MS The tighter you grasp, the more that will slip between your fingers.
The real secret is what do you do with a FAX (yep, I know, but reality check) that you can not edit, will not OCR, can only be read, and is vital for another business process, briefing, meeting, legal evidence,.... Oh, friken yea, I retype the whole dang thing.
THANKS Bill Grates, and MS Whoops
She was MS Whoopy before being hired....
"Reality is a self induced hallucinations."
We should all help Bill Grates and MS Whoops help US.
I remember a time before Microsoft when MCSP meant "More Crappy Software Patches" that Microsoft decided to use the Acronym to mean other very similar things just proves the old proverb: (1) A rose by any other name would smell as sweet, (2) Shit piled any other way would still stink, or (3) MS Bash can be fun for some fact for others . ...
Politicians, not all but most, are to blame for not defending our Nations interest at home. Do not blame the groups/doners/PACs/rats/brats and voters, because the politicians could have defended the nation from domestic corporate/special interest/enemy, but....
Some interesting comments for reading; as I said, for years now I have written on these topics, I am against capitalism as government and strongly support Democracy by US the human democratic institutions.
Separation of church and state is part of our US Constitution, (I believe) separation of the economic capitalist institutions and the human democratic institutions are essential to our national identity as a free people, and global security.
I am not against capitalism as an economic theory (I think, it works okay..., could be much better...), but I am against anything that threatens HUMAN DEMOCRACY and US.
The USA or DoD does not class me as an IT Specialist.
I have never worked in an IT slot in the USA or DoD.
I had a Linux PC up running a test Apache website in the ".mil" domain back in 1997. I developed a very basic one-week Linux course for and delivered it to key-personnel for a couple "train-the-trainer" sessions. I am also not a trained instructor and/or BS type person. I also did similar (except for time line) with Cisco, telephone circuit and packet switching networks.... So,... those folks who does-do and y'all reflect great credit on others, but not.... I still very much enjoy whatever jobs I end up doing, and only need to last another 10 years at it, then I am out the door.
Okay, why AFT, Yippee, Dang, because in non-social situations, I have always believed that security is greatly helped when you can be sure of every line that may be used against you. Then you can hope that, you are smart enough in the environment and no line goes over your head. So, god bless the USA and pseudo-savants everywhere.
I agree very much. I am just an old guy that did in the, far-fetched, pass stack a few cards for fun. I ain't done it in many years. I hope that old 2600 folks and others are not endangered species. Some folks do reflect the best of human nature and others express the most pathetic. I am so old that I never did anything illegal (broke the law), I think.
With all the 'legalisms, laws, and whatnot showing up left and right' I expect that the younger admin and netsec people will eventually expect the government to issue all security policy and procedures. When something goes wrong many MS-admin folks blame MSOS bugs/problems these days,... tomorrow IT/net security failures will be blamed on the US Big Internet Technology Communications Hierarchy and Electronics Security (US BITCHES) police.
PBS will produce a documentary (around 2010) about the slow death of the pirates, criminals, gangsters, scum-buckets, and perverts of the freewheeling Internet frontier and how the Internet was civilized for decent sheep. Those that win the war write the history.
[B][P] "The Management" (Corporate and Government) is their own worst enemy (in most, not all organizations). They are in charge of it all, can do no wrong, receive recognition for success, and can blame any subordinate or contractor persons' performance for failure. Today many in management are "Mary Antoinette" Stratocracy capitalist theorist ("Subject and Situation Unaware" Commander) failure is not something to be learned from, because failure is not an option. "The Management" in the USA has become success and excuse oriented. Failure will not be recognized, but labeled. Success for USA "The Management" is becoming more a paper dragon that is slain by others. Enron, Global Crossings, Anderson, --- many others "The Management" walk away with millions of dollars, no penalties, no penal (Yep, I know -- sounds like), no character, no constitution, no skill but BS or better degreed and applauded smoke scams. "The USA Management" can manage business processes, but are totally incompetent at delivering real mission success, because most cannot see/forecast the mission/goals, they can not recognize and retain key personnel, they contract out (whenever possible) anything that is to complicated to understand, and recognize four important points: (1) there is no one working under-them that is their mental or corporate-value equivalent (every one is replaceable, except themselves), (2) if something that they do not understand is not contracted out, then they or their subordinate may be blamed for problems, (3) have no faith in the skills, character, and integrity of the people that work for you, because employees can not be managements' better or equivalent at anything and if they were they would be working somewhere else, therefore (4) only they could provide any success, only they are worth more-than their pay check, and nothing is more important than the next promotion (employees are expendable tools). [/B][/P]
[B][P] Now how does this type of nature relate to "Tech support"? Well simply stated: When there is mentally, emotionally, and organizationally fucked-up management which provides fucked-up decisions (based on fucked-up self-serving premises), then the fucked-up confusing failures accepted by the gullible individuals become the defended truth protecting institutions and systems from failure. BOOM! The house of cards collapse upon US all --- [/B][/P]
