That's probably because Apple was the first big corporation which refused to license those standards-essential patents under the same RAND terms as all of their competitors, again as a form of corporate warfare - they're trying to get all the R&D work required to make modern mobiles possible for free, whilst suing all their competitors who did do the R&D over crap like swipe-to-unlock, meaning those companies can't even make back their costs by selling their own phones!
Um, not so much. Apple spends an inordinate amount of time and money on usability. Then they have finalized their product, they do not want anyone else to use the same gestures/paradigm/process, whatever. This is one of their major selling points, ease of use, and they protect it with lawyers. History says that other companies wait until an Apple product appears, and then copy the interface lock stock and barrel, rushing their new product out to compete. Those companies generally do NOT do the same kind of research into usability. It's wait and see what Apple does and then copy it. To you and me, the things that are copied seem trivial. Of course you'll have menus up top (Windows), of course can swipe to do things (Samsung), but it's really the whole process that Apple is trying to protect, not these simple things. Apple has historically left companies alone as long as they do things differently, find their own paradigms. But time and time again, they don't do that. What Apple does seems trivial after the fact, but why is it that they are often the system that is copied? Because they are the only one putting in that huge effort for usability.
1) Need passwords... immediatly change them.Exiting person should have no futher access except through you.
Insane. The last thing you need is to lose access to something and spend your entire week talking to support trying to crack a device. Besides, they are probably still finishing up some work. You need to trust them and treat them with respect. On their last day, change passwords to protect the outgoing admin. That way they cannot be blamed for anything after that time.
2) Require exiting person to produce network diagram. Make it their last duty if one doesn't exist.
Network? We're talking about a sysadmin. I can't tell you how many times a company has detailed networking doc and monitoring, not no idea how to manage a server or system. You need information on process flow, port usage, interoperability, ssh key usage, etc. Not networking.
3) Now starts the pain... audit devices and systems for rogue accounts.
Also insane. Are you going to dissect every application and project to figure out what every account and daemon is and start deleting things that you don't recognize? You'll be out the door faster before the other guy.
4) document as you go.
Like every work day for every project ever.
5) turn in passwords to supervisor.
Excuse me? You're not implying that password are ever written down, or worse, put in a "spreadsheet." GAH! Passwords should be few and far between, since sudo access is the way to centralize authorization. Any device passwords should be kept in an encrypted "password vault" file, and any manager who needs access should have that already.
I can't believe any serious sysadmin would give these responses.
Without considering that a set of shower rings can last 5 years or more... I think this study is obviously bogus. I honestly can't think about any bunch of stand-alone plastic items I spend $2000 on every year.
As a miniatures enthusiast, I can. The problem is that the resolution is not fine enough for that kind of detail yet. Games Workshop is the one that has to start worrying. Maybe they will go to a "customize and print on demand" model.
Didn't laser printers show us that 300dpi is still a bit jaggy, and 600dpi is perfectly smooth at arm's length? When screen resolution is around 400dpi then we are probably done.
I can tell, because in addition to the end of secret courts and the rest of the Patriot Act, Guantanamo closed, we left Iraq on the Bush timetable, and drone strikes have ceased.
So now the Dem's are just as bad as the Rep's because they haven't done enough to clean up the mess left by the previous administration? Seriously, did you criticize W for not cleaning up the horrible mess left by Clinton. Oh wait. There was no horrible mess.
You mean like the Medicare Part D that was passed by a Republican House, Senate, and President? You are right, that would never happen.
Otherwise, it goes a bit too far, but is a pretty solid troll.
Yeah, the Rep plans that guarantee even greater profits for the medical and insurance industries to the detriment of patients because basic meds and tests are not on the approved list. Yeah, wonderful health care record that.
Seriously, can you be more biased? I mean the Dem's are bad, but the Rep's are so much worse there isn't even a contest. If anything, the Dem's are just following the Rep's lead when it comes to being evil.
I believe in IT we would refer to the two people as a Coder vs. an Architect. And yes, one person is often better at one of those things than the other. And this sort split is virtually universal across professions; it's not special to IT in any way.
So I put it to you, what is the correct course of action when we citizens of these United States of America are now all criminals in the eyes of the government?
