It's about time someone stepped up and said this.

Sorry ATT, but Net Neutrality is about EVERYTHING being equal on the internet.

We, the Users, pay for access from your crooked companies, and have made you huge, fat, and rich. Stop giving us the excuse that you have to manage bandwidth. You've known for YEARS that you were going to need more capability, and chose instead, to fatten your own wallets.

Now you're actually taking taxpayer money, (the same taxpayers that made you rich), and are planning on using it to make your networks larger. That's fraud in the highest degree. You should stand on your own, or die. We need to stop propping up your business...

If taxpayer dollars are going to fund the upgrades to your networks, how about giving every home free access? That only sounds fair to me...

That's just my 2 cents... Your mileage may vary.

White House official's net neutrality comments irk ATT - (too bad...)

Earlier on IRC today someone mentioned that they had bought some SQL Injection Bumper Stickers. This led me to the the idea for the following. I think I'll have to get some made up and hand out at PN.

My child is an '; update GradeBook set Grade=A where
StudentID=423867;

Idea for a Bumper Sticker

--sarcasm--

This CAN'T be true... I won't hear of it... SSL is no longer safe?

--sarcasm--

Was it ever "really" safe?

Web browser flaw could put e-commerce security at risk | Security - CNET News

--sarcasm--

This CAN'T be true... I won't hear of it... SSL is no longer safe?

--sarcasm--

Was it ever "really" safe?

Web browser flaw could put e-commerce security at risk | Security - CNET News

--sarcasm--

This CAN'T be true... I won't hear of it... SSL is no longer safe?

--sarcasm--

Was it ever "really" safe?

Web browser flaw could put e-commerce security at risk | Security - CNET News

Acidus wrote:
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Let me explain. I work for a Fortune 15 technology corporation. They pay me very, very, very well. However in return I'm subjected to (with a fair bit of good things) unbelievably stupid bullshit. They don't seem to realize that I couldn't give 2 shits about their money otherwise I'd have alot less bullshit in my life.

Jay Chaudhry met with me twice in the spring of 2008 and asked me to join his new start up Zscalar. I turned him down for a couple reasons, the biggest being he kept appealing to the wrong side of me. He kept talking dollars, he never talked projects. How are you doing "in the cloud" security. Are you buying or building? Which parts are you buying and which parts are you building. I'm not leaving a role where I get to shape research and product features to babysit a farm of 1U Barracuda boxen. I even flat told him I don't care about money and he looked at me like I was an idiot. And still could not to my satisfaction tell me what I would do.

I go for the project. Yet at both ends of the extreme, from large to small, companies kept appealing to the money side of the "pay/project" coin. From my limited experience the "performance mertic pay" side is taken care of at both extremes of company size and type. Perhaps I'm just really lucky.

However that's not true for the project side of the coin. Smart people go where the innovative products are. And while rewarding performance may be taking hold in large corporations (and I'm certainly proof that it does) innovation is still very much tied to seniority.

So, in my view, the "performance metric problem" is one side of the problem coin. However I believe it is second in importance to the other, far larger and undiscussed side: "The Innovation Problem". The Innovation Problem is this: It is easier for smart people to develop new products or technology in a start up and have a higher degree of success than doing so of inside a large technology corporation.

This is odd considering that the costs of starting a start up are approaching zero. It should cost a corporation hardly anything to incubate new ideas. And indeed I see "incubators" at tech firms all the time. And like startups, most fail. However they fail for far different reasons than traditional startups fail. In-company incubators fail because they starve.

You don't see it unless you have lived in both worlds. At large corporations "innovation" comes from a certain group of people. Phd. Senior Fellow. Technologist. Vint Cerf style. These groups have support structures because they are somehow viewed by the corporation as the "real researchers" even th... [ Read More (0.2k in body) ]

RE: The Innovation Problem

And people laughed at me for going back to a cashed based finance system. I've closed all my credit cards, locked my credit reports, and refuse to open any new lines of credit without significant and careful consideration.

I don't trust how much of our lives are online already, and news like this furthers to justify our decision to keep our finances "off-line".

Hundreds of Stolen Data Dumps Found - Security Fix

Here's a list I'd like to share with everyone, compiled at our recent dc404 meeting. It's a list of software tools that we each install, "first thing" on our systems. The tools that we use everyday to make our computing experience "nicer", "easier", or "better"...

If you have more tools that you use, please, feel free to post a reply, and we'll add them to the list!

Thanks for looking,

-
dc0de.

Tools that I cannot live without... | dc0de's notes...

I laughed SOOO hard when I saw this today... I actually received it from another former colleague of mine...

I just had to put it somewhere special...

OMG! I used to work there!!!! | dc0de's notes...

Worthersee wrote:
My friend that works at Lenovo sent me this video.

I've got a T61, but I can see that perhaps I'll be looking at the X300 in the future....

RE: Mac Book Air vs. Lenovo X300