Think about how many attempts to do this go unrewarded....in any given day. I think about how many scripts and 'sploits I see for *nix machines, and I don't see these kinds of numbers for NT boxes.
Why is it that a *nix box getting compromised = 'Excellent, now we can patch the hole', but an NT machine = their security "sucks"?
My personal opinion is that unix variants are more secure, stable, and so on, but NT is NOT a gaping hole into a given network, just not my 1st choice as a server.
Before the flames abound, my personal server is a linux box, I just didn't agree with this particular statement.
What ever happened to reading the blessed old Book at bedtime? No wonder some kids wake up screaming with nightmares!
Sheesh! Stories with happy endings are too evil for little kids. Let's tell them stories about deceit,devils,damnation,suffering....yeah, these are much better!
The main danger of these books is that the media is recruiting children into Satan?s army. At a young age, children cannot understand a lot of things, but they can understand this witchcraft story because it is "fun." It is just like giving a child a cigarette, then getting him hooked on pot, then taking him to crack cocaine, then on to heroine. These books are just the starting place for evil.
Of course children can't understand a lot of things, but is keeping them in a 'plastic bubble' gonna help? There is a big difference in being told something is wrong, and studying it, pondering it, and then making your own decisions. What's the first thing a kid does when mommy or daddy say no? They do it of course! Instead of sheltering your child and warping their view of what the world really is, why not let them experience reality and guide them to make intelligent decisions about what is right and what is wrong?
Your analogy is a bit warped here. Unless you think that is how drug escalation works. In each step, you speak as if you are forcing your child to do these things. A person who can make their own decisions about right/wrong is less likely to ever do these things, than someone who has just been told, don't do that. I think the majority of/.ers would agree with me that some of the wildest kids in school were the preacher's kids. I can't think of a single child raised in a 'good christian environment' that wasn't this way. Of course most of them give that holier than thou snotty attitude a strong run, but get them away from their peers, and they're just as bad as the 'heathens (sp?)'
A normal child does not take a weapon to school and dress the way some of these murderers have dressed.
Weapons aside, what murderers are you speaking of here? That columbine media circus??? In all the hubbub about this shooting, I saw lots of pictures of these kids, and I would assume that these were 'normal' kids, so I don't see what you're getting at here. If we're gonna talk wearing all black, don't forget those weirdo priests (deviants!). I've seen all the same crap news on these shootings as anyone else, and don't recall a single kid that I wouldn't consider normal, if not nerdish in appearance.
Bottom line is, Harry Potter is not the dawn of a great apocalypse. Pokemon, no matter how annoying and how much is read into it, is not the work of any devil. Black shirts/coats etc. are not signs of satanic worship. Kids are just that, kids. They thirst for anything new to them. Telling them no, without a tangible reason, is adding fuel to the fire. And most importantly, people need to be able to make their own decisions in life. Encourage children to read/watch/experience the world around them. While religion may not be a bad thing, the world does not revolve around it.
When I think religion, I think HolyWars, and the raw evilness of it all sickens me.
I prefer the wide variety path. I may just be a windoze tech bitch, but until I can move into *nix administration or some such, I enjoy the fact that my problems can have me working on all manor of things in a single day. Today for example: Exchange Server problems this morning...fixed that. 3 Image loads on desktop machines...done. A spring popped out of a Tektronix Phaser 740L...fixed that. Minor virus outbreak...contained/fixed that. Play with the W2k test Lan to examine compatibility with existing systems...still working. Samba got sick...stop/start....easy fix.
I may not have the most glorious job, and it isn't always stimulating, but what job is? Still, 99% of the time, I'm happy here.
Hell, being a coal-fire power plant, I've even helped work on other machinery, from electronics to mechanical coal scales and the security gate system (chain keeps jumping sprocket...grrrrr).
All this variety easily keeps me from getting burned out. Sure, I make a little less here than I could working elsewhere, but I stay because I love the environment. I got my review today, and I'm doing quiet well (got a raise!!!), and content to keep showing up in jeans and punk rock t-shirts versus a job where I have to stay clean-cut and wear a tie!
