When times are good the business people dont listen on how to improve things; why change something that's working well? When things start going badly they cant afford to change. The leadership's failures then get forced onto the little guy and they start to get abused with needing to work their ass off for free... because naturally the business downturn must be the employee's laziness.
The employees naturally dont take it well and just start slacking it and looking for a new job. The business rarely recovers when they start dying.
RIM is dying because of 1 major reason. Their closed nature. Google does everything it can to get developers to their platform. RIM does everything it can to get rid of developers. For RIM to turn this around they will need to become open like google at least. This isnt going to happen without all the highest up execs being fired.
Yes but where does that isk come from? Where does the ships and ammo come from? It comes from the players. If they sell ships and ammo for $$. Which just gets spawned... this breaks the game.
Basically there's a long list of problems. Everyone understood that the latest changes and expansion were pretty damn crap and there was bugs which came with an expansion like any expansion for any game. Everyone was grumbly/sad but didnt care. The main new addition to the game however was these vanity items like clothes and hats which they sell for $$. The players were concerned but didnt care too much.
Then an internal document leaked which showed they wanted to sell non-vanity things, which basically breaks the game. Nobody really knew for sure if the "internal document" was real or not. After a day or so of anger a mod let loose a vague comment which basically confirmed it as real by calling it a "newsletter" which caused a real shitstorm but they just continued to ignore the situation.
Finally they make an apology but basically say nothing and while they mention issues... they dont address the biggest issue at all. Which made the players that much more angry. Then they have a senior person write a dev blog quickly because the amount of rage and he basically said nothing at all... if not added fuel to the fire.
Rage goes on and then someone leaks CEO internal letter which basically says, ignore the customers. Customers rage more and they demand to know if they want to sell non-vanity items. Which they confirm so Mass unsubscribing and protests. Afterall you still have a month of gameplay at least after unsubscribing so there's protesting.
I finished post secondary about 1 year ago and I had a person helping me find a job and she points out RIM is hiring like 5000 people a year that I should apply there. I say to her, "Android is going to explode in popularity and because of it RIM is going to lose market share heavily and 1 year from now RIM is going to start firing people and since their mentality is so proprietary and closed source they wont change and wont recover unless a miracle." 1 year is almost upon us and I was right.
The reality is that place is like area 51. You go there and you need to swipe ID basically everywhere you go, you could hide the stanley cup inside there and it would go missing for a very long time. A business like this isnt an open business and isnt going to be changing anytime soon unless the highest level execs get fired.
Developers Developers Developers Developers say what you will about Ballmer's stability but he's dead on. Developers drive platforms. Before Android you had essentially RIM vs Apple and Apple was moderately more open. Guess where all the developers went? Now Android came along and they are basically bending over backwards trying to get as many developers as possible and because of it they have become the largest market share.
If Developers are on a fence between android and RIM. RIM is smeegol in the corner saying "my precious blackberry nobody will touch you but me my precious." while android is on the other side of the fence screaming "come over here damnit come over here. free gadgets, free laptops, android everything."
If RIM wants to make a comeback.. they need to get some new revolutionary patent(prob isnt going to happen) or they need to be as open as android. Which basically means open source through and through. Which in my opinion isnt going to happen unless the executives all get fired.
This one woman who got the job I had applied for... she was utterly clueless. Instead I found a job as netadmin for an ISP. She was calling the level 1 techs constantly for help with problems... but they are clueless as her and eventually they'd shift her onto me. Our responsibility goes up to the modem and her problems were always 100% beyond the modem. So I just stood my ground... and she would rage. "Im regretting going with your ISP." id be like "well unfortunately im not allowed to help with customer's networks, my boss charges $95/hour for that help." she'd reply... "Ive already spent way too much money on tech help. Im going to get help again but if I find out it was your problem you are paying the bill." Which is what they do. They make a big stink until you fix their problem for them.
>General Rapporteur Lord Jopling claims that the loose-knit, leaderless group is "becoming more and more sophisticated", and "could potentially hack into sensitive government, military, and corporate files".
How does he go about measuring this exactly?
>A policy document released last month and signed by President Obama issued an oblique threat of military retaliation against hackers, if legal and political measures prove fruitless.
Yes because the actual governments really arent hacking each other and if they are.. they do it in such small ways it's irrelevant. You then have a group of people at most who might not actually be geographically close to each other and the only way to catch these peoples will take very sophisticated and intelligent police... but those dont exist. In the random occurrence that cops even manage to figure out who the guilty people are... your next step is to just drop a bomb on them? wtf?
