The entire gross domestic output of USA consists of consuming Chinese produced goods (well, and other countries as well) and printing and exporting inflation and building more and more bombs.
If you don't think that the hour of reckoning for this reckless anti-economic behavior is not coming, you are going to be mighty surprised, and no number of bombs will keep your economy afloat. Sure, you can attack other countries and basically loot them, but you are the cannon fodder. Your quality of life will be shit in a hell hole and once the entire world stops financing you and sees you for what you have become, you will be stopped, it doesn't matter how many bunker busters you build. It's just not going to matter.
Vote for Ron Paul or face the unfortunate sacrifice of your own liberty, life, property.
Imagine a world without patents. Imagine a world without patent claims. Imagine a world without patent litigation. Imagine a world without copyright litigation even. Imagine not having to hire all the lawyers to fight these claims. Imagine not having to waste your time thinking about ways to go around patents (if you ever had to do this). Imagine all the resources that could be freed and used productively.
Now understand that without a gun to your head, that is put there by the governments of the world, these problems wouldn't even be possible.
I am disgusted with Oracle almost as much as I am with MS. It's because of their business practices, I worked in too many places where I saw people working as 'technical consultants', being in reality Oracle sales personnel, pushing their products, be it BEA or Aqualogic or whatever flavor of the month. It didn't matter what the question was, the answer was always the same - Oracle, oracle, oracle. And I don't have a problem with their database for large stuff, but I can't stand their guts because of all the BRIBERY that I saw. Is that a good enough reason? Bribes. Bribes to management, not directly as in money, but all the things, the 'seminars' done at some resorts, the tickets to games, all the 'golf playing' - that's how the decisions are being done and I vomit from their name.
It doesn't have to be a religion to be disgusted enough with something. I don't have a problem with quite a number of companies (even though I am probably wearing rose colored glasses there as well), but MS and Oracle are two examples of companies that I can't stand in terms of their basic behavior.
I would not deal with them on voluntary basis, why is that a religion? If not dealing with them includes not dealing with large companies who have agreements with those particular businesses, then I don't want to deal with them by proxy either. How is that a religion?
There is a practical matter here as well - I don't want any part of my time or money going towards those companies, even if by proxy in any way shape or form. It's a choice.
yes, and it is just one reason. But it is deeper than that. It's about Novell working with MS in principle. I am sure many don't see it that way and they will point fingers here and say: you are biased, a zealot, blah blah.
Well, it's perception, and that is near as important as reality (and in this case it is even more important.)
Once a company is tainted by working with the likes of Microsoft or say Oracle, that's it. Sure, at work many people have to use products from these companies, but that's not what I am talking about.
The question of-course is: IS perception really that important (never mind the actual problems with the deal itself)? Is it important and how important, in terms of how many people refuse to deal with Novell for this reason alone.
You are maybe right. But that does not change my perception. Do you know - image is important. I see now Novell and Microsoft as a couple of conspirators together for whatever reason. Maybe I am 100% wrong, it doesn't matter. It's impossible to get rid of the taint.
Choices are good, but regardless of this axiom I cannot shake off the sense that something is wrong with Suse because of Novell/Microsoft connection. It's just tainted for me for this reason and I can't get over it.
No, it's sartenx and you sound like you have never worked in the real world.
In the real world it's very very rare to see any action like that described by sartenx take place. It never happens. It's not the standard procedure.
It is your imagination. You THINK it works that way, because you think you know what is the right thing to do. Well, it's not what actually happens, it is NOT what actually happens in real world.
It's like that xkcd cartoon about the strong passwords and how in the real world they are quickly extracted by applying a 5 dollar hammer to the knees.
Yeah, all those banks had problems with debit cards. There are even cases when banks are compromised internally.
Banks take their security seriously enough, it's part of their jobs and it's their money on line (well, or the Federal money, which of-course means - who cares).
Yes, most of the time workstations are not reimaged anywhere even if a virus or a trojan was found. Normally a patch and some clean up is done automatically. This may shock you, but that's how they NORMALLY operate, so saying somebody spent 500,000 on this sounds ridiculous, because it's not their normal operating procedure.
there is one repetitive motion that I must do with my hand once in a while that I may wish was done without my direct participation. On the other hand... what if the software fails and the hand goes all the way over my head?
What? What? I hate doing all this calligraphy training.
I am just a regular/.er, I don't RTFS, I normally even skip reading the summary. But you just have to push me into completely disregarding the words in the title at this point.
I am making a vague guess that this has something to do with increasing Lithium Ion battery capacity to store electricity, but really, somebody just 'promises' something?
I don't know. I promise to stop reading the titles of these stories too if they keep writing them this way. Hey, it never stopped me from posting!
For a guy who is for burning people if they don't hire some folks above the rate, that would make them actually profitable to a company, you are quick to assume people should be fired for whatever mistake. Interesting.
He should have just asked nicely, wouldn't have to break in.
