I hearby promise that if I serve on the jury when you are convicted of a crime that I will do everything in my power to find you innocent of all charges and blameless. I will convince the rest of the jury to do the same.
But only if your good work resulted in their complete and total termination.
A few hundred acts of public torture and execution of known and proven spammers will do wonders.
Being a known spammer should be known as a Darwin Award Winning category.
If anyone brings in a computer from outside the office, the computer cannot connect to the network until some IT guy allows it. While they are enabling the port to accept traffic from the laptop, the computer can be checked for viruses, etc.
>I once worked with a terrific cracker (he ended up doing time for hacking into NASA owned systems at the University of Florida - in fact, I believe that he is still incarcerated).
He OBVIOUSLY wasn't good enough, or am I missing something?
Many years ago, one of our co-workers died in the arms of a prostitute. (it was the sort of life he liked to live, you see).
Before his parents flew into town to collect his personal effects, we went through his apartment and removed his pornography, condoms, various "trophies".
His parents never learned the real circumstances surounding his untimely demise.
allow the users to choose their own passwords. Relax the strict password policy
continually run password cracking/guessing software against the login accounts
when a weak password is discovered, have a talk with the individual in question and explain to them that their password has been cracked and that anyone can now access their files, and that they could be held responsible if the company is compromised after they have been repeatedly warned.
make a management report of all people who have insecure passwords.
if an outside breach is detected, inform the management of what account was used with which insecure password
If you educate the offenders one-on-one, you will eventually correct their behavior. Never try to educate them all at once. The lesson has to be personal! (presenting them with their own password makes it more personal)
After all, he is talking about responsible parenthood. God forbid that anyone should actually take an active part in their children's education and educate them to be responsible.
That's why we have laws and religion, right?
Next thing you know, he will be teaching his daughter about sex!
(oh, the shame of it all. I have to go to confession).
> When I sat in front of a Chinese version once, I was totally lost.
The hotkeys between the English version and (simplified, traditional) Chines versions of windwows as the same. Never found it to be a problem as far back as windows 3.1. Perhaps you could try the keyboard next time if you needed to?
> Another major problem is China's lack of respect for IP. India has a fairly good reputation and many large companies have offices over there (i.e. Cisco, Nortel, etc.).
India's reputation for IP is just as bad (or worse than) China's. You need to travel more before making such "authoritative" statements. In fact, all of Asia is a 'hotbed' of piracy.
The biggest reasons why all those companies are in India and not China are because
- the level of english
- the fact that the country is not a "communist" country
- the level of education and talent available in India that is not available in China.
Regarding Chinese education:
10 years ago, CS graduates from Chinese universities would go to jobs never having used a computer before! They studied programming from books but had never actually run a program on a computer because they did not have access to any. It took a lot of work to get them up to speed in the work place.
Chinese education emphasizes rote learning and memorization without understanding or creative thinking. This might be good for passing tests, but I have not yet met anybody who could think creatively come out of this system of education.
Programming is still a highly creative and artistic endeavor.
Finally, as a personal observation, I have noticed that a lot of the Indians and Pakistanis have a natural talent for mathematics and programming. I have not seen that level of talent with the Chinese.
I'm afraid that you provide very little information that would allow one to solve your problem. Can you provide more details?
What Ad engine are you using?
What exactly is slow? Is it loading the page, loading the ad, determining what ad needs to be loaded?
Any page that loads ad images from an ad engine will of course be slower than if you are loading the static images from your web site. Think about what is happening (in a simple case):
The page gets loaded
The browser requests an image url from the ad server
The ad server replies with an image url redirect
The browser retrieves the image
In between, we have dns lookups, possible network congestion, maybe slow responses from whatever ad engine is being used, and who knows what else.
One of the things that the ad engines are supposed to do is to provide cache busting so that new images (and old, already seen images) are reloaded from the ad server in order to more accurately count the impressions. This is great for the income of the ad agencies, but for people browsing the web site, it means a slower overall performance of the site. Are you just the victim of properly implemented cache busting?
You are not going to solve this problem by storing the banners on your site, unless you are also doing the determination of what banner to display (which would basically defeat the purpose of using someone else's ad engine). It would also eat up your bandwidth considerably.
There are ad engines that do work.
Could you post or email me the address of your site?
So, "Linux needs to aim towards non geeks"? Bullshit.
The fact of the matter is, is that companies such as Redhat, Mandrake, Corel and all the others have to target a larger audience in order to grow. There are many more non-geeks than geeks.
If the Linux community wants to see futher support from the commercial hardware and software vendors, then they must see that Linux can and does reach a much larger market. In the end, it is good news for both geeks and non geeks alike. I know that I want to have my hardware supported under Linux. If the price for this is graphical installations, then so be it!
At the end of the day, geeks who are opposed to graphical installations will continue to use and support distributions that support text based installs. That is the nice part about having a choice.
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This is why the second ammendment exists; to protect you against the powers of an overreaching government.
Get out and do what is necessary to prevent your rights from being eroded. That is the only way to protect yourself in the long term.
