"Normal" practice is: - Inside: Complete chaos, no one follows the rules and everyone but contractors can just about get away with murder. - Outside: "We follow all rules. A contractor reconfigured something and the issue has been resolved. We've put additional controls in place to ensure this doesn't happen again." (While the "contractor" could have been an admin logging into a server to do Windows Updates instead of the idiot that configured the firewall incorrectly to get their stupid app working. Pure example here.)
Signed: A guy that was both a Full Time Employee as well as a contractor for several entities.
Looks like news came out today that the White House knew of the private domain issue.
"Press Secretary Josh Earnest corrected the statement, saying that the president must have known about Clinton’s private account because he [POTUS] had emailed that account for four years while Clinton served as his Secretary of State."
So, now we have another agency that knows that did nothing as well.
damn lazy people. Took me 2 seconds. Want a difference source, go google it yourself. I picked the first link.
It absolutely kills me that there are so many people raging at each other when no one has read the damn thing. I don't support the current situation because NO ONE HAS READ IT.
Personal opinion here, but after doing a LOT of research on these types of deals (company comes in and "leases" the solar equipment/installation to you, and it's paid over the lifetime of the equipment or a set year range like 15-20 years), I'd stay away.
I'm not infected (checked), but perhaps about 50% of those that "haven't installed the updates" is because people refuse to upgrade? I refuse to pay for an upgrade that will no doubt slow my Macbook Pro down and cause random issues.
You might be shocked at the amount of "automatic" updates the mac doesn't install. Air doesn't get patched by Adobe's own patches, MSFT Office only gets patched by it's own update program, etc...
I had a FaceBook account, but started seeing the writing on the wall - the stalking that you see, the targeted ads, the government getting involved, etc - bailed out with 5 minutes notice to my friends. Pretty much said, if you have my email address, you're important, if not, you've got 5 minutes for me to think about giving it to you. *poof* - done.
That was 2 years ago and I haven't looked back. I don't belong to any of those sites now and I won't do so later either. I actually go so far as to block FaceBook's URL on my local firewall so I don't even have to see that crap. I would block it from the entire house, but my wife does log in about once every 4 months to check up on old friends.
This is actually very true. My wife originally woke up with my on-call phone, but now she just keeps sleeping. I've had to support stuff in the middle of the night and like grantek's situation, had no clue I had even gotten up.
I personally quit Facebook last month - put one last message up for about an hour "If you're important, you have my email address.... Ciao" - then I canceled the account.
Now, I'm on Diaspora and am starting to convert others to it. Do I use Diaspora nearly as much? Nope - and I like it that way.
6 SA's (understaffed) 3 Net Admins/Telecom 1 DB Admin for 40+ servers (understaffed) 1 Web (2 servers) / AV Admin (full time with McAfee EPO) 5 Help Desk Techs (severely understaffed) 1 Network Planning and App management (WSUS, imaging, etc) 2 Abuse Admins 4 Web Programmers ~30 onsite "goto" people for smaller problems and application training...and a whole lot of unhappy people.
Um, most hospitals in the world are like this. This is exactly why the HIPAA rules apply(in the US). They're actually much more harsh than your standard military style security as well (you should see the HIPAA requirements on the MilNet (they're actually separated, but you get the point).
So - now that you're more informed than before, do you trust your doctor's network?
I had a similar experience in Germany, except they flat out canceled my order. I can't imagine trying it from Downrange.
Since you used a credit card and they are past their 30 day mark without delivering product, I believe you are within your rights to opt to cancel the transaction. Even in my experience, as long as they shipped the laptop priority, it should still be at your location much quicker than its taking. The slowest box to my wife was 45 days, MPS, during the beginning of her deployment(month 0). The fastest was a priority box, insured for $1000 - 7 days.
Talk to Jag before you do attempt a charge back. BTW - the PX now sells Dell products.
I use GTMPC for troubleshooting my wife's personal machine while she's away on business - helps with all the weird firewalls, etc.
Anyway, unless this guy was worse than a complete idiot (which he was already proven to qualify as), GTMPC wouldn't help due to the fact that it displays an alert saying that someone is connected - just like Dameware...
This is actually old technology. The Swiss, I believe, did it first. It was originally designed to keep people within the speed limit. They found that popular classical tunes "tuned" to play correctly at the speed limit caused speeders to slow down and Sunday drivers to speed up to the proper speed.
I would strike out the whole "all works owned for up to 6 months after employment" and offer to sign that. If they wouldn't accept that, I'd turn in my notice of intent to leave as of X date. Give as much notice as you can, something like a month. Depending on the state, they may have to pay you for the total time, if they decide to let you go before then.
If enough employees insist on not signing that block, they may remove it anyway.
I know I'm late to this argument, but I couldn't agree more.
Any developer thats been working with.Net for long enough to cause a stack trace should know this. It dumps about 3 pages of Case and If/Else statements on the screen.
On top of that,.Net only speeds up development by dumbing down the UI process (drag'n'drop) and automagically "programming" elements for you. Look at the dump next time and you'll see stuff you would normally do inside PHP and other languages.
