I've quickly looked over a few post, most stupid joking. Some are right on the money in my opinion about frequently changing password policies being a bit self destructive. It's always funny to see a post-it on a monitor with
c4$Tl3$
Sure it has a mix of case, numbers and symbols but the person had to write it down to remember. This is why I think biometric systems are going to gain more and more acceptance.
Portable code is nice in theory but look what you have to give up for it.
What makes different databases, and programming languages, useful is the tools and functionality that they provide to make your application easier to write.
By the logic of the original question we should scrap everything and build the OS, programming language, dbms ourselves...oh $#!T better design the hardware too. When you design an app you look at the current requirements. If one of those requirements is being able to swap out back end database then you build a robust data access layer. Putting data centric code in your business logic is like putting presentation layer logic in your data access layer. If you choise not to build you application without using any of the unique functionality of a given part of the development environment you are, in my opinion, an idiot.
Also remember if you put all of the SQL in your PHP, or what ever your business logic is mostly written in, and you want to change databases you'll most likely have to change all that code too. But if you have your business logic access a data access layer and that is well designed then you can swap out your dbms, only modify the data access layers internals and the interfaces to the business logic remains the same. Its a lot easier then trying to untangle the code equivilant of a 50 year old tangle of string that is your business, data access and data storage code....and most likely in your case your presentation layer too.
Many of those missiles have had atomic warheads removed, and the Navy does shoot those at assorted targets (around Iraq). But a surface-ship could launch the same missiles cheaper, so yes, it is something of a waste
But a sub is a lot harder to hit then a surface destroyer by terrorists....is it a waste of money now given this bit of information
People that think manned space flight is a complete waste of money are just narrow minded and are unwilling to recognise any long term benifits in most research
"do you ever use your position to stick up for junior employees who are getting walked all over."
Was this directed at me? I thought my post clearly made that clear. I think its the responsibility for those higher up to help those below them. This should be the managers responsibility but seems, for many of them, that they've forgotten that part of their roll long ago
I'm not on 3 or 4 times what I was at my perm position 3 years ago but then I've been in the industry for 18 years now if you count my 6 years in the USMC where I worked most of that 6 years in IT also.
Contracting has its ups and downs. Pays better. Tends to be more flexible as my employers, by in large, don't care about me taking time off here and there as they don't pay for it. The respect you get right off the bat seems to be more. Last is that I don't have the political headaches. Even thou I didn't play political games when I was perminate I had the head ache knowing that my salary probably was adversely effected from my vocal nature when something was not being done on the up and up.
I live in Australia now. I actually like toil. You do have to manage it though and be firm. The problem is that some people, no matter what country they work in, do not stand up for themselves and get walk over. As a senior developer at my last perminate position I often had some manager upset with me because I encouraged developers to come to me with problems and woudl help them work them out. Things like "manager A messed up on the schedule and asks the developers to work but not record their time" I would stress to them that "manager A's bad management skills in scheduling is not your problem" I would support them when there where problems by going to business unit managers if after talking to "manager A" and explaining the real situation "manager A" still instisted that they dodgy practices be done. Some managers respected me some hated me. Funny enough the ones that respected me where never the "manager A" types. New managers where more likely to be "manager A" types until confronted a few times. Its the ones that never learnt from their mistakes that ended up hating me.
These "manager A" types learn who they can walk over and who they can't. Stick together and look out for eachother. That is my advice. With the toil make sure you do the following
Don't accumulate to much time. I wouldn't suggest accumulating more then 3 days worth in most situations
Don't constantly try to take off whole days. Taking off a hour or 2 early every once an awhile may have less of an impact.
If you start putting in lots of overtime organise something outside of toil. Talk to your manager(s) and explain that situation A will require more OT then toil is supposed to deal with and arrange alternate compensation
Use your toil BEFORE the end of the project you are working on. toil is often costed agianst the project that it was acculminated on and some organisations won't charge it after a project is closed thus you loose it.
If you are working on a T&M project don't accept toil as there is no reason to. Your employer is getting paid for your work so should you
hehe obvious one....don't accept toil if you are not paid salary.
Many people make it sound like the government has no clue. Individual sites might have bad security but there are deptartments in the military that know about technology.
