So apparently The Washington Post presents a clear and present danger to public freedom and the accountability of government and industry.
If I'd have to choose between WaPo and Wikileaks, I'd keep Wikileaks. It's too easy to hide bad news under the classified mantle. We're paying the bills, we deserve the unvarnished truth about where things stand in Asscrapistan classified or not.
Exactly right. It's no different than the government regulating the public airwaves.
I don't remember any of the telecos complaining when the government handed over the original internet infrastructure to private companies but they want to whine like bitches when the government says it should remain free and open.
Isn't it about time the geek forces of the world blazed a new trail in communication mediums? Self-discovering mesh networks, something really technical that most people couldn't figure out? I miss the good 'ol days of BBS and the early days of the net before AOL loosed hell upon the early internet.
Stuxnet has turned out to be a rather interesting piece of malware as it not only uses the LNK zero day vulnerability to spread, but it had components that were signed using a legitimate digital certificate belonging to Realtek, a Taiwanese hardware manufacturer.
How do you suppose the crackers got a hold of Realtek's digital certificate? Seems to imply a level of sophistication that goes beyond most virus writers, many of whom are industry professionals these days. A government-backed organization maybe or well-funded industrial espionage.
Their response seems to be that a fully patched IE6 is perfectly safe as long as firewalls and malware scanning tools are in place, and that mandating an upgrade away from IE6 will be too expensive.
The UK government stood on the brink of upgrading to last week's technology and decided this modern technology thing was moving WAY too fast.
You do realize that the banking industry is probably still the most heavily regulated industry in America... right?
It doesn't matter how many regulations are in place if they're not being enforced. It doesn't matter how much regulation is on the books if the regulators don't have the authority to stop risky behaviors.
The whole "government is bad" shtick is getting old. We tried less government interference in the banking industry and it nearly bankrupted the nation. We tried less government in environmental regulation and 11 people are dead and we had to deal with an uncapped well spewing oil into the gulf for almost 90 days.
Supply side economics is a fraud and government isn't always the problem. I'm more afraid of corporate rule than a democratically elected government.
First they ignore you.
Then they lose market share among new developers.
Then they offer startup developers some convoluted licensing developed by the marketing department.
Then they act surprised no one wants to bother with it.
Then they lose market share among new developers.
Then they schedule a retreat in Vegas (Vegas, baby!).
The actual problem was bad enough, but instead of owning up to it Dell decided to mount a PR campaign aimed at emphasizing uncertainty. And told their reps to lie about it.
The actual problem didn't bother me as much as Dell's response.
Constellation, particularly Ares, was a boondoggle that was years behind schedule and was never going to get us there.
Exactly right. Ares was a pork project that needed to die.
Funny how in an election year everyone on the hill is worried about spending and yet no one wants to actually make any cuts, even for programs that aren't working.
This is one example, the F-22 is another. And it's why we have 12 aircraft carrier groups when we really don't need that many. Because none of our legislators want to give up projects in their districts. And the election isn't going to change anything. Even candidates committed to cutting spending aren't going to want to see cuts made in their own districts.
As a manager, I can tell you its this sort of short-sightedness that will buy you a one way ticket to the street.
And as a consultant who has seen many instances of the problem dictating the solution, your short-sightedness is going to bring you system failures, data loss, lower productivity and higher down stream costs.
Imagine if you walked in to accounting and announced that they were also going to need to handle HR. I'm sure there would be a lot of surprised looks. But when it comes to IT managers think nothing of walking in telling them they're also going to be taking care of the phone system or the accounting system or any number other departmental systems and then expecting them to just add that to what they already do.
I agree with the parent, you can't let other people set you up for failure. That's just as bad for your career. Got a call today for a job where the camel carrying too many straws quit. As they listed off all the required duties, I cut them off before they got to the end. It was a loser contract. They wanted 80 hours of work while paying for 40, the contracting process was a mess, then they tried to low ball the rate. Sometimes it's better to say no thanks.
