As an ex flight instructor, and one who was on the path to get the eventual high salary of the trans-oceanic airline pilot, I can honestly say that the money in the Aviation indistry is terrible!
When you start out in the industry, you are usually working as a flight instructor. Living well below the pverty level just to build up time and experience to get your first "Real-job." Unfortunately, you first "Real-job" will usually also be below the poverty level, but you will work at it to build time and experience.
When you finally do break into the Big leagues (Many years later,) you will find yourself just above the poverty level for quite a few years as you fly as first officer in one of the smaller aircraft the company has.
By this time, your future is set. You will advance based on your seniority. You will move up to Captain on the smaller aircraft based on when the people at the top retire. Then take a pay cut, and back down to F.O. on something larger. By the time you make it up to where you are taking in the big bucks, you will work for a few years, and then retire.
Pilot's do not get into aviation for the money! They get into aviation because they love flying!
As fast as an elk? Is that some kind of Canadian measure of velocity? Can you get a speeding ticket for going 2 elks in a school zone? What is the speed of light in elks?
Actually, Nictoine is one of the more potent poisions out there. It is three times as toxic as aresenic and one-and-a-half times as toxic as strychnine.
What has changed? We have laws in place to protect Copyrights, and breaking those laws is illegal. People break them anyway. Now we have new methods of protecting Copyrights, and people are breaking them as well. So we pass another meaningless law saying that breaking the method of protecting the Copyright is illegal.
At the end of the day, what has really changed?
It beats etching boards for the home experiment!
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Circuits Everywhere
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· Score: 2, Interesting
This is great. You can design 3D circuits and print them on your good ole Bubble jet refilled with conductive ink. Stack a few sheets together and really have something to play with.
If you are printing on Fabric, then you can get interactive clothing, that does all sorts of stupid stuff when you move. In Tokyo they'd sell like Hotcakes!
According to Groklaw's Sources, there is this following connection between Microsoft and the RBC.
'You can have great security without privacy I suppose,' says Peter Cullen, former chief privacy officer of Royal Bank of Canada and newly appointed chief privacy strategist for Microsoft, 'but you can't have great privacy without great security.'"
When people stop taking responsibility for their own actions, then they have already turned over their lives to the big corporations and the system. That is what is happenening with all of these frivilous lawsuits.
If someone said to me, "I bought some Coffee at McDonalds, and spilt it in my lap and burnt myself. Please never shop there again." I would probably laugh my ass off at them
If on the other hand someone said soemthing that I cared about then I might stop shopping there. That is how we can speak, by our wallets. Instead we start suing over every frivilous thing.
What is your Job title, and who do you report to? Are you the sole IT person, or the sole technical person? These items are important; because when you are going to try and change something you have to know who you are and to whom you are talking.
IT exists to serve the business. For an IT project to be approved, it has to be shown how it will benefit the business. If you are the manager and the tech, then I would audit the business, and create projects for cleaning it up. Show how cleaning it up would benefit the business, and how not cleaning it up hurts the business. Talk to the staff and find out about downtime before you were there; how often it occurred and who was affected. Quantify this with hard numbers (i.e. actual outages, and how they affected the business from a monetary perspective.) In that environment you can be sure that there have been issues. It should be relatively easy to come up with a project that involves either more staff, or outside contractors that will show a positive return on investment.
You are still fresh there and all the state of IT there cannot be blamed on you. If you take a proactive (sorry for the buzzword) role now you can make a difference and make the place somewhere worth working. You just have to make sure you are speaking the same language as the people you are presenting these things to.
If you are not the IT manager, then I would talk to my IT manager about doing the above. The IT manager is ultimately responsible for your department and would likely look favourably on this. Worst-case scenario, you get turned down, but get some valuable experience. Best case, you get to play a primary role in making your IT department function properly.
"The dedicated, thinking intruder is much more skillful, and C|Net won't be warning you about his modus operandi in the same kind of detail."
You are absolutely right. This exploit has been around for a long time and has been used to break many a system. As long as these exploits exist, the dedicated intruder is going to own you. These exploits will always exist under closed source systems.
Regardless of what you think should be making you find and patch the holes, the internet is populated with people who do not know the first thing about doing this. Most people will only get this education is motivated to.
So far, we rarely see a truly malicious worm or virus. Most of what we see are certainly annoying, can be expensive to clean, and cost businesses in terms of downtime, network slowdowns and data loss, however, they could be a whole lot worse. The worst one I remember is Chernobyl that would flash anything in your computer that was updateable from your video card to your Mainboard leaving you with a (figuratively) smoking lump of useless, twisted metal.
