Yeah, it's easier for any entity to blame its peons for misjudgment rather than highlight the lack of process that would have prevented this type of situation in the first place. The higher-ups had the noose on this kid before anyone else bothered to realize the intern is not to blame. And now we've got an article on Slashdot about how the "intern" lost the SSN's. But did he really lose them?
To all the comments that are calling the intern an idiot for leaving the tapes in his car, I ask you this: where should he have stored them? In his apartment which can be just as easily broken into? Was he supposed to rent out a protected storage unit at his own expense? The correct answer is that he should have never been responsible for storing them. Now ask yourself what is worse: a superior handing over 800,000 SSN's to an intern, or an intern leaving those SSN's in his car?
this is good news as it indicates that the risk benifit curve has shifted so that selling a book is better money than spamming.
Not really -- it probably indicative of him being tired of living an underground life and having to watch his back. And he's certainly sitting on good money. Like other markets (drugs, etc.) some people will push until they make enough money they are content with, then pack it in. It's just a calculated risk -- pursue something long enough to reach a certain cash goal, and if you happen to reach it, you walk away.
Ok, I'll bite. I know your half-joking but as someone who has a wealth of traumatic experience under my belt, I do not see the benefit of this research.
Me and my extended family combined have been through suicide, two rapes, abortion, divorce, infidelity, homelessness, and a slew of other things that many people face, but many do not. I don't consider myself unlucky or unfortunate. You're probably thinking I come from a wrecked family or live in a poor part of the country, but the opposite is true. I come from a very solid family. We are all good, successful people that have made poor bad decisions, had bad things happen unexpectedly, or a mixture of both. Many of the ordeals we've been through are terrible to imagine, deal with, and recover from. Drugs would have temporarily aided, but they wouldn't have provided a lifelong solution to dealing with the problems.
It's the decisive moments where you put the spurs on and kick your own ass through a problem that builds character, experience, and a willingness to push forward with life. Drugs are not a solution to navigating your way through the shit life throws at you. Your compass is the willingness to use hard work, patience, forgiveness and toughness to continue moving forward.
People that fall back or remain stagnant for long periods of time after a terrible experience do not have the power to move foward; drugs will not aid in gaining this force.
How about a guide how to free my PC from Internet security vulnerabilities. By blowing up my modem with a hand grenade.
In order for this to be effective folks, you must remain beside the active grenade at all times in order to be certain the vulnerabilities have been removed (among other things).
McDonald's employees can have bagel Fridays too, but that doesn't make them productive. It's just perks -- but perks for you pay for. Bagel Friday's is "cool" until you realize that your salary has been reduced to be able to buy bagels for the entire staff. Or sporting tickets. You might look at things differently when you know that your 300lb neighbor eats three times as many bagels as you do and attends three times as many sports events per year. You are implicitly paying for his "free" perks.
The more bad press you give us, the more ammunition bands have to never sign with you in the first place.
Not so quick. Most artists don't have the luxury to go it alone because it's very hard to breakthrough without support (and thieving) from the industry. Especially for up-and-coming artists, it's much easier to sign with a label than it is to eek your way on to the main stage.
Of course, for established artists like Prince it really doesn't matter if they butt heads with the industry because he's already made a fortune and has the luxury of doing things as he sees fit.
I had fairly poor grades all through school up until I attended University. From which, I graduated with multiple degrees with high honors.
Most universities where I come from have an admittance threshold of 75% average. With a lower average, you were either dismissed or had to jump through certain hoops to be accepted. The fact that you had poor grades and you were easily accepted to University doesn't speak for the majority of institutions, but it does for those willing to accept the "below-average" students (and I don't mean that in a offensive way).
Grades mean absolutely nothing six months after you start your first professional job.
True, but I'm not disputing that. The issue is how do you get your first professional job with poor grades? You either work your ass off outside of school, get lucky, or both. But if you work hard to get good grades, your efforts will usually be rewarded with a good job. I don't know if this is true for philosophy majors, but it seems so for the rest:)
Grades aren't meaningless if you have any plans to attend University. They aren't meaningless if you plan to earn an MBA, MD, LLB, or a graduate degree (Masters, PhD, etc.).
It's true that a lot of people have earned a great living despite poor grades or lack of education, but these people represent a minority. For many people, grades are a major factor in determining acceptance or rejection to paths of life that guarantee some amount of financial success.
It's fairly easy to figure out how school grades can translate into money. If you've got top grades, you earn a chance at being accepted to a Law school (for example). Once you've done your time, you are practically guaranteed a six-figure income: that's money in your pocket because you excelled at school. However, if you act as if grades are irrelevant, you're success might just be dancing with Lady Luck.