Criminals aren't allowed to vote. That should be left up to the rubber stamping party members. See where this is going? Trotsky is dead. News at 11:00.
My High-school got all its computers replaced through some deal with Microsoft while I was there, and they were all Windows.
Microsoft makes large investments in getting its products into education so people get used to them. The people who resist change will then be stuck with them and but it in the future.
But, but, philanthropy. Gates foundation. Common good.
Bullshit. This is what happens when criminals like Gates are allowed to run free.
They should be paid wages by the government and they should be voted in or out by those who have an interest in the issues. They should not be running massive publicity campaigns.
That doesn't work either. Look at the Japanese Nuclear inspectors. They will do whatever it takes to makes the industry happy, because after a certain number of years of "public" service, they cash in for a high paying job at the same industries. As long as wealth is the driving incentive for everyone, there is no end to the corruption. Solution? Damned if I know. Better minds than I have been working on it for hundred of years.
Please enlighten us as to how the US is responsible for the existence of corporations in other countries.
You are either joking or young and ignorant of your history. From WWI on, the US and UK have lead the world in "defeating communism" and installing puppet rulers, influencing dictators, and generally installing huge corporations into every nation possible. The strength of the US post WWII forced most "free" nations to play along with the US's market driven economics or else dwindle. Look at the rebuilding of Japan and Germany. Look at the fall of the Soviet Union. Look at the oil industries in the middle east. These corporations did not spring up from local resources. They were funded and guided by American corporations, often through the work of their benefactor, the US government.
These cars with remote/keyless entry and start are already being stolen, even directly off of dealer lots. The criminals have already figured out what he was going to present, and are using it to their advantage.
And why my Mini dealer was very clear about why you have to insert the space age key in order to start the car, and they have no auto start option. Don't think that the dealers don't know that they are selling a defective product.
i get it selling game of thrones season by season. but there is no reason why i shouldn't be able to buy an entire TV run of a 20 year old show in one box for $40 or so
Then you are not their market, because they seem to be doing quite well for themselves at their current price point. Face it, big media is rife with collusion and price fixing. It's going to take a president who cares and an act of congress to break the industry. Yes it can be done. Read about Teddy Roosevelt.
Have they actually studied physics? This project is so bogus on multiple levels: 3) And finally, it still won't work even if a payload is accelerated to orbital speed. That's because the payload would re-enter the atmosphere and return to the point where it left the accelerator at the end of its first orbit - that's simple freaking orbital mechanics. And you need quite a bit of delta-v to lift the perigee high enough to avoid it, which requires a rocket with an engine, see 2) why it's not feasible.
Plus there's no way for it to be accurate. It just flings its load up into space, and something has to come along and match velocity with it in a very short amount of time. That is going to take a lot of fuel and maneuvering just to pick the thing up. If anything, this could be a decent weapon to bombard an enemy country, if you don't care where your bombs land, i.e. biological weapons.
Unless Abe has some unwisely-published rantings about the reestablishment of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere stashed in his closet somewhere, this seems like the sort of 'controversial' that will lead to grumblings and not a whole lot else.
As long as the US keeps up the shipments of oil and steal. No wait, that's hollywood movies and iPhones now.
But the hardware, software, and drivers were all created and tested 8 years ago. There is no reason to retest the same drivers over and over again, simply because time has elapsing in the interim.
They built those back when SUN X4500 was brand new. And it cost them nothing to have the drivers sitting in storage for 8 years. Theoretically, someone even had a maintenance contract for that exact SUN X4500, and had those exact drivers on it. When you need a maintenance contract to even use your 8 year old hardware, you don't really own it. You are just leasing the right to operate it.
OK, more mod ups for people who have no idea what they are talking about. Sigh. There is nothing stopping you from running unsupported. We have several V490 in production for a legacy app and a few spares. When something breaks, we swap as needed. There are no OS updates for our version of Solaris, so we just live with it. You see, this isn't Windows where you need constant security patches and updates. It's a rock solid OS, and rock solid hardware. The diagnostics can tell me exactly what is misbehaving, even when the system stays up and keeps running. Windows admins just don't get this.
