Yes there is something magic about, Windows allows you to be a total ass-hat today and set it all up with some wizards. It will all work great to right away with now troubles at all. Then a year or two later when something blows up you are still an ass-hat who as learned nothing with a set of backups your don't know how to restore from.
Of course you could learn something about Windows adminstration and do it correct and never find yourself in a situation remotely like the above but there is nothing forceing that on you. Windows Server leaves you completely free to enjoy a false sense of security for as long as you would like until disaster strikes. Oh and that always happens sooner or later, no matter what OS you are using. My advice no matter what platform you chose LEARN SOMETHING ABOUT IT before you deploy.
I have to agree, if performance is not a major concern and for anything not number crunching these days its probably not, an interpreter is going to be more flexible the compiled byte code, and probably can still be pretty quick even if its runtime nature prevents certain optimization you might do with a compiler. Why must we keep going after this one tool for every job approach. There is a place C,C++,Java,Perl,Python,Ruby as they exist to day.
Which is the problem with most corners of the "IT" box. The titles are ill defined, there are few proffessional standards and while stuff is pretty constant at the center the rules around the edges change very fast.
A good generalist is your best IT asset. This is someone with a strong academic background. That background needs to include both IS and CS. They way you really succeed in IT is by being able to see the big picture and knowing enough about everything that you can recognize it when you see and can efficently seek,understand, and internal addition information about a specific as requried. The most important thing is knowing when you don't know and being able to tell who does. There is nothing wrong with bringing in help from someone with domain specific skills/trainning when needed but you have to know if enough to recognize a real pro from a guy that spent a weekend with an ITIL book and is now calling himself a "Security Professional".
Actually our governments dubties are very clearly spelled out in our founding document. It goes something like this.
Provide for the common defense Promote the general welfare secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity.
So income equality might be a goal if you think that promotes the general welfare. I don't I think a few wildly wealthy folks who have the money to invoate and create new wealth is better then a nation of popers but that is my view. Point is though if you catch the government doing something you can file under those three headers they should not be doing it at all...
Fine, but if the company did its due dilligence, like say priviliged IT works were promoted from with in after long periods of honest work, or new people were given careful background checks, then its sort of unfair to blame the company
Its clear whoever did this was found and disabled quickly so they do keep logs and somebody must be auditing those logs.
That is all that can reasonably be dones about your top level IT admin staff. Beyond that you create policy that says hey you have to ask someone from executive management before you do this and that, which is all well and good but in the end those people still have access and can simply not follow the policy if they are doing something with mal intent.
If it turns out to be something like that I really doubt the organization will be criminally liable. Someone my extract civil damages but I don't any criminal penalty would stick to the organization at as a whole.
Best Western took immediate action to disable the compromised log-in account in question...
Don't rush to judgements without the facts being in. Its entirelly possible from what was posted there that a single employee did something bad, not that the whole organization was negligent. In most computer systems you utimately have to have someone or a small group of people that are "root". Some account has to have the authority to do just about anything to the system in case it needs to be fixed, in a hurry.
Maybe a priniciple DBA decided to join the mob in this case who knows?
Even if you have separation of powers you are still vulnerable. Suppose the DBA and the System Admin are different people. Maybe the DBA keeps things locked up tight and the database itself is encrypted. The system admin can still just sit and read memory all day and collect the info that way. I used to do this in school. Some of us had shell accounts in the comp sci dept. I never had to "break" or get elevated privilages past any security but I could collect lots of interesting information by running a little C program I wrote which allocated a big character array, did not initialize it and then wrote the contents to disk every few moments, lather rinse repeat.
You don't "win" buy burring though. First it takes much more time and equipment to repair burried lines, and its much more destructive to the surrounding property, ripped up sod etc etc. Burried lines are also much more likely to be damaged by both lightning and flooding then overhead lines.
While trees being blown down and taking utilitly lines when them is probably the largest cause of failure its easily, cheap, and quick fix most of the time. Yes I know there are end cases where a big storm ripps them down through half a city but that is really not that common. So the choice is really some short failures, or somewhat fewer but often much longer failures.
One of our remote offices has a T1 brought in on burried lines, it goes down about an hour after it rains without fail. Why? Because the their is a break in the casing some where and water gets in and shorts it out. That is the telco's theory anyway. We could get it fixed at our cost, but that requires ripping up the parking lot. The building management is not keen on that and it would be big bucks. Burried lines are not always such a good thing.
the most critical task in any IT department is coffee
No, its not the sixties anymore. Its possible to run an IT staff for several hours durring a coffee supply disruption. It has been for at least two decades pull your head up and look around once in a while. Modern products like Mountain Dew and Jolt Cola, can be uesed as a temporary coffee substitue in most IT staff units. Some units with very strong stomacs and high metabolic rates can operate on them exclusively.
