Our IT dept convinvced the higher-ups that they needed to be behind locked doors for security purposes. So they all got their own private offices with locking doors.
Well no, they didn't. They all got moved into a conference room that was converted to the IT area. A bunch of cubes were crammed in there, supplementery A/C, and some nice thick doors with punch-button locks. No windows, of course.
Now they have to punch in a code every time they want to enter their work area. They have to get up and open the door every time someone from outside IT needs to come in. The cleaning crew is only allowed in when one of them is present, so one of them has to stay late one day a week so that the floor gets vacuumed and the trash emptied.
In other words, the security you want may not be the security that you get.
I just picked up WoW a couple of months ago. It's my first MMORPG, so I'm still feeling my way around and learning how things work. I haven't bought gold, and haven't even really considered it. My reasons are pretty simple.
1) I'm still new, so the grinding doesn't really bore me yet. Yeah, some things are more fun then others, but it's all fun.
2) I got lucky and scored a couple of purple (epic?) items in the early 40's. Sold them both in the AH for about 100 gold. So I have my mount, decent gear, and enough spare cash that I can pick up the odd item that catches my eye.
3) I don't look on WoW as a competition. I realize a lot of the people who play are in the game for the raids, the battlegrounds, and to just strut around and show off their shiny uber gear. I also realize that most of them have been playing since the beta test, have a whole stable of high-level characters, and thousands of gold that they've gotten by whatever means. I don't worry about them. I play my game, solo mostly, have fun and don't worry about what other people have. I'd probably feel differently if I was on PvP server, but there's a reason that I didn't pick that.
That being said, it doesn't seem that Bliz is really all that concerned about the gold farmers. They've made some noise about how they don't tolerate that sort of thing, but that seems to be the extent of their actions. How hard would it be for them to put in a system that would track and log every transaction on a server? Then all they'd have to do is buy some gold off of somebody, find the account that sent it, trace the transaction trail backwards to the originating account, and then take appropriate action. Do that a few times, and gold farming is no longer a profitable occupation.
On the other hand, if you hack into their network and let them know they're vulnerable, *then* you make a polite sales call offering security services, but you don't link yourself in any way to the previous break-in... you might catch someone in panic mode.
And if we can figure out a way to have these hamsters produce hydrogen pellets, instead of regular 'ol poop pellets... well sir, it'd be like a license to print money!
The problem is, Apple has a duty to its stockholders. They might prefer that Apple pay Creative a few hundred thousand dollars to go away then spend millions on a lawsuit that would accomplish the same thing.
It's also entirely possible that Creative will cut Apple a really good deal, just so that they can say "Apple has acknowledged our patent and we have reached a licensing agreement with them." That gives Creative ammunition to go after all the other MP3 player manufacturers, who maybe can't afford a multi-million dollar lawsuit.
I think the key phrase there is "if you knew". Most individuals don't use OO now because they're simply not aware of it. Businesses don't use it because they're not aware of it or because they don't understand how a piece of software can rival Office for power and ease of use, and cost nothing. They figure there's got to be some kind of catch in there somewhere.
MS making Office compatible with OO is not going to suddenly make OO pop up on everyones radar. Nor is it going to cause businesses to suddenly trust and embrace open source and free software.
I don't care if you're looking for karma or not. I mod posts up (or down) to make it easier for other readers to find the interesting, relevant comments, and to skip the crap. If something you posted is worth reading, then it needs to be modded up so the folks that skim at 4+ or 5+ will see it.
So you discard resumes that have "MCSE" on them. Another hiring manager might discard resumes that DON'T have "MCSE" on them. I'm sure that both of you are sitting there in your office quite smug about all the work you've just saved yourselves by discarding all those undesireable candidates. And both of you probably tossed out some really knowledgable, qualified candidates.
Certs are generally a litmus test. Have the right one, and some HR drone puts your resume on one stack, or your name pops up when someone does a relevant search on an Internet job site. If you don't have it, your resume goes on the other stack. I suppose there's the occasional oddball who will look upon certs as a bad thing, but I'd say 95% of the companies out there look at certs positively, or at least neutrally.
