But surly i pay my isp for an ip address and an ip transit. If they are looking at the tcp / udp layers on the protocol they are doing an intercept on my private data. It doesnt matter if they see it or not because they are making a traffic shaping decision on it there kit is reading it for them.
This surly is the same as a telecom looking at what numbers you dial how often then offering you a better service to dial long distance or local calls to make you stay with them.
All in all what i see is a different thing. I started on a 512kbit dsl line in the uk i have been paying the same for it for 5+ years. I am seeing the same speeds but now the line is 6mbit. So really whats changed ? Well when their network isnt overloaded i get really fast downloads of stuff.
I have been treatened by a user in a clients office before for not fixing a problem fast enough. They threatened to get the big boss to phone my boss etc..
What was funny about this was i was completly correct and was still well inside the 4 hour response time for even looking at the issue. They started to get like this after 1 hour and there was only 2 people on that site having an issue. Where in the same company 12 people were having another problem. The big boss did phone my boss who then phoned the other boss who phoned his boss who gave him a mouthfull. Which was rather lol
I know the Open University refers to students as income units.
But really working on an IT support team i have been insulted by end users not understanding the basics of anything. Like SLA's they always want it NOW !. Every email is marked with URGENT and i have been shouted at down a phone because some silly girl said her computer was broken when all that had happened was that she had removed her outlook tool bar.
The trade tends to work a little of both ways. Treat your IT like shit and you will get refered for more training.
If you are unable to find a way to cancel a subscription cut the payments. Wait until they contact you and state i wish to cancel my account i was unable to find a way to cancel (x).
Method b)
Try to cancel by their method. If you fail. Write them a letter post it first class then cut the billing information. Inform them of this in the letter.
They normally come back with a dept collection letter or something in the UK but there isnt much they can actually do about it.
Thats fine thought let the US Patent office Kill the Tech in the US. Its fine from here since our country does not reconize the US patent office or its laws surrounding this.
Intresting i wonder how they managed to block all local DNS cache's on the internet in brazil and more importantly how they are actually going to enforce this block.
Yes however there are some simple problems with that.
a) All countries have limited coroperation with each other for things like ground space. I would like to see them try to agree of laws for the internet for this sort of things in the real world. As a race peopel generally need to grow up.
b) The internet is a free open place between all courners of the world. If your computer is spreading crap all over the place you are perfectly intitled todo so. Just as much as 1 country is perfectly allowed to turn you off from its self again.
c) Basic education needs to be placed into end users. I work for an IT Support company somebody phoned me up gave off to me on the end of the phone that outlook wasnt working correclty and the email was bigger than the screen. What she really meant was that when viewing an email the toolbar had been switched off (by her). How we deal with that in a support contract is take note of it and pass on the cost to the company so they have their own chance to deal with the training of their users and they are welcomed to ask us for advice on anything todo with training. However most of them never do. Like most places people come in and are just dumped in front of a computer and told to get on with it because its cheaper that way. This normally happoens because people lie a bit in interviews / job applications.
Well thats not really true. There is almost an unlimited number of ways a machine can be compromised. Most of them still valid.
A program written for a specific task downloaded and run by the end user does not fall into the categories you list.
First problem with XP and SP2 was its new security features did very little. Like come on it now asks the end users is this ok to run ? but the problem is the first time they saw things like this every time they clicked no their programs didnt work. So from then on they always click yes.
Security != Asking an end user something they dont understand.
I am pritty sure as a whole security is being tackled in the wrong way. From what i can see ever security problem is being tackled by 3rd party software to take care of a problem that should not exist in the first place.
eg Virus's are taken down by Anti Virus software. If you ask some basic information on an non-technical end user about what a anti virus program does and how it works. They are not aware that something like symantec does not garentee protection but is only able to tell you that it doesnt see a virus that exists in its database.
Something that i have been looking for for windows for a long time is a simple connection tacking firewall that will support rule based filtering. Like the basic functions of iptables. eg will track connections and allow / block / drop on different ports and flags. There currently is nothing that i know of for windows that will support this. They all ask the end user. The end user doesnt know the answer. Therefore why install the firewall in the first place.
