Even with good IT policies in place, enough IW's are going to try and do their own thing, resulting in the laptop having some additional valuable data.
Good data? Additional data for sure, but probably only good data to the person who is using the laptop. I have this problem with people saving things to their local drives. I refuse to backup those personal folders. If they put it on the server it's backed up and managed correctly, but even if it hurts the business if their local data is lost, it's a good teaching tool to get people to save data where it should go. Local information is no good to the organization that cannot access it.
How is that illegal? Do we need government further micromanaging businesses? How has that ever helped the economy?
It is his view as CEO that people are going to buy less pizza under Obama. Even though we don't see it, he does.... Even if Romney didn't achieve that, businesses in general would have had less perceived uncertainty under Romeny and taken more risks in the form of investment and expansion giving a measurable boost to the economy.
Spamming people on their cell phones is illegal. Firing people based on their political beliefs might not be illegal, but firing them because they are hispanic and probably voted for Obama might be (as one Papa John's franchisors might have done.)
People are probably going to buy less pizza under Obama's next four years, at least from the big pizza chains. (http://www.qsrmagazine.com/competition/fall-pizza) They probably would have under Romney as well. Big pizza has been declining over the past decade, and all signs point to that continuing, but not because of the economy. Small pizza restaurants are doing great, as are small breweries. In a time when the rest of the big pizza industry was declining, Papa John's took a gamble and tried to massively expand. They are facing competition from healthier eating, as well as faster, cheaper, and/or different chains that have grown lately, like Panera, Chipotle, and Jimmy Johns. I imagine they will contract over the next few years, but it's BS to say it's because of the requirement of healthcare. It's a small percentage of costs, and it's something all of the competition has to deal with as well.
You can say Romney would have improved investment and created expansion through less perceived uncertainty, but I completely disagree. I believe he would have created a tidal-wave of uncertainty, with an unknown tax plan, an unknown relationship with congress, and a huge question mark with healthcare. I believe we are more comfortable than we were before, having essentially four years of history with this president and with (essentially) this congress.
When I was in college and wifi routers were just getting to the point where they were affordable enough for a regular person to buy, whole dorms would go out when people switched the WAN/LAN connections. Campus didn't have wireless yet, and the IT guys would get all upset and start going from room to room trying to find who had the mis-installed routers. Happened after every break.
More than two! Latest estimates that I've heard are that there are 600,000+ Hams in the US.
If you follow the news during any one of the big disasters in the past few years, it seems that Hams are the only ones that consistently are organized, prepared, and react immediately.
I would argue that counting headers is legal - I see it as being similar as to being charged for the weight of a parcel including the packaging. However, as somebody else has pointed out, charging for ATM overheads is plain wrong as it is their choice to use that method, plus it's all in their network, so it's not like they're passing on peering bandwidth charges.
I don't think it would matter what they were billing for, as long as they tell you what you are buying.
He wasn't contesting the charges, he just wanted to know how to measure his own usage. They responded "It's a secret, but you can trust us."
Rumor is that internet browsing will also be free while on wifi, and will even support pandora streaming! You can use that wifi data in nearly unlimited ways!
It would probably cost a lot more to collect a million emails, maintain compliance with mass mailings, and pay someone to manage it all. Plus it would eventually end in spam anyway.
The problem is that a million people don't want to see this information. If they did he could ask them for their information, and if he had something valuable to say it would be worth it.
He doesn't want someone to pay for shooting information to his target audience at his whim, regardless of whether or not they want to see it. "Liking" something is not enough. The real fans will check the MAVS page, the casual people aren't that interested.
If it was really important, it would be worth the half-million it would cost to actually mail everyone his message.
In other news, Mark Cuban admits that what he says isn't worth 3 cents. Maybe he should focus on a more profitable demographic, or have something more worthwhile to say.
You know, I can see that the research subject could be news for nerds and matter, but why does the headline simply state the nationality of the scientists who won a Nobel Prize instead of saying anything, well, important or interesting?
I think it is news that they are Americans, and I find it interesting.
I mean, we've been stripping basic research funding to the bone, and then some. Many of our politicians don't really see any benefit since "We need to balance the budget, and it has to start somewhere." has become the mantra for cutting things that are politically easy to cut.
