The Office of Veteran Affairs was betrayed just the same as everyone else in this instance
I call BS, Veteran Affairs has consistently been given low grades in security. It goes back to a culture of "I don't give a damn". As long as the agency is not punished, publicly or privately, you can bet it will happen again.
The employees have a right to freedom of speech, but that does not apply to things that they learned on the job serving their clients. Think of it this way, would you want to go to a bank where the tellers told everyone how much money you make? The clients can say what they want about the bank so yes it is one-sided but for a good reason.
The employee has responsibilities to the school; information that they collect during their time there is related to the thier job not their social life or personal views. Students are not paid to go to school, it is a part of their life; they are the clients.
Linus has written the Linux kernel used in millions of computers ranging from PCs to Mainframe.
Tanenbaum still has Minix and doctorate.
Education means nothing if you do nothing with it. Linus has applied his education very well and progress well beyond anything Tanenbaum has accomplished, with or without a doctorate...
Lucky for them I have a training course on how to prevent this. Anyone interested please send me your name, phone number, mailing address and credit card number and I will get you signed up RIGHT AWAY!!!
Remember, you never spend enough to protect yourself!!!
You know, I hate how there are just some people that cannot learn for themselves. They are willing to blame everyone else for their inability to learn things.
Take recent journalism; a large number of stories that have come out of main stream news media have been bashed recently. The bashing is caused by the lack of investigative analysis done for these articles. I am not saying you have to check every fact, but that a fair cry from checking no facts. Basically, these sorts of journalists are willing to accept whatever they are are told, and in the case of a few lazy ones just copy and paste a "press release" as their own work.
Back to computers, I work with people that have used Word Perfect for years and when the business wants to upgrade to MS Office, they refused! These people were so stubborn they would not even try MS Word becuase it is to different!
For the article, if the person is not going to put in the effort to learn enough to be decent at Linux, how can know whether it is because Linux is hard or he is just an idiot? This article is like listening to the author say he bought "Learning Spanish for Dummies", and found out he could not learn Spanish in a week.
The answer would be yes, people go onto properties without explicit permissions all the time. Why? Because there is no warning that you "ARE NOT ALLOWED!" If you have reason to believe that you have access to a place and there is nothing to contradict that point there is no trespassing.
For example, a museum is open from 9am to 6pm. It is 6:30pm and you are still on the property. Is the sign someplace that you notice it? Did someone tell you that the museum was closed? Are there other people still in the museum? If you don't have reason to believe you are trespassing then you are not, it is upon the owner to make people have reasonable knowledge that they should not be there.
To extend the example, a security guard told you to leave, they are turning out the lights and everyone else has left the permises. Are you trespassing? The answer would be yes because you have enough knowledge to know that you are not supposed to be there.
The question in court will be is just being a military system is enough to say that people should not be allowed there. That is hard to say...
If you also notice, they are going to double spending from $500~ million on MSN to $1 Billion. I don't know many companies that believe they improve their performance just by doubling their budget. After you take into account just trying to rearrange the organization to accomodate that amount of growth can take several years.
This is just another organization that believes that if they throw enough money at a problem it will fix anything.
If you are a stockholder you are in for a wild ride for the next couple of years. Unlike a real rollcoaster, I would get sick from all the ups and downs!
A dirty little secret for Perl has been Test::Devel. As you write your tests in Perl collects stats on what has been called in your tests, and has what not. An excellent book for learning about Perl testing can be found here Perl Perl Testing: A Developer's Notebook
This does not suprise me, it is the result of the way large american companies do business. Think about it, you are a new company who can produce anything and when you go to Sears, Dillards, Target, etc... they will not even talk to you because you are not a major supplier; never mind can provide the same product for a better price. By pretending to be NEC they get their foot in the door; before they could not even get on the parking lot.
I bet the next step is for major companies to license small companies (like this one in the article) as subsidiaries of the major companies. They pay a fee to use the company brand and say they are a subsidiary (when they are not), and then market their own products to the likes of Target and Wal-Mart.
