So not only is he/she a virus writer. He/She is a copycat virus writer. In other news, Hell was taking suggestions for it's upcoming 10th ring.
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Exactly how do you put a fictitious legal entity in Jail? Or perhaps you meant the entire company and everyone who worked there.
I'm a firm believer that Microsoft, for all it's faults, isn't nearly as much of a problem as it's doting customers. Microsoft has ALWAYS been terrible at security. This is not news. So who the hell keeps buying their crap?
Start charging the folks who deploy Microsoft for negligence.
He could have been dumb enough to test it on a computer lab at school, or at a library. The "witness" could have been a network administrator monitoring the system.
Of course the witness was also last seen purchasing a shark tank and some laser beams...
Lucky the authorities got to him first that is. Well they say there are more virus authors out there. Hopefully all that dental equipment I bought on Ebay will be put to good use.
After six hours playing Duke Nukem Forever earlier today, I can conclude that - while very relaxing - the sound of silence did nothing to improve my hearing...
I didn't realize Simon and Garfunkle went with FPS games. Normally I'm blaring heavy metal or punk when I empty a chain gun on someone.
Hell, lets see if playing Quake to Jim Croche or Cat Stevens improves my concentration.
Children that read/. learn the difference between literate and illiterate posts... up to two years of skill can be earned in just a few weeks. An unfortunate side effect comes from seeing insane AC comments and mind numbing redundancy. The impact is that children become permanently cynical Libertarian geeks.
And most of those children are in their late 20s and early 30s.
After everything we've put up with for the past few years, we're starting to hear (no pun intended...ok, yeah, it was intended) good things about video games, from helping people in combat situations to improving hearing.
Now if they can only start reporting that tar heroin actually prolongs life...
I have been finding the signal-to-noise ratio a bit low lately from the medical community. We have a baby girl on the way, and depending on who you ask, the medical community has a completely different attitude about what is healthy, not healthy, or just plain irrelivent.
Sometimes I think its superstition with ultrasound.
Third, even if Windows is a nonoptimal way to operate, many, many people know how to use Windows and Windows software. They're familiar with Windows interface conventions, and anything different from Windows will face an immediate barrier.
> Kind of like qwerty keyboards really...
Yet most users had to go through typing class to learn the QWERTY keyboards, and if I have one more person ask me the proper way to shut down a Windows box I'm going to scream.
New games don't take exponentially longer to develop. The problem is the black hole of CGI movies. How many games have you played that are simply a series of puzzles in between a boatload of Squarsoftish clips? Are racing games really that much more playable with photorealistic race tracks? I think it's cute that you can see a hockey player's breath, but if you are bitching about budgets, stuff like that is easy to cut.
What is needed is for game developers to stop throwing money into the photorealistic hole. Anime is a perfectly acceptable graphic style designed for mass production. By reducing the amount of "detail" using artisitic license you can focus more on game play, scripts, and quality assurance.
Fooey. What do you mean by choice? What do you mean by usability? I have a +7 vorpal clue-by-four for the next person who tries to tell me there is one and only one solution for everyone's needs.
Frankly, I like to find out what the actual requirements are before I go shooting off what the best solution might be. Granted, 9 times out of ten the requirements are "Cheap and I want to use it for years" and in that case it's Linux hands down. Secretaries have been using Mainframe Green-Screen apps for decades. What interface is "usable" is a matter of training.
I would also like to point out that all of the research into the current WIMP interface was evaluated on 4 year olds, not adults. Most adults actually need a more verbal interface, as our thought patterns are generally arranged in the form of ideas. WIMP is artificial and clumsy. The only GUI that is on it's face intuitive is a touch screen, but judging by the fact I have the ticket kiosks to myself at the movies, how intuitive can it be?
Actually the job market for people with experience is pretty good right now. You may take a pay cut, but jobs for seasoned admins are never hard to find.
Entry level jobs on the other hand are very scarce. I would not want to be a college grad right now.
Now amount of stability is going to save you from burnout. You have to be your best advocate of your interests, health, and safety. Employers often rely on you to let them know when enough is too much. Great employers never let things get that far. Places to leave are the ones that ignore your needs.
And I don't buy for a minute that the economy is that bad. Especially for network admins. Just pick up the want ads.
I don't envy you your job, you've got to focus on efficiency. Good luck to you, it'll probably be either highly rewarding or we'll all see you on the 6 o'clock news pinning down your coworkers with an assault rifle. Let's hope for the former.
You forget the most common, you wind up burned out and scarred for life.
Let's face it, we are a victim of being just like everyone else. We just make our living pushing bits, not pushing paperwork. Management is often completely unaware of what it does take to keep business running. I do what I can to instruct them, but you also have to be prepared to let them find out on their own without you.
At my organization we have had several audits that recommended far more staff than we presently have. This is from outside consultants, who were paid a good chunk to come in. Their findings were more or less ignored.
Besides, it's far more satisfying to turn in a resignation slip than take out the office with a tommy gun. The look or fright on your VP/Director's face is priceless.
What I mean is my friends will ask me to fix their computer or install a new hard drive but they would never think of asking their lawyer friends to write them a contract. What's up with that?
