PS, i'm just trolling you. But you are too blind to see it.
No, you are pretending to troll to cover your embarrassment at exposing your sick little mind when no one thought it was funny. I gave you an out so the well part of your mind could re-assert itself but you just couldn't resist replying, evidently du bist hässlich and that won't allow you to bow out gracefully.
Personally, I'm all for torture of the innocents. It will help the people rise up and fix this god damn country. So please, torture this guy.
Hahahaha, justification, you are so predictable that it is hilarious. The gratification you felt overcoming the humiliation, the small victory you felt when you thought the ugliness won. If you don't reply you will have to face the burning hatred inside of you which makes it next to impossible for you to resist replying after being humiliated even more.
A very interesting quote indeed which quite succinctly sums up some of my thinking - I guess I'm not the first.
Further economic growth is neither possible nor desirable.
It really appears that our entire economic system is flawed. How can you have a consistently expanding market while you have limited resources - the world is big - but it's still limited. A better economic model is required.
Modern industrial economy is not required for cultural or spiritual growth, and poses a threat to human survival." -- D. Orlov
So we need to "re-factor" - so to speak - the rules of our economy so that it operates in sustainable manner. As indeed demonstrated the externalities of the energy industry, our standard of living exists by borrowing energy from the past (coal) or from the future (nuclear).
Ironically with all this talk of downturn, I actually see the I.T industry, which has been an infant so far, as an emerging Goliath in brokering a sustainable civilisation. Investing in large centralised infrastructure such as power stations and freeways represents the energy intensive 20th century economic model. Control systems for micro-power-generation and infrastructure for telecommuting and telecommuting centres represents a potential vision of an energy efficient 21st century economic model. Right now the world is waking up to the fact that due to peak oil, global warming etc that the rules that entire economy is based on doesn't work any more. The good thing about the internet and Information Technology is that opens the door to creating a distributed economic model that eases pressure on existing infrastructure and represents an opportunity to evolve our society and survive.
Of course the kings is far from dead and the plutocracy in control of the status quo can recognise this approaching change and you only have to look at the behavior of institutions like the RIAA to see how they will react to it. Of course my post could be a load of over-optimistic claptrap (or pessimistic depending on your POV). As I.T is in the core of many businesses I see the entire I.T industry as the canary in the mine often heralding change for the entire economy. The question is how unpleasant will the inevitable change be?
A bust is only a bust if you think this way. In reality, it is a great opportunity for improvement for those of us who would like to grab the bull by its horns.
What a great post, you've really solidified my thinking to re-start my consultancy. You reminded me that I got into IT because I love working with technology, it's not easy and few people realise that it's actually hard work. Thinking is the hardest work and I.T is for leaders, not followers. - Thanks
You're right. Having been pushed into management, I decided to fight it for a while before it got any worse.:P
Any suggestions for a transition to management, which I'm not 100% keen on, but it would be useful to have a few hints. I'm not exactly seeing a lot of competent management out there and maybe there is scope to be a good IT manager that was in the trenches - so to speak.
In my country, we have a saying: "Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free?" In this case, the milk is open source software and the cow is the developer.
It's not difficult to use a "spell checker". Everyone makes punctuation and grammar errors, but I think what we have to establish is "When is a phonetic use of the English language appropriate?" and thats because poorly smelt words validates that poor smelling.
Sometimes it's laziness, haste or a typo but, I wonder how this discussion will change when use of voice recognition becomes commonplace for computer lusers?
Of course, there are a few downsides, the most notable is the fact that the plant would have higher construction costs than most, and would have higher cost per kilowatt than most.
The most significant flaw in the design of the IFR is the use of Sodium as a coolant which creates a situation for explosive sodium fires as the reactor ages due to the ingress of air into the system. Further the reactor design should last longer than 40 years, more like 1000 years and material sciences are not yet up to scratch to support that development. Currently reactors are looked at with them generating a returns over forty years, problem is most of the costs occur at the end of the reactors life cycle.
