Anyone can set up a root server, intercept the DNS, if not resolved then forward it to exist ICANN supported root. In fact, China actively does this see http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4767972.stm
China is doing it because ICANN is unenforceable they choose to be different and are serious. If Vixie and others don't add features and routinely show up drunk and stagnant then others will move in. If Verisign, ICANN't evil doer raises.com prices to $5000 then watch the domain collapse and others move in.
The bottom line is it is more competitive than one might think. And what most want is stability with low domain prices. If ICANN can deliver, they will have near unanimous support. If they don't; it will loose it's lock fast. without regard to what the US government says.
So even if a Blackhat is more qualified, they're probably just dismissed since a thousand other people are eager for the work and meet the basic qualifications. Unfortunate, but something to think about if you want to delve into the dark side of computers and networks.
Not really much to think about. I would not hire a person in McDonald's if they were convicted of steeling, especially cash.
So why would I hire a talented, but on the dark side black hat? So he can quietly rootkit my computers? As you mentioned, there are plenty who know how to hack but don't cross the line, those are the real rounded talent you want.
Windows 98 fixed problems with Win95, and was the last version to support DOS. Seeing as I built a massive DOS library in C/C++, I'm ticked I can't keep coding in my DOS mode. If I switch to coding under WINXP, will they obfuscate that too, so my code library will be lost again. I'm just at a loss because I have problems running DOS emulators too.
You just realized one of the hidden costs of run Microsoft products. They are non-standards based and evolutionary unstable even between service packs forget about the DOS 1.0, DOS 2.0, DOS 2.11, DOS 3.x, DOS 4.x, DOS 5.x, Win 1.0, Win 2.0, Win 3.0, Win 3.10, Win 3.11, Win 95, Win 98, Win Me, Win NT 3.51, Win NT 4.0, Win 2000, Win XP, Win 2003, Win Vista... and forget about datacenter, workstation, home, office, pro, peon variants. Let us not forget OS 2. But it is viewed as stable! Good mass marketing job. Too bad companies would not add up all the porting and re-learning costs over the years as part of the TCO.
I have programs and libraries written in C and later C++ circa 1984 I still use today! But it was written on POSIX/xNIX OSes. Maybe they will port?
I wonder what comes after.NET... but will not spend the time to learn it. At least with Java I just have to learn how to misspell depreciated (so far).
...and I'd gladly build you a great computer and put Linux or...Problem is, if you're posting on/., you can probably do the same thing yourself.
True enough, I can and have. In fact 4 of the 6 I now own I built but they are getting old as the hills. The dual celeron ABIT died a few months ago and want to get a AMD X2.
Here is the issue, you can get one at Best Buy for less than I would for the parts to build the same thing. It will never run Windows... Suse and Solaris likely. So I guess I have to pay Micro$oft tax to save money, ironic and anti-competative.
Tell you what, when the US starts getting as much from the rest of the world as it is giving in trade...
You were being funny were you not?
http://www.census.gov/indicator/www/ustrade.html
Mind you Micro$oft is on the exports list, but that is only where they employ US people to produce the product. Like most things they are opening up offices in India and China which will reduce the US export component. Do most crypto offshore too I bet as not to get US law on their tails, or perhaps the NSKey (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSAKEY) is still in there but with a name change.
In any case, it is good that not all countries tolerate monoplistic anti-competative practices such as common with Microsoft. Not too many people would argue Microsoft, then Linux, then OS/X (Apple) are the most popular OSes in order. Then how come I can only get #1 and #3 from Best Buy or Circuit City? Is it because Linux is World made and not American made?
the American company Microsoft has no inherent right to do business in Europe and if Microsoft continues to break the rules here and abroad they can expect to be tossed aside. I, for one, welcome the time when real competition returns to the computer software OS marketplace.
Worth repeating. How come it is so hard to get a PC WITHOUT a Micro$oft OS in North America!!! That is like if I buy car I must use defective Firestone tires. The problem is that of all tech companies Micro$oft donates the most so enforcing US anti-trust laws goes by the wastebasket. So I too welcome the return to a free market.
