URLs are commonly copy and pasted, submitted to other sites, can be read in the browser history, in proxy logs, etc.
Of course, you can configure a proxy to log POST data, but this is beside the point. This is about preventing unintended duplication of sensitive data, not actual attacks.
since the child would probably have very little knowledge of how their behavior would affect the predator's legal status, i.e. the commission of a crime A 13 year old camwhore usually knows what she is doing.
I disagree, however, that it will cost a lot of time and money if you are evaluating software. Of course, using Virtual Machines saves some time and effort, but this only goes as for as you're evaluating software. But even then, you will need to learn a lot about the product, in order to implement a good and working evaluation environment. This can take several days, depending on the complexity of the product, maybe even weeks (e.g. a large Exchange vs. Notes test).
And evaluating hardware usually involves making down payments for the time you have the equipment (this depends a lot though).
If you're in a deciding position (i.E. CIO/CTO), and your boss doesn't trust your decision, it isn't going to be easy anyway. But if your real question is "how should i decide?", then here's the answer:
Evaluate! It's to only way to be sure the product meets your needs completely. Yes, it costs alot of money and time. The alternative is to guess a product.
E.g. if you're already using a Windows Environment with Active Directory (and like it), going for Exchange as a Groupware isn't a stupid idea. Or for ISA as a Proxy/PF solution.
Erm, 750GB drives from Newegg are SOHO equipment. I'm sure, if you as a company asked IBM, HP, or whichever your server supplier is for a evaluation pack of one of their SAN appliances, that would've happened in a rather short space of time.
We usually do that for our regular customers (i work for an IBM BP).
AoC is 16, but if the age difference is three years or less, it's also legal. (e.G. 17yr with 14yr, but not 18yr with 14yr, which is just as arbitrary).
I'm impressed by your writing (especially the embedded NLP). But there are different types of people in the world.
The type of people you write about have other people that depend on them (children etc.). Thats not the case in my situation. When i die, nobody will care deeply. My company will find a replacement, and everyone else will continue in their life, undisturbed (after grieving for the socially required period of time).
I'm a simple person with no special knowledge. No one will remember me. And that's the case with most of the other people in the world (though most of them don't want to acknowledge that fact). Even if they have children, most people are meaningless in the long run.
I care enough for the people around me that I try to do the right thing.
What is the right thing? There are various definitions of this. For a hedonist, this may be "whatever is fun for me and doesn't harm others". For a radical islamist, this might be "kill all the hetens".
You still have your own moral code, which you defined through some means and try to follow it as good as you can. I don't think that this is the wrong thing to do, i just think that it is pointless.
Our lives here on earth serve no purposes. We just exist, some of us reproduce, and then we all die. That's it. No reason. No goal. No points.
Have some children.
I don't think so. Even if i probably would find a woman desperate enough to have sex with me, i have no real intention to waste my money on kids. It's an 18 year obligation with no legal means of cancelling the obligation. It wastes money like nothing else. And then, these children might meet people like me on the internet.
Bizarre, lucas has posted previously about frustrations in Switzerland not being able to fire high-school aged techie apprentices.
Yes, that's my opinion. I will try to explain you why:
We have massive shortage of apprentice places in switzerland. Many kids can't get one. Thats very bad, because those kids will probably get an inferior education. A finished apprenticeship (or higher eduction) is basically required if you want a halfway decent job in switzerland.
Now, the problem with apprentices is that they're a four year obligation. If we (mistakenly) hire someone who is not willing to work, invest time and learn, we will have to drag him along for four whole years. That's a chance a kid who is willing to invest time and interest doesn't have.
Now, if i were able to fire unwilling apprentices, we would have wasted a year, and not four. And we could get a more interested kid a place to learn.
Of course this sounds very harsh (and it is), but i believe that apprentices who are aware that they can get fired if they don't try to do their job correctly (note the "try"!) will be more motivated to learn. Even if it is just by fear.
Now you can disagree with this position, but please don't try to show me off as a crazy person, thanks:)
You are suggesting that students in public school are wasting their time unless they are doing schoolwork (?) at school computers
No. They can waste time on school computers as long as they want, IF their grades are good.
If the first assertions are intended to annoy those of us who didn't get excellent grades, it does.
Nobody needs to have excellent grades. That was your assertion, not mine.
I think that everybody should have AT LEAST sufficient grades. And people with insufficient grades, and no desire to change that should get thrown out of school. But instead, we change todays school to help get the lowest common denominator sufficient grades - which is absolutely wrong in my opinion.
