Am I the only one who prefers to wait for the finished product rather than watch it in two-minute disjointed chunks over the course of the next three months?
I quit watching trailers entirely for this reason and because they almost always give away the plot (or the best jokes, or the twist) anymore. Tron: Legacy, for example (admittedly, not exactly a thespianic masterpiece), completely ruined the entire plot start to finish for me with a four-word sentence in the trailer. It gave it away completely.
Wouldn't it be easier to just add EVERYONE to the terror list? I was about to say "and drop off those who have been cleared", but I couldn't stop laughing long enough to add it.
Weren't the telcos already given a crapload of money to expand broadband access, which they proceeded to piss away? I'm not paying yet another tax, on top of a USF, an FCC surcharge, a tiered-pricing plan, and all of the other ways they already nickle-and-dime us to death. We are already not getting what we're paying for.
Then you need to have put that information into the original request instead of expecting us to read your mind.
It was obvious to me that he was looking for something that wasn't VNC. I think Slashdot readers are generally so used to being highly technical that they forget that not everyone can (or wants to) roll their own solution from scratch. The users he's trying to support will certainly not have any expertise in activating a support session, or they wouldn't be calling for support to begin with. The solution, therefore, has to be as simple as possible. What he's looking for is something similar to Bomgar (which we use extensively), but is FOSS (which Bomgar most definitely is not).
> Start voting for politicians who will protect your rights
I'd love to. Show me one
You'll never see one as long as people keep voting for the status quo. When politicians start understanding that we're sick of this crap and that we won't put up with their poor leadership, then they'll start to change and we'll start getting better candidates. That will never happen, though.
And nothing will come of it. The police will continue to do things exactly as they are now, and we'll continue to lose more of our privacy and civil rights every day. Oh, perhaps they'll throw us a bone by making it harder (although not impossible) to obtain their stored data, but the data will still be there. They won't give up that "valuable tool in the War Against Crime" and the courts will side with them, as they always have when this sort of thing comes up.
Start voting for politicians who will protect your rights and stop voting for just whichever idiot happens to be a member of your party.
People don't care about it because it's not lip-synching an over-produced pop song, it doesn't have actors trying to pawn things, it's not trying to sleep with a housemate, and it doesn't carry crab traps.
I would LOVE to see the F1 back in action. Few things have inspired such awe in me as the launch of a Saturn V rocket and the five tremendous columns of fire atop which it strode.
I did iPhone already. I really go across the board, so I had an iPhone before because it was important for me to understand touch devices at the entry level. I had the Samsung Mini for a while. I change them on a pretty regular basis.
For us, the devices were never the problem. For the most part, they were fine and they worked as they were supposed to. The problem was the numerous outages that lasted a day or longer, with no explanation. It was the cumbersome and monolithic software you needed to buy and maintain to connect to your mail servers. It was the ridiculously-expensive support contracts you needed if you had a problem. It was the lack of detailed documentation for the technical side of things. The fact that this guy is swapping his phones out to "understand touch devices" makes him sound like he has no idea what he's doing.
but come on, everyone knows that business people aren't allowed to enjoy themselves on flights. if the IT goons didn't lock down the phones so that you can't do anything on them the company will fall apart? imagine the horror of the director of something using his phone to download a non-IT approved app like Angry Birds to play while on a business trip? the client will freak and pull the business
if you take the power away from the IT goons to lock everything down what will they do? how will they get their power trip on?
Have you ever stopped to ask yourself why the "IT goons" lock things down? Do you REALLY think it's a power trip? Are you that much of a child that you believe that to be the case? Or are you just trolling? Have you ever actually just asked to have Angry Birds added to the approved app list, or do you just complain about it like a petulant schoolgirl?
Given that you have a low user ID, I'm going to assume you've been on Slashdot for a long time and therefore are at least somewhat technical. I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume that you truly are not a moron and that you know that things get locked down for one reason and one reason only: To protect the company from idiot users. If left to their own, users will invariably create huge regulatory compliance issues (which can easily result in fines in the millions of dollars), introduce malware into the network, lose data, the list goes on. IT is responsible for the company data. If you want to take responsibility for that data, then you can decide how to protect it.
