Why do you have to drag Alabama in to this? Doesn't that state get made fun of enough without being compared to or mistaked for damn-Yankee-ignorant-luddite-rednecks from Illinois?
How good have OCR softwares gotten now? The worst part about writing anything long on paper is that, in most circles, you will eventually want that information to be digitally available. Writing something may be good (c.f. Stephenson and Quicksilver) but reallf annoying if you have to type all that out again later.
My point is that the demand is there. Demand makes product. In the open-source world, it's the itch that someone wants to scratch. In the commercial world, it's the potential to tap into a market that has been created by demand. You have this opinion that making money from another person's product is wrong, but that's just idiotic.
So, if the demand was there and people liked to watch movies in YOUR living room it would be perfectly acceptable for me to sell tickets to everyone so they can come and use your TV. You, of course, get nothing out of this but you need to maintain your house clean and orderly.
Millions of people go into McDonald's a year - should I be able to sell my own hamburgers inside of the resteraunt if the demand is there? It isn't fair that they should get all the profit from those people going there.
Don't come crying to/. just because you can't use someone elses network with paying for it when I can't use your long distance service for free.
Give all these assholes the boot: vote against the incumbent!
Ever since I could vote that is what I do - Republican or Democrat. The best thing we can do (what little that is, it seems) is to keep these people in power as little as possible.
The founding fathers may not have wanted the general public to control the government (thus a republic and not a democracy) but we should atleast try to keep our pseudo-aristocrat ruling class in check.
By the very fact you read this web site, you are more informed than many and your desire to stay abreast of current developments in tech means you most likely have retained (or even added to) your senior admin skills during your time at Kodak.
Sweet! I always thought I read/. to pass the hours away when I was supposed to be working on something important for my boss. Now I know refreshing/. is actually a very large indicator of my desire to "stay abreast of current technology" and the level to which I am informed; no longer will I keep a Word document available for quick ALT-Tab action, I will just let my boss know I am not slacking around but in reality I am increasing shareholder value with each refresh!
That should be Ho-land; after the decision to use Microsoft products to protect us from Microsoft products, the govenment went from being just a slut to a professional.
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This comment ignores the fact that the oldest form of hacking is social engineering. Doing something to sound official, or to appear to have clout that you don't have, in order to get what you want (generally, to get something you're not supposed to have) is definitely a form of hacking, used in some cases for nefarious purposes. The case mentioned in the article definitely has nefarious outcomes, and so, this sort of social engineering should definitely be prohibited.
This comment ignores the fact that the first comment was about breaking in and not about hacking. To equate breaking in with hacking only serves to further the illusion that all hacking is, by its very nature, something that is at best in the grey area of the law. This is, of course, absurd.
The aforementioned comment goes even further to suggest that social engineering - and overly broad subpoenas by connection - are something that should be regulated because this particular case had "nefarius outcomes." Not a good idea - more regulation is not the answer, thank you very much.
A better, and more reasoned approach, would be to not give business to an ISP that doesn't care about the privacy of its customers enough to ask what that company would want to do. Maybe, if an ISP were sued for providing the emails in the first place - industrial espionage? - we could focus on the misapplication of a subpoena. This is, though, something that is not new and unique to cyberspace. The application of anti-hacking laws to something that is, in essence, a purely "real-world" problem creates a scary precedent considering the inept laws regarding computers and the Internet that have been created in the past few years.
BTW: does an ISP actually own the traffic going over its network and, if so, are they not culpable for stolen MP3s? If not, how can the ISP be asked to provide something that does not belong to them (emails in this case...)
online casinos could put "real" (and illicit) gambling out of business
Let's see: a form of gambling that is not in the best interests of the government or established casinos (that lobby said government.) Hhmmm...I wonder why they want to make it illegal...
This is not to say that the big guy isn't a good person - I was quite impressed by his charitable donations and interest in children. But he has gone against aliens, liquid metal assassins, sword weilding tribesmen, evil public servents and some villians too ridiculous to mention and succeeded each time.
You forgot to mention that he also gave birth in what is probably his most touching role ever - something that *I* find particularly heroic given that he is a "he".
Instead of a smart rebuttle, he basically said "people are stupid and management is to blame for tech support not being able to solve your problem." Does that seem productive to anyone else?
Working on the front lines and dealing with end-users or customers is not something new that tech support people had to invent. Instead of - once again - placing all the blame elsewhere (users, management, poorly written and tested software, etc.) this could have been a good chance to look and say "Yes. We could deal with people better."
As the author pointed out: when people are calling tech support they are usually frustrated already. Most people just want to be reassured that it will be alright and given the best way to solve the problem.
In essence, really, that should be the job of tech support. Obviously they are not all computes wizards - that is why you have to read from a script, afterall - so maybe a bit more empathy would be in order. It would make the caller "feel" better and thus help IT support have a better image, even if it doesn't directly fix the problem.
Will half-truths be considered facts?