You've still got the customer calling the free line first, and the phone tech having to determine that the support issue is indeed virus/worm related. Sometimes it's obvious, sometimes not so. Either way, there's still a support cost before the call can be handed off to the fee line.
Whether I bookmark something or not usually depends on how difficult it was to locate in the first place. A few months ago, I was looking for instructions on how to replace the CMOS battery in an old Winbook. I had to wade through half-a-dozen pages on Google with links to companies that wanted to sell me a new laptop battery before I found something relevant. That one got bookmarked.
I didn't have to carve my own dice, but I *did* have to take a felt-tip marker and color in the numbers. And of course on the d20, I'd color half the numbers in black and half in red so that you could tell 1-10 from 11-20.
I actually went to GenCon back in.. geeze... '81 or '82. It was a fun thing to do once.
I was diagnosing a floppy drive problem on my Apple ][, and forgot to turn the computer off one time before pushing the drive controller card back into the slot. There was this loud >pop and a little puff of magic smoke. I cussed and turned the system off, then gingerly reinstalled everything, but no luck.. the card was fried.
I took a look at it, and discovered that one of the IC's had a divot blasted out of the middle of it. There was literally a little crater in the middle of the chip. I looked up the part number in the Apple manual, bought a replacement at Radio Shack and.. it worked!
The cemetary by my house has headstones from the 1890's that are still in good condition and quite readable. I'm sure that in the year 2120 these LCD screens will still be working perfectly informing visitors all about the deceased.
This is one of the stupidest ideas I've seen in a long time. The only way it'll go anywhere is if some funeral home directors manage to guilt and manipulate grieving relations into buying the damn things.
You can have lots of fun by trying to order a small drink at the drivethrough. They'll repeat your order back, but call it a medium drink. Tell them you want a small drink, not a medium. They'll tell you that medium is their smallest size. You can improvise from there.
I don't think poor people necessarily place education lower on their list of priorities. Poor people tend to live in less desireable neighborhoods, where they can't just send the kids outside to play. They can't afford stuff like music lessons and soccer camp and all the other outside diversions that middle and upper class kids have.
You've got kids stuck inside most of the time, probably bored out of their skull. So they tend to play more video games.
Whatever happened to the hammer and chisel? When making a spelling mistake means you have to totally redo three days of work, you learn to plan ahead carefully
I don't think any child should be given free access to anything beyond stone age technology until they invent it themselves.
13 months is way too late if you want your child to have a solid grounding in computers. I got one of those motion activated mice and ducttaped it to my kids hand at about 2 weeks of age. Mounted a 17" LCD on a bracket over his crib so that he could see the screen. The little guy has amazed me with how much he's learned already.
What if you're not sure that they're really a customer? What if you suspect that they're some random guy trying to stir up trouble? What if they work for your competitor across the street, and they're trying to create a stink to drive your potential customers away?
If an online vendor let every review stay up regardless of content, their site would soon be plastered with astrocrabgrass, all sorts of fake complaints about shoddy products, lousy service, billing problems, whatever. I think if I had a site, my police would be to delete any negative revirews about my company, but have customer service investigate them. Then fix the problem if the complaint is justified.
I'm not sure I understand what the concern is. Your question seems to imply that you're worried that employees will copy data onto a USB stick and then lose it, rather then intentionally stealing information that way.
If thats the problem, I'd be much more concerned about where the employee is taking that data. The only reason someone would put company information on a data key is so that they could move that information to a computer somewhere outside the company network. *That's* where your security concerns should be. Some manager copies your customer database onto his home computer, and he's sharing it with the whole internet.
The only way you'll be able to stop that sort of thing is to ensure that company data stays on company computers. Period. If you need to work from home, have the company get you a laptop, and have the IT department do that they can to make that laptop secure.
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Our IT dept convinvced the higher-ups that they needed to be behind locked doors for security purposes. So they all got their own private offices with locking doors.
Well no, they didn't. They all got moved into a conference room that was converted to the IT area. A bunch of cubes were crammed in there, supplementery A/C, and some nice thick doors with punch-button locks. No windows, of course.
