es, I do things that I don't want people to know about, but nothing the government would care about.
I'll say it again, no one will care about your dirty little secrets until you run for office! Then your secrets aren't secret any longer. Do you think your life so far will stand public scrutiny? What about if your reading habits are public? Video rentals? Website browsing habits? Personal thoughts? I didn't think so.
Unless you decide to do something about our jacked up government and you run for office. Now your reading habits do come in to question. Maybe by then video rentals will also be fodder for the government archiving scheme. How many different ways can you think of for someone (political opponent, media, activist organization) to spin you renting the movie Die Hard? "He's obsessed with gratuitous violenece; save our children!" What about the classic Gone With the Wind? "Obviously the man is gay; why else would a man rent such a movie? He's not fit to lead our military!" No one will be able to help you if you rented an adult flick for you and the Mrs. Imagine what the religious activists will do with that one!
Don't be a sheep. Protect your rights. Protect your right to think freely without fear of government reprisal for thinking outside the box. That's as fundamental of a right as it gets.
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759
Not to nitpick or anything.:-) Yes, it is a great quote which is why I use it as my email sig.
And where is the FBI actually using this to spy on 'average people'? And can you come up with any particular reason why they might give a crap about what the 'average person' is reading?
The FBI has been used to abuse power before. Ever here of this really nice old man by then name of J.Edgar Hoover? Power like this is meant to ensure continued power. Ever check out a book on kama sutra at the local library for you and the Mrs? Better hope you don't run for public office if someone finds out about it. They'll call your wife a whore and you'll be a pedophile (simple leaks to the media get blown well out of proportion with their creative impulses). Ever check out any book that is critical of a sitting president or a party just because you were curious? Well your political opponent will say, once the info is leaked to the media, that you're an anarchist hell bent on destroying our way of life. This power infringes on the freedom to think. Do you want to research Vietnam's alternate theories, the ones that Uncle Sam says are bogus? Would you still do so under public scrutiny? The moment we let our private thinking become legal fodder for our government is the day that we can no longer honestly ascend to the ranks of a government official. Slippery slope indeed.
I hope they improve the searching options a bit. I regularly search NANAS or NANAE (new.admin.net-abuse.sightings/email) for a domain I suspect of spamming. Unfortunately the period is ommited from the search strings, so a search for spammer.com also matches notaspammer.net and huntdownandflogspammers.org. I would love full regex abilities. I'd actually pay for good Google Groups access.
Maybe they could be....:-) I don't think their proposed requirement says what medium the archive has to be on. VHS on the really really really long run cycle would still be an archive. You could pick a more obscure medium like betamax too if you want in my opinion. I'm still against the ruling but it might be possible to stick it to the FCC with the medium you choose.
My state, Kansas, was getting Sunday sales a while back thanks to a court ruling that said local munipalities could set their own rules. The legislature was trying to change that but I don't know if they did before the ession closed or not. As far as I'm concerend banning Sunday sales of alcohol is entirely unconstitutional and is yet another example of the lack of separation between church and state. What other possible reason was there for creating these antiquated laws in the first place? A religion wanted to assert control over people on that religions Sabbath. Having a law that supports that is purely unconstitutional. I hope my state gets it abolished soon. IIRC Missouri allows Sunday sales. That's why there are so many liquor stores on the border roads.
and one of the people who owes me money has found a job and has started paying the money back. Yip!:-)
Congrats! Being out of debt is a good feeling. I have a bad habit of buying things I really don't need to get buy but sure are nice to have. That's where my networking lab came from. A of a year ago it was well stocked.:-) I'm now actually investing much of my extra $$ so I'm not tempted to spend it. You might consider doing something similar once you get out of debt. Not that you have trouble with buying things or anything. Index funds make quite a bit more per year than your average savings account. They are fairly safe too. Ie, as long as the market at least breaks even then you've really lost nothing. Best of luck.
I fixed my debt problem that accumulated through college by getting a consolidation loan. I also got a contract with an ISP I'd worked with for years to do all their sysadm stuff. The job paid pretty well for the area already. The contract was just added gravy. My debt was gone in no time. Then my contact ran up with the ISP and the suits thought they could hire someone in another branch of the company could do it cheaper (they still higher me every couple of months to do things their people don't know how to do). Then the contract for my real wasn't renewed. I got out of debt just in time to be unemployed. LOL. It's not all bad though. I've made 3/4s of a year's salary for me in 2.5 month's time. Not too shabby. Best of luck on the debt deal.
