We had this happen in Hawaii about a year ago. Copper thieves have darkened stretches of roadway and shut down communicatios as a result of their efforts.
On the bright side, we had two cases where copper thieves cut into live wires. Unfortunately both lived to tell about it but you won't want to see what they look like now. One of the incidents occurred near my office. Lights flickered and went out. Later, on the evening news there was an eyewitness telling a reporter about it. He said the thief ran screaming down the street with the flesh on his arms hanging off like rags.
Unfortunately that hasn't deterred copper theft in the least.
I'm a dorky little Asian guy. I carry 3 knives on me and have trained in Kali and Silat for over 15 years. Not much of a problem here, thanks.
BTW, I carry 3 knives now, but I used to carry only 2. A few years ago, I was the target of a mugging attempt. The fellow ran off with one of my knives stuck in his leg. Bummer. I liked that knife.
> This kinda defeats the object of email
> - for people who barely know you, if at
> all, to contact you.
Is this really the object of email? I don't think so. I don't think the intent was to allow cretins to hawk herbal viagra.
> Email is excellent at bringing together
> people from all over the world - what's
> the point if only people you already
> know can contact you using it?
What makes you think people want weirdos sending them unsolicited mail? Electronic or other formats? You start from a fallacious assumption, then really go off in the weeds.
I'd rather not make ad hominem comments, but I can't believe you actually work for a living. If you believe I'd have an email account, hoping some unknown entity -- human or bot -- will try to contact me, you are completely out of touch with reality.
> Wasn't the Internet supposed to surpass
> the letter and the stamp?
Interesting assumption. But from where you get this fantasy is even more interesting. If this were true, FedEx and UPS and the USPS wouldn't be making money shuttling paper documents around the world. Fax would no longer exist. If in fact your assumption were true, spam is killing that possibility.
...and the even bigger shame is that some people will moan about how valuable content will be lost and not make the smallest effort or contribution toward preserving that information.
It's not a "...sad thing about the Internet..." situation, IMO. W/O the Internet, you might have never even had the opportunity to access that information. Sort of the, "better to have loved and lost..." kind of proposition.
Consider museums and art collections. Folks will donate to museums to preserve artifacts. Why doesn't anyone contribute to websites that preserve and show information?
Wise words. Stuff my father might say. But you are so right. There are parallels to the stock market. Folks thought prices would keep going up and up and up. Well...
Myself, I burned out a few years ago and walked away from a job as VP at a bank. Went hiking, partied a little bit. Then, I reset my career and went back to where I started -- being a PC tech. Nice being able to get a positive performance review working only 40 hours/week. I get to go home smiling. I might be making less than $50K, but OTOH, I'm less stressed than I ever was before. Not much pay, but as you noted, not much risk. Life ain't so bad.
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Oop. My bad. The second link took me to SpyMac.
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...then it might be real, 'cuz I think it's down. I got a 403 just a moment ago.
Sure, I'll accept, for the sake of argument, that layoffs are happening everywhere. Think of it as normalizing. Frankly, a lot of those who are being laid off, would not have even been hired were it not for the dotcom/VC feeding frenzy.
I've seen big-money engineers get the axe and lowlife techs like myself kept on. Where does their workload go? To the lowlife techs. At a fifth to a quarter of the pay the engineers got, the PHB's get to look like heros. I won't even claim to be qualified to do the work of the big-money engineers, so when you see product quality go in the porcelain seat, now you know why.
Being a sysadmin in a good organization is wonderful. OTOH, it can be flaming hemorrhoid if you work for a PHB
I used to work for an insurance company in Honolulu. I had 4 people giving me orders: GL, JW, CM, and JS. The first sign the company sucks is that you have 4 bosses. All desperately needed a good going-over with the old clue-by-four. Yeah, I was on-call. No, they didn't issue pager nor cellphone. They expected me to get my calls at home.
Solution:Caller ID and party at other people's houses nightly. Lots of beer and you get to use the pager as an ugly watch or key fob.
In 3 years, no one could ever figure out why I was never at home. <smirk>
I got a better offer from a bank. I now carry a pager, but the team is so tight I've only had it go off once. Go figure. If the system is designed and run well enough, the pager should not be sounding off nightly. If that fellow's pager is waking him up every night, he might consider that he sucks as a sysadmin.
Soon, the only place you'll see a payphone is in a Sharper Image store, next to the Wurlitzer jukebox and antique Coke machine. Yuppies will buy 'em to decorate their homes.
