The funny thing is, there would have been less down time had you been allowed to fix the issue remotely and you get accused of having an attitude problem. You just can't win anymore.
That happened to me once. I was fired while on vacation and then a week later management called me and explained that they were "shortsighted" in my termination. They asked me to come back and they said they would guarantee the same salary, vacation, etc. I said, "Thank you for consideration. If you want me back, I need 10K more per year and an extra week of vacation and I need this in writing on an official letterhead." I got what I wanted.....
That is their fault. This posting is a nice segway from the earlier slashdot posting on MBAs. This is a prime and classic example of two many MBAs and not enough engineers/technical people.
Freedom and self-sufficiency are easier said than done. There is an old adage, "It takes money to make money." In poor economic times (i.e. right now) credit can be difficult to obtain for those with good credit history. You yourself wrote, " It is very difficult, frustration and you often go hungry....." Try telling that to your son or daughter while you are trying to make it on your own.
It depends upon the state. A lot of states are simply, "at will," meaning that you can legally be terminated for farting in the wrong direction. Okay, I know that was an embellishment. In this case, sounds like getting unemployment would be a slam dunk.
When I am on vacation, that is MY time, no one else's. It is a cherished benefit of the job, and as such, I make it clear that I will have LIMITED access to email only. That said, I usually take vacations in the mountains where there is no internet and no cell signal. I like it that way! My idea of a vacation is getting away from what is modern to what is simple.
+1 - Having an MBA type person making decisions about business practices with no formal engineering background causes both quality and cost of products to go down. This in turn, destroys the competitive advantage of American businesses. No wonder products made in the times before the 1970s were really vastly superior. We are also seeing qualified engineers and mathematicians taking finance jobs!
I understand that this is somewhat off-topic but it needs to be said. I am sure every one of you remembers your parents raising you to tell the truth and not to lie. If you lied, you would be admonished. All the while, if adults lie, it is okay. It is the lies that are colored as "PR bullshit" that have kept us in foolhardy wars for too long at too high of a cost.
Well, actually we have grossly underestimated Al Qaeda. They are not a bunch of rag-tag morons but have a communication system which is almost a paradox because it is simple yet so sophisticated the CIA has difficulty tracking them. If anything, the CIA are almost a bunch of rag-tag morons. We have been fighting Al Qaeda for damn near nine years and, at best, have made marginal progress. The genius behind Al Qaeda is that it basically consists of semi-autonomous, splinter cells. These splinter cells wait for their commands and do their thing. Al Qaeda has shown some resilience to US methods. Also, if history is any predictor, the Soviet Union fought a long, costly, and losing war against Afghanistan. Despite the Soviet Union's superior fire power and technology, they still lost with an exacting toll.
I don't think moving data to a cloud for security is really a good idea. How is security really improved when essentially stuff it moved to "public storage?" Maybe a private cloud?? I would say it is weakened. This is just what groups similar to LulzSec and Anonymous really want.
What if someone wrote malware that would run a VM from the boot sector, and then ran your existing OS from the VM? That way it wouldn't matter what OS you used, it could still access your system in the background.
It is still only feasible if the intruders can gain root access to the machine to install the botnet client and vm. I use OpenBSD and I can look at my logs and laugh at the number of failed intrusion attempts. A more secure OS certainly will prevent this.
This is what happens when America elects morons to do their thinking for them. Americans need to start thinking for themselves instead of pushing the job off on others. I saw a bumper sticker the other day, "America: Now outsourcing thinking!"
There are some problems with enacting a local ordinance enforcing net neutrality: the measure can be taken to the courts and nullified even less expensively than it would take to fight a county-wide or state-wide law or the ISPs can simply refuse to improve infrastructure in the local municipality that enacts a net neutrality law as a form of retaliation. If the ISP refused to invest in infrastructure, it would cause some adverse reactions like diminishing land values because no one will want to live in an area that won't have good access and school quality might be affected because access to information would be hindered. Although, I suppose the municipality could in turn create its own state of the art infrastructure should the ISP want to retaliate.
I actually read the article and it made no mention of Raffi earning almost 1000.00 per week. Slashdot can be a wee bit prone to embellishment. Raffi probably got lucky when he made 819.00 in 6 days but this, by no means, implies that this is a regular amount of revenue. Although, I give the guy credit for ingenuity.
Everyone please contact RBC and recommend that charges be dropped and suggest that RBC has an unprecedented opportunity to help this man and gain favorable public relations time. Does this man really deserve prison? If you really think so, I suggest you are heartless. Go to http://www.rbcbankusa.com/communityinvolvement/cid-96942.html and click on the email link at the bottom.
