My tech lead and immediate manager have my cell number. HR has my home number. My previous manager abused having my cell phone (I pointed out it was pre-paid, and personal, thus if work wants me to have a phone they can buy one, here is my personal number if something is genuinely on-fire [e.g. a customer is pissed off and it is all hands/lines down]). He would call me about quote requests, schedule dates months out, etc. Only once did he use it for a borderline emergency (he was in a meeting with his pants down about a deadline two days away). I submitted an expense report for a $100 pre-paid card. Naturally it was declined and I pressed the issue with purchasing/finance. I bulldogged it to the point it was paid. Word got around (quietly). When I gave my new manager my phone number and the emergency talk he paid attention, they consider me a star employee and I produce well for them, but I have specific limits. Have gotten exactly one phone call and it was because one of my debug systems actually started smoking and they turned it off. -nB
My dad worked for Douglas Aircraft, and was laid off. Got a job at McDonnell Aircraft. Two years or so later they merged and my dad became his former boss's boss. How's that for a flip. Always treat people with respect, you really don't know what will happen in the future.
My Sensi was telling us a story the other day how some years ago he didn't see another car and cut someone off. When they pulled up to a light, right as the other person was getting ready to tell him off, my sensi apologized about how he was sooo sorry and was glad he didn't cause an accident, then opened a 12 pack of Coke he just bought and tossed the guy one.
Two weeks later the guy shows up in class to pick up his kid, and recognizes Sensi as "that guy who gave me a Coke" not "That jackass that cut me off". -nB
I had a similar experience. I had to fire myself because my Ex Boss was having such a hard time of me being redundant. He kept stammering and starting over "well you see, um... I think I mean... well... um... I don't know how to say..." Me: "That slam dunk you mentioned a week ago hit the rim of the basket and bounced into the stands and I am now a free agent". him: "yeah, I'm sorry". We had a lengthy discussion after that where I told him where I thought the process went sideways and covered who was staying and would be able to take over various aspects of my roles I held. I even consulted for him a couple times. When he called to ask if I could work for him again about a month and a half later it was a real ego boost. I told him that I already had a new job that I enjoyed and paid a little better. He offered a raise and I responded "Please don't take this the wrong way, but the cost to hire me is a minimum of six digits pay and a two year contract with a 90% buyout option." He declined, but said her totally understood my stance. We still talk from time to time, and I still answer questions like: "Where did we buy the gearhead theta motors with the crown on them from?" (Rolex, if you're interested, makes very good gearheads). In summary: My current job is working for someone who I worked with 10 years ago, when I left there is was due to a relatively (and obviously) hostile environment, I remained professional at nearly all costs. When he heard I was available he snatched me up immediately. He had me interview with a couple people on his tea that didn't know me just to avoid looking like favoritism.
How will the hypervisor load if it is not signed? That's the point of secure boot, only your "trusted" os kernel loads, from there only "trusted" DLLs (or SOs) load, etc. Now the target of this is actually content protection with a nice side benefit to power users of having a secure kernel, but make no mistake about it, this is a DRM pre-loader. -nB
This has nothing to do with vendor lock in (in the/. microsoft sense) nor is it really targeted at preventing viruses. It is so that microsoft or apple can sell an OS that is guaranteed to not have been tampered with for content protection enforced at boot time by the hardware.
I imagine there will be ways around this, but it is going to be much harder. -nB
We do that where I work. Certain documents are trade secret, and we want to make sure they don't become trade secrete(tions). if you get a copy of the document, it will have some very simple alterations (extra space here or there, couple more pixels per row in tables, etc.) This is along with the more normal markings that it was checked out to you etc. If the document leaks they can scan it in to the computer and it will calculate who the doc belonged to. Yes you can compare multiple copies, but this requires collaboration, which raises the bar. -nB
you picked the worst of the examples to use, as my one experience with a union shop was eerily similar to being raped by a bunch of bullies. But, yes i think his examples are a bit extreme. -nB
?!?! From health care difference to union rebuttal in one sentence? I'm missing something. I buy healthcare because it makes sense for me to do so. You do not buy health care because you do not tink it makes sense. I see no reason to force you to buy health care (but I am anti-union in tech).
