Who in their right mind decides to fire the entire staff and inhouse knowledge base of an asset they are looking at potentially trying to maximise the return on? Doesn't that kinda devalue the asset immensely?
All they have currently is the domain, database and what ever infrastructure has been assigned to the project. Anyone looking at acquiring it would need either get their inhouse staff up to speed very quickly on the entire setup once they got their hands on it or go out looking to lure back the laid-off and possibly jaded staff the Yahoo has let go.
One of the most important things you can do is to get your cabling right now. Put in more than you need currently. Keep the cabling runs accessible.
You know that classroom that isn't currently designated as a 'computer room' - it's now 5 years later with a different school head and they want it to be one.
Even if you don't run 20-30 cables per room (that would be very expensive, I know) make sure there are at least 5. If your school has money, which it seems to do (atm at least), then at least do that now. There will be possibility of a phone, PA/Fire Alarm system (now coming to you over VoIP), teacher's laptop, teacher's permanent desktop, interactive whiteboard, projector, network printer and any other of an array of goodies that could be fitted in to that room.
People tend to focus on the visible stuff in a room ie the computers. It is essential that you keep in mind that all of those computers require infrastructure to keep them operational. And keep reminding the people with the purse strings of that. It should become second nature to all of you every time you want a room with computers in it to then think to yourselves "OK, now how about the cabling - how much network cable will we need and where is it going to run to. How much power is this room going to need?"
And that brings me to another point. A classroom isn't like an office building. Electricians tend to plan things out as if it is an office. They can overlook the fact that in a classroom environment *all* of those computers could be booting up at once. Is that going to trip a circuit breaker? Remind them that it is a school, not an office where people roll in one after the other and boot things and do things a few at a time. Also if you are putting in heat/cooling stick it on a different circuit - assume that everything will be running all at once at full capacity even if only for 15 minutes at a time. Also keep thing in mind for future proofing the place - even if wiring it all now will be prohibitively expensive make sure that they leave enough leeway and access to allow for more future expansion.
I shouldn't have to point out now that similar principles should be applied to the networking and server side of things in the back end? All of those cables will need to plug in to something somewhere along the way. Right now it is safe to have a 100mbit connection to each computer (unless they are video editing and saving Gbs of data to the network) - but for the love of god please ensure that your core network is gigabit and redundant. A few classrooms of students all streaming video is going to bring the entire network to a grinding halt if it isn't.
I had a similar thought about it a few years back. But instead of using image recognition to acheive the results (which is going to be difficult because of different signs being used from state to state/county to county most of the time. What about using something along the lines of RFID tags to identify signs? As they drive along the RFID could then decifer the codes and then warn about dangers etc.
Of course it could also inform you of your bad choice in clothing, but life is full of ups and downs.
Pretend you moved into an office, and got mail delivered to the previous occupant... it's still a federal crime for you to open that mail if it's not addressed to you. Now, I'm not saying it's necessarily as clear cut with email, but it's the same general thing, and it is immoral.
Uhm. What? If you move into a new cubicle or house or what-have-you, then the mail is *obviously* going to be addressed to PreviousOccupier'sName @ Cubicle/address and so on. How is webmaster@cyberangels.nl or any other address that ends up the same know what mail is destined for that exact person and what email is for the previous webmaster (or nl2323asshat) unless they open it?
There is nothing immoral with this as long as they don't publish personally identifying information.
The New South Wales government has become so sick of the problems with the national telco (Telstra) that they have begun steps to rolling out their own state wide IT backbone infrastructure which they hope will compete (and out do) the system currently in place.
Sadly I have no links to provide and no idea how far this idea/project has actually gotten. If they acheive it I'm sure it will be nothing but good news for the high tech industry in this state.
So what? A quick click on the link to the 3 month charting of the stock reveals that less than a month ago the stock was trading at just $3.25
If the stock price goes back to that level and continues towards 0 then the execs may get the idea. But when the stock price doubles in about a week then they are going to continue on with whatever it is they were doing at the time it happened.
The only problem with your arguement is probably this bit:
then reproduce into other plants.
As far as I'm aware most genetically engineered plantlife is purposely made sterile. It won't create seeds that will then grow into new plants.
By doing this they can ensure a farmer will return to them year after year for new grain rather than just buying it one year and cultivating all subsequent crops from that first batch. It's just not good business sense. On top of which, as people have said/insinuated in other posts, what would be stopping *everyone* from then getting their hands on the offspring and using it for their own crops? Pantents? Not if everyone is using it and saying "just blew in on the wind, honest!"
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State Opposition Justice spokesman Lawrence Springborg
Pretty much spot on. Although maybe not the actual shadow minister for justice. Sounds more like someone who just works for said minister and looks/sounds pretty for the media.
A police ministers meeting in Darwin
Each state and territory in.au has it's own police force which is overseen by that state's government. So each state government also has a minister of police. They don't actually have hands on roles in running the police. It's more of a liason role with the police commisioner of each state (who actually heads each police force) and provides them with laws and guidelines to follow. Or something along those lines.
