While that sounds nice, it doesnt matter. Users on the DoD network sign AUPs that explicitly state personal devices cannot be used on DoD workstations. I also doubt that it was properly labeled UNCLASSIFIED or whatever the classification of the data really was (likely not higher than SENSITIVE, otherwise he must have put some effort into storing the data on his PED). The guy violated a very reasonable request (no personal devices) in a contract he willfully signed (AUP). This is situation is one of the reasons PEDs are not allowed on DoD workstations.
The act of using a personal device on the Army network was a violation of Army Regulation 25-2, a large document that DoD users agree to when they sign an Acceptable Use Policy prior to receiving a network account from their local DOIM (IT shop).
The act of connecting the personal device to a government workstation makes it Army property, and punishment is usually decided by the user's CO or Director, and can range from a warning to being fired.
very true, but if a person is happy with an outhouse and a bucket well, who's to say that running water would be better for them? that said, its better and more convenient for me (especially in -50 weather).
people dont need television, nor do a lot want it after experiencing it. same with internet of any speed, a mobile phone, portable mp3 player, or other similar things that are luxuries on a higher plane than indoor plumbing.
the whole point of the title and summary (i didnt read the fancy article, this is slashdot after all) is that these people are somehow touched in the head because they dont care about internet. internet is COMPLETELY frivolous to these people, and there is absolutely nothing wrong with that.
while i agree with you completely, is $15 so much for an improved browsing experience? sure you dont need it, but its likely only $5 more than your dialup service. if you dont mind waiting for stuff to download, thats fine, but you dont need to for $5 more. i wouldnt call that excessive.
that just means its a rip from an HDTV source, not that the file is HD. you'll also notice there are avi files labeled DVDRIP, R5, DVDSCR, and other things that an avi file is not. its standard scene filenaming.
Im pretty sure thats where the idea of privatization came about. the idea that businesses are better at being businesses than a government is. it seems like about 50% of voters dont mind it, and another 50% or so are against it.
wow. from someone who actually enjoys working for the US Government (despite the much larger salary i could get as a contractor), thanks. granted, there are lazy people who do nothing yet still get paid, but there are in any large company.
there is also at times a lot of pressure in government work. a lot of civil service positions have entire towns, cities, states, soldiers, or more relying on them, and these people work very hard to keep things working (water, infrastructure, defense, etc), and they do it for a lot less money than other places offer. we truly are civil servants, and a lot of us are proud of it.
not to say you arent right in your point, but why dont these people simply get a photo ID? it doesnt need to be a drivers license, it can simply be a photo ID card. i dont mean the "Idenfification Please" card that slashdot loves to wail on about, just a $10 photo id.
a little wishful thinking, but how about states offer free voter registration cards with photos on them? FOR THOSE WHO WANT ONE, of course.
I know there is no perfect solution, but $10 is not a lot to ask to make it possible for yourself to vote over the course of more than a few elections. its a pretty good solution, and everyone who wants to vote will be able to identify themselves at the polling places.
imagine a 'perfect' world where guns are banned and people are in stead stabbed, beaten, or killed or injured in other creative non-gun ways.
cant snipe students from a clock tower? build a bomb in stead! no guns, more bombs, more lives... saved?
how about in stead of going on a shooting spree, i simply drive through a farmers market at 50mph in my car?
the people who want to kill and injure others are going to do it. not having a gun isnt going to stop them.
you can demonize guns all you want (i think youre rather good at it), but that doesnt actually make them as bad as you want them to be.
nice sarcasm, but its a waste of breath if youre only going to kick back and do as little as the people you are jabbing at. nothing has stopped you from legally purchasing a firearm to defend the few-remaining liberties that you are so passionate about, so why havent you? nothing else is working, remember? get off that soap box you proclaim is so ineffective and do something useful.
Mind that this *likely* has less to do with homebrew and more to do with the ability to pirate virtual console titles, which is trivial to do at this point.
That said, there is some cool stuff being done with the virtual console files (wads). You can inject normal roms into the wad file and play games that nintendo hasnt yet released (or never will) on the virtual console. That said, its a lot easier to simply play the roms in an emulator on the homebrew channel...
Personally, I dont condone the VC piracy, but nintendo wont allow me to purchase and play Dracula X: Rondo of Blood on the VC (because i have a USA wii and the game was only released on the JPN VC), so i 'had' (yes, i can live without it) to grab the wad, region-free it, and install it on my USA wii to play.