Now they have to punch in a code every time they want to enter their work area. They have to get up and open the door every time someone from outside IT needs to come in. The cleaning crew is only allowed in when one of them is present, so one of them has to stay late one day a week so that the floor gets vacuumed and the trash emptied.
In other words, the security you want may not be the security that you get.
I just picked up WoW a couple of months ago. It's my first MMORPG, so I'm still feeling my way around and learning how things work. I haven't bought gold, and haven't even really considered it. My reasons are pretty simple.
1) I'm still new, so the grinding doesn't really bore me yet. Yeah, some things are more fun then others, but it's all fun.
2) I got lucky and scored a couple of purple (epic?) items in the early 40's. Sold them both in the AH for about 100 gold. So I have my mount, decent gear, and enough spare cash that I can pick up the odd item that catches my eye.
3) I don't look on WoW as a competition. I realize a lot of the people who play are in the game for the raids, the battlegrounds, and to just strut around and show off their shiny uber gear. I also realize that most of them have been playing since the beta test, have a whole stable of high-level characters, and thousands of gold that they've gotten by whatever means. I don't worry about them. I play my game, solo mostly, have fun and don't worry about what other people have. I'd probably feel differently if I was on PvP server, but there's a reason that I didn't pick that.
That being said, it doesn't seem that Bliz is really all that concerned about the gold farmers. They've made some noise about how they don't tolerate that sort of thing, but that seems to be the extent of their actions. How hard would it be for them to put in a system that would track and log every transaction on a server? Then all they'd have to do is buy some gold off of somebody, find the account that sent it, trace the transaction trail backwards to the originating account, and then take appropriate action. Do that a few times, and gold farming is no longer a profitable occupation.
On the other hand, if you hack into their network and let them know they're vulnerable, *then* you make a polite sales call offering security services, but you don't link yourself in any way to the previous break-in... you might catch someone in panic mode.
Not terribly ethical, I suppose...
Yep, brilliant. That's assuming that these hard drives never have any sort of hardware failure, though. Otherwise, it's incredibly stupid.
And if we can figure out a way to have these hamsters produce hydrogen pellets, instead of regular 'ol poop pellets... well sir, it'd be like a license to print money!
The problem is, Apple has a duty to its stockholders. They might prefer that Apple pay Creative a few hundred thousand dollars to go away then spend millions on a lawsuit that would accomplish the same thing.
It's also entirely possible that Creative will cut Apple a really good deal, just so that they can say "Apple has acknowledged our patent and we have reached a licensing agreement with them." That gives Creative ammunition to go after all the other MP3 player manufacturers, who maybe can't afford a multi-million dollar lawsuit.
I think the key phrase there is "if you knew". Most individuals don't use OO now because they're simply not aware of it. Businesses don't use it because they're not aware of it or because they don't understand how a piece of software can rival Office for power and ease of use, and cost nothing. They figure there's got to be some kind of catch in there somewhere.
MS making Office compatible with OO is not going to suddenly make OO pop up on everyones radar. Nor is it going to cause businesses to suddenly trust and embrace open source and free software.
I don't care if you're looking for karma or not. I mod posts up (or down) to make it easier for other readers to find the interesting, relevant comments, and to skip the crap. If something you posted is worth reading, then it needs to be modded up so the folks that skim at 4+ or 5+ will see it.
So you discard resumes that have "MCSE" on them. Another hiring manager might discard resumes that DON'T have "MCSE" on them. I'm sure that both of you are sitting there in your office quite smug about all the work you've just saved yourselves by discarding all those undesireable candidates. And both of you probably tossed out some really knowledgable, qualified candidates.
Certs are generally a litmus test. Have the right one, and some HR drone puts your resume on one stack, or your name pops up when someone does a relevant search on an Internet job site. If you don't have it, your resume goes on the other stack.
I suppose there's the occasional oddball who will look upon certs as a bad thing, but I'd say 95% of the companies out there look at certs positively, or at least neutrally.
You've still got the customer calling the free line first, and the phone tech having to determine that the support issue is indeed virus/worm related. Sometimes it's obvious, sometimes not so. Either way, there's still a support cost before the call can be handed off to the fee line.
