Will people please stop posting that Terry Childs was "being an ass about it"?! He didn't give up the passwords to his supervisor because policy prevented it. It would be a breach of contract (potentially criminally negligent) for him to divulge the passwords requested to anybody but the Mayor.
Guess who got the passwords as soon as they asked? That's right!
THE MAYOR.
End of subject, folks. Stop posting about him "being an ass" or "getting what he deserves" or "setting a bad example." He set the best example by not caving in and handing the "keys to the realm" to some new face he didn't know the technical knowledge of, and was specifically prevented from releasing by the very policy which kept him employed.
This is a PR campaign to save face and nothing else. Someone high up the food chain did something idiotic (calling the police instead of HR / legal dept) and blew things out of proportion. Now they have to see it through, or they'll look like fools and lose their jobs. CYA territory.
I hope the lot of them are fired, and Terry gets to sue every last one.
Hopefully the next employer will know the details of this story (as they will be directly related to the line of work he manages) and will know that Terry was following policy by not divulging passwords to anyone but the Mayor... Which he did at the first instance of being asked by them.
This man sounds like he takes pride in having everything done by the book, and doesn't bodge or workaround issues which shouldn't be worked around. Ideal admin, IMHO.
You can bet that his documentation of the infrastructure he managed is pristine.
He did just that. The "Authorised official" you refer to was the Mayor, who he dutifuly revealed the password to when asked. Who he didn't reveal the password to was his line manager / supervisor, who he was expressly forbidden from doing so by district policy.
It's not his fault for knowing the policy better than his own supervisor. He followed it to the letter, but his boss got his knickers in a twist and decided to get him arrested. I hope he's made to choke down that choice with a lovely pink slip in his Christmas stocking.
The word "including" means that there are more items than those listed. However, they must come from the same group.
(At least in the parent) There is no mention of monitoring telecoms, only Internet communication types. The actual policy may list telecoms and mobile devices, but I can't be bothered to look. If it's not there, I'd start there as a defense.
I think this is the fundamental flaw in any arguement supporting "xxxxx gaming is dying!" Everyone has their own preference of interface, experience, and play style. Hell, even their own choice of game type affects the controls.
Look at how top-down RTS games fair on consoles with joypad input, or how FPS games with analog sticks and "auto-aim" compare against a high-precision mouse. I don't recall Rome: Total War being released on any console, yet at the same time Marvel: Ultimate Alliance is borderline unplayable on the PC without a gamepad.
Neither is dying; They're just appealing to different demographics, and never the twain shall meet.
I bet you notice just how much louder the advertisements are than the programs, despite the supposed regulation on the practice.
My best guess is it's because they know everyone walks away from the TV or has a chat when the adverts are on, and want to ensure their exposure.
Like you, I've not watched TV for some years. I get irritated if I'm made to. My family are in for a treat when the Queen's Speech is broadcast on Christmas Day...
+5 anything, -1 troll, +1 underrated. The most recent rating (except over and under) is the description shown. Over and Under rated just modify the value.
Maybe checking the box under Options labeled "Disable P2P transfer" with the description "In some situations you may need to disable peer to peer transmission." would have helped you.
I turn that off because my router is a PoS with a NAT table I am sure is stored on vinyl 33's and it buckles under the load. I still get my full 1MB/s downstream from Blizzard servers, though. Guess everyone else is happy to P2P the patches:D
And who is going to approve to pay more for something older?
Total Cost of Ownership Those who don't want to pay for:
- Training for users to be able to use the new software interface
- Training for technical staff to be able to quickly troubleshoot common issues
- Cost in man-hours of re-writing that bodge macro which auto-fills / sorts details which is now broken in every document
- Accompanying hardware upgrades for any computers which don't run fast enough for the new software
IIRC, MS Office on new computers is a 60-Day trial, or you get MS Works instead. You'll be needing a different compatibility pack for Works documents.
I'd prefer it to say "The document you are trying to access has been secured by Microsoft Rights Management Service, but the signing certificate has expired. Please see your Administrator regarding updating or renewing your certificate."
Still, I suppose no MS coder had ever considered that a time limited certificate would ever expire.
Eventually the bigwigs get tired of the fact that they cannot understand how to use save-as-older-format, and they dislike having their underlings telling them to do things, and they cannot bear to find all the files they saved and re-save them before they downgrade back to the old version... So the entire company naturally has to pay to upgrade everyone.
Is there no such thing as sanity checking for this kind of thing? "Player has shot the last five enemies in the face at exactly the same level below the (team coloured?) helmet. He's probably got an aimbot running." or "Player was in this room, he's now in the courtyard, why the hell wasn't he in the corridor before that? Wallhax."
Look at the pictures again. There was nothing to suggest uncontrolled action when creating those spirals. My best guess it they're the result of rotation during flight, to prevent the US ABL aircraft from shooting them down. Third stage looks shoddy (4th or 5th picture shows the contrail all over the place vanishing into the distance.)
North - Covered with ice during most of the year, including now, so testing here is not an option.
You say that as though it should be surprising. You do realise it's winter in the northern hemisphere, I hope? Kind of like saying "It's barbecue weather in Australia!" When is it ever not?!
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Will people please stop posting that Terry Childs was "being an ass about it"?! He didn't give up the passwords to his supervisor because policy prevented it. It would be a breach of contract (potentially criminally negligent) for him to divulge the passwords requested to anybody but the Mayor.
Guess who got the passwords as soon as they asked? That's right!
THE MAYOR.
End of subject, folks. Stop posting about him "being an ass" or "getting what he deserves" or "setting a bad example." He set the best example by not caving in and handing the "keys to the realm" to some new face he didn't know the technical knowledge of, and was specifically prevented from releasing by the very policy which kept him employed.
