Auto-pilot can make mistakes. But humans make mistakes much more frequently. We are all safer if we turn the piloting of heavy machines over to computers. That California train wreck never would have happened if we had taken the emotional, error-prone sack of meat out of the control system.
Is it extensible? Is it easy to use? I didn't get it the first time, better repeat it a few more times...
My personal experience is that Nagios is probably the LEAST easy to use of any piece of software, period. I hope they changed it in a major way, because last time I tried to use it I was forced to dig through configuration files and learn syntax just to get the thing to see if some server was responding to pings.
It is completely misleading and dishonest of you to compare the purchase of $700B of yielding assets to the grating of $700B cash. They are just not the same thing.
Thanks, Dr. Freud, for your wonderful psychoanalysis of my bitterness, but the fact that the person I replied to said "call me a snob" might have had more to do with it than deep emotional issues.
It SHOULD be about data, not the network. Every file, every page, should have metadata listing any number of digital signatures. We should be able to easily see who created the data, who says that person is legit, and whether the data has been tampered with. Then we don't have to worry about the network at all.
If I'm viewing something which is signed by somebody with multiple governments or financial institutions also saying he is real and legit, I want my computer to tell me this guy is real and not a scammer. I also want to see at a glance if the document I'm about to read or program I'm about to open is from someone nobody else is willing to vouch for.
The technology is here, though X.509 needs to be updated to support multiple signatories and to be more flexible generally. It is just a matter of getting OS and browser producers to agree on the protocol and agree to support it.
I'm an IT security penetration tester, not a sysadmin. And I want all the details of all known security vulnerabilities. Anything less puts me at a disadvantage to those who do have full details.
And with the advent of organized crime into the hacking scene, you just can't assume white-hat researchers are the only ones discovering these vulnerabilities.
Recruiters ask for impossible qualifications, such as 10 years experience with some technology that has only been around for eight, plus five years of experience in some completely unrelated product that not many people use, anyway. The set of people who have even used both products is vanishingly small, and the people who have the required years of experience simply do not exist.
So the only people who respond to the job advert are incompetent liars. Recruiters bring the liars to you, and you realize they are fools. So the recruiters decide to UP the requirements for the position to try to filter out the fools. Of course, this just makes it WORSE as they list even more impossible qualifications.
If you want to hire competent people, don't make impossible skills and unlikely experience combinations a requirement.
Unless you have an unlimited budget, you probably have to decide between having a large amount of RAM and having the lowest-latency RAM when you are building a new system.
Personally, I would rather have eight gigs of high-latency, lower speed RAM than two gigs of low-latency, higher-speed RAM. Who among you makes the other choice? And why?
Having too few doctors means EITHER the A-doctors are overworked and more likely to err, or a large portion of the population gets NO medical care at all.
Either one is worse than having B-doctors (unless you have no compassion for the poor).
Medical costs have been growing at a far far faster rate than inflation. Clearly, demand for doctors is outstripping supply by a lot. We really need to lower the artifical barriers to entry to practicing medicine, such as unnecessary classwork.
And before you jump up and down screaming "I want only the best of the best to be doctors!" I should remind you that many people don't have access to any doctors at all, and a B-student doctor is just as capable as an A-student doctor at determining whether your sore throat needs further medical care.
Parents help with homework all the time. His mom or dad actually did it for him. It's the only explanation. Way to go, Dad. You just saved $25k on college expenses for your little angel.
Nobody said it is the best database for all cases. My point was simply that it embodies simplicity and accessibility for most applications (these days that means web apps). No user/permission nonsense, no server to run and maintain...
They count more than just the stuff you typed as "user data." For example, Linux admins download ISOs, lawyers download PDFs, Windows admins download patches, service packs, and malware cleaning tools, and sales people download porn. All this data is used by the users and must be archived.
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They can take my iPod so long as they also take away everyones' wristwatches.
Perhaps I'll clip my shuffle to a wristband? That'll confuse them.
The flight crew adamantly demands a shut off my iPod shuffle, which has the EM characteristics of a wristwatch. I will continue to ignore them.
Auto-pilot can make mistakes. But humans make mistakes much more frequently. We are all safer if we turn the piloting of heavy machines over to computers. That California train wreck never would have happened if we had taken the emotional, error-prone sack of meat out of the control system.
Apache, BIND, and Sendmail are not easy to configure. If someone were hyping their "ease of use" on here, I would criticize them, as well.
Is it extensible? Is it easy to use? I didn't get it the first time, better repeat it a few more times...
