It's better to scare them with E-Discovery. "if we are sued for whatever reason, your email will be handed over to a vicious team of legal sharks, and i dont plan to censor it. anything that happens from there on out is your own fault."
You have clearly never seen the insides of standard user mailboxes.
they tend to have all sorts of things being sent to and from their work email accounts because for many users, especially in public sector where i work, work email is the only email address they check regularly. sometimes their kids have set them something up, but our system is the only one they are willing to use.
and it's all public records....
you need to play "no more heroes". it's single player, and the gameplay is compelling enough to forgive the cell shading, although i have found some people actually enjoy looking at cell shaded graphics. i bought a wii to play that game on the recommendation of a friend, it was very much worth it.
contracting seems like so much work though... all the contractors here work MUCH harder than regular employees!:p
in seriousness though, contracting is some heavy stuff. unless your skills are in-demand somewhere, you could be out of work for a week, two, a month even. and when they are in-demand, you have a contract to fulfill, and are completely unranked in the organization. you can be gone next-day and no one will think twice. it's kind of like living as a really boring assassin.
if you dont mind proprietary solutions, might i suggest cisco meetingplace. it works very well, even with "express", which we've recently shown off to the C-level parade at my workplace
being a rather medium sized organization (muni level government organization with approx. 3880 employees), we paid a bit more than a smaller company would for the product, but let me brag about it for a moment:
i wish i could mod +1 good argument under construction.
it makes sense, mostly, but there's a voice in my head telling me somethings missing....
oh, yeah, a star trek reference. i remember at various times in various books, people would comment that money had been abolished, and then stuff about "credits". clearly, we are preparing the dollar to be a valueless placeholder for captain kirk to buy head wax with.
if you want safe-harbor, and wikipedia does, then you comply. if wikipedia doesnt comply, it loses safe-harbor for a lot more than a claim from a statistics company. DMCA takedown notices being used more often than cease and desist letters (nearly functional equivalents), is in my opinion, better. a cease and desist letter doesnt grant amnesty to wikipedia or youtube or whomever for having the content as long as they comply. i would say DMCA takedown notices are more of a legal compromise tactic than a threat. whether the notice has the right to make that compromise or not doesnt matter much, wikipedia has an unbreakable shield as long as they comply.
notice that wikipedia itself does not consider the DMCA takedown notice to be a legal threat: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_threat, though that might be an oversight
Except that's just not true. People put blinders on when it comes to their religion.
It just doesn't hold that believing in some crazy religious BS entails being stupid in other areas.
sadly, some people put blinders on to religion and those who subscribe to one. in some ways, many non-christian scientists are MORE closed minded than many devout christians, in my experience. what's funny is that writing all christians off as stupid is very much counter to the scientific method, and very in-line with the cause effect patterning discussed in a recent slashdot article about superstition. i would venture so far as to say that a religious person is simply someone who will admit to the camera that they are biased, the same classification i would give to any partisan politician.
humans, even scientists, simply lack the psychological capacity to be truely objective and scientific about everything. every foundation for the STEM fields was laid by someone religious, be it the Muslim mathematicians who gave us algebra, to the christian darwin, to multi-theistic greek and roman philosophers and engineers, to eastern contributions. those contributions are clearly not the work of simpletons.
when scientifically minded people (myself included) learn as a group that it is possible to educate most religious people about science without challenging their beliefs if you approach the right vector, i hope we can get over this collective view that science and religion are diametrically opposed. people on both sides think that, and people on both sides have realized they're not. everyone should be in the latter group.
good companies will let you spend a little of your time doing whatever you want. i got landed in a secondary role as "innovations team member", which basically means that in addition to my infrastructure duties, i get to spend a few hours a week plugging away at fun changes to the business. if i have a convincing idea, the innovations team manager from strategic and planning will help champion my ideas. i've been there three months and we're already moving one idea to production and another is being investigated with the organizations resources.
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besides that, there's more to IT than the hotshot programmers. I work for the infrastructure group, we do switches, routers, wireless access points, servers in data centers, UPSes, and bunches more. not one of us programs, aside from the ERP contractors (and even that is just a retooling of the install scripts to configure our new linux servers to the silly specs peoplesoft came up with). of course, my supervisor has lots of experience with Cisco switches, his boss is a programmer, and our CIO used to do Cobol, but none of them can do hello world in C3750-IOS.
and that's ignoring CE and mobile. in fairness, it's a POS that home users really aren't the target market for. didn't you hear? Microsoft only REALLY cares about the enterprise market. the only reason it matters if an app like iTunes X.x can run on the latest windows version is that people like to use at work what they use at home, and vice versa. when the CxO of whichever microsoft customer complains, expect the company with the bigger contract to care the most.
i think that nothing you could do would stop the pedant from explaining the point, barring ignoring someone's attempt at a clever sig.:p
that condoms are not available in public schools says quite a bit about their effectiveness at preventing pregnancy, actually. see, instead of granting access to "safe sex" information and materials, schools prefer to emphasize "no till marriage" and the dangers of sexual activity, both proven to have no effect at all. condoms are effective a majority of the time, despite being absent from condoned distribution at school. it's like some sort of sick joke, but that's life.
and let's face it: a gun is not a shield, it will not stand between you and harms way. period. the only thing a gun can do is hurt whatever is wanting to hurt you, hopefully before it gets the chance. what a gun is: a weapon, designed originally to kill other living things. how many of those do you want on a plane?
