Thing is, the only teeth this has is that the student loses their free ride. I think the university may be in the clear on this as whomever is giving away the money can set limits. That said, a paying student should not have said limits imposed, else the 1st rots away further. -nB
Also, the hacked Xbox is far more versitle than the MCE. Specifically can the MCE read a SMB share for the file list and thus ignore the requirement that you have a WinMCE desktop machine somewhere? -nB
Insight into a forture 100 companies long term roadmap and strategy is not worth at least $2b (thus billions). As to the value on my drive, I based that on our ASP margin times the number of parts sold per day times the estimated lead on our competitor(s) we would lose should one of them get the design info on my machine.
My claim was never to be hiding my personal info &&|| location, but rather that I was buried behind a mountain of security because of my work.
Also I do not implicitly link my employer, my name, and my handle all together on-line. Enough detective work and you can put it all together, I routinely do that, just to guage my "footprint". In fact the reverse lookup nB -> _real me_ is less worrisome to me than _real me_ -> nB, as that could hurt employability;)
"What can be worth $75M that would be legal to use?"
You must prove it's been used in order to prove it's illegal, and even then you may lose in real life. Also, it must not be a company secret, and rather be patented. Such is the life of chip fabrication, that your IP will be stolen, all you can do is attempt to mitigate the impact. Real case: A popular networking components company (BRCM) stole one of our repeater designs. We sued, and won. now they can't sell it in the US, but they are still selling them bigtime in APAC.
AC:"A big problem is you have a pc with 75$ million of company data on it. Even if it's encrypted. We should all be using thin clients and big chunks of company data should never be replicated out to personal systems (even on corporate campuses, much less remotely). A large portion of the blame lies with microsoft, the microsoft culture of IT, and its numberous advocates, especially non-technical upper management, but it will never be placed there in any meaningful way."
You know I really don't disagree with you at all, but the way life works is that I can not always be connected to a VPN, while I have time to do some code. -nB
Funny. There appears to be another networkBoy out there, but he does not capatalize the B.... I would be the first link in google thankyouverymuch. Also, While I do not work for a CLEC I have Telecom experience. The CLEC's call the manufacturer who calles me (well my office, but I want to feel like more than a tooth on a gear on a cog...) when shit breaks.
The moniker networkBoy was because I was hacking network PHYs back when 100Mbps was the super duper holyshitthat'ssofast networking interface and if you told anyone in my industry that there would be 10Gbps available in a single 4 pair bonded channel available for under a grand by 2005 they would have hit you for being a dumbass. I left the industry after the successful launch of our 10 gig product family (PHY, MAC, NP) as I was simply burnt out. Now I do maintenance in a wafer probing lab. Much simpler life and I can't take my work home with me as it weighs to bloody much (nevermind the allignment procedure).
not IDE pwd. The chipset in the notebook has a native encryption protocol. The contents on the drive are not readable without that algo and my key (print off of any of 5 of my digits). Pretty cool system really, but it adds ~$700 to the cost of the notebook (my WAG). -nB
:):) Have fun with: 2 proxies 3 NAT layers 1 terminal server (which I suppose is another proxy).
My real point was that there is not a reason for theft of a notebook to be an IP asset issue. If I can "safely" take my data with me, then why not customer data in the same method? the answer is simple: most companies think their IP is worth more than customer records. If they would simply make the statement: {IP += CustomerRecords}; then there would be no issue, as you would see the data locked up tight. -nB
Take your secure environment with you! My employer mandates that the encryption feature of our notebooks be used. But it's a PITA, especially if your drive gets corrupted. To counter that we have an on-line backup system that takes a daily image (file by file, not binary image of the disk, for obvious space savings possibilities) of your drive and stores it whenever you are in the plant. While you are off-plant you are still secure because of the encryption. If we lost a notebook we could lose billions of dollars (assuming it's the right notebook). Shit, the data on mine is worth ~$75-100M.
The headlines should read: MegaCorp loses notebook with customer data on it. Company issues this statement: "This is a non-issue, the notebook was encrypted with a system that meets XYZ standard, it will take no less than 200 years for the system to be cracked." And the statement should be true. -nB
My little girl is only three at the moment (I'm 30). If I could hit the pause button I would. I know my big battle will be to not be overly protective while still being protective enough. -nB
The point is that you are responsible for your safety. As a parent you are also responsible for your kids safety. If you leave your kids with a known pedophile you are guilty of willful endangerment irrespective whether anything happens. MySpace (as much as I think it's a worthless POS and should die) is not responsible for this. WTF was a 14 year old doing looking to meet a guy for anyway? And a Double WTF to the parents for not at least having the meeting supervised.
