A lot of the ugly situations I've seen in offices go something like:
1) IT does something for a good reason, doesn't explain the reasons (severity) in a way human beings understand.
2) Change causes aggravation for users... they gripe.
3) IT feels like they're being challenged, complain about stupid users among themselves but are observably pissy and hostile, even when they think they're being diplomatic by not addressing it outright. If you're lucky, someone heads it off here.
4) Users notice hostility, which compounds their frustration with the original issue, they go over IT's head
5) Management detonates the bomb, everyone thinks the other is an arrogant, backstabbing prick trying to get them fired.
6) Everyone is touchy. Distrust and aggravation compounds till the next issue. No "Profit" step to follow.
Obviously it's not always like this, but I've seen variations of this play out over and over again.
I absolutely have to agree with the bit about developers, if just from my personal experience. I started my career as an admin, then worked as a developer for a few years, then back to being an admin (that does occasional development).
The developers I worked with really were bright people and could write some pretty amazing stuff in short order. But they were barely able to turn their own machines on before they started writing code. The moment anything went sideways on their workstations they'd threw their hands up and yell at IT. Usually that came with, "I need a newer computer". They (of all people) couldn't troubleshoot what had happened. And like you mentioned, it was usually because of something they'd done. Almost invariably, it was some silly years-old class generator, wonky launcher dock or shitty version-control assistance... something.
It was a learning experience. I picked up a lot of things that (I think) help me do both jobs better.
When I was a kid I liked the Field museum because I liked the dinosaurs, egyptian mummies, lions of tsavo, etc. You're right though, MSI is way more fun for kids (and most adults). Everything's bright, colorful and very interactive. The Space wing was one of my childhood fav's and I recently did a tour of the german submarine, which I'd hadn't seen since they put it inside.:)
Shedd Aquarium is great too... they've always got something good going on there.
Yeah that's some seriously paranoid international espionage shit. If the stuff is that dangerous and valuable, I'd think you could have the shredding hw brought to you and watch the things go in... or ask the NSA or CIA to deal with the drives for you.
I want to agree. Though it's so prevalent I almost don't notice anymore.
They may have changed it now, but I had a good laugh at the AT&T uVerse bandwidth recommendations last time a family member was shopping. They'd recommend their very top tier plan if you like to watch HD movies and listen to music. I think Netflix recommends 5Mbps for HD. There was some bizarre strata of recommended services and plans for the rest, all of which were so decoupled from reality as to be worthless.
You know regular people everywhere actually use those kinds of recommendations when selecting packages, so it's pretty shady. And of course what they didn't mention anywhere were the upcoming data caps.
I read somewhere that the Nook Tablet was locked down so the platform could be certified for Netflix in HD.
If that's true, I guess you could make the argument that leaving your device open could be a competitive disadvantage... and therefore potentially costly.
I'm sure some googling could reveal this, but I figure you'd be able to answer this simply... is microfiche still around? You mentioned it here but I had figured all that material had long been scanned into digital storage and made searchable.
Except, who creates standards of appropriateness for an international resource like the web? You can't without creating a nonsensical, administrative mess of censorship and general disagreement.
That's just another example of how.XXX was just a cash grab. Nobody can effectively categorize and police content on the web outside of a voluntary service, which will never be 100%. And so there's no way to say, "all porn must move to.XXX". If you can't move all porn to.xxx, then there's no real reason to have it.
It was just a way to make a crapload of money from people that don't even want the resource, just so that they can protect their existing services. That's shitty, and they only got away with it because the target was the porn industry.
Gmail does work without Javascript. It'll prompt you for basic html mode. And yes, you have to deal with page loads and a number of functions are simply stripped out.
It sounds like you're operating under a premise I don't quite understand. Why does switching to IPv6 imply that we must network things that shouldn't be networked, and do it poorly? Can we, should we and will we network the toaster? That's unknown. But if we did, I don't see why it would have much to do with the particular form of network addressing we use. All discussion of device security beyond that seems tangential (though not unimportant on its own).
For "mom & pop", whom everyone seems both terrified of and for, the situation should be largely the same. They'll plug their devices into a box, likely provided by their ISP. That box will do all the routing and firewalling their current box does, seemingly by magic, just as it does now. I don't see why that would change.
And in the process we'll have rid ourselves of spaghetti solutions like NAT and negotiating port forwarding for like services. Need to expose some service on your xbox? Great, it's easy now. There's no need to expose the toaster in the process, any more than there is now.
Though if there's something I'm overlooking I'd genuinely appreciate a heads-up, because it's clear that time is a-comin'.
I'll take addresses and phone numbers for all of my homes and phones, without having to use post-it notes and pseudo-addresses to make everything reachable. Particularly if having those addresses affords me the same level of security as doing without.
