Dealing with Adobe is why my company switched to bluebeam. You should check into it if you need PDF docs edited.. Much cheaper than acrobat, and more features..
Put two and two together and I think it's obvious that wind power companies were looking to work with Google and were maybe even encouraged by Google.
The Power company in Green Bay, WI spent a few hundred million building a wind farm in Iowa (a few hundred miles away). There is a new law here that power companies have to have a certain percentage of their power renewable. Since the wind doesn't blow as much in Green Bay (if only they could get power from the cold, or the hatred of Brett Farve and the Vikings), it is cheaper and easier for them to build it in Iowa, then sell it, over the transmission networks, to themselves.
Um, you do now that casualty-wise, in the US over the last 20 years, a large percentage of Terrorism Victims are from White Militia members, right? Between Timothy McVeigh in Oklahoma City, and The guy at the Atlanta Olympics... (which only killed one person, and indirectly...)
In all your hatred at the current administration, did you stop and think that maybe, just maybe, we don't have federal agents at the Amsterdam airport? We do not do the security at foreign airports. Perhaps,in your fox news repeating Vitrol, that got lost. But it was an international flight, from a foreign, soverign nation.
The system worked as best it can. Bruce Schneiner (how is that last name spelled anyways!) says the only 2 things to come out of 9/11 with regards to airport security, is re-inforced cockpit doors, and passengers to know to fight back. Sounds like the second half worked perfectly.
actually, another article I read did mention that they had cameras in the area, but that they belonged to the airline. The article talked about how the TSA has no cameras, and if they see one, and need to access it, it can take hours to get the approvals and access. Seems it would be simple to put a few camera's around the airport, especially at the chokepoints...
I don't understand why people always try to "get around" these restrictions.
Because they are Technical "solutions" to people problems. The problem is not technical, management needs to know if they have busy people... If you block all websites, and all games, they will chit-chat, or they will make personal calls... There is no way to work around lazy people that don't want to work...
I worked at place that refused to do any internet filtering. An employee was reported surfing Porn in their office. (somebody that sat near them complained about it) that's not a technology problem, that's an HR issue. The person was let go about 30 min later. Our internet traffic fell for a few days, once people realized that they could, in fact, get fired for goofing around, or sexual harrasment (viewing porn at work is a sexual harrasment issue, as it makes co-workers feel "uncomfortable")
Seriously, try actually firing the people that don't get their work done, or that do things against the acceptable use policy. Then, see how much easier it is than having to install and maintain filters..
Why are you dragging the Vietnamese into this conversation?:)
that's a play on a quote from Full Metal Jacket, a Movie (some would say 2 movies in one) about the Vietnam War..
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The reporters that had no idea still irritate me to this day when they mention Y2K.
Michael Chrichton (yes, that Michael Chrichton) wrote an excellent essay on Speculation... http://www.crichton-official.com/speech-whyspeculate.html One of my favorite parts Media carries with it a credibility that is totally undeserved. You have all experienced this, in what I call the Murray Gell-Mann Amnesia effect. (I call it by this name because I once discussed it with Murray Gell-Mann, and by dropping a famous name I imply greater importance to myself, and to the effect, than it would otherwise have.)
Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect works as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray's case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward-reversing cause and effect. I call these the "wet streets cause rain" stories. Paper's full of them.
In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story-and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read with renewed interest as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about far-off Palestine than it was about the story you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.
That is the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect. I'd point out it does not operate in other arenas of life. In ordinary life, if somebody consistently exaggerates or lies to you, you soon discount everything they say. In court, there is the legal doctrine of falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus, which means untruthful in one part, untruthful in all.
But when it comes to the media, we believe against evidence that it is probably worth our time to read other parts of the paper. When, in fact, it almost certainly isn't. The only possible explanation for our behavior is amnesia.
HAHA I'll gladly take a few hundred thousand Ohioans driving in the snow, than a handful of people travelling north from Florida for the holidays, driving in the snow!
Thats really it. the hood was for the old bulbs, that where hard to see in bright light. The LED's can be seen in bright light. Remove the hood, and there is less places for the snow to "hide" and pile up. Its not like they need to protect the bulbs from the elements..
MSFT Windows? Again nearly nobody that uses it even knows about CLI, and frankly even with me working PC repair I can count the number of times I've had to go CLI on one hand with fingers left over and the last time was so long ago Win9X was the dominant OS.
