Given the number of exploits for phpMyAdmin, whether it's passworded or not is practically irrelevant if it's exposed to the internet.
But, since browser manufacturers don't audit CAs (I've never heard either way whether they audit or not, but even if one of them claimed to do so, given the track record I'd have to call bullshit), this hardly matters anyway--it's just going to happen again and again, and it's already happened a number of times that we have no idea about.
Based on buying the entire Wheel of Time series, every book by Brandon Sanderson, the first two books of the Malazan series, the first two books of the Kingkiller Chronicles, and a book by Fred Saberhagen that isn't a book of Swords on iBooks, and all of Joe Abercrombie's books on the Kindle store, iBooks' quality (typos and formatting mostly) is far superior to Kindle.
Legal acrobatics? You published it! That means that anyone in the whole internet who asked for it, got it. There should be no more expectation that you can take that back than you should be able to stop people from remembering what you said out loud. Less. Twitter themselves couldn't take it back if they wanted to.
How do you know those are bad applications? Is optimizing for rotational media really the measure of a well-written program? What about programs that run well on spinning disks, but destroy SSDs? What about when SSDs are our primary storage medium, or arrays of squid with eidetic memories and pizeoelectric tentacles? Should every program be optimized for rotational media, SSDs, and EMPTS? Or is rotational media the end-all-be-all of a program's optimal storage environment?
If your bosses will sign off on getting a second opinion, great, stick around and fix stuff. If they don't even want to know that it's screwed up, get out as soon as you can.
Just be very careful when selecting who you'll bring in to do the audit, and be very clear that if anyone is brought on to help fix the problems, it absolutely will not be the same as the evaluators. Otherwise you're essentially handing them a blank check to say whatever they feel like is wrong, and fix it any way they want.
My suggestion is to generally avoid letting contractors do more than consult with you on a project--they know very well how to set things up so that it's easy for them to work on in the future, and are generally not very good at making the stuff actually fit in well with your business processes.
Show me you H1B card, I think you are fluffing us.
Is English your first language? Because the definition of "fluffing" that (I'm pretty sure) you're referring to isn't the one most of us are thinking of.
You have never known an IT admin who will admit to snooping, but just reading through this thread you'll find plenty who think it's their god-given right as a sysadmin to snoop. And if you watch the news, every once in a while you'll hear about somebody getting busted for reading through hospital or police records that, although they had access to, they shouldn't be looking at. The thing is, when these stories break, it's never just one person, it's endemic throughout an entire department. And then, for some reason, people think that it's just that one department, or just that one company. Right.
People, in general, snoop, not the other way around.
hoo boy. As a former net admin who has never snooped, it's statements like this that give the IT department the reputation it has. Way to live the stereotype.
I agree that people who handle sensitive information should be paid enough that it's not worth the risk to look or trade it, but weird power-tripping sentiments like that turn the relationship between you and your boss into an adversarial one. There are other ways to keep you honest, and if you want to find out where the balance of power really lies, go brush up your resume and then try to get your boss in trouble for violating the company's AUP.
I have a... friend... who regularly posts on Facebook every hyperbolic Apple story he can find. Apple might as well have mailed a tanto, a bottle of Jack Daniels, and a picture of Steve Jobs banging their S.O. to every Foxconn employee, Apple was the only company that kept cell tower logs which they only kept so they could place you at the scene of a murder if you decided not to buy the next iPhone, and the iPhone 4's antenna gave such poor reception because it wasn't an antenna at all, it was a transmitter designed to beam cancer and full-blown AIDS directly into your brain. Oh, and of course the ever-so-classy "I'm glad he's dead" post.
He's also espoused the benefits of his Android phone without the slightest sense of irony, as if an Android zealot is any less annoying than an Apple zealot. So, all in all, the thunderous silence from his Facebook feed is... mmm, delicious.
