Really. Pathetique. It is SO important that we asess blame accurately, if not correctly. No wonder Washington is broken - we expect so little, and so wrong, of them.
What was the robotic exoskeleton in Avatar? Did they already make a sequel? Did I miss something?
You mean those glorified loaders with guns? Pfft. I suppose, but as exoskeleton-ish as an Apache helicopter is. Ripley had the real deal, if only she had time to strap a flamethrower onto it. And while we're at it, Matrix '3' had those.
They used to make you take your laptop out and turn it on to prove it wansn't a bomb. Proving of course either that it wasn't, or that they detonated it at the security gate instead of on the plane.
So this kid has what is a magnificently dangerous-looking gizmo, and they can't ask him what it is, let him demonstrate it, and get over the drama?
Next time I fly east, I'm going seperate from my wife and bringing along a MintyBoost and maybe TV-B-Gone. I'm beginning to accept just how incredibly failed this security theater is. So far, the TSA has caught NOBODY, so far as I know, and has only succeeded in confiscating 2 Micras from me, while passengers have succeeded in preventing 1 or 2 attempted explosions, and at least one was a failed attempt.
TSA is just not so effective that they deserve unflinching obedience.
Not if it contains certain recognizable data, it gets returned. Without spilling the beanZ, stuff like account numbers, etc are blocked, even if they are inside encrypted files. This often results in innocent email getting returned to me cause something looks suspicious. Even images containing this data are being caught. These guys are fairly good.
1. Locks on doors cause more problems for users than they solve, if they are not implemented well. But you need locks on some doors, or everything on the other side is gone in 60 seconds.
2. Today it's McAfee. Tomorrow Symantec. Trend Micro. Sophos. They all are awful to someone. Why on earth do you stick with them? Oh, because there are no clearly better alternatives? Actually, I feel your pain, I used to do that also. There is no solution. This stuff is complex and will never be excellent.
You've been working in the wrong places. While the impact on employee functions is not a good indicsator of corporate security effectiveness, where I work we struggle against many restrictions and much software intended to prevent us from sending sensitive data, even accidentally or via malware etc. Data is inspected repeatedly, I can see, and ultimately anything encrypted in a way they cannot decode is rejected or held pending business justification. Social sites are blocked, including a slew of comment sites (not/. yet), and virus scanning is conducted multiple times a day by different methods.
The most likely vectors for data loss here are workers with sufficient rights ( a small subset of the total) jacking a USB drive or using a CD/DVD, and swapping data to that, taking their notebook to another location and avoiding the corporate network, tethering their machine to a smartphone/etc., ane maybe pulling the hard drive and mounting it elsewhere. Since we use PGP to encrypt the drives, that poses some problems.
I'm not sure how you defeat all of those methods. Some users do have legitimate needs for removable media. Going off-network is pretty much impossible for mobile users at the airport, and I VPN into corporate whenever I'm out of office. Pulling the hard drive is the equivalent of stealing the machine, except a user has their PGP key or passcode.
Here, at least, they take security seriously, and follow through,and we are not small, nor the largest.
Telling new and interesting stories would, of course, sell more comics. My point is that he didn't need to try to explain it as 'reflective' of our culture. It doesn't matter. He should be selling comics, and if he can do it and satisfy his personal investment in the multicultural movement, fine. But claiming it wasn't just a publicity stunt is, to me, dishonest.
I agree. We spec'd a replacement for an old VB/Access app. Going to.NET/SQL meant they would be getting a significantly larger app. More difficult and resource-hungry platform, and risked having many unable to run the app on existing hardware. We wanted no significant increase in features or performance. I know the previous app well, and was part of the design process for this New app - the new app doesn't add any either, It's a poor choice of platform. And we are paying to let these yokels learn.NET. this is a management failure as much as a developer failure.
20% of our users can't install SQL 2008 Express, required for our app in development. FAIL.
Almost 10% of SQL 2008 Express reinstalls, caused by app errors, fail. As in FAIL..NET Framework issues are abating somewhat.
Random app errors come up for at least 30% of our users, blamed variously by the developers on WPF, WAF, and even 'touch screen inputs'. FAIL.
Our experience here with.NET is that the developers are entirely unprepared for the installation problems, many Windows machines are hosed up for SQL 2008 but the users have no idea (since they are entirely functional with our old VB app), and performance is unacceptably slow.
Some of that is developers, but a lot of it is the heavyweight infrastructure you get with.NET. SQL, frameworks, next thing you know your machine is under constant strain from memory needs and wasted cycles..NET can't go away fast enough for me. My only regret will be that we start the dev cycle all over again. Another 3 years over the dam.
