy download lifting on one machine. You'll need to configure all your other boxes via group policy or registry hacks to point to this server instead of the mothership @ Microsoft so they can get the updates from there.
With these two steps, you'll free up bandwidth and have more time to hit the stacks!
ours is the same and i think it might be the whining of our users that you hear *:^)
we have been looking @ PKI-based login (via USB tokens) for quite some time, but they whine about those things as well.
our users would probably prefer some type of biometric solution, but the only one i'd let them use would be one where they have to give a tissue sample each time they need to authenticate. after enough logins, no more users... problem. solved.
"16 character password each month that cannot compare in any digits to the previous twelve passwords, nor can it be a simple string"
this is an exaggeration. I can believe 8-character password every 45 days that cannot be the same as any of the previous 6, but there's no way that the stated requirements are correct. every user would have sticky notes on the bottom of their keyboard or phone or on their laptops in order to remember their password.
no real enterprise security shop would condone such a moronic password policy.
if a company were that paranoid, they'd have invested in PKI or use SecurID.
tell us what the real requirements are and maybe we can offer some concrete suggestions.
Definitely second this opine. I had the opportunity to check out the new MacBooks today as well and the shiny screen is really annoying (I'm a coder, not a laptop movie-watcher). That, combined with the reduced tactile feel of the keyboard, made me feel much better about buying a MBPro. It ran a tad faster than my 1.8, but it's not like my 1.8 is a dog.
I got a chance to play with a Lenovo X60 (2GHz Core Duo, 1GB DDR2, bluetooth, wifi) today as well and I have to say that I wish the MB was more like it. It was way lighter with a much better keyboard. (It also cost ~$1,700.00USD more)
First, your statement could have been said if they ruled for Google, AOL, Yahoo!, etc.
Second, you're saying that Democrats aren't in the back-pocket of corporations either? Clueless or naive?
If we geeks could get enough of a lobby (and if Google couldn't buy the vote, who can?) together to fund large campaign donations to buy votes we like, maybe we'd have a chance at nixing crap like this and the Patriot Act and get some patent reform and...and...and...
But, there has been too much money over too much time creating too much counter influence.
Perhaps it would be simpler if they just setup two blind donation bins for all votes (for/against). Let the morons vote and then whichever side of the argument wins, all who voted get to split the money (for their campaigns) on that side, with the rest going to pay down the national debt. Over time, the politicians would have to start picking the correct side or face no campaign funding.
Such strange logic, given that this is a group of people who are willing and very able to use digital media on computers (as opposed to the average PC user who can't even manage to keep malware off their systems) *and* have demonstrated over and over again how very willing they are to actually *pay* for stuff they use.
Couple that with a cheap system that can eaily be hooked up to a TV and *comes with a remote* and it would seem that the studios are overlooking a serious bit of cash flow.
And your argument about cross-platform development and support is dubious at best. Since we're just talking about displaying movies, Java could easily be employed as well as most of the cross-platform toolkits with hooks into Quicktime.
It would be trivial to show that you were deliberately hampered from doing your job, especially since there are likely no documented, official statements making these negative practices part of the standard business operations. It would, however, also help if you actually do exceedingly well in your job (as much as the environment allows), since there could be no claim of poor job performance. Large organizations will not take the chance of a public lawsuit, at least not yet. If the economy gets any worse, however, all bets are off even if you keep your mouth shut, work extra hours and do an amazing job every day.
Mid- and smaller-sized operations most likely would follow the course you suggested, however, and can you without a second thought.
I really do not know how large organizations in the United States survive in the new global economy where emerging markets have businesses that aren't making themselves in the traditional molds (one might argue they aren't surviving, but I digress).
Your situation is indicative of most departments in large US organizations. "Don't rock the boat."; "Just do your work."; "We can't give *them* that info, they might look better than *us*." Those are all sentiments that are most likely not spoken, but implied in daily interactions with management. I don't believe it's due to malice. I truly belive it's managers being afraid to look "stupid" in front of others.
If you try to stand out in the crowd and continue open dialogues, collaboration and information dissemination you'll garner the support and respect of your peers, but you will not advance much beyond your current position. You stand more to lose by not speaking up (the whole department will be outsourced due to lack of productivity) than you do by being a leader (you are unlikely to get axed for attempting to make things better...lawyers would have a field day with your case).
Sadly, there is little satisfaction in IT jobs in large organizations these days. You'll need to go find a small company or derive work enjoyment from non-employment activities.
That's probably not what you wanted to hear, but unless there's a "miracle post" in this topic with a real, attainable solution, I suspect you'll get many similar replies.
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Not casting aspersions, but I've yet to see a reason why I (or anyone) should trust CF. The "KPMG" 'audit' reason is absolutely not sufficient, too.
The service is free and lures folks in with "fast". When a service is free, you're the product (see recent FB kerfuffle).
And, no IPv6 endpoint seems like a big missing component when "competitors" have it.
