Celebrities Reliving Old Roles

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Written on Tuesday, December 01, 2009 by Joe Nobody






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The Celebrity Freakout - The New PR Stunts

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Written on Tuesday, December 01, 2009 by Joe Nobody



   I have a small vice for celebrity news. Curiosity of the fabricated drama of the life of the famous.  Paparazzi chase downs, the DUI arrest, and stints in rehab seem to have been getting old as of late.
   So now the new thing is the on-set celebrity freakout. Actors losing their minds and showing their true colors as they scream and yell at those they think are 'below' them. We started off hard with some legitimate ones but recently they are becoming an old trick and lost their luster as 'real'.  I will them out and show you what I mean.

    We kick off this new genre with a pure 100% real complete freak out from Lily Tomlin on the set of I Heart Huckabees.... yeah, I didn't see it either. This one is as real as it gets. Just look at poor Dustin Hoffman's reactions as he is stuck in the middle and the pure anger spewing out of the director.


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A few years go by and there may have been a few outbursts, but nothing like the one from Batman himself, Christian Bale on the set of Terminator Salvation. Real douchbaggery. Bonus on this one, shortly after this came out, Bale gets in trouble for smacking some females around.


But then they couldn't stop there. Then the freakouts started to come out and it appears to be the cool thing to do now is have a freakout tape leaked. Sex tapes were so 2001. I give you the Leprechaun known as Seth Green. Seriously, is he 3 feet tall?



Remember Pauly Shore? No one else does either. He bring us a nice HD recording of the most obviously staged one yet.



Matt Damon wanted to get in on it, so here's his. I don't buy this one because they are shooting a commercial... in an airport hangar... with birds screaming all in the background.



It's ultimately up to you to decide.






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Random Thoughts of 25-35 Year Olds

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Written on Tuesday, August 25, 2009 by Joe Nobody



  • I wish Google Maps had an "Avoid Ghetto" routing option.


  • More often than not, when someone is telling me a story all I can
    think about is that I can't wait for them to finish so that I can tell
    my own story that's not only better, but also more directly involves
    me.


  • Nothing sucks more than that moment during an argument when you
    realize you're wrong.


  • I don't understand the purpose of the line, "I don't need to drink to
    have fun." Great, no one does. But why start a fire with flint and
    sticks when they've invented the lighter?


  • Have you ever been walking down the street and realized that you're
    going in the complete opposite direction of where you are supposed to
    be going? But instead of just turning a 180 and walking back in the
    direction from which you came, you have to first do something like
    check your watch or phone or make a grand arm gesture and mutter to
    yourself to ensure that no one in the surrounding area thinks you're
    crazy by randomly switching directions on the sidewalk.


  • That's enough Nickelback.


  • I totally take back all those times I didn't want to nap when I was younger.


  • Is it just me, or are 80% of the people in the "people you may know"
    feature on Facebook people that I do know, but I deliberately choose
    not to be friends with?


  • Do you remember when you were a kid, playing Nintendo and it wouldn't
    work? You take the cartridge out, blow in it and that would magically
    fix the problem. Every kid in America did that, but how did we all
    know how to fix the problem? There was no internet or message boards
    or FAQ's. We just figured it out. Today's kids are soft.


  • There is a great need for sarcasm font.


  • Sometimes, I'll watch a movie that I watched when I was younger and
    suddenly realize I had no idea what the f was going on when I first
    saw it.


  • I think everyone has a movie that they love so much, it actually
    becomes stressful to watch it with other people. I'll end up wasting
    90 minutes shiftily glancing around to confirm that everyone's
    laughing at the right parts, then making sure I laugh just a little
    bit harder (and a millisecond earlier) to prove that I'm still the
    only one who really, really gets it.


  • How the hell are you supposed to fold a fitted sheet?


  • I would rather try to carry 10 plastic grocery bags in each hand than
    take 2 trips to bring my groceries in.


  • I think part of a best friend's job should be to immediately clear
    your computer history if you die.


  • The only time I look forward to a red light is when I’m trying to
    finish a text.


  • A recent study has shown that playing beer pong contributes to the
    spread of mono and the flu. Yeah, if you suck at it.


  • LOL has gone from meaning, "laugh out loud" to "I have nothing else to say".


  • I have a hard time deciphering the fine line between boredom and hunger.


  • Answering the same letter three times or more in a row on a Scantron
    test is absolutely petrifying.


  • Whenever someone says "I'm not book smart, but I'm street smart",
    all I hear is "I'm not real smart, but I'm imaginary smart".


  • How many times is it appropriate to say "What?" before you just nod
    and smile because you still didn't hear what they said?


  • I love the sense of camaraderie when an entire line of cars teams up
    to prevent a dick from cutting in at the front. Stay strong, brothers!


  • Every time I have to spell a word over the phone using 'as in'
    examples, I will undoubtedly draw a blank and sound like a complete
    idiot. Today I had to spell my boss's last name to an attorney and
    said "Yes that's G as in...(10 second lapse)..ummm...Goonies"


  • What would happen if I hired two private investigators to follow each other?


  • While driving yesterday I saw a banana peel in the road and
    instinctively swerved to avoid it...thanks Mario Kart.


  • MapQuest really needs to start their directions on #5. Pretty sure I
    know how to get out of my neighborhood.


  • Obituaries would be a lot more interesting if they told you how the
    person died.


  • I find it hard to believe there are actually people who get in the
    shower first and THEN turn on the water.


  • Shirts get dirty. Underwear gets dirty. Pants? Pants never get dirty,
    and you can wear them forever.


  • I can't remember the last time I wasn't at least kind of tired.


  • Bad decisions make good stories


  • Whenever I'm Facebook stalking someone and I find out that their
    profile is public I feel like a kid on Christmas morning who just got
    the Red Ryder BB gun that I always wanted. 546 pictures? Don't mind if
    I do!


  • Is it just me or do high school girls get sluttier & sluttier every year?


  • If Carmen San Diego and Waldo ever got together, their offspring
    would probably just be completely invisible.


  • Why is it that during an ice-breaker, when the whole room has to go
    around and say their name and where they are from, I get so incredibly
    nervous? Like I know my name, I know where I'm from, this shouldn't be
    a problem....


  • You never know when it will strike, but there comes a moment at work
    when you've made up your mind that you just aren't doing anything
    productive for the rest of the day.


  • Can we all just agree to ignore whatever comes after DVDs? I don't
    want to have to restart my collection.


