A group of clever students at one public university describe how they used a Google Doc during on open-book test for a new kind of 'cloud cheating.'" Instead of "cloud" all the time, can't we switch it up with "on the internet"?
So we have a chimp that is showing remarkable signs of intelligence, and the best activity we can come up with for him is to stick in him a cage and let the tourists ogle him?
It's cute how we like to pretend we're "advanced".
Piracy of movies impact the normal crap hollywood spits out, but has little impact on the good stuff. It's kind of like advance word of mouth.
To put it another way, it's advanced "word of mouth". Following this, I'm certain we would find that piracy will demolish first day sales, but subsequent days wouldn't be impacted.
Hollywood is just upset that they lose out on the first day sales on crap movies.
That is...actually a fiendishly good idea. I'm not sure why you got Funny, that should have been insightful. And any verizon wireless rep that's reading this, there's your answer.
There's nothing illegal about what Google is doing, right?
Not the villain. They are using what tools are available to save as much money as they can. To put it another way, is someone a villain if they use coupons when they go shopping? If they go shopping during a sale?
Obviously not. If the laws are in place to allow this behavior, then it follows that this is what the governments want.
What kind of fool of a company would Google be if it DIDN'T exploit every tool the government gives it to minimize it's tax burden? Furthermore, how irresponsible to it's share holders if it didn't utilize the law to achieve the highest rate of return.
Google is not the villain here. No company is, when it's simply exercising the controls given to it by the government under which it operates.
Oh, let's not give ourselves that much credit. We may wipe out a significant portion of our species, but the planet would hum along just fine.
Likewise, "Earth Day" isn't about saving the planet. It's a selfish campaign to keep our habitat, inhabitable. As a species, I'm not sure there is anything we can do to actually harm the planet.
Great. You give me objective metrics to use to determine the wack-jobs from the non-wack-jobs, and I'll be sure to apportion blame appropriately.
From where I sit, however, all subjective "reasoning" is guilty of the behavior it engenders. To put it another way, who's to say the non-nut jobs are "right" when it comes to what their religion tells them, as apposed to the nut jobs?
What is missing from this rant is the source of the video. Content closer to your customer is easier, typically, to deliver and therefore cheaper. And then we have peering agreements and a load of other stuff on top of it.
Maybe comcast and content providers should work on a way of providing a mirror on comcast's network for their customers, thus avoiding the cap issues.
You aren't thinking like a politician. Now, when the democratic opponent comes along, he can't attack the incumbent on the grounds that he is hampering educational capacity of the state's kids, BUT he still gets the cred for having the law passed under his watch.
iptables with the recent module...ssh brute force attacks a thing of the past. Actually, same with RDP and just about any other service you can identify via iptables.
Rate limit those suckers to something useful ( for ssh, I configured 2 attempts in 5 minutes, everything else is dropped ), call it done.
iptables -I INPUT -i eth0 -p tcp --dport 22 -m state --state ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT iptables -I INPUT -i eth0 -p tcp --dport 22 -m state --state NEW -m recent --name sshattack --set iptables -I INPUT -i eth0 -p tcp --dport 22 -m state --state NEW -m recent --name sshattack --update --seconds 300 --hitcount 3 -j DROP iptables -I INPUT -i eth0 -p tcp --dport 22 -m state --state NEW -j ACCEPT
( Disclaimer: the above is from memory. I am positive there are better ways and more things you can do with it )
I'll be happy to lend a hand in responding to some of them. I have an innate ability to respond in a way that is completely rational, yet drives the religious nuts up the walls at the same time.
I volunteer in my daughter's classroom, and I hate to be the one to break this to you, but mimeographs are alive and well in public education.
That said, I never understood why there isn't a website that parents can log in to to access homework materials at the very least. Maybe have all the homework on the website, identified with the section/chapter number, complete with parent material to help your student. You could roll parental communication into it as well, but just the homework alone would be pretty spiffy.
An excellent point, and for all I know you are correct on a national scale. But I've worked with a couple districts in my area, and have a couple friends in various systems, so I can tell you that, when it comes to these districts, I am actually quite accurate.
Even so. I view one of the jobs of school administrators is to cool the passions of the parents. I have yet to meet a parent that can act rational when it comes to their children, yet that is exactly what is needed when dealing with something as critical as their education. School administrators are to be that braking mechanism, they are to be the rational part of that equation.
Unfortunately, I have yet to actually meet any administrative manager that can or has done this. I'm not even sure I've met any that even know what that means.
Why is it always schools where you see some seriously boneheaded management decisions made?
Don't answer, I already know; Because school administration attracts the kind of person that isn't employable elsewhere. The "waste" of society as it were. What that says about US, willing to put that type of person in charge of our kids, I don't even want to think about.
