I think this is a childish approach and very dangerous because of the legality of doing this, however I do understand their need to highlight this serious issue, this is clearly the wrong way.
In fact I would go so far as to say this is an unauthorised pen-test, in that part of a pen-test is in finding hosts/networks in the same way the physical location has been found, but not only found, also published.
I dont know where liability and juristiction come into play here, i'm surprised these guys/gals are prepared to go this extreme and risk finding out.
Surely a CNN interview would do their careers good and promote the issue far wider than a website could?
You can do many jobs or even re-train yourself to do coding from remote. System Administration is often conducted from home so no real problems there unless it's a small company because you need somethere there to do physical systems work.
So your looking for a SME to a large company, very likely global, that will allow you to work remotely. Hmmm this is'nt going to happen. You need to define what country your wife is going to work in and then do something about it.
You could of course run an Internet business, however many people forget that even that cannot be run completely from remote, there is still paperwork, meetings, bills, landlords, and other physicalo necessities that you'll need. I'm sure some college kid on here will disagree with that, but then they probably hav'nt clocked up 1 real day of work in their life.
So in short, you both need to define what countru your going to end up in, before doing any more planning. Also bear in mind the differences in infrastructure between country's, you may not have access to ADSL/Cable modem/leased line in that region/country.
I would think it's the age old concept that it's easier to leave than re-educate the management team. They often don't take well to criticism be that positive or negative. If they do take criticism, then stay with them, because they are rare and you have a good team.
A good team needs to be able to handle the truth in order to flourish, this does not seem to be the case here.
Out of curiosity, does the Project Manager also work the same hours he expects his staff to work? Did'nt think so.
I'm surprised to see thinking people dismayed by this. Personally I think this guy could do with some support and titling the article "Mr Anti-Google" does not help, but then/. has become commercial even though people hav'nt quite relised it yet.
Why do people believe those companies who we rely upon are perfect in every way?
It's worth emphasising that there is also big money here at stake.
Also, interestingly, http://www.google-watch.org/ is down at the moment.
Something that i've noticied, is that those that criticise others, often criticise to hide their own inadequacy's.
Positive is stuff that's justified and fair. Negative criticism often has no purpose other than to make oneself look better than others and creates a very bad and unproductive environment in which to work.
A lot of college grads use negative criticism, and are quite difficult to work with for this very reason.
When they say the desktop is dead, they mean that Linux X11 applications have a way to go before users find they are rock solid and work flawlessly, people nowadays expect everything on demand, a house, a wife, decent X applications.
I'm personally disappointed that Rasterman does'nt continue because he likes doing it, but because he wants to be in the middle of things. Perhaps Rasterman should become the business spokesperson for Linux.
I also wish people would'nt take the viewpoint of Linux having or being in a battle with Windows. It does'nt work like that, Linux is an alternative, you either choose it or you don't. It's not designed to be a Windows competitor, that's what magazine article writers would have you believe because a good confrontation makes a good story.
>Windows has won. Face it. The market is not >driven by a technically superior kernel, or an >OS that avoids its crashes a few times a day
ok, I take a strongly traditionalist viewpoint of this, Linux should not be in any market, when they say market, the market people talk about mostly relates to click and see systems, OS X, Windows, BeOS etc, Linux like UNIX does'nt conform to "that market".
>LaM: Where do you think the future ought to lie >for desktop Linux?
>R: There is none
It's upto you Rasterman to do something about it, if you disagree and me and you too reading this.
I must say, i've lost a lot of respect for Rasterman as a Linux representative. He seems to be stuck in the present of what is out there now, but not what will be there in 5 years. No one knew Linux would be this useful and yet it is 5 years ago. For someone who is a genius coder, i'm a little disappointed that he does'nt have social foresight.
Is'nt the whole point or the unwritten rule of OSS for
a) access to source code b) no advertising
It's bad enough as I walk down to the shops to buy some teabags and am assaulted by adverts all over the place, but to have to put up with it on a PC is too much!
Advertising free Operating System certified is what we want!