They seem to work for our government right now...
I find it hard to believe that anyone believes there is still half truths coming from our government. Due to budget cuts in the truth department, all further truth will hence-forth be only quarter truth.
Please return to your regularly scheduled terror-alert broadcast...
I nearly lost my job because I was RIGHT, and pointed out that I had correctly predicted many of the failings and problems that arose as a result of stupid decisions. Even though I was (at least I thought) polite and professional about it, I was taken aside by my non-technical IT superiors and told to shut the hell up or I'd be looking for another job.
The fact that you were right is NOT something that needs to be yelled from the mountain top. Either people will remember that the next time and come to you or they won't. Running around saying "I told you so - look at my big brain" *is* a good way to way to get fired - not because you were right and they were wrong, but because you are being divisive.
Being right but unable to get anyone to listen to you is - as the original post pointed out - *your* shortcoming, not theirs. Being able to influence someone is an art and is just as important as having the right answers.
Does this really constitute distributing the changed code? Just "using" GPL code does not mean you have to provide the source code or any credit. Could Linksys not argue that you were never supposed to have access to the code at all (in source -or- binary form) and thus the code wasn't really distributed at all?
Stop feeding stupi corporate three-razor extra-close super-smooth this bitch will fuck you if you use them razor companies.
But she told me to shave despite all of my pleading - I even used the "Look how much money we can save argument" - so now it is really just a matter of finding the most comfortable blade that won't break the bank...
For starters, don't look into getting any MBA that specializes in a specific area. You can, of course, take those courses and do the studying necessary to know a lot about a certain subject (e.g. IT) but you don't want to limit your options or experience. MBA school is not about focusing on one particular subject.
Build on your experience. We can assume you are in IT already right? Make moves toward supervisory or management roles; show interest and drive; prove that you are already capable. Just showing up one day with a MBA and some IT experience will not cut it. As you move further up the ladder the game is more political than technical. Is that what you really want?
Do you really want to be a PHB? The rewards a very different - you won't often get the satisfaction of accomplishing something yourself. Unless you like managing and directing people and helping them to accomplish tasks, it isn't for you. The only real reward is knowledge about the strategic goals of the group or company; helping others to grow and better themselves; and, if your really good, inspiring others to do things they wouldn't have done otherwise. And you are probably even more replacable, since the skillset of a manager is easier to obtain (though harder to do well) then that of a technician.
I think that teaching something in order is seldom correct. Most of the time the sequence is arbitrary and only easily remembered when you know the entire sequence.
A good example would be learning hiragana. James Heisig's book Remembering the Hiragana does not teach in the alphabetical order but, instead, in an order that more closely matches how a Westerner can most easily remember the characters. Teaching something so that it can be remembered, and focusing on the meaning or technicalities later, provides the needed foundation first and makes remembering in the long run easier.
Learning a game - any game - is probably better if done the same way. Focus on the easy to remember parts, the fun parts, of whatever that person is interested in, because each person will focus on different parts. For example: in AD&D, some people want to memorize tables and stats, while others just want to roleplay. By focusing on what the person is interested in first, and letting them learn and do that part, you can keep them around long enough to learn the rest.
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Why do you have to drag Alabama in to this? Doesn't that state get made fun of enough without being compared to or mistaked for damn-Yankee-ignorant-luddite-rednecks from Illinois?
Get a real Hummer!
How good have OCR softwares gotten now? The worst part about writing anything long on paper is that, in most circles, you will eventually want that information to be digitally available. Writing something may be good (c.f. Stephenson and Quicksilver) but reallf annoying if you have to type all that out again later.
So, if the demand was there and people liked to watch movies in YOUR living room it would be perfectly acceptable for me to sell tickets to everyone so they can come and use your TV. You, of course, get nothing out of this but you need to maintain your house clean and orderly.
Millions of people go into McDonald's a year - should I be able to sell my own hamburgers inside of the resteraunt if the demand is there? It isn't fair that they should get all the profit from those people going there.
Don't come crying to /. just because you can't use someone elses network with paying for it when I can't use your long distance service for free.
It is a much worse idea after you enlarge it. Trust me, you would be sorry too.
Ever since I could vote that is what I do - Republican or Democrat. The best thing we can do (what little that is, it seems) is to keep these people in power as little as possible.
The founding fathers may not have wanted the general public to control the government (thus a republic and not a democracy) but we should atleast try to keep our pseudo-aristocrat ruling class in check.
Sweet! I always thought I read /. to pass the hours away when I was supposed to be working on something important for my boss. Now I know refreshing /. is actually a very large indicator of my desire to "stay abreast of current technology" and the level to which I am informed; no longer will I keep a Word document available for quick ALT-Tab action, I will just let my boss know I am not slacking around but in reality I am increasing shareholder value with each refresh!
Thank you Slashdot!
That should be Ho-land; after the decision to use Microsoft products to protect us from Microsoft products, the govenment went from being just a slut to a professional.