Apparently you have neither a life nor a family. It's good that you have a job that you enjoy (no other type is EVER acceptable IMHO) but in 5-10 years you'll look back and realize that you missed out on a lot. Priorities change. Will your employer stand by you when your long-term priority shifts to your family? Health?
You would be one of the lucky ones that appreciate what you do. I believe your employer is in the teeny tiny minority we grunts call freaks of wonderful nature. I wouldn't mind taking time out of my weekend to help out my employer if they appreciated it. They'd sure as hell better not expect me to do it for free though. Compensate me in a manner that's agreeable to me. First off the hours should be time and a half whatever the option is I choose. I could take off another day. They could pay me like it was overtime. They could add it to my vacation leave. They could add is to my bonus or let me pick something nice for my office. What's good for the employee is good for the employer, not the other way around.
There's a reason why you aren't seeing many suits from individuals. The federal government has seen fit to take the power to sue spammers given to us by our state legislatures. Instead of letting us defend ourselves they passed that ridiculous YOU-CAN-SPAM law. I was looking forward to using my state's anti-spam law. Unfortunately the YOU-CAN-SPAM law went into effect before I had a chance and it doesn't all me, the end user, the person being damaged, to seek legal action. Thanks Uncle Sammy for watching out for my interests. I really appreciate it.
You don't need a license to write about and publish a book on a Cisco product. I don't need a license to write about and publish a detailed take-apart for a 2004 Chevy Silverado Duramax diesel engine. I don't even need a license to write about and publish every technical aspect of the latest greatest Intel processor provided I did all of this through my own research.
One is my desktop. One is my co-lo server. The other is my home server. I don't have a reasonably new Mac unfortunately. It's on my purchase list after a few more revisions of the G5. I have a PC on my desktop simply because of purchase cost at the time I needed a new machine. I may be the Macdaddy but all my servers run Linux.:-)
LOL. I don't know that it's really worth it. I've got 480GB of space on my own mail server to play with (I could never delete mail again!). I'd be curious to play with gmail but it's not necessary for my email survival. I'll keep you in mind if I come across some extra pc3200 though!:-)
I have a dual MP2400 with 4 x 120GB WD 1200JB drives. I have a single XP2800 machine with 4 x 120GB WD 1200JB drives, 2 x 200GB Maxtor 6Y200P0, and 2 x maxtor 7Y250P0 drives. I have a dual Xeon 2.8Ghz machine with 4 x 120GB Maxtor 6Y120M0 drives. That accounts for all my regularly used machines. I guess I'm not a common man.:-) Not to brag...
I have to disagree with the sister system though. For most geeks like you and I a sister system would be fairly adequate. It would be better with an occasional off-site backup. However it really sounds like this guy's data is far too valuable to have only one copy of it and to have all copies be at one physical location. He really needs an off-site backup somewhere. Imagine for a moment if his home (I'm guessing he works from home, but this still applies to a real store-front business) was robbed. The crooks didn't know what they were taking. They saw two shiny computers in an office and figured they could hawk them on the street. There goes all his data, both copies. D'oh! So in short a sister system is a good idea but it probably won't do this guy much of any good. It would be a good local solution for a short term live mirror (ie, data is archived that night but the sister machine gives you a backup for that one day's work).
Attacking the dead Governor wouldn't have anyhow. Missouri residents hated Asscroft with a vengenace. I live about 3 miles from the Missouri border at that time and had a number of co-workers from across the line. They related many a story I hadn't heard since I didn't keep up on Missouri news.
From what I've read on almost every critical bug/hole found in Windows in the past is that the entity that found the problem and reported it to Microsoft did so up to a year before the fix was released. I once saw a table on a website of all the known bugs/holes/sploits in either Windows or IE, if they were patched, and when. I forget where I saw that table though. IT showed dozens of critical problems that had yet to be addressed. If anyone happens to remember such a table please add the link to this thread. Just because the first you hear of a problem is when the fix is released doesn't mean that those that mean you (or others) harm hadn't heard about it months prior.
Whether they are the origin or not is irrelevant. Their irresponsible administrative practices hurts the Internet community at large. They are bad neighbors in a diverse neighborhood and they should get onboard and clean up their act.
Travel to Nigeria once in a while and you may find yourself being arrested at the terminal as a Terrorist Spammer. Wouldn't surprise me in the least the way Bush and cronies are going.