[B][P] Yep, this was just done for some honest fun poked at those (management folks) that make the decisions, but should be endorsing and supporting the decisions with business management skills. The pure capitalist/stratocracy organizations fail where true democracies with honest associates succeed. The pure democracy wants US to succeed as a community/tribe/family/kith/kin, but the good capitalist is a team player that seeks assured dominance of the market and the customer becomes the profit generating consumer of products and services. [/B][/P]
[B][P] More simply stated: You can never blame management for failure, but the fact is they are failures all to frequently. Poor customer support, contract it out, pay the worker-bees and pack-mules who love to do a good job less than the poor performing managers is proven capitalist/communist theory. I have known many organizations to be fully functional in spite of management demigods. [/B][/P]
[B][P] Jadi Ba - Reality is a self-induced hallucination. [/B][/P]
Yep, there are many good CEO and 1st-Line folks, but.... Management needs to control, many good hackers and techs are being paid as much or more than many layers of management personnel. Management personnel (BS Experts) in the past had a job forever, now due to technology mediocre "BS experts" are a dime a dozen and can be replaced without impact to the bottom line. The world of the mediocre "BS experts" (CEO to 1st Line) no longer have their comfortable lifetime career. These pitiful type people can not take the burden of blame for not making the bigger pay check or screwing up a project that hackers and techs tried valiantly to help save, but failed due to a misguided management decision.
Maybe the H1-B visas concept is a way that the mediocre "BS experts" (CEO's and Politicians) hope to solve ghost, social, and/or cultural problems that are just to personal for the country (US) to address with better plans, education, management, and goals.
I sometimes feel management would fire (all the best) half the hackers and techs (Programmers/Engineers) in a company to show those uppity prima-donnas who's the wind-breaking boss in charge.
H1-B visas concept appears to be one of those mediocre "BS experts" solutions to a none-problem or a national systemic problem. In other words nothing is solved. Then again maybe it is another corporate welfare program.
More proof that government personnel may be listening to too much self-expert or contractors' smoke, fog, and wind. This is a silly non-starter issue. OSS when compiled and encrypted (System authentication and key required to run/function) is as secure or more than... it won't be "tweaked". I sat in a meeting (about three years ago) on the issue of a system's security (everyone stated how the system was to be secured). I made one statement that proved all others flawed. I was told "I could not discuss my comment outside the room because the content of the statement was classified (to the level of the system)". I offered options to (I believe/think) provide the security (all I/O data encrypted, no writeable removeable media, keyed CD-ROM OSS and applications loading, increased RAM, and all I/O data encrypted on hard disk... plus) wanted. I never attended another meeting, because, I only made, one five sentence comment after about two hours of meeting. Anyway the below cause/story does not ring true to me, and if true then very flawed....
Linux, I believe, has the potential to provide the greatest control/security (for systems and software) ever allowed to any government (why should the government trust what is delivered by MS, SUN, SAP...) person or company when you control everything on your system, know what everything is there for, write your own "SECRET" source code programs that are never part of OSS for others to see/use.
The future says that governments (not only US) may want to follow all the freedom loving individuals (around the world) in the OSS movement, IBM and others into standardizing on an OSS for the world.
You said; "The reason that Linux is not and will never (as long as the DII/COE rules stay they way they are) be DII/COE compliant is because it is open-source. One of the big things with DII/COE is that you can not get into the source code and "tweak" it thereby comprimising the integrety of it. The open-source nature of Linux sets off a red flag, to most government officals, that says "UNSECURE.""
Did Intel pay Transmetta to wait until Intel was ready for a new chip on the market?... all the old stock has sold, the new processing equipment is in place, and ready to compete with all those other chip makers. Never forget MS has a spouse/relative... in the rise to global power.
SBC and Cisco is a good bussiness combination; However, if either lose customer focus, then the customers should relocate their connections. SBC and Cisco together have a greater potential than most to provide NG- internet to the home and small bussiness. Packaging of all communications (HDTV, V&D, Distance Learning, Home Entertainment,...) services and billing into one source/line/connection Wireless a/o cable will dominate the future... Customers and Media companies will want and eventually receive the antimonop rights to access each other across owned, leased,... proprietary connections/domains. The future will be one that the small customers control due to the finacial clout of the many. Intel PCs, MS Software, and others that provided the greatest freedom and lowest cost to their customers in the past dominate the market today. I would expect SBC and Cisco could dominate the future, because no one is providing more cost effective features to their customers with the freedom to checkout the competition for a few months/years and leave the rest to return to the best. Technology and Services can be a no brainer, no problem, customer satisfaction ideal... maybe SBC and Cisco could grow even closer to provide the happy customer of the future. Today many customers are becoming stressed by being blamed for bad network performance, buggy software applications, lame excusses for providing poor services,.... The customer is never the problem... business needs to understand and learn from the customer what is required (Yep, I know some don't know where the power switch is..., but most of US do know.). Yep, I posted this last week at another site..., but applies to the screw the customer attitude by US bussiness in these times of plenty. Vengence will be the consumers in the future... if the FCC will get off its dead ass.