  • There's no worse feeling than that millisecond you're sure you are
    going to die after leaning your chair back a little too far.


  • I'm always slightly terrified when I exit out of Word and it asks me
    if I want to save any changes to my ten page research paper that I
    swear I did not make any changes to.


  • "Do not machine wash or tumble dry" means I will never wash this ever.


  • I hate being the one with the remote in a room full of people
    watching TV. There's so much pressure. 'I love this show, but will
    they judge me if I keep it on? I bet everyone is wishing we weren't
    watching this. It's only a matter of time before they all get up and
    leave the room. Will we still be friends after this?'


  • I hate when I just miss a call by the last ring (Hello? Hello?
    Dammit!), but when I immediately call back, it rings nine times and
    goes to voicemail. What'd you do after I didn't answer? Drop the phone
    and run away?


  • I hate leaving my house confident and looking good and then not
    seeing anyone of importance the entire day. What a waste.


  • When I meet a new girl, I'm terrified of mentioning something she
    hasn't already told me but that I have learned from some light
    internet stalking.


  • I like all of the music in my iTunes, except when it's on shuffle,
    then I like about one in every fifteen songs in my iTunes.


  • Why is a school zone 20 mph? That seems like the optimal cruising
    speed for pedophiles...


  • As a driver I hate pedestrians, and as a pedestrian I hate drivers,
    but no matter what the mode of transportation, I always hate cyclists.


  • Sometimes I'll look down at my watch 3 consecutive times and still
    not know what time it is.


  • It should probably be called Unplanned Parenthood.


  • I keep some people's phone numbers in my phone just so I know not to
    answer when they call.


  • Even if I knew your social security number, I wouldn't know what do to with it.


  • Even under ideal conditions people have trouble locating their car
    keys in a pocket, hitting the G-spot, and Pinning the Tail on the
    Donkey - but I’d bet my ass everyone can find and push the Snooze
    button from 3 feet away, in about 1.7 seconds, eyes closed, first time
    every time...


  • My 4-year old son asked me in the car the other day "Dad what would
    happen if you ran over a ninja?" How the hell do I respond to that?


  • It really pisses me off when I want to read a story on CNN.com and
    the link takes me to a video instead of text.


  • I wonder if cops ever get pissed off at the fact that everyone they
    drive behind obeys the speed limit.


  • I think the freezer deserves a light as well.


  • I disagree with Kay Jewelers. I would bet on any given Friday or
    Saturday night more kisses begin with Miller Lites than Kay.


  • The other night I ordered takeout, and when I looked in the bag, saw
    they had included four sets of plastic silverware. In other words,
    someone at the restaurant packed my order, took a second to think
    about it, and then estimated that there must be at least four people
    eating to require such a large amount of food. Too bad I was eating by
    myself. There's nothing like being made to feel like a fat bastard
    before dinner.

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Getting your own DVDs to your iPod/iPhone

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Written on Wednesday, July 29, 2009 by Joe Nobody


The security guards of the whole copyright protection initiative care nothing about the source of the material but making sure every dollar is squeezed out of you for it. If the guardians had their way, they would want everyone at a party to pay them to hear a song played at that party. To them the only one that can use that material is the one who bought it. They don't like used book stores, they don't like game rentals places, they do however like changing technology to that can rape your wallet again when you want it on the new medium.

I am not in that court. They claim that they are protecting the copyright... I have a question then - When I bought Thriller on vinyl for $15.99 did I not buy the copyright for the material then? Why do I have to re-buy the same material on a new medium for $19.99 on CD, then again for $11 on iTunes? Did I not already buy the copyright? Their stance is flawed.

This post is not an extension of that moral debate on what you can and cannot do with your own purchased materials... RIAA doesn't like you transferring your own CDs to your iPods... this is about how to enable you to use your purchased material in anyway you choose.

If you choose to take this and distribute illegally you are on your own. I do not condone that or any other twists that you may come up with. This is about taking what is yours and using it how you want to get the maximum pleasure out of it.

Here are the steps to take your own DVDs and convert them to a nice small, high quality format for use on your iPod or iPhone.

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Software Needed

1) DVD Decrypter
2) Red Kawa's Videora iPod Converter
3) iTunes (to get the video on your device)

DVD Decrypter
You can get the last remaining scrap of this program HERE. This program was once at the center of the DVD ripping debate and the RIAA got to them and this program was scrapped, never to be updated again. But the fact is, it still works on most DVDs. I say most because there are some that this does not work.

This only works for regular DVDs not Blu-ray or HD-DVD.

I dont need to re-type the instructions, they are quite good and detailed from the converter website - Red Kawa Videora Converter Instructions with DVD Decrypter

Videora iPod Converter
This is the program, the workhorse to convert a video to iPod format. BUT, it is just not for DVD rips its for any video file. They also have a YouTube ripper to convert YouTube videos to your iPod.

The GUI is very easy to use and understand, there is a Normal mode for regular users or Advanced mode for those who are knowledgeable on video codecs to customize it to your audiophile needs.

Depending on the speed of your computer it takes anywhere from 45 min to over an hour for the full convert. Which is not too bad for a permanent solution to have your favorite movies with your in a very portable way for travel, in bed, in the office or whatever. The file sizes are anywhere from 300MB to over 1GB depending on the length of the movie and the quality settings you choose.

Then just use iTunes to add it to your library and sync or use WinAmp like I do for my iPOd for media management. I have a prior blog post about that as well.

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Take what is yours that you obtained from your hard earned money and use it how you want.


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Such a sad state of committment

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Written on Wednesday, July 29, 2009 by Joe Nobody

I have tried, past posts will show, that I have tried to stay committed to writing in this blog about those things meaningful. My job has been keeping me busy and my 10 month old is taking up the rest. Now that things are getting more into pattern and I can find slices here and there, I am going to do it. Consistent growth is my goal. Trying to put into my perspective which usually is not to norm is my purpose.

I am Joe.

I am nobody.

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Internet Scams Still Work?

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Written on Monday, May 25, 2009 by Joe Nobody



I regularly talk about the mental capacity of the general population, how limited it is. One great example is the all known Internet scam. Random emails that fly in talking about great financial fortune, missing funds, money owed to you, etc... and all you have to do to claim it is to SEND money first via Western Union. People who fall for this lose tens of thousands of dollars. It's a sad state of affairs and something that can be so easily avoided. SO EASILY.

