$60 a year to be cashless is hardly a big deal, but the perception is that they are committing highway robbery. People probably bank with them because they don't care or don't want to deal with switching accounts at this time, but they are hardly morons. Besides, what is to stop your next bank from doing the same thing? Better to let things fall out.
Hardly. I did mention that "most enterprise grade backup software can utilize software encryption". Try purchasing a tape drive with hardware encryption without paying to license the feature. The last one I bought was a TL4000 with LTO4 drives from Dell and encryption was a licensed feature that cost a couple grand.
Backup processes are typically automated and do not use 7-zip, but instead use backup utilities that cost $$$ like NetBackup. Most enterprise grade backup software can utilize software encryption for the backups. Tape drives can do the same on the hardware side if you bought the feature. Besides offloading the encryption algorithm to the tape drive, it also opens the door for storage deduplication for the volumes holding the disk based backups (encryption would obfuscate the data in the blocks rendering dedupe useless).
It seems like the guy who lost the tapes was not able to pay Iron Mountain to handle offsite rotation, so he foolishly did it himself.
I know this is probably obvious, but lawyers would get a heck of a lot more business if they charged a rate similar to what the rest of us charge. Their egos and greed have made them too expensive for most to utilize.
I've noticed with the HFA propellant I now actually have to follow the cleaning instructions that come with the inhaler because it will periodically cake up and clog. Try taking the cartridge out and running some water through the inhaler. This even surprised my pharmacist. The CFC version seemed to have enough pressure to clear out the opening each time.
Kool-Aid my ass. We've got too many hippies on this site. The reality is you've never seen a society without a police force and rule of law, so don't preach about how society is mostly good and morally straight. When it comes down to it most people are selfish. Without law enforcement, there is nothing to stop one person from taking what they want from another except for self defense. The people who don't want to earn their lifestyle will take it from those that do. That is no society I want to be a part of. If you do, move to Somalia or something where everyone can fend for themselves and have a merry time. Most police officers I've met are polite and understand the whole public servant thing. Around here if an officer falls foul of the law it is all over the press and he is in serious shit. The only time I didn't like them was when I chose to break the law by driving over the speed limit, but they were professional and I deserved the ticket I received. If your officers suck, grow a pair and start reporting the problems to the local officials. You helped elect them into office right?
No, that would be you saying that. The court system does require you take some time out of your busy day to get anything done with them, but I think you are hinting at lawsuits which are a different topic altogether.
They get suspension with pay while they are presumed innocent during an investigation. Police departments exist to ensure law and order is maintained for the safety and security of society. Without them, we have people taking advantage of others with no chance at justice. Take off your foil hat and enjoy the surroundings.
Of course they are optimistic about their target market. Why else would they be in business? If we broaden our definition of games beyond Crysis, CoD, and WoW, they could be right. After all a lot of people are perfectly happy playing cheap games like Angry Birds.
If/when we ever get to the point that the human population is too large to be sustainable, it will correct itself. History shows us that famine, war, and plague occur when we run out of resources or populate an area too densely. Some of the strong, smart, and lucky will survive to repopulate.
Because life is worth living, not wasting away in class and debt repayment. Not every desk job out there should require 4+ years of collegiate education. Apprenticeships and real experience are worth so much more to an employer.
I was thinking along the same line. Always have two copies of your data at any given point. Most likely, one would be a disk array and the other tape. You might get away with a simple 4 drive NAS, or require a 12 disk chassis with SAS/iSCSI. It all depends on your storage needs. If you can't afford to store it, you can try compression, but you might have to consider whether or not it is worth keeping around.
That would likely fry the USB controller, but not much else. Even if it did, all you did was vandalize an asset. That is hardly a large risk to an organization, and even if it did become one, the users would become aware (since it now affects their own job) and manufacturers would start including protective circuitry in the schematic. Also, technical problems can sometimes be solved with business policy. When considering whether to plug an unauthorized piece of hardware into your workstation or install that software you found linked on a torrent site, having the threat of unemployment held over your head is typically sufficient enough to stop such behavior and if it is not, sometimes it becomes so once enforced on a few examples.
