I downloaded and executed a program called windows web commander while running MSE. It gave me no warning. I had to restore the computer to a date before downloading to get it to work again. It started with a pop up message stating I had a virus. The program asked for money to remove the virus which was essentially itself.
Even the best code can't fix stupid...
NO anti-virus/anti-malware/anti-rootkit/etc gets them all. AV is run as an early warning system. If something slips past, you either restore from backup or scan with another tool and hope it finds whatever got past the first tool.
Which is why they are fielded as a part of a battlefleet.
You don't send a ship out alone. You send a battlefleet, consisting of a big, powerful, vulnerable ship, and an array of smaller ships that complement it's strengths, and serve to protect it vs known weaknesses.
What planet do you live on? You'll be waiting a long time if you think you're ever going to live in a world where people will just do the right thing out of principle.
It was Areanet's mistake. Of course people took advantage of it, and you really can't punish them for it.
I openly admit my choice of non-Apple products for my personal use is based on feelings for a relative of mine and not on a technical reason (and really has nothing at all to do with Apple, the company).
It in no way invalidates my opinion that the OS choice for a camera is not nearly as important as is its' functionality as a camera, but that there may be some neat features that can result from said OS choice.
The phone is primarily a phone, the camera is primarily a camera. The other shit is not important... they are toys. Why do I bother? I like to play with toys. I am a tech-geek after all.
I do not use iShit for personal reasons -I am related to one of the executives who decided he did not want relatives working there for fear of us reflecting poorly on his shining godliness. So. I am biased. The tech is good, but I choose not to use it.
Having the camera integrated into the phone has made me more likely to take snapshots of things. But, I still carry a camera when I am planning on taking pictures. My camera takes better pictures than does my phone.
I do not care what OS runs on my phone, as long as it is a good phone. I have found some neat things to do with my Android phone (terminal, web browsing, taking pictures, echolocation, games, etc.) but I need it to be a good phone.
I do not care what OS runs on my camera as long as it is a good camera -although having it run Android means the apps to integrate it with G+, or Flickr, or DropBox, etc. already exist and likely will come pre-installed. As someone who's photos primarily exist on a bunch of SD, Micro-SD, and CF cards in my desk drawer... having pics automatically show up in a folder somewhere is useful. It could also be useful in the case of something bad happening to my camera while I am out taking pictures of something interesting.
Even if one grants the embassy defenders with the ability to repel an armored assault by tanks, unless the embassy also has extensive air defense capabilities and is deep underground, a couple of dumb 1,000-lb bombs or barrages of artillery/mortars and/or unguided HE/AP cluster-rockets commonly found on small military attack helos would pretty much end things.
I can just picture the look on the Queen's face when she is told that the loud noise just down the street was the Ecuadorian embassy being BOMBED by her own military in an attempt to extradite Juliane Assange...
I googled this and found several counties using QR codes as part of the restaurant health ratings, however; none of them use it as a replacement for the existing information. All (of the ones that google could find a link to) use it as an augmentation -it provides a direct link to the detailed inspection report for the location in question... no additional searching required. The basic information (grade, date, location, owner, inspector, etc.) is still stuck on the wall in front of you.
They might be easy to produce from the company's perspective but too much work for me unless I really, really cared about that product.
That is a hell of a line to follow up a comment of food safety with.
I would like to see some measurements examining Martian tectonic movements. It shouldn't be that hard, we can already do that with centimeter precision here on Earth.
No problem, Boss. I'll just pop over and get those for you. Back in time for tea!
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No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia, when in actual service in time of war or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.
The constitutional prohibition against ‘double jeopardy’ was designed to protect an individual from being subjected to the hazards of trial and possible conviction more than once for an alleged offense. . . . The underlying idea, one that is deeply ingrained in at least the Anglo–American system of jurisprudence, is that the State with all its resources and power should not be allowed to make repeated attempts to convict an individual for an alleged offense, thereby subjecting him to embarrassment, expense and ordeal and compelling him to live in a continuing state of anxiety and insecurity, as well as enhancing the possibility that even though innocent he may be found guilty.