I don't understand people who don't understand that the corporate system is pure evil by design, and that literally any public corporation (and 95% of the privately-owned ones) would slice open your belly and play jump-rope with your guts if it made them 0.01% more than giving you a new house and ending world hunger would. Apple might have played nice (relatively), but if that is so, it sure as hell isn't because they respect us and believe that every person is entitled to privacy.
It is fully decentralized, all users of the search engine network are equal, the network does not store user search requests and it is not possible for anyone to censor the content of the shared index.
However, that seems to be all the information there is on the process... doesn't quite assuage the ol' paranoia circuits, does it?
Which is why I was confused when it was repeatedly spelled "disk" in TFA. I thought they'd already come to the correct conclusion, and wondered where I could get a disk changer too.
Because I couldn't see unless I stepped into the road, I listened for oncoming cars first.
If only your eyes were mounted on some sort of stalk that you could use to peer around corners, these near-death experiences could have been avoided!
Not that the homeowners aren't assholes for putting up vision obstructions on corners, but as a pedestrian if you can't figure out how to look around a corner, well, it's just a matter of time.
Aside from my belief that there's nothing supernatural about the human brain and that consciousness is just an artifact of being sufficiently complex to host a theory of mind, what would you do to someone who thought they had the right to kill you at any time, for any reason?
Wait, it's not bay-tah, it's beh-tah. Similar, and you only really hear the difference if you're not listening for it, but it's there. Kind of like Aaron vs. Erin.
So, a bank straight-up stole £1300 from you, and you staid with them? And then they continued to be terrible to you, so... you decided you had to be paid in gold
Totally serious, are you insane? Like, are these the things that legitimately crazy people do? Or is there no choice in banks in England? And getting paid in gold somehow makes life less hassle, or you get... like... more money? From being paid in... gold coins? Are you Mario, or perhaps Harry Potter?
Given that you not only haven't looked up the efficacy statistics of DRL, but appear to believe that your gut feeling that they're completely ineffective trumps any amount of research and any research that disagrees is fundamentally flawed, I guess the fact that the 100,000 barrel a day figure assumes 90W DRL when the dedicated LED lights on newer cars use closer to 9W doesn't matter.
Even if it did, the 10,000 barrels a day is still more than one, and you've established that saving one barrel a day is worth any amount of lost lives. There's still an interesting question there, however, which is what about those that are just maimed but not killed? X-rays and MRIs take a lot of power, the hospital staff has to get to work somehow (I'll bet a lot of them even have daytime running lights on their cars!), and I haven't seen a hybrid ambulance yet, and then on top of that they have tons of lights that they keep on all day long, and they force possibly hundreds cars that otherwise wouldn't stop to halt on a single trip down the road, burning even more gas when they start moving again. What's worse, they send an ambulance out even when the people involved are very likely dead! And then there's police cars, and if there's even a hint of a fire they send out sometimes multiple fire trucks. Finally, if there's sufficient damage to the vehicle, it may end up totaled, and then all that energy has to be spent again to build another car (unless the occupants are dead, in which case we only have to worry about the environment if the the recently deceased are cremated). Whether you care about loss of life or not, accidents are certainly more expensive than DRL. The question is, since you don't care about the loss of life, just how much energy does an average accident cost, and is that cost divided by the frequency of accidents higher than the cost of DRL. Because, if it is, you'll end up spending more oil trying to save some. Oh, why can't we just let them rot in the street!
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Given the number of exploits for phpMyAdmin, whether it's passworded or not is practically irrelevant if it's exposed to the internet.
But, since browser manufacturers don't audit CAs (I've never heard either way whether they audit or not, but even if one of them claimed to do so, given the track record I'd have to call bullshit), this hardly matters anyway--it's just going to happen again and again, and it's already happened a number of times that we have no idea about.
Here I am!