Senator Ellison's decision to give the new Australian Crime Commission the power to investigate cyber crime.
He's not actually just handing out the powers by decreeing them. The motion will still have to cycle through both houses of parliament but it's pretty much a given that it will pass seeing as he belongs to the governing party and unless there are dissenters in the party then it will get a majority vote. It's only called his decision because he is the one attributed with introducing it to parliament.
If I have this all wrong then please clarify/correct.
A couple of airlines now have small 6" LCD screens in the back of each seat (even in economy class) that screen a range of new release movies, tv programs, flight information and even provide a gaming console (nintendo, pc games, etc).
Having just flown to and from London from Sydney (20hours in the air each way) I can say that between those options there's enough there to at least keep you vaguely entertained for most of the journey. They may not be freeciv, but for a mere 7 flight as yours is then they're enough.
Honestly, if you're going economy laptops are annoying and cumbersome. You're much better off pricing airlines that look after their passengers.
As an active member of the Engineering Dept., wouldn't your main priority be to set up a streaming broadcast of lectures straight to the University Bar/Pub thereby eliminating the need for students/faculty members from ever having to leave?
Granted that on the surface Innovation Patents such as the example in the article can be rubber stamped, but this system really isn't such a bad idea.
It allows individuals to cheaply (no idea what it costs for this service?) register with a government authority the fact that they had this idea on or around a date. This in itself is going to save the small time or once off innovator in the long run.
How many incidents are there where ideas have been taken and patented by larger companies? I'm sure I've read about a few. Even if it doesn't happen all that often it's certainly a weight off the mind of the innovator to know that they can dispute future cashing in on ideas or patent registrations simply by pointing to a government endorsed register.
Simply, the new system is for peace of mind and for easy resolution of disputes.
The "mother" was bull-shitting the AOL rep. Scamming, lying, social-engineering. Mark my words -- you'd have heard about the AOL-stalking child-abducter otherwise. The caller was almost certainly not actually a mother, and was just trying to extract someone else's identity from a trusting AOL staffer. It burns me to see people who ought to be tech-savvy still perpetuating the myth that the Internet is overrun with pedophiles and child abusers, when the reality is that it's overrun by petty, vindictive, malicious, lying adults.
My question is why was the mother so concerned about who the person on the other end was and not how to find out where her son is so she can rescue him? Surely this would have been the more plausible request of someone in this situation.
I'm confident explaining the "backscroll" feature of various chat services wasn't against the rules.
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Perl and Ruby and VBA (to name a few from the article) are dead and dying?
Author has their head up their arse.
Perl isn't going away anywhere close to soon. Citing perl 6's long development cycle is hardly proof.
Ruby is being used by more and more devop style projects. Puppet and Chef are hardly small time in that sphere.
VBA will continue to be used in corporate environments.
What if this teacher had candid photos of children on their page? Or worse.
Then they need to take their suspicions to the relevant authorities and obtain a legal warrant. You know, due diligence? Innocent until proven guilty?
And since when is "candid" equated to porn? OMG Candid Camera was a TV show about pornography!
You mean like a wiki?
Yeah, we have those too. And they are being used to keep an encyclopaedia, if you will, of knowledge! How about that!
OK, so maybe Apple isn't using the data to track people but who else has access to the data that might be?
They're not just grabbing this data for the hell of it, surely?
They're looking at selling or offloading it?
Who in their right mind decides to fire the entire staff and inhouse knowledge base of an asset they are looking at potentially trying to maximise the return on? Doesn't that kinda devalue the asset immensely?
All they have currently is the domain, database and what ever infrastructure has been assigned to the project. Anyone looking at acquiring it would need either get their inhouse staff up to speed very quickly on the entire setup once they got their hands on it or go out looking to lure back the laid-off and possibly jaded staff the Yahoo has let go.
Sounds like a whole lotta back peddling to me.
One of the most important things you can do is to get your cabling right now. Put in more than you need currently. Keep the cabling runs accessible.
You know that classroom that isn't currently designated as a 'computer room' - it's now 5 years later with a different school head and they want it to be one.
Even if you don't run 20-30 cables per room (that would be very expensive, I know) make sure there are at least 5. If your school has money, which it seems to do (atm at least), then at least do that now. There will be possibility of a phone, PA/Fire Alarm system (now coming to you over VoIP), teacher's laptop, teacher's permanent desktop, interactive whiteboard, projector, network printer and any other of an array of goodies that could be fitted in to that room.
People tend to focus on the visible stuff in a room ie the computers. It is essential that you keep in mind that all of those computers require infrastructure to keep them operational. And keep reminding the people with the purse strings of that. It should become second nature to all of you every time you want a room with computers in it to then think to yourselves "OK, now how about the cabling - how much network cable will we need and where is it going to run to. How much power is this room going to need?"