There is really only 1 way to achieve any decent security skills. You need 2 people, say 2 sysadmins, and you play white and black hats.
One of you emulates the attacker, investigating the tools and mindset the intruder may take, and the other, investigate security tools to investigate better lock down policy's.
You then swap notes, and then hats and start again.
Computer and network security is a long and involved process, but perhaps one of the most interesting.
It's also the most misunderstood field and sometimes, profession.
I can see this move by Microsoft backfiring in a big way. With a tighter economy, in particular less revenue coming into a company, the emphasis is on cost cutting, not increased expenditure. It's clear Microsoft has set the path for higher operating costs this will annoy people from the CFO's who are pulling back the reins and saying, whoa there boy to the techies who are content and in some cases still doubtful over Windows XP's performance and stability.
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I think this is a childish approach and very dangerous because of the legality of doing this, however I do understand their need to highlight this serious issue, this is clearly the wrong way.
In fact I would go so far as to say this is an unauthorised pen-test, in that part of a pen-test is in finding hosts/networks in the same way the physical location has been found, but not only found, also published.
I dont know where liability and juristiction come into play here, i'm surprised these guys/gals are prepared to go this extreme and risk finding out.
Surely a CNN interview would do their careers good and promote the issue far wider than a website could?
Did anyone tell the new management that Perens job description was to be argumentative?
I use Spamcop a lot, however I wonder how successful it really is in stopping spam long term.
Does this only apply to Americans, or does the FTC cover elsewhere/entire Internet/world?
What if your in America and the spam comes from China?
Strangely enough, this is quite interesting.
How about information on Japanese games?
There is a heck of a lot of marketing shite on that website which abstracts what they are actually doing.
As a workaround why don't all airlines introduce Internet terminals and more legroom to accomodate for a keyboard.
I think an airline has already done this, anyone know which one?
Anyone with bandwidth care to mirror it?
Is this a joke? Who wants to see Harlem? Has the world gone mad.
You can do many jobs or even re-train yourself to do coding from remote. System Administration is often conducted from home so no real problems there unless it's a small company because you need somethere there to do physical systems work.
So your looking for a SME to a large company, very likely global, that will allow you to work remotely. Hmmm this is'nt going to happen. You need to define what country your wife is going to work in and then do something about it.
You could of course run an Internet business, however many people forget that even that cannot be run completely from remote, there is still paperwork, meetings, bills, landlords, and other physicalo necessities that you'll need. I'm sure some college kid on here will disagree with that, but then they probably hav'nt clocked up 1 real day of work in their life.
So in short, you both need to define what countru your going to end up in, before doing any more planning. Also bear in mind the differences in infrastructure between country's, you may not have access to ADSL/Cable modem/leased line in that region/country.
Good luck.
I would think it's the age old concept that it's easier to leave than re-educate the management team. They often don't take well to criticism be that positive or negative. If they do take criticism, then stay with them, because they are rare and you have a good team.
A good team needs to be able to handle the truth in order to flourish, this does not seem to be the case here.
Out of curiosity, does the Project Manager also work the same hours he expects his staff to work? Did'nt think so.
I'm surprised to see thinking people dismayed by this. Personally I think this guy could do with some support and titling the article "Mr Anti-Google" does not help, but then /. has become commercial even though people hav'nt quite relised it yet.
Why do people believe those companies who we rely upon are perfect in every way?
It's worth emphasising that there is also big money here at stake.
Also, interestingly, http://www.google-watch.org/ is down at the moment.
It's worth pointing out that if you do use ssh then don't use passwords in case a company uses keyboard monitoring tools.
Passwordless ssh (RSA/DSA)keys means anyone with access to the box can access the remote server.
You'd have to use a one time pad, like a SecurID card, this would provide security so you knew you "safer".
Of course then ssh MITM attacks could come into play, so you must watch those warnings of changed system keys.
Joy of joys.
How do we complain to these idiots?
Internet petition? Email?
What about the little people without a network, how do they boot, CDROM is not 100% always the best way or always possible.
