So maybe we should drop a few internets in a suitcase and some of those mobile phone workarounds from yesterdays $50M freedom non censorship project around China then.. surely they wont mind..
Here is the real "problem".. you get a wyswyg editor and wyswyg yourself to happiness.. then they come up with new browsers and new html standards and you do a tapdance of updates and searching to get back under the new ecosystem.. lather rinse repeat until you go slowly insane. What you end up doing is finding an editor that does ok basic wyswyg but you end up always always using the current browser set and html versions on live/test servers to really do your launch testing. So the answer is not really what has long legs.. the answer is get comfortable with a solution that lets you easily test on live (non-production) servers with the current ecosystem.
Personally.. I use Dreamweaver MX, Filezilla and a sprinkle of Notepad++. I do a lot of Joomla dev and custom coding and it works for me.. oh.. also get LAMP or WAMP going locally for great victory.
I appreciate my 72 Ford F100 more every day. Thank God I work from home and only need it to haul things every once ina while. Yes, the mileage is hideous, but being able to wrench around on it without a batcave of scopes an electronics as well as the lack of tracking/gps/logs etc is priceless.
FWIW I checked into creating and selling our extra electricity. I am with a rural co-op so anyones mileage may vary. They required an engineer to evaluate our system and $500,000 in insurance to connect to their grid. When I ran the math on how much electricity I could reasonably provide versus the cost of the insurance I decided it want worth it as a financial endeavor.
I often wonder what would happen if a group of nerds..like ourselves.. decided to start our own root DNS.. I would suspect that it would be shut down by the FCC in short order under some new or trumped up mangled misinterpretation of some law.
While I know they are a pillar of our judicial system, plea deals are nothing but subjective justice. You are either guilty or innocent.. not innocent of a lesser charge because we like you or can't prove our case or need you to squeel on someone bigger. I completely agree with the OP that lies are coerced every day for fear of what will happen if you dont tell the truth the way the enforcement wants to hear it and the soul crushing weight of cash required to fight even the smallest incidents is in itself a travesty to justice.
Leaning towards the tin-hat side, and not trusting govt or even big business any farther than.. well.. practically none.. I believe Assange when he says FB is a hideous tool of data collection for the govt, but even worse than this, the masses are populating data and beta testing software that will eventually allow every camera on every streetlight, ATM, convenience store and mall to identify and monitor us. What comes next..I dont know, but it scary to think that there will be very few places where you will not be tracked and identified.
Tom Smykowski: Well-well look. I already told you: I deal with the *&^%(@# customers so the engineers don't have to. I have people skills; I am good at dealing with people. Can't you understand that? What the hell is wrong with you people?
That is not what is at issue here. What is at issue is that the justice dept is handing out requests for user information like candy and not allowing anyone to know who they are asking. It reeks of gestapo and should not be confused with whether or not Wikileaks is a national security risk.
But the fact is, 'until a site's Webmaster removes the offending content, it will remain accessible via search engines like Google,' says blogger Dan Tynan."
Wrong.. once it is on the interwebs, it lives forever in caches and history scrapers etc..etc.. once you go digital..you dont go back.
With browser versions rolling out like donkey-kong barrels, and a pretty good number of very stylized websites to look after, we spend a pretty good amount of time fielding calls about why x website looks different in y and z browser.. the general client doesnt realize that it looked fine in every available major browser 6 months ago, they **expect** it to be the same in all versions **forever**. This is my headache and it doesnt get better with standards..especially "living" ones..
What will impress potential employers and be most likely to help land a decent job for someone who doesn't have a degree, but knows how to troubleshoot and can do a bit of programming if needed?"
I remember this place many years ago.. The choice you have now is which direction to go that will make you happy..is it money or is it self fulfillment.. it is not what certs to get my friend..good luck.
BTW.. it is my understanding that the incident or event, good, bad, or indifferent, is irrelevant. It is that you interfered at all with their business relationship.
Again.. IANAL.
Specifically..
"Tortious interference with business relationships occurs where the tortfeasor acts to prevent the plaintiff from successfully establishing or maintaining business relationships. This tort may occur when a first party's conduct intentionally causes a second party not to enter into a business relationship with a third party that otherwise would probably have occurred. Such conduct is termed tortious interference with prospective business relations, expectations, or advantage or with prospective economic advantage."
Not sure where I heard it but it goes something like this..
Place your hand in a bucket and fill it with water.. now remove your hand..that is how much you will be missed.
Given that the missing is inversely proportionate to the size of the bucket..in almost all cases.. you are not missed substantively after a week or two.
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So maybe we should drop a few internets in a suitcase and some of those mobile phone workarounds from yesterdays $50M freedom non censorship project around China then.. surely they wont mind..
"do not mess with complex systems you don't fully understand
Here is the real "problem".. you get a wyswyg editor and wyswyg yourself to happiness.. then they come up with new browsers and new html standards and you do a tapdance of updates and searching to get back under the new ecosystem.. lather rinse repeat until you go slowly insane. What you end up doing is finding an editor that does ok basic wyswyg but you end up always always using the current browser set and html versions on live/test servers to really do your launch testing. So the answer is not really what has long legs.. the answer is get comfortable with a solution that lets you easily test on live (non-production) servers with the current ecosystem.
