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There's more to ugly than looks.
This idea is ugly. If people are going to make such shallow decisions about the eye color of their child, what fucked-up decisions are they going to make rearing it.
I don't get why I cant use the content I have purchased for personal use in any way I want to so long as I use it personally or among my small group of friends, just as I might read a book to my son at bed time (or is that illegal now ?).
I get that there should be an extra payment (and have made such license payments) if I want to display a DVD publicly, because a bunch of other people might not buy the movie if they can just go see it projected by me.
I have yet to see why Kindle reading a book takes bread from the mouths of authors and I don't see why celebrity audio-book readers should feel that they have any god-given monopoly on reading books aloud.
The company had made me sign a contract that stated I had to give 3 months' notice.
I gave 3 months' notice.
They asked me if I could leave more quickly as they did not want me looking at customer records for the next 3 months knowing that I would be leaving.
Companies can be morons sometimes.
Call the HR team, they are probably going to be more reasonable.
Why did they not ask your supervisor for the letter you gave her. It seems strange that you should have to provide multiple copies of the letter.
If they had lost the original how the hell would they know if you have made up something else and sent it to them. I think I'd have just send in a one liner to HR stating the facts of your resignation and left out the superfluous detail. Presumably the extra detail was not for HR's benefit.
is sent in good grace, with sincerity, good taste and humanity, when the departing colleague has a history of sending backstabbing, flame-war inducing email throughout his tenure.
Really - outlook should have not just a spell checker and a grammar checker but a "stop being a prick" checker.
Walk the end user's chosen representative (the lead member of your operations team, whoever it is) through the process but have them actually write the document with your guidance and send it back to you for approval / comment.
The problem, in my experience, is not so much any lack of documentation but the lack of documentation that gets read and understood.
I agree, the parents are loco.
Anyhow, for the Girl's behavior to have reached this nadir there will have been plenty of mis-steps along the way. Sure, the girl is responsible for her actions now and should be punished, but for her to get to this point involved a chain of poor decisions leading back to some point when she was innocent.
This poor attitude did not simply develop overnight.
I always think that having school police forces makes the school system look more like a prison system. This-treat-them-how-you-want-them-to-behave issue cuts both ways. For all I know some get so attached to the patrols, searchlights, razor wire and institutional food in the school that they long for the day when they can be sent to the state pen.
And what country would be stupid enough to offer nationality to the prison population of another country.
It's not like, say, the USA would offer that to another country like, say, Cuba.
You betcha that wouldn't happen no sir-ee
featured a robot cat. There were some problems for sure, but the technology must have improved since the 40s.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EV4kYuTZ02A>
Perhaps Roomba has one now.
If the court is able to resolve complex scientific issues, why did we not bring them a question we want to know the answer to - like is Hawking radiation for real ?
Rather than wasting time with questions we already know the answer to.
I have near instant-on access to an OS called "BIOS".
Now if only it ran the apps I (mostly) want on the plane.
- play music / watch video - a pen-notepad I can doodle on and write notes - a PDF reader to review presentations, spreadsheets and to read books. - browse websites when that's allowed inflight.
Perhaps it would have a full-sized screen inside and a cut down screen and keyboard that could be accessed when it was closed. Or a flip around touchscreen with a virtual keyboard.
I've always found it curious that MS advocates supposedly are not ideology driven and open source advocates supposedly are by default.
If I produce a system that does X,Y and Z using Debian Linux (because I could) the first supposition is that I did it using Linux simply to kick back against "the man".
It's a branding thing...
"Redhat" is more acceptable than "Linux" MySQL "open-sourcedness" is more acceptable than Linux's "open-sourcedness"
I think it boils down to the idea that things only have intrinsic worth if they are associated with another company.
Operating systems contribute to security, but they are just a part of the big picture.
I would say that the most secure NSA-custom operating system in the world in the hands of someone who knew little about how to use it was far less secure than the least-secure OS you can think of (say, MSDOS) skillfully deployed in a secure infrastructure.
