They don't need jurisdiction, the only things needed are an extradition treaty (very likely to have one with most countries) and a good relationship in the country's justice system or executive branch to push for extradition.
But the attitude that you will work with what's given (up to a point:D ) I think is worthwhile.
I agree, one has to work within the constraints of the company, and most times those are financial. As times are, getting a new job is not that easy, even for very good persons. Even then, if the product really isn't worth the effort, then one has the duty to make as much noise as possible until they either listen or tell you to stop.
I have seen my share of decisions like these, and sooner or later they come back and "bite" the one that pushed it.
Only thing worse (in my consideration): what I call "magazine technologists".
Vista is the Zune of operating systems...except for having hundreds of millions of sales, you mean?
-jcr
Sales have nothing to do with the actual OS installed, at least regarding MS. You buy X-thousand licenses of Vista and you have the right to install XP or any other one of their OSs that is what you need. so, "millions" in Vista's case refers only to money accredited to vista, not copies in use.
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Contestant: "I'll stay in the same category and take 'Stupid Managers' for $800."
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Exept that usually 'stupid managers' are the ones doing the firing and hiring and cashin bonuses for work done, not for where the work is done. Bugs? of course, but that is more work to be done and more bonuses!
That would be just about right in an ideal world. The truth is that managers, especially up high in the "executive" (the PHB's PHB's PHB) meetings they only care about reducing $$$ and not completed work by any one person, they see the work as a sort of big picture that IT has to do no matter who is assigned the task.
The idea that "privacy" continues to exist in any shape, way, or form in a world where an NSA text-mining system reads every email, text message, blog post, and Slashdot comment you ever write is laughable.
I'd like to see the article providing proof of that level of monitoring by the NSA (or any other government agency for that matter).
That would be "the system", if only due to the computing capacity needed to do that!
If you wear your seatbelt, you don't have to buy auto-insurance, or report a crash you are involved with.
Because if everyone was wearing their seatbelt, it's impossible for anyone to have gotten hurt.
Basically the same logic behind not reporting a data breach, if encryption was used.
*Not even considering how secure the keys are, and whether the intruder might be able to have gotten some usable data.
Businesses that use encryption for communications rarely encrypt everything.
The considerations I think were made regard more the protection of the "reputation" (if they have one to begin with) of the companies affected by shuch breaches. In my country they have made it illegal to publish anything about a bank if it can be denounced as a rumor, only to protect the "reputation" of those banks. Same principle applies for not reporting breaches.
Once again we see an example of public policy on technology being made with apparently little knowledge or regard for technology. The word "encryption" guarantees nothing. Suppose we just use Pig Latin? Ancay ouyay eadray isthay?
As technology has been "democratized" we have gained as a result a lot of what I call "magazine tech experts", they read something vague in a magazine or web page (usually not a publication specialized in technology or computer science) and go on from that.
This is very important, because if Ford* needs to release the information needed to repair the Focus* to the state of Massachusetts, they will basically make it available everywhere in the world where Ford sells this car.
Similar to other US state laws regarding pollution or safe materials, this will affect us worldwide
Or they'll add a state-specific encryption key needed to unlock the computer for repair work. And they'll only release the key for vehicles sold in Massachusetts.
I think you mean "to repair shops located in MA". This would be a business opportunity for repair shops in MA!
if the Australian definition of 'malware' is 'bittorrent'
It's the general definition used by the government agencies all around the world!
Here in D.R., they are just applying traffic shaping to anything that doesn't look in the network like it is email or http traffic. You take a contract for "full internet access" and they slow you to a crawl even on legitimate business applications that use non-standard ports; don't even think of going to the regulatory body for protection, that is just a waste of time and effort as it is in concert with them!
In the case of our company, the problem with F/OSS is that there is a real lack of local support/knowledge in our country; that way we are left to use the internet as a support source and that *is* a big issue for conservative companies like where I work.
How would you suggest they physically tap a cell phone? Or maybe you think criminals aren't smart enough to use a cell phone and do all their criminal communications from home...
You're kidding, right? A cell phone means the suspect's entire conversation is being broadcast. I would really be shocked if I learned that the police don't have equipment that can receive these transmissions. This would, of course, require staying within range which would mean they'd have to assign an officer to that task. There's no reason why this couldn't be done, and I'm fine with that because it again renders widespread surveillance impractical. I really don't care what difficulties this would entail; the whole point is that it wouldn't be done without a good reason.