Lastly, there are already workarounds that have been found, though not yet released. Apparently this fix against the twilight hack was so specific in its implementation it will only break this *exact* exploit. It still isnt a good idea to update you wii right now, but this is more interesting a development (that this was the primary reason for the patch) than a show-stopper.
Mod parent up. There would be firefox on more than two of my organization's workstations if i could easily deploy and update it. Updating firefox by hand on 400 workstations is not an option, so we simply dont make in an option to the users, even the ones that request it.
of course this does not prove in any way that they were involved, but the chinese government has a long history of utilizing triads and nationalists to do dirty work. its far more likely than you make it sound (though i do think the public finger-pointing is stupid on a few levels).
i would agree that most people who own them do not need an SUV or large truck in any capacity, but some of us do.
its nice that a prius or bicycle suits your needs, but you dont need to use that as fuel for your superiority complex and irrational aggression.
I would pay for a VC release of Dracula X for the tg16. That is the sort of thing the VC could be awesome at; re-releasing games that are very good but never got a real chance for one reason or another.
As much as i like linux and open source, if i were president i wouldnt be thinking about it at all. there are more important things to work on than the presidency pushing products or philosophy.
Not to say that obama didnt compose that speech himself, but its quite likely he hired speech writers before "he" (his campaign) posted a LAMP admin job announcement.
Do you truly think obama cares what software is running his website??
A campaign is like a corporation. The CEO delegates jobs to qualified individuals and those people get the job done. The CEO doesnt know or care what is happening in minute detail, only that the results are acceptable.
I work in IA for the DoD, and there is a lot of stupid stuff that happens, but in the end, the number of minor security incidents is very low, and the number of SERIOUS security incidents is absolutely minuscule. Serious incidents are usually along the lines of information leakage, someone inside doing something stupid without malicious intent.
my point being, this isnt a signal that these departments are insecure because they dont show WHAT theyre grading. are they counting serious incidents? minor ones? number of missed security deadlines? number of workstations with wsus errors? number of MWR personnel that clicked on an exercise phishing link? what??
lots of directives in the government are lists of objectives with deadlines next to them created by a higher-up that doesnt understand any part of it. i am not discounting this "report" entirely, but iv seen this enough times to understand how little it could actually mean, especially considering there is no information provided.
I wonder how much of a stink Tom Davis is going to raise in congress about it, or if he is going to look at it and understand that it tells him nothing.
The problem i had when i kept trying to switch to linux (1998-2000) was that i was dual booting with windows to play games. whenever i had a problem in linux and couldnt fix it within a day or so, i would simply go back to windows, or if i booted into windows to play tribes (which was often) then i simply wouldnt leave and ended up deleting my linux partition because i never used it.
what made me finally switch to linux (2000) was when i learned from a friend that tribes ran in linux under wine. i blew away windows and was determined to get linux to work. problems like X not working needed to be fixed, as i was a college student and i needed to type papers. i had to figure out internet, sound, and all kinds of crap to make it usable for school and tribes (and later tribes 2). because i didnt have windows to fall back on any more, i was forced to understand.
dual booting is not the way to switch to linux (imo). linux and windows are different, people need to embrace the differences and make a choice. who wants to reboot to play a game, reboot again to look at the internet and chat? i dont think many people do, and its easier to just use windows than jump back and forth.
things are a HELL of a lot easier now than in 2000, and of course a hell of a lot easier in 2000 than in 99, etc... a LOT more stuff will run in wine and similar apps now than before. the gaming argument is certainly valid, but its getting thinner.
Mind that there are people "out there" that do know what they are doing.
If i were a customs security expert and for whatever reason i was deeply examining your laptop, TWM, a special shell, a root password, and encrypted partitions are not complications that are going to make me dizzy and scared.
theyre also not going to make me suspicious that youre a terrorist, just someone who doesnt want their shit messed with by anyone but yourself. whooptie-doo, youre _not_ more special because you know how to protect yourself.
i am against the stupid 'i dont have anything to hide, so i dont mind letting them see everything' argument, but 99% of the comments on this story are fear-mongering worse-than-worst-case-scenario speculatory bullshit (i type this as i see the reply to your post by gstoddart).
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While that sounds nice, it doesnt matter. Users on the DoD network sign AUPs that explicitly state personal devices cannot be used on DoD workstations. I also doubt that it was properly labeled UNCLASSIFIED or whatever the classification of the data really was (likely not higher than SENSITIVE, otherwise he must have put some effort into storing the data on his PED).