We are always finding out about vulnerabilities. This one obviously existed since the beginning of time since it is exploitable on all post 3.1 versions of windows. If someone years ago had made a worm that infected systems slowly, so as not to draw attention, and then in a given time frame was really destructive such as chernobyl, we could end up having real problems on our hands.
These worms that make us find and patch these holes, without wiping our systems out, are costly, yes, and annoying yes, but they are also protecting us from the really malicious ones, by making us all more aware, and ensuring that steps are taken to prevent. I am not just talking about the cleanup worm, but also MSblaster. It doesn't destroy anything, but it makes us protect ourselves, makes us develop an immune system.
I am not saying I like them, and in my work I am the one responsible for protecting our offices, and cleaning up if something were to get through but I would rather be protecting from MSBlaster, than something really nasty.
"Unlike traditional, closed-circuit video cameras, Webcams can display images on virtually any Internet-connected computer. A principal or superintendent can view pictures from home or even on the road."
If this catches on, we all know these systems will be hacked. The education system will not have the people to keep it secure. I wouldn't be surprised to find they are using wireless cameras in some places that are difficult to wire (like the gym.) This may open up a new kind of War Driving. Stalkers hanging out near a Highschool, and watching the kids from their laptop.
Why the move to webcams? I think closed circuit TV is better suited for this kind of monitoring. You are still on camera, but without all the potential abuse due to security issues.
I wonder when this will get banned.
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TAM 5 Has landed
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· Score: -1, Redundant
This is another cool geeky idea, and it is great to see that it has been done. But in the current political climate, civilians have now proven they can delivery a payload across the Ocean.
I wonder how long until all Hobby shops will be approached by the dark suits and asked for the list of model airplane buyers.
IMHO you are responsible for your actions. Of course responsibility would rest with the person who took the pictures. But, also, responsibility rests with people taking the action to download these items. If there were no market for this, then there would be fewer pictures being taken.
I do not believe, however, that if someone's computer has been hijacked, and used to download Child Pornography, that they are responsible. If someone steals my car, and uses it to run over children, it is tragic, but is it my responsibility? I don't think so as it is not my action. Personally, I feel that even if I left my keys in the ignition and the door open, that it is not my responsibility if someone steals my car and uses it illegally. I know the legal system disagrees on this point as there are many cases of people breaking into houses, getting hurt and suing the owners, but I think that is ridiculous, and in fact an example of people not taking responsibility for their own actions.
Then again if people took responsibility for their own actions, there would be a lot less lawsuits...and we couldn't have that! What else would we talk about on slashdot!
Don't mention the SCO...I mentioned it once...but I think I got away with it.
I am not a lawyer (I still can't bring myself to write that abbreviation,) but if it is a valid defense in a criminal child pornography case to say I wasn't responsible for downloading it, could this not set a precedent for Civil copyright cases? Or are the RIAA's rights more compelling than that of the victims of Child pornography?
"I was hacked. You know, ever since all the Lawsuits started happening, there has been an increase of people hacking computers to download music."
LOL No shit sherlock?
Pick up a book once in a while and perhaps you will understand the reference.
I'll give you a hint...actually nevermind I'll be explaining things to you all day if we go there.
"If we turn lazy and complacent, the price will be our own freedom"
If you live in the US, I think the bulk of that price has already been extracted. Now it is just a matter of tightening the screws, and cleaning up loose ends.
Take a step back and look at everything that has happened over the past few years. From rigged elections to people being held without charges being laid to the Patriot Act just to name a few.
Fortunately the freedom to leave is still available, but I think that is because it is too expensive to build a wall that long.
What is the world coming to that this question even needs to be asked?
I am not an American, nor do I live in the US, but I have always respected the foundations and principles that the US was founded on. Principles which have all but been flushed down the toilet.
Here we have "the land of the free and the home fo the brave" turning into the "land of the closely monitored and the home of the scared to something beneficial, or in fact anything at all."
This makes me wonder when we are going to have masses of Americans defecting to Russia for political Asylum.
Who really won the cold war...or perhaps the people at the top are all the same anyways....hold on there is a knock at the door.....Ahhhhhh they are coming to take me away hah hah!
Like it or not gaming is what drives the computer industry forward. Period, end of story. It is the driving force behind computer technology because that is where money lies. It is the gamers who have the bleeding edge systems, not the office workers. It is the gamers who upgrade to the new operating systems first, where as business users prefer to stay on a platform where they (their IT department) know what issues will arise.
If the linux community came up with an open source Kick Ass game, you would have kids urging their parents to switch to linux, or just installing it themsleves. It would be seen on more systems and become more familiar to the general population.
Does the linux community have to develop games to move forward? Of course not. But if effort was but in that direction, it would make a difference.