Who says they are only changing undocumented behavior?
Who also left the behavior undocumented? If I am using MS API's then that would be SUPRISE MS!
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Obviously they are harvesting their workers for stem cells. They are probalbly keep in fluid vats, like the Matrix. That would also explain their great employee morale because they all believe they are living in the Playboy mansion. Life at Google is sweet!
At least where I work, in the educational sector, that's impossible. The time spent retraining faculty and staff alone would outweigh the security benefits
Translation: I never have the time to do it right, but I always have the time to fix it!
You cannot get any easier than email. The collaboration software, you have to understand it and it requires more effort. However, if you just want to get something done quickly people are going to just go straight to email.
Plain and simple. I remember when Windows 2000 came out, and that was hyped to the hills as the most secure and high quality Windows that was really going to replace Unix everywhere. Funnily enough, the hype sounded like Vista now
So instead of recycling code, they are recycling marketing material.
I don't get it. How can these Hackers get this tools that do all these great things, and as a system admin I cannot get a application bundle and installed without having to try and move the Rock of Gibraltar.
Considering as a system Admin, I would have more time and a higher budget, you would think some corporation would make some better tools to handle the more common tasks like managing and updating applications on workstations. Instead I get to read how a hacker can control thousands of machines through a configuration more complicated than Enron's accounting procedures all with a click of the button.
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The Office of Veteran Affairs was betrayed just the same as everyone else in this instance
I call BS, Veteran Affairs has consistently been given low grades in security. It goes back to a culture of "I don't give a damn". As long as the agency is not punished, publicly or privately, you can bet it will happen again.
How come the School District is not spending their time working to improving grades?
With an administration that is concerned about what students are saying about them, it is like the staff themselves never left high school!
The employees have a right to freedom of speech, but that does not apply to things that they learned on the job serving their clients. Think of it this way, would you want to go to a bank where the tellers told everyone how much money you make? The clients can say what they want about the bank so yes it is one-sided but for a good reason.
The employee has responsibilities to the school; information that they collect during their time there is related to the thier job not their social life or personal views. Students are not paid to go to school, it is a part of their life; they are the clients.
You have a point...hmmm
Java hater!
I would have replied to this sooner, but Windows keeps crashing.
Are your saying that you can depend upon Windows to keep crashing? I guess he is telling the truth!
Remember, if you are not a criminal now, we can always make you one later. Just lets us find out what you are doing and we will make a law against.
Linus has written the Linux kernel used in millions of computers ranging from PCs to Mainframe.
Tanenbaum still has Minix and doctorate.
Education means nothing if you do nothing with it. Linus has applied his education very well and progress well beyond anything Tanenbaum has accomplished, with or without a doctorate...
Lucky for them I have a training course on how to prevent this. Anyone interested please send me your name, phone number, mailing address and credit card number and I will get you signed up RIGHT AWAY!!!
Remember, you never spend enough to protect yourself!!!
For the humor impaired, this was a joke...
You know, I hate how there are just some people that cannot learn for themselves. They are willing to blame everyone else for their inability to learn things.
Take recent journalism; a large number of stories that have come out of main stream news media have been bashed recently. The bashing is caused by the lack of investigative analysis done for these articles. I am not saying you have to check every fact, but that a fair cry from checking no facts. Basically, these sorts of journalists are willing to accept whatever they are are told, and in the case of a few lazy ones just copy and paste a "press release" as their own work.
Back to computers, I work with people that have used Word Perfect for years and when the business wants to upgrade to MS Office, they refused! These people were so stubborn they would not even try MS Word becuase it is to different!
For the article, if the person is not going to put in the effort to learn enough to be decent at Linux, how can know whether it is because Linux is hard or he is just an idiot? This article is like listening to the author say he bought "Learning Spanish for Dummies", and found out he could not learn Spanish in a week.
