Installing keyloggers isn't a white-hat activity. Sorry.
Reminds me of someone I helped put away a couple years back. During his school years, he claimed to be "toying with white hat hacking". Broke into his university's computer systems, installed his OWN back doors, then offered to teach the admins about the methods he used to break in (but no mention of the back doors).
Luckily the admins caught everything he was doing on a logserver that he couldn't break into. So they found his work. Needless to say he was expelled. AS HE SHOULD HAVE BEEN. Yet, to him it was all "so unfair".
What this kid did isn't white hat. It's simply password theft and CF&A.
I guess in the same way jumping off a 50 story building, sans chute, means it's "entirely likely" you'll spatter on the pavement below.
Unions! YEAH! JUST WHAT I WANT!
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Should IT Unionize?
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I wanna pay protection money^H^H^H^dues to a bunch of senior guys who don't really do anything but hold massive power over where and when I can be assigned to work.
I want to stand in a hiring hall when out of work, hoping I'm friendly enough with someone that they'll throw me a bone before someone else.
I want to be told that I need to stop working whenever the union has a disagreement with an employer. Never mind my financial status, or that it might cause me to lose my house, car, etc.
I want to be booted from a place because I make too much as a union worker and will be replaced by a scab who happens to be the owner's pimply-faced teenaged son who can keep Windows running for a couple days before bombing.
I want to get shuffled out of a position by a higher up who doesn't like me, all the while being told there isn't enough work there for me, then find out a month or two down the road that what he REALLY did was replace me with a friend/family member.
All this kind of stuff has been observed by me with my father who was a loyal union man his entire career.
What happened to him? He was forced to retire early because the people above him either just didn't like him for some reason or were indifferent to the fact that others didn't care for him and were consistently fucking him out of decent positions, and couldn't get another position in a reasonable amount of time before various major bills came due. Now he gets to sit and anticipate how much his benefits get slashed every year. It's almost to the point that he may as well have worked at a job with NO retirement benefits now. And I get my grandfather, who was also a union man trying to rationalize my father's treatment because "he" was treated OK.
So you know what I have to say to "should IT unionize"?
In 2004, they had assholes H^H^H^H, sorry, PEACEFUL ACTIVISTS at the RNC who were throwing bricks through windows, deflating tires, pulling fire alarms, vandalizing property, stealing, harassing convention attendees after-hours, trying to sneak into the convention just to cause disruptions, etc, etc.
I can see, quite easily, why there'd be a reason to not want a repeat.
Do I think pre-emptive raids and confiscation of private property is a Good Thing? No. This kind of thing shouldn't happen. Before ANY party's political convention.
"The other buildings were hit by a plane, not that one."
That's nice. I never said WTC7 was hit by a plane. I said DEBRIS. As in chunks from the other buildings and possibly the plane. Some of it on, y'know, FIRE?
And who said anything about high temp? Do you have any concept, whatsoever, of what a sustained low-temp burn can do to structural elements in a building? Especially one weakened in some places and overloaded in others due to structural damage?
"Are you saying people in general don't have any sense?"
Stop right there.
Ask yourself. Do you want a NICE answer? Or an HONEST one. And no, if you say HONEST while still secretly hoping it's the NICE one, you're going to be disappointed.
It's the difference between arguing "facts" and "beliefs".
"I believe THUS" is not subject to any form of rational proof or disproof.
"But this only happens because people don't just stand there and accept blindly what is told to them especially when it goes against commen sense."
That's the thing about "common sense". It just ISN'T that common.
A NIST engineer, somebody who's actually studied the debris, seen the site, and understands the physics involved says "According to the evidence, it happened THUS".
Bert Armchair, with a lousy example of a third-grade education, is sitting in front of his boob-tube chucks back a Schlitz and goes "Sounds hokey to me. I think Alien Ninjas from the gub'mint blew it up!"
Now what is YOUR "common" sense telling you at this point?
Simply having an opinion and an alternate theory on how something came about doesn't make you an authority.
Oh yeah. A nasty, polluting industrial complex providing all that "clean" power to the "green" city. And worse, putting it out in more concentrated form.
He's looking to re-purpose older hardware. NOT buy new. Since he literally HAS TO buy new hardware (which may or may not necessitate new CPU and RAM as well as other components) to get Splashtop, this shoots your suggestion down.
"The team emphatically claims that this has nothing to do with EA"
Right.
EA, who essentially turf all projects that aren't their beloved sports games. EA who has gone out of their way to buy healthy, actively developed games and kill them just shy of release.
Likely the WHOL guys got an ultimatum of "Ship or we shut you down". That's pretty much par for the course with EA.
"Your broad brush that says it's cool to hate Christianity right now is incorrect."