I hearby promise that if I serve on the jury when you are convicted of a crime that I will do everything in my power to find you innocent of all charges and blameless. I will convince the rest of the jury to do the same.
But only if your good work resulted in their complete and total termination.
A few hundred acts of public torture and execution of known and proven spammers will do wonders.
Being a known spammer should be known as a Darwin Award Winning category.
Well, the solution to that is simple.
Implement MAC address filtering on your switches.
If anyone brings in a computer from outside the office, the computer cannot connect to the network until some IT guy allows it. While they are enabling the port to accept traffic from the laptop, the computer can be checked for viruses, etc.
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>Any competent manager would know... [snip]
Well, there you have it. Most managers are not competent.
>I once worked with a terrific cracker (he ended up doing time for hacking into NASA owned systems at the University of Florida - in fact, I believe that he is still incarcerated).
He OBVIOUSLY wasn't good enough, or am I missing something?
I love motorcycles, but they are just too damn dangerous.
Don't laugh.
Been there, done that.
Many years ago, one of our co-workers died in the arms of a prostitute. (it was the sort of life he liked to live, you see).
Before his parents flew into town to collect his personal effects, we went through his apartment and removed his pornography, condoms, various "trophies".
His parents never learned the real circumstances surounding his untimely demise.
There is an obvious solution to this problem:
If you educate the offenders one-on-one, you will eventually correct their behavior. Never try to educate them all at once. The lesson has to be personal! (presenting them with their own password makes it more personal)
- Paul
This must be a troll.
After all, he is talking about responsible parenthood. God forbid that anyone should actually take an active part in their children's education and educate them to be responsible.
That's why we have laws and religion, right?
Next thing you know, he will be teaching his daughter about sex!
(oh, the shame of it all. I have to go to confession).
- Paul
No.
What exactly do you mean?
> When I sat in front of a Chinese version once, I was totally lost.
The hotkeys between the English version and (simplified, traditional) Chines versions of windwows as the same. Never found it to be a problem as far back as windows 3.1. Perhaps you could try the keyboard next time if you needed to?
> Another major problem is China's lack of respect for IP. India has a fairly good reputation and many large companies have offices over there (i.e. Cisco, Nortel, etc.).
India's reputation for IP is just as bad (or worse than) China's. You need to travel more before making such "authoritative" statements. In fact, all of Asia is a 'hotbed' of piracy.
The biggest reasons why all those companies are in India and not China are because
- the level of english
- the fact that the country is not a "communist" country
- the level of education and talent available in India that is not available in China.
Regarding Chinese education:
10 years ago, CS graduates from Chinese universities would go to jobs never having used a computer before! They studied programming from books but had never actually run a program on a computer because they did not have access to any. It took a lot of work to get them up to speed in the work place.
Chinese education emphasizes rote learning and memorization without understanding or creative thinking. This might be good for passing tests, but I have not yet met anybody who could think creatively come out of this system of education.
Programming is still a highly creative and artistic endeavor.
Finally, as a personal observation, I have noticed that a lot of the Indians and Pakistanis have a natural talent for mathematics and programming. I have not seen that level of talent with the Chinese.
solar sails
geosyncronous orbits
propoganda
world wide networks
many other examples
Robert Heinlein
waterbeds
Issac Asimov
robotics
and for the many other sci-fi writers that gave inspiration to the first nasa engineers that got man to the moon
- Paul
We should petition them for including new languages.
Yoda-speak anyone?
Funny, it would be.
It's called school!
- What Ad engine are you using?
- What exactly is slow? Is it loading the page, loading the ad, determining what ad needs to be loaded?
Any page that loads ad images from an ad engine will of course be slower than if you are loading the static images from your web site. Think about what is happening (in a simple case):- The page gets loaded
- The browser requests an image url from the ad server
- The ad server replies with an image url redirect
- The browser retrieves the image
In between, we have dns lookups, possible network congestion, maybe slow responses from whatever ad engine is being used, and who knows what else.One of the things that the ad engines are supposed to do is to provide cache busting so that new images (and old, already seen images) are reloaded from the ad server in order to more accurately count the impressions. This is great for the income of the ad agencies, but for people browsing the web site, it means a slower overall performance of the site. Are you just the victim of properly implemented cache busting?
You are not going to solve this problem by storing the banners on your site, unless you are also doing the determination of what banner to display (which would basically defeat the purpose of using someone else's ad engine). It would also eat up your bandwidth considerably.
There are ad engines that do work.
Could you post or email me the address of your site?
The fact of the matter is, is that companies such as Redhat, Mandrake, Corel and all the others have to target a larger audience in order to grow. There are many more non-geeks than geeks.
If the Linux community wants to see futher support from the commercial hardware and software vendors, then they must see that Linux can and does reach a much larger market. In the end, it is good news for both geeks and non geeks alike. I know that I want to have my hardware supported under Linux. If the price for this is graphical installations, then so be it!
At the end of the day, geeks who are opposed to graphical installations will continue to use and support distributions that support text based installs. That is the nice part about having a choice.
- Paul