How easy would it be for a disgruntled employee to do something else stupid and illegal to fuck over their former employer? Like, plant crack and call the cops?
But in the case of planting drugs, police actually have to gather the evidence and the DA has to prove it in court. Here the company has to all the work and has to prove innocence. Bassackwards if you ask me.
How hard would it be for a disgruntled employee to knowingly install software without proper licenses, then call BSA? No where is it mentioned that individuals will suffer, only the company. Of course the company can then take action against the employee if they can find them.
Even if your comapny does pay for all its software, being forced to audit yourself costs money. Unless people making false reports are held liable, this system can and probably will be abused.
For me, the main reason I will sorely miss Loki, is that now it will be harder(impossible?) to get server versions of Windows games. Right now my friend and I have a UT and CounterStrike servers running on RH. I know I am preaching to the choir here, but MS has yet to build an OS that is as well suited for this task. The toolsets, logging, scheduling, proccess control, remote management, etc.. all of it is better on Linux. Loki has been great in providing updates for UT and was hoping they would continue with UT2.
And I am not saying that Windows can't do this, I am saying that Linux just does it SOOOO much better.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof, and though the team has so far published little, a patent application seen by New Scientist shows the team has carried out extensive experiments.
If this pans out to be what they think they have, I just hope that the patent holders do not charge and arm and a leg for the world to use it. Sure growing organs and such is a longs ways off, but the potential is astounding. Some discoveries should belong to the public domain, like cures and other medical discoveries. And I understand that research costs money, but maybe we as a society would be better off if governments not spend so much on space when there are so many worthwhile medical research programs that arin dire need of funding. And if the governments fund it, then the knowledge could be public.
This should come to no suprise for most of the posters here. In fact after reading through posts, it seems that this thread produced more humor posts than not pointing to the fact that this addiction is well known.
Back in the MUD/MOO/MUCK days I used to give free access to some seriously addicted people. At the time I thought I was helping because now that person would not have to spend so much money on internet access. (Flat rates? what were those?) Of couse now I see that I was not helping.
The gaming addiction boils down to escapism. People who may not have a good grip on reality are able to have a better control over their online lives than their RealLife lives. They may not be the classical addictive personality, but they can still get hooked. Games that are most addicting have some sort of social interaction that can take the place of face-to-face interaction, i.e. MUDs, MMRPG, and for that matter D&D.
Of couse the addictive personalities can become addicted to just about anything.
That will depend on you uplink speed. If the switches are connected via 1Gb, then that is not a problem. If your swicthes are all connected 100Mb, then just hope your links don't melt..:)
The way one builds a network should be based of traffic needs. If a person at their cube has a workstation running high bandwidth simulations with a lab or other users, then it would not be a good idea to oversubcribe any link that user night need.
But like i said in my first post, not many people use 100Mb. The generic office user should have no trouble sharing one 100Mb link for all the devices.
I guess no ones has noticed the obvious down side is that instead of having multiple dedicated 100Mb runs to a cube, now all the devices are going to share just one link.
Sure, not many apps will use all 100 Mb, but that is certainly something to think about.
I was at this LAN party and one of the guys had a digital camera running Doom on the view screen. Alas due to many beers I cannot remeber the camera make.
The reason the RIAA does that is, (now repeat after me) because it can.
In the RIAA's opinion, most CD buyers are NOT going to give a rat's arse about this. This is where you can help by informing the less 'puter savvy folks about this and incurage them not to buy.
I remember both ON TV and Select as systems that would allow premium programming as well as offing the ability to pay for extras like boxing matches. And if I have enough brains cells to remember, both of these systems were available before 1985.
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Small entrepeneurs are falling like flies, just as little diners, family eateries, and small farms and meatpackers have fallen before McDonald's and Burger King.
I don't know about your neck of the woods, but in Los Angeles, there seems to be more chain family diners now the ever before. Lets see, Coco's, Denney's, Carrows, Bakers Square, Norm's, etc. And in the nicer areas, there are plenty of small, mom and pop style diners. Granted, the rise of Fast Food is disturbing, but I see no shortage of family diner either.
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Another big use of DC is at Telco Central Offices. All of the big switches and phone equipment uses DC because it is easier for the equipment to run off of the huge batteries Telcos keep incase of power outage.
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You are not kidding. I just started the ninth book. While I like the story, it has been so long that I forget what happened in the previous books. It is really hard to remember all the characters and which forsaken got killed and which were brought back. UGH.
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but in a more ordinary context, the sysadmins can relate to this. Under what conditions would you allow a user into the server/router closet to twiddle with the knobs and watch the flashing lights?
If the user just went through 700+ hours of training and was certified and one of the major partners of the company wanted him to have this access, I probably would not have too much of an issue, as long as assurances were made that the role would be limited. Tito probably will just be told to stay in a corner and don't touch. But if part of his training was to assist in activities and if Russia felt he was properly trained, who are we to say he is not qualified?
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I wish I had links to this info, but NPR had a peice on this and they reported that Tito has been training for his trip with Russia cosmonauts. He is not just some rube with money, he is a trained rube with some money.
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Yep, I remember my brother bringing some C64 games home from school that were not released yet. One was a game from LucasArts or Lucasfilms. It was a 3D soccer-like game were two people drove a car and had to shoot the ball into a moving goal. FUN.