I regularly get requests for my resume from headhunters via email and the idiots paste requirements well beyond my documented resume. I shut one up via email by asking for the full project scope and he could only give me a "quote" from a conversation between IBM and him. Needless to say, he never emailed again.
Here lately, I've stopped the email coming in by jacking my salary requirements up past my _contracted_ rate. On top of that, I specifically state that I don't talk to recruiters inside my resume, I state that the resume is the most up-to-date and all recruiting domains from email are blacklisted by yours truly.
The main point is, they're complaining about web wannabe's and such writing custom shopping carts with a Frontpage form saves info to the web.
I found a nasty case of this a few years ago on an incorporation website that stored SSNs, CCs, Company and Owner Names (along with partner names and SSNs), etc. After I called the guy - he wanted me to fix it for free for him and told me it was my civic duty to fix the problem...
This comment may sound funny/stupid, but it's true.
I personally bought 1 book, used Google a lot and dug through man pages to learn. Figuring out things for themselves is the key.
A training company will teach them a few things and they'll come out knowing enough to be dangerous. Give them a virtual server on their computer of what they'll be working with (show them how to backup the image and restore it on their own) and then give them a few scenarios that you all get on a normal basis. After they break the machine within 20 minutes (rm -r *...SHIT!), restore it and they'll start learning to be more careful.
You know, I've stayed away from DIGG for all of the same reasons. I've even had my own blog posts end up on DIGG (I didn't post them) and, even though it was an opinion piece with a lot of people commenting that they agreed, the DIGG community modded the story as incorrect information (this causes a red banner to appear on DIGG) with a lot of comments from people I'd obviously pissed off (or on?).
After that, I paid attention to the main page until I kept seeing the "OMFGZ!!111! DIGG PWNED" articles show up every 20 minutes. This annoys me about as bad as a Wiki being "hacked" by some idiot kid.
But now, I don't pay attention to DIGG, even if one of my blog posts gets dug - don't care anymore.
Um, the fish tank dude had his fish murdered... Someone took the time to take the lid off the aquarium, pull 1 fish out, put it on a sticky note and beat the poor thing to death. They also wrote the obligatory "...swims with the fishes" on the note. He apparently wasn't liked too much.
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I'm assuming you haven't worked for .gov.....
"Normal" practice is:
- Inside: Complete chaos, no one follows the rules and everyone but contractors can just about get away with murder.
- Outside: "We follow all rules. A contractor reconfigured something and the issue has been resolved. We've put additional controls in place to ensure this doesn't happen again." (While the "contractor" could have been an admin logging into a server to do Windows Updates instead of the idiot that configured the firewall incorrectly to get their stupid app working. Pure example here.)
Signed: A guy that was both a Full Time Employee as well as a contractor for several entities.
For the love of God, WHY do I NOT have Mod points today?!
But you're dead on. The Clintons, and MOST other politicians, have always tried to skirt around all kinds of things and it's getting old.
Looks like news came out today that the White House knew of the private domain issue.
"Press Secretary Josh Earnest corrected the statement, saying that the president must have known about Clinton’s private account because he [POTUS] had emailed that account for four years while Clinton served as his Secretary of State."
So, now we have another agency that knows that did nothing as well.
What rules. Please show me where these rules are documented to prove your point.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-g...
damn lazy people. Took me 2 seconds. Want a difference source, go google it yourself. I picked the first link.
It absolutely kills me that there are so many people raging at each other when no one has read the damn thing. I don't support the current situation because NO ONE HAS READ IT.
Not to mention that you're stuck in a 15+ year lease that could affect selling your home and such.
When I looked into this, I not only closed the browser, but haven't even looked in their general direction since.
Personal opinion here, but after doing a LOT of research on these types of deals (company comes in and "leases" the solar equipment/installation to you, and it's paid over the lifetime of the equipment or a set year range like 15-20 years), I'd stay away.
It's a crappy site, but it lays out all the arguments against doing such a thing: http://solarleasedisadvantages...
I'm not infected (checked), but perhaps about 50% of those that "haven't installed the updates" is because people refuse to upgrade? I refuse to pay for an upgrade that will no doubt slow my Macbook Pro down and cause random issues.
You might be shocked at the amount of "automatic" updates the mac doesn't install. Air doesn't get patched by Adobe's own patches, MSFT Office only gets patched by it's own update program, etc...
I had a FaceBook account, but started seeing the writing on the wall - the stalking that you see, the targeted ads, the government getting involved, etc - bailed out with 5 minutes notice to my friends. Pretty much said, if you have my email address, you're important, if not, you've got 5 minutes for me to think about giving it to you. *poof* - done.
That was 2 years ago and I haven't looked back. I don't belong to any of those sites now and I won't do so later either. I actually go so far as to block FaceBook's URL on my local firewall so I don't even have to see that crap. I would block it from the entire house, but my wife does log in about once every 4 months to check up on old friends.
This is actually very true. My wife originally woke up with my on-call phone, but now she just keeps sleeping. I've had to support stuff in the middle of the night and like grantek's situation, had no clue I had even gotten up.
Agreed - I installed Prey months ago and my Mac never leaves my house....
