Usually the user community is not very good at explaining things (needs vs. wants, or simply explaining the requirement).
This may be a difficulty, but if this process goes wrong, in 90+% of all cases, the IT department bears the responsibility. The IT guys are the experts and they have to make sure, the result fits the requirements. If the user has problems explaining them, the IT has to guide them through the process. That's what experts are for.
If there are two parties collaborating and A is knowledgeable and B not, A bears the higher responsibility.
Usually the IT department is not very good at selling things. Being technically right is no replacement for explanations. If you take some extra time, you can give things a completely different spin.
I have seen very successful IT departments which were headed by marketing/sales guys. They just focused on selling what their department was doing and why. For technical decisions they had their staff. They were much better off (budget- and apprecion-wise) than the average IT department.
It is a typical mistake in IT departments to think the manager has to know about every topic. Therefor the best technical guys often become abysmal managers.
The "assertion"-problem is only tip of the iceberg.
If an assertion fails, this usually means that someone managed to make the code behave in an unintended way. Since the affect occurred simultaneously at several providers all over the world, this indicates a coordinated attack. The chances are real, someone managed to exploit a buffer overflow (or similar) in BIND.
So we have to look seriously into the possibility that people have a way to execute code with the same permissions as BIND has.
When i got the information this morning, this was an alert topic.
I would bet 100% of nuclear scientists are willing to sell their secrets. So the identification is the easy part.
The only question is: at what price? One will spill for a drink at the hotel bar, the other only when offered critical medical services for his sick child.
How do you fit him into the American school system?
Please don't try... You're neither doing him nor the school system any favor. The best you can do for people who don't fit the system, is to allow them living productively outside of it.
A good system is capable of exception handling....
Steep discount... hah... if one of my customer wants to protect his core brands only, he has to cough up >200.000 US$. 10US$ would be a steep discount and should cover the costs. More than 500 US$ is IMHO blackmail.
I think this bit pure BS. There is never a proof that some digital data has been deleted. One copy has been deleted at best.... If it was the only copy, only few people know.
As i said, i don't want a "damnatio memoriae", because it wouldn't work. I want his ideas and himself to be snubbed. Even the worst paper is to valuable to print his face upon. You can report on him without having to plaster his face in the front page, mentioning his name or quoting his manifesto. And i can promise you one thing: This would be hurting him a thousand times more than any trashing prison guards could give him. I want him to die of old age in prison, realizing nobody cares a damn about him.
If you look at his kind, the attention he is getting, is to them like a bright light to a moth. If we give him attention, others will think they will get it too, if they just kill enough people.
I don't want to mask out the news, just cut the sensationalism down. Terrorists don't achieve their goals on the damage they inflict. They need those sympathetic detonations in the media to succeed.
Terrorism is a war fought more by perception than by bombs. Even the horrendous damage 911 delivered was dwarved by the psychological impact. Perhaps it is more obvious to an foreigner, how much the U.S. has changed afterwards. That spirit i loved and admired is nearly completely gone. This is, were the real hammer fell:-(.
I am sure that this will be lost time. Worse. Spending time with his manifesto is exactly the thing, the killer wants us to do. He is not worth the time and effort, his manifesto is also not worth it.
The murders were his PR campaign. Don't fall for it. I know that a "damnation memoriae" will not work, but don't help a killer with additional attention.
I don't want to know about his childhood, i am not interested in his home stories, i don't want to see his pictures or see his manifesto publicly discussed.
If you want to spend time, do it for his victims. What where their dreams, ideas, visions? Try to use your words to keep their memory alive, not some sick bastards.
It isn't correct to say that something isn't illegal just because a court hasn't ruled against anyone doing exactly that thing yet.
Sorry for the late answer, i was travelling....
If you say "County X says Y is illegal", then either there should be a very clear law saying this or a court should have ruled so. This is neither the case for RB face recognition in Germany. To say "Germany says.." because one goverment official says so, is a bit premature.
There has been an opinion from the germanys chief privacy officer, but this is not a court ruling or something else the police could enforce. Though he is likely to be right (in terms of european and german law), this FB face recognition is not officialy illegal.
I think no state attorney will have difficulties to charge you according to the "Computer Fraud and Abuse Act" in the U.S. if you participate willingly in a DDOS atttack. IMHO it can be considered as "causing damage".
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Usually the user community is not very good at explaining things (needs vs. wants, or simply explaining the requirement).
This may be a difficulty, but if this process goes wrong, in 90+% of all cases, the IT department bears the responsibility. The IT guys are the experts and they have to make sure, the result fits the requirements. If the user has problems explaining them, the IT has to guide them through the process. That's what experts are for.
If there are two parties collaborating and A is knowledgeable and B not, A bears the higher responsibility.
Usually the IT department is not very good at selling things. Being technically right is no replacement for explanations. If you take some extra time, you can give things a completely different spin.
I have seen very successful IT departments which were headed by marketing/sales guys. They just focused on selling what their department was doing and why. For technical decisions they had their staff. They were much better off (budget- and apprecion-wise) than the average IT department.
