Among the key aspects of security that many none security techies (control-freaks and politicians) miss is the fact that Security is supposed to be an enabler. It isn't supposed to get in the way of business. Aside from legal and compliance matters, security should never get in the way of day-to-day operations. The business of a University of LEARNING. Internet is a vital and essential part of learning - draconian restrictions will never help security.
The "IT Guy" obviously hasn't segmented his network; nor has he done a threat assessment, risk assessment or analyzed the business requirements of Internet in a University! When your "security" policy/procedures force users to work around, bypass, hack; then that security policy has FAILED.
At my old university, (1998), we got our useless IT Administrator sacked when the students and staff got together and made the case to the University Administrators (it was a fun meeting:-)). Unfortunately, University Administrators think they are running a prison, not an educational institute; however, they can't fight against the teachers and students!;-) FIGHT DA POWA!
Ahhh... but local councils have turned it into a prodigious cash cow by catching motorists making minor traffic infractions and fining them... as my father found out last week.
You spent HOW MUCH on that Digital Camera? Well, we'll still tell when and where and how you can use it - for your own good, of course...
You think that you're free to use your purchases as you see fit? Well Big Brother Bill knows best. He'll even tell you what accessories you must buy to get it to work.
Given their previous activities, that level of organisation is certainly not something that Al-Qaeda get into. Hijacking aircraft with box-cutters and crashing them; Suicide Bombs in various locations; Road-side biombs in Iraq. Hardly a level of sofistication coincident with great minds or great plans! In short; Terrorists aren't sofisticated. They like simple, easy, least defended targets that bring in the highest body count. These pratts don't even have a defineable/achievable military goal.
Their activities are aimed at carnage, destruction, self-promotion. Anything to undermining their governments to make way for themselves.
1. The public are ignorant of the true costs. 2. The Telcos (like many other corporations) are thieving bastards.
Funny thing is, most of the public still wouldn't do anything about this even if they knew. They accept the bills that they get and the roaming costs and the data costs - irrespective of how much they are actually worth.
I wish someone would explain to me why roaming data (browsing internet while overseas) costs an extortionate amount more than when browsing it locally (especially when you are being served by the same damned carrier Vodafone in both countries). Do they bill for each individual router hop?!
With the loss of languages, we lose another connection to various historical documents that will no longer be readable. Translating only goes so far. When translating, it is generally difficult to carry across the original prose or meaning of the original document.
The second problem with the unification of languages is the innevitable homogenization of cultures that follows. I pity people that travel to the otherside of the world and still go in-search of a MacDonalds... Language is an integrale part of people's culture and the loss of a language is a sad thing.
Hmmm... Give it a little while and GWB will add a War on Cyber-crime to the wonderful War on Terror; the successful War in Iraq; and the original War on Drugs...
IT covers alot of different domains and is used in numerous different (if not every other) industry. I don't see how you can think that you have exhausted all your options in it.
Technically, after 20-years, you should either be at an Architect or Manager level - both of these open your career up to sideway shifts into other management style roles.
Personally, I think you've got to the stage in your career where you're no longer interested in learning EVERY NEW THING that turns up. You feel you've done enough 12-16hr days, that you shouldn't have to do that anymore (or perhaps you just have a crap manager that doesn't appreciate you and has you doing work that doesn't interest you) - basically, you want to move into management where you're telling other people what to do instead of being stuck with the day-to-day techy issues. You have the benefit of comming from the techy background and thus have an appreciation for the technology - You should do well.
You will miss some of the buzz you get from picking up a new IT "toy" and playing with it, but hopefully, you'll be paid enough not to care.
If you still aren't happy, start your own business. - Don't think about the technology, but rather the business domain that you know best - since you'll need to sell it to Business people and they hold the purse strings - not the snot-nosed pimple-faced linux geek in the corner.
Well that is one sure fire way to start an international crackers war! Expect a fair bit of Internet Mutilation in the name of proving that "Our" hackers are better than theirs.
I'm all for this. great idea that should be law everywhere. However, the question is, how each cinema/theatre will go about implementing this "feature".
I hope there are some uniform guidelines about this...
Er... The actual problem was Stupid drivers! Not their age. Not the number of people in the car. Not the loudness of the music (unless the couldn't hear the police sirens)
Alas, no one has yet outlawed stupiddity (as the existence of the law makers, shows).
Just what drugs are those admins on! NT was bloat ware, but stable. 2K is Solid. Unless you're some idiot paying to run IIS instead of running Apache for Free, I don't see where a security problem could be? Add a personal firewall if you're that concerned. But recommending 9x or XP! I'd check the Swiss Bank Accounts of all the Admins for recent cheques from Redmond!
Actually, in the UK, we had the Duracell Bunny. An OLD add back in the mid 80's. To demonstrate that the Duracell Bunny just went on and on - as oppossed to Bunnies that ran on the Lesser Brands. It took animal testing to whole new level!
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Among the key aspects of security that many none security techies (control-freaks and politicians) miss is the fact that Security is supposed to be an enabler. It isn't supposed to get in the way of business.
Aside from legal and compliance matters, security should never get in the way of day-to-day operations.
The business of a University of LEARNING. Internet is a vital and essential part of learning - draconian restrictions will never help security.
The "IT Guy" obviously hasn't segmented his network; nor has he done a threat assessment, risk assessment or analyzed the business requirements of Internet in a University!
When your "security" policy/procedures force users to work around, bypass, hack; then that security policy has FAILED.
