For starters, below is a list of programs that require total or some form of local admin access. You will notice many of them are common real-world business applications in use today. So yes, I *have* to admin machines that require badly written applications to be installed and used on a daily basis. CRM and accounting programs seem to be the worst. Also worth mentioning is geoscience programs such as MapInfo, Global Mapper, Surfer, OIC, SMT Kingdom Suite and just about any program that requires a hardlock USB dongle.
While it may be ideal to have a bullet proof network that's locked down from end to end, it's not going to happen on a shoestring budget. Not this year or the next. That's for damn sure! I guess I should still be lucky to be employed and that companies can afford to pay for my professional services. At least a n00b (such as yourself) would be cheap enough for any company. But you know what they say...you get what your pay for.
To install softwares, you log in as admin, install and delog, to use the app you log as user without admin permission.
I think your ignorance is clouding your judgement.
Speaking of ignorance, clearly you don't admin XP boxes. Because if you did, you know damn well that many many applications will not run properly (if at all) unless the user is a member of the local Administrators group. And NO, restricting yourself to just the Power Users group is not enough.
Yes, Microsoft dropped the ball here and there, but I put the blame on 3rd party software not coded for basic User accounts.
Or, you could leave it up to the private sector with a few caveats. For one, once a patent holding corporation recoups the investment costs (plus a profit margin), the patent is rendered null and void.
Basically, give the private sector enough incentives to allow capitalism to fulfill its primary role while at the same time not hinder the common good of everyone else.
HR will be suspicious of anyone with no online identity at all. Especially for tech jobs
It may come a shock to all of you, but I do *not* have a Facebook, MySpace, or Twitter account. It's a waste of time for one. Second, I don't want anything I've said to be taken out of context and used against me. If a company (HR more specifically) doesn't want me because I CHOOSE to remain anonymous, fuck em!!! I value my privacy as I regard it as an intimate concept.
As for my Slashdot account, I still consider it anonymous. It's not like any of you guys know my real name. Yet, google will reveal quite a bit of my history on this forum. Clearly, my actions are justified in this matter.
I will give you that the extensiveness of our highway system is unmatched, but the quality of some of our roads are very poor
It should be noted that this issue is at the State level, not Federal. That said, Houston has one of the (if not the best) highway systems in the USA now that I-10 got expanded. However, our local roads such as Westheimer suck! The right lane is very uneven and filled with pot-holes. They keep patching the asphalt but rarely ever rebuild it from the ground up. Oh well, at least their working on Kirby. Can't complain too much I guess.
How long before the Iranian government lays all new fiber to a central military facility and then disable the now-current fiber links? The idea being total central control to turn off the internet connection entirely or by segments from one physical location.
Hey, if they have the money to build another 20 nuclear reprocessing sites, they damn well have the funds to pull something off like this!
First you have to know if something is there - cloaked. If your oblivious to the object, what reason would you have to throw any stone in the first place?
No, a Microsoftie would recommend using MS SQL. They also know MS Access sucks balls!!! The idea of using it sounds great in theory. Then, it just grows, festers, and becomes a huge cluster f**k to manage. Yuck!
It's time to reinforce the concept that I am responsible for my actions, and nobody else
Sure, if you agree to have the MAC address of the device in use registered under your name. If you falsify the MAC or provide wrongful data, you get life in prison. Your objective is to bow down and pay tribute to the media overlords. They are royalty. They have power above you. They feed the coffers of your politicians whome *snickers* represent you! How DARE YOU question their authority!!!
Honestly, it was more of a curiosity than anything. I also wanted to know if they demoed macros in Excel. All I had to do was pay for S&H right? I guess not so the story goes.
Besides, depending on how elementary the training video was, I thought it might be a good thing for my mother to watch (whom never used a PC in her life). If that Excel video was any good, I might have purchased their other editions.
Lesson learned. Never capture them alive. Just kill them where they stand. You will save yourself and our court system future grief. Now onto the next target...
I got scammed too. Not only did I not get my "free" MS Excel video in the mail, but I got billed for it and other CDs too. I ended up contacting my bank for a stop-payment. It got so bad that I had to change my CC number. Fuckers! I hope the CEOs ass lands in prison for this shit!
Could be important. Could. Change happens all the time in nature, but not all of it is bad. Until a full environmental study has been concluded, lets not take an alarmist view here without knowing the facts beforehand.
The stimulus spending is stealing future wealth to produce fake wealth today
Welcome to Keynesian economics. The idea of borrowing future wealth (which doesn't exist) to correct a current depression is just asinine thinking. It's analogous with Quantum Physics (schrodinger's cat) in fact. The future hasn't been written. Yet, buy acting on it in the present, you actually change the future from what you *thought* it was going to be.
Intel's planning on releasing x86 CPUs with GPUs on the die. Why can't nVidia?
Oh, I'm sure they can. They have both the engineering and resources to fab one out. The problem however is one of red tape. I'm sure Intel's IP lawers would bitch-slap them in court for violating one of many patents they hold.
It would be nice to see to see a powerful CPU/GPU combo mounted on a mini itx board though.
Keep him/her locked up for life then. After all, we do have "medical" evidence that proves they were and continue to be a threat to society. Under no circumstances should they be allows to mingle with the rest of society out in the open.
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For starters, below is a list of programs that require total or some form of local admin access. You will notice many of them are common real-world business applications in use today. So yes, I *have* to admin machines that require badly written applications to be installed and used on a daily basis. CRM and accounting programs seem to be the worst. Also worth mentioning is geoscience programs such as MapInfo, Global Mapper, Surfer, OIC, SMT Kingdom Suite and just about any program that requires a hardlock USB dongle.