Lets break down first how to identify a scam, really there are 2 rules to follow:


  • The most important rule to remember, EVER is this one:

    NO BANK, STORE, WEBSITE, CREDIT CARD COMPANY, GOVERNMENT AGENCY WILL EVER, EVER, EVER, NEVER, EVER ASK YOU TO LOGIN TO VERIFY INFO!!!! EVER!!!!!

    If you are concerned, DON'T EVER, EVER, EVER, CLICK ANY LINKS IN THAT EMAIL THAT SAYS TO LOGIN TO VERIFY BUT WILL NEVER, EVER COME FROM A LEGITIMATE BANK. Why Not? Becuse those links may say www.mybank.com, but they aren't taking you there, they are sending you to a hacked website somewhere and on there will be a fake webpage that looks real but in reality is just a script to capture your username and password that they then will take to the real page and Bye, Bye Money.

    So if you are concerned, close your browser, re-open it and you yourself go to the legit page with your bookmark or manual entry and login. You will see nothing wrong all the time.

    If you follow this rule, then you will have no problems.


  • Second type of scam. This explanation is simple. If anyone emails you and claims to be royalty or associated to royalty, a government agent, and out of the country you belong to... and says that he will give you a piece of the locked funds he has... and to get it you have to SEND him money first....

    If you believe this, then you deserve to lose your money. Period.

    Economic times are tough, but that does not diminish Common Sense.



Now that you have the 2 cardinal rules for an Internet scam, lets talk about how to avoid them.

  • First and what I have been doing for years; HAVE MULTIPLE EMAIL ADDRESSES

    You have your Primary email, this one you use for your personal business, your bank, credit card, utilities, and personal emails. PERIOD!!!! That's it!!!!

    Your other email addresses, I suggest to have at least two others. Junk addresses.
    Your first junk address is not so much as junky as the other. This one you use for ALL websites that have subscriptions, store coupons, newsletters, etc... This is your spam email. Any and all regular junk come to this address. If you sign up for a forum or website that you will be contributing/posting to, use this account, NOT your personal one. You don't know the security or how the website functions, they will sell your email address or it will get compromised by forum bots and spam you that way. This is how the Internet scammers get email addresses, so why have your regular address out in the open?

    You second junk address you use for all websites that you dont care about that require registration. Always use this address, recipe sites, joke sites, video sites, etc... Never use your real personal info in the profile section, Lie. Your identity is gold, treat it as such. The Internet is not a safe cuddly place, don't behave like it is. It's more dangerous than real life if you think about it. No safeguards and too much trust.

    Talking about registrations which I will post about later, NEW IDEA, learn RSS feeds. I will educate on this on my next post.


  • USE PROPER PASSWORD USE, NEVER, EVER, EVER, USE THE SAME PASSWORD ACROSS MULTIPLE SITES. There are no safeguards, you have no idea how the passwords are stored. The webmaster might just store them in a text file, then he can take your info and try all the major financial instiutions and Bye Bye Money.



On the Internet take all the precautions you can to disconnect your personal life from your Internet life. If you do that, all the scams will goto the junk emails and you know that they are crap.

I decided to post this today because I did my weekly email address cleanups and here were my results.

Primary email - 100+ legitimate emails, 0 spam.
Junk address 1 - 70 spam
Junk address 2 - 400+ emails, spam, scams, and sex emails. That's one week's worth.

It's so simple to protect yourself, why don't you do it?

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Miss California Thoughs

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Written on Thursday, May 14, 2009 by Joe Nobody


If you haven't heard or seen, Miss USA pageant was a few weeks ago and something was blown out of nothing. If you haven't seen it or want a refresher, here you go.





So we have Mr. Gay herself, Perez Hilton, asking a gay question. Miss California Carrie Prejean gave an all honest, red-blooded American answer. She didn't sugar coat it, she didn't P.C. is, she didn't stoop to the level that Perez is at... knee level... and succumb to the Hollywood norm. She was cheered and booed. Good for her. She showed she could answer with her own thoughts instead of the canned answers the others do. It cost her the crown.

Few days later, the dirt begins to fly. Not only did they chastise her they went after her achievements to date and tried to destroy her. The Donald came out and defended her as he should have. On a side note, I dig the Donald, put him in Geitner's spot and he will get us out of the economic mess.

Anyway, so here we are. The dirt... but it's not that bad of dirt either. It's almost commonplace now that pageant contestants do nudes. With the bodies they have, why not?



Who cares? Freedom of thought, as long as we have it's our right. This is another scary example that if you think against the party in power then you are destroyed. Think about it. This is a truly scary thing over an opinion.

But on the flip side, in the wake of the attacks do one thing.... how much damage has been done?

Name the State and the name of the winner of the Miss USA contest.... point made.


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People That I Can't Stand

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Written on Saturday, May 02, 2009 by Joe Nobody

My blog has been revitalized again. So I am going to push this to my negative, deep thoughts, things I would never admit to or say in normal conversation. My job takes me all over the country, mainly by air. So as I sit and stare across the clouds, I always get a window seat, I listen to my music and think about these things. I focus my energy to think about these things to drown out all the other morons that are on the plane and I end up sitting near.

I was at lunch the other day and we got onto a conversation on groups of people we hate. We came up with an impressive list for impressive reasons, so I decided to expand on it a little bit and blog about it. Here we go.

People I Can't Stand
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Corpies

The Corporate type. I am not talking about business class people, I am talking about a real special class of people that can only be tagged as a Corpie.

What makes up a Corpie:

  • Always wearing a full suit regardless of the location or situation. Never takes off the jacket. Hair so perfect it doesn't move in a hurricane wind. Get's pissed off if there is a speck of dust on his shoes.

  • Surgically attached his Bluetooth headset to his ear.

  • Have a phone conversation with his headset at a volume that Helen Keller could hear in an attempt to prove to those around him he is 'important'.

  • Complains about one too many ice cubes in his vodka cranberry then visibly acts like his plight is an act of inhumanity and needs to be compensated for it.

  • Doesn't realize that everyone around him sees him in equivalence to Rosie O'Donnell's douche.




Hippes


Good old classic Hippies had to make this list. It's a given. Hippies both old and the Next Generation that are floating around now just can't be ignored. I mean if they are around you can't ignore them either from the odor or behavior.

Condensed List of Why Hippes Are On This List:


  • Trying to revitalize behaviors and movements from the laziest and most unproductive period of American History.