"'Marvel's editor in chief Axel Alonso denied that having a black Spider Man was a publicity stunt. 'What you have is a Spider-Man for the 21st century who's reflective of our culture and diversity. As someone who grew up on a steady diet of Luke Cage, Hero For Hire and Shang Chi, Master of Kung Fu, I am personally invested,' "
Ok, first, you're also personally invested in staying employed. I figured that out.
And you're also a hypocrite, or just a Progressive. 'denied having a black Spider Man was a publicity stunt? There is virtually NO OTHER REASON to do this, than to gain publicity and sales.
Please. Don't apologize or try to justify this as anything other than sales driven. It's ok. You are in the business of selling comics. Grow a set of your own and be comfortable with your career. Sheesh. Such disingenous BS leaves me with no respect for ya, Axel.
Ask a few Brits. Most I know do not think of themselves as 'European'. They think of themselves as 'British'. Something about the island, wars, and cricket.
And I know several Brits, working with them both here and over there. They would encourage me to remind you also that the Scots and the Irish are special cases also.
Browser Snobs take specific pleasure in using Opera, Firefox, Safari, or Chrome. Sometimes more than one.
They consider us Luddites who continue using Internet Explorer to be less intelligent, slow, or jsut plain oblivious to the problems of IE, and the great opportunities of using another, more enlightened, browser.
This leaves me in a quandry. I have to use IE at work, both because it is specified as our only browser, and because some of my internal sites (and quite a few external ones) are most compatible with IE. And I have to support the users of these sites that we deal with.
Mind you, I know IE has its flaws. Chrome isnot ready for my everyday use. Opera I have never tried other than on a phone. Firefox my wife uses at home, and I also use on more than one machine, interchangeably with IE. Safari on Windows is pointless, and I don't have an Apple computer, again, I pretty much work in Windows, so I stick with it at home to simplify my life.
Browser Snobs have no abilities past a normal reader. They do, however, often think they do.
And/. has managed to update the code to the point that it doesn't work well AT ALL with my Android browser, is slower than molasses in January on my other machines, and is just plain whack in places. It can only be because the Browser Snobs are working just fine, thank you, and those of us lingering with IE neither deserve nor will appreciate our plight - that we should change our browser so that/. performs better on our challenged machines.
Nice note, but it answers nothing. Less than nothing, you just trolled back and added nothing to the question or answer.
Even the comment about streaming video misses the reality that to receive streaming video, you must ASK for it. As in, uplink a request. Unless we also develop prescient mindreading networks. In which case, I didn't even need to type this...
Broadly speaking, this idea is half a network. I'm hoping they can do the other half.
And still, a year later, no significant discussion of the uplink. Not much if a WiFi replacement if it's one-way, is it?
Honestly,/. is drifting into the mediocraty. One more upgrade, and slashcode/CSS/javascript will make it entirely useless for all but the browser snobs.
Well, the article persists in saying 'trichlorethylene', which is substantially slower to evaporate than trichloroethane (aka 1,1,1 trichloroethane). Also less toxic, and less of everything, mostly.
NASA published this report on 'inhibited 1,1,1 trichloroethane', replacing trichlorethylene, but I recall in the 90s that Tri-Ethane was essentially banned from common uses, thanks Montreal.
Apparently, the 'inhibited' part of Tri-Ethane is the addition of dioxane, amyl alcohol, or nitromethane, and butylene oxide. Doesn't that sound yummy.
Working on typewriters, IBM delivered it as 'Tri-Ethane', "1,1,1 trichloroethane", and I could find the part number for you in a week or so... It even cleaned your clothes. Good stuff, that.
Calling it Methyl Chloroform does diminish the appeal, I admit.
We won't even get into MEK. That stuff is the printer's friend, and just plain nasty.
Maybe, if they can elbow their way up to the trough. It's pretty crowded already, with Democrats, Republicans, and thieves who don't distinguish between political parties, as you should not either. Thief is not a political subdivision.
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So it really is Bush's fault.
Really. Pathetique. It is SO important that we asess blame accurately, if not correctly. No wonder Washington is broken - we expect so little, and so wrong, of them.
Revolutions, if I recall.
What was the robotic exoskeleton in Avatar? Did they already make a sequel? Did I miss something?
You mean those glorified loaders with guns? Pfft. I suppose, but as exoskeleton-ish as an Apache helicopter is. Ripley had the real deal, if only she had time to strap a flamethrower onto it. And while we're at it, Matrix '3' had those.
I can get all that from Apple, or Nike.
