see, i took it to a whole new level that was low even for me.
7am local news - they kept talking about how the gunman had posted threats on myspace. i swear, the anchor said "myspace" 17 times in a minute. people had died and all i could think was, seriously, is myspace still around????
I believe that is a cost savings effort brought to you by your fiscally responsible government. After all, we've shown quite dramatically that it is way cheaper to be the terrorist than fight terrorism.
....this is all so simple, I don't understand why you all don't applaud them for this.
farmers have been "researching and developing" better crops since the beginning of time which is why you only save your seeds from your best crops and not the stunted little plants that don't produce.
Identity theft (badly impersonating a person with a brain?)
Endangered Species (people with brains?)
Civil Liberties/Civil Rights (not discriminating against people without brains?)
Ethanol (sniffing it?)
You tell them the exact same thing that someone in the private section is told when they go into a niche field and there are no jobs. Reskill and stop whining.
What about just giving me information about the products that are actually in the store? Start simple. Reviews are great but they do not help me at all if the item is not in the store.
Business at large seems to be focused on how much money will I spend. In my life, that is not necessarily the first question I ask. My first question is how long is this going to take? How long am I going to have to wander through a store, find out they don't have what I need and then wander through the endless succession of other stores (only to find out that I'm apparently very weird or so untrendy that no one has it).
Clue to business - I pay 1 cent more for gas because the cheaper place has the slowest pumps imaginable. I might pay a little bit more for groceries but the store I go to doesn't have food on one side of a giant store and paper and pet products all the way on the other. Convenience.
honestly, i don't have any major issues with my self-imposed boycott of the movie, publishing and music industries because, let's face it, most of what they produce is complete crap. on a day-to-day basis, it is not a hardship for me to not subscribe to starz.
i have no issues with *content producers* going after infringing *content*.
but this, this is something that i love. i love hockey. i am a season ticket holder for the stars. season 18, 205 days, 82 games. my life goes on hold when hockey season starts. i want to support my team. i buy their merchandise, support the arena and drag non-hockey folks to games.
this is disgusting in the very sense of the ideals that made this country great. made even more so when you take into account the horrendous efforts of the dallas stars organization in particular and the nhl in general to sell their product in a market that was just named as one of the top sports cities in the country. "connect with your fans" is not even in their vocabulary. their radio partner's afternoon drive time duo thinks that joe lewis arena is in st. louis and their mid-day broadcasting team can't be bothered to talk hockey while broadcasting at a stars event while talking to a stars hockey player. they want people in the seats. so do i. (it is freaking cold in the aac when only 2000 people show up!) but the folks on defending big d, you morons, are not the people you are trying to bring into the arena because they are all ready there if they can be (they are in my section).
so, it is time. put up or shut up. and i hate that it was the nhl that made that time come.
As a former resident of Rochester (who misses Abbott's terribly), I can tell you that Thomas lives on a desert island. I know this for a fact because he is unaware that nitwits infect every level of the public and private sector and the only way he could not know that is if he lived on a desert island.
*sigh* how did i miss that this was in my old home town?
and the next time anyone wants to make an absurd definition as to who is or isn't a journalist - techdirt and the online sources had this story before all of the rochester news outlets did.
I read an article on Monday and despite a rabid search for the past two days, cannot find it again but the particular journalist's take was that breaches are on the rise because companies are so busy jumping through the hoops of SOx, PCI and the like. Those that understand the technology understand that most of the requirements of those ... things are really best practices that should have been being done in the first place and may have nothing to do with the current threats. People who do not understand the technology are yelling at their IT people with, "But I thought we were compliant?!".
Probably an unreported factor in these breaches is the lack of understanding that if your employees are on Facebook or can actually figure out how to send an email, then they are technically savvy. That is a huge assumption. And it is wrong. I have fielded complaints from a user that they cannot input their password because there are x's over it and they can't see what they are typing. Having 2 million friends on Facebook means nothing.
I don't personally know if breaches are up or not. April of 2010 was a pretty rough month if I remember correctly. I would bet a pretty dollar that while some high value targets have been very, very public, it is still the tip of the iceberg. There are too many detriments to reporting a breach unless you absolutely have to.
btw - I am an (employed) (overworked) application security engineer.
It does not have a thing to do with embarrassment. It is all about the money. Shareholder confidence crumbling. Legal repercussions. Etc. Etc. Money. First. Last. Always.
call me pedantic (i don't mind), i read this headline and started reading to figure out why all australians want google to stay and pay.
oh, not "australians" ...
to put it in US context...did y'all want to <insert some crazy thing the last president did>?
flour city
good lord, just wait until everyone realizes that rochester's nicknamed changed to "the flower city" ...in the 1850's...
see, i took it to a whole new level that was low even for me.
7am local news - they kept talking about how the gunman had posted threats on myspace. i swear, the anchor said "myspace" 17 times in a minute. people had died and all i could think was, seriously, is myspace still around????