  • All talk and no action.

  • The apparent inclusion of their souls into music, then they debate how much pain the musician was in as the lyrics were written.

  • 'Natural' lifestyle. No using soap or hygiene products because it supports the 'Corporations', it damages Mother Earth, or they came from dirt so they must smell like it.

  • The amount of clothes worn. It's 90 degrees, it's OK to wear shorts and it's REALLY OK to wipe the sweat from your brow... sweat that has been sitting there for a week.

  • The Grateful Dead really weren't that great and Phish has one, really long song spread out over several albums.

  • I admire the seamstress skills, but come on...

  • Hippes Note - the Guitar has more than 3 chords.




Theaties

This list is in no particular order, but this class ranks up at the top of the list. Theaties. Self delusional individuals who do a job or a hobby but ALWAYS leak it into normal life.

The Acts of a Theatie:

  • Reading things you didn't write in a way that you are told to do it does not make you creative.... like news anchors trying to call themselves journalists.

  • If you are so good at your trade, STFU and don't try to stay in character in normal settings. If you are so skilled you don't need to do it all the time.

  • Like musicians, if the screenwriters wanted more background into the feelings of the characters they would write it down. Stop trying to sound like you 'know' what they were trying to say.

  • Theaties all sound the same when they talk.

  • These are basically Hippie hybrids that found ambition to get off the grass patch and go do something.

  • Some plays are NOT Art... accept it.




Festies

Festies. Festies are Theatie rejects. Cast out into the void of the art-less. Wasn't qualified to be a Theatie. Perhaps they speak in a normal tone, maybe they like partners of the opposite sex, or maybe they are just too weird to be a Theatie. Regardless of the reasons, Festies are the result. The folk that infest Renaissance Festivals.


  • They always speak in Old English.

  • They try to pull you into 'character', in your face, not letting up, loud.

  • As you stare at them, like you stare at the size of an Elephant's schlong at the zoo, they believe you are enjoying the performance and journey back in time.

  • The hunks of meat on a bone in the food court, most likely the legs of the small children that they kidnap.

  • Do they have homes?

  • The costumes.

  • Even though they think they are in the Middle Ages, they will not get the Black Plague.



Here's what Festies do in their spare time -





So there. A few classes on unique individuals that make a special list of mine.

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Coming Back Hard

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Written on Tuesday, April 28, 2009 by Joe Nobody

I am revitalized!

Big posts coming soon!!!!


Joe, moving on...

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Uhhhhh

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Written on Monday, April 13, 2009 by Joe Nobody


I am trying to pay attention to my blog. But so neglected. I see hits are coming in for it, but yet I do not post enough as I should.

Please, encourage me. Leave comments. What do you want to know? What are you curious about? What do you want to know what my thoughts are on a subject?

Tell me!

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Big Steaming Pile of UK Irony

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Written on Monday, March 23, 2009 by Joe Nobody

Our friends across the pond are a strange bunch. Tagged, "The Nanny State", by putting restrictions and rules into almost every aspect of an individuals life, they continue to amaze me that they can do more.

A little website called Google a few years back launched a project called Street View for their Maps application. Basically, a car with a pano camera system on its roof drives around the roads and takes pictures. The idea is when you search on the map, you can go into street view and see what it looks like at gound level. Very witty approach and it has come in handy.

Apparently some people have a problem with this, whining under the umbrella of privacy. Now, the Google car does not go into private land, just snaps the pictures as you would see it on the public road. Sometime people are out, sometimes they are not. But overall its a one time picture that may or may not be several years old before they take a new one. A snap shot in time as things look.

The United Kingdom really doesn't like this and has gone as far to force Google to black out the street view pictures. Which just reeks (sp?) to high heaven of irony and takes hypocrisy to a new level. The UK is complaining about privacy violations. HA! This is coming from a country that has over 4.5 million CCTV surveillance cameras, almost on every street corner. They are called the "surveillance society".

Check this excerpt out.


It predicts that by 2016 shoppers could be scanned as they enter stores, schools could bring in cards allowing parents to monitor what their children eat, and jobs may be refused to applicants who are seen as a health risk.


You see that and try to swallow their complain about Google Street View being a privacy problem. Holy crap I can't take it. I am fearful of the future world. Your free will is gone. Governments will control us all. Like a frog in a pot, bring it to a slow boil and the frog won't jump out.. just sit there and die.

I may not fully agree with Google's expansion into, well, everything. Information is power. But my point is, lets have some common grounds here on when and where to complain about something. You can't have your cake and eat it to.

I see this as the UK crying that another kid is playing in the sandbox that they want to dominate. Maybe it's not so much a fear of the UK protecting the privacy of the citizens, rather protecting the privacy of activities that the citizens aren't meant to see or know about that the camera's might catch.

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You can't complain about AIG bonues

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Written on Friday, March 20, 2009 by Joe Nobody

The last few days seem to have been consumed around AIG and their employee bonuses. Lets dive in and let me explain why you can't whine and bitch about it.

First, Congress did this. Congress took out the provisions in the stimulus to pave the way for this to happen. The Treasury Department knew about the bonuses for months, this was not a surprise to them. They can't now start banging the drum to drown out their F'up.

Second, AIG were under contractual obligation to pay these out. That's what a contract is for. Take out the human emotional element and these bonuses are nothing more than another operational expense for the ailing company. Many of these executives didn't take salaries and they depended on that bonus for the services provided. Now, if the contracts were poorly written for AIG that there were no benchmarks or conditions in place based on company performance, currently employed with the company at the time of the payout, or any other thing htat would limit the payout vs. performance... Hey, good for the employees for getting in the deal like that. AIG screwed that one up. At the end of the day, a contract is a contract.

Third, Congress' speed on attempting to tax these bonuses 90% is 100% unconstitutional. This will be challenged and dragged out for years from this screwup by Congress.

Take away the human element and this is just another contractual obligation. Period.
You screwed up... you should not have given them the money in the first place, let them fail and another will take its place... that's how capitalism works.

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Sports Are A Way Of Life

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Written on Monday, March 16, 2009 by Joe Nobody

As I sit here filling out my NCAA March Madness brackets, I have come to realize the impact sports has in this country. I am not talking just Basketball, but all around. Sports has been a fabric of the American persona since the start of it all. But in the last 20 years, it has become so much more than stats in the Monday morning sports page in the newspaper. Technology has allowed sports to be inserted into almost everyone's lives, whether they are a true sports fan or not.