Also another hint. If you have to deal with a lot of unmarked jacks throughout the building, enlist a helper or two and use wireless headsets. One person at the rack with a keen eye for a light going out, and another one or two elsewhere briefly unplugging ethernet cables from live machines. Makes identification of jacks actually quick and easy.
FYI: Most decent cable tracers will have a "blink" function. You plug in a module under the desk and it'll blink the switch status light with a pattern that's easy to pick out of a rack by glance. If the port's not cross-connected, then it's time to break out the tone and pickup wand.
Clearly, the solution is to arrest and prosecute the researchers and pretend that this isn't a giant security hole. That way, the company's profits will still be protected and they won't have to spend more R&D money on fixing the problem.
If you're not planning on using the gun illegally, then why would you care if the gun has identifiable parts/imprintings/etc.? I'm all for allowing people to legally own guns. I'm not all for allowing people to try and hide traces of their usage.
Because when the firing pin has to be replaced (and it will, because it's a consumable item), you go from a $2 part to a $150 part. Furthermore, any criminal is going to file the number off the firing pin almost immediately. The law will do nothing to prosecute crime while at the same time making firearm ownership prohibitively expensive. It's yet another in a long line of back-alley legislation to infringe the rights of law-abiding gun owners.
By the author's own admission, they didn't "fail to detect". They HAD copies of the virus in their reporting database but ignored them. Why are customers reporting samples if the antivirus companies aren't paying any attention? I'd like to hear more on that explanation and not more excuses like "well, it works like a business database".
Definitely ask your users what they want to use. However, they're all going to say something different. You won't be able to make them all happy and certainly not for cheap/free. You may just have to pick one solution that everyone can live with and standardize the network in that solution. "Oh, you can't use $OTHER_DEVICE with our free solution? Well, you can either buy a copy yourself or use the solution we all agreed on." Supporting many different platforms is difficult and can be expensive.
I see old women do this all of the time. Not making their own barcodes, mind you, but swapping the code from the seeded cucumbers to the unseeded ones, or switch the tag from a generic bible and put it onto the fancy one they have their eye on. I wish I wasn't serious.
I see this all too frequently myself. Yes, even the bible one. The irony of someone stealing a bible is not lost on me, either.
I'd much prefer a flat-rate unlimited plan, but I also recognize that a small percentage of users consume a disproportionate amount of bandwidth and that has to be managed somehow. I don't want a data cap. I'd much rather have the option of an affordable tier if I go over that cap, provided I'm given easy-to-use tools to see what my current utilization is. What I don't want is for that next tier to be ridiculously expensive as a disincentive to use it. I don't think $10 for an additional 50GB is unreasonable, although cheaper would be better.
CIO: In order to support [business_plan], we need the following infrastructure: [list of modern hardware]
CEO: But think of the bottom line! Make it work with what we've got now.
CIO: It won't work with what we have now. What we have now is insufficiently powerful, further it's out of warranty and we run increased risk of catastrophic hardware failures the longer we fail to replace it with up to date infrastructure that can handle the current bandwidth, storage and processing requirements.
CEO: But maintenance costs money. Just make it work with what we have.
In my experience, the response of the CEO to anything even remotely technical is "All I heard was 'Blah blah blah I'm a big egghead nerd.' I don't understand a word you said and I really don't care. Listen, Poindexter, you just make it work with what we've got and stop spending all our money on Ward of Whirlcraft, or whatever it is you guys do all day."
Without discussing the relative merits of specific governmental policies, why shouldn't a theocracy be a valid form of government if the people choose it? I think any body of people has the right to choose whatever form of government they want. If they want a government designed around a religious text, who am I to tell them they can't have it?
that they have a right to tell governments what to do.
I'm sure you didn't mean it to sound this way, but in case you did, who do you think DOES have the right to tell governments what to do if not the people they govern?
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Luckily, he's changed his mind about splitting it in half. Now it's a trilogy instead.
Am I the only one who prefers to wait for the finished product rather than watch it in two-minute disjointed chunks over the course of the next three months?
