No. The information used from the wiretapping will be used to "intercede" and take the suspected terrorist to a detention center where they will be held indefinitely until either 1) They can concoct enough evidence to validate the detention 2) laws change and they can try the person with the evidence they have or 3) Person X dies of natural causes.
You have to weigh the other "powers" that the executive branch has against the information they are allowed to have access to. Immediate apprehension based on suspect evidence of questionable legality is not a fantasy.
The best managers are the ones who have no choice. Their personalities and their knowledge of not just their own little world (in this case, IT), but of the company and the industry as a whole force them to lead their teams through example and mentoring.
They are the ones who cannot sit back and let things slide, they're forced to try and do something to make things better. This can be making everyone's job easier through analyzing processes and changing them, or finding new implementations, finding new business for the company, etc.
They are detail oriented, gregarious and socially enabled. Quick thinkers who put in extra time to FULLY understand situations, products and requirements. They know what each person on their team is doing (not just what they're supposed to be working on) but do not spend all day micro-ing the hell out of them.
They plan ahead, display forethought and understand the politics of the organization they're working within so that they forge relationships with other managers that both sides can use to get their projects completed.
They can communicate effectively both verbally and in written form. They understand the needs of different audiences and can talk to upper management and the techs in the trenches keeping stuff running.
They understand change and know what changes are for a reason, and what the reason is. They are flexible and quick on their mental feet.
All of these because thats just what they do, thats who they are. Thats what they'd be doing no matter where they were; no matter what business they're in.
If you fit 80% of the above description, consider it. If not, then... why not? And why management?
The didn't drop the ball on this. There's a big red slider you have to slide to turn it off after you push the power button for a couple of seconds. Its clearly documented, and something you don't forget if you've done it once. What apple failed to do was circumvent the ability of the users to make convenient assumptions - something no one can ever do.
You can never make anything foolproof because fools are too ingenious.
Bruce, you should have asked for a spoiler for the next episode of Security Theatre!!
Scene: Little girl crying no the plane and her mother is explaining to the person next to her how the TSA disallowed her Teddy Bear because it could have shed Lint.
LINT!
Haven't you ever heard of a lint bomb? All those fluffy pieces floating around just WAITING for someone to set fire to them. If ONLY they'd kept the ban on disposable lighters in place, we could have been safe from lint bombs and my little girl could have carried her Teddy Bear... *sniff*
Your horse ate a carrot from a bunch that I sold someone who wasn't supposed to share them. Your horse has the ability to digest carrots, but some chemicals may remain. We demand the horse's spleen as evidence.
I don't think that means what you think that means....
Sure it was full of interesting points, but at no point was I in any danger whilst I drank my coffee and read at the same time. I did not snicker, nor chuckle, nor even hint at a guffaw.
I nodded once or twice.
There was no smirk.
Amusing, yes. Hilarious? If I've told you once, I've told you a thousand times. DON'T EXAGGERATE!!!
Hey man, its Bob. (Hi Bob) Hey, you at home? (yeah) You got the game on? (yeah) Whats the score? (can't tell you) What? C'mon man, you watching it or not? (yeah, I'm watching it) Well, tell me what the score is. (OOoo, hold on....)..... (Wow, great play) Who's at bat? (Can't tell you) . . Ad Nauseum
Seriously. Draw a fucking line. Get a grip. Evolve with the times or die, you broadcast based dinosaurs, instead of fighting ridiculous fucking battles to raise your stock price until you can retire and pull the chord on your goddamn golden parachute.
There's nothing anyone can do with your crap that you haven't now labeled as theft. Oh wait, they can watch it ONCE... but they have to buy a house and a license and agree to a 3 yr service agreement with whatever cable-sludge company holds the monopoly in your broadcast "zone" so they can lay there on the couch with an IV drip in while you rifle their wallets and be bombarded with advertisements for stores 200 miles away as you download "reality" TV into the country's frontal lobes and host talking heads complaining about the declining IQ and productivity of the sheep that you yourselves have helped raise.
Property is theft. Intellectual Property doubly so.
Create a gadget with two 3-4" prongs sticking out in a V shape. Whenever it registers the danger of an LED nearby it can poke you in the face while screaming "nyuk nyuk nyuk".
Now you have something more annoying to whinge about.
