At the very least I generally have some relatively recent copy of source code at my house when I was working from home on a project. While I wouldn't do anything unethical with that source code (such as sell it or whatever) I probably wouldn't go out of my way to make sure I deleted every bit of it off my PC. There's a good chance that based on the wording of the survey I could be in the "bad" category even though I'm clearly not (imho).
I think that's because people really under-estimate the potential of the browser. Take a look at what Google did, porting Quake 2 to HTML 5. https://code.google.com/p/quake2-gwt-port/
Sure, we're probably 3-4 browser (and 1-2 bandwidth) generations away from really getting to the "good" stuff, but these foundation layers are important. Javascript performance is meaningless now, but when "real-time" first person shooters are available in 3-d in the browser things like javascript performance become incredibly important. After all, why bother with DRM when you can offer your game in-browser only?
> An FBI agent knocks on some guy's door. The guy asks to see some ID, and the FBI agent produces his official FBI badge. The guy takes one look at it and says,
> "You can't fool me, that's a fake...it looks nothing like the ones on the X-Files!"
That's actually an interesting point. How does one deal with authentication issues like that if faced with an Law-Enforcement officer? Sure they can...if they do things right, show you their badge but then what?
1. Do you have a right to actually take that badge and/or ID into your hands to inspect it fully?
2. Can you write the details down or make a scan/photo copy?
3. If you do not believe the ID, the seal or badge (and officer) to be authentically what/who they claim to be, do you still have to do what they say (and can you be charged with, for example, resisting arrest if so)?
4. If 3 is the case, what are the options to verify such ID's, seals etc.?
No but you can be fired and never be able to find gainful employment in that city again. "Have you ever heard of this guy? I just looked over his resume, pretty impressive stuff. Oh yeah, he's that dumbass who lost $1 Billion in a day for GS."
$150k in NY City is akin to about $90-100k elsewhere. A good salary to be sure, but imho doesn't account for the high pressure/risk of the job at hand. The tiniest bug and people can lose Billions of dollars.
If you ever want to REALLY understand how your business works, you need to talk to the programmers who write your software. Because they understand better than anyone else what the data means and how it is generated. They are the ones with access to all of the "business logic" business people requested 10 years ago but forgot about.
As an American who didn't know it was Swedish or even based off a book I rented it on a lark from redbox because it had good reviews. The movie is quite good. I was impressed. Now that I know it's a book (just learned from this/. article) I will probably go read the series.
I don't disagree with you at all, except that I think you're falsely assuming that most businesses operate like yours. I think it's great for small businesses who haven't quite gotten big enough to justify full time IT staff. The e-mail at your 10-store bakery chain probably isn't valuable enough to worry about it. And those bakeries don't have a WAN, or probably even VPN to the "corporate office" which consists of a small extra room in the back of one of the bakeries.
I don't understand what would cause you to believe that a person working for a cloud provider who commits a criminal act somehow has a get-out-of-jail-free card.
When I was in high school I took tons of Advanced Placement courses for college credit and they even had some professors from the local community college come to our school and teach a hand full of gen ed type classes (economics, psych 101, etc.). There were also programs you could go into for more blue collar work experience during high school. And I live in Florida, bastion of quality education. Obviously these things may not be available everywhere, but for me at least if you showed the tiniest bit of drive you could get into either program.
I can't imagine it's any less safe for work than Cosmo or the litany of other websites for women's magazines you see at the grocery checkout counter. Of course, it's more HR/socially acceptable to objectify men than women.
Pick a row on the keyboard. Go down the row normally, then back up the row while holding shift. On the way down you'll get a number and lower case letters. On the way back up you get capitals and a special character (shift plus whatever number your row is). This is what a LOT of people do for ridiculous password requirements. It's very easily crackable.
I doubt it will be "This guy bought a luxury vehicle, so charge him $100 more." It will probably be more like "This guy just bought a luxury vehicle, let's slightly alter the user interface so he sees the first class seats more easily."
I would like to take this moment to give a shout out to T-Mobile, which actually offers a bring your own phone plan for less than the subsidize your phone plan.
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At the very least I generally have some relatively recent copy of source code at my house when I was working from home on a project. While I wouldn't do anything unethical with that source code (such as sell it or whatever) I probably wouldn't go out of my way to make sure I deleted every bit of it off my PC. There's a good chance that based on the wording of the survey I could be in the "bad" category even though I'm clearly not (imho).