I couldn't be a programmer full-time. I couldn't make my self sit in a chair all damned day mostly. Here, I bet I walk a few miles a day going all over the plant. That's more exercise than almost all the computer slaves I know.
Here, we're like a small community all working at the same place. No single office with a manager behind the door behind me.... Hell, I don't have a real boss here, they're all corp. On site, I've got a psuedo-boss that I talk to about once every few months....just to see how things are going, and I like it that way.
I don't recall whining, and I specifically didn't mention MS. Mentioning MS in every article (popular in/. for a while now) makes it difficult to read each story/post with a fresh perspective.
Also I never said it was wrong for them to merge, just that it worried me. And more power to them for not *being caught* doing anything illegal, but these types of investigations are at least in part designed to decide if the merger would create a monopoly or not. Considering the % of media that each of these guys hold, I would be inclined to say yes.
However, I do worry that this much media under one thumb could make mainstream media even worse. There are benefits, I'll admit, like maybe I could finally leave dial-up hell, and break that 5 or so k/s barrier I've been at for so long.
Aren't these guys big enough already?? Seems like too many eggs in one basket for me to feel comfortable with this. It's not as if you can easily avoid either one as it is, but together, I might as well have their logos on my bed sheets.
Although I agree with several replies to this (better than mpaa/riaa stuff, there is a games section etc...) I agree that this is less than newsworthy. Makes me want to see how fast I can complete zork (the 1st one).
My experience with the Gov't and coding is much the same. Whilst I've done gov't work in the utilities industry, it has amazed me how much goes into an in-house app's design, or the implementation of a commercial app. I've got binders full of documentation, on how to document! The peer reviews you speak of are potential very lengthy, and things get done and redone over and over until the code is tight, does what it is intended for, and hopefully, doesn't fsck the rest of the system. Sometimes it seems rediculous, but considering the number of people that depend on the power plants running, I'm glad they do it.
I'm no coder, just a meager admin/support tech bitch, but after working in large corporations, I've come to 2 (for sake of time) useful conclusions:
1. Mgmt is not completely useless. I for one have no desire to wade through all of the PR b.s. and paperwork these folks do. More power to them if they like this sorta work. I personally love having my job to do, but not being burdened with piles of paperwork.
2. Mgmt is NOT always out to get you. Whether it is the policies they invoke, those seemingly inane hurdles they force you through, or the way that it seems they've got it in for you, more than likely, this isn't the case. For me, I see it like this: I'm part of a cog in a bigger machine, and my job is to deal with my cog. Mgmt's job is to make sure that all the cogs work together to push the business machine ahead. If they had it in for me, security would've already escorted me out the gate.
3. It doesn't always look like it, but mgmt, for the most part, knows what it is doing. This doesn't always fit my ideal work environment, but hey, it IS called work afterall.
Mgmt is a necessary evil. Businesses evolve. Mgmt is a part of that schema, like it or not. As mgmt becomes less necessary, it'll be weeded out, but I don't see it happening in our lifetimes. With the very concept of the small company slowly becoming a myth (remember the flood of local ISPs?), a can't see how mgmt could be dissolved. It's a full time job to hold a small group together and have their work cohesive. Now take a company with several hundred or a few thousand employees, you wanna shoulder that burden 9-5, and then code 5-9? Probably not, but someone has to hold it all together.
Yeah, I'll admit that changing the specs-n-reqs over and over is anti-productive, but the entire story doesn't unfold all at once, at least not in my experience. I can think of at least 5 or 6 changes made in the reqs for each server here. This isn't done out of spite. Budgets change, new info comes to light, new features are approved, and so forth. If you wanna change the way this is done, be a manager. I think it'll be harder than you imagine. If it was that easy to change for the better, it woulda already happened.
Dreaming for change based on Idsoftware is a pipe dream at best. Id is still just a single example. On a personal rant, Id continues to release games that are basically the same, for basically the same people. I don't think management style influenced their success as much as the editability of said games. This way, at least the users can make something fun to play. Diversity is the key!
Sounds like your experiences with anime lean toward Hentai....a far cry from Macross, Tenchi, El-Hazard etc. . . Do you dislike movies because rental places have pr0n rooms?