And that brings me to another point. A classroom isn't like an office building. Electricians tend to plan things out as if it is an office. They can overlook the fact that in a classroom environment *all* of those computers could be booting up at once. Is that going to trip a circuit breaker? Remind them that it is a school, not an office where people roll in one after the other and boot things and do things a few at a time. Also if you are putting in heat/cooling stick it on a different circuit - assume that everything will be running all at once at full capacity even if only for 15 minutes at a time. Also keep thing in mind for future proofing the place - even if wiring it all now will be prohibitively expensive make sure that they leave enough leeway and access to allow for more future expansion.
I shouldn't have to point out now that similar principles should be applied to the networking and server side of things in the back end? All of those cables will need to plug in to something somewhere along the way. Right now it is safe to have a 100mbit connection to each computer (unless they are video editing and saving Gbs of data to the network) - but for the love of god please ensure that your core network is gigabit and redundant. A few classrooms of students all streaming video is going to bring the entire network to a grinding halt if it isn't.
I had a similar thought about it a few years back. But instead of using image recognition to acheive the results (which is going to be difficult because of different signs being used from state to state/county to county most of the time. What about using something along the lines of RFID tags to identify signs? As they drive along the RFID could then decifer the codes and then warn about dangers etc.
Of course it could also inform you of your bad choice in clothing, but life is full of ups and downs.
Maybe they licence it from SCO?
Uhm. What? If you move into a new cubicle or house or what-have-you, then the mail is *obviously* going to be addressed to PreviousOccupier'sName @ Cubicle/address and so on. How is webmaster@cyberangels.nl or any other address that ends up the same know what mail is destined for that exact person and what email is for the previous webmaster (or nl2323asshat) unless they open it?
There is nothing immoral with this as long as they don't publish personally identifying information.
Sadly I have no links to provide and no idea how far this idea/project has actually gotten. If they acheive it I'm sure it will be nothing but good news for the high tech industry in this state.
You mean I have to buy a new one every time?!
So what? A quick click on the link to the 3 month charting of the stock reveals that less than a month ago the stock was trading at just $3.25
If the stock price goes back to that level and continues towards 0 then the execs may get the idea. But when the stock price doubles in about a week then they are going to continue on with whatever it is they were doing at the time it happened.
Chisel? Bah. You had it easy.
then reproduce into other plants.
As far as I'm aware most genetically engineered plantlife is purposely made sterile. It won't create seeds that will then grow into new plants.
By doing this they can ensure a farmer will return to them year after year for new grain rather than just buying it one year and cultivating all subsequent crops from that first batch. It's just not good business sense. On top of which, as people have said/insinuated in other posts, what would be stopping *everyone* from then getting their hands on the offspring and using it for their own crops? Pantents? Not if everyone is using it and saying "just blew in on the wind, honest!"
I would've changed it to "DEAD AND ALIVE"
Like a committee.
Pretty much spot on. Although maybe not the actual shadow minister for justice. Sounds more like someone who just works for said minister and looks/sounds pretty for the media.
Each state and territory in
He's not actually just handing out the powers by decreeing them. The motion will still have to cycle through both houses of parliament but it's pretty much a given that it will pass seeing as he belongs to the governing party and unless there are dissenters in the party then it will get a majority vote. It's only called his decision because he is the one attributed with introducing it to parliament.
If I have this all wrong then please clarify/correct.
I really think they should embrace and extend the EULA with the simple addition of a large fonted, capitalised "Just kidding!" right at the end.
Having just flown to and from London from Sydney (20hours in the air each way) I can say that between those options there's enough there to at least keep you vaguely entertained for most of the journey. They may not be freeciv, but for a mere 7 flight as yours is then they're enough.
Honestly, if you're going economy laptops are annoying and cumbersome. You're much better off pricing airlines that look after their passengers.
As an active member of the Engineering Dept., wouldn't your main priority be to set up a streaming broadcast of lectures straight to the University Bar/Pub thereby eliminating the need for students/faculty members from ever having to leave?
If you are going to go on to a Masters anyway why not start out closer to the goal?
Enter at the Graduate Certificate level. Atriculate to the Graduate Diploma. And top it off with the Masters.
It may not be the fast track of 1 year you are looking for, but it may take as little as 3 years to attain a complete Masters.
Clear English? This would be some sort of irony or one of those clever things, wouldn't it?
What the hell is "kvetching" anyway? Is it even English?!
It allows individuals to cheaply (no idea what it costs for this service?) register with a government authority the fact that they had this idea on or around a date. This in itself is going to save the small time or once off innovator in the long run.
How many incidents are there where ideas have been taken and patented by larger companies? I'm sure I've read about a few. Even if it doesn't happen all that often it's certainly a weight off the mind of the innovator to know that they can dispute future cashing in on ideas or patent registrations simply by pointing to a government endorsed register.
Simply, the new system is for peace of mind and for easy resolution of disputes.
My question is why was the mother so concerned about who the person on the other end was and not how to find out where her son is so she can rescue him? Surely this would have been the more plausible request of someone in this situation.
I'm confident explaining the "backscroll" feature of various chat services wasn't against the rules.
As well as the news article this link probably should have been included in the story as well.
The only reason I want it is so I can have SOS as my URl (think morse code).