Based on buying the entire Wheel of Time series, every book by Brandon Sanderson, the first two books of the Malazan series, the first two books of the Kingkiller Chronicles, and a book by Fred Saberhagen that isn't a book of Swords on iBooks, and all of Joe Abercrombie's books on the Kindle store, iBooks' quality (typos and formatting mostly) is far superior to Kindle.
There, happy?
Sweet, thanks for the arbitrary numbers! Say, what do your dice think concert tickets and kidney transplants should cost?
Legal acrobatics? You published it! That means that anyone in the whole internet who asked for it, got it. There should be no more expectation that you can take that back than you should be able to stop people from remembering what you said out loud. Less. Twitter themselves couldn't take it back if they wanted to.
How do you know those are bad applications? Is optimizing for rotational media really the measure of a well-written program? What about programs that run well on spinning disks, but destroy SSDs? What about when SSDs are our primary storage medium, or arrays of squid with eidetic memories and pizeoelectric tentacles? Should every program be optimized for rotational media, SSDs, and EMPTS? Or is rotational media the end-all-be-all of a program's optimal storage environment?
Oh god yes do this.
If your bosses will sign off on getting a second opinion, great, stick around and fix stuff. If they don't even want to know that it's screwed up, get out as soon as you can.
Just be very careful when selecting who you'll bring in to do the audit, and be very clear that if anyone is brought on to help fix the problems, it absolutely will not be the same as the evaluators. Otherwise you're essentially handing them a blank check to say whatever they feel like is wrong, and fix it any way they want.
My suggestion is to generally avoid letting contractors do more than consult with you on a project--they know very well how to set things up so that it's easy for them to work on in the future, and are generally not very good at making the stuff actually fit in well with your business processes.
Show me you H1B card, I think you are fluffing us.
Is English your first language? Because the definition of "fluffing" that (I'm pretty sure) you're referring to isn't the one most of us are thinking of.
Kudos to you for having an ounce of professionalism, but you are the exception by a long shot.
I believe this
You have never known an IT admin who will admit to snooping, but just reading through this thread you'll find plenty who think it's their god-given right as a sysadmin to snoop. And if you watch the news, every once in a while you'll hear about somebody getting busted for reading through hospital or police records that, although they had access to, they shouldn't be looking at. The thing is, when these stories break, it's never just one person, it's endemic throughout an entire department. And then, for some reason, people think that it's just that one department, or just that one company. Right.
People, in general, snoop, not the other way around.
hoo boy. As a former net admin who has never snooped, it's statements like this that give the IT department the reputation it has. Way to live the stereotype.
I agree that people who handle sensitive information should be paid enough that it's not worth the risk to look or trade it, but weird power-tripping sentiments like that turn the relationship between you and your boss into an adversarial one. There are other ways to keep you honest, and if you want to find out where the balance of power really lies, go brush up your resume and then try to get your boss in trouble for violating the company's AUP.
Don't go to seated shows. If it's not general admission, it's not worth going to.
*Googles for literally 3 seconds*:
Gnome
KDE
I have a ... friend ... who regularly posts on Facebook every hyperbolic Apple story he can find. Apple might as well have mailed a tanto, a bottle of Jack Daniels, and a picture of Steve Jobs banging their S.O. to every Foxconn employee, Apple was the only company that kept cell tower logs which they only kept so they could place you at the scene of a murder if you decided not to buy the next iPhone, and the iPhone 4's antenna gave such poor reception because it wasn't an antenna at all, it was a transmitter designed to beam cancer and full-blown AIDS directly into your brain. Oh, and of course the ever-so-classy "I'm glad he's dead" post.
He's also espoused the benefits of his Android phone without the slightest sense of irony, as if an Android zealot is any less annoying than an Apple zealot. So, all in all, the thunderous silence from his Facebook feed is ... mmm, delicious.
I don't understand people who don't understand that the corporate system is pure evil by design, and that literally any public corporation (and 95% of the privately-owned ones) would slice open your belly and play jump-rope with your guts if it made them 0.01% more than giving you a new house and ending world hunger would. Apple might have played nice (relatively), but if that is so, it sure as hell isn't because they respect us and believe that every person is entitled to privacy.
