This kind of story comes up every once in a while like it is some sort of break through in technology, yet I remember sitting in a small conference room of the Sands Hotel in Las Vegas in 1993 listening to some guy talk about monitoring alpha waves in the brain and using that feedback to move a cursor.
i will never understand why man has to have dominance over other men.
Because quite honestly there isn't enough to go around, so those who are willing to knock others to the side are going to get what there is. Besides, dominance has its place too. Would you say that the police force dominating those who would dominate others is bad dominance?
If I hadn't already participated in this discussion, I'd mod you +1 for making a good point.
But the telephone companies that released the records without adequate verification or authentication will go scot free. Why? Why isn't there a proper procedure in the phone companies to check who is requesting the info? Why aren't they saying, "we will mail a copy of the report to the registered mailing address. But not to any fax number you say on phone."
I'm glad that I browsed through the replies instead of starting my own reply on the same subject. When I read the news, my first instinct was, "Where are the indictments against the bastards who failed to keep the data safe in the first place?" If personal information is sensitive enough that people are going to get prosecuted for accessing it "illegally" then there also needs to be some legislation passed and laws introduced that hold the people who control access the information equally accountable. Although Patricia Dunn will definitely think twice before authorizing whatever means necessary when investigating someone, I can bet that ChoicePoint and all those other bastards haven't even thought twice about the hundreds if not thousands of people who requested information from them today alone. As much as I dislike lawyers, I think that they could be used in these kinds of situations. Personal information shouldn't be released without a notorized authorization from the person whose information is being given out. Period. End of story.
At least the junkie, if he can be freed from his adiction, can quite possibly turn into a productive member of society.
The junkie could have been a productive member of society, but then he decided to become a junkie. Isn't not like he was born a junkie. At least the manager was productive for a while, before he let the influence of power get to him. I do agree that the junkie should be given a chance. Most people wouldn't be junkies if they felt that they had something to work for and saw the rewards in it. Corrupt managers on the other hand have proven that they know better and simply don't care. They were already part of the system, but they wanted more. I think Lao Tzu said it best, "There is no sin greater than not knowing when you have enough."
Exactly. The applications will be persistent. They will support versioning. The application might dial home to make sure that it's still up to date but that's about it.
But what are you going to save by going to a service-oriented word processor or spreadsheet?
The big savings for large enterprises comes from the ease of management. Instead of having to roll out a package to 1000+ desktops, you just publish the application to the application server. Unfortunately the need to patch and upgrade isn't going away, but Microsoft is doing what they can to make it less painful.
An alternative to this is to just keep all your documents on a flash drive. Small enough to carry around, relatively cheap, and you can even carry your programs around with you.
What happens when your team needs to collaborate on your files with you? Who takes care of versioning and change control? See the bigger picture man. The network is bigger than your files and your workstation.
What proof, besides companies greed, shows that people don't want desktop software? I sure as hell won't be running apps online rather than on my own machine for a lot reasons. Just to name a few:
Your focus seems to be a little bit off. The "online application" technology will take off in the enterprise, not on your desktop. The world is circling back around to a server centric environment. I'll address your points.
1) Bandwidth
Like I said, it's not your desktop that matters. It's the 1,000+ clients that are plugged into 100BT and 1000BT switches. They have the bandwidth. Furthermore, the application servers will be able to tell what kind of link you're on. Lets say you're on a 1.5MB DSL link. It will point you to a terminal server and publish the application there. On the other hand, lets say you're plugged right into the LAN. Okay, no problem... you get the app pushed directly to your machine.
2)Keeping apps under MY control, not somebody elses
In the corporate environment, they aren't your apps. They are your employer's apps. Your employer cares about things like version control. It's a lot easier to update an application on an app server and then push that out, than it is to update 1,000+ seats. What happens if you roll out an app and it breaks? Oops, you're hating life. If you publish an app to an app server and it doesn't work, you simply unpublish and revert to the previous version.
3)I don't like being required to have an internet connection to type an f'n paper.
From what I've been told and read about, app servers will be able to publish persistent applications. For example lets say that you're a laptop user. The app server can publish Word to your laptop for 30 days, no need to stay connected to the network. When the app expires, you plug back in. 30 days isn't long enough? Publish it for longer. It's just like DHCP leases.