His point is, like usenet, email as a communications medium is beginning to falter. Like usenet, its signal to noise ratio is dropping like a rock (its already hit the dirt and bounced). I've actually considered dropping my email accounts completely and going to pure cel communications, but as I've still a high enough need, I can't do that yet. I'm not very far from making the decision, however. Like the OP, my address has been harvested, sold and traded because of historical activity (usenet, mailing lists, web sites with poor security, etc) and my inbox is constantly filling with crap.
Obviously he isn't the only one who feels this way. If ISPs and Governments considered email to be "mission critical" they'd have gotten off their collective asses a long time ago and addressed this situation. Unfortunately, even if the wake up call is heard, not all governments will be motivated enough to stop spam. They will instead become the carriers, the hosts, the havens and the sources. Their lack of action has declared their feelings loudly. They don't care. They don't see a need or a business reason to have addressed this before. And now, its likely too late to save the medium long term.
Plenty of other people have a high desire to keep email. If you're one of those, take a few of the cycles that you're spending cleaning out your inbox and think of a practical way to halt spam. Share it. Take your bow and bask in the fact that you've saved email and can wear tights with a big 'e' on the front as email's savior superhero.
If you're not, step back and watch the email infrastructure die a slow painful spam clogged death.
HTML is not a vital component of email. Never has been. Its been a vital part of making emails look pretty.
95% of the email I get is pure text in html formatting. HTML formatting is the crap packing peanuts you get in a box containing an item 1/10th the size of the carton used to ship it.
The other 5% is spam provided as images linked from web servers out on the net.
And, recently there was a change to the policy (of at least the big three) because of the increase in checks done to counter-act or detect identity theft. There is now a lower limit of 3-4 checks done in a 6-9 month period before it affects your score.
So one or two "hard" checks done in a single month will not modify your credit score.
Don't take a year off unless you're going to be working an incredibly shit job for absolutely no pay. Then you'll be glad to get out of it and into school, and you'll have a realistic idea what grad-school is like.
We've been paying the bill for the phone companies to maintain the infrastructure required for wiretaps since we started paying phone bills, I don't see how this is any different.
By your logic, regulating the postal service is a violation of the 1st Ammendment.
Your logic is flawed.
The content of the communication - the ideas, the opinions, the way the concepts are phrased in their expression... those are 1st ammendment properties.
Not the placement of the stamp, the packet, or how either are handled in transit and what you were charged for the service.
Whats being complained about is one of the things that defines the type of game they're complaining about.
There's no way this story would have gotten any airtime if the complaint had been "There's too much physics in flight simulators!" but in essence, thats what this one is.
Lets take a look a couple of his points -
1 - He doesn't like the complexity... too complex. Complexity comes from flexibility and choice. The more choices, the more varied the result is going to be. 2^n.
They're designing worlds for people to play in, so of course its going to be complex.
2 - Forced to interact with people
Um, yeah. Thats what an MMORPG is about... you interact with them.
This person isn't talking about whats wrong with MMORPGS, he's talking about why he doesn't like them. Quick! Someone charge them a monthly fee to play pong by themselves!
Showing full contact details is not perfectly reasonable in a security context. The minimal amount of information should be shown for anonymous requests.
I doubt Sorenson would be happy if Apple started giving away a product that contained their licensed codec in such a way that it directly competed with the product that Sorenson itself sells.
I think the PC folks are stuck buying, while Apple users will benefit from the windfall of the long established relationship between apple and their technology partners.
After 4 or 5 years in the field, how much is that sheepskin worth? About as much as the paper your resume is printed on. Produce. Perform. THATS what makes employers look at you. Get your former bosses to write you letters of recommendation. Contacts. Network. References. To twist an oft used simplification, to DO is to BE (employable). Show motivation. Show initiative.
For some, college is great. Its an excellent framework for learning, if you choose it use it so. Most, however, don't go to university to learn, they go to university to get a degree.
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No. The information used from the wiretapping will be used to "intercede" and take the suspected terrorist to a detention center where they will be held indefinitely until either 1) They can concoct enough evidence to validate the detention 2) laws change and they can try the person with the evidence they have or 3) Person X dies of natural causes.
You have to weigh the other "powers" that the executive branch has against the information they are allowed to have access to. Immediate apprehension based on suspect evidence of questionable legality is not a fantasy.
The best managers are the ones who have no choice. Their personalities and their knowledge of not just their own little world (in this case, IT), but of the company and the industry as a whole force them to lead their teams through example and mentoring.
