Famous Scumbag Lawyer Ken Starr doesn't have any more of a chance here than he did on his other big case a few years ago, since there are plenty of prior rulings protecting students' free speech rights off-campus:
I actually saw a guy with a Zune yesterday on the subway. So far: Number of Zunes seen - one. Number of Creative Zens and other off-brands seen - a few. Number of ipods seen: About 10,000.
This is the second modded-troll (or attempt at humor, whatever) I have defended in two days. If you peek into who runs the US government (well at least the executive branch), you will find that this concept has some support. Why conserve natural resources when Jay-zuss has given us all these abundant natural resources to plunder?
Although I would still give 1000x more credit for the pillaging of the world by American business not because Jay-zuss is coming to take us all home, but because executives don't get any credit for planning anything beyond pump and dumping the end-of-the-quarter's stock price, thus justifing the next bloated paycheck. Propose a 100-year plan for an American business (or even for government) and you'll just get ridiculed.
The only troll-ish thing the parent post is that it songle out IBM; all the other bloated shiteware providers like CA and BMC work exactly the same way.
Mostly, it's the fault of the users. *Some* of IBM, BMC, and CA's stuff isn't crap, but any good sales rep is perfectly willing to sell all the bells and whistles to gullible users who want every feature glommed onto everything, until the whole creaking mess takes a support staff of a dozen consultants to run. Eleven of whom might be supporting the data mining or "dashboard" or some other such shoddily engineered add-on that produces reports that one one ever, ever reads after the initial requirements are met.
I'd mod funny, I think, but I dunno. Being a pilot, as far as I know, when I use the radio thingy, in my plane, it uses some frequencies in the VHF, like 99% of what seems to be most air traffic control communications. Except for those. Which, actually, is a very long wave, if you're a cell phone.
I don't think a cell phone has ever interfered with ATC, except for maybe once or twice, Or maybe not ever, or more times than that. My opinion, if anyone gives a s***, is that The Man doesn't want to make air travel any more of a Living Hell than it already is, mostly, except for sometimes.
Right now I'm going through a big cluster f*** at work with respect to a new, bloated, and slow web app that's about to be rolled out. Of course, it must be *my* fault that he app is slow, because it's the "network".
It can't possibly be because the web app unloads a 1/4 MByte steaming pile of Javascript into the user's browser on first page load, can it?
It's not a well-kept secret that, if you are not an asshole about it, most banks and credit cards will forgive occasional charges and fees if you just ask.
I have reversed checking overdraft fees and Visa late fees and interest this way. (I've had my bank account for 20+ years and my Visa for more than 10.)
Last month, I asked Visa to refund the $29 late charge on my account since I paid one day too late. "Of course!", they said, "and why don't we refund the $10 interest too?" And they did.
Technically, it's not "HDTV" only, as reported by Mossberg this week in Wall Street Journal. It *does* require 16:9 widescreen, which not many non-HDTV's can accomodate. Whatever.
You may become obsolecent in the technical sense but if you are a good manager you can avoid falling behind in the management of technology or sw development or whatever. The real risk is simply there are a lot fewer managers than rank and file developers, so there is a lot less demand for them.
It turns out these are really different skill sets - one set cranks out code, the other set knows metrics, process, etc, still technical but not the things most rank and file developers obsess over.
That being said the main requirement for being a good technical manager is still being a good manager. I've had managers who had no technical skills, but the ones who knew how to evaluate, metricize, and develop processes specific to the task at hand were better.
Back in the goodle days in Silicon Valley lots of places had these kinds of perks, too. Google only stands out now because no one else can afford to offer them anymore.
I also have to say I know a few people who work there, and they are the some of the smartest, coolest, and nicest people I have ever known or worked with. So if they load on the perks, it is only to retain good people.
- Set SSID to something random, and don't broadcast it - I even use WEP, as supposedly insecure and old school as that is - So far I have shown up on no wardriving maps
A real BOFH doesn't TEST, we do live restores frequently enough for our dumbass users that we don't need to test. And with a blocksize of one, maybe two if we like you.