I recently wrote HP and got this:
Dear xxxxx xxxxxxxx:
Thank you for contacting Hewlett-Packard.
To the best of my knowledge, HP has no plans to begin offering desktop
or notebook PCs with anything other than a Microsoft operating system.
I apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
Accessories and consumables for your HP products can always be purchased
directly from Hewlett-Packard in Canada, please visit our web site at:
[snip, the rest was sales jargon...]
That's easy to say, but it's really not so simple. Some data leaks happen because of software issues.
It is actually simple, it is about priorities. Business says "Gotta have that (insecure unstable) app at all costs". Security says "It is a big risk". Management derates security over a vendor lunch until a breach occurs. Senior management does a knee jerk. Repeat until lesson learned or out of business.
Hiring more trustworthy employees requires paying more money
Very true, yet you get a drug test but how many firms do a background or credit check on everyone who comes in contact with the data? Are your contractors liable?
...and that has to get passed on to the customers...
This is a myth, although could become true if "Security" drives the business. Security needs to be part of the business model, not the business itself.
Secure systems tend to be more reliable, more stable with higher levels of service up time. They tend to require LESS maintenace and thus less people to run them. Less people is less risk. Would you rather have 100 UNIX servers and 10 poor admins with certs, or 100 UNIX servers and 3 seasoned and skilled admins? Efficiencies come from the fact that more secure environemnts spend far less time reacting and much more time securing and evolving.
I will boycott neither Wal-Mart nor Sam's Club. In fact looking forward to Sam's club coming to our city to kick some stupid price gouging by the local business.
What convinced me is I had to get a set of tires fast from Sam's in the US. Later we had a flat, took it into a local Canadian Walmart and when they fixed it free! This was the only tire purchase I ever had go right. I purchased from a Canadian company years earlier and it took me two years, 4 wheel alignments and tire replacements later to get it settled. On top of that it cost me more.
Judge a company on its quality, price, service and how many people it employs, not on local political BS as local rich get upset that they can no longer charge 3-4 times the price. In part why Sam's/Walmart is successful. BTW, they sell the same stuff as everyone else.
1. Free tuition for residents (with some limitations and restrictions) would mean no more worries about the given amount one would have had to pay back not only for the principal borrowed to pay for tuition, but the interest too, concerning student loans.
You are aware that is socialism?
Here is what happens with socialism. The government ends up regulating it, not the market place. You can graduate as an engineer and get paid less than general labor building homes. So what happens is a lot of people graduate, but end up doing something else. It lowers the wages of the degreed people, as the market gets flooded with them. I knew a person in socialist country that had a degree in Mathematics and a PhD in Astrophysics, but worked as an underpaid intermediate programmer for wages less than the national average. (The person was talented and sociable too but didn't want to move).
The trouble is everyone wants Harvard, MIT or Yale. The truth is they churn out for money egotistical self-import types that really know no more than local college graduates. My experience, from a business perspective, is the best workers come from lesser expensive local community colleges. Too many MBA's tend to run down companies in wages, dysfunctional politics and just plain bad decision making.
But to this thread. There is nothing new here. Plagiarism has been going on from the day the first writings. Even before the Internet students would go to different libraries searching out books to copy from that were not in their library, but the smart ones gave the professor what he/she wanted to hear. Two things the post secondary education gives you, 1) You learn how to learn on your own and 2) You have to give the professor who has the power to flunk you what he wants (puke learning). The truth is very little "research" goes on, so if being original in sending a paper to a professor you have to make it real good or bye-bye. Conformance is part of the experience.
All this whimy-ass 'botnet' garbage needs to end. We need something that totally kills windows when you get infected. Get the people pissed off enough to force microsoft into doing something.
I for one am actually surprised this hasn't happened yet. Say a worm that infects 20 others then formats the hard drive. Or perhaps break into a botnet (they are not that secure) and wipe some millions of Windows PCs at once. It would not be hard to do, let your Windows get infected, figure out how they control it and go off and get control. Time will tell, but I suspect sooner or later someone is going to do it.
