I guess it's fair enough if normal employee duties do not require Internet access to arbitrary sites. Although, the preferred approach would be to allow only specific netmasks at the router rather than firing people for changing Internet Explorer settings. Modern education however does require full Internet access, including to sites talking about homesexuality, breast cancer and birth control. So do employees who need to prepare presentations, find the best shipping method for a fragile container, process claims based on customer's photos... Until there is a breakthrough in artificial intelligence, there is no way to set up a filtering program that does not interfere with legitimate use.
Sounds good if the company never requires me to do a job that can only be reasonably completed by bypassing their network restrictions. Say, I need to connect to an outside database with my special debugging client to find out why the customer's application is not working. The logical way to do it is to tunnel through an HTTPs proxy, but this is presumably against company's policy - they meant to block all traffic besides web browsing. Say, I call you at 2am on Sunday and ask you to reconfigure the network for me, since the customer is getting impatient. Given that it takes you great trouble and expense to even "visit a workstation in person", I doubt that you would solve the problem before the customer gets pissed and drops the contract. In this case, give me a good reason why YOU shouldn't be promptly fired and the $10M value of the contract charged against your paycheck?
I never saw a company that accepts its own security restrictions as a valid excuse for not doing the assigned work.
How so? The students are using school computers to access content not owned by the school and generally available to public on Internet. This is done without permanently altering hardware or software of computers in question, hacking school servers or accessing/altering any confidential information. The damage to the school is limited to the trivial cost of bandwidth, which is paid for by parent's taxes. How does this justify a suspension? Make them wash the floor for a day or something.
Hmm, a couple of reasons. First of all, unless we sterilize all potential criminals, they are going to have children. These children might want opportunities to pursue a different lifestyle. Second, when there is a natural disaster, the murderers are going to spread around the country and kill a whole lot of people. In the extreme case such occurrences might become endemic.
Your statement is quite probably, and unintentionally, true. If Cho, or a typical gangster for that matter, had to make living by hunting or cultivating land, the crimes they committed would most probably not happen. Either they would overcome their hatred of society and tendency to spend long hours brooding in their own world, or they would starve to death on the first winter after being recognized as adults, probably around their 12th birthdays. It's an open question weather large segments of population, such as inner city poor in New Orleans, are any more happy than their ancestors from 100K years ago (yeah I know Cho and columbine shooters were not inner city poor and are exceptions in their socioeconomic class)
So you think this rule change really protects russian protesters from russian government rather than protecting russian scammers from american victims?
So do you personally have the skills to disassemble a MacBook and find an appropriate recycler for each material? Who do you think is most likely to be able to manage it?
He simply explains that Apple doesn't usually advertise its future plans in regards to environment but, since there have been much concern, he is going to go ahead and outline them.
You want to identify yourself by a public address, that is usually claims that you are a particular organization/individual, on the Internet. And yet... you don't want to identify yourself? I should have no way to check contact information for russianinvestmentbank.ru and call the authorities to see if the address really belongs to a bank? This defeats the whole purpose of having domains. Just use IRC, P2P or DynDNS if you want shadowy anonymity.
Maybe so, but it would be better to blow any captured wind back towards the center of the highway and direction of the traffic. This would push the cars along and increase everyone's fuel efficiency.
The purpose of Apple's system is not to prevent programs from asking for administrator's username and password. Rather, it's to prevent programs from doing certain actions WITHOUT asking for password and to prevent non-adminisrator users from doing system-wide changes. It's entirely possible for a screensaver to "legitimately" request privilege escalation and then 0wn the system. I hear Leopard will introduce signed executables to partially mitigate this problem. I know it sounds like ÅctiveX, but I don't think they will be automatically run from Safari.
Aren't you using Kazaa to "preview the albums to see if they are worth buying"? If so, this service should be perfect for you! Legal, allows you to preview every song, doesn't stop you from buying an ad-free CD or download later. Where is the catch?
A private company can choose to disclose information to the government if it wishes. Our two concerns is that a) the law contains safeguards against police abuse and b) the government is not prosecuting people for innocuous activities. Other than that, does India block access to offshore sites of similar nature? If not, set up your community in a country with decent laws.
You mean like my daughter? Right now I might try running some blinkenlights type program with cute sounds. Oh, you mean in college? Well, in this case, I see nothing wrong with showing off whatever you are good at. If you are a baseball pitcher, go a head and show off your muscles. If you can make room lights in the dorm form a heart sign, I don't see why it wouldn't work either.
Apple TV hackers focus is legally running Cocoa applications on a $300 device. If you just want a Linux set top box, your best choice is probably a slightly used notebook. You get to customize hard drive space, gaming capabilities and so on according to your needs. Neuros attitude is golden, but does their hardware bring any additional value into the picture?
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Before being swallowed by a red giant then? Or is amount of Helium proportionally larger?
Do you actually own a gun? Are you carrying it to classes? Can you shoot well enough to hit a moving target when you are scared shitless? Is it always secure enough that you are willing to take responsibility if someone, possibly your kid, uses it to commit a crime or dies in an accident?