Get investigated by the FBI and Secret Service on some type of computer related charge and you'll find not only your laptop confiscated but your XBox, Phone, Camera, watch, pda, USB Key, anything that has electronic storage capacity.
Laws are there, as it points out before, make people think twice, they give grounds to act on a problem. If you've got a problem that you have to check in your iPod at the front desk then I suggest you put forth a proposal to management on how they should provide you with music that you like in the work place that isn't compromising security. It is impossible to get a 100% secure system. Security is about getting as close to 100% as possible. Also a lot about security is peoples persception. As anyone that works with Top Secret information knows Top Secret data is routinely mailed through the normal postal service. No great security measures taken.
I think people would know the difference between a sky marshall taking control of a situation and a well terrorist/hijacker disguissed as a sky marshall slitting the throat of a flight attendant and saying "Back to your seats everyone, I'm a sky marshall....NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG!"
I'm not advocating guns on planes but the myth of a bullet hole depressurizing a airline cabin has been proven wrong.
The Discovery Channel's show Mythbusters took a DC-9 pressurized it as if it was cruising at 30000 feet and fired a 9mm pistol twice. First shot through the metal skin the second through a window. Nothing happened. You need a window size or larger hole to depressurise the cabin
I'd be more worried about who that bullet passes through on the trip out of the plane then the hole in the plane personally
If these systems are built only to take care of projectiles that impact the individual then if they can determine a projectile source and destroy the projectile as close to the source as possible there is little chance anything inbetween the source and the projectile will exsist meaning there is a greater chance of hitting the source. But then depending on the power of the laser you have to worry about what is behind the shooter.
I think there are better ways to try to bullet proof someone then something like this
While I agree that the speed of processing is not a issue I do see a problem. Do you know what radar does to the body? I worked with a Navy officer that has medical exams every 3 months because he walked into a crain way where they where testing a radar and his lower half was basically zapped by the radar.
Now you would have to also work out how to sheild your fellow soldiers from your scanning.
This is the bigger hurdle that I see.
And your assumption here is that UNI students would never do anything as radical as a bombing in their own Univeristy?
I'd rather have law enforcement investigate potential issues like this then them have some rule that says "You can't investigate him because he's a white UNI student and we only investigate minorities"
For Fuck sake this guy is complaining that they "went on for about 10 minutes asking me if I belonged to things like UT Watch". OMFL 10 whole minutes of being asked questions about organisations he may or may not be a member of!!!! SHIT how could he bear such torture. I'd rather have spinters shoved under my nails.
You know what....if you want your freedoms and safety but don't want law enforcement to do anything until after a crime has been commited....LEAVE THE COUNTRY! go try to find some where better.
I feel safer while the FBI is out hunting potential snipeRs on campus.
The same stupid ass people that say that this students rights where stepped on by being, OMG, questioned are the same students that could loose their life if this suspiscious activity turned out to be part of some plan
If you walk by your house and see someone in a car with a manual to your security system on the dash and notice that blueprints to your house are on their seat do you do nothing? They haven't broken any laws have they. What if they also have a pamphlet about your childs school on the dash board? Still no laws have been broken. What if they where in a van and the van had some rope and duct tape in it? Still no laws broken. Nice to know you'll wait until your child is missing, probably in the back of the van tide up and mouth duct taped racing across the state.
So the guy living next to you that has all the makings for a 10 ton fertiliser bomb shouldn't be investigated until after he has blown up some government building with a child care centre in it?
Because, according to you, if they can't be investigated they can creat the bomb without anyone knowing, the purchase of all the material isn't illegal.
I suggest you lift your head out of the sand and see that terrorists have been attacking other countries for a LONG time...not just the USA.
There is plenty of incidences where they attack even members of their own religion (not just talking about so called Islamic fundamentalists)
Australia is a target even before the Iraq war (Bali Bombing)
There is an issue of generic hatred
There will always be people that hate other countries simply because that country does better then them. This has some foundations to it in that all countries normally do what is in their best intrests. Are you ready to give up most of your personal wealth so that those disadvantaged in central Africa are going to live a better life? Do you give 50% or more of your earnings to charity so that others can be as fortunate as you? Do you work for the peace corps? If not then don't be a hypocrit. It isn't the US government alone causing some countries to hate us. It is us in the US wanting a lifestyle we have become used to that our government tries to protect and promote that causes this and we are far from the only country that does it.