I can only assume you're saying this because you haven't been paying attention for the last couple years.
"it's a small orthodox lunatic minority that gives Christianity a bad name. Fight them."
How about I just fight a two-front war. The religious lunatics on one side, and the flagrant anti-Christian bigots on the other. Idiocy in either of these forms aggravates the shit outta me.
1: Assuming straight-line evolution of a modern mouse genome into an elephant. 2: Assuming straight-line evolution of a modern mouse genome into a whale. 3: Assuming that the protoforms of these three species only diverged AFTER the death of the dinosaurs. 4: Mice reach reproductive age at 40-50 DAYS after birth with a gestation of approximately 20 days, and the female is fertile again within 1-10 days with a litter of 10-12. So, assuming mean turnaround of 80 days, that's 5-6 generations A YEAR (for math purposes, we'll assume 5.5, giving 11 generations in 2 years).
So, no changes have occurred in modern mice in approximately the last 2000 years?
65,000,000-2000=64,998,000
So how many generations does this give us?
64,998,000*5.5=357,489,000
And how much larger of a generational span is this than the simple E.Coli experiment?
357,489,000/44,000=8,124.75
And how much more complex is something like a mouse than an E.Coli?
And how much of even MAJOR revolutionary changes to the animal's biology would be visible?
And we're talking with a sample size of, easily, trillions or quadrillions of mice over that span of time, not just "One mouse was followed by one mouse, was followed by one mouse, was followed by one..."
That's the problem with your oversimplified model. You're looking for a serial, linear progression in what is a massively parallel environment with parallel lines of progression.
Whoops, painting with too broad a brush here! You're assigning the blame of a small group of individuals in the Roman Catholic sect to Christians as a whole.
I know it's cool to hate Christianity right now, but at least get your facts right.
"Such extremes such as celibacy have forced even priests into the arms of pederasty."
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I would have thought achieving immortality? Transluminal flight? Infinite power?
A space elevator has always been a distinct possibility. Our materials engineering just needed to play catch-up to our construction abilities.
What? You're a geek right?
The odds that you've actually had any are....
Oh wait...not by choice...
This is NOT white-hat.
Installing keyloggers isn't a white-hat activity. Sorry.
Reminds me of someone I helped put away a couple years back. During his school years, he claimed to be "toying with white hat hacking". Broke into his university's computer systems, installed his OWN back doors, then offered to teach the admins about the methods he used to break in (but no mention of the back doors).
Luckily the admins caught everything he was doing on a logserver that he couldn't break into. So they found his work. Needless to say he was expelled. AS HE SHOULD HAVE BEEN. Yet, to him it was all "so unfair".
What this kid did isn't white hat. It's simply password theft and CF&A.
I guess in the same way jumping off a 50 story building, sans chute, means it's "entirely likely" you'll spatter on the pavement below.
All this kind of stuff has been observed by me with my father who was a loyal union man his entire career.
What happened to him? He was forced to retire early because the people above him either just didn't like him for some reason or were indifferent to the fact that others didn't care for him and were consistently fucking him out of decent positions, and couldn't get another position in a reasonable amount of time before various major bills came due. Now he gets to sit and anticipate how much his benefits get slashed every year. It's almost to the point that he may as well have worked at a job with NO retirement benefits now. And I get my grandfather, who was also a union man trying to rationalize my father's treatment because "he" was treated OK.
So you know what I have to say to "should IT unionize"?
FUCK THAT NOISE!
In 2004, they had assholes H^H^H^H, sorry, PEACEFUL ACTIVISTS at the RNC who were throwing bricks through windows, deflating tires, pulling fire alarms, vandalizing property, stealing, harassing convention attendees after-hours, trying to sneak into the convention just to cause disruptions, etc, etc.
I can see, quite easily, why there'd be a reason to not want a repeat.
Do I think pre-emptive raids and confiscation of private property is a Good Thing? No. This kind of thing shouldn't happen. Before ANY party's political convention.
250 Gigabytes/month
2000 Gigabits/month
66.66666667 Gigabits/day
2.777777778 Gigabits/hour
2844.444444 Megabits/hour
0.790123457 Megabits/second
809.0864198 Kilobits/second
"The other buildings were hit by a plane, not that one."
That's nice. I never said WTC7 was hit by a plane. I said DEBRIS. As in chunks from the other buildings and possibly the plane. Some of it on, y'know, FIRE?
And who said anything about high temp? Do you have any concept, whatsoever, of what a sustained low-temp burn can do to structural elements in a building? Especially one weakened in some places and overloaded in others due to structural damage?
Straw. Camel. Back pain?
"Are you saying people in general don't have any sense?"
Stop right there.