But: just like in a union free shop, where similar people of similar capabilities and similar time on the job may have quite different pay because one negotiated better at hiring time, I expect that you will accept that since you did not buy healthcare you will foot the bill when you go to the ER with a broken arm and not shirk the bill.
Please mind, I do not know you, and I have no reason to think you would shirk the bill, but plenty of people do. -nB
depends on your size as a company. The VLAN setup is likely the best you can do if you are a very small startup. It certainly is better then stuff we've all seen where the domain server is also the web server is also the DB server, etc.
At some point you need to do better, but starting out I would say it's viable.
On the flip side, if you already have enough demand to need the capacity for two blade systems full of blades, then you really should be physically segmenting stuff at that point. -nB
Which is why you carefully add a tap ahead of the smart meter inside your house and use that tap for transient high current loads, like a welder or kiln, but leave your house on the meter. Much less likely to get caught, as your baseline usage is unchanged.
People who steal power are usually really greedy and steal most/all of it. The effect is that the power company sees a nice step function downward in usage. Makes it easy to identify cheats. -nB
FWIW I had a check I deposited at an ATM "corrected" for/10 the amount. I called the bank and they said they don't make that kind of errors. I insisted. Finally they checked and wow, they were wrong! All this was in one phone call of 10 min (not several spread over hours). Within half an hour I was credited back the proper amount.
The difference between my experience and what you describe? I'm with a Credit Union (NCUA, not FDIC). Seriously, there is no excuse to be with any NA (not BofA, not Chase, not Wells Fargo, no-one). Go to a local credit union and you will never go back to a regular bank. -nB
My kids are my only dealbreaker. I am an electronics guy by profession, but a jack of all trades (repairs and bodging is something I really enjoy, as is hydroponics/gardening). I think I would be ideal for this mission except I would not be willing to go.
Part of me honestly lusts after the glory of being one of the first 4 on Mars, but I refuse to leave my kids. It really is that simple. -nB
Well, it's not like anyone's going to make you plug the cameras back in over in hab 3. If there's a sock on the doorknob, don't come in. There may be some wierdness in scheduling time in hab 3, but that's something the inhabitants can deal with. -nB
Has happened at NASA when the large tanks are purged with N2 and someone goes in. IIRC there was a double fatality when a co-worker went in to rescue the first. -nB
I just wish he was lonesome Fred, that way we could sing the entire "Not yet dead / Not Dead Fred" from Monty Python to celebrate his passing... (yeah, just saw the musical by Eric Idle, hilarity). -nB
I just wonder, is there no way to ensure that these machines are properly locked down? At home I run a WinXP VM that boots from a locked volume and a delta disk. I can always diff any system files (and in fact have a script that does this) against an MD5 hash of the install files. I can re-hash after running a windows update. more than once I've found that the machine has changed in a way that I think is undesirable and I revert it.
I would think these SCADA systems would be relatively easy to do the same thing with, prior to boot, verify the integrity of the media, then boot if good.
I realize it is likely overkill for a home user (me), but for a country's nuclear program I would think this is part and parcel to normal operation. -nB
Fraud, yes. Interception of communication? I don't think so. Though from the other perspective: It is interception, given that there would have been a bounce of the e-mail had he not 'intercepted' it...
I'm just going to get some popcorn and watch the show. -nB
Perhaps there is an opportunity to add "on the Internet" to a criminal activity and get a patent. Then you as an otherwise uninterested third party could join the fray with a patent suit brought in East Texas...
They tried (larabee IIRC) and failed. Intel == low-end graphics, that is just the way it is. I wish it were different, but such is the state of affairs. (They are getting better, but really only maintaining the gab, not closing it). -nB
This is not people's poor choices causing them hardship, this is their bank fscking the system hard. Like I said, even I, with a 12 month rainy day fund, would be in a world of hurt, because I would not be able to put the money into the account to pay bills with, even if I could get it out from where it was.
Someone living wholly beyond their means is one thing. A bank not posting deposits is entirely different. Different, and unforgivable. -nB
Problem is , many of the bits required for writing a driver are unreleased/undocumented. We couldn't write a driver if we tried when the vendor won't give us the specs required. Wireless cards are an issue too, with their binary blob drivers. -nB
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My tech lead and immediate manager have my cell number. HR has my home number. My previous manager abused having my cell phone (I pointed out it was pre-paid, and personal, thus if work wants me to have a phone they can buy one, here is my personal number if something is genuinely on-fire [e.g. a customer is pissed off and it is all hands/lines down]). He would call me about quote requests, schedule dates months out, etc. Only once did he use it for a borderline emergency (he was in a meeting with his pants down about a deadline two days away). I submitted an expense report for a $100 pre-paid card. Naturally it was declined and I pressed the issue with purchasing/finance. I bulldogged it to the point it was paid.
