And people are up in arms about GMail? Damn. At least Google is upfront about their intentions without the paradigm leveraging mumbo-jumbo. Their obviously flawed (as to privacy) model reminds me of certain fraud screening service providers who want businesses to run all credit card transactions through their unproven service -- without having direct ties to the credit card processors or credit card companies -- and who have a history of soliticing material for attracting spammers for their business services. But I digress...again.
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GMail, because automated services are less distracted by hot gossip than human screeners.
Besides, companies shifting paradigms are usually trying to shift those from you pocket to their own...
For you we have a special price of $0. We'll even "throw in" air freight for free. Just provide us with your physical address (sorry, no PO Boxes) and we'll send a few for you and your friends right over. Oh, and as a bonus, we'll toss in free glassware and we'll pave your parking lot.
It is also better for those candidates who are quite removed in their platforms from Nader's positions as well as bad for those nearby his agenda -- for it is the latter's constituency that will be diluted by his entry in the race.
The reason the AC's post is funny is that the analogy is backwards, not the FCC's rule. If you have a license from the FCC to broadcast (which is the case for everyone using the public spectrum segments) no one can regulate said broadcasts except the FCC.
To compare this to Microsoft: What if Microsoft forbade restricting use of its software by any other party than itself. So, Borland, for example, could not sue an alleged Windows pirate for pirating Windows; it remains Microsoft's juris-my-diction to decide who is legit or not. Doesn't sound backwards, does it?
The FCC is exerting its monopoly to regulate (allow/deny) all spectrum broadcasting.
I __hope__ the moderators are thinking the clueless post was +1 Funny for its inanity.
More to the point, the nose can hardly be moved on its own (unless people have jointed cartilage, I guess) so it must require lots of neck movement...which is exactly where I want to get repetative stress injuries!
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I bet this vulnerability was discovered about the same time the similar BMP privilege escalation buffer overflow was discovered reading alleged Windows NT source code. "Gee, if BMP is handled so badly, let's attack JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF,... BINGO!"
OK, the funding organization was the Ford Foundation, not the Union, but the study was done FOR the union. I don't know the organizational relationship between the Ford Foundation and the union, but my cynicism remains intact based on the benefactee if not the benefactor.
The report, funded by the Ford Foundation, was conducted for the Washington Alliance of Technology Workers, a Seattle organization that wants to unionize workers at Microsoft Corp. and other technology companies.
Nice how the results play into the very central purpose of the funding organization, isn't it?
In reality there are probably still a couple hundred thousand in IT that need to go elsewhere. How many have had the experience of meeting a "former" dot-com tech worker that had great sounding credentials but no skill or work ethic? Sure, good people can fall on hard times, but if there is not a need in the market for 400,000 former tech workers, there is a market-force reason.
My wife is an RN, non-practicing as she raises our three children, and her field suffers ebbs and flows in demand/supply as well. When she was in school there was a shortage of nurse and getting into an accredited program was difficult due to the rush of applicants. Upon graduation the market shifted as there was a glut of nurses and people were leaving the school and the profession for greener pastures. Who were the ones leaving the profession? Ones not wanting to be or capable of being a nurse, generally. Sure some good ones were bypassed during the glut periods, but the determined nurses just kept on nursing.
When I was in college (late 80's) there was a shortage of IS (now IT, previously DP) workers and the classes were flooded with wanna bes. Those, like me, who did this stuff not for class credit but for the love of it, spent time helping our classmates get by (without cheating). During that time I was asked by a family friend if I was worried about the large number of potential competitors that were in the processing of joining the workforce; it was then I realized it did not matter how many competitors I was up against, only how good they were.
Now, if I have to compete with top tier developers (the fame and fauna of IT) I'll be the first to break a sweat. But I have never worried about finding a job as long as I have been in this business -- not because I'm so good but because this is what I do. And I always find someone who needs done what I do. It's uncanny. But, ancecdotal evidence is very weak, of course. Just that in my limited experience I've met many DP/IS/IT workers who should be doing something drasticly different. Some examples:
The MCSE-candidate proud that he was "earning" his certifications via braindump and braindump alone; he hated computers and could not install a reference implementation of Exchange 2000 in 2 weeks; whee.