The guy violated a very reasonable request (no personal devices) in a contract he willfully signed (AUP). This is situation is one of the reasons PEDs are not allowed on DoD workstations.
The act of using a personal device on the Army network was a violation of Army Regulation 25-2, a large document that DoD users agree to when they sign an Acceptable Use Policy prior to receiving a network account from their local DOIM (IT shop).
The act of connecting the personal device to a government workstation makes it Army property, and punishment is usually decided by the user's CO or Director, and can range from a warning to being fired.
very true, but if a person is happy with an outhouse and a bucket well, who's to say that running water would be better for them? that said, its better and more convenient for me (especially in -50 weather).
people dont need television, nor do a lot want it after experiencing it. same with internet of any speed, a mobile phone, portable mp3 player, or other similar things that are luxuries on a higher plane than indoor plumbing.
the whole point of the title and summary (i didnt read the fancy article, this is slashdot after all) is that these people are somehow touched in the head because they dont care about internet.
internet is COMPLETELY frivolous to these people, and there is absolutely nothing wrong with that.
while i agree with you completely, is $15 so much for an improved browsing experience?
sure you dont need it, but its likely only $5 more than your dialup service. if you dont mind waiting for stuff to download, thats fine, but you dont need to for $5 more. i wouldnt call that excessive.
that just means its a rip from an HDTV source, not that the file is HD.
you'll also notice there are avi files labeled DVDRIP, R5, DVDSCR, and other things that an avi file is not.
its standard scene filenaming.
Im pretty sure thats where the idea of privatization came about. the idea that businesses are better at being businesses than a government is.
it seems like about 50% of voters dont mind it, and another 50% or so are against it.
wow.
from someone who actually enjoys working for the US Government (despite the much larger salary i could get as a contractor), thanks.
granted, there are lazy people who do nothing yet still get paid, but there are in any large company.
there is also at times a lot of pressure in government work. a lot of civil service positions have entire towns, cities, states, soldiers, or more relying on them, and these people work very hard to keep things working (water, infrastructure, defense, etc), and they do it for a lot less money than other places offer. we truly are civil servants, and a lot of us are proud of it.
get a free book from the library to entertain yourself. no one needs tv to live.
television is absolutely a luxury. if someone needs to give it up to feed themselves, its not a real problem.
slashdot is a place where people come for paranoid conjecture that affirms their beliefs, dont be too surprised.
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not to say you arent right in your point, but why dont these people simply get a photo ID? it doesnt need to be a drivers license, it can simply be a photo ID card. i dont mean the "Idenfification Please" card that slashdot loves to wail on about, just a $10 photo id.
a little wishful thinking, but how about states offer free voter registration cards with photos on them? FOR THOSE WHO WANT ONE, of course.
I know there is no perfect solution, but $10 is not a lot to ask to make it possible for yourself to vote over the course of more than a few elections. its a pretty good solution, and everyone who wants to vote will be able to identify themselves at the polling places.
Playstation 2, its got what Congolians crave!
imagine a 'perfect' world where guns are banned and people are in stead stabbed, beaten, or killed or injured in other creative non-gun ways.
cant snipe students from a clock tower? build a bomb in stead! no guns, more bombs, more lives... saved?
how about in stead of going on a shooting spree, i simply drive through a farmers market at 50mph in my car?
the people who want to kill and injure others are going to do it. not having a gun isnt going to stop them.
you can demonize guns all you want (i think youre rather good at it), but that doesnt actually make them as bad as you want them to be.
nice sarcasm, but its a waste of breath if youre only going to kick back and do as little as the people you are jabbing at.
nothing has stopped you from legally purchasing a firearm to defend the few-remaining liberties that you are so passionate about, so why havent you? nothing else is working, remember?
get off that soap box you proclaim is so ineffective and do something useful.
Mind that this *likely* has less to do with homebrew and more to do with the ability to pirate virtual console titles, which is trivial to do at this point.
That said, there is some cool stuff being done with the virtual console files (wads). You can inject normal roms into the wad file and play games that nintendo hasnt yet released (or never will) on the virtual console. That said, its a lot easier to simply play the roms in an emulator on the homebrew channel...