There is enough 'waste' plutonium (70000 tons) to power the US for roughly 5000 years, so having a reactor system that can last that long would make sense. If these two main design issues could be solved it would look at lot more attractive as conversion of transuranics to fissile ash is a better way of dealing with the waste issues - and of course provides a path to nuclear dis-armament.
uses helium, nitrogen, or carbon dioxide. no water. doesn't absorb any radioactive contaminants. doesn't absorb neutrons
Except PBMR have significant design issues.
1. How to manufacture up the feul kernels without imperfections has not been solved
2. For any reason (mechanical or human error) the core temperature exceeds 1600C you have a coating failure and it releases massive amounts of radioactive isotopes
3. Above 2000C you induce a graphite fire and have a chernobyl type accident (due to the proposed *lack* of containment facilities)
4. As the system ages, ingress of air into the system would allow the kernels graphite coating to ignite, again promoting a chernobyl situation
5. They create significant quantities of High level waste
6. Provide economic benefit by eliminating the containment structure which even the NRC calls a "major safety trade-off"
There are good reasons why PMBR are becoming less attractive.
I think they can reprocess it quite a few times, until it's eventually at a fairly low energy and stable state to where, like the parent said, it's only dangerous for a short time.
It doesn't work that way, it has to be more radioactive to have a shorter halflife, ideally fissile ash.
What people don't realize is back in the 70's, the US was looking into the possibility of setting up breeder reactors to reprocess fuel. The Carter administration made the decision to, for the time being, defer re-processing the fuel, with the given reason that they were concerned about the ability to secure the Plutonium which is produced in the re-processing. That is, breeder reactors process 'spent' Uranium into a mixture of Uranium and Plutonium
From memory I don't think the mix was plutonium and uranium and I think the elements they were using were creating an enormous waste problem in the process. Second, breeder reactors are harder to manage with respect to less lead up time before a potential accident.
Uranium was cheap and abundant..
But not any more and it takes so much energy to get the ore in the first place. 2.4 gigajoules per ton for soft ores and 5.5 gigajoules per ton for hard hard ores. To get a kilogram of uranium you have to process 500 tons of hard ore (as there is almost no soft ore left) - and even that is assuming an extremely optimistic extraction efficiency approaching %50 and that assumes you have a high grade ore. Yet you still have to factor in the energetic remediation of the mine tailing. Like Oil, all the cheap uranium is gone.
There have been various Breeder reactor's put up in other countries, I think I read there are some in Europe and Asia, but so far the current designs, I guess, haven't turned out to be very economically competitive against other energy sources.
I mention energy because economic factors are not as relevant as 'Net Energy Return'. Nuclear power is very energy intensive *after* the energy has been produced simply because our technology - especially material sciences - are not adequate to produce a Nuclear reactor (preferably a IFR style but safer) that has a life span that matches the geological time frames that we have to deal with. We need a reactor design that lasts at least 1000 years and is a closed loop, i.e. the plutonium goes in and nothing comes out. This is why I support reactor research but not commercial nuclear power.
Personally, as I indicate in my subject for this post, I view Yucca Mountain not as a waste site, a dumping ground, but more like the Strategic Petroleum Reserve...it stays 'hot' for 10000 years,
First of all lets clear up the time frame here, it's not 10000 years, plutonium is radioactive for 25000 years before it decays into it's daughter product, which will then be radioactive for ??000 years and iterate 20 odd times. That's why I refer to it as 'geological time frames'. Second Yucca mountain is not a suitable site because it is made of pumice and geologically active evidenced by recent aftershocks of 5.6 within ten miles of a repository that is supposed to be geologically stable for at least 500000 years. The DOE's own 1982 Nuclear Waste policy Act reported that the Yucca Mountain's geology is inappropriate to contain nuclear waste, and long term corrosion data on C22 (the material to contain the Pu-239 and mitigate the ingress of water - yet another Yucca problem) is just not available.