I expect the performance of the internet will be greatly improved the next day.
Regardless of a number of equally stupid rules on air travel these days, I don't think this is likely to last very long, lawsuits incoming.
Better than lawsuits, people will not fly.
Me, I have had it being stranded in airports because some ditz didn't schedule a plane on time with a connecting flight. I will not forget the time I entered a plane in Chicago for Milwaukee and 5 minutes after the last bus went to Milwaukee they let us off the plane when they didn't have a pilot.
I would rather drive down the highway with the CD cranked right up, the PC in the back and take a rest on my schedule not theirs.
Makes me wonder if Pam Anderson has to check in her breasts as potentially dangerous chemicals. Seriously, terrorists will send in kids to blow up, why not a well endowed Muslim lady?
I look at it this way, sooner or later the people are going to get tired of being treated worse than their broken baggage. I only use planes when I have to for business.
No current Linux company has the matching dollars.
But as we are seeing with this event, Linux with MythTV would have cost them a whole lot less, and worked!!! And they would have to pay royalties to dysfunctional companies.
Dell should close up shop and return the money to the shareholders!
Your kidding right? Since when does a "tech" company return profits to the shareholders?
More typical is they carry the earnings internal until bad news happens and take giant write downs to compensate. In the mean time, those invested in them are playing chicken to see who can get top dollar before it colapses. There are exceptions, but not many.
'm an international student studying in America. My credit rating is therefore practically zero, because I have no fixed long term address in the USA, few assets in the US, etc.
And the point? The point is you are a high credit risk. There are those that rack up the credit cards and leave not paying them. Credit ratings are earned by long term good behavior and not granted as a right. Nor should they be.
Getting a good credit rating is not tough, pay your bills on time, with a check and never bounce them. Live within your means always. When I left the US I had gone from 0 to 860 in no time.
This/. posting seemed to drag out a lot of whiners and poor credit loosers. Likely the kind I would not hire for positions of vision and leadership. But HR people are not stupid, they would know someone from another country will not have a US credit history. But that should not stop them from doing one in your home country before hiring you.
I call bullshit. This is an unadulterated power play and invasion of a candidate's privacy.
My guess is you have a piss poor credit rating, or at least not optimal!
Why the hell should a company hire you without doing some background checks. If your a clerk in a store, you don't want to hire someone just out of the slammer for cash-theft. As a consumer, you would not like it if the people freshly out of jail for identity theft were processing your credit card apps would you?
Then why the hell do companies place people in positions of influence and power when not organized enough to balance their check book or don't pay their bills on time? Maybe at some point they will not pay you?
IT people with long careers summarily right-sized out of their jobs
Now if I saw a person who was right sized, and 6 months later the credit rating remained 100% I would seriously consider the person. Why? Simple, the person planned for it and still came in on time paying the bills. Indicates he isn't over cafinated hype junky operating in a delusional dream state missing comitments.
I also suspect some companies would hire those with poor credit ratings. Why? It is much easier to keep someone under their thumbs in bad working environments if they have to have that pay check at all costs to remain solvent.
So because Mr. Smith had to max out his credit cards for Little Suzys cancer medication, he doesn't get the new job?
Why would you hire someone not smart enough to have purchased health care or save a thousand or two for deductibles? Most people without health care in the US today just have their priorities in different places, drugs, poor use of credit, cars, booze, poor planning etc. Now that is who you want making multi-million dollar decisions for your company?
I think this is a good idea myself. Everyone in a company benefits when a manager makes a good decision... conversely everyone suffers if they drive a company to insolvency mimicking their own financial behaviors.
And the best part about this metric is that it is less subjective and a measurement over a longer period of time. What they do for themselves is an indication of what they might be able to do for the company.
No. It requires reading a couple of good, inexpensive books and understanding of what the heck you're doing.
That is an understatement.
