But if you wormhole through the sun you'll jump to a different dimension and have to use a mirror with a weird inaccurate remote control to find your dimension in the mutilverse again. I know its true because Samantha Carter told me so.
Bastile-Linux. Great tool. It doesn't prevent you from booting the laptop with knoppix or something of the like, then mounting the drive and dd'ing it. They should be using multi-tier'd security for any system that leaves the premises. With considerations for different types of attack vectors. Physical and virtual. JMO. Also... If they can fry the electronics in a plane with the flip of a switch why can't they make the laptops self destruct when something cracks or penetrates the case? You could easily kill anything that would of had data on it by frying it if someone tries to remove it. Or better yet... Don't carry a laptop with data on it. Get the data via some secure channel and have it armed with a TTL, so it removes itself from existance.
But what do I know, all my important stuff lives on the flash drive in my pocket and its encrypted.
I know I certainly don't. On that note I'm tired of all the main stream media in the US. It's all lies and talking points. Watch the news some night and flip back and forth between the channels, or better yet catch a few with the DVR at 7 and 11. Get different samples from the two time slots and tell me what's different. Nothing, other than the filler material. They even use the same verbage most of the time. So I figure this is all coming from a very small group of sources (probably AP wire considering how lazy the media is). Which means that you can't really trust it. Hell I don't know how many times recently we've seen articles about the media being duped by someone or something. So that means to me that they don't vet their stories or sources properly anymore. Fuck it, at least the ratings and the revenues are up, god forbid the profit margin shrinks.
I wish I could say more, but... This is the worst idea ever. It is also one of the biggest money pits. No hospital I've ever worked for would let control of that data go. We just had a long drawn out battle with one of our vendors about that. 2 years later they still don't have access to our data.
The only thing Gartner ever gets right is how to bleed money from suckers. You know those goofballs sit around and throw darts at a board and claim that to be the next big hit.
Chief Editor: "Hey we need an article about the future of computing."
Tech Ed: "Hang on I'm busy updating my facebook profile."
CE: "Damn. You sure do spend a lot of time on that site."
TE: "Yeah. It's totally the site of the future."
CE: "Really? What else do you do with your computer? Can you put it into a top ten list? Then we can have someone that has diarrhea of the mouth write the report."
TE: "Yeah I can do that, I just sent off the email. Are we done then?"
CE: "Oh, hell yeah, lets go get drunk."
TE: "Sweet, now get out of my office so I can continue to e-stalk the high school girl that lives next door to me."
I'm with this guy. At least on the corporate side I would say they accel. We use them where I work as the main vendor for our desktop systems. We were using the optiplex 5xx series for a bit in the small form factor variety. We found out abvut a year after deploying 100's of them that there was a problem with the SFF power supply fans and they were failing from a batch of bad resistors. Once we worked the actual problem out we called Dell and they sent us about 50 spare supplies so we could have them on hand as they failed, as opposed to returning the units, wating for replacement, etc... We went to HP for a while thanks to an asshole suit that got free trips to Hawaii for his kickback. Those folks are shit. You want to talk about bad service. HP flat out needs to get their shit together, at least on the corporate side. So we've gone back to dell and we are now working with a different optiplex system and our techs are happy as shit again with the service they get from our reps.
On the home PC side I couldn't tell you. I build my own PC's, so I can't compare.
Where do you live? I want to go there. Because our unemployment rate is through the roof, energy prices are soaring, the USD is the weakest it has ever been and the only view left is still going down. So where do you live again?
No, I didn't suggest that. But I would like to say that I am not an Indian and at least a proper name would be ok. It's not like I'm asking that you address me as an Apache. We took your stupid names and integrated into your shitty culture regardless of what we wanted. You could at least have the respect to properly identify me. It's not some misnomer like "african american", because that is in fact racist, thinking that all black floks come from africa... And to call me a native american wouldn't be a PC name, it would be a correct one. And I know what the BIA does and it consists of mostly nothing and some bureacracies that do nothing but wrap red tape around things. I'm not worried though, because its only a matter of time before you white folks do yourself in. Your whole culture is based on self destruction or the destruction of other people.