Somehow I can see that being a bit of a letdown for your average intensely motivated high-altitude mountaineer: "I have climbed the highest peaks on Earth - and WTF? I'm a BOFH stuck in the server room? Get me out of here!"
I have been a system administrator for 20 years and I have never seen a rack of equipmetn hard wired into the mains.
At least in the US, NEMA twist-lock connectors are used for everything over 15A.
As far as I can tell, it's manging USERS not GEEKS
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I have never had an IT manager that has spent less than 10 times as much time managing the whining, crybaby, obnoxious users ("customers"), as managing technical talent. Unless the technical telent are idiots or sociopaths, that is, which occurs some of the time.
But mostly the job consists of drawing fire so the technical telnet can do their job, and I am eternally grateful to my better IT managers for doing that.
Unlike halon and CO2, which displace the ambient air with something toxic (or at least unbreatheable) until there is not enough oxygen for combustion, this approach allegedly allows you to stay alive in teh reduced atmosphere, at least if the smoke doesn't kill you first.
It doesn't sound particularly fast, to suck the oxygen out rather than displace it with a big load of something like halon or CO2. I still don't see how this is different from just flooding the room with pure Nitrogen.
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The "Bong Hits 4 Jesus" case is currently before the Supreme Court this term and covers much of this ground.
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If nothing else, it's enormously entertaining just to hear the Supremes uttering the phrase "Bong Hits 4 Jesus".
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4155/
Famous Scumbag Lawyer Ken Starr doesn't have any more of a chance here than he did on his other big case a few years ago, since there are plenty of prior rulings protecting students' free speech rights off-campus:
http://lawcrawler.findlaw.com/scripts/lc.pl?count
I actually saw a guy with a Zune yesterday on the subway. So far: Number of Zunes seen - one. Number of Creative Zens and other off-brands seen - a few. Number of ipods seen: About 10,000.
Say you need a second PC, they will usually approve that with little justification.
Then, when the audit is over, trash the PC and go back to your dual-monitor setup.
This is the second modded-troll (or attempt at humor, whatever) I have defended in two days. If you peek into who runs the US government (well at least the executive branch), you will find that this concept has some support. Why conserve natural resources when Jay-zuss has given us all these abundant natural resources to plunder?
Although I would still give 1000x more credit for the pillaging of the world by American business not because Jay-zuss is coming to take us all home, but because executives don't get any credit for planning anything beyond pump and dumping the end-of-the-quarter's stock price, thus justifing the next bloated paycheck. Propose a 100-year plan for an American business (or even for government) and you'll just get ridiculed.
The only troll-ish thing the parent post is that it songle out IBM; all the other bloated shiteware providers like CA and BMC work exactly the same way.
Mostly, it's the fault of the users. *Some* of IBM, BMC, and CA's stuff isn't crap, but any good sales rep is perfectly willing to sell all the bells and whistles to gullible users who want every feature glommed onto everything, until the whole creaking mess takes a support staff of a dozen consultants to run. Eleven of whom might be supporting the data mining or "dashboard" or some other such shoddily engineered add-on that produces reports that one one ever, ever reads after the initial requirements are met.
I'd mod funny, I think, but I dunno. Being a pilot, as far as I know, when I use the radio thingy, in my plane, it uses some frequencies in the VHF, like 99% of what seems to be most air traffic control communications. Except for those. Which, actually, is a very long wave, if you're a cell phone.
I don't think a cell phone has ever interfered with ATC, except for maybe once or twice, Or maybe not ever, or more times than that. My opinion, if anyone gives a s***, is that The Man doesn't want to make air travel any more of a Living Hell than it already is, mostly, except for sometimes.
The "remote interaction" technology will be used to reach out and grab your testicles until you can produce a valid credit card number.
