You have, at the broadest level, physical and virtual. Physical people deal with things like servers, switches, copiers, phones, etc. Virtual people deal with things like software support, development, databases, etc. Generally, organizations are aligned with three broad buckets: Development, Infrastructure, and Support. Security is a role as well, but many organizations place security outside of the broader IT organization.
If you want to have structured rigidity to your role (ie, not asked to do things you feel outside it), you should probably seek out a larger organization. Understand, however, that you'll likely grow further and faster as a professional in an organization where you are asked to stretch those boundaries. Do you want to be the world's most awesomest developer focused on x technology stack, or do you want to be a well-rounded IT professional with the skills and background to thrive in any environment? Maybe I'm just biased, but with a 25 year career spanning help desk, server and network admin, database administration and development, fifteen years of web app dev, and now seven years of security, I vote for well-rounded. Without all that time doing all those "other things", I would not be able to be effective in my current role.
The Skyhawk may not be to OP's liking as it's a bit Flava Flav-esque, but don't let that dissuade you from Citizen Eco-Drive. I've been rocking a titanium Citizen for fifteen years now as well. https://c2.staticflickr.com/4/... is an image of one of its brothers. They're built like a tank, never need a battery replacement (though eventually the rechargeable will need changing, but that is possible), and this one has the benefit of having a countdown timer in the digital portion of it.
If you want to go all-out nerd cred, there are upgraded versions that will receive WWVB (and its global peers) timekeeping broadcasts, or even full on GPS time from the satellites. They do have a bluetooth-enabled line called Proximity, but I'm suspect of any consumer technology-tied device with a long projected lifespan, as the lifecycles are totally different.
Fortigate will do what you need out of the box, paired with Fortianalyzer.
The bigger question is WTH you're doing with this. You can't put monitoring software on the devices, but you can look at every last bit they send and receive? Legal issues are a far bigger problem when data is in transit (as in flying across the network) than when it's at rest on the device. You won't even see everything, as a lot is TLS-protected and if it's a phone, it can bypass the fixed network entirely. I somehow doubt that he's making his wife and kids agree to an AUP that allows this sort of monitoring.
"If you discover a vulnerable payment application and have specific information as to the payment application vendor, application version, where sensitive cardholder data is stored and vendor contact information, please notify Visa via email at cisp@visa.com."
I made more than twice that as a contractor. We got paid overtime and holidays worked with client approval, but it was straight time. When you're making $60 an hour, you don't ask too many questions about whether or not you're being treated fairly as a worker.
Nope. The song I heard included such gems as, "The worst part about it is the bitch that they can be; Just to kiss 'em they charge admission, when it used to all be free." and, "No wine, no flowers; Don't waste your cash. Because she has a bleeding gash." I think puerile sums it up nicely.
Back in my misspent youth some 20 years ago, someone gave me a song they swore was TMBG, recorded in someone's basement. The title was "On the Rag", and while the vocals bore some resemblance, the lyrics were predictably puerile. Was this really you guys, or was my friend just pulling my leg?
The directive means they can't go looking for evidence of crimes that are not primary in their mission. If, during the course of their search to make sure you're not carrying contraband onto an airplane (ie, dangerous shit like knitting needles) they find prima facie evidence of a crime (your coke, a severed head, "interesting" pictures involving a horse), they'll turn you over to local law enforcement.
All this means is that they're limited to investigating air safety. Unless they stumble across something that is clearly illegal (and $4300 cash is NOT that), they cannot do anything. Even if they do find something interesting, they cannot detain you, as they are not law enforcement. Those two things are what the ACLU fought for here. Even though they're a bunch of data-profiling dickwads (and that was why I stopped my sponsorship of them), they do get it right now and then.
Actually, it isn't. What it is, however, is not compliant with PCI. PCI non-compliance = large fines from the CC companies. Continued non-compliance can result in civil action, including monetary penalties and revocation of your right to accept credit cards.
The only lawsuits filed would occur when the party pressing charges is sure they have a case and a significant enough chance of winning to risk it.
But, but, but... THAT'S UNAMURICAN! If I want to sue my neighbor for planting a tree that blocks my view of the sunrise, then I have that right, standing be damned.