There are people who can't learn, because of a physical or mental disability. This is not about them. This about the people who can learn, but don't want to. And there are lots of them.
The second point is hoping to annoy women, the computer literate? It is too obviously false to get folks to bite on I expect, though.
Isn't either. Have you ever seen or heard of a woman getting raped over the internet? Probably not, because its not physically possible.
The worst someone can do is whip out his dick in a video messenger session. If you don't like that, you can disconnect him and block him from contacting you further.
And never, ever was there are a chance for him to harm you.
Of course, you can setup a meeting over the internet. And he can try to rape you there. I don't think that this is a problem of the internet, though. If you're willing to meet with a stranger in a non-public place, all bets are off. Hey, the same can happen to you in a disco, or a bar, or whatever. That's not an internet problem.
So he is having problems with wireless? And he is blaiming the Operating System? Wireless has always been an issue, and I have never found this problem to be with an OS, but rather crappy drivers. Did he even attempt to download the drivers for his wireless card?
I'm running Vista Business on my Laptop (Thinkpad R51) since it hit MSDN, which was about two months ago.
It has an integrated wireless card, Intel 29something BG. At home, i have an Airport Express with WPA2-PSK, which i use daily. At work, we have Cisco 11xx and 13xx access points, using WPA with EAP-PEAP, which i also use daily. The router at home is a debian machine, running pdns-resolver. The DNS servers at work are BIND running under Debian and Microsoft's own DNS server.
In the whole two months, i had two occurences of Wireless not working (disabling and enabling the network device solved that, though). This is neither better nor worse than it was running XP.
What works a whole lot better though is Bluetooth/GPRS with my HTC MTeoR (Windows Mobile 5 with MSFP), which required a re-pairing of the bluetooth devices almost at every use under XP, but has worked for the whole two months without problems.
The problem is that the whole approach is wrong. If you want to prevent Students surfing on Myspace using School Equipment, make sure they have something to lose. But our society is no longer able to hand out a "YOU SUCK, GET TO WORK DAMMIT" to children and students who don't do their job right.
You can't prevent by banning every distraction they find - you have to motivate them by making sure there are consequences when you're bad at school. Encouraging at first, but if you're no good, you get disqualified and can start flipping burgers. No need to waste money on people who don't try to learn.
And the whole predator perspective is just stupid. Honestly. You can't rape or harass people over the internet. You can't damage them.
However, children ages 10 to 17 report more harassment and bullying online -- largely from their peers, not strangers.
How do you harass someone online?
I mean, really. If you don't like talking to someone, there's a variety of filter possibilities in every fucking IM/IRC software, and in every web2.0ish application.
And last time i checked, it was also impossible to rape someone over the internet. Well. If it really was a series of tubes, and you listened to all the spam.. Maybe.
But, thank you for reminding me -- I will teach him to document everything.
Won't help - or, better, won't solve the problem. A 15 year old starting in IT with interest will learn very quickly.
He will first get X to work using a crude hack which he doesn't understand. After a bit of time, he will understand the hack, refine it. After some more time, he will replace it with a solution instead of a hack - while having lost WHY the hack even started.
I've seen this happen to my setups as well. Usually when i see a 4yr old setup i've made (i was 18 at that time) i will usually think "what idiot did this". And other people i know have the same problem - so it's not just me with my attitude problems;)
I don't want to discourage your brother from learning, but doing it in a completely productive environment has it's downfalls.
Windows servers do occasionally have actual problems to solve
I disagree. I run several windows servers. They didn't have any problems in the past few years. The exception of course being my "semi productive" machine (handling the test domain), which usually gets all sort of stuff tested on it. Windows machines don't randomly break, neither does Linux - Hardware does.
By "workstation", I mean "desktop computer". I'm talking about 10 people, not 10 offices.
And by "workplace" i meant "desktop computer". Sorry, english isn't my native language.
But what is it that makes it inappropriate here? Consider:
Linux on Desktops is a whole another topic which i'm not going to touch with a ten foot pole, because i lack any knowledge on that sector. I've used linux on my desktop from 2002-2005, but switched back to Windows when my primary job switched to administrating windows machines. I still read all my private mails with mutt and run irssi on windows, but for a SMB desktop, Linux isn't "Windows compatible" enough yet.
Running a linux server for a SMB isn't a stupid idea, it's much cheaper, and gives you the same functionality you will use from a windows server anyway. But as your business grows, you might start to want a groupware, fine grained share permissions, push-based e-mail, ERP software, etc. pp.
