This is what happens when you make your search engine the default one for your web browser as well as make it difficult for someone to add or change this option.
Duh!
Indeed. It would be very interesting to know the number of Bing searches that originate from the search toolbar widget in IE.
And of those, what percentage are for non-savvy users searching Bing for "google.com".
If it is new, it is unfortunate not only to reuse an acronym, but reusing one in the same domain.
There are only 17,576 three letter acronyms. We've been warning people for years of the need to upgrade to TLAv6, which allows for a wider range of three letter acronyms, including punctuation and numbers as well as unicode support. But many major buzzword providers have refused to upgrade. The last unique TLAs will be depleted within 18 months in our field. Thanks to AAT (Acronym Address Translation), there are already far more TLAs than there are available spaces -- we've been using CIAR (Classless Inter-Acronym Routing) to separate namespaces based on subject matter and field, but it's only a matter of time before even that fails.
To be fair, it takes him a few solid whallops before it does break, and the rep doesn't look the least bit concerned until it actually snaps.
To be fair, they have a good laugh about it after it breaks, too. The company rep doesn't act embarrassed, and has good humor about it.
I think if I needed a rugged phone I'd probably consider one from this company anyway, it's certainly a more durable phone than a regular phone. Obviously not "indestructible" but it'd handle being in my pocket.
Of course, it'll be a long time before Firefox is "perfect". In reality, that will never happen. Still, the same argument could be applied for sufficiently high values of "good enough".
In this sort of situation, I would hope that they'd start putting resources on other projects. Endlessly polishing Firefox to keep people employed does not make economic sense. Those developers could turn their attention to Bugzilla, or to Thunderbird, or come up with a new project. Leave a smaller number of people behind to keep maintaining Firefox and porting it to other platforms, perhaps.
Extensions and the customization they provide is THE reason I use Firefox. If they are so foolish as to eliminate this capability, they're going to lose a lot of users. If this happens, I won't upgrade for as long as I can, and when I'm eventually forced to switch, I'll find a browser that supports allowing me to customize it. I wouldn't be surprised at all if the OSS community forks the project over this.
Here in the USA, only the TSA may try to test TSA security. Some reporters tried shortly after the agency was established, and they were all told their reports couldn't air.
If Security is insecure about the news reporting on their lack of security, then they shouldn't be working in security; they should be working in insecurity.
You wouldn't buy the article AFTER reading the whole thing and knowing what it already says, either, would you? Ah!
I guess scientists should spend years studying and researching and publish their findings for free, and for dinner they can eat the rainbows that shoot out of your butt.
If you're casually interested in the topic, probably you don't want to bother paying money for it. Bitch about it if you want to; the unfair world doesn't publish scientific findings for free and hand deliver them to your doorstep on demand. Boo hoo.
If you're professionally or academically interested, you're probably more willing to pay for it. If the publication or the authors are reputable, you're probably not going to be disappointed with the investment. The work necessary to acquire a reputation has costs associated with it, which are in part recouped by the sale of access rights to published works. It might not be a perfect utopia, but it works.
I'm not going to pay for the privilege of reading the article, but thanks to the free coverage that I did read, I now know a little bit more about something interesting going on in the scientific community. And just maybe, a few more dollars are flowing to scientific work because of the publicity. Hardly a bad thing.
Slashdot posts news stories about hardware that you can't get your hands on without paying for it. It posts reviews of books that you can't read without paying for them (short of going to a library). Why should it be any different for a scientific journal that happens to have an online edition? The news is the discovery. The article happens to contain more information about the methods, data, and the findings. So what if it costs money to read it? Isn't supporting the scientific community worth something?
It depends on where the lines are drawn in the organization, whether IT staff have any kind of management role, or not. If IT staff have an IT manager, that's who should be greenlighting projects. If IT staff report directly to the departments they serve, they need to filter requests through some sort of sanity check process, and if this entails acting in a management capacity, then so be it. If this doesn't happen somewhere in the organization, you end up with IT embarking in pie-in-the-sky projects on anyone's whim, with no budget support, without well-defined goals, and without a plan. It's a disaster.
The real question is are you always constantly working your ass off, fixing stupid problems - and therefore unable to do anything more productive? If so, then it seems you don't have enough^H^H^H^H^H^H the right people.
A good SA can come in and make a lot of these stupid little problems go away, never to return.
These sorts of problems can also be caused by bad management exerting too much control over the admins, or admins with weak people skills trying to please everyone rather than prioritize and do the right thing.
When asked to do something, to you just go ahead and do it? Or do you require things like justifications, business cases, funding, staff, etc? If management can just ask anything of the IT staff, they will do so, and it will feel like you're being walked all over, and that you're overworked. If you have some basic sanity checks and make those requirements before a project can be greenlighted, you'll find that your job can be a lot easier. Doing this also makes planning happen before you get midway through a project and find that different stakeholders have different opinions on what should be done next.
Red/Green colorblindness is nothing new; that's why the lights are standardized to have green at the bottom and red at the top. If you can't distinguish red from green, you can at least distinguish top from bottom. Why is that not a perfectly acceptable solution?
The biggest ISP lie of all is that 7mbps is a fast connection. Just because it's the fastest they offer, doesn't make it fast. Rather than arguing about how fast a connection one needs to watch videos, we ought to be storming the telco office with pitch forks and torches, demanding 100mbit to the home.
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Dude, I think I just smoked your jeans... Sorry, bro. Hey, you hungry?
SMB can also get you a connection within Microsoft. It's not all fun and games, though.
This is what happens when you make your search engine the default one for your web browser as well as make it difficult for someone to add or change this option.
Duh!
Indeed. It would be very interesting to know the number of Bing searches that originate from the search toolbar widget in IE.