Personally, I dont condone the VC piracy, but nintendo wont allow me to purchase and play Dracula X: Rondo of Blood on the VC (because i have a USA wii and the game was only released on the JPN VC), so i 'had' (yes, i can live without it) to grab the wad, region-free it, and install it on my USA wii to play.
Lastly, there are already workarounds that have been found, though not yet released. Apparently this fix against the twilight hack was so specific in its implementation it will only break this *exact* exploit. It still isnt a good idea to update you wii right now, but this is more interesting a development (that this was the primary reason for the patch) than a show-stopper.
Mod parent up. There would be firefox on more than two of my organization's workstations if i could easily deploy and update it. Updating firefox by hand on 400 workstations is not an option, so we simply dont make in an option to the users, even the ones that request it.
of course this does not prove in any way that they were involved, but the chinese government has a long history of utilizing triads and nationalists to do dirty work. its far more likely than you make it sound (though i do think the public finger-pointing is stupid on a few levels).
a little bitter??
i would agree that most people who own them do not need an SUV or large truck in any capacity, but some of us do.
its nice that a prius or bicycle suits your needs, but you dont need to use that as fuel for your superiority complex and irrational aggression.
I would pay for a VC release of Dracula X for the tg16. That is the sort of thing the VC could be awesome at; re-releasing games that are very good but never got a real chance for one reason or another.
Theyre buddies?? Big deal!
As much as i like linux and open source, if i were president i wouldnt be thinking about it at all. there are more important things to work on than the presidency pushing products or philosophy.
Not to say that obama didnt compose that speech himself, but its quite likely he hired speech writers before "he" (his campaign) posted a LAMP admin job announcement.
Do you truly think obama cares what software is running his website??
A campaign is like a corporation. The CEO delegates jobs to qualified individuals and those people get the job done. The CEO doesnt know or care what is happening in minute detail, only that the results are acceptable.
What is the criteria for grading?
I work in IA for the DoD, and there is a lot of stupid stuff that happens, but in the end, the number of minor security incidents is very low, and the number of SERIOUS security incidents is absolutely minuscule. Serious incidents are usually along the lines of information leakage, someone inside doing something stupid without malicious intent.
my point being, this isnt a signal that these departments are insecure because they dont show WHAT theyre grading. are they counting serious incidents? minor ones? number of missed security deadlines? number of workstations with wsus errors? number of MWR personnel that clicked on an exercise phishing link? what??
lots of directives in the government are lists of objectives with deadlines next to them created by a higher-up that doesnt understand any part of it. i am not discounting this "report" entirely, but iv seen this enough times to understand how little it could actually mean, especially considering there is no information provided.
I wonder how much of a stink Tom Davis is going to raise in congress about it, or if he is going to look at it and understand that it tells him nothing.
The problem i had when i kept trying to switch to linux (1998-2000) was that i was dual booting with windows to play games. whenever i had a problem in linux and couldnt fix it within a day or so, i would simply go back to windows, or if i booted into windows to play tribes (which was often) then i simply wouldnt leave and ended up deleting my linux partition because i never used it.
what made me finally switch to linux (2000) was when i learned from a friend that tribes ran in linux under wine. i blew away windows and was determined to get linux to work. problems like X not working needed to be fixed, as i was a college student and i needed to type papers. i had to figure out internet, sound, and all kinds of crap to make it usable for school and tribes (and later tribes 2). because i didnt have windows to fall back on any more, i was forced to understand.
dual booting is not the way to switch to linux (imo). linux and windows are different, people need to embrace the differences and make a choice. who wants to reboot to play a game, reboot again to look at the internet and chat? i dont think many people do, and its easier to just use windows than jump back and forth.
things are a HELL of a lot easier now than in 2000, and of course a hell of a lot easier in 2000 than in 99, etc... a LOT more stuff will run in wine and similar apps now than before. the gaming argument is certainly valid, but its getting thinner.
Mind that there are people "out there" that do know what they are doing.
If i were a customs security expert and for whatever reason i was deeply examining your laptop, TWM, a special shell, a root password, and encrypted partitions are not complications that are going to make me dizzy and scared.
theyre also not going to make me suspicious that youre a terrorist, just someone who doesnt want their shit messed with by anyone but yourself. whooptie-doo, youre _not_ more special because you know how to protect yourself.
i am against the stupid 'i dont have anything to hide, so i dont mind letting them see everything' argument, but 99% of the comments on this story are fear-mongering worse-than-worst-case-scenario speculatory bullshit (i type this as i see the reply to your post by gstoddart).