The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effect
Thank you for point out the text of the Fourth Amendment and not just following along with the common focused interpretation. The Bill of Rights recognizes existing rights and should serve as a brake on the United States government. As time goes by, the people have allowed these freedoms to be watered down.
Marvin Martian was interviewed and demands that Earth stop sending communication cable cutting drones to Mars. If we continue to disrupt Martian services, the consequences will be worse than than mankind can imagine.
Well said. When a.50 cal machine gun can rake your data center on board you don't have a warship any more, you have a target. Even worse, when a modern warship can't get enough air conditioning the equipment goes wonky. Some of the warmer waters of the world make it tough to keep a ship chilled to operational temps. It's not for the crew, it's for the equipment.
If a cruise missile hits a battleship, all it needs is a little touch up paint. Plus being able to station a ship in plain sight of hostile shore tends to settle the natives.
I prefer to think of myself as an optimistic pessimist. I see failure modes in systems and procedures. Part of my present role is to document and train in possible solutions.
With that being said, one problem I've faced in the past was never being seen as taking problems seriously. $WIDGET is down, everyone else is shouting, don't you appreciate the problem. Gee, I understand the problem, wrote the chapter on how to resolve it, and can give you a planning estimate (which is always longer than my internal estimate). I'm not freaking out because I don't feel the need to put on a show.
Oh by the way, when $SYSTEM was planned out, the stakeholders decided redundancy was too expensive. Would you like to review that decision? Learning to say that politely is still something that I have to approach carefully.
Is that a cat-5 or cat-6? Is re-installing M.I.L.K. a normal procedure? I understand some models have patches available after a fix, is your model fixed?
I stopped buying CDs when the music companies started sueing their own customers.
I stopped buying music from big corp-rat vendors. I'll visit music festivals and buy from the the hot chick who owns her own label or the guy at adult stage who's in 3 bands, owns a label and has a recording studio in his basement. There's no reason to give up rewarding the artists who can bring music into our lives. There's also no reason to reward the parasites who feed on the musicians.
Harrison's Stainless Steel Rat stories would make better movies than either Tolkien's or Asimov's best stories.
I'll see you Slippery Jim and raise with Star Smashers of the Galaxy Rangers Now that's an epic story Hollywood could sink it's teeth into. Aliens, conspiracy, Terra uber alles and plenty of sex and violence.
>>>The company BOTH cares about their data AND can't afford a proper backup system.
It can be that the company cares, but doesn't care enough to budget for potential data recovery. All you can do is to make sure the risks are explained, with budget option and well documented paper trail is cover your nether regions. Been there, done that. The typical response is that backups are not important, until a failure and a few days of uncertainty is forced upon the company.
Having the same, potentially corrupted, data at multiple sites mitigates against the loss of a disk, or even the loss of a single site. User error or database corruption can wind up copied over your good data. Needing to go back for more than a day or two can may not be practical in a disk to disk backup environment.
It's a part of system manager's role to spell out potential problems in easy to understand power point sound bytes and show what options are available. The better you can do this, the more toys you'll have to play with.
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Will the RIAA go after the McCain/Palin campaign for making available Barracuda? Think of the publicity against intellectual property theft the filing will generate.
Or do you think they might not be willing to sue someone with the chops to hit back?
Did you grow up in the next city over? Besides the drop in speed, there were trees planted in front of the 35 MPH sign. Locals would coast down the hill. Tourists, well, they were there to pull over. In a town small enough, the deputies could eyeball who was a local and who was on the way up to the lake from Capital City.
>>>You'll note the papers have referred to the new information security manager. It's only been a month or so since the City even had an information security policy, and even that is a bare, unmodified template from CCISDA that's awaiting discussion and alteration by a committee that hasn't been formed yet
There's a key point in no one mentioned yet. What is the City of San Francisco policy for access to passwords? Is his manager allowed to have access to the Terry's passwords. I also work for a government organization. My manager doesn't have access to the key passwords. If he were to ask for an account or root, that request would have to be signed by his manager and be submitted to to security officer's access team. He came up through my team and still has more in depth application knowledge, but by the security policy, he's not allowed root access.
Bottom line, Terry Childs may be simply be sticking the security policies in place as he understands them. You don't just do what your manager wants if that would violate the rules of the game.
If Terry's network that's a strong argument for his innocence. His best option is probably going to be to insist on a trial and handle any disclosures with an attorney making sure he isn't blamed for not ignoring the city's policies.
>>>It's hard to believe that management didn't care that a single employee was the only one who knew anything about critical infrastructure,
That's standard practice now. Why have two or three people on staff when you can have one person loaded to the breaking point? Laying off the rest of the networking team and keeping the one junior admin on call 7 x 24 makes for a better quarter and gives senior management that cost cutting bonus. After they leave to prune another company into the dust, well that's not their problem is it? And if the junior guy leaves, and no he never did get the chance to document the changes because Mike used to handle that. Well that's business.
The system operated exactly as it was supposed to. That was pretty neat."
I think it's amusing that after more than 30 years of Microsoft's quality control, when a computing device works as designed, it's a news worthy article. Think about it, I have a device that works as expected, can I be on the news too?