Blah blah FUD blah blah troll blah FUD blah troll blah blah blah ...
Right now I'm going through a big cluster f*** at work with respect to a new, bloated, and slow web app that's about to be rolled out. Of course, it must be *my* fault that he app is slow, because it's the "network".
It can't possibly be because the web app unloads a 1/4 MByte steaming pile of Javascript into the user's browser on first page load, can it?
It's not a well-kept secret that, if you are not an asshole about it, most banks and credit cards will forgive occasional charges and fees if you just ask.
I have reversed checking overdraft fees and Visa late fees and interest this way. (I've had my bank account for 20+ years and my Visa for more than 10.)
Last month, I asked Visa to refund the $29 late charge on my account since I paid one day too late. "Of course!", they said, "and why don't we refund the $10 interest too?" And they did.
Technically, it's not "HDTV" only, as reported by Mossberg this week in Wall Street Journal. It *does* require 16:9 widescreen, which not many non-HDTV's can accomodate. Whatever.
You may become obsolecent in the technical sense but if you are a good manager you can avoid falling behind in the management of technology or sw development or whatever. The real risk is simply there are a lot fewer managers than rank and file developers, so there is a lot less demand for them.
It turns out these are really different skill sets - one set cranks out code, the other set knows metrics, process, etc, still technical but not the things most rank and file developers obsess over.
That being said the main requirement for being a good technical manager is still being a good manager. I've had managers who had no technical skills, but the ones who knew how to evaluate, metricize, and develop processes specific to the task at hand were better.
Back in the goodle days in Silicon Valley lots of places had these kinds of perks, too. Google only stands out now because no one else can afford to offer them anymore.
I also have to say I know a few people who work there, and they are the some of the smartest, coolest, and nicest people I have ever known or worked with. So if they load on the perks, it is only to retain good people.
Although lately it sounds like the Dems are more likely to launch Hilary Clinton on this mission.
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2012 bumper sticker? "Don't blame me, I voted for Obama
But if I do that, I can't mooch off all the neighbors' unsecured hot spots!
It's free for me to dump my dead CRT monitor in San Francisco Bay, costs me $10 to disspose of it properly. Which is better for the enviroment.
More right-wing anti-hybrid FUD shit for brains AM-radio-whore bull crap.
- Set SSID to something random, and don't broadcast it
- I even use WEP, as supposedly insecure and old school as that is
- So far I have shown up on no wardriving maps
A real BOFH doesn't TEST, we do live restores frequently enough for our dumbass users that we don't need to test. And with a blocksize of one, maybe two if we like you.
- put him to work in the datacenter!
Somehow I can see that being a bit of a letdown for your average intensely motivated high-altitude mountaineer: "I have climbed the highest peaks on Earth - and WTF? I'm a BOFH stuck in the server room? Get me out of here!"
I have been a system administrator for 20 years and I have never seen a rack of equipmetn hard wired into the mains.
At least in the US, NEMA twist-lock connectors are used for everything over 15A.
I have never had an IT manager that has spent less than 10 times as much time managing the whining, crybaby, obnoxious users ("customers"), as managing technical talent. Unless the technical telent are idiots or sociopaths, that is, which occurs some of the time.
But mostly the job consists of drawing fire so the technical telnet can do their job, and I am eternally grateful to my better IT managers for doing that.
Unlike halon and CO2, which displace the ambient air with something toxic (or at least unbreatheable) until there is not enough oxygen for combustion, this approach allegedly allows you to stay alive in teh reduced atmosphere, at least if the smoke doesn't kill you first.
It doesn't sound particularly fast, to suck the oxygen out rather than displace it with a big load of something like halon or CO2. I still don't see how this is different from just flooding the room with pure Nitrogen.
Oh, wait, it's not.
Nevermind.
- the Internet, as you know it, is already dead.
It is not evidence w.r.t.. who done the crime, but evidence of premeditation, which significantly enhances the crime in most jurisdictions.