There is a flip-side to this.. If I have a reasonable case (such as treating my personal information with all the due care given to a week old bag of garbage) and I sue a retailer (such as a large retailer based in Framingham MA) that exposed it (through weak wifi encryption), they could then snow me under with requests, subpoenas, depositions, etc. If I didn't have the financial resources to keep up my side of the case, I would have to drop it and suffer the double loss of having to pay for the privilege of getting boned in court.
Deciding to award attorney fees belongs solely in the hands of the court that is hearing the case. If you don't like it, appeal.
So we're talking ubiquitous DRM that is transparent (or at least, not terribly intrusive upon the overall user experience), doesn't piss people off, doesn't get broken, can be deployed everywhere, does not add too much complexity to playback devices.
So, is Mr. Sherman planning on buying every music consumer a pony too? That has as much likelihood of happening as the DRM.
I was a little appalled at the lack of coverage and donations given to the victims of the tsunami compared to the massive outpouring given to the 9/11 victims.
Simple. Politicians couldn't get any votes by vowing to protect the US from tsunamis, to go after tsunamis and the earthquakes that cause them, launching preemptive strikes at fault zones before they unleash their tsunamis, etc.
Simple. Most of those spam mailings for pharmaceuticals are simply affiliates of shady sites, earning a percentage of the take by people they "refer". If you make 10% of an average order of $150, that's $15 per customer. If you can send 50MM messages and convert.001% (we'll say you can sucker one in 100,000 people), you're still making $7,500. If you only paid $2,500 to send those 50MM messages, you're still $5,000 ahead of the game.
Simply put, unless and until people stop buying shit through spam, it will continue to be profitable so long as it costs less to send an email than it does to convert a customer. Given the infinitesimal cost of sending an email, it doesn't take many responses to continue being profitable. Even in my scenario above, even if you can only sucker three in one million people into buying, you're not losing money.
He does not deserve the veneer of credibility that is currently afforded him.
So let's say he is disbarred. That doesn't, nor should it, preclude him from representing himself in court. Now, calling himself an attorney may be a bit of a stretch, if he isn't admitted to practice in any of the fifty states. Same with lawyer. He could say he's a "law-talking guy", but that doesn't seem to carry the same credibility that attorney or lawyer are afforded. He could (assuming he successfully completed law school [which is not a prereq to sitting for the bar exam in all states]) say he holds his J.D., which is something that can't be taken away.
In a nutshell, while he won't be able to offer legal advise to folks who have been "harmed" by video games, he is still, as a private citizen, perfectly free to sue whomever he pleases for whatever reasons, sad and demented they may be, he sees fit. He can still send nutter letters to congress. He can still file complaints with the FCC. Most importantly, he can still act like a total asshat. The only restriction being disbarred places upon him is the inability to act like an asshat while representing anyone other than himself.
Since when is an animal rights activist count as a terrorist ?
Merriam Webster defines terror (in the sense we're concerned with here) as: violent or destructive acts (as bombing) committed by groups in order to intimidate a population or government into granting their demands. With that in mind, smashing the windows of butcher shops, destroying refrigerated trucks used to carry meat through IED's, puncturing the packaging of meats in supermarkets, along with other, more overtly violent acts such as bombing people involved in animal research, would all fall under the definition of terror. These are all tactics that have been employed by some activists.
If you want to protest, raise awareness, conduct letter-writing campaigns, and rally people together for a cause you believe to be just and worthwhile, more power to you. If you wish to damage things that don't belong to you or hurt other people, simply because you find their existence/purpose/actions morally objectionable (and you're trying to send a message--This is the key part), you're using terror.
Samsung promised a firmware update within 'a couple' weeks, while LG said an update is expected in 3-4 days.'"
I'm sure that will be of great consolation to folks who rented the movies and have four "nights" (which most people refer to as three days) to have the movie back before getting hit with PMITA late charges.
This isn't about screening or monitoring general messages. This is about allowing a specific group to have access to the company's subscribers, through a subscription mechanism.
If the IGRA wanted to have its members sign up for updates by texting "cowboy up" to 57565, they would need to obtain a short code (the "57565") and obtain carrier approval to send and receive messages. It's the carrier approval that Verizon initially denied.