Reminds me of the time I watched a finance person use PGP to encrypt a very sensitive file they sent via email. They did everything right except for one critical part.
After the file was encrypted, they deleted the original one as per instructions. Trouble was it was in the "Recycle" bin a readable.
One might argue that net neutrality wouldn't be a net cost to customers but it's hardly a "blatant lie" to suggest it would.
It is a blatent lie, network neutrality is like the first ammendment. It gives people equal access to the network. Just like water supply, schools, roads, gas stations and grocery stores. We all have equal access which is fair and democratic. Now why do the telco/cable people want to see net neutrality squashed?
Simple, it gives the political go-ahead to control the people, what they see, what they read and what they watch on the internet. Like television stations who have to pay the cable operator for the right to be on the channel line up, they want both sides to pay them.
Trouble is, major providors like google already do pay, but not ATT and Time Warner, but pay for long distance fibre which is part of the internet that these companies don't own. ATT, SBC and others want something for nothing.
The something they want is a monopoly like they enjoyed in the past. Having the political selective control over their users rights gives them the monopoly to raise costs to all parties. This of course will not be based on merit, but their political control.
If a new service comes by, they only need to pay for their access to the internet, just like people do. Fair? You bet. If google needs another OC192 they will pay for it, just not to ATT, SBC, TW or Verison directly.
In the end, not having net neutrality also means higher costs financially and social fabric of society. Verizon may decide they like MSNBC because the CEO likes Microsoft, so when you go to CNN the bandwidth is rate limited and thus unusable. That is what they want.
For what it's worth, I think that proper remedy would be to:
1. Give the house back to the old man,
2. provide monetary compensation to the buyers,
3. strip the attorney that validated the transaction of his citizenship and forfeit all of his assets, to cover the price of reimbursing the victims, then promptly deport him.
I might also add:
4. the bank eats the mortgage and and fraud lawyer pays the costs. All costs to the old man are reimbursed including lost rent.
If the bank pays for it, then they will do a simple check like your drivers license and a background check. I doubt the fraudsters were 89 years old. Even if they were, there was slop in how this was handled.
... people won't buy! Unsigned bands have enough trouble getting their music heard when they're GIVING it away!
While this might be true in the short term, think about how many are actually good at it that the music industry ignores? This will catch up with the music industry who often with money propel people to the top of charts that couldn't sing without electronic assistance if they tried.
Similarily, TV. A group of people could create a series of SciFi, comedy even sitcomms without a billion dollar budget and multimillion dollar CEO.
The entertainment industry fears this like the devil.
You'd think by now that people would go ahead and use WEP or WPA, but tunnel traffic over a VPN even to internal sites. That's what I do. While someone may be able to crack my WEP or WPA keys, all that gets them is the ability to access the VPN port on the router.
That is because you truly take wireless security seriously where as 97% of the people do not. This is the ONLY proven way to secure wireless short of unpluging it. In such cases like this, all a hacker could do is DoS you, which is minor.
GPL covers only redistribution without providing source, not use. Proprietary software has all the same restrictions, and many more.
Here is a recent experience many anti-OSS types and CIO's aught to read that supports this.
Project A, open source, hires consultants and they don't work out. Fire consultants, with source get someone who can work out. No 0 day business conflicts.
Project B, buys a closed source commercial product, they raised the price over 2000 percent 2 years in a row! (Company got bought out). Now everyone is scrambling on what to do as the time bombed licence expires December 31st and that date isn't moving without some serious cash.
Moral, if you have the source and the rights to use it you are one hell of a lot better off and always have palatable options.
They are and Microsoft is loosing faster than they would ever admit. None Vista PCs, many will run Linux. Cash going out the doors to Microsoft is getting noticed in the board rooms. Cost presures either are going to make Microsoft get more cheaper, better, faster, more secure and loose DRM or the JQ public is going to move on. Many already are.
Most "technology" gets cheaper, faster and more reliable. Windows is far behind this curve. Time for a change.