I think your are mostly corect about some people ruining it for the rest of the crew but you also have to look why they can't have fun and work toward getting the best gear at the same time. Its failure of the games economics.
I don't play wow but I remember in UO that way to much commerce went on with NPCs rather then other players. It would work better if I could do something I like, say become the most efficent gold miner ever and buy the things I need like clothing from other plays more easily. I should be able to give you gold for the pelt of the monster you just killed. It would lead to less gold farming, because everyone would be "gold farming" I might be doing it grinding at the gold mine, you might be doing it killin mosters for their teath to fashion knives to sell to other moster killers and pelts to others for clothing.
The other pressure that leads to gold farming is external to these games. Some people have much more time to play then others, if you can only play an hour a day or less its impossible to compete. Which means you can't have to many in game relatonships because the players you know level up while you remain at noob level that is unless you can buy your way to betterness from some farmer. The only solution to this I have ever come up with is let players join server based on the number of hours per week they want to play. I would be much more interested in playing serve that only allowed say 8 hours per week average over 2 months or something. That way if one week I want to play a little more I can. It will keep everone equal in terms of play time though which will make for a steadier in game economy.
I am sure they are not losses. They are probably successful in that they get the job done and meet the criteria required. Mostly likely they leave a lot to be desired as well. End users more the likely feel they are slow clunky and offer a tedious work flow due to the limitations of the browser paradigm.
Maintenance programs probably cry, because its hard to write JS apps that seem to be sensibly designed to everyone more them a few of them probably thing your reasoning is bassackwards. They probably spend a great deal of time struggling with understanding data flow, and then coupling and cohesion issues. This is not because you coded the app badly but because JS in a web environment just lends itself to that and forces compromise. They would be happier with something that offered a more JSP(Jackson Structured Programming) or OO approach, perhaps even function if they are into that sort of thing.
Managers probably like the low frequency of end user problems and zero setup time. They also probably like short development cycles for new features and fixes. They probably don't like the fact their app that they have invested so much in is tied to the browser technology of the day, won't age well and will ultimately have to be replaced with a ground up rewrite once browsers eveolve some compelling new features.
"men do stupid things" in your context they seem stupid in their context with the exception of suicide bomber its rational behavior. Killing yourself makes no sense but if the competition for females is great then as a male you have to be a great competitor even if the situation is dangerous, or carries other negative consequences. He may not get another opportunity. Now in our relatively equal parts male female society the competition is not as great. So the rational action is to wait for another opportunity if competing for the girl is dangerous or otherwise not your best interest.
I don't think other then the suicide bombers these people are being stupid just desperate.
Some maybe the rumor gets clarified to, we are getting out of the x86 chipset business for ATI and Intel chips because we are going to be building x86 chipsets for Nvidia x86 chips.
I doubt you would freeze, you would likely stop to study but I doubt you would just freeze. Mostly likely you would walk around the object cautiously at first and get closer after becoming more sure nothing threating was present. This has been observed with infants and toddlers where tricks are used to make the laws of physics appear violated. Psychologists have upset many a baby by making it appear a ball is rolling up an incline or falling up when it reaches the edge of a table with no other force being applied visibly. The babies tend to move the heads around and look at the ball with unusual interest, when compared with control groups showing the ball falling as it should.
Fine from a purely Darwinist standpoint you should prefer your own species, race, and culture to others. If your sole motivation is propagating your genetic material then it would be a very poor adaptation in deed if you liked dolphins better which you cannot breed with, or allowed yourself to stave rather then injure some other plant / animal. Humans may be considered pack animals as well. We don't do very well in isolation so protecting the tribe is in your selfish best interest as well. So its entirely natural to feel superior and value your own over other species.
I think this is expressed in other animals as well. My cat clearly thinks she is a higher form of life then me.
Yea but thats not the same thing. We can objectively look that mass and shape of reindeer, consider the physics of flight and determine that it cannot fly. On the other hand, how can you determine if I can do something internal? Can you determine if I can speak French by looking? If I choose not to tell you and never do so when you can observe you cannot know.
While I agree with you, I still think there is room for caution.