Ask yourself. Do you want a NICE answer? Or an HONEST one. And no, if you say HONEST while still secretly hoping it's the NICE one, you're going to be disappointed.
It's the difference between arguing "facts" and "beliefs".
"I believe THUS" is not subject to any form of rational proof or disproof.
"But this only happens because people don't just stand there and accept blindly what is told to them especially when it goes against commen sense."
That's the thing about "common sense". It just ISN'T that common.
A NIST engineer, somebody who's actually studied the debris, seen the site, and understands the physics involved says "According to the evidence, it happened THUS".
Bert Armchair, with a lousy example of a third-grade education, is sitting in front of his boob-tube chucks back a Schlitz and goes "Sounds hokey to me. I think Alien Ninjas from the gub'mint blew it up!"
Now what is YOUR "common" sense telling you at this point?
Simply having an opinion and an alternate theory on how something came about doesn't make you an authority.
What EXACTLY is so "normal" about a multi-hour, multi-floor fire started by burning debris and fed by fuel oil?
At amplifying my Insanity Waves!
Oh yeah. A nasty, polluting industrial complex providing all that "clean" power to the "green" city. And worse, putting it out in more concentrated form.
SF is a major city with, presumably, dozens, or hundreds of IT workers.
A 10 man SMB they're not.
Sorry, just couldn't resist.
Some people buy construction equipment, cars, and guns to mangle themselves to death and spray their blood all over the place.
You want to buy a Terminator for that purpose. Yeah, modeled after a pretty girl. You can die with a stiffy.
Okay.
NO THANK YOU!
Since you can't GET Splashtop without buying the new hardware, that kinda kills it.
Again, re-read the original article.
He's looking to re-purpose older hardware. NOT buy new. Since he literally HAS TO buy new hardware (which may or may not necessitate new CPU and RAM as well as other components) to get Splashtop, this shoots your suggestion down.
EOD
Tell her to start warming up. We're almost ready, but it's going to take a bit longer.
"The team emphatically claims that this has nothing to do with EA"
Right.
EA, who essentially turf all projects that aren't their beloved sports games.
EA who has gone out of their way to buy healthy, actively developed games and kill them just shy of release.
Likely the WHOL guys got an ultimatum of "Ship or we shut you down". That's pretty much par for the course with EA.
"Your broad brush that says it's cool to hate Christianity right now is incorrect."
I can only assume you're saying this because you haven't been paying attention for the last couple years.
"it's a small orthodox lunatic minority that gives Christianity a bad name. Fight them."
How about I just fight a two-front war. The religious lunatics on one side, and the flagrant anti-Christian bigots on the other. Idiocy in either of these forms aggravates the shit outta me.
1: Assuming straight-line evolution of a modern mouse genome into an elephant.
2: Assuming straight-line evolution of a modern mouse genome into a whale.
3: Assuming that the protoforms of these three species only diverged AFTER the death of the dinosaurs.
4: Mice reach reproductive age at 40-50 DAYS after birth with a gestation of approximately 20 days, and the female is fertile again within 1-10 days with a litter of 10-12. So, assuming mean turnaround of 80 days, that's 5-6 generations A YEAR (for math purposes, we'll assume 5.5, giving 11 generations in 2 years).
So, no changes have occurred in modern mice in approximately the last 2000 years?
65,000,000-2000=64,998,000
So how many generations does this give us?
64,998,000*5.5=357,489,000
And how much larger of a generational span is this than the simple E.Coli experiment?
357,489,000/44,000=8,124.75
And how much more complex is something like a mouse than an E.Coli?
And how much of even MAJOR revolutionary changes to the animal's biology would be visible?
And we're talking with a sample size of, easily, trillions or quadrillions of mice over that span of time, not just "One mouse was followed by one mouse, was followed by one mouse, was followed by one..."
That's the problem with your oversimplified model. You're looking for a serial, linear progression in what is a massively parallel environment with parallel lines of progression.
"Christians"
Whoops, painting with too broad a brush here! You're assigning the blame of a small group of individuals in the Roman Catholic sect to Christians as a whole.
I know it's cool to hate Christianity right now, but at least get your facts right.
"Such extremes such as celibacy have forced even priests into the arms of pederasty."
Nobody "forced" them to do anything.
"And if you then think, you are morally justified in killing them when they don't comply, I'm glad that capital punishment is still available."
Do you want to examine this statement for a circular hipocrisy?
Capital punishment is the acme of "being morally justified in killing someone when they don't comply".
Note: I am NOT saying I oppose capital punishment. Merely that this nose-in-the-air pseudo-moralization is WAAAY out of place.
Will we see Michael Chambers breakdancing out in front of a shop with a broom?