Granted, these guys aren't doing this research now, and it has become fundamental, but it's probably not going to be very long before seeing an American win a Nobel in science is rare. I mean, sure, they don't need to put that in the title, but since when has/. had good story titles?
but if I leave my personal home router open, and someone parks their car outside and starts exchanging child pornography, then yes, you can not 100% prove that it was me who transferred that child pornography, but you can say I enabled it by not taking the necessary steps of securing my wifi.
No. Just no.
If I use your water, from your unsecured hose spicket, to flood your neighbors basement, does that make you negligent?
Since you went right away to child porn, what if I use that water do waterboard children? Or pour it on the street in below freezing temperatures? When will you start securing it?
What if I do have security on my home wifi, but it's weak WEP with a poor password? Am I still negligent when my security isn't good enough?
No matter how you cut it, unsecured wifi does not = enabling crime!
I the only guy as well for a manufacturing company about that size, and probably like you, I wear a lot of hats besides being IT.
I dream of the day we build from scratch, but we will probably always keep adding on and on. I just re-ran all of our wire last year, went to VOIP, bought out first racks (we were using tables before) etc.
If I could do it from scratch, I would
1) Get your own room
2)Get that room it's own AC, and seal it off as much as possible.
3) Do what you can to get a non-water fire-suppression system, though it could add a lot of cost
4) Do what you can to have a nice room with a raised floor (so you can put wire under it) and it's own ceiling. It depends on where you are, but the danger of winds/tornadoes for us is more probable than fire. We had a CNC shop down the road from us get their roof peeled off like a tin-can from straight line winds not too long ago. Water soaked everything in the upstairs office areas.
5) Obviously use conduit when possible, and Cat6 x2 to as many places as you can. Wire and keystone jacks are cheap. Go crazy with them - you don't have to plug them all in right now.
6) If you don't have them now, one of these days your boss/owner/VP is going to come in and tell you that you need to put in security cameras, TV announcement screens, one of those stupid "Watchfire" signs outside, or something else random and hard to wire for. It'll happen. Run cable (or make accessible) places you might want to be in the future, and remember that you will want some nice conduit access outside. That cable TV/PRI/Fiber connection might come from any direction. Give yourself options and put conduit in places that can be tunneled to from the outside, preferable in all sides of the building. If everything is from scratch, put conduit under the parking lot!
7) Reserve your spot for future racks, even if you don't need them now. Eventually you might want some switches in a closet, or a rack in the far corner of the building. It doesn't have to be much, but see if you can get some nice conduit run to some places where you could put a small rack to hold some switches and patch panels. It'll probably be 60 years or more before you move again, and you or the next guy will eventually be tasked with adding something new.
Oh yeah, document everything and make it super easy to understand. Label your cables using something easy, like self-laminating tabs and a sharpie marker, on top of just numbering them. A number and cross-reference is good, but there's no reason it can't also say "To SW Corner." We also used different color cables for different systems. Between floors are purple, data is blue, telephone-only are green, fiber to outside buildings are orange, inside fiber is blue, etc.
It won't be too bad to do yourself as long as you have help running cables and conduit. See if you can visit some other factories/businesses in town and get an idea of what their spaces look like.
I had a similar experience after I injured my wrist and only had one hand for several weeks. I don't actually code much, and never in C#, so I can't comment on how easy or hard it would be, but I didn't use anything special. However, I later got a Razr Naga gaming mouse with 12 buttons on the side which can be remapped to do anything. I always have thought it would have been helpful back when that happened.
Chairman Genachowski believes that radiation, like data, should be looked at every couple years "to provide a better customer experience".
Genachowski said that
"usage-based pricing could be healthy and beneficial" for radiation providers. "There was a point of view a couple years ago that there was only one permissible pricing model for radiation," he said. "I didn't agree."
It makes sense that people who are exposed to more radiation should pay more to support the development and studies on radiation. Once we determine the correct amount of radiation that everyone can receive, then providers can work out plans that allow the consumer to share the radiation cap amongst all their devices.
There's no possibility any senator was even remotely honest during their time in the senate. FTFY
No, it's completely possible. The idea that there could be honest, intelligent senators has been around for years. I mean, think about it, with all the senators that get elected over time - they have to exist!
