My first thought was that I hope my mutual funds don't own any stock in his company. Then I came to the conclusion that he probably doesn't work for a publicly-traded company. If he did, they would not have passed a sarbox audit.
I'm trying to figure out who is most at fault. His employer for not taking IT seriously...him for violating good security practices...or the company they hired to "audit" him who passed him without an existing IT policy.
Someone once calculated that the amount of time it takes you to download a spam message, identify it as spam, delete it, multiplied by the number of spam messages, equals a time equivilent to many of lifetimes.
So, collectively, his spamming robbed humanity of lifetimes worth of time that could have been spent doing something else.
But I do agree with you. Death sentences for spammers is just silly.
My Jeep Grand Cherokee does not meet any the criteria that parent listed in the first paragraph. In fact, it isn't even a body-on-frame construction. It has more in common with an AWD car than a truck. Everyone who has driven it has commented that it drives more like a car than a truck.
I think Americans who whine about SUVs need to get it through their heads that American culture is all about big cars, SUVs, and pickup trucks. This was true 20 years ago, and still true today. I'm not saying its right, or that it will always be this way. But it just is.
Pandering to their "base" is their job. If they didn't represent their constituents, they wouldn't have a job any more. Judicial review exists as a system of checks so ensure the majority does not violate the rights of the minority.
But I do agree with you, it would be nice if legislators could be impeached for introducing laws that violate people's rights.
> Personally, I would have loved to have worked as a contractor under that
> system. It's fair and transparent.
It also attracts people who don't prejudge things on face value and take time to evaluate things. Because those who take making minimum wage and then earning bonuses on face value are not going to seek employment there.
What type of business are you in? Your employment compensation implies you do contractual development for other companies on a billable per-project basis. As I understand it, your employees receive bonus after the product is shipped to the customer. But what happens after that...Is the product supported by someone else who isn't making minimum wage? And what happens if the product is canceled early or the customer goes out of business and can't pay?
This isn't a summons where you deny ever having gotten it. This is an indictment, where you are notified before hand in case you want to surrendor yourself at a time when your bail can be set without you spending a night or weekend in jail.
If you don't receive your SMS, the cops will just come to your house and arrest you...probably on a saturday morning so you don't see arraignment for a couple days.
I applaud them. They could have went to the United Nations and demanded that the U.S. give them control over the US's GPS system. Instead they are building their own. Good for them.
I agree with parent, grand-parent is 100% bull. Microsoft Flight Simulator is a great tool for student pilots of any level. Flying the aircraft is easy...you can learn that in a few hours. The hard part is in following procedures and multitasking. I perfected VOR navigation in MSFS using a real aerial chart. You can't beat that.
Does anyone here really think the banks are going to pay this money out from their bottom line? They'll recover it from those customers who do protect their identity through increased fees and interest.
Treated like a Criminal? I don't know what kind of Best Buys you have...wherever you are, but the ones around here usually have a guy standing at the door checking all orders.
Its certainly not as easy as a simple google search...but if you have access to Lexus Nexus, you can find a lot of information about a company that would be hard to find on the WWW otherwise.
Maybe you (or whatever company you are making fun of) doesn't realize is that what you don't know about can hurt you. I won't seek to do business with a company with a poor track-record of safeguarding my identity.
This is simply a situation where closed source software is not the best tool for the job. Diebold is more than welcome to submit an open source solution, or play the the crybaby-going-home-and-taking-my-toy-with-me game.
My only question is how far down do these legal requirements go? If the operating system the voting software is running on needs to be open sourced, what about the hardware firmware? Does it need to be open source as well?
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Your employer only allows things that are formally requested, yet you were able to get them to allow SSH to your home PC?
My first thought was that I hope my mutual funds don't own any stock in his company. Then I came to the conclusion that he probably doesn't work for a publicly-traded company. If he did, they would not have passed a sarbox audit.
I'm trying to figure out who is most at fault. His employer for not taking IT seriously...him for violating good security practices...or the company they hired to "audit" him who passed him without an existing IT policy.