You guys are talking about them being offline for 6 years like it was a crime or some shit. When the really funny bit about this all is that there is something called the Bureau of Indian Affairs, and if you read the article is is referring to native americans, and still calling them Indians. You can tell because they refer to the tribes and whatnot. So I think that alone should say that they need to get out from under the rock they've been under.
You missed the most important part of my comment. It was the part where I said the customer is not always right, they instead always know what they need. Sure you can deliver them exactly what they want and when. But the better idea is to sit down and talk with them. The customer always knows what end result he needs, he rarely knows what needs to be done to get it. That is why he is coming to a techinical firm to have his tech stuff taken care of. So while on the very top level of things it is a sales deal, much past the bullshit it takes to hook them and it becomes a technical issue. One that a customer has sought your advice on. They have come to you with an idea of how to get it, and it is because they have some "technical" guy who thinks he knows something about a corporate production environment. It is your job as their provider to ensure that they get the best quality access to their data, and be able to use it efficiently. But I imagine if you had actually read through my whole post you would of caught that. I'm saying you didn't read through my whole post in order to avoid calling you a monkeydick for not comprehending it, sales guy.
I always deliver what my client wants too, always, without fail. You know how they have surveys that say that most IT projects fall short or go way over budget. Not where I am. Because the first suggestion isn't always the best and the customer is certainly not always right. If I followed that motto I would be pissing my budget and yours out of every gap, chasing after bleeding edge technologies that do nothing but deliver hype. Instead I listen to what my customers want their end result to be and I come up with an educated plan on how to accomplish that for them. They don't want all the data, they want the right shit, which they are not getting now. At best buy the customer is always right, but if you bleed money on the backend they're going to jump ship too. And if the customer wants to stomp his feet about how he needs access to all the data or he'll leave, he can go and get his yes man service somewhere else. He pays me to be technically competent and to make the best decision in that arena for him, that is why I am an expert and he is the customer.
It's John titor dropping hints on how to positively ID the Higgs Boson, so that we can figure out how to generate enough mass to fuel two microsingularities and start time travelling.
But he should never forget (and neither should the GPP) that the customer is always right!!! Maybe in sales the customer is always right. But this isn't a sales deal this is a tech issue and that is how the question was phrased. So in this instance most of the time the customer is wrong. The only truth to your statement is that the customer always knows what they need the end result to be, they are far from always right, though. That is just bullshit sales jargen that managers with no clue use to enforce fake rules.
The problem is here that the internet made everyone experts on everything and some weekend gamer wants to expand his resume, and his boss was dumb enough to sell it up and now here you are.
Being a sys admin I know where you are coming from on this. I get weird requests all the time, and most of the time it is because some vendor has been feeding crap in the ears of my user base. Usually most of the time you just have to tell them why it is a bad idea, and also try to speak to them in terms they understand (I.E. overhead costs) Let them know that this will take some of their employees time up, and that is why they pay you for your service. So in essence they are paying for the service twice then. You know by letting their employee fuss about getting the data, writing the queries, etc. Chances are they have some dipshit kid who is running his mouth out of inexperience and telling them that he can do more comprehensive searches and return the results faster if they will cut you out of the loop. usually the money arguement makes sense to them, because it is in fact a good deal of time that their employee can be more productive doing his own job and generating revenue. Remember as an IT folk, you are overhead, they figure you into the cost of doing business. You are less expendable than a FTE and they are paying you for the exact thing they now want to take over. You make a good enough arguement about the money of it and management will always buy it, because profit is the name of the game.
If they insist on it try the PCI line. Most folks lap that up and just nod their heads in agreement. Then ask them if they need more focused data and better queries. Because this kid probably spit in their ear about saving money let them know the time involved in writing an effective query and how much of it their employees will spend mining all this data. Really to me it sounds like they aren't getting exactly what they need to get, so they think by bringing it in house they will find the data they need. What really needs to happen is you need to sit down with them and get a better idea of their needs and make them feel like you'll go the extra mile and that is why they pay for you to do it.
This does nothing other than mitigate the university's liability in the situation. Now the RIAA and MPAA can't go after the schools, only the students. Brilliant way to shift liability for the act if you ask me. This also makes the pot smaller for the RIAA. Students have much less money than educational institutions, maybe the MPAA will stop bothering with this bullshit when they can't squeeze any big dogs.