I feel that the security of your company rests more on the experience of your IT management team than on any single hardware or software component.
If your team knows how to use Linux securely it easily trumps using any unfamiliar platform in a potentially insecure manner.
If I were microsoft I would tout that it is supposedly easier to hire and retain trained microsoft geeks than trained Linux geeks. To my mind, perhaps a more rational point and harder to argue back against.
Don't read this as a rant against MSDOS, for all I know it was tremendously secure, easy to assimilate, still somewhat familiar to many older IT staff and I doubt virus writers support it any more. So yeah - by all means migrate to MSDOS for the security benefits.
The question should be, are MS shareholders getting value for money from the R&D ?
And frankly, I'm not seeing anything recent that looks like it was worth $8bn.
For sure, some research will probably show long-term benefits, but at least some of it must start to show benefits around now; after all, this is not the first year that there has been heavy R&D investment. Where are the cool things to show for it that improve our lives.
Or is "Touch" it, really, billions for "Touch" ? My dog could have developed something better than that for only $4bn a year.
I suggest M$ give all their money to the guy who does the tricks with the Wii controllers.
"Pro Life" means not just I support babies but "You want them all Murdered"
Me being "Pro Family" means that you are against families.
The same logic applies to other terms like "defence of marriage", "pro religious freedom" etc.
It seems that the next concept will be "Darwinism" to take up where "Intelligent Design" has failed (and it has failed, too many people on school boards have heard of "intelligent falling").
Unfortunately Machiavelli seems to have done little work on Evolutionary theory, so it will have to be called "Darwinian".
One wonders how the man's name will be dragged through the mud as this develops.
Nor for that matter do I want or need much screen real estate. Quite frankly, I'm too fat now to be able to open a full size laptop on a plane.
I want something like a large cellphone that I can take travelling and use to deliver a presentation (ie it has external SVGA) when I get on site.
I would want to be able to tweak slides in a pinch and to log into ssh in a pinch and browse the web at the hotel. Heck - when I get to the hotel I can often plug it into a large flat screen monitor if I want to. I don't even mind if the VGA is a weird proprietary cable, or even blue-tooth connected. But I want to be able to project to a screen.
I don't want it to be my cell phone, because there are times when I want a phone to just be a phone and small as possible for that task.
I did purchase an N800 from Nokia, but it has fallen way short of my hopes.
This is a huge step forward, previous versions of windows might run dozens of viruses, this version will only run two of them, a great reduction in virus activity.
It seems to me that the main problem with recent stupid leaks of large amounts of information from stolen laptops was not so much that the laptop was unsecured, but that the data had no place being on the laptop anyway.
Especially now that you can reach a good network from almost anywhere in the USA, even while traveling along the road. Being able to work on real data from a social security database while flying on an airplane is simply not a reasonable thing to ask.
Can you not start with a core to your network that includes all the encryption you want and then push outwards as you need to.
Maybe set-up a central server or two that users can VPN into using a thin client. Prohibit wholesale copying of data (sure, they can take a screenshot and paste it into powerpoint, or write some information down off of the screen, but forbid file downloads.
Then, for some of your employees, give them a locked-down environment on their PC that has greater access permissions.
The point being, for many users, thin client may suffice and its much easier to protect. And for those for whom it just won't do, you can spend some more time and education on getting them a solution they can work with and make them aware that by and large sensitive data does not belong on a mobile device.
It's not as if you are going to really encrypt everything anyway - you want people to be able to read printouts !
I imagine that you just want to secure data at rest on your central servers and data on the move between the servers and the clients, except in a very few specific cases.
CPU designers are not the only group that make use of an instruction set. Assembler writers do too. I don't hear complaints that unlicensed assemblers are out there. It seems to me that unlicensed use of the x86 instruction set is pretty widespread.
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This idea is ugly. If people are going to make such shallow decisions about the eye color of their child, what fucked-up decisions are they going to make rearing it.