The answer would be yes, people go onto properties without explicit permissions all the time. Why? Because there is no warning that you "ARE NOT ALLOWED!" If you have reason to believe that you have access to a place and there is nothing to contradict that point there is no trespassing.
For example, a museum is open from 9am to 6pm. It is 6:30pm and you are still on the property. Is the sign someplace that you notice it? Did someone tell you that the museum was closed? Are there other people still in the museum? If you don't have reason to believe you are trespassing then you are not, it is upon the owner to make people have reasonable knowledge that they should not be there.
To extend the example, a security guard told you to leave, they are turning out the lights and everyone else has left the permises. Are you trespassing? The answer would be yes because you have enough knowledge to know that you are not supposed to be there.
The question in court will be is just being a military system is enough to say that people should not be allowed there. That is hard to say...
If I use Photoshop to give our our president a giant bare of woho's will they slap GW Bush with a mature rating?
If you also notice, they are going to double spending from $500~ million on MSN to $1 Billion. I don't know many companies that believe they improve their performance just by doubling their budget. After you take into account just trying to rearrange the organization to accomodate that amount of growth can take several years.
This is just another organization that believes that if they throw enough money at a problem it will fix anything.
If you are a stockholder you are in for a wild ride for the next couple of years. Unlike a real rollcoaster, I would get sick from all the ups and downs!
A dirty little secret for Perl has been Test::Devel. As you write your tests in Perl collects stats on what has been called in your tests, and has what not. An excellent book for learning about Perl testing can be found here Perl Perl Testing: A Developer's Notebook
This does not suprise me, it is the result of the way large american companies do business. Think about it, you are a new company who can produce anything and when you go to Sears, Dillards, Target, etc... they will not even talk to you because you are not a major supplier; never mind can provide the same product for a better price. By pretending to be NEC they get their foot in the door; before they could not even get on the parking lot.
I bet the next step is for major companies to license small companies (like this one in the article) as subsidiaries of the major companies. They pay a fee to use the company brand and say they are a subsidiary (when they are not), and then market their own products to the likes of Target and Wal-Mart.
I feel Hollywood should abandon this fad of making prequels...
Man, you must really hate the History Channel... "I thought the Germans were going to win this time, but they always lose!"
Who says they are only changing undocumented behavior?
Who also left the behavior undocumented? If I am using MS API's then that would be SUPRISE MS!
Obviously they are harvesting their workers for stem cells. They are probalbly keep in fluid vats, like the Matrix. That would also explain their great employee morale because they all believe they are living in the Playboy mansion. Life at Google is sweet!
install something now, you'll see 10203 dependancy packages hanging around, and 20406 items in the kernel choices...
And no one can obviously be paid to roll their own. DARN THAT TORVALDS AND THAT LINUX MONOPOLY!
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Followed by the offspring of a cat and dog!
At least where I work, in the educational sector, that's impossible. The time spent retraining faculty and staff alone would outweigh the security benefits
Translation: I never have the time to do it right, but I always have the time to fix it!
You cannot get any easier than email. The collaboration software, you have to understand it and it requires more effort. However, if you just want to get something done quickly people are going to just go straight to email.
As a funny note, we locked ourselves out of our firewall almost immediately
Are you sure you don't work for my company? They call this a security feature where I work,
Plain and simple. I remember when Windows 2000 came out, and that was hyped to the hills as the most secure and high quality Windows that was really going to replace Unix everywhere. Funnily enough, the hype sounded like Vista now
So instead of recycling code, they are recycling marketing material.
At least they are recycling something!!!
And what is the this PEN and PAPER that she refers too?
I don't get it. How can these Hackers get this tools that do all these great things, and as a system admin I cannot get a application bundle and installed without having to try and move the Rock of Gibraltar.
Considering as a system Admin, I would have more time and a higher budget, you would think some corporation would make some better tools to handle the more common tasks like managing and updating applications on workstations. Instead I get to read how a hacker can control thousands of machines through a configuration more complicated than Enron's accounting procedures all with a click of the button.
Life just ain't fair.