As a parent of two kids I will acknowledge that you can not watch your kids 100% of the time, but instilling basic self preservation and understanding of being in situations you can not control is something that should happen before a child is allowed to run free.
Likely not. it is designed such that the energy is focused on work not light emmission. That said I'm sure there is some IR emmission as there is with any uP chip. -nB
When you are on call you are generally being paid"
You are only being paid if you are not a salaried employee.
There are plenty of time that doctors aren't on call - that is when they can go catch a flick.
On-call does not mean house arrest, it means be available within a pre-determined ammount of time. On-call for some emergency workers means 24x7 for two weeks (or more). On-call often is the legal way to say "when not at work" (as in the cop for a small town). On-call means every single friggen weekend (like my father in law).
Your stance means these people should be slaves in so far as free time is concerned and likely many would rather quit.
I realise that your experience of the phrase is more limited (if any at all), but you clearly have no idea what it means in the emergency services world. In the net admin world I would tend to agree with you, as I am on-call 1 weekend a month and must respond by phone within 15 min and be no more than 30 min from the office.
My father in law is an on-call police officer... yes he leaves everything on yes it's set to vibrate yes he says "hello, officer..." while still in the theater. If it's a real call he then leaves, if not he says "I'm busy" and hangs up. -nB
I've had users complain that outlook was too slow, I looked at their PST and it was 1.4 gig! You can break that up and life is good (while I don't think that as a developer you should expect users to do shuch tasks, the fact remains that issues like this happen). -nB
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Thing is, the only teeth this has is that the student loses their free ride. I think the university may be in the clear on this as whomever is giving away the money can set limits. That said, a paying student should not have said limits imposed, else the 1st rots away further.
-nB
Been a while since checking then eh? ;-)
-nB
Also, the hacked Xbox is far more versitle than the MCE. Specifically can the MCE read a SMB share for the file list and thus ignore the requirement that you have a WinMCE desktop machine somewhere?
-nB
Insight into a forture 100 companies long term roadmap and strategy is not worth at least $2b (thus billions).
As to the value on my drive, I based that on our ASP margin times the number of parts sold per day times the estimated lead on our competitor(s) we would lose should one of them get the design info on my machine.
-nB
My claim was never to be hiding my personal info &&|| location, but rather that I was buried behind a mountain of security because of my work.
;)
Also I do not implicitly link my employer, my name, and my handle all together on-line. Enough detective work and you can put it all together, I routinely do that, just to guage my "footprint". In fact the reverse lookup nB -> _real me_ is less worrisome to me than _real me_ -> nB, as that could hurt employability
-nB
I'm guessing more than $700 times (the number of employees who may have sensitive data on a notebook).
"What can be worth $75M that would be legal to use?"
You must prove it's been used in order to prove it's illegal, and even then you may lose in real life. Also, it must not be a company secret, and rather be patented.
Such is the life of chip fabrication, that your IP will be stolen, all you can do is attempt to mitigate the impact.
Real case: A popular networking components company (BRCM) stole one of our repeater designs. We sued, and won. now they can't sell it in the US, but they are still selling them bigtime in APAC.
-nB
AC:"A big problem is you have a pc with 75$ million of company data on it. Even if it's encrypted. We should all be using thin clients and big chunks of company data should never be replicated out to personal systems (even on corporate campuses, much less remotely). A large portion of the blame lies with microsoft, the microsoft culture of IT, and its numberous advocates, especially non-technical upper management, but it will never be placed there in any meaningful way."
You know I really don't disagree with you at all, but the way life works is that I can not always be connected to a VPN, while I have time to do some code.
-nB
Funny. There appears to be another networkBoy out there, but he does not capatalize the B....
I would be the first link in google thankyouverymuch.
Also, While I do not work for a CLEC I have Telecom experience. The CLEC's call the manufacturer who calles me (well my office, but I want to feel like more than a tooth on a gear on a cog...) when shit breaks.
The moniker networkBoy was because I was hacking network PHYs back when 100Mbps was the super duper holyshitthat'ssofast networking interface and if you told anyone in my industry that there would be 10Gbps available in a single 4 pair bonded channel available for under a grand by 2005 they would have hit you for being a dumbass.