The Nielsen team also phones you at random and insists that you answer a television survey. They won't put you a do not call list and keep calling back, insisting that since they're not selling you anything, they're not bound by the do not call legislation.
So let me get this straight, you want me to spend my time answering your questions, so your company gets paid and I get the warm feeling that I've benefited television. Sorry my time is billable unless I elect to donate it. Television is not charity to which I donate.
After amusing myself with extended variations of the above, I admitted I don't own a television. This is even accurate, my wife came with one however; and from time to time, we'll watch a DVD from Netflix together.
Bug Park by James Hogan. The Heinlein teen stories are dated, but I still enjoy them. Short story collections, Rod Serling, Alfred Hitchcock, Richard Matheson. Bonus points for movie tie ins with some kids. The Darkover books by Marion Zimmber Bradley. Some racey stuff in a few stories. A Spaceship for the King by Jerry Pournelle, great adventure yarn. Honor Harrington series by David Weber. Space opera updated and polished for today. You can't read just one. The Dragon series by Anne and Todd McCaffery of course. The High Crusade, by Poul Anderson.
Plus 5 Karma bonus for getting the kids hooked on reading.
You seem to believe the police are there to investigate and solve crimes. In reality, their primary mission is to file police reports for insurance companies to pay claims against. Most investigations involve filing reports and sealing the files. Unless it's a high profile (friend of the captain or made the news) case, that's all effort involved. Sometimes they'll trip over a crime in progress and manage to make an arrest. Bottom line, you have a police report, take the insurance money and buy some new laptops.
You could drag in a private investigator for a few buck, he may be willing to take your money and track down the location. (See friend of captain). Of course you'll have to give back the insurance money. Bottom line, it's not worth the police time to track this. The users probably bought the laptop from craigslist or a friend of Jim's at AA.
He should have opened his vote to lobbying, asked for a few trips, discount loans, contributions and so on. Nothing illegal there, Congress runs like this all year.
>>>Can they afford to give bandwidth hogs unmetered, unrestricted access to it?
They don't give access. They sell it. Now they're complaining that someone is using the bandwidth that been paid for. Now most providers provision X bandwidth and (Y x X). The problem is users are beginning to ask for the X they were sold.
Watermelon, honeydew other hard skinned, slap and pray. I buy cantelope based on smell and color. All green pass, turning orange/yellow and smells like food, grab it. Sometimes I buy before it's ripe and that's an issue. The local stuff will ripen on the counter, the shipped melons will rot before turning ripe. No way to tell which is which.
There are also numerous third party solution providers to the Microsoft experience. This one reviews a reasonable priced consulting group that can provide support in multi vendor environments.
Check your state law. In California you can't be stripped of earned vacation time. Employers can and do cap additional accrual. For example, I earn 120 hours vacation a year, and can't have more than 160 hours on the books.
When working for the corp-rats California employees would get a state policy update after HR policy e-mails.
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Thank you for point out the text of the Fourth Amendment and not just following along with the common focused interpretation. The Bill of Rights recognizes existing rights and should serve as a brake on the United States government. As time goes by, the people have allowed these freedoms to be watered down.
Marvin Martian was interviewed and demands that Earth stop sending communication cable cutting drones to Mars. If we continue to disrupt Martian services, the consequences will be worse than than mankind can imagine.
What silly silly question. Imagine a portable Beowulf cluster of netbooks available for $200.
If you're seeing these download speeds, your're using the new (Silverlight) player. Reimage your PC and use the old WMP.
If a cruise missile hits a battleship, all it needs is a little touch up paint. Plus being able to station a ship in plain sight of hostile shore tends to settle the natives.
I prefer to think of myself as an optimistic pessimist. I see failure modes in systems and procedures. Part of my present role is to document and train in possible solutions.
With that being said, one problem I've faced in the past was never being seen as taking problems seriously. $WIDGET is down, everyone else is shouting, don't you appreciate the problem. Gee, I understand the problem, wrote the chapter on how to resolve it, and can give you a planning estimate (which is always longer than my internal estimate). I'm not freaking out because I don't feel the need to put on a show.
Oh by the way, when $SYSTEM was planned out, the stakeholders decided redundancy was too expensive. Would you like to review that decision? Learning to say that politely is still something that I have to approach carefully.
Is that a cat-5 or cat-6? Is re-installing M.I.L.K. a normal procedure? I understand some models have patches available after a fix, is your model fixed?
I stopped buying music from big corp-rat vendors. I'll visit music festivals and buy from the the hot chick who owns her own label or the guy at adult stage who's in 3 bands, owns a label and has a recording studio in his basement. There's no reason to give up rewarding the artists who can bring music into our lives. There's also no reason to reward the parasites who feed on the musicians.
I'll see you Slippery Jim and raise with Star Smashers of the Galaxy Rangers Now that's an epic story Hollywood could sink it's teeth into. Aliens, conspiracy, Terra uber alles and plenty of sex and violence.