Rather, he notes some average-user-level problems with Ubuntu (simple things like video, audio, and mouse issues). He's talking about usability by people who don't read Slashdot and are not related to (or dating) someone who DOES read Slashdot.
That is something that anyone looking at this article needs to consider. What Robert X. Cringely is to geeks, this guy is to the MBA crew. Consider the audience when considering the work.
They must be doing some mighty fine crack, because THAT is pure unadulterated BULLSHIT if they think I'm going to spend even 1/2 of one percent of $80,000 loading up my 160gig iPod, and it certainly isn't going to be spend on ringles...
Only people like Whitney "Crack is cheap. I make too much to ever smoke crack." Houston smoke crack. Cocaine is the drug of choice for movers and shakers in the music industry, though speed is approved, from time to time, especially if mixed with heroin.
Now that we have that out of the way, of course they don't believe that! Don't forget that a lot of that room will be consumed by videos, for which you will have paid to have a distributor-approved transcoding of material you've already purchased on VHS, DVD, and [Blu-Ray | HD DVD], along with $5 per episode television shows.
This is not a challenge, but an honest question: Where do you draw that line?
I don't. That's the libertarian in me though. I chalk it up to personal responsibility.
Looking around at others who have been bitten by this, a gentleman who was in Mexico was offered $1500 of his $2000 back. My guess is that this is dead cost for AT&T, and possibly even less than they had to pay to the Mexican carrier on whose network he was roaming. If you can afford three iphones for your family, as well as the cost of a Mediterranean cruise, including airfare from NY, I think that $5k is a lesson in responsibility. Especially considering the town he's from has a median income of $160k. If he complains enough to AT&T, they'll knock it way down. This is especially likely if the charges were largely incurred through Cellular At Sea, which is a joint venture of AT&T's.
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You have, at the broadest level, physical and virtual. Physical people deal with things like servers, switches, copiers, phones, etc. Virtual people deal with things like software support, development, databases, etc. Generally, organizations are aligned with three broad buckets: Development, Infrastructure, and Support. Security is a role as well, but many organizations place security outside of the broader IT organization.
If you want to have structured rigidity to your role (ie, not asked to do things you feel outside it), you should probably seek out a larger organization. Understand, however, that you'll likely grow further and faster as a professional in an organization where you are asked to stretch those boundaries. Do you want to be the world's most awesomest developer focused on x technology stack, or do you want to be a well-rounded IT professional with the skills and background to thrive in any environment? Maybe I'm just biased, but with a 25 year career spanning help desk, server and network admin, database administration and development, fifteen years of web app dev, and now seven years of security, I vote for well-rounded. Without all that time doing all those "other things", I would not be able to be effective in my current role.
The Skyhawk may not be to OP's liking as it's a bit Flava Flav-esque, but don't let that dissuade you from Citizen Eco-Drive. I've been rocking a titanium Citizen for fifteen years now as well. https://c2.staticflickr.com/4/... is an image of one of its brothers. They're built like a tank, never need a battery replacement (though eventually the rechargeable will need changing, but that is possible), and this one has the benefit of having a countdown timer in the digital portion of it.
If you want to go all-out nerd cred, there are upgraded versions that will receive WWVB (and its global peers) timekeeping broadcasts, or even full on GPS time from the satellites. They do have a bluetooth-enabled line called Proximity, but I'm suspect of any consumer technology-tied device with a long projected lifespan, as the lifecycles are totally different.
He was a film maker--An artist. The Musem of the Rockies is not in business to support pornography.
I think I saw this in a movie once. Maybe we should ask Morgan Freeman how he feels about it?
Fortigate will do what you need out of the box, paired with Fortianalyzer.
The bigger question is WTH you're doing with this. You can't put monitoring software on the devices, but you can look at every last bit they send and receive? Legal issues are a far bigger problem when data is in transit (as in flying across the network) than when it's at rest on the device. You won't even see everything, as a lot is TLS-protected and if it's a phone, it can bypass the fixed network entirely. I somehow doubt that he's making his wife and kids agree to an AUP that allows this sort of monitoring.