We need something made of granite. The only human made structure with the potential to last 10000 years is Mt Rushmore, so it has to be that type of engineering project because the logistical problems of transferring the 70000 odd tons of Pu239 to the waste repository are so involved that you want to get it right the first time and only do it once.
it means we have plenty of time in which to figure o
I had always given Microsoft the benefit of the doubt. That they weren't really all that bad, just unusually incompetent and maybe a bit greedy with a touch of power-hungry. Now I'm fully convinced that there is some kind of rotten fucking evil permeating that organization.
I went through this transition, now comes the powerlessness associated with knowing there is little you can do stop them, none of your friends will even understand this - of course, where you can you try to fight the man, the man will eventually bludgeon you into submission.
The sad reality is that the market will slowly be corralled into accepting Vista and all the requisite DRM baggage that it carries. The key here is that the frog is heated very slowly in the pot and the market will accept, like sheep, what is fed to them. Of course the ardent Microsoft supporters will say Vista ain't so bad, and sure their products are nice to work with, but they are also a nightmare of interoperability when you try and work with anything else.
I don't want to encourage purchase of their products because when you dig deeper into the behavior of Microsoft the 'evil' conclusion is consistently reinforced. A corporation has the same legal rights as an individual in society it begs the question "What sort of individual is Microsoft", I found this and made the comparison.
HOW TO SPOT A PSYCHOPATH - 5 WAYS TO AVOID HIRING PSYCHOPATHS COPYRIGHT 2008 MICHAEL MERCER, PH.D.
1. Pre-Employment Tests - especially certain test scores
From my research on pre-employment tests, there are specific test scores that may indicate a job applicant is a psychopath. Specifically, psychopaths may get low or high scores on certain measures/scales in pre-employment tests:
* low scores on two measures - (a) Truthfulness and (b) Following Rules
Lesson: Be cautious with job applicants who get such scores on pre-employment tests.
2. Job Interviews
If you suspect a job applicant may be a psychopath, then you can ask questions to elicit answers revealing if the applicant threatens or intimidates people. Reason: Psychopaths get a huge thrill from intimidating through (a) real or implied threats, (b) verbal hostility, and (c) manipulation.
Call the job applicant's ex-bosses at home, and ask for a "personal reference." Obtain specific examples of how the applicant "handled difficulties and friction with other employees." Listen for warning signs of threats, intimidation, anger, or ridicule.
I think one of the most outstanding capabilities I noticed was the OP's ability to manipulate people and established social systems very quickly, which is also one of the ways to identify them as a candidate for observation. Exclusion is one of their biggest tools and I think to survive an OP one must remain skeptical of anything they say once the veneer of lying has been discovered.
An OP will manipulate people and scenarios with the intention of using that construct as a means to inflict stress onto a person, the more they stress a person the better. An OP will try to understand your behavioral patterns as a means to cause you harm.
Excellent dissection FL. I had the misfortune of working with a Occupational Psychopath, I watched as he habitually lied as if it was natural, set up situations where people would have to work really hard and then destroyed their work enjoying their stressful reactions, allowed himself to be passed over for promotion so he could operate without supervision.
The day I realised there was something wrong with him was when he described, with some glee, how he had found a really cruel way to kill some cats. I listened and felt a cold chill go down my spine, but played along and laughed so he thought it was ok, I felt ill inside. I knew then (after about a year of stress) that I was working with an absolute nutcase. I realised that the less he knew about my life the better - I got out of there as soon as possible, and I felt sorry for the team I built up and left behind. He engineered the situation so well that anything I say to senior management would probably just make me look petty. I still hold concerns for their welfare.
Oh boo fucking hoo. I ruined your day. Too fucking bad.
Such bravado - you are obviously embarrassed at looking at your inner thoughts and discovering sie sind hässlich.