Who are US and Who are Them? The EU and US people are all us folks that will suffer during times of war. Don't be quick and stupid to blame UK, US, France, China, Russia,... because money/power (The hidden Corporate Nation) currently controls all our destiny. Corporate spying under the cover of state spying.
The war profiteers are as always them folks that keep low profiles, forment discontent among good people (with beleavable lies) and then insist that we all die for "God and Country" and their bottom "profit" line.
We the people must unite, identify the real enemy, and live in peace with mutual respect for the individual, commuinty of humanity, and the environment.
I agree with the proverb. I think most legal (proverbially blind) systems (judges, advocates, and prosecutors), being technological illiterates at this level, would have significant problem at determining who was the cracker (Defendant) and/or the crackie (Victim). The original victim may (good chance) end up in jail, paying for court/damages, loss of business/lively-hood,.... I would say we should all be responsible to ourselves.
Also, the technological illiterate legal system police, lawyers,... are very knowledgeable and qualified to advise on legally admissible/acceptable evidence in a court of law. Event logs, trip-wire reports,... (all that other documentation/proof stuff that identifies a cracker) that are not properly handled, by system/network administrators, are a waste of time and (I believe) will not be allowed as evidence in most courts or a good cracker (maybe a white person from Mississippi maybe NOT) lawyer will successfully dispute the veracity of the evidence to the jury. Finally when the cracker goes free... you should expect a liable case to be filed against you as the prosecutor apologizes for losing the case and explains how next time....
MORAL: The police, a lawyer, or judge may be your friend, but a legal system is an institution and has no friends; Therefor, keep your friend and avoid Institutional Problems.
I guess we must do our homework and write as in the very old days with magic and dreams. Governments and Economics are built upon concepts/Ideals. Capitalism is an economic system, and communisim a governing system they are (I believe) flawed and doomed to fail. Is there options expressed. Democracy is a governing system for society/culture/people, but is a failure for local, national and international bussiness.
Should we have a Constitution that clearly seperates the State (People), Church/Temple/... (religion), and Corporate (bussiness) into three seperate recognized powers. Two hundred years in the US and still we have been unable to seperate church and state powers/meddiling.
Maybe someone can develop some new governing concepts that protect the People from the corrupting and destructive influence of the global Church and Corporate.
Lets all write think and hope for better....
No stick puns unless a double with mild abstraction.
However, some folks I believe missed the expressed/implied concept and/or "I" am lost.
I take your comments to mean that the term "I" is equivalent to the term "Humanity".
The total being greater than the sum of its parts must be based on all parts being (like kinds, variable samples) statistically equal (within a set boundary of standard deviations) or no significant difference between all members of the human-race. A success for the individual is a success for humanity; Also, dominion over humanity is as tragic as dominion over the individual.
Yes, the mentally and emotionally defective xenophobic bigot human would strongly disagree that there is one human-race, but who (someone) would want to listen to those Hitler-dictator types of individuals.
Anyway, I felt you were asking the question that the naturalist (10's) and hippies (60's), flappers (20's) and disco-flings (80's) were all saying during their decades: "Is this all there is, lets see?" "Enjoy while you can, because it may all be gone tomorrow.".... Do we advance or wait for the end.
Today we (some of US) see the "I" in Institution (Government, Religion, Corporation, Culture, Social,...) as having dominion over humanity. As did the emperors of Rome, Napoleon of France, Hitler of Germany, Stalin of Russia, Kings, Queens, Dictators,... all the others oppressed the individual that makes humanity an entity rather then a thing.
We cannot be human without our individuality, and institutions can only define things. Yes, I believe that many of these institutions today are trying and succeeding at oppressing humanity.
Don't forget the WTO and WMF type institutions...............
Some Suits are sometimes stooges in the government, corporate, and/or military world; However, most suits are normally great at the Logistics and Politics (Determine what will be provided) of the commercial and superficial reality (Profit Priority, sell pet-rocks). Also, capitalism/commercialism remains a very stable economic model for the foreseeable future (lack of acceptable options and off-subject).
Some Techs are sometimes stooges in Labs, Test-beds, Universities, Caves, Bars, Coffee houses,... space. However, most techs are normally great at Development and Creativity (Determine how to provided) of value and functional reality (Personal Priority, may create a pet-rock). Also, capitalism/commercialism remains a very restrictive/sociopathic model for the foreseeable future.
