Now, after you've posted, go back and read the article. Take for instance this:
If there's a real problem, if there is a reason to suspect abuse, that's different. You can address that in a less privacy-invasive way than monitoring everyone
Say for example I receive obscene email or spam from you, I complain, you get investigated. What Mr. Radwanski is saying is that just because you manager is bored, he can't snoop through your email to see if your actually spending paid time and company resources on work related things.
For example:
Bell keeps a log of all computer activity, she said, but does not delve into the content unless there has been a complaint about a possible breach of company policy. Allegations of fraud, theft, sexual or racial harassment will be investigated, Ms. Morin said.
This is exactly what he had in mind. If you are given a reason to investigate (complaints/allegations) then investigate.
But is order important? I don't think so. Forgive my forgetfullness (I've been out of math for a while) but its either permutation or combination. I don't think the order matters, which reduces the number of possible outcomes to the following:
rrr
rrb
rbb
bbb
That is to say the rrb=rbr=brr as in all cases there is only one blue hat. I could very well be wrong here, but could someone explain why? Cause I just knocked our chances of winning back down to 50%!
"amazing to see something like that outside of alaska"
Not really. I live in southern Saskatchewan (that's in Canada, right above North Dakota), and its not unusual to see them at all. On a good night, they stretch high enough in the sky that it wouldn't be surprising if the southern states could see them.
I've been waiting for something like this to attempt to photograph the northern lights. Looks like I'll have to head out into the field with my tripod and camera. If this is going to be one of the best/brightest shows, it will make photographing them MUCH easier.
The CBC (Canadian Broadcast Corp) aired a one hour special of Talking to Americans Sunday night.
Rick Mercer goes down to various locations in the US and asks really dumb questions of people on the streets and even University students and profs. For example:
AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, NY.
On Canadians' care for the elderly: "We demand that the Government of Canada discourage the Canadian tradition of placing senior citizens on northern ice flows, leaving them to perish."
One of the funniest was George W. Bush. Its not on the page, but Bush had said previously that he would never again be confused on the leader of a country. Rick had him accepting an endorsement from Prime Minister Poutine. For those of you who don't know, poutine is fries, gravy, and cheese.
How can you quickly show that computer X and computer Y's are really using 2 different licenes
You don't have to. The department I'm working for is currently undergoing an audit of our MS-Office licenses. We have to determine the number of machines running the various versions of Office and compile our licenses for each version. (We run 4.0, 97, and some 2000).
I'm not sure why we have to comply with MS's request for this information, there may have been a ruling about it, but if we are using move installations than we have licenses for, then we should have to pay MS.
I did, and at the time was very proud of it. Now I wonder if there wasn't something else I could have done. I am not a violent person by any means, and that was the last time I reacted violently to any situation.
I'm not a big fan of the U.S. policies on a lot of things, similar to the way most Canadians feel, but there's something that's disturbed me even more recently. Living in Canada, we get a lot of American TV stations, and thus American commercials. The one that really scares me is the public service announcement that tells parents that you should NEVER shake a baby!
I'm not blaming Americans here, but what does it say about the culture we live in when there needs to be a public service announcement telling you not to do physical harm to your child!
I certainly don't disagree that strong family support wouldn't have prevented a lot of these, or that it has prevented others. However, I still think bullying is something that should be stopped, and if its happening at school (which it obviously does) then something needs to be done there as well.
I was bullied in my mid-teens by a couple of guys. I was not without friends, and they, as well as my parents helped me get through it. The friends at school reported it to the teachers, who in turn took action against my bullies. I probably never would have reported them, at least not then - though I'm not really sure why. In any case the end result was violence, though not guns, it was a fist fight, between me and one of the bullies, while a large group of my friends stood around to ensure the other didn't jump in.
It seems the number of incidents is on the rise after the first widely publicized shooting, Columbine. I'm wondering if wide spread media coverage isn't a catalyst for others who feel they are in similar situations. The non-conformists are the targets of bullys, teased and harassed daily at school. I'm wondering if without the coverage of the media if these occurences wouldn't be less frequent. Certainly the media is not the sole cause of these incidents, I personally believe it is the bullys that are the cause, as opposed to movies and games.
