Maybe because they (the police) are the ones that have to deal with crime every day, and thus are probably the only people who are really qualified to discuss the benefits of such systems. I've worked on systems for law enforcement - believe me, the cops need all the help they can get, to - let's not forget it - protect us. Sure, there's a few 'bad apples', but there are crooks and cranks in every profession.
Hence, the need for checks and balances. "The price of democracy is eternal vigilance," (Thomas Jefferson).
Ya know what they say, "if you've done nothing wrong, you've nothing to worry about".
Indeed - they started the whole thing off. Before the shared their insights & techniques with the British, French & Americans, the latter were nowhere in solving Enigma. It's a scandal that afterwards they were neither recognised for their efforts, nor integrated with the British team.
In the interests of 'National Security', the British Govt. broke up the team that broke the Enigma codes, and 'classified' or destroyed the equipment that they had imagined, designed AND built to help. Thereby setting back the UK IT industry by - oh, let's say 10 years, IMHO.
Not gonna Karma-whore by posting a zillion Wikiped links, but it's all there if you're interested and don't know the story. Worth a read, newbies, since a lot of what you now take for granted was developed by these folks.
Am I alone in having enough of this "yet-another-not-really-a-problem-but-lets-post-an yway-cos-its-vista-meaningless-tags" crap?
I hope not.
Lord knows I'm no Ms or even less a Vista aplogist, (check my posts). Probably beacuse I've been using PCs since before they were called PCs. Seriously doubt that anybody here has more reason to hate Bill's shitty code than me.
But enough is enough. As another poster pointed out, in another thread, kd seems to be going the way of zonk. Too many bullshit anti-Ms posts already.
It would seem, (http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/9280 91), that you can install both Office 2003 and 2007 on the same system. Personally, I think you'd be nuts to do it, but if you want to trial and compare features....
Should not be trialing s/w on your production system anyway IMHO.
If you must, backup everything first, and just keep a copy of your email messages on the server. If you have to downgrade afterwards, restore your old outlook *.pst files and re-download the new mails. You'll not get the 'sent' mails, tho..
Following on from the runaway success of this http://ubuntusatanic.org/news/ and this http://tinyurl.com/nq9ut, I'm sure we'll soon have MAFIA, paedophile and Goatse *nix distros...the demand is there, c'mon RedHat, what are you waiting for?
There's more to HRM than payroll, but fully agree that payroll is something best left to the specialists, unless you're a 500+ enterprise with a dedicated payroll dept. Two reasons; 1. Confidentiality & security. 2. Keeping track of relevant legislation & incorporating it into the app. Also, do you wanna be the tech that has to explain to x angry people why their salary did not arrive? I've been there - was not nice.
Stick to recording and pre-processing time & expenses...
Absolutely! Most busines PC users are, if anything, too tech-savy for their support teams. They have smartphones, and PCs at home. Once they see all the stuff that is out there, they become more and more demanding. All too frequently, (and yes, I know all the reasons - package and dependencies management, budget constraints..), corporate IT does not provide a quick, easy and cost-effective response.
Thus users end up 'breaking' or 'hacking' the corporate IT stuff because it does not meet their needs.
The worst part is, so often the 'basics' are not covered. Modern buisiness users are highly-mobile and require secure communications and backups - inclusing for their personal (which are often also company-issued) devices. As one of the other posts has pointed out, this is not that hard to do. IMHO, it's rarely done well.
Finally, as has also been said here many times, the key to 'safe' user practices is education, education, education...
If the lame 'I use Opera post...' gets a 5, then so should yours! I should imagine that most users here do NOT use IE as their default browser, and if using Firefox, have it loaded up with Adblock, Noscript, phishtank...as do I
Note that Foxit won't work with some of the latest pdf security devices, such as fileopen, (http://www.fileopen.com/).
Also worth a mention is Cute PDF writer, http://tinyurl.com/2scjk, (the only free one I found without annoying watermarks). Creates a decent pdf MUCH faster and simpler than Acrobat. Again, not up to latest security features.
To OCR recognise pdfs, try Abbey reader - very expensive but worth it.
Finally, the best (nearly) FOSS alternative to pdf is Déjà Vu, (http://tinyurl.com/3djlyy). FOSS writers/readers are available for *nix, but for Windows the only writer I found is commercial software from Lizardtech (http://tinyurl.com/agexs). At least the windows reader (browser plugin) is free.