This is a PR campaign to save face and nothing else. Someone high up the food chain did something idiotic (calling the police instead of HR / legal dept) and blew things out of proportion. Now they have to see it through, or they'll look like fools and lose their jobs. CYA territory.
I hope the lot of them are fired, and Terry gets to sue every last one.
Hopefully the next employer will know the details of this story (as they will be directly related to the line of work he manages) and will know that Terry was following policy by not divulging passwords to anyone but the Mayor... Which he did at the first instance of being asked by them.
This man sounds like he takes pride in having everything done by the book, and doesn't bodge or workaround issues which shouldn't be worked around. Ideal admin, IMHO.
You can bet that his documentation of the infrastructure he managed is pristine.
I will be blogging about how to get around the filtering.
It seems that the URL to your blog was filtered out.
They're at it already!
The one for Conroy's job seems to have been 100% successful in filtering out sanity.
He did just that. The "Authorised official" you refer to was the Mayor, who he dutifuly revealed the password to when asked. Who he didn't reveal the password to was his line manager / supervisor, who he was expressly forbidden from doing so by district policy.
It's not his fault for knowing the policy better than his own supervisor. He followed it to the letter, but his boss got his knickers in a twist and decided to get him arrested. I hope he's made to choke down that choice with a lovely pink slip in his Christmas stocking.
Good point, I'd not considered that. Not sure why you were modded offtopic, though; This whole conversation falls under that description.
The word "including" means that there are more items than those listed. However, they must come from the same group.
(At least in the parent) There is no mention of monitoring telecoms, only Internet communication types. The actual policy may list telecoms and mobile devices, but I can't be bothered to look. If it's not there, I'd start there as a defense.
IANAL, did a little law studying.
Logical != legal defense
Remember which website you're on, and the innumerable bad laws which defy logic. The qualifier GP missed was "IANAL"
(I only shoot aluminum cans that don't have mothers :-)
And I only click buttons on a mouse or joypad. What's your point?
There is no holy grail way to play games.
I think this is the fundamental flaw in any arguement supporting "xxxxx gaming is dying!" Everyone has their own preference of interface, experience, and play style. Hell, even their own choice of game type affects the controls.
Look at how top-down RTS games fair on consoles with joypad input, or how FPS games with analog sticks and "auto-aim" compare against a high-precision mouse. I don't recall Rome: Total War being released on any console, yet at the same time Marvel: Ultimate Alliance is borderline unplayable on the PC without a gamepad.
Neither is dying; They're just appealing to different demographics, and never the twain shall meet.
I bet you notice just how much louder the advertisements are than the programs, despite the supposed regulation on the practice.
My best guess is it's because they know everyone walks away from the TV or has a chat when the adverts are on, and want to ensure their exposure.
Like you, I've not watched TV for some years. I get irritated if I'm made to. My family are in for a treat when the Queen's Speech is broadcast on Christmas Day...
+5 anything, -1 troll, +1 underrated. The most recent rating (except over and under) is the description shown. Over and Under rated just modify the value.
Want to watch attack ships on fire over the shoulder of Orion?
There's an app for that.
"Any bird who's willing to tie herself to my railings and 'suffer-a-jet' movement is all right by me!"
This post was just begging for a [NO CARRIER] joke.
Maybe checking the box under Options labeled "Disable P2P transfer" with the description "In some situations you may need to disable peer to peer transmission." would have helped you.
:D
I turn that off because my router is a PoS with a NAT table I am sure is stored on vinyl 33's and it buckles under the load. I still get my full 1MB/s downstream from Blizzard servers, though. Guess everyone else is happy to P2P the patches
And who is going to approve to pay more for something older?
Total Cost of Ownership
Those who don't want to pay for:
- Training for users to be able to use the new software interface
- Training for technical staff to be able to quickly troubleshoot common issues
- Cost in man-hours of re-writing that bodge macro which auto-fills / sorts details which is now broken in every document
- Accompanying hardware upgrades for any computers which don't run fast enough for the new software
IIRC, MS Office on new computers is a 60-Day trial, or you get MS Works instead. You'll be needing a different compatibility pack for Works documents.
This begs the question "Can't we all just not switch back to greedy?"
Yeah yeah, I know... -1 Utopian fantasy.
I'd prefer it to say "The document you are trying to access has been secured by Microsoft Rights Management Service, but the signing certificate has expired. Please see your Administrator regarding updating or renewing your certificate."
Still, I suppose no MS coder had ever considered that a time limited certificate would ever expire.
Eventually the bigwigs get tired of the fact that they cannot understand how to use save-as-older-format, and they dislike having their underlings telling them to do things, and they cannot bear to find all the files they saved and re-save them before they downgrade back to the old version... So the entire company naturally has to pay to upgrade everyone.
Or, the admins download and roll out the Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack and leave the CEO with his new shiny-shiny.
No, marketing's job is to make you want it.
I use Scroogle
Is there no such thing as sanity checking for this kind of thing? "Player has shot the last five enemies in the face at exactly the same level below the (team coloured?) helmet. He's probably got an aimbot running." or "Player was in this room, he's now in the courtyard, why the hell wasn't he in the corridor before that? Wallhax."
Look at the pictures again. There was nothing to suggest uncontrolled action when creating those spirals. My best guess it they're the result of rotation during flight, to prevent the US ABL aircraft from shooting them down. Third stage looks shoddy (4th or 5th picture shows the contrail all over the place vanishing into the distance.)
Damn pretty effect, though.
North - Covered with ice during most of the year, including now, so testing here is not an option.
You say that as though it should be surprising. You do realise it's winter in the northern hemisphere, I hope? Kind of like saying "It's barbecue weather in Australia!" When is it ever not?!