Just because we haven't observed them yet doesn't mean they don't exist
I dunno about that.....of late, the Obama administration is been quite 'leaky' when it comes to secret/covert ops.....what we already know about Stuxnet comes to mind.
I'm not so sure knowing about stuxnet is really a leak. I seem to remember, when Iran started complaining about it, that pretty much everyone thought it was the US/Israel.
It really didn't appear to be anyone else, and it didn't appear like anyone else would really care - so confirming it was the US/Israel was about as revealing as someone telling me that it's possible the US might have invaded Iraq for oil-related reasons
It would take a good team, and time, but no need to have a mole. I would not be surprised if the US Government had moles in MS, but if they did it would primarily be for reasons other than Stuxnet and Flame, or any other computer espionage program.
I would be surprised if the US doesn't have "spies" within Microsoft. Microsoft is huge, and hugely important in how the world handles data. I would be shocked if the US, China, India, Russia, and several other countries didn't have "spies" somewhere in Microsoft.
I suppose that local caching of something as relatively static as a textbook is out of the question? My dead-tree edition books were often cached for 5-20 years. Really, how frequently does arithmetic change from year to year? Literature? Science and "Social Studies" I buy as being a little more dynamic, but still within a year?
I'm not the person that would ever use the term "rofl", but if I ever did, it would be about this comment.
I find your rational thought and naivety amusing.
Caching a textbook locally would require a huge license and licensing system, or would certainly be illegal. Are you a pirate? Pirates would think that they can make local copies for their own use and the use of others in the name of education, but they would be doing harm to the industry. (Potentially millions or even billions of dollars in harm.)
Also, every textbook has to change every other year, or else the entire educational system dies. Everyone knows that. Being able to change every other week, while having an adjoining resources website, blog, and twitter feed will ensure that students are able to temporarily license access to this knowledge without any of the inherent evils that dead-tree format provided - such as copying, borrowing, reselling, or using once graduated.
We don't need a system where I become a millionaire, but it does need to be enough that I can make music (or books, or any other form of art) my occupation rather than my hobby, if I'm good enough.
If you are good enough, you can. Being a good musician means you can make good music. Having your occupation as a musician means you are willing to assume lots of risk, network like crazy, travel all the time, and develop a following - which means you'll have to have an active presence on all forms of social media. Being able to make good music will certainly help you be successful, but it will in no way make it easy for you to earn a living. Like any entrepreneur, the majority will fail, some will do alright, and a few exceptional ones will wildly succeed.
You aren't going to make money on music in your spare time, just like you aren't going to develop a billion dollar clothing line in your spare time. At some point you have to summon your resources, devote yourself to the cause, and either succeed or fail.
Go with the flow until you get a new job. Be able to pay your bills, but plan your exit strategy now. Take lower pay to switch if you can get by for a while on a lower salary (mortgages etc.).
Get copies of the emails asking for the dirty deeds and hide them at home in case.
I've worked for slimeballs also before, so I feel for you.
Good luck.
You serious?
You would quit a job because marketing asked you to do something slightly less than ethical? And maybe not even that?
If they threatened you with something if you didn't "like" it, then maybe. If you do like the app in real life, then it's reasonable to ask people to "like" it. If you don't like it, and there's something you can do to make the app better - then maybe do that?
I don't know what company you are going to find where marketing isn't going to ask you to promote your product. It's pretty much their job to see that it happens.
They might not always be 100% ethical, but that's why they are marketing people. If you don't believe me, read up on them in pretty much any Dilbert strip
I would probably just ignore them like I ignore pretty much all other marketing people that work for other companies. Most of the time they have very short attention spans.
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Even with good IT policies in place, enough IW's are going to try and do their own thing, resulting in the laptop having some additional valuable data.
Good data? Additional data for sure, but probably only good data to the person who is using the laptop. I have this problem with people saving things to their local drives. I refuse to backup those personal folders. If they put it on the server it's backed up and managed correctly, but even if it hurts the business if their local data is lost, it's a good teaching tool to get people to save data where it should go. Local information is no good to the organization that cannot access it.
However if Papa John ignored their own "stop" requests they shouldn't be surprised if they get fined (mind you $500 per text is a bit excessive)
I don't know, it seems about right. $500 for an "illegal" 190kb text, and $750,000 for an "illegal" 3mb song...