It is. I agree with you. I don't try to screw customers over, because i think i can achieve more with honesty and truth. Sales usually don't think so, because they don't have to deal with the customer on a daily basis.
But a customer has to recognize that fact that not every company they work with is working for THEIR best. They usually work for themselves. It's the harsh reality of life.
But seriously, how hard is it to write step-by-step instructions for setting up box11 when box10 goes down?
It isn't. But usually it isn't in the offer the customer signs (because the sales forgot about it). When the customer asks about it later, he is unwilling to pay for it...
Im not trying to play the blame game, but customers are often themselves at fault. They don't want to pay for quality, so they don't get quality.
Second, this is a way for him to get that experience.
Nothing wrong with that, as long they are aware of the downsides. A linux box maintained by a 15 yr old and his older brother usually leads to a poorly documented mess which neither you nor your brother understands after several years. At least, that's what happened to these projects i've seen. Doesn't mean it will happen in your case, but it's the usual outcome of a underpaid teenager maintaining critical company infrastructure.
In fact, I do argue that for (say) running a Linux server -- it will need almost no maintenance once set up, even if it takes longer.
Except for the OS upgrades, and the security upgrades, etc. pp. The same goes for windows servers, btw.;)
Setup a Linux fileserver with lots of storage and a reliable backup
That's a classical contradiction. With LTO2, you get about 250-300GB on a single tape (no tape changer). Not using tapes has it's own set off problems (slow links for off-site storage).
I don't know if this is standard practice anywhere, but this is what I intend to do for this company
It's not an usual approach to this problem, but i think it will work well, as long as the user don't have any important data stored locally.
And it will cost them less to maintain that for a year than it would cost them to hire the MSCEs to rebuild one system.
In Switzerland, usual IT cost is about 2470US$ / workplace / year, assuming a 3yr cycle for both workstations and servers, more if you have less than 5 Users, and i don't think it scales well, but it's a good metric i've used in the past.
A full, complete, solid customer installation for 10 workplaces usually comes up to 58000US$. This includes rack, switches, router, server, backup, workstations, desktop, licenses, groupware, but no ERP software. Central managment of updates, virus scanners, software, images, user data, backup, etc. pp.
Linux has it's place - i use it for webhosting (a side job) and of course communications infrastructure.
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Are you sure they were really false positives?
Most problems with XP i've seen so far are machines that do have a valid Pro OEM Key to be installed with a (well known pirate) VLP Pro Key.
This problem was mostly caused by lazy pc repair shops and neighboorhood kids.
You are right, but that's not the point.
URLs are commonly copy and pasted, submitted to other sites, can be read in the browser history, in proxy logs, etc.
Of course, you can configure a proxy to log POST data, but this is beside the point. This is about preventing unintended duplication of sensitive data, not actual attacks.
Megapixels is only half of the quality discussion.
A good camera has optical zoom, a bigger ccd (a bigger ccd at the same megapixel still gives a better picture), autofocus, etc.
Implementing this in a cell phone requires space.
Perhaps my knowledge of MySpace is a bit biased, but whenever i see "MySpace" i think "teenage camwhores", and not "innocent children".
Back alley sued for facilitating rape.
Microsoft sued for allowing transmission of child pornography through MSN messenger
And the list goes on, and on. When you're a teenager, you should be intelligent enough to not trust anyone on the internet. If you aren't, you failed.
And evaluating hardware usually involves making down payments for the time you have the equipment (this depends a lot though).
Employee time costs as lot of money
Reviews aren't for you.
If you're in a deciding position (i.E. CIO/CTO), and your boss doesn't trust your decision, it isn't going to be easy anyway.
But if your real question is "how should i decide?", then here's the answer:
Evaluate! It's to only way to be sure the product meets your needs completely. Yes, it costs alot of money and time. The alternative is to guess a product.
E.g. if you're already using a Windows Environment with Active Directory (and like it), going for Exchange as a Groupware isn't a stupid idea. Or for ISA as a Proxy/PF solution.
Erm, 750GB drives from Newegg are SOHO equipment. I'm sure, if you as a company asked IBM, HP, or whichever your server supplier is for a evaluation pack of one of their SAN appliances, that would've happened in a rather short space of time.
We usually do that for our regular customers (i work for an IBM BP).
That's a really complicated way to manage this for 35 machines.
I would suggest you to use WSUS to manage your Windows Updates. If that's too much for you, you can also use the IE 7 Blocker Toolkit.