The vatican is starting to come around, great. Why do I care? They have proved themselves to be an outdated monster in the same way the RIAA and the US goverment has done.
With that comment in mind I ask you a question. What if you've never supported the evil regime and are just along for the ride, like it or not? There are plenty of us here too, and we can argue all day long why the regime has held power for 8 years. Sometimes you just don't hold the cards that have the power. Even if I pull out my rifle now and try to overthrow what I would consider a tyranical government I would just be killed by it. The idea is to seed the idea and then let it take hold. So please don't just assume that because we live here we have some type of "guilt of inaction" or "guilt by association", because I agree that inaction is as bad if not worse than action. If you have the power to stop it and don't you are just as evil; no ifs, ands or buts. Civil disobedience doesn't work either, because it's overused, therefor it has been invalidated.
If you look at the bottom of the image, in the article, you can see its already developing alien head! It looks like an alien aligator ready to eat human brains. Good job science! I would elaborate further, but as an American and I can barely spell the word science.
Show me the reports.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7634313/ -- CIA stating there is no WMD's
I'm pretty sure the only WMD's found out there was Depleted Uranium, from our Armor Piercing shells, left by us from the first gulf war. Oh and there is one stipulation. Chemical weapons don't count. We knew those were there for years and never did jack shit about it. You should think about pulling your head out sometime, it's nice out here in the real world.
It was a war to make rich men, richer. And to the other poster who said I was offtopic. The war should apply to everything right now, because we are wrecking the world because of it. Sorry you felt it was offtopic, but I couldn't watch that comment and stomach it. Mod me offtopic, troll, whatever you like. My point still remains. We entered into an unjust war to further our own agenda, without regard to the people who occupied the land. The same thing we did to the natives of our own country. We all sit here and act more evolved and look back on history as if we are not truely connected to the atrocities that have been committed. Unfortunately if we do not admit our wrong doings we are doomed to repeat them. And it does not seem that we are willing to admit when we are wrong. Otherwise we'd be looking for the solution to what we have caused in Iraq, instead we are currently looking at the next country to attack and someone to blame for what is now the current situation there.
We are a bunch of fucked up assholes who don't give a shit about anyone but ourselves. The sooner we admit that the sooner we will be able to start rectifying the problem we've created. But it first takes us claiming responsibility.
You don;t hinestly believe that we went to Iraq to bring Freedom and Democracy do you? You know that was like the 3rd or fourth justification for this fucking war, right? Let me clear up any misconceptions. This war was started in order to gain control of oil in a country who's leader was outwardly hostile toward the U.S.
These people are insane. When is everyone in this country going to start worrying about our own actions rather than our next door neighbors. This is the reason our society is so fucked up.
I have the magic cure you blameless assholes. Be good parents and teach your children about consequences. Not right and wrong, becauses people will distort that with experiences. Teach them causality. Teach them that every action has an equal and opposite reaction and it should always be considered before making a judgement. I fucking hate drunk drivers. Two friends of mine were killed by one years ago, but you know what... I'm gonna go play GTA4 and drive drunk in it. You know why? It is a fucking video game you ass holes.
Just a guess, but if I was framing someone I certainly wouldn't make it perfect. I also like to approach everything from an innocent until proven guilty standpoint. I'm also not stating that I believe that she is framing him. I am saying that the idea is plausible and creates doubt. And to answer the other question... I've not read the full court transcripts, I've been reading the stories as they come out. I've been following this for a while but really only because I use ReiserFS, and it is an intersting story. It would even make a good movie, but that is besides the point.
You're correct in saying that the articles posted here are light in detail. I've read more than just them, however. Although, I would like to see actual transcripts. Until that point I have to save judgement, because frankly I just don't know. And besides the long list of circumstatial evidence I'm still not convinced he is guilty. Even with all the strange behavior. I honestly even think that the book purchases could be explained away. Why? Because many folks stated that he thought he was going to blamed from the beginning. So he wanted to know how it was going to go down. You have to take into account that this guy was a geek, he enjoys details or he would never be be near the kernal. You would think that he would of bought the books beforehand if he was planning it out, given his personality.