The settings in BIOS allow this granularity, however if you have a USB stick acting like a keyboard it is left to a different tier of defense on the system. Control admin rights, backup user data regularly, and have appropriate auditing in place should something go wild. Perhaps this is a market opening for encrypted keyboard communications.
The age-old epoxy solution seems so primitive these days. Just turn off the port in the BIOS and password protect it. For example, Dell provides the capability to do this centrally. If you want to get fancy, put in something like McAfee's encrypted USB solution. Even Symantec Endpoint Protection allows white listing of USB storage media.
Apparently I've missed the memo on what our voting process is doing wrong. It seems to me we are trying to create a complex technical solution because we can, not because we need it.
An organization of 12 people is not going to need much in the way of centralized "IT" services, so keep it simple. You don't want to create more work than necessary and your company likely wants to keep the overhead of IT low at this stage. Back up their laptops/workstations to the server and provide core services like file shares, print shares, DHCP, and authentication. Use cloud services to provide things like Exchange, SharePoint, and what not if you need them. Then just make sure you are backing up any data that is solely hosted on the server. Always, always, always have two verified copies of everything, and try not to keep them in the same location.
It sounds like a stretch. Seal Team 6, like all US military units, follow orders from their leadership. Ultimately this is guided by the Commander in Chief (Obama), and Congress. The agenda of the president and of congress is to promote a certain vision of society who in turn (hopefully) derive their vision from the values of their constituency (sound familiar?). Cracking into secured networks and servers to prove a point just constitutes anarchy and vigilantism. It is in direct opposition to the ideals of law and order that have been established over time in this country. Society would be much better served if the people of Anonymous would step up and participate in public service. We need representatives who are willing to buck the system and look past partisan politics to affect change on core issues.
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$60 a year to be cashless is hardly a big deal, but the perception is that they are committing highway robbery. People probably bank with them because they don't care or don't want to deal with switching accounts at this time, but they are hardly morons. Besides, what is to stop your next bank from doing the same thing? Better to let things fall out.
Hardly. I did mention that "most enterprise grade backup software can utilize software encryption". Try purchasing a tape drive with hardware encryption without paying to license the feature. The last one I bought was a TL4000 with LTO4 drives from Dell and encryption was a licensed feature that cost a couple grand.
Backup processes are typically automated and do not use 7-zip, but instead use backup utilities that cost $$$ like NetBackup. Most enterprise grade backup software can utilize software encryption for the backups. Tape drives can do the same on the hardware side if you bought the feature. Besides offloading the encryption algorithm to the tape drive, it also opens the door for storage deduplication for the volumes holding the disk based backups (encryption would obfuscate the data in the blocks rendering dedupe useless). It seems like the guy who lost the tapes was not able to pay Iron Mountain to handle offsite rotation, so he foolishly did it himself.
I know this is probably obvious, but lawyers would get a heck of a lot more business if they charged a rate similar to what the rest of us charge. Their egos and greed have made them too expensive for most to utilize.
I've noticed with the HFA propellant I now actually have to follow the cleaning instructions that come with the inhaler because it will periodically cake up and clog. Try taking the cartridge out and running some water through the inhaler. This even surprised my pharmacist. The CFC version seemed to have enough pressure to clear out the opening each time.
Kool-Aid my ass. We've got too many hippies on this site. The reality is you've never seen a society without a police force and rule of law, so don't preach about how society is mostly good and morally straight. When it comes down to it most people are selfish. Without law enforcement, there is nothing to stop one person from taking what they want from another except for self defense. The people who don't want to earn their lifestyle will take it from those that do. That is no society I want to be a part of. If you do, move to Somalia or something where everyone can fend for themselves and have a merry time. Most police officers I've met are polite and understand the whole public servant thing. Around here if an officer falls foul of the law it is all over the press and he is in serious shit. The only time I didn't like them was when I chose to break the law by driving over the speed limit, but they were professional and I deserved the ticket I received. If your officers suck, grow a pair and start reporting the problems to the local officials. You helped elect them into office right?
