I quit posting on Usenet as soon as Deja started archiving. And yes, just like most early Usenet users, I posted using my real e-mail address. By the time my old ISP went under almost 10 years later, I was receiving up to 400 spam e-mails a day, all derived from my old Usenet posting mostly.
As a retired former Cisco Certified Network Engineer who used to work for a very large bank let me give you my thoughts on this fiasco:
1. Any network guy who refuses to give his supervisors the passwords to the equipment should at least be fired forthwith and blacklisted from ever working as a network administrator ever again, no matter how incompetent he thinks his managers are.
2. The fact that his managers even allowed this to happen in the first place is prima facie evidence IMO that they ARE raving incompetents.
3. The DA is introducing into evidence as examples of "bad dealing" things that are part and parcel of being a network engineer. You network engineers out there need to be very worried.
Back when I started in this business many moons ago, when knowing what VTAM, TCAM, SNA, and SDLC were, and knowing how to interpret Burroughs Poll and Select protocol was important, I was in a position to do sort of what this guy did, but I went out of my way to try to make sure my fellow workers and also managers knew what was up.
In my last position, we engineers weren't even allowed to change the router and switch passwords. A security group did it and disseminated the new passwords via our managers.
He was wearing the "V" on his Navy Commendation Medal. He got it serving off the coast of Vietnam during that war and his excuse was that he thought he was authorized being in an official combat zone. The "V" device is only authorized if you receive it for actual combat operations, however. Since he was the first Chief of Naval Operations who started out as an enlisted man, he was already under a lot of pressure from the Naval Establishment who resented him and the controversy was probably the straw that broke the camel's back.
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof"
Thomas Jefferson seems to be the first to call this "separation of church and state"
In a letter to the Danbury Baptist association in 1802 he wrote:
"Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man & his god, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legitimate powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, thus building a wall of separation between church and state."
Since the Establishment Clause, as well as other freedom of religion clauses in the constitution, was inserted by James Madison based on Jefferson's Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, we can assume that "Separation of Church and State" reflects the original author's intent.
James Madison, interestingly enough, viewed the appointment of chaplains in Congress as a violation of this clause as well.
I had Verizon unlimited service for about 10 months, using it as my primary internet access. Then I received a letter from them saying that I was using too much bandwidth and canceling my service at the end of the month. This was without any warning whatsoever.
I'd have called them up and complained but I WAS violating the fine print on the contract that forbids using the service for all sorts of things including being the primary internet access, playing online games, etc., not to mention banning VOIP.
I bit the bullet and signed up for cable, as much as I hated doing it.
In WWII, Germany declared war on the US as part of their alliance with Japan after the US declared war on Japan because of Pearl Harbor. Not that this was unexpected!
The primary motivation for the US to declare war on the Central Powers during WWI was the Zimmerman telegram which showed that Germany was encouraging Mexico to attack the US to reclaim land lost during the Mexican War.
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I quit posting on Usenet as soon as Deja started archiving. And yes, just like most early Usenet users, I posted using my real e-mail address. By the time my old ISP went under almost 10 years later, I was receiving up to 400 spam e-mails a day, all derived from my old Usenet posting mostly.
1. Any network guy who refuses to give his supervisors the passwords to the equipment should at least be fired forthwith and blacklisted from ever working as a network administrator ever again, no matter how incompetent he thinks his managers are.
2. The fact that his managers even allowed this to happen in the first place is prima facie evidence IMO that they ARE raving incompetents.
3. The DA is introducing into evidence as examples of "bad dealing" things that are part and parcel of being a network engineer. You network engineers out there need to be very worried.
Back when I started in this business many moons ago, when knowing what VTAM, TCAM, SNA, and SDLC were, and knowing how to interpret Burroughs Poll and Select protocol was important, I was in a position to do sort of what this guy did, but I went out of my way to try to make sure my fellow workers and also managers knew what was up.
In my last position, we engineers weren't even allowed to change the router and switch passwords. A security group did it and disseminated the new passwords via our managers.
He was wearing the "V" on his Navy Commendation Medal. He got it serving off the coast of Vietnam during that war and his excuse was that he thought he was authorized being in an official combat zone. The "V" device is only authorized if you receive it for actual combat operations, however. Since he was the first Chief of Naval Operations who started out as an enlisted man, he was already under a lot of pressure from the Naval Establishment who resented him and the controversy was probably the straw that broke the camel's back.
More formally known as "The Establishment Clause"
1st Amendment (partial)
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof"
Thomas Jefferson seems to be the first to call this "separation of church and state"
In a letter to the Danbury Baptist association in 1802 he wrote:
"Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man & his god, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legitimate powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, thus building a wall of separation between church and state."
Since the Establishment Clause, as well as other freedom of religion clauses in the constitution, was inserted by James Madison based on Jefferson's Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, we can assume that "Separation of Church and State" reflects the original author's intent.
James Madison, interestingly enough, viewed the appointment of chaplains in Congress as a violation of this clause as well.
I had Verizon unlimited service for about 10 months, using it as my primary internet access. Then I received a letter from them saying that I was using too much bandwidth and canceling my service at the end of the month. This was without any warning whatsoever. I'd have called them up and complained but I WAS violating the fine print on the contract that forbids using the service for all sorts of things including being the primary internet access, playing online games, etc., not to mention banning VOIP. I bit the bullet and signed up for cable, as much as I hated doing it.
1970 -- NCR 500 1980 -- IBM 3032 and 370-168, Burroughs 4800 Oh -- you mean personal computer? 1983 Atari 1200XL
The primary motivation for the US to declare war on the Central Powers during WWI was the Zimmerman telegram which showed that Germany was encouraging Mexico to attack the US to reclaim land lost during the Mexican War.