'behaving like this?' From the complaint it sounds like they have a subscription service they charge for, then a couple companies came along, subscribed themselves, and they are reselling it to other companies. Kinda like someone buying a cable subscription then starting 'joe's cable company' reselling the connection to other people.
Completely wrong. There have been 3rd party service providers for Sun as long as there has been a Sun Microsystems. Think of it as level 2 1/2 support, anything that the actual people that wrote the code can help you with. They are often more hands on, and willing to help with configuration issues as well as actual maintenance. Or were. All our support went to Oracle this year, and we are in the midst of seeing what we can trim. When the current hardware is EOL, then that is the last we'll see of Sparc in my current shop. It's sad really. The "common" Windows/Linux admin has no idea what it's like to support "classy" hardware instead of cheap throwaway PCs.
That made Apple the #1 company on the planet, don't knock it!
I love revisionism. The Mac came out when? Windows when? Do the math. And no, Xerox never made it to market! They were purely a research institute, showing their stuff to whoever wanted to pay to see it.
He's going to "cash in," that is, get a big bucks job at some lobbying group or corporation just like every other politician with years of good service to their masters. Or do you really think he's any different?
What I wonder about right now are the NSA employees who - some surely being geeks who read Slashdot - are reading this comment. How do they sleep at night?
Read the article on psychopathy. It's pretty much a requirement for the NSA.
>> "The government is definitely demanding SSL keys from providers," said one person who has responded to government attempts to obtain encryption keys. The source spoke with CNET on condition of anonymity.
So...some guy said "yes, they're collecting keys." No written evidence, no names. We demand "citation" from people posting backstories of cartoon characters on Wikipedia, so how exactly is this "confirmation" of anything?
It's a little hard considering the consequences. We have been living in a fascist wonderland since 9/11. Personally, I don't see anyone giving up that kind of power without a violent overthrow. -- FBI, look here, dangerous words
Slashdot Mirror
I mean really - why would you network a toilet?
It plays music. Also light controls, I guess.
That's probably because Apple was the first big corporation which refused to license those standards-essential patents under the same RAND terms as all of their competitors, again as a form of corporate warfare - they're trying to get all the R&D work required to make modern mobiles possible for free, whilst suing all their competitors who did do the R&D over crap like swipe-to-unlock, meaning those companies can't even make back their costs by selling their own phones!
Um, not so much. Apple spends an inordinate amount of time and money on usability. Then they have finalized their product, they do not want anyone else to use the same gestures/paradigm/process, whatever. This is one of their major selling points, ease of use, and they protect it with lawyers. History says that other companies wait until an Apple product appears, and then copy the interface lock stock and barrel, rushing their new product out to compete. Those companies generally do NOT do the same kind of research into usability. It's wait and see what Apple does and then copy it. To you and me, the things that are copied seem trivial. Of course you'll have menus up top (Windows), of course can swipe to do things (Samsung), but it's really the whole process that Apple is trying to protect, not these simple things. Apple has historically left companies alone as long as they do things differently, find their own paradigms. But time and time again, they don't do that. What Apple does seems trivial after the fact, but why is it that they are often the system that is copied? Because they are the only one putting in that huge effort for usability.
1) Need passwords... immediatly change them.Exiting person should have no futher access except through you.
Insane. The last thing you need is to lose access to something and spend your entire week talking to support trying to crack a device. Besides, they are probably still finishing up some work. You need to trust them and treat them with respect. On their last day, change passwords to protect the outgoing admin. That way they cannot be blamed for anything after that time.
2) Require exiting person to produce network diagram. Make it their last duty if one doesn't exist.
Network? We're talking about a sysadmin. I can't tell you how many times a company has detailed networking doc and monitoring, not no idea how to manage a server or system. You need information on process flow, port usage, interoperability, ssh key usage, etc. Not networking.
3) Now starts the pain... audit devices and systems for rogue accounts.
Also insane. Are you going to dissect every application and project to figure out what every account and daemon is and start deleting things that you don't recognize? You'll be out the door faster before the other guy.
4) document as you go.
Like every work day for every project ever.
5) turn in passwords to supervisor.