Hi, Kim Jong-II here for Moranbong Carbonated Fruit Juice. Tired of getting old? Memory fading? Can't get that grease spot out the shirt you stained stuffing your bloated, capitalistic face at the buffet? The mighty Moranbong Carbonated Fruit Juice cures all that and more. And, if you order today, we'll include a genuine Chinese Army battle shovel!
I thought the Gaming Commission was to be a neutral party.
Sure, they're neutral. The same way MMS and Interior Dept were neutral in the BP oil spill. The gaming commission depends on the casinos for their livelihood, many of them come from a background in gaming. If there's no consequence for "mistakes" like this, they'll keep happening. There's no incentive to insure accuracy.
I'd take that prize money and hire a lawyer, subpoena the machine records and the gaming commission investigation notes.
That's a little like me refusing to treat a patient at an accident scene because they didn't say please. When it comes to saving lives and treating patients, you don't put bullshit pleasantries ahead of caring for the patient. This isn't the local diner, it's a freaking hospital.
There are other ways to get the point across to doctors than withholding timely patient care. Dock them $5 on their paycheck. Just five bucks. Most doctors make a metric assload of cash, but ding them a token amount of money and they act like you just put a lock on their BMW.
When it comes to security, even hackers admit we're doing a better job making our products more secure than anyone else.
Yeah, that's why the Google breach in China was traced to Windows exploits, because hackers always go after the strongest link in the chain.
I'd be the first one to admit Microsoft has come a long way on security. Vista and Windows 7 are better but you still won't catch me surfing the net with Windows or using it to access my bank account online or for anything that requires higher security. Windows gets to see Windows Update and updates for the few Windows only applications I run. That's it.
If you don't win the first time, just keep bringing it back and back and back until you finally get the timing right and have enough legislators in your pocket to get it passed.
It's how we've gotten some of the more industry favorable legislation passed down here.
the IT department is treated as pure cost instead of something that provides strategic value.
I can't count the times I've gone in somewhere and saw major deficiencies in their IT infrastructure. I mean really bad, O-M-G size problems. And when you point them out they act like you're trying to pad your billing. Just fix whatever isn't working that day. One of them was a doctors office.
Imagine if their patients acted that way. I don't care if I have cancer, just remove that lump in my underarm.
That's what you get when the problem is dictating the solution.
Wow, Microsoft is really digging deep on that one. I don't have any problems tracking document changes. We use the strike-through and different colored text for each contributor. So I know at a glance who changed what.
If you need legal change tracking, you're not going to be using web-based software anyway. Besides, if there's a big call for that feature, I bet Google can figure out how to supply it.
I think the days of desktop software are winding down. Google can be far more nimble with Docs than MSFT can be with Office. And the features that the MS guy mentioned, only small minority of users find those at all useful.
Taking a swipe at Google just informed thousands people that you can move.docs around with GoogleDocs. Doesn't seem real bright.
When politicians are eagerly representing a companies views rather than the country.
The party of "no" suddenly doesn't want to cut spending...when it's in their state. Apparently spending cuts are things that happen in someone else's district.
That's why we have more aircraft carriers than some countries have ships in their entire navy, because no senator wants to give up the funding.
Funny, I was listening to people talk about the dangers of the federal reserve's policy that would cause the last mess...
I don't remember the fed coming up in any of the Goldman Sachs emails. Mainly what stuck out for me was the glee they expressed as the housing market cratered.
The fed had a part, but mainly it was corporate greed.
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So apparently The Washington Post presents a clear and present danger to public freedom and the accountability of government and industry.
If I'd have to choose between WaPo and Wikileaks, I'd keep Wikileaks. It's too easy to hide bad news under the classified mantle. We're paying the bills, we deserve the unvarnished truth about where things stand in Asscrapistan classified or not.
Bullshit!
Exactly right. It's no different than the government regulating the public airwaves.
I don't remember any of the telecos complaining when the government handed over the original internet infrastructure to private companies but they want to whine like bitches when the government says it should remain free and open.