The evidence does appear that we are superior but some of that my be us projecting our values on to the test criteria. What value is art really? It gives us pleasure, makes us think but maybe the fact that we need art proves how stupid we are. You would think I was pretty dumb if I needed to add 20 + 23 on paper. What does it say about us that we write stories across hundreds of pages to appreciate and evaluate other ideas? Maybe all it says is we are just to simple minded to work those ideas in our head space.
How do you dolphins have not concluded they are better off without cities and allowing us dangerous humans to think they are a lessor life form even sacrificing a few of their own to languish is our zoos is not to their interest? It sounds impossible and the rational part of me knows its not true, but there does exist a chance they simply know something we don't....
energy or matter can neither be created nor destroyed through normal means, is the rest of that rule. Fusion reactions are not considered normal means in the chemistry sense.
Like you I was a film guy for a long time. Photography was a big hobby of my in my HS and college days, on trips to new places I do still drag my Cannon FTB SLR along an shoot 35mm. Mostly this is due to the fact that I have an expensive set of lenses for it and can't/won't afford to replace them on a digital platform. Your color argument is correct. Most digitals do seem to do a pretty bad job IMHO. My Cannon A series does. The thing is film was far from perfect as well. Take the same shot under controlled conditions, indoors with studio lighting with Kodak and then Fuji film, you will see a big difference in color. You see this across other brands as well. The same will be true for the print papers if you do the developing yourself. Most photographers simply pick a combination of film brand, printing paper, diffusers, and additive vs subtractive process they find most aesthetically pleasing, there is nothing that is really accurate.
Yes but do you remember? My old school pals could tell me lots of things about our prom night and I would have to take their work for it because honestly it was seven years ago and while I remember it pretty well I don't remember all the details of who was where when. My group of friends and our dates were split across to tables, I would have to look at the pictures to be sure who was at which. Now I suppose it really does not matter, but I have the photos and could look at them and they can be trusted.
They were shoot on 35mm with my trusty Cannon FTP_QL and developed by me in our schools dark room.
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Yes there is something magic about, Windows allows you to be a total ass-hat today and set it all up with some wizards. It will all work great to right away with now troubles at all. Then a year or two later when something blows up you are still an ass-hat who as learned nothing with a set of backups your don't know how to restore from.
Of course you could learn something about Windows adminstration and do it correct and never find yourself in a situation remotely like the above but there is nothing forceing that on you. Windows Server leaves you completely free to enjoy a false sense of security for as long as you would like until disaster strikes. Oh and that always happens sooner or later, no matter what OS you are using. My advice no matter what platform you chose LEARN SOMETHING ABOUT IT before you deploy.
I have to agree, if performance is not a major concern and for anything not number crunching these days its probably not, an interpreter is going to be more flexible the compiled byte code, and probably can still be pretty quick even if its runtime nature prevents certain optimization you might do with a compiler. Why must we keep going after this one tool for every job approach. There is a place C,C++,Java,Perl,Python,Ruby as they exist to day.
Which is the problem with most corners of the "IT" box. The titles are ill defined, there are few proffessional standards and while stuff is pretty constant at the center the rules around the edges change very fast.
A good generalist is your best IT asset. This is someone with a strong academic background. That background needs to include both IS and CS. They way you really succeed in IT is by being able to see the big picture and knowing enough about everything that you can recognize it when you see and can efficently seek,understand, and internal addition information about a specific as requried. The most important thing is knowing when you don't know and being able to tell who does. There is nothing wrong with bringing in help from someone with domain specific skills/trainning when needed but you have to know if enough to recognize a real pro from a guy that spent a weekend with an ITIL book and is now calling himself a "Security Professional".
What happens if someone finds something in the signs might pose a cancer risk however slight, signs on the signs?
"Warning this sign may be a carcinogen."
Actually our governments dubties are very clearly spelled out in our founding document. It goes something like this.
Provide for the common defense
Promote the general welfare
secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity.
So income equality might be a goal if you think that promotes the general welfare. I don't I think a few wildly wealthy folks who have the money to invoate and create new wealth is better then a nation of popers but that is my view. Point is though if you catch the government doing something you can file under those three headers they should not be doing it at all...
McCain needs to find a young, anti-abortion middle-class outsider who can go toe-to-toe with joe biden in a debate. good luck with that one.
and if he is really smart about it; he sould pick a woman. That will really take "change" votes away from Borate Obama.
No conservative, or even liberal republican is going to vote for a ticket with Biden on it.