The Perl programmer who spent months trying to get a SPARC-compiled executable on a RedHat Intel box; he left to become a peace officer
The Perl hacker who surfed eBay looking for neat stuff for his BMW he bought after getting his first Perl coding job; he never actually wrote a line of code in the 3 months he worked at this first and last Perl job
The VB/VBA programmer who couldn't stop making MADD mad
The 25 member development team responsible for sinking an otherwise profitable company by switching to a prohibitively expensive Oracle-based system without producing a viable product in over 24 months; they were replaced by a two-member team that ran circles around them
All the EDS, Lockheed, and other SDLC-style development teams I ran across while working solo or with small, agile development teams.
Anyway, I am highly suspicious of a Union-funded study that perfectly matches the union-line.
One other thing: the very fact that Unions want to organize tech workers means, emphatically, that there is too much fat in IT. If everyone in IT today belonged in IT there would be no need for "organization" -- what a joke!
Put the same cynicism we exercise against ADTI, Mindcraft, Gartner, etc., toward these kinds of "studies."
it's something I do on untrusted computers like the ones in web cafés.
Did you know the most common place for a person's hands is (order, and owner, varies) the mouth, nose and butt? For this reason alone I would never use a foreign keyboard. Instead, I bring a laptop when I think I'll need a laptop (which is, um, always). Log these keystrokes, Vlad! Hey, if I'm going to press a booger, it's gotta be mine...
I bought an iBook last Spring (needed a quick replacement to my ailing Dell Inspiron 5150 and didn't want to waste time loading Linux over Windows just to have a useable development box) and everything was going along nicely until I inserted my 256MB JumpDrive into a USB slot...then I saw a kernel panic (or whatever they're called in OSX-land). No problem. I rebooted and...kernel panic. After calling tech support and spending nearly an hour on the phone with Apple support and running various attempts to fix OSX I was instructed to...reload the OS from the CDs. Yes! A Lexar JumpDrive FUBAR'ed my iBook to the extent I had to resort to MCSE tactics!
I immediately returned the iBook to MicroCenter and demanded (and received) a complete refund without having to pay a restocking fee.
I am writing this from my new iBook G4 -- which has never seen a Lexar JumpDrive and never shall.
Neither listening (nor not listening) someone's speech will support the First Admendment. The First Amendment is for the speaker and does not obligate any listening on my part. However, to preserve the First Amendment I am obligated to fight vigilantly for others' right not to be silenced by the Government (private entities can demand that I shut up all day long). Listening to others may make me feel like I'm supporting Free Speech but it is truly irrelevant.
Ergo, while the California Supreme Court has ruled that beggars have the right to voice their requests for free money I still have no obligation to hear their explanation of how they need money for everything except what they are intending to use it.
Exercise the First Admendment: Post with the Karma Bonus
The First Admendment is to be excercised; merely listening to every fool exercising her First Admendment right doesn't lend support to freedom of speech.
Perhaps it took this long because the bad guys were busy installing keystroke recorders so that they could defeat encrypted network traffic. Also, switched networks help keep the impact of the sniffing to the infected computer -- unless the network terminates at an infected computer -- thus making this less as threat to large organization using 100% switched networks...
The King of "it never really happened" episodes was not Sci-Fi/Fantasy at all, but the TV Soap Dallas with the dream sequence serving to negate the entire previous season and correct some major casting mistakes thereby. (I don't recall the details; I was a kid playing Ultima III while the women in the family watched Dallas dotingly).
cURL, not to be confused with the abortion that was (is?) proprietary and expensive and therefore doomed Curl (sorry, Tim, I guess everyone can have a bad idea once), is fantastic. Used to be I hated that my RedHat boxes didn't have wget but rather curl. I was familiar with wget. However, curl is great for automation (file upload posts, for example) and seems to be much more rounded out than any other CLI utility I've used. For pure programability I personally like Perl module LWP and its cousins, but for shell scripts, cron jobs, one-liners curl is King.
