is that many companies are too lazy to even get the most fundamental things right. Why on earth would you not distribute your own CA fro your internal web services? Do you really want to train yout employees that clicking on the "accept certificate" button is an everyday thing to do? Why dont you manage to get the security settings in a way that "content from an unknown source" is not "content from you own file server"? how the hell shoud the office assistant know that this is dangerous and theoretically unusual if in everyday work the instruciton says to accepti it several times per day? why yould you enable macros in office documents for no reason and not sign the document?
All security training, hints like "be careful when opening attachements from unknown sources" are anihilated if you train your employees everyday to do the exact opposite thing, namely constructing worflows and selecting toolsets which are requiring exactly that.
My 2 cents on this
a) If there is a "do not use/do x" in your security education, then something is wrong. The right way is "use/do y"
b) Construct your standard processes in a way that your users/employees can work secure *AND* efficient.
c) If there are new tools and your users demand these, keep an open ear! Note to the management: reserve some bugdet for it. If users find dropbox an efficient service, the right way is not to forbid it but to ask yourself why you cant provide any decent file sharing on your own servers.
My thoughts: Besides i dont know if the contrector also does education: Do they know in how many billable hours teaching "all secrects of your code" may result? If yes: CYA, get it in writing that you are paid for "teaching all secrets of the code" instead of "automating and stnadardizing your build/packaging/deployment processes". After the new guy tries to graps "all secrets of your code" and fails to get the first proper build, bill them for the rest.
I am not sure why goolge wave was killed. My suspicion is that they did not find an unintrusive way of placing advertisements.
IMHO google wave was what i expect of collaboration. Many emlais, revisions sendind forward and backwards document formats designed to fit on a 3.5 inch floppy disk could be avoided.....
Each of the tools you mentioned has a scope of applications in mind, some very specific and specialized.
If you really mention Autocad and Blender or sketchup in one sentence, then think first about
-what you want to create (technical CAD database for drawings/CAE/CAM, nice graphics, prototypically designed enclosures for things) -in which process step you are (manufaturing/different design phases) -in which business you are working (and to whom you have to send your files) -how much money you want to invest (nothing = just playign around; moderate = below 500 Euro; professional = how much it takes)
That said, in the moderate semi-prefessional regime i had good experiences with varicad.
Yes, i use google. Yes, i use andorid. Yes, i shop at amazon.
However i use VPNs, the private mode of my browser, and local storage for many things. I strictly separate between social networks with real name (google plus, xing) which i use for business communication and keeping contact with real friends and social networks for telling my opinion freely (even if i have only a single identity there). I never mention my real identity on the latter ones and i never mention my alias (drolli) on the first ones. I regularly verify that searching with trivial methods will not link my identities, and i have no indication that google managed to do so. I can extrapolate whenever they get a new information about me when the contacts they suggest me on google plus get more targeted.
I use google maps, but turn it off when i consider it important.
So: You have control over what you put into the internet. But if you consider a the "one size fits all" approach that everything about you is stored at facebook and you don't distinct in you life whom you want to tell what, good luck. "Oh its so convenient" is not a good staring point for all of this, i fear.
a) I still own all electronic devices which i owned in 2005, so the absolute number has increased
b) I did not have three dozens of Gadgets in 2005
c) Not even the number of "active" gadgets has decreased. active back then: * camera (compact) * mobile phone (Nokia 6310i) * palm (z31) (replaced also a stolen mp3 player)
Now: *camera (compact) *mobile phone #1 (galaxy note II) - playing/reading documents/consuming media/surfing the web/feeds/google+ *mobile phone #2 (nokia e63) - workhorse for phone calls and emails *ebook reader (sony) - use it when in eant a quite time in a bright place on a bench to read a good book (leave the other devices at home) *mp3 player (Used for sports/biking - before owning the galaxy note used also everyday) *tablet (galazy tab - surfing on th couch)
I like that the gadgets got more diversified. Its just convenient.
I block intrusive ads. I have nothing agains a ad on the border, and i like if its well targeted. However if some site hovers some shit over the content or turns on the sound, bad.
Yes. which is probably the most important point about it: the amount of CO2 the biciclyst emits aditionally beceuse he is cycling is miniscule. When i dont bike to work i eat maybe 150g less carbonhydrates per day than i go 25-40km per day. Copare that to the 1.5kg of carbonhydrates which a car burns.