Personally.. I use Dreamweaver MX, Filezilla and a sprinkle of Notepad++. I do a lot of Joomla dev and custom coding and it works for me.. oh.. also get LAMP or WAMP going locally for great victory.
I appreciate my 72 Ford F100 more every day. Thank God I work from home and only need it to haul things every once ina while. Yes, the mileage is hideous, but being able to wrench around on it without a batcave of scopes an electronics as well as the lack of tracking/gps/logs etc is priceless.
THIS...kudos to parent.
FWIW I checked into creating and selling our extra electricity. I am with a rural co-op so anyones mileage may vary. They required an engineer to evaluate our system and $500,000 in insurance to connect to their grid. When I ran the math on how much electricity I could reasonably provide versus the cost of the insurance I decided it want worth it as a financial endeavor.
Very good point. Tip o the hat to ya.
Id mod ya up if I hadnt already posted in here..
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2011/06/01/Pentagon-Cyberattacks-deemed-acts-of-war/UPI-17821306915200/
Try and keep up with the class
I often wonder what would happen if a group of nerds..like ourselves.. decided to start our own root DNS.. I would suspect that it would be shut down by the FCC in short order under some new or trumped up mangled misinterpretation of some law.
This kinda thing is an act of war?
Its only one letter per page..
While I know they are a pillar of our judicial system, plea deals are nothing but subjective justice. You are either guilty or innocent.. not innocent of a lesser charge because we like you or can't prove our case or need you to squeel on someone bigger. I completely agree with the OP that lies are coerced every day for fear of what will happen if you dont tell the truth the way the enforcement wants to hear it and the soul crushing weight of cash required to fight even the smallest incidents is in itself a travesty to justice.
Leaning towards the tin-hat side, and not trusting govt or even big business any farther than.. well.. practically none.. I believe Assange when he says FB is a hideous tool of data collection for the govt, but even worse than this, the masses are populating data and beta testing software that will eventually allow every camera on every streetlight, ATM, convenience store and mall to identify and monitor us. What comes next..I dont know, but it scary to think that there will be very few places where you will not be tracked and identified.
Tom Smykowski: Well-well look. I already told you: I deal with the *&^%(@# customers so the engineers don't have to. I have people skills; I am good at dealing with people. Can't you understand that? What the hell is wrong with you people?
That is not what is at issue here. What is at issue is that the justice dept is handing out requests for user information like candy and not allowing anyone to know who they are asking. It reeks of gestapo and should not be confused with whether or not Wikileaks is a national security risk.
Why would the justice dept want to hide who it is asking records from.
If they are in the right.. well.. why hide it.
But the fact is, 'until a site's Webmaster removes the offending content, it will remain accessible via search engines like Google,' says blogger Dan Tynan."
Wrong.. once it is on the interwebs, it lives forever in caches and history scrapers etc..etc.. once you go digital..you dont go back.
With browser versions rolling out like donkey-kong barrels, and a pretty good number of very stylized websites to look after, we spend a pretty good amount of time fielding calls about why x website looks different in y and z browser.. the general client doesnt realize that it looked fine in every available major browser 6 months ago, they **expect** it to be the same in all versions **forever**. This is my headache and it doesnt get better with standards..especially "living" ones..
What will impress potential employers and be most likely to help land a decent job for someone who doesn't have a degree, but knows how to troubleshoot and can do a bit of programming if needed?"
I remember this place many years ago.. The choice you have now is which direction to go that will make you happy..is it money or is it self fulfillment.. it is not what certs to get my friend..good luck.
South Carolina's Oconee Nuclear Station will replace its analog monitoring and operating controls with digital systems
Chinese Military Admits Existence of Cyberwarfare Unit
Wait..
(fine print: at 2 microseconds per day)
Seems like the Skype buy wasnt such a good thing for MS... its been what..a week or two and already its been down and compromised?
BTW.. it is my understanding that the incident or event, good, bad, or indifferent, is irrelevant. It is that you interfered at all with their business relationship. Again.. IANAL.
I had one of these go bad on me once.. cost me $1500 to make go away..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tortious_interference
Specifically..
"Tortious interference with business relationships occurs where the tortfeasor acts to prevent the plaintiff from successfully establishing or maintaining business relationships. This tort may occur when a first party's conduct intentionally causes a second party not to enter into a business relationship with a third party that otherwise would probably have occurred. Such conduct is termed tortious interference with prospective business relations, expectations, or advantage or with prospective economic advantage."
IANAL, But I did have to pay one for this...
Not sure where I heard it but it goes something like this..
Place your hand in a bucket and fill it with water.. now remove your hand..that is how much you will be missed.
Given that the missing is inversely proportionate to the size of the bucket..in almost all cases.. you are not missed substantively after a week or two.