They used to make you take your laptop out and turn it on to prove it wansn't a bomb. Proving of course either that it wasn't, or that they detonated it at the security gate instead of on the plane.
So this kid has what is a magnificently dangerous-looking gizmo, and they can't ask him what it is, let him demonstrate it, and get over the drama?
Next time I fly east, I'm going seperate from my wife and bringing along a MintyBoost and maybe TV-B-Gone. I'm beginning to accept just how incredibly failed this security theater is. So far, the TSA has caught NOBODY, so far as I know, and has only succeeded in confiscating 2 Micras from me, while passengers have succeeded in preventing 1 or 2 attempted explosions, and at least one was a failed attempt.
TSA is just not so effective that they deserve unflinching obedience.
Not if it contains certain recognizable data, it gets returned. Without spilling the beanZ, stuff like account numbers, etc are blocked, even if they are inside encrypted files. This often results in innocent email getting returned to me cause something looks suspicious. Even images containing this data are being caught. These guys are fairly good.
1. Locks on doors cause more problems for users than they solve, if they are not implemented well. But you need locks on some doors, or everything on the other side is gone in 60 seconds.
2. Today it's McAfee. Tomorrow Symantec. Trend Micro. Sophos. They all are awful to someone. Why on earth do you stick with them? Oh, because there are no clearly better alternatives? Actually, I feel your pain, I used to do that also. There is no solution. This stuff is complex and will never be excellent.
You've been working in the wrong places. While the impact on employee functions is not a good indicsator of corporate security effectiveness, where I work we struggle against many restrictions and much software intended to prevent us from sending sensitive data, even accidentally or via malware etc. Data is inspected repeatedly, I can see, and ultimately anything encrypted in a way they cannot decode is rejected or held pending business justification. Social sites are blocked, including a slew of comment sites (not /. yet), and virus scanning is conducted multiple times a day by different methods.
The most likely vectors for data loss here are workers with sufficient rights ( a small subset of the total) jacking a USB drive or using a CD/DVD, and swapping data to that, taking their notebook to another location and avoiding the corporate network, tethering their machine to a smartphone/etc., ane maybe pulling the hard drive and mounting it elsewhere. Since we use PGP to encrypt the drives, that poses some problems.
I'm not sure how you defeat all of those methods. Some users do have legitimate needs for removable media. Going off-network is pretty much impossible for mobile users at the airport, and I VPN into corporate whenever I'm out of office. Pulling the hard drive is the equivalent of stealing the machine, except a user has their PGP key or passcode.
Here, at least, they take security seriously, and follow through,and we are not small, nor the largest.
Ditto for 'neo-con'. Conceived as a pejorative, a favorite of the Left.
You tune me out, fine. I was using that term descriptively before Glenn Beck was on radio.
Telling new and interesting stories would, of course, sell more comics. My point is that he didn't need to try to explain it as 'reflective' of our culture. It doesn't matter. He should be selling comics, and if he can do it and satisfy his personal investment in the multicultural movement, fine. But claiming it wasn't just a publicity stunt is, to me, dishonest.
I agree. We spec'd a replacement for an old VB/Access app. Going to .NET/SQL meant they would be getting a significantly larger app. More difficult and resource-hungry platform, and risked having many unable to run the app on existing hardware. We wanted no significant increase in features or performance. I know the previous app well, and was part of the design process for this New app - the new app doesn't add any either, It's a poor choice of platform. And we are paying to let these yokels learn .NET. this is a management failure as much as a developer failure.
"random" is our term for app errors that result in an app close with the usual generic event logged. The developers don't even bother to name them.
20% of our users can't install SQL 2008 Express, required for our app in development. FAIL.
Almost 10% of SQL 2008 Express reinstalls, caused by app errors, fail. As in FAIL. .NET Framework issues are abating somewhat.
Random app errors come up for at least 30% of our users, blamed variously by the developers on WPF, WAF, and even 'touch screen inputs'. FAIL.
Our experience here with .NET is that the developers are entirely unprepared for the installation problems, many Windows machines are hosed up for SQL 2008 but the users have no idea (since they are entirely functional with our old VB app), and performance is unacceptably slow.
Some of that is developers, but a lot of it is the heavyweight infrastructure you get with .NET. SQL, frameworks, next thing you know your machine is under constant strain from memory needs and wasted cycles. .NET can't go away fast enough for me. My only regret will be that we start the dev cycle all over again. Another 3 years over the dam.
I do forget the Welsh. Darn. And they have such a beautiful language. Yes, they are another non-brit case.