You must do just very basic PC repair then.. Anything of any decent complexity requires Command Line in windows. Powershell is a good example, along with scripting (Just try to run a network with over 20 machines without VBScribt, or batch files.. ) Group Policy commands (such as "GPUpdate/force") and even windows update (Wuauclt/detectnow, you don't just wait overnight for your patches, do you?) It's a few lines of Powershell to create a report that lists (via WMI) what bios version and computer model every machine is running in your domain. it is thousands and thousands of dollars for software that will do that for you! Hell, even Deployment, with either Sysprep, or the newer formats in Vista and Windows 7 require lots of Editing of Config files to do anything useful.
Good luck administering any new MS tool, like Exchange 2007, Windows 2008R2 Active Directory, or SQL server without Command line knowledge.
GUI's have always been the realm of Newbies.. MS is finally realizing the power of the command line the last 5 years or so...
I agree that new users are intimidated by the command line.. Hell, I've helped out in teaching Senior Citizen classes.. They are intimidated mostly by the mouse!!!
However, the only people that I have met that think that the command line is for old Dinosaurs, are guys that work at GeekSquad, and charge you $120 to run MalwareBytes and a defrag. Even the accountants at my work realize how handy scripting is, thats why Excel supports Macro's so much!
I don't trust lithium-ion technology enough to want something with that much capacity in my basement.
I'm glad your modded insightful. I'm sure a company that makes millions of Lithium Ion batteries a year, and has partaken in very large, very expensive recalls of bad batteries has not yet fully seen the risk of putting one in a house. I'm sure their corporate Liability Insurance and Crack Legal team just figures a few hundred houses a year burning down would just be a learning experience...
Fortunately, we have ArmChair Chemical and Electrical Engineers here on Slashdot to drum up the risk that is not obvious to a company that is in this field, and I'm sure they don't fully understand...
Second... I don't want my tax dollars being used for a mirror server. Plenty of other people do that already, and even if they didn't, we have bittorrent.
Um, one of the largest mirrors for Kernel.org, Firefox, Mozilla and drupal, among many others, is the Oregon State University Open Source Lab. Sure, they have some donations from google now, but its still in the basement of a public university...
I worked for a college, and gladly bought a handfull of copies of Redhat server for $50 each (which is what redhat sold it to schools at, with no support) when I could have used CentOS (And did use it on my 2 development systems) because I wanted to support Linux. Windows was a few hundred dollars each for machines that would support that amount of CPU's and Ram, so we were still saving the taxpayers lots of money...
Keep telling your users that. Tell them that QuickTime is just fine. (along with Acrobat reader, while they are at it).. And no 3rd party media players have ever had buffer overflow problems...
Ahh, remember the 90's, when people would forward chain mails about how even looking at an email with a certain subject would wipe your entire hard drive? And then how us IT people would have to tell people that it was okay, that reading emails was fine, they were just text, just never, ever execute an attachment you weren't expecting...
Then outlook got real popular in companies...
Course, they also used to forward chain mails about "if you forward this to 10 people, Bill Gates would send you $200." and we would have to tell them that emails can't be tracked like that.. Of course, with 1x1 images in emails now.. they can..
I think this is for the command and control servers, not for the spam spewers.. So the blocking would have to be done at the router level, not spam filter level.. And quite frankly, blocking all mail from X is alot less dangerous of a precedent than black hole routing X. Really sucks if you knock those guys out of business, and someone else gets that IP space someday!
FYI, the NFL sets the prices for the DirectTV Sunday Ticket. Thats why its non-refundable too.. The same Group (NFL) is trying to force some cable companies to carry their channel on basic cable, and pay per month per subscriber for it, when its only real good a few months out of the year, unless you love to watch old recorded games...
I noticed since the switch to Digital TV, that I turn my TV up much louder to hear the channels at the same volume I am used to. (or maybe I'm getting deaf, or both) but then the commercials come on, and my wife and I are literally yelling at each other "DO YOU WANT A SODA WHILE I'M UP?"
Man, imagine how sick those Swiss must be. Every man is required to serve in the military, and is expected to keep their rifle and continue to practice with it after their enlistment is done....I'm sure the crime their is through the roof!
If someone higher ranking than me from our accounting division wants the Domain admin password, should I hand it to them? What about the head marketing person? How do you determine who it is "Safe" to hand over the passwords to?
Hell, old timers never saw a need for a silly Relational Database... Silly young kids.. Go get a hierarchical DB running on a real Z/OS computer... And get off my lawn!
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Dealing with Adobe is why my company switched to bluebeam. You should check into it if you need PDF docs edited.. Much cheaper than acrobat, and more features..