My personal experience is that Nagios is probably the LEAST easy to use of any piece of software, period. I hope they changed it in a major way, because last time I tried to use it I was forced to dig through configuration files and learn syntax just to get the thing to see if some server was responding to pings.
He is being punished for breaking the law. He is being prosecuted for making Sarah Palin look bad.
I'm really disappointed this story was not submitted by Anonymous Coward.
It is completely misleading and dishonest of you to compare the purchase of $700B of yielding assets to the grating of $700B cash. They are just not the same thing.
Thanks, Dr. Freud, for your wonderful psychoanalysis of my bitterness, but the fact that the person I replied to said "call me a snob" might have had more to do with it than deep emotional issues.
Have you tasted it in a blind taste test? Or are you, like most if not all "wine snobs," simply fooling yourself into thinking expensive==good?
It SHOULD be about data, not the network. Every file, every page, should have metadata listing any number of digital signatures. We should be able to easily see who created the data, who says that person is legit, and whether the data has been tampered with. Then we don't have to worry about the network at all.
If I'm viewing something which is signed by somebody with multiple governments or financial institutions also saying he is real and legit, I want my computer to tell me this guy is real and not a scammer. I also want to see at a glance if the document I'm about to read or program I'm about to open is from someone nobody else is willing to vouch for.
The technology is here, though X.509 needs to be updated to support multiple signatories and to be more flexible generally. It is just a matter of getting OS and browser producers to agree on the protocol and agree to support it.
It's somewhat ironic that Linus Torvalds worked for a company that is nothing but a patent troll today.
I'm an IT security penetration tester, not a sysadmin. And I want all the details of all known security vulnerabilities. Anything less puts me at a disadvantage to those who do have full details.
And with the advent of organized crime into the hacking scene, you just can't assume white-hat researchers are the only ones discovering these vulnerabilities.
Ah, OK. I withdraw my criticism of OWASP as the cancellation seems not to be their fault. Apologies, guys.
Well, add OWASP to the list of security organizations with no integrity. It's clear they care about their sponsors, not their members.
To be fair, though, everything is better in Europe. I know this, because I am told this several times per day by my French girlfriend.
I haven't spent enough time in Europe to object to most of these claims, but I am sure that we have one thing better in the states: Women.
Ye gods, European girls are a whiny bunch by comparison.
There's a good reason.
Recruiters ask for impossible qualifications, such as 10 years experience with some technology that has only been around for eight, plus five years of experience in some completely unrelated product that not many people use, anyway. The set of people who have even used both products is vanishingly small, and the people who have the required years of experience simply do not exist.
So the only people who respond to the job advert are incompetent liars. Recruiters bring the liars to you, and you realize they are fools. So the recruiters decide to UP the requirements for the position to try to filter out the fools. Of course, this just makes it WORSE as they list even more impossible qualifications.
If you want to hire competent people, don't make impossible skills and unlikely experience combinations a requirement.
This article doesn't say that SV IT workers are experiencing high unemployment. It says that the region has high unemployment.
Hopefully, the mortgage hustlers are the ones out of jobs, instead of the people who actually do productive work.
People still run 32 bit operating systems? Seriously?
Unless you have an unlimited budget, you probably have to decide between having a large amount of RAM and having the lowest-latency RAM when you are building a new system.
Personally, I would rather have eight gigs of high-latency, lower speed RAM than two gigs of low-latency, higher-speed RAM. Who among you makes the other choice? And why?
Having too few doctors means EITHER the A-doctors are overworked and more likely to err, or a large portion of the population gets NO medical care at all.
Either one is worse than having B-doctors (unless you have no compassion for the poor).
Medical costs have been growing at a far far faster rate than inflation. Clearly, demand for doctors is outstripping supply by a lot. We really need to lower the artifical barriers to entry to practicing medicine, such as unnecessary classwork.
And before you jump up and down screaming "I want only the best of the best to be doctors!" I should remind you that many people don't have access to any doctors at all, and a B-student doctor is just as capable as an A-student doctor at determining whether your sore throat needs further medical care.
We just plain need more doctors.
Parents help with homework all the time. His mom or dad actually did it for him. It's the only explanation. Way to go, Dad. You just saved $25k on college expenses for your little angel.
Nobody said it is the best database for all cases. My point was simply that it embodies simplicity and accessibility for most applications (these days that means web apps). No user/permission nonsense, no server to run and maintain...
They count more than just the stuff you typed as "user data." For example, Linux admins download ISOs, lawyers download PDFs, Windows admins download patches, service packs, and malware cleaning tools, and sales people download porn. All this data is used by the users and must be archived.