On the surface, yes. But, there are a number of options available for transport privacy that do not require using a VPN (provided you actually trust Cloudflare not to use your data and are savvy enough to setup one of the options) https://developers.cloudflare....
IMO this post shld be taken down. It is not a technology discussion and it's definitely not "stuff that matters". I personally know liberal arts majors, one of whom has degrees in music and nothing else who are likely more experienced and qualified in security than 99% of the security folks on /.
Good step onto the slippery slope of becoming yet-another-Reddit. But, if one needs clickbait for ad revenue, one will do just about anything.
The dataviz in this one is pretty cool (with links to source data and R scripts): http://beechplane.wordpress.com/2012/11/07/the-95-confidence-of-nate-silver/ Basically, missed three (which is in line with expectations)
(Mostly replying to the ending sentence of the post)
Unless Apple really has a complete QA failure with a future OS upgrade or new device release, they will remain in front of the other device manufacturers for a very long time. They will be free to pick-and-choose which interesting & successful bits they steal and then super-engineer/implement from Android, Palm, Microsoft, etc and continue their lead.
I'm still convinced these netbook/tablet rumors are just that - rumors.
So far, the United States has been the only country insane enough to actually use atomic/nuclear weapons offensively (pretty much to kill scores of civilians). How does that give us the right to prevent other countries from doing the same thing? The "civilized" world has no moral high ground to stand on for this issue.
He (and you) *are* naive. Those "countries who really have no business with them" don't give a hoot about what the international community thinks and have demonstrated - consistently - that they are immune from this "pressure" you speak of.
Obama continues to undermine the leadership position of the United States in the world through statements like this and also continues to show how much he just does not "get it".
They've got a website - http://www.alaskaair.com/as/www2/help/faqs/inflight-broadband.asp - answering questions on their inflight wi-fi and their @alaskaair Twitter account - http://twitter.com/alaskaair - provides daily updates what flight #'s will have wifi.
Isn't Facebook itself the huge waste of bandwidth as opposed to just the verbose URLs it generates?
but I'd hate for MacNN to get any ad revenue or new, regular visitors from the traffic this will generate.
/. post : http://www.rudis.net/content/2007/12/18/macnn-editors-egg-nog-consumption-increases-disastrous-results
I posted my retort on this just before the
I wish non-security folks would stop reporting on security "stuff"... I can't wait for NPR, CNN and Fox to run with this "breaking news!" tonight or tomorrow.
Trust me. I'd love to ditch Verizon. Too many relatives on it (pretty much free calls on the plan, then) and the best coverage for my travelling/living/working corridor (PA to NJ). With a minimum of two hours of driving each day, four kids and a 24/7 on-call job, no way I can afford to miss a call or not be able to call. Despite my hatred for the trendy RAZR, I finally broke down and got one since I can sync addresses and calendar to it from OS X (perhaps the only Verizon phone that can).
I'd even pick this up if the price-point were a bit better (I'm not really complaining since there's a *ton* of tech in that phone and it's worth the money) and I could get a halfway decent plan from Cingular (or get work to pick up the monthly cost and make this my work phone).
It's really going to tick me off when my counterparts in Belgium just stick their card in this thing and start playing (once it's cleared in Europe).
I also noticed that they will have the ability to sync from a PC (at least contacts). I'm curious as to what data source...Outlook? iTunes 8 with contacts (does iTunes for Windows already have contacts)?
What will also be cool is that - if this really runs OS X, then the modders will be out en-masse to kick up the functionality even further.
I still hold out hope for Cocoa apps in Xcode on this. Widgets are nice (and it will be interesting to see if DashCode encourages folks to make things for their iPhone).
While Jobs didn't talk much about Leopard, Xcode or the other great stuff Apple has coming this year, I can picture a nice scenario where one will be able to choose "iPhone Project" in Xcode and code like they would (albeit with a very different GUI notion) for the Mac. I also suspect that DashCode was released just to make it easier to build custom widgets for this thing.
If you can buy it without the Cingular/AT&T service from Apple, then it might be worth the cost, since the WiFi/Bluetooth is cool enough and I already have Verizon (along with the entire fam).
5hrs life, tho... gonna be tough if you use it as a cell phone.
Well, for starters, you should be making an image installation disk for your fresh installs that incorporates (or, in MS terms - "slipstreams") what you need into it. This is especially handy if you don't have the same hardware. Check out nLite - http://www.nliteos.com/nlite.html - for more details on how easy it can be to do this. This saves hours of time. Days, if you have tons of boxes to refresh.
t eservices/default.mspx - box somewhere on your network which will take care of those monthly downloads for you and only do the heavy download lifting on one machine. You'll need to configure all your other boxes via group policy or registry hacks to point to this server instead of the mothership @ Microsoft so they can get the updates from there.