I was posting a social commentary about how this government calls everything it does not like terrorism.
coooolll maaaaan, I look forward to the essay.
It is a simple FACT that the US government is torturing innocents at this very second. My joke is not a joke about torture, it is a joke about the very fabric of this torn nation.
the priest, the book or the congregation. Hang on I check for an insightful or funny mod....nope, guess no one else felt that way either. You still haven't realised that you are being mind raped into thinking it's ok to joke about it, which begins to make it acceptable in peoples minds.
You might find it offensive, I really don't give a shit.
Yes I do, yes you do, otherwise you wouldn't have bothered responding, your embarrassed, otherwise you would have had the dignity to refrain from a further reply, you are just trying to justify it.
There is nothing left to do is this nation but sit back and watch it all fall apart (or get tortured to death as a traitor/terrorist).
Look as hopeless as things may seem there is always something you can do. You have a choice not to participate in that mind set. I chose you at random, it's nothing personal, it's the mindset I resist. Sure you were being sarcastic and I might even agree with your sentiment, but that's not the point or even a matter of opinion. Defense of human rights and challenging the use of torture (which even the CIA has evaluated as a completely useless tool for gathering intelligence) and therefore the defense of torture victims, begins with challenging the mindset that allows torture to be an acceptable choice for our authorities. The choice you have, in your mind is to accept or reject the idea. It's is a sickening thing and I, with humility, am asking you to reconsider your position as harmful to us all.
I'm not sure what was funnier - his sarcasm, or your naivety.
I get the sarcasm buddy that's why I wrote "State sponsored terrorism is not even vaguely funny, it's not acceptable.". It's not naivety it's pissedoffity but thanks for pointing it out, would it be funny if it was a soldier instead of a civil servant - how funny is it then - hahahaha.
I doubt you have spent one millisecond discovering that victims of torture have their lives destroyed, if they survive. So what if it was you? Would you want them to stop at waterboarding, why not get the whole family in there and waterboard them too, or the children assaulted by trained dogs or maybe they could just smash the fuck out of the bottom of your feet or maybe they could put electrodes on your balls or maybe they could keep you awake for days and days or just get you to stand up all the time. It's not fucking funny when your the subject, when it's personal, eh.
I'm not sure what was funnier - your cynicism or your apathy. If you don't think a society is being created where it's acceptable to torture you - yes in your legal system - you're miserably deluded.
It's a trust thing. If you can trust your admins. And if you can't...well, who admins the admins?
I did.
I implemented controls for a very large bank, no-one had the root or administrators passwords anymore, the managers did. And even they only had half a whole password each. All administrative functions were done through sudo mechanisms which you could still get around but left an audit trail.
Still it did one very good thing for system admins, it gave management a vested interest in the reliability of the systems they wouldn't sign off on any change that might mean they *both* were called in on a weekend - none of us wanted to be called in on a weekend either so our change management strategy got very good.
None of us know all the facts of the situation, but I think it's pretty obvious that this guy was just trying to maintain his livelyhood through a misguided attempt at job security.
And for that people will suggest this guy get's tortured - it's a fucking joke. I don't care what this guy did - no-one deserves to be tortured. Think about it people - torturing computer people to get information, riiiiggghhhhttt, that forward planning.
Screw hacking, this is domestic terroism, send him to gitmo and waterboard him!!!! Think of the children!
to get a password
State sponsored terrorism is not even vaguely funny, it's not acceptable. I don't care what you think you were posting it's offensive to even put such an idea out there. Talk about professionalism in system administration, the type of things that validate the entire I.T communities activities as a profession not about the things that demean us all as a people.
I would be very leery of booting the system to net or cdrom. What ELSE did he setup?
dd over filesystem super block's and all super block backups while the system is still up.
clear the inode or just plain delete a critical database file while the database is still running - the longer the system runs the worse the damage gets.
change the default init state to 6 - so much fun.
much harder to trace and that's off the top of my head, do any of these things, take the system down and it is royally screwed, while the processes are in memory there is some hope of recovery, any attempt to usurp control then he can deny any attempt at damage as occurring *after* he left.
