Personally, I do not like the idea of my search and browsing habits being tracked by anyone, in any capacity.
Fortunately Firefox 3.5 has private browsing. Combine that with the TOR browser button and you'll have a measure of privacy. You can pick and choose what Google knows about you.
Not only do they need to do this with spacecraft and satellites, they need to do it with weapons systems across the board. Gun mounts, missile launchers, hard points, radar systems, everything. Let the separate military branches keep their identity and mission focus, but make sure all the hardware they're using works together.
Because we don't have nearly enough people in prison that we have to start going after the truly marginal cases like this one. If the FBI could recover the files, then they could also recover the fact they were old and the kid tried to delete them.
There are two cases the law needs to change to consider:
- Something truly accidental, like this case. Or some malware infection that tracks it in. Intent has to figure into the equation somewhere.
- Sexting where teens are sending photos of themselves.
Those cases weren't envisioned when the laws were drafted and putting these kinds of people on a sex offender registry dilutes the effectiveness and intent of that tool. This and that stupid law that says if you tap into an unencrypted wifi spot you're breaking the law. Insanity.
your local DNS server hierarchy is going to be far more responsive, even if it does have a higher miss rate.
I set it up on my laptop and I can't see any difference between that and my desktop in terms of speed. I'm going to leave it on my laptop which connects through different hotspots with different DNS providers.
Google can have my DNS records while I'm on the road. I think it's a great service and the kind of really neat thing that's pretty rare in corporate culture these days. We should be giving them props even if you choose not to use it. But around here no good deed goes unpunished.
seeing an "emergency" someone will step in with government money, more regulation, etc, and it just goes downhill from here.
Then how do you explain the BBC? The closest thing we have on this side of the pond is NPR. Any coincidence that the two best pure news sources anywhere both get public funding?
Microsoft Research has found a novel way of beating the deplorably slow speeds of mobile broadband...
Good job, research division. Now reluctantly hand it over to marketing which will:
- Tie it to Windows Mobile
- Cripple it to only work with Hotmail and Bing
- Junk it up with "partner channels"
- Drag out deployment long enough for Apple to be able to field something smaller, cooler and 5x more expensive six months ahead
The biggest posers I worked with used Visual Studio. The best group of programmers I worked with used text editor. That group could code rings around VS. The best of the best of them used vi.
One of my sites got hacked, along with a bunch of others on Inmotion Hosting. Inmotion tried to claim the user client machines were compromised and all the hacks were just FTP connections, but I don't believe that. It could have been related to an older version of phpbb I was running, but it didn't originate with my desktop.
The hack added thousands of links to almost every html file in the site, pages and pages of links, and set up rogue directories packed with thousands of html pages (2,147 in one directory). Took me days to clean all that crap out. What was amazing was the sheer scope. Thousands of websites all around the world compromised within a few days of one another and massive cross-linking network set up. It would take a big team to do that legally.
It's hard to blame Google for an organization going to that much trouble to game the system. I thought I ran a pretty secure site and it's hard to blame the host.
Here's the head scratcher for me. These people obviously have a very broad base of technical skill and resources. Imagine if they applied that talent to something legal. What's the payoff for all the trouble of building the link network? Do they make more doing this than setting up something legal?
The question isn't whether he's everything the advertising billed him as, it's whether he was a better choice than the alternative.
But we expected it from the alternative. We expected better from the Obama administration. But if they just stopped these cases, then the question would linger for the next Republican administration to interpret the rules at their whim. If the strategy is to get a ruling from the courts and then change the laws so the next cowboy in the White House doesn't have the latitude to be the decider, then I'm okay with it.
But I'm not at all certain that's the strategy. I'm also not certain how much of this stems from the Oral Roberts University left-behinds. Eight years is a long time to load a federal agency when you're ignoring the hiring rules. How much latitude do you give the Justice Department for that? I don't think Holder can just fire them all, like when Reagan cleared out the air traffic controllers.
Steve Ballmer's Excrement Beta 4 - Now With More Cherry Flavoring!
I thought that was the internal name for Vista? Must have missed that memo.
Trying to tie Silverlight to their OS is pretty par for the MS course. Take promising technology, a concept made popular by another company and run it straight into the ground.
I think it's much more likely that the NSA would partner with Microsoft to ensure that Windows is actually more secure...
As cynical as I am about agencies that are supposed to be "protecting" us, you're probably right on this one. When the NSA owns every internet backbone system, satellite relay, cell phone, and land line phone in America, plus they have more cryptos than ceiling tiles, I'm not sure what a Windows 7 back door would do for them. They don't need your PC and the risk of a foreign government finding that back door, a foreign government with the resources to do a good job looking for one, would be really high.
