Your car can be taken away from you at the drop of a hat and even if you get it back without paying anything you're not going to get anything for the time you spent without it.
The ability of the government to do that without ruining many people's lives is largely illusory. I know that for much of my life, if they had done that to me, I would likely have lost my job shortly thereafter (oh and don't talk about unfair dismissal rights - you only get them after 2 bloody years).
Even now, at 3, he can start to wander through the internet and has stumbled onto some inappropriate sites
What do you consider 'inappropiate', and why? Honestly if I'd stumbled onto some porn sites when I was 3 I'd probably have thought "huh, interesting" - and moved on because it didn't interest me for long. I'm really curious as to what damage you think it will do to your child that can't be easily dealt with by your talking to him.
Let's all focus on software patents rather than all patents in general. The argument is much more cut and dry.
Is it? Care to explain why? The best it's been explained to me thus far is that software is just over of the "short" end of the "development lifecycle" spectrum, and so someone is much more likely to violate other patents that haven't yet expired when creating their new software. With hardware the same problem could in theory exist but because the development lifecycle is slower, you're less likely to violate a patent. Unless I'm fundamentally wrong there, that means the issue isn't cut and dry. One could argue that software patents are OK, or go in the other direction and argue that hardware patents aren't.
I fail to see how how a little irresponsibility negates an entire culture that has done a lot of good, regardless of their beliefs.
I wasn't intending to negate the good that has been done, but I was intending to say that believing in Mormonism's veracity is lacking "common sense" given the wealth of evidence out there that Smith invented it for his own (sinister) ends. It was the $cientology of its day. Would many people here complain if I said $cientology was a load of bullshit? Then why Mormonism? If $cientology is around in 300 years, will we all have to suddenly respect it?
"We can do better than that as Utahns," says Herbert, calling on shooters to "self-regulate," since legislation bars sheriff's officials from regulating firearms. "A lot of the problem we have out here is a lack of common sense.""
If you're relying on common sense from a state most of which fell in a big way for the Joseph Smith con-job that is Mormonism, you're gonna be waiting a very long time.
I'm under the impression that, unfortunately, Windows will run on those machines, they just can't be sold as "Windows Certified". It would be fantastic if they stopped it from being installed. The hardware vendors would love it as a vast number more machines would be sold.
Did I just flip into a Bizarro World where there are a ton of people looking to buy PCs which won't boot Windows?
He is truly this paranoid? Can someone get this man to a psychiatrist? He is only wanted for questioning. Sweden wont extradite him to USA. If you believe that you have been sucked in to the conspiracy nuts world.
This is so far from reality
But Assange only gets one chance here. If he gets extradited from Sweden, he might as well have stepped on a landmine; he can't just say "whoops, that didn't work, better go back and try another tactic." You're in a US high-security jail or executed, you're fucked. Wouldn't you try anything you could from stopping the US government from persecuting you by throwing their weight around?
Your suggestion is totally unnecessary. I had to click 'parent' to see WTF you were even talking about because it had already been modded down to -1. The Slashdot moderation system has been working pretty much fine since it was invented and I wouldn't like to see them start down the road of deleting any post.
Chances are they will whitelist any sites that may contain personally identifiable information such as banking sites etc. Most places do not want to get into privacy issues like this.
For the record, this place made no such distinction - ALL HTTPS traffic (as far as I could tell) was proxied.
I do judge people by their output, but I will still remain quite unimpressed if you need the constant reassurance of tweets and FB posts that the outside world exists every few minutes. Seriously, that's just ridiculous.
I'd say it depends heavily on how often this is being done, but it still sounds rather like you're assuming everyone's mind works as yours does, which I think is a bad idea.
I honestly don't get why it is such a big hairy ass deal to use a separate guest wireless network to do your web surfing on your own devices. You got what you want right?
Well in my case, no such WiFi network existed so I was SOL. I suspect most places that do this kind of HTTPS lockdown don't provide such a thoughtful alternative. I also wasn't able to get any mobile phone signal in the building so that was out, too.
It's too dangerous to do it on the same machine that has access to corporate networks and customer data.
Why, is this the malware thing again? If so, as I mentioned elsewhere, why is scanning HTTPS traffic as it comes through the router more secure than scanning it at the workstation end with some AV software?
why are you banking, shopping, or correspondence at work?
How about: Why am I logging on to tech websites that might allow me to get the answer to a programming problem I'm having at work? And I want to keep my logon password secret, so I want to use HTTPS which isn't being snooped on. What about that use-case?