"If you discover a vulnerable payment application and have specific information as to the payment application vendor, application version, where sensitive cardholder data is stored and vendor contact information, please notify Visa via email at cisp@visa.com."
I made more than twice that as a contractor. We got paid overtime and holidays worked with client approval, but it was straight time. When you're making $60 an hour, you don't ask too many questions about whether or not you're being treated fairly as a worker.
Nope. The song I heard included such gems as, "The worst part about it is the bitch that they can be; Just to kiss 'em they charge admission, when it used to all be free." and, "No wine, no flowers; Don't waste your cash. Because she has a bleeding gash." I think puerile sums it up nicely.
Back in my misspent youth some 20 years ago, someone gave me a song they swore was TMBG, recorded in someone's basement. The title was "On the Rag", and while the vocals bore some resemblance, the lyrics were predictably puerile. Was this really you guys, or was my friend just pulling my leg?
In a word, no.
The directive means they can't go looking for evidence of crimes that are not primary in their mission. If, during the course of their search to make sure you're not carrying contraband onto an airplane (ie, dangerous shit like knitting needles) they find prima facie evidence of a crime (your coke, a severed head, "interesting" pictures involving a horse), they'll turn you over to local law enforcement.
All this means is that they're limited to investigating air safety. Unless they stumble across something that is clearly illegal (and $4300 cash is NOT that), they cannot do anything. Even if they do find something interesting, they cannot detain you, as they are not law enforcement. Those two things are what the ACLU fought for here. Even though they're a bunch of data-profiling dickwads (and that was why I stopped my sponsorship of them), they do get it right now and then.
It probably is illegal
Actually, it isn't. What it is, however, is not compliant with PCI. PCI non-compliance = large fines from the CC companies. Continued non-compliance can result in civil action, including monetary penalties and revocation of your right to accept credit cards.
The only lawsuits filed would occur when the party pressing charges is sure they have a case and a significant enough chance of winning to risk it.
But, but, but... THAT'S UNAMURICAN! If I want to sue my neighbor for planting a tree that blocks my view of the sunrise, then I have that right, standing be damned.
There is a flip-side to this.. If I have a reasonable case (such as treating my personal information with all the due care given to a week old bag of garbage) and I sue a retailer (such as a large retailer based in Framingham MA) that exposed it (through weak wifi encryption), they could then snow me under with requests, subpoenas, depositions, etc. If I didn't have the financial resources to keep up my side of the case, I would have to drop it and suffer the double loss of having to pay for the privilege of getting boned in court.
Deciding to award attorney fees belongs solely in the hands of the court that is hearing the case. If you don't like it, appeal.
So we're talking ubiquitous DRM that is transparent (or at least, not terribly intrusive upon the overall user experience), doesn't piss people off, doesn't get broken, can be deployed everywhere, does not add too much complexity to playback devices.
So, is Mr. Sherman planning on buying every music consumer a pony too? That has as much likelihood of happening as the DRM.
I was a little appalled at the lack of coverage and donations given to the victims of the tsunami compared to the massive outpouring given to the 9/11 victims.
Simple. Politicians couldn't get any votes by vowing to protect the US from tsunamis, to go after tsunamis and the earthquakes that cause them, launching preemptive strikes at fault zones before they unleash their tsunamis, etc.
scans all your movie files, recognizes faces, and creates thumbnails of those faces
And by faces, they mean boobies.
I can think of two redeeming features.
A dead John Travolta and a very pissed off Don Cheadle?
Help. Somebody please explain it all to me.
.001% (we'll say you can sucker one in 100,000 people), you're still making $7,500. If you only paid $2,500 to send those 50MM messages, you're still $5,000 ahead of the game.
Simple. Most of those spam mailings for pharmaceuticals are simply affiliates of shady sites, earning a percentage of the take by people they "refer". If you make 10% of an average order of $150, that's $15 per customer. If you can send 50MM messages and convert
Simply put, unless and until people stop buying shit through spam, it will continue to be profitable so long as it costs less to send an email than it does to convert a customer. Given the infinitesimal cost of sending an email, it doesn't take many responses to continue being profitable. Even in my scenario above, even if you can only sucker three in one million people into buying, you're not losing money.