After all, nothing about being able to address all your devices precludes the use of proper firewalling, just as you do now.
That's an entirely common and functional hack that exists to deal with the scarcity of IP addresses. And simply that.
I'm not exactly all gung-ho on the ipv6 thing (yet), but having to deal with a purely digital resource as a limited thing is kinda silly, and needs to be corrected eventually.
Slashdot Mirror
Too many American movies.
"Brilliant uberhacker kid hijacked our cyberframes! Let's buy him a ridiculous house on the ocean and get him on our side."
In reality... PMITA prison.
A lot of the ugly situations I've seen in offices go something like:
1) IT does something for a good reason, doesn't explain the reasons (severity) in a way human beings understand.
2) Change causes aggravation for users... they gripe.
3) IT feels like they're being challenged, complain about stupid users among themselves but are observably pissy and hostile, even when they think they're being diplomatic by not addressing it outright. If you're lucky, someone heads it off here.
4) Users notice hostility, which compounds their frustration with the original issue, they go over IT's head
5) Management detonates the bomb, everyone thinks the other is an arrogant, backstabbing prick trying to get them fired.
6) Everyone is touchy. Distrust and aggravation compounds till the next issue. No "Profit" step to follow.
Obviously it's not always like this, but I've seen variations of this play out over and over again.
I absolutely have to agree with the bit about developers, if just from my personal experience. I started my career as an admin, then worked as a developer for a few years, then back to being an admin (that does occasional development).
The developers I worked with really were bright people and could write some pretty amazing stuff in short order. But they were barely able to turn their own machines on before they started writing code. The moment anything went sideways on their workstations they'd threw their hands up and yell at IT. Usually that came with, "I need a newer computer". They (of all people) couldn't troubleshoot what had happened. And like you mentioned, it was usually because of something they'd done. Almost invariably, it was some silly years-old class generator, wonky launcher dock or shitty version-control assistance... something.
It was a learning experience. I picked up a lot of things that (I think) help me do both jobs better.
Well, it is Thanksgiving, so I guess it's forgivable. And I heard the Packers scored lots of home runs today.
When I was a kid I liked the Field museum because I liked the dinosaurs, egyptian mummies, lions of tsavo, etc. You're right though, MSI is way more fun for kids (and most adults). Everything's bright, colorful and very interactive. The Space wing was one of my childhood fav's and I recently did a tour of the german submarine, which I'd hadn't seen since they put it inside. :)
Shedd Aquarium is great too... they've always got something good going on there.
Yeah that's some seriously paranoid international espionage shit. If the stuff is that dangerous and valuable, I'd think you could have the shredding hw brought to you and watch the things go in... or ask the NSA or CIA to deal with the drives for you.
I want to agree. Though it's so prevalent I almost don't notice anymore.
They may have changed it now, but I had a good laugh at the AT&T uVerse bandwidth recommendations last time a family member was shopping. They'd recommend their very top tier plan if you like to watch HD movies and listen to music. I think Netflix recommends 5Mbps for HD. There was some bizarre strata of recommended services and plans for the rest, all of which were so decoupled from reality as to be worthless.
You know regular people everywhere actually use those kinds of recommendations when selecting packages, so it's pretty shady. And of course what they didn't mention anywhere were the upcoming data caps.
I read somewhere that the Nook Tablet was locked down so the platform could be certified for Netflix in HD.
If that's true, I guess you could make the argument that leaving your device open could be a competitive disadvantage... and therefore potentially costly.
I'm sure some googling could reveal this, but I figure you'd be able to answer this simply... is microfiche still around? You mentioned it here but I had figured all that material had long been scanned into digital storage and made searchable.
Is that true in the US? I always assumed that a person could be otherwise legally compelled to surrender any encryption keys. I know this isn't exactly citing case law, but it sounds like the issue is unsettled:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-20078312-281/doj-we-can-force-you-to-decrypt-that-laptop/
Except, who creates standards of appropriateness for an international resource like the web? You can't without creating a nonsensical, administrative mess of censorship and general disagreement.
.XXX was just a cash grab. Nobody can effectively categorize and police content on the web outside of a voluntary service, which will never be 100%. And so there's no way to say, "all porn must move to .XXX". If you can't move all porn to .xxx, then there's no real reason to have it.
That's just another example of how
It was just a way to make a crapload of money from people that don't even want the resource, just so that they can protect their existing services. That's shitty, and they only got away with it because the target was the porn industry.
Someone else suggested it's because they're handset makers that also have WinMo devices (or expect to, at some point).
B&N, otoh, wouldn't care. They're not in the business