Whether I bookmark something or not usually depends on how difficult it was to locate in the first place. A few months ago, I was looking for instructions on how to replace the CMOS battery in an old Winbook. I had to wade through half-a-dozen pages on Google with links to companies that wanted to sell me a new laptop battery before I found something relevant. That one got bookmarked.
I didn't have to carve my own dice, but I *did* have to take a felt-tip marker and color in the numbers. And of course on the d20, I'd color half the numbers in black and half in red so that you could tell 1-10 from 11-20.
I actually went to GenCon back in.. geeze... '81 or '82. It was a fun thing to do once.
Yep, that's exactly what he's saying.
Don't be so cynical.
I was diagnosing a floppy drive problem on my Apple ][, and forgot to turn the computer off one time before pushing the drive controller card back into the slot. There was this loud >pop and a little puff of magic smoke. I cussed and turned the system off, then gingerly reinstalled everything, but no luck.. the card was fried.
I took a look at it, and discovered that one of the IC's had a divot blasted out of the middle of it. There was literally a little crater in the middle of the chip. I looked up the part number in the Apple manual, bought a replacement at Radio Shack and.. it worked!
The cemetary by my house has headstones from the 1890's that are still in good condition and quite readable. I'm sure that in the year 2120 these LCD screens will still be working perfectly informing visitors all about the deceased.
This is one of the stupidest ideas I've seen in a long time. The only way it'll go anywhere is if some funeral home directors manage to guilt and manipulate grieving relations into buying the damn things.
Sounds like you don't need to. You've got the in-game experience pretty well nailed.
You can have lots of fun by trying to order a small drink at the drivethrough. They'll repeat your order back, but call it a medium drink. Tell them you want a small drink, not a medium. They'll tell you that medium is their smallest size. You can improvise from there.
I don't think poor people necessarily place education lower on their list of priorities. Poor people tend to live in less desireable neighborhoods, where they can't just send the kids outside to play. They can't afford stuff like music lessons and soccer camp and all the other outside diversions that middle and upper class kids have.
You've got kids stuck inside most of the time, probably bored out of their skull. So they tend to play more video games.
I thought Microsofts goal was to seperate pretty much everyone from their money, spammers or not.
Whatever happened to the hammer and chisel? When making a spelling mistake means you have to totally redo three days of work, you learn to plan ahead carefully
I don't think any child should be given free access to anything beyond stone age technology until they invent it themselves.
13 months is way too late if you want your child to have a solid grounding in computers. I got one of those motion activated mice and ducttaped it to my kids hand at about 2 weeks of age. Mounted a 17" LCD on a bracket over his crib so that he could see the screen. The little guy has amazed me with how much he's learned already.
On the contrary, I'm deeply interested in what porn you bought yesterday.
Or to be more exact, I'm amazed that people still pay for porn.
What if you're not sure that they're really a customer? What if you suspect that they're some random guy trying to stir up trouble? What if they work for your competitor across the street, and they're trying to create a stink to drive your potential customers away?
If an online vendor let every review stay up regardless of content, their site would soon be plastered with astrocrabgrass, all sorts of fake complaints about shoddy products, lousy service, billing problems, whatever. I think if I had a site, my police would be to delete any negative revirews about my company, but have customer service investigate them. Then fix the problem if the complaint is justified.
I'm not sure I understand what the concern is. Your question seems to imply that you're worried that employees will copy data onto a USB stick and then lose it, rather then intentionally stealing information that way.
If thats the problem, I'd be much more concerned about where the employee is taking that data. The only reason someone would put company information on a data key is so that they could move that information to a computer somewhere outside the company network. *That's* where your security concerns should be. Some manager copies your customer database onto his home computer, and he's sharing it with the whole internet.
The only way you'll be able to stop that sort of thing is to ensure that company data stays on company computers. Period. If you need to work from home, have the company get you a laptop, and have the IT department do that they can to make that laptop secure.
Indispensible, and pretty much unpromotable.
Me, I hope to be able to pass this project on to some junior dweeb in a year or so, and move on to something New and Exciting.