Those company symbols? That exist on corporate web sites that they say no duplication?
Well, our browser caches duplicate that, hell, even going to the site duplicates it upon your screen. How many people print pages of their web sites for reasons?
So everyone, unplug your internet. Once this thing passes, just going to a web site will break copyright law, by loose definition.
Someone needs to set fire to the RIAA and MPAA buildings.
On the same note, the bacteria didn't mutate into a fully grown person either, it mutated into... more bacteria...
I guess I need to ditch my science project of harvesting my intestines for bacteria and rapid-growing them into intelligent bipedal slave labour forces.
And using what is considered a 'CLI' I could provide you with a wrapper or a direct pipeline to a user-created 'CLI' that is all text based and works exactly as the Google command line, being that it actually would interface -with- google and return the results.
To say 'CLI' is unforgiving, is about the same as saying 'I dislike www.google.com because it's not yahoo's search engine'.
The only thing regarding CLI that is unforgiving is people's expectations and laziness on finding solutions.
GUI's provide pre-built interfaces that people -still- complain about because it's not -their- way.
The beauty of a CLI is it gives people the option to configure it without having to write a whole new web page, though frankly you could interface to a web page as well if you wanted.
Just shows you what today's mentality is like. Give people near infinite options, and they'll complain that their option isn't available. Give someone the option they want, and they'll complain that there's not near infinite options.
Maybe the real solution is people learning for themselves and not expect it to be handed to them.
McAfee I'd not select. It's an absolute pig on resources. Norton is ok, but also rather piggish. AVG is actually not bad, or Avast I hear is pretty good. Windows 7 antivirus that they include also isn't too bad. kaspersky isn't bad either.
You'd also want an anti-spyware/adware. My suggestions: spybot search & destroy malware bytes ad-aware
For manual checking/removal: hijack this! wireshark
For firewalls: I'd honestly set up a linux box as a firewall proxy for your windows system. But if you must have a windows firewall: zonealarm - free, and it 'works', but not the best Comodo is actually pretty nice and I believe their firewall is free
For Linux: Generally, you don't need to worry much about viruses, but I won't be so arrogant to say Linux can't get them. A PEBCAK error makes Linux vulnerable like any other OS, so with that in mind, my suggestion:
samhain -- this is very nice protection against rootkits as it does md5 checksums of all your binaries/libraries and alerts you of any system changes. clamav -- antivirus for linux/unix iptables -- this is your built in linux firewall. Very very powerful. fail2ban -- this (or other software like denyhosts, blockhosts, etc) good for brute force attacks on your services (like ssh, httpd, etc) ACL -- check into setting up acl restriction on binaries as well as mounting partitions nosuid or noexec.
You can find various graphical/web frontends for iptable configuration. It's pretty complex so if you're a newbie to Linux or unix in general you may want to search around for a good front end. Otherwise, I suggest just doing it by hand and set up your own iptable rule sets as it gives you more flexability.
Make sure to also apply all the recent patches, disable any services/daemons you don't need running, and for any remote access you enable to your system, lock it down to the specific set of users you want to connect to your system.
It was obvious from the start that when Oracle called Google and demanded 1 with a billion zero's at the end for a settlement, that the phone cut off momentarily on the '1'.
Google came through on their end. They gave Oracle plenty of zero's.
Granted, if you already have pretty much a Mac-house, then it would make sense for you to pay the extra to continue down that mainstream.
While intel could be cheaper (and a FYI, Sager offers a 15" 2.6kg 1920x1280 offering for $820, with a GeForce 630M), even hacking Mac on it wouldn't make sense for you, as you probably already have various support contracts in place with Apple.
I personally wouldn't do Mac for myself. While it actually does tick some boxes for me, the fact my house is entirely UNIX based (Solaris, HPUX, AIX, Linux and BSD), with a rare windows laptop floating around, it doesn't make money sense for me to go the route that works for you. And yes, I'm aware Mac is basically BSD under the hood, but again, the price doesn't makes sense for my own use and how my network is already configured.
