How might this affect Hotmail, Yahoo, and other internet email services when spammers use those email addresses as the return? Will California attempt to go after MSN or AOL when hundreds of millions of spam mail turns up with those addresses on the tail end?
I use COBOL and JCL every day! Though it's not as flashy as the new stuff, it's the backbone of our tax, customer, accounting, auditing, inventory, and letter systems.
Anyone who refuses to use such a potent language/tool in the face of it's obvious power and prevalence is truly a fool. Those who rail against it prove their ignorance.
I didn't gain any experience from school, because most schools don't seem to value mainframes anymore. This is probably because server vendors and their software vendors are more aggressively seeking institutions of higher education. These vendors seem to have more throw away money and more "progressive" marketing strategies by getting students "hooked" on to their own products(MS is really good at this game) early in their educations. This is great because some tof the graduates of today will be the managers of tomorrow and will hold the purse strings of their IT departments. WHat do you think a manager will purchase if given an opportunity? The tools (s)he's already familiar with. What will a forward thinking manager purchase when faced with a need to upgrade the system? Some will survey what the prospective employees are already familiar with (possibly to cut training costs). I gained my experience by never turning down an opportunity to work (and thereby learn). My future is secure.
I am a 25 year old programmer who spends 96% of the time working on OS/390 mainframes using JCL and MVS COBOL. Any other time is divided between Java and VB for special apps.
The team I work with (5 of us, total) is officially dubbed the "Legacy" team. Our total IT department is comprised of roughly 80 employees (so you can see how few are able to do or want to do what we can). I am the youngest on my team by 12 years. I would guess that the average age of our team members is 45 (not including me in the calc). The great thing is, because I am willing to work and I lack the offensive attitude of the parent comment, I make BANK.
will your pride put food on the table while you look for more opportunities because there is someone else out there, with the same skills or better, who is willing to sign that consent form?
I was recently hired as a programmer for my state's Tax Commission. Because I deal with sensitive information and the processes that control this information, I was subject to a background and credit check. The logic behind this is simple:
First, the agency does not want to hire risks that might directly involve the manipulation of tax information, either by manipulating my own or someone else's.
Second, they would like to avoid the chance that I could be persuaded by others to manipulate any information. If I have a relatively flawless background, then the assumption is that I am less likely to be bribe-able and less likely to end up with an all-points-bulletine on my head.
Third, the agency would not want to end up with egg on its face should anything happen to me.(REPORTER:...but did you not know that he/she has been in and out of bankruptcy proceedings, etc, etc, before hiring this person who has now alledgedly stolen _insert monetary value here_?)
Finally (for now), what is your credit report worth to you? Is it worth the possible salary or advancement you will receive during your career? I asked myself that question, and with the many companies downsizing their IT staff, I jumped at this opportunity to work.
By the way, you have nothing to fear if your credit report is good. They can't use that as a reason to fire you. Even if your report is bad, many employers will give you the opportunity to explain yourself or defend it before they kick you out the door.
This is not an issue of privacy invasion. This is a matter of the company covering its butt. In the current business and investor climate, who can blame them?
Maybe in the next movie, they can have a villian in a red devil's outfit holding a pitchfork. Wearing a Red Hat. Doing battle against a lizard doing the samba. With a gnome as his assistant. Who seeks enlightenment. While being chase by the Batmobile doing Maximum RPM's. With the final battle in a sawmill. Used to cut pine. And elm.
And the villain will only walk in through backdoors and crashed windows.
I gotta disagree with you here. Though most everyone can look back on chilhood through rose colored glasses, games don't always enjoy the same status as, say ice cream or the price of a Coke ("Back in my day I could buy a Coke-- and not that 'New Coke' crap-- for only 45 cents", Grandpa says before the medication kicks in again). I don't plan on reliving my days of ET on the Atari 2600 or playing Mario Brothers (not the "Super" ones). And let's face it, when it came to arcade games, you could have heard the Sonic Boom when SF2 Hurricane Kicked the original's butt right out of the arcades.