Non work related personal sites can absolutely be a vector for malware. Personal email, especially so. Just what part of multi-billion dollar malware business do you not understand? Large scale espionage from foreign countries?
I don't get this argument. I assume you are running a modern OS on your workstations, which is kept patched up-to-date and has a virus scanner installed. Can't that virus scanner just do all the malware scanning you were going to do when intercepting the web traffic? Why do you need the web traffic scanning AND the virus scanner for that?
It is not acceptable to be keeping a persistent session and checking every 5 minutes. Let it go. Wait until lunch, a break, or after work to reconnect with friends and family. We don't need these ever persistent communication sessions distracting from work.
See, that's just not the way *I* work best. I do some work, then I take a few minutes to check out a StackExchange website. Or a story on Slashdot. Then I get back to working again. Then I take a few mins off. Why can't you judge people on their work output, and not their internet habits?
I think you're taking the way *you* work, and assuming that everyone's mind works the same way. It's unfortunate, and all I can say is I'm glad I don't work for your company and I'll be looking out for companies with a more relaxed company culture than yours seems to have.
If I am taking a break, then yes, I might be on.... Slashdot for instance.
Do you log on to Slashdot (or any OpenID service)? Does this mean that your MITM hardware could (or does) record your logon password(s)? Are you comfortable with this? Would you be if some unknown people in some other IT department had access to said logs?
I'm not opposed to taking breaks every once in awhile, but lately I have been running into people that... well... act like addicts.
Even if this is the case, how is this a security issue for the company that justifies your extremely hardline policies? Surely if they are spending that much time not working, it will show in their reduced work output and it becomes a management issue as to why the employee is not working at their expected level.
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Your car can be taken away from you at the drop of a hat and even if you get it back without paying anything you're not going to get anything for the time you spent without it.
The ability of the government to do that without ruining many people's lives is largely illusory. I know that for much of my life, if they had done that to me, I would likely have lost my job shortly thereafter (oh and don't talk about unfair dismissal rights - you only get them after 2 bloody years).
lol, nice. I guess squiggleslash really is good at predicting the future: just do the exact opposite of what he says!
I love Betteridge's Law of Headlines. I used it only the other week when reading the article on "What is next week's weather going to be like?"
You made the rather important omission of C#. Or do you say that all Java's criticisms apply to it?
Even now, at 3, he can start to wander through the internet and has stumbled onto some inappropriate sites
What do you consider 'inappropiate', and why? Honestly if I'd stumbled onto some porn sites when I was 3 I'd probably have thought "huh, interesting" - and moved on because it didn't interest me for long. I'm really curious as to what damage you think it will do to your child that can't be easily dealt with by your talking to him.
That sounds like something that would be used at a bris.
You think Obama leads his rich paymasters around?
So they're blocking Tor, but allowing SSH connections?
Let's all focus on software patents rather than all patents in general. The argument is much more cut and dry.
Is it? Care to explain why? The best it's been explained to me thus far is that software is just over of the "short" end of the "development lifecycle" spectrum, and so someone is much more likely to violate other patents that haven't yet expired when creating their new software. With hardware the same problem could in theory exist but because the development lifecycle is slower, you're less likely to violate a patent. Unless I'm fundamentally wrong there, that means the issue isn't cut and dry. One could argue that software patents are OK, or go in the other direction and argue that hardware patents aren't.
I fail to see how how a little irresponsibility negates an entire culture that has done a lot of good, regardless of their beliefs.
I wasn't intending to negate the good that has been done, but I was intending to say that believing in Mormonism's veracity is lacking "common sense" given the wealth of evidence out there that Smith invented it for his own (sinister) ends. It was the $cientology of its day. Would many people here complain if I said $cientology was a load of bullshit? Then why Mormonism? If $cientology is around in 300 years, will we all have to suddenly respect it?
What do you mean by "Stupid semicolon statement insertion"?
"We can do better than that as Utahns," says Herbert, calling on shooters to "self-regulate," since legislation bars sheriff's officials from regulating firearms. "A lot of the problem we have out here is a lack of common sense.""
If you're relying on common sense from a state most of which fell in a big way for the Joseph Smith con-job that is Mormonism, you're gonna be waiting a very long time.
The VOIP visitation recorders at work have to have updates turned off because Ubuntu craps itself whenever it tries to update.
If you're looking for stability, why on Earth are you using Ubuntu?? Try Debian squeeze, or CentOS.
