I love finding people who bad-mouth previous bosses. My favorite question is, "Will you say the same thing about me if I don't hire you?"
Dude-- if you DON'T hire them, the question is IRRELEVANT because you WON'T be their former boss...
So, now that we've cleared that up, I'd personally recommend that they laugh about you from one end of the Net to the other-- make stuff up about you even!
I would be inclined to agree - you've got no right as a professional to lock out the owner of the kit, from their stuff.
Who is actually the OWNER of the system? The boss? Isn't he employed by the same company as the sysadmin? Don't they both have an obligation to safeguard the OWNER'S property and interests? If the sysadmin refuses to hand over the password to sensitive equipment & systems to a (perceived) inept superior-- as long as that guy DOESN'T own the company-- isn't he actually performing his responsibility to the real owner? Which in this case would be the city, and the personification of the city would be the mayor-- and that's exactly who he DID give the passwords to. So it seems to me like he did precisely what he was supposed to do in terms of safeguarding the network and sensitive equipment. Of course he should probably be then fired for failing to keep backups, conops, continuity planning, etc. But that's a different matter.
The real question is: Underneath all those clothes and that frumpy appearance and rumpled hair-- is she hot? How long will it take the dupe-squad to photoshop her into all sorts of compromising positions? (Assuming they haven't done it already) Who cares how well she can run the country if she looks good starkers holding a martini and a smile...! And did you see McCain? He just stood there totally still (or else he might have been asleep, I'm not really sure which) with a look on his face like "... and she can COOK too!"
Seriously though-- I don't care whether a candidate is male, female, pink or purple-- but I do care when they prop somebody up just because of their gender or race. This was a stupid move on the part of the republicans. Did you hear she's ALREADY got a scandal brewing??? How's that for a time-saver? Why wait until she's elected, just go ahead and get it out there now.
Because if they don't, eventually the open source community will reverse engineer all their crap and put it out there for free without any involvement from them and they'll just be left sucking hind tit.
ECMA sounds like a bad skin disease...... I knew this girl once, she wasn't that bad looking, you know, but man did she have ECMA all over... gave me the creeps!
You forgot to mention that COMPUTERS will also evolve to the point they are the size of a headache capsule, ingestible with a glass of water, able to run for weeks on a single fuel-cell charge, and finally disposable at the other end in the ultimate data dump. Meanwhile they will be busy broadcasting wirelessly to your subcutaneous ear & mouthpiece transceivers, pick up "keystrokes" from transducers placed under your fingertips, and outputting to your visual and audio centers directly through tiny laser assemblies and implanted bone-conduction transducers. They will interact seamlessly with all the other ubiquitous computing devices in your home and office environments, and will upload and download data as needed to support your recreational, educational, scheduling and business needs. They'll be cheaper than jelly beans (here, help yourself to a handful) but you'll have to pay through the nose to the mega-amalgamated-consolidated-conglomerate cloud-computer-government-corporate entity made up by the former United States government and Microsoft, Cisco, HP, IBM, Sony, Toshiba, Con-Agra, Cargill and Haliburton corporations, who will of course be your friendly, benign, quasi-corporate-regulatory overlords.
When in public, I do not have a sign with my name and ID numbers on them, they are private.
When in public, nobody knows I have a CHL and I CC.
When in public, nobody knows if I just got laid or not.
When in public, nobody knows what my final destination is.
There's another issue I'm not seeing addressed here that is problematic with many sites is that they ask too many personal questions, often times for no good (legitimate) purpose (though perhaps not maliciously). Often they ask (at various points, registration, age verification, purchase, etc) for your name, address w/zip code, age (birth date), mother's maiden name, etc. And if making a purchase will then typically get credit card info, 3-digit "security" number on back, name as it appears on card, possibly additional address(es) if billing and/or shipping addresses are different, phone numbers, possibly even enough to figure out where you work if the number can be reversed, and lots more. And the situation can be magnified / expanded if the site owner has multiple web sites that you frequent or belongs to some sort of merchant association (or hacker association) that shares the info amongst its "affiliates".
The very real concern is that through "routine operations", many (most?) sites collect enough information about you to quickly and fairly easily "become you", i.e. perpetrate an identity fraud. Many if not most of the questions and information requested via typical account registration and age verification are the fundamentals needed to establish an identity. The mother's maiden name is in many cases the icing on the cake. All they're missing is the social security number which many people either mistakenly use or freely (unwittingly) give out without realizing its potential security ramifications. (Although that specific danger is becoming more widely known and people are generally taking more precautions with their SSN's).