I guess the short point to my long winded reply would be that I haven't seen the full transcripts, but I would certainly like to. And until that point I will save judgement.
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But if you wormhole through the sun you'll jump to a different dimension and have to use a mirror with a weird inaccurate remote control to find your dimension in the mutilverse again. I know its true because Samantha Carter told me so.
Bastile-Linux. Great tool. It doesn't prevent you from booting the laptop with knoppix or something of the like, then mounting the drive and dd'ing it. They should be using multi-tier'd security for any system that leaves the premises. With considerations for different types of attack vectors. Physical and virtual. JMO. Also... If they can fry the electronics in a plane with the flip of a switch why can't they make the laptops self destruct when something cracks or penetrates the case? You could easily kill anything that would of had data on it by frying it if someone tries to remove it. Or better yet... Don't carry a laptop with data on it. Get the data via some secure channel and have it armed with a TTL, so it removes itself from existance. But what do I know, all my important stuff lives on the flash drive in my pocket and its encrypted.
I know I certainly don't. On that note I'm tired of all the main stream media in the US. It's all lies and talking points. Watch the news some night and flip back and forth between the channels, or better yet catch a few with the DVR at 7 and 11. Get different samples from the two time slots and tell me what's different. Nothing, other than the filler material. They even use the same verbage most of the time. So I figure this is all coming from a very small group of sources (probably AP wire considering how lazy the media is). Which means that you can't really trust it. Hell I don't know how many times recently we've seen articles about the media being duped by someone or something. So that means to me that they don't vet their stories or sources properly anymore. Fuck it, at least the ratings and the revenues are up, god forbid the profit margin shrinks.
I wish I could say more, but... This is the worst idea ever. It is also one of the biggest money pits. No hospital I've ever worked for would let control of that data go. We just had a long drawn out battle with one of our vendors about that. 2 years later they still don't have access to our data.
The only thing Gartner ever gets right is how to bleed money from suckers. You know those goofballs sit around and throw darts at a board and claim that to be the next big hit.
Chief Editor: "Hey we need an article about the future of computing."
Tech Ed: "Hang on I'm busy updating my facebook profile."
CE: "Damn. You sure do spend a lot of time on that site."
TE: "Yeah. It's totally the site of the future."
CE: "Really? What else do you do with your computer? Can you put it into a top ten list? Then we can have someone that has diarrhea of the mouth write the report."
TE: "Yeah I can do that, I just sent off the email. Are we done then?"
CE: "Oh, hell yeah, lets go get drunk."
TE: "Sweet, now get out of my office so I can continue to e-stalk the high school girl that lives next door to me."
would you test them on a monkey first?
I'm with this guy. At least on the corporate side I would say they accel. We use them where I work as the main vendor for our desktop systems. We were using the optiplex 5xx series for a bit in the small form factor variety. We found out abvut a year after deploying 100's of them that there was a problem with the SFF power supply fans and they were failing from a batch of bad resistors. Once we worked the actual problem out we called Dell and they sent us about 50 spare supplies so we could have them on hand as they failed, as opposed to returning the units, wating for replacement, etc... We went to HP for a while thanks to an asshole suit that got free trips to Hawaii for his kickback. Those folks are shit. You want to talk about bad service. HP flat out needs to get their shit together, at least on the corporate side. So we've gone back to dell and we are now working with a different optiplex system and our techs are happy as shit again with the service they get from our reps. On the home PC side I couldn't tell you. I build my own PC's, so I can't compare.
Where do you live? I want to go there. Because our unemployment rate is through the roof, energy prices are soaring, the USD is the weakest it has ever been and the only view left is still going down. So where do you live again?
No, I didn't suggest that. But I would like to say that I am not an Indian and at least a proper name would be ok. It's not like I'm asking that you address me as an Apache. We took your stupid names and integrated into your shitty culture regardless of what we wanted. You could at least have the respect to properly identify me. It's not some misnomer like "african american", because that is in fact racist, thinking that all black floks come from africa... And to call me a native american wouldn't be a PC name, it would be a correct one. And I know what the BIA does and it consists of mostly nothing and some bureacracies that do nothing but wrap red tape around things. I'm not worried though, because its only a matter of time before you white folks do yourself in. Your whole culture is based on self destruction or the destruction of other people.