This is why I say go for speed/red light cameras everywhere.
My ex-wife is a police officer. There are parts of even Adelaide that you can't do anything without being possibly watche by police security cameras. I'm all for them because I've seen many cases where the police stopped violent crimes because of these. Also there is a recording of the police actions. I also know that they have caught some acts by concenting adults that they do nothing more then laugh at. Point is if you are in public don't say your privacy is being invaded. Oh and speeding on your own property is not legal either but I wouldn't argue to much about that until you killed the neighbors kid or the mail man
Even if this was the US its not the 5th.
He had the right not to accept the insurance (ie pleading the fifth)
There is no Doctor-Patient confidentiality between and insurance company and a customer
Hopefully the insurance company got their money back and sued him for fraud too.
They can give you a ticket. What happens here in Australia is that up to a certian limit you just get a fine you have to pay. After a certian limit the owner of the vehicle gets the fine and demerit points (ie they are deemed the driver) unless they provide who was driving the vehicle at that time. Sinse you don't get a ticket for about 1 week after the offence if you claim your car was stolen and don't know who did it but never reported the car stolen then.... tag you are it.
Now.... there is a differense between cameras that are there to monitor traffic conditions and speed/red light cameras. But the traffic condition cameras can be used as any security video footage. They can prove your car was at the scene and if you are caught on film with a good enough picture then you can be shown to have driven the vehicle.
This is why in places like Australia you have red light cameras that also double as speed cameras. So when you speed thru that red light you'll get 2 tickets....or if you just speed thru the Green or Amber light you'll get a speeding ticket. The cops have better ways to catch people. It just amazes me how many people think "If I don't get caught in person it isn't a crime" Guess thats what people think when they kill someone, "Hey no one saw me rape, murder and dump that girl in the gutter. I didn't know the security cameras caught it all...I should be set free because an actual cop didn't catch me."
Wouldn't you want them to pull your black box? I mean it would show you not moving when you where rear ended putting you not at fault. Otherwise the other driver could say "He reversed right into me" which actually happened to my ex-wife. Stupid lady in a SUV decided she wanted to make a U turn at a red light so before it went Green she backed right into my car. Thank god there was about 8 other cars around to see what the stupid lady does.
Thing is if you've done nothing wrong these boxes will prove that too. Say you where driving the speed limit and someone pulls out infront of you and clames you where going to fast your box will prove them wrong....it will work both ways.
I've been involved in a ERP project (Electronic Road Pricing) in Asia where we could track a vehicle down to the lane they where driving in.
There was alot of work that went into the mechanism so that it could not be used to actively track the vehicle while still being able to charge the vehicle for the use of the roads it was used on.
These systems can be built for a particular purpose. I have no problems with systems that are built into things like cars that assure that we adhere to laws. You put your foot down and speed be prepared to pay the price
What I find stupid is that with things like this most people don't care about Joe Bloggs speeding until he kills someone. We are more apt to get mad at the guy going the speed limit that killed somoene on accident then the guy that was speeding infront of him that just happen to miss the person stepping out on the road when it is the latter that statistically we have to worry about.
If you are one of those idiots that think you can speed safely on public roads then you are just that... an idiot. Heck I'd be all for cars that have to have constant skin contact on the steering wheel that can test blood alcohol so that people can't drive drunk but I'm sure some of you would say that is a violation of your rights. Well sorry but you endangering other peoples lives is NOT a right. Speeding, Driving under the influense.... they endanger other peoples lives beyond the accepted norm.
To often people like Jacqueline Saburido and their families are the ones to pay for idiots that feel that it is their right to speed or drink and drive. For those people.....black boxes should be strapped to their car that locks the doors, kills the ignition and shoots a cyanide dart into the back of the driver from the drivers seat.
Hiding being privacy issues just makes you more of a worm.
Most companies don't get it right the first time. If they did there would never be patches would there!