OTOH he IS Romanian... so. that too. Maybe if he was Jamie Dimon then he could just say: well, some money did disappear, but then again, I am just a CEO. What do I know?
Then NASA, CIA and FBI and Fed would just give him a bunch of money and let him continue doing what he does....
But this guy is a nobody, that's his real problem.
A virus can break into your huge, complex and perfectly evolved human immune system, while being the simplest lifeform.
- I don't think viruses are 'simplest lifeforms' or even 'lifeforms', and I certainly don't think that I have an immune system that is that perfect at all. It's not that wonderful and also if it's not a virus but a brick thrown into the head, then it's pretty much useless!
More nonsense. This is not CIA, it's NASA. Yes, I worked in banks and telcos, and sometimes viruses were found in the systems (email is the usual culprit, or maybe somebody's flash card or some disk). Normally the the work stations are NOT re-imaged or anything, but they can be cleaned by an admin, either over the network or even coming physically to a machine with a piece of software.
All this other stuff, the gateway, the routers, the servers, etc.etc., it's all admin's responsibility on day to day basis, and it's just BS that all machines become magically compromised just because somebody penetrated an Internet facing server. Sure, you can't be totally certain, but it's an internal network. Fix the gateway and watch the traffic inside.
That's just nonsense. A large organization can re-image large numbers of machines automatically, but more importantly is that in large organizations the Internet connection is normally done through one or a few systems, not every computer has its own external IP address and ports are restricted on the exit nodes. Watching and restricting the Internet-to-internal machine traffic on ports is part of what admins are for in the first place.
Fix the problem even if it means a reinstall of the exit nodes, patch the hole, change the passwords and keep watching the traffic, fixing whatever happens internally if it happens. But that's routine work for a network admin.
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The entire gross domestic output of USA consists of consuming Chinese produced goods (well, and other countries as well) and printing and exporting inflation and building more and more bombs.
If you don't think that the hour of reckoning for this reckless anti-economic behavior is not coming, you are going to be mighty surprised, and no number of bombs will keep your economy afloat. Sure, you can attack other countries and basically loot them, but you are the cannon fodder. Your quality of life will be shit in a hell hole and once the entire world stops financing you and sees you for what you have become, you will be stopped, it doesn't matter how many bunker busters you build. It's just not going to matter.
Vote for Ron Paul or face the unfortunate sacrifice of your own liberty, life, property.
Imagine a world without patents.
Imagine a world without patent claims.
Imagine a world without patent litigation.
Imagine a world without copyright litigation even.
Imagine not having to hire all the lawyers to fight these claims.
Imagine not having to waste your time thinking about ways to go around patents (if you ever had to do this).
Imagine all the resources that could be freed and used productively.
Now understand that without a gun to your head, that is put there by the governments of the world, these problems wouldn't even be possible.
It appears that the more of the X-ray body scans you go through, the bigger your penis becomes and also the boobs become bigger.
Strangely enough both effects are detected in both genders.
You can preach your vomit inducing 'enterprise' level bribery if you like. I am not interested, go sell Oracle licenses to somebody over at resorts.
I am disgusted with Oracle almost as much as I am with MS. It's because of their business practices, I worked in too many places where I saw people working as 'technical consultants', being in reality Oracle sales personnel, pushing their products, be it BEA or Aqualogic or whatever flavor of the month. It didn't matter what the question was, the answer was always the same - Oracle, oracle, oracle. And I don't have a problem with their database for large stuff, but I can't stand their guts because of all the BRIBERY that I saw. Is that a good enough reason? Bribes. Bribes to management, not directly as in money, but all the things, the 'seminars' done at some resorts, the tickets to games, all the 'golf playing' - that's how the decisions are being done and I vomit from their name.
Pffft. I got 15 years of Oracle NoSQL, even 12 years of interfacing it with HTML5.
ha, you should talk! All the posts I've seen YOU do over the years, it's a riot.
Rand wasn't a libertarian. She called herself an 'objectivist'.
It doesn't have to be a religion to be disgusted enough with something. I don't have a problem with quite a number of companies (even though I am probably wearing rose colored glasses there as well), but MS and Oracle are two examples of companies that I can't stand in terms of their basic behavior.
I would not deal with them on voluntary basis, why is that a religion? If not dealing with them includes not dealing with large companies who have agreements with those particular businesses, then I don't want to deal with them by proxy either. How is that a religion?
There is a practical matter here as well - I don't want any part of my time or money going towards those companies, even if by proxy in any way shape or form. It's a choice.
I'm now fairly certain Ron Paul is the reincarnation of Ann Rynd.
First: it's Rand (or Alisa Rosenbaum).
Second: that would be a neat trick. Ron Paul was born in 1935 and she died in 82.
yes, and it is just one reason. But it is deeper than that. It's about Novell working with MS in principle. I am sure many don't see it that way and they will point fingers here and say: you are biased, a zealot, blah blah.
Well, it's perception, and that is near as important as reality (and in this case it is even more important.)
