Actually - I am not missing that fact at all (being an employee of the outfit in question - I should know).
My point is that while the business of IT for the Government is to safeguard national secrets - busine$$ is in it to protect whatever they could be researching and developing at that time.
For instance - the level of trust placed in someone who works in the Systems department is fairly high due to the fact that they could, if less than scrupulous, read the email and or files of the CEO, CIO, and CFO of their company and sell that info to their competitors.
I know that it is apples and oranges - but just as damaging to each entity involved.
Try working for the US Government. If you are placed in a "position of trust", they not only check your credit report - they also will investigate your background and criminal record.
I have often wondered why it is that businesses that hire IT guys off of the street without doing any meaninful background check place them into positions that could potentially cripple/destroy them.
Says in the japanese to english translation (thank you worldlingo): As for the DS user, it is possible to connect with the maximum of 16 people (16 DS) with local wireless network. Guarantee carry-over factor is approximately 10 meters, but depending upon circumstance furthermore it spreads. The high response rate where it is necessary for the communication game play of real time to be guaranteed, IEEE802.11
This sounds cool and I wonder how hackable this would be. I remember the stupid link cables for other portable game consoles.
I would like to think that linux is as secure.... the difference between Microsoft and Linux is the peer review of code in Linux. Microsoft can continually ship beta code and wait for their customers to test it for them. Linux has a more robust peer review of code that has many programmers with different takes on coding look at the code to see if it can be cleaned up/more secure. Microsoft is unwilling to stand up to such a review. Simple as that.
Re:Hrmm... not entirely insane... maybe
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LOTR The Musical!
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I actually performed in the musical "The Hobbit" when I was younger. It made me want to learn more about Tolkein and his works as well. It also made me NEVER want to do a musical again.:) I do have to give "big ups" to the Comstock Community Theatre company in Peoria, Illinois. My love and appreciation for the theatre and performing arts started there.
O.K. - for the people who aren't in the states here is the breakdown:
There are 5 major and 1 minor (based on Nielsen ratings) television news outlets in the states. This is in no particular order of importance, preference, or popularity....
1. American Broadcasting Company - ABC - Owned by the Disney Corporation
2. National Broadcasting Company - NBC - Owned by General Electric
3. CBS - Owned by Viacom
4. Cable News Network - CNN - Owned by AOL Time Warner
5. Fox News - Owned by News Corporation
The one minor player is the Public Broadcasting Service and is funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the annual support of viewers like you. Thank you.;)
Physical location does not mean Logical location
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I dunno about you guys but I have my web service out of Missoula, Montana.
http://www.modwest.com
I, geographically, am almost half-way around the world from there. I dunno how that info might be useful to others.
Geocoding works sometimes - like when I dial up to my Italian ISP and go to google it defaults to the Italian Google. Google allows me to select the English version off of the Italian one.
Having lived on a island in the south pacific for a year I learned how important fresh water is. The aircraft landing strip that we had acted as a big water collector - water would drain into pipes and then was cleaned by a chlorination process. The idea they propose is a good one and would work in many islands out there - where they desperately need easy access to electricity and fresh water.
US Military already has it's own private network
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The military has it's own private and secure data/voice network. They have their own private IP's and everything. Any time people working on the unclassified network need to move data to the classified network they have to use "sneaker-net" and make damn sure the data isn't infected with a virus.
Perhaps this is what the Department of National Security is modeling it's data network after.
O.K. guys... I work for the government in a IT capacity. I just went through training on what these security updates are supposed to do. They were developed by a certain three letter company based in Atlanta in cooperation with the Department of Defense/NSA. If you download them and look at what they do it makes sense. Stuff that makes perfect sense in the *nix world like making sure that the last successful login doesn't appear after that user logs out in W2K (and therefore giving a potential h4x0r a login name) People might think that it is malicious code designed to run on a Windoze box to give a back door to your system. I would say to them that you should never accept or run programs/reg hacks/anything else from a company or someone you may or may not know without understanding what it does. I know what these "security baselines" do and have no problem applying them to my home machines (for my wife and kids of course - I am the linux geek in the family) So - flame away!!:)
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Actually - the US Army IS migrating to Vista right now.
Actually - I am not missing that fact at all (being an employee of the outfit in question - I should know).