People do like to slam MS about holes that have known fixes for them along with newly discovered holes
I agree that MS have tighten up about security because of market share but this doesn't change the fact that some people will look at a situation like this in the linux world and point fingers at the admin for not having things up to date but in the MS world they'll blame MS first not the admin that haven't kept up with patches and procedures.
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I've quickly looked over a few post, most stupid joking. Some are right on the money in my opinion about frequently changing password policies being a bit self destructive. It's always funny to see a post-it on a monitor with
Sure it has a mix of case, numbers and symbols but the person had to write it down to remember. This is why I think biometric systems are going to gain more and more acceptance.
Portable code is nice in theory but look what you have to give up for it.
What makes different databases, and programming languages, useful is the tools and functionality that they provide to make your application easier to write.
By the logic of the original question we should scrap everything and build the OS, programming language, dbms ourselves...oh $#!T better design the hardware too. When you design an app you look at the current requirements. If one of those requirements is being able to swap out back end database then you build a robust data access layer. Putting data centric code in your business logic is like putting presentation layer logic in your data access layer. If you choise not to build you application without using any of the unique functionality of a given part of the development environment you are, in my opinion, an idiot.
Also remember if you put all of the SQL in your PHP, or what ever your business logic is mostly written in, and you want to change databases you'll most likely have to change all that code too. But if you have your business logic access a data access layer and that is well designed then you can swap out your dbms, only modify the data access layers internals and the interfaces to the business logic remains the same. Its a lot easier then trying to untangle the code equivilant of a 50 year old tangle of string that is your business, data access and data storage code....and most likely in your case your presentation layer too.
flame me about my spelling...I do not care.
But a sub is a lot harder to hit then a surface destroyer by terrorists....is it a waste of money now given this bit of information
People that think manned space flight is a complete waste of money are just narrow minded and are unwilling to recognise any long term benifits in most research
Well said
sorry to correct you but ships didn't fish for their food. They packed all the food and water they planned that they would need for the trip.
I've never once heard of C.C. on his voyage to the Americas sitting on the deck casting out his rod
"do you ever use your position to stick up for junior employees who are getting walked all over."
Was this directed at me? I thought my post clearly made that clear. I think its the responsibility for those higher up to help those below them. This should be the managers responsibility but seems, for many of them, that they've forgotten that part of their roll long ago
I'm not on 3 or 4 times what I was at my perm position 3 years ago but then I've been in the industry for 18 years now if you count my 6 years in the USMC where I worked most of that 6 years in IT also.
Contracting has its ups and downs. Pays better. Tends to be more flexible as my employers, by in large, don't care about me taking time off here and there as they don't pay for it. The respect you get right off the bat seems to be more. Last is that I don't have the political headaches. Even thou I didn't play political games when I was perminate I had the head ache knowing that my salary probably was adversely effected from my vocal nature when something was not being done on the up and up.
I live in Australia now. I actually like toil. You do have to manage it though and be firm. The problem is that some people, no matter what country they work in, do not stand up for themselves and get walk over. As a senior developer at my last perminate position I often had some manager upset with me because I encouraged developers to come to me with problems and woudl help them work them out. Things like "manager A messed up on the schedule and asks the developers to work but not record their time" I would stress to them that "manager A's bad management skills in scheduling is not your problem" I would support them when there where problems by going to business unit managers if after talking to "manager A" and explaining the real situation "manager A" still instisted that they dodgy practices be done. Some managers respected me some hated me. Funny enough the ones that respected me where never the "manager A" types. New managers where more likely to be "manager A" types until confronted a few times. Its the ones that never learnt from their mistakes that ended up hating me.
These "manager A" types learn who they can walk over and who they can't. Stick together and look out for eachother. That is my advice. With the toil make sure you do the following
bennies slang term for benifits
Many people make it sound like the government has no clue. Individual sites might have bad security but there are deptartments in the military that know about technology.
Get investigated by the FBI and Secret Service on some type of computer related charge and you'll find not only your laptop confiscated but your XBox, Phone, Camera, watch, pda, USB Key, anything that has electronic storage capacity.