Once a company is tainted by working with the likes of Microsoft or say Oracle, that's it. Sure, at work many people have to use products from these companies, but that's not what I am talking about.
The question of-course is: IS perception really that important (never mind the actual problems with the deal itself)? Is it important and how important, in terms of how many people refuse to deal with Novell for this reason alone.
You are maybe right. But that does not change my perception. Do you know - image is important. I see now Novell and Microsoft as a couple of conspirators together for whatever reason. Maybe I am 100% wrong, it doesn't matter. It's impossible to get rid of the taint.
Choices are good, but regardless of this axiom I cannot shake off the sense that something is wrong with Suse because of Novell/Microsoft connection. It's just tainted for me for this reason and I can't get over it.
No, it's sartenx and you sound like you have never worked in the real world.
In the real world it's very very rare to see any action like that described by sartenx take place. It never happens. It's not the standard procedure.
It is your imagination. You THINK it works that way, because you think you know what is the right thing to do. Well, it's not what actually happens, it is NOT what actually happens in real world.
It's like that xkcd cartoon about the strong passwords and how in the real world they are quickly extracted by applying a 5 dollar hammer to the knees.
Yeah, all those banks had problems with debit cards. There are even cases when banks are compromised internally.
Banks take their security seriously enough, it's part of their jobs and it's their money on line (well, or the Federal money, which of-course means - who cares).
Yes, most of the time workstations are not reimaged anywhere even if a virus or a trojan was found. Normally a patch and some clean up is done automatically. This may shock you, but that's how they NORMALLY operate, so saying somebody spent 500,000 on this sounds ridiculous, because it's not their normal operating procedure.
there is one repetitive motion that I must do with my hand once in a while that I may wish was done without my direct participation. On the other hand... what if the software fails and the hand goes all the way over my head?
What? What? I hate doing all this calligraphy training.
I am just a regular /.er, I don't RTFS, I normally even skip reading the summary. But you just have to push me into completely disregarding the words in the title at this point.
I am making a vague guess that this has something to do with increasing Lithium Ion battery capacity to store electricity, but really, somebody just 'promises' something?
I don't know. I promise to stop reading the titles of these stories too if they keep writing them this way. Hey, it never stopped me from posting!
so your contention is that NASA's IT dep't must be fired?
Aren't you this guy? You didn't answer the question yet.
For a guy who is for burning people if they don't hire some folks above the rate, that would make them actually profitable to a company, you are quick to assume people should be fired for whatever mistake. Interesting.
I see his problem.
He should have just asked nicely, wouldn't have to break in.
OTOH he IS Romanian... so. that too. Maybe if he was Jamie Dimon then he could just say: well, some money did disappear, but then again, I am just a CEO. What do I know?
Then NASA, CIA and FBI and Fed would just give him a bunch of money and let him continue doing what he does....
But this guy is a nobody, that's his real problem.
A virus can break into your huge, complex and perfectly evolved human immune system, while being the simplest lifeform.
- I don't think viruses are 'simplest lifeforms' or even 'lifeforms', and I certainly don't think that I have an immune system that is that perfect at all. It's not that wonderful and also if it's not a virus but a brick thrown into the head, then it's pretty much useless!
More nonsense. This is not CIA, it's NASA. Yes, I worked in banks and telcos, and sometimes viruses were found in the systems (email is the usual culprit, or maybe somebody's flash card or some disk). Normally the the work stations are NOT re-imaged or anything, but they can be cleaned by an admin, either over the network or even coming physically to a machine with a piece of software.
All this other stuff, the gateway, the routers, the servers, etc.etc., it's all admin's responsibility on day to day basis, and it's just BS that all machines become magically compromised just because somebody penetrated an Internet facing server. Sure, you can't be totally certain, but it's an internal network. Fix the gateway and watch the traffic inside.
All these numbers (500K) are artificial nonsense.
Evading taxes? Oh crap, don't tell that to the prosecutors. Like the guy doesn't have enough problems on his plate already. Shush.
If that's your metaphor for an unpatched system or a system with some weak passwords in it, then I can't help you.
The work of an admin is not to leave an 'unsecured car' without supervision. If the 'windows can be smashed', it means the admin is not doing his job.
Actually it's more like having a tank with a hutch opened, and somebody throwing a hand grenade into it.
That's just nonsense. A large organization can re-image large numbers of machines automatically, but more importantly is that in large organizations the Internet connection is normally done through one or a few systems, not every computer has its own external IP address and ports are restricted on the exit nodes. Watching and restricting the Internet-to-internal machine traffic on ports is part of what admins are for in the first place.
Fix the problem even if it means a reinstall of the exit nodes, patch the hole, change the passwords and keep watching the traffic, fixing whatever happens internally if it happens. But that's routine work for a network admin.
Yes, and I am sure that some of those computers will be "inadvertently" found to be in possession of some of those Australian kangaroos. And Ron Paul.