This was a lot less about his spamming activities and a lot more about the "threatened to fire-bomb the headquarters of the county's trading standards department and petrol-bomb his local police headquarters." part.
The fact that he was also a spammer is a side-story. Had he not done the other stuff, I'm sure he'd still be happily spamming away.
And after looking at the picture, what a smarmy little punk.
There are lots of stupid users. Really stupid users. I bet somewhere in the world, someone named a file with their credit card number or SSN as all or part of the title. I bet its even happened more than once, in the course of human history.
Now if you open that file in say, notepad or MSword or I believe even open office, there the filename with the 'sensitive information' is in the title bar.
Thats one example off the top of my head. I could probably think of more.
I run a small webserver with a few peoples pages on it. I really don't care if the chinese block access, Actually I'd have no problem with that as most of my serious port scans tend to come from china.
So... If I put up a Pro-Falun-Gong website, or some other material the chinese government finds offensive, will they ban my IP from their community?
"If the shares of the company are distributed such that "partner" is no-longer an appropriate title, you are offering "stock options" as an incentive to your "employees" for whom "salary" or "wages" are their primary source of income."
Okay. I guess we are all partners and I don't have any 'employees'.
Regardless of which labels you wish to apply, I'm doing much better than when I was at the cube farm at Initech. So are the refugees I took with me. We work _less_ and take home more money. As far as my little computer consulting thing anyways.
And regarding the import-export thing, we have all the employees/partners whatever that we need, and how much we make is directly a result of how much is sold and not much else. If, by some chance, we need to hire someone else externally, we'll hire someone else who will provide services in exchange for currency.
I fail to see what the problem is, and I don't even recall what we were arguing about....
All my employees are partial owners. I find its much easier to motivate through ownership than through 'management techniques'. Please refer to capitalism versus communism.
We have no need for cleaning staff or anything like that as we have no office (yet), but when we do I imagine we will contract. To someone else. That owns a cleaning business.
"the lack of defined career paths and clear promotion 'triggers' makes techs feel 'stuck' in dead-end situations, and we tend to lose good people who find more transparent advancement opportunities elsewhere."
I've come to figure out thats just about every job everywhere.
Start your own business. Thats the only way anyone ever truly gets ahead.
I'm starting several right now. One is a software support company, just mostly fixing home internet connections and cleaning crapware. You may think big deal, but its 160$ for about 3 hours. Not too bad, and just word of mouth gives us as much business as we care to take on.
Also I've made some good friends in Europe and the middle east and we are starting some import/export companies. Niche markets to be sure, but who knows where that might lead...
I think this article is (supposed) to be more about a laptops negative effect on the securty of a local area network rather than security problems with laptops themselves.
Mostly just that laptop users get viruses on their out-of-office connections, which they then bring into the office, in effect bypassing the firewall.
Thats the idea, I think. The article seems to be more of an anti-windows fluff piece, rather than going into any depth regarding how laptops are the problem. Comments like this make me think that: "Last, but not least, how many businesses count the true cost of owning the Microsoft Windows operating system on laptops?" In most if not all cases, the answer is that there are still business critical applications which do not have a linux equivelent, such as... I'll be able to switch my users over once there is a GIS application like Arcview. Doubt its going to happen in my lifetime.
No, I'm not a MS fanboy. I dual boot xp/ubuntu at home. world of warcraft is about the only reason i keep windows./end rant
I've asked around and can't seem to find an answer. I'm willing to pay in Karma...
Is there a way to have firefox automatically open with 6 tabs open all to different pages? Cause there's about 6 pages I'd like to have automatically load every time, slashdot, fark, cnn, drudge, stock prices, blog, blog, etc
I can honestly say my parents 'grounding' me has led me to be a techie.
No more video games... to enforce that they took the power cable. So I found one in the garage. They got more pissed, and took the IDE cable. So I figured out which cable was missing, went down to the local computer store and bought a new one. They were pissed, but impressed, and let me have at it.... I was maybe 9 at the time...
Thats the american way. We do slack a bit when we can, but when something needs doing, we do it.
WW2 would be a good example of that. It took us a while to get our asses in gear, but when we did, we got the job done. The japanese high command thought we were lazy, we proved them wrong...
I'm curious on what possible motives IBM would have for doing this. I mean, they're a business, there to make money and all. How does this help them in the short or long run?
Slashdot Mirror
Just the other day, I was lamenting to my friend how the internet seems to have everything except for a good Swahili Wiki-Dictionary.
Looks like my chum went to great lengths to collect on our 50 Rand wager.
This was a lot less about his spamming activities and a lot more about the "threatened to fire-bomb the headquarters of the county's trading standards department and petrol-bomb his local police headquarters." part.
The fact that he was also a spammer is a side-story. Had he not done the other stuff, I'm sure he'd still be happily spamming away.
And after looking at the picture, what a smarmy little punk.
Do they mean 'internet' or 'world-wide-web'?
Its my understanding that all this is over root DNS servers, which are only a small part of what the internet is and does.
Of course its the part that everyone's grandmother uses, so articles like these refer to 'the internet'...
grr.
If you had someones birth certificate you could then find out their SSN. As well as apply for a passport.