I see currently security practices as a method of fire fighting only! Only in this case the fire is much more powerful that the fighters. A great example of this is the spam wars. Create spam filter. Spammers work around filter. Create better adapted spam filter. Spammers find workarounds. Create DNS blacklists. Spammers change method of sending spam. But during the whole time if the SMTP protocol was fixed. The problem could be elimenated overnight.
We need the same sort of approach for security. While discussing this the other day in work with people we reached an agreement that it is currently impossible to protect end users when any sort of permissions are required for running lots of bady written applications.
There was me thinking that in a free democracity socieity everyone was entires to challange the voting process to find problem of mistakes. I guess this just isnt going to happen then.
The real problem exchange actually has is that fact its so awkward to backup or restore from backup. Mayby microsoft should solve some valid issues first in stead of ones thats the person who runs the exchange server call already solve.
You should have a look at the methods required to resotre an single email box from a tape backup. You need at least 1 set of the same hardware todo it the "microsoft procedure way" all 72 steps of it and it takes around 2 days to complete.
Really exchange is a joke. When things go wrong it spits out nothing useful and spits out errors all the time when its running correctly.
All in all end users whine if their email quota is to small but others will whine because its slow . You get whine if you do and whine if you dont.
Unfortunatly is probably not a typo. Though the brawl i saw on friday night only had approx 20 - 25 people involved in it. Though somebody did go flying though a windows.
Then the police turned up and kicked the crap out of anyone being agressive. Dont think anyone was arrested.
But this all happened about 20 - 30 mins when people are trying to get home. The fights break out because people are waiting on taxi's etc.. The real solutions is to probably make taxi licenses cheaper in the UK. Which will mean people get home sooner and there is less fuss / fights on the way.
In N.Ireland which is part of the UK (at least its governed by there) we have had a national ID card for 20+ years. Its called a driving license. there is very little public transport around here and what there is isnt that good.
I should enlighen you some more then. In the UK England pritty much do what they want. The other ares around it which are also in the UK seem to get hit on everything because of it and as far as voting / polling goes well in the part that i am in i cant even vote for anyone i want to vote for. My say and everyone else's say in this part of the country does not have an outcome who governs the UK.
Poll / vote doesnt matter. Democracy in the UK isnt really there any more.
Well this is a little stupid. Instead of just going out for a good time now. I have to get drunk before going to the bar. Apply the belt sander to my thumb / fingers and go down to the local so i can get in with anyone else who also applied the belt sander to their hands.
Though i do guess that "sorry mr bouncer i left my ID in the car" excuse wont work any more for that problem.
I bet the bars cash in to finger out who their regulars are as well when using this system. F***ing marketing
n the UK the isp's have quotas on adsl accounts mostly around 30gb/month Does germany have the same ? If it does then you can argue that you cannot recive tv because you dont have the bandwidth todo so. aka cant watch it when you want for as much as you want.
Well i was focusing more on the fact that it took the same amount of time and one didnt cost money. But i will go along with the pollution argument in that case as well then.
So you should download your music so you dont do the following.
a) Chuck away plastic cd's / cases etc.. b) Use more petrol going shopping c) Cause yet more cars to be on the road
I suppose because this is releated to the internet that they will now have to create a new law for this sort of offence so that people are aware that it can happen. But the sentance will be 3 times worse than a normal attack ?
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But surly i pay my isp for an ip address and an ip transit. If they are looking at the tcp / udp layers on the protocol they are doing an intercept on my private data. It doesnt matter if they see it or not because they are making a traffic shaping decision on it there kit is reading it for them.
This surly is the same as a telecom looking at what numbers you dial how often then offering you a better service to dial long distance or local calls to make you stay with them.
All in all what i see is a different thing. I started on a 512kbit dsl line in the uk i have been paying the same for it for 5+ years. I am seeing the same speeds but now the line is 6mbit. So really whats changed ? Well when their network isnt overloaded i get really fast downloads of stuff.