Word got around (quietly).
When I gave my new manager my phone number and the emergency talk he paid attention, they consider me a star employee and I produce well for them, but I have specific limits. Have gotten exactly one phone call and it was because one of my debug systems actually started smoking and they turned it off.
-nB
My dad worked for Douglas Aircraft, and was laid off. Got a job at McDonnell Aircraft. Two years or so later they merged and my dad became his former boss's boss. How's that for a flip.
Always treat people with respect, you really don't know what will happen in the future.
My Sensi was telling us a story the other day how some years ago he didn't see another car and cut someone off.
When they pulled up to a light, right as the other person was getting ready to tell him off, my sensi apologized about how he was sooo sorry and was glad he didn't cause an accident, then opened a 12 pack of Coke he just bought and tossed the guy one.
Two weeks later the guy shows up in class to pick up his kid, and recognizes Sensi as "that guy who gave me a Coke" not "That jackass that cut me off".
-nB
I had a similar experience. I had to fire myself because my Ex Boss was having such a hard time of me being redundant. He kept stammering and starting over "well you see, um... I think I mean... well... um... I don't know how to say..." Me: "That slam dunk you mentioned a week ago hit the rim of the basket and bounced into the stands and I am now a free agent". him: "yeah, I'm sorry".
We had a lengthy discussion after that where I told him where I thought the process went sideways and covered who was staying and would be able to take over various aspects of my roles I held. I even consulted for him a couple times. When he called to ask if I could work for him again about a month and a half later it was a real ego boost. I told him that I already had a new job that I enjoyed and paid a little better. He offered a raise and I responded "Please don't take this the wrong way, but the cost to hire me is a minimum of six digits pay and a two year contract with a 90% buyout option."
He declined, but said her totally understood my stance. We still talk from time to time, and I still answer questions like: "Where did we buy the gearhead theta motors with the crown on them from?" (Rolex, if you're interested, makes very good gearheads).
In summary: My current job is working for someone who I worked with 10 years ago, when I left there is was due to a relatively (and obviously) hostile environment, I remained professional at nearly all costs. When he heard I was available he snatched me up immediately. He had me interview with a couple people on his tea that didn't know me just to avoid looking like favoritism.
-nB
How will the hypervisor load if it is not signed?
That's the point of secure boot, only your "trusted" os kernel loads, from there only "trusted" DLLs (or SOs) load, etc. Now the target of this is actually content protection with a nice side benefit to power users of having a secure kernel, but make no mistake about it, this is a DRM pre-loader.
-nB
This has nothing to do with vendor lock in (in the /. microsoft sense) nor is it really targeted at preventing viruses. It is so that microsoft or apple can sell an OS that is guaranteed to not have been tampered with for content protection enforced at boot time by the hardware.
I imagine there will be ways around this, but it is going to be much harder.
-nB
We do that where I work. Certain documents are trade secret, and we want to make sure they don't become trade secrete(tions).
if you get a copy of the document, it will have some very simple alterations (extra space here or there, couple more pixels per row in tables, etc.) This is along with the more normal markings that it was checked out to you etc.
If the document leaks they can scan it in to the computer and it will calculate who the doc belonged to.
Yes you can compare multiple copies, but this requires collaboration, which raises the bar.
-nB
you picked the worst of the examples to use, as my one experience with a union shop was eerily similar to being raped by a bunch of bullies.
But, yes i think his examples are a bit extreme.
-nB
?!?!
From health care difference to union rebuttal in one sentence? I'm missing something.
I buy healthcare because it makes sense for me to do so. You do not buy health care because you do not tink it makes sense. I see no reason to force you to buy health care (but I am anti-union in tech).
But:
just like in a union free shop, where similar people of similar capabilities and similar time on the job may have quite different pay because one negotiated better at hiring time, I expect that you will accept that since you did not buy healthcare you will foot the bill when you go to the ER with a broken arm and not shirk the bill.