Suits and Techs work best together when they recognize the fact that they have little hope of understanding the ethos of the other, but still are sincere in their display of respect for each others' skills and personality disorder/character. We is all a little different and hard to understand, you just ask my maw.
Currently and in the past, I believe, suits have/had a parasitic relationship with techs. In the future suits must evolve a more symbiotic and synergistic relationship with techs. Techs' owned companies may eventually develop a business model that eliminates the importance of suits by defining specific positions for finance, marketing, logistics,..., allowing the techs to focus on Development and Creativity and just ask their finance director about funding potential.... Past techs (Edison, Bell,...) proved to be super-leaders of Business, today's techs (Jobs, Gates, many others) have redefined/created market sectors. The value of good business managers/leaders is needed, but techs who can manage (develop and create) a company are proving to be the resource venture capitalist are looking to find and cultivate.
One of the big hedge fund managers one time said; "I buy companies that any idiot can run, because eventually the company will probably be run by an idiot." Maybe the idiot he was talking about is the CEO and other lower-level suits that believe techs are just pack-mules and worker-bees and only require lip-service patronization for retention and corporate success.
Anyway, yes, I believe the standard business model is in the process of a rewrite and symbiotic and synergistic relationships will evolve between suits and techs or the company will die a slow lingering death. Suits will hold on to power and position any way possible (the nature of a typical suit), but unless companies have a CEO, COO, and CTechO on equivalent levels of the decision making process, rewards for company performance, and suits and techs working together, as one suite, with a sincere respect for each others' skills and personality disorder/character, then failure is assured by the rules of a dysfunctional team/family.
NOTE: Megalomaniac suits at a failing company will blame, fire, and layoff the pack-mules and worker-bees while rewarding/keeping the decision-making management suits that are the real cause of corporate problems. Shareholders/owners, in their contracts with CEO/C..., should demand that when 5-25% of the pack-mules and worker-bees force is laid-off (in a given time period) that the CEO automatically submits a no-reward resignation letter, and that all levels of management suffer an equal level of terminations as a top priority of the new CEO/C.... US Companies and the Government would be helped by such a regulation/policy/contract/....
If you are the piss-poor coach, don't ever blame the team and additionally prove you are a piss-poor person.
Cold Pizza in the morning was great, bout the only thing around to eat as you pull yourself off the floor to watch T&J, RR and Willie, and LT (Sam, Bugs, Taz, and...) cartoons. Many a Saturday morning breakfast of "Cold Pizza and Warm-flat Beer". I hated the occasional cigarette butt in the can... bottle beer is safer.
PS - Oxygen really does help releave Saturday morning brain post-toasties.
Feeks and Greaks always did the longest, best, endurance parties. The frat/brat parties were mellow-bellow... BS.
First: Consider bandwidth as a national renewable/recyclable resource to be managed by a FCC agency.
Second: All frequency rages are a crucial and inseparable part of the Interstate commerce navigable data space.
Third: The data/communications spectrum is an emanant domain of the Federal Government to be utilized for the good of the people and nation.
Fourth: The Federal Government will provide for the welfare (Military, Emergency, Community, Recreation,... frequency allocation) of the people.
Fifth: The Government mandated open/available spectrum, as a measurable commodity would be for sale moment-moment, day-day, and year-year.
Sixth: The Government would assure day-day that spectrum allocation is promoting market competition, industry innovation, and cultural development.
Seventh: Attempts of bandwidth "squatting" considered anti-competitive monopolistic fraud upon the nation and punished by fines and sentences.
Summary: Use-it, or Lose-it and pay for it. Make money and profit by being the best, rather than the Big Obstruction (BO) to progress.
As a national resource our data/communications spectrum can be used to benefit the people and nation. Corporate Control with limited (or non) use of any portion of the bandwidth, with the intent to extort a higher profit from the American public, is very bad business, and should be considered fraud or even organized criminal activity.
Proper utilization of the spectrum with today's technology should allow three service providers in any one area to provide services to fixed wireless stations in every home in the area. The home owner could pick a provider and change provider next month if not happy, but, however, because... make sure that whatever fixed station wireless system that is installed in your home/apartments meet the national/international H/S protocol standards or be locked into one "servicing" provider again. One provider and one bill for phone, internet, TV/HDTV, and CCCHSSS (Customer Command Control of Home Systems Support Services) the "Things to come." stuff. This was part of the intended future when the FCC sold all those frequencies in 1997 (and bandwidth squatting was created). Personal home service communications has been retarded for a few years now in the US, because one provider can control a TV cable or phone wire entering your home. Wireless will open the future of this century for US. PS -- I have never, do not now, or have intent to work for a wireless company.
