No, not really. In a representative democracy, as much information as possible should be in the hands of everyone, else it's all just a big fiction.
Really? You don't think that nuclear weapon technology shouldn't be kept out of the hands of the general public? What about strategic troops movements in national emergencies? Locations of Presidential bunkers? And on and on....
I'm all for open government, but at the same time I am competent enough to know that indeed there is information that should be kept confidential.
Personally, i think this isn't a black and white subject.
I do. Give me liberty or give me death.
9/11 wouldn't have been prevented with this access anyway because all of the information was still too vague and they still wouldn't have followed up on it.
I'll repost this because you don't have a fucking clue about the history of oil/gas platforms: "The U.S. Minerals Management Service reported 69 offshore deaths, 1,349 injuries, and 858 fires and explosions on offshore rigs in the Gulf of Mexico from 2001 to 2010"
If it's so "newsworthy" then why didn't I hear about the other 800+ fires and explosions in the last ten years?
Exactly. Nobody is opposed to stem cell research. There are many successful uses of adult stem cells that have been blowing away what we'd hope to do with embryonic stem cells.
Even then, this ban is only for federal monies. There's nothing stopping the private sector from donating money to the cause.
This is true. In the case of the University of Iowa, the athletic program cuts a check to the tune of millions of dollars for the university that goes into the general fund.
However, the other two state schools in Iowa (UNI and ISU) still receive tax payer money for their athletic programs while the U of I does not.
I've had a vision of my death and it involves some Windows Server 2008 R2 machines becoming self aware and plotting my death. So unfortunately I trust my coworkers more than my Windows servers.
For what it's worth, my Cisco gear did try to save my life and fight them off.
Somebody must have been reading the intranet site at my company because this year people brought in food for the I.T. department. It's on the company event calendar. I'm stuffed. The food and appreciation makes me feel warm and fuzzy on the inside.
So basically it comes down to two words: "derivative work". I used the Google machine on the interwebz and found this explanation on Wikipedia. It's still pretty blurry and you could probably make an argument either way with the information presented in the Wikipedia article.
And playing games on an MSDN OS is explicitly forbidden in the FAQ.
Using the software in any other way, such as for doing email, playing games, or editing a document is another use and is not covered by the MSDN Subscription license.
But all that's missing the point. The point is that it's *OPEN* and not under the control of any nasty for-profit corporation. And that makes it superior. Who *cares* if it doesn't work worth a damn in actual practice?
That. MP3 became the de facto standard despite the existence of far better quality formats for the exact same reason. We currently have to choose between two kludges, badly implemented possibilities, one of them being open. The choice is easy to make.
HTML5 is open, but the codec that everyone is referring to, H.264, is not.
Watch it. People across the country are getting sick from natural gas drilling because they must drill through underground water to get to the gas.
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How about "wireless sync"? Can someone tell me why a wireless device has to be plugged in to sync a damn MP3 file? I have no less than 6 apps on my iPhone that do some form of wireless sync with my PC, but the core phone features dont' support it. I'm sure we know the reason: "Steve doesn't like it", but what I want to know is WHY??
How DARE you question Steve? You're allowed to use the device as Apple/Steve sees fit. Don't like it? Get an Android or BlackBerry on a better carrier.
I know SOME people have gone completely cellular, but I bet 99% of America still has the wires running to their house and those wires could be upgraded from Narrowband Dialup to Broadband Internet.
Its a growing trend. Of all of my friends that are +/- 5 years of my age I would say that half of them do not have an active landline in their house or apartment.
Why are we attempting to create more stress on our electric grid with more sources of unreliable power? Shouldn't we be focusing on making the power grid better with reliable power sources? Why not build more nuke plants that will create more jobs and reliable power?
And in our department we have an "acting IT manager" who also happens to be the CFO. And before you ask; no, he doesn't have any IT training, experience or exposure. Its really great having a CFO as an IT manager because I never have to worry about purchasing any software or hardware. My job isn't to justify the purchase. My job is to keep stuff running securely and smoothly. The IT manager is who should be fighting the justification battle with the CFO. However, when your IT manager *IS* your CFO...
I think you misread Chevman's post. He didn't say he'd fire anyone who asked for a raise; he said he'd fire someone who used blackmail to get a raise. He didn't say anything about whether he would reward those people who do a good job.
I don't think you know what the word "blackmail" means.
The Apple (OSX) environment is not nearly as enterprise friendly as the Windows (Active Directory) structure. If Apple would set an actual roadmap for their server OS and a decent directory system then Apple would be a serious threat in corporate IT. They refuse to do it, so they're losing out.
In my industry there is absolutely zero software available for OSX.
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I fly on my companies private planes all of the time, including international flights and my bags have never been scanned.
No, not really. In a representative democracy, as much information as possible should be in the hands of everyone, else it's all just a big fiction.
Really? You don't think that nuclear weapon technology shouldn't be kept out of the hands of the general public? What about strategic troops movements in national emergencies? Locations of Presidential bunkers? And on and on....
I'm all for open government, but at the same time I am competent enough to know that indeed there is information that should be kept confidential.
Not in a true democracy.
The U.S. is not a true democracy. It is a republic.
So you don't recognize that there might be some information that shouldn't be exposed to the public for a certain length of time?
Personally, i think this isn't a black and white subject.
