There is no lack of precision in the English language. The problem is not due to flaws in the language, but rather the education level of the people speaking it.
I have three, two picked up at estate sales, one that belonged to my grandfather.
K&E log log duplex decitrig Picket ortho-phase duplex Post 1446 Student model (gave to my daughter)
I use still use them most of the time both to stay in practice, and it also forces you to think more about the problem, keeps the mind limber, but I do also still have my HP-15c for when I am in a hurry.
It is not so much that having metrics is bad, rather that if he is in IT management and doesn't know the metrics for sys admin productivity already, then he doesn't know what he is doing, and won't understand, and will mis-interpret any metrics handed him. Not to mention asking people to develop the performance metrics for their own positions is the kind silly management voodoo that should have died with the rest of the idiotic 80's fads.
Apparently not as stupid as you, from the article:
Most people love MySpace, in fact, the social networking site now hosts more than 180 million profiles. But what if MySpace falsely labeled you as sex offender, had your profile and your page taken down, had your name and information included in the database of sex offenders, and which was distributed to several Attorneys General? I hope what happened to Jessica Davis will never happen to you.
and:
Davis initially contacted ABC News Tuesday after reading a story about an agreement reached between MySpace and a group of state attorneys general to share information from a database MySpace had built to prevent sex offenders from keeping online profiles.
As for the rest of my post, it is standard procedure in every state in the country for the police to consider all known/suspected sex offenders, whether officially registered or not, which reside with in the vicinity of a reported sex crime, suspects in that crime. This is one of the small but critical differences in which sex crimes are treated differently than typical crimes, and which can make a false accusation of sex offender status a severe life ruining event.
This is a serious violation of her rights, as the myspace is sharing this database with various state attorney generals (as is stated in the article, RTFA). Which some over zealous prosecutor and/or investigator are likely to use as prima facie evidence of sex offender status, and make her a suspect in other unrelated cases where normally she would likely never be considered a suspect.
I read it, it is indeed aptly titled, it is definitely an assault on reason. Once again Al Gore demostrates that he is less interested in real science and complete facts, than he is in pure populism and creating media frenzies.
I have to agree with the posts on here that Ron Paul is probably the best candidate, although it bothers me greatly that a man that supposedly is opposed to goverment interference in people personal lives, is so opposed to gay marriage. I believe the correct Republican response the to issue of gay marriage should be: "What the hell business is it of the government's, who marries who!"
instead of wasting your time posting comments here, where everybody already agrees with you. Try posting your comments on the Washington Post's website where people who really need to be convinced might see it.
Oh yeah, try to use intelligent arguments, and facts, instead of just yelling "Gates is full of s##t!"
so true, I haven't really thought about it before, but my primary two workstations are both about 5 years old, and were bought used from Windows upgraders, wooo wooot!!! I'm finally gettin' new computers! Thanks Microsoft!
Sys Admin, takes care of the box, OS, server apps Web Designer, designs look, feel, navigation of site, artistic type with likely limited technical skills Programmer(s), most likely more than one if the site is complicated and uses more than one language and/or a db.
(note I grouping dba's in with programmers here, but that doesn't always happen that way either. so maybe 4 jobs)
prior to telling your current employer you were leaving, if you did get the offer in writing then it is a non-issue, i doesn't matter what their policy is, they made a legal and binding promise of intent, get a lawyer.
And by the way, you might want to reconsider going to work for a company where they are that incompetent and/or dishonest.
You forgot to mention that prior to that "scene", Lot had offered up his daughters to a crowd of rioters to be gang raped, in order to distract them from attacking two angels that were visiting his house, and that Lot is rewarded and considered a good and holy man for being willing sacrifice a couple of young girls to protect a couple important supernatural beings, to his own benefit.
While in theory I agree with you completely, in reality keeping a Windows box secure is nearly a full time job in and of itself even for an experienced computer user and is nearly impossible for an average user.
And even if your system is reasonably secure from direct attack, that does nothing to help you when your music cd or tax prep software installs rootkits/compromise-able pseudo drivers, or when your favorite supposedly respectable websites are serving up trojaned images.