Lets play a game. Russian organized crime have themselves a german based botnet because their money source is german based advertising. They then lose the source and now ddos the root american dns servers for the lulz ofcoarse. Pentagon just goes to President Palin... "Palin, Germany is ddosing root dns servers. We need to nuke germany." Palin: "Sure why not?"
Dont bother with certifications. Usually I would have suggested getting comptia A+ Net+ Linux+ sort of certifications. Except Comptia ended the lifetime certifications and now limit it them to 5 years. Which makes it completely worthless to get.
Which pretty much leaves only the elite certifications that like 500 people in the world have kind of thing. CSSIP, CCIE, and a couple others.
Instead experience and know-how is far better. If you are a programmer... program something that's public. If you're a cracker... get a couple 0days. If you are a network admin... go build a bunch of vms for different servers, openldap, postfix, etc etc. Put that stuff on your resume.
Ive personally seen friends get MCITP without issue. Truck driver who failed A+ twice and net+ once... got mcitp 1st time for each cert and he shouldnt have gotten it tbh.
The scientists that went on that trip are very bad at telling the difference between the truth and lies. They probably saw the scientists as missionaries and put on the good southern polite smile but never heard a word.
So I wrote my 0day. It's just a denial of service at this point because the actual exploit is heap-based and I'm a total noob and cant write a heap based exploit. This is an application that if I were to nmap the internet I'm sure I would find LOTS of this; as the whole purpose of the application is about being web-faced. The actual software has been included in lots of products.
I contact the software developer and say, "Hey I have a denial of service vulnerability that could be written into a remote code execution but I'm rather new and dont really wish to do that. So it remains a DOS." They respond back to me "Since it's just a DOS we dont really care" though not in those exact words.
So what do I do? I could sell to some badguy who then builds the next largest botnet using it; which I then get kidnapped by organized crime and forced to code exploits. Or I could sit on it as if I never did anything. Well that's what I did mainly because it's a newb exploit and dont want to be embarrassed by how lame it is.
Guess what.. That's the majority of software developers. Which is why most vulnerabilities get dropped on exploitdb full disclosure and they make no money. The few vendors who will pay for bugs and work with researchers are genuinely good guys who want to secure their software.
What we need though is a Software Recall system. New 0day? code execution? All that software must be recalled and patched else you are liable for damages.
Has anyone in a 1st world country ever been arrested for selling an exploit to another person who may have used it illegally? Hell catching actual blackhats is ridiculously low... going to court with someone who sold an exploit is going to be pretty fuckin difficult. I could sell a gun to someone and they might then go use it to kill someone but that's hardly my problem.
Why do you say that? Black hats can just say they are security researchers... until their name gets a headline they are as good a reference as anyone else. Though why even bother going this far? Most people I know just reference each other and establish fake companies that they all know how they operated in the company. Complete bullshit stories. Which realistically in the long run all references really are bullshit.
Actually we have building inspectors that ensure building work is done properly. If you wish the analogy to be true we will need to implement code inspectors who ensure it is problem free. In other words exploit-free. Im pretty sure recently the Americans considered trying this and basically all software developers grabbed their swords and put them to the neck of those involved.
I buy a tshirt. I make a copy and give it to a friend. Then I sell my original used one. There's no problems here? Tshirt manufacturers and designers arent whining. The same thing can be said for basically every other industry.
Why then does the digital media industry think they should get protection from copying and resale?
We dont seem to train any programmers. Computer science runs through many languages but never really makes you a programmer. Sysadmin training doesnt really make any programmers.
We also dont seem to be doing anything right when it comes to keeping IT pros. The pay is shit, hours are bad, stress is bad, and labour laws dont protect IT people. Most IT people get in entry level see how shit it is and leave the industry forever. Go work in a factory or construction and the hours are bad, stress is bad, labour laws sort of protect them. Except pay is good.
Then we wonder why nobody wants to go anywhere near this bullshit and you only get incompetent people.
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When times are good the business people dont listen on how to improve things; why change something that's working well? When things start going badly they cant afford to change. The leadership's failures then get forced onto the little guy and they start to get abused with needing to work their ass off for free... because naturally the business downturn must be the employee's laziness.
The employees naturally dont take it well and just start slacking it and looking for a new job. The business rarely recovers when they start dying.