There are lots of stupid users. Really stupid users. I bet somewhere in the world, someone named a file with their credit card number or SSN as all or part of the title. I bet its even happened more than once, in the course of human history.
Now if you open that file in say, notepad or MSword or I believe even open office, there the filename with the 'sensitive information' is in the title bar.
Thats one example off the top of my head. I could probably think of more.
But yeah Mr. Hoglund's argument is pretty weak.
I run a small webserver with a few peoples pages on it. I really don't care if the chinese block access, Actually I'd have no problem with that as most of my serious port scans tend to come from china.
So... If I put up a Pro-Falun-Gong website, or some other material the chinese government finds offensive, will they ban my IP from their community?
That and Arcview GIS.
I doubt I'll see a linux app like this in my lifetime. And until I do, my customers will be on Windows.
blech.
"If the shares of the company are distributed such that "partner" is no-longer an appropriate title, you are offering "stock options" as an incentive to your "employees" for whom "salary" or "wages" are their primary source of income."
Okay. I guess we are all partners and I don't have any 'employees'.
Regardless of which labels you wish to apply, I'm doing much better than when I was at the cube farm at Initech. So are the refugees I took with me. We work _less_ and take home more money. As far as my little computer consulting thing anyways.
And regarding the import-export thing, we have all the employees/partners whatever that we need, and how much we make is directly a result of how much is sold and not much else. If, by some chance, we need to hire someone else externally, we'll hire someone else who will provide services in exchange for currency.
I fail to see what the problem is, and I don't even recall what we were arguing about....
"'I have never, honestly, thrown a chair in my life,' "
But once I did see a man dance like a monkey...
All my employees are partial owners. I find its much easier to motivate through ownership than through 'management techniques'. Please refer to capitalism versus communism.
We have no need for cleaning staff or anything like that as we have no office (yet), but when we do I imagine we will contract. To someone else. That owns a cleaning business.
See how that works?
"the lack of defined career paths and clear promotion 'triggers' makes techs feel 'stuck' in dead-end situations, and we tend to lose good people who find more transparent advancement opportunities elsewhere."
I've come to figure out thats just about every job everywhere.
Start your own business. Thats the only way anyone ever truly gets ahead.
I'm starting several right now. One is a software support company, just mostly fixing home internet connections and cleaning crapware. You may think big deal, but its 160$ for about 3 hours. Not too bad, and just word of mouth gives us as much business as we care to take on.
Also I've made some good friends in Europe and the middle east and we are starting some import/export companies. Niche markets to be sure, but who knows where that might lead...
Sure beats the cube farm.
I think this article is (supposed) to be more about a laptops negative effect on the securty of a local area network rather than security problems with laptops themselves.
/end rant
Mostly just that laptop users get viruses on their out-of-office connections, which they then bring into the office, in effect bypassing the firewall.
Thats the idea, I think. The article seems to be more of an anti-windows fluff piece, rather than going into any depth regarding how laptops are the problem. Comments like this make me think that: "Last, but not least, how many businesses count the true cost of owning the Microsoft Windows operating system on laptops?" In most if not all cases, the answer is that there are still business critical applications which do not have a linux equivelent, such as... I'll be able to switch my users over once there is a GIS application like Arcview. Doubt its going to happen in my lifetime.
No, I'm not a MS fanboy. I dual boot xp/ubuntu at home. world of warcraft is about the only reason i keep windows.
"'You have more security at a McDonald's than at some of these facilities.'"
Given what they serve at McDonalds, thats probably a good thing. I'd rather take my chances with the mice.
wow thanks!
I've asked around and can't seem to find an answer. I'm willing to pay in Karma...
Is there a way to have firefox automatically open with 6 tabs open all to different pages? Cause there's about 6 pages I'd like to have automatically load every time, slashdot, fark, cnn, drudge, stock prices, blog, blog, etc
???
I can't see how anyone can claim to know what is going to happen in the next 50.
"Will wank off Linus Torvaldsen for fame. "
perhaps you meant Linus Torvalds
or maybe you just have a thing for scandinavians....
is the optimus keyboard.
yes, i know its not out yet. but having a display on keys is the only way to go.
They had a huge bag of quarters in their room.
Not only that, but I've been working since I've been walking. Lawn mowing, dog sitting, boat cleaning....
I can honestly say my parents 'grounding' me has led me to be a techie.
No more video games... to enforce that they took the power cable. So I found one in the garage. They got more pissed, and took the IDE cable. So I figured out which cable was missing, went down to the local computer store and bought a new one. They were pissed, but impressed, and let me have at it.... I was maybe 9 at the time...
Thats the american way. We do slack a bit when we can, but when something needs doing, we do it.
WW2 would be a good example of that. It took us a while to get our asses in gear, but when we did, we got the job done. The japanese high command thought we were lazy, we proved them wrong...
That's nobody's business but the Turk's
I'm curious on what possible motives IBM would have for doing this. I mean, they're a business, there to make money and all. How does this help them in the short or long run?
/no I didn't rtfa
Anyone? Bueller?
first they use 'viral marketing' on wikipedia
now they're using it on slashdot!
like I care. i'll still read about it, because i'm at work.
well I had to switch our company's accountant onto firefox, as he insists on going to the seedier side of the internets.
all the financial type sites he goes to render mostly okay, but printing rarely works properly.