I will give you that many game sequels have improved on the originals, and lots have even thrown the firsts of the genres right out the window. However, most of the games have stopped innovating where gameplay is concerned. Hell, I could walk straight from SF2 to DarkStalkers and never missed a beat. anything I could do in Bad Dudes I could accomplish in Final Fight (though IMHO FF is better). I wouldn't call a Ranchero better than a Ford F150 just because it came out earlier. That's ludicrous! My point is that people don't compare these games to their predecessors necessarily because they were better in their minds eye, but rather because they are just plain better.
Many games today are just a bunch of eye-candy or they get to be too drawn out and convoluted, or both. Many game genres ARE dying because they either don't have enough substance or they require too much time and resources. When I play a game, I play it to get away from the real world for a little while and relax. Lately it seems all the games that have hit the market (i.e. EverQuest and Diablo) were made for the opposite reason-- I should go back to the real world to escape and relax from playing a game!
Now I can't even play a console without being forced into an uninteresting world that, if I put down for a few days, I could completely forget where I was and therefore need to start all over again (or else buy the strategy guide). Case in point-- FF8. I was hooked on FF1 (and still play it), enjoyed FF2 (though the plot was a little too strict), loved FF3 (because the characters were a lot more interesting and gameplay was a bit more innovative), and then FF7 came out ("Doh! Well even Squaresoft misses every now and then.") A sheer glimmer of hope drove me to buy FF8, where I find that the most fun in the game is that card game! If I ever pick that piece of crap back up (and I haven't beaten it yet) it will be purely for the card game!
I feel that the biggest downfall of most games is the attention to detail. Companies aren't seeing the forest because the trees keep getting in the way. There should be a return to the basics of gaming. There should be more fun and less seriousness (I want to laugh, dammit). More freedom to screw around with the basic plot and less stringent storylines. I'm tired of the game trying to lead me by the nose to the next step. I want to have a game for the escapism again. But most importantly, I want be able to accomplish beating the game in my leisure time in less than a month!
This probably isn't all I wanted to say, but it's beginning to get a little long and at least I got this much off my chest.
When questioned of his whereabouts the night of August 5, Mr. Binks replied, "Meeza so smart enslik at Meeza doan tink no uns guna figars owt ut reely happin an Meeza runs scot frees egin! Tuh hek wif da bludy gluv Meeza gots, cuz yawlza cant pruv dat blud aints Meeza's!" Because no one can understand what the hell the alien moron is jabbering about, the authorities had no choice but to let him go.
...and Jar Jar kills yet another bit of my fond childhood memories
When questioned of his whereabouts the night of August 5, Mr. Binks replied, "Meeza so smart enslik at Meeza doan tink no uns guna figars owt ut reely happin an Meeza runs scot frees egin! Tuh hek wif da bludy gluv Meeza gots, cuz yawlza cant pruv dat blud aints Meeza's!" Because no one can understand what the hell the alien moron is jabbering about, the authorities had no choice but to let him go.
...and Jar Jar kills yet another bit of my fond childhood memories
How long would it take to rewrite Carnivore or a Carnivore-like software, knowing what little we do about the product? Would anyone like to take a shot at that? I feel like the FBI began rewriting the program when the story broke. It could be possible when you consider the "think tank" the government is supposed to have.
In addition, assuming they could pull off a rewrite/revision/whatever, would they also be obligated to release that version?
I have always thought we needed to send more stuff into orbit to taste cosmic radiation. There just aren't enough invisible microbes, stretchy microbes, or rock microbes. But whatever you do, don't get that green one angry. You wouldn't like him when he's angry.
Some people will hear a song on the radio, like it, and look for it. If they like the song, but aren't willing to shell out 16+ bucks, they still have he option of buying that particular song without putting a hole in their wallet to do it. I know for a fact that this sort of thing happens because
a.) I paid 16+ for a Crash Test Dummies album. (what a mistake that was) b.) Retailers still stock singles.
Therefore there must be a market for it. Retailers are in the business of making money and usually won't do something that wastes the greenbacks. Napster (and don't confuse me with someone who supports the recording industry in this case) is putting a hole in that market.
Slashdot Mirror
... someone you can't fire."
Sage advice from a self-made multi-millionaire (which, of course, isn't me).
How might this affect Hotmail, Yahoo, and other internet email services when spammers use those email addresses as the return? Will California attempt to go after MSN or AOL when hundreds of millions of spam mail turns up with those addresses on the tail end?
WHAT!!? No funding for my mirror and lense? What if I said you could put Linux on it?
