first of all i would like to applaud westerner's hypocrisy - while promoting social media outlets for people on the east, they are strongly opposing them at home.
secondly i'd like to note that all those people using social media to organize looting and whatever not through unrest in the UK - police needs no face recognition, while they have CDRs and other logs from telecoms. all they need is to see who posted to twitter at a given time, and what IMEIs and phones were registered to gsm cells in the looted neighborhood.
surely, forensics behind this are wee bit more complicated, but all in all - if i was member of the crowd doing malicious deed - i would never use my own phone and gsm card to organize / coordinate something against the state. perhaps pre-paid card with disposable/old phone, but never my own smartphone with my own postpaid number.
for any slashdot reader, this is just a pissing contest of two DE dev teams. In RL, this harms propagation of linux as a desktop. The best way would be to have it named Control Panel so the noobs feel OK. It is traumatising for windows user to move to linux desktop, same name convention should make it easier on those - and for them it matters the most. Very few people like changes. Having less to remember is better today, at least for the Average Joe that has no time nor will to remember trivial names for the same thing.
yeah, whats up with you haters and preposterous people? read what was written, not what you wanted to read.
"client induced retardation" meant that me, personally, was lead by my client into doing something really stupid, like paying 7 feet of cable - 80 dollars. I have never done anything dumber than this "per client's recommendation/request", since than I've learned to triple-check whatever my clients ask for. I've seen them throw money away, and that is their right and thing they do. However, since than, I've never taken their order for granted (or their word for granted, as well, until they've proven themselves).
Also, I'd never be comfortable working with engineers who cannot *confirm* that whatever they're troubleshooting is NOT caused by cabling. I would be very very disappointed into my team members if they are so dumb that they need to call Cisco and than let themselves be talked into "replacing your regular cables with Cisco cables, to make sure problem's not due to the cabling"....
My client insisted we buy cables from Cisco, too. We ended up paying 80 US dollars for one 2-meters long (like, 6,5 feet) straight un-shielded cable. That was the biggest 'client induced retardation' I've experienced, although your price of 100 quids for HDMI cable surely beats Cisco prices.
Hey, they got Bin Laden through his courier. All they need is a bit of intelligence from this guy (I know, "lulz" and "intelligence" don't exactly go together), and they can get pretty far.
They got all the intelligence they will need from this guy when they got an image of his disks. Disks will know more than any puppet.
Just because you catch a handful of the people who can exploit these systems because those systems are so easy to exploit does not fix the problem.
Yeah, that would be an ideal world (wakey wakey.)
IRL, credit card companies haven't improved CC security because it is cheaper and easier to catch fraudulent persons and to compensate losses than to improve cards to be "beyond hackable". Same principle applies here - it's easier to catch and hang few perpetrators than to patch all CMSes around the globe.
Note that i am just observing what goes on IRL, that does not necessarily mean i wouldn't rather live in that ideal, fair(y) world.
a bit unrelated to the original post, but I've switched to duckduckgo as my primary search engine a while ago.
To name just a few perks:
- search results point to https pages first, if there are any,
- you can search with ! (bang) whatever you want - !youtube or !images
- you get to any linux man page with !man keyword
- duckduckgo does NOT profile your ass to eternity and back
Google is so yesterday and obsolete.
this tool is enabler - any potential attacker would be easily able to establish patterns of one's behaviour and than use the opportunity when one is not e-present to impose and take time to work through all logins and whatnot one has.
Wasn't it the writer of Melissa that has had original intent of searching for other virii and removing them?
I am no cracker, but from what I know AV software is common initial target of any decent virus; why would ants be immune to such attacks and who could guarantee that they are impermeable? This scenario sounds more like "once you get infected, can't get help by being insected" or whatever. Adding more possible holes that have mind of their own isn't really a security way to go...
Well, finally there is a concise word someone whom we can trust more than we can trust others in the field, and they took their time to clarify information and to teach public. Their contribution is enormous and one can always learn from them, no matter how strong one's own expertise is. I listened to rms last year in Sarajevo, he is certainly authoritative in that field and also promotes very same goals that were my own reasons to get involved with IT in the first place.