And for all you folks out there who immediately want to say that is why the people shouldn't use Windows, once again "in theory" I agree with you unfortunately, Linux/FreeBSD/your OS-OS of choice, is still difficult for the average user to install and maintain, likely leading to an insecure OS anyway.
Until computer/software products are held to the same quality standards as other consumer products, computer security and usefulness will continue to decline.
The average user needs a computer to be like a modern toaster, buy it, plug it in, make toast, and shut itself off it the elements get to hot.
You don't read very well do you, it wasn't spyware and/or popups, it was trojans and/or rootkits.
From the Article: [For that answer, they turned to computer forensic expert Tammi Loehrs....
Loehrs went into the Bandys' computer and what she found could frighten any parent -- more than 200 infected files, so-called backdoors that allowed hackers to access the family computer from remote locations, no where near Matthew's house.]
With the proliferation of rootkits, and lack security on most home computers, I wouldn't be the least suprised if most perverts use hacked computers to access child porn these days.
I seem to remember there was a case in Texas similar to this about 8 months ago, where a man was arrested and charged with possessing child porn on his computer. Luckily for him, the local police department's computer forensics people were actually clueful and found the rootkit used to control the computer.
Not to mention the well documented use of open wireless networks to access illegal content.
The problem with computer security these days, is that it requires to far too much expertise and vigilance to keep your computer secure, even if you are an experienced professional, much less the proverbial hapless grandma.
When you have to spend hundreds of dollars a year, and 5 hours a week keeping your computer clean and updated, and then never open emails the look like they came from your grandkids, or from your quilting circle web-ring. All the supposed productivity benefits of using a computer rapidly disappear.
he is an ass. Unfortunately, for society at large, the current crop of TV addicted ignorant losers that make up the bulk of the population, think being an ass is funny.
That stupid lazy "hacktivist" attack NASA websites, to protest the atrocities in Lebanon, because they are easier targets than say for example cia.gov, while Israel pummels Lebanon, because they are easier to make war with than the real villians behind Hizbollah, i.e. Syria and Iran.
Absolutely no where does the Constitution say anything about protecting the comfort and safety of the American people, as originally written its only purpose was to protect the FREEDOM of the American people. All of our public servants take an oath to uphold and protect the Constitution, but as long as the American people keep electing politicians who place the importance of better economy, increased social safety net, and absolute safety from ever coming to harm through crime or mischance; over the importance of FREEDOM; you will see this steady increase in the police/nanny state events, and eventually, sooner than you think, that which is not required will be forbidden, and the Constitution will be dead.
And for those of you who think this is a result of the recent Republican control of the government, bear in mind that these things take generations to happen, and the Democrats are just as liable if not more so for the growth in governmental interventionism.
There are members of both parties that regret this direction we have taken, please pay attention to who you vote for, participate in your party's candidate selection process, and remember when you vote for a candidate or new laws, not to be concerned about your own situation, but the situation of our society. Study history, in our current situation, I particularly recommend the history of Republic of Rome and the Republic of Venice. NEVER take a position on any topic after only listening to a sound bite, or seeing a 10 minute news story on it, study it in detail and context, and think about the ramifications/unintended consequences of your new legislation. When you want to talk about a point of view or an opinion, pick someone you disagree with, not someone you agree with, to talk to. By the way not all opinions are valid, and facts rule.
One other item to bear in mind, our justice system was founded and structured around the concept that it is better that a 100 guilty men go free rather than 1 innocent be imprisoned. And the purpose of our courts was to find the truth of a situation. Recently we have seen that our justice system is willing to imprison 1000's of innocents in a vain attempt to prevent all crime, and our courts have become a tool to reapportion wealth, by both unscrupulous poor "victims" of society and big business eager for competitive advantage.
Take responsibility for your own health, your own safety, your own education, your own charity ( help your neighbors in need, don't ask the government to do it for you ), make the government responsible for your Freedom.
Some of this may seem off topic but it is all symptomatic of the abandonment of the responsibility of the American people to manage their government.
The Great Experiment is failing, and WE are to blame.