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MS The tighter you grasp, the more that will slip between your fingers.
.... Oh, friken yea, I retype the whole dang thing.
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The real secret is what do you do with a FAX (yep, I know, but reality check) that you can not edit, will not OCR, can only be read, and is vital for another business process, briefing, meeting, legal evidence,
THANKS Bill Grates, and MS Whoops
She was MS Whoopy before being hired
"Reality is a self induced hallucinations."
We should all help Bill Grates and MS Whoops help US.
I remember a time before Microsoft when MCSP meant "More Crappy Software Patches" that Microsoft decided to use the Acronym to mean other very similar things just proves the old proverb: (1) A rose by any other name would smell as sweet, (2) Shit piled any other way would still stink, or (3) MS Bash can be fun for some fact for others . . ..
Politicians, not all but most, are to blame for not defending our Nations interest at home. Do not blame the groups/doners/PACs/rats/brats and voters, because the politicians could have defended the nation from domestic corporate/special interest/enemy, but ....
..., could be much better ...), but I am against anything that threatens HUMAN DEMOCRACY and US.
Some interesting comments for reading; as I said, for years now I have written on these topics, I am against capitalism as government and strongly support Democracy by US the human democratic institutions.
Separation of church and state is part of our US Constitution, (I believe) separation of the economic capitalist institutions and the human democratic institutions are essential to our national identity as a free people, and global security.
I am not against capitalism as an economic theory (I think, it works okay
Jadi
The USA or DoD does not class me as an IT Specialist.
I have never worked in an IT slot in the USA or DoD.
I had a Linux PC up running a test Apache website in the ".mil" domain back in 1997. I developed a very basic one-week Linux course for and delivered it to key-personnel for a couple "train-the-trainer" sessions. I am also not a trained instructor and/or BS type person. I also did similar (except for time line) with Cisco, telephone circuit and packet switching networks.... So,
Okay, why AFT, Yippee, Dang, because in non-social situations, I have always believed that security is greatly helped when you can be sure of every line that may be used against you. Then you can hope that, you are smart enough in the environment and no line goes over your head. So, god bless the USA and pseudo-savants everywhere.
Jadi
I agree very much. I am just an old guy that did in the, far-fetched, pass stack a few cards for fun. I ain't done it in many years. I hope that old 2600 folks and others are not endangered species. Some folks do reflect the best of human nature and others express the most pathetic. I am so old that I never did anything illegal (broke the law), I think.
With all the 'legalisms, laws, and whatnot showing up left and right' I expect that the younger admin and netsec people will eventually expect the government to issue all security policy and procedures. When something goes wrong many MS-admin folks blame MSOS bugs/problems these days, ... tomorrow IT/net security failures will be blamed on the US Big Internet Technology Communications Hierarchy and Electronics Security (US BITCHES) police.
PBS will produce a documentary (around 2010) about the slow death of the pirates, criminals, gangsters, scum-buckets, and perverts of the freewheeling Internet frontier and how the Internet was civilized for decent sheep. Those that win the war write the history.
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"The Management" (Corporate and Government) is their own worst enemy (in most, not all organizations). They are in charge of it all, can do no wrong, receive recognition for success, and can blame any subordinate or contractor persons' performance for failure. Today many in management are "Mary Antoinette" Stratocracy capitalist theorist ("Subject and Situation Unaware" Commander) failure is not something to be learned from, because failure is not an option. "The Management" in the USA has become success and excuse oriented. Failure will not be recognized, but labeled. Success for USA "The Management" is becoming more a paper dragon that is slain by others. Enron, Global Crossings, Anderson, --- many others "The Management" walk away with millions of dollars, no penalties, no penal (Yep, I know -- sounds like), no character, no constitution, no skill but BS or better degreed and applauded smoke scams. "The USA Management" can manage business processes, but are totally incompetent at delivering real mission success, because most cannot see/forecast the mission/goals, they can not recognize and retain key personnel, they contract out (whenever possible) anything that is to complicated to understand, and recognize four important points: (1) there is no one working under-them that is their mental or corporate-value equivalent (every one is replaceable, except themselves), (2) if something that they do not understand is not contracted out, then they or their subordinate may be blamed for problems, (3) have no faith in the skills, character, and integrity of the people that work for you, because employees can not be managements' better or equivalent at anything and if they were they would be working somewhere else, therefore (4) only they could provide any success, only they are worth more-than their pay check, and nothing is more important than the next promotion (employees are expendable tools).