I, for one, would always back Mr. Stallman's views, opinions and teaching; rather than some Andrea Kempe or D. Brewer who spam my inbox on regular basis. It is very important to spread the word on the copyright and issues behind it; it is crucial for civilization's development and growth.
Where did that information come from? I live in Poland and I'm pretty sure FOSS isn't almost used at all on governmental boxes. I used to work for a governmental agency and never saw anything but Windows.
I've been reading about Polish govt accepting FOSS for long time now, it's easy to look it up on the web: http://www.osor.eu/news/pl-ninety-percent-op-public-administrations-use-open-source
There are more sources, however, I have no "hands-on" knowledge nor I ever worked for Polish govt. to be able to deny or confirm those claims. If I mislead someone it was not intentional.
Considering that Polish Government has been using FOSS in the majority of the governmental boxes, it is nice to see that their Government looks upon proven qualities of "openness", as well. Playing open minded, with cards shown. Nice.
oh, yes it does mean exactly that. If MS ever knew what to do and how to do it well, they would never have to buy Skype - MSN Messenger would've been their app of choice, one they would support and advertise and what not. Skype is gonna die out, same way ICQ died long time ago.
Hi,
If you are not looking into Western Europe only, my warmest suggestion is that you look for the job abroad with US Government. There are so many projects that come through USAID and are trying to better people's lives around developing European countries. Advantages of such move are: You are making decent money according to US and great money according to local standards, that will enable you to bridge over period where you will learn and get used to local customs, learn some language, and be able to look for more work - either with local or with international companies. There are lots of IT related projects and almost anything (from bettering legislature and economics to the local administration development projects) does have an IT component in itself and needs an IT expert. You would be working in an American-style environment yet living abroad. Once you get more first-hand information, you can look for the local jobs - all of those places are in development and in chronic need for IT people.
All the best!
I just wonder how long is it going to take for such a large company, as Microsoft is, to get this patch approved and through the IT Dept... and than installed through their custom network system updater and of course not through windows update >:]
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first of all i would like to applaud westerner's hypocrisy - while promoting social media outlets for people on the east, they are strongly opposing them at home.
secondly i'd like to note that all those people using social media to organize looting and whatever not through unrest in the UK - police needs no face recognition, while they have CDRs and other logs from telecoms. all they need is to see who posted to twitter at a given time, and what IMEIs and phones were registered to gsm cells in the looted neighborhood.
surely, forensics behind this are wee bit more complicated, but all in all - if i was member of the crowd doing malicious deed - i would never use my own phone and gsm card to organize / coordinate something against the state. perhaps pre-paid card with disposable/old phone, but never my own smartphone with my own postpaid number.
for any slashdot reader, this is just a pissing contest of two DE dev teams. In RL, this harms propagation of linux as a desktop. The best way would be to have it named Control Panel so the noobs feel OK. It is traumatising for windows user to move to linux desktop, same name convention should make it easier on those - and for them it matters the most. Very few people like changes. Having less to remember is better today, at least for the Average Joe that has no time nor will to remember trivial names for the same thing.
yeah, whats up with you haters and preposterous people? read what was written, not what you wanted to read.
"client induced retardation" meant that me, personally, was lead by my client into doing something really stupid, like paying 7 feet of cable - 80 dollars. I have never done anything dumber than this "per client's recommendation/request", since than I've learned to triple-check whatever my clients ask for. I've seen them throw money away, and that is their right and thing they do. However, since than, I've never taken their order for granted (or their word for granted, as well, until they've proven themselves).
Also, I'd never be comfortable working with engineers who cannot *confirm* that whatever they're troubleshooting is NOT caused by cabling. I would be very very disappointed into my team members if they are so dumb that they need to call Cisco and than let themselves be talked into "replacing your regular cables with Cisco cables, to make sure problem's not due to the cabling"....
My client insisted we buy cables from Cisco, too. We ended up paying 80 US dollars for one 2-meters long (like, 6,5 feet) straight un-shielded cable. That was the biggest 'client induced retardation' I've experienced, although your price of 100 quids for HDMI cable surely beats Cisco prices.