Then when you stop to realize that MANY retailers, including major card issuers and merchant processors, have been HACKED and ACCOUNT DATA STOLEN-- there have been reported cases of HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS of credit card information stolen-- what exactly gets stolen, just the card number? Not likely. Probably all the rest of that information the site has collected about you as well, they (the news reporters and press releases) just don't go out of their way to point that out. The most recent one that I recall was a few weeks ago that the parent of TJMAXX (and all its various subsidiaries), Circuit City, etc was hacked and reportedly lost over 40 Million credit card account entries. And I seem to recollect that this was NOT the FIRST TIME this has ever happened to them-- my feeble neurons think they remember a previously reported event a year or two ago involving the SAME RETAILERS in which it was discovered they were using UNENCRYPTED WIFI to transport sensitive account and credit card data to centralized (in-store) collection points. And that it is (was) possible to simply drive up in the parking lot with laptop and favorite pringles-can antenna and pick off the data w/o hardly a thought towards getting caught. Card issuers thump their chests about all their doing to prevent fraud and theft, and point out the consumer is off the hook for purchases over $50 bucks, yada yada yada-- but what they don't tell you is that they don't do shit if your INFORMATION is stolen and you are harmed via IDENTITY THEFT.
Then there's CAPTCHAS... I have read several articles (don't have a handy citation, try google) claiming that nefarious folks are gaming them too. By putting up seemingly innocuous sites, often "free porn/game/whatever" sites, and then making the people who use them answer a "security / CAPTCHA" question which is really a copy of some other site's (i.e., a site they have nefarious interest in) CAPTCHA images, or more recently just individual letters extracted from those images. That way they get free brainpower in solving them. They then use the answers to create databases of image/answers which they can use to further their nefarious goals.
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Dude-- if you DON'T hire them, the question is IRRELEVANT because you WON'T be their former boss...
So, now that we've cleared that up, I'd personally recommend that they laugh about you from one end of the Net to the other-- make stuff up about you even!
(smirk)
However the case I certainly do understand the term "Anonymous Coward" completely.
Schmuck.
Who is actually the OWNER of the system? The boss? Isn't he employed by the same company as the sysadmin? Don't they both have an obligation to safeguard the OWNER'S property and interests? If the sysadmin refuses to hand over the password to sensitive equipment & systems to a (perceived) inept superior-- as long as that guy DOESN'T own the company-- isn't he actually performing his responsibility to the real owner? Which in this case would be the city, and the personification of the city would be the mayor-- and that's exactly who he DID give the passwords to. So it seems to me like he did precisely what he was supposed to do in terms of safeguarding the network and sensitive equipment. Of course he should probably be then fired for failing to keep backups, conops, continuity planning, etc. But that's a different matter.
Don't forget the obligatory RED and BLUE wires. Every small black box with lone onerous blinking red LED MUST have red and blue wires. Its a rule.
Why can't he be a bad guy AND be surrounded by morons-- you know, the old "bad guy surrounded by morons" routine...???
Um, that's actually an easy one-- he'd zap it with his heat ray vision and then if it stopped, he found it... if not, well-- Ooops!
They're renaming the GOP Convention now to the "Palin-Drome".... get it? :)
The real question is: Underneath all those clothes and that frumpy appearance and rumpled hair-- is she hot? How long will it take the dupe-squad to photoshop her into all sorts of compromising positions? (Assuming they haven't done it already) Who cares how well she can run the country if she looks good starkers holding a martini and a smile...! And did you see McCain? He just stood there totally still (or else he might have been asleep, I'm not really sure which) with a look on his face like "... and she can COOK too!"
Seriously though-- I don't care whether a candidate is male, female, pink or purple-- but I do care when they prop somebody up just because of their gender or race. This was a stupid move on the part of the republicans. Did you hear she's ALREADY got a scandal brewing??? How's that for a time-saver? Why wait until she's elected, just go ahead and get it out there now.
You're missing the point, the only reason Microsoft needs Seinfeld to plug Vista is because its full of holes!
Easy, Apple products are just too cool to use for low-life un-sexy applications like inventory control.
Who better to plug an OS that's good for nothing than the man who made a fortune with a show about nothing...???
This stuff is junk. Blah, blech, phooey. I thought this stuff was supposed to be funny? Its just pathetic-- and not in a nice way.
And who picked the color scheme-- ugh. Looks like someone puked up alphabet soup all over the screen.
Someone get a mop 'n clean this shit up!
Judging from the various animosities expressed in the postings on this topic, it seems apparent there are two types of Slashdot posters on this topic:
(A) Those that actually DO program in Perl
(B) and those that don't
Just send 'em all to Bush & Cheney, after all, they bought 'em!
