I used to do consulting. Customers liked to see certs. My employer paid for me to take each relevant exam once. If I passed, I got a automatic raise. It was simple economics since more certs for me = more billable hours, and a higher rate of personal pay and no out of pocket costs for exams since I could pass them all on the first try.
If there was no economic incentive, I'd have never taken them, since I don't think they really mean anything other than I could take a silly test.
My policy actually states that I am not covered if I am injured traveling in any "experimental" vehicle designed for space travel. I am not making this up. It is probably because my company does a lot of business with a large aerospace company.
McNamara didn't have any idea about this until much later and he said he was absolutely shocked. At least that is what he said in The Fog of War. The Strategic Air Command changed the codes to all 0's and apparently even had a procedure to ensure that they were always set at all 0's.
Yes, the quantity and breadth of human knowledge is breathtaking. I often get bummed out when I think about how much knowledge we'll never have access to since the library at Alexandria was burned.
Someone has obviously missed the whole point if they can call Hunter liberal or pussy.
SFTU troll. Hunter had more guns than god, lived on the edge for all 67 years and railed on politicans from either side of the spectrum if they were swine.
One major point to pay attention to here is that if you have a data retention policy that is written that says for example, "I don't keep logs older than 1 hour" and you follow it, you can't respond to subpoenas for any data that falls outside your retention period.
Apparently, Steve Ballmer believes he can enforce U.S. law in Asia."
Apparently the poster has not been paying attention to either the article or modern history. When countries are in the WTO, they take place in the World Intellectual Property Organization also. Laws cross national boundries now.
If they are not billing for it, they are going to be very concise. When they are billing they are going to be lengthy which comes from the old English tradition that lawyers, when writing contracts, were paid by the word.
You are all missing the point. Google desktop installs as a service that runs with admin rights. It will read across files in different user's profiles who shouldn't normally have permissions to one another's files.
Different companies have different political environments and different requirements for user permissions. Not everyone can be as locked down as you are because of various business requirements. Business requirements always trump security requirements, political requirements (like CEO "needs" admin rights) often trump security requirements.
If the gym bought Nautilus equipment and never maintained it, would they be held liable when it breaks?
Most often yes.
However when they buy Nautilus equipment and they maintain it in line with the recommendations and it still breaks due to design flaws that the manufacturer isn't talking about and no one but industry insiders in metallurgy really understand, are they liable when it breaks?
However obvious to us all the internet security issues are, to mom and pop shops the issues are far too obscure for them to know the first thing about. They are being sold computers as appliances like TV's or toasters that they can plug in and not worry about. Worse yet, I'm sure many franchises require some sort of network connection and application to hook them into corporate w/o much guidance on security.
I could not agree more that security is a process and not a product, my point is that no one except the experts can effectively deal with the process and that the industry needs to come up with solutions to make all those who are never going to be bothered by security secure by default.
I once went to my gym, where they know me as the local computer geek. Obviously they have all customer information on their computer systems, including their photos and credit card numbers for billing. They were complaining that their computers had gotten slower recently and they didn't know what was going on. I said I would check it out. They didn't have a firewall, they didn't have anti-virus. What they did have was just about every virus and trojan under the sun and their little cable modem was working overtime just sending data to god knows where. I cleaned them up and installed everything they needed to get protection and clean up the mess. Small business is hopeless on a lot of occasions. It isn't their fault IMO. The vendors should be making more secure solutions for them to at least protect against all predictable threats.
That extension is unneeded and redundant. Simply set the Evil bit in the header of the file for all pirated media.
There's a RFC for it already that could be adapted.
look at it in a spectral analysis. It's real easy to tell the difference between ANY lossy codec and the original digital source. Yeah, I do listen to my music on regular basis with a spectral analysis going on at the same time also. Lossy codecs drive me nuts.
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I used to do consulting. Customers liked to see certs. My employer paid for me to take each relevant exam once. If I passed, I got a automatic raise. It was simple economics since more certs for me = more billable hours, and a higher rate of personal pay and no out of pocket costs for exams since I could pass them all on the first try. If there was no economic incentive, I'd have never taken them, since I don't think they really mean anything other than I could take a silly test.