I can't say that I've every used the mymp3.com feature, but from my visits to mp3.com, I've never *noticed* any copyrighted material for free. Has anyone here used this feature of mp3.com, and/or have you noticed PIRATED materials there? I was under the impression that the whole point of the company was to provide the little non-copyrighted artists and avenue for distribution.
I haven't been a linux user for 'that' long, and I think it's the best thing since any bread (a whole dif. story), but you're pulling and example out of context...my message was not a msg for pro/anti linux sentiment. Did it ever strike you to think the whole message out before you latch on to one (out of context) example and fire off a retort? Actually, you're fuel for the fire; Seeing one tiny thing that even hinted anti-linux, whether that's the actual message or not, and firing off a seemingly witty response.
Ya know, I have a feeling that if this Happened to a M$ discussion board, or RIAA, or *.gov that this would have been fine. Hacks and general annoyances can't be expected to always be with the flow of/. tastes. This reminds me of the anti-linux = crap sentiments that seem to overwhelm/. at times. Geez, it's like little kids here sometimes. I can poke you, but if you poke back, I'll cry.
I've worked some crummy jobs under no-pay conditions, and sticking it out was very difficult. The one thing that I can think of that really sticks out in my mind as making the experience worth it was when I felt that my contribution to the team/project/whatever was need and most importantly appreciated (we all know that nobody does it better than 'me') Do you feel that they know the importance of their role? Do they act as if the feel appreciated? If not, they may already be lost, but you can try to hang on to them. Take 'em out for a couple beers, invite them over for a cookout, maybe go line dancing (yeah right). In short, put forth the effort to let them know that you're screwed without them. Isn't that what we all want?
Did this type of hoopla occur over cassette tapes or CDs when they were new technology? Being in my mid-twenties, I was wee little when these took place, but I would imagine similar concerns over copying audio have been voiced since the availability of easily recordable media. The way I see it is that people are going to find ways to 'rip' the audio, even at a loss in quality, no matter what they try. They did it with tapes and CDs, why would this be any different? But what do I know, encryption isn't one of my strong points.
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Think about how many attempts to do this go unrewarded....in any given day. I think about how many scripts and 'sploits I see for *nix machines, and I don't see these kinds of numbers for NT boxes.
Why is it that a *nix box getting compromised = 'Excellent, now we can patch the hole', but an NT machine = their security "sucks"?
My personal opinion is that unix variants are more secure, stable, and so on, but NT is NOT a gaping hole into a given network, just not my 1st choice as a server.
Before the flames abound, my personal server is a linux box, I just didn't agree with this particular statement.
What ever happened to reading the blessed old Book at bedtime? No wonder some kids wake up screaming with nightmares!
/.ers would agree with me that some of the wildest kids in school were the preacher's kids. I can't think of a single child raised in a 'good christian environment' that wasn't this way. Of course most of them give that holier than thou snotty attitude a strong run, but get them away from their peers, and they're just as bad as the 'heathens (sp?)'
Sheesh! Stories with happy endings are too evil for little kids. Let's tell them stories about deceit,devils,damnation,suffering....yeah, these are much better!
The main danger of these books is that the media is recruiting children into Satan?s army. At a young age, children cannot understand a lot of things, but they can understand this witchcraft story because it is "fun." It is just like giving a child a cigarette, then getting him hooked on pot, then taking him to crack cocaine, then on to heroine. These books are just the starting place for evil.
Of course children can't understand a lot of things, but is keeping them in a 'plastic bubble' gonna help? There is a big difference in being told something is wrong, and studying it, pondering it, and then making your own decisions. What's the first thing a kid does when mommy or daddy say no? They do it of course! Instead of sheltering your child and warping their view of what the world really is, why not let them experience reality and guide them to make intelligent decisions about what is right and what is wrong?
Your analogy is a bit warped here. Unless you think that is how drug escalation works. In each step, you speak as if you are forcing your child to do these things. A person who can make their own decisions about right/wrong is less likely to ever do these things, than someone who has just been told, don't do that. I think the majority of
A normal child does not take a weapon to school and dress the way some of these murderers have dressed.