-- Posting with Karma to burn.
I've got a convex mirror and a fish-eye lens. Anyone want to fund my startup special effects company?
-- Posting with Karma to burn.
Wow. This guy was a bit slow on both counts.
or did someone else just glance at the headline and read:
"WiFi Exposes Insensitive Clod Data"
I think I need to lay off on reading posts for a while.
Well said!
I use COBOL and JCL every day! Though it's not as flashy as the new stuff, it's the backbone of our tax, customer, accounting, auditing, inventory, and letter systems.
Anyone who refuses to use such a potent language/tool in the face of it's obvious power and prevalence is truly a fool. Those who rail against it prove their ignorance.
I didn't gain any experience from school, because most schools don't seem to value mainframes anymore. This is probably because server vendors and their software vendors are more aggressively seeking institutions of higher education. These vendors seem to have more throw away money and more "progressive" marketing strategies by getting students "hooked" on to their own products(MS is really good at this game) early in their educations. This is great because some tof the graduates of today will be the managers of tomorrow and will hold the purse strings of their IT departments. WHat do you think a manager will purchase if given an opportunity? The tools (s)he's already familiar with. What will a forward thinking manager purchase when faced with a need to upgrade the system? Some will survey what the prospective employees are already familiar with (possibly to cut training costs). I gained my experience by never turning down an opportunity to work (and thereby learn). My future is secure.
I am a 25 year old programmer who spends 96% of the time working on OS/390 mainframes using JCL and MVS COBOL. Any other time is divided between Java and VB for special apps.
The team I work with (5 of us, total) is officially dubbed the "Legacy" team. Our total IT department is comprised of roughly 80 employees (so you can see how few are able to do or want to do what we can). I am the youngest on my team by 12 years. I would guess that the average age of our team members is 45 (not including me in the calc). The great thing is, because I am willing to work and I lack the offensive attitude of the parent comment, I make BANK.
I fear for you, but I don't fear you.
I would tell myself not to look at $$$$$exyGal's journal at work!
Geez, that could have gotten me fired.
will your pride put food on the table while you look for more opportunities because there is someone else out there, with the same skills or better, who is willing to sign that consent form?
I was recently hired as a programmer for my state's Tax Commission. Because I deal with sensitive information and the processes that control this information, I was subject to a background and credit check. The logic behind this is simple:
...but did you not know that he/she has been in and out of bankruptcy proceedings, etc, etc, before hiring this person who has now alledgedly stolen _insert monetary value here_?)
First, the agency does not want to hire risks that might directly involve the manipulation of tax information, either by manipulating my own or someone else's.
Second, they would like to avoid the chance that I could be persuaded by others to manipulate any information. If I have a relatively flawless background, then the assumption is that I am less likely to be bribe-able and less likely to end up with an all-points-bulletine on my head.
Third, the agency would not want to end up with egg on its face should anything happen to me.(REPORTER:
Finally (for now), what is your credit report worth to you? Is it worth the possible salary or advancement you will receive during your career? I asked myself that question, and with the many companies downsizing their IT staff, I jumped at this opportunity to work.
By the way, you have nothing to fear if your credit report is good. They can't use that as a reason to fire you. Even if your report is bad, many employers will give you the opportunity to explain yourself or defend it before they kick you out the door.
This is not an issue of privacy invasion. This is a matter of the company covering its butt. In the current business and investor climate, who can blame them?
Maybe in the next movie, they can have a villian in a red devil's outfit holding a pitchfork. Wearing a Red Hat. Doing battle against a lizard doing the samba. With a gnome as his assistant. Who seeks enlightenment. While being chase by the Batmobile doing Maximum RPM's. With the final battle in a sawmill. Used to cut pine. And elm.
And the villain will only walk in through backdoors and crashed windows.
I gotta disagree with you here. Though most everyone can look back on chilhood through rose colored glasses, games don't always enjoy the same status as, say ice cream or the price of a Coke ("Back in my day I could buy a Coke-- and not that 'New Coke' crap-- for only 45 cents", Grandpa says before the medication kicks in again). I don't plan on reliving my days of ET on the Atari 2600 or playing Mario Brothers (not the "Super" ones). And let's face it, when it came to arcade games, you could have heard the Sonic Boom when SF2 Hurricane Kicked the original's butt right out of the arcades.