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How much control the US government has through ICANN't is quite literally overstated. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_DNS_root
Anyone can set up a root server, intercept the DNS, if not resolved then forward it to exist ICANN supported root. In fact, China actively does this see http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4767972.stm
China is doing it because ICANN is unenforceable they choose to be different and are serious. If Vixie and others don't add features and routinely show up drunk and stagnant then others will move in. If Verisign, ICANN't evil doer raises .com prices to $5000 then watch the domain collapse and others move in.
The bottom line is it is more competitive than one might think. And what most want is stability with low domain prices. If ICANN can deliver, they will have near unanimous support. If they don't; it will loose it's lock fast. without regard to what the US government says.
Not really much to think about. I would not hire a person in McDonald's if they were convicted of steeling, especially cash.
So why would I hire a talented, but on the dark side black hat? So he can quietly rootkit my computers? As you mentioned, there are plenty who know how to hack but don't cross the line, those are the real rounded talent you want.
Windows 98 fixed problems with Win95, and was the last version to support DOS. Seeing as I built a massive DOS library in C/C++, I'm ticked I can't keep coding in my DOS mode. If I switch to coding under WINXP, will they obfuscate that too, so my code library will be lost again. I'm just at a loss because I have problems running DOS emulators too.
You just realized one of the hidden costs of run Microsoft products. They are non-standards based and evolutionary unstable even between service packs forget about the DOS 1.0, DOS 2.0, DOS 2.11, DOS 3.x, DOS 4.x, DOS 5.x, Win 1.0, Win 2.0, Win 3.0, Win 3.10, Win 3.11, Win 95, Win 98, Win Me, Win NT 3.51, Win NT 4.0, Win 2000, Win XP, Win 2003, Win Vista... and forget about datacenter, workstation, home, office, pro, peon variants. Let us not forget OS 2. But it is viewed as stable! Good mass marketing job. Too bad companies would not add up all the porting and re-learning costs over the years as part of the TCO.
I have programs and libraries written in C and later C++ circa 1984 I still use today! But it was written on POSIX/xNIX OSes. Maybe they will port?
I wonder what comes after .NET... but will not spend the time to learn it. At least with Java I just have to learn how to misspell depreciated (so far).
True enough, I can and have. In fact 4 of the 6 I now own I built but they are getting old as the hills. The dual celeron ABIT died a few months ago and want to get a AMD X2.
Here is the issue, you can get one at Best Buy for less than I would for the parts to build the same thing. It will never run Windows... Suse and Solaris likely. So I guess I have to pay Micro$oft tax to save money, ironic and anti-competative.
Tell you what, when the US starts getting as much from the rest of the world as it is giving in trade...
You were being funny were you not?
http://www.census.gov/indicator/www/ustrade.html
Mind you Micro$oft is on the exports list, but that is only where they employ US people to produce the product. Like most things they are opening up offices in India and China which will reduce the US export component. Do most crypto offshore too I bet as not to get US law on their tails, or perhaps the NSKey (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSAKEY) is still in there but with a name change.
In any case, it is good that not all countries tolerate monoplistic anti-competative practices such as common with Microsoft. Not too many people would argue Microsoft, then Linux, then OS/X (Apple) are the most popular OSes in order. Then how come I can only get #1 and #3 from Best Buy or Circuit City? Is it because Linux is World made and not American made?
Someone aught to mod you up...
the American company Microsoft has no inherent right to do business in Europe and if Microsoft continues to break the rules here and abroad they can expect to be tossed aside. I, for one, welcome the time when real competition returns to the computer software OS marketplace.
Worth repeating. How come it is so hard to get a PC WITHOUT a Micro$oft OS in North America!!! That is like if I buy car I must use defective Firestone tires. The problem is that of all tech companies Micro$oft donates the most so enforcing US anti-trust laws goes by the wastebasket. So I too welcome the return to a free market.
I recently wrote HP and got this:
Dear xxxxx xxxxxxxx: Thank you for contacting Hewlett-Packard. To the best of my knowledge, HP has no plans to begin offering desktop or notebook PCs with anything other than a Microsoft operating system. I apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. Accessories and consumables for your HP products can always be purchased directly from Hewlett-Packard in Canada, please visit our web site at: [snip, the rest was sales jargon...]