Throughout most of its history, this clause was binding only against the Federal Government. In Palko v. Connecticut, the Court rejected an argument that the Fourteenth Amendment incorporated all the provisions of the first eight Amendments as limitations on the States and enunciated the due process theory under which most of those Amendments do now apply to the States. Some guarantees in the Bill of Rights, Justice Cardozo wrote, were so fundamental that they are “of the very essence of the scheme of ordered liberty” and “neither liberty nor justice would exist if they were sacrificed.” But the double jeopardy clause, like many other procedural rights of defendants, was not so fundamental; it could be absent and fair trials could still be had. Of course, a defendant’s due process rights, absent double jeopardy consideration per se,-might be violated if the State “creat[ed] a hardship so acute and shocking as to be unendurable,” but that was not the case in Palko. In Benton v. Maryland, however, the Court concluded “that the double jeopardy prohibition . . . represents a fundamental ideal in our constitutional heritage. . . . Once it is decided that a particular Bill of Rights guarantee is ‘fundamental to the American scheme of justice,’ . . . the same constitutional standards apply against both the State and Federal Governments.” Therefore, the double jeopardy limitation now applies to both federal and state governments and state rules on double jeopardy, with regard to such matters as when jeopardy attaches, must be considered in the light of federal standards.
I have my business data hosted primary in Somoma/Napa CA (wine country), a secondary in Monterrey CA (wine & beach), another on the big island of Hawaii (pacific island), and I am really thinking of adding a server in southern Louisiana -probably New Orleans. It is a bit rough having to take a long weekend and go check that the colo is maintaining infrastructure as per our agreement, but as long as I keep checking on one every couple months it is liveable...
Seriously though, keep your data in multiple locations, keep multiple backups, and don't worry too much about any one going offline -just as long as they don't all go offline at once.
No. This is not a technical issue, it is a personnel issue.
On the technical side we can block access to sites by URL, IP, or keyword... but there are ways to get around these blocks, and implementing/maintaining these controls takes time and money away from more useful projects.
It is far better to instruct employees that such activity is not allowed, and discipline (including termination if necessary) those who do not follow the policy.
I can see an argument for the case that in a defense environment there should by default already be network usage monitoring and access control sufficient to prevent such misuse.
A low level manager (team leader) should do the work that he expects his team to do. It is the only way to earn their respect, and the best way to set a high standard of expectation. Even if extra responsibilities and meetings prevent him from engaging everyday, he should be participating for a couple of hours, several days a week.
Generally good advice -I believe that as a manager, I should be able to do the work of (not necessarily as efficiently, or as quickly as) any of my employees.
However; way up top in the original post it says:
...promoted to be a director of...
A director is not a low level manager, it is typically a senior management position or the lowest of the executive levels, and implies responsibility for a major business function.
Either science and engineering is right or it isn't. If you think engineers can safely build a nuclear reactor and operate it for 40 years, why is 80 years different if they can demonstrate strong engineering judgement? And if 80 years isn't safe, then what arbitrary number is it that it becomes unsafe?
But in fact they designed and built it to operate safely for 40 years...
We have been lucky that they were being conservative (as most good engineers are) and it has lasted 60 years. I'd rather not push my luck to 80 years.
If it were designed and built to last 80 years, yes I would trust it to last 80 years. We know a lot more about nuclear physics than we did when these plants were designed. We have a much better understanding of what not to do, which gives us a much better understanding of what to do. If the engineers say that the new design is good for 80 years, great. If the engineers say that it is good for 40 years, I am certainly not going to try and talk them into 80 years. That would be the difference between engineering and politics.
Agreed. The space requirements for my team is miniscule. I only used the 1tb drives, and that is more than they will ever need in those locations. Even the inventory, product information, and customer databases are only a few GB each.