At the very least all that would require the police to even know what the phone number is. Check the papers and you'll see that whenever the police catches someone (that isn't a criminal by trade) they get something between 10 to 30 phones, not counting the ones discarded after one or two uses.
Are you assuming that Congress (both parties) cares about obeying the Constitution? It doesn't anymore, and people are starting to resist.
I believe that in any country the only ones that car about the constitution are: 1- the ones that wrote the original one. 2- the ones whose constitutional rights and protections are being ignored.
Amazon demonstrated they are lightweights, and the original article shows they don't really give a shit about their customers. Their customers have an obligation to return in kind.
Maybe because their *real* customers are the guys that supply the goods to sell, not we buying things *trough* Amazon. The way I see it is we aren't Amazon's customers, we are *their customer's curtomers* (or something around that).
They do two things: 1- Cancel the account associated to the SIM card. 2- Block the phone's serial number (IMEI) at the network level. Only thing it's not fool-proof as there are persons that can put a different IMEI on the phone and activate it. Only way is to check the configured IMEI against the one printed outside the phone and not may dealers do that.
I can see why any one would want them to help tracking and even disabling a lost or stolen device, but I think that they then would have some kind of liability for misuse of the device.
Well, we have servers with all of that, and occasionally one of the support engineers have to go and phisicly touch it so the machine "gets in a working mood" again.
If these are Windows servers (what else at MS!) anyone near will be able to see engineers rapidly moving towards the "green" datacenter to work "at the console" on the servers when they just "quit answering to anything on the net, just because". Maybe Windows should have a "the server wants human contact" message. It happened to us today!
At least the engineers will get the opportunity to get in shape:)
Not quite. According to Henry Spencer, what we lost was not the plans, but the know-how to turn the plans into hardware.
And don't forget that even the Saturn V effort was the result of more than 40 years of experience from the german scientists captured after world war II.
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They don't need jurisdiction, the only things needed are an extradition treaty (very likely to have one with most countries) and a good relationship in the country's justice system or executive branch to push for extradition.
True, this world belongs to the one that selles the prettier story, not the one that's right. See everyday where I work.
But the attitude that you will work with what's given (up to a point :D ) I think is worthwhile.
I agree, one has to work within the constraints of the company, and most times those are financial. As times are, getting a new job is not that easy, even for very good persons. Even then, if the product really isn't worth the effort, then one has the duty to make as much noise as possible until they either listen or tell you to stop.
I have seen my share of decisions like these, and sooner or later they come back and "bite" the one that pushed it.
Only thing worse (in my consideration): what I call "magazine technologists".
Vista is the Zune of operating systems. ..except for having hundreds of millions of sales, you mean?
-jcr
Sales have nothing to do with the actual OS installed, at least regarding MS. You buy X-thousand licenses of Vista and you have the right to install XP or any other one of their OSs that is what you need. so, "millions" in Vista's case refers only to money accredited to vista, not copies in use.
Except TRUE asian food is relatively less fatty and salty than hambuguers and hot-dogs.
__deleted__ Contestant: "I'll stay in the same category and take 'Stupid Managers' for $800." __deleted__
Exept that usually 'stupid managers' are the ones doing the firing and hiring and cashin bonuses for work done, not for where the work is done. Bugs? of course, but that is more work to be done and more bonuses!
That would be just about right in an ideal world. The truth is that managers, especially up high in the "executive" (the PHB's PHB's PHB) meetings they only care about reducing $$$ and not completed work by any one person, they see the work as a sort of big picture that IT has to do no matter who is assigned the task.
The idea that "privacy" continues to exist in any shape, way, or form in a world where an NSA text-mining system reads every email, text message, blog post, and Slashdot comment you ever write is laughable.
I'd like to see the article providing proof of that level of monitoring by the NSA (or any other government agency for that matter).
That would be "the system", if only due to the computing capacity needed to do that!
The theme from JAWS!, pedestrians beware!
If you wear your seatbelt, you don't have to buy auto-insurance, or report a crash you are involved with.
Because if everyone was wearing their seatbelt, it's impossible for anyone to have gotten hurt.
Basically the same logic behind not reporting a data breach, if encryption was used.
*Not even considering how secure the keys are, and whether the intruder might be able to have gotten some usable data.