How is that illegal? Do we need government further micromanaging businesses? How has that ever helped the economy? It is his view as CEO that people are going to buy less pizza under Obama. Even though we don't see it, he does. ... Even if Romney didn't achieve that, businesses in general would have had less perceived uncertainty under Romeny and taken more risks in the form of investment and expansion giving a measurable boost to the economy.
Spamming people on their cell phones is illegal. Firing people based on their political beliefs might not be illegal, but firing them because they are hispanic and probably voted for Obama might be (as one Papa John's franchisors might have done.)
People are probably going to buy less pizza under Obama's next four years, at least from the big pizza chains. (http://www.qsrmagazine.com/competition/fall-pizza) They probably would have under Romney as well. Big pizza has been declining over the past decade, and all signs point to that continuing, but not because of the economy. Small pizza restaurants are doing great, as are small breweries. In a time when the rest of the big pizza industry was declining, Papa John's took a gamble and tried to massively expand. They are facing competition from healthier eating, as well as faster, cheaper, and/or different chains that have grown lately, like Panera, Chipotle, and Jimmy Johns. I imagine they will contract over the next few years, but it's BS to say it's because of the requirement of healthcare. It's a small percentage of costs, and it's something all of the competition has to deal with as well.
You can say Romney would have improved investment and created expansion through less perceived uncertainty, but I completely disagree. I believe he would have created a tidal-wave of uncertainty, with an unknown tax plan, an unknown relationship with congress, and a huge question mark with healthcare. I believe we are more comfortable than we were before, having essentially four years of history with this president and with (essentially) this congress.
Is there a baby shortage we should be concerned about?
No, but the lead times are terrible. If this is successful, you could
A) Order a baby, and if you don't care about it having your genes, get one tomorrow.
or B)Special order one of your own and wait 9 months without the hassle in-between.
Really, with places like Amazon having a very good handle on expected demand and logistics, we could see babies available via Prime shipping by 2050.
When I was in college and wifi routers were just getting to the point where they were affordable enough for a regular person to buy, whole dorms would go out when people switched the WAN/LAN connections. Campus didn't have wireless yet, and the IT guys would get all upset and start going from room to room trying to find who had the mis-installed routers. Happened after every break.
More than two! Latest estimates that I've heard are that there are 600,000+ Hams in the US.
If you follow the news during any one of the big disasters in the past few years, it seems that Hams are the only ones that consistently are organized, prepared, and react immediately.
They isolate any rogue gamma radiation or radioactive decay and line up the charges so I only receive the purest electrons...
I would argue that counting headers is legal - I see it as being similar as to being charged for the weight of a parcel including the packaging. However, as somebody else has pointed out, charging for ATM overheads is plain wrong as it is their choice to use that method, plus it's all in their network, so it's not like they're passing on peering bandwidth charges.
I don't think it would matter what they were billing for, as long as they tell you what you are buying.
He wasn't contesting the charges, he just wanted to know how to measure his own usage. They responded "It's a secret, but you can trust us."
Rumor is that internet browsing will also be free while on wifi, and will even support pandora streaming! You can use that wifi data in nearly unlimited ways!
What ever happened to email?
It would probably cost a lot more to collect a million emails, maintain compliance with mass mailings, and pay someone to manage it all. Plus it would eventually end in spam anyway.
The problem is that a million people don't want to see this information. If they did he could ask them for their information, and if he had something valuable to say it would be worth it.
He doesn't want someone to pay for shooting information to his target audience at his whim, regardless of whether or not they want to see it. "Liking" something is not enough. The real fans will check the MAVS page, the casual people aren't that interested.
If it was really important, it would be worth the half-million it would cost to actually mail everyone his message.
In other news, Mark Cuban admits that what he says isn't worth 3 cents. Maybe he should focus on a more profitable demographic, or have something more worthwhile to say.
Just my 2 cents...
You know, I can see that the research subject could be news for nerds and matter, but why does the headline simply state the nationality of the scientists who won a Nobel Prize instead of saying anything, well, important or interesting?
I think it is news that they are Americans, and I find it interesting.
I mean, we've been stripping basic research funding to the bone, and then some. Many of our politicians don't really see any benefit since "We need to balance the budget, and it has to start somewhere." has become the mantra for cutting things that are politically easy to cut.