The point is that the main cost in terms of CO2 was producing the food. so my personal ranking of things to reduce your footprints:
a) Limit your meat consumption b) try to like in walking/biking distance to work c) avoid going alone in your car every day d) limti the hot water consumption e) buy food from your own region
Its even more crappy if game developers try to "subtly push" you to support their spcial networking ambitions. Example: Asphalt 7 for android. A fun racing game, which i enjoy for short breaks or train travels. They have tasks, which are usually game-related, but at some point tasks appeared which were only reaalted to taking part in multiplayer events etc. now they block all the three slots available for tasks. I really dislike it. I dont intent to use the game as a multiplayer game, it was fine and fun without, the time during which i usually play it has no stable internet connection, and i am not going to allocate a time with any os my friends for this. Moreover it was unclear in the beginning og the game that this is the direction whcih it would take.
I am part of the older crowd and i have been in contact with some interns from university over the last few years. What i observe
a) They tend to communicate earlier in a task/problem and much more informal than I and my friends may have done 20years back. That sometimes contains the fact that the emails they send somhow triggered stylistic questions in me, but i must admit it was easy to reach a common goal in that way.
b) They tend to rely stronger on other peoples solutions (wikipedia), which *is good*, but sometimes they lack a critical distance there. Overall better than our attempts back then to reinvent the weel every time just to prove that you can do it.
c) Attention span seems to have gone down, but soundly jugding that is a complex problem.
d) Frustration tolerance (in the lab): difficult to judge, but the fact that they spend their time with computer games which have extremly short times until you are rewarded for an effort may influence their fustration tolerance to do some experiment which just does not work for several days/weeks/months.
I can only say: They are the "Human Ressources" which we work with over the next 20 years, so either we try to make the best out of it, or we lament about changing grammar (yes grammar and language style have changed all over time - just read medieval english. In the moment these stop to change, you know that the language is truely dead).
While the investigation is ongoing and you are under suspicion for a good reason, you can be imprisoned until the trial starts. This time can be up to 1y or longer in complicated cases, as this one.
Yes. Very true. Its always funny to explain to people who insist that a 3d printer is the true revolution for making things at home, that if you train a little bit, have a decent manual toolbox with a calipers rule, a set of files, a small drilling/engraving machine (dremel) and decent ways of fixing the workpiece (total cost far below the cheapest usable 3D printer) you will be much much more flexible in terms of materials to use and precision. The most parts (not all) which i have seen printed using a consumer-grade (shitty, not like the rapit prototyping ones for industry use) 3d printer look in a way that you could have done them in 30-40 minutes of work on a moderatly equipped workbench in arbitrary materials in higher quality. And yes, if you like and use some polishing spone you can match part thicknesses down to 10mum (or less...). may require some time, some patience and maybe several attempts but if you ask me how to make two fitting parts for assembly, i would prefer that way.
I find it convenient to have 1 monitor vertical (for reading pdf documentation or longer functions in the editor) and one horizontal for the rest of the IDE
but getting a computer science degree to become a web developer is like getting a zoology degree to become a veterinarian.
No. gettign a CS degree to become a web developer is like getting a zoology degree to become the guy who removes the shit from the elephant cage.
Web development has taken huge leaps and CS could no "keep up"? Which huge leaps shoud that be - o i forgot - Mysql now has nearly all feature you expect from a db. Moreover object oriented frameworks for MVC are how the thing everybody likes. Nobody has ever heard about such a thing before in the last 20 years.
CS is about designing constructing information structures and applications. It is about estimating things before starting to type - and not to rely on AWS to provid you with everything you need.
Web development is about implementig a very small part on the front end there, and has strong element which are more a trade than a science (designing a gui can only partially be learned).
if that test was covered by warranty. That is an honest question; if i try to reproduce a bug which bricks a device, i do something which if partially intentionally. Its like dropping the device from a height which it should survive but does not.
Yes. Even presenting your research/development results to the elected (yes, there are problems with the election) leader of your country in order to present your research project does not make you his lapdog.
I know many russian academics and research in russia has a comparatatively big freedom.
A site has to be really important to me for me to activate plugins on it. If newspapers cant put in a static image but reduce all news reports to 5 lines of non-descriptive generic text and a link to a video they bought from somwhere, i dont need that.
I always thought its the responsibilty of the manufacturer of the device to make a product which sticks to certain definitions. I dont see many android products listet with security as a feature, therefore i also dont assume that the design of the preinstalled sw goes into that direction.
There are a lot of applications for which DOS is "just right". Its running in a lot of embedded PCs. And there is zero reason to shcange it in many of these.
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is that many companies are too lazy to even get the most fundamental things right. Why on earth would you not distribute your own CA fro your internal web services? Do you really want to train yout employees that clicking on the "accept certificate" button is an everyday thing to do? Why dont you manage to get the security settings in a way that "content from an unknown source" is not "content from you own file server"? how the hell shoud the office assistant know that this is dangerous and theoretically unusual if in everyday work the instruciton says to accepti it several times per day? why yould you enable macros in office documents for no reason and not sign the document?