From TFA:
It is fully decentralized, all users of the search engine network are equal, the network does not store user search requests and it is not possible for anyone to censor the content of the shared index.
However, that seems to be all the information there is on the process... doesn't quite assuage the ol' paranoia circuits, does it?
The network stores everything.
Which is why I was confused when it was repeatedly spelled "disk" in TFA. I thought they'd already come to the correct conclusion, and wondered where I could get a disk changer too.
Because I couldn't see unless I stepped into the road, I listened for oncoming cars first.
If only your eyes were mounted on some sort of stalk that you could use to peer around corners, these near-death experiences could have been avoided!
Not that the homeowners aren't assholes for putting up vision obstructions on corners, but as a pedestrian if you can't figure out how to look around a corner, well, it's just a matter of time.
Hey, I have one in the same place! Put a pencil in your pocket the wrong way too?
Whacking someone with an iPad is against the EULA.
Balls, lacking software, are not protected by IP laws. Ergo, iPads are safer than balls.
I don't know about his DNS server, but qmail had some goofy license that meant everything was just a series of patches.
He's since released it into the public domain though.
Aside from my belief that there's nothing supernatural about the human brain and that consciousness is just an artifact of being sufficiently complex to host a theory of mind, what would you do to someone who thought they had the right to kill you at any time, for any reason?
Wait, it's not bay-tah, it's beh-tah. Similar, and you only really hear the difference if you're not listening for it, but it's there. Kind of like Aaron vs. Erin.
Do you guys really pronounce it "beet-ah"?
I think it is, the star thing is showing up for me, but I have no mod points. It seems to just be an interface to bring up the "top 10" lists.
Blaaaaaaugh!
This correction comes up so much I'm pretty sure it's part of the troll. Good work, nice and subtle.
So, a bank straight-up stole £1300 from you, and you staid with them? And then they continued to be terrible to you, so ... you decided you had to be paid in gold
Totally serious, are you insane? Like, are these the things that legitimately crazy people do? Or is there no choice in banks in England? And getting paid in gold somehow makes life less hassle, or you get ... like ... more money? From being paid in ... gold coins? Are you Mario, or perhaps Harry Potter?
Given that you not only haven't looked up the efficacy statistics of DRL, but appear to believe that your gut feeling that they're completely ineffective trumps any amount of research and any research that disagrees is fundamentally flawed, I guess the fact that the 100,000 barrel a day figure assumes 90W DRL when the dedicated LED lights on newer cars use closer to 9W doesn't matter.
Even if it did, the 10,000 barrels a day is still more than one, and you've established that saving one barrel a day is worth any amount of lost lives. There's still an interesting question there, however, which is what about those that are just maimed but not killed? X-rays and MRIs take a lot of power, the hospital staff has to get to work somehow (I'll bet a lot of them even have daytime running lights on their cars!), and I haven't seen a hybrid ambulance yet, and then on top of that they have tons of lights that they keep on all day long, and they force possibly hundreds cars that otherwise wouldn't stop to halt on a single trip down the road, burning even more gas when they start moving again. What's worse, they send an ambulance out even when the people involved are very likely dead! And then there's police cars, and if there's even a hint of a fire they send out sometimes multiple fire trucks. Finally, if there's sufficient damage to the vehicle, it may end up totaled, and then all that energy has to be spent again to build another car (unless the occupants are dead, in which case we only have to worry about the environment if the the recently deceased are cremated). Whether you care about loss of life or not, accidents are certainly more expensive than DRL. The question is, since you don't care about the loss of life, just how much energy does an average accident cost, and is that cost divided by the frequency of accidents higher than the cost of DRL. Because, if it is, you'll end up spending more oil trying to save some. Oh, why can't we just let them rot in the street!