Granted, these guys aren't doing this research now, and it has become fundamental, but it's probably not going to be very long before seeing an American win a Nobel in science is rare. I mean, sure, they don't need to put that in the title, but since when has /. had good story titles?
but if I leave my personal home router open, and someone parks their car outside and starts exchanging child pornography, then yes, you can not 100% prove that it was me who transferred that child pornography, but you can say I enabled it by not taking the necessary steps of securing my wifi.
No. Just no.
If I use your water, from your unsecured hose spicket, to flood your neighbors basement, does that make you negligent?
Since you went right away to child porn, what if I use that water do waterboard children? Or pour it on the street in below freezing temperatures? When will you start securing it?
What if I do have security on my home wifi, but it's weak WEP with a poor password? Am I still negligent when my security isn't good enough?
No matter how you cut it, unsecured wifi does not = enabling crime!
I the only guy as well for a manufacturing company about that size, and probably like you, I wear a lot of hats besides being IT.
I dream of the day we build from scratch, but we will probably always keep adding on and on. I just re-ran all of our wire last year, went to VOIP, bought out first racks (we were using tables before) etc.
If I could do it from scratch, I would
1) Get your own room
2)Get that room it's own AC, and seal it off as much as possible.
3) Do what you can to get a non-water fire-suppression system, though it could add a lot of cost
4) Do what you can to have a nice room with a raised floor (so you can put wire under it) and it's own ceiling. It depends on where you are, but the danger of winds/tornadoes for us is more probable than fire. We had a CNC shop down the road from us get their roof peeled off like a tin-can from straight line winds not too long ago. Water soaked everything in the upstairs office areas.
5) Obviously use conduit when possible, and Cat6 x2 to as many places as you can. Wire and keystone jacks are cheap. Go crazy with them - you don't have to plug them all in right now.
6) If you don't have them now, one of these days your boss/owner/VP is going to come in and tell you that you need to put in security cameras, TV announcement screens, one of those stupid "Watchfire" signs outside, or something else random and hard to wire for. It'll happen. Run cable (or make accessible) places you might want to be in the future, and remember that you will want some nice conduit access outside. That cable TV/PRI/Fiber connection might come from any direction. Give yourself options and put conduit in places that can be tunneled to from the outside, preferable in all sides of the building. If everything is from scratch, put conduit under the parking lot!
7) Reserve your spot for future racks, even if you don't need them now. Eventually you might want some switches in a closet, or a rack in the far corner of the building. It doesn't have to be much, but see if you can get some nice conduit run to some places where you could put a small rack to hold some switches and patch panels. It'll probably be 60 years or more before you move again, and you or the next guy will eventually be tasked with adding something new.
Oh yeah, document everything and make it super easy to understand. Label your cables using something easy, like self-laminating tabs and a sharpie marker, on top of just numbering them. A number and cross-reference is good, but there's no reason it can't also say "To SW Corner." We also used different color cables for different systems. Between floors are purple, data is blue, telephone-only are green, fiber to outside buildings are orange, inside fiber is blue, etc.
It won't be too bad to do yourself as long as you have help running cables and conduit. See if you can visit some other factories/businesses in town and get an idea of what their spaces look like.
the government we currently have wants to control everything. 'spread the wealth around' i think is the catch-phrase
This would be the opposite. This is "concentrate the wealth and make sure it doesn't get into any new hands"
I had a similar experience after I injured my wrist and only had one hand for several weeks. I don't actually code much, and never in C#, so I can't comment on how easy or hard it would be, but I didn't use anything special. However, I later got a Razr Naga gaming mouse with 12 buttons on the side which can be remapped to do anything. I always have thought it would have been helpful back when that happened.
I will stand in front of it though. The power levels between a microwave and cell phone are quite different.
But if you come up with a way to microwave a bag of popcorn using a rechargeable 2oz lithium-ion battery - it could be a goldmine.
Chairman Genachowski believes that radiation, like data, should be looked at every couple years "to provide a better customer experience".
Genachowski said that
"usage-based pricing could be healthy and beneficial" for radiation providers. "There was a point of view a couple years ago that there was only one permissible pricing model for radiation," he said. "I didn't agree."