This comment ignores the fact that the first comment was about breaking in and not about hacking. To equate breaking in with hacking only serves to further the illusion that all hacking is, by its very nature, something that is at best in the grey area of the law. This is, of course, absurd.
The aforementioned comment goes even further to suggest that social engineering - and overly broad subpoenas by connection - are something that should be regulated because this particular case had "nefarius outcomes." Not a good idea - more regulation is not the answer, thank you very much.
A better, and more reasoned approach, would be to not give business to an ISP that doesn't care about the privacy of its customers enough to ask what that company would want to do. Maybe, if an ISP were sued for providing the emails in the first place - industrial espionage? - we could focus on the misapplication of a subpoena. This is, though, something that is not new and unique to cyberspace. The application of anti-hacking laws to something that is, in essence, a purely "real-world" problem creates a scary precedent considering the inept laws regarding computers and the Internet that have been created in the past few years.
BTW: does an ISP actually own the traffic going over its network and, if so, are they not culpable for stolen MP3s? If not, how can the ISP be asked to provide something that does not belong to them (emails in this case...)
online casinos could put "real" (and illicit) gambling out of business
Let's see: a form of gambling that is not in the best interests of the government or established casinos (that lobby said government.) Hhmmm...I wonder why they want to make it illegal...
You forgot to mention that he also gave birth in what is probably his most touching role ever - something that *I* find particularly heroic given that he is a "he".
Working on the front lines and dealing with end-users or customers is not something new that tech support people had to invent. Instead of - once again - placing all the blame elsewhere (users, management, poorly written and tested software, etc.) this could have been a good chance to look and say "Yes. We could deal with people better."
As the author pointed out: when people are calling tech support they are usually frustrated already. Most people just want to be reassured that it will be alright and given the best way to solve the problem.
In essence, really, that should be the job of tech support. Obviously they are not all computes wizards - that is why you have to read from a script, afterall - so maybe a bit more empathy would be in order. It would make the caller "feel" better and thus help IT support have a better image, even if it doesn't directly fix the problem.
They seem to work for our government right now...
I find it hard to believe that anyone believes there is still half truths coming from our government. Due to budget cuts in the truth department, all further truth will hence-forth be only quarter truth.
Please return to your regularly scheduled terror-alert broadcast...
Because it is the only one in which RHAT is the better performer? I don't think that is what you were trying to prove.
The fact that you were right is NOT something that needs to be yelled from the mountain top. Either people will remember that the next time and come to you or they won't. Running around saying "I told you so - look at my big brain" *is* a good way to way to get fired - not because you were right and they were wrong, but because you are being divisive.
Being right but unable to get anyone to listen to you is - as the original post pointed out - *your* shortcoming, not theirs. Being able to influence someone is an art and is just as important as having the right answers.
Having a Mr. Microphone makes dating yourself about all you can do...
Does this really constitute distributing the changed code? Just "using" GPL code does not mean you have to provide the source code or any credit. Could Linksys not argue that you were never supposed to have access to the code at all (in source -or- binary form) and thus the code wasn't really distributed at all?
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3. Profit
Sounds like some company is still stuck in the dot-com era mindset...
But she told me to shave despite all of my pleading - I even used the "Look how much money we can save argument" - so now it is really just a matter of finding the most comfortable blade that won't break the bank...
This is as good a reason to download or copy your current Windows version as I have ever heard.
That may seem nice, but will a judge really have the power to rule something like that?
Since when was kiddie porn considered "speech"? Last I remember it was exploitation of a minority.
Build on your experience. We can assume you are in IT already right? Make moves toward supervisory or management roles; show interest and drive; prove that you are already capable. Just showing up one day with a MBA and some IT experience will not cut it. As you move further up the ladder the game is more political than technical. Is that what you really want?
Do you really want to be a PHB? The rewards a very different - you won't often get the satisfaction of accomplishing something yourself. Unless you like managing and directing people and helping them to accomplish tasks, it isn't for you. The only real reward is knowledge about the strategic goals of the group or company; helping others to grow and better themselves; and, if your really good, inspiring others to do things they wouldn't have done otherwise. And you are probably even more replacable, since the skillset of a manager is easier to obtain (though harder to do well) then that of a technician.
A good example would be learning hiragana. James Heisig's book Remembering the Hiragana does not teach in the alphabetical order but, instead, in an order that more closely matches how a Westerner can most easily remember the characters. Teaching something so that it can be remembered, and focusing on the meaning or technicalities later, provides the needed foundation first and makes remembering in the long run easier.
Learning a game - any game - is probably better if done the same way. Focus on the easy to remember parts, the fun parts, of whatever that person is interested in, because each person will focus on different parts. For example: in AD&D, some people want to memorize tables and stats, while others just want to roleplay. By focusing on what the person is interested in first, and letting them learn and do that part, you can keep them around long enough to learn the rest.