A more secure operating system in wide use in government offices would be far more in their interest.
After working as a sysadmin for 10+ years for several groups of Linux software devs, I realized that devs don't make good sysadmins, and vice-versa (in general).
We did okay in our office. We let the dev's admin their own machines and an actual sysadmin, like yourself, run the production environment. For the desktops users put in an install request and we installed the software for them. It wasn't that hard, we didn't get a lot of requests.
I don't see the conflict myself. Just by running CentOS dev machines and Ubuntu for commodity desktops, we were light years ahead on security without even doing a lot. As long as no one is staying logged in as root, there are much easier targets. It's kind of like the bear joke. We don't have to have bear proof security, just better security than the company next door.
And oh yea, we should be investigating Thorium reactors.
That's fine, but our entire nuclear energy infrastructure is built around uranium. It's not like you can put different fuel in a reactor and just carry on with the plants online today.
This is going to be interesting.
Ah, a new entry
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A new entry for you Buzzword Bingo cards. The big question is whether "Agile Computing" and "Agile Development" should be separate squares or lumped under "Agile"?
They have a rewards program that will pay you money for turning in your company.
If he does, upper management will blame and fire him. If he's gone, they'll still blame him.
So, if it's legal in your state, tape the discussion of you informing them of their illegal behavior. Then, when they get busted and try to blame you, sue them for slander, liable and wrongful termination. Now that's potentially some real money there. Let them lie all the way through the depositions, then spring the tapes on them right before trial. That should add some 000's to the settlement.
Even if you don't go the Perry Mason route, you'll definitely want to put something in writing and keep copies. When they get busted, they'll trying hanging this on all their former IT guys.
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Personally, I do not like the idea of my search and browsing habits being tracked by anyone, in any capacity.
Fortunately Firefox 3.5 has private browsing. Combine that with the TOR browser button and you'll have a measure of privacy. You can pick and choose what Google knows about you.
Not only do they need to do this with spacecraft and satellites, they need to do it with weapons systems across the board. Gun mounts, missile launchers, hard points, radar systems, everything. Let the separate military branches keep their identity and mission focus, but make sure all the hardware they're using works together.
An effort long overdue and a good place to start.
Get a different lawyer.
Because we don't have nearly enough people in prison that we have to start going after the truly marginal cases like this one. If the FBI could recover the files, then they could also recover the fact they were old and the kid tried to delete them.
There are two cases the law needs to change to consider:
- Something truly accidental, like this case. Or some malware infection that tracks it in. Intent has to figure into the equation somewhere.
- Sexting where teens are sending photos of themselves.
Those cases weren't envisioned when the laws were drafted and putting these kinds of people on a sex offender registry dilutes the effectiveness and intent of that tool. This and that stupid law that says if you tap into an unencrypted wifi spot you're breaking the law. Insanity.
your local DNS server hierarchy is going to be far more responsive, even if it does have a higher miss rate.
I set it up on my laptop and I can't see any difference between that and my desktop in terms of speed. I'm going to leave it on my laptop which connects through different hotspots with different DNS providers.
Google can have my DNS records while I'm on the road. I think it's a great service and the kind of really neat thing that's pretty rare in corporate culture these days. We should be giving them props even if you choose not to use it. But around here no good deed goes unpunished.
seeing an "emergency" someone will step in with government money, more regulation, etc, and it just goes downhill from here.
Then how do you explain the BBC? The closest thing we have on this side of the pond is NPR. Any coincidence that the two best pure news sources anywhere both get public funding?
Microsoft Research has found a novel way of beating the deplorably slow speeds of mobile broadband...
Good job, research division. Now reluctantly hand it over to marketing which will:
- Tie it to Windows Mobile
- Cripple it to only work with Hotmail and Bing
- Junk it up with "partner channels"
- Drag out deployment long enough for Apple to be able to field something smaller, cooler and 5x more expensive six months ahead
At the end of the day, they both seem like overgrown nerdy schoolboys fighting over each other's toys.
And /. is the group standing around chanting, "Fight! Fight! Fight!"
The biggest posers I worked with used Visual Studio. The best group of programmers I worked with used text editor. That group could code rings around VS. The best of the best of them used vi.
I use text editor and Eclipse.
One of my sites got hacked, along with a bunch of others on Inmotion Hosting. Inmotion tried to claim the user client machines were compromised and all the hacks were just FTP connections, but I don't believe that. It could have been related to an older version of phpbb I was running, but it didn't originate with my desktop.
The hack added thousands of links to almost every html file in the site, pages and pages of links, and set up rogue directories packed with thousands of html pages (2,147 in one directory). Took me days to clean all that crap out. What was amazing was the sheer scope. Thousands of websites all around the world compromised within a few days of one another and massive cross-linking network set up. It would take a big team to do that legally.