Well, when I established that a) I had heard the question correctly and b) they wanted to know even though I mentioned it was inappropriate and irrelevant, I determined that I didn't want to work for the place. Threatening wouldn't have accomplished anything in my favor, so I classified that as a pointless option.
I could have reported them, I suppose. And probably should have. I just didn't feel it was overly critical; if that's how they want to run their business ( from the looks of it, straight in to the ground ), that's their choice. I ended up finding a smaller employer where my benefits package is far more substantial, so everything worked out in my favor.:)
I was asked my nationality in an interview once. I clarified the question with the interviewer, then told him I felt it was inappropriate and not relevant. He insisted, so I thanked him for his time, got up and left.
I don't want to work for a company where such things are pressing enough for the interviewer to feel like he needs to address it.
Perhaps the medium is, but the related technology that makes the medium useful isn't. The drives can run thousands of dollars, and require specific technologies on the servers. On top of that you need software to run it, AND competent backup admins that can handle it.
Not that disk based solutions are significantly better, but they certainly have the ability to be significantly less complex ( which is always a good thing ).
I'd argue that I grasp that concept better than many of the bean counters and CEOs I've worked for. For instance, at one company there was a single server in charge of processing payments. That's it. One. It was ancient too. I'm talking 7+ years old. They never patched it ( Hello PCI! ), rarely rebooted it ( and then it was always with held breath ), but through their ignorance they did manage to give everyone in the company administrative access to it.
Now, while I was there ( 10 LONG months ), it never died. Therefore, and ergo, no money needed to be spent on getting new hardware. No money needed to be spent bringing on a competent admin to oversee security on the machine. And true to form, they never did. Nevermind that if that server goes down, EVERYTHING goes down. They can't take in money anymore. They are, in essence, dead in the water. Any user, from the newly hired mail clerk to the contractor that was terminated over a year ago for looking up kiddy porn, could log in and do horrible things to the server ( because they were admins )...and frighteningly, no one would know.
The beancounters, CEO, CIO and everyone along that chain did ( and continues, to this day ) expose the company to significant liability. The kind that can break a company.
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Huh, whodathunkit - The rest of the world has religious idiots too!
I can't say that's comforting.
A group of clever students at one public university describe how they used a Google Doc during on open-book test for a new kind of 'cloud cheating.'"
Instead of "cloud" all the time, can't we switch it up with "on the internet"?
Must have been business majors.
It is flawed to believe that MORE evidence will bring about change in a group that is ignoring evidence.
So we have a chimp that is showing remarkable signs of intelligence, and the best activity we can come up with for him is to stick in him a cage and let the tourists ogle him?
It's cute how we like to pretend we're "advanced".
I like repeating myself, apparently. That's what I get for posting from work, I guess.
Piracy of movies impact the normal crap hollywood spits out, but has little impact on the good stuff. It's kind of like advance word of mouth.
To put it another way, it's advanced "word of mouth". Following this, I'm certain we would find that piracy will demolish first day sales, but subsequent days wouldn't be impacted.
Hollywood is just upset that they lose out on the first day sales on crap movies.
That is...actually a fiendishly good idea. I'm not sure why you got Funny, that should have been insightful. And any verizon wireless rep that's reading this, there's your answer.
There's nothing illegal about what Google is doing, right?
Not the villain. They are using what tools are available to save as much money as they can. To put it another way, is someone a villain if they use coupons when they go shopping? If they go shopping during a sale?
Obviously not. If the laws are in place to allow this behavior, then it follows that this is what the governments want.
What kind of fool of a company would Google be if it DIDN'T exploit every tool the government gives it to minimize it's tax burden? Furthermore, how irresponsible to it's share holders if it didn't utilize the law to achieve the highest rate of return.
Google is not the villain here. No company is, when it's simply exercising the controls given to it by the government under which it operates.
Oh, let's not give ourselves that much credit. We may wipe out a significant portion of our species, but the planet would hum along just fine.
Likewise, "Earth Day" isn't about saving the planet. It's a selfish campaign to keep our habitat, inhabitable. As a species, I'm not sure there is anything we can do to actually harm the planet.
No no, this was deliberate.
Great. You give me objective metrics to use to determine the wack-jobs from the non-wack-jobs, and I'll be sure to apportion blame appropriately.
From where I sit, however, all subjective "reasoning" is guilty of the behavior it engenders. To put it another way, who's to say the non-nut jobs are "right" when it comes to what their religion tells them, as apposed to the nut jobs?
What is missing from this rant is the source of the video. Content closer to your customer is easier, typically, to deliver and therefore cheaper. And then we have peering agreements and a load of other stuff on top of it.
Maybe comcast and content providers should work on a way of providing a mirror on comcast's network for their customers, thus avoiding the cap issues.