I will give you that many game sequels have improved on the originals, and lots have even thrown the firsts of the genres right out the window. However, most of the games have stopped innovating where gameplay is concerned. Hell, I could walk straight from SF2 to DarkStalkers and never missed a beat. anything I could do in Bad Dudes I could accomplish in Final Fight (though IMHO FF is better). I wouldn't call a Ranchero better than a Ford F150 just because it came out earlier. That's ludicrous! My point is that people don't compare these games to their predecessors necessarily because they were better in their minds eye, but rather because they are just plain better.
Many games today are just a bunch of eye-candy or they get to be too drawn out and convoluted, or both. Many game genres ARE dying because they either don't have enough substance or they require too much time and resources. When I play a game, I play it to get away from the real world for a little while and relax. Lately it seems all the games that have hit the market (i.e. EverQuest and Diablo) were made for the opposite reason-- I should go back to the real world to escape and relax from playing a game!
Now I can't even play a console without being forced into an uninteresting world that, if I put down for a few days, I could completely forget where I was and therefore need to start all over again (or else buy the strategy guide). Case in point-- FF8. I was hooked on FF1 (and still play it), enjoyed FF2 (though the plot was a little too strict), loved FF3 (because the characters were a lot more interesting and gameplay was a bit more innovative), and then FF7 came out ("Doh! Well even Squaresoft misses every now and then.") A sheer glimmer of hope drove me to buy FF8, where I find that the most fun in the game is that card game! If I ever pick that piece of crap back up (and I haven't beaten it yet) it will be purely for the card game!
I feel that the biggest downfall of most games is the attention to detail. Companies aren't seeing the forest because the trees keep getting in the way. There should be a return to the basics of gaming. There should be more fun and less seriousness (I want to laugh, dammit). More freedom to screw around with the basic plot and less stringent storylines. I'm tired of the game trying to lead me by the nose to the next step. I want to have a game for the escapism again. But most importantly, I want be able to accomplish beating the game in my leisure time in less than a month!
This probably isn't all I wanted to say, but it's beginning to get a little long and at least I got this much off my chest.
When questioned of his whereabouts the night of August 5, Mr. Binks replied, "Meeza so smart enslik at Meeza doan tink no uns guna figars owt ut reely happin an Meeza runs scot frees egin! Tuh hek wif da bludy gluv Meeza gots, cuz yawlza cant pruv dat blud aints Meeza's!" Because no one can understand what the hell the alien moron is jabbering about, the authorities had no choice but to let him go.
...and Jar Jar kills yet another bit of my fond childhood memories
When questioned of his whereabouts the night of August 5, Mr. Binks replied, "Meeza so smart enslik at Meeza doan tink no uns guna figars owt ut reely happin an Meeza runs scot frees egin! Tuh hek wif da bludy gluv Meeza gots, cuz yawlza cant pruv dat blud aints Meeza's!" Because no one can understand what the hell the alien moron is jabbering about, the authorities had no choice but to let him go.
...and Jar Jar kills yet another bit of my fond childhood memories
How long would it take to rewrite Carnivore or a Carnivore-like software, knowing what little we do about the product? Would anyone like to take a shot at that? I feel like the FBI began rewriting the program when the story broke. It could be possible when you consider the "think tank" the government is supposed to have.
In addition, assuming they could pull off a rewrite/revision/whatever, would they also be obligated to release that version?
I have always thought we needed to send more stuff into orbit to taste cosmic radiation. There just aren't enough invisible microbes, stretchy microbes, or rock microbes. But whatever you do, don't get that green one angry. You wouldn't like him when he's angry.
"Archaea SMASH!"
Some people will hear a song on the radio, like it, and look for it. If they like the song, but aren't willing to shell out 16+ bucks, they still have he option of buying that particular song without putting a hole in their wallet to do it. I know for a fact that this sort of thing happens because
a.) I paid 16+ for a Crash Test Dummies album. (what a mistake that was)
b.) Retailers still stock singles.
Therefore there must be a market for it. Retailers are in the business of making money and usually won't do something that wastes the greenbacks. Napster (and don't confuse me with someone who supports the recording industry in this case) is putting a hole in that market.
what about singles that are produced? Won't there be a loss in that market?