It's hard to blame Google for an organization going to that much trouble to game the system. I thought I ran a pretty secure site and it's hard to blame the host.
Here's the head scratcher for me. These people obviously have a very broad base of technical skill and resources. Imagine if they applied that talent to something legal. What's the payoff for all the trouble of building the link network? Do they make more doing this than setting up something legal?
Assume crash positions!
Do you have the vector, Victor?
I'm not kidding and don't call me Surely.
The question isn't whether he's everything the advertising billed him as, it's whether he was a better choice than the alternative.
But we expected it from the alternative. We expected better from the Obama administration. But if they just stopped these cases, then the question would linger for the next Republican administration to interpret the rules at their whim. If the strategy is to get a ruling from the courts and then change the laws so the next cowboy in the White House doesn't have the latitude to be the decider, then I'm okay with it.
But I'm not at all certain that's the strategy. I'm also not certain how much of this stems from the Oral Roberts University left-behinds. Eight years is a long time to load a federal agency when you're ignoring the hiring rules. How much latitude do you give the Justice Department for that? I don't think Holder can just fire them all, like when Reagan cleared out the air traffic controllers.
Microsoft is going to kill Google the way they killed Netscape.
That reminds me of a kid claiming he's going to kill a bear with a bb gun. Google is not Netscape.
This move would be bad for MSFT and bad for News Corp, which means I'm not seeing a downside. If MSFT was smart, they would pass on this deal.
The next thing Murdoch would come out with is the News Corp search engine.
Sometimes the rebuttal just writes itself.
Steve Ballmer's Excrement Beta 4 - Now With More Cherry Flavoring!
I thought that was the internal name for Vista? Must have missed that memo.
Trying to tie Silverlight to their OS is pretty par for the MS course. Take promising technology, a concept made popular by another company and run it straight into the ground.
I think it's much more likely that the NSA would partner with Microsoft to ensure that Windows is actually more secure...
As cynical as I am about agencies that are supposed to be "protecting" us, you're probably right on this one. When the NSA owns every internet backbone system, satellite relay, cell phone, and land line phone in America, plus they have more cryptos than ceiling tiles, I'm not sure what a Windows 7 back door would do for them. They don't need your PC and the risk of a foreign government finding that back door, a foreign government with the resources to do a good job looking for one, would be really high.
A more secure operating system in wide use in government offices would be far more in their interest.
We need a new Internet.
I told them letting in all those AOL users was going to trash the place.
Whatever we come up with next, just make sure users have to pass a really difficult intelligence test before they get a login.
After working as a sysadmin for 10+ years for several groups of Linux software devs, I realized that devs don't make good sysadmins, and vice-versa (in general).
We did okay in our office. We let the dev's admin their own machines and an actual sysadmin, like yourself, run the production environment. For the desktops users put in an install request and we installed the software for them. It wasn't that hard, we didn't get a lot of requests.
I don't see the conflict myself. Just by running CentOS dev machines and Ubuntu for commodity desktops, we were light years ahead on security without even doing a lot. As long as no one is staying logged in as root, there are much easier targets. It's kind of like the bear joke. We don't have to have bear proof security, just better security than the company next door.
And they make better videos.
They should be pretty well preserved. Provided the ice hasn't crushed the bottles and they don't drill through them.
It's a great promotion if nothing else.
And oh yea, we should be investigating Thorium reactors.
That's fine, but our entire nuclear energy infrastructure is built around uranium. It's not like you can put different fuel in a reactor and just carry on with the plants online today.
This is going to be interesting.
A new entry for you Buzzword Bingo cards. The big question is whether "Agile Computing" and "Agile Development" should be separate squares or lumped under "Agile"?
I vote for a single "Agile" square.
I'm still trying to figure out where they stick their hand to make the mouth move.
Like his dad.
Who do you think was doing the robbery?
They have a rewards program that will pay you money for turning in your company.
If he does, upper management will blame and fire him. If he's gone, they'll still blame him.
So, if it's legal in your state, tape the discussion of you informing them of their illegal behavior. Then, when they get busted and try to blame you, sue them for slander, liable and wrongful termination. Now that's potentially some real money there. Let them lie all the way through the depositions, then spring the tapes on them right before trial. That should add some 000's to the settlement.
Even if you don't go the Perry Mason route, you'll definitely want to put something in writing and keep copies. When they get busted, they'll trying hanging this on all their former IT guys.
News organizations should be held to reporting the news, being fair about what they are reporting, and being held to a standard.
That formula works until Rupert Murdoch buys it. Arrrrr.