Personally, I'd not have used an Alienware as a comparison as for laptops (intel), they tend to be overpriced as well.
I'd have gone Sager.
NP9170, base price $1499. 1920x1080 17" screen Nvidia 670M GTX i7-3610QM quad core 8G DDR3 1600MHz (upgrade to 16G for $80 more) 500G 7200 RPM drive (upgradeable to SSD + RAID 0/1) [500G raid-1 would be an additional $100]
Sure, battery life is 2 hours under max load, but if you put it in 'business mode' which means not sitting there playing call of duty or watching your favorite videos, you can get upwards to 4-5+ hours out of the battery.
So with a system where I could replace any part (including the video card), add/remove memory or hard drives, or essentially tweak it to my pleasure, for better hardware than the Mac (minus the retina display... arguably...) for $800 less? Including popping in a fresh charged battery whenever I want with minimal effort? [spare battery for $130] Yea, I think I'll steer away from Mac's, thanks though.
Don't get me wrong, Mac's nice hardware, but it's overpriced nice hardware. If I watered down this laptop a bit, I could potentially get two of these for the same price as a Mac. I'd say that's overpriced.
How about stop blaming religion, politics, or any other grouping of people and start blaming oh... I don't know... maybe the people who are responsible themselves? Stupidity is an individual problem that just happens to grow in groups, regardless of the reason for those groups.
What I find the most interesting out of all of this, is the majority of people either nodding their heads on the entirely new UI, or drawing conclusions (right or wrong), of the UI.
Why do I find this interesting? Because one of the largest things that was always dinged about Apple, Linux, and pretty much any non-windows UI was that their UI was 'different' than Windows. That the applications behaved 'different' than Windows. That just the entire experience was 'different' than Windows.
So I guess 'different' is fine, when it's Windows doing it? Huh.
It just enforces a belief that I've always had. The general public really has no idea what they want... at least until Business tell them what it is that they want. Then they happily throw money at it, beat their chests and grunt and scratch.
Course there's exceptions, but it is a commentary on the 'general public' and majority of the sheeple in it.
"herp a derp... I'm a fat moron, look, I walked into a wall and knocked over a display-case! hahahah, now my baby is making cutting remarks about me! Oh dear! aliens! oh dear, I've bumbled and stumbled into their grasp, how will I ever escape? Maybe if I really *really* love my baby the power of my love will make them explode! KABOOM! yay! it worked! *happily ever after*"
Substitute 'fat moron' with 'skinny whiner', the baby with a redhead 'buddy', the doctor with a bushy haired smart girl, keep the 'love will kill them KABOOM', and you have the Harry Potter series.
I guess we can now see why the director of Harry Potter wants to direct this movie. As far as he thinks, it's Harry Potter Book 8, Harry Potter and the Time Lords.
Not only was it a great Dr Who episode (with good ol' Ace and the 7th doctor), but it paints a pretty grim picture that hits a little too close to the mark of how government works today.
While I got your pointless argument on the size of the brains dictating the age or maturity of the speaker...
You obviously missed mine of how preserving something to age can affect its worth.
And actually moralistic means exactly what I intended. To concern one's self with moral upstanding or concerns (ergo, Morality).
The fact you totally disregarded the point of this entire discussion and went hyper-conservative on spelling and grammar to provide a straw-man, then decided to be cute and form some type of high-brow commentary on metaphors regarding skull sizes and some simpleton knee-jerk relational hypothesis on maturity based on age (weak as it was) without any citations or facts to back up said absurd statements, especially regarding the original fact that you are still trying to displace with a tangent argument, is frankly not meeting the morals of someone who cares. Thus, a moralistic situation. It does, however, meet the requirements of a Troll, which I shall, from this point on after, happily ignore.
Continue to show your lack of latitude and absence of any quantifiable material as much as you want. You only belittle yourself, not that you care.