Put two and two together and I think it's obvious that wind power companies were looking to work with Google and were maybe even encouraged by Google.
The Power company in Green Bay, WI spent a few hundred million building a wind farm in Iowa (a few hundred miles away). There is a new law here that power companies have to have a certain percentage of their power renewable. Since the wind doesn't blow as much in Green Bay (if only they could get power from the cold, or the hatred of Brett Farve and the Vikings), it is cheaper and easier for them to build it in Iowa, then sell it, over the transmission networks, to themselves.
Okay Michael Bolton.. Your right, why should you have to change, he's the one that sucks...
Um, you do now that casualty-wise, in the US over the last 20 years, a large percentage of Terrorism Victims are from White Militia members, right? Between Timothy McVeigh in Oklahoma City, and The guy at the Atlanta Olympics... (which only killed one person, and indirectly...)
In all your hatred at the current administration, did you stop and think that maybe, just maybe, we don't have federal agents at the Amsterdam airport? We do not do the security at foreign airports. Perhaps,in your fox news repeating Vitrol, that got lost. But it was an international flight, from a foreign, soverign nation.
The system worked as best it can. Bruce Schneiner (how is that last name spelled anyways!) says the only 2 things to come out of 9/11 with regards to airport security, is re-inforced cockpit doors, and passengers to know to fight back. Sounds like the second half worked perfectly.
actually, another article I read did mention that they had cameras in the area, but that they belonged to the airline. The article talked about how the TSA has no cameras, and if they see one, and need to access it, it can take hours to get the approvals and access. Seems it would be simple to put a few camera's around the airport, especially at the chokepoints...
Thank you for the link. It was fascinating. I have heard about Israels calm, rational security, but didn't know the details...
I don't understand why people always try to "get around" these restrictions.
Because they are Technical "solutions" to people problems. The problem is not technical, management needs to know if they have busy people... If you block all websites, and all games, they will chit-chat, or they will make personal calls... There is no way to work around lazy people that don't want to work...
I worked at place that refused to do any internet filtering. An employee was reported surfing Porn in their office. (somebody that sat near them complained about it) that's not a technology problem, that's an HR issue. The person was let go about 30 min later. Our internet traffic fell for a few days, once people realized that they could, in fact, get fired for goofing around, or sexual harrasment (viewing porn at work is a sexual harrasment issue, as it makes co-workers feel "uncomfortable")
Seriously, try actually firing the people that don't get their work done, or that do things against the acceptable use policy. Then, see how much easier it is than having to install and maintain filters..
Me love your post long time!
Why are you dragging the Vietnamese into this conversation? :)
that's a play on a quote from Full Metal Jacket, a Movie (some would say 2 movies in one) about the Vietnam War..
The reporters that had no idea still irritate me to this day when they mention Y2K.
Michael Chrichton (yes, that Michael Chrichton) wrote an excellent essay on Speculation... http://www.crichton-official.com/speech-whyspeculate.html
One of my favorite parts
Media carries with it a credibility that is totally undeserved. You have all experienced this, in what I call the Murray Gell-Mann Amnesia effect. (I call it by this name because I once discussed it with Murray Gell-Mann, and by dropping a famous name I imply greater importance to myself, and to the effect, than it would otherwise have.)
Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect works as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray's case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward-reversing cause and effect. I call these the "wet streets cause rain" stories. Paper's full of them.
In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story-and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read with renewed interest as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about far-off Palestine than it was about the story you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.
That is the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect. I'd point out it does not operate in other arenas of life. In ordinary life, if somebody consistently exaggerates or lies to you, you soon discount everything they say. In court, there is the legal doctrine of falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus, which means untruthful in one part, untruthful in all.
But when it comes to the media, we believe against evidence that it is probably worth our time to read other parts of the paper. When, in fact, it almost certainly isn't. The only possible explanation for our behavior is amnesia.
But I hear it rains, mainly on the plain, in spain..
HAHA I'll gladly take a few hundred thousand Ohioans driving in the snow, than a handful of people travelling north from Florida for the holidays, driving in the snow!
Thats really it. the hood was for the old bulbs, that where hard to see in bright light. The LED's can be seen in bright light. Remove the hood, and there is less places for the snow to "hide" and pile up. Its not like they need to protect the bulbs from the elements..
MSFT Windows? Again nearly nobody that uses it even knows about CLI, and frankly even with me working PC repair I can count the number of times I've had to go CLI on one hand with fingers left over and the last time was so long ago Win9X was the dominant OS.