A single whale can sustain an entire village for many months; a chainsaw might seem inhumane, but it's pretty hard to suggest the way we kill other sources of food (cows, etc.) is humane. We're both guilty. The problem for most people with a story like this is that they view a whale as cute, entertaining, and not as a source of food, while they view a cow as dinner on the plate. Same thing goes with rabbits, etc.. it's a matter of how animals were portrayed to you. There's nothing wrong with killing a whale for the purposes of survival.
I would think that EBay was independent enough for people to know the name and use them without the use of Google or any other advertisement (aside from television).
Exactly. eBay is like Google; you don't go to Yahoo to find Google, and so you don't go to Google to find eBay. This was a calculated decision, not necessarily a bad one. If people believe it was a suicidal decision, recall the numerous fee increases that caused the community to throw up their arms in revolt. You would think that was suicidal, but eBay is still just as strong.
It's not suicide. Most Internet users have been to eBay. eBay was successful long before Google showed up and they will continue to be successful because their success is attached to the name, how easy it is to remember, and how quickly you can type "ebay.com" in the location bar without having to go through a search engine.
If I run into him on the street...well, let's just say he will need more than self-healing plastic skin to hold him together until he can be put out of his misery by Kevorkian.
What are you going to do, fart in his general direction?
Great advice: let's just shield our lives so that pictures cannot be taken and distributed to millions on the Internet. I'm certain that, to all those defending Google and the idea of "public domain", if those pictures were of their living space they would be up-in-arms the same way this woman is.
By living on that street she has consented (implicitly) to giving up privacy for the sake of location and convenience. She has consented (implicitly) to privacy loss by keeping the windows open. She has also consented (implicitly) to privacy loss from pedestrians being able to view her apartment. But she has not consented to detailed images of her living space available to millions on the Internet. There is a mountain of difference between hundreds of pedestrians walking by and glancing in, and the collective eyes of the Internet being able crawl over every pixel of her pictures.
Yes she's given up even more privacy, but she is probably thinking it's a worthwhile loss. Imagine if anyone in the world could view the activities of your home through Google -- at that point, it's worth giving up your identity in the hopes of fighting for a restriction on this kind of invasion.
Do you really think this service would keep its legs if it was run by Peeping Tom across the street? Of course not! So why should Google retain a right that wouldn't be granted to our good friend Tom?
And therein lies the problem. Enough people will not block Google et al. The Slashdot/tech will not be burdened by the fears of privacy because they are knowledgeable enough to prevent it. The general public has no knowledge of how to be shielded from watching eyes, and furthermore has no knowledge that the Google and DoubleClick merger will give a single entity an overwhelming view of person's online activities.
To reiterate, telling Slashdot to block Google is probably ineffective because those that seek to protect their privacy likely don't use Google. It's the rest of the world that should be concerned -- and they won't be because they are not aware of the implicit activities going on when you search with Google.
Actually install MySQL, PHP and Apache easily without having to use a third party package that holds them all. Yeah, windows is sure free of dependencies. Just great especially when your programs are inherently dependent on each other, oh wait no its a pain in the ass.
All that installation requires is downloading and unzipping/installing all three separate applications, then a couple configuration adjustments to make them communicate. How much simpler can it get? You are way off base here, pal. There's never been a need for a third-party application, but they exist because people (hint) are too damn lazy.
Actually I find Thunderbird quite good. Up to last year I used Outlook until I found a need to organize emails belonging to multiple addresses, so I was recommended Thunderbird. In addition to doing what I wanted it to, Thunderbird also eliminated the spam I was receiving. Now spam is immediately sent to the Junk folder. Anything that snakes its way through is tagged as junk and I never see it again.
Rather, flame the complete ignorance of the process by which new technologies trickle down to soldiers from the numerous trials and tests...If it's good enough, it will eventually be used.
Not quite. There's a lot of good products that should be used, but they aren't because of the almighty dollar. Usually it takes a few dead bodies, the tears of weeping mothers, pointed fingers, and fistfuls of public rage to force the government to supply adequate equipment to its troops. And even then they only supply it because of public image.
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Yeah, it's easier for any entity to blame its peons for misjudgment rather than highlight the lack of process that would have prevented this type of situation in the first place. The higher-ups had the noose on this kid before anyone else bothered to realize the intern is not to blame. And now we've got an article on Slashdot about how the "intern" lost the SSN's. But did he really lose them?