I, and others, have proved your points lacking, your bias attitude true, and your avoidance of the topic at hand laughable at best.
And when little adorable 'jonny' pulls a knife and holds the teacher hostage? (worse case scenario)
Or when the kids become disruptive to the teacher in such a way to warrant the expulsion, but the parents pull out the lawyer card and threaten the school system with a big rowdy news report and lawsuit, I bet you, short of something life threatening, the school system is going to fold and let the kid stay or make some arrangements other than expulsion.
Reminds me of a teacher who posted in their blog how horrible their students were to such a degree they vented (in a moment of absolute stupidity) on their blog site... which got them sacked.
No word, however, on the 'horrible children' they talked about. Last heard, they were still in school. Fancy that.
The parents, generally, don't give a crap. Until it's their reputation on the line, then they solve it through the nastiest way possible that schools can either fight and lose face winning, or capitulate and hide it behind the scenes.
A lot of their money comes from the board. The money of the board comes from capitol committees where they, like the school board, have their reputations to worry about as well. You think they'll give them more cash for looking poorly? It affects their end of year bonus. Won't happen.
So, little jonny doing his threats, up to and likely including pulling a knife, very likely is being swept under the rug even as we speak at some school district in the good ol' USA.
Money talks. If you don't have it, which the majority of the teachers do not, then you're screwed.
Nitpicking grammar and rhetoric, one could accuse you of exhibiting bias as well.
Did you bother to garnish detail of what the discussions were, that were included as being 'superior'?
Did you even hesitate to question any merit to this being valid, or did you, like a rabid slash dot-er go right for the spelling/grammar nazi juggler so you could get your small little hypocrite moment?
Step back a moment and polish your pot, Mr. Kettle.
None of this would be an issue if corporations actually thought of their employees as assets.
They do not.
They treat their IT professionals like slave labor, underpaying the lot of them and overworking their hours without more than a by-your-leave. If you don't like it, well, don't let the door hit you on the ass while we get someone else who's starving on the street who most likely can do your job, even if it isn't as good. But hey, more reason to pay them less, and in doing so, lower the entire class pay for the entire group while we're at it.
It boils down to trust. The companies should be paying the employees the money their experience deserves, to support and build out the environment that these professionals know how to build.
If an IT professional wanted to damage a system, having a keyless password system like CA or RSA have for running daemon kernels (windows, linux, solaris, aix, etc), or putting in advanced API layer user control right into the kernel, or any other number of leaps and bounds is frankly ridiculous. Who do you think is IMPLEMENTING this to begin with. The same IT professionals you are knowingly trying to stop getting access to. Sounds rather hypocritical.
If you don't trust your IT professionals with access to the systems, then why the hell are you trusting them to implement the security to the systems you don't trust them with?
Either trust your IT professionals to do the job right, or hire new IT professionals. Simple as that.
I remember when company loyalty was prided. Now it's not uncommon to see people running to leave a company they work for because of bad treatment.
Sadly, you can only do the 8-5 shift and deal with it situation on corporate entities that don't require 24/7 uptime.
And you can only play this type of hard-ball if your direct IT management are in your corner.
Where I work, that's not the case. Their mantra is 'We do it because we're the ones who care the most'. My thoughts is I really don't give a rats ass when someone else should be responsible for it, and we're being turned into martyrs, but no one listens to me. Ownership on this company. The last person who touches it owns it. We now 'own' most of the company, applications, databases, networking... see the problem? Sure, responsibility is nice, but not when the hours and responsibility grow, but not the head count.
And who in their right mind wants to 'own' Tibco and SAP?
So, anyone have a good decent job for a Lead System Architect on a nice 8-5 job?:)
Except by the time we are allowed to vote for them, it's a choice between fast painful death, or a painful fast death. Maybe a death that is fast and painful? Hey, how about a death that is painful and fast.