Isn't it about time the geek forces of the world blazed a new trail in communication mediums? Self-discovering mesh networks, something really technical that most people couldn't figure out? I miss the good 'ol days of BBS and the early days of the net before AOL loosed hell upon the early internet.
Stuxnet has turned out to be a rather interesting piece of malware as it not only uses the LNK zero day vulnerability to spread, but it had components that were signed using a legitimate digital certificate belonging to Realtek, a Taiwanese hardware manufacturer.
How do you suppose the crackers got a hold of Realtek's digital certificate? Seems to imply a level of sophistication that goes beyond most virus writers, many of whom are industry professionals these days. A government-backed organization maybe or well-funded industrial espionage.
Behold the true face of cyberwar!
Their response seems to be that a fully patched IE6 is perfectly safe as long as firewalls and malware scanning tools are in place, and that mandating an upgrade away from IE6 will be too expensive.
The UK government stood on the brink of upgrading to last week's technology and decided this modern technology thing was moving WAY too fast.
You do realize that the banking industry is probably still the most heavily regulated industry in America... right?
It doesn't matter how many regulations are in place if they're not being enforced. It doesn't matter how much regulation is on the books if the regulators don't have the authority to stop risky behaviors.
The whole "government is bad" shtick is getting old. We tried less government interference in the banking industry and it nearly bankrupted the nation. We tried less government in environmental regulation and 11 people are dead and we had to deal with an uncapped well spewing oil into the gulf for almost 90 days.
Supply side economics is a fraud and government isn't always the problem. I'm more afraid of corporate rule than a democratically elected government.
Teachers should have the freedom to look at creationism and find a way to get it into the classroom.
Would secession really be such a bad option? Just because we started out united doesn't mean we have to stay that way, does it?
You realize that every country in the history of humanity has done the exact same things, right?
That doesn't make it the right or smart thing to do. Just because someone else did it doesn't justify it for anyone else.
Oddly that's one of the hallmarks of the right. Anything someone else does justifies their bad behavior.
First they ignore you...
Or, in this case:
First they ignore you.
Then they lose market share among new developers.
Then they offer startup developers some convoluted licensing developed by the marketing department.
Then they act surprised no one wants to bother with it.
Then they lose market share among new developers.
Then they schedule a retreat in Vegas (Vegas, baby!).
The actual problem was bad enough, but instead of owning up to it Dell decided to mount a PR campaign aimed at emphasizing uncertainty. And told their reps to lie about it.
The actual problem didn't bother me as much as Dell's response.
Constellation, particularly Ares, was a boondoggle that was years behind schedule and was never going to get us there.
Exactly right. Ares was a pork project that needed to die.
Funny how in an election year everyone on the hill is worried about spending and yet no one wants to actually make any cuts, even for programs that aren't working.
This is one example, the F-22 is another. And it's why we have 12 aircraft carrier groups when we really don't need that many. Because none of our legislators want to give up projects in their districts. And the election isn't going to change anything. Even candidates committed to cutting spending aren't going to want to see cuts made in their own districts.
Cut government spending. Fine. Cut what?
which is hardly a technological leap given that numerous applications today offer users an analogous screen-sharing / remote access functionality.
Perhaps not a massive technical leap but packaging and making it available to world, as only Google can, does seem like a pretty big leap forward.
I wonder if MSFT will be modifying their license agreement to try and block it?
As a manager, I can tell you its this sort of short-sightedness that will buy you a one way ticket to the street.
And as a consultant who has seen many instances of the problem dictating the solution, your short-sightedness is going to bring you system failures, data loss, lower productivity and higher down stream costs.
Imagine if you walked in to accounting and announced that they were also going to need to handle HR. I'm sure there would be a lot of surprised looks. But when it comes to IT managers think nothing of walking in telling them they're also going to be taking care of the phone system or the accounting system or any number other departmental systems and then expecting them to just add that to what they already do.