It is sad that basic human greed has put this man in this kind of situation. According to the article, he has a growth in his chest and two ruptured disks. In some ways, this was an innovative thing to do but it is a shame that wanting to live cost him his freedom. I had often thought of doing the same thing if forced into that kind of situation. The only mistake this man made was not taking enough money (he only stole $1) to keep him in prison long enough for treatment. The judge may not even sentence him to prison because the crime was non-violent - a threatening note was needed to make the whole thing legitimate. In fact, the man sat on a bench waiting for police to take him away. If allowed under law, the judge could probably give him probation because this was a crime of desperation, not calculated to steal a significant amount of money nor hurt anyone but to get this man the care he so desperately needs. This crime is so markedly similar to the homeless man that steals to feed himself. If RBC had any last shred of humanity left, it would ask for the charges to be dropped and get that man assistance. It would restore my faith in humanity. However, even if RBC did as I suggested, it certainly would not be out of altruism but the public image value. Banks are scrambling to gain an undeserved positive public image.
That is a really slimy thing to do. However, usually the little guy gets hurt in mergers and aquisitions so I, in some ways, am happy to have the upper echelon get a taste of it. I think these executives that got affected might consider the smaller guys in their future roles, perish the thought.
The transparency initiative of President Obama was a campaign lie. I remember him preaching the importance of transparency in government and having an open and accessible government. If the Obama Administration seeks to criminalize attempts to hold Obama to his campaign promise, then he simply pandered to the voting public. For the record, I am neither Democrat nor Republican, both are misguided and self-serving parties.
I am willing to bet that Osama Bin Laden is fish food by now. This treasure hunter is either supid or crazy, perhaps maybe both. With the amount of sea life the ocean sustains, bits of Osama Bin Laden have nourished many species of fish and perhaps some bottom dwellers.
At the tail end of the cold war in the late 1980s, you probably could say things like this due to the concepts of Troika and Parastroika. These two concepts roughly equate to free and openness. In a last ditch attempt to keep the politburo in some sort of power, they allowed published criticisms. In the end, it was the politburo's undoing. Towards the end of the USSR, a somewhat limited freedom of the press and limited capitalism were allowed. So, the factor is not quite as large as it may seem. The US is headed towards a police state not to dissimilar to that of the USSR during Troika and Parastroika.
I think it is more bugs in software than the network infrastructure! Everyone is so quick to blame the infrastructure engineers when I have seen more poorly written applications with memory leaks and ones that run with root privileges than poor network designs.
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The funny thing is, there would have been less down time had you been allowed to fix the issue remotely and you get accused of having an attitude problem. You just can't win anymore.
That happened to me once. I was fired while on vacation and then a week later management called me and explained that they were "shortsighted" in my termination. They asked me to come back and they said they would guarantee the same salary, vacation, etc. I said, "Thank you for consideration. If you want me back, I need 10K more per year and an extra week of vacation and I need this in writing on an official letterhead." I got what I wanted .....
That is their fault. This posting is a nice segway from the earlier slashdot posting on MBAs. This is a prime and classic example of two many MBAs and not enough engineers/technical people.
Freedom and self-sufficiency are easier said than done. There is an old adage, "It takes money to make money." In poor economic times (i.e. right now) credit can be difficult to obtain for those with good credit history. You yourself wrote, " It is very difficult, frustration and you often go hungry ....." Try telling that to your son or daughter while you are trying to make it on your own.
+1 - Exactly, this is why I go to a cabin in the mountains. No electricity and, by proxy, no internet, no phone, and certainly no cell service.
I feel for you. In situations like these, I just want to give the giant middle finger to IT and open up a Parking Lot or something.
It depends upon the state. A lot of states are simply, "at will," meaning that you can legally be terminated for farting in the wrong direction. Okay, I know that was an embellishment. In this case, sounds like getting unemployment would be a slam dunk.
Just wait until the economy improves, this guy is going to be in a world of hurt when there is a mass exodus.
When I am on vacation, that is MY time, no one else's. It is a cherished benefit of the job, and as such, I make it clear that I will have LIMITED access to email only. That said, I usually take vacations in the mountains where there is no internet and no cell signal. I like it that way! My idea of a vacation is getting away from what is modern to what is simple.
+1 - Having an MBA type person making decisions about business practices with no formal engineering background causes both quality and cost of products to go down. This in turn, destroys the competitive advantage of American businesses. No wonder products made in the times before the 1970s were really vastly superior. We are also seeing qualified engineers and mathematicians taking finance jobs!
I understand that this is somewhat off-topic but it needs to be said. I am sure every one of you remembers your parents raising you to tell the truth and not to lie. If you lied, you would be admonished. All the while, if adults lie, it is okay. It is the lies that are colored as "PR bullshit" that have kept us in foolhardy wars for too long at too high of a cost.