He does not deserve the veneer of credibility that is currently afforded him.
So let's say he is disbarred. That doesn't, nor should it, preclude him from representing himself in court. Now, calling himself an attorney may be a bit of a stretch, if he isn't admitted to practice in any of the fifty states. Same with lawyer. He could say he's a "law-talking guy", but that doesn't seem to carry the same credibility that attorney or lawyer are afforded. He could (assuming he successfully completed law school [which is not a prereq to sitting for the bar exam in all states]) say he holds his J.D., which is something that can't be taken away.
In a nutshell, while he won't be able to offer legal advise to folks who have been "harmed" by video games, he is still, as a private citizen, perfectly free to sue whomever he pleases for whatever reasons, sad and demented they may be, he sees fit. He can still send nutter letters to congress. He can still file complaints with the FCC. Most importantly, he can still act like a total asshat. The only restriction being disbarred places upon him is the inability to act like an asshat while representing anyone other than himself.
Since when is an animal rights activist count as a terrorist ?
Merriam Webster defines terror (in the sense we're concerned with here) as: violent or destructive acts (as bombing) committed by groups in order to intimidate a population or government into granting their demands. With that in mind, smashing the windows of butcher shops, destroying refrigerated trucks used to carry meat through IED's, puncturing the packaging of meats in supermarkets, along with other, more overtly violent acts such as bombing people involved in animal research, would all fall under the definition of terror. These are all tactics that have been employed by some activists.
If you want to protest, raise awareness, conduct letter-writing campaigns, and rally people together for a cause you believe to be just and worthwhile, more power to you. If you wish to damage things that don't belong to you or hurt other people, simply because you find their existence/purpose/actions morally objectionable (and you're trying to send a message--This is the key part), you're using terror.
Sounds like we got the smart ones on that force.
"That's some fine detective work there, Lou."
Samsung promised a firmware update within 'a couple' weeks, while LG said an update is expected in 3-4 days.'"
I'm sure that will be of great consolation to folks who rented the movies and have four "nights" (which most people refer to as three days) to have the movie back before getting hit with PMITA late charges.
This isn't about screening or monitoring general messages. This is about allowing a specific group to have access to the company's subscribers, through a subscription mechanism.
If the IGRA wanted to have its members sign up for updates by texting "cowboy up" to 57565, they would need to obtain a short code (the "57565") and obtain carrier approval to send and receive messages. It's the carrier approval that Verizon initially denied.
Rather, he notes some average-user-level problems with Ubuntu (simple things like video, audio, and mouse issues). He's talking about usability by people who don't read Slashdot and are not related to (or dating) someone who DOES read Slashdot.
That is something that anyone looking at this article needs to consider. What Robert X. Cringely is to geeks, this guy is to the MBA crew. Consider the audience when considering the work.
They must be doing some mighty fine crack, because THAT is pure unadulterated BULLSHIT if they think I'm going to spend even 1/2 of one percent of $80,000 loading up my 160gig iPod, and it certainly isn't going to be spend on ringles...
Only people like Whitney "Crack is cheap. I make too much to ever smoke crack." Houston smoke crack. Cocaine is the drug of choice for movers and shakers in the music industry, though speed is approved, from time to time, especially if mixed with heroin.
Now that we have that out of the way, of course they don't believe that! Don't forget that a lot of that room will be consumed by videos, for which you will have paid to have a distributor-approved transcoding of material you've already purchased on VHS, DVD, and [Blu-Ray | HD DVD], along with $5 per episode television shows.
This is not a challenge, but an honest question: Where do you draw that line?
I don't. That's the libertarian in me though. I chalk it up to personal responsibility.
Looking around at others who have been bitten by this, a gentleman who was in Mexico was offered $1500 of his $2000 back. My guess is that this is dead cost for AT&T, and possibly even less than they had to pay to the Mexican carrier on whose network he was roaming. If you can afford three iphones for your family, as well as the cost of a Mediterranean cruise, including airfare from NY, I think that $5k is a lesson in responsibility. Especially considering the town he's from has a median income of $160k. If he complains enough to AT&T, they'll knock it way down. This is especially likely if the charges were largely incurred through Cellular At Sea, which is a joint venture of AT&T's.