I personally quit Facebook last month - put one last message up for about an hour "If you're important, you have my email address.... Ciao" - then I canceled the account.
Now, I'm on Diaspora and am starting to convert others to it. Do I use Diaspora nearly as much? Nope - and I like it that way.
Another lower Gov entity (I'm no longer there)
~80,000 users
~6,000 PCs
~250 servers
6 SA's (understaffed) ...and a whole lot of unhappy people.
3 Net Admins/Telecom
1 DB Admin for 40+ servers (understaffed)
1 Web (2 servers) / AV Admin (full time with McAfee EPO)
5 Help Desk Techs (severely understaffed)
1 Network Planning and App management (WSUS, imaging, etc)
2 Abuse Admins
4 Web Programmers
~30 onsite "goto" people for smaller problems and application training
It wasn't a happy place.
Um, most hospitals in the world are like this. This is exactly why the HIPAA rules apply(in the US). They're actually much more harsh than your standard military style security as well (you should see the HIPAA requirements on the MilNet (they're actually separated, but you get the point).
So - now that you're more informed than before, do you trust your doctor's network?
I had a similar experience in Germany, except they flat out canceled my order. I can't imagine trying it from Downrange.
Since you used a credit card and they are past their 30 day mark without delivering product, I believe you are within your rights to opt to cancel the transaction. Even in my experience, as long as they shipped the laptop priority, it should still be at your location much quicker than its taking. The slowest box to my wife was 45 days, MPS, during the beginning of her deployment(month 0). The fastest was a priority box, insured for $1000 - 7 days.
Talk to Jag before you do attempt a charge back. BTW - the PX now sells Dell products.
I use GTMPC for troubleshooting my wife's personal machine while she's away on business - helps with all the weird firewalls, etc.
Anyway, unless this guy was worse than a complete idiot (which he was already proven to qualify as), GTMPC wouldn't help due to the fact that it displays an alert saying that someone is connected - just like Dameware...
This is actually old technology. The Swiss, I believe, did it first. It was originally designed to keep people within the speed limit. They found that popular classical tunes "tuned" to play correctly at the speed limit caused speeders to slow down and Sunday drivers to speed up to the proper speed.
I would strike out the whole "all works owned for up to 6 months after employment" and offer to sign that. If they wouldn't accept that, I'd turn in my notice of intent to leave as of X date. Give as much notice as you can, something like a month. Depending on the state, they may have to pay you for the total time, if they decide to let you go before then.
If enough employees insist on not signing that block, they may remove it anyway.
I know I'm late to this argument, but I couldn't agree more.
.Net for long enough to cause a stack trace should know this. It dumps about 3 pages of Case and If/Else statements on the screen.
.Net only speeds up development by dumbing down the UI process (drag'n'drop) and automagically "programming" elements for you. Look at the dump next time and you'll see stuff you would normally do inside PHP and other languages.
Any developer thats been working with
On top of that,
Are you kidding?
I regularly get requests for my resume from headhunters via email and the idiots paste requirements well beyond my documented resume. I shut one up via email by asking for the full project scope and he could only give me a "quote" from a conversation between IBM and him. Needless to say, he never emailed again.
Here lately, I've stopped the email coming in by jacking my salary requirements up past my _contracted_ rate. On top of that, I specifically state that I don't talk to recruiters inside my resume, I state that the resume is the most up-to-date and all recruiting domains from email are blacklisted by yours truly.
The main point is, they're complaining about web wannabe's and such writing custom shopping carts with a Frontpage form saves info to the web.
I found a nasty case of this a few years ago on an incorporation website that stored SSNs, CCs, Company and Owner Names (along with partner names and SSNs), etc. After I called the guy - he wanted me to fix it for free for him and told me it was my civic duty to fix the problem...
This comment may sound funny/stupid, but it's true.
I personally bought 1 book, used Google a lot and dug through man pages to learn. Figuring out things for themselves is the key.
A training company will teach them a few things and they'll come out knowing enough to be dangerous. Give them a virtual server on their computer of what they'll be working with (show them how to backup the image and restore it on their own) and then give them a few scenarios that you all get on a normal basis. After they break the machine within 20 minutes (rm -r *...SHIT!), restore it and they'll start learning to be more careful.
Yea, I was the same. When the helicopter transformed though, I was hooked.
You know, I've stayed away from DIGG for all of the same reasons. I've even had my own blog posts end up on DIGG (I didn't post them) and, even though it was an opinion piece with a lot of people commenting that they agreed, the DIGG community modded the story as incorrect information (this causes a red banner to appear on DIGG) with a lot of comments from people I'd obviously pissed off (or on?).
After that, I paid attention to the main page until I kept seeing the "OMFGZ!!111! DIGG PWNED" articles show up every 20 minutes. This annoys me about as bad as a Wiki being "hacked" by some idiot kid.
But now, I don't pay attention to DIGG, even if one of my blog posts gets dug - don't care anymore.
Um, the fish tank dude had his fish murdered... Someone took the time to take the lid off the aquarium, pull 1 fish out, put it on a sticky note and beat the poor thing to death. They also wrote the obligatory "...swims with the fishes" on the note. He apparently wasn't liked too much.