It makes sense that people who are exposed to more radiation should pay more to support the development and studies on radiation. Once we determine the correct amount of radiation that everyone can receive, then providers can work out plans that allow the consumer to share the radiation cap amongst all their devices.
There's no possibility any senator was even remotely honest during their time in the senate. FTFY
No, it's completely possible. The idea that there could be honest, intelligent senators has been around for years. I mean, think about it, with all the senators that get elected over time - they have to exist!
Just because we haven't observed them yet doesn't mean they don't exist
I dunno about that.....of late, the Obama administration is been quite 'leaky' when it comes to secret/covert ops.....what we already know about Stuxnet comes to mind.
I'm not so sure knowing about stuxnet is really a leak. I seem to remember, when Iran started complaining about it, that pretty much everyone thought it was the US/Israel.
It really didn't appear to be anyone else, and it didn't appear like anyone else would really care - so confirming it was the US/Israel was about as revealing as someone telling me that it's possible the US might have invaded Iraq for oil-related reasons
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It would take a good team, and time, but no need to have a mole. I would not be surprised if the US Government had moles in MS, but if they did it would primarily be for reasons other than Stuxnet and Flame, or any other computer espionage program.
I would be surprised if the US doesn't have "spies" within Microsoft. Microsoft is huge, and hugely important in how the world handles data. I would be shocked if the US, China, India, Russia, and several other countries didn't have "spies" somewhere in Microsoft.
I suppose that local caching of something as relatively static as a textbook is out of the question? My dead-tree edition books were often cached for 5-20 years. Really, how frequently does arithmetic change from year to year? Literature? Science and "Social Studies" I buy as being a little more dynamic, but still within a year?
I'm not the person that would ever use the term "rofl", but if I ever did, it would be about this comment.
I find your rational thought and naivety amusing.
Caching a textbook locally would require a huge license and licensing system, or would certainly be illegal. Are you a pirate? Pirates would think that they can make local copies for their own use and the use of others in the name of education, but they would be doing harm to the industry. (Potentially millions or even billions of dollars in harm.)
Also, every textbook has to change every other year, or else the entire educational system dies. Everyone knows that. Being able to change every other week, while having an adjoining resources website, blog, and twitter feed will ensure that students are able to temporarily license access to this knowledge without any of the inherent evils that dead-tree format provided - such as copying, borrowing, reselling, or using once graduated.
We don't need a system where I become a millionaire, but it does need to be enough that I can make music (or books, or any other form of art) my occupation rather than my hobby, if I'm good enough.
If you are good enough, you can. Being a good musician means you can make good music. Having your occupation as a musician means you are willing to assume lots of risk, network like crazy, travel all the time, and develop a following - which means you'll have to have an active presence on all forms of social media. Being able to make good music will certainly help you be successful, but it will in no way make it easy for you to earn a living. Like any entrepreneur, the majority will fail, some will do alright, and a few exceptional ones will wildly succeed.
You aren't going to make money on music in your spare time, just like you aren't going to develop a billion dollar clothing line in your spare time. At some point you have to summon your resources, devote yourself to the cause, and either succeed or fail.
50 mW is enough laser power to blind you quite quickly...
Yeah - and the shark holding it generally doesn't mind if the animals he's swimming toward suddenly go blind.
Go with the flow until you get a new job. Be able to pay your bills, but plan your exit strategy now. Take lower pay to switch if you can get by for a while on a lower salary (mortgages etc.).
Get copies of the emails asking for the dirty deeds and hide them at home in case.
I've worked for slimeballs also before, so I feel for you.
Good luck.
You serious?
You would quit a job because marketing asked you to do something slightly less than ethical? And maybe not even that?
If they threatened you with something if you didn't "like" it, then maybe. If you do like the app in real life, then it's reasonable to ask people to "like" it. If you don't like it, and there's something you can do to make the app better - then maybe do that?
I don't know what company you are going to find where marketing isn't going to ask you to promote your product. It's pretty much their job to see that it happens.
They might not always be 100% ethical, but that's why they are marketing people. If you don't believe me, read up on them in pretty much any Dilbert strip
I would probably just ignore them like I ignore pretty much all other marketing people that work for other companies. Most of the time they have very short attention spans.