I have two class rings from way back when I was in HS (one was taken and hid by some jackasses and reappeared a year later after I'd bought a replacement). Anyhow the first ring has a small burnt spot on the bottom of it where I happened to be working on a powered up machine in the school's library. I was the resident computer jock and happened to touch an ISA card with my ring finger while doing something or other. *SNAP!!!* There was a big flash, the computer reset, the desk lamp dimmed and flickered and I cussed like a SOB at the burn I'd just received on the bottom of my ring finger. Molten gold is freaking hot.;-) Yeah, that stun a little bit. My father did something similar when he was in HS. He was tightening the leads on a starter on his El Camino when he accidentally arced across the leads with the wrench. His ring was touching the wrench at the time. The way all concerned parties described the ring was that it literally blew the side out of it. Ouch.
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I'll say it again, no one will care about your dirty little secrets until you run for office! Then your secrets aren't secret any longer. Do you think your life so far will stand public scrutiny? What about if your reading habits are public? Video rentals? Website browsing habits? Personal thoughts? I didn't think so.
Don't be a sheep. Protect your rights. Protect your right to think freely without fear of government reprisal for thinking outside the box. That's as fundamental of a right as it gets.
Not to nitpick or anything. :-) Yes, it is a great quote which is why I use it as my email sig.
The FBI has been used to abuse power before. Ever here of this really nice old man by then name of J.Edgar Hoover? Power like this is meant to ensure continued power. Ever check out a book on kama sutra at the local library for you and the Mrs? Better hope you don't run for public office if someone finds out about it. They'll call your wife a whore and you'll be a pedophile (simple leaks to the media get blown well out of proportion with their creative impulses). Ever check out any book that is critical of a sitting president or a party just because you were curious? Well your political opponent will say, once the info is leaked to the media, that you're an anarchist hell bent on destroying our way of life. This power infringes on the freedom to think. Do you want to research Vietnam's alternate theories, the ones that Uncle Sam says are bogus? Would you still do so under public scrutiny? The moment we let our private thinking become legal fodder for our government is the day that we can no longer honestly ascend to the ranks of a government official. Slippery slope indeed.
I hope they improve the searching options a bit. I regularly search NANAS or NANAE (new.admin.net-abuse.sightings/email) for a domain I suspect of spamming. Unfortunately the period is ommited from the search strings, so a search for spammer.com also matches notaspammer.net and huntdownandflogspammers.org. I would love full regex abilities. I'd actually pay for good Google Groups access.
Maybe they could be.... :-) I don't think their proposed requirement says what medium the archive has to be on. VHS on the really really really long run cycle would still be an archive. You could pick a more obscure medium like betamax too if you want in my opinion. I'm still against the ruling but it might be possible to stick it to the FCC with the medium you choose.
My state, Kansas, was getting Sunday sales a while back thanks to a court ruling that said local munipalities could set their own rules. The legislature was trying to change that but I don't know if they did before the ession closed or not. As far as I'm concerend banning Sunday sales of alcohol is entirely unconstitutional and is yet another example of the lack of separation between church and state. What other possible reason was there for creating these antiquated laws in the first place? A religion wanted to assert control over people on that religions Sabbath. Having a law that supports that is purely unconstitutional. I hope my state gets it abolished soon. IIRC Missouri allows Sunday sales. That's why there are so many liquor stores on the border roads.
Congrats! Being out of debt is a good feeling. I have a bad habit of buying things I really don't need to get buy but sure are nice to have. That's where my networking lab came from. A of a year ago it was well stocked. :-) I'm now actually investing much of my extra $$ so I'm not tempted to spend it. You might consider doing something similar once you get out of debt. Not that you have trouble with buying things or anything. Index funds make quite a bit more per year than your average savings account. They are fairly safe too. Ie, as long as the market at least breaks even then you've really lost nothing. Best of luck.
I fixed my debt problem that accumulated through college by getting a consolidation loan. I also got a contract with an ISP I'd worked with for years to do all their sysadm stuff. The job paid pretty well for the area already. The contract was just added gravy. My debt was gone in no time. Then my contact ran up with the ISP and the suits thought they could hire someone in another branch of the company could do it cheaper (they still higher me every couple of months to do things their people don't know how to do). Then the contract for my real wasn't renewed. I got out of debt just in time to be unemployed. LOL. It's not all bad though. I've made 3/4s of a year's salary for me in 2.5 month's time. Not too shabby. Best of luck on the debt deal.
Apparently you have neither a life nor a family. It's good that you have a job that you enjoy (no other type is EVER acceptable IMHO) but in 5-10 years you'll look back and realize that you missed out on a lot. Priorities change. Will your employer stand by you when your long-term priority shifts to your family? Health?