I quit watching trailers entirely for this reason and because they almost always give away the plot (or the best jokes, or the twist) anymore. Tron: Legacy, for example (admittedly, not exactly a thespianic masterpiece), completely ruined the entire plot start to finish for me with a four-word sentence in the trailer. It gave it away completely.
Wouldn't it be easier to just add EVERYONE to the terror list? I was about to say "and drop off those who have been cleared", but I couldn't stop laughing long enough to add it.
Weren't the telcos already given a crapload of money to expand broadband access, which they proceeded to piss away? I'm not paying yet another tax, on top of a USF, an FCC surcharge, a tiered-pricing plan, and all of the other ways they already nickle-and-dime us to death. We are already not getting what we're paying for.
Then you need to have put that information into the original request instead of expecting us to read your mind.
It was obvious to me that he was looking for something that wasn't VNC. I think Slashdot readers are generally so used to being highly technical that they forget that not everyone can (or wants to) roll their own solution from scratch. The users he's trying to support will certainly not have any expertise in activating a support session, or they wouldn't be calling for support to begin with. The solution, therefore, has to be as simple as possible. What he's looking for is something similar to Bomgar (which we use extensively), but is FOSS (which Bomgar most definitely is not).
> Start voting for politicians who will protect your rights
I'd love to. Show me one
You'll never see one as long as people keep voting for the status quo. When politicians start understanding that we're sick of this crap and that we won't put up with their poor leadership, then they'll start to change and we'll start getting better candidates. That will never happen, though.
And nothing will come of it. The police will continue to do things exactly as they are now, and we'll continue to lose more of our privacy and civil rights every day. Oh, perhaps they'll throw us a bone by making it harder (although not impossible) to obtain their stored data, but the data will still be there. They won't give up that "valuable tool in the War Against Crime" and the courts will side with them, as they always have when this sort of thing comes up.
Start voting for politicians who will protect your rights and stop voting for just whichever idiot happens to be a member of your party.
People don't care about it because it's not lip-synching an over-produced pop song, it doesn't have actors trying to pawn things, it's not trying to sleep with a housemate, and it doesn't carry crab traps.
I would LOVE to see the F1 back in action. Few things have inspired such awe in me as the launch of a Saturn V rocket and the five tremendous columns of fire atop which it strode.
FTFA:
No iPhone? You're only using an Android device?
I did iPhone already. I really go across the board, so I had an iPhone before because it was important for me to understand touch devices at the entry level. I had the Samsung Mini for a while. I change them on a pretty regular basis.
For us, the devices were never the problem. For the most part, they were fine and they worked as they were supposed to. The problem was the numerous outages that lasted a day or longer, with no explanation. It was the cumbersome and monolithic software you needed to buy and maintain to connect to your mail servers. It was the ridiculously-expensive support contracts you needed if you had a problem. It was the lack of detailed documentation for the technical side of things. The fact that this guy is swapping his phones out to "understand touch devices" makes him sound like he has no idea what he's doing.
but come on, everyone knows that business people aren't allowed to enjoy themselves on flights. if the IT goons didn't lock down the phones so that you can't do anything on them the company will fall apart? imagine the horror of the director of something using his phone to download a non-IT approved app like Angry Birds to play while on a business trip? the client will freak and pull the business
if you take the power away from the IT goons to lock everything down what will they do? how will they get their power trip on?
Have you ever stopped to ask yourself why the "IT goons" lock things down? Do you REALLY think it's a power trip? Are you that much of a child that you believe that to be the case? Or are you just trolling? Have you ever actually just asked to have Angry Birds added to the approved app list, or do you just complain about it like a petulant schoolgirl?
Given that you have a low user ID, I'm going to assume you've been on Slashdot for a long time and therefore are at least somewhat technical. I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume that you truly are not a moron and that you know that things get locked down for one reason and one reason only: To protect the company from idiot users. If left to their own, users will invariably create huge regulatory compliance issues (which can easily result in fines in the millions of dollars), introduce malware into the network, lose data, the list goes on. IT is responsible for the company data. If you want to take responsibility for that data, then you can decide how to protect it.
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Also another hint. If you have to deal with a lot of unmarked jacks throughout the building, enlist a helper or two and use wireless headsets. One person at the rack with a keen eye for a light going out, and another one or two elsewhere briefly unplugging ethernet cables from live machines. Makes identification of jacks actually quick and easy.