Laws are there, as it points out before, make people think twice, they give grounds to act on a problem. If you've got a problem that you have to check in your iPod at the front desk then I suggest you put forth a proposal to management on how they should provide you with music that you like in the work place that isn't compromising security. It is impossible to get a 100% secure system. Security is about getting as close to 100% as possible. Also a lot about security is peoples persception. As anyone that works with Top Secret information knows Top Secret data is routinely mailed through the normal postal service. No great security measures taken.
I think people would know the difference between a sky marshall taking control of a situation and a well terrorist/hijacker disguissed as a sky marshall slitting the throat of a flight attendant and saying "Back to your seats everyone, I'm a sky marshall....NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG!"
I'm not advocating guns on planes but the myth of a bullet hole depressurizing a airline cabin has been proven wrong.
The Discovery Channel's show Mythbusters took a DC-9 pressurized it as if it was cruising at 30000 feet and fired a 9mm pistol twice. First shot through the metal skin the second through a window. Nothing happened. You need a window size or larger hole to depressurise the cabin
I'd be more worried about who that bullet passes through on the trip out of the plane then the hole in the plane personally
good point!
ah but that is the beauty.
If these systems are built only to take care of projectiles that impact the individual then if they can determine a projectile source and destroy the projectile as close to the source as possible there is little chance anything inbetween the source and the projectile will exsist meaning there is a greater chance of hitting the source. But then depending on the power of the laser you have to worry about what is behind the shooter.
I think there are better ways to try to bullet proof someone then something like this
While I agree that the speed of processing is not a issue I do see a problem. Do you know what radar does to the body? I worked with a Navy officer that has medical exams every 3 months because he walked into a crain way where they where testing a radar and his lower half was basically zapped by the radar. Now you would have to also work out how to sheild your fellow soldiers from your scanning. This is the bigger hurdle that I see.
And your assumption here is that UNI students would never do anything as radical as a bombing in their own Univeristy?
I'd rather have law enforcement investigate potential issues like this then them have some rule that says "You can't investigate him because he's a white UNI student and we only investigate minorities"
For Fuck sake this guy is complaining that they "went on for about 10 minutes asking me if I belonged to things like UT Watch". OMFL 10 whole minutes of being asked questions about organisations he may or may not be a member of!!!! SHIT how could he bear such torture. I'd rather have spinters shoved under my nails.
You know what....if you want your freedoms and safety but don't want law enforcement to do anything until after a crime has been commited....LEAVE THE COUNTRY! go try to find some where better.
I feel safer while the FBI is out hunting potential snipeRs on campus.
The same stupid ass people that say that this students rights where stepped on by being, OMG, questioned are the same students that could loose their life if this suspiscious activity turned out to be part of some plan
If you walk by your house and see someone in a car with a manual to your security system on the dash and notice that blueprints to your house are on their seat do you do nothing? They haven't broken any laws have they. What if they also have a pamphlet about your childs school on the dash board? Still no laws have been broken. What if they where in a van and the van had some rope and duct tape in it? Still no laws broken. Nice to know you'll wait until your child is missing, probably in the back of the van tide up and mouth duct taped racing across the state.
So the guy living next to you that has all the makings for a 10 ton fertiliser bomb shouldn't be investigated until after he has blown up some government building with a child care centre in it?
Because, according to you, if they can't be investigated they can creat the bomb without anyone knowing, the purchase of all the material isn't illegal.
No?!?!?
I suggest you lift your head out of the sand and see that terrorists have been attacking other countries for a LONG time...not just the USA.
There is plenty of incidences where they attack even members of their own religion (not just talking about so called Islamic fundamentalists)
Australia is a target even before the Iraq war (Bali Bombing)
There is an issue of generic hatred
There will always be people that hate other countries simply because that country does better then them. This has some foundations to it in that all countries normally do what is in their best intrests. Are you ready to give up most of your personal wealth so that those disadvantaged in central Africa are going to live a better life? Do you give 50% or more of your earnings to charity so that others can be as fortunate as you? Do you work for the peace corps? If not then don't be a hypocrit. It isn't the US government alone causing some countries to hate us. It is us in the US wanting a lifestyle we have become used to that our government tries to protect and promote that causes this and we are far from the only country that does it.
This is why I say go for speed/red light cameras everywhere.