Fine, but if the company did its due dilligence, like say priviliged IT works were promoted from with in after long periods of honest work, or new people were given careful background checks, then its sort of unfair to blame the company
Its clear whoever did this was found and disabled quickly so they do keep logs and somebody must be auditing those logs.
That is all that can reasonably be dones about your top level IT admin staff. Beyond that you create policy that says hey you have to ask someone from executive management before you do this and that, which is all well and good but in the end those people still have access and can simply not follow the policy if they are doing something with mal intent.
If it turns out to be something like that I really doubt the organization will be criminally liable. Someone my extract civil damages but I don't any criminal penalty would stick to the organization at as a whole.
they've failed to secure their systems
Best Western took immediate action to disable the compromised log-in account in question...
Don't rush to judgements without the facts being in. Its entirelly possible from what was posted there that a single employee did something bad, not that the whole organization was negligent. In most computer systems you utimately have to have someone or a small group of people that are "root". Some account has to have the authority to do just about anything to the system in case it needs to be fixed, in a hurry.
Maybe a priniciple DBA decided to join the mob in this case who knows?
Even if you have separation of powers you are still vulnerable. Suppose the DBA and the System Admin are different people. Maybe the DBA keeps things locked up tight and the database itself is encrypted. The system admin can still just sit and read memory all day and collect the info that way. I used to do this in school. Some of us had shell accounts in the comp sci dept. I never had to "break" or get elevated privilages past any security but I could collect lots of interesting information by running a little C program I wrote which allocated a big character array, did not initialize it and then wrote the contents to disk every few moments, lather rinse repeat.
You don't "win" buy burring though. First it takes much more time and equipment to repair burried lines, and its much more destructive to the surrounding property, ripped up sod etc etc. Burried lines are also much more likely to be damaged by both lightning and flooding then overhead lines.
While trees being blown down and taking utilitly lines when them is probably the largest cause of failure its easily, cheap, and quick fix most of the time. Yes I know there are end cases where a big storm ripps them down through half a city but that is really not that common. So the choice is really some short failures, or somewhat fewer but often much longer failures.
One of our remote offices has a T1 brought in on burried lines, it goes down about an hour after it rains without fail. Why? Because the their is a break in the casing some where and water gets in and shorts it out. That is the telco's theory anyway. We could get it fixed at our cost, but that requires ripping up the parking lot. The building management is not keen on that and it would be big bucks. Burried lines are not always such a good thing.
the most critical task in any IT department is coffee
No, its not the sixties anymore. Its possible to run an IT staff for several hours durring a coffee supply disruption. It has been for at least two decades pull your head up and look around once in a while. Modern products like Mountain Dew and Jolt Cola, can be uesed as a temporary coffee substitue in most IT staff units. Some units with very strong stomacs and high metabolic rates can operate on them exclusively.
I think your are mostly corect about some people ruining it for the rest of the crew but you also have to look why they can't have fun and work toward getting the best gear at the same time. Its failure of the games economics.
I don't play wow but I remember in UO that way to much commerce went on with NPCs rather then other players. It would work better if I could do something I like, say become the most efficent gold miner ever and buy the things I need like clothing from other plays more easily. I should be able to give you gold for the pelt of the monster you just killed. It would lead to less gold farming, because everyone would be "gold farming" I might be doing it grinding at the gold mine, you might be doing it killin mosters for their teath to fashion knives to sell to other moster killers and pelts to others for clothing.
The other pressure that leads to gold farming is external to these games. Some people have much more time to play then others, if you can only play an hour a day or less its impossible to compete. Which means you can't have to many in game relatonships because the players you know level up while you remain at noob level that is unless you can buy your way to betterness from some farmer. The only solution to this I have ever come up with is let players join server based on the number of hours per week they want to play. I would be much more interested in playing serve that only allowed say 8 hours per week average over 2 months or something. That way if one week I want to play a little more I can. It will keep everone equal in terms of play time though which will make for a steadier in game economy.
I am sure they are not losses. They are probably successful in that they get the job done and meet the criteria required. Mostly likely they leave a lot to be desired as well. End users more the likely feel they are slow clunky and offer a tedious work flow due to the limitations of the browser paradigm.
Maintenance programs probably cry, because its hard to write JS apps that seem to be sensibly designed to everyone more them a few of them probably thing your reasoning is bassackwards. They probably spend a great deal of time struggling with understanding data flow, and then coupling and cohesion issues. This is not because you coded the app badly but because JS in a web environment just lends itself to that and forces compromise. They would be happier with something that offered a more JSP(Jackson Structured Programming) or OO approach, perhaps even function if they are into that sort of thing.