Simple: Lawyers, Plumbers, and Car mechanics are viewed as professionals. They charge an exorbinant rate for fixing things. In business and at school IT is freely given out like candy. When folks aren't used to paying for something, they assume that it in fact costs nothing.
It also doesn't help that we (myself included) are often all to eager to volunteer our help. If we as an industry were populated by cynical and legalistic mercinaries we wouldn't have these problems.
Actually satellite repair and retrieval were the primary design requirements for the Shuttle. The problem is, once launched most owners of satellites don't want them back. They are obsolute after a few months, and it's cheaper to de-orbit a malfunctioning satellite and launch a replacement than to send a shuttle after it.
The shuttle has retrieved 2 satellites (STS 51-A), and repaired 2 satellites in orbit: Canada Telecom's Syncom IV (STS 51-D) and The Hubble space telescope (STS 61, STS 82, STS 103, STS 109.) Aside from the Hubble, the last time the Shuttle fixed or retrieved a satellite in orbit was in 1985.
And for your information there are several systems that have performed all of the mission of the shuttle. The most direct was the Saturn V used in the Apollo and SpaceLab programs.
Actually, looking through 100 missions the missions for the shuttle break down as follows: (My spreadsheet crashed during tabulation, here's the jist)
Space Technology Evaluation: 6
Orbital Experiment Platform: 30
Satellite Launches: 30
Space Station Construction: 10
Space Station Support: 10
Satellite retrievals/repairs: 6 (4 for hubble)
Secret Squirrel DOD Projects: 10
Most shuttle missions where either launching a satellite or puttering in orbit to perform experiments. Very late in the day, it hoisted parts up to the ISS.
Off the top of my head I can tell you one other system that can hoist stuff into orbit and shuttle people in relative safety: The Russian Proton rocket (for lifting) and the Soyuz for people transport.
If you want a good read on organizational dynamics, especially in regards to Engineering, take a flip through The Mythical Man Month by Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.
The book is a series of Essays that illustrate the problems inherent in trying to use techniques for managing unskilled labor on a skilled workforce. The book is primarily structured around Software design, but it's teachings are readily adapted to most Engineering disciplines. It's chock full of un-intiuitive facts of life in engineering projects:
There is a point in a project where adding more people pushes the project even further behind schedule. It takes time to bring new people up to speed on a project, doubly so on a project that is mostly completed.
Engineers need to be structured like a surgical team, with definite roles and supporting functions to play. They aren't like day laborers that can be dropped in a cubical and hammer out equations.
Projects need to constantly go back to the original vision.
Development work is often like carrying a baby. Assigning 9 women to the task will not make it take any less than 9 months.
A clear line in the sand needs to be drawn between the Architecture and the Implementation. The Architecture should leave Implementation details fuzzy. Implementors have a practical experience that often allows them to meet needs in creative and ingenious ways unknown to the Architect. Architects also need to listen to Implementor's when told a particular feature will require a tremendous number of resources to bring to fruition, and adjust accordingly.
It is far better to let a schedule slip than to try to hurry it up. Hurrying up introduces mistakes, added expense, and more often than not an unsatisfactory product.
(At least in software) 1/2 of the project is testing (1/4 component testing and 1/4 systems integration testing). 1/3 is planning. Only 1/6 should be spent on the actual design and fabrication.
One important exception: You can't back up astronauts on tape.
If I screw up, I might damage a few hundred thousand dollars of equipment, or a few million dollars in transactions and sales. Someone can write a check to fix that. No amount of money can replace a human life, let alone the life of dedication and training that goes into every one of those astronauts.
In a military environment the management team at NASA would be courtmarshalled for negligence.
Let us also not forget that the goal of these projects was to go out and do. They had budgets, and constraints of technology. But folks were willing to spend money. Now, if you tell a supervisor you will need $50,000 and 5 people to complete a project you will get $25,000 and 3 people.
And it's not exactly like we are getting a whole lot of benefit from these "optimizations." All we end up with is a system that is either never completed, or is only a slight improvement over its predicessor.
All those communication classes are completely useless unless your managers listen. Sometimes they don't. If that's the case, it doesn't matter how many outlines, Powerpoint presentations, or 30-page reports you write -- if they consider you to be only the button pusher that they tell what to do, if they don't respect your professional opinion or believe anything you say...it will be a big waste of time. Spoken from experience.
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Partygoer: Dude, Daryl, you were so drunk, you will never believe what you did.
Daryl: Ok, did I dance around with a lampshade on my head?
Partygoer: (Chuckle) Nope.
Daryl: Did I upchuck on the new rug?
Partygoer: Nope
Daryl: Okay, who did I fuck with?
Partygoer bursts out laughing, uncontrollably...
No, actually it's Visual Basic.
So not only is he/she a virus writer. He/She is a copycat virus writer. In other news, Hell was taking suggestions for it's upcoming 10th ring.
I'm a firm believer that Microsoft, for all it's faults, isn't nearly as much of a problem as it's doting customers. Microsoft has ALWAYS been terrible at security. This is not news. So who the hell keeps buying their crap?
Start charging the folks who deploy Microsoft for negligence.