I agree with the parent, you can't let other people set you up for failure. That's just as bad for your career. Got a call today for a job where the camel carrying too many straws quit. As they listed off all the required duties, I cut them off before they got to the end. It was a loser contract. They wanted 80 hours of work while paying for 40, the contracting process was a mess, then they tried to low ball the rate. Sometimes it's better to say no thanks.
Hi, Kim Jong-II here for Moranbong Carbonated Fruit Juice. Tired of getting old? Memory fading? Can't get that grease spot out the shirt you stained stuffing your bloated, capitalistic face at the buffet? The mighty Moranbong Carbonated Fruit Juice cures all that and more. And, if you order today, we'll include a genuine Chinese Army battle shovel!
I thought the Gaming Commission was to be a neutral party.
Sure, they're neutral. The same way MMS and Interior Dept were neutral in the BP oil spill. The gaming commission depends on the casinos for their livelihood, many of them come from a background in gaming. If there's no consequence for "mistakes" like this, they'll keep happening. There's no incentive to insure accuracy.
I'd take that prize money and hire a lawyer, subpoena the machine records and the gaming commission investigation notes.
Mixed Reception To AT&T's New Data Pricing Scheme
That's true provided your definition of "mixed reception" encompasses the pitchfork and torch carrying mob ready to storm AT&T headquarters.
That includes the word please!
That's a little like me refusing to treat a patient at an accident scene because they didn't say please. When it comes to saving lives and treating patients, you don't put bullshit pleasantries ahead of caring for the patient. This isn't the local diner, it's a freaking hospital.
There are other ways to get the point across to doctors than withholding timely patient care. Dock them $5 on their paycheck. Just five bucks. Most doctors make a metric assload of cash, but ding them a token amount of money and they act like you just put a lock on their BMW.
When it comes to security, even hackers admit we're doing a better job making our products more secure than anyone else.
Yeah, that's why the Google breach in China was traced to Windows exploits, because hackers always go after the strongest link in the chain.
I'd be the first one to admit Microsoft has come a long way on security. Vista and Windows 7 are better but you still won't catch me surfing the net with Windows or using it to access my bank account online or for anything that requires higher security. Windows gets to see Windows Update and updates for the few Windows only applications I run. That's it.
If you don't win the first time, just keep bringing it back and back and back until you finally get the timing right and have enough legislators in your pocket to get it passed.
It's how we've gotten some of the more industry favorable legislation passed down here.
the IT department is treated as pure cost instead of something that provides strategic value.
I can't count the times I've gone in somewhere and saw major deficiencies in their IT infrastructure. I mean really bad, O-M-G size problems. And when you point them out they act like you're trying to pad your billing. Just fix whatever isn't working that day. One of them was a doctors office.
Imagine if their patients acted that way. I don't care if I have cancer, just remove that lump in my underarm.
That's what you get when the problem is dictating the solution.
Wow, Microsoft is really digging deep on that one. I don't have any problems tracking document changes. We use the strike-through and different colored text for each contributor. So I know at a glance who changed what.
If you need legal change tracking, you're not going to be using web-based software anyway. Besides, if there's a big call for that feature, I bet Google can figure out how to supply it.
I think the days of desktop software are winding down. Google can be far more nimble with Docs than MSFT can be with Office. And the features that the MS guy mentioned, only small minority of users find those at all useful.
Taking a swipe at Google just informed thousands people that you can move .docs around with GoogleDocs. Doesn't seem real bright.
Dust off and nuke the site from orbit.
It's the only way to be sure.
When politicians are eagerly representing a companies views rather than the country.
The party of "no" suddenly doesn't want to cut spending...when it's in their state. Apparently spending cuts are things that happen in someone else's district.
That's why we have more aircraft carriers than some countries have ships in their entire navy, because no senator wants to give up the funding.
Get out and take your beer drinking black hole buddies with you!
Funny, I was listening to people talk about the dangers of the federal reserve's policy that would cause the last mess...
I don't remember the fed coming up in any of the Goldman Sachs emails. Mainly what stuck out for me was the glee they expressed as the housing market cratered.
The fed had a part, but mainly it was corporate greed.