RIM is dying because of 1 major reason. Their closed nature. Google does everything it can to get developers to their platform. RIM does everything it can to get rid of developers. For RIM to turn this around they will need to become open like google at least. This isnt going to happen without all the highest up execs being fired.
Bonjour is multicast decentralized chatting.
http://cspace.in/
cspace is basically what OP is speaking about.
Yes but where does that isk come from? Where does the ships and ammo come from? It comes from the players. If they sell ships and ammo for $$. Which just gets spawned... this breaks the game.
Basically there's a long list of problems. Everyone understood that the latest changes and expansion were pretty damn crap and there was bugs which came with an expansion like any expansion for any game. Everyone was grumbly/sad but didnt care. The main new addition to the game however was these vanity items like clothes and hats which they sell for $$. The players were concerned but didnt care too much.
Then an internal document leaked which showed they wanted to sell non-vanity things, which basically breaks the game. Nobody really knew for sure if the "internal document" was real or not. After a day or so of anger a mod let loose a vague comment which basically confirmed it as real by calling it a "newsletter" which caused a real shitstorm but they just continued to ignore the situation.
Finally they make an apology but basically say nothing and while they mention issues... they dont address the biggest issue at all. Which made the players that much more angry. Then they have a senior person write a dev blog quickly because the amount of rage and he basically said nothing at all... if not added fuel to the fire.
Rage goes on and then someone leaks CEO internal letter which basically says, ignore the customers. Customers rage more and they demand to know if they want to sell non-vanity items. Which they confirm so Mass unsubscribing and protests. Afterall you still have a month of gameplay at least after unsubscribing so there's protesting.
I finished post secondary about 1 year ago and I had a person helping me find a job and she points out RIM is hiring like 5000 people a year that I should apply there. I say to her, "Android is going to explode in popularity and because of it RIM is going to lose market share heavily and 1 year from now RIM is going to start firing people and since their mentality is so proprietary and closed source they wont change and wont recover unless a miracle." 1 year is almost upon us and I was right.
The reality is that place is like area 51. You go there and you need to swipe ID basically everywhere you go, you could hide the stanley cup inside there and it would go missing for a very long time. A business like this isnt an open business and isnt going to be changing anytime soon unless the highest level execs get fired.
Developers Developers Developers Developers say what you will about Ballmer's stability but he's dead on. Developers drive platforms. Before Android you had essentially RIM vs Apple and Apple was moderately more open. Guess where all the developers went? Now Android came along and they are basically bending over backwards trying to get as many developers as possible and because of it they have become the largest market share.
If Developers are on a fence between android and RIM. RIM is smeegol in the corner saying "my precious blackberry nobody will touch you but me my precious." while android is on the other side of the fence screaming "come over here damnit come over here. free gadgets, free laptops, android everything."
If RIM wants to make a comeback.. they need to get some new revolutionary patent(prob isnt going to happen) or they need to be as open as android. Which basically means open source through and through. Which in my opinion isnt going to happen unless the executives all get fired.
No. QNX is an epic base. They just need to open their platform up and allow developers free reign like android has.
cloud not only has no sla. It gives itself indemnification so you cant even sue if you thought you had uptime.
1. Get a cheap VPS.
2. SSH -> sshfs for linux or expandrive for windows.
3. Have a folder named public in the folder you sshfs. Have that be the root of your webserver directory.
This one woman who got the job I had applied for... she was utterly clueless. Instead I found a job as netadmin for an ISP. She was calling the level 1 techs constantly for help with problems... but they are clueless as her and eventually they'd shift her onto me. Our responsibility goes up to the modem and her problems were always 100% beyond the modem. So I just stood my ground... and she would rage. "Im regretting going with your ISP." id be like "well unfortunately im not allowed to help with customer's networks, my boss charges $95/hour for that help." she'd reply... "Ive already spent way too much money on tech help. Im going to get help again but if I find out it was your problem you are paying the bill." Which is what they do. They make a big stink until you fix their problem for them.
>General Rapporteur Lord Jopling claims that the loose-knit, leaderless group is "becoming more and more sophisticated", and "could potentially hack into sensitive government, military, and corporate files".
How does he go about measuring this exactly?
>A policy document released last month and signed by President Obama issued an oblique threat of military retaliation against hackers, if legal and political measures prove fruitless.
Yes because the actual governments really arent hacking each other and if they are.. they do it in such small ways it's irrelevant. You then have a group of people at most who might not actually be geographically close to each other and the only way to catch these peoples will take very sophisticated and intelligent police... but those dont exist. In the random occurrence that cops even manage to figure out who the guilty people are... your next step is to just drop a bomb on them? wtf?
