So now you, the company CIO, go back to work and wonder if your sysadmins might inadvertently infect your servers with a trojan. Or worse, they have already been turned by the NSA. So screw this running your own infrastructure in-house. Pull the plug and put everything in The Cloud. Where they promise you security. Its possible that this document was leaked purposefully, to sew some doubts into decision makers minds with regard to their in-house admins.
In reality, The Cloud makes things easier to crack. A couple of big targets rather than thousands of little ones.
(5) The regulation provides that information retained in the system must be reviewed and validated for continuing compliance with system submission criteria within a 5-year retention period. Any information not validated within that period must be purged from the system (28 CFR 23.20(h)).
So all someone needs to do is to repeatedly validate the entry and it stays in the system. Loopholes. Gotta have them.
These are all systems operated by state/federal law enforcement agnecies that capture when you've done something wrong.
No. That would be a system containing judicial records. Cops just collect records on people they don't like.
Seriously, the quality of law enforcement intelligence data varies greatly. Some of the more ethical police departments take pains to share only data for which there is probable cause to conduct investigations. In the next town over, you'll get your name on a list if you piss off the mayor. On the other hand, staying off the list also can depend on one's social connections. A few years ago, our local city cops were bumped off of a child molestation case (which was turned over to the county sheriff) because the suspect was a minister in the church of some political big-shots and no progress was made.
I wouldn't count on the police to keep accurate records for this sort of thing. And by extension, the Navy's database.
Produce your own series. Find financial backers/advertisers and present the finished product to Fox or some other network. For them, its all about the money. If you have the backing, they'll sell you air time to hawk vacuum cleaners.
I'm getting the impression that the Creationists don't really have a coherent theory to present. Instead, they just hang onto the coattails of science and try to start fights. So, where is Neil deGrasse Tyson or Bill Nye's 5 minutes on the end of the Christian TV shows to refute the material presented?
Stay out of my face with rules and union organizers. On the other hand, put together a checklist of contracting 'gotchas'. Both for the employee as well as the management. What should or should not be in the contract. How to provide compensation in equity shares or the possibility of the outfit going out of business.
There are some good questions raised in TFA.
Zaharias and Russell had few answers, except ask your employer until you understand, and then ask again every time something changes at the company,
No, because your employer and you have somewhat of an adversarial relationship. Don't expect straight answers from someone who is looking to dilute your shares or buy them back for pennies just before the IPO. All that stuff needs to be in an employment contract before the first day on the job. And what's this about "few good answers"? I'm expecting someone to defend my rights when they don't know the game?
So you are saying that, even if such behavior is wrong, the fact that someone else does it makes it OK?
One of the NSA's duties was supposed to be ensuring the security of our networks from foreign spying. Doing so and exposing foreign exploits with the idea that they are wrong and disrupt global trade would have been the moral high ground. But we lost that position a long time ago. We can no longer argue that other nations should follow our example because our example is no better then theirs.
And if you think that the NSA/CIA are only collecting foreign intelligence for the benefit of US corporations, you are wrong. These organizations have a long history of collecting domestic intelligence and handing it to their friends in the company across the street.
Do you mean now, or when they produced this commercial?
I don't have a problem with this particular ad, but I can see a problem. Commercial speech is subject to more and different laws and restrictions than 'free speech'. I can see a situation arising when an unsolicited ad is produced by an independent group making unsubstantiated claims about some product. The FTC steps in, but can't touch the manufacturer because they didn't produce the ad or pay for it. The volunteers aren't subject to the same restrictions as the manufacturer or its agents, so broader free speech rules apply.
Watch to see if the amateur producers don't suddenly have Teslas parked in their garage.
What is the probability that everyone does not collaborate to promote their interest
Their as in their own as opposed to the interests of a group? I'd say pretty high. That's the essence of a free market. But then, this is logically inconsistent. Collaboration implies making ones own interests subservient to those of the collective.
Problem: You are looking for someone not just to code some module to a spec., but who can add value to your organization in the long term. Old guy says, "If you are offering $50K, I'll do it for that. But give me a year and I'll prove I'm worth $145K to your organization."
Now what do you do? If management views your department's function as code it, ship it and we're done, that $50K code monkey is going to be easier to deal with. The person who thinks he/she is worth $145K will actually try to prove it. And that might mean fixing and changing things that management didn't plan for.
