That would explain the abundance of books and training courses available for Word. Sure, any average person can compose a basic document. That covers maybe 10% of the application's functionality. Numbered lists, Tables of Content, custom paragraph styles, mail merges? I'm betting your average/.'er can't do it without some RTFM'ing.
I'm not talking about reading a Quarantine mailbox and sending those messages onward. There was once a time when a sysadmin actually read the postmaster@ mailbox and did the same thing. In both cases I refer to, the sysadmins were reading the Inboxes of C-level executives. Big difference there, hmmm?
Encrypt your personal data. You shouldn't be storing personal data on a work machine (at least you shouldn't in the US) and expect it to be secure.
Are you kidding me? You expect these people, who are the low-paid, bottom-of-the-IT-food-chain to have ethics? Why are they any different from a parking lot attendant or car wash guy? Because they're techies? Don't kid yourself.
Heck, at two companies I've worked for (both big-name, publicly traded), they've caught (and fired) one or more sysadmins reading other people's email.
Sadly, The Ethical IT Guy is on the verge of becoming a quaint holdover from the previous century.
Crushing the dollar would crush the cash cow that fuels China's economy. The current situation is the financial equivalent of Mutually Assured Destruction.
The Windows version of Quicken is far superior to the Mac version; so much so that I bought Parallels for my Mac for he sole purpose of being able to run the Windows version of Quicken.
If you'd like to see what a bang up job they're doing, ask them to turn off all their spam filters (not that they would, mind you). You would drown in spam.:)
My comment was directed at why would doing this sort of content filtering cause a loss of Common Carrier status since ISP's are already doing content filtering.
Gee, did I miss the part of the article that said that Blade's PR department reviewed the quote and OK'd Fonality to use it in a release? Because if that happened, it would be really, really relevant to the article and certainly press-worthy, hmmm?
Every company I have worked at has a formal PR policy that says you cannot go on the record with the press (which is any time you are talking to them, if you are smart about it), you must clear it through PR. In some cases, once PR realizes that you're savvy enough to not say stupid things, they will put you on the "OK to contact directly" list.
Violating the company's PR policy is a big deal, for the obvious reasons. I'm surprised that the IT Director is still employed there.
One cannot conclude from the small sample size that 50% of all small, low-budget hosting companies are not security-conscious. Further, if you want to motivate these insecure companies to change their behavior, voting with your feet by taking your business elsewhere is the correct behavior.
Well, he writes for a trade mag which is a step down the food chain from mainstream media, but as trade mags go, Information Week does try to maintain some journalistic integrity. For instance, in the stories I have been quoted in there over the past year, they have always asked if I had corroborating sources for the points I was making, at least for the ones quotes that were factual as opposed to just being my opinion
If IBM, a publicly traded-company, is planning on laying off 1/2 of it's Global Services division, you can bet your bottom dollar that that's considered a material event and they have to publicly disclose it.
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That would explain the abundance of books and training courses available for Word. Sure, any average person can compose a basic document. That covers maybe 10% of the application's functionality. Numbered lists, Tables of Content, custom paragraph styles, mail merges? I'm betting your average /.'er can't do it without some RTFM'ing.
They have a large customer base and I am told that they were preparing to go public. So this isn't 2 guys in a garage, more like 300 people or so.
Yeah. Let's all sit around the campfire and sing Kumbaya. Statistically, who commits the most crimes?
Oh wait, that's The Man keeping the po' people down, I forgot.
I'm not talking about reading a Quarantine mailbox and sending those messages onward. There was once a time when a sysadmin actually read the postmaster@ mailbox and did the same thing. In both cases I refer to, the sysadmins were reading the Inboxes of C-level executives. Big difference there, hmmm?
Encrypt your personal data. You shouldn't be storing personal data on a work machine (at least you shouldn't in the US) and expect it to be secure.
Are you kidding me? You expect these people, who are the low-paid,
bottom-of-the-IT-food-chain to have ethics? Why are they any different
from a parking lot attendant or car wash guy? Because they're techies?
Don't kid yourself.
Heck, at two companies I've worked for (both big-name, publicly traded),
they've caught (and fired) one or more sysadmins reading other people's
email.
Sadly, The Ethical IT Guy is on the verge of becoming a quaint holdover
from the previous century.
Encrypt it, or lose it.
I have a V1. I drive as fast as the mood suits. :)
I think the cops, for the most part, are a little stricter about underage drinking than they were ten years ago.
5 miles over the limit? That's margin of error. Is your speedometer calibrated? When mine indicates 40mph, I'm actually moving at 35mph.
Either of which would have proven to be very expensive had you been caught.
tear canal? jeez, why not go down to pores in the skin? :)
I know... I can figure out 7 of them pretty quickly, but the other 3???????
How does China switching from production for export to domestic production fuel it's own economy?
Crushing the dollar would crush the cash cow that fuels China's economy. The current situation is the financial equivalent of Mutually Assured Destruction.
The Windows version of Quicken is far superior to the Mac version; so much so that I bought Parallels for my Mac for he sole purpose of being able to run the Windows version of Quicken.
If you'd like to see what a bang up job they're doing, ask them to turn off all their spam filters (not that they would, mind you). You would drown in spam. :)
My comment was directed at why would doing this sort of content filtering cause a loss of Common Carrier status since ISP's are already doing content filtering.
Doesn't every large ISP these days already do some amount of content filtering? i.e., anti-spam?
Lots of things are obvious after they have been done for the first time.
Gee, did I miss the part of the article that said that Blade's PR department reviewed the quote and OK'd Fonality to use it in a release? Because if that happened, it would be really, really relevant to the article and certainly press-worthy, hmmm?
Fonality issued the release using Blade's IT Director's quote.
Every company I have worked at has a formal PR policy that says you cannot go on the record with the press (which is any time you are talking to them, if you are smart about it), you must clear it through PR. In some cases, once PR realizes that you're savvy enough to not say stupid things, they will put you on the "OK to contact directly" list.
Violating the company's PR policy is a big deal, for the obvious reasons. I'm surprised that the IT Director is still employed there.
Have Ted Stevens explain it to him
I'm sure that you'd have little problem in the Castro district of San Francisco
One cannot conclude from the small sample size that 50% of all small, low-budget hosting companies are not security-conscious. Further, if you want to motivate these insecure companies to change their behavior, voting with your feet by taking your business elsewhere is the correct behavior.
Next time you're lamenting about not getting laid, re-read this post for valuable insight
Well, he writes for a trade mag which is a step down the food chain from mainstream media, but as trade mags go, Information Week does try to maintain some journalistic integrity. For instance, in the stories I have been quoted in there over the past year, they have always asked if I had corroborating sources for the points I was making, at least for the ones quotes that were factual as opposed to just being my opinion
If IBM, a publicly traded-company, is planning on laying off 1/2 of it's Global Services division, you can bet your bottom dollar that that's considered a material event and they have to publicly disclose it.