I had a colleague delete the password file on some systems and we had to use an exploit to get back into the systems to restore the passwd file - and that was an accident, not intentional and malicious damage.
He has removed access to other users while he was an authorised administrator of the system, he hasn't interfered with the actual operation of the system nor has he prevented access to the data. As far as I can see the only password he is refusing to give up is his own. There is little doubt that this was a pre-meditated attack and I somehow doubt this guy is an idiot either, I would not be surprised if he has checked the legality of what he is doing and is setting up his employer (the state) for a suit of wrongful detention evidenced by him being happy enough to cool his heals in jail for the time being, so the question here is, Has this guy actually committed a crime?
Please before you grill me about the *morality* of his actions I am talking about the *legality* of his actions, will the charges stick - a case like this can have ramifications all over the world - especially for computer usage policies. The next question is What was he so pissed off about that would prompt a response like this? Surely he knows he is ending his career - who would employ someone who is known to have done this? when he can just find another position elsewhere.
BOFH would be proud right now, except he broke the cardinal rule of trace-ability of his actions, he exposed the power that all system administrators have and management won't like that. Anyone who has worked in a public service position can attest to how petty the management drones can be he was saying to them 'See how powerful I really am, even if I am in jail I can still fuck you up'. I'd think this was funny if I didn't sense the oncoming implementation of controls *groan*.
The judge... said he was 'not unsympathetic' to Tiffany and others who have invested in building their brands only to see them exploited on the Web.
Yeah but they don't mind sending the production process over to a country that
a) exploits *their* workers
b) doesn't care about copyright
c) is prepared to make counterfeit goods from idle production time and undercut the company that outsourced the production process in the first place
Looks like those communist Chinese are learning how to be quite effective capitalists, what did Tiffany *expect* to happen. Except they don't go back to where and how the goods were produced noooooooo they go and sue a third party clogging up the legal system - what a mockery of the legal process. At least the judge used a foam club over the four year period.
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No, you are pretending to troll to cover your embarrassment at exposing your sick little mind when no one thought it was funny. I gave you an out so the well part of your mind could re-assert itself but you just couldn't resist replying, evidently du bist hässlich and that won't allow you to bow out gracefully.
Hahahaha, justification, you are so predictable that it is hilarious. The gratification you felt overcoming the humiliation, the small victory you felt when you thought the ugliness won. If you don't reply you will have to face the burning hatred inside of you which makes it next to impossible for you to resist replying after being humiliated even more.
So who is trolling who bitch?
It really appears that our entire economic system is flawed. How can you have a consistently expanding market while you have limited resources - the world is big - but it's still limited. A better economic model is required.
So we need to "re-factor" - so to speak - the rules of our economy so that it operates in sustainable manner. As indeed demonstrated the externalities of the energy industry, our standard of living exists by borrowing energy from the past (coal) or from the future (nuclear).
Ironically with all this talk of downturn, I actually see the I.T industry, which has been an infant so far, as an emerging Goliath in brokering a sustainable civilisation. Investing in large centralised infrastructure such as power stations and freeways represents the energy intensive 20th century economic model. Control systems for micro-power-generation and infrastructure for telecommuting and telecommuting centres represents a potential vision of an energy efficient 21st century economic model. Right now the world is waking up to the fact that due to peak oil, global warming etc that the rules that entire economy is based on doesn't work any more. The good thing about the internet and Information Technology is that opens the door to creating a distributed economic model that eases pressure on existing infrastructure and represents an opportunity to evolve our society and survive.
Of course the kings is far from dead and the plutocracy in control of the status quo can recognise this approaching change and you only have to look at the behavior of institutions like the RIAA to see how they will react to it. Of course my post could be a load of over-optimistic claptrap (or pessimistic depending on your POV). As I.T is in the core of many businesses I see the entire I.T industry as the canary in the mine often heralding change for the entire economy. The question is how unpleasant will the inevitable change be?