Well, actually we have grossly underestimated Al Qaeda. They are not a bunch of rag-tag morons but have a communication system which is almost a paradox because it is simple yet so sophisticated the CIA has difficulty tracking them. If anything, the CIA are almost a bunch of rag-tag morons. We have been fighting Al Qaeda for damn near nine years and, at best, have made marginal progress. The genius behind Al Qaeda is that it basically consists of semi-autonomous, splinter cells. These splinter cells wait for their commands and do their thing. Al Qaeda has shown some resilience to US methods. Also, if history is any predictor, the Soviet Union fought a long, costly, and losing war against Afghanistan. Despite the Soviet Union's superior fire power and technology, they still lost with an exacting toll.
I don't think moving data to a cloud for security is really a good idea. How is security really improved when essentially stuff it moved to "public storage?" Maybe a private cloud?? I would say it is weakened. This is just what groups similar to LulzSec and Anonymous really want.
What if someone wrote malware that would run a VM from the boot sector, and then ran your existing OS from the VM? That way it wouldn't matter what OS you used, it could still access your system in the background.
It is still only feasible if the intruders can gain root access to the machine to install the botnet client and vm. I use OpenBSD and I can look at my logs and laugh at the number of failed intrusion attempts. A more secure OS certainly will prevent this.
The article states that Windows PCs are vulnerable to this botnet. I think it is a safe guess that BSD and Linux machines are, as per the usual, safe.
This is what happens when America elects morons to do their thinking for them. Americans need to start thinking for themselves instead of pushing the job off on others. I saw a bumper sticker the other day, "America: Now outsourcing thinking!"
There are some problems with enacting a local ordinance enforcing net neutrality: the measure can be taken to the courts and nullified even less expensively than it would take to fight a county-wide or state-wide law or the ISPs can simply refuse to improve infrastructure in the local municipality that enacts a net neutrality law as a form of retaliation. If the ISP refused to invest in infrastructure, it would cause some adverse reactions like diminishing land values because no one will want to live in an area that won't have good access and school quality might be affected because access to information would be hindered. Although, I suppose the municipality could in turn create its own state of the art infrastructure should the ISP want to retaliate.
I actually read the article and it made no mention of Raffi earning almost 1000.00 per week. Slashdot can be a wee bit prone to embellishment. Raffi probably got lucky when he made 819.00 in 6 days but this, by no means, implies that this is a regular amount of revenue. Although, I give the guy credit for ingenuity.
Everyone please contact RBC and recommend that charges be dropped and suggest that RBC has an unprecedented opportunity to help this man and gain favorable public relations time. Does this man really deserve prison? If you really think so, I suggest you are heartless. Go to http://www.rbcbankusa.com/communityinvolvement/cid-96942.html and click on the email link at the bottom.
It is sad that basic human greed has put this man in this kind of situation. According to the article, he has a growth in his chest and two ruptured disks. In some ways, this was an innovative thing to do but it is a shame that wanting to live cost him his freedom. I had often thought of doing the same thing if forced into that kind of situation. The only mistake this man made was not taking enough money (he only stole $1) to keep him in prison long enough for treatment. The judge may not even sentence him to prison because the crime was non-violent - a threatening note was needed to make the whole thing legitimate. In fact, the man sat on a bench waiting for police to take him away. If allowed under law, the judge could probably give him probation because this was a crime of desperation, not calculated to steal a significant amount of money nor hurt anyone but to get this man the care he so desperately needs. This crime is so markedly similar to the homeless man that steals to feed himself. If RBC had any last shred of humanity left, it would ask for the charges to be dropped and get that man assistance. It would restore my faith in humanity. However, even if RBC did as I suggested, it certainly would not be out of altruism but the public image value. Banks are scrambling to gain an undeserved positive public image.
That is a really slimy thing to do. However, usually the little guy gets hurt in mergers and aquisitions so I, in some ways, am happy to have the upper echelon get a taste of it. I think these executives that got affected might consider the smaller guys in their future roles, perish the thought.
The transparency initiative of President Obama was a campaign lie. I remember him preaching the importance of transparency in government and having an open and accessible government. If the Obama Administration seeks to criminalize attempts to hold Obama to his campaign promise, then he simply pandered to the voting public. For the record, I am neither Democrat nor Republican, both are misguided and self-serving parties.
I am willing to bet that Osama Bin Laden is fish food by now. This treasure hunter is either supid or crazy, perhaps maybe both. With the amount of sea life the ocean sustains, bits of Osama Bin Laden have nourished many species of fish and perhaps some bottom dwellers.
At the tail end of the cold war in the late 1980s, you probably could say things like this due to the concepts of Troika and Parastroika. These two concepts roughly equate to free and openness. In a last ditch attempt to keep the politburo in some sort of power, they allowed published criticisms. In the end, it was the politburo's undoing. Towards the end of the USSR, a somewhat limited freedom of the press and limited capitalism were allowed. So, the factor is not quite as large as it may seem. The US is headed towards a police state not to dissimilar to that of the USSR during Troika and Parastroika.
I think it is more bugs in software than the network infrastructure! Everyone is so quick to blame the infrastructure engineers when I have seen more poorly written applications with memory leaks and ones that run with root privileges than poor network designs.