To all the comments that are calling the intern an idiot for leaving the tapes in his car, I ask you this: where should he have stored them? In his apartment which can be just as easily broken into? Was he supposed to rent out a protected storage unit at his own expense? The correct answer is that he should have never been responsible for storing them. Now ask yourself what is worse: a superior handing over 800,000 SSN's to an intern, or an intern leaving those SSN's in his car?
this is good news as it indicates that the risk benifit curve has shifted so that selling a book is better money than spamming.
Not really -- it probably indicative of him being tired of living an underground life and having to watch his back. And he's certainly sitting on good money. Like other markets (drugs, etc.) some people will push until they make enough money they are content with, then pack it in. It's just a calculated risk -- pursue something long enough to reach a certain cash goal, and if you happen to reach it, you walk away.
Quit while you're ahead, as they say.
Ok, I'll bite. I know your half-joking but as someone who has a wealth of traumatic experience under my belt, I do not see the benefit of this research.
Me and my extended family combined have been through suicide, two rapes, abortion, divorce, infidelity, homelessness, and a slew of other things that many people face, but many do not. I don't consider myself unlucky or unfortunate. You're probably thinking I come from a wrecked family or live in a poor part of the country, but the opposite is true. I come from a very solid family. We are all good, successful people that have made poor bad decisions, had bad things happen unexpectedly, or a mixture of both. Many of the ordeals we've been through are terrible to imagine, deal with, and recover from. Drugs would have temporarily aided, but they wouldn't have provided a lifelong solution to dealing with the problems.
It's the decisive moments where you put the spurs on and kick your own ass through a problem that builds character, experience, and a willingness to push forward with life. Drugs are not a solution to navigating your way through the shit life throws at you. Your compass is the willingness to use hard work, patience, forgiveness and toughness to continue moving forward.
People that fall back or remain stagnant for long periods of time after a terrible experience do not have the power to move foward; drugs will not aid in gaining this force.
Stuff like this drug might actually help some folks try to live a normal life again.
Or how about a drug called "Time"?
How about a guide how to free my PC from Internet security vulnerabilities. By blowing up my modem with a hand grenade.
In order for this to be effective folks, you must remain beside the active grenade at all times in order to be certain the vulnerabilities have been removed (among other things).
McDonald's employees can have bagel Fridays too, but that doesn't make them productive. It's just perks -- but perks for you pay for. Bagel Friday's is "cool" until you realize that your salary has been reduced to be able to buy bagels for the entire staff. Or sporting tickets. You might look at things differently when you know that your 300lb neighbor eats three times as many bagels as you do and attends three times as many sports events per year. You are implicitly paying for his "free" perks.
The more bad press you give us, the more ammunition bands have to never sign with you in the first place.
Not so quick. Most artists don't have the luxury to go it alone because it's very hard to breakthrough without support (and thieving) from the industry. Especially for up-and-coming artists, it's much easier to sign with a label than it is to eek your way on to the main stage.
Of course, for established artists like Prince it really doesn't matter if they butt heads with the industry because he's already made a fortune and has the luxury of doing things as he sees fit.
That nagging phone is just a tiny version of my wife. But I will openly embrace this future because at least the phone has a mute option.
I had fairly poor grades all through school up until I attended University. From which, I graduated with multiple degrees with high honors.
:)
Most universities where I come from have an admittance threshold of 75% average. With a lower average, you were either dismissed or had to jump through certain hoops to be accepted. The fact that you had poor grades and you were easily accepted to University doesn't speak for the majority of institutions, but it does for those willing to accept the "below-average" students (and I don't mean that in a offensive way).
Grades mean absolutely nothing six months after you start your first professional job.
True, but I'm not disputing that. The issue is how do you get your first professional job with poor grades? You either work your ass off outside of school, get lucky, or both. But if you work hard to get good grades, your efforts will usually be rewarded with a good job. I don't know if this is true for philosophy majors, but it seems so for the rest
Grades aren't meaningless if you have any plans to attend University. They aren't meaningless if you plan to earn an MBA, MD, LLB, or a graduate degree (Masters, PhD, etc.).
It's true that a lot of people have earned a great living despite poor grades or lack of education, but these people represent a minority. For many people, grades are a major factor in determining acceptance or rejection to paths of life that guarantee some amount of financial success.
It's fairly easy to figure out how school grades can translate into money. If you've got top grades, you earn a chance at being accepted to a Law school (for example). Once you've done your time, you are practically guaranteed a six-figure income: that's money in your pocket because you excelled at school. However, if you act as if grades are irrelevant, you're success might just be dancing with Lady Luck.