Yet HP sells them with Linux in China.
That's easy to say, but it's really not so simple. Some data leaks happen because of software issues.
It is actually simple, it is about priorities. Business says "Gotta have that (insecure unstable) app at all costs". Security says "It is a big risk". Management derates security over a vendor lunch until a breach occurs. Senior management does a knee jerk. Repeat until lesson learned or out of business.
Hiring more trustworthy employees requires paying more money
Very true, yet you get a drug test but how many firms do a background or credit check on everyone who comes in contact with the data? Are your contractors liable?
This is a myth, although could become true if "Security" drives the business. Security needs to be part of the business model, not the business itself.
Secure systems tend to be more reliable, more stable with higher levels of service up time. They tend to require LESS maintenace and thus less people to run them. Less people is less risk. Would you rather have 100 UNIX servers and 10 poor admins with certs, or 100 UNIX servers and 3 seasoned and skilled admins? Efficiencies come from the fact that more secure environemnts spend far less time reacting and much more time securing and evolving.
Boycott Sam's Club!
I will boycott neither Wal-Mart nor Sam's Club. In fact looking forward to Sam's club coming to our city to kick some stupid price gouging by the local business.
What convinced me is I had to get a set of tires fast from Sam's in the US. Later we had a flat, took it into a local Canadian Walmart and when they fixed it free! This was the only tire purchase I ever had go right. I purchased from a Canadian company years earlier and it took me two years, 4 wheel alignments and tire replacements later to get it settled. On top of that it cost me more.
Judge a company on its quality, price, service and how many people it employs, not on local political BS as local rich get upset that they can no longer charge 3-4 times the price. In part why Sam's/Walmart is successful. BTW, they sell the same stuff as everyone else.
Many, many companies block AIM at the firewall.
Should that not be "Many, many companies think they block AIM at the firewall."
Nuff said if your security people think they have it all plugged it all up.
1. Free tuition for residents (with some limitations and restrictions) would mean no more worries about the given amount one would have had to pay back not only for the principal borrowed to pay for tuition, but the interest too, concerning student loans.
You are aware that is socialism?
Here is what happens with socialism. The government ends up regulating it, not the market place. You can graduate as an engineer and get paid less than general labor building homes. So what happens is a lot of people graduate, but end up doing something else. It lowers the wages of the degreed people, as the market gets flooded with them. I knew a person in socialist country that had a degree in Mathematics and a PhD in Astrophysics, but worked as an underpaid intermediate programmer for wages less than the national average. (The person was talented and sociable too but didn't want to move).
The trouble is everyone wants Harvard, MIT or Yale. The truth is they churn out for money egotistical self-import types that really know no more than local college graduates. My experience, from a business perspective, is the best workers come from lesser expensive local community colleges. Too many MBA's tend to run down companies in wages, dysfunctional politics and just plain bad decision making.
But to this thread. There is nothing new here. Plagiarism has been going on from the day the first writings. Even before the Internet students would go to different libraries searching out books to copy from that were not in their library, but the smart ones gave the professor what he/she wanted to hear. Two things the post secondary education gives you, 1) You learn how to learn on your own and 2) You have to give the professor who has the power to flunk you what he wants (puke learning). The truth is very little "research" goes on, so if being original in sending a paper to a professor you have to make it real good or bye-bye. Conformance is part of the experience.
All this whimy-ass 'botnet' garbage needs to end. We need something that totally kills windows when you get infected. Get the people pissed off enough to force microsoft into doing something.
I for one am actually surprised this hasn't happened yet. Say a worm that infects 20 others then formats the hard drive. Or perhaps break into a botnet (they are not that secure) and wipe some millions of Windows PCs at once. It would not be hard to do, let your Windows get infected, figure out how they control it and go off and get control. Time will tell, but I suspect sooner or later someone is going to do it.