You take into consideration the oil used to generate the electricity to move the segway.
How else could his conclusions fall down sunny-side-up?
Despite what some people say, you can not get your hand pregnant.
Someone once calculated that the amount of time it takes you to download a spam message, identify it as spam, delete it, multiplied by the number of spam messages, equals a time equivilent to many of lifetimes.
So, collectively, his spamming robbed humanity of lifetimes worth of time that could have been spent doing something else.
But I do agree with you. Death sentences for spammers is just silly.
My Jeep Grand Cherokee does not meet any the criteria that parent listed in the first paragraph. In fact, it isn't even a body-on-frame construction. It has more in common with an AWD car than a truck. Everyone who has driven it has commented that it drives more like a car than a truck.
I think Americans who whine about SUVs need to get it through their heads that American culture is all about big cars, SUVs, and pickup trucks. This was true 20 years ago, and still true today. I'm not saying its right, or that it will always be this way. But it just is.
His company is a software development shop. Some of those servers may not be typical IT infrastructure systems.
In theory, yes, representing their constituents is a politician's job. But guess what gets him/her re-elected?
Pandering to their "base" is their job. If they didn't represent their constituents, they wouldn't have a job any more. Judicial review exists as a system of checks so ensure the majority does not violate the rights of the minority.
But I do agree with you, it would be nice if legislators could be impeached for introducing laws that violate people's rights.
What about when you need an X-Ray, MRI, and a few month's worth of name-brand prescription meds?
> Personally, I would have loved to have worked as a contractor under that
> system. It's fair and transparent.
It also attracts people who don't prejudge things on face value and take time to evaluate things. Because those who take making minimum wage and then earning bonuses on face value are not going to seek employment there.
What type of business are you in? Your employment compensation implies you do contractual development for other companies on a billable per-project basis. As I understand it, your employees receive bonus after the product is shipped to the customer. But what happens after that...Is the product supported by someone else who isn't making minimum wage? And what happens if the product is canceled early or the customer goes out of business and can't pay?
This isn't a summons where you deny ever having gotten it. This is an indictment, where you are notified before hand in case you want to surrendor yourself at a time when your bail can be set without you spending a night or weekend in jail.
If you don't receive your SMS, the cops will just come to your house and arrest you...probably on a saturday morning so you don't see arraignment for a couple days.
I applaud them. They could have went to the United Nations and demanded that the U.S. give them control over the US's GPS system. Instead they are building their own. Good for them.
I agree with parent, grand-parent is 100% bull. Microsoft Flight Simulator is a great tool for student pilots of any level. Flying the aircraft is easy...you can learn that in a few hours. The hard part is in following procedures and multitasking. I perfected VOR navigation in MSFS using a real aerial chart. You can't beat that.
Don't laugh, the patent applications get filed tommorow.
You're wrong. They are blaming the big pockets. The people leaving the doors open are the bank's customers.
Does anyone here really think the banks are going to pay this money out from their bottom line? They'll recover it from those customers who do protect their identity through increased fees and interest.
Maybe he couldn't ping the loopback address and the troubleshooting had not progressed to the point of the cable status.
Treated like a Criminal? I don't know what kind of Best Buys you have...wherever you are, but the ones around here usually have a guy standing at the door checking all orders.
Its certainly not as easy as a simple google search...but if you have access to Lexus Nexus, you can find a lot of information about a company that would be hard to find on the WWW otherwise.
If you dig deep enough, you can find situations where the company either handled privacy properly, or not.
Maybe you (or whatever company you are making fun of) doesn't realize is that what you don't know about can hurt you. I won't seek to do business with a company with a poor track-record of safeguarding my identity.
This is simply a situation where closed source software is not the best tool for the job. Diebold is more than welcome to submit an open source solution, or play the the crybaby-going-home-and-taking-my-toy-with-me game.
My only question is how far down do these legal requirements go? If the operating system the voting software is running on needs to be open sourced, what about the hardware firmware? Does it need to be open source as well?