No, Oracle the devil. As much as I dislike government, I know how Oracle works and this is EXACLY what they do. I've seen it over and over... first hand experience. They will tell you they have a software product that does exactly what you're looking for, it's all integrated with their other systems... sell it to you... then you find out they bought the product from some other company 2 months ago. Lies lies lies.
They actually sent an "Expert" in to train our employees how to trick their support employees into working our tickets faster. How screwed up is that?
Our entire understanding of how the universe works is largly based on these measurements... so this is potentially a very big deal. Any Astrophysicists around that can give us an idea of how big a difference this will make?
As a customer of Oracles, and having these very same products including Sieble... all I can say is "You should have asked me first"
This is exactly what we're going through. They sold us a suit of "integrated software products" that were in no-way integrated or even related. They charged us to configure the software, then when the software didn't work, told us it was configured wrong. Then when it was time for a new contract tried to exempt themselves from liability for "Configuration changes" and threatened to not renew and not fix the issue unless we did sign. (we didn't and almost ended up in court)
Then when they were making changes their support teams would log into their software through various back doors and make changes without notifying us, leaving a trail in the audit log with "NULL" in the place where the user account that made the change was supposed to be logged. They remotely modify white lists into the application suite without permission despite specific contractual agreements that they would not. We've got Oracle Employees whitelisting their home DSL accounts and logging in at random at all times of the day.
Oracle is the worst Vendor I've ever worked with. They are incompetent, malicious, vindictive and will outright lie, con and steal from their customers. They literally deprecated our ODBC connection to a SASS once because we weren't going to renew our contract and they wanted to charge us to move the data off their systems. Luckily we had planned for such a thing and already had a replication database in-house. God I hate Oracle.
Exactly... if you owned a network worth hundreds of millions of dollars would you let ANYTHING traverse it without your knowledge? If you did, and you got compromised, Slashdot would be all over you for being too lax in your security.
The way it works where I'm at, it's totally transparent. You have to sign something that you're ok with being monitored when you're hired, but other than that they don't really explain anything. Then the proxy gets "hits" based on your activity. Everyone gets a bad email or clicks the wrong link every once in a while so they don't want to nail people for every little thing. But once the proxy gets enough "hits" on someone a ticket is created. They don't view these encrypted files or look at your bank data at all... instead they just remotely record video of your desktop. I don't care what kind of encryption you're using at that point, they've got you if you're doing something wrong. I knew a guy that was VPNing to his home network and doing things he shouldn't off that. I guess he thought that was ok... They walked him out in the middle of his shift.
Microsoft still has a chance... They need to make Windows Free, maybe even open source (ok, that's a pipe dream) Then they need to invent all kinds of stellar business apps that integrate with it flawlessly... and license those apps to businesses. Businesses will pay for supported apps, because they like to be covered if something happens (thats how oracle makes money)
Basically everything Microsoft is currently doing is wrong. They are digging their own grave and anyone with any tech savvy at all knows it.
I liked this article. The author did a good job of dumbing things down for us mortals. Super symmetry has been dieing since the day the LHC came online. But I have a problem with:
A lot of people have invested their entire careers in SUSY, and if it’s not a part of nature, then a lot of what they’ve invested in is nothing more than a blind alley. For example, if there is no SUSY in nature, at any energy scale (including the Planck Scale, although this will be a challenge to test), then string theory cannot describe our Universe. Plain and simple.
I seriously doubt many of the geniuses that dedicated their entire lives with Super Symmetry would consider it a blind alley. There's been some amazing math, and amazing theoretical work on it. It's a very very good theory. It's rather clear that this point that it's not correct, but whatever the truth really is (something we clearly haven't even imagined yet) will be helped greatly by the work done by those investigating super symmetry. The Wright Bothers didn't just hop in a plane and fly off... There were mountains of work by thousands of failures that they built their success on.
THREATS are not attacks. It's not possible to install sideloads on iOS, that doesn't make it more secure, that makes it suck. It's like saying your house is better because you don't have doors. Fine, it's harder for people to get in. I can lock my doors or I can choose not to, that's up to me. But you don't even have an option. This is the same bullshit walled garden crap that Apples been spewing since the 80s.
I really just don't see why anyone would use Chrome. I never did get it. IE comes default with windows... so you use it if you're too lazy or don't know what you're doing you leave it on there... Opera has some neat, unique features... so ok... But Chrome? Really? What positive purpose does it serve? Firefox has had its issues over the years but time and again it's proven to be the most stable, most user friendly browser over the long term.
What a shameless and ridiculous headline. 5 year olds can't even usually read... or count above 100. I just got my 6 year old to understand that 0 comes before 1 for gods sakes and he's the smartest kid in his class. If building legos is calculus than I'm a god damned genius. WTF is this even about?
