I work at one of those "Big League" shops where the IT department rules the land and we programmers are lowly peasants forced to succumb to their will.
One day our network administrator noticed that port 22 was open on a box we were using for testing. This was obviously an attempt to hack our systems because only port 23 was open on all the servers he had setup. He decided to sniff the traffic and try to figure out what was going on. After he realized that he couldn't read the captured packets he came storming down demanding we shutdown that machine because it had been compromised and someone was sending encrypted traffic from that machine. After we explained to him that SSH was a secure replacement for telnet, he asked us not to use it because he couldn't sniff the traffic.
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Can't finish my taxes
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Do you think if I try 'null' as my pin it will work?
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RE: Wors Than Failure WTF #999
I agree that this is just a message board and it is not important. I mean you are signing in and doing all your traffic over an insecure connection anyway. I would argue it would be easier to steal your password by sniffing traffic when you log in than it would be to steal from your email.
On that note, a couple years ago I signed up for online payment with verizon. Two weeks later I got a letter in the mail (snail mail) from them with the password I used for my new online account. Not only did they MAIL me my password in plain text, but next time I logged in I noticed it had saved my credit card info. I was mad. I called customer service and bitched at them and asked to speak to their CIO or whoever would be in charge of information security. They forwarded me to someone where I got voicemail. I left a reasonable message stating I was concerned that they might not be taking security very seriously. I never got a response. This is an instance where sending someone their password could cause problems.
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RE: I hate my life
@Willie Monkey said:
Actually, I've been doing it for 20 years, and I don't mind donig it. What bugs me is when someone who KNOWS I do this for a living (eg: my mother) ignores my advice in favor of advice from someone who knows nothing about computers (eg: my brother), and then expects me to fix the mess.
This one I agree with 100%. My mother will take advice from the tech support geeks at her office. I try to explain that those guys have no clue and that is why they are still providing poor tech support (you should see the sad state of her work laptop) while those of us who do understand this stuff left that work behind (professionally anyway) with high school/college and moved on to developing the software that causes that initial call to the family geek.
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RE: Just got the boot
@stratos said:
lawl,
And it IS the responsibility of the goverment to make sure i can get a job. Perhaps not where you live, but it is where i live, and it's working fine so far. lowest unemployment rate in the EU. Only 3.2%
That is your country. Where the people have voted to make things that way. This is the United States where the people have decided that hand outs and government protection are not necessary. That is great that all you Europeans have protection from being fired, but the OP is in the United States. Here we don't rely on the government to take care of us.
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RE: Just got the boot
@ammoQ said:
Your comment implies some equality of force between the employers and the employees. This might be true sometimes (good programmers in an urban area usually do have choice) but in general, there is a tendency that employers are stronger. For example, in many regions, there is one company that is the biggest employer and most people have no choice but to work there or move away from the region.
Peple have been moving to follow jobs for centuries. It is not the responsibility of the government or the employer to make sure you have a secure job. The employer needs to be flexible to adapt to changing markets and economies. If this means the employee needs to be mobile to stay employed, then so be it. I'm sure all the migrant workers in Central America would love to find jobs close to home. But they follow the work because their skills are in demand in other locations. Software development is no different.
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RE: Just got the boot
@asuffield said:
Spoken like a true corporate shill. Because naturally, the goal of society is to serve the needs of businesses, at the expense of all the people. Businesses aren't a means to an end, they are the purpose of everything.
If you don't like it, start your own business where you hang on to people that are keeping you from growing just because you don't want to hurt their feelings.
@asuffield said:
(Oh, and China isn't socialist. That's a lie repeatedly told by the US government. China isn't really anything in particular, except authoritarian, and it's been that way since Mao died in 1976. Not that there is anything remotely wrong with socialism)
Thanks for the history lesson, no one cares.
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RE: Comparing Upper/Lower case
@pcooper said:
Yes, as odd as it may seem to native English speakers, not all characters will round-trip between lowercasing and uppercasing. Really, the correct approach is to call your system case-insensitive-comparison function that deals with all that for you, but that may have been a reasonable substitute for the languages they were using if the built-in function didn't have the functionality they were looking for.
Or maybe the programmer just had no clue what they were doing. Really just as likely, but I wouldn't jump to that conclusion just based on this.Could you give some examples of this? He is using Java and I've never heard of such a thing. I'm not trying to say I've heard it all, just that I'd be interested to know how this issue would relate to a managed environment like Java.
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RE: Just got the boot
@TheRubyWarlock said:
Wow harsh comments there. Let's see: I do have a degree, just not in Computer Science. I am a decent programmer, just not up to speed on all these so-called "right way to do things" methodologies. Right To Work is bullshit because it means the company doesn't need a reason to fire you (i.e. it basically means they can discriminate against you and you can't prove it at all).
Companies cannot discriminate. If there is any hint that someone was
fired based on discrimination, then find a lawyer. You will win that
case, those laws are taken very seriously.@TheRubyWarlock said:
And lastly, pay seems to go up/down depending on the business in
question - some offer peanuts for work that would cost a lot of money
because they're A) cheapskates and B) think they can get someone to
work for that amount.People pay for the quality of work they get. If company X doesn't pay as well as company Y, then company X will have lower quality employees. If a company can get someone for a certain amount, then that is the amount. It's called supply and demand. If there was a short supply they would have to pay more, otherwise they can pay the minimum it takes to get people to work for them. If they pay peanuts that means there is someone who will work for peanuts. You are trying to make it sound like a company decides the pay and then you are forced to take the job and accept whatever they pay you. You do have options.
@TheRubyWarlock said:
So.. you mean to say that I am at fault for not learning a system that I had no prior experience with, and never was able to ask questions, never received any sort of "mentoring", and on top of that was never informed that I wasn't learning it fast enough UNTIL the minute I got fired? Glad I don't work with you fellas.
I can't make any comment on your situation. I don't know anything about the company you worked for. All I am saying is it's their right to fire you at any time just like it's your right to leave at any time.
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RE: Just got the boot
@TheRubyWarlock said:
And yes, in most states the employer can fire you for any reason (or none at all) due to this bullshit "Right To Work" law (My grandfather keeps saying it's also what lets them pay as little as they want to - the idea being that someone will take the job, so if you don't want to be paid $10/hour for a dev job, then don't - somebody else will).
"Right To Work" or "At Will Employment" is not bullshit. It's a two way street, they can fire you anytime but you can quit at anytime. You don't like that you got fired, but you wouldn't feel that way if you wanted to get the hell outta there but couldn't because you were required to give a thirty day notice. Your grandfather is an idiot. Pay is determined by quality and abundance of workers. Since you don't have a degree and are obviously not that great of a programmer, you would love a place that couldn't get rid of unproductive employees. But businesses need to be able to improve their products, services and work force. You sound like a socialist, move to China.