Administrating a windows network requires just as much technical competency as does administrating a linux, solaris, mac or whatever network.
Switzerland has a similar concept.
AoC is 16, but if the age difference is three years or less, it's also legal. (e.G. 17yr with 14yr, but not 18yr with 14yr, which is just as arbitrary).
These prices include a 2 yrs cingular subscription. Retail price without subscription would probably be above the 1000US$ mark.
I'm impressed by your writing (especially the embedded NLP). But there are different types of people in the world.
The type of people you write about have other people that depend on them (children etc.). Thats not the case in my situation. When i die, nobody will care deeply. My company will find a replacement, and everyone else will continue in their life, undisturbed (after grieving for the socially required period of time).
I'm a simple person with no special knowledge. No one will remember me. And that's the case with most of the other people in the world (though most of them don't want to acknowledge that fact). Even if they have children, most people are meaningless in the long run.
They just work, consume, procreate and die.
What is the right thing? There are various definitions of this. For a hedonist, this may be "whatever is fun for me and doesn't harm others". For a radical islamist, this might be "kill all the hetens".
You still have your own moral code, which you defined through some means and try to follow it as good as you can. I don't think that this is the wrong thing to do, i just think that it is pointless.
Our lives here on earth serve no purposes. We just exist, some of us reproduce, and then we all die. That's it. No reason. No goal. No points.
I don't think so. Even if i probably would find a woman desperate enough to have sex with me, i have no real intention to waste my money on kids. It's an 18 year obligation with no legal means of cancelling the obligation. It wastes money like nothing else. And then, these children might meet people like me on the internet.
Whatever these little consequences are, they can't concern me anymore, since i'm already dead.
Even the (hypothetical) people i love don't have any consequence to me anymore, since i'm dead. Death is The End.
This thinking can, of course, lead to amoral decisions, and that's why we have invented religion
When you're gone, you're gone. The world is meaningless, because you no longer exist.
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Works so far. It isn't perfect to (seeking is a bitch, but it works somewhat). If you just watch & pause, there are no problems.
#2 The remote isn't 125 US$. I really do wonder where you looked, or at what product you looked.
See here: http://www.amazon.com/Xbox-360-Universal-Media-Re
25 US$. Expensive, but okay.
#3 Yes, kinda sucks. Have the same problem.
You know, the Internet isn't just the USA.
Even if you change the TOS for CNO domains to disallow pornography, there could still be pornography under every country TLD except the US.
US laws govern the US, and US based companies. Not the whole internet.
We have massive shortage of apprentice places in switzerland. Many kids can't get one. Thats very bad, because those kids will probably get an inferior education. A finished apprenticeship (or higher eduction) is basically required if you want a halfway decent job in switzerland.
Now, the problem with apprentices is that they're a four year obligation. If we (mistakenly) hire someone who is not willing to work, invest time and learn, we will have to drag him along for four whole years. That's a chance a kid who is willing to invest time and interest doesn't have.
Now, if i were able to fire unwilling apprentices, we would have wasted a year, and not four. And we could get a more interested kid a place to learn.
Of course this sounds very harsh (and it is), but i believe that apprentices who are aware that they can get fired if they don't try to do their job correctly (note the "try"!) will be more motivated to learn. Even if it is just by fear.
Now you can disagree with this position, but please don't try to show me off as a crazy person, thanks
Nobody needs to have excellent grades. That was your assertion, not mine.
I think that everybody should have AT LEAST sufficient grades. And people with insufficient grades, and no desire to change that should get thrown out of school. But instead, we change todays school to help get the lowest common denominator sufficient grades - which is absolutely wrong in my opinion.
There are people who can't learn, because of a physical or mental disability. This is not about them. This about the people who can learn, but don't want to. And there are lots of them.
Isn't either. Have you ever seen or heard of a woman getting raped over the internet? Probably not, because its not physically possible.
The worst someone can do is whip out his dick in a video messenger session. If you don't like that, you can disconnect him and block him from contacting you further.
And never, ever was there are a chance for him to harm you.
Of course, you can setup a meeting over the internet. And he can try to rape you there. I don't think that this is a problem of the internet, though. If you're willing to meet with a stranger in a non-public place, all bets are off. Hey, the same can happen to you in a disco, or a bar, or whatever. That's not an internet problem.
It has an integrated wireless card, Intel 29something BG. At home, i have an Airport Express with WPA2-PSK, which i use daily. At work, we have Cisco 11xx and 13xx access points, using WPA with EAP-PEAP, which i also use daily. The router at home is a debian machine, running pdns-resolver. The DNS servers at work are BIND running under Debian and Microsoft's own DNS server.