A freedom of choice hazard has caused Lexmark to recall almost all of their ink jet printers. The printers were sold as individual items but were actually tied to Lemark-brand ink refills and proprietary print drivers which worked with a subset of available operating systems. From the article: "The recalled printers include Lexmark z55 and nearly all the cheap-ass printers found at Frys, CompUSA, BestBuy and other low-end electronic retailers."
Xandros has a business desktop target and runs quite well. Check them out.
But, it sounds like you want RedHat with yum -- it's the apt-get for rpm distros, somewhat as alien is the rpm-compatibility utility for debian distros (I'm not comparing yum and alien precisely here, just... oh, forget it).
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GMail, because automated services are less distracted by hot gossip than human screeners.
Besides, companies shifting paradigms are usually trying to shift those from you pocket to their own...
For you we have a special price of $0. We'll even
"throw in" air freight for free. Just provide us
with your physical address (sorry, no PO Boxes)
and we'll send a few for you and your friends
right over. Oh, and as a bonus, we'll toss in
free glassware and we'll pave your parking lot.
Sincerely,
Strategic Air Command
U.S.A. Air Force
It is also better for those candidates who are quite removed in their platforms from Nader's positions as well as bad for those nearby his agenda -- for it is the latter's constituency that will be diluted by his entry in the race.
The reason the AC's post is funny is that the analogy is backwards, not the FCC's rule. If you have a license from the FCC to broadcast (which is the case for everyone using the public spectrum segments) no one can regulate said broadcasts except the FCC.
To compare this to Microsoft: What if Microsoft forbade restricting use of its software by any other party than itself. So, Borland, for example, could not sue an alleged Windows pirate for pirating Windows; it remains Microsoft's juris-my-diction to decide who is legit or not. Doesn't sound backwards, does it?
The FCC is exerting its monopoly to regulate (allow/deny) all spectrum broadcasting.
I __hope__ the moderators are thinking the clueless post was +1 Funny for its inanity.
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I bet this vulnerability was discovered about the same time the similar BMP privilege escalation buffer overflow was discovered reading alleged Windows NT source code. "Gee, if BMP is handled so badly, let's attack JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF,OK, the funding organization was the Ford Foundation, not the Union, but the study was done FOR the union. I don't know the organizational relationship between the Ford Foundation and the union, but my cynicism remains intact based on the benefactee if not the benefactor.
- The report, funded by the Ford Foundation, was conducted for the Washington Alliance of Technology Workers, a Seattle organization that wants to unionize workers at Microsoft Corp. and other technology companies.
Nice how the results play into the very central purpose of the funding organization, isn't it?In reality there are probably still a couple hundred thousand in IT that need to go elsewhere. How many have had the experience of meeting a "former" dot-com tech worker that had great sounding credentials but no skill or work ethic? Sure, good people can fall on hard times, but if there is not a need in the market for 400,000 former tech workers, there is a market-force reason.
My wife is an RN, non-practicing as she raises our three children, and her field suffers ebbs and flows in demand/supply as well. When she was in school there was a shortage of nurse and getting into an accredited program was difficult due to the rush of applicants. Upon graduation the market shifted as there was a glut of nurses and people were leaving the school and the profession for greener pastures. Who were the ones leaving the profession? Ones not wanting to be or capable of being a nurse, generally. Sure some good ones were bypassed during the glut periods, but the determined nurses just kept on nursing.
When I was in college (late 80's) there was a shortage of IS (now IT, previously DP) workers and the classes were flooded with wanna bes. Those, like me, who did this stuff not for class credit but for the love of it, spent time helping our classmates get by (without cheating). During that time I was asked by a family friend if I was worried about the large number of potential competitors that were in the processing of joining the workforce; it was then I realized it did not matter how many competitors I was up against, only how good they were.
Now, if I have to compete with top tier developers (the fame and fauna of IT) I'll be the first to break a sweat. But I have never worried about finding a job as long as I have been in this business -- not because I'm so good but because this is what I do. And I always find someone who needs done what I do. It's uncanny. But, ancecdotal evidence is very weak, of course. Just that in my limited experience I've met many DP/IS/IT workers who should be doing something drasticly different. Some examples:
- The MCSE-candidate proud that he was "earning" his certifications via braindump and braindump alone; he hated computers and could not install a reference implementation of Exchange 2000 in 2 weeks; whee.