It is funny to me to have a TB on a single drive, it was only a decade ago that I was running my first SAN -one of the early HP fiber channel systems. It was a 4 ft wide by 6 ft tall rack with 37GB drives striped vertically and horizontally (with hot spares in each stripe). It provided us a whole TB of space which was divided up and allocated to various servers (Windows, Unix, and VMS). It was enough for the entire site -including FAB, engineering, finance, marketing, HR, etc.
I am very pleased with the capabilities and performance of the Synology NAS devices. I like the custom packages they have, and the fact that it requires no hacks to access the linux underneath -just a checkbox in the admin panel to allow shell login. Click the checkbox, fire up putty, log in, and have at it.
They do make much larger boxes, supporting real raid configurations (I just cant bring myself to consider mirroring or striping across 2 drives to be RAID, no Redundant means its just AID...) I only chose the 2 drive version because it makes replacing a disk when it fails so much easier than with a single drive box.
I did see the new WD Red drives, but they have not been certified as compatible yet, and people in the Synology forums mentioned having issues when using drives that were not specifically listed on the compatibility list. I went with the WD Black series drives -a 5 year warranty and listed as tested and verified compatible by Synology. I have been trying to read up on the firmware tricks WD is using in the Red series, but so far have not found anything beyond marketing puff pieces.
I have installed Synology NAS DS212s in a couple of my retail locations to replace servers (that were really only used for hosting shared folders...) and found them to be inexpensive, fast, quiet, reliable, simple to configure and maintain, small footprint, and extremely energy efficient.
The Synology NAS is currently configured for:
hosting folders shared by various teams (users are on Macs, Windows, and Linux desktops)
hosting personal folders for each staff member
backing up files hosted on a few specific workstations -with user-browsable versioned backups ala Apple's Time Machine (HR and Payroll desktops are backed up once daily, point-of-sale is backed up hourly using a plugin that allows a snapshot backup of the databases without interrupting it's near constant use)
VPN endpoint server allowing mobile users to connect to their network files
VPN linking two sites -configured to make this site and its sibling appear to be on the same LAN segment to users
VPN client connection to a third site where the NAS backs itself up using RSYNC (the host system then backs this data up as part of it's own backup scheme)
anti-virus for hosted files.
The Synology NAS boxes are running a fairly standard Linux with a custom GUI overlay. They maintain their own packages for various applications, but you can log in to a shell and install/configure as you wish.
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I downloaded and executed a program called windows web commander while running MSE. It gave me no warning. I had to restore the computer to a date before downloading to get it to work again. It started with a pop up message stating I had a virus. The program asked for money to remove the virus which was essentially itself.
Even the best code can't fix stupid...
NO anti-virus/anti-malware/anti-rootkit/etc gets them all. AV is run as an early warning system. If something slips past, you either restore from backup or scan with another tool and hope it finds whatever got past the first tool.
Which is why they are fielded as a part of a battlefleet.
You don't send a ship out alone. You send a battlefleet, consisting of a big, powerful, vulnerable ship, and an array of smaller ships that complement it's strengths, and serve to protect it vs known weaknesses.
Was it really that good?
No. But it was fun.
What planet do you live on? You'll be waiting a long time if you think you're ever going to live in a world where people will just do the right thing out of principle.
It was Areanet's mistake. Of course people took advantage of it, and you really can't punish them for it.
Obviously, you can.
Torchlight was fun, though not groundbreaking. I'll definitely be giving Torchlight 2 a go.
What is the problem?
I openly admit my choice of non-Apple products for my personal use is based on feelings for a relative of mine and not on a technical reason (and really has nothing at all to do with Apple, the company).
It in no way invalidates my opinion that the OS choice for a camera is not nearly as important as is its' functionality as a camera, but that there may be some neat features that can result from said OS choice.
You are acting like a bit of an asshole here...