"if security cameras keep people from stealing, why cant we put them in dressing rooms?", you might ask. the answer is the same as to "if guns keep people safe, why are they not allowed on airplanes?", and that answer is that someone determined that other concerns (privacy, security) far outweighed the usefulness of the device.
in fairness, that answer fits for the condom analogy too, despite it being a poor fit
If guns kept people safer we'd be allowed to carry them on commercial flights.
Isn't that a bit like saying "If condoms prevented teen pregnancies we'd be allowed to buy them in High School bathrooms."
only if condoms could also CAUSE teen pregnancies. guns are both weapons and shields, ether protecting and serving a responsible owner or damaging a victim at the whim of someone who doesn't value the social contract.
a closer shot would be to ask "if teenage boys can cause teen pregnancy, why do we allow them in highschools?"
what you are suggesting, with your "think twice before posting links to etc..." on the basis that the submitter's "homepage" is one of those sites, is that a "local culture" (slashdot) decide who or who not to accept on a basis you desire (nazi's using their constitutionally granted freedom of speech by associating themselves with a website you disagree with).
i suppose that agreeing with someone like that is ok, as long as it justifies excluding them? imho, slashdot can afford to give them "free advertisement" because, once again, imho, most slashdotters aren't ignorant enough to fail to recognize the idea behind the words.
a browser is a product, not a service. chrome is a browser that integrates some services, such as gears and the rest. since those services are integrated into the browser, and you are using those services by using the browser, like it or not, the terms of the service agreement should be in the product license agreement.
i wish people would slow down and do some logical thinking instead of screaming "the sky is falling, and it is indexing webpages!"
so i guess AC was playing "six degrees", VIA video drivers -> VIA boards -> thin clients -> green computing -> an inconvenient truth.
a stretch, certainly, but i'm sure that AC was ether trolling or fulfilling a god-sent mission to bother techies with issues we have almost no control over. on the other hand, that thin client jazz looks pretty good, i bet i can win over the cats in management on using them as end-user stations.
you're right, of course, but look again at the context of the mistake. though i did not intend that, it may very well fit...
now I've got to figure out if i should brand you as an intellectual property Nazi, a grammar Nazi, or simply a kind-hearted citizen spreading facts... my bet is on the third, but honestly, doesn't intellectual property Nazi sound more fun to say?
all together now: "Microsoft corp. is a bunch of intellectual property Nazis!". now tell me that wasn't fun to say!
I have to imagine that redmond feels frivolous patents like this are an EXTREMELY funny joke. Bet you it went down like this:
SB: come on guys, you've got to think of some way to simultaneously shaft millions and demonstrate, once again, the inadequacy of patent office oversight.
HG: well, we already patented double clicking, how can we top that?
TS: we could patent breathing....
JD: no, that might infringe on Dell's pending (at the time of this conversation) copyrighting of the term "cloud computing"
BG: let's patent being fat, bald, and sweaty. SB needs to have his name on something for once.
SB: fuck it, lets just patent these two buttons on my keyboard, pg up and pg dn. no one but *nix users will notice the difference anyways.
USPTO: allow us to lick your testicles, mr ballmer!
no, that's not a leaked microsoft email, but you and I both know it may as well be.
you can, though it's a lot more stable and secure... in honesty though, that's a capability that's widely available. i'd be willing to bet (a small amount of) money that OSX can do it too, if not now, within 5 years.
Well, given the size and scope of Bruce Wayne's awesome shit, I'd say quite well.
That, or its being a self-loathing billionaire industrialist that pays out.
or maybe it's a self-loathing billionaire industrialist's orphaned son that pays out? honestly now, mommy and daddy's money came with interest and a nice bank statement!
honestly though, you need to aim for the nerdy girls. they're much smarter and much hotter than mere "honeys"
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It's better to scare them with E-Discovery. "if we are sued for whatever reason, your email will be handed over to a vicious team of legal sharks, and i dont plan to censor it. anything that happens from there on out is your own fault."