You guys are talking about them being offline for 6 years like it was a crime or some shit. When the really funny bit about this all is that there is something called the Bureau of Indian Affairs, and if you read the article is is referring to native americans, and still calling them Indians. You can tell because they refer to the tribes and whatnot. So I think that alone should say that they need to get out from under the rock they've been under.
You missed the most important part of my comment. It was the part where I said the customer is not always right, they instead always know what they need. Sure you can deliver them exactly what they want and when. But the better idea is to sit down and talk with them. The customer always knows what end result he needs, he rarely knows what needs to be done to get it. That is why he is coming to a techinical firm to have his tech stuff taken care of. So while on the very top level of things it is a sales deal, much past the bullshit it takes to hook them and it becomes a technical issue. One that a customer has sought your advice on. They have come to you with an idea of how to get it, and it is because they have some "technical" guy who thinks he knows something about a corporate production environment. It is your job as their provider to ensure that they get the best quality access to their data, and be able to use it efficiently. But I imagine if you had actually read through my whole post you would of caught that. I'm saying you didn't read through my whole post in order to avoid calling you a monkeydick for not comprehending it, sales guy.
I always deliver what my client wants too, always, without fail. You know how they have surveys that say that most IT projects fall short or go way over budget. Not where I am. Because the first suggestion isn't always the best and the customer is certainly not always right. If I followed that motto I would be pissing my budget and yours out of every gap, chasing after bleeding edge technologies that do nothing but deliver hype. Instead I listen to what my customers want their end result to be and I come up with an educated plan on how to accomplish that for them. They don't want all the data, they want the right shit, which they are not getting now. At best buy the customer is always right, but if you bleed money on the backend they're going to jump ship too. And if the customer wants to stomp his feet about how he needs access to all the data or he'll leave, he can go and get his yes man service somewhere else. He pays me to be technically competent and to make the best decision in that arena for him, that is why I am an expert and he is the customer.
It's John titor dropping hints on how to positively ID the Higgs Boson, so that we can figure out how to generate enough mass to fuel two microsingularities and start time travelling.
Being a sys admin I know where you are coming from on this. I get weird requests all the time, and most of the time it is because some vendor has been feeding crap in the ears of my user base. Usually most of the time you just have to tell them why it is a bad idea, and also try to speak to them in terms they understand (I.E. overhead costs) Let them know that this will take some of their employees time up, and that is why they pay you for your service. So in essence they are paying for the service twice then. You know by letting their employee fuss about getting the data, writing the queries, etc. Chances are they have some dipshit kid who is running his mouth out of inexperience and telling them that he can do more comprehensive searches and return the results faster if they will cut you out of the loop. usually the money arguement makes sense to them, because it is in fact a good deal of time that their employee can be more productive doing his own job and generating revenue. Remember as an IT folk, you are overhead, they figure you into the cost of doing business. You are less expendable than a FTE and they are paying you for the exact thing they now want to take over. You make a good enough arguement about the money of it and management will always buy it, because profit is the name of the game.
If they insist on it try the PCI line. Most folks lap that up and just nod their heads in agreement. Then ask them if they need more focused data and better queries. Because this kid probably spit in their ear about saving money let them know the time involved in writing an effective query and how much of it their employees will spend mining all this data. Really to me it sounds like they aren't getting exactly what they need to get, so they think by bringing it in house they will find the data they need. What really needs to happen is you need to sit down with them and get a better idea of their needs and make them feel like you'll go the extra mile and that is why they pay for you to do it.
This does nothing other than mitigate the university's liability in the situation. Now the RIAA and MPAA can't go after the schools, only the students. Brilliant way to shift liability for the act if you ask me. This also makes the pot smaller for the RIAA. Students have much less money than educational institutions, maybe the MPAA will stop bothering with this bullshit when they can't squeeze any big dogs.
The vatican is starting to come around, great. Why do I care? They have proved themselves to be an outdated monster in the same way the RIAA and the US goverment has done.