Nice sentiment, but in practice it's hard to tell if the intruder is going to cause harm or just point out the flaws until it's too late. I think in the case of university computer (especially your own one in the dorm) and in case of nuke control, preemptive responses should be quite different.
commercial != educational. I am sure we agree that we don't want security research to be done on city's traffic light system or nuclear missile control.
It's unavoidable that a bright C.Sci student will bypass some university security measures, for some of the following reasons
Bypass cloying "for your own protection" software that he and his computer-literate friends do not need anyway. Besides, what security updates if you have Mac/Linux?
Impress a girl by resetting her lost password or re-enabling account in her undergrad school
Explore a realistic network structure and challenges of its administration
Repair the system when it's down, admin can not be bothered and final project is due tomorrow at 8:30
Steve Jobs openly admits to phone phreaking and calling the Pope. Both he and Bill Gates eventually dropped out of school. It's clear that, to become a person of substance, you have to be willing to challenge authority once in a while. Are we trying to raise a generation of corporate drones who are so obedient they can never pose a competitive threat to existing oligarchy. Are we so insane we let disturbed students stay in school and own guns, but suspend ones who are merely using university's property, paid for by their tuition, more efficiently than average?
You do realize that most dictators started out as military heros? They show up in United Nations decorated with dozens of medals, and many of them were earned fairly. Jack couldn't resist the draw of money and, by the time he died, he abandoned all the values he fought for, including capitalism. He advocated policy in which all the money will go to his little junta rather than individual artists, smaller music companies and entrepreneurs seeking to enter online music distribution business. Great soldiers don't make great leaders.
The fact that it takes well over 50% more US dollars to equal an amount in euros or francs, should seriously concern people.
Yeah, Europeans should be very worried. Their stores are getting flooded by cheap american imports that local companies can not compete with under a 50% premium. Their jobs are getting outsourced to US. They are losing their import market to US companies that are able to offer a much better price. European tourists go and spend money abroad rather than investing it back into local economy.
Woah, you are lawyer so you must know this stuff. But you do realize that a small child can be manipulated to say whatever a lawyer, parent, prosecutor etc says, right? Tell her enough times that her mom was using a computer with a program that "looked like this" and she will even believe it herself. So in that aspect, current system sucks and I hope you can use your capacity to change it:-) On the bright side, I don't think music qualifies as food and shelter. So she should be able to get clear by returning the CDs?
I just discovered an unauthorized ssh connection from 63.147.176.12! RIAA bastards stole some copyrighted word documents from my hard drive! I see that saying this gives me grounds to win a civil lawsuit in these courts of yours.
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I guess it's fair enough if normal employee duties do not require Internet access to arbitrary sites. Although, the preferred approach would be to allow only specific netmasks at the router rather than firing people for changing Internet Explorer settings. Modern education however does require full Internet access, including to sites talking about homesexuality, breast cancer and birth control. So do employees who need to prepare presentations, find the best shipping method for a fragile container, process claims based on customer's photos... Until there is a breakthrough in artificial intelligence, there is no way to set up a filtering program that does not interfere with legitimate use.
Sounds good if the company never requires me to do a job that can only be reasonably completed by bypassing their network restrictions. Say, I need to connect to an outside database with my special debugging client to find out why the customer's application is not working. The logical way to do it is to tunnel through an HTTPs proxy, but this is presumably against company's policy - they meant to block all traffic besides web browsing. Say, I call you at 2am on Sunday and ask you to reconfigure the network for me, since the customer is getting impatient. Given that it takes you great trouble and expense to even "visit a workstation in person", I doubt that you would solve the problem before the customer gets pissed and drops the contract. In this case, give me a good reason why YOU shouldn't be promptly fired and the $10M value of the contract charged against your paycheck?
I never saw a company that accepts its own security restrictions as a valid excuse for not doing the assigned work.
How so? The students are using school computers to access content not owned by the school and generally available to public on Internet. This is done without permanently altering hardware or software of computers in question, hacking school servers or accessing/altering any confidential information. The damage to the school is limited to the trivial cost of bandwidth, which is paid for by parent's taxes. How does this justify a suspension? Make them wash the floor for a day or something.
When did breaking simple rules become the authorities fault?
Why, of course - when authorities started passing ridiculous, unnecessary rules and imposing excessive punishments for minor infractions.
Hmm, a couple of reasons. First of all, unless we sterilize all potential criminals, they are going to have children. These children might want opportunities to pursue a different lifestyle. Second, when there is a natural disaster, the murderers are going to spread around the country and kill a whole lot of people. In the extreme case such occurrences might become endemic.
Your statement is quite probably, and unintentionally, true. If Cho, or a typical gangster for that matter, had to make living by hunting or cultivating land, the crimes they committed would most probably not happen. Either they would overcome their hatred of society and tendency to spend long hours brooding in their own world, or they would starve to death on the first winter after being recognized as adults, probably around their 12th birthdays. It's an open question weather large segments of population, such as inner city poor in New Orleans, are any more happy than their ancestors from 100K years ago (yeah I know Cho and columbine shooters were not inner city poor and are exceptions in their socioeconomic class)
So you think this rule change really protects russian protesters from russian government rather than protecting russian scammers from american victims?