Slashdot Mirror
When you start out in the industry, you are usually working as a flight instructor. Living well below the pverty level just to build up time and experience to get your first "Real-job." Unfortunately, you first "Real-job" will usually also be below the poverty level, but you will work at it to build time and experience.
When you finally do break into the Big leagues (Many years later,) you will find yourself just above the poverty level for quite a few years as you fly as first officer in one of the smaller aircraft the company has.
By this time, your future is set. You will advance based on your seniority. You will move up to Captain on the smaller aircraft based on when the people at the top retire. Then take a pay cut, and back down to F.O. on something larger. By the time you make it up to where you are taking in the big bucks, you will work for a few years, and then retire.
Pilot's do not get into aviation for the money! They get into aviation because they love flying!
Is that an African, or European Elk?
http://www.nicotinevictims.com/poison.htm
What has changed? We have laws in place to protect Copyrights, and breaking those laws is illegal. People break them anyway. Now we have new methods of protecting Copyrights, and people are breaking them as well. So we pass another meaningless law saying that breaking the method of protecting the Copyright is illegal.
At the end of the day, what has really changed?
If you are printing on Fabric, then you can get interactive clothing, that does all sorts of stupid stuff when you move. In Tokyo they'd sell like Hotcakes!
'You can have great security without privacy I suppose,' says Peter Cullen, former chief privacy officer of Royal Bank of Canada and newly appointed chief privacy strategist for Microsoft, 'but you can't have great privacy without great security.'"
Maybe Microsoft owns Canada.
When people stop taking responsibility for their own actions, then they have already turned over their lives to the big corporations and the system. That is what is happenening with all of these frivilous lawsuits.
If someone said to me, "I bought some Coffee at McDonalds, and spilt it in my lap and burnt myself. Please never shop there again." I would probably laugh my ass off at them
If on the other hand someone said soemthing that I cared about then I might stop shopping there. That is how we can speak, by our wallets. Instead we start suing over every frivilous thing.
What is your Job title, and who do you report to? Are you the sole IT person, or the sole technical person? These items are important; because when you are going to try and change something you have to know who you are and to whom you are talking.
IT exists to serve the business. For an IT project to be approved, it has to be shown how it will benefit the business. If you are the manager and the tech, then I would audit the business, and create projects for cleaning it up. Show how cleaning it up would benefit the business, and how not cleaning it up hurts the business. Talk to the staff and find out about downtime before you were there; how often it occurred and who was affected. Quantify this with hard numbers (i.e. actual outages, and how they affected the business from a monetary perspective.) In that environment you can be sure that there have been issues. It should be relatively easy to come up with a project that involves either more staff, or outside contractors that will show a positive return on investment.
You are still fresh there and all the state of IT there cannot be blamed on you. If you take a proactive (sorry for the buzzword) role now you can make a difference and make the place somewhere worth working. You just have to make sure you are speaking the same language as the people you are presenting these things to.
If you are not the IT manager, then I would talk to my IT manager about doing the above. The IT manager is ultimately responsible for your department and would likely look favourably on this. Worst-case scenario, you get turned down, but get some valuable experience. Best case, you get to play a primary role in making your IT department function properly.
Good Luck!
CB
So Slashdot better patent the idea first. Or in year Microsoft will, and sue us all for Patent infringement.
"The dedicated, thinking intruder is much more skillful, and C|Net won't be warning you about his modus operandi in the same kind of detail."
You are absolutely right. This exploit has been around for a long time and has been used to break many a system. As long as these exploits exist, the dedicated intruder is going to own you. These exploits will always exist under closed source systems.
Regardless of what you think should be making you find and patch the holes, the internet is populated with people who do not know the first thing about doing this. Most people will only get this education is motivated to.
So far, we rarely see a truly malicious worm or virus. Most of what we see are certainly annoying, can be expensive to clean, and cost businesses in terms of downtime, network slowdowns and data loss, however, they could be a whole lot worse. The worst one I remember is Chernobyl that would flash anything in your computer that was updateable from your video card to your Mainboard leaving you with a (figuratively) smoking lump of useless, twisted metal.
We are always finding out about vulnerabilities. This one obviously existed since the beginning of time since it is exploitable on all post 3.1 versions of windows. If someone years ago had made a worm that infected systems slowly, so as not to draw attention, and then in a given time frame was really destructive such as chernobyl, we could end up having real problems on our hands.
These worms that make us find and patch these holes, without wiping our systems out, are costly, yes, and annoying yes, but they are also protecting us from the really malicious ones, by making us all more aware, and ensuring that steps are taken to prevent. I am not just talking about the cleanup worm, but also MSblaster. It doesn't destroy anything, but it makes us protect ourselves, makes us develop an immune system.