I have been treatened by a user in a clients office before for not fixing a problem fast enough.
They threatened to get the big boss to phone my boss etc..
What was funny about this was i was completly correct and was still well inside the 4 hour response time for even looking at the issue. They started to get like this after 1 hour and there was only 2 people on that site having an issue. Where in the same company 12 people were having another problem. The big boss did phone my boss who then phoned the other boss who phoned his boss who gave him a mouthfull. Which was rather lol
I know the Open University refers to students as income units.
But really working on an IT support team i have been insulted by end users not understanding the basics of anything. Like SLA's they always want it NOW !. Every email is marked with URGENT and i have been shouted at down a phone because some silly girl said her computer was broken when all that had happened was that she had removed her outlook tool bar.
The trade tends to work a little of both ways. Treat your IT like shit and you will get refered for more training.
I have always found the following to work.
Method a)
If you are unable to find a way to cancel a subscription cut the payments. Wait until they contact you and state i wish to cancel my account i was unable to find a way to cancel (x).
Method b)
Try to cancel by their method.
If you fail. Write them a letter post it first class then cut the billing information.
Inform them of this in the letter.
They normally come back with a dept collection letter or something in the UK but there isnt much they can actually do about it.
Thats fine thought let the US Patent office Kill the Tech in the US.
Its fine from here since our country does not reconize the US patent office or its laws surrounding this.
I guess the spec will still be valid here then.
Intresting i wonder how they managed to block all local DNS cache's on the internet in brazil and more importantly how they are actually going to enforce this block.
Yes however there are some simple problems with that.
a) All countries have limited coroperation with each other for things like ground space. I would like to see them try to agree of laws for the internet for this sort of things in the real world. As a race peopel generally need to grow up.
b) The internet is a free open place between all courners of the world. If your computer is spreading crap all over the place you are perfectly intitled todo so. Just as much as 1 country is perfectly allowed to turn you off from its self again.
c) Basic education needs to be placed into end users. I work for an IT Support company somebody phoned me up gave off to me on the end of the phone that outlook wasnt working correclty and the email was bigger than the screen. What she really meant was that when viewing an email the toolbar had been switched off (by her). How we deal with that in a support contract is take note of it and pass on the cost to the company so they have their own chance to deal with the training of their users and they are welcomed to ask us for advice on anything todo with training. However most of them never do. Like most places people come in and are just dumped in front of a computer and told to get on with it because its cheaper that way. This normally happoens because people lie a bit in interviews / job applications.
And i was thinking about this the other day. Thats why software typically isnt bought by end users but licensed on an "as is" bases.
Well thats not really true. There is almost an unlimited number of ways a machine can be compromised.
Most of them still valid.
A program written for a specific task downloaded and run by the end user does not fall into the categories you list.
First problem with XP and SP2 was its new security features did very little. Like come on it now asks the end users is this ok to run ? but the problem is the first time they saw things like this every time they clicked no their programs didnt work. So from then on they always click yes.
Security != Asking an end user something they dont understand.
I am pritty sure as a whole security is being tackled in the wrong way.
From what i can see ever security problem is being tackled by 3rd party software to take care of a problem that should not exist in the first place.
eg Virus's are taken down by Anti Virus software. If you ask some basic information on an non-technical end user about what a anti virus program does and how it works. They are not aware that something like symantec does not garentee protection but is only able to tell you that it doesnt see a virus that exists in its database.
Something that i have been looking for for windows for a long time is a simple connection tacking firewall that will support rule based filtering. Like the basic functions of iptables. eg will track connections and allow / block / drop on different ports and flags. There currently is nothing that i know of for windows that will support this. They all ask the end user. The end user doesnt know the answer. Therefore why install the firewall in the first place.
I see currently security practices as a method of fire fighting only! Only in this case the fire is much more powerful that the fighters. A great example of this is the spam wars. Create spam filter. Spammers work around filter. Create better adapted spam filter. Spammers find workarounds. Create DNS blacklists. Spammers change method of sending spam. But during the whole time if the SMTP protocol was fixed. The problem could be elimenated overnight.