Maybe they'll be replaced by those suicide booths like on Futurama
It's not so much an acronym as a nickname. Actually, it's a sort of honorific. The convention is long standing. It's a way of paying tribute to a person of significance. Everyone knows your full, legal name. Only a person of note becomes known simply as "rms" or "dmr" or "ken".
Mechanical? No. It's more human and personal that just referring to his formal name. It shows that you recognize his contribution and that you have some knowledge of the person beyond his name.
Yes, you are missing something. (At least in the U.S.) cell phones, even if they are not activated, can place emergency (911) calls. This is helpful for folks who might only need emergency phone service.
I agree, fully. I recently left an insurance company that believed installing a firewall without designating a qualified, diligent administrator solved all its network security problems. Oh, BTW, their Shiva LANRover drills a hole right through the FW-1 box. At least one sysadmin there reads/., so I hope you guys can get JW to take his head out of the sand.
I now work for a bank where my responsibilities include network security review and evaluating intrusion detection products. (Currently playing with Axent's NetProwler.)
Schneier is right about the importance of efforts before and after the fact. Intrusion detection and response are as important as any preventive efforts.
I can see lots of people signing up for this with the best intention. Unfortunately, you know which road is paved with good intentions. I've met lots of folks who freely admit they don't get it. They don't see what Microsoft is doing wrong. OTOH, most of these people are also salesmen and lawyers and that may say something, too. ----------
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We had this happen in Hawaii about a year ago. Copper thieves have darkened stretches of roadway and shut down communicatios as a result of their efforts.
On the bright side, we had two cases where copper thieves cut into live wires. Unfortunately both lived to tell about it but you won't want to see what they look like now. One of the incidents occurred near my office. Lights flickered and went out. Later, on the evening news there was an eyewitness telling a reporter about it. He said the thief ran screaming down the street with the flesh on his arms hanging off like rags.
Unfortunately that hasn't deterred copper theft in the least.
I'm a dorky little Asian guy. I carry 3 knives on me and have trained in Kali and Silat for over 15 years. Not much of a problem here, thanks.
BTW, I carry 3 knives now, but I used to carry only 2. A few years ago, I was the target of a mugging attempt. The fellow ran off with one of my knives stuck in his leg. Bummer. I liked that knife.
> accidentally brushing your arm against
> the ass of the person next to you then
> fishing around in your pocket for a bit.
Sounds more like a reason to not wear a watch.
> This kinda defeats the object of email
> - for people who barely know you, if at
> all, to contact you.
Is this really the object of email? I don't think so. I don't think the intent was to allow cretins to hawk herbal viagra.
> Email is excellent at bringing together
> people from all over the world - what's
> the point if only people you already
> know can contact you using it?
What makes you think people want weirdos sending them unsolicited mail? Electronic or other formats? You start from a fallacious assumption, then really go off in the weeds.
I'd rather not make ad hominem comments, but I can't believe you actually work for a living. If you believe I'd have an email account, hoping some unknown entity -- human or bot -- will try to contact me, you are completely out of touch with reality.
> Wasn't the Internet supposed to surpass
> the letter and the stamp?
Interesting assumption. But from where you get this fantasy is even more interesting. If this were true, FedEx and UPS and the USPS wouldn't be making money shuttling paper documents around the world. Fax would no longer exist. If in fact your assumption were true, spam is killing that possibility.
...and the even bigger shame is that some people will moan about how valuable content will be lost and not make the smallest effort or contribution toward preserving that information.
It's not a "...sad thing about the Internet..." situation, IMO. W/O the Internet, you might have never even had the opportunity to access that information. Sort of the, "better to have loved and lost..." kind of proposition.
Consider museums and art collections. Folks will donate to museums to preserve artifacts. Why doesn't anyone contribute to websites that preserve and show information?
Wise words. Stuff my father might say. But you are so right. There are parallels to the stock market. Folks thought prices would keep going up and up and up. Well...
Myself, I burned out a few years ago and walked away from a job as VP at a bank. Went hiking, partied a little bit. Then, I reset my career and went back to where I started -- being a PC tech. Nice being able to get a positive performance review working only 40 hours/week. I get to go home smiling. I might be making less than $50K, but OTOH, I'm less stressed than I ever was before. Not much pay, but as you noted, not much risk. Life ain't so bad.
Oop. My bad. The second link took me to SpyMac.
Fit and finish on the Gerbers, including the Legend, is pretty bad.