Businesses that use encryption for communications rarely encrypt everything.
The considerations I think were made regard more the protection of the "reputation" (if they have one to begin with) of the companies affected by shuch breaches. In my country they have made it illegal to publish anything about a bank if it can be denounced as a rumor, only to protect the "reputation" of those banks. Same principle applies for not reporting breaches.
Once again we see an example of public policy on technology being made with apparently little knowledge or regard for technology. The word "encryption" guarantees nothing. Suppose we just use Pig Latin? Ancay ouyay eadray isthay?
As technology has been "democratized" we have gained as a result a lot of what I call "magazine tech experts", they read something vague in a magazine or web page (usually not a publication specialized in technology or computer science) and go on from that.
Or they'll add a state-specific encryption key needed to unlock the computer for repair work. And they'll only release the key for vehicles sold in Massachusetts.
I think you mean "to repair shops located in MA". This would be a business opportunity for repair shops in MA!
if the Australian definition of 'malware' is 'bittorrent'
It's the general definition used by the government agencies all around the world!
Here in D.R., they are just applying traffic shaping to anything that doesn't look in the network like it is email or http traffic. You take a contract for "full internet access" and they slow you to a crawl even on legitimate business applications that use non-standard ports; don't even think of going to the regulatory body for protection, that is just a waste of time and effort as it is in concert with them!
In the case of our company, the problem with F/OSS is that there is a real lack of local support/knowledge in our country; that way we are left to use the internet as a support source and that *is* a big issue for conservative companies like where I work.
How would you suggest they physically tap a cell phone? Or maybe you think criminals aren't smart enough to use a cell phone and do all their criminal communications from home...
You're kidding, right? A cell phone means the suspect's entire conversation is being broadcast. I would really be shocked if I learned that the police don't have equipment that can receive these transmissions. This would, of course, require staying within range which would mean they'd have to assign an officer to that task. There's no reason why this couldn't be done, and I'm fine with that because it again renders widespread surveillance impractical. I really don't care what difficulties this would entail; the whole point is that it wouldn't be done without a good reason.
At the very least all that would require the police to even know what the phone number is. Check the papers and you'll see that whenever the police catches someone (that isn't a criminal by trade) they get something between 10 to 30 phones, not counting the ones discarded after one or two uses.
Are you assuming that Congress (both parties) cares about obeying the Constitution? It doesn't anymore, and people are starting to resist.
I believe that in any country the only ones that car about the constitution are: 1- the ones that wrote the original one. 2- the ones whose constitutional rights and protections are being ignored.
That works well only in movies!
I was coming here to say the same thing, kudos sir! The last real program to come out of Russia was Tetris, hardly worthy of a holiday.
Wrong!
Tetris *is* one of the greatest games ever developed.I myself find it addictive whe I play it.
In my country all these mentioned above already have their own holidays; even there is a secretary's (sorry - "executive assistant's) day!!
Amazon demonstrated they are lightweights, and the original article shows they don't really give a shit about their customers. Their customers have an obligation to return in kind.
Maybe because their *real* customers are the guys that supply the goods to sell, not we buying things *trough* Amazon. The way I see it is we aren't Amazon's customers, we are *their customer's curtomers* (or something around that).
They do two things: 1- Cancel the account associated to the SIM card. 2- Block the phone's serial number (IMEI) at the network level. Only thing it's not fool-proof as there are persons that can put a different IMEI on the phone and activate it. Only way is to check the configured IMEI against the one printed outside the phone and not may dealers do that.
I can see why any one would want them to help tracking and even disabling a lost or stolen device, but I think that they then would have some kind of liability for misuse of the device.
Well, we have servers with all of that, and occasionally one of the support engineers have to go and phisicly touch it so the machine "gets in a working mood" again.
If these are Windows servers (what else at MS!) anyone near will be able to see engineers rapidly moving towards the "green" datacenter to work "at the console" on the servers when they just "quit answering to anything on the net, just because". Maybe Windows should have a "the server wants human contact" message. It happened to us today!
At least the engineers will get the opportunity to get in shape :)
we lost all the plans for Apollo and the Saturn 5
Not quite. According to Henry Spencer, what we lost was not the plans, but the know-how to turn the plans into hardware.
And don't forget that even the Saturn V effort was the result of more than 40 years of experience from the german scientists captured after world war II.