You would be one of the lucky ones that appreciate what you do. I believe your employer is in the teeny tiny minority we grunts call freaks of wonderful nature. I wouldn't mind taking time out of my weekend to help out my employer if they appreciated it. They'd sure as hell better not expect me to do it for free though. Compensate me in a manner that's agreeable to me. First off the hours should be time and a half whatever the option is I choose. I could take off another day. They could pay me like it was overtime. They could add it to my vacation leave. They could add is to my bonus or let me pick something nice for my office. What's good for the employee is good for the employer, not the other way around.
There's a reason why you aren't seeing many suits from individuals. The federal government has seen fit to take the power to sue spammers given to us by our state legislatures. Instead of letting us defend ourselves they passed that ridiculous YOU-CAN-SPAM law. I was looking forward to using my state's anti-spam law. Unfortunately the YOU-CAN-SPAM law went into effect before I had a chance and it doesn't all me, the end user, the person being damaged, to seek legal action. Thanks Uncle Sammy for watching out for my interests. I really appreciate it.
You don't need a license to write about and publish a book on a Cisco product. I don't need a license to write about and publish a detailed take-apart for a 2004 Chevy Silverado Duramax diesel engine. I don't even need a license to write about and publish every technical aspect of the latest greatest Intel processor provided I did all of this through my own research.
One is my desktop. One is my co-lo server. The other is my home server. I don't have a reasonably new Mac unfortunately. It's on my purchase list after a few more revisions of the G5. I have a PC on my desktop simply because of purchase cost at the time I needed a new machine. I may be the Macdaddy but all my servers run Linux. :-)
Hehe, at least someone gets it. Have a good one.
LOL. I don't know that it's really worth it. I've got 480GB of space on my own mail server to play with (I could never delete mail again!). I'd be curious to play with gmail but it's not necessary for my email survival. I'll keep you in mind if I come across some extra pc3200 though! :-)
Meat to say "have only one backup copy of it" instead of "have only one copy of it". My bad.
I have to disagree with the sister system though. For most geeks like you and I a sister system would be fairly adequate. It would be better with an occasional off-site backup. However it really sounds like this guy's data is far too valuable to have only one copy of it and to have all copies be at one physical location. He really needs an off-site backup somewhere. Imagine for a moment if his home (I'm guessing he works from home, but this still applies to a real store-front business) was robbed. The crooks didn't know what they were taking. They saw two shiny computers in an office and figured they could hawk them on the street. There goes all his data, both copies. D'oh! So in short a sister system is a good idea but it probably won't do this guy much of any good. It would be a good local solution for a short term live mirror (ie, data is archived that night but the sister machine gives you a backup for that one day's work).
Oh please............. Pretty please.... With sugar and 1GB RAM sticks on top?
Attacking the dead Governor wouldn't have anyhow. Missouri residents hated Asscroft with a vengenace. I live about 3 miles from the Missouri border at that time and had a number of co-workers from across the line. They related many a story I hadn't heard since I didn't keep up on Missouri news.
Computer Weekly computed their stats with the new fangled MSMath v1.0. It has a few bugs that should be fixed by version MSMath v2010.
From what I've read on almost every critical bug/hole found in Windows in the past is that the entity that found the problem and reported it to Microsoft did so up to a year before the fix was released. I once saw a table on a website of all the known bugs/holes/sploits in either Windows or IE, if they were patched, and when. I forget where I saw that table though. IT showed dozens of critical problems that had yet to be addressed. If anyone happens to remember such a table please add the link to this thread. Just because the first you hear of a problem is when the fix is released doesn't mean that those that mean you (or others) harm hadn't heard about it months prior.
Whether they are the origin or not is irrelevant. Their irresponsible administrative practices hurts the Internet community at large. They are bad neighbors in a diverse neighborhood and they should get onboard and clean up their act.
Travel to Nigeria once in a while and you may find yourself being arrested at the terminal as a Terrorist Spammer. Wouldn't surprise me in the least the way Bush and cronies are going.
I have two class rings from way back when I was in HS (one was taken and hid by some jackasses and reappeared a year later after I'd bought a replacement). Anyhow the first ring has a small burnt spot on the bottom of it where I happened to be working on a powered up machine in the school's library. I was the resident computer jock and happened to touch an ISA card with my ring finger while doing something or other. *SNAP!!!* There was a big flash, the computer reset, the desk lamp dimmed and flickered and I cussed like a SOB at the burn I'd just received on the bottom of my ring finger. Molten gold is freaking hot. ;-) Yeah, that stun a little bit. My father did something similar when he was in HS. He was tightening the leads on a starter on his El Camino when he accidentally arced across the leads with the wrench. His ring was touching the wrench at the time. The way all concerned parties described the ring was that it literally blew the side out of it. Ouch.