Excuse me? You're not implying that password are ever written down, or worse, put in a "spreadsheet." GAH! Passwords should be few and far between, since sudo access is the way to centralize authorization. Any device passwords should be kept in an encrypted "password vault" file, and any manager who needs access should have that already.
I can't believe any serious sysadmin would give these responses.
Without considering that a set of shower rings can last 5 years or more... I think this study is obviously bogus. I honestly can't think about any bunch of stand-alone plastic items I spend $2000 on every year.
As a miniatures enthusiast, I can. The problem is that the resolution is not fine enough for that kind of detail yet. Games Workshop is the one that has to start worrying. Maybe they will go to a "customize and print on demand" model.
Didn't laser printers show us that 300dpi is still a bit jaggy, and 600dpi is perfectly smooth at arm's length? When screen resolution is around 400dpi then we are probably done.
As for him bein a traitor in your opinion: history books will judge different about him.
That depends on who writes the history books.
I can tell, because in addition to the end of secret courts and the rest of the Patriot Act, Guantanamo closed, we left Iraq on the Bush timetable, and drone strikes have ceased.
So now the Dem's are just as bad as the Rep's because they haven't done enough to clean up the mess left by the previous administration? Seriously, did you criticize W for not cleaning up the horrible mess left by Clinton. Oh wait. There was no horrible mess.
You mean like the Medicare Part D that was passed by a Republican House, Senate, and President? You are right, that would never happen.
Otherwise, it goes a bit too far, but is a pretty solid troll.
Yeah, the Rep plans that guarantee even greater profits for the medical and insurance industries to the detriment of patients because basic meds and tests are not on the approved list. Yeah, wonderful health care record that.
Seriously, can you be more biased? I mean the Dem's are bad, but the Rep's are so much worse there isn't even a contest. If anything, the Dem's are just following the Rep's lead when it comes to being evil.
I believe in IT we would refer to the two people as a Coder vs. an Architect. And yes, one person is often better at one of those things than the other. And this sort split is virtually universal across professions; it's not special to IT in any way.
For sysadmins, we call it Windows verses Unix. :-)
So I put it to you, what is the correct course of action when we citizens of these United States of America are now all criminals in the eyes of the government?
Criminals aren't allowed to vote. That should be left up to the rubber stamping party members. See where this is going? Trotsky is dead. News at 11:00.
My High-school got all its computers replaced through some deal with Microsoft while I was there, and they were all Windows.
Microsoft makes large investments in getting its products into education so people get used to them. The people who resist change will then be stuck with them and but it in the future.
But, but, philanthropy. Gates foundation. Common good.
Bullshit. This is what happens when criminals like Gates are allowed to run free.
Isn't that 1.5 million sitting on shelves in stores, not 1.5 million in people's hands?
They should be paid wages by the government and they should be voted in or out by those who have an interest in the issues. They should not be running massive publicity campaigns.
That doesn't work either. Look at the Japanese Nuclear inspectors. They will do whatever it takes to makes the industry happy, because after a certain number of years of "public" service, they cash in for a high paying job at the same industries. As long as wealth is the driving incentive for everyone, there is no end to the corruption. Solution? Damned if I know. Better minds than I have been working on it for hundred of years.
Please enlighten us as to how the US is responsible for the existence of corporations in other countries.
You are either joking or young and ignorant of your history. From WWI on, the US and UK have lead the world in "defeating communism" and installing puppet rulers, influencing dictators, and generally installing huge corporations into every nation possible. The strength of the US post WWII forced most "free" nations to play along with the US's market driven economics or else dwindle. Look at the rebuilding of Japan and Germany. Look at the fall of the Soviet Union. Look at the oil industries in the middle east. These corporations did not spring up from local resources. They were funded and guided by American corporations, often through the work of their benefactor, the US government.
These cars with remote/keyless entry and start are already being stolen, even directly off of dealer lots. The criminals have already figured out what he was going to present, and are using it to their advantage.
And why my Mini dealer was very clear about why you have to insert the space age key in order to start the car, and they have no auto start option. Don't think that the dealers don't know that they are selling a defective product.
at a reasonable price
i get it selling game of thrones season by season. but there is no reason why i shouldn't be able to buy an entire TV run of a 20 year old show in one box for $40 or so
Then you are not their market, because they seem to be doing quite well for themselves at their current price point. Face it, big media is rife with collusion and price fixing. It's going to take a president who cares and an act of congress to break the industry. Yes it can be done. Read about Teddy Roosevelt.