I want my Oki 900 back! Until then, I guess I'll make due with my Samsung i730. It only locks up once every couple of weeks and wirelessly syncs with the Exchange server back the office so I can keep up to date without having to get to a web browser. The fact that it also works as a modem is pretty convenient too for those random occurances when I'm at a client who doesn't have an internet connection.
Such is the price people seem willing to pay in return for lower taxation and greater spending power at the checkout.
I think the bigger issue is that people are willing to work themselves into the ground and wear out their bodies and souls to the point where things like cancer can develop and spread. They are willing to turn a blind eye to the environmental hazards that contribute to cancer. They're willing to adopt the mentality that, "It won't happen to me." and then further the mentality with, "And even if it does, they can cure me with this super duper modern medicine stuff."
The saying goes that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Your average American isn't worried about preventing anything. They're too busy with work and school and the spouse and the kids to actually relax and take care of themselves.
I had half started to believe all the hype about IP address shortages... until one of my clients purchased a T1 from AT&T. AT&T gave them 32 addresses without even asking how many they needed. They need two of them. If AT&T can blindly fork over 32 publicly routable IPs for a small business running a 1.5MB T1 connection, I think the "shortage" is just a bunch of hype.
I suggest some Lao Tzu fundamentals, crossbread with real life examples of how disobeying them has led to strife, counter-balanced by flourishing examples of how sticking to the fundamentals brings about the very things that the two current political parties seem incapiable of providing.
B) What happens in the years following a successful revolution? That second question is exactly why people would end up siding with the gov't.
The government provides too many essential services to the population. Unless the revolution has the police on their side, it will never fly. Our entire society is barely held together by the controls in place. If those controls are removed with a revolution, all hell will break loose. You can talk about how much the government sucks and how things need to change, but until you can keep the welfare lines moving, and make sure the trash gets picked up, and make sure that the cops and firemen and paramedics show up to work, you don't have anything to work with.
As bad as Bush & Co. are, they have the appearance of legitimacy, even if it was (arugably) fraudulently obtained. Compare that to a bunch of armed citizens taking power. Then what? Bring out the guillotene and take out the Neo-Cons? How about the lobbiests? Maybe Congress needs to be killed? Or how about going closer to home and taking care of the corrupt local supporters of the Republicans and Democrats? Or I know, maybe we can have an American equivalent of deBaathification and simply remove anyone who registered to vote either Republican or Democrat....
Lifestyles in Western countries are wasteful (consumerism for you), your only hope is for you to re-arrange peiorities or sit and wait that other people commit the same mistakes.
As an American it is sometimes hard to conceptualize that there are people out there in the world who are working their asses off to get to where you started out from (economically speaking).
Just because the default Windows OS isn't secure out of the box doesn't mean that it can't be made secure. It's a pretty trival matter to lock down a non-networked Windows workstation and make sure that it only loads a single application when it boots. As long as the application is secure and the voting machine itself doesn't have any publicly accessible floppy drives or USB ports then it's good enough.
Besides the inclusion of those two softs inside the office suite, connectors to Sun Calendar Server and Microsoft Exchange will also be developed accordingly.
In the corporate world, Exchange equals three things: email, contacts and calendaring. If OpenOffice is able to offer the same levels of calendering functionality that Exchange does, it will be a severe blow to the Exchange empire. Once there is a *nix equivalent to wireless ActiveSync of calendering information, I think that OpenOffice will be on par and become a more viable route for Linux to make inroads into the monopoly.
"Understanding the mindset of a hacker and the likes of one may be useful to counter security attacks, but apparently companies still object to hiring former, or even reformed, black hats."
Of course they do, publicly. To do anything other than condemn those who break the rules would send the message to the sheep that not only is it okay to break the rules, but doing so will make you worth more to your employer that you would be if you did everything the approved way. The corporate world relies drones, not autonomous beings. They pay the autonomous beings to ensure that the drone culture keeps functioning.
Does it appear to you that people are getting dumber as a reult of having "smart" systems do things for them? By this I mean that people rely more on the intelligence built-in to the software and don't even bother to question the output.