Weapons aside, what murderers are you speaking of here? That columbine media circus??? In all the hubbub about this shooting, I saw lots of pictures of these kids, and I would assume that these were 'normal' kids, so I don't see what you're getting at here. If we're gonna talk wearing all black, don't forget those weirdo priests (deviants!). I've seen all the same crap news on these shootings as anyone else, and don't recall a single kid that I wouldn't consider normal, if not nerdish in appearance.
Bottom line is, Harry Potter is not the dawn of a great apocalypse. Pokemon, no matter how annoying and how much is read into it, is not the work of any devil. Black shirts/coats etc. are not signs of satanic worship. Kids are just that, kids. They thirst for anything new to them. Telling them no, without a tangible reason, is adding fuel to the fire. And most importantly, people need to be able to make their own decisions in life. Encourage children to read/watch/experience the world around them. While religion may not be a bad thing, the world does not revolve around it.
When I think religion, I think HolyWars, and the raw evilness of it all sickens me.
I prefer the wide variety path. I may just be a windoze tech bitch, but until I can move into *nix administration or some such, I enjoy the fact that my problems can have me working on all manor of things in a single day. Today for example: Exchange Server problems this morning...fixed that. 3 Image loads on desktop machines...done. A spring popped out of a Tektronix Phaser 740L...fixed that. Minor virus outbreak...contained/fixed that. Play with the W2k test Lan to examine compatibility with existing systems...still working. Samba got sick...stop/start....easy fix.
I may not have the most glorious job, and it isn't always stimulating, but what job is? Still, 99% of the time, I'm happy here.
Hell, being a coal-fire power plant, I've even helped work on other machinery, from electronics to mechanical coal scales and the security gate system (chain keeps jumping sprocket...grrrrr).
All this variety easily keeps me from getting burned out. Sure, I make a little less here than I could working elsewhere, but I stay because I love the environment. I got my review today, and I'm doing quiet well (got a raise!!!), and content to keep showing up in jeans and punk rock t-shirts versus a job where I have to stay clean-cut and wear a tie!
I couldn't be a programmer full-time. I couldn't make my self sit in a chair all damned day mostly. Here, I bet I walk a few miles a day going all over the plant. That's more exercise than almost all the computer slaves I know.
Here, we're like a small community all working at the same place. No single office with a manager behind the door behind me.... Hell, I don't have a real boss here, they're all corp. On site, I've got a psuedo-boss that I talk to about once every few months....just to see how things are going, and I like it that way.
Long live diversity!!!!!
I don't recall whining, and I specifically didn't mention MS. Mentioning MS in every article (popular in /. for a while now) makes it difficult to read each story/post with a fresh perspective.
Also I never said it was wrong for them to merge, just that it worried me. And more power to them for not *being caught* doing anything illegal, but these types of investigations are at least in part designed to decide if the merger would create a monopoly or not. Considering the % of media that each of these guys hold, I would be inclined to say yes.
Nah, not jealous :)
However, I do worry that this much media under one thumb could make mainstream media even worse. There are benefits, I'll admit, like maybe I could finally leave dial-up hell, and break that 5 or so k/s barrier I've been at for so long.
Aren't these guys big enough already?? Seems like too many eggs in one basket for me to feel comfortable with this. It's not as if you can easily avoid either one as it is, but together, I might as well have their logos on my bed sheets.
Although I agree with several replies to this (better than mpaa/riaa stuff, there is a games section etc...) I agree that this is less than newsworthy. Makes me want to see how fast I can complete zork (the 1st one).
Yeah, he knows..... Gay Maritans and all that....
My experience with the Gov't and coding is much the same. Whilst I've done gov't work in the utilities industry, it has amazed me how much goes into an in-house app's design, or the implementation of a commercial app. I've got binders full of documentation, on how to document! The peer reviews you speak of are potential very lengthy, and things get done and redone over and over until the code is tight, does what it is intended for, and hopefully, doesn't fsck the rest of the system. Sometimes it seems rediculous, but considering the number of people that depend on the power plants running, I'm glad they do it.
I'm no coder, just a meager admin/support tech bitch, but after working in large corporations, I've come to 2 (for sake of time) useful conclusions:
1. Mgmt is not completely useless. I for one have no desire to wade through all of the PR b.s. and paperwork these folks do. More power to them if they like this sorta work. I personally love having my job to do, but not being burdened with piles of paperwork.