Well, in my town there are at least 4 Radio Shacks, so you're right about that... but all of them are little more than cellphone Kiosks. I'm not sure what brilliant mind they had that thought they'd make money by putting a cellphone Kiosk in a mall next to the Best Buy, Apple, Verizon, and ATT stores... not to mention the dozen or so little booths in the middle of the mall... but it's clearly not working.
Radio Shack just makes me cry when I go in there now. Having one small cabinet with nothing more than about a dozen different resistor values and toggle switches priced at $8 a piece is not a "return to your roots"
When Radio Shack was doing well they sold some of the best, and even most unique Stereo equipment you could find. The first surround sound I ever heard was in a Radio Shack and that was a good 5 years before I saw it anywhere else. I could take in a parts list and the clerk would tell me to come back in a few days and he'd have my order ready.
There IS a market for Radio Shack and they could do well, but they need to get out of the mall where rent is so high and start stocking real stuff again. How about offering project boxes with custom silk screen or etching right in the store? I'd pay $100 - $200 for such a service. How about an array of knobs and such to make your project stand out? 3D printers and supplies? Arduino supplies... how about workshops on coding for them? Come on, this isn't that hard.
There's a strip mall near me and all within about 5 blocks you can find Woodcraft, Harbor Freight, Northern Tool, Home Depot, AutoZone, Hobby Lobby and a fabric store. THAT is where Radio Shack needs their store... not next to Bannana republic for gods sake.
Yes, because political ideology makes everything else in a persons life irrelevant. What have YOU done for the open source community? I mean other than make bad political analogies that have no baring on reality. Any political system taken to an extreme is bad. A glass of water is good and healthy, downing in an ocean is not. That doesn't make water bad.
Yes, but even then, it would be orders of magnitude more difficult to hack the modems than if the passwords were all just "Admin" A targeted attack would still be plausible but the mass hacking of hundreds of thousands of routers would be a lot more difficult.
You say that until you're working in HR and a few weeks after hiring someone you find your companies name in the paper "Local tech shop hires well known convicted murderer and local Nazi Party leader" and then links to his facebook page full of swastikas.
I think it's one thing to do basic checks or glance at some info... and another to do "due diligence"
The solution to this problem is to not use facebook or services like it if you don't want employers to judge you based on its contents.
Taste great, 1 cup and I can use actual REAL coffee in it! also, in a pinch you can make one of these out of a paper cup by poking holes in it and sticking in a regular old filter. The key is not to make the holes too big so the cofee steeps in the hot water for long enough.
I've no idea if this plane used tubes, but there were plenty of tubes in planes of that day. Mostly in their radios and such. They don't waste nearly as much electricity as you'd think. What they do have a problem with is that they need High voltage AC to heat the plate. But in a multiple hundred horsepower plane with an alternator on board that's not really a problem. There are plenty of examples of Russian planes from that time period still in service all over the world. One of the great things about tubes is, when they go, you just plug in a new one. Try doing that with a transistor.
I used to work in a bicycle factory, and my job was the "Wheel maker" I even made wheels for the US Olympic team one year. Anyways, once you understand how they work, they are very easy to make. I don't even ride bikes so it always surprises my bike riding friends and neighbors when I rebuild and balance their wheels in seconds.
This guy invented the microprocessor, holds over 70 patents, is a self made millionaire (maybe billionaire) and has successfully sued the state of California for nearly $400 million because they tried to extort taxes he didn't owe out of him. So far, everything he's done relating to tech has been righteous imo, let's cut him some slack.
The "per capita rate" is mostly irrelevant when most of what the modern world would consider "Rape" is entirely legal in India. Once a woman has been married, often by force, under the age of 15, it is impossible for her to divorce and the only part of the sexual assault considered "Illegal" is if her "Husband" causes her physical injury. Then he's charged with misdemeanor assault, not rape.
Then there's the armed "Rape squads" patroling the slums where not much of anything will be reported due to the complete lack of law enforcement... the child prostitution rings, which have girls enslaved under the age of 10 who are then raped for money by older men.
So I don't know if the per-capital rate is higher or lower in my country, but I know one thing for sure, if I were a woman, a romantic walk in the moonlight of India would not be in my bucket list.
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No, Oracle the devil. As much as I dislike government, I know how Oracle works and this is EXACLY what they do. I've seen it over and over... first hand experience. They will tell you they have a software product that does exactly what you're looking for, it's all integrated with their other systems... sell it to you... then you find out they bought the product from some other company 2 months ago. Lies lies lies.
They actually sent an "Expert" in to train our employees how to trick their support employees into working our tickets faster. How screwed up is that?