Seperate (air does not flow between sections) smoking and non-smoking areas are rumored to be hitting my area (Regina, Saskatchewan).
However, you are "CHOOS[ing]" to be in an area where smokers can, and will, enjoy their habbit/addiction. In every city I've been, there exist "non-smoking only" restaurants. Guess what, "CHOOS" to go to one of those.
When I go to my favourite lounge, sit back with a cold pint and a cigarette, I finally relax from a long week at work. This is actually very good for my well-being - it would be better without the cigarette, but I digress. I relieve a LOT of stress this way. If you choose to be in the same restaurant that clearly accepts smokers, then you choose to be in an environment where smokers are.
This is not to say that I don't sympathize. I do. My girlfriend has bad allergies and asthma. Guess what! I can smoke near her without setting off either! Maybe she isn't the worst case around, but most (all?) of the smokers I know are considerate of the non-smokers around me. If we are at my favourite lounge (I'm trying to avoid plugs here), and everyone with me is a non-smoker, I will go up and sit at the bar to have a cigarette. BTW - I know all the bartenders and they all smoke.
Tell you what, if you can invent the equivalent of a pooper scooper that will work with smoke, I'll use it everytime I smoke in public - though don't expect me to find a plugin or buy/recharge batteries.
c$ and d$ are default shares for Windows NT 4 (maybe earlier, but its been too long for me to remember). In any case, yes, the only account that can connect to these by default are those in the administrators group. However, most home Windows users are not using NT, but 9x.
The ultimate goal of Open Source is free software. Assumption: you mean free as in beer, as the rest of you're post seems to indicate
I'm not sure if I agree with you here. I think its more than that. Sure, that is a bonus to the whole thing, but I think its evolved passed that. I'm not much of a coder, never had been, probably will never write thousands of lines of code. But, I still tinker with it. And guess what, if I write something that somebody else wants, I'll probably give it to them. I've done this before over the 'net with some very simple cgi scripts.
The point is, I think Open Source and free (beer) are by no means synonymous. Open Source is a relization that maybe software can be developed in another way. Maybe that bug is too tough for group A to figure out, but those hackers on the other side of the ocean got it in no time. Is this a bad thing? How would you solve a similar problem in a closed source? Throw money and time at it, possibly release without fixing the bug and release a patch later, or rewrite the entire module.
Open Source is also a security model. The theory is that the more people that can read the code, the more people can discover bugs, and report them. I'm not trying to suggest (or deny) that OS is a better/worse security model, just point out that it is a security model.
Once I started playing with Linux and learning more about it, and open source s/w, I began to realize that it is more than just a free (as in beer) OS. If it was, I'd probably just copy some other OS that plays games better. Instead, I realized that in the Linux community, there is a serious attempt to create stable, secure, and bug free software.
I don't know if I'd like the "remember where you are" feature. I've dosed off more times than I can remember while reading... usually at 3 or 4 in the morning. I find when I go back to the novel, if I actually fell asleep, I need to reread the last 20 or so pages anyways. Though I do read pretty quick in a good novel, 100-120 pages an hour, so going back a few pages just prolongs my enjoyment of the book.
I see your point, but it IS a preventable cost. Good user training goes a long way. We have a lot of roaming users (laptop with dial in) and we stress saving their work to the network when dialed in. This isn't just to protect against virii, but also hardware failures, lost/stolen machines, etc.
I work for a federal gov't department in Canada, and our region has recently put one of our CS group in a Train-the-Users position. It has substantially reduced help desk calls, resulting in more time to do preventative maintenance, not too mention solving real problems.
lets get all the facts.
If you read, Jamie writes...
The way Patrick described it to me, there was a technical glitch in uploading the
website -- I'm still not sure exactly how this happened, but apparently they
contacted the wrong server
Now it sounds like the boys just typed in the wrong IP address while FTP'ing up their web site. However, there could be more here that BfD is telling us. Suppose they're glossing over the fact that they were actually doing a port scan and found an older version of Bind running, and other scripts followed. Now I know not all University sys admins are the cream of the crop, but how many do you think would panic over an incoming ftp connection.