FYI: Most decent cable tracers will have a "blink" function. You plug in a module under the desk and it'll blink the switch status light with a pattern that's easy to pick out of a rack by glance. If the port's not cross-connected, then it's time to break out the tone and pickup wand.
Clearly, the solution is to arrest and prosecute the researchers and pretend that this isn't a giant security hole. That way, the company's profits will still be protected and they won't have to spend more R&D money on fixing the problem.
If you're not planning on using the gun illegally, then why would you care if the gun has identifiable parts/imprintings/etc.? I'm all for allowing people to legally own guns. I'm not all for allowing people to try and hide traces of their usage.
Because when the firing pin has to be replaced (and it will, because it's a consumable item), you go from a $2 part to a $150 part. Furthermore, any criminal is going to file the number off the firing pin almost immediately. The law will do nothing to prosecute crime while at the same time making firearm ownership prohibitively expensive. It's yet another in a long line of back-alley legislation to infringe the rights of law-abiding gun owners.
Soooooo....enter your password into this completely legitimate and not-at-all-a-harvesting-tool password checker and we'll tell you if it's secure?
Ima get right on that.
By the author's own admission, they didn't "fail to detect". They HAD copies of the virus in their reporting database but ignored them. Why are customers reporting samples if the antivirus companies aren't paying any attention? I'd like to hear more on that explanation and not more excuses like "well, it works like a business database".
Definitely ask your users what they want to use. However, they're all going to say something different. You won't be able to make them all happy and certainly not for cheap/free. You may just have to pick one solution that everyone can live with and standardize the network in that solution. "Oh, you can't use $OTHER_DEVICE with our free solution? Well, you can either buy a copy yourself or use the solution we all agreed on." Supporting many different platforms is difficult and can be expensive.
I see old women do this all of the time. Not making their own barcodes, mind you, but swapping the code from the seeded cucumbers to the unseeded ones, or switch the tag from a generic bible and put it onto the fancy one they have their eye on. I wish I wasn't serious.
I see this all too frequently myself. Yes, even the bible one. The irony of someone stealing a bible is not lost on me, either.
I'd much prefer a flat-rate unlimited plan, but I also recognize that a small percentage of users consume a disproportionate amount of bandwidth and that has to be managed somehow. I don't want a data cap. I'd much rather have the option of an affordable tier if I go over that cap, provided I'm given easy-to-use tools to see what my current utilization is. What I don't want is for that next tier to be ridiculously expensive as a disincentive to use it. I don't think $10 for an additional 50GB is unreasonable, although cheaper would be better.
How world works:
CIO: In order to support [business_plan], we need the following infrastructure: [list of modern hardware]
CEO: But think of the bottom line! Make it work with what we've got now.
CIO: It won't work with what we have now. What we have now is insufficiently powerful, further it's out of warranty and we run increased risk of catastrophic hardware failures the longer we fail to replace it with up to date infrastructure that can handle the current bandwidth, storage and processing requirements.
CEO: But maintenance costs money. Just make it work with what we have.
In my experience, the response of the CEO to anything even remotely technical is "All I heard was 'Blah blah blah I'm a big egghead nerd.' I don't understand a word you said and I really don't care. Listen, Poindexter, you just make it work with what we've got and stop spending all our money on Ward of Whirlcraft, or whatever it is you guys do all day."
Without discussing the relative merits of specific governmental policies, why shouldn't a theocracy be a valid form of government if the people choose it? I think any body of people has the right to choose whatever form of government they want. If they want a government designed around a religious text, who am I to tell them they can't have it?
that they have a right to tell governments what to do.
I'm sure you didn't mean it to sound this way, but in case you did, who do you think DOES have the right to tell governments what to do if not the people they govern?
The customers I support will continue to buy whatever the cheapest version is and then get pissed at me when I can't join it to their domain.
If you invent a word, then you get to invent the definition. I say Louis CK succeeded 100% in flrduburging his material.
If he's making money and he's happy with the result, then Paramount can STFU.
Just one more tax and I'm sure all of the country's money problems will be solved. Just ONE more... Honest!