I expect the performance of the internet will be greatly improved the next day.
Regardless of a number of equally stupid rules on air travel these days, I don't think this is likely to last very long, lawsuits incoming.
Better than lawsuits, people will not fly.
Me, I have had it being stranded in airports because some ditz didn't schedule a plane on time with a connecting flight. I will not forget the time I entered a plane in Chicago for Milwaukee and 5 minutes after the last bus went to Milwaukee they let us off the plane when they didn't have a pilot.
I would rather drive down the highway with the CD cranked right up, the PC in the back and take a rest on my schedule not theirs.
Makes me wonder if Pam Anderson has to check in her breasts as potentially dangerous chemicals. Seriously, terrorists will send in kids to blow up, why not a well endowed Muslim lady?
I look at it this way, sooner or later the people are going to get tired of being treated worse than their broken baggage. I only use planes when I have to for business.
No current Linux company has the matching dollars.
But as we are seeing with this event, Linux with MythTV would have cost them a whole lot less, and worked!!! And they would have to pay royalties to dysfunctional companies.
Your kidding right? Since when does a "tech" company return profits to the shareholders?
More typical is they carry the earnings internal until bad news happens and take giant write downs to compensate. In the mean time, those invested in them are playing chicken to see who can get top dollar before it colapses. There are exceptions, but not many.
And the point? The point is you are a high credit risk. There are those that rack up the credit cards and leave not paying them. Credit ratings are earned by long term good behavior and not granted as a right. Nor should they be.
Getting a good credit rating is not tough, pay your bills on time, with a check and never bounce them. Live within your means always. When I left the US I had gone from 0 to 860 in no time.
This /. posting seemed to drag out a lot of whiners and poor credit loosers. Likely the kind I would not hire for positions of vision and leadership. But HR people are not stupid, they would know someone from another country will not have a US credit history. But that should not stop them from doing one in your home country before hiring you.
To have a utopian society, you must have utopian people. Utopia would be a good place, but non-utopian people would tear it down.
I call bullshit. This is an unadulterated power play and invasion of a candidate's privacy.
My guess is you have a piss poor credit rating, or at least not optimal!
Why the hell should a company hire you without doing some background checks. If your a clerk in a store, you don't want to hire someone just out of the slammer for cash-theft. As a consumer, you would not like it if the people freshly out of jail for identity theft were processing your credit card apps would you?
Then why the hell do companies place people in positions of influence and power when not organized enough to balance their check book or don't pay their bills on time? Maybe at some point they will not pay you?
IT people with long careers summarily right-sized out of their jobs
Now if I saw a person who was right sized, and 6 months later the credit rating remained 100% I would seriously consider the person. Why? Simple, the person planned for it and still came in on time paying the bills. Indicates he isn't over cafinated hype junky operating in a delusional dream state missing comitments.
I also suspect some companies would hire those with poor credit ratings. Why? It is much easier to keep someone under their thumbs in bad working environments if they have to have that pay check at all costs to remain solvent.
Yep, I am in I/T.
So because Mr. Smith had to max out his credit cards for Little Suzys cancer medication, he doesn't get the new job?
Why would you hire someone not smart enough to have purchased health care or save a thousand or two for deductibles? Most people without health care in the US today just have their priorities in different places, drugs, poor use of credit, cars, booze, poor planning etc. Now that is who you want making multi-million dollar decisions for your company?
I think this is a good idea myself. Everyone in a company benefits when a manager makes a good decision... conversely everyone suffers if they drive a company to insolvency mimicking their own financial behaviors.
And the best part about this metric is that it is less subjective and a measurement over a longer period of time. What they do for themselves is an indication of what they might be able to do for the company.
No. It requires reading a couple of good, inexpensive books and understanding of what the heck you're doing.
That is an understatement.
Reminds me of the time I watched a finance person use PGP to encrypt a very sensitive file they sent via email. They did everything right except for one critical part.
After the file was encrypted, they deleted the original one as per instructions. Trouble was it was in the "Recycle" bin a readable.