The manufacturers "Dell, IBM, Gateway etc", are only interested in the big companies who buy by the thousand who have huge networks.
I use it all the time.
This is a ridiculous move by PC manufacturers.
Ask the users, and over 50% will say keep the floppy, their just being complacent for the sake of it.
Boycott all PC manufacturers, don't buy any PC's!
Something that i've noticied, is that those that criticise others, often criticise to hide their own inadequacy's.
Positive is stuff that's justified and fair.
Negative criticism often has no purpose other than to make oneself look better than others and creates a very bad and unproductive environment in which to work.
A lot of college grads use negative criticism, and are quite difficult to work with for this very reason.
Well I was at the London meetup at 7.30pm today and asked 2 of the people who worked there about the /. meetup and got silly reply's from both.
Did anyone got Navajo Joes or was the whole thing a prank?
It needs to be better organised, perhaps even reserved, so people clearly know where to go, and don't waste their time!
Where can I find Redhat 7.3 RPM's for Mozilla 1.1b? I would of expected these to be provided like 1.0.
When they say the desktop is dead, they mean that Linux X11 applications have a way to go before users find they are rock solid and work flawlessly, people nowadays expect everything on demand, a house, a wife, decent X applications.
I'm personally disappointed that Rasterman does'nt continue because he likes doing it, but because he wants to be in the middle of things. Perhaps Rasterman should become the business spokesperson for Linux.
I also wish people would'nt take the viewpoint of Linux having or being in a battle with Windows. It does'nt work like that, Linux is an alternative, you either choose it or you don't. It's not designed to be a Windows competitor, that's what magazine article writers would have you believe because a good confrontation makes a good story.
>Windows has won. Face it. The market is not >driven by a technically superior kernel, or an >OS that avoids its crashes a few times a day
ok, I take a strongly traditionalist viewpoint of this, Linux should not be in any market, when they say market, the market people talk about mostly relates to click and see systems, OS X, Windows, BeOS etc, Linux like UNIX does'nt conform to "that market".
>LaM: Where do you think the future ought to lie >for desktop Linux?
>R: There is none
It's upto you Rasterman to do something about it, if you disagree and me and you too reading this.
I must say, i've lost a lot of respect for Rasterman as a Linux representative. He seems to be stuck in the present of what is out there now, but not what will be there in 5 years. No one knew Linux would be this useful and yet it is 5 years ago. For someone who is a genius coder, i'm a little disappointed that he does'nt have social foresight.
The functionality advertised should already of been part of Sybase, which leads me to wonder if it's actually any good in terms of security.
No doubt, Ballmer will make Windows Patriot compliant, and score political brownie points in doing so.
This is another factor to taking away our democracy, people, do you see it yet?
Is'nt the whole point or the unwritten rule of OSS for
a) access to source code
b) no advertising
It's bad enough as I walk down to the shops to buy some teabags and am assaulted by adverts all over the place, but to have to put up with it on a PC is too much!
Advertising free Operating System certified is what we want!
There is really only 1 way to achieve any decent security skills. You need 2 people, say 2 sysadmins, and you play white and black hats.
One of you emulates the attacker, investigating the tools and mindset the intruder may take, and the other, investigate security tools to investigate better lock down policy's.
You then swap notes, and then hats and start again.
Computer and network security is a long and involved process, but perhaps one of the most interesting.
It's also the most misunderstood field and sometimes, profession.
I can see this move by Microsoft backfiring in a big way. With a tighter economy, in particular less revenue coming into a company, the emphasis is on cost cutting, not increased expenditure. It's clear Microsoft has set the path for higher operating costs this will annoy people from the CFO's who are pulling back the reins and saying, whoa there boy to the techies who are content and in some cases still doubtful over Windows XP's performance and stability.
This could be a golden decision for Linux.
I prefer GNOME to KDE, yet I use KDE, why?
The GNOME UI is much better, yet KDE is more stable. Stability is much more important than pretty pictures and I can live with it.
There is significant scope for user growth which will only come from a more polished and more user orientated User Interface.