Sure, it may look like redundancy the way I wrote it, but they're still considered 'democrats', 'republicans', and so forth.
The idiom was intentional.
When every single political figurehead is corrupted in one form or another, with very few, if any exceptions, it frankly doesn't matter who you pick. When you have a barrel of rotten apples, regardless of how many times you reach into that barrel, it remains rotten.
Want a change? Wipe out the entire government system and their corrupt backers, the invisible and the obvious ones, and put people from the common middle class into the seats. Take the power -away- from the corporations and back into the hands of the people. Train the people, for once, to stand up for themselves and not be lead around by the nose by a snake oil salesman simply because they're too damn lazy to enact changes themselves.
Sadly, won't happen. Stupidity is a law of nature and tends to breed in direct proportion with the number of people who stand together under a common belief.
I don't know why hackers, terrorists, or enemies of the state even bother to try to do us in. We're doing a damn fine job by ourselves. They should instead just buy popcorn and wait for the inevitable crash of our society.
Having had... friends... involved in similar situations, I can attest to the case that if this guy worked for the Government, and was a scapegoat, they basically set him up for failure.
If he succeeded and was able to hide his tracks of hacking, the Government got their information and won.
If he failed and was unable to hide his tracks of hacking, the Government got partial information and won.
If the guy failed gloriously, the Government got what information they could, and have an instant scapegoat. Just add press. And won.
Win win for the government, and they can say at any time plausible deniability.
The friend in question I had was an excellent hacker. He hacked into banks for shits and giggles, went into government systems like a person would skip in the park. One day, he screwed up, the government found out, the guy disappeared. No jail time, no newspaper/press of him hacking. And all his college entrance and time spent at college disappeared as well. For all intents and purposes the guy never went to college, and I'll be surprised if there was anything other than a clean-record of the guy other than being born, his SS#, and place of residence. White-washed history for government signed-on hacker. And because of the dirt the government now had on this guy, he became Uncle Sam's bitch.
How the good ol' government gets these people to accept said positions of scapegoatness is fairly simple.
They find dirt on someone exceptionally good at computer espionage, or if they can't find legit dirt, they create some and seed it throughout the gold ol' internet and stack false records against them, at least in such a way to make it... difficult... for the target individual to live a decent life without cow-towing to the government officials.
Said person signs documentation that makes them 'legally' work for said government that is their 'get out of jail free' card. Except, the documentation doesn't really exist unless it is in the best interests of the government. Ergo, they have the hacker by the balls. The hacker continues to do a good job, and can cover their tracks enough to not point a finger at the government in -any way- or can hide their existance in such a way to be not backtraced, any and all possible ability to nail the guy goes up in smoke. All logs, all reports, disappear. If they can point their finger in anyway at either the hacker or the government, the 'get out of jail free' card becomes toilet paper and the guy's head goes to the block as the scapegoat.
May sound like bullshit, but as I've seen this shit first hand, it's not a pleasant experience.
It's not paranoia when they really are out to get you.
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Those company symbols? That exist on corporate web sites that they say no duplication?
Well, our browser caches duplicate that, hell, even going to the site duplicates it upon your screen. How many people print pages of their web sites for reasons?
So everyone, unplug your internet. Once this thing passes, just going to a web site will break copyright law, by loose definition.
Someone needs to set fire to the RIAA and MPAA buildings.
On the same note, the bacteria didn't mutate into a fully grown person either, it mutated into... more bacteria...
I guess I need to ditch my science project of harvesting my intestines for bacteria and rapid-growing them into intelligent bipedal slave labour forces.
Bummer.
And yet one of these days when they do a quarterly releas to the stock market, I think they will.
But by then, it'll be too late because they, like you, will have been thinking the entire time 'I don't give a shit about sheer numbers'.
And using what is considered a 'CLI' I could provide you with a wrapper or a direct pipeline to a user-created 'CLI' that is all text based and works exactly as the Google command line, being that it actually would interface -with- google and return the results.