Because if they don't, eventually the open source community will reverse engineer all their crap and put it out there for free without any involvement from them and they'll just be left sucking hind tit.
ECMA sounds like a bad skin disease... ... I knew this girl once, she wasn't that bad looking, you know, but man did she have ECMA all over... gave me the creeps!
They provide employment for assholes. That's positive, if you're an asshole.
Yes but which one? There's so many to pick from!
Hey, mod this up, its funny!
You forgot to mention that COMPUTERS will also evolve to the point they are the size of a headache capsule, ingestible with a glass of water, able to run for weeks on a single fuel-cell charge, and finally disposable at the other end in the ultimate data dump. Meanwhile they will be busy broadcasting wirelessly to your subcutaneous ear & mouthpiece transceivers, pick up "keystrokes" from transducers placed under your fingertips, and outputting to your visual and audio centers directly through tiny laser assemblies and implanted bone-conduction transducers. They will interact seamlessly with all the other ubiquitous computing devices in your home and office environments, and will upload and download data as needed to support your recreational, educational, scheduling and business needs. They'll be cheaper than jelly beans (here, help yourself to a handful) but you'll have to pay through the nose to the mega-amalgamated-consolidated-conglomerate cloud-computer-government-corporate entity made up by the former United States government and Microsoft, Cisco, HP, IBM, Sony, Toshiba, Con-Agra, Cargill and Haliburton corporations, who will of course be your friendly, benign, quasi-corporate-regulatory overlords.
Okay, now discuss amongst yourselves...
Nah, its already arrived. Just got finished parking, in fact, and is busy ordering everybody out of the car.
Er, how do you figure that?
They do now.
There's another issue I'm not seeing addressed here that is problematic with many sites is that they ask too many personal questions, often times for no good (legitimate) purpose (though perhaps not maliciously). Often they ask (at various points, registration, age verification, purchase, etc) for your name, address w/zip code, age (birth date), mother's maiden name, etc. And if making a purchase will then typically get credit card info, 3-digit "security" number on back, name as it appears on card, possibly additional address(es) if billing and/or shipping addresses are different, phone numbers, possibly even enough to figure out where you work if the number can be reversed, and lots more. And the situation can be magnified / expanded if the site owner has multiple web sites that you frequent or belongs to some sort of merchant association (or hacker association) that shares the info amongst its "affiliates".
The very real concern is that through "routine operations", many (most?) sites collect enough information about you to quickly and fairly easily "become you", i.e. perpetrate an identity fraud. Many if not most of the questions and information requested via typical account registration and age verification are the fundamentals needed to establish an identity. The mother's maiden name is in many cases the icing on the cake. All they're missing is the social security number which many people either mistakenly use or freely (unwittingly) give out without realizing its potential security ramifications. (Although that specific danger is becoming more widely known and people are generally taking more precautions with their SSN's).
Then when you stop to realize that MANY retailers, including major card issuers and merchant processors, have been HACKED and ACCOUNT DATA STOLEN-- there have been reported cases of HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS of credit card information stolen-- what exactly gets stolen, just the card number? Not likely. Probably all the rest of that information the site has collected about you as well, they (the news reporters and press releases) just don't go out of their way to point that out. The most recent one that I recall was a few weeks ago that the parent of TJMAXX (and all its various subsidiaries), Circuit City, etc was hacked and reportedly lost over 40 Million credit card account entries. And I seem to recollect that this was NOT the FIRST TIME this has ever happened to them-- my feeble neurons think they remember a previously reported event a year or two ago involving the SAME RETAILERS in which it was discovered they were using UNENCRYPTED WIFI to transport sensitive account and credit card data to centralized (in-store) collection points. And that it is (was) possible to simply drive up in the parking lot with laptop and favorite pringles-can antenna and pick off the data w/o hardly a thought towards getting caught. Card issuers thump their chests about all their doing to prevent fraud and theft, and point out the consumer is off the hook for purchases over $50 bucks, yada yada yada-- but what they don't tell you is that they don't do shit if your INFORMATION is stolen and you are harmed via IDENTITY THEFT.
Then there's CAPTCHAS... I have read several articles (don't have a handy citation, try google) claiming that nefarious folks are gaming them too. By putting up seemingly innocuous sites, often "free porn/game/whatever" sites, and then making the people who use them answer a "security / CAPTCHA" question which is really a copy of some other site's (i.e., a site they have nefarious interest in) CAPTCHA images, or more recently just individual letters extracted from those images. That way they get free brainpower in solving them. They then use the answers to create databases of image/answers which they can use to further their nefarious goals.
Yup, and spending too little time prosecuting corrupt administration officials too.
But hey, what can you do?
(Oh yeah, I forgot, vote.)