Have they actually studied physics? This project is so bogus on multiple levels:
3) And finally, it still won't work even if a payload is accelerated to orbital speed. That's because the payload would re-enter the atmosphere and return to the point where it left the accelerator at the end of its first orbit - that's simple freaking orbital mechanics. And you need quite a bit of delta-v to lift the perigee high enough to avoid it, which requires a rocket with an engine, see 2) why it's not feasible.
Plus there's no way for it to be accurate. It just flings its load up into space, and something has to come along and match velocity with it in a very short amount of time. That is going to take a lot of fuel and maneuvering just to pick the thing up. If anything, this could be a decent weapon to bombard an enemy country, if you don't care where your bombs land, i.e. biological weapons.
I'm embarrassed for all the PhD students out there. " me and three others were able"
Unless Abe has some unwisely-published rantings about the reestablishment of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere stashed in his closet somewhere, this seems like the sort of 'controversial' that will lead to grumblings and not a whole lot else.
As long as the US keeps up the shipments of oil and steal. No wait, that's hollywood movies and iPhones now.
But the hardware, software, and drivers were all created and tested 8 years ago.
There is no reason to retest the same drivers over and over again, simply because time has elapsing in the interim.
They built those back when SUN X4500 was brand new. And it cost them nothing to have the drivers sitting in storage for 8 years. Theoretically, someone even had a maintenance contract for that exact SUN X4500, and had those exact drivers on it. When you need a maintenance contract to even use your 8 year old hardware, you don't really own it. You are just leasing the right to operate it.
OK, more mod ups for people who have no idea what they are talking about. Sigh. There is nothing stopping you from running unsupported. We have several V490 in production for a legacy app and a few spares. When something breaks, we swap as needed. There are no OS updates for our version of Solaris, so we just live with it. You see, this isn't Windows where you need constant security patches and updates. It's a rock solid OS, and rock solid hardware. The diagnostics can tell me exactly what is misbehaving, even when the system stays up and keeps running. Windows admins just don't get this.
'behaving like this?'
From the complaint it sounds like they have a subscription service they charge for, then a couple companies came along, subscribed themselves, and they are reselling it to other companies. Kinda like someone buying a cable subscription then starting 'joe's cable company' reselling the connection to other people.
Completely wrong. There have been 3rd party service providers for Sun as long as there has been a Sun Microsystems. Think of it as level 2 1/2 support, anything that the actual people that wrote the code can help you with. They are often more hands on, and willing to help with configuration issues as well as actual maintenance. Or were. All our support went to Oracle this year, and we are in the midst of seeing what we can trim. When the current hardware is EOL, then that is the last we'll see of Sparc in my current shop. It's sad really. The "common" Windows/Linux admin has no idea what it's like to support "classy" hardware instead of cheap throwaway PCs.
That made Apple the #1 company on the planet, don't knock it!
I love revisionism. The Mac came out when? Windows when? Do the math. And no, Xerox never made it to market! They were purely a research institute, showing their stuff to whoever wanted to pay to see it.
Home sick, but still on-call, across multiple companies.
He's going to "cash in," that is, get a big bucks job at some lobbying group or corporation just like every other politician with years of good service to their masters. Or do you really think he's any different?
Rogue? Seems complicit to me.
What I wonder about right now are the NSA employees who - some surely being geeks who read Slashdot - are reading this comment. How do they sleep at night?
Read the article on psychopathy. It's pretty much a requirement for the NSA.
>> "The government is definitely demanding SSL keys from providers," said one person who has responded to government attempts to obtain encryption keys. The source spoke with CNET on condition of anonymity.
So...some guy said "yes, they're collecting keys." No written evidence, no names. We demand "citation" from people posting backstories of cartoon characters on Wikipedia, so how exactly is this "confirmation" of anything?
It's a little hard considering the consequences. We have been living in a fascist wonderland since 9/11. Personally, I don't see anyone giving up that kind of power without a violent overthrow. -- FBI, look here, dangerous words