I think that's because people really under-estimate the potential of the browser. Take a look at what Google did, porting Quake 2 to HTML 5. https://code.google.com/p/quake2-gwt-port/
Sure, we're probably 3-4 browser (and 1-2 bandwidth) generations away from really getting to the "good" stuff, but these foundation layers are important. Javascript performance is meaningless now, but when "real-time" first person shooters are available in 3-d in the browser things like javascript performance become incredibly important. After all, why bother with DRM when you can offer your game in-browser only?
If it helps, my "Intro to C" class in college was taught by a TA who didn't know C. So, at least in my experience, it's not any better in college.
> An FBI agent knocks on some guy's door. The guy asks to see some ID, and the FBI agent produces his official FBI badge. The guy takes one look at it and says, > "You can't fool me, that's a fake...it looks nothing like the ones on the X-Files!"
That's actually an interesting point. How does one deal with authentication issues like that if faced with an Law-Enforcement officer? Sure they can...if they do things right, show you their badge but then what?
1. Do you have a right to actually take that badge and/or ID into your hands to inspect it fully?
2. Can you write the details down or make a scan/photo copy?
3. If you do not believe the ID, the seal or badge (and officer) to be authentically what/who they claim to be, do you still have to do what they say (and can you be charged with, for example, resisting arrest if so)?
4. If 3 is the case, what are the options to verify such ID's, seals etc.?
You lost me at "Do you have a right."
No but you can be fired and never be able to find gainful employment in that city again. "Have you ever heard of this guy? I just looked over his resume, pretty impressive stuff. Oh yeah, he's that dumbass who lost $1 Billion in a day for GS."
$150k in NY City is akin to about $90-100k elsewhere. A good salary to be sure, but imho doesn't account for the high pressure/risk of the job at hand. The tiniest bug and people can lose Billions of dollars.
If you ever want to REALLY understand how your business works, you need to talk to the programmers who write your software. Because they understand better than anyone else what the data means and how it is generated. They are the ones with access to all of the "business logic" business people requested 10 years ago but forgot about.
As an American who didn't know it was Swedish or even based off a book I rented it on a lark from redbox because it had good reviews. The movie is quite good. I was impressed. Now that I know it's a book (just learned from this /. article) I will probably go read the series.
Do you also doubt that a pacemaker manufacturer would refuse to provide a critical software update unless each pacemaker user pays them for it?
Wait, do you mean before or after I talked to Action 9 news?
You've hit the nail on the head. My "household name" employer outsources almost everything to an outside vendor.
I don't disagree with you at all, except that I think you're falsely assuming that most businesses operate like yours. I think it's great for small businesses who haven't quite gotten big enough to justify full time IT staff. The e-mail at your 10-store bakery chain probably isn't valuable enough to worry about it. And those bakeries don't have a WAN, or probably even VPN to the "corporate office" which consists of a small extra room in the back of one of the bakeries.
I don't understand what would cause you to believe that a person working for a cloud provider who commits a criminal act somehow has a get-out-of-jail-free card.
When I was in high school I took tons of Advanced Placement courses for college credit and they even had some professors from the local community college come to our school and teach a hand full of gen ed type classes (economics, psych 101, etc.). There were also programs you could go into for more blue collar work experience during high school. And I live in Florida, bastion of quality education. Obviously these things may not be available everywhere, but for me at least if you showed the tiniest bit of drive you could get into either program.
I can't imagine it's any less safe for work than Cosmo or the litany of other websites for women's magazines you see at the grocery checkout counter. Of course, it's more HR/socially acceptable to objectify men than women.
I think those are called torpedoes :p
See, what we need is to put a bunch of wind mills on top of our battle ships. That will allow us to generate plenty of electricity to power the ships!
Pick a row on the keyboard. Go down the row normally, then back up the row while holding shift. On the way down you'll get a number and lower case letters. On the way back up you get capitals and a special character (shift plus whatever number your row is). This is what a LOT of people do for ridiculous password requirements. It's very easily crackable.
Quite the opposite, most organizations I deal with these days require EVERYTHING to be SSO.
I doubt it will be "This guy bought a luxury vehicle, so charge him $100 more." It will probably be more like "This guy just bought a luxury vehicle, let's slightly alter the user interface so he sees the first class seats more easily."
http://www.t-mobile.com/shop/plans/Cell-Phone-Plans.aspx?catgroup=Individual&WT.z_shop_plansLP=individual The Even More Plus plans have no phones and are $10/mo cheaper. There's corresponding family plans. Best of luck.
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I would like to take this moment to give a shout out to T-Mobile, which actually offers a bring your own phone plan for less than the subsidize your phone plan.
$529 from the GOOG. Yikes!