Now, in the world of the micro blog, more and more people can get information and gain interest in the games. I would say, most of the people who are participating in the NCAA bracket challenges around the country have not watched one full, regular season game of any team. But now with the brackets going on, they will pay attention to all the scores.

When the Super Bowl comes around, same thing, the NFL doesn't have 75 million regular season viewers each week. But they do during the Super Bowl. Why? Because it has become a part of the American culture.

Super Bowl Sunday, March Madness, The Fall Classic or The Series, Daytona... all these are major points in our culture. Why? Why so much focus on a game?

I think it's because it takes our minds and energy off everyday life. It's dramatic, emotional, exciting, thrilling, satisfying, disappointing... It's all what life is wrapped up into a few hours where a winner emerges. That's it. The inclusion of the Fantasy games wrapped into the actual games gives us more of a sense of involvement, rather than just sitting there watching. You own a piece of the game. You feel the pain when the free throw is missed, the kick missed the uprights, the HR was robbed at the wall. It allows us to fantasize the experience.

This is not for everyone, there are those out there who despise competition, but I am speaking for the whole of the American society. Sports are a way of life, intertwined into our vocabulary with sports metaphors, social gatherings for the big games, investment into your local communities and states, taking attention away from life and bringing entertainment if just for a little while.

No matter your sports tastes, no matter if you play fantasy games or not, whether or not you watch all the games you can or scan the scores the next day. If anything, sports does something that we need more of in this country... that's bringing people together.

Joe, Moving on...

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IAM is a practice not a product

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Written on Friday, March 13, 2009 by Joe Nobody

Being an IAM career expert, I have a different view on things as I work in the trenches. Yesterday Gartner released their IAM predictions for the next few years. Being on the leading edge in a company that is driving IAM advancements, they are not too far off in their predictions. But you can also apply these service based predictions to almost any slice of IT, thats the direction it's going.

You can read the predictions here.

Their predictions are fine and good on a technology and implementation level but they are not addressing one very large aspect. Adoption rates.

IAM (Identity and Access Management) is a practice. It's a security methodology and business changing way of maintaining system and data integrity. Answering the questions that need to be answered in IT.
     Who has access to what?
     What can they do with that access?
     Who approved the access?
     What did they do?
     When did they do it?

Most companies, large companies, with very critical and personal data cannot answer those questions in a timely manner and accurately. They don't know. It's frightening how much critical personal data sits at companies that is largely unsecured and not being able to accurately report on who is accessing that data.

There are regulations out there that are in place to mitigate that, but I have not seen one company large or small that is close to meeting it. Some of the regulations have been out for years. Some companies refuse to try to be compliant to the regulations because the cost of meeting them exceed any financial fines the penalty is for failing the audit. THAT'S EVEN SCARIER!

What about the cost of a breach and losing all that data to the open Internet?

IAM is looked at by these CTOs, CIOs, IT Directors as another product set. Another purchase. Another thing that has to be installed and maintained. They don't have the Industry knowledge or training to understand completely how important is it to be able to answer those questions. To grasp that Security is a way of life and not just perimeter protection.

Today, their systems and processes are fine. No issues that they are aware of. Do they know if an employee is warehousing data and using it for profit outside of the network? Can they be sabotaged at any moment by a soon to be laid off employee? Do they have severe segregation of duties violations like Accounts Payable also has Accounts Receivable capabilities? Do they know who all of the accounts on their systems belong to and how they are being used and when?

Their vision stops at money. Money most don't have, but most do have for the right reasons. But once again, companies are not attributing an upfront financial cost to mitigate a RISK and comparing it to the cost of that RISK being exploited.

That's where the problem lies with adoption. Security as a whole is a very intangible, invisible component of IT. It makes lives much easier, more efficient, saves hundreds of man hours in procedures, and takes RISK down to an acceptable level. But you don't know it's there. The bean counters like to see what they are paying for. Hard to do with Security. Harder to explain it to the non-technical on how important it is to have a fully functioning automated provisioning system in place.

I just comes down to a roll of the dice. Do you think you will have a business crippling data breach or not? A business damaging event doesn't mean an outage, just ask TJ Hacked, I mean TJ Maxx.

It's a very frustrating effort to get the knowledge and understanding out there. If these CIOs have that gap in true end to end vision of understanding, the CEOs and boards who approve the money know even less.

Looping back to Gartner's predictions, I hope that when the industry gets more mainstream to the service based model adoption rates will increase. Paying a service instead of setting up your own infrastructure and maintaining your own service should increase businesses implementations.

However it's a double edged sword as the recent news has shown us, Gmail Outage, Hotmail Outage, Salesforce outage, Google Docs Breach... Cloud Computing is still in it's infancy and has a way to go to be trusted across the Big Bad Internet.

Joe, Moving on...

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Movie Studios DVD Move... Anyone care?

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Written on Tuesday, March 10, 2009 by Joe Nobody

Fox's new DVD policy: No special features for renters

Fox movie studios have come out again with another move that will surely have no effect on anything. They are now going to sell movies to renting companies that do not have the extra features, deleted scenes and what-not. Does anyone really care? Think about it. If you are renting a movie, you are renting it for the movie. If you love the movie so much you buy it. The extras on a rental are the curious features you flip through at the tail end if you have time and pay no real attention to it.

I do Netflix and most movies now are dual disc features with the movie on the first and extras on the second. Netflix only shops the one disc anyway. So who cares? Is this supposed to be some sort of punishment? I am guessing that Fox will not be dropping the price, even though they are dropping the standard DVD features from their sets to a slice of purchasers, in this case the rental companies.

The only thing that will come out of this is that there will be new companies that will wholesale the full featured DVDs to the rental companies instead of the rental stores going to Fox directly.

I think Fox needs to focus on putting out quality movies first then worry about unnecessarily restricting their products. But hey, in most cases it's actually more of a gift than a punishment on seeing what other crap was not included in the final release of some of these 'movies' that come out.

Joe, moving on...

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Blogs will be destroyed as economy tanks

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Written on Thursday, March 05, 2009 by Joe Nobody


I do not consider myself a blogger, but I have a blog and spew thoughts on here occasionally. I don't do this for money, but I have adsense on here anyway. Why? Because its not visually interfering and why not? Shallow dreams of making it big, earning more money than I can shake a stick at and retire? Ha!