What a great post, you've really solidified my thinking to re-start my consultancy. You reminded me that I got into IT because I love working with technology, it's not easy and few people realise that it's actually hard work. Thinking is the hardest work and I.T is for leaders, not followers. - Thanks
Any suggestions for a transition to management, which I'm not 100% keen on, but it would be useful to have a few hints. I'm not exactly seeing a lot of competent management out there and maybe there is scope to be a good IT manager that was in the trenches - so to speak.
Mooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.
You slipped that one under the radar.
It's not difficult to use a "spell checker". Everyone makes punctuation and grammar errors, but I think what we have to establish is "When is a phonetic use of the English language appropriate?" and thats because poorly smelt words validates that poor smelling.
Sometimes it's laziness, haste or a typo but, I wonder how this discussion will change when use of voice recognition becomes commonplace for computer lusers?
The most significant flaw in the design of the IFR is the use of Sodium as a coolant which creates a situation for explosive sodium fires as the reactor ages due to the ingress of air into the system. Further the reactor design should last longer than 40 years, more like 1000 years and material sciences are not yet up to scratch to support that development. Currently reactors are looked at with them generating a returns over forty years, problem is most of the costs occur at the end of the reactors life cycle.
There is enough 'waste' plutonium (70000 tons) to power the US for roughly 5000 years, so having a reactor system that can last that long would make sense. If these two main design issues could be solved it would look at lot more attractive as conversion of transuranics to fissile ash is a better way of dealing with the waste issues - and of course provides a path to nuclear dis-armament.
Except PBMR have significant design issues.
1. How to manufacture up the feul kernels without imperfections has not been solved 2. For any reason (mechanical or human error) the core temperature exceeds 1600C you have a coating failure and it releases massive amounts of radioactive isotopes 3. Above 2000C you induce a graphite fire and have a chernobyl type accident (due to the proposed *lack* of containment facilities) 4. As the system ages, ingress of air into the system would allow the kernels graphite coating to ignite, again promoting a chernobyl situation 5. They create significant quantities of High level waste6. Provide economic benefit by eliminating the containment structure which even the NRC calls a "major safety trade-off"
There are good reasons why PMBR are becoming less attractive.
It doesn't work that way, it has to be more radioactive to have a shorter halflife, ideally fissile ash.
From memory I don't think the mix was plutonium and uranium and I think the elements they were using were creating an enormous waste problem in the process. Second, breeder reactors are harder to manage with respect to less lead up time before a potential accident.
But not any more and it takes so much energy to get the ore in the first place. 2.4 gigajoules per ton for soft ores and 5.5 gigajoules per ton for hard hard ores. To get a kilogram of uranium you have to process 500 tons of hard ore (as there is almost no soft ore left) - and even that is assuming an extremely optimistic extraction efficiency approaching %50 and that assumes you have a high grade ore. Yet you still have to factor in the energetic remediation of the mine tailing. Like Oil, all the cheap uranium is gone.
I mention energy because economic factors are not as relevant as 'Net Energy Return'. Nuclear power is very energy intensive *after* the energy has been produced simply because our technology - especially material sciences - are not adequate to produce a Nuclear reactor (preferably a IFR style but safer) that has a life span that matches the geological time frames that we have to deal with. We need a reactor design that lasts at least 1000 years and is a closed loop, i.e. the plutonium goes in and nothing comes out. This is why I support reactor research but not commercial nuclear power.