We need the same sort of approach for security. While discussing this the other day in work with people we reached an agreement that it is currently impossible to protect end users when any sort of permissions are required for running lots of bady written applications.
There was me thinking that in a free democracity socieity everyone was entires to challange the voting process to find problem of mistakes. I guess this just isnt going to happen then.
The real problem exchange actually has is that fact its so awkward to backup or restore from backup.
Mayby microsoft should solve some valid issues first in stead of ones thats the person who runs the exchange server call already solve.
You should have a look at the methods required to resotre an single email box from a tape backup. You need at least 1 set of the same hardware todo it the "microsoft procedure way" all 72 steps of it and it takes around 2 days to complete.
Really exchange is a joke. When things go wrong it spits out nothing useful and spits out errors all the time when its running correctly.
All in all end users whine if their email quota is to small but others will whine because its slow . You get whine if you do and whine if you dont.
Store the information locally in an offline pst file. I dont know anyone who has 2GB of "active" emails they are processing.
Install RedHat on a spare machine / vmware.
Move your database to the temporary system.
Reproduce the problem.
Contact their support team.
Since when debugging things your going to be using the offline system anyway ?
Get LOAd linux on a floppy. Boot it on a PC without a hardisk in it then say that the floopy disk is the hard disk. Its solid isnt it ?
Prove thats its possible to read your email from that system in a usable fashion and turn over the disk.
Or repeat that with the other method using a cd drive and hand over a cd-rom. Note the cd is also hard.
Ahhh now i can head over to ebay and build my cisco lab for half the price !!!!
I am waiting for the next artical from sombody saying about security issues because firefox 2.0 was released early because it was leaked.
s/`cat GPLv2`/`cat GPLv3`/
Unfortunatly is probably not a typo. Though the brawl i saw on friday night only had approx 20 - 25 people involved in it. Though somebody did go flying though a windows.
Then the police turned up and kicked the crap out of anyone being agressive.
Dont think anyone was arrested.
But this all happened about 20 - 30 mins when people are trying to get home. The fights break out because people are waiting on taxi's etc.. The real solutions is to probably make taxi licenses cheaper in the UK. Which will mean people get home sooner and there is less fuss / fights on the way.
In N.Ireland which is part of the UK (at least its governed by there) we have had a national ID card for 20+ years. Its called a driving license. there is very little public transport around here and what there is isnt that good.
I should enlighen you some more then. In the UK England pritty much do what they want. The other ares around it which are also in the UK seem to get hit on everything because of it and as far as voting / polling goes well in the part that i am in i cant even vote for anyone i want to vote for. My say and everyone else's say in this part of the country does not have an outcome who governs the UK.
Poll / vote doesnt matter. Democracy in the UK isnt really there any more.
Well this is a little stupid. Instead of just going out for a good time now.
I have to get drunk before going to the bar.
Apply the belt sander to my thumb / fingers and go down to the local so i can get in with anyone else who also applied the belt sander to their hands.
Though i do guess that "sorry mr bouncer i left my ID in the car" excuse wont work any more for that problem.
I bet the bars cash in to finger out who their regulars are as well when using this system.
F***ing marketing
I have never been polled. Nor do i know anyone i have spoken about this to be polled (30+ people)
Who did they poll for this again ?
Not sure about this but its pritty good.
n the UK the isp's have quotas on adsl accounts mostly around 30gb/month
Does germany have the same ? If it does then you can argue that you cannot recive
tv because you dont have the bandwidth todo so. aka cant watch it when you want for as much as you want.
Well i was focusing more on the fact that it took the same amount of time and one didnt cost money.
But i will go along with the pollution argument in that case as well then.
So you should download your music so you dont do the following.
a) Chuck away plastic cd's / cases etc..
b) Use more petrol going shopping
c) Cause yet more cars to be on the road
I suppose because this is releated to the internet that they will now have to create a new law for this sort of offence so that people are aware that it can happen. But the sentance will be 3 times worse than a normal attack ?