Clearly you've never worked with Oracle. The states biggest mistake was hiring them.
Our entire understanding of how the universe works is largly based on these measurements... so this is potentially a very big deal. Any Astrophysicists around that can give us an idea of how big a difference this will make?
As a customer of Oracles, and having these very same products including Sieble... all I can say is "You should have asked me first"
This is exactly what we're going through. They sold us a suit of "integrated software products" that were in no-way integrated or even related. They charged us to configure the software, then when the software didn't work, told us it was configured wrong. Then when it was time for a new contract tried to exempt themselves from liability for "Configuration changes" and threatened to not renew and not fix the issue unless we did sign. (we didn't and almost ended up in court)
Then when they were making changes their support teams would log into their software through various back doors and make changes without notifying us, leaving a trail in the audit log with "NULL" in the place where the user account that made the change was supposed to be logged. They remotely modify white lists into the application suite without permission despite specific contractual agreements that they would not. We've got Oracle Employees whitelisting their home DSL accounts and logging in at random at all times of the day.
Oracle is the worst Vendor I've ever worked with. They are incompetent, malicious, vindictive and will outright lie, con and steal from their customers. They literally deprecated our ODBC connection to a SASS once because we weren't going to renew our contract and they wanted to charge us to move the data off their systems. Luckily we had planned for such a thing and already had a replication database in-house. God I hate Oracle.
There's a difference between someone using their camcorder to video tape you, and a person following you everywhere you go with multiple cameras.
The government. Definitely the government.
Last I checked, robbers and kidnappers weren't using drones to send hellfire missiles into American Citizens homes without judicial review.
Exactly... if you owned a network worth hundreds of millions of dollars would you let ANYTHING traverse it without your knowledge? If you did, and you got compromised, Slashdot would be all over you for being too lax in your security.
The way it works where I'm at, it's totally transparent. You have to sign something that you're ok with being monitored when you're hired, but other than that they don't really explain anything. Then the proxy gets "hits" based on your activity. Everyone gets a bad email or clicks the wrong link every once in a while so they don't want to nail people for every little thing. But once the proxy gets enough "hits" on someone a ticket is created. They don't view these encrypted files or look at your bank data at all... instead they just remotely record video of your desktop. I don't care what kind of encryption you're using at that point, they've got you if you're doing something wrong. I knew a guy that was VPNing to his home network and doing things he shouldn't off that. I guess he thought that was ok... They walked him out in the middle of his shift.
Microsoft still has a chance...
They need to make Windows Free, maybe even open source (ok, that's a pipe dream)
Then they need to invent all kinds of stellar business apps that integrate with it flawlessly...
and license those apps to businesses. Businesses will pay for supported apps, because they like to be covered if something happens (thats how oracle makes money)
Basically everything Microsoft is currently doing is wrong. They are digging their own grave and anyone with any tech savvy at all knows it.
The Wright Brothers designed their plane using very well established and tested principles.
You're proving my point for me.
I liked this article. The author did a good job of dumbing things down for us mortals. Super symmetry has been dieing since the day the LHC came online. But I have a problem with:
A lot of people have invested their entire careers in SUSY, and if it’s not a part of nature, then a lot of what they’ve invested in is nothing more than a blind alley. For example, if there is no SUSY in nature, at any energy scale (including the Planck Scale, although this will be a challenge to test), then string theory cannot describe our Universe. Plain and simple.
I seriously doubt many of the geniuses that dedicated their entire lives with Super Symmetry would consider it a blind alley. There's been some amazing math, and amazing theoretical work on it. It's a very very good theory. It's rather clear that this point that it's not correct, but whatever the truth really is (something we clearly haven't even imagined yet) will be helped greatly by the work done by those investigating super symmetry. The Wright Bothers didn't just hop in a plane and fly off... There were mountains of work by thousands of failures that they built their success on.
THREATS are not attacks. It's not possible to install sideloads on iOS, that doesn't make it more secure, that makes it suck. It's like saying your house is better because you don't have doors. Fine, it's harder for people to get in. I can lock my doors or I can choose not to, that's up to me. But you don't even have an option. This is the same bullshit walled garden crap that Apples been spewing since the 80s.
I really just don't see why anyone would use Chrome. I never did get it. IE comes default with windows... so you use it if you're too lazy or don't know what you're doing you leave it on there... Opera has some neat, unique features... so ok... But Chrome? Really? What positive purpose does it serve? Firefox has had its issues over the years but time and again it's proven to be the most stable, most user friendly browser over the long term.
What a shameless and ridiculous headline. 5 year olds can't even usually read... or count above 100. I just got my 6 year old to understand that 0 comes before 1 for gods sakes and he's the smartest kid in his class. If building legos is calculus than I'm a god damned genius. WTF is this even about?