Managers probably like the low frequency of end user problems and zero setup time. They also probably like short development cycles for new features and fixes. They probably don't like the fact their app that they have invested so much in is tied to the browser technology of the day, won't age well and will ultimately have to be replaced with a ground up rewrite once browsers eveolve some compelling new features.
"men do stupid things" in your context they seem stupid in their context with the exception of suicide bomber its rational behavior. Killing yourself makes no sense but if the competition for females is great then as a male you have to be a great competitor even if the situation is dangerous, or carries other negative consequences. He may not get another opportunity. Now in our relatively equal parts male female society the competition is not as great. So the rational action is to wait for another opportunity if competing for the girl is dangerous or otherwise not your best interest.
I don't think other then the suicide bombers these people are being stupid just desperate.
Some maybe the rumor gets clarified to, we are getting out of the x86 chipset business for ATI and Intel chips because we are going to be building x86 chipsets for Nvidia x86 chips.
Well no know set anyway. Imagine the power if you could find one...
I doubt you would freeze, you would likely stop to study but I doubt you would just freeze. Mostly likely you would walk around the object cautiously at first and get closer after becoming more sure nothing threating was present. This has been observed with infants and toddlers where tricks are used to make the laws of physics appear violated. Psychologists have upset many a baby by making it appear a ball is rolling up an incline or falling up when it reaches the edge of a table with no other force being applied visibly. The babies tend to move the heads around and look at the ball with unusual interest, when compared with control groups showing the ball falling as it should.
Fine from a purely Darwinist standpoint you should prefer your own species, race, and culture to others. If your sole motivation is propagating your genetic material then it would be a very poor adaptation in deed if you liked dolphins better which you cannot breed with, or allowed yourself to stave rather then injure some other plant / animal. Humans may be considered pack animals as well. We don't do very well in isolation so protecting the tribe is in your selfish best interest as well. So its entirely natural to feel superior and value your own over other species.
I think this is expressed in other animals as well. My cat clearly thinks she is a higher form of life then me.
Yea but thats not the same thing. We can objectively look that mass and shape of reindeer, consider the physics of flight and determine that it cannot fly. On the other hand, how can you determine if I can do something internal? Can you determine if I can speak French by looking? If I choose not to tell you and never do so when you can observe you cannot know.
While I agree with you, I still think there is room for caution.
The evidence does appear that we are superior but some of that my be us projecting our values on to the test criteria. What value is art really? It gives us pleasure, makes us think but maybe the fact that we need art proves how stupid we are. You would think I was pretty dumb if I needed to add 20 + 23 on paper. What does it say about us that we write stories across hundreds of pages to appreciate and evaluate other ideas? Maybe all it says is we are just to simple minded to work those ideas in our head space.
How do you dolphins have not concluded they are better off without cities and allowing us dangerous humans to think they are a lessor life form even sacrificing a few of their own to languish is our zoos is not to their interest? It sounds impossible and the rational part of me knows its not true, but there does exist a chance they simply know something we don't....
energy or matter can neither be created nor destroyed through normal means, is the rest of that rule. Fusion reactions are not considered normal means in the chemistry sense.
Well,
Like you I was a film guy for a long time. Photography was a big hobby of my in my HS and college days, on trips to new places I do still drag my Cannon FTB SLR along an shoot 35mm. Mostly this is due to the fact that I have an expensive set of lenses for it and can't/won't afford to replace them on a digital platform. Your color argument is correct. Most digitals do seem to do a pretty bad job IMHO. My Cannon A series does. The thing is film was far from perfect as well. Take the same shot under controlled conditions, indoors with studio lighting with Kodak and then Fuji film, you will see a big difference in color. You see this across other brands as well. The same will be true for the print papers if you do the developing yourself. Most photographers simply pick a combination of film brand, printing paper, diffusers, and additive vs subtractive process they find most aesthetically pleasing, there is nothing that is really accurate.
Yes but do you remember? My old school pals could tell me lots of things about our prom night and I would have to take their work for it because honestly it was seven years ago and while I remember it pretty well I don't remember all the details of who was where when. My group of friends and our dates were split across to tables, I would have to look at the pictures to be sure who was at which. Now I suppose it really does not matter, but I have the photos and could look at them and they can be trusted.
They were shoot on 35mm with my trusty Cannon FTP_QL and developed by me in our schools dark room.
This is just another example of how the digital age will make the end of history, true history anyway.