My guess is these guys were attempting to hack something (maybe at the university, maybe not) and got caught at it. Let's face it, I think we the campus police have better things to do then bust somebody with a webpage that has a shitlist/Wanted Dead or Alive page.
They were talking about this a while back here in Saskatchewan here about a year or so ago, but last I heard there was a big hold up because one of the cable companines (Rogers?) was complaining to the CRTC. Does anyone have any more info on this (especially pertaining to Sask)?
Thanks
That doesn't seem to likely either, since a laser doesn't dissipate very much, they would have to be talking to someone that resides in the same direction as us.
In other words, interstellar laser communication is altogether practicable.
I don't know about you, but I think any conversation that takes 1000 years to get a reply isn't exactly practicable. The message would only be transmitted at the speed of light, which could take thousands of years to get here, depending how far away they were, then another few thousand for us to reply. I guess it would still be faster than the postal system.
I'm looking at doing something similar (one step at a time). I'm currently setting up the classic MP3 player to my home stereo. I'd like to be able to add DVD at some time, but I'm wondering what kind of power you would need to run DVD to the TV. I don't have the machine in front of me so I don't have exact specs, but here's roughly what it is.
300A Celeron (not overclocked - I know I should), 64MB, with an onboard 8mb ATI w/S-Video out. I don't know the exact model of video. I don't have a DVD drive, so I can't see how well this would perform. So what does everyone think? If I added a DVD drive, could I watch a movie?
I had a cancelled credit card that apparently I missed paying off (about $100). I didn't find out until I applied for a car loan through the bank. When I did find out, I contacted the credit card company (BoM Mastercard). First off, they were very rude to me on the phone, saying they could never get a hold of me or couldn't find me. Well, I did move, but if they'd bothered to check a phone book they could have found me. Anyways, I paid off the debt, but my bank (RBC) still declined me. However, GMAC approved me with no problem once I proved that I had paid the credit card off.
What I'd like to know is, if anyone knows who in Canada looks after credit info. I know I could go to my bank and get it, but just wondering who actually looks after it, and how to get in contact with them (a website would be wondeful)
That I'll never have to do dishes again?
We could have slides that would accelerate toddlers to near mach speeds?
If they could make this transparent, that I wouldn't have to scrape my windshield?
If I had furniture made out of this stuff, that I wouldn't have to ever dust again?
Our primary purpose is not to land. Our primary
purpose is to get to a very low altitude to take high resolution pictures
They just want to get very close to the asteroid and send back as many pictures of the asteroid before it crashes. There's a 1% chance of it surviving the landing, even though that's what the article summary seems to say they're planning on doing.
Real simple answer to this one. My firends and I all sit in N/A mode. I think I've gotten two or three spam messages in several years. We can still send each other messages, but no spam - ah its wonderful:)
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If there's a real problem, if there is a reason to suspect abuse, that's different. You can address that in a less privacy-invasive way than monitoring everyone
Say for example I receive obscene email or spam from you, I complain, you get investigated. What Mr. Radwanski is saying is that just because you manager is bored, he can't snoop through your email to see if your actually spending paid time and company resources on work related things.For example:
Bell keeps a log of all computer activity, she said, but does not delve into the content unless there has been a complaint about a possible breach of company policy. Allegations of fraud, theft, sexual or racial harassment will be investigated, Ms. Morin said.
This is exactly what he had in mind. If you are given a reason to investigate (complaints/allegations) then investigate.
rrr
rrb
rbb
bbb
That is to say the rrb=rbr=brr as in all cases there is only one blue hat. I could very well be wrong here, but could someone explain why? Cause I just knocked our chances of winning back down to 50%!
Of course I should have realized that I posted this message a couple of days AFTER the fact!
Not really. I live in southern Saskatchewan (that's in Canada, right above North Dakota), and its not unusual to see them at all. On a good night, they stretch high enough in the sky that it wouldn't be surprising if the southern states could see them.