And of those, what percentage are for non-savvy users searching Bing for "google.com".
If it is new, it is unfortunate not only to reuse an acronym, but reusing one in the same domain.
There are only 17,576 three letter acronyms. We've been warning people for years of the need to upgrade to TLAv6, which allows for a wider range of three letter acronyms, including punctuation and numbers as well as unicode support. But many major buzzword providers have refused to upgrade. The last unique TLAs will be depleted within 18 months in our field. Thanks to AAT (Acronym Address Translation), there are already far more TLAs than there are available spaces -- we've been using CIAR (Classless Inter-Acronym Routing) to separate namespaces based on subject matter and field, but it's only a matter of time before even that fails.
lol
Is that number just pulled out of their ass? Is there a base for it?
Looks like base-10. Although, it could just as likely be base-2
To be fair, it takes him a few solid whallops before it does break, and the rep doesn't look the least bit concerned until it actually snaps.
To be fair, they have a good laugh about it after it breaks, too. The company rep doesn't act embarrassed, and has good humor about it.
I think if I needed a rugged phone I'd probably consider one from this company anyway, it's certainly a more durable phone than a regular phone. Obviously not "indestructible" but it'd handle being in my pocket.
Of course, it'll be a long time before Firefox is "perfect". In reality, that will never happen. Still, the same argument could be applied for sufficiently high values of "good enough".
In this sort of situation, I would hope that they'd start putting resources on other projects. Endlessly polishing Firefox to keep people employed does not make economic sense. Those developers could turn their attention to Bugzilla, or to Thunderbird, or come up with a new project. Leave a smaller number of people behind to keep maintaining Firefox and porting it to other platforms, perhaps.
Extensions and the customization they provide is THE reason I use Firefox. If they are so foolish as to eliminate this capability, they're going to lose a lot of users. If this happens, I won't upgrade for as long as I can, and when I'm eventually forced to switch, I'll find a browser that supports allowing me to customize it. I wouldn't be surprised at all if the OSS community forks the project over this.
So do they also do this with drugs? You hear about it all the time.
Here in the USA, only the TSA may try to test TSA security. Some reporters tried shortly after the agency was established, and they were all told their reports couldn't air.
If Security is insecure about the news reporting on their lack of security, then they shouldn't be working in security; they should be working in insecurity.
How is the parent comment "Funny"? It's TRUE.
I guess things can be both true and funny, but this deserves some Informative points.
Yeah, we'll probably still be stuck on IP4 by then.
Wow, must be nice to be as famous as Madonna and no longer need a last name.
You wouldn't buy the article AFTER reading the whole thing and knowing what it already says, either, would you? Ah!
I guess scientists should spend years studying and researching and publish their findings for free, and for dinner they can eat the rainbows that shoot out of your butt.
If you're casually interested in the topic, probably you don't want to bother paying money for it. Bitch about it if you want to; the unfair world doesn't publish scientific findings for free and hand deliver them to your doorstep on demand. Boo hoo.
If you're professionally or academically interested, you're probably more willing to pay for it. If the publication or the authors are reputable, you're probably not going to be disappointed with the investment. The work necessary to acquire a reputation has costs associated with it, which are in part recouped by the sale of access rights to published works. It might not be a perfect utopia, but it works.
I'm not going to pay for the privilege of reading the article, but thanks to the free coverage that I did read, I now know a little bit more about something interesting going on in the scientific community. And just maybe, a few more dollars are flowing to scientific work because of the publicity. Hardly a bad thing.
Slashdot posts news stories about hardware that you can't get your hands on without paying for it. It posts reviews of books that you can't read without paying for them (short of going to a library). Why should it be any different for a scientific journal that happens to have an online edition? The news is the discovery. The article happens to contain more information about the methods, data, and the findings. So what if it costs money to read it? Isn't supporting the scientific community worth something?
That truth from euphemism option doesn't show up in babelfish. It'd be awesome if someone would sell that.
3Com/USRobotics should be on this list.
It depends on where the lines are drawn in the organization, whether IT staff have any kind of management role, or not. If IT staff have an IT manager, that's who should be greenlighting projects. If IT staff report directly to the departments they serve, they need to filter requests through some sort of sanity check process, and if this entails acting in a management capacity, then so be it. If this doesn't happen somewhere in the organization, you end up with IT embarking in pie-in-the-sky projects on anyone's whim, with no budget support, without well-defined goals, and without a plan. It's a disaster.
A good SA can come in and make a lot of these stupid little problems go away, never to return.
These sorts of problems can also be caused by bad management exerting too much control over the admins, or admins with weak people skills trying to please everyone rather than prioritize and do the right thing.
When asked to do something, to you just go ahead and do it? Or do you require things like justifications, business cases, funding, staff, etc? If management can just ask anything of the IT staff, they will do so, and it will feel like you're being walked all over, and that you're overworked. If you have some basic sanity checks and make those requirements before a project can be greenlighted, you'll find that your job can be a lot easier. Doing this also makes planning happen before you get midway through a project and find that different stakeholders have different opinions on what should be done next.
Red/Green colorblindness is nothing new; that's why the lights are standardized to have green at the bottom and red at the top. If you can't distinguish red from green, you can at least distinguish top from bottom. Why is that not a perfectly acceptable solution?
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Technology, like beer, is the solution to, and the cause of, all of mankind's problems.
I use AdBlock too, and moreover, this failure just cost me 6.2 Trillion dollars. Ouch.
Sue them. And switch to a different company.
The biggest ISP lie of all is that 7mbps is a fast connection. Just because it's the fastest they offer, doesn't make it fast. Rather than arguing about how fast a connection one needs to watch videos, we ought to be storming the telco office with pitch forks and torches, demanding 100mbit to the home.