You have clearly never seen the insides of standard user mailboxes. they tend to have all sorts of things being sent to and from their work email accounts because for many users, especially in public sector where i work, work email is the only email address they check regularly. sometimes their kids have set them something up, but our system is the only one they are willing to use. and it's all public records....
you need to play "no more heroes". it's single player, and the gameplay is compelling enough to forgive the cell shading, although i have found some people actually enjoy looking at cell shaded graphics. i bought a wii to play that game on the recommendation of a friend, it was very much worth it.
contracting seems like so much work though... all the contractors here work MUCH harder than regular employees! :p
in seriousness though, contracting is some heavy stuff. unless your skills are in-demand somewhere, you could be out of work for a week, two, a month even. and when they are in-demand, you have a contract to fulfill, and are completely unranked in the organization. you can be gone next-day and no one will think twice. it's kind of like living as a really boring assassin.
if you dont mind proprietary solutions, might i suggest cisco meetingplace. it works very well, even with "express", which we've recently shown off to the C-level parade at my workplace
being a rather medium sized organization (muni level government organization with approx. 3880 employees), we paid a bit more than a smaller company would for the product, but let me brag about it for a moment:
the list can go on for quite a bit. cisco is premium, but i can honestly say you get what you pay for. scott adams seemed to like it, anyways... http://newsroom.cisco.com/dlls/partners/news/2006/pr_prod_06-12.html
i wish i could mod +1 good argument under construction.
it makes sense, mostly, but there's a voice in my head telling me somethings missing....
oh, yeah, a star trek reference. i remember at various times in various books, people would comment that money had been abolished, and then stuff about "credits". clearly, we are preparing the dollar to be a valueless placeholder for captain kirk to buy head wax with.
if you want safe-harbor, and wikipedia does, then you comply. if wikipedia doesnt comply, it loses safe-harbor for a lot more than a claim from a statistics company. DMCA takedown notices being used more often than cease and desist letters (nearly functional equivalents), is in my opinion, better. a cease and desist letter doesnt grant amnesty to wikipedia or youtube or whomever for having the content as long as they comply. i would say DMCA takedown notices are more of a legal compromise tactic than a threat. whether the notice has the right to make that compromise or not doesnt matter much, wikipedia has an unbreakable shield as long as they comply.
notice that wikipedia itself does not consider the DMCA takedown notice to be a legal threat: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_threat, though that might be an oversight
Except that's just not true. People put blinders on when it comes to their religion.
It just doesn't hold that believing in some crazy religious BS entails being stupid in other areas.
sadly, some people put blinders on to religion and those who subscribe to one. in some ways, many non-christian scientists are MORE closed minded than many devout christians, in my experience. what's funny is that writing all christians off as stupid is very much counter to the scientific method, and very in-line with the cause effect patterning discussed in a recent slashdot article about superstition. i would venture so far as to say that a religious person is simply someone who will admit to the camera that they are biased, the same classification i would give to any partisan politician.
humans, even scientists, simply lack the psychological capacity to be truely objective and scientific about everything. every foundation for the STEM fields was laid by someone religious, be it the Muslim mathematicians who gave us algebra, to the christian darwin, to multi-theistic greek and roman philosophers and engineers, to eastern contributions. those contributions are clearly not the work of simpletons.
when scientifically minded people (myself included) learn as a group that it is possible to educate most religious people about science without challenging their beliefs if you approach the right vector, i hope we can get over this collective view that science and religion are diametrically opposed. people on both sides think that, and people on both sides have realized they're not. everyone should be in the latter group.
They also have to have an IQ of 35.
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good companies will let you spend a little of your time doing whatever you want. i got landed in a secondary role as "innovations team member", which basically means that in addition to my infrastructure duties, i get to spend a few hours a week plugging away at fun changes to the business. if i have a convincing idea, the innovations team manager from strategic and planning will help champion my ideas. i've been there three months and we're already moving one idea to production and another is being investigated with the organizations resources.
besides that, there's more to IT than the hotshot programmers. I work for the infrastructure group, we do switches, routers, wireless access points, servers in data centers, UPSes, and bunches more. not one of us programs, aside from the ERP contractors (and even that is just a retooling of the install scripts to configure our new linux servers to the silly specs peoplesoft came up with). of course, my supervisor has lots of experience with Cisco switches, his boss is a programmer, and our CIO used to do Cobol, but none of them can do hello world in C3750-IOS.