It can be that the company cares, but doesn't care enough to budget for potential data recovery. All you can do is to make sure the risks are explained, with budget option and well documented paper trail is cover your nether regions. Been there, done that. The typical response is that backups are not important, until a failure and a few days of uncertainty is forced upon the company.
Having the same, potentially corrupted, data at multiple sites mitigates against the loss of a disk, or even the loss of a single site. User error or database corruption can wind up copied over your good data. Needing to go back for more than a day or two can may not be practical in a disk to disk backup environment.
It's a part of system manager's role to spell out potential problems in easy to understand power point sound bytes and show what options are available. The better you can do this, the more toys you'll have to play with.
I use Bluehost.Com for hosting and email services. They're currently 6.95/month with an annual prepayment for email, domain registration and web hosting. I use email for consulting and family addresses and set up small business web sites while I was free range consulting. You can arrange SSH access and get away from the browser GUI if you desire.
Or do you think they might not be willing to sue someone with the chops to hit back?
Did you grow up in the next city over? Besides the drop in speed, there were trees planted in front of the 35 MPH sign. Locals would coast down the hill. Tourists, well, they were there to pull over. In a town small enough, the deputies could eyeball who was a local and who was on the way up to the lake from Capital City.
There's a key point in no one mentioned yet. What is the City of San Francisco policy for access to passwords? Is his manager allowed to have access to the Terry's passwords. I also work for a government organization. My manager doesn't have access to the key passwords. If he were to ask for an account or root, that request would have to be signed by his manager and be submitted to to security officer's access team. He came up through my team and still has more in depth application knowledge, but by the security policy, he's not allowed root access.
Bottom line, Terry Childs may be simply be sticking the security policies in place as he understands them. You don't just do what your manager wants if that would violate the rules of the game.
If Terry's network that's a strong argument for his innocence. His best option is probably going to be to insist on a trial and handle any disclosures with an attorney making sure he isn't blamed for not ignoring the city's policies.
That's standard practice now. Why have two or three people on staff when you can have one person loaded to the breaking point? Laying off the rest of the networking team and keeping the one junior admin on call 7 x 24 makes for a better quarter and gives senior management that cost cutting bonus. After they leave to prune another company into the dust, well that's not their problem is it? And if the junior guy leaves, and no he never did get the chance to document the changes because Mike used to handle that. Well that's business.
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I think it's amusing that after more than 30 years of Microsoft's quality control, when a computing device works as designed, it's a news worthy article. Think about it, I have a device that works as expected, can I be on the news too?
So let me get this straight, you want me to spend my time answering your questions, so your company gets paid and I get the warm feeling that I've benefited television. Sorry my time is billable unless I elect to donate it. Television is not charity to which I donate.
After amusing myself with extended variations of the above, I admitted I don't own a television. This is even accurate, my wife came with one however; and from time to time, we'll watch a DVD from Netflix together.
Bug Park by James Hogan.
The Heinlein teen stories are dated, but I still enjoy them.
Short story collections, Rod Serling, Alfred Hitchcock, Richard Matheson. Bonus points for movie tie ins with some kids.
The Darkover books by Marion Zimmber Bradley. Some racey stuff in a few stories.
A Spaceship for the King by Jerry Pournelle, great adventure yarn.
Honor Harrington series by David Weber. Space opera updated and polished for today. You can't read just one.
The Dragon series by Anne and Todd McCaffery of course.
The High Crusade, by Poul Anderson.
Plus 5 Karma bonus for getting the kids hooked on reading.
You seem to believe the police are there to investigate and solve crimes. In reality, their primary mission is to file police reports for insurance companies to pay claims against. Most investigations involve filing reports and sealing the files. Unless it's a high profile (friend of the captain or made the news) case, that's all effort involved. Sometimes they'll trip over a crime in progress and manage to make an arrest. Bottom line, you have a police report, take the insurance money and buy some new laptops.
You could drag in a private investigator for a few buck, he may be willing to take your money and track down the location. (See friend of captain). Of course you'll have to give back the insurance money. Bottom line, it's not worth the police time to track this. The users probably bought the laptop from craigslist or a friend of Jim's at AA.
He should have opened his vote to lobbying, asked for a few trips, discount loans, contributions and so on. Nothing illegal there, Congress runs like this all year.
They don't give access. They sell it. Now they're complaining that someone is using the bandwidth that been paid for. Now most providers provision X bandwidth and (Y x X). The problem is users are beginning to ask for the X they were sold.
Watermelon, honeydew other hard skinned, slap and pray. I buy cantelope based on smell and color. All green pass, turning orange/yellow and smells like food, grab it. Sometimes I buy before it's ripe and that's an issue. The local stuff will ripen on the counter, the shipped melons will rot before turning ripe. No way to tell which is which.
There are also numerous third party solution providers to the Microsoft experience. This one reviews a reasonable priced consulting group that can provide support in multi vendor environments.
Marriage or manage both give you projects, set deadlines, generally have budget issues and screw you periodically.
Check your state law. In California you can't be stripped of earned vacation time. Employers can and do cap additional accrual. For example, I earn 120 hours vacation a year, and can't have more than 160 hours on the books. When working for the corp-rats California employees would get a state policy update after HR policy e-mails.