No, that would be you saying that. The court system does require you take some time out of your busy day to get anything done with them, but I think you are hinting at lawsuits which are a different topic altogether.
They get suspension with pay while they are presumed innocent during an investigation. Police departments exist to ensure law and order is maintained for the safety and security of society. Without them, we have people taking advantage of others with no chance at justice. Take off your foil hat and enjoy the surroundings.
Of course they are optimistic about their target market. Why else would they be in business? If we broaden our definition of games beyond Crysis, CoD, and WoW, they could be right. After all a lot of people are perfectly happy playing cheap games like Angry Birds.
If/when we ever get to the point that the human population is too large to be sustainable, it will correct itself. History shows us that famine, war, and plague occur when we run out of resources or populate an area too densely. Some of the strong, smart, and lucky will survive to repopulate.
Trolls... Good luck implementing BitLocker on entire VMFS datastores. Not everything is based on Windows Vista/7.
Because life is worth living, not wasting away in class and debt repayment. Not every desk job out there should require 4+ years of collegiate education. Apprenticeships and real experience are worth so much more to an employer.
LTO-5 may also be way too fast for the OP, when LTO-3/4 would work fine.
I was thinking along the same line. Always have two copies of your data at any given point. Most likely, one would be a disk array and the other tape. You might get away with a simple 4 drive NAS, or require a 12 disk chassis with SAS/iSCSI. It all depends on your storage needs. If you can't afford to store it, you can try compression, but you might have to consider whether or not it is worth keeping around.
My thoughts exactly. What this means is that like many industries it would be private but regulated by certain safety and security mandates.
That would likely fry the USB controller, but not much else. Even if it did, all you did was vandalize an asset. That is hardly a large risk to an organization, and even if it did become one, the users would become aware (since it now affects their own job) and manufacturers would start including protective circuitry in the schematic. Also, technical problems can sometimes be solved with business policy. When considering whether to plug an unauthorized piece of hardware into your workstation or install that software you found linked on a torrent site, having the threat of unemployment held over your head is typically sufficient enough to stop such behavior and if it is not, sometimes it becomes so once enforced on a few examples.
The settings in BIOS allow this granularity, however if you have a USB stick acting like a keyboard it is left to a different tier of defense on the system. Control admin rights, backup user data regularly, and have appropriate auditing in place should something go wild. Perhaps this is a market opening for encrypted keyboard communications.
The age-old epoxy solution seems so primitive these days. Just turn off the port in the BIOS and password protect it. For example, Dell provides the capability to do this centrally. If you want to get fancy, put in something like McAfee's encrypted USB solution. Even Symantec Endpoint Protection allows white listing of USB storage media.
Apparently I've missed the memo on what our voting process is doing wrong. It seems to me we are trying to create a complex technical solution because we can, not because we need it.
If you can't compete with them, sue them. It worked for SCO!
An organization of 12 people is not going to need much in the way of centralized "IT" services, so keep it simple. You don't want to create more work than necessary and your company likely wants to keep the overhead of IT low at this stage. Back up their laptops/workstations to the server and provide core services like file shares, print shares, DHCP, and authentication. Use cloud services to provide things like Exchange, SharePoint, and what not if you need them. Then just make sure you are backing up any data that is solely hosted on the server. Always, always, always have two verified copies of everything, and try not to keep them in the same location.
It sounds like a stretch. Seal Team 6, like all US military units, follow orders from their leadership. Ultimately this is guided by the Commander in Chief (Obama), and Congress. The agenda of the president and of congress is to promote a certain vision of society who in turn (hopefully) derive their vision from the values of their constituency (sound familiar?). Cracking into secured networks and servers to prove a point just constitutes anarchy and vigilantism. It is in direct opposition to the ideals of law and order that have been established over time in this country. Society would be much better served if the people of Anonymous would step up and participate in public service. We need representatives who are willing to buck the system and look past partisan politics to affect change on core issues.
Seal Team 6 does not persecute or follow their own agenda, they follow orders.
What about the manufacturing jobs this creates? Won't somebody think of the workers?!?
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