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It is funny, but since I submitted this yesterday only to be rejected, I thought that this would not be news worthy. Yet here it is, suddenly news worthy, and a day old I might add.
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This is why a company like Rockwell gets the contract for the Space Shuttle (they were left out of the Apollo program, and this was done to soothe burned egos), and delivered a poorly-realized, over-engineered piece of shit.
Uhhh, wasn't North American Aviation the Apollo prime contractor? And about the time that Apollo 1 burned, Rockwell bought North American Aviation.
As far as the shuttle is concerned, it may be over-engineered, but it is also an extremly successful program that has been the workhorse of the space program.
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But in the case of planting drugs, police actually have to gather the evidence and the DA has to prove it in court. Here the company has to all the work and has to prove innocence. Bassackwards if you ask me.
How hard would it be for a disgruntled employee to knowingly install software without proper licenses, then call BSA? No where is it mentioned that individuals will suffer, only the company. Of course the company can then take action against the employee if they can find them.
Even if your comapny does pay for all its software, being forced to audit yourself costs money. Unless people making false reports are held liable, this system can and probably will be abused.
For me, the main reason I will sorely miss Loki, is that now it will be harder(impossible?) to get server versions of Windows games. Right now my friend and I have a UT and CounterStrike servers running on RH. I know I am preaching to the choir here, but MS has yet to build an OS that is as well suited for this task. The toolsets, logging, scheduling, proccess control, remote management, etc.. all of it is better on Linux. Loki has been great in providing updates for UT and was hoping they would continue with UT2.
And I am not saying that Windows can't do this, I am saying that Linux just does it SOOOO much better.
If this pans out to be what they think they have, I just hope that the patent holders do not charge and arm and a leg for the world to use it. Sure growing organs and such is a longs ways off, but the potential is astounding. Some discoveries should belong to the public domain, like cures and other medical discoveries. And I understand that research costs money, but maybe we as a society would be better off if governments not spend so much on space when there are so many worthwhile medical research programs that arin dire need of funding. And if the governments fund it, then the knowledge could be public.
I just cut and pasted the email reply suggestions into MSWord. Now how do I send it out?
When I first read the subject, my first thought was a badly phased title written in ebonics.
that this article gets posted right after the gaming addiction article....
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This should come to no suprise for most of the posters here. In fact after reading through posts, it seems that this thread produced more humor posts than not pointing to the fact that this addiction is well known.
Back in the MUD/MOO/MUCK days I used to give free access to some seriously addicted people. At the time I thought I was helping because now that person would not have to spend so much money on internet access. (Flat rates? what were those?) Of couse now I see that I was not helping.
The gaming addiction boils down to escapism. People who may not have a good grip on reality are able to have a better control over their online lives than their RealLife lives. They may not be the classical addictive personality, but they can still get hooked. Games that are most addicting have some sort of social interaction that can take the place of face-to-face interaction, i.e. MUDs, MMRPG, and for that matter D&D.
Of couse the addictive personalities can become addicted to just about anything.
That will depend on you uplink speed. If the switches are connected via 1Gb, then that is not a problem. If your swicthes are all connected 100Mb, then just hope your links don't melt.. :)
The way one builds a network should be based of traffic needs. If a person at their cube has a workstation running high bandwidth simulations with a lab or other users, then it would not be a good idea to oversubcribe any link that user night need.
But like i said in my first post, not many people use 100Mb. The generic office user should have no trouble sharing one 100Mb link for all the devices.
I guess no ones has noticed the obvious down side is that instead of having multiple dedicated 100Mb runs to a cube, now all the devices are going to share just one link.
Sure, not many apps will use all 100 Mb, but that is certainly something to think about.
--crotherm
I was at this LAN party and one of the guys had a digital camera running Doom on the view screen. Alas due to many beers I cannot remeber the camera make.
In the RIAA's opinion, most CD buyers are NOT going to give a rat's arse about this. This is where you can help by informing the less 'puter savvy folks about this and incurage them not to buy.
There are reports and vidoe in the news channels about missle attacks on Afganistan right now....
--mark
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I don't know about your neck of the woods, but in Los Angeles, there seems to be more chain family diners now the ever before. Lets see, Coco's, Denney's, Carrows, Bakers Square, Norm's, etc. And in the nicer areas, there are plenty of small, mom and pop style diners. Granted, the rise of Fast Food is disturbing, but I see no shortage of family diner either.
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Remember moderators, Concentrate on Promoting more than Demoting.
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If the user just went through 700+ hours of training and was certified and one of the major partners of the company wanted him to have this access, I probably would not have too much of an issue, as long as assurances were made that the role would be limited. Tito probably will just be told to stay in a corner and don't touch. But if part of his training was to assist in activities and if Russia felt he was properly trained, who are we to say he is not qualified?
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While not NASA funded, two of the main contributors to Sea Launch are Boeing and Russia.
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Uhhh, wasn't North American Aviation the Apollo prime contractor? And about the time that Apollo 1 burned, Rockwell bought North American Aviation.
As far as the shuttle is concerned, it may be over-engineered, but it is also an extremly successful program that has been the workhorse of the space program.
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