If you use Vista, your OS is a POS.
vista, xp, 2000, ME, NT, 98, 95, 3.1, etc...
and that's ignoring CE and mobile. in fairness, it's a POS that home users really aren't the target market for. didn't you hear? Microsoft only REALLY cares about the enterprise market. the only reason it matters if an app like iTunes X.x can run on the latest windows version is that people like to use at work what they use at home, and vice versa. when the CxO of whichever microsoft customer complains, expect the company with the bigger contract to care the most.
i think that nothing you could do would stop the pedant from explaining the point, barring ignoring someone's attempt at a clever sig. :p
that condoms are not available in public schools says quite a bit about their effectiveness at preventing pregnancy, actually. see, instead of granting access to "safe sex" information and materials, schools prefer to emphasize "no till marriage" and the dangers of sexual activity, both proven to have no effect at all. condoms are effective a majority of the time, despite being absent from condoned distribution at school. it's like some sort of sick joke, but that's life.
and let's face it: a gun is not a shield, it will not stand between you and harms way. period. the only thing a gun can do is hurt whatever is wanting to hurt you, hopefully before it gets the chance. what a gun is: a weapon, designed originally to kill other living things. how many of those do you want on a plane?
"if security cameras keep people from stealing, why cant we put them in dressing rooms?", you might ask. the answer is the same as to "if guns keep people safe, why are they not allowed on airplanes?", and that answer is that someone determined that other concerns (privacy, security) far outweighed the usefulness of the device.
in fairness, that answer fits for the condom analogy too, despite it being a poor fit
pedantic enough for you? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedantic
Regarding your sig...
Isn't that a bit like saying "If condoms prevented teen pregnancies we'd be allowed to buy them in High School bathrooms."
only if condoms could also CAUSE teen pregnancies. guns are both weapons and shields, ether protecting and serving a responsible owner or damaging a victim at the whim of someone who doesn't value the social contract.
a closer shot would be to ask "if teenage boys can cause teen pregnancy, why do we allow them in highschools?"
for even more points, look for irony!
what you are suggesting, with your "think twice before posting links to etc..." on the basis that the submitter's "homepage" is one of those sites, is that a "local culture" (slashdot) decide who or who not to accept on a basis you desire (nazi's using their constitutionally granted freedom of speech by associating themselves with a website you disagree with).
i suppose that agreeing with someone like that is ok, as long as it justifies excluding them? imho, slashdot can afford to give them "free advertisement" because, once again, imho, most slashdotters aren't ignorant enough to fail to recognize the idea behind the words.
i guess that means that windows RG was actually just a preview of Windows 7.
i cant wait to get the error message: "Windows 7 has performed an illegal operation: murdered a churro vending paperclip, and will now be arrested"
you could still be a witch. as i see it, the only way to prove you're not is to see if you weigh more than a duck.
i wish people would slow down and do some logical thinking instead of screaming "the sky is falling, and it is indexing webpages!"
i guess the AC thought this one was about al gore releasing open source video drivers.
in seriousness though, VIA solutions are used in thin client workstations all over the place. here's an example: http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=3074732&CatId=120
so i guess AC was playing "six degrees", VIA video drivers -> VIA boards -> thin clients -> green computing -> an inconvenient truth.
a stretch, certainly, but i'm sure that AC was ether trolling or fulfilling a god-sent mission to bother techies with issues we have almost no control over. on the other hand, that thin client jazz looks pretty good, i bet i can win over the cats in management on using them as end-user stations.
you're right, of course, but look again at the context of the mistake. though i did not intend that, it may very well fit...
now I've got to figure out if i should brand you as an intellectual property Nazi, a grammar Nazi, or simply a kind-hearted citizen spreading facts... my bet is on the third, but honestly, doesn't intellectual property Nazi sound more fun to say?
all together now: "Microsoft corp. is a bunch of intellectual property Nazis!". now tell me that wasn't fun to say!
I have to imagine that redmond feels frivolous patents like this are an EXTREMELY funny joke. Bet you it went down like this:
SB: come on guys, you've got to think of some way to simultaneously shaft millions and demonstrate, once again, the inadequacy of patent office oversight.
HG: well, we already patented double clicking, how can we top that?
TS: we could patent breathing....
JD: no, that might infringe on Dell's pending (at the time of this conversation) copyrighting of the term "cloud computing"
BG: let's patent being fat, bald, and sweaty. SB needs to have his name on something for once.
SB: fuck it, lets just patent these two buttons on my keyboard, pg up and pg dn. no one but *nix users will notice the difference anyways.
USPTO: allow us to lick your testicles, mr ballmer!
no, that's not a leaked microsoft email, but you and I both know it may as well be.
http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/286
you can, though it's a lot more stable and secure... in honesty though, that's a capability that's widely available. i'd be willing to bet (a small amount of) money that OSX can do it too, if not now, within 5 years.
and the politicians STILL get away with it...
Well, given the size and scope of Bruce Wayne's awesome shit, I'd say quite well.
That, or its being a self-loathing billionaire industrialist that pays out.
or maybe it's a self-loathing billionaire industrialist's orphaned son that pays out? honestly now, mommy and daddy's money came with interest and a nice bank statement!
honestly though, you need to aim for the nerdy girls. they're much smarter and much hotter than mere "honeys"
how much does it pay, though?