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I believe that is a cost savings effort brought to you by your fiscally responsible government. After all, we've shown quite dramatically that it is way cheaper to be the terrorist than fight terrorism.
....this is all so simple, I don't understand why you all don't applaud them for this.
ummm...
Didn't we get into this whole situation by people coming up with "reasonable alternatives" to the Constitution?
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anti-lady byng trophy winner?
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i can't tell if you are being sarcastic here. :|
farmers have been "researching and developing" better crops since the beginning of time which is why you only save your seeds from your best crops and not the stunted little plants that don't produce.
one word - infragard.
yet more proof about what this legislation is absolutely not about.
You know what I believe?
offensive to morality or decency; indecent; depraved
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abominable; disgusting; repulsive
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I believe that I should be getting my obscenity from good ole Larry. I miss that world.
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In the words of Robert Heinlein, "You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity"
I'm required to input an "issue"
[Press here to "Report Senator as Idiot."]
Um, so what would this issue be defined as?
Identity theft (badly impersonating a person with a brain?)
Endangered Species (people with brains?)
Civil Liberties/Civil Rights (not discriminating against people without brains?)
Ethanol (sniffing it?)
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You tell them the exact same thing that someone in the private section is told when they go into a niche field and there are no jobs. Reskill and stop whining.
back to basics?
What about just giving me information about the products that are actually in the store? Start simple. Reviews are great but they do not help me at all if the item is not in the store.
Business at large seems to be focused on how much money will I spend. In my life, that is not necessarily the first question I ask. My first question is how long is this going to take? How long am I going to have to wander through a store, find out they don't have what I need and then wander through the endless succession of other stores (only to find out that I'm apparently very weird or so untrendy that no one has it).
Clue to business - I pay 1 cent more for gas because the cheaper place has the slowest pumps imaginable. I might pay a little bit more for groceries but the store I go to doesn't have food on one side of a giant store and paper and pet products all the way on the other. Convenience.
and it comes down to it.
honestly, i don't have any major issues with my self-imposed boycott of the movie, publishing and music industries because, let's face it, most of what they produce is complete crap. on a day-to-day basis, it is not a hardship for me to not subscribe to starz.
i have no issues with *content producers* going after infringing *content*.
but this, this is something that i love. i love hockey. i am a season ticket holder for the stars. season 18, 205 days, 82 games. my life goes on hold when hockey season starts. i want to support my team. i buy their merchandise, support the arena and drag non-hockey folks to games.
this is disgusting in the very sense of the ideals that made this country great. made even more so when you take into account the horrendous efforts of the dallas stars organization in particular and the nhl in general to sell their product in a market that was just named as one of the top sports cities in the country. "connect with your fans" is not even in their vocabulary. their radio partner's afternoon drive time duo thinks that joe lewis arena is in st. louis and their mid-day broadcasting team can't be bothered to talk hockey while broadcasting at a stars event while talking to a stars hockey player. they want people in the seats. so do i. (it is freaking cold in the aac when only 2000 people show up!) but the folks on defending big d, you morons, are not the people you are trying to bring into the arena because they are all ready there if they can be (they are in my section).
so, it is time. put up or shut up. and i hate that it was the nhl that made that time come.
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it freaks me out to know that ours is not the only household in texas that has center ice for sabres games.
Re: Dammit!!!
(yes, yes, it is)
......vern
Re: Re: Still not a good idea...
As a former resident of Rochester (who misses Abbott's terribly), I can tell you that Thomas lives on a desert island. I know this for a fact because he is unaware that nitwits infect every level of the public and private sector and the only way he could not know that is if he lived on a desert island.
*sigh* how did i miss that this was in my old home town?
and the next time anyone wants to make an absurd definition as to who is or isn't a journalist - techdirt and the online sources had this story before all of the rochester news outlets did.
compliance
I read an article on Monday and despite a rabid search for the past two days, cannot find it again but the particular journalist's take was that breaches are on the rise because companies are so busy jumping through the hoops of SOx, PCI and the like. Those that understand the technology understand that most of the requirements of those ... things are really best practices that should have been being done in the first place and may have nothing to do with the current threats. People who do not understand the technology are yelling at their IT people with, "But I thought we were compliant?!".
Probably an unreported factor in these breaches is the lack of understanding that if your employees are on Facebook or can actually figure out how to send an email, then they are technically savvy. That is a huge assumption. And it is wrong. I have fielded complaints from a user that they cannot input their password because there are x's over it and they can't see what they are typing. Having 2 million friends on Facebook means nothing.
I don't personally know if breaches are up or not. April of 2010 was a pretty rough month if I remember correctly. I would bet a pretty dollar that while some high value targets have been very, very public, it is still the tip of the iceberg. There are too many detriments to reporting a breach unless you absolutely have to.
btw - I am an (employed) (overworked) application security engineer.
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It does not have a thing to do with embarrassment. It is all about the money. Shareholder confidence crumbling. Legal repercussions. Etc. Etc. Money. First. Last. Always.