To say 'CLI' is unforgiving, is about the same as saying 'I dislike www.google.com because it's not yahoo's search engine'.
The only thing regarding CLI that is unforgiving is people's expectations and laziness on finding solutions.
GUI's provide pre-built interfaces that people -still- complain about because it's not -their- way.
The beauty of a CLI is it gives people the option to configure it without having to write a whole new web page, though frankly you could interface to a web page as well if you wanted.
Just shows you what today's mentality is like. Give people near infinite options, and they'll complain that their option isn't available. Give someone the option they want, and they'll complain that there's not near infinite options.
Maybe the real solution is people learning for themselves and not expect it to be handed to them.
For windows.
McAfee I'd not select. It's an absolute pig on resources.
Norton is ok, but also rather piggish.
AVG is actually not bad, or Avast I hear is pretty good.
Windows 7 antivirus that they include also isn't too bad.
kaspersky isn't bad either.
You'd also want an anti-spyware/adware. My suggestions:
spybot search & destroy
malware bytes
ad-aware
For manual checking/removal:
hijack this!
wireshark
For firewalls:
I'd honestly set up a linux box as a firewall proxy for your windows system. But if you must have a windows firewall:
zonealarm - free, and it 'works', but not the best
Comodo is actually pretty nice and I believe their firewall is free
For Linux:
Generally, you don't need to worry much about viruses, but I won't be so arrogant to say Linux can't get them. A PEBCAK error makes Linux vulnerable like any other OS, so with that in mind, my suggestion:
samhain -- this is very nice protection against rootkits as it does md5 checksums of all your binaries/libraries and alerts you of any system changes.
clamav -- antivirus for linux/unix
iptables -- this is your built in linux firewall. Very very powerful.
fail2ban -- this (or other software like denyhosts, blockhosts, etc) good for brute force attacks on your services (like ssh, httpd, etc)
ACL -- check into setting up acl restriction on binaries as well as mounting partitions nosuid or noexec.
You can find various graphical/web frontends for iptable configuration. It's pretty complex so if you're a newbie to Linux or unix in general you may want to search around for a good front end. Otherwise, I suggest just doing it by hand and set up your own iptable rule sets as it gives you more flexability.
Make sure to also apply all the recent patches, disable any services/daemons you don't need running, and for any remote access you enable to your system, lock it down to the specific set of users you want to connect to your system.
Hope that helps.
I blame the phone network for the issue.
It was obvious from the start that when Oracle called Google and demanded 1 with a billion zero's at the end for a settlement, that the phone cut off momentarily on the '1'.
Google came through on their end. They gave Oracle plenty of zero's.
Granted, if you already have pretty much a Mac-house, then it would make sense for you to pay the extra to continue down that mainstream.
While intel could be cheaper (and a FYI, Sager offers a 15" 2.6kg 1920x1280 offering for $820, with a GeForce 630M), even hacking Mac on it wouldn't make sense for you, as you probably already have various support contracts in place with Apple.
I personally wouldn't do Mac for myself. While it actually does tick some boxes for me, the fact my house is entirely UNIX based (Solaris, HPUX, AIX, Linux and BSD), with a rare windows laptop floating around, it doesn't make money sense for me to go the route that works for you. And yes, I'm aware Mac is basically BSD under the hood, but again, the price doesn't makes sense for my own use and how my network is already configured.
As you say, Vive la difference.
Ok, I'll bite, too.
Personally, I'd not have used an Alienware as a comparison as for laptops (intel), they tend to be overpriced as well.
I'd have gone Sager.
NP9170, base price $1499.
1920x1080 17" screen
Nvidia 670M GTX
i7-3610QM quad core
8G DDR3 1600MHz (upgrade to 16G for $80 more)
500G 7200 RPM drive (upgradeable to SSD + RAID 0/1) [500G raid-1 would be an additional $100]
Sure, battery life is 2 hours under max load, but if you put it in 'business mode' which means not sitting there playing call of duty or watching your favorite videos, you can get upwards to 4-5+ hours out of the battery.