Hey, they got Bin Laden through his courier. All they need is a bit of intelligence from this guy (I know, "lulz" and "intelligence" don't exactly go together), and they can get pretty far.
They got all the intelligence they will need from this guy when they got an image of his disks. Disks will know more than any puppet.
Just because you catch a handful of the people who can exploit these systems because those systems are so easy to exploit does not fix the problem.
Yeah, that would be an ideal world (wakey wakey.) IRL, credit card companies haven't improved CC security because it is cheaper and easier to catch fraudulent persons and to compensate losses than to improve cards to be "beyond hackable". Same principle applies here - it's easier to catch and hang few perpetrators than to patch all CMSes around the globe. Note that i am just observing what goes on IRL, that does not necessarily mean i wouldn't rather live in that ideal, fair(y) world.
judge deeds. it's utterly stupid and unproductive to focus onto the tools instead focusing onto the deeds.
a bit unrelated to the original post, but I've switched to duckduckgo as my primary search engine a while ago. To name just a few perks: - search results point to https pages first, if there are any, - you can search with ! (bang) whatever you want - !youtube or !images - you get to any linux man page with !man keyword - duckduckgo does NOT profile your ass to eternity and back Google is so yesterday and obsolete.
this tool is enabler - any potential attacker would be easily able to establish patterns of one's behaviour and than use the opportunity when one is not e-present to impose and take time to work through all logins and whatnot one has.
Wasn't it the writer of Melissa that has had original intent of searching for other virii and removing them? I am no cracker, but from what I know AV software is common initial target of any decent virus; why would ants be immune to such attacks and who could guarantee that they are impermeable? This scenario sounds more like "once you get infected, can't get help by being insected" or whatever. Adding more possible holes that have mind of their own isn't really a security way to go...
idiots come in all colors and shades.
Well, finally there is a concise word someone whom we can trust more than we can trust others in the field, and they took their time to clarify information and to teach public. Their contribution is enormous and one can always learn from them, no matter how strong one's own expertise is. I listened to rms last year in Sarajevo, he is certainly authoritative in that field and also promotes very same goals that were my own reasons to get involved with IT in the first place. I, for one, would always back Mr. Stallman's views, opinions and teaching; rather than some Andrea Kempe or D. Brewer who spam my inbox on regular basis. It is very important to spread the word on the copyright and issues behind it; it is crucial for civilization's development and growth.
Where did that information come from? I live in Poland and I'm pretty sure FOSS isn't almost used at all on governmental boxes. I used to work for a governmental agency and never saw anything but Windows.
I've been reading about Polish govt accepting FOSS for long time now, it's easy to look it up on the web: http://www.osor.eu/news/pl-ninety-percent-op-public-administrations-use-open-source There are more sources, however, I have no "hands-on" knowledge nor I ever worked for Polish govt. to be able to deny or confirm those claims. If I mislead someone it was not intentional.
Considering that Polish Government has been using FOSS in the majority of the governmental boxes, it is nice to see that their Government looks upon proven qualities of "openness", as well. Playing open minded, with cards shown. Nice.
oh, yes it does mean exactly that. If MS ever knew what to do and how to do it well, they would never have to buy Skype - MSN Messenger would've been their app of choice, one they would support and advertise and what not. Skype is gonna die out, same way ICQ died long time ago.
Hi, If you are not looking into Western Europe only, my warmest suggestion is that you look for the job abroad with US Government. There are so many projects that come through USAID and are trying to better people's lives around developing European countries. Advantages of such move are: You are making decent money according to US and great money according to local standards, that will enable you to bridge over period where you will learn and get used to local customs, learn some language, and be able to look for more work - either with local or with international companies. There are lots of IT related projects and almost anything (from bettering legislature and economics to the local administration development projects) does have an IT component in itself and needs an IT expert. You would be working in an American-style environment yet living abroad. Once you get more first-hand information, you can look for the local jobs - all of those places are in development and in chronic need for IT people. All the best!
I just wonder how long is it going to take for such a large company, as Microsoft is, to get this patch approved and through the IT Dept... and than installed through their custom network system updater and of course not through windows update >:]