Glad you saw my point. I really didn't intend it as a joke, but the whole thing does sound kind of funny.
Yes it was classified. It was classified with the unclassified classification. It was not declassified.
My policy actually states that I am not covered if I am injured traveling in any "experimental" vehicle designed for space travel. I am not making this up. It is probably because my company does a lot of business with a large aerospace company.
McNamara didn't have any idea about this until much later and he said he was absolutely shocked. At least that is what he said in The Fog of War. The Strategic Air Command changed the codes to all 0's and apparently even had a procedure to ensure that they were always set at all 0's.
'nuff said
Yes, the quantity and breadth of human knowledge is breathtaking. I often get bummed out when I think about how much knowledge we'll never have access to since the library at Alexandria was burned.
Someone has obviously missed the whole point if they can call Hunter liberal or pussy. SFTU troll. Hunter had more guns than god, lived on the edge for all 67 years and railed on politicans from either side of the spectrum if they were swine.
No doubt they will soon be flinging robotic poo. What bold advances science makes.
I have the LaCie 1TB drive and it is great! Lacie also makes a 1.6TB but it is about $1800.
One major point to pay attention to here is that if you have a data retention policy that is written that says for example, "I don't keep logs older than 1 hour" and you follow it, you can't respond to subpoenas for any data that falls outside your retention period.
Apparently the poster has not been paying attention to either the article or modern history. When countries are in the WTO, they take place in the World Intellectual Property Organization also. Laws cross national boundries now.
If they are not billing for it, they are going to be very concise. When they are billing they are going to be lengthy which comes from the old English tradition that lawyers, when writing contracts, were paid by the word.
I'm glad you included the sarcasm tags. There was me thinking your post was serious. ;P
You are all missing the point. Google desktop installs as a service that runs with admin rights. It will read across files in different user's profiles who shouldn't normally have permissions to one another's files.
Different companies have different political environments and different requirements for user permissions. Not everyone can be as locked down as you are because of various business requirements. Business requirements always trump security requirements, political requirements (like CEO "needs" admin rights) often trump security requirements.
When I'd batch up my print jobs for 6 months, print them all out the immediately, destroy my printer and get a new one. :)
Most often yes.
However when they buy Nautilus equipment and they maintain it in line with the recommendations and it still breaks due to design flaws that the manufacturer isn't talking about and no one but industry insiders in metallurgy really understand, are they liable when it breaks?
However obvious to us all the internet security issues are, to mom and pop shops the issues are far too obscure for them to know the first thing about. They are being sold computers as appliances like TV's or toasters that they can plug in and not worry about. Worse yet, I'm sure many franchises require some sort of network connection and application to hook them into corporate w/o much guidance on security.
I could not agree more that security is a process and not a product, my point is that no one except the experts can effectively deal with the process and that the industry needs to come up with solutions to make all those who are never going to be bothered by security secure by default.
All while wearing a 2600 t-shirt. :)
I once went to my gym, where they know me as the local computer geek. Obviously they have all customer information on their computer systems, including their photos and credit card numbers for billing. They were complaining that their computers had gotten slower recently and they didn't know what was going on. I said I would check it out. They didn't have a firewall, they didn't have anti-virus. What they did have was just about every virus and trojan under the sun and their little cable modem was working overtime just sending data to god knows where. I cleaned them up and installed everything they needed to get protection and clean up the mess. Small business is hopeless on a lot of occasions. It isn't their fault IMO. The vendors should be making more secure solutions for them to at least protect against all predictable threats.
That extension is unneeded and redundant. Simply set the Evil bit in the header of the file for all pirated media. There's a RFC for it already that could be adapted.
Is there another law requiring anyone who uses the internet in california to have an email address?
look at it in a spectral analysis. It's real easy to tell the difference between ANY lossy codec and the original digital source. Yeah, I do listen to my music on regular basis with a spectral analysis going on at the same time also. Lossy codecs drive me nuts.
Thanks for that great story. I was unaware of Daniel. I now think you are lucky to have worked with him.