At my old university, (1998), we got our useless IT Administrator sacked when the students and staff got together and made the case to the University Administrators (it was a fun meeting :-)). Unfortunately, University Administrators think they are running a prison, not an educational institute; however, they can't fight against the teachers and students! ;-)
FIGHT DA POWA!
Which will blow-up first, the French Economy, or her Nuclear Reactors?
Note: If the French Economy blows up, the Reactors won't be too far behind. :
They miss their nannies...
I suppose Hugo Chavez was a big gamer and wants to protect his people from his youthful mistakes...
"You Fragged FREEDOM!"
Ahhh... but local councils have turned it into a prodigious cash cow by catching motorists making minor traffic infractions and fining them... as my father found out last week.
But think of the Children/Terrorists/Drugs....
Well you can't go there cos it is restricted.
You spent HOW MUCH on that Digital Camera? Well, we'll still tell when and where and how you can use it - for your own good, of course...
You think that you're free to use your purchases as you see fit? Well Big Brother Bill knows best. He'll even tell you what accessories you must buy to get it to work.
Given their previous activities, that level of organisation is certainly not something that Al-Qaeda get into.
Hijacking aircraft with box-cutters and crashing them; Suicide Bombs in various locations; Road-side biombs in Iraq. Hardly a level of sofistication coincident with great minds or great plans!
In short; Terrorists aren't sofisticated. They like simple, easy, least defended targets that bring in the highest body count. These pratts don't even have a defineable/achievable military goal.
Their activities are aimed at carnage, destruction, self-promotion. Anything to undermining their governments to make way for themselves.
1. The public are ignorant of the true costs.
2. The Telcos (like many other corporations) are thieving bastards.
Funny thing is, most of the public still wouldn't do anything about this even if they knew. They accept the bills that they get and the roaming costs and the data costs - irrespective of how much they are actually worth.
I wish someone would explain to me why roaming data (browsing internet while overseas) costs an extortionate amount more than when browsing it locally (especially when you are being served by the same damned carrier Vodafone in both countries). Do they bill for each individual router hop?!
With the loss of languages, we lose another connection to various historical documents that will no longer be readable.
Translating only goes so far. When translating, it is generally difficult to carry across the original prose or meaning of the original document.
The second problem with the unification of languages is the innevitable homogenization of cultures that follows. I pity people that travel to the otherside of the world and still go in-search of a MacDonalds...
Language is an integrale part of people's culture and the loss of a language is a sad thing.
Hmmm...
Give it a little while and GWB will add a War on Cyber-crime to the wonderful War on Terror; the successful War in Iraq; and the original War on Drugs...
Given that a terrorist attack can be pretty much anything that terrorises, how can they claim that they are protected against one?
IT covers alot of different domains and is used in numerous different (if not every other) industry.
I don't see how you can think that you have exhausted all your options in it.
Technically, after 20-years, you should either be at an Architect or Manager level - both of these open your career up to sideway shifts into other management style roles.
Personally, I think you've got to the stage in your career where you're no longer interested in learning EVERY NEW THING that turns up. You feel you've done enough 12-16hr days, that you shouldn't have to do that anymore (or perhaps you just have a crap manager that doesn't appreciate you and has you doing work that doesn't interest you) - basically, you want to move into management where you're telling other people what to do instead of being stuck with the day-to-day techy issues. You have the benefit of comming from the techy background and thus have an appreciation for the technology - You should do well.
You will miss some of the buzz you get from picking up a new IT "toy" and playing with it, but hopefully, you'll be paid enough not to care.
If you still aren't happy, start your own business. - Don't think about the technology, but rather the business domain that you know best - since you'll need to sell it to Business people and they hold the purse strings - not the snot-nosed pimple-faced linux geek in the corner.
Well that is one sure fire way to start an international crackers war!
Expect a fair bit of Internet Mutilation in the name of proving that "Our" hackers are better than theirs.
I'm all for this. great idea that should be law everywhere.
However, the question is, how each cinema/theatre will go about implementing this "feature".
I hope there are some uniform guidelines about this...
Finally, a machine capable of running Doom 3!
Er... The actual problem was Stupid drivers!
Not their age.
Not the number of people in the car.
Not the loudness of the music (unless the couldn't hear the police sirens)
Alas, no one has yet outlawed stupiddity (as the existence of the law makers, shows).
"Only the Real Massiah would deny his divinity!"
Gotta Love it!
Why is it so damned ugly!
For $220,000! Somebody should direct them to a decent Italian design house!
I knew there was something suspicious about the Petronis Towers! :-)
Make clothing that cleans itself.
Make clothing that dries itself.
Make clothing that automatically reacts to the weather etc.
But putting a computer in your clothing, just doesn't make sense!
Technology should be intelligent, useable, and not make you look like a freak while using it (Bluetooth wireless headsets come to mind).
No one will pay attension to the road.
If they cap your bandwidth, you should simply "cap" them... Knee-Caps are usually a nice target...
Just what drugs are those admins on!
NT was bloat ware, but stable. 2K is Solid.
Unless you're some idiot paying to run IIS instead of running Apache for Free, I don't see where a security problem could be?
Add a personal firewall if you're that concerned. But recommending 9x or XP!
I'd check the Swiss Bank Accounts of all the Admins for recent cheques from Redmond!
Actually, in the UK, we had the Duracell Bunny. An OLD add back in the mid 80's. To demonstrate that the Duracell Bunny just went on and on - as oppossed to Bunnies that ran on the Lesser Brands.
It took animal testing to whole new level!
Man, how can you talk about "keep awake at all costs" drinks without mentioning Red Bull!!!
Red Bull keeps you going like the old Duracell Bunny. You even get the dazed, glazed look on your face...