Blogs today are not quite mainstream but close. They are not news sources, nor ever should be. I am a full supporter of naming your sources, backing up the data with facts, blogs don't do that. Anyone can make the news and the scary thing is people trust it.

Basically you have a few classes of blogs.
      - Celebrity
      - Personal Journal (most are these)
      - Opinion (post a news story and comment on it)
      - Ad bomb blogs

The landscape is going to change a great deal here in the next few years and Blogs as a whole will be tossed aside much like print newspapers have.

Here's why - Today blogs are a means to get thoughts on information out. Tomorrow's blogs will be used more and more to generate revenue and lose their focus, it's already starting. There is a blog owner I know semi-personally. He has 3 blogs actually. One very personal, one semi-personal with technical posts, and a pure poetry one where he writes and posts his form of poetry. I have been visiting his blogs for sometime, most posts are about his reviews on TV shows, movies, etc... nothing hard hitting and nothing that benefits anyone, what I mean is nothing news worthy, just entertainment. But one pattern I have been seeing with his blogs and now its come to the point where I find my self going there less and less is his purpose for his blogs. More ads.

The drive, not just with his, but with several others I am a regular viewer of, are the ads. Ads make money with visits and clicks. The over the top self promotion and flash ads are surrounding the content and beginning to drown it out. Some blogs are so bad that every single post has 15 lines of Digg, Tumblr, Twitter, LinkedIn, Vote for me at this Blog site for the best, Vote for me here, Here's my Blog award that means nothing, etc.... on every post. Each one has a little revenue tied to it because they are linked back to the sources. The more visitors, the more dough. However, it's starting to get in my way of the CONTENT. I stopped getting newspapers because I got sick and tired of filtering through the ads to get to the news. Blogs are taking this path as well, since most are for entertainment, I am quicker to abandon them and move on to something else.

If I have to play hunt for the story on the blogs, I stop going.

*** Secret Tip - One workaround if you are hooked on a blog but hate the ads, subscribe to the blogs RSS feed. No ads, or very minimal that won't get in the way of the same content. Then you gets all your posts in one place, scroll through them all, go about your day. If you don't use Google Reader, look into it. ***

Back on topic, this is where blogs will go. It will become very obvious too who's who and their true purpose of the blog. My blog, I have a few links sure over on the right side in it's own little section. I am not in it for the money. I would be more interested on my thoughts and application of my 15 years of IT and sales experience to get me involved with a commercial mainstream blog. Not taking this one mainstream.

With the blogs and the authors cramming their sites with more and more annoying ads, sites like Twitter and Tumblr will continue to dominate. Instant news like that, no blog or newspaper will be able to keep up. They will keep being as they are today, review sites of the day's activity. There is no compelling reason to go to a blog or news sites anymore, just watch the Twitter cloud and you get more news as fast as it happens.

On other aspect that most don't think about, but I do, is that people will get sick and tired of the blogs spins and tabloid nature that they will morph into. Again, adding fuel to miro-blog sites like Twitter and Tumblr. Why? Because those site's design does not allow for a spin with 160 character limits. Headline posts only with no chance for commentary. The political and economic climate today, people are just going to keep being mad and angry and will goto places that don't have that crap on it. They will want the headline, maybe a link to get more detail, but in the world coming a person can suck down 100 news stories a day with doing nothing more than reading headlines.

Greed and speed will be the downfall of blogs much like newspapers have suffered.
I don't agree with it, I think it's potentially bad for the next generation. Lack of hard core challenging reading is going to dumbify. But that's another topic for another time.

Joe, Moving on...


P.S. - If you like this post, click the vote logo on the right side... J/K


UPDATE - I am so smart I scare myself sometimes, this just came off the wire.
Google branches into expandable ads

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Jailbreak Your iPhone

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Written on Monday, March 02, 2009 by Joe Nobody

Being a computer nerd I am also a gadget freak. So, naturally I have had a slew of various cell phones over the last 10 years and everyone of them I have modified to add more functionality than originally designed for. I am a supporter of using what you purchase to its fullest capabilities, if it means bending and twisting it to do so, then do it. This behavior should be accepted, supported and encouraged. I think the Google Android is going this route, but Apple I$ not.

Here are my thoughts on it. Lets compare their argument of modifying the original iPhone state with other products that would be illegal under Apple's (App Store) eyes.
CARS
No new tires other than your car's. Can't replace the stock stereo, can't tweak the engine, can't tint the windows.

YOUR HOUSE
You can't do anything to make it better beyond the original construction.

ANY COMPUTER YOU BUY
No extra memory, no sound cards, video cards beyond what the manufacturer built it with.

And so on...

Jailbreaking your iPhone is not illegal nor should it be. It's taking your hard earned money and taking the expensive phone and making it work to its fullest potential. Apple I$ mad because it's taking the Nazi grip of Application Store apps out of their hands. I say, if you didn't or couldn't see ahead, then build the iPhone software so it can't be done. That simple.

I took my iPhone and performed a jailbreak on it. Sure, I voided my warranty, but if I run into a problem, I will restore from iTunes and restore it to default before Apple sees it. None the wiser, again, you don't like it, build better software. Apple is going to alienate their own customer base by this war drumming and its already starting to tick me off. I am not unlocking the phone to use it on other carriers, I have a full blown service with AT&T, I freed my iPhone from the grips of restrictions.

Why did I do it? I want to have a video recorded on my iPhone, the hardware is capable of it, Apple doesn't allow it, but I want it and now I have it. I wanted the ability to change my SMS text alert sounds, the stock sounds get old real quick, now I can change them.

A smart business would take a look at what the open source community is doing with your phone and make changes to adopt and embrace it rather than blast it. The era of the Mac dominant mentality is going to backfire on them. I always said that Apple should have released the iPhone to every carrier, but AT&T coughed up enough dough to not allow that to happen.

If you want other views on the why, just hit the Google and look.

Why to jailbreak?

Enough ranting, here's how you do it.

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I followed these instructions and it worked perfectly.

Jailbreak instructions

There are a few Windows Apps that will make you life MUCH easier as well.

WavPad - very slick audio editor. I generally use Audacity, but WavPad has far more codecs to save with. You use this to create your text alert sounds or ringtones.

Video Pad - This is the video version of the Pad software. Use this to create your vWallpapers and Video ringtones, that's right, video ringtones.

Prism - Video Pad partner product to convert your videos or other outside videos to iPhone format which is mp4 or mov.