My ex-wife is a police officer. There are parts of even Adelaide that you can't do anything without being possibly watche by police security cameras. I'm all for them because I've seen many cases where the police stopped violent crimes because of these. Also there is a recording of the police actions. I also know that they have caught some acts by concenting adults that they do nothing more then laugh at. Point is if you are in public don't say your privacy is being invaded. Oh and speeding on your own property is not legal either but I wouldn't argue to much about that until you killed the neighbors kid or the mail man
Even if this was the US its not the 5th. He had the right not to accept the insurance (ie pleading the fifth) There is no Doctor-Patient confidentiality between and insurance company and a customer Hopefully the insurance company got their money back and sued him for fraud too.
They can give you a ticket. What happens here in Australia is that up to a certian limit you just get a fine you have to pay. After a certian limit the owner of the vehicle gets the fine and demerit points (ie they are deemed the driver) unless they provide who was driving the vehicle at that time. Sinse you don't get a ticket for about 1 week after the offence if you claim your car was stolen and don't know who did it but never reported the car stolen then .... tag you are it.
Now .... there is a differense between cameras that are there to monitor traffic conditions and speed/red light cameras. But the traffic condition cameras can be used as any security video footage. They can prove your car was at the scene and if you are caught on film with a good enough picture then you can be shown to have driven the vehicle.
This is why in places like Australia you have red light cameras that also double as speed cameras. So when you speed thru that red light you'll get 2 tickets....or if you just speed thru the Green or Amber light you'll get a speeding ticket. The cops have better ways to catch people. It just amazes me how many people think "If I don't get caught in person it isn't a crime" Guess thats what people think when they kill someone, "Hey no one saw me rape, murder and dump that girl in the gutter. I didn't know the security cameras caught it all...I should be set free because an actual cop didn't catch me."
Commit the crime then pay the time I say
Wouldn't you want them to pull your black box? I mean it would show you not moving when you where rear ended putting you not at fault. Otherwise the other driver could say "He reversed right into me" which actually happened to my ex-wife. Stupid lady in a SUV decided she wanted to make a U turn at a red light so before it went Green she backed right into my car. Thank god there was about 8 other cars around to see what the stupid lady does.
Thing is if you've done nothing wrong these boxes will prove that too. Say you where driving the speed limit and someone pulls out infront of you and clames you where going to fast your box will prove them wrong....it will work both ways.
I've been involved in a ERP project (Electronic Road Pricing) in Asia where we could track a vehicle down to the lane they where driving in.
There was alot of work that went into the mechanism so that it could not be used to actively track the vehicle while still being able to charge the vehicle for the use of the roads it was used on.
These systems can be built for a particular purpose. I have no problems with systems that are built into things like cars that assure that we adhere to laws. You put your foot down and speed be prepared to pay the price
What I find stupid is that with things like this most people don't care about Joe Bloggs speeding until he kills someone. We are more apt to get mad at the guy going the speed limit that killed somoene on accident then the guy that was speeding infront of him that just happen to miss the person stepping out on the road when it is the latter that statistically we have to worry about.
If you are one of those idiots that think you can speed safely on public roads then you are just that ... an idiot. Heck I'd be all for cars that have to have constant skin contact on the steering wheel that can test blood alcohol so that people can't drive drunk but I'm sure some of you would say that is a violation of your rights. Well sorry but you endangering other peoples lives is NOT a right. Speeding, Driving under the influense .... they endanger other peoples lives beyond the accepted norm.
To often people like Jacqueline Saburido and their families are the ones to pay for idiots that feel that it is their right to speed or drink and drive. For those people.....black boxes should be strapped to their car that locks the doors, kills the ignition and shoots a cyanide dart into the back of the driver from the drivers seat.
Hiding being privacy issues just makes you more of a worm.
Most companies don't get it right the first time. If they did there would never be patches would there!
People do like to slam MS about holes that have known fixes for them along with newly discovered holes
I agree that MS have tighten up about security because of market share but this doesn't change the fact that some people will look at a situation like this in the linux world and point fingers at the admin for not having things up to date but in the MS world they'll blame MS first not the admin that haven't kept up with patches and procedures.