"'Marvel's editor in chief Axel Alonso denied that having a black Spider Man was a publicity stunt. 'What you have is a Spider-Man for the 21st century who's reflective of our culture and diversity. As someone who grew up on a steady diet of Luke Cage, Hero For Hire and Shang Chi, Master of Kung Fu, I am personally invested,' "
Ok, first, you're also personally invested in staying employed. I figured that out.
And you're also a hypocrite, or just a Progressive. 'denied having a black Spider Man was a publicity stunt? There is virtually NO OTHER REASON to do this, than to gain publicity and sales.
Please. Don't apologize or try to justify this as anything other than sales driven. It's ok. You are in the business of selling comics. Grow a set of your own and be comfortable with your career. Sheesh. Such disingenous BS leaves me with no respect for ya, Axel.
No longer the privileged one? What? I thought I not only was privileged, but evil as well. What changed? Certainly not popular opinion.
Ask a few Brits. Most I know do not think of themselves as 'European'. They think of themselves as 'British'. Something about the island, wars, and cricket.
And I know several Brits, working with them both here and over there. They would encourage me to remind you also that the Scots and the Irish are special cases also.
"It's also an easily snooped scheme, so wouldn't be practical
in a security-conscious environment."
Well, if that's true, the Internet already isn't secure at the network layer, and..
Nevermind.
I wasn't trying to be clever, I was trying to be informative. I've met too many people who have no idea what modem' means.
More remarkable than that, however, is the long line of ACs creaming at the opportunity to call me out as dense.
Is it really that important? Really? Wow.
Browser Snobs take specific pleasure in using Opera, Firefox, Safari, or Chrome. Sometimes more than one.
They consider us Luddites who continue using Internet Explorer to be less intelligent, slow, or jsut plain oblivious to the problems of IE, and the great opportunities of using another, more enlightened, browser.
This leaves me in a quandry. I have to use IE at work, both because it is specified as our only browser, and because some of my internal sites (and quite a few external ones) are most compatible with IE. And I have to support the users of these sites that we deal with.
Mind you, I know IE has its flaws. Chrome isnot ready for my everyday use. Opera I have never tried other than on a phone. Firefox my wife uses at home, and I also use on more than one machine, interchangeably with IE. Safari on Windows is pointless, and I don't have an Apple computer, again, I pretty much work in Windows, so I stick with it at home to simplify my life.
Browser Snobs have no abilities past a normal reader. They do, however, often think they do.
And /. has managed to update the code to the point that it doesn't work well AT ALL with my Android browser, is slower than molasses in January on my other machines, and is just plain whack in places. It can only be because the Browser Snobs are working just fine, thank you, and those of us lingering with IE neither deserve nor will appreciate our plight - that we should change our browser so that /. performs better on our challenged machines.
But I'm not bitter.
It's a DE-modulator.
Remember, the old MODEM acronym? Modulator/DEModulator?
My old ham radio days still haunt me. I know too much analog shit that still works.
Nice note, but it answers nothing. Less than nothing, you just trolled back and added nothing to the question or answer.
Even the comment about streaming video misses the reality that to receive streaming video, you must ASK for it. As in, uplink a request. Unless we also develop prescient mindreading networks. In which case, I didn't even need to type this...
Broadly speaking, this idea is half a network. I'm hoping they can do the other half.
Did you read it here?
If so, apparently, we are the only two.
And still, a year later, no significant discussion of the uplink. Not much if a WiFi replacement if it's one-way, is it?
Honestly, /. is drifting into the mediocraty. One more upgrade, and slashcode/CSS/javascript will make it entirely useless for all but the browser snobs.
Well, the article persists in saying 'trichlorethylene', which is substantially slower to evaporate than trichloroethane (aka 1,1,1 trichloroethane). Also less toxic, and less of everything, mostly.
NASA published this report on 'inhibited 1,1,1 trichloroethane', replacing trichlorethylene, but I recall in the 90s that Tri-Ethane was essentially banned from common uses, thanks Montreal.
Apparently, the 'inhibited' part of Tri-Ethane is the addition of dioxane, amyl alcohol, or nitromethane, and butylene oxide. Doesn't that sound yummy.
Working on typewriters, IBM delivered it as 'Tri-Ethane', "1,1,1 trichloroethane", and I could find the part number for you in a week or so... It even cleaned your clothes. Good stuff, that.
Calling it Methyl Chloroform does diminish the appeal, I admit.
We won't even get into MEK. That stuff is the printer's friend, and just plain nasty.
"some tea party hacks name"
Maybe, if they can elbow their way up to the trough. It's pretty crowded already, with Democrats, Republicans, and thieves who don't distinguish between political parties, as you should not either. Thief is not a political subdivision.