I left the industry after the successful launch of our 10 gig product family (PHY, MAC, NP) as I was simply burnt out. Now I do maintenance in a wafer probing lab. Much simpler life and I can't take my work home with me as it weighs to bloody much (nevermind the allignment procedure).
Cheers,
-nB
not IDE pwd. The chipset in the notebook has a native encryption protocol. The contents on the drive are not readable without that algo and my key (print off of any of 5 of my digits).
Pretty cool system really, but it adds ~$700 to the cost of the notebook (my WAG).
-nB
Fairly, except rather than home network, it's an isolated lab, corp IT treats them the same though so close enough.
-nB
:):)
Have fun with:
2 proxies
3 NAT layers
1 terminal server (which I suppose is another proxy).
My real point was that there is not a reason for theft of a notebook to be an IP asset issue. If I can "safely" take my data with me, then why not customer data in the same method?
the answer is simple: most companies think their IP is worth more than customer records. If they would simply make the statement:
{IP += CustomerRecords};
then there would be no issue, as you would see the data locked up tight.
-nB
What do you guys use for your daily backups? :)
We use CNB and I like it, you can defer the backup &&|| force it at a certain time (like lunch
-nB
Take your secure environment with you!
My employer mandates that the encryption feature of our notebooks be used. But it's a PITA, especially if your drive gets corrupted. To counter that we have an on-line backup system that takes a daily image (file by file, not binary image of the disk, for obvious space savings possibilities) of your drive and stores it whenever you are in the plant. While you are off-plant you are still secure because of the encryption. If we lost a notebook we could lose billions of dollars (assuming it's the right notebook). Shit, the data on mine is worth ~$75-100M.
The headlines should read: MegaCorp loses notebook with customer data on it. Company issues this statement: "This is a non-issue, the notebook was encrypted with a system that meets XYZ standard, it will take no less than 200 years for the system to be cracked."
And the statement should be true.
-nB
M$ + Robotics = so much for the three laws ;)
-nB
My little girl is only three at the moment (I'm 30). If I could hit the pause button I would. I know my big battle will be to not be overly protective while still being protective enough.
-nB
just to be pedantic the vile thing is the kudzu.
-nB
The point is that you are responsible for your safety. As a parent you are also responsible for your kids safety.
If you leave your kids with a known pedophile you are guilty of willful endangerment irrespective whether anything happens. MySpace (as much as I think it's a worthless POS and should die) is not responsible for this. WTF was a 14 year old doing looking to meet a guy for anyway? And a Double WTF to the parents for not at least having the meeting supervised.
As a parent of two kids I will acknowledge that you can not watch your kids 100% of the time, but instilling basic self preservation and understanding of being in situations you can not control is something that should happen before a child is allowed to run free.
-nB
I'm sure they would take it by getting really hard.
I mean um...
yeah that didn't come out right but it works.
-nB
So you're saying he should never go to the cinema? That's not very nice either.
-nB
Likely not. it is designed such that the energy is focused on work not light emmission. That said I'm sure there is some IR emmission as there is with any uP chip.
-nB
Mostly true.
you can, in fact get 4" roll film, but it's a special order, only available with tech pan and tri-X
-nB
Oh, and it's not cheap, and developing it is a bitch. One fuckup and you lost tens of hours of work and a grand of film.
-nB
You are only being paid if you are not a salaried employee.
On-call does not mean house arrest, it means be available within a pre-determined ammount of time.
On-call for some emergency workers means 24x7 for two weeks (or more).
On-call often is the legal way to say "when not at work" (as in the cop for a small town).
On-call means every single friggen weekend (like my father in law).
Your stance means these people should be slaves in so far as free time is concerned and likely many would rather quit.
I realise that your experience of the phrase is more limited (if any at all), but you clearly have no idea what it means in the emergency services world. In the net admin world I would tend to agree with you, as I am on-call 1 weekend a month and must respond by phone within 15 min and be no more than 30 min from the office.
-nB
My father in law is an on-call police officer... ..." while still in the theater. If it's a real call he then leaves, if not he says "I'm busy" and hangs up.
yes he leaves everything on
yes it's set to vibrate
yes he says "hello, officer
-nB
Bingo.
I've had users complain that outlook was too slow, I looked at their PST and it was 1.4 gig! You can break that up and life is good (while I don't think that as a developer you should expect users to do shuch tasks, the fact remains that issues like this happen).
-nB