All security training, hints like "be careful when opening attachements from unknown sources" are anihilated if you train your employees everyday to do the exact opposite thing, namely constructing worflows and selecting toolsets which are requiring exactly that.
My 2 cents on this
a) If there is a "do not use/do x" in your security education, then something is wrong. The right way is "use/do y"
b) Construct your standard processes in a way that your users/employees can work secure *AND* efficient.
c) If there are new tools and your users demand these, keep an open ear! Note to the management: reserve some bugdet for it. If users find dropbox an efficient service, the right way is not to forbid it but to ask yourself why you cant provide any decent file sharing on your own servers.
My thoughts: Besides i dont know if the contrector also does education: Do they know in how many billable hours teaching "all secrects of your code" may result? If yes: CYA, get it in writing that you are paid for "teaching all secrets of the code" instead of "automating and stnadardizing your build/packaging/deployment processes". After the new guy tries to graps "all secrets of your code" and fails to get the first proper build, bill them for the rest.
I am not sure why goolge wave was killed. My suspicion is that they did not find an unintrusive way of placing advertisements.
IMHO google wave was what i expect of collaboration. Many emlais, revisions sendind forward and backwards document formats designed to fit on a 3.5 inch floppy disk could be avoided.....
Each of the tools you mentioned has a scope of applications in mind, some very specific and specialized.
If you really mention Autocad and Blender or sketchup in one sentence, then think first about
-what you want to create (technical CAD database for drawings/CAE/CAM, nice graphics, prototypically designed enclosures for things)
-in which process step you are (manufaturing/different design phases)
-in which business you are working (and to whom you have to send your files)
-how much money you want to invest (nothing = just playign around; moderate = below 500 Euro; professional = how much it takes)
That said, in the moderate semi-prefessional regime i had good experiences with varicad.
Yes, i use google. Yes, i use andorid. Yes, i shop at amazon.
However i use VPNs, the private mode of my browser, and local storage for many things. I strictly separate between social networks with real name (google plus, xing) which i use for business communication and keeping contact with real friends and social networks for telling my opinion freely (even if i have only a single identity there). I never mention my real identity on the latter ones and i never mention my alias (drolli) on the first ones. I regularly verify that searching with trivial methods will not link my identities, and i have no indication that google managed to do so. I can extrapolate whenever they get a new information about me when the contacts they suggest me on google plus get more targeted.
I use google maps, but turn it off when i consider it important.
So: You have control over what you put into the internet. But if you consider a the "one size fits all" approach that everything about you is stored at facebook and you don't distinct in you life whom you want to tell what, good luck. "Oh its so convenient" is not a good staring point for all of this, i fear.
a) I still own all electronic devices which i owned in 2005, so the absolute number has increased
b) I did not have three dozens of Gadgets in 2005
c) Not even the number of "active" gadgets has decreased. active back then:
* camera (compact)
* mobile phone (Nokia 6310i)
* palm (z31) (replaced also a stolen mp3 player)
Now:
*camera (compact)
*mobile phone #1 (galaxy note II) - playing/reading documents/consuming media/surfing the web/feeds/google+
*mobile phone #2 (nokia e63) - workhorse for phone calls and emails
*ebook reader (sony) - use it when in eant a quite time in a bright place on a bench to read a good book (leave the other devices at home)
*mp3 player (Used for sports/biking - before owning the galaxy note used also everyday)
*tablet (galazy tab - surfing on th couch)
I like that the gadgets got more diversified. Its just convenient.
I block intrusive ads. I have nothing agains a ad on the border, and i like if its well targeted. However if some site hovers some shit over the content or turns on the sound, bad.
Yes. which is probably the most important point about it: the amount of CO2 the biciclyst emits aditionally beceuse he is cycling is miniscule. When i dont bike to work i eat maybe 150g less carbonhydrates per day than i go 25-40km per day. Copare that to the 1.5kg of carbonhydrates which a car burns.
The point is that the main cost in terms of CO2 was producing the food. so my personal ranking of things to reduce your footprints:
a) Limit your meat consumption
b) try to like in walking/biking distance to work
c) avoid going alone in your car every day
d) limti the hot water consumption
e) buy food from your own region
Even looking up the time requires me to use a computer.
"They used their smartphones to adjust the timing of the crime" could translate to "they did not have other watches"
Any serious references to the reports?
I suppose you meant accidents beyond being shot by the own kid which was raised in a spirit of hate and violence.