Next you'll need a WSUS - http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserversystem/upda
With these two steps, you'll free up bandwidth and have more time to hit the stacks!
ours is the same and i think it might be the whining of our users that you hear *:^)
we have been looking @ PKI-based login (via USB tokens) for quite some time, but they whine about those things as well.
our users would probably prefer some type of biometric solution, but the only one i'd let them use would be one where they have to give a tissue sample each time they need to authenticate. after enough logins, no more users... problem. solved.
this is one of the few times i wish posters could mod, cuz that succinct analysis should be bumped way up.
"16 character password each month that cannot compare in any digits to the previous twelve passwords, nor can it be a simple string"
this is an exaggeration. I can believe 8-character password every 45 days that cannot be the same as any of the previous 6, but there's no way that the stated requirements are correct. every user would have sticky notes on the bottom of their keyboard or phone or on their laptops in order to remember their password.
no real enterprise security shop would condone such a moronic password policy.
if a company were that paranoid, they'd have invested in PKI or use SecurID.
tell us what the real requirements are and maybe we can offer some concrete suggestions.
Definitely second this opine. I had the opportunity to check out the new MacBooks today as well and the shiny screen is really annoying (I'm a coder, not a laptop movie-watcher). That, combined with the reduced tactile feel of the keyboard, made me feel much better about buying a MBPro. It ran a tad faster than my 1.8, but it's not like my 1.8 is a dog.
I got a chance to play with a Lenovo X60 (2GHz Core Duo, 1GB DDR2, bluetooth, wifi) today as well and I have to say that I wish the MB was more like it. It was way lighter with a much better keyboard. (It also cost ~$1,700.00USD more)
I now miss my 12" PowerBook, tho.
[grin]
First, your statement could have been said if they ruled for Google, AOL, Yahoo!, etc.
Second, you're saying that Democrats aren't in the back-pocket of corporations either? Clueless or naive?
If we geeks could get enough of a lobby (and if Google couldn't buy the vote, who can?) together to fund large campaign donations to buy votes we like, maybe we'd have a chance at nixing crap like this and the Patriot Act and get some patent reform and...and...and...
But, there has been too much money over too much time creating too much counter influence.
Perhaps it would be simpler if they just setup two blind donation bins for all votes (for/against). Let the morons vote and then whichever side of the argument wins, all who voted get to split the money (for their campaigns) on that side, with the rest going to pay down the national debt. Over time, the politicians would have to start picking the correct side or face no campaign funding.
Ah, Quicktime supports video DRM...
Such strange logic, given that this is a group of people who are willing and very able to use digital media on computers (as opposed to the average PC user who can't even manage to keep malware off their systems) *and* have demonstrated over and over again how very willing they are to actually *pay* for stuff they use.
Couple that with a cheap system that can eaily be hooked up to a TV and *comes with a remote* and it would seem that the studios are overlooking a serious bit of cash flow.
And your argument about cross-platform development and support is dubious at best. Since we're just talking about displaying movies, Java could easily be employed as well as most of the cross-platform toolkits with hooks into Quicktime.
Agreed. I almost didn't read the comments after seeing the "Editors" let the story through with the obvious dig.
Both major parties will do horrible, illegal things to win various elections, but the linked article is just crap.
At least a link to this open letter would have been more useful.
Or, how about a nice sampling/a of stories related to the issue?
It would be trivial to show that you were deliberately hampered from doing your job, especially since there are likely no documented, official statements making these negative practices part of the standard business operations. It would, however, also help if you actually do exceedingly well in your job (as much as the environment allows), since there could be no claim of poor job performance. Large organizations will not take the chance of a public lawsuit, at least not yet. If the economy gets any worse, however, all bets are off even if you keep your mouth shut, work extra hours and do an amazing job every day.
Mid- and smaller-sized operations most likely would follow the course you suggested, however, and can you without a second thought.
I really do not know how large organizations in the United States survive in the new global economy where emerging markets have businesses that aren't making themselves in the traditional molds (one might argue they aren't surviving, but I digress).
Your situation is indicative of most departments in large US organizations. "Don't rock the boat."; "Just do your work."; "We can't give *them* that info, they might look better than *us*." Those are all sentiments that are most likely not spoken, but implied in daily interactions with management. I don't believe it's due to malice. I truly belive it's managers being afraid to look "stupid" in front of others.
If you try to stand out in the crowd and continue open dialogues, collaboration and information dissemination you'll garner the support and respect of your peers, but you will not advance much beyond your current position. You stand more to lose by not speaking up (the whole department will be outsourced due to lack of productivity) than you do by being a leader (you are unlikely to get axed for attempting to make things better...lawyers would have a field day with your case).
Sadly, there is little satisfaction in IT jobs in large organizations these days. You'll need to go find a small company or derive work enjoyment from non-employment activities.
That's probably not what you wanted to hear, but unless there's a "miracle post" in this topic with a real, attainable solution, I suspect you'll get many similar replies.
to anyone who promises to make them "allah[something]"@ gmail.com...
just e-mail allahbob@gmail.com if you want one...
yahoo seems to be run by a bunch of morons these days.