I am not saying I like them, and in my work I am the one responsible for protecting our offices, and cleaning up if something were to get through but I would rather be protecting from MSBlaster, than something really nasty.
"Unlike traditional, closed-circuit video cameras, Webcams can display images on virtually any Internet-connected computer. A principal or superintendent can view pictures from home or even on the road." If this catches on, we all know these systems will be hacked. The education system will not have the people to keep it secure. I wouldn't be surprised to find they are using wireless cameras in some places that are difficult to wire (like the gym.) This may open up a new kind of War Driving. Stalkers hanging out near a Highschool, and watching the kids from their laptop. Why the move to webcams? I think closed circuit TV is better suited for this kind of monitoring. You are still on camera, but without all the potential abuse due to security issues.
This is another cool geeky idea, and it is great to see that it has been done. But in the current political climate, civilians have now proven they can delivery a payload across the Ocean.
I wonder how long until all Hobby shops will be approached by the dark suits and asked for the list of model airplane buyers.
IMHO you are responsible for your actions. Of course responsibility would rest with the person who took the pictures. But, also, responsibility rests with people taking the action to download these items. If there were no market for this, then there would be fewer pictures being taken.
I do not believe, however, that if someone's computer has been hijacked, and used to download Child Pornography, that they are responsible. If someone steals my car, and uses it to run over children, it is tragic, but is it my responsibility? I don't think so as it is not my action. Personally, I feel that even if I left my keys in the ignition and the door open, that it is not my responsibility if someone steals my car and uses it illegally. I know the legal system disagrees on this point as there are many cases of people breaking into houses, getting hurt and suing the owners, but I think that is ridiculous, and in fact an example of people not taking responsibility for their own actions.
Then again if people took responsibility for their own actions, there would be a lot less lawsuits...and we couldn't have that! What else would we talk about on slashdot!
Don't mention the SCO...I mentioned it once...but I think I got away with it.
I am not a lawyer (I still can't bring myself to write that abbreviation,) but if it is a valid defense in a criminal child pornography case to say I wasn't responsible for downloading it, could this not set a precedent for Civil copyright cases? Or are the RIAA's rights more compelling than that of the victims of Child pornography?
"I was hacked. You know, ever since all the Lawsuits started happening, there has been an increase of people hacking computers to download music."
I think a case could be made of that.
The English they use tends towards the insane actually.
SCO: "Okay, so what am I doing now?"
(Spies IBM)
SCO: "Ohh right, I am suing this guy!....Oh No! He's suing me!!!!!"
"Before we know where are going in the future, we have to know where we've come from."
I used to hate history, until I found myself continually repeating myself.
Oh, did I tell you? I used to hate history..
LOL No shit sherlock? Pick up a book once in a while and perhaps you will understand the reference. I'll give you a hint...actually nevermind I'll be explaining things to you all day if we go there.
All liberties are essential....except some liberties are more essential than others.
"If we turn lazy and complacent, the price will be our own freedom"
If you live in the US, I think the bulk of that price has already been extracted. Now it is just a matter of tightening the screws, and cleaning up loose ends.
Take a step back and look at everything that has happened over the past few years. From rigged elections to people being held without charges being laid to the Patriot Act just to name a few.
Fortunately the freedom to leave is still available, but I think that is because it is too expensive to build a wall that long.
...that when I bought their license for linux they were throwing in the IP for Netware for free!! Lying bastards!
What is the world coming to that this question even needs to be asked?
I am not an American, nor do I live in the US, but I have always respected the foundations and principles that the US was founded on. Principles which have all but been flushed down the toilet.
Here we have "the land of the free and the home fo the brave" turning into the "land of the closely monitored and the home of the scared to something beneficial, or in fact anything at all."
This makes me wonder when we are going to have masses of Americans defecting to Russia for political Asylum.
Who really won the cold war...or perhaps the people at the top are all the same anyways....hold on there is a knock at the door.....Ahhhhhh they are coming to take me away hah hah!
I don't even know what machenima means.
/. goatse consipiracy going on isn't there?
But then again I get confused whenever I see IANAL.
There is a secret
Like it or not gaming is what drives the computer industry forward. Period, end of story. It is the driving force behind computer technology because that is where money lies. It is the gamers who have the bleeding edge systems, not the office workers. It is the gamers who upgrade to the new operating systems first, where as business users prefer to stay on a platform where they (their IT department) know what issues will arise. If the linux community came up with an open source Kick Ass game, you would have kids urging their parents to switch to linux, or just installing it themsleves. It would be seen on more systems and become more familiar to the general population. Does the linux community have to develop games to move forward? Of course not. But if effort was but in that direction, it would make a difference.