Well, in my town there are at least 4 Radio Shacks, so you're right about that... but all of them are little more than cellphone Kiosks. I'm not sure what brilliant mind they had that thought they'd make money by putting a cellphone Kiosk in a mall next to the Best Buy, Apple, Verizon, and ATT stores... not to mention the dozen or so little booths in the middle of the mall... but it's clearly not working.
Radio Shack just makes me cry when I go in there now. Having one small cabinet with nothing more than about a dozen different resistor values and toggle switches priced at $8 a piece is not a "return to your roots"
When Radio Shack was doing well they sold some of the best, and even most unique Stereo equipment you could find. The first surround sound I ever heard was in a Radio Shack and that was a good 5 years before I saw it anywhere else. I could take in a parts list and the clerk would tell me to come back in a few days and he'd have my order ready.
There IS a market for Radio Shack and they could do well, but they need to get out of the mall where rent is so high and start stocking real stuff again. How about offering project boxes with custom silk screen or etching right in the store? I'd pay $100 - $200 for such a service. How about an array of knobs and such to make your project stand out? 3D printers and supplies? Arduino supplies... how about workshops on coding for them? Come on, this isn't that hard.
There's a strip mall near me and all within about 5 blocks you can find Woodcraft, Harbor Freight, Northern Tool, Home Depot, AutoZone, Hobby Lobby and a fabric store. THAT is where Radio Shack needs their store... not next to Bannana republic for gods sake.
Yes, because political ideology makes everything else in a persons life irrelevant. What have YOU done for the open source community? I mean other than make bad political analogies that have no baring on reality. Any political system taken to an extreme is bad. A glass of water is good and healthy, downing in an ocean is not. That doesn't make water bad.
Yes, but even then, it would be orders of magnitude more difficult to hack the modems than if the passwords were all just "Admin" A targeted attack would still be plausible but the mass hacking of hundreds of thousands of routers would be a lot more difficult.
You say that until you're working in HR and a few weeks after hiring someone you find your companies name in the paper "Local tech shop hires well known convicted murderer and local Nazi Party leader" and then links to his facebook page full of swastikas.
I think it's one thing to do basic checks or glance at some info... and another to do "due diligence"
The solution to this problem is to not use facebook or services like it if you don't want employers to judge you based on its contents.
You can get a washable filter for it: http://www.amazon.com/Gold-Ton...
Heat your water in the microwave.
They got a picture right in the article. Sure as hell looks like a plane to me. Granted an unnamed powered blimp would be a drone as well.
Um... Keurig sucks. I've had their coffee, it's expensive and tastes bland.
I've been using this for nearly a decade: http://www.amazon.com/Melitta-...
Taste great, 1 cup and I can use actual REAL coffee in it!
also, in a pinch you can make one of these out of a paper cup by poking holes in it and sticking in a regular old filter. The key is not to make the holes too big so the cofee steeps in the hot water for long enough.
I've no idea if this plane used tubes, but there were plenty of tubes in planes of that day. Mostly in their radios and such. They don't waste nearly as much electricity as you'd think. What they do have a problem with is that they need High voltage AC to heat the plate. But in a multiple hundred horsepower plane with an alternator on board that's not really a problem. There are plenty of examples of Russian planes from that time period still in service all over the world. One of the great things about tubes is, when they go, you just plug in a new one. Try doing that with a transistor.
I used to work in a bicycle factory, and my job was the "Wheel maker" I even made wheels for the US Olympic team one year. Anyways, once you understand how they work, they are very easy to make. I don't even ride bikes so it always surprises my bike riding friends and neighbors when I rebuild and balance their wheels in seconds.
This guy invented the microprocessor, holds over 70 patents, is a self made millionaire (maybe billionaire) and has successfully sued the state of California for nearly $400 million because they tried to extort taxes he didn't owe out of him. So far, everything he's done relating to tech has been righteous imo, let's cut him some slack.
http://www.forbes.com/2008/08/...
The "per capita rate" is mostly irrelevant when most of what the modern world would consider "Rape" is entirely legal in India. Once a woman has been married, often by force, under the age of 15, it is impossible for her to divorce and the only part of the sexual assault considered "Illegal" is if her "Husband" causes her physical injury. Then he's charged with misdemeanor assault, not rape.
Then there's the armed "Rape squads" patroling the slums where not much of anything will be reported due to the complete lack of law enforcement... the child prostitution rings, which have girls enslaved under the age of 10 who are then raped for money by older men.
So I don't know if the per-capital rate is higher or lower in my country, but I know one thing for sure, if I were a woman, a romantic walk in the moonlight of India would not be in my bucket list.