Of course the witness was also last seen purchasing a shark tank and some laser beams...
Lucky the authorities got to him first that is. Well they say there are more virus authors out there. Hopefully all that dental equipment I bought on Ebay will be put to good use.
I didn't realize Simon and Garfunkle went with FPS games. Normally I'm blaring heavy metal or punk when I empty a chain gun on someone.
Hell, lets see if playing Quake to Jim Croche or Cat Stevens improves my concentration.
And most of those children are in their late 20s and early 30s.
Now if they can only start reporting that tar heroin actually prolongs life...
I have been finding the signal-to-noise ratio a bit low lately from the medical community. We have a baby girl on the way, and depending on who you ask, the medical community has a completely different attitude about what is healthy, not healthy, or just plain irrelivent.
Sometimes I think its superstition with ultrasound.
Some conservatives would argue that this is a Good Thing.
> Kind of like qwerty keyboards really...
Yet most users had to go through typing class to learn the QWERTY keyboards, and if I have one more person ask me the proper way to shut down a Windows box I'm going to scream.
What is needed is for game developers to stop throwing money into the photorealistic hole. Anime is a perfectly acceptable graphic style designed for mass production. By reducing the amount of "detail" using artisitic license you can focus more on game play, scripts, and quality assurance.
Frankly, I like to find out what the actual requirements are before I go shooting off what the best solution might be. Granted, 9 times out of ten the requirements are "Cheap and I want to use it for years" and in that case it's Linux hands down. Secretaries have been using Mainframe Green-Screen apps for decades. What interface is "usable" is a matter of training.
I would also like to point out that all of the research into the current WIMP interface was evaluated on 4 year olds, not adults. Most adults actually need a more verbal interface, as our thought patterns are generally arranged in the form of ideas. WIMP is artificial and clumsy. The only GUI that is on it's face intuitive is a touch screen, but judging by the fact I have the ticket kiosks to myself at the movies, how intuitive can it be?
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Entry level jobs on the other hand are very scarce. I would not want to be a college grad right now.
Now amount of stability is going to save you from burnout. You have to be your best advocate of your interests, health, and safety. Employers often rely on you to let them know when enough is too much. Great employers never let things get that far. Places to leave are the ones that ignore your needs.
And I don't buy for a minute that the economy is that bad. Especially for network admins. Just pick up the want ads.
You forget the most common, you wind up burned out and scarred for life.
Let's face it, we are a victim of being just like everyone else. We just make our living pushing bits, not pushing paperwork. Management is often completely unaware of what it does take to keep business running. I do what I can to instruct them, but you also have to be prepared to let them find out on their own without you.
At my organization we have had several audits that recommended far more staff than we presently have. This is from outside consultants, who were paid a good chunk to come in. Their findings were more or less ignored.
Besides, it's far more satisfying to turn in a resignation slip than take out the office with a tommy gun. The look or fright on your VP/Director's face is priceless.
Simple: Lawyers, Plumbers, and Car mechanics are viewed as professionals. They charge an exorbinant rate for fixing things. In business and at school IT is freely given out like candy. When folks aren't used to paying for something, they assume that it in fact costs nothing.
It also doesn't help that we (myself included) are often all to eager to volunteer our help. If we as an industry were populated by cynical and legalistic mercinaries we wouldn't have these problems.
They do appreciate the pretty pictures though.
Given the increased complexity of modern fighter jets, 10 years for an F-22 seems about par for the course.
The shuttle has retrieved 2 satellites (STS 51-A), and repaired 2 satellites in orbit: Canada Telecom's Syncom IV (STS 51-D) and The Hubble space telescope (STS 61, STS 82, STS 103, STS 109.) Aside from the Hubble, the last time the Shuttle fixed or retrieved a satellite in orbit was in 1985.
And for your information there are several systems that have performed all of the mission of the shuttle. The most direct was the Saturn V used in the Apollo and SpaceLab programs.
Actually, looking through 100 missions the missions for the shuttle break down as follows: (My spreadsheet crashed during tabulation, here's the jist)
Most shuttle missions where either launching a satellite or puttering in orbit to perform experiments. Very late in the day, it hoisted parts up to the ISS.
Off the top of my head I can tell you one other system that can hoist stuff into orbit and shuttle people in relative safety: The Russian Proton rocket (for lifting) and the Soyuz for people transport.
The book is a series of Essays that illustrate the problems inherent in trying to use techniques for managing unskilled labor on a skilled workforce. The book is primarily structured around Software design, but it's teachings are readily adapted to most Engineering disciplines. It's chock full of un-intiuitive facts of life in engineering projects:
If I screw up, I might damage a few hundred thousand dollars of equipment, or a few million dollars in transactions and sales. Someone can write a check to fix that. No amount of money can replace a human life, let alone the life of dedication and training that goes into every one of those astronauts.
In a military environment the management team at NASA would be courtmarshalled for negligence.
And it's not exactly like we are getting a whole lot of benefit from these "optimizations." All we end up with is a system that is either never completed, or is only a slight improvement over its predicessor.
Wait, I'm seeing a pattern...
I second that, also from experience.