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Now how does this type of nature relate to "Tech support"? Well simply stated: When there is mentally, emotionally, and organizationally fucked-up management which provides fucked-up decisions (based on fucked-up self-serving premises), then the fucked-up confusing failures accepted by the gullible individuals become the defended truth protecting institutions and systems from failure. BOOM! The house of cards collapse upon US all ---
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Yep, this was just done for some honest fun poked at those (management folks) that make the decisions, but should be endorsing and supporting the decisions with business management skills. The pure capitalist/stratocracy organizations fail where true democracies with honest associates succeed. The pure democracy wants US to succeed as a community/tribe/family/kith/kin, but the good capitalist is a team player that seeks assured dominance of the market and the customer becomes the profit generating consumer of products and services.
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[B][P]
More simply stated: You can never blame management for failure, but the fact is they are failures all to frequently. Poor customer support, contract it out, pay the worker-bees and pack-mules who love to do a good job less than the poor performing managers is proven capitalist/communist theory. I have known many organizations to be fully functional in spite of management demigods.
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Jadi Ba - Reality is a self-induced hallucination.
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Yep, there are many good CEO and 1st-Line folks, but .... Management needs to control, many good hackers and techs are being paid as much or more than many layers of management personnel. Management personnel (BS Experts) in the past had a job forever, now due to technology mediocre "BS experts" are a dime a dozen and can be replaced without impact to the bottom line. The world of the mediocre "BS experts" (CEO to 1st Line) no longer have their comfortable lifetime career. These pitiful type people can not take the burden of blame for not making the bigger pay check or screwing up a project that hackers and techs tried valiantly to help save, but failed due to a misguided management decision.
Maybe the H1-B visas concept is a way that the mediocre "BS experts" (CEO's and Politicians) hope to solve ghost, social, and/or cultural problems that are just to personal for the country (US) to address with better plans, education, management, and goals.
I sometimes feel management would fire (all the best) half the hackers and techs (Programmers/Engineers) in a company to show those uppity prima-donnas who's the wind-breaking boss in charge.
H1-B visas concept appears to be one of those mediocre "BS experts" solutions to a none-problem or a national systemic problem. In other words nothing is solved. Then again maybe it is another corporate welfare program.
More proof that government personnel may be listening to too much self-expert or contractors' smoke, fog, and wind. This is a silly non-starter issue. OSS when compiled and encrypted (System authentication and key required to run/function) is as secure or more than ... it won't be "tweaked". I sat in a meeting (about three years ago) on the issue of a system's security (everyone stated how the system was to be secured). I made one statement that proved all others flawed. I was told "I could not discuss my comment outside the room because the content of the statement was classified (to the level of the system)". I offered options to (I believe/think) provide the security (all I/O data encrypted, no writeable removeable media, keyed CD-ROM OSS and applications loading, increased RAM, and all I/O data encrypted on hard disk ... plus) wanted. I never attended another meeting, because, I only made, one five sentence comment after about two hours of meeting. Anyway the below cause/story does not ring true to me, and if true then very flawed ....
Linux, I believe, has the potential to provide the greatest control/security (for systems and software) ever allowed to any government (why should the government trust what is delivered by MS, SUN, SAP ...) person or company when you control everything on your system, know what everything is there for, write your own "SECRET" source code programs that are never part of OSS for others to see/use.
The future says that governments (not only US) may want to follow all the freedom loving individuals (around the world) in the OSS movement, IBM and others into standardizing on an OSS for the world.
You said; "The reason that Linux is not and will never (as long as the DII/COE rules stay they way they are) be DII/COE compliant is because it is open-source. One of the big things with DII/COE is that you can not get into the source code and "tweak" it thereby comprimising the integrety of it. The open-source nature of Linux sets off a red flag, to most government officals, that says "UNSECURE.""
Did Intel pay Transmetta to wait until Intel was ready for a new chip on the market? ... all the old stock has sold, the new processing equipment is in place, and ready to compete with all those other chip makers. Never forget MS has a spouse/relative ... in the rise to global power.
SBC and Cisco is a good bussiness combination; However, if either lose customer focus, then the customers should relocate their connections. SBC and Cisco together have a greater potential than most to provide NG- internet to the home and small bussiness. Packaging of all communications (HDTV, V&D, Distance Learning, Home Entertainment, ...) services and billing into one source/line/connection Wireless a/o cable will dominate the future ... Customers and Media companies will want and eventually receive the antimonop rights to access each other across owned, leased, ... proprietary connections/domains. The future will be one that the small customers control due to the finacial clout of the many. Intel PCs, MS Software, and others that provided the greatest freedom and lowest cost to their customers in the past dominate the market today. I would expect SBC and Cisco could dominate the future, because no one is providing more cost effective features to their customers with the freedom to checkout the competition for a few months/years and leave the rest to return to the best. Technology and Services can be a no brainer, no problem, customer satisfaction ideal ... maybe SBC and Cisco could grow even closer to provide the happy customer of the future. Today many customers are becoming stressed by being blamed for bad network performance, buggy software applications, lame excusses for providing poor services, .... The customer is never the problem ... business needs to understand and learn from the customer what is required (Yep, I know some don't know where the power switch is ..., but most of US do know.). Yep, I posted this last week at another site ..., but applies to the screw the customer attitude by US bussiness in these times of plenty. Vengence will be the consumers in the future ... if the FCC will get off its dead ass.