A single whale can sustain an entire village for many months; a chainsaw might seem inhumane, but it's pretty hard to suggest the way we kill other sources of food (cows, etc.) is humane. We're both guilty. The problem for most people with a story like this is that they view a whale as cute, entertaining, and not as a source of food, while they view a cow as dinner on the plate. Same thing goes with rabbits, etc.. it's a matter of how animals were portrayed to you. There's nothing wrong with killing a whale for the purposes of survival.
I would think that EBay was independent enough for people to know the name and use them without the use of Google or any other advertisement (aside from television).
Exactly. eBay is like Google; you don't go to Yahoo to find Google, and so you don't go to Google to find eBay. This was a calculated decision, not necessarily a bad one. If people believe it was a suicidal decision, recall the numerous fee increases that caused the community to throw up their arms in revolt. You would think that was suicidal, but eBay is still just as strong.
It's not suicide. Most Internet users have been to eBay. eBay was successful long before Google showed up and they will continue to be successful because their success is attached to the name, how easy it is to remember, and how quickly you can type "ebay.com" in the location bar without having to go through a search engine.
If I run into him on the street...well, let's just say he will need more than self-healing plastic skin to hold him together until he can be put out of his misery by Kevorkian.
What are you going to do, fart in his general direction?
you shouldn't be getting too excited by the use of the term "skin".
Obviously you have high expectations for Slashdot.
Urectum his joke.
I don't know, but I'll be sure to let everyone know when I finish page 467 of the book you just wrote.
... I'll be back.
Great advice: let's just shield our lives so that pictures cannot be taken and distributed to millions on the Internet. I'm certain that, to all those defending Google and the idea of "public domain", if those pictures were of their living space they would be up-in-arms the same way this woman is.
By living on that street she has consented (implicitly) to giving up privacy for the sake of location and convenience. She has consented (implicitly) to privacy loss by keeping the windows open. She has also consented (implicitly) to privacy loss from pedestrians being able to view her apartment. But she has not consented to detailed images of her living space available to millions on the Internet. There is a mountain of difference between hundreds of pedestrians walking by and glancing in, and the collective eyes of the Internet being able crawl over every pixel of her pictures.
Yes she's given up even more privacy, but she is probably thinking it's a worthwhile loss. Imagine if anyone in the world could view the activities of your home through Google -- at that point, it's worth giving up your identity in the hopes of fighting for a restriction on this kind of invasion.
Do you really think this service would keep its legs if it was run by Peeping Tom across the street? Of course not! So why should Google retain a right that wouldn't be granted to our good friend Tom?
If enough people start to do this kind of thing
And therein lies the problem. Enough people will not block Google et al. The Slashdot/tech will not be burdened by the fears of privacy because they are knowledgeable enough to prevent it. The general public has no knowledge of how to be shielded from watching eyes, and furthermore has no knowledge that the Google and DoubleClick merger will give a single entity an overwhelming view of person's online activities.
To reiterate, telling Slashdot to block Google is probably ineffective because those that seek to protect their privacy likely don't use Google. It's the rest of the world that should be concerned -- and they won't be because they are not aware of the implicit activities going on when you search with Google.
Actually install MySQL, PHP and Apache easily without having to use a third party package that holds them all. Yeah, windows is sure free of dependencies. Just great especially when your programs are inherently dependent on each other, oh wait no its a pain in the ass.
All that installation requires is downloading and unzipping/installing all three separate applications, then a couple configuration adjustments to make them communicate. How much simpler can it get? You are way off base here, pal. There's never been a need for a third-party application, but they exist because people (hint) are too damn lazy.
Actually I find Thunderbird quite good. Up to last year I used Outlook until I found a need to organize emails belonging to multiple addresses, so I was recommended Thunderbird. In addition to doing what I wanted it to, Thunderbird also eliminated the spam I was receiving. Now spam is immediately sent to the Junk folder. Anything that snakes its way through is tagged as junk and I never see it again.
Judging by the millions of people who use email every second, I think it's safe to place bets on email being dead.
Rather, flame the complete ignorance of the process by which new technologies trickle down to soldiers from the numerous trials and tests...If it's good enough, it will eventually be used.
Not quite. There's a lot of good products that should be used, but they aren't because of the almighty dollar. Usually it takes a few dead bodies, the tears of weeping mothers, pointed fingers, and fistfuls of public rage to force the government to supply adequate equipment to its troops. And even then they only supply it because of public image.