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They will be back tomorrow to shoot your dogs.
http://fox4kc.com/2013/11/27/man-says-police-officer-threatened-to-kill-his-dogs/
It is a little dated, but then so am I.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsDkmVo2fg4
Why is this modded Flamebait, I am right there with him on this one. A good sheep is much more valuable to society than a loser meth head.
I am more worried that most American Scientist don't understand good science.
There is no lack of precision in the English language. The problem is not due to flaws in the language, but rather the education level of the people speaking it.
In other words: "user error"
Surely you mean "Strunk & Whites: Elements of Style"
I have three, two picked up at estate sales, one that belonged to my grandfather.
K&E log log duplex decitrig
Picket ortho-phase duplex
Post 1446 Student model (gave to my daughter)
I use still use them most of the time both to stay in practice, and it also forces you to think more about the problem, keeps the mind limber, but I do also still have my HP-15c for when I am in a hurry.
It is not so much that having metrics is bad, rather that if he is in IT management and doesn't know the metrics for sys admin productivity already, then he doesn't know what he is doing, and won't understand, and will mis-interpret any metrics handed him. Not to mention asking people to develop the performance metrics for their own positions is the kind silly management voodoo that should have died with the rest of the idiotic 80's fads.
You don't give him enough credit, I think he undertands freedom and morality a lot better than Stallman, et al.
This is a serious violation of her rights, as the myspace is sharing this database with various state attorney generals (as is stated in the article, RTFA). Which some over zealous prosecutor and/or investigator are likely to use as prima facie evidence of sex offender status, and make her a suspect in other unrelated cases where normally she would likely never be considered a suspect.
I read it, it is indeed aptly titled, it is definitely an assault on reason. Once again Al Gore demostrates that he is less interested in real science and complete facts, than he is in pure populism and creating media frenzies.
I have to agree with the posts on here that Ron Paul is probably the best candidate, although it bothers me greatly that a man that supposedly is opposed to goverment interference in people personal lives, is so opposed to gay marriage. I believe the correct Republican response the to issue of gay marriage should be: "What the hell business is it of the government's, who marries who!"
instead of wasting your time posting comments here, where everybody already agrees with you. Try posting your comments on the Washington Post's website where people who really need to be convinced might see it.
Oh yeah, try to use intelligent arguments, and facts, instead of just yelling "Gates is full of s##t!"
Damn, i never need mod points when I have them, and never have them when I need them, +1 Funny in spirit.
so true, I haven't really thought about it before, but my primary two workstations are both about 5 years old, and were bought used from Windows upgraders, wooo wooot!!! I'm finally gettin' new computers! Thanks Microsoft!
with three different skill sets:
Sys Admin, takes care of the box, OS, server apps
Web Designer, designs look, feel, navigation of site, artistic type with likely limited technical skills
Programmer(s), most likely more than one if the site is complicated and uses more than one language and/or a db.
(note I grouping dba's in with programmers here, but that doesn't always happen that way either. so maybe 4 jobs)
prior to telling your current employer you were leaving, if you did get the offer in writing then it is a non-issue, i doesn't matter what their policy is, they made a legal and binding promise of intent, get a lawyer.
And by the way, you might want to reconsider going to work for a company where they are that incompetent and/or dishonest.
You forgot to mention that prior to that "scene", Lot had offered up his daughters to a crowd of rioters to be gang raped, in order to distract them from attacking two angels that were visiting his house, and that Lot is rewarded and considered a good and holy man for being willing sacrifice a couple of young girls to protect a couple important supernatural beings, to his own benefit.
Selective values indeed.
While in theory I agree with you completely, in reality keeping a Windows box secure is nearly a full time job in and of itself even for an experienced computer user and is nearly impossible for an average user.
And even if your system is reasonably secure from direct attack, that does nothing to help you when your music cd or tax prep software installs rootkits/compromise-able pseudo drivers, or when your favorite supposedly respectable websites are serving up trojaned images.
And for all you folks out there who immediately want to say that is why the people shouldn't use Windows, once again "in theory" I agree with you unfortunately, Linux/FreeBSD/your OS-OS of choice, is still difficult for the average user to install and maintain, likely leading to an insecure OS anyway.