It works in a similar way to the old, much-missed Xerox/Pagis '*.xif' format, (not the same as the more common xif format - don't ask), which stored non-recognised text/photos etc as compressed images, and text as just text. The result is very small files, but with reasonable image and perfect text quality.
But now we're getting REALLY offtopic...so what - always though Musicmatch was a piece of junk anyway. Winamp is much better!
No, that's not what I meant, and of course, as the article illustrates, nothing is foolproof. Renewing my/. or ebay password seems to work, however...
Just musing about how concerned people could actively contribute to spam reduction by getting a 'real' response to their mails to ISPs. Central anti-spam sites are repeatedly attacked, and sometimes closed. Perhaps if it were managed on a 'per ISP / email provider' basis this would be harder for the botnetters to attack.
Agreed. It's the 'myspace' of the 'free' email providers. The irony is that it had to be easy to use, and therefore abuse, so that kids can could use it. But now they all use MSN Messenger... Time for an update?
The time has surely passed when M$, Yahoo et al needed huge numbers of email subscribers to prove how important they were.
How about a self-policing system? Rather than the typical 'black hole' that 'abuse@...' normally leads to, one could have an automated voting system. If 'n' people complain about 'x' address, then wham, it's blocked. Could check for individual IPs, or make people mail respond to a challenge, to check that it was real people complaining, and not a botnet...
Would enough people participate, though? I know I don't try and get all the spam I receive blocked, just the ones that get through the filter, and even then, just when I have time or the mood takes me...
Slashdot Mirror
"The ones that can count to ten, that is."
So, that's 90% of the US population out then...
Maybe because they (the police) are the ones that have to deal with crime every day, and thus are probably the only people who are really qualified to discuss the benefits of such systems. I've worked on systems for law enforcement - believe me, the cops need all the help they can get, to - let's not forget it - protect us. Sure, there's a few 'bad apples', but there are crooks and cranks in every profession.
Hence, the need for checks and balances. "The price of democracy is eternal vigilance," (Thomas Jefferson).
Ya know what they say, "if you've done nothing wrong, you've nothing to worry about".
As pointed out, noscript is your friend. Another handy plugin is passwordmaker, https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/addon/469
Makes it trivial to have different, secure passwords for each site.
Yeah, but that would probably work just as well as the Clipper chip...remember that? Exactly...
OS/400 vs. CMS? You must be new here...try OCL vs. CMS
Indeed - they started the whole thing off. Before the shared their insights & techniques with the British, French & Americans, the latter were nowhere in solving Enigma. It's a scandal that afterwards they were neither recognised for their efforts, nor integrated with the British team.
In the interests of 'National Security', the British Govt. broke up the team that broke the Enigma codes, and 'classified' or destroyed the equipment that they had imagined, designed AND built to help. Thereby setting back the UK IT industry by - oh, let's say 10 years, IMHO.
Not gonna Karma-whore by posting a zillion Wikiped links, but it's all there if you're interested and don't know the story. Worth a read, newbies, since a lot of what you now take for granted was developed by these folks.
Am I alone in having enough of this "yet-another-not-really-a-problem-but-lets-post-an yway-cos-its-vista-meaningless-tags" crap?
I hope not.
Lord knows I'm no Ms or even less a Vista aplogist, (check my posts). Probably beacuse I've been using PCs since before they were called PCs. Seriously doubt that anybody here has more reason to hate Bill's shitty code than me.
But enough is enough. As another poster pointed out, in another thread, kd seems to be going the way of zonk. Too many bullshit anti-Ms posts already.
It would seem, (http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/9280 91), that you can install both Office 2003 and 2007 on the same system. Personally, I think you'd be nuts to do it, but if you want to trial and compare features....
Should not be trialing s/w on your production system anyway IMHO.
If you must, backup everything first, and just keep a copy of your email messages on the server. If you have to downgrade afterwards, restore your old outlook *.pst files and re-download the new mails. You'll not get the 'sent' mails, tho..
Following on from the runaway success of this http://ubuntusatanic.org/news/ and this http://tinyurl.com/nq9ut, I'm sure we'll soon have MAFIA, paedophile and Goatse *nix distros...the demand is there, c'mon RedHat, what are you waiting for?