The phone is primarily a phone, the camera is primarily a camera. The other shit is not important... they are toys. Why do I bother? I like to play with toys. I am a tech-geek after all.
I do not use iShit for personal reasons -I am related to one of the executives who decided he did not want relatives working there for fear of us reflecting poorly on his shining godliness. So. I am biased. The tech is good, but I choose not to use it.
Agreed.
Having the camera integrated into the phone has made me more likely to take snapshots of things. But, I still carry a camera when I am planning on taking pictures. My camera takes better pictures than does my phone.
I do not care what OS runs on my phone, as long as it is a good phone. I have found some neat things to do with my Android phone (terminal, web browsing, taking pictures, echolocation, games, etc.) but I need it to be a good phone.
I do not care what OS runs on my camera as long as it is a good camera -although having it run Android means the apps to integrate it with G+, or Flickr, or DropBox, etc. already exist and likely will come pre-installed. As someone who's photos primarily exist on a bunch of SD, Micro-SD, and CF cards in my desk drawer... having pics automatically show up in a folder somewhere is useful. It could also be useful in the case of something bad happening to my camera while I am out taking pictures of something interesting.
Even if one grants the embassy defenders with the ability to repel an armored assault by tanks, unless the embassy also has extensive air defense capabilities and is deep underground, a couple of dumb 1,000-lb bombs or barrages of artillery/mortars and/or unguided HE/AP cluster-rockets commonly found on small military attack helos would pretty much end things.
I can just picture the look on the Queen's face when she is told that the loud noise just down the street was the Ecuadorian embassy being BOMBED by her own military in an attempt to extradite Juliane Assange...
After you, sir...
The signal (# of users) on G+ is moderate. The noise (# of junk posts forced upon you) on G+ is extremely low.
Thus, the S/N ratio on G+ is very good.
All of this is by comparison to FB.
(The best thing about G+ is that it is not FB...)
Unless you Think different!(tm)
Gonna call FUD here.
I googled this and found several counties using QR codes as part of the restaurant health ratings, however; none of them use it as a replacement for the existing information. All (of the ones that google could find a link to) use it as an augmentation -it provides a direct link to the detailed inspection report for the location in question... no additional searching required. The basic information (grade, date, location, owner, inspector, etc.) is still stuck on the wall in front of you.
They might be easy to produce from the company's perspective but too much work for me unless I really, really cared about that product.
That is a hell of a line to follow up a comment of food safety with.
Works great... as long as you can turn it off. Now imagine if your phone was not configured to allow such choices by the user.
I would like to see some measurements examining Martian tectonic movements. It shouldn't be that hard, we can already do that with centimeter precision here on Earth.
No problem, Boss. I'll just pop over and get those for you. Back in time for tea!
HIPPA
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Office of Civil Rights
200 Independence Avenue, S.W.
Washington, D.C., 20201
Phone: (866) 627-7748
Web: www.hhs.gov
The Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services
toll free HIPAA Hotline: 1-866-282-0659
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia, when in actual service in time of war or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.
http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/fifth_amendment
http://www.law.cornell.edu/anncon/amdt5afrag2_user.html#fnb49
Tea, made from real koalas, of course.
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Oh. I see. Nevermind
I have my business data hosted primary in Somoma/Napa CA (wine country), a secondary in Monterrey CA (wine & beach), another on the big island of Hawaii (pacific island), and I am really thinking of adding a server in southern Louisiana -probably New Orleans. It is a bit rough having to take a long weekend and go check that the colo is maintaining infrastructure as per our agreement, but as long as I keep checking on one every couple months it is liveable...
Seriously though, keep your data in multiple locations, keep multiple backups, and don't worry too much about any one going offline -just as long as they don't all go offline at once.
No. This is not a technical issue, it is a personnel issue.
On the technical side we can block access to sites by URL, IP, or keyword... but there are ways to get around these blocks, and implementing/maintaining these controls takes time and money away from more useful projects.