They are the ones who cannot sit back and let things slide, they're forced to try and do something to make things better. This can be making everyone's job easier through analyzing processes and changing them, or finding new implementations, finding new business for the company, etc.
They are detail oriented, gregarious and socially enabled. Quick thinkers who put in extra time to FULLY understand situations, products and requirements. They know what each person on their team is doing (not just what they're supposed to be working on) but do not spend all day micro-ing the hell out of them.
They plan ahead, display forethought and understand the politics of the organization they're working within so that they forge relationships with other managers that both sides can use to get their projects completed.
They can communicate effectively both verbally and in written form. They understand the needs of different audiences and can talk to upper management and the techs in the trenches keeping stuff running.
They understand change and know what changes are for a reason, and what the reason is. They are flexible and quick on their mental feet.
All of these because thats just what they do, thats who they are. Thats what they'd be doing no matter where they were; no matter what business they're in.
If you fit 80% of the above description, consider it. If not, then... why not? And why management?
The didn't drop the ball on this. There's a big red slider you have to slide to turn it off after you push the power button for a couple of seconds. Its clearly documented, and something you don't forget if you've done it once. What apple failed to do was circumvent the ability of the users to make convenient assumptions - something no one can ever do.
You can never make anything foolproof because fools are too ingenious.
Bruce, you should have asked for a spoiler for the next episode of Security Theatre!!
Scene: Little girl crying no the plane and her mother is explaining to the person next to her how the TSA disallowed her Teddy Bear because it could have shed Lint.
LINT!
Haven't you ever heard of a lint bomb? All those fluffy pieces floating around just WAITING for someone to set fire to them. If ONLY they'd kept the ban on disposable lighters in place, we could have been safe from lint bombs and my little girl could have carried her Teddy Bear... *sniff*
[Fade to black over heroic music]
Your horse ate a carrot from a bunch that I sold someone who wasn't supposed to share them.
Your horse has the ability to digest carrots, but some chemicals may remain.
We demand the horse's spleen as evidence.
I don't think that means what you think that means....
Sure it was full of interesting points, but at no point was I in any danger whilst I drank my coffee and read at the same time. I did not snicker, nor chuckle, nor even hint at a guffaw.
I nodded once or twice.
There was no smirk.
Amusing, yes. Hilarious? If I've told you once, I've told you a thousand times. DON'T EXAGGERATE!!!
Hey man, its Bob.
(Hi Bob)
Hey, you at home?
(yeah)
You got the game on?
(yeah)
Whats the score?
(can't tell you)
What? C'mon man, you watching it or not?
(yeah, I'm watching it)
Well, tell me what the score is.
(OOoo, hold on....)
(Wow, great play)
Who's at bat?
(Can't tell you)
.
.
Ad Nauseum
Seriously. Draw a fucking line. Get a grip. Evolve with the times or die, you broadcast based dinosaurs, instead of fighting ridiculous fucking battles to raise your stock price until you can retire and pull the chord on your goddamn golden parachute.
There's nothing anyone can do with your crap that you haven't now labeled as theft. Oh wait, they can watch it ONCE... but they have to buy a house and a license and agree to a 3 yr service agreement with whatever cable-sludge company holds the monopoly in your broadcast "zone" so they can lay there on the couch with an IV drip in while you rifle their wallets and be bombarded with advertisements for stores 200 miles away as you download "reality" TV into the country's frontal lobes and host talking heads complaining about the declining IQ and productivity of the sheep that you yourselves have helped raise.
Property is theft. Intellectual Property doubly so.
Create a gadget with two 3-4" prongs sticking out in a V shape. Whenever it registers the danger of an LED nearby it can poke you in the face while screaming "nyuk nyuk nyuk".
Now you have something more annoying to whinge about.
His point is, like usenet, email as a communications medium is beginning to falter. Like usenet, its signal to noise ratio is dropping like a rock (its already hit the dirt and bounced). I've actually considered dropping my email accounts completely and going to pure cel communications, but as I've still a high enough need, I can't do that yet. I'm not very far from making the decision, however. Like the OP, my address has been harvested, sold and traded because of historical activity (usenet, mailing lists, web sites with poor security, etc) and my inbox is constantly filling with crap.