I don't get why I cant use the content I have purchased for personal use in any way I want to so long as I use it personally or among my small group of friends, just as I might read a book to my son at bed time (or is that illegal now ?).
I get that there should be an extra payment (and have made such license payments) if I want to display a DVD publicly, because a bunch of other people might not buy the movie if they can just go see it projected by me.
I have yet to see why Kindle reading a book takes bread from the mouths of authors and I don't see why celebrity audio-book readers should feel that they have any god-given monopoly on reading books aloud.
The company had made me sign a contract that stated I had to give 3 months' notice. I gave 3 months' notice. They asked me if I could leave more quickly as they did not want me looking at customer records for the next 3 months knowing that I would be leaving. Companies can be morons sometimes. Call the HR team, they are probably going to be more reasonable.
Why did they not ask your supervisor for the letter you gave her. It seems strange that you should have to provide multiple copies of the letter. If they had lost the original how the hell would they know if you have made up something else and sent it to them. I think I'd have just send in a one liner to HR stating the facts of your resignation and left out the superfluous detail. Presumably the extra detail was not for HR's benefit.
is sent in good grace, with sincerity, good taste and humanity, when the departing colleague has a history of sending backstabbing, flame-war inducing email throughout his tenure. Really - outlook should have not just a spell checker and a grammar checker but a "stop being a prick" checker.
to confuse the shit out of someone with photo of a backlit piece of black card with random pinpricks in it.
Walk the end user's chosen representative (the lead member of your operations team, whoever it is) through the process but have them actually write the document with your guidance and send it back to you for approval / comment. The problem, in my experience, is not so much any lack of documentation but the lack of documentation that gets read and understood.
I agree, the parents are loco. Anyhow, for the Girl's behavior to have reached this nadir there will have been plenty of mis-steps along the way. Sure, the girl is responsible for her actions now and should be punished, but for her to get to this point involved a chain of poor decisions leading back to some point when she was innocent. This poor attitude did not simply develop overnight. I always think that having school police forces makes the school system look more like a prison system. This-treat-them-how-you-want-them-to-behave issue cuts both ways. For all I know some get so attached to the patrols, searchlights, razor wire and institutional food in the school that they long for the day when they can be sent to the state pen.
I smell a movie - where's Michael Mooore ?
And what country would be stupid enough to offer nationality to the prison population of another country. It's not like, say, the USA would offer that to another country like, say, Cuba. You betcha that wouldn't happen no sir-ee
featured a robot cat. There were some problems for sure, but the technology must have improved since the 40s. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EV4kYuTZ02A> Perhaps Roomba has one now.
My god - high voltage resistant rats
should just cut power to the city and see who's house emits a green glow.
If the court is able to resolve complex scientific issues, why did we not bring them a question we want to know the answer to - like is Hawking radiation for real ?
Rather than wasting time with questions we already know the answer to.
I have near instant-on access to an OS called "BIOS".
Now if only it ran the apps I (mostly) want on the plane.
- play music / watch video
- a pen-notepad I can doodle on and write notes
- a PDF reader to review presentations, spreadsheets and to read books.
- browse websites when that's allowed inflight.
Perhaps it would have a full-sized screen inside and a cut down screen and keyboard that could be accessed when it was closed. Or a flip around touchscreen with a virtual keyboard.
I've always found it curious that MS advocates supposedly are not ideology driven and open source advocates supposedly are by default.
If I produce a system that does X,Y and Z using Debian Linux (because I could) the first supposition is that I did it using Linux simply to kick back against "the man".
It's a branding thing...
"Redhat" is more acceptable than "Linux"
MySQL "open-sourcedness" is more acceptable than Linux's "open-sourcedness"
I think it boils down to the idea that things only have intrinsic worth if they are associated with another company.
Operating systems contribute to security, but they are just a part of the big picture.
I would say that the most secure NSA-custom operating system in the world in the hands of someone who knew little about how to use it was far less secure than the least-secure OS you can think of (say, MSDOS) skillfully deployed in a secure infrastructure.