It is far better to instruct employees that such activity is not allowed, and discipline (including termination if necessary) those who do not follow the policy.
I can see an argument for the case that in a defense environment there should by default already be network usage monitoring and access control sufficient to prevent such misuse.
A low level manager (team leader) should do the work that he expects his team to do. It is the only way to earn their respect, and the best way to set a high standard of expectation. Even if extra responsibilities and meetings prevent him from engaging everyday, he should be participating for a couple of hours, several days a week.
Generally good advice -I believe that as a manager, I should be able to do the work of (not necessarily as efficiently, or as quickly as) any of my employees.
However; way up top in the original post it says:
A director is not a low level manager, it is typically a senior management position or the lowest of the executive levels, and implies responsibility for a major business function.
probably not going to happen with this judge telling the jurors how to think.
"Think Different" ?
Either science and engineering is right or it isn't. If you think engineers can safely build a nuclear reactor and operate it for 40 years, why is 80 years different if they can demonstrate strong engineering judgement? And if 80 years isn't safe, then what arbitrary number is it that it becomes unsafe?
But in fact they designed and built it to operate safely for 40 years...
We have been lucky that they were being conservative (as most good engineers are) and it has lasted 60 years. I'd rather not push my luck to 80 years.
If it were designed and built to last 80 years, yes I would trust it to last 80 years. We know a lot more about nuclear physics than we did when these plants were designed. We have a much better understanding of what not to do, which gives us a much better understanding of what to do. If the engineers say that the new design is good for 80 years, great. If the engineers say that it is good for 40 years, I am certainly not going to try and talk them into 80 years. That would be the difference between engineering and politics.
Agreed. The space requirements for my team is miniscule. I only used the 1tb drives, and that is more than they will ever need in those locations. Even the inventory, product information, and customer databases are only a few GB each.
It is funny to me to have a TB on a single drive, it was only a decade ago that I was running my first SAN -one of the early HP fiber channel systems. It was a 4 ft wide by 6 ft tall rack with 37GB drives striped vertically and horizontally (with hot spares in each stripe). It provided us a whole TB of space which was divided up and allocated to various servers (Windows, Unix, and VMS). It was enough for the entire site -including FAB, engineering, finance, marketing, HR, etc.
I am very pleased with the capabilities and performance of the Synology NAS devices. I like the custom packages they have, and the fact that it requires no hacks to access the linux underneath -just a checkbox in the admin panel to allow shell login. Click the checkbox, fire up putty, log in, and have at it.
They do make much larger boxes, supporting real raid configurations (I just cant bring myself to consider mirroring or striping across 2 drives to be RAID, no Redundant means its just AID...) I only chose the 2 drive version because it makes replacing a disk when it fails so much easier than with a single drive box.
I did see the new WD Red drives, but they have not been certified as compatible yet, and people in the Synology forums mentioned having issues when using drives that were not specifically listed on the compatibility list. I went with the WD Black series drives -a 5 year warranty and listed as tested and verified compatible by Synology. I have been trying to read up on the firmware tricks WD is using in the Red series, but so far have not found anything beyond marketing puff pieces.
I have installed Synology NAS DS212s in a couple of my retail locations to replace servers (that were really only used for hosting shared folders...) and found them to be inexpensive, fast, quiet, reliable, simple to configure and maintain, small footprint, and extremely energy efficient.
The Synology NAS is currently configured for:
(users are on Macs, Windows, and Linux desktops)
(HR and Payroll desktops are backed up once daily, point-of-sale is backed up hourly using a plugin that allows a snapshot backup of the databases without interrupting it's near constant use)
(the host system then backs this data up as part of it's own backup scheme)
The Synology NAS boxes are running a fairly standard Linux with a custom GUI overlay. They maintain their own packages for various applications, but you can log in to a shell and install/configure as you wish.
YMMV