Please excuse my inclination to respond to a question that wasn't directly addressed to me. =)
It definitely appears that way to me. The example that I will offer to support that is the network operating system put out by Microsoft. Any "network administrator" can setup a Microsoft network using built in intelligence "wizards". They will have a network that seemingly works, and they won't even question the underlying foundation until it gets pwnt.
You should be getting paid big money by major publications for your ability to create clear, concise summaries like that. Seriously. Think about submitting that to major papers to use as background for the story that they will eventually run when the case is over.
I must be the biggest idiot in the world because until reading this discussion I thought that the ONLY increments you could get money out of an ATM in were $20s.
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This kind of story comes up every once in a while like it is some sort of break through in technology, yet I remember sitting in a small conference room of the Sands Hotel in Las Vegas in 1993 listening to some guy talk about monitoring alpha waves in the brain and using that feedback to move a cursor.
You can do the same thing in Windows, but you need a third party application to do. http://www.sysinternals.com/
Because quite honestly there isn't enough to go around, so those who are willing to knock others to the side are going to get what there is. Besides, dominance has its place too. Would you say that the police force dominating those who would dominate others is bad dominance?
But the telephone companies that released the records without adequate verification or authentication will go scot free. Why? Why isn't there a proper procedure in the phone companies to check who is requesting the info? Why aren't they saying, "we will mail a copy of the report to the registered mailing address. But not to any fax number you say on phone."
I'm glad that I browsed through the replies instead of starting my own reply on the same subject. When I read the news, my first instinct was, "Where are the indictments against the bastards who failed to keep the data safe in the first place?" If personal information is sensitive enough that people are going to get prosecuted for accessing it "illegally" then there also needs to be some legislation passed and laws introduced that hold the people who control access the information equally accountable. Although Patricia Dunn will definitely think twice before authorizing whatever means necessary when investigating someone, I can bet that ChoicePoint and all those other bastards haven't even thought twice about the hundreds if not thousands of people who requested information from them today alone. As much as I dislike lawyers, I think that they could be used in these kinds of situations. Personal information shouldn't be released without a notorized authorization from the person whose information is being given out. Period. End of story.
The junkie could have been a productive member of society, but then he decided to become a junkie. Isn't not like he was born a junkie. At least the manager was productive for a while, before he let the influence of power get to him. I do agree that the junkie should be given a chance. Most people wouldn't be junkies if they felt that they had something to work for and saw the rewards in it. Corrupt managers on the other hand have proven that they know better and simply don't care. They were already part of the system, but they wanted more. I think Lao Tzu said it best, "There is no sin greater than not knowing when you have enough."
Exactly. The applications will be persistent. They will support versioning. The application might dial home to make sure that it's still up to date but that's about it.
The big savings for large enterprises comes from the ease of management. Instead of having to roll out a package to 1000+ desktops, you just publish the application to the application server. Unfortunately the need to patch and upgrade isn't going away, but Microsoft is doing what they can to make it less painful.
What happens when your team needs to collaborate on your files with you? Who takes care of versioning and change control? See the bigger picture man. The network is bigger than your files and your workstation.
Your focus seems to be a little bit off. The "online application" technology will take off in the enterprise, not on your desktop. The world is circling back around to a server centric environment. I'll address your points.
1) Bandwidth
Like I said, it's not your desktop that matters. It's the 1,000+ clients that are plugged into 100BT and 1000BT switches. They have the bandwidth. Furthermore, the application servers will be able to tell what kind of link you're on. Lets say you're on a 1.5MB DSL link. It will point you to a terminal server and publish the application there. On the other hand, lets say you're plugged right into the LAN. Okay, no problem... you get the app pushed directly to your machine.
2)Keeping apps under MY control, not somebody elses
In the corporate environment, they aren't your apps. They are your employer's apps. Your employer cares about things like version control. It's a lot easier to update an application on an app server and then push that out, than it is to update 1,000+ seats. What happens if you roll out an app and it breaks? Oops, you're hating life. If you publish an app to an app server and it doesn't work, you simply unpublish and revert to the previous version.
3)I don't like being required to have an internet connection to type an f'n paper.
From what I've been told and read about, app servers will be able to publish persistent applications. For example lets say that you're a laptop user. The app server can publish Word to your laptop for 30 days, no need to stay connected to the network. When the app expires, you plug back in. 30 days isn't long enough? Publish it for longer. It's just like DHCP leases.