I've been waiting for something like this to attempt to photograph the northern lights. Looks like I'll have to head out into the field with my tripod and camera. If this is going to be one of the best/brightest shows, it will make photographing them MUCH easier.
Rick Mercer goes down to various locations in the US and asks really dumb questions of people on the streets and even University students and profs. For example:
AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, NY. On Canadians' care for the elderly: "We demand that the Government of Canada discourage the Canadian tradition of placing senior citizens on northern ice flows, leaving them to perish."
One of the funniest was George W. Bush. Its not on the page, but Bush had said previously that he would never again be confused on the leader of a country. Rick had him accepting an endorsement from Prime Minister Poutine. For those of you who don't know, poutine is fries, gravy, and cheese.You don't have to. The department I'm working for is currently undergoing an audit of our MS-Office licenses. We have to determine the number of machines running the various versions of Office and compile our licenses for each version. (We run 4.0, 97, and some 2000).
I'm not sure why we have to comply with MS's request for this information, there may have been a ruling about it, but if we are using move installations than we have licenses for, then we should have to pay MS.
I did, and at the time was very proud of it. Now I wonder if there wasn't something else I could have done. I am not a violent person by any means, and that was the last time I reacted violently to any situation.
I'm not blaming Americans here, but what does it say about the culture we live in when there needs to be a public service announcement telling you not to do physical harm to your child!
I was bullied in my mid-teens by a couple of guys. I was not without friends, and they, as well as my parents helped me get through it. The friends at school reported it to the teachers, who in turn took action against my bullies. I probably never would have reported them, at least not then - though I'm not really sure why. In any case the end result was violence, though not guns, it was a fist fight, between me and one of the bullies, while a large group of my friends stood around to ensure the other didn't jump in.
It seems the number of incidents is on the rise after the first widely publicized shooting, Columbine. I'm wondering if wide spread media coverage isn't a catalyst for others who feel they are in similar situations. The non-conformists are the targets of bullys, teased and harassed daily at school. I'm wondering if without the coverage of the media if these occurences wouldn't be less frequent. Certainly the media is not the sole cause of these incidents, I personally believe it is the bullys that are the cause, as opposed to movies and games.
However, you are "CHOOS[ing]" to be in an area where smokers can, and will, enjoy their habbit/addiction. In every city I've been, there exist "non-smoking only" restaurants. Guess what, "CHOOS" to go to one of those.
When I go to my favourite lounge, sit back with a cold pint and a cigarette, I finally relax from a long week at work. This is actually very good for my well-being - it would be better without the cigarette, but I digress. I relieve a LOT of stress this way. If you choose to be in the same restaurant that clearly accepts smokers, then you choose to be in an environment where smokers are.
This is not to say that I don't sympathize. I do. My girlfriend has bad allergies and asthma. Guess what! I can smoke near her without setting off either! Maybe she isn't the worst case around, but most (all?) of the smokers I know are considerate of the non-smokers around me. If we are at my favourite lounge (I'm trying to avoid plugs here), and everyone with me is a non-smoker, I will go up and sit at the bar to have a cigarette. BTW - I know all the bartenders and they all smoke.
Tell you what, if you can invent the equivalent of a pooper scooper that will work with smoke, I'll use it everytime I smoke in public - though don't expect me to find a plugin or buy/recharge batteries.
c$ and d$ are default shares for Windows NT 4 (maybe earlier, but its been too long for me to remember). In any case, yes, the only account that can connect to these by default are those in the administrators group. However, most home Windows users are not using NT, but 9x.
Assumption: you mean free as in beer, as the rest of you're post seems to indicate
I'm not sure if I agree with you here. I think its more than that. Sure, that is a bonus to the whole thing, but I think its evolved passed that. I'm not much of a coder, never had been, probably will never write thousands of lines of code. But, I still tinker with it. And guess what, if I write something that somebody else wants, I'll probably give it to them. I've done this before over the 'net with some very simple cgi scripts.