Lets play a game. Russian organized crime have themselves a german based botnet because their money source is german based advertising. They then lose the source and now ddos the root american dns servers for the lulz ofcoarse. Pentagon just goes to President Palin... "Palin, Germany is ddosing root dns servers. We need to nuke germany." Palin: "Sure why not?"
Dont bother with certifications. Usually I would have suggested getting comptia A+ Net+ Linux+ sort of certifications. Except Comptia ended the lifetime certifications and now limit it them to 5 years. Which makes it completely worthless to get.
Which pretty much leaves only the elite certifications that like 500 people in the world have kind of thing. CSSIP, CCIE, and a couple others.
Instead experience and know-how is far better. If you are a programmer... program something that's public. If you're a cracker... get a couple 0days. If you are a network admin... go build a bunch of vms for different servers, openldap, postfix, etc etc. Put that stuff on your resume.
Ive personally seen friends get MCITP without issue. Truck driver who failed A+ twice and net+ once... got mcitp 1st time for each cert and he shouldnt have gotten it tbh.
The scientists that went on that trip are very bad at telling the difference between the truth and lies. They probably saw the scientists as missionaries and put on the good southern polite smile but never heard a word.
So I wrote my 0day. It's just a denial of service at this point because the actual exploit is heap-based and I'm a total noob and cant write a heap based exploit. This is an application that if I were to nmap the internet I'm sure I would find LOTS of this; as the whole purpose of the application is about being web-faced. The actual software has been included in lots of products.
I contact the software developer and say, "Hey I have a denial of service vulnerability that could be written into a remote code execution but I'm rather new and dont really wish to do that. So it remains a DOS." They respond back to me "Since it's just a DOS we dont really care" though not in those exact words.
So what do I do? I could sell to some badguy who then builds the next largest botnet using it; which I then get kidnapped by organized crime and forced to code exploits. Or I could sit on it as if I never did anything. Well that's what I did mainly because it's a newb exploit and dont want to be embarrassed by how lame it is.
Guess what.. That's the majority of software developers. Which is why most vulnerabilities get dropped on exploitdb full disclosure and they make no money. The few vendors who will pay for bugs and work with researchers are genuinely good guys who want to secure their software.
What we need though is a Software Recall system. New 0day? code execution? All that software must be recalled and patched else you are liable for damages.
Has anyone in a 1st world country ever been arrested for selling an exploit to another person who may have used it illegally? Hell catching actual blackhats is ridiculously low... going to court with someone who sold an exploit is going to be pretty fuckin difficult. I could sell a gun to someone and they might then go use it to kill someone but that's hardly my problem.
So you think the security researchers should only sell to the government? Or work for free? You're nuts.
Why do you say that? Black hats can just say they are security researchers... until their name gets a headline they are as good a reference as anyone else. Though why even bother going this far? Most people I know just reference each other and establish fake companies that they all know how they operated in the company. Complete bullshit stories. Which realistically in the long run all references really are bullshit.
Actually we have building inspectors that ensure building work is done properly. If you wish the analogy to be true we will need to implement code inspectors who ensure it is problem free. In other words exploit-free. Im pretty sure recently the Americans considered trying this and basically all software developers grabbed their swords and put them to the neck of those involved.
I buy a tshirt. I make a copy and give it to a friend. Then I sell my original used one. There's no problems here? Tshirt manufacturers and designers arent whining. The same thing can be said for basically every other industry. Why then does the digital media industry think they should get protection from copying and resale?
Dont worry. Soon Canada will have both.
We dont seem to train any programmers. Computer science runs through many languages but never really makes you a programmer. Sysadmin training doesnt really make any programmers. We also dont seem to be doing anything right when it comes to keeping IT pros. The pay is shit, hours are bad, stress is bad, and labour laws dont protect IT people. Most IT people get in entry level see how shit it is and leave the industry forever. Go work in a factory or construction and the hours are bad, stress is bad, labour laws sort of protect them. Except pay is good. Then we wonder why nobody wants to go anywhere near this bullshit and you only get incompetent people.
Now they have a skilled programmer and net admin. Except pay probably hasnt doubled but your workload most likely has doubled.
rim going the way of encarta. everytime open source pulls ahead of closed source. closed source disappears.
I read the article and I check my neighbourhood and basically everyone has already taken part in the movement and set their wifi to open.