After you do that, the sky is the limit on what you can do. I highly recommend getting these apps first
- WinterBoard, a very slick theme skinner (replacement for Summerboard) for the iPhone. (manual location - /Library/Themes)
- OpenSSH, you need this to move files on and off the phone.
- Cycoder, video recorder...nuff said

These two will tweak the iPhone layout to get 5 rows with 5 icons on the screens, so you can get 30 icons on the home page if you want. 5x5 + 5 icons in the dock. :)
- FiveRow icons
- FiveColumn icons

vWallpaper
A must have application. Have animated wallpapers!!!
*** One note that I found out, the instructions out on the web are not correct. They are for older firmware. If you manually create your own videos here is the location on the iPhone on where they need to go.
- /private/var/mobile/Media/Skrew

Once you get into it, there are hundreds of app out there. You can run the original DOOM 1 and 2 on the iPhone, Quake, NES emulator bringing the full power of the graphics out. There is a flashlight application that maxes out the bightness, did you know the famous Flashlight App. on the Apple App Store is restricted on how bright it could be???

Q: Why?
A: Because their store their rules.

If you have questions, let me know and I will post what I have found out. Overall, I do not regret doing it, in fact I wonder what took me so long.

Joe, moving on...

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The World Is Strange

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Written on Friday, February 27, 2009 by Joe Nobody



I can't be completely serious with this blog. As a nobody in the world I need to point out the imperfect nature of those who walk this planet. As far as I am concerned, if they post things like this on the internet... they deserve it and must be called out and talked about.

Introducing this piece of work. Nothing is know about this individual, or at least nothing obvious, because I am not going to look and farther than this video. Let me set it up for you, it's a strange looking boy/girl who needs a haircut lip singing to Cascada Remix of a Rascal Flatts song.

When you watch it... PLEASE... wait for the Wii Wheel... wait for it.







Joe, Moving on...

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Scary Attitude or The Way It Is?

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Written on Friday, February 27, 2009 by Joe Nobody


I would like to classify myself as an intelligent person. My wife may argue this... There is a trend I am seeing that I am just not understanding under the umbrella of common business sense. I am going to use one example because it's the most extreme I have seen personally, but nonetheless, prevalent almost everywhere I go.

As an IAM expert I travel all over the country meeting with IT teams from small shops for Fortune 500 companies. One blew my mind a few weeks ago and I have still not comes to terms on where they are coming from. So much so, I thinks its worthy to call the CFO tell him he's an idiot and then call the CEO and tell him to fire the CFO for being an idiot and wasting millions.

Here's the situation. Compliance management has been the hot top and will be for the next several years. So, I was in with the CISO and his best and brightest on the team. We were talking about data protection and server protection, they have none. They do it all manually and know they have way too many 'root' users and 'Administrator' accounts. They are aware of it. Among several other messy identity issues. Here's where their pain is.

They do business with other very large corporations, names are unimportant in this example. This company not only has to deal with SAS70, PCI, SOX audits, they are also audited by their own customers. Their business model has the customers able to fine them if they dont meet the security audits as 'insurance' money. Since their data is less secure, they have to pay more to do business with them.

Last year alone they spent over $10 million in fines and insurance for not able to meet these audits. Some of their partners are tossing the idea around of the restricting any business until it's met.

So here I come. I layout Role and Compliance management as well as heavy focus on server protection. The IT and CISO loved it, it will solve all their problems. I can get them light years ahead on where they are now in 6 months time.

Remember $10 million...

Few follow up meetings later we get this message that they are in a 'freeze' and cannot spend any money because there is none. But continue with POCs and such because when it frees up, we're in like Flynn.

NOW - $10 million in fines.
Expenditure of let's say $1.5 million, which is a one time cost, which would allow you to meet their audits in 6-12 months, Saving them $8.5 million in unnecessary fines.

They say they have no money. "It comes from a different bucket" I hear that too. Yet they continue to have millions for these fines, are they now part of the budget???

Am I off here on why I think this is absolutely ridiculous and dangerous??? Is there a magical aspect of Accounting I am not seeing?

They have a serious problem both in IT and Finance. Yet they won't spend a fraction of the problem's cost to fix it.

Please explain this to me.

Joe, Moving on...

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Role and Compliance Mgmt - Part Duex

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Written on Thursday, February 26, 2009 by Joe Nobody

This is a continuance of the first post around Roles. So now you have roles and you are provisioning all nice and efficiently. So what? All this is nice for the greased machine but for the auditors are concerned all that technology didn't make their lives any easier. They are concerned about compliance.

What is compliance?
Compliance refers to systems or departments at corporations and public agencies to ensure that personnel are aware of and take steps to comply with relevant laws and regulations.

You can have the latest and greatest applications and systems in place, but if the business doesn't know whats going on, worthless when that $1 million fine comes down because you can't report on who approved the access for a system.

A strong and robust compliance management system is the only thing that can accomplish this. REPORTS ARE NOT COMPLIANCE!!! Once again - REPORTS ARE NOT COMPLIANCE!!! They are a component of compliance. Again, you run a report, great, good for you, so what? Who cares about the data? Who owns that information? Who is responsible for it's accuracy? How do you track from now to next year?

Compliance, from the definition I posted above, is not only showing awareness but also showing you are taking steps. Acting on it. Certifying the accuracy. Remediating problems.

Why not have a system in place that can take your roles, resources, users and generate a certification campaigns. An activity that happens each quarter for example, that requires each user's manager or owner of a resource to attest to all the access is correct. Certify it. Read the reports, put your signature on it on whats correct and what needs to be corrected. Now, when the auditors come knocking, they don't need to knock on IT's door. Why not have them login to a web portal and access the quarterly attestation report? Or one better, preempt the audit and send the reports automatically to the auditors when the certification is complete.

Again, simple solutions, business changes, job adjustments can save a company weeks to months of digging, wasting time and resources digging for compliance proof points... when they can be central, stored, trended, checked, verified, enforced and take it down to a day or two of auditor visits instead of the dreaded long term presence. Why not?

It's all about accountability.

Who administers the administrators? Most will have to answer that question and if the answer is incorrect, the penalty will exceed the cost of implementing a Role and Compliance system.

Joe, Moving on...

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Role and Compliance Mgmt - PART 1

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Written on Thursday, February 26, 2009 by Joe Nobody


Time for a pure technology related post. Nerds Unite!

Before I get going on the core of this posting I would like to layout my background and define what makes me qualified to write such a post. Blog Credibility, WOW, what a concept.