While it may be ideal to have a bullet proof network that's locked down from end to end, it's not going to happen on a shoestring budget. Not this year or the next. That's for damn sure! I guess I should still be lucky to be employed and that companies can afford to pay for my professional services. At least a n00b (such as yourself) would be cheap enough for any company. But you know what they say...you get what your pay for.
http://www.threatcode.com/admin_rights.htm
Speaking of ignorance, clearly you don't admin XP boxes. Because if you did, you know damn well that many many applications will not run properly (if at all) unless the user is a member of the local Administrators group. And NO, restricting yourself to just the Power Users group is not enough.
Yes, Microsoft dropped the ball here and there, but I put the blame on 3rd party software not coded for basic User accounts.
Oh don't you worry. The TAX TAX TAX part is coming. Just you wait!
Or, you could leave it up to the private sector with a few caveats. For one, once a patent holding corporation recoups the investment costs (plus a profit margin), the patent is rendered null and void.
Basically, give the private sector enough incentives to allow capitalism to fulfill its primary role while at the same time not hinder the common good of everyone else.
"History became legend. Legend became myth" LOTR
In court with proper legal representation would be my guess.
Was that while they were high, or going through withdrawal?
HR will be suspicious of anyone with no online identity at all. Especially for tech jobs
It may come a shock to all of you, but I do *not* have a Facebook, MySpace, or Twitter account. It's a waste of time for one. Second, I don't want anything I've said to be taken out of context and used against me. If a company (HR more specifically) doesn't want me because I CHOOSE to remain anonymous, fuck em!!! I value my privacy as I regard it as an intimate concept.
As for my Slashdot account, I still consider it anonymous. It's not like any of you guys know my real name. Yet, google will reveal quite a bit of my history on this forum. Clearly, my actions are justified in this matter.
It should be noted that this issue is at the State level, not Federal. That said, Houston has one of the (if not the best) highway systems in the USA now that I-10 got expanded. However, our local roads such as Westheimer suck! The right lane is very uneven and filled with pot-holes. They keep patching the asphalt but rarely ever rebuild it from the ground up. Oh well, at least their working on Kirby. Can't complain too much I guess.
but but but, will it run Windows?
If I had to choose one spot to have this therapy applied, it would be my lower back. Having pulled it every other month is getting annoying.
Or you will be replaced by someone whome is currently a member of the 10+% unemployment group. So ya, your fucked with pager duty.
Take a random 63 character key in hex mode. Has anyone ever been crack such a key in WPA2 AES mode just by sniffing packets?
How long before the Iranian government lays all new fiber to a central military facility and then disable the now-current fiber links? The idea being total central control to turn off the internet connection entirely or by segments from one physical location.
Hey, if they have the money to build another 20 nuclear reprocessing sites, they damn well have the funds to pull something off like this!
First you have to know if something is there - cloaked. If your oblivious to the object, what reason would you have to throw any stone in the first place?
No, a Microsoftie would recommend using MS SQL. They also know MS Access sucks balls!!! The idea of using it sounds great in theory. Then, it just grows, festers, and becomes a huge cluster f**k to manage. Yuck!
It's time to reinforce the concept that I am responsible for my actions, and nobody else
Sure, if you agree to have the MAC address of the device in use registered under your name. If you falsify the MAC or provide wrongful data, you get life in prison. Your objective is to bow down and pay tribute to the media overlords. They are royalty. They have power above you. They feed the coffers of your politicians whome *snickers* represent you! How DARE YOU question their authority!!!
Honestly, it was more of a curiosity than anything. I also wanted to know if they demoed macros in Excel. All I had to do was pay for S&H right? I guess not so the story goes.
Besides, depending on how elementary the training video was, I thought it might be a good thing for my mother to watch (whom never used a PC in her life). If that Excel video was any good, I might have purchased their other editions.
Lesson learned. Never capture them alive. Just kill them where they stand. You will save yourself and our court system future grief. Now onto the next target...
I got scammed too. Not only did I not get my "free" MS Excel video in the mail, but I got billed for it and other CDs too. I ended up contacting my bank for a stop-payment. It got so bad that I had to change my CC number. Fuckers! I hope the CEOs ass lands in prison for this shit!
Ya, I'm pissed...
...which would be important to the locals
Could be important. Could. Change happens all the time in nature, but not all of it is bad. Until a full environmental study has been concluded, lets not take an alarmist view here without knowing the facts beforehand.
The stimulus spending is stealing future wealth to produce fake wealth today
Welcome to Keynesian economics. The idea of borrowing future wealth (which doesn't exist) to correct a current depression is just asinine thinking. It's analogous with Quantum Physics (schrodinger's cat) in fact. The future hasn't been written. Yet, buy acting on it in the present, you actually change the future from what you *thought* it was going to be.
This is Slashdot damnit! Logic has no reason here.
Intel's planning on releasing x86 CPUs with GPUs on the die. Why can't nVidia?
Oh, I'm sure they can. They have both the engineering and resources to fab one out. The problem however is one of red tape. I'm sure Intel's IP lawers would bitch-slap them in court for violating one of many patents they hold.
It would be nice to see to see a powerful CPU/GPU combo mounted on a mini itx board though.
Keep him/her locked up for life then. After all, we do have "medical" evidence that proves they were and continue to be a threat to society. Under no circumstances should they be allows to mingle with the rest of society out in the open.