One might argue that net neutrality wouldn't be a net cost to customers but it's hardly a "blatant lie" to suggest it would.
It is a blatent lie, network neutrality is like the first ammendment. It gives people equal access to the network. Just like water supply, schools, roads, gas stations and grocery stores. We all have equal access which is fair and democratic. Now why do the telco/cable people want to see net neutrality squashed?
Simple, it gives the political go-ahead to control the people, what they see, what they read and what they watch on the internet. Like television stations who have to pay the cable operator for the right to be on the channel line up, they want both sides to pay them.
Trouble is, major providors like google already do pay, but not ATT and Time Warner, but pay for long distance fibre which is part of the internet that these companies don't own. ATT, SBC and others want something for nothing.
The something they want is a monopoly like they enjoyed in the past. Having the political selective control over their users rights gives them the monopoly to raise costs to all parties. This of course will not be based on merit, but their political control.
If a new service comes by, they only need to pay for their access to the internet, just like people do. Fair? You bet. If google needs another OC192 they will pay for it, just not to ATT, SBC, TW or Verison directly.
In the end, not having net neutrality also means higher costs financially and social fabric of society. Verizon may decide they like MSNBC because the CEO likes Microsoft, so when you go to CNN the bandwidth is rate limited and thus unusable. That is what they want.
For what it's worth, I think that proper remedy would be to:
1. Give the house back to the old man,
2. provide monetary compensation to the buyers,
3. strip the attorney that validated the transaction of his citizenship and forfeit all of his assets, to cover the price of reimbursing the victims, then promptly deport him.
I might also add:
4. the bank eats the mortgage and and fraud lawyer pays the costs. All costs to the old man are reimbursed including lost rent.
If the bank pays for it, then they will do a simple check like your drivers license and a background check. I doubt the fraudsters were 89 years old. Even if they were, there was slop in how this was handled.
I sure hope he finds a good lawyer and sues their asses off! Maybe the RCMP/OPP can follow the paper trail as I doubt it was paid in cash. But we are still waiting for the RCMP to do something with Ralph Goodale, see http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNew s/20051228/income_trust_investigation_051228/20051 228?s_name=election2006
While this might be true in the short term, think about how many are actually good at it that the music industry ignores? This will catch up with the music industry who often with money propel people to the top of charts that couldn't sing without electronic assistance if they tried.
Similarily, TV. A group of people could create a series of SciFi, comedy even sitcomms without a billion dollar budget and multimillion dollar CEO.
The entertainment industry fears this like the devil.
You'd think by now that people would go ahead and use WEP or WPA, but tunnel traffic over a VPN even to internal sites. That's what I do. While someone may be able to crack my WEP or WPA keys, all that gets them is the ability to access the VPN port on the router.
That is because you truly take wireless security seriously where as 97% of the people do not. This is the ONLY proven way to secure wireless short of unpluging it. In such cases like this, all a hacker could do is DoS you, which is minor.
GPL covers only redistribution without providing source, not use. Proprietary software has all the same restrictions, and many more.
Here is a recent experience many anti-OSS types and CIO's aught to read that supports this.
Project A, open source, hires consultants and they don't work out. Fire consultants, with source get someone who can work out. No 0 day business conflicts.
Project B, buys a closed source commercial product, they raised the price over 2000 percent 2 years in a row! (Company got bought out). Now everyone is scrambling on what to do as the time bombed licence expires December 31st and that date isn't moving without some serious cash.
Moral, if you have the source and the rights to use it you are one hell of a lot better off and always have palatable options.
You open source people need to pick your battles.
They are and Microsoft is loosing faster than they would ever admit. None Vista PCs, many will run Linux. Cash going out the doors to Microsoft is getting noticed in the board rooms. Cost presures either are going to make Microsoft get more cheaper, better, faster, more secure and loose DRM or the JQ public is going to move on. Many already are.
Most "technology" gets cheaper, faster and more reliable. Windows is far behind this curve. Time for a change.