You aren't thinking like a politician. Now, when the democratic opponent comes along, he can't attack the incumbent on the grounds that he is hampering educational capacity of the state's kids, BUT he still gets the cred for having the law passed under his watch.
I'm fairly certain he wanted to, but as a republican in TN, he has to appeal to his voting base.
iptables with the recent module...ssh brute force attacks a thing of the past. Actually, same with RDP and just about any other service you can identify via iptables.
Rate limit those suckers to something useful ( for ssh, I configured 2 attempts in 5 minutes, everything else is dropped ), call it done.
iptables -I INPUT -i eth0 -p tcp --dport 22 -m state --state ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT
iptables -I INPUT -i eth0 -p tcp --dport 22 -m state --state NEW -m recent --name sshattack --set
iptables -I INPUT -i eth0 -p tcp --dport 22 -m state --state NEW -m recent --name sshattack --update --seconds 300 --hitcount 3 -j DROP
iptables -I INPUT -i eth0 -p tcp --dport 22 -m state --state NEW -j ACCEPT
( Disclaimer: the above is from memory. I am positive there are better ways and more things you can do with it )
Did no one tell them about the Streisand effect? Did no one do a risk analysis of the likely outcome of such a fight?
With a decision making process so flawed, they deserve to lose this race.
I'll be happy to lend a hand in responding to some of them. I have an innate ability to respond in a way that is completely rational, yet drives the religious nuts up the walls at the same time.
I consider it my super power.
I volunteer in my daughter's classroom, and I hate to be the one to break this to you, but mimeographs are alive and well in public education.
That said, I never understood why there isn't a website that parents can log in to to access homework materials at the very least. Maybe have all the homework on the website, identified with the section/chapter number, complete with parent material to help your student. You could roll parental communication into it as well, but just the homework alone would be pretty spiffy.
An excellent point, and for all I know you are correct on a national scale. But I've worked with a couple districts in my area, and have a couple friends in various systems, so I can tell you that, when it comes to these districts, I am actually quite accurate.
Even so. I view one of the jobs of school administrators is to cool the passions of the parents. I have yet to meet a parent that can act rational when it comes to their children, yet that is exactly what is needed when dealing with something as critical as their education. School administrators are to be that braking mechanism, they are to be the rational part of that equation.
Unfortunately, I have yet to actually meet any administrative manager that can or has done this. I'm not even sure I've met any that even know what that means.
Why is it always schools where you see some seriously boneheaded management decisions made?
Don't answer, I already know; Because school administration attracts the kind of person that isn't employable elsewhere. The "waste" of society as it were. What that says about US, willing to put that type of person in charge of our kids, I don't even want to think about.
Well, when I established that a) I had heard the question correctly and b) they wanted to know even though I mentioned it was inappropriate and irrelevant, I determined that I didn't want to work for the place. Threatening wouldn't have accomplished anything in my favor, so I classified that as a pointless option.
I could have reported them, I suppose. And probably should have. I just didn't feel it was overly critical; if that's how they want to run their business ( from the looks of it, straight in to the ground ), that's their choice. I ended up finding a smaller employer where my benefits package is far more substantial, so everything worked out in my favor. :)
I was asked my nationality in an interview once. I clarified the question with the interviewer, then told him I felt it was inappropriate and not relevant. He insisted, so I thanked him for his time, got up and left.
I don't want to work for a company where such things are pressing enough for the interviewer to feel like he needs to address it.
Perhaps the medium is, but the related technology that makes the medium useful isn't. The drives can run thousands of dollars, and require specific technologies on the servers. On top of that you need software to run it, AND competent backup admins that can handle it.
Not that disk based solutions are significantly better, but they certainly have the ability to be significantly less complex ( which is always a good thing ).
I'd argue that I grasp that concept better than many of the bean counters and CEOs I've worked for. For instance, at one company there was a single server in charge of processing payments. That's it. One. It was ancient too. I'm talking 7+ years old. They never patched it ( Hello PCI! ), rarely rebooted it ( and then it was always with held breath ), but through their ignorance they did manage to give everyone in the company administrative access to it.
Now, while I was there ( 10 LONG months ), it never died. Therefore, and ergo, no money needed to be spent on getting new hardware. No money needed to be spent bringing on a competent admin to oversee security on the machine. And true to form, they never did. Nevermind that if that server goes down, EVERYTHING goes down. They can't take in money anymore. They are, in essence, dead in the water. Any user, from the newly hired mail clerk to the contractor that was terminated over a year ago for looking up kiddy porn, could log in and do horrible things to the server ( because they were admins )...and frighteningly, no one would know.
The beancounters, CEO, CIO and everyone along that chain did ( and continues, to this day ) expose the company to significant liability. The kind that can break a company.