Obviously he isn't the only one who feels this way. If ISPs and Governments considered email to be "mission critical" they'd have gotten off their collective asses a long time ago and addressed this situation. Unfortunately, even if the wake up call is heard, not all governments will be motivated enough to stop spam. They will instead become the carriers, the hosts, the havens and the sources. Their lack of action has declared their feelings loudly. They don't care. They don't see a need or a business reason to have addressed this before. And now, its likely too late to save the medium long term.
Plenty of other people have a high desire to keep email. If you're one of those, take a few of the cycles that you're spending cleaning out your inbox and think of a practical way to halt spam. Share it. Take your bow and bask in the fact that you've saved email and can wear tights with a big 'e' on the front as email's savior superhero.
If you're not, step back and watch the email infrastructure die a slow painful spam clogged death.
HTML is not a vital component of email. Never has been. Its been a vital part of making emails look pretty.
95% of the email I get is pure text in html formatting. HTML formatting is the crap packing peanuts you get in a box containing an item 1/10th the size of the carton used to ship it.
The other 5% is spam provided as images linked from web servers out on the net.
elm++
And, recently there was a change to the policy (of at least the big three) because of the increase in checks done to counter-act or detect identity theft. There is now a lower limit of 3-4 checks done in a 6-9 month period before it affects your score.
So one or two "hard" checks done in a single month will not modify your credit score.
Can we get a "From the 'Well, Duh' department" subheading for things like this?
Don't take a year off unless you're going to be working an incredibly shit job for absolutely no pay. Then you'll be glad to get out of it and into school, and you'll have a realistic idea what grad-school is like.
Scenario: Surveilance cameras in place to capture the activities of one act of an ongoing CIA sting operation.
Actors: Several agents that are in place are expected to continue to operate after the sting goes down.
Expectations: Images will be intercepted by undesirables, or undesirables are within the organization and will leak images to perps.
Solution: Agents carry blur ID tags.
Government buys cameras from HP for $s ^2.
Step 3.
We've been paying the bill for the phone companies to maintain the infrastructure required for wiretaps since we started paying phone bills, I don't see how this is any different.
So, in stop and go traffic, a 2-3 second following distance is about, what, 8 inches?
And you had THREE people pull into that space in front of you within 10 miles!?
If by "Body Warmer" you mean "pants", yeah, they make me wear those here too.
I file it all under 'H' for "Toy".
By your logic, regulating the postal service is a violation of the 1st Ammendment.
Your logic is flawed.
The content of the communication - the ideas, the opinions, the way the concepts are phrased in their expression... those are 1st ammendment properties.
Not the placement of the stamp, the packet, or how either are handled in transit and what you were charged for the service.
Whats being complained about is one of the things that defines the type of game they're complaining about.
There's no way this story would have gotten any airtime if the complaint had been "There's too much physics in flight simulators!" but in essence, thats what this one is.
Lets take a look a couple of his points -
1 - He doesn't like the complexity... too complex. Complexity comes from flexibility and choice. The more choices, the more varied the result is going to be. 2^n.
They're designing worlds for people to play in, so of course its going to be complex.
2 - Forced to interact with people
Um, yeah. Thats what an MMORPG is about... you interact with them.
This person isn't talking about whats wrong with MMORPGS, he's talking about why he doesn't like them. Quick! Someone charge them a monthly fee to play pong by themselves!
Showing full contact details is not perfectly reasonable in a security context. The minimal amount of information should be shown for anonymous requests.
This is a reason for consideration of David Chaum's push for certs with the bare minimum information in them required by their usage.
Email certs have email. (plus public key)
SSL Certs have a hostname. (plus public key, etc)
Any other information leads to data hijack operations.
I doubt Sorenson would be happy if Apple started giving away a product that contained their licensed codec in such a way that it directly competed with the product that Sorenson itself sells.
I think the PC folks are stuck buying, while Apple users will benefit from the windfall of the long established relationship between apple and their technology partners.
They already paid for it - they bought a Mac.
After 4 or 5 years in the field, how much is that sheepskin worth? About as much as the paper your resume is printed on. Produce. Perform. THATS what makes employers look at you. Get your former bosses to write you letters of recommendation. Contacts. Network. References. To twist an oft used simplification, to DO is to BE (employable). Show motivation. Show initiative.
For some, college is great. Its an excellent framework for learning, if you choose it use it so. Most, however, don't go to university to learn, they go to university to get a degree.
There's a difference...
'twas a dentist what invented cotton candy...