When I was leaving a past job, I was involved with interviewing my replacement. I had built and supported a number of interconnected web pages and middleware largely using Perl (for internal company use, so scaling performance wasn't an issue). One of the people we brought in had been doing Perl programming for years, so we asked him to bring in an example of his work. It was a beautifully coded 'expect' type interface to command line ftp to transfer files between servers. Excellent coding style, comments, attention to detail, etc. And then I asked him, "Ever heard of CPAN? Do you know what the NET::Ftp module does?" Half a dozen lines to do what pages of his code did.
I'm not a CS by training. I'm an EE who 'fell into' web and client server apps from some embedded work. 90% of what it takes to get a job done is to know where to lay your hands on the appropriate resources. Nobody can jump into anything more than a trivial coding job with everything they need already in their head.
Oh, yeah. The whole O(N) crap: One of my duties was to support an automated code generator that took system requirements documents, did some natural language recognition, populated a knowledge base and used that to generate test code. It was originally written by a couple of flight controls engineers (MEs) and, in spite of all of our CS people jumping up and down, screaming "Can't be done. NP-hard!" it worked beautifully.
You don't know anything about the web if your suggestion to improve performance is to "write in a lower level language".
We built all of our web page content using JavaScript. High level, low level, who cares? It runs on the client machine, so if users complain about speed, blame it on their system or choice of browser.
Get an e-mail account like name@jihad.com. Anyone puts you on a spam distribution list and you can just sit back and wait for the NSA/CIA/FBI to "take care" of the problem for you.
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So now you, the company CIO, go back to work and wonder if your sysadmins might inadvertently infect your servers with a trojan. Or worse, they have already been turned by the NSA. So screw this running your own infrastructure in-house. Pull the plug and put everything in The Cloud. Where they promise you security. Its possible that this document was leaked purposefully, to sew some doubts into decision makers minds with regard to their in-house admins.
In reality, The Cloud makes things easier to crack. A couple of big targets rather than thousands of little ones.
and since no action is taken on a card, its very existence would be unknown to you - unless he/she choses to show it you.
Police departments are some of the leakiest organizations in this country. It's pretty easy to find a cop who will search their database for you.
(5) The regulation provides that information retained in the system must be reviewed and validated for continuing compliance with system submission criteria within a 5-year retention period. Any information not validated within that period must be purged from the system (28 CFR 23.20(h)).
So all someone needs to do is to repeatedly validate the entry and it stays in the system. Loopholes. Gotta have them.
These are all systems operated by state/federal law enforcement agnecies that capture when you've done something wrong.
No. That would be a system containing judicial records. Cops just collect records on people they don't like.
Seriously, the quality of law enforcement intelligence data varies greatly. Some of the more ethical police departments take pains to share only data for which there is probable cause to conduct investigations. In the next town over, you'll get your name on a list if you piss off the mayor. On the other hand, staying off the list also can depend on one's social connections. A few years ago, our local city cops were bumped off of a child molestation case (which was turned over to the county sheriff) because the suspect was a minister in the church of some political big-shots and no progress was made.
I wouldn't count on the police to keep accurate records for this sort of thing. And by extension, the Navy's database.
Produce your own series. Find financial backers/advertisers and present the finished product to Fox or some other network. For them, its all about the money. If you have the backing, they'll sell you air time to hawk vacuum cleaners.
I'm getting the impression that the Creationists don't really have a coherent theory to present. Instead, they just hang onto the coattails of science and try to start fights. So, where is Neil deGrasse Tyson or Bill Nye's 5 minutes on the end of the Christian TV shows to refute the material presented?
Stay out of my face with rules and union organizers. On the other hand, put together a checklist of contracting 'gotchas'. Both for the employee as well as the management. What should or should not be in the contract. How to provide compensation in equity shares or the possibility of the outfit going out of business.
There are some good questions raised in TFA.
Zaharias and Russell had few answers, except ask your employer until you understand, and then ask again every time something changes at the company,
No, because your employer and you have somewhat of an adversarial relationship. Don't expect straight answers from someone who is looking to dilute your shares or buy them back for pennies just before the IPO. All that stuff needs to be in an employment contract before the first day on the job. And what's this about "few good answers"? I'm expecting someone to defend my rights when they don't know the game?