- The Perl programmer who spent months trying to get a SPARC-compiled executable on a RedHat Intel box; he left to become a peace officer
- The Perl hacker who surfed eBay looking for neat stuff for his BMW he bought after getting his first Perl coding job; he never actually wrote a line of code in the 3 months he worked at this first and last Perl job
- The VB/VBA programmer who couldn't stop making MADD mad
- The 25 member development team responsible for sinking an otherwise profitable company by switching to a prohibitively expensive Oracle-based system without producing a viable product in over 24 months; they were replaced by a two-member team that ran circles around them
- All the EDS, Lockheed, and other SDLC-style development teams I ran across while working solo or with small, agile development teams.
Anyway, I am highly suspicious of a Union-funded study that perfectly matches the union-line.One other thing: the very fact that Unions want to organize tech workers means, emphatically, that there is too much fat in IT. If everyone in IT today belonged in IT there would be no need for "organization" -- what a joke!
Put the same cynicism we exercise against ADTI, Mindcraft, Gartner, etc., toward these kinds of "studies."
- it's something I do on untrusted computers like the ones in web cafés.
Did you know the most common place for a person's hands is (order, and owner, varies) the mouth, nose and butt? For this reason alone I would never use a foreign keyboard. Instead, I bring a laptop when I think I'll need a laptop (which is, um, always). Log these keystrokes, Vlad! Hey, if I'm going to press a booger, it's gotta be mine...- "Insightful"?
The Post was a joke, And the Moderation was its punchline. Amen.Come on, people. It was a joke!
I immediately returned the iBook to MicroCenter and demanded (and received) a complete refund without having to pay a restocking fee.
I am writing this from my new iBook G4 -- which has never seen a Lexar JumpDrive and never shall.
Ergo, while the California Supreme Court has ruled that beggars have the right to voice their requests for free money I still have no obligation to hear their explanation of how they need money for everything except what they are intending to use it.
- Exercise the First Admendment: Post with the Karma Bonus
The First Admendment is to be excercised; merely listening to every fool exercising her First Admendment right doesn't lend support to freedom of speech.Fried Spam with mustard on toasted white bread: MMmmmmmMMM!
100 years ago they probably called it Invasive Nuisance®.
Perhaps it took this long because the bad guys were busy installing keystroke recorders so that they could defeat encrypted network traffic. Also, switched networks help keep the impact of the sniffing to the infected computer -- unless the network terminates at an infected computer -- thus making this less as threat to large organization using 100% switched networks...
- "allows any software application binary to run on any processor/operating system" without any performance hit.
It does take quite an acid hit, though...(Speedy processors would not stop their software from running; reality would, but if it ran on a 300MHz processor, it'd do just fine on a 3GHz)
The King of "it never really happened" episodes was not Sci-Fi/Fantasy at all, but the TV Soap Dallas with the dream sequence serving to negate the entire previous season and correct some major casting mistakes thereby. (I don't recall the details; I was a kid playing Ultima III while the women in the family watched Dallas dotingly).
cURL, not to be confused with the abortion that was (is?) proprietary and expensive and therefore doomed Curl (sorry, Tim, I guess everyone can have a bad idea once), is fantastic. Used to be I hated that my RedHat boxes didn't have wget but rather curl. I was familiar with wget. However, curl is great for automation (file upload posts, for example) and seems to be much more rounded out than any other CLI utility I've used. For pure programability I personally like Perl module LWP and its cousins, but for shell scripts, cron jobs, one-liners curl is King.
Why do you think they call it a core dump, anyway?
Anyway, this is one step closer to the Matrix. Instead of using humans as batteries, they'll just eat us.
File this under "Would that it be true."
Xandros has a business desktop target and runs quite well. Check them out.
... oh, forget it).
But, it sounds like you want RedHat with yum -- it's the apt-get for rpm distros, somewhat as alien is the rpm-compatibility utility for debian distros (I'm not comparing yum and alien precisely here, just
Why? from what I can tell many of them are short on SCOX and stand to make mint.
Intelligent wireless energy transmission should be developed. Unfortunately I have a tennis game, or I'd help out, but good luck and all.