I believe, many of you miss the point!
... because money/power (The hidden Corporate Nation) currently controls all our destiny. Corporate spying under the cover of state spying.
Who are US and Who are Them? The EU and US people are all us folks that will suffer during times of war. Don't be quick and stupid to blame UK, US, France, China, Russia,
The war profiteers are as always them folks that keep low profiles, forment discontent among good people (with beleavable lies) and then insist that we all die for "God and Country" and their bottom "profit" line.
We the people must unite, identify the real enemy, and live in peace with mutual respect for the individual, commuinty of humanity, and the environment.
I agree with the proverb. I think most legal (proverbially blind) systems (judges, advocates, and prosecutors), being technological illiterates at this level, would have significant problem at determining who was the cracker (Defendant) and/or the crackie (Victim). The original victim may (good chance) end up in jail, paying for court/damages, loss of business/lively-hood, .... I would say we should all be responsible to ourselves.
... are very knowledgeable and qualified to advise on legally admissible/acceptable evidence in a court of law. Event logs, trip-wire reports, ... (all that other documentation/proof stuff that identifies a cracker) that are not properly handled, by system/network administrators, are a waste of time and (I believe) will not be allowed as evidence in most courts or a good cracker (maybe a white person from Mississippi maybe NOT) lawyer will successfully dispute the veracity of the evidence to the jury. Finally when the cracker goes free ... you should expect a liable case to be filed against you as the prosecutor apologizes for losing the case and explains how next time ....
Also, the technological illiterate legal system police, lawyers,
MORAL: The police, a lawyer, or judge may be your friend, but a legal system is an institution and has no friends; Therefor, keep your friend and avoid Institutional Problems.
Captain,
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I guess we must do our homework and write as in the very old days with magic and dreams. Governments and Economics are built upon concepts/Ideals. Capitalism is an economic system, and communisim a governing system they are (I believe) flawed and doomed to fail. Is there options expressed. Democracy is a governing system for society/culture/people, but is a failure for local, national and international bussiness.
Should we have a Constitution that clearly seperates the State (People), Church/Temple/... (religion), and Corporate (bussiness) into three seperate recognized powers. Two hundred years in the US and still we have been unable to seperate church and state powers/meddiling.
Maybe someone can develop some new governing concepts that protect the People from the corrupting and destructive influence of the global Church and Corporate.
Lets all write think and hope for better
No stick puns unless a double with mild abstraction.
However, some folks I believe missed the expressed/implied concept and/or "I" am lost.
.... Do we advance or wait for the end.
...) as having dominion over humanity. As did the emperors of Rome, Napoleon of France, Hitler of Germany, Stalin of Russia, Kings, Queens, Dictators, ... all the others oppressed the individual that makes humanity an entity rather then a thing.
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I take your comments to mean that the term "I" is equivalent to the term "Humanity".
The total being greater than the sum of its parts must be based on all parts being (like kinds, variable samples) statistically equal (within a set boundary of standard deviations) or no significant difference between all members of the human-race. A success for the individual is a success for humanity; Also, dominion over humanity is as tragic as dominion over the individual.
Yes, the mentally and emotionally defective xenophobic bigot human would strongly disagree that there is one human-race, but who (someone) would want to listen to those Hitler-dictator types of individuals.
Anyway, I felt you were asking the question that the naturalist (10's) and hippies (60's), flappers (20's) and disco-flings (80's) were all saying during their decades: "Is this all there is, lets see?" "Enjoy while you can, because it may all be gone tomorrow."
Today we (some of US) see the "I" in Institution (Government, Religion, Corporation, Culture, Social,
We cannot be human without our individuality, and institutions can only define things. Yes, I believe that many of these institutions today are trying and succeeding at oppressing humanity.
Don't forget the WTO and WMF type institutions
Some Suits are sometimes stooges in the government, corporate, and/or military world; However, most suits are normally great at the Logistics and Politics (Determine what will be provided) of the commercial and superficial reality (Profit Priority, sell pet-rocks). Also, capitalism/commercialism remains a very stable economic model for the foreseeable future (lack of acceptable options and off-subject).
... space. However, most techs are normally great at Development and Creativity (Determine how to provided) of value and functional reality (Personal Priority, may create a pet-rock). Also, capitalism/commercialism remains a very restrictive/sociopathic model for the foreseeable future.