Please mind, I do not know you, and I have no reason to think you would shirk the bill, but plenty of people do.
-nB
depends on your size as a company. The VLAN setup is likely the best you can do if you are a very small startup. It certainly is better then stuff we've all seen where the domain server is also the web server is also the DB server, etc.
At some point you need to do better, but starting out I would say it's viable.
On the flip side, if you already have enough demand to need the capacity for two blade systems full of blades, then you really should be physically segmenting stuff at that point.
-nB
Which is why you carefully add a tap ahead of the smart meter inside your house and use that tap for transient high current loads, like a welder or kiln, but leave your house on the meter. Much less likely to get caught, as your baseline usage is unchanged.
People who steal power are usually really greedy and steal most/all of it. The effect is that the power company sees a nice step function downward in usage. Makes it easy to identify cheats.
-nB
FWIW I had a check I deposited at an ATM "corrected" for /10 the amount.
I called the bank and they said they don't make that kind of errors.
I insisted. Finally they checked and wow, they were wrong!
All this was in one phone call of 10 min (not several spread over hours).
Within half an hour I was credited back the proper amount.
The difference between my experience and what you describe?
I'm with a Credit Union (NCUA, not FDIC). Seriously, there is no excuse to be with any NA (not BofA, not Chase, not Wells Fargo, no-one).
Go to a local credit union and you will never go back to a regular bank.
-nB
Human studies board my disagree with you
Painting it black is pretty effective at shedding heat. Most radar absorptive coatings are black / dark already...
Ya know... I might actually watch that. what kind of high tech problems are we talking about?
My kids are my only dealbreaker. I am an electronics guy by profession, but a jack of all trades (repairs and bodging is something I really enjoy, as is hydroponics/gardening). I think I would be ideal for this mission except I would not be willing to go.
Part of me honestly lusts after the glory of being one of the first 4 on Mars, but I refuse to leave my kids. It really is that simple.
-nB
Well, it's not like anyone's going to make you plug the cameras back in over in hab 3. If there's a sock on the doorknob, don't come in.
There may be some wierdness in scheduling time in hab 3, but that's something the inhabitants can deal with.
-nB
Has happened at NASA when the large tanks are purged with N2 and someone goes in.
IIRC there was a double fatality when a co-worker went in to rescue the first.
-nB
I just wish he was lonesome Fred, that way we could sing the entire "Not yet dead / Not Dead Fred" from Monty Python to celebrate his passing...
(yeah, just saw the musical by Eric Idle, hilarity).
-nB
I just wonder, is there no way to ensure that these machines are properly locked down?
At home I run a WinXP VM that boots from a locked volume and a delta disk.
I can always diff any system files (and in fact have a script that does this) against an MD5 hash of the install files.
I can re-hash after running a windows update.
more than once I've found that the machine has changed in a way that I think is undesirable and I revert it.
I would think these SCADA systems would be relatively easy to do the same thing with, prior to boot, verify the integrity of the media, then boot if good.
I realize it is likely overkill for a home user (me), but for a country's nuclear program I would think this is part and parcel to normal operation.
-nB
Fraud, yes. Interception of communication? I don't think so.
Though from the other perspective:
It is interception, given that there would have been a bounce of the e-mail had he not 'intercepted' it...
I'm just going to get some popcorn and watch the show.
-nB
Perhaps there is an opportunity to add "on the Internet" to a criminal activity and get a patent. Then you as an otherwise uninterested third party could join the fray with a patent suit brought in East Texas...
They tried (larabee IIRC) and failed. Intel == low-end graphics, that is just the way it is.
I wish it were different, but such is the state of affairs. (They are getting better, but really only maintaining the gab, not closing it).
-nB
This is not people's poor choices causing them hardship, this is their bank fscking the system hard.
Like I said, even I, with a 12 month rainy day fund, would be in a world of hurt, because I would not be able to put the money into the account to pay bills with, even if I could get it out from where it was.
Someone living wholly beyond their means is one thing. A bank not posting deposits is entirely different. Different, and unforgivable.
-nB
120 char limit :(
Problem is , many of the bits required for writing a driver are unreleased/undocumented. We couldn't write a driver if we tried when the vendor won't give us the specs required.
Wireless cards are an issue too, with their binary blob drivers.
-nB