There's more to HRM than payroll, but fully agree that payroll is something best left to the specialists, unless you're a 500+ enterprise with a dedicated payroll dept. Two reasons; 1. Confidentiality & security. 2. Keeping track of relevant legislation & incorporating it into the app. Also, do you wanna be the tech that has to explain to x angry people why their salary did not arrive? I've been there - was not nice.
Stick to recording and pre-processing time & expenses...
Indeed. There was a story on this here before, complete with ammonia explanations etc.
Cue 'global warming' nutjobs in 5...4...3...
Absolutely! Most busines PC users are, if anything, too tech-savy for their support teams. They have smartphones, and PCs at home.
Once they see all the stuff that is out there, they become more and more demanding. All too frequently, (and yes, I know all the reasons - package and dependencies management, budget constraints..), corporate IT does not provide a quick, easy and cost-effective response.
Thus users end up 'breaking' or 'hacking' the corporate IT stuff because it does not meet their needs.
The worst part is, so often the 'basics' are not covered. Modern buisiness users are highly-mobile and require secure communications and backups - inclusing for their personal (which are often also company-issued) devices. As one of the other posts has pointed out, this is not that hard to do. IMHO, it's rarely done well.
Finally, as has also been said here many times, the key to 'safe' user practices is education, education, education...
Interesting and mature response. Sorry, have no points today...
Our new drug-seeking canine clone overlords! Just imagine a beodog cluster of...oh, never mind...
because they've eaten the parents...
If the lame 'I use Opera post...' gets a 5, then so should yours! I should imagine that most users here do NOT use IE as their default browser, and if using Firefox, have it loaded up with Adblock, Noscript, phishtank...as do I
As in 'Wall Street'?
Note that Foxit won't work with some of the latest pdf security devices, such as fileopen, (http://www.fileopen.com/).
Also worth a mention is Cute PDF writer, http://tinyurl.com/2scjk, (the only free one I found without annoying watermarks). Creates a decent pdf MUCH faster and simpler than Acrobat. Again, not up to latest security features.
To OCR recognise pdfs, try Abbey reader - very expensive but worth it.
Finally, the best (nearly) FOSS alternative to pdf is Déjà Vu, (http://tinyurl.com/3djlyy). FOSS writers/readers are available for *nix, but for Windows the only writer I found is commercial software from Lizardtech (http://tinyurl.com/agexs). At least the windows reader (browser plugin) is free.
It works in a similar way to the old, much-missed Xerox/Pagis '*.xif' format, (not the same as the more common xif format - don't ask), which stored non-recognised text/photos etc as compressed images, and text as just text. The result is very small files, but with reasonable image and perfect text quality.
But now we're getting REALLY offtopic...so what - always though Musicmatch was a piece of junk anyway. Winamp is much better!
If you're running windows, http://tinyurl.com/4a4a6, (if you're not, plenty of FOSS stuff on *nix).
Loads fast, works really well, and basic version is free.
But this is getting offtopic...
No, that's not what I meant, and of course, as the article illustrates, nothing is foolproof. /. or ebay password seems to work, however...
Renewing my
Just musing about how concerned people could actively contribute to spam reduction by getting a 'real' response to their mails to ISPs. Central anti-spam sites are repeatedly attacked, and sometimes closed. Perhaps if it were managed on a 'per ISP / email provider' basis this would be harder for the botnetters to attack.
What's the alternative, do nothing?
Agreed. It's the 'myspace' of the 'free' email providers. The irony is that it had to be easy to use, and therefore abuse, so that kids can could use it. But now they all use MSN Messenger... Time for an update?
The time has surely passed when M$, Yahoo et al needed huge numbers of email subscribers to prove how important they were.
How about a self-policing system? Rather than the typical 'black hole' that 'abuse@...' normally leads to, one could have an automated voting system. If 'n' people complain about 'x' address, then wham, it's blocked. Could check for individual IPs, or make people mail respond to a challenge, to check that it was real people complaining, and not a botnet...
Would enough people participate, though? I know I don't try and get all the spam I receive blocked, just the ones that get through the filter, and even then, just when I have time or the mood takes me...
[] AmigaOS!
Hi Richard, thanks for that one - did not know it, but as an ex-IBMer, it works for me.
Here's another couple from the old days:
It's Being Mended
Idiots Become Managers
Regards
John
"whereas the 400 has one program per user"
Can't remember - was MRT (instead of SRT) not supported under Cobol, then? Was in RPG...
You missed my favourite - I've Been Misled