..., allowing the techs to focus on Development and Creativity and just ask their finance director about funding potential .... Past techs (Edison, Bell, ...) proved to be super-leaders of Business, today's techs (Jobs, Gates, many others) have redefined/created market sectors. The value of good business managers/leaders is needed, but techs who can manage (develop and create) a company are proving to be the resource venture capitalist are looking to find and cultivate.
Some Techs are sometimes stooges in Labs, Test-beds, Universities, Caves, Bars, Coffee houses,
Suits and Techs work best together when they recognize the fact that they have little hope of understanding the ethos of the other, but still are sincere in their display of respect for each others' skills and personality disorder/character. We is all a little different and hard to understand, you just ask my maw.
Currently and in the past, I believe, suits have/had a parasitic relationship with techs. In the future suits must evolve a more symbiotic and synergistic relationship with techs. Techs' owned companies may eventually develop a business model that eliminates the importance of suits by defining specific positions for finance, marketing, logistics,
One of the big hedge fund managers one time said; "I buy companies that any idiot can run, because eventually the company will probably be run by an idiot." Maybe the idiot he was talking about is the CEO and other lower-level suits that believe techs are just pack-mules and worker-bees and only require lip-service patronization for retention and corporate success.
Anyway, yes, I believe the standard business model is in the process of a rewrite and symbiotic and synergistic relationships will evolve between suits and techs or the company will die a slow lingering death. Suits will hold on to power and position any way possible (the nature of a typical suit), but unless companies have a CEO, COO, and CTechO on equivalent levels of the decision making process, rewards for company performance, and suits and techs working together, as one suite, with a sincere respect for each others' skills and personality disorder/character, then failure is assured by the rules of a dysfunctional team/family.
NOTE: Megalomaniac suits at a failing company will blame, fire, and layoff the pack-mules and worker-bees while rewarding/keeping the decision-making management suits that are the real cause of corporate problems. Shareholders/owners, in their contracts with CEO/C..., should demand that when 5-25% of the pack-mules and worker-bees force is laid-off (in a given time period) that the CEO automatically submits a no-reward resignation letter, and that all levels of management suffer an equal level of terminations as a top priority of the new CEO/C.... US Companies and the Government would be helped by such a regulation/policy/contract/....
If you are the piss-poor coach, don't ever blame the team and additionally prove you are a piss-poor person.
Years/decades ago in college ...
...) cartoons. Many a Saturday morning breakfast of "Cold Pizza and Warm-flat Beer". I hated the occasional cigarette butt in the can ... bottle beer is safer.
... BS.
Cold Pizza in the morning was great, bout the only thing around to eat as you pull yourself off the floor to watch T&J, RR and Willie, and LT (Sam, Bugs, Taz, and
PS - Oxygen really does help releave Saturday morning brain post-toasties.
Feeks and Greaks always did the longest, best, endurance parties. The frat/brat parties were mellow-bellow
If I were King, what I would dododowop?
... frequency allocation) of the people.
... make sure that whatever fixed station wireless system that is installed in your home/apartments meet the national/international H/S protocol standards or be locked into one "servicing" provider again. One provider and one bill for phone, internet, TV/HDTV, and CCCHSSS (Customer Command Control of Home Systems Support Services) the "Things to come." stuff. This was part of the intended future when the FCC sold all those frequencies in 1997 (and bandwidth squatting was created). Personal home service communications has been retarded for a few years now in the US, because one provider can control a TV cable or phone wire entering your home. Wireless will open the future of this century for US. PS -- I have never, do not now, or have intent to work for a wireless company.
First: Consider bandwidth as a national renewable/recyclable resource to be managed by a FCC agency.
Second: All frequency rages are a crucial and inseparable part of the Interstate commerce navigable data space.
Third: The data/communications spectrum is an emanant domain of the Federal Government to be utilized for the good of the people and nation.
Fourth: The Federal Government will provide for the welfare (Military, Emergency, Community, Recreation,
Fifth: The Government mandated open/available spectrum, as a measurable commodity would be for sale moment-moment, day-day, and year-year.
Sixth: The Government would assure day-day that spectrum allocation is promoting market competition, industry innovation, and cultural development.
Seventh: Attempts of bandwidth "squatting" considered anti-competitive monopolistic fraud upon the nation and punished by fines and sentences.
Summary: Use-it, or Lose-it and pay for it. Make money and profit by being the best, rather than the Big Obstruction (BO) to progress.
As a national resource our data/communications spectrum can be used to benefit the people and nation. Corporate Control with limited (or non) use of any portion of the bandwidth, with the intent to extort a higher profit from the American public, is very bad business, and should be considered fraud or even organized criminal activity.
Proper utilization of the spectrum with today's technology should allow three service providers in any one area to provide services to fixed wireless stations in every home in the area. The home owner could pick a provider and change provider next month if not happy, but, however, because