It is a typical mistake in IT departments to think the manager has to know about every topic. Therefor the best technical guys often become abysmal managers.
Yours, Martin
Her Dragonriders of Pern were one of my first Fantasy Novels )i dicovered them in the 80's) and had a huge impact on my reading behavior since then..
I will dearly miss her.
Martin
Agree, heard drivers complaining about firmware updates massively changing the driving behaviour of their cars dramatically already a decade ago...
The "assertion"-problem is only tip of the iceberg.
If an assertion fails, this usually means that someone managed to make the code behave in an unintended way. Since the affect occurred simultaneously at several providers all over the world, this indicates a coordinated attack. The chances are real, someone managed to exploit a buffer overflow (or similar) in BIND.
So we have to look seriously into the possibility that people have a way to execute code with the same permissions as BIND has.
When i got the information this morning, this was an alert topic.
Yours, Martin
I would bet 100% of nuclear scientists are willing to sell their secrets. So the identification is the easy part.
The only question is: at what price? One will spill for a drink at the hotel bar, the other only when offered critical medical services for his sick child.
Oh, they put a lot of effort in, which i want to reward.
Probably the merger was "inevitable" due to the rampaging piracy ;-).
The only problem is the curse of the video game console. The PC user get's crappy menus for the sake XBox/PS players.
A game company has to make sure you pay for the game. Playing (or enjoying) it, is secondary....
Someone once explained to me, that sales in enterprise IT are considered collateral success by Apple.
How do you fit him into the American school system?
Please don't try... You're neither doing him nor the school system any favor. The best you can do for people who don't fit the system, is to allow them living productively outside of it.
A good system is capable of exception handling....
Steep discount... hah... if one of my customer wants to protect his core brands only, he has to cough up >200.000 US$. 10US$ would be a steep discount and should cover the costs. More than 500 US$ is IMHO blackmail.
We didn't get rid of the a.m.-p.m. shit.
We didn't squat the DST.
We have Extra-Timezones (with fractional hour offsets) due to national pride.
How do you expect something to go through that is farther reaching then abandoning all three above together.
Yours, Martin
I think this bit pure BS. There is never a proof that some digital data has been deleted. One copy has been deleted at best.... If it was the only copy, only few people know.
Yeah, not the first time i want to hit the guy who wrote the script.
Sorry, sounds more like a C action movie script than a theory. And even a sound theory would be a waste of time where this person is concerned.
My /. fortune with this reply: "Learn reading before writing" ;-)
He doesn't want us swayed by his supreme understanding. He wants attention and currently he is getting it :-(.
As i said, i don't want a "damnatio memoriae", because it wouldn't work. I want his ideas and himself to be snubbed. Even the worst paper is to valuable to print his face upon. You can report on him without having to plaster his face in the front page, mentioning his name or quoting his manifesto. And i can promise you one thing: This would be hurting him a thousand times more than any trashing prison guards could give him. I want him to die of old age in prison, realizing nobody cares a damn about him.
If you look at his kind, the attention he is getting, is to them like a bright light to a moth. If we give him attention, others will think they will get it too, if they just kill enough people.
I don't want to mask out the news, just cut the sensationalism down. Terrorists don't achieve their goals on the damage they inflict. They need those sympathetic detonations in the media to succeed.
Terrorism is a war fought more by perception than by bombs. Even the horrendous damage 911 delivered was dwarved by the psychological impact. Perhaps it is more obvious to an foreigner, how much the U.S. has changed afterwards. That spirit i loved and admired is nearly completely gone. This is, were the real hammer fell :-(.
Yours, Martin
I am sure that this will be lost time. Worse. Spending time with his manifesto is exactly the thing, the killer wants us to do. He is not worth the time and effort, his manifesto is also not worth it.
The murders were his PR campaign. Don't fall for it. I know that a "damnation memoriae" will not work, but don't help a killer with additional attention.
I don't want to know about his childhood, i am not interested in his home stories, i don't want to see his pictures or see his manifesto publicly discussed.
If you want to spend time, do it for his victims. What where their dreams, ideas, visions? Try to use your words to keep their memory alive, not some sick bastards.
Yours, Martin
According to what i read in the local newspapers here in Germany, the systems raised an alarm at 7 out of 10 people passing through them.
It isn't correct to say that something isn't illegal just because a court hasn't ruled against anyone doing exactly that thing yet.
Sorry for the late answer, i was travelling....
If you say "County X says Y is illegal", then either there should be a very clear law saying this or a court should have ruled so. This is neither the case for RB face recognition in Germany. To say "Germany says.." because one goverment official says so, is a bit premature.
Just for starters: No court has ruled yet.
There has been an opinion from the germanys chief privacy officer, but this is not a court ruling or something else the police could enforce. Though he is likely to be right (in terms of european and german law), this FB face recognition is not officialy illegal.
I think no state attorney will have difficulties to charge you according to the "Computer Fraud and Abuse Act" in the U.S. if you participate willingly in a DDOS atttack. IMHO it can be considered as "causing damage".