So with a system where I could replace any part (including the video card), add/remove memory or hard drives, or essentially tweak it to my pleasure, for better hardware than the Mac (minus the retina display ... arguably...) for $800 less? Including popping in a fresh charged battery whenever I want with minimal effort? [spare battery for $130] Yea, I think I'll steer away from Mac's, thanks though.
Don't get me wrong, Mac's nice hardware, but it's overpriced nice hardware. If I watered down this laptop a bit, I could potentially get two of these for the same price as a Mac. I'd say that's overpriced.
African or European?
Yup, Stamp Collecting is harmless
http://www.firehouse.com/forums/t91087/
Well, maybe not... but darn it, maybe a simple argument over Ford vs. Chevy is then...
http://www.theledger.com/article/20060418/NEWS/604180378
Well, that's unfortunate.
How about stop blaming religion, politics, or any other grouping of people and start blaming oh... I don't know... maybe the people who are responsible themselves? Stupidity is an individual problem that just happens to grow in groups, regardless of the reason for those groups.
Pathetic.
Because you, as co-owner, have authority to grant and revoke someone access to your -private property-, ergo, your house.
If your PI stalked your spouse inside her work, got caught, and was charged for breaking and entering, that'd be the same thing.
The issue isn't the 'stalking' per say, it's the locations where these people 'stalked'.
I can see a notice from the IRS right now.
Hello, .
By our records, we have determined that you are late on your taxes.
Below is the amount you owe to the Federal Government.
Your taxed income is: NaN DIVISION BY ZERO
Thank you for your time.
What I find the most interesting out of all of this, is the majority of people either nodding their heads on the entirely new UI, or drawing conclusions (right or wrong), of the UI.
Why do I find this interesting? Because one of the largest things that was always dinged about Apple, Linux, and pretty much any non-windows UI was that their UI was 'different' than Windows. That the applications behaved 'different' than Windows. That just the entire experience was 'different' than Windows.
So I guess 'different' is fine, when it's Windows doing it? Huh.
It just enforces a belief that I've always had. The general public really has no idea what they want... at least until Business tell them what it is that they want. Then they happily throw money at it, beat their chests and grunt and scratch.
Course there's exceptions, but it is a commentary on the 'general public' and majority of the sheeple in it.
"herp a derp... I'm a fat moron, look, I walked into a wall and knocked over a display-case! hahahah, now my baby is making cutting remarks about me! Oh dear! aliens! oh dear, I've bumbled and stumbled into their grasp, how will I ever escape? Maybe if I really *really* love my baby the power of my love will make them explode! KABOOM! yay! it worked! *happily ever after*"
Substitute 'fat moron' with 'skinny whiner', the baby with a redhead 'buddy', the doctor with a bushy haired smart girl, keep the 'love will kill them KABOOM', and you have the Harry Potter series.
I guess we can now see why the director of Harry Potter wants to direct this movie. As far as he thinks, it's Harry Potter Book 8, Harry Potter and the Time Lords.
Let's call them 'The Happiness Patrol'.
Not only was it a great Dr Who episode (with good ol' Ace and the 7th doctor), but it paints a pretty grim picture that hits a little too close to the mark of how government works today.
Win Win.
Also, the Borg wouldn't assimilate Jar-Jar, he has nothing of value to add to the collective.
Well, you see, that all depends on if George Lucas directs the new crossover movie.
He mistakenly thought Jar-Jar served value in the original 3 movies.
And this is the single phrase that will prove the universes are totally incompatible:
We are Jar-Jar of Borg. Prepare to be assimmilattee-blr-blr-blr-blr-blr-blrated!
While I got your pointless argument on the size of the brains dictating the age or maturity of the speaker...
You obviously missed mine of how preserving something to age can affect its worth.