First of all lets clear up the time frame here, it's not 10000 years, plutonium is radioactive for 25000 years before it decays into it's daughter product, which will then be radioactive for ??000 years and iterate 20 odd times. That's why I refer to it as 'geological time frames'. Second Yucca mountain is not a suitable site because it is made of pumice and geologically active evidenced by recent aftershocks of 5.6 within ten miles of a repository that is supposed to be geologically stable for at least 500000 years. The DOE's own 1982 Nuclear Waste policy Act reported that the Yucca Mountain's geology is inappropriate to contain nuclear waste, and long term corrosion data on C22 (the material to contain the Pu-239 and mitigate the ingress of water - yet another Yucca problem) is just not available.
We need something made of granite. The only human made structure with the potential to last 10000 years is Mt Rushmore, so it has to be that type of engineering project because the logistical problems of transferring the 70000 odd tons of Pu239 to the waste repository are so involved that you want to get it right the first time and only do it once.
I went through this transition, now comes the powerlessness associated with knowing there is little you can do stop them, none of your friends will even understand this - of course, where you can you try to fight the man, the man will eventually bludgeon you into submission.
The sad reality is that the market will slowly be corralled into accepting Vista and all the requisite DRM baggage that it carries. The key here is that the frog is heated very slowly in the pot and the market will accept, like sheep, what is fed to them. Of course the ardent Microsoft supporters will say Vista ain't so bad, and sure their products are nice to work with, but they are also a nightmare of interoperability when you try and work with anything else.
I don't want to encourage purchase of their products because when you dig deeper into the behavior of Microsoft the 'evil' conclusion is consistently reinforced. A corporation has the same legal rights as an individual in society it begs the question "What sort of individual is Microsoft", I found this and made the comparison.
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threats, hostility, manipulation, manipulation, manipulation.
intimidation, anger,
An OP will manipulate people and scenarios with the intention of using that construct as a means to inflict stress onto a person, the more they stress a person the better. An OP will try to understand your behavioral patterns as a means to cause you harm.
http://www.drjohnclarke.com/ is a good place to get information.
A photo gallery of Lituya Bay today it's a part of Glacier Bay National Park I'm awestruck by how beautiful GBNP is.
A wikimapia of Lituya Bay and a photo gallery from a local tour company, I'd love to go there one day.
The day I realised there was something wrong with him was when he described, with some glee, how he had found a really cruel way to kill some cats. I listened and felt a cold chill go down my spine, but played along and laughed so he thought it was ok, I felt ill inside. I knew then (after about a year of stress) that I was working with an absolute nutcase. I realised that the less he knew about my life the better - I got out of there as soon as possible, and I felt sorry for the team I built up and left behind. He engineered the situation so well that anything I say to senior management would probably just make me look petty. I still hold concerns for their welfare.
Such bravado - you are obviously embarrassed at looking at your inner thoughts and discovering sie sind hässlich.
coooolll maaaaan, I look forward to the essay.
the priest, the book or the congregation. Hang on I check for an insightful or funny mod....nope, guess no one else felt that way either. You still haven't realised that you are being mind raped into thinking it's ok to joke about it, which begins to make it acceptable in peoples minds.
Yes I do, yes you do, otherwise you wouldn't have bothered responding, your embarrassed, otherwise you would have had the dignity to refrain from a further reply, you are just trying to justify it.
Look as hopeless as things may seem there is always something you can do. You have a choice not to participate in that mind set. I chose you at random, it's nothing personal, it's the mindset I resist. Sure you were being sarcastic and I might even agree with your sentiment, but that's not the point or even a matter of opinion. Defense of human rights and challenging the use of torture (which even the CIA has evaluated as a completely useless tool for gathering intelligence) and therefore the defense of torture victims, begins with challenging the mindset that allows torture to be an acceptable choice for our authorities. The choice you have, in your mind is to accept or reject the idea. It's is a sickening thing and I, with humility, am asking you to reconsider your position as harmful to us all.
I will do what I must.
I get the sarcasm buddy that's why I wrote "State sponsored terrorism is not even vaguely funny, it's not acceptable.". It's not naivety it's pissedoffity but thanks for pointing it out, would it be funny if it was a soldier instead of a civil servant - how funny is it then - hahahaha.