In the whole two months, i had two occurences of Wireless not working (disabling and enabling the network device solved that, though). This is neither better nor worse than it was running XP.
What works a whole lot better though is Bluetooth/GPRS with my HTC MTeoR (Windows Mobile 5 with MSFP), which required a re-pairing of the bluetooth devices almost at every use under XP, but has worked for the whole two months without problems.
Yeah. Like that is going to accomplish much.
They'll find other ways to waste time.
The problem is that the whole approach is wrong. If you want to prevent Students surfing on Myspace using School Equipment, make sure they have something to lose. But our society is no longer able to hand out a "YOU SUCK, GET TO WORK DAMMIT" to children and students who don't do their job right.
You can't prevent by banning every distraction they find - you have to motivate them by making sure there are consequences when you're bad at school. Encouraging at first, but if you're no good, you get disqualified and can start flipping burgers. No need to waste money on people who don't try to learn.
And the whole predator perspective is just stupid. Honestly. You can't rape or harass people over the internet. You can't damage them.
How do you harass someone online?
I mean, really. If you don't like talking to someone, there's a variety of filter possibilities in every fucking IM/IRC software, and in every web2.0ish application.
And last time i checked, it was also impossible to rape someone over the internet. Well. If it really was a series of tubes, and you listened to all the spam.. Maybe.
He will first get X to work using a crude hack which he doesn't understand. After a bit of time, he will understand the hack, refine it. After some more time, he will replace it with a solution instead of a hack - while having lost WHY the hack even started.
I've seen this happen to my setups as well. Usually when i see a 4yr old setup i've made (i was 18 at that time) i will usually think "what idiot did this". And other people i know have the same problem - so it's not just me with my attitude problems
I don't want to discourage your brother from learning, but doing it in a completely productive environment has it's downfalls.
I disagree. I run several windows servers. They didn't have any problems in the past few years. The exception of course being my "semi productive" machine (handling the test domain), which usually gets all sort of stuff tested on it. Windows machines don't randomly break, neither does Linux - Hardware does.
And by "workplace" i meant "desktop computer". Sorry, english isn't my native language.
Linux on Desktops is a whole another topic which i'm not going to touch with a ten foot pole, because i lack any knowledge on that sector. I've used linux on my desktop from 2002-2005, but switched back to Windows when my primary job switched to administrating windows machines. I still read all my private mails with mutt and run irssi on windows, but for a SMB desktop, Linux isn't "Windows compatible" enough yet.
Running a linux server for a SMB isn't a stupid idea, it's much cheaper, and gives you the same functionality you will use from a windows server anyway. But as your business grows, you might start to want a groupware, fine grained share permissions, push-based e-mail, ERP software, etc. pp.
But a customer has to recognize that fact that not every company they work with is working for THEIR best. They usually work for themselves. It's the harsh reality of life.
It isn't. But usually it isn't in the offer the customer signs (because the sales forgot about it). When the customer asks about it later, he is unwilling to pay for it...
Im not trying to play the blame game, but customers are often themselves at fault. They don't want to pay for quality, so they don't get quality.
Nothing wrong with that, as long they are aware of the downsides. A linux box maintained by a 15 yr old and his older brother usually leads to a poorly documented mess which neither you nor your brother understands after several years. At least, that's what happened to these projects i've seen. Doesn't mean it will happen in your case, but it's the usual outcome of a underpaid teenager maintaining critical company infrastructure.
Except for the OS upgrades, and the security upgrades, etc. pp. The same goes for windows servers, btw.
That's a classical contradiction. With LTO2, you get about 250-300GB on a single tape (no tape changer). Not using tapes has it's own set off problems (slow links for off-site storage).
It's not an usual approach to this problem, but i think it will work well, as long as the user don't have any important data stored locally.
In Switzerland, usual IT cost is about 2470US$ / workplace / year, assuming a 3yr cycle for both workstations and servers, more if you have less than 5 Users, and i don't think it scales well, but it's a good metric i've used in the past.
A full, complete, solid customer installation for 10 workplaces usually comes up to 58000US$. This includes rack, switches, router, server, backup, workstations, desktop, licenses, groupware, but no ERP software. Central managment of updates, virus scanners, software, images, user data, backup, etc. pp.
Linux has it's place - i use it for webhosting (a side job) and of course communications infrastructure.