I feel that the security of your company rests more on the experience of your IT management team than on any single hardware or software component.
If your team knows how to use Linux securely it easily trumps using any unfamiliar platform in a potentially insecure manner.
If I were microsoft I would tout that it is supposedly easier to hire and retain trained microsoft geeks than trained Linux geeks. To my mind, perhaps a more rational point and harder to argue back against.
Don't read this as a rant against MSDOS, for all I know it was tremendously secure, easy to assimilate, still somewhat familiar to many older IT staff and I doubt virus writers support it any more. So yeah - by all means migrate to MSDOS for the security benefits.
That is NOT the question.
The question should be, are MS shareholders getting value for money from the R&D ?
And frankly, I'm not seeing anything recent that looks like it was worth $8bn.
For sure, some research will probably show long-term benefits, but at least some of it must start to show benefits around now; after all, this is not the first year that there has been heavy R&D investment. Where are the cool things to show for it that improve our lives.
Or is "Touch" it, really, billions for "Touch" ? My dog could have developed something better than that for only $4bn a year.
I suggest M$ give all their money to the guy who does the tricks with the Wii controllers.
Or to my dog.
We've seen this before...
"Pro Life" means not just I support babies but "You want them all Murdered"
Me being "Pro Family" means that you are against families.
The same logic applies to other terms like "defence of marriage", "pro religious freedom" etc.
It seems that the next concept will be "Darwinism" to take up where "Intelligent Design" has failed (and it has failed, too many people on school boards have heard of "intelligent falling").
Unfortunately Machiavelli seems to have done little work on Evolutionary theory, so it will have to be called "Darwinian".
One wonders how the man's name will be dragged through the mud as this develops.
Exactly
Nor for that matter do I want or need much screen real estate. Quite frankly, I'm too fat now to be able to open a full size laptop on a plane.
I want something like a large cellphone that I can take travelling and use to deliver a presentation (ie it has external SVGA) when I get on site.
I would want to be able to tweak slides in a pinch and to log into ssh in a pinch and browse the web at the hotel. Heck - when I get to the hotel I can often plug it into a large flat screen monitor if I want to. I don't even mind if the VGA is a weird proprietary cable, or even blue-tooth connected. But I want to be able to project to a screen.
I don't want it to be my cell phone, because there are times when I want a phone to just be a phone and small as possible for that task.
I did purchase an N800 from Nokia, but it has fallen way short of my hopes.
This just in, the Home secretary announces that the database will be hosted on a laptop left on the passenger seat of a car.
This is a huge step forward, previous versions of windows might run dozens of viruses, this version will only run two of them, a great reduction in virus activity.
It seems to me that the main problem with recent stupid leaks of large amounts of information from stolen laptops was not so much that the laptop was unsecured, but that the data had no place being on the laptop anyway.
Especially now that you can reach a good network from almost anywhere in the USA, even while traveling along the road. Being able to work on real data from a social security database while flying on an airplane is simply not a reasonable thing to ask.
Can you not start with a core to your network that includes all the encryption you want and then push outwards as you need to.
Maybe set-up a central server or two that users can VPN into using a thin client. Prohibit wholesale copying of data (sure, they can take a screenshot and paste it into powerpoint, or write some information down off of the screen, but forbid file downloads.
Then, for some of your employees, give them a locked-down environment on their PC that has greater access permissions.
The point being, for many users, thin client may suffice and its much easier to protect. And for those for whom it just won't do, you can spend some more time and education on getting them a solution they can work with and make them aware that by and large sensitive data does not belong on a mobile device.
It's not as if you are going to really encrypt everything anyway - you want people to be able to read printouts !
I imagine that you just want to secure data at rest on your central servers and data on the move between the servers and the clients, except in a very few specific cases.
CPU designers are not the only group that make use of an instruction set. Assembler writers do too. I don't hear complaints that unlicensed assemblers are out there. It seems to me that unlicensed use of the x86 instruction set is pretty widespread.
That Vista was not the least popular thing he has released.