I am a Role and Compliance Management expert in IAM for the company I work for, a leading software company in the IAM space. I am trying to keep that secret because it has no bearing on the conceptual insight or industry movement, in turn I will try to keep these types of posts product neutral and if any are mentioned at all.
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This post is under the assumption that there is an automated provisioning system in place, for those who do not, that's another problem for another post. :)

Today's IT world is changing daily and I predict it will change dramatically over the next few years. Not so much on technology, like Cloud Computing, those types of ideas reaching mainstream industry at a production level are years off. What I am referring to is the changes around process, procedure, and accountability of the business. The time nearing that IT is completely done as only an asset or business expense. IT, for everyone, is going to become the primary liability protection for any business. Why? Because the government and leading industry groups are going to begin to implement tighter compliance regulations and make the penalties far more reaching and painful.

Just because a company has a database to store some information to make pretty reports for the CEO is not enough. Companies need to be held accountable for everything around that database, the system it runs on, the network it's connected to, and the people who are and who can access it.

I am going to talk about the benefits of meeting those requirements and beginning to re-deign a business' way of thinking. Just because you don't have to meet any compliance requirements does not mean you can ignore making your systems as efficient and secure as possible. If humans were naturally trustworthy beings, we would not need all this, but they aren't and so we do.

If you take the gov't and industry regulations, PCI, HIPPA, GLBA, SOX, etc... they basically want to know a few basic questions with varying degree of detail.
   Who has access to what?
   Who does this account belong to?
   Who approved the access?
   What can they do with that access?
Don't flood me with comments or emails, in the simplistic form thats what compliance is. Does the company have visibility and knowledge on what the heck is going on with their systems and data, if so, prove it now. 95% of the time companies that I have been in cannot answer those questions inside of 15 min. That's a problem, a scary one.

This is where Identity and Access Management solutions come into the mix, this post is focusing on Role and Compliance Management side of the whole IAM spectrum.

Roles in the simplest terms are logical containers for identities. Roles are easy to understand and roles are easy to manage. Would you like to try to maintain Access Control Lists on 100,000 resources for 40,000 users or do the same thing with 1,500 Roles?

If you have hundreds of file shares with 10,000 people accessing them. Today it is done manually and the risk doesn't come from adding someone, but removing the access. It's easy to add, cleanup is sloppy and missed without automation and policies in place to make sure the access is removed. Why this is a risk is orphan account and access creeps. Orphan accounts are from people who have left the company and their accounts and permissions still exist on the systems, each one is a vulnerable door into your world. Access creeps are from when people move within the company and keep accumulating access while never getting what they don't need taken away. Eventually you could have a severe conflict, Accounts Payable permissions and Accounts Receivable permissions granted to the same person. That's a huge risk.

So create roles to manage the permissions. A role can be created to cover 15 file share resources and an application access, then assign 4,000 users who need access to all those resources to the role. Now you have a single point to control for both sides of the equation, users and resources. If you need to add a new file share for everyone, add it to the role. The automated provisioning system will grant the access to the 4,000. You need to remove a user from those resources, take the account out of the single role.

In addition, create business policies around your Role model so you are alerted to and can prevent someone from having conflicting Roles. Acct. Payable cannot have the Acct. Rec. role as well. This process needs to have the business' logic and policies integrated into it, so automatic regulation of itself can occur. Relying on teams of human's to do it is a flawed approach and open for mistakes, misses, and devious behavior.

Someone comes and asks who has access to these file shares??? Goto the role and look at the members, done. Simple, efficient, powerful, easy to understand.

There are several role mining tools that can look at your environment and define the roles based on your current permission definitions today, identify the gaps, show you the risks, reveal truly what's going on with your entire environment. Some tools are better than others. The first step of any IT project is clean up. If a company were to eliminate the orphan accounts, that is a huge risk reduction for starters, getting your own systems back in control.

But this is just a part of the process and a very high level overview on what will become the hottest IT topic over the next 18 months. All this is meaningless and gets you no where closer to where you need to be if you cannot prove you are compliant.

PART 2 - Compliance

Joe, Moving on...

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Song Stuck and Can't Get It Out

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Written on Wednesday, February 25, 2009 by Joe Nobody

There are certain songs that just have that melody that you hum and hum and can't shake it. Since the Grammy's I have had come a across such a tune. I don't know what it is about it, the chorus is driving me nuts, can't shake it. The true insanity is that I can't stand "Hip Hop" ghetto rap. 99% is crap, then albeit far and very few between, one tune like this comes along and messes up my music world. This one has grabbed me and made me say that this is a good song, mainly because it was driven by Justin Timberlake, who actually has extreme musical talent and doesn't hide behind voice manipulators and can play an instrument or two.





...now this one is gaining on it as one I cannot shake....





Thankfully I think this might be it for a while, I will break the bonds of musical catchiness... I must.


Joe, Moving on...

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Flash and Vista

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Written on Tuesday, February 24, 2009 by Joe Nobody

For a while on my couple computers I decided to move forward with MS Vista on, I have been developing a Flash player related problem. On most sites now the sounds get real choppy, especially on streams like on Hulu. So here is how to fix it.

The problem is coming from Vista and Flash together. First you need to uninstall and reinstall the Flash player.

Uninstall Flash

THEN

Install Flash - this requires you to shut down your browser.

After you do that you may still have sound issues. So tune Vista.

Click on the Windows Circle -> Control Panel -> Sound
You will see your speakers first usually, right click and select Properties.
You will then see an Enhancements Tab, click that and check the box that says Disable Enhancements or Disable All Sound Effect (I have seen it different ways on different Vista installs).

That's it. This will clear up your choppy sound on video sites. I have confirmed it on two machines.

Joe, Moving on...

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Here we go

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Written on Tuesday, February 24, 2009 by Joe Nobody

After a few years of attempting to make this work, I am now committed to.

Joe, Moving on...

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Chris Brown Update

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Written on Monday, February 16, 2009 by Joe Nobody


So, Chris Brown, a "Hip Hop" "ARTIST", got him self into a little domestic trouble.

Now, I am not going to go into my feelings about "Hip Hop" or the culture they are trying to wrap around it.... as far as Chris Brown goes...

Untrained and unprepared KIDS will be KIDS...

You know King Tut was 9 when he took the throne and rules for 10 years, which would make him 19..... huh. How times have changed.


Joe, Moving on...

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