My point is that while the business of IT for the Government is to safeguard national secrets - busine$$ is in it to protect whatever they could be researching and developing at that time.
For instance - the level of trust placed in someone who works in the Systems department is fairly high due to the fact that they could, if less than scrupulous, read the email and or files of the CEO, CIO, and CFO of their company and sell that info to their competitors.
I know that it is apples and oranges - but just as damaging to each entity involved.
Try working for the US Government. If you are placed in a "position of trust", they not only check your credit report - they also will investigate your background and criminal record.
I have often wondered why it is that businesses that hire IT guys off of the street without doing any meaninful background check place them into positions that could potentially cripple/destroy them.
Instead of explicit.bing.com it should have been bada.bing.com
Everytime we have a connectivity hiccup I am flooded with calls from our users asking "Is the Internet broken?"
It takes everything in my power not to say "Yes. The Internet is, in fact, broken"
Says in the japanese to english translation (thank you worldlingo):
As for the DS user, it is possible to connect with the maximum of 16 people (16 DS) with local wireless network. Guarantee carry-over factor is approximately 10 meters, but depending upon circumstance furthermore it spreads. The high response rate where it is necessary for the communication game play of real time to be guaranteed, IEEE802.11
This sounds cool and I wonder how hackable this would be. I remember the stupid link cables for other portable game consoles.
I would like to think that linux is as secure.... the difference between Microsoft and Linux is the peer review of code in Linux. Microsoft can continually ship beta code and wait for their customers to test it for them. Linux has a more robust peer review of code that has many programmers with different takes on coding look at the code to see if it can be cleaned up/more secure. Microsoft is unwilling to stand up to such a review. Simple as that.
I actually performed in the musical "The Hobbit" when I was younger. It made me want to learn more about Tolkein and his works as well. It also made me NEVER want to do a musical again. :) I do have to give "big ups" to the Comstock Community Theatre company in Peoria, Illinois. My love and appreciation for the theatre and performing arts started there.
O.K. - for the people who aren't in the states here is the breakdown: There are 5 major and 1 minor (based on Nielsen ratings) television news outlets in the states. This is in no particular order of importance, preference, or popularity.... 1. American Broadcasting Company - ABC - Owned by the Disney Corporation 2. National Broadcasting Company - NBC - Owned by General Electric 3. CBS - Owned by Viacom 4. Cable News Network - CNN - Owned by AOL Time Warner 5. Fox News - Owned by News Corporation The one minor player is the Public Broadcasting Service and is funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the annual support of viewers like you. Thank you. ;)
I dunno about you guys but I have my web service out of Missoula, Montana. http://www.modwest.com I, geographically, am almost half-way around the world from there. I dunno how that info might be useful to others. Geocoding works sometimes - like when I dial up to my Italian ISP and go to google it defaults to the Italian Google. Google allows me to select the English version off of the Italian one.
Germany bans something because it glorifies war
Having lived on a island in the south pacific for a year I learned how important fresh water is. The aircraft landing strip that we had acted as a big water collector - water would drain into pipes and then was cleaned by a chlorination process. The idea they propose is a good one and would work in many islands out there - where they desperately need easy access to electricity and fresh water.
The military has it's own private and secure data/voice network. They have their own private IP's and everything. Any time people working on the unclassified network need to move data to the classified network they have to use "sneaker-net" and make damn sure the data isn't infected with a virus. Perhaps this is what the Department of National Security is modeling it's data network after.
Wouldn't it be "of all time"?
Well - how many pieces of flair would they need? 37? 38? Umm... you have my swingline stapler...
O.K. guys... I work for the government in a IT capacity. I just went through training on what these security updates are supposed to do. They were developed by a certain three letter company based in Atlanta in cooperation with the Department of Defense/NSA. If you download them and look at what they do it makes sense. Stuff that makes perfect sense in the *nix world like making sure that the last successful login doesn't appear after that user logs out in W2K (and therefore giving a potential h4x0r a login name) People might think that it is malicious code designed to run on a Windoze box to give a back door to your system. I would say to them that you should never accept or run programs/reg hacks/anything else from a company or someone you may or may not know without understanding what it does. I know what these "security baselines" do and have no problem applying them to my home machines (for my wife and kids of course - I am the linux geek in the family) So - flame away!! :)