And those are just to name a few.
Got any more? This is kind of fun. =)
I want my Oki 900 back! Until then, I guess I'll make due with my Samsung i730. It only locks up once every couple of weeks and wirelessly syncs with the Exchange server back the office so I can keep up to date without having to get to a web browser. The fact that it also works as a modem is pretty convenient too for those random occurances when I'm at a client who doesn't have an internet connection.
I think the bigger issue is that people are willing to work themselves into the ground and wear out their bodies and souls to the point where things like cancer can develop and spread. They are willing to turn a blind eye to the environmental hazards that contribute to cancer. They're willing to adopt the mentality that, "It won't happen to me." and then further the mentality with, "And even if it does, they can cure me with this super duper modern medicine stuff."
The saying goes that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Your average American isn't worried about preventing anything. They're too busy with work and school and the spouse and the kids to actually relax and take care of themselves.
And their network engineers will be better off for it, just like I'm a better man for walking up hill, both ways in the snow, to school every day. =)
I had half started to believe all the hype about IP address shortages... until one of my clients purchased a T1 from AT&T. AT&T gave them 32 addresses without even asking how many they needed. They need two of them. If AT&T can blindly fork over 32 publicly routable IPs for a small business running a 1.5MB T1 connection, I think the "shortage" is just a bunch of hype.
I suggest some Lao Tzu fundamentals, crossbread with real life examples of how disobeying them has led to strife, counter-balanced by flourishing examples of how sticking to the fundamentals brings about the very things that the two current political parties seem incapiable of providing.
The government provides too many essential services to the population. Unless the revolution has the police on their side, it will never fly. Our entire society is barely held together by the controls in place. If those controls are removed with a revolution, all hell will break loose. You can talk about how much the government sucks and how things need to change, but until you can keep the welfare lines moving, and make sure the trash gets picked up, and make sure that the cops and firemen and paramedics show up to work, you don't have anything to work with.
As bad as Bush & Co. are, they have the appearance of legitimacy, even if it was (arugably) fraudulently obtained. Compare that to a bunch of armed citizens taking power. Then what? Bring out the guillotene and take out the Neo-Cons? How about the lobbiests? Maybe Congress needs to be killed? Or how about going closer to home and taking care of the corrupt local supporters of the Republicans and Democrats? Or I know, maybe we can have an American equivalent of deBaathification and simply remove anyone who registered to vote either Republican or Democrat....
As an American it is sometimes hard to conceptualize that there are people out there in the world who are working their asses off to get to where you started out from (economically speaking).
I hope you're putting your savings into something other than the $.
Just because the default Windows OS isn't secure out of the box doesn't mean that it can't be made secure. It's a pretty trival matter to lock down a non-networked Windows workstation and make sure that it only loads a single application when it boots. As long as the application is secure and the voting machine itself doesn't have any publicly accessible floppy drives or USB ports then it's good enough.
In the corporate world, Exchange equals three things: email, contacts and calendaring. If OpenOffice is able to offer the same levels of calendering functionality that Exchange does, it will be a severe blow to the Exchange empire. Once there is a *nix equivalent to wireless ActiveSync of calendering information, I think that OpenOffice will be on par and become a more viable route for Linux to make inroads into the monopoly.
Of course they do, publicly. To do anything other than condemn those who break the rules would send the message to the sheep that not only is it okay to break the rules, but doing so will make you worth more to your employer that you would be if you did everything the approved way. The corporate world relies drones, not autonomous beings. They pay the autonomous beings to ensure that the drone culture keeps functioning.
Please excuse my inclination to respond to a question that wasn't directly addressed to me. =)
It definitely appears that way to me. The example that I will offer to support that is the network operating system put out by Microsoft. Any "network administrator" can setup a Microsoft network using built in intelligence "wizards". They will have a network that seemingly works, and they won't even question the underlying foundation until it gets pwnt.
You should be getting paid big money by major publications for your ability to create clear, concise summaries like that. Seriously. Think about submitting that to major papers to use as background for the story that they will eventually run when the case is over.
My pr0n collection pwnz j00!! ????
I must be the biggest idiot in the world because until reading this discussion I thought that the ONLY increments you could get money out of an ATM in were $20s.
Just remember to put a sticky note over the security camera. =)