If you need the network for some reason: leechblock (firefox extension) works for me
Its even more crappy if game developers try to "subtly push" you to support their spcial networking ambitions. Example: Asphalt 7 for android. A fun racing game, which i enjoy for short breaks or train travels. They have tasks, which are usually game-related, but at some point tasks appeared which were only reaalted to taking part in multiplayer events etc. now they block all the three slots available for tasks. I really dislike it. I dont intent to use the game as a multiplayer game, it was fine and fun without, the time during which i usually play it has no stable internet connection, and i am not going to allocate a time with any os my friends for this. Moreover it was unclear in the beginning og the game that this is the direction whcih it would take.
That was the feature i was waiting for since 1994, and due to which i switched away from emacs 5 years ago.
I am part of the older crowd and i have been in contact with some interns from university over the last few years. What i observe
a) They tend to communicate earlier in a task/problem and much more informal than I and my friends may have done 20years back. That sometimes contains the fact that the emails they send somhow triggered stylistic questions in me, but i must admit it was easy to reach a common goal in that way.
b) They tend to rely stronger on other peoples solutions (wikipedia), which *is good*, but sometimes they lack a critical distance there. Overall better than our attempts back then to reinvent the weel every time just to prove that you can do it.
c) Attention span seems to have gone down, but soundly jugding that is a complex problem.
d) Frustration tolerance (in the lab): difficult to judge, but the fact that they spend their time with computer games which have extremly short times until you are rewarded for an effort may influence their fustration tolerance to do some experiment which just does not work for several days/weeks/months.
I can only say: They are the "Human Ressources" which we work with over the next 20 years, so either we try to make the best out of it, or we lament about changing grammar (yes grammar and language style have changed all over time - just read medieval english. In the moment these stop to change, you know that the language is truely dead).
While the investigation is ongoing and you are under suspicion for a good reason, you can be imprisoned until the trial starts. This time can be up to 1y or longer in complicated cases, as this one.
Yes. Very true. Its always funny to explain to people who insist that a 3d printer is the true revolution for making things at home, that if you train a little bit, have a decent manual toolbox with a calipers rule, a set of files, a small drilling/engraving machine (dremel) and decent ways of fixing the workpiece (total cost far below the cheapest usable 3D printer) you will be much much more flexible in terms of materials to use and precision. The most parts (not all) which i have seen printed using a consumer-grade (shitty, not like the rapit prototyping ones for industry use) 3d printer look in a way that you could have done them in 30-40 minutes of work on a moderatly equipped workbench in arbitrary materials in higher quality. And yes, if you like and use some polishing spone you can match part thicknesses down to 10mum (or less...). may require some time, some patience and maybe several attempts but if you ask me how to make two fitting parts for assembly, i would prefer that way.
I find it convenient to have 1 monitor vertical (for reading pdf documentation or longer functions in the editor) and one horizontal for the rest of the IDE
but getting a computer science degree to become a web developer is like getting a zoology degree to become a veterinarian.
No. gettign a CS degree to become a web developer is like getting a zoology degree to become the guy who removes the shit from the elephant cage.
Web development has taken huge leaps and CS could no "keep up"? Which huge leaps shoud that be - o i forgot - Mysql now has nearly all feature you expect from a db. Moreover object oriented frameworks for MVC are how the thing everybody likes. Nobody has ever heard about such a thing before in the last 20 years.
CS is about designing constructing information structures and applications. It is about estimating things before starting to type - and not to rely on AWS to provid you with everything you need.
Web development is about implementig a very small part on the front end there, and has strong element which are more a trade than a science (designing a gui can only partially be learned).
A likely possibility is that he wants to avoid conflicts of interest. E.g. when investing in other companies.
if that test was covered by warranty. That is an honest question; if i try to reproduce a bug which bricks a device, i do something which if partially intentionally. Its like dropping the device from a height which it should survive but does not.
Yes. Even presenting your research/development results to the elected (yes, there are problems with the election) leader of your country in order to present your research project does not make you his lapdog.
I know many russian academics and research in russia has a comparatatively big freedom.
what bugs me more is that an open source develloper turns into Vladimir Putins la(p/b) dog to get funding,
That is a little harsh. Being a lecturer in your home country at a public university does not necessarily make you a lap dog of the government.
I use noscript.
A site has to be really important to me for me to activate plugins on it. If newspapers cant put in a static image but reduce all news reports to 5 lines of non-descriptive generic text and a link to a video they bought from somwhere, i dont need that.
I always thought its the responsibilty of the manufacturer of the device to make a product which sticks to certain definitions. I dont see many android products listet with security as a feature, therefore i also dont assume that the design of the preinstalled sw goes into that direction.
There are a lot of applications for which DOS is "just right". Its running in a lot of embedded PCs. And there is zero reason to shcange it in many of these.