With that comment in mind I ask you a question. What if you've never supported the evil regime and are just along for the ride, like it or not? There are plenty of us here too, and we can argue all day long why the regime has held power for 8 years. Sometimes you just don't hold the cards that have the power. Even if I pull out my rifle now and try to overthrow what I would consider a tyranical government I would just be killed by it. The idea is to seed the idea and then let it take hold. So please don't just assume that because we live here we have some type of "guilt of inaction" or "guilt by association", because I agree that inaction is as bad if not worse than action. If you have the power to stop it and don't you are just as evil; no ifs, ands or buts. Civil disobedience doesn't work either, because it's overused, therefor it has been invalidated.
If you look at the bottom of the image, in the article, you can see its already developing alien head! It looks like an alien aligator ready to eat human brains. Good job science! I would elaborate further, but as an American and I can barely spell the word science.
Show me the reports. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7634313/ -- CIA stating there is no WMD's I'm pretty sure the only WMD's found out there was Depleted Uranium, from our Armor Piercing shells, left by us from the first gulf war. Oh and there is one stipulation. Chemical weapons don't count. We knew those were there for years and never did jack shit about it. You should think about pulling your head out sometime, it's nice out here in the real world.
It was a war to make rich men, richer. And to the other poster who said I was offtopic. The war should apply to everything right now, because we are wrecking the world because of it. Sorry you felt it was offtopic, but I couldn't watch that comment and stomach it. Mod me offtopic, troll, whatever you like. My point still remains. We entered into an unjust war to further our own agenda, without regard to the people who occupied the land. The same thing we did to the natives of our own country. We all sit here and act more evolved and look back on history as if we are not truely connected to the atrocities that have been committed. Unfortunately if we do not admit our wrong doings we are doomed to repeat them. And it does not seem that we are willing to admit when we are wrong. Otherwise we'd be looking for the solution to what we have caused in Iraq, instead we are currently looking at the next country to attack and someone to blame for what is now the current situation there. We are a bunch of fucked up assholes who don't give a shit about anyone but ourselves. The sooner we admit that the sooner we will be able to start rectifying the problem we've created. But it first takes us claiming responsibility.
Yeah except for all the intellegence at the time that said there was no weapons and never was.
You don;t hinestly believe that we went to Iraq to bring Freedom and Democracy do you? You know that was like the 3rd or fourth justification for this fucking war, right? Let me clear up any misconceptions. This war was started in order to gain control of oil in a country who's leader was outwardly hostile toward the U.S.
I just came up with 8 pages of single spaced inventions too, while I was taking a shit. Anyone want to know what my inventions were composed of?
These people are insane. When is everyone in this country going to start worrying about our own actions rather than our next door neighbors. This is the reason our society is so fucked up.
I have the magic cure you blameless assholes. Be good parents and teach your children about consequences. Not right and wrong, becauses people will distort that with experiences. Teach them causality. Teach them that every action has an equal and opposite reaction and it should always be considered before making a judgement. I fucking hate drunk drivers. Two friends of mine were killed by one years ago, but you know what... I'm gonna go play GTA4 and drive drunk in it. You know why? It is a fucking video game you ass holes.
Just a guess, but if I was framing someone I certainly wouldn't make it perfect. I also like to approach everything from an innocent until proven guilty standpoint. I'm also not stating that I believe that she is framing him. I am saying that the idea is plausible and creates doubt. And to answer the other question... I've not read the full court transcripts, I've been reading the stories as they come out. I've been following this for a while but really only because I use ReiserFS, and it is an intersting story. It would even make a good movie, but that is besides the point.
You're correct in saying that the articles posted here are light in detail. I've read more than just them, however. Although, I would like to see actual transcripts. Until that point I have to save judgement, because frankly I just don't know. And besides the long list of circumstatial evidence I'm still not convinced he is guilty. Even with all the strange behavior. I honestly even think that the book purchases could be explained away. Why? Because many folks stated that he thought he was going to blamed from the beginning. So he wanted to know how it was going to go down. You have to take into account that this guy was a geek, he enjoys details or he would never be be near the kernal. You would think that he would of bought the books beforehand if he was planning it out, given his personality.
I guess the short point to my long winded reply would be that I haven't seen the full transcripts, but I would certainly like to. And until that point I will save judgement.