And actually moralistic means exactly what I intended. To concern one's self with moral upstanding or concerns (ergo, Morality).
The fact you totally disregarded the point of this entire discussion and went hyper-conservative on spelling and grammar to provide a straw-man, then decided to be cute and form some type of high-brow commentary on metaphors regarding skull sizes and some simpleton knee-jerk relational hypothesis on maturity based on age (weak as it was) without any citations or facts to back up said absurd statements, especially regarding the original fact that you are still trying to displace with a tangent argument, is frankly not meeting the morals of someone who cares. Thus, a moralistic situation. It does, however, meet the requirements of a Troll, which I shall, from this point on after, happily ignore.
Continue to show your lack of latitude and absence of any quantifiable material as much as you want. You only belittle yourself, not that you care.
I, and others, have proved your points lacking, your bias attitude true, and your avoidance of the topic at hand laughable at best.
Cheers.
Depends how long they've been up your buttocks along with your very own head.
Does your gas fumes age things well?
By your total disregard of anything moralistic or logical, obviously not.
And when little adorable 'jonny' pulls a knife and holds the teacher hostage? (worse case scenario)
Or when the kids become disruptive to the teacher in such a way to warrant the expulsion, but the parents pull out the lawyer card and threaten the school system with a big rowdy news report and lawsuit, I bet you, short of something life threatening, the school system is going to fold and let the kid stay or make some arrangements other than expulsion.
Reminds me of a teacher who posted in their blog how horrible their students were to such a degree they vented (in a moment of absolute stupidity) on their blog site... which got them sacked.
No word, however, on the 'horrible children' they talked about. Last heard, they were still in school. Fancy that.
The parents, generally, don't give a crap. Until it's their reputation on the line, then they solve it through the nastiest way possible that schools can either fight and lose face winning, or capitulate and hide it behind the scenes.
A lot of their money comes from the board. The money of the board comes from capitol committees where they, like the school board, have their reputations to worry about as well. You think they'll give them more cash for looking poorly? It affects their end of year bonus. Won't happen.
So, little jonny doing his threats, up to and likely including pulling a knife, very likely is being swept under the rug even as we speak at some school district in the good ol' USA.
Money talks. If you don't have it, which the majority of the teachers do not, then you're screwed.
Nitpicking grammar and rhetoric, one could accuse you of exhibiting bias as well.
Did you bother to garnish detail of what the discussions were, that were included as being 'superior'?
Did you even hesitate to question any merit to this being valid, or did you, like a rabid slash dot-er go right for the spelling/grammar nazi juggler so you could get your small little hypocrite moment?
Step back a moment and polish your pot, Mr. Kettle.
None of this would be an issue if corporations actually thought of their employees as assets.
They do not.
They treat their IT professionals like slave labor, underpaying the lot of them and overworking their hours without more than a by-your-leave. If you don't like it, well, don't let the door hit you on the ass while we get someone else who's starving on the street who most likely can do your job, even if it isn't as good. But hey, more reason to pay them less, and in doing so, lower the entire class pay for the entire group while we're at it.
It boils down to trust. The companies should be paying the employees the money their experience deserves, to support and build out the environment that these professionals know how to build.
If an IT professional wanted to damage a system, having a keyless password system like CA or RSA have for running daemon kernels (windows, linux, solaris, aix, etc), or putting in advanced API layer user control right into the kernel, or any other number of leaps and bounds is frankly ridiculous. Who do you think is IMPLEMENTING this to begin with. The same IT professionals you are knowingly trying to stop getting access to. Sounds rather hypocritical.
If you don't trust your IT professionals with access to the systems, then why the hell are you trusting them to implement the security to the systems you don't trust them with?
Either trust your IT professionals to do the job right, or hire new IT professionals. Simple as that.
I remember when company loyalty was prided. Now it's not uncommon to see people running to leave a company they work for because of bad treatment.
I think the problem is the Management, not IT.