2. Mgmt is NOT always out to get you. Whether it is the policies they invoke, those seemingly inane hurdles they force you through, or the way that it seems they've got it in for you, more than likely, this isn't the case. For me, I see it like this: I'm part of a cog in a bigger machine, and my job is to deal with my cog. Mgmt's job is to make sure that all the cogs work together to push the business machine ahead. If they had it in for me, security would've already escorted me out the gate.
3. It doesn't always look like it, but mgmt, for the most part, knows what it is doing. This doesn't always fit my ideal work environment, but hey, it IS called work afterall.
Mgmt is a necessary evil. Businesses evolve. Mgmt is a part of that schema, like it or not. As mgmt becomes less necessary, it'll be weeded out, but I don't see it happening in our lifetimes. With the very concept of the small company slowly becoming a myth (remember the flood of local ISPs?), a can't see how mgmt could be dissolved. It's a full time job to hold a small group together and have their work cohesive. Now take a company with several hundred or a few thousand employees, you wanna shoulder that burden 9-5, and then code 5-9? Probably not, but someone has to hold it all together.
Yeah, I'll admit that changing the specs-n-reqs over and over is anti-productive, but the entire story doesn't unfold all at once, at least not in my experience. I can think of at least 5 or 6 changes made in the reqs for each server here. This isn't done out of spite. Budgets change, new info comes to light, new features are approved, and so forth. If you wanna change the way this is done, be a manager. I think it'll be harder than you imagine. If it was that easy to change for the better, it woulda already happened.
Dreaming for change based on Idsoftware is a pipe dream at best. Id is still just a single example. On a personal rant, Id continues to release games that are basically the same, for basically the same people. I don't think management style influenced their success as much as the editability of said games. This way, at least the users can make something fun to play. Diversity is the key!
Sounds like your experiences with anime lean toward Hentai....a far cry from Macross, Tenchi, El-Hazard etc. . . Do you dislike movies because rental places have pr0n rooms?
I can't say that I've every used the mymp3.com feature, but from my visits to mp3.com, I've never *noticed* any copyrighted material for free. Has anyone here used this feature of mp3.com, and/or have you noticed PIRATED materials there? I was under the impression that the whole point of the company was to provide the little non-copyrighted artists and avenue for distribution.
I haven't been a linux user for 'that' long, and I think it's the best thing since any bread (a whole dif. story), but you're pulling and example out of context...my message was not a msg for pro/anti linux sentiment. Did it ever strike you to think the whole message out before you latch on to one (out of context) example and fire off a retort? Actually, you're fuel for the fire; Seeing one tiny thing that even hinted anti-linux, whether that's the actual message or not, and firing off a seemingly witty response.
Ya know, I have a feeling that if this Happened to a M$ discussion board, or RIAA, or *.gov that this would have been fine. Hacks and general annoyances can't be expected to always be with the flow of /. tastes. This reminds me of the anti-linux = crap sentiments that seem to overwhelm /. at times. Geez, it's like little kids here sometimes. I can poke you, but if you poke back, I'll cry.
I've worked some crummy jobs under no-pay conditions, and sticking it out was very difficult. The one thing that I can think of that really sticks out in my mind as making the experience worth it was when I felt that my contribution to the team/project/whatever was need and most importantly appreciated (we all know that nobody does it better than 'me') Do you feel that they know the importance of their role? Do they act as if the feel appreciated? If not, they may already be lost, but you can try to hang on to them. Take 'em out for a couple beers, invite them over for a cookout, maybe go line dancing (yeah right). In short, put forth the effort to let them know that you're screwed without them. Isn't that what we all want?
Did this type of hoopla occur over cassette tapes or CDs when they were new technology? Being in my mid-twenties, I was wee little when these took place, but I would imagine similar concerns over copying audio have been voiced since the availability of easily recordable media. The way I see it is that people are going to find ways to 'rip' the audio, even at a loss in quality, no matter what they try. They did it with tapes and CDs, why would this be any different? But what do I know, encryption isn't one of my strong points.
Thanks, 56k/sec beat the connection failed I got everyplace else I tried.