Nope. Junction points aren't even creatable via the GUI, you have to the know the CLI command to do it.
Ah, so I guess NTFS Link doesn't exist then.
I'm under the impression that, unfortunately, Windows will run on those machines, they just can't be sold as "Windows Certified". It would be fantastic if they stopped it from being installed. The hardware vendors would love it as a vast number more machines would be sold.
Did I just flip into a Bizarro World where there are a ton of people looking to buy PCs which won't boot Windows?
He is truly this paranoid? Can someone get this man to a psychiatrist? He is only wanted for questioning. Sweden wont extradite him to USA. If you believe that you have been sucked in to the conspiracy nuts world.
This is so far from reality
But Assange only gets one chance here. If he gets extradited from Sweden, he might as well have stepped on a landmine; he can't just say "whoops, that didn't work, better go back and try another tactic." You're in a US high-security jail or executed, you're fucked. Wouldn't you try anything you could from stopping the US government from persecuting you by throwing their weight around?
Your suggestion is totally unnecessary. I had to click 'parent' to see WTF you were even talking about because it had already been modded down to -1. The Slashdot moderation system has been working pretty much fine since it was invented and I wouldn't like to see them start down the road of deleting any post.
Chances are they will whitelist any sites that may contain personally identifiable information such as banking sites etc. Most places do not want to get into privacy issues like this.
For the record, this place made no such distinction - ALL HTTPS traffic (as far as I could tell) was proxied.
Let's just forget about the WiFi network for a minute because I'm addressing situations where the IT people don't provide such a network.
The whitelist can be implemented without snooping on HTTPS sessions. Why do you need to do both?
I do judge people by their output, but I will still remain quite unimpressed if you need the constant reassurance of tweets and FB posts that the outside world exists every few minutes. Seriously, that's just ridiculous.
I'd say it depends heavily on how often this is being done, but it still sounds rather like you're assuming everyone's mind works as yours does, which I think is a bad idea.
I honestly don't get why it is such a big hairy ass deal to use a separate guest wireless network to do your web surfing on your own devices. You got what you want right?
Well in my case, no such WiFi network existed so I was SOL. I suspect most places that do this kind of HTTPS lockdown don't provide such a thoughtful alternative. I also wasn't able to get any mobile phone signal in the building so that was out, too.
It's too dangerous to do it on the same machine that has access to corporate networks and customer data.
Why, is this the malware thing again? If so, as I mentioned elsewhere, why is scanning HTTPS traffic as it comes through the router more secure than scanning it at the workstation end with some AV software?
why are you banking, shopping, or correspondence at work?
How about: Why am I logging on to tech websites that might allow me to get the answer to a programming problem I'm having at work? And I want to keep my logon password secret, so I want to use HTTPS which isn't being snooped on. What about that use-case?
Non work related personal sites can absolutely be a vector for malware. Personal email, especially so. Just what part of multi-billion dollar malware business do you not understand? Large scale espionage from foreign countries?
I don't get this argument. I assume you are running a modern OS on your workstations, which is kept patched up-to-date and has a virus scanner installed. Can't that virus scanner just do all the malware scanning you were going to do when intercepting the web traffic? Why do you need the web traffic scanning AND the virus scanner for that?
It is not acceptable to be keeping a persistent session and checking every 5 minutes. Let it go. Wait until lunch, a break, or after work to reconnect with friends and family. We don't need these ever persistent communication sessions distracting from work.
See, that's just not the way *I* work best. I do some work, then I take a few minutes to check out a StackExchange website. Or a story on Slashdot. Then I get back to working again. Then I take a few mins off. Why can't you judge people on their work output, and not their internet habits?
I think you're taking the way *you* work, and assuming that everyone's mind works the same way. It's unfortunate, and all I can say is I'm glad I don't work for your company and I'll be looking out for companies with a more relaxed company culture than yours seems to have.
If I am taking a break, then yes, I might be on.... Slashdot for instance.
Do you log on to Slashdot (or any OpenID service)? Does this mean that your MITM hardware could (or does) record your logon password(s)? Are you comfortable with this? Would you be if some unknown people in some other IT department had access to said logs?
Possibly makes them more productive.
I'm not opposed to taking breaks every once in awhile, but lately I have been running into people that... well... act like addicts.
Even if this is the case, how is this a security issue for the company that justifies your extremely hardline policies? Surely if they are spending that much time not working, it will show in their reduced work output and it becomes a management issue as to why the employee is not working at their expected level.