So do you personally have the skills to disassemble a MacBook and find an appropriate recycler for each material? Who do you think is most likely to be able to manage it?
He simply explains that Apple doesn't usually advertise its future plans in regards to environment but, since there have been much concern, he is going to go ahead and outline them.
You want to identify yourself by a public address, that is usually claims that you are a particular organization/individual, on the Internet. And yet... you don't want to identify yourself? I should have no way to check contact information for russianinvestmentbank.ru and call the authorities to see if the address really belongs to a bank? This defeats the whole purpose of having domains. Just use IRC, P2P or DynDNS if you want shadowy anonymity.
Maybe so, but it would be better to blow any captured wind back towards the center of the highway and direction of the traffic. This would push the cars along and increase everyone's fuel efficiency.
The purpose of Apple's system is not to prevent programs from asking for administrator's username and password. Rather, it's to prevent programs from doing certain actions WITHOUT asking for password and to prevent non-adminisrator users from doing system-wide changes. It's entirely possible for a screensaver to "legitimately" request privilege escalation and then 0wn the system. I hear Leopard will introduce signed executables to partially mitigate this problem. I know it sounds like ÅctiveX, but I don't think they will be automatically run from Safari.
Aren't you using Kazaa to "preview the albums to see if they are worth buying"? If so, this service should be perfect for you! Legal, allows you to preview every song, doesn't stop you from buying an ad-free CD or download later. Where is the catch?
A private company can choose to disclose information to the government if it wishes. Our two concerns is that a) the law contains safeguards against police abuse and b) the government is not prosecuting people for innocuous activities. Other than that, does India block access to offshore sites of similar nature? If not, set up your community in a country with decent laws.
You mean like my daughter? Right now I might try running some blinkenlights type program with cute sounds. Oh, you mean in college? Well, in this case, I see nothing wrong with showing off whatever you are good at. If you are a baseball pitcher, go a head and show off your muscles. If you can make room lights in the dorm form a heart sign, I don't see why it wouldn't work either.
Apple TV hackers focus is legally running Cocoa applications on a $300 device. If you just want a Linux set top box, your best choice is probably a slightly used notebook. You get to customize hard drive space, gaming capabilities and so on according to your needs. Neuros attitude is golden, but does their hardware bring any additional value into the picture?
Before being swallowed by a red giant then? Or is amount of Helium proportionally larger?
Do you actually own a gun?
Are you carrying it to classes?
Can you shoot well enough to hit a moving target when you are scared shitless?
Is it always secure enough that you are willing to take responsibility if someone, possibly your kid, uses it to commit a crime or dies in an accident?
Nice sentiment, but in practice it's hard to tell if the intruder is going to cause harm or just point out the flaws until it's too late. I think in the case of university computer (especially your own one in the dorm) and in case of nuke control, preemptive responses should be quite different.
commercial != educational. I am sure we agree that we don't want security research to be done on city's traffic light system or nuclear missile control.
Steve Jobs openly admits to phone phreaking and calling the Pope. Both he and Bill Gates eventually dropped out of school. It's clear that, to become a person of substance, you have to be willing to challenge authority once in a while. Are we trying to raise a generation of corporate drones who are so obedient they can never pose a competitive threat to existing oligarchy. Are we so insane we let disturbed students stay in school and own guns, but suspend ones who are merely using university's property, paid for by their tuition, more efficiently than average?
You do realize that most dictators started out as military heros? They show up in United Nations decorated with dozens of medals, and many of them were earned fairly. Jack couldn't resist the draw of money and, by the time he died, he abandoned all the values he fought for, including capitalism. He advocated policy in which all the money will go to his little junta rather than individual artists, smaller music companies and entrepreneurs seeking to enter online music distribution business. Great soldiers don't make great leaders.
The fact that it takes well over 50% more US dollars to equal an amount in euros or francs, should seriously concern people.
Yeah, Europeans should be very worried. Their stores are getting flooded by cheap american imports that local companies can not compete with under a 50% premium. Their jobs are getting outsourced to US. They are losing their import market to US companies that are able to offer a much better price. European tourists go and spend money abroad rather than investing it back into local economy.
Woah, you are lawyer so you must know this stuff. But you do realize that a small child can be manipulated to say whatever a lawyer, parent, prosecutor etc says, right? Tell her enough times that her mom was using a computer with a program that "looked like this" and she will even believe it herself. So in that aspect, current system sucks and I hope you can use your capacity to change it :-) On the bright side, I don't think music qualifies as food and shelter. So she should be able to get clear by returning the CDs?
I just discovered an unauthorized ssh connection from 63.147.176.12! RIAA bastards stole some copyrighted word documents from my hard drive! I see that saying this gives me grounds to win a civil lawsuit in these courts of yours.