Sadly, you can only do the 8-5 shift and deal with it situation on corporate entities that don't require 24/7 uptime.
And you can only play this type of hard-ball if your direct IT management are in your corner.
Where I work, that's not the case. Their mantra is 'We do it because we're the ones who care the most'. My thoughts is I really don't give a rats ass when someone else should be responsible for it, and we're being turned into martyrs, but no one listens to me.
Ownership on this company. The last person who touches it owns it. We now 'own' most of the company, applications, databases, networking... see the problem? Sure, responsibility is nice, but not when the hours and responsibility grow, but not the head count.
And who in their right mind wants to 'own' Tibco and SAP?
So, anyone have a good decent job for a Lead System Architect on a nice 8-5 job? :)
Except by the time we are allowed to vote for them, it's a choice between fast painful death, or a painful fast death. Maybe a death that is fast and painful? Hey, how about a death that is painful and fast.
Sure, it may look like redundancy the way I wrote it, but they're still considered 'democrats', 'republicans', and so forth.
The idiom was intentional.
When every single political figurehead is corrupted in one form or another, with very few, if any exceptions, it frankly doesn't matter who you pick. When you have a barrel of rotten apples, regardless of how many times you reach into that barrel, it remains rotten.
Want a change? Wipe out the entire government system and their corrupt backers, the invisible and the obvious ones, and put people from the common middle class into the seats. Take the power -away- from the corporations and back into the hands of the people. Train the people, for once, to stand up for themselves and not be lead around by the nose by a snake oil salesman simply because they're too damn lazy to enact changes themselves.
Sadly, won't happen. Stupidity is a law of nature and tends to breed in direct proportion with the number of people who stand together under a common belief.
I don't know why hackers, terrorists, or enemies of the state even bother to try to do us in. We're doing a damn fine job by ourselves. They should instead just buy popcorn and wait for the inevitable crash of our society.
Having had... friends... involved in similar situations, I can attest to the case that if this guy worked for the Government, and was a scapegoat, they basically set him up for failure.
If he succeeded and was able to hide his tracks of hacking, the Government got their information and won.
If he failed and was unable to hide his tracks of hacking, the Government got partial information and won.
If the guy failed gloriously, the Government got what information they could, and have an instant scapegoat. Just add press. And won.
Win win for the government, and they can say at any time plausible deniability.
The friend in question I had was an excellent hacker. He hacked into banks for shits and giggles, went into government systems like a person would skip in the park. One day, he screwed up, the government found out, the guy disappeared. No jail time, no newspaper/press of him hacking. And all his college entrance and time spent at college disappeared as well. For all intents and purposes the guy never went to college, and I'll be surprised if there was anything other than a clean-record of the guy other than being born, his SS#, and place of residence. White-washed history for government signed-on hacker. And because of the dirt the government now had on this guy, he became Uncle Sam's bitch.
How the good ol' government gets these people to accept said positions of scapegoatness is fairly simple.
They find dirt on someone exceptionally good at computer espionage, or if they can't find legit dirt, they create some and seed it throughout the gold ol' internet and stack false records against them, at least in such a way to make it... difficult... for the target individual to live a decent life without cow-towing to the government officials.
Said person signs documentation that makes them 'legally' work for said government that is their 'get out of jail free' card. Except, the documentation doesn't really exist unless it is in the best interests of the government. Ergo, they have the hacker by the balls. The hacker continues to do a good job, and can cover their tracks enough to not point a finger at the government in -any way- or can hide their existance in such a way to be not backtraced, any and all possible ability to nail the guy goes up in smoke. All logs, all reports, disappear. If they can point their finger in anyway at either the hacker or the government, the 'get out of jail free' card becomes toilet paper and the guy's head goes to the block as the scapegoat.
May sound like bullshit, but as I've seen this shit first hand, it's not a pleasant experience.
It's not paranoia when they really are out to get you.
Just food for thought.