I doubt you have spent one millisecond discovering that victims of torture have their lives destroyed, if they survive. So what if it was you? Would you want them to stop at waterboarding, why not get the whole family in there and waterboard them too, or the children assaulted by trained dogs or maybe they could just smash the fuck out of the bottom of your feet or maybe they could put electrodes on your balls or maybe they could keep you awake for days and days or just get you to stand up all the time. It's not fucking funny when your the subject, when it's personal, eh.
I'm not sure what was funnier - your cynicism or your apathy. If you don't think a society is being created where it's acceptable to torture you - yes in your legal system - you're miserably deluded.
(Credits to actual torture victims)
I did.
I implemented controls for a very large bank, no-one had the root or administrators passwords anymore, the managers did. And even they only had half a whole password each. All administrative functions were done through sudo mechanisms which you could still get around but left an audit trail.
Still it did one very good thing for system admins, it gave management a vested interest in the reliability of the systems they wouldn't sign off on any change that might mean they *both* were called in on a weekend - none of us wanted to be called in on a weekend either so our change management strategy got very good.
sometimes security can be a good thing
Well rodney your salary review could go either way.
And for that people will suggest this guy get's tortured - it's a fucking joke. I don't care what this guy did - no-one deserves to be tortured. Think about it people - torturing computer people to get information, riiiiggghhhhttt, that forward planning.
and I thought these dumb fucks were smart
to get a password
State sponsored terrorism is not even vaguely funny, it's not acceptable. I don't care what you think you were posting it's offensive to even put such an idea out there. Talk about professionalism in system administration, the type of things that validate the entire I.T communities activities as a profession not about the things that demean us all as a people.
change the default init state to 6 - so much fun.
much harder to trace and that's off the top of my head, do any of these things, take the system down and it is royally screwed, while the processes are in memory there is some hope of recovery, any attempt to usurp control then he can deny any attempt at damage as occurring *after* he left. I had a colleague delete the password file on some systems and we had to use an exploit to get back into the systems to restore the passwd file - and that was an accident, not intentional and malicious damage.
He has removed access to other users while he was an authorised administrator of the system, he hasn't interfered with the actual operation of the system nor has he prevented access to the data. As far as I can see the only password he is refusing to give up is his own. There is little doubt that this was a pre-meditated attack and I somehow doubt this guy is an idiot either, I would not be surprised if he has checked the legality of what he is doing and is setting up his employer (the state) for a suit of wrongful detention evidenced by him being happy enough to cool his heals in jail for the time being, so the question here is, Has this guy actually committed a crime?
Please before you grill me about the *morality* of his actions I am talking about the *legality* of his actions, will the charges stick - a case like this can have ramifications all over the world - especially for computer usage policies. The next question is What was he so pissed off about that would prompt a response like this? Surely he knows he is ending his career - who would employ someone who is known to have done this? when he can just find another position elsewhere.
BOFH would be proud right now, except he broke the cardinal rule of trace-ability of his actions, he exposed the power that all system administrators have and management won't like that. Anyone who has worked in a public service position can attest to how petty the management drones can be he was saying to them 'See how powerful I really am, even if I am in jail I can still fuck you up'. I'd think this was funny if I didn't sense the oncoming implementation of controls *groan*.
hmmmmmmmm
Yeah but they don't mind sending the production process over to a country that
a) exploits *their* workers b) doesn't care about copyrightc) is prepared to make counterfeit goods from idle production time and undercut the company that outsourced the production process in the first place
Looks like those communist Chinese are learning how to be quite effective capitalists, what did Tiffany *expect* to happen. Except they don't go back to where and how the goods were produced noooooooo they go and sue a third party clogging up the legal system - what a mockery of the legal process. At least the judge used a foam club over the four year period.
Fixed that for ya
I bet a one month limit on logs of user IP addresses is looking really good now.