We've been trying to eradicate Twitter for years. So far, no luck.
So you are saying that, even if such behavior is wrong, the fact that someone else does it makes it OK?
One of the NSA's duties was supposed to be ensuring the security of our networks from foreign spying. Doing so and exposing foreign exploits with the idea that they are wrong and disrupt global trade would have been the moral high ground. But we lost that position a long time ago. We can no longer argue that other nations should follow our example because our example is no better then theirs.
And if you think that the NSA/CIA are only collecting foreign intelligence for the benefit of US corporations, you are wrong. These organizations have a long history of collecting domestic intelligence and handing it to their friends in the company across the street.
Do our bidding or we'll out your posts on /mlp/.
Assuming the targets are not US citizens, and are outside the US, arrested for what?
Espionage. Most countries have applicable laws.
This is what intelligence agencies are supposed to do.
Apprehend the guilty parties, try them and shoot them for spying. This is what countries security services are supposed to do.
Hell, most countries don't exclude their own territory nor citizens from being targeted by their own intelligence agencies.
So China spies on its own citizens. I don't think anyone would be shocked if they arrest a foreign agent for doing the same.
Does someone have a plot of the increase in climate scientists vs global temperature?
There's your problem.
We plot the growth in the models' fudge factors over the next century.
Do you mean now, or when they produced this commercial?
I don't have a problem with this particular ad, but I can see a problem. Commercial speech is subject to more and different laws and restrictions than 'free speech'. I can see a situation arising when an unsolicited ad is produced by an independent group making unsubstantiated claims about some product. The FTC steps in, but can't touch the manufacturer because they didn't produce the ad or pay for it. The volunteers aren't subject to the same restrictions as the manufacturer or its agents, so broader free speech rules apply.
Watch to see if the amateur producers don't suddenly have Teslas parked in their garage.
Browser app created by a developer named Ronen
Ronin?
Didn't anyone see the movie and understand the plot?
What is the probability that everyone does not collaborate to promote their interest
Their as in their own as opposed to the interests of a group? I'd say pretty high. That's the essence of a free market. But then, this is logically inconsistent. Collaboration implies making ones own interests subservient to those of the collective.
... published works take down you!
Yeah. Almost as funny as the Microsoft/David Korn standoff.
Posted by samzenpus on Thursday March 20, 2014 @12:32AM
Problem: You are looking for someone not just to code some module to a spec., but who can add value to your organization in the long term. Old guy says, "If you are offering $50K, I'll do it for that. But give me a year and I'll prove I'm worth $145K to your organization."
Now what do you do? If management views your department's function as code it, ship it and we're done, that $50K code monkey is going to be easier to deal with. The person who thinks he/she is worth $145K will actually try to prove it. And that might mean fixing and changing things that management didn't plan for.
When I was leaving a past job, I was involved with interviewing my replacement. I had built and supported a number of interconnected web pages and middleware largely using Perl (for internal company use, so scaling performance wasn't an issue). One of the people we brought in had been doing Perl programming for years, so we asked him to bring in an example of his work. It was a beautifully coded 'expect' type interface to command line ftp to transfer files between servers. Excellent coding style, comments, attention to detail, etc. And then I asked him, "Ever heard of CPAN? Do you know what the NET::Ftp module does?" Half a dozen lines to do what pages of his code did.
I'm not a CS by training. I'm an EE who 'fell into' web and client server apps from some embedded work. 90% of what it takes to get a job done is to know where to lay your hands on the appropriate resources. Nobody can jump into anything more than a trivial coding job with everything they need already in their head.
Oh, yeah. The whole O(N) crap: One of my duties was to support an automated code generator that took system requirements documents, did some natural language recognition, populated a knowledge base and used that to generate test code. It was originally written by a couple of flight controls engineers (MEs) and, in spite of all of our CS people jumping up and down, screaming "Can't be done. NP-hard!" it worked beautifully.
You don't know anything about the web if your suggestion to improve performance is to "write in a lower level language".
We built all of our web page content using JavaScript. High level, low level, who cares? It runs on the client machine, so if users complain about speed, blame it on their system or choice of browser.
Get an e-mail account like name@jihad.com. Anyone puts you on a spam distribution list and you can just sit back and wait for the NSA/CIA/FBI to "take care" of the problem for you.