Until computer/software products are held to the same quality standards as other consumer products, computer security and usefulness will continue to decline.
The average user needs a computer to be like a modern toaster, buy it, plug it in, make toast, and shut itself off it the elements get to hot.
You don't read very well do you, it wasn't spyware and/or popups, it was trojans and/or rootkits.
...
From the Article:
[For that answer, they turned to computer forensic expert Tammi Loehrs.
Loehrs went into the Bandys' computer and what she found could frighten any parent -- more than 200 infected files, so-called backdoors that allowed hackers to access the family computer from remote locations, no where near Matthew's house.]
With the proliferation of rootkits, and lack security on most home computers, I wouldn't be the least suprised if most perverts use hacked computers to access child porn these days.
I seem to remember there was a case in Texas similar to this about 8 months ago, where a man was arrested and charged with possessing child porn on his computer. Luckily for him, the local police department's computer forensics people were actually clueful and found the rootkit used to control the computer.
Not to mention the well documented use of open wireless networks to access illegal content.
The problem with computer security these days, is that it requires to far too much expertise and vigilance to keep your computer secure, even if you are an experienced professional, much less the proverbial hapless grandma.
When you have to spend hundreds of dollars a year, and 5 hours a week keeping your computer clean and updated, and then never open emails the look like they came from your grandkids, or from your quilting circle web-ring. All the supposed productivity benefits of using a computer rapidly disappear.
he is an ass. Unfortunately, for society at large, the current crop of TV addicted ignorant losers that make up the bulk of the population, think being an ass is funny.
Somebody please mod the parent up, once again we have one of the better posts being submitted via AC, and sufferring for it.
It is bad enough the submitter does not know where Hungary is, but he doesn't even know how to spell the name.
Then to make matters worse, the editors do nothing about it.
I used to joke that we should just nuke the capitols of every country in the region, including Israel.
These days I am not joking...
That stupid lazy "hacktivist" attack NASA websites, to protest the atrocities in Lebanon, because they are easier targets than say for example cia.gov, while Israel pummels Lebanon, because they are easier to make war with than the real villians behind Hizbollah, i.e. Syria and Iran.
Absolutely no where does the Constitution say anything about protecting the comfort and safety of the American people, as originally written its only purpose was to protect the FREEDOM of the American people. All of our public servants take an oath to uphold and protect the Constitution, but as long as the American people keep electing politicians who place the importance of better economy, increased social safety net, and absolute safety from ever coming to harm through crime or mischance; over the importance of FREEDOM; you will see this steady increase in the police/nanny state events, and eventually, sooner than you think, that which is not required will be forbidden, and the Constitution will be dead.
And for those of you who think this is a result of the recent Republican control of the government, bear in mind that these things take generations to happen, and the Democrats are just as liable if not more so for the growth in governmental interventionism.
There are members of both parties that regret this direction we have taken, please pay attention to who you vote for, participate in your party's candidate selection process, and remember when you vote for a candidate or new laws, not to be concerned about your own situation, but the situation of our society. Study history, in our current situation, I particularly recommend the history of Republic of Rome and the Republic of Venice. NEVER take a position on any topic after only listening to a sound bite, or seeing a 10 minute news story on it, study it in detail and context, and think about the ramifications/unintended consequences of your new legislation. When you want to talk about a point of view or an opinion, pick someone you disagree with, not someone you agree with, to talk to. By the way not all opinions are valid, and facts rule.
One other item to bear in mind, our justice system was founded and structured around the concept that it is better that a 100 guilty men go free rather than 1 innocent be imprisoned. And the purpose of our courts was to find the truth of a situation. Recently we have seen that our justice system is willing to imprison 1000's of innocents in a vain attempt to prevent all crime, and our courts have become a tool to reapportion wealth, by both unscrupulous poor "victims" of society and big business eager for competitive advantage.
Take responsibility for your own health, your own safety, your own education, your own charity ( help your neighbors in need, don't ask the government to do it for you ), make the government responsible for your Freedom.
Some of this may seem off topic but it is all symptomatic of the abandonment of the responsibility of the American people to manage their government.
The Great Experiment is failing, and WE are to blame.