You must do just very basic PC repair then.. Anything of any decent complexity requires Command Line in windows. Powershell is a good example, along with scripting (Just try to run a network with over 20 machines without VBScribt, or batch files.. ) Group Policy commands (such as "GPUpdate /force") and even windows update (Wuauclt /detectnow, you don't just wait overnight for your patches, do you?) It's a few lines of Powershell to create a report that lists (via WMI) what bios version and computer model every machine is running in your domain. it is thousands and thousands of dollars for software that will do that for you! Hell, even Deployment, with either Sysprep, or the newer formats in Vista and Windows 7 require lots of Editing of Config files to do anything useful.
Good luck administering any new MS tool, like Exchange 2007, Windows 2008R2 Active Directory, or SQL server without Command line knowledge.
GUI's have always been the realm of Newbies.. MS is finally realizing the power of the command line the last 5 years or so...
I agree that new users are intimidated by the command line.. Hell, I've helped out in teaching Senior Citizen classes.. They are intimidated mostly by the mouse!!!
However, the only people that I have met that think that the command line is for old Dinosaurs, are guys that work at GeekSquad, and charge you $120 to run MalwareBytes and a defrag. Even the accountants at my work realize how handy scripting is, thats why Excel supports Macro's so much!
I don't trust lithium-ion technology enough to want something with that much capacity in my basement.
I'm glad your modded insightful. I'm sure a company that makes millions of Lithium Ion batteries a year, and has partaken in very large, very expensive recalls of bad batteries has not yet fully seen the risk of putting one in a house. I'm sure their corporate Liability Insurance and Crack Legal team just figures a few hundred houses a year burning down would just be a learning experience...
Fortunately, we have ArmChair Chemical and Electrical Engineers here on Slashdot to drum up the risk that is not obvious to a company that is in this field, and I'm sure they don't fully understand...
Second... I don't want my tax dollars being used for a mirror server. Plenty of other people do that already, and even if they didn't, we have bittorrent.
Um, one of the largest mirrors for Kernel.org, Firefox, Mozilla and drupal, among many others, is the Oregon State University Open Source Lab. Sure, they have some donations from google now, but its still in the basement of a public university...
I worked for a college, and gladly bought a handfull of copies of Redhat server for $50 each (which is what redhat sold it to schools at, with no support) when I could have used CentOS (And did use it on my 2 development systems) because I wanted to support Linux. Windows was a few hundred dollars each for machines that would support that amount of CPU's and Ram, so we were still saving the taxpayers lots of money...
Keep telling your users that. Tell them that QuickTime is just fine. (along with Acrobat reader, while they are at it).. And no 3rd party media players have ever had buffer overflow problems...
then there was the whole Image thing.. http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms06-039.mspx makes it sound a little more serious than just murking with the file-name.
Ahh, remember the 90's, when people would forward chain mails about how even looking at an email with a certain subject would wipe your entire hard drive? And then how us IT people would have to tell people that it was okay, that reading emails was fine, they were just text, just never, ever execute an attachment you weren't expecting...
Then outlook got real popular in companies...
Course, they also used to forward chain mails about "if you forward this to 10 people, Bill Gates would send you $200." and we would have to tell them that emails can't be tracked like that.. Of course, with 1x1 images in emails now.. they can..
I think this is for the command and control servers, not for the spam spewers.. So the blocking would have to be done at the router level, not spam filter level.. And quite frankly, blocking all mail from X is alot less dangerous of a precedent than black hole routing X. Really sucks if you knock those guys out of business, and someone else gets that IP space someday!
FYI, the NFL sets the prices for the DirectTV Sunday Ticket. Thats why its non-refundable too.. The same Group (NFL) is trying to force some cable companies to carry their channel on basic cable, and pay per month per subscriber for it, when its only real good a few months out of the year, unless you love to watch old recorded games...
I noticed since the switch to Digital TV, that I turn my TV up much louder to hear the channels at the same volume I am used to. (or maybe I'm getting deaf, or both) but then the commercials come on, and my wife and I are literally yelling at each other "DO YOU WANT A SODA WHILE I'M UP?"
Man, imagine how sick those Swiss must be. Every man is required to serve in the military, and is expected to keep their rifle and continue to practice with it after their enlistment is done....I'm sure the crime their is through the roof!
If someone higher ranking than me from our accounting division wants the Domain admin password, should I hand it to them? What about the head marketing person? How do you determine who it is "Safe" to hand over the passwords to?
Hell, old timers never saw a need for a silly Relational Database... Silly young kids.. Go get a hierarchical DB running on a real Z/OS computer... And get off my lawn!