The point is, I think Open Source and free (beer) are by no means synonymous. Open Source is a relization that maybe software can be developed in another way. Maybe that bug is too tough for group A to figure out, but those hackers on the other side of the ocean got it in no time. Is this a bad thing? How would you solve a similar problem in a closed source? Throw money and time at it, possibly release without fixing the bug and release a patch later, or rewrite the entire module.
Open Source is also a security model. The theory is that the more people that can read the code, the more people can discover bugs, and report them. I'm not trying to suggest (or deny) that OS is a better/worse security model, just point out that it is a security model.
Once I started playing with Linux and learning more about it, and open source s/w, I began to realize that it is more than just a free (as in beer) OS. If it was, I'd probably just copy some other OS that plays games better. Instead, I realized that in the Linux community, there is a serious attempt to create stable, secure, and bug free software.
I don't know if I'd like the "remember where you are" feature. I've dosed off more times than I can remember while reading... usually at 3 or 4 in the morning. I find when I go back to the novel, if I actually fell asleep, I need to reread the last 20 or so pages anyways. Though I do read pretty quick in a good novel, 100-120 pages an hour, so going back a few pages just prolongs my enjoyment of the book.
I work for a federal gov't department in Canada, and our region has recently put one of our CS group in a Train-the-Users position. It has substantially reduced help desk calls, resulting in more time to do preventative maintenance, not too mention solving real problems.
If you read, Jamie writes...
The way Patrick described it to me, there was a technical glitch in uploading the website -- I'm still not sure exactly how this happened, but apparently they contacted the wrong server
Now it sounds like the boys just typed in the wrong IP address while FTP'ing up their web site. However, there could be more here that BfD is telling us. Suppose they're glossing over the fact that they were actually doing a port scan and found an older version of Bind running, and other scripts followed. Now I know not all University sys admins are the cream of the crop, but how many do you think would panic over an incoming ftp connection.My guess is these guys were attempting to hack something (maybe at the university, maybe not) and got caught at it. Let's face it, I think we the campus police have better things to do then bust somebody with a webpage that has a shitlist/Wanted Dead or Alive page.
They were talking about this a while back here in Saskatchewan here about a year or so ago, but last I heard there was a big hold up because one of the cable companines (Rogers?) was complaining to the CRTC. Does anyone have any more info on this (especially pertaining to Sask)? Thanks
That doesn't seem to likely either, since a laser doesn't dissipate very much, they would have to be talking to someone that resides in the same direction as us.
I don't know about you, but I think any conversation that takes 1000 years to get a reply isn't exactly practicable. The message would only be transmitted at the speed of light, which could take thousands of years to get here, depending how far away they were, then another few thousand for us to reply. I guess it would still be faster than the postal system.
I'm looking at doing something similar (one step at a time). I'm currently setting up the classic MP3 player to my home stereo. I'd like to be able to add DVD at some time, but I'm wondering what kind of power you would need to run DVD to the TV. I don't have the machine in front of me so I don't have exact specs, but here's roughly what it is. 300A Celeron (not overclocked - I know I should), 64MB, with an onboard 8mb ATI w/S-Video out. I don't know the exact model of video. I don't have a DVD drive, so I can't see how well this would perform. So what does everyone think? If I added a DVD drive, could I watch a movie?
What I'd like to know is, if anyone knows who in Canada looks after credit info. I know I could go to my bank and get it, but just wondering who actually looks after it, and how to get in contact with them (a website would be wondeful)
Thanks
That I'll never have to do dishes again?
We could have slides that would accelerate toddlers to near mach speeds?
If they could make this transparent, that I wouldn't have to scrape my windshield?
If I had furniture made out of this stuff, that I wouldn't have to ever dust again?
Not to get to carried away on previous articles, but the reason Yahoo was fined, was because they have an office in France, AFAIK, Ebay does not.
They just want to get very close to the asteroid and send back as many pictures of the asteroid before it crashes. There's a 1% chance of it surviving the landing, even though that's what the article summary seems to say they're planning on doing.
Real simple answer to this one. My firends and I all sit in N/A mode. I think I've gotten two or three spam messages in several years. We can still send each other messages, but no spam - ah its wonderful :)