Yep. In my last gig, if I had given away root passwords to anyone not on a very short list, where I knew everyone personally, armed guards would have escorted me out of the building. (In my country, those guards are the only non-police, non-military guards that carry sidearms.)
I have spent the last few months cleaning out the corporate spam filter. I know that we have accidentally deleted several mails that should have gone through (and released spam mails). We simply could not afford to spend the manpower necessary for a scrutiny of the spam folder(s).
The point is that the sender does not know that the false positives were deleted and NOT RECEIVED. IF it had been blocked at the server instead of filtered, the (legitimate) sender would get a message to that effect from his own mail system. A spammer doesn't care either way, of course.
I'm storing my passwords in kwallet on my Linux laptop. Sometimes I need a password reset on a Unix box that only I and one other guy ever use - and it takes AT LEAST 3 FRICKIN DAYS to get it done.
Down, not across.
You want the truthiness? You can't handle the truthiness!
(Are you using an AI sigmonster, or was that.sig just very, very appropriate?)
Anyway, I'm reminded of the creationists' reaction to the microbe experiments of Lenski et al. : "The data are obviously faked, since there's no such thing as evolution".
I have only a couple of semesters' worth of 40-year old physics, so my opinion isn't worth a cow's belch - but when actual methane bubbles are observed in the Arctic Ocean off Siberia, I'm beginning to think we may have passed the tipping point and should prepare geoengineering efforts ASAP.
For the sake of my/our grandchildren.
I think you and I are working for similar companies, where I work we're ~90K FTEs world wide.
I see the same weird behavior on our local intranet site - In October, we were told to ditch all browsers except IE 6 from company PCs, FOR SECURITY REASONS. I never surf the web from my company laptop anymore, if I need a file I'll download it to my private laptop and transfer it, after checking with all available tools.
Look, neither Windows nor Linux should be taught in schools. What should be taught is how to use a computer to learn, to communicate (write essays, reports, etc, not twitter), to explore, to create... I believe Linux systems are more amenable to that sort of use. (And using thin clients means that the IT responsible won't spend 50% of his time ghosting malware-ridden Windows boxes.
I looked a little deeper and found on his home page the history of the bill:
http://www.congreso.gob.pe/congresista/2001/evillanueva.htm
Click the rightmost thumbnail, open the first link on the page that opens and look for 01609.
Could someone translate? It looks like a version of it was finally passed in 2005, as Law 28612.
Read the comments, too. There are comments from others within that school district that confirm - not that particular incident, but the mindset among certain teachers. And NOT posted anonymously, either.
And quite honestly, though Microsoft is certainly trying to use the ISO for its own selfish reasons, I think it's fair to say the community is also using it for their own selfish reasons (along with IBM), to try to hurt Microsoft.
You are not totally wrong, I, for one, would gleefully watch Microsoft collapse. However, the only entity that could hurt them now is Microsoft itself, bu refusing to support ODF in their products. There are signs and portents that someone at Microsoft just realized that...
Exactly. We saw from documents that came up in lawsuits that Microsoft does not have competitors - anyone competing is regarded as an enemy. Enemies must be destroyed. "A computer on every desk and in every home, running Microsoft software."
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Heh. MS would not even provide a localized Windows 98 version until Linux/KDE provided an Icelandic language pack. Okay, this was 10 years ago -
Scribus.
According to Pubpat, the '517 patent was rejected in 2004. IANAL so I have no idea what that means for the lawsuit.
I don't doubt they can.The question is, will Marketing allow it?
- and supported by Microsoft Norway. No kidding.
Please. Let's not restart the intra-Scandinavian joke war, it was worse than emacs/vi.
I'm in the same situation as GP. Looking forward to retirement and a return to sanity in December :-)
Loverock, is that you?
Yep. In my last gig, if I had given away root passwords to anyone not on a very short list, where I knew everyone personally, armed guards would have escorted me out of the building. (In my country, those guards are the only non-police, non-military guards that carry sidearms.)
Why do those files carry copyright notices to Microsoft? AFAIU, the contents of the files and the way they are written are in the public domain?
The point is that the sender does not know that the false positives were deleted and NOT RECEIVED. IF it had been blocked at the server instead of filtered, the (legitimate) sender would get a message to that effect from his own mail system. A spammer doesn't care either way, of course.
Why is this so hard to understand and accept?
I'm storing my passwords in kwallet on my Linux laptop. Sometimes I need a password reset on a Unix box that only I and one other guy ever use - and it takes AT LEAST 3 FRICKIN DAYS to get it done. Down, not across.
You want the truthiness? You can't handle the truthiness!
(Are you using an AI sigmonster, or was that .sig just very, very appropriate?)
Anyway, I'm reminded of the creationists' reaction to the microbe experiments of Lenski et al. : "The data are obviously faked, since there's no such thing as evolution".
I have only a couple of semesters' worth of 40-year old physics, so my opinion isn't worth a cow's belch - but when actual methane bubbles are observed in the Arctic Ocean off Siberia, I'm beginning to think we may have passed the tipping point and should prepare geoengineering efforts ASAP. For the sake of my/our grandchildren.
Fertilizing the algae will not only not effect the mount of CO2 absorbed by the seawater from the air, but will reduce the amount of CO2 in the water.
Well, actually, Firefox was banned because it's so easy to install plugins that could contain malware ...
Gah.
I think you and I are working for similar companies, where I work we're ~90K FTEs world wide. I see the same weird behavior on our local intranet site - In October, we were told to ditch all browsers except IE 6 from company PCs, FOR SECURITY REASONS. I never surf the web from my company laptop anymore, if I need a file I'll download it to my private laptop and transfer it, after checking with all available tools.
GWB's administration, that's who.
Look, neither Windows nor Linux should be taught in schools. What should be taught is how to use a computer to learn, to communicate (write essays, reports, etc, not twitter), to explore, to create ... I believe Linux systems are more amenable to that sort of use. (And using thin clients means that the IT responsible won't spend 50% of his time ghosting malware-ridden Windows boxes.
I looked a little deeper and found on his home page the history of the bill: http://www.congreso.gob.pe/congresista/2001/evillanueva.htm Click the rightmost thumbnail, open the first link on the page that opens and look for 01609. Could someone translate? It looks like a version of it was finally passed in 2005, as Law 28612.
Here you are: http://gnuwin.epfl.ch/articles/en/reponseperou/villanueva_to_ms.html The original was in Spanish, it's been translated into many languages. Brilliant - but Microsoft still won, if I recall correctly.
Trouble is that "liberal" seems to be a dirty word in the USA lately ...
Read the comments, too. There are comments from others within that school district that confirm - not that particular incident, but the mindset among certain teachers. And NOT posted anonymously, either.
They say that Carl Hiaasen has it easy when he refers to Florida politics in his books - he doesn't have to make up anything :-)
And quite honestly, though Microsoft is certainly trying to use the ISO for its own selfish reasons, I think it's fair to say the community is also using it for their own selfish reasons (along with IBM), to try to hurt Microsoft.
You are not totally wrong, I, for one, would gleefully watch Microsoft collapse. However, the only entity that could hurt them now is Microsoft itself, bu refusing to support ODF in their products. There are signs and portents that someone at Microsoft just realized that ...
Exactly. We saw from documents that came up in lawsuits that Microsoft does not have competitors - anyone competing is regarded as an enemy. Enemies must be destroyed. "A computer on every desk and in every home, running Microsoft software."