Get a Leatherman -- any model. Much better made. The Juice[s] look nice, but I haven't had the chance to [ab]use one yet.
OTOH, I really like the Victorinox SAKs, especially the Ranger.
I seem to recall that not being able to afford unix was one of the things that sparked him to write the kernel.
Sure, I'll accept, for the sake of argument, that layoffs are happening everywhere. Think of it as normalizing. Frankly, a lot of those who are being laid off, would not have even been hired were it not for the dotcom/VC feeding frenzy.
I've seen big-money engineers get the axe and lowlife techs like myself kept on. Where does their workload go? To the lowlife techs. At a fifth to a quarter of the pay the engineers got, the PHB's get to look like heros. I won't even claim to be qualified to do the work of the big-money engineers, so when you see product quality go in the porcelain seat, now you know why.
I agree.
Being a sysadmin in a good organization is wonderful. OTOH, it can be flaming hemorrhoid if you work for a PHB
I used to work for an insurance company in Honolulu. I had 4 people giving me orders: GL, JW, CM, and JS. The first sign the company sucks is that you have 4 bosses. All desperately needed a good going-over with the old clue-by-four. Yeah, I was on-call. No, they didn't issue pager nor cellphone. They expected me to get my calls at home.
Solution: Caller ID and party at other people's houses nightly. Lots of beer and you get to use the pager as an ugly watch or key fob.
In 3 years, no one could ever figure out why I was never at home. <smirk>
I got a better offer from a bank. I now carry a pager, but the team is so tight I've only had it go off once. Go figure. If the system is designed and run well enough, the pager should not be sounding off nightly. If that fellow's pager is waking him up every night, he might consider that he sucks as a sysadmin.
I suppose actually reading before you posted something this stupid was out of the question?
My opinion, but anonymity is a right, not just a necessity. I do agreee with your point.
Soon, the only place you'll see a payphone is in a Sharper Image store, next to the Wurlitzer jukebox and antique Coke machine. Yuppies will buy 'em to decorate their homes.
Maybe they'll be replaced by those suicide booths like on Futurama
It's not so much an acronym as a nickname. Actually, it's a sort of honorific. The convention is long standing. It's a way of paying tribute to a person of significance. Everyone knows your full, legal name. Only a person of note becomes known simply as "rms" or "dmr" or "ken".
Mechanical? No. It's more human and personal that just referring to his formal name. It shows that you recognize his contribution and that you have some knowledge of the person beyond his name.
Hmm. "...starting to be tested by Verison?"
Nothing like making money off vaporware. You probably work for Micro$loth. It rings of the M$ FUD that Linux is based on old technology.
Yes, you are missing something. (At least in the U.S.) cell phones, even if they are not activated, can place emergency (911) calls. This is helpful for folks who might only need emergency phone service.
Here in Hawaii, we just found 2 people toasted on a lava field. I guess no one reads the warning signs.
I guess this just shows what they teach in the U.K. these days. Maybe the lessons of some 224 years ago were forgotten?
The U.S. Constitution I read does not assure you the right to be stupid and irresponsible.
The 2nd Amendment guarantees us the right to the means of overthrowing a tyrannical government. BTW, it was first used against you people.
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In my area (HNL), Voicestream, Nextel and SprintPCS phones all have email addresses so you don't need to set up your own email-to-SMS gateway.
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Interesting, but isn't that consistent -- "...defending GPL purity..." and "...threatening to push away corporate newcomers..."?
With all the nouveau Linux distros chasing the dollar, it's good that Debian can remind folks of the Open Source/Free Software ideals.
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I agree, fully. I recently left an insurance company that believed installing a firewall without designating a qualified, diligent administrator solved all its network security problems. Oh, BTW, their Shiva LANRover drills a hole right through the FW-1 box. At least one sysadmin there reads /., so I hope you guys can get JW to take his head out of the sand.
I now work for a bank where my responsibilities include network security review and evaluating intrusion detection products. (Currently playing with Axent's NetProwler.)
Schneier is right about the importance of efforts before and after the fact. Intrusion detection and response are as important as any preventive efforts.
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I can see lots of people signing up for this with the best intention. Unfortunately, you know which road is paved with good intentions. I've met lots of folks who freely admit they don't get it. They don't see what Microsoft is doing wrong. OTOH, most of these people are also salesmen and lawyers and that may say something, too.
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...*not* like the Irish, WRT fighting and drinking? Obviously, you don't know many Koreans. :-)
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