I do. Give me liberty or give me death.
9/11 wouldn't have been prevented with this access anyway because all of the information was still too vague and they still wouldn't have followed up on it.
I'll repost this because you don't have a fucking clue about the history of oil/gas platforms: "The U.S. Minerals Management Service reported 69 offshore deaths, 1,349 injuries, and 858 fires and explosions on offshore rigs in the Gulf of Mexico from 2001 to 2010"
If it's so "newsworthy" then why didn't I hear about the other 800+ fires and explosions in the last ten years?
Exactly. Nobody is opposed to stem cell research. There are many successful uses of adult stem cells that have been blowing away what we'd hope to do with embryonic stem cells.
Even then, this ban is only for federal monies. There's nothing stopping the private sector from donating money to the cause.
This is true. In the case of the University of Iowa, the athletic program cuts a check to the tune of millions of dollars for the university that goes into the general fund.
However, the other two state schools in Iowa (UNI and ISU) still receive tax payer money for their athletic programs while the U of I does not.
I've had a vision of my death and it involves some Windows Server 2008 R2 machines becoming self aware and plotting my death. So unfortunately I trust my coworkers more than my Windows servers.
For what it's worth, my Cisco gear did try to save my life and fight them off.
Somebody must have been reading the intranet site at my company because this year people brought in food for the I.T. department. It's on the company event calendar. I'm stuffed. The food and appreciation makes me feel warm and fuzzy on the inside.
Bandwidth? Storage? Backup? Downloads from a particular site? What the hell are we talking about here?
Gee, since the submitter said "internally hosted space" I'm going to take a shot in the dark and guess storage.
So basically it comes down to two words: "derivative work". I used the Google machine on the interwebz and found this explanation on Wikipedia. It's still pretty blurry and you could probably make an argument either way with the information presented in the Wikipedia article.
It cost me nothing because I had 10 win7 licenses from an MSDN subscription paid for by my previous employer.
So these licenses are owned by a previous employer? It is my understanding that if the company owned it, your rights to use it were lost when you left the company. (from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=2b1504e6-0bf1-46da-be0e-85cc792c6b9d#Overview )
And playing games on an MSDN OS is explicitly forbidden in the FAQ.
Using the software in any other way, such as for doing email, playing games, or editing a document is another use and is not covered by the MSDN Subscription license.
(from http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/subscriptions/cc150618.aspx )
If you're looking for a valid reason to run Windows, "just because you happen to have an (unlicensed) copy" isn't it.
That makes it pretty difficult to develop software for an OS if you're not allowed to use the OS.
So does this mean that the newspaper will also start identifying all sources by their real names instead of using "anonymous" and "unnamed"?
I doubt it.
Ask your doctor if Adlert is right for you.
Nice. I appreciated that.
But all that's missing the point. The point is that it's *OPEN* and not under the control of any nasty for-profit corporation. And that makes it superior. Who *cares* if it doesn't work worth a damn in actual practice?
That. MP3 became the de facto standard despite the existence of far better quality formats for the exact same reason. We currently have to choose between two kludges, badly implemented possibilities, one of them being open. The choice is easy to make.
HTML5 is open, but the codec that everyone is referring to, H.264, is not.
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Watch it. People across the country are getting sick from natural gas drilling because they must drill through underground water to get to the gas.
How about "wireless sync"? Can someone tell me why a wireless device has to be plugged in to sync a damn MP3 file? I have no less than 6 apps on my iPhone that do some form of wireless sync with my PC, but the core phone features dont' support it. I'm sure we know the reason: "Steve doesn't like it", but what I want to know is WHY??
How DARE you question Steve? You're allowed to use the device as Apple/Steve sees fit. Don't like it? Get an Android or BlackBerry on a better carrier.
IOS 15 has been out for a while.
I know SOME people have gone completely cellular, but I bet 99% of America still has the wires running to their house and those wires could be upgraded from Narrowband Dialup to Broadband Internet.
Its a growing trend. Of all of my friends that are +/- 5 years of my age I would say that half of them do not have an active landline in their house or apartment.
Why are we attempting to create more stress on our electric grid with more sources of unreliable power? Shouldn't we be focusing on making the power grid better with reliable power sources? Why not build more nuke plants that will create more jobs and reliable power?
And in our department we have an "acting IT manager" who also happens to be the CFO. And before you ask; no, he doesn't have any IT training, experience or exposure. Its really great having a CFO as an IT manager because I never have to worry about purchasing any software or hardware. My job isn't to justify the purchase. My job is to keep stuff running securely and smoothly. The IT manager is who should be fighting the justification battle with the CFO. However, when your IT manager *IS* your CFO...
I think you misread Chevman's post. He didn't say he'd fire anyone who asked for a raise; he said he'd fire someone who used blackmail to get a raise. He didn't say anything about whether he would reward those people who do a good job.
I don't think you know what the word "blackmail" means.
The Apple (OSX) environment is not nearly as enterprise friendly as the Windows (Active Directory) structure. If Apple would set an actual roadmap for their server OS and a decent directory system then Apple would be a serious threat in corporate IT. They refuse to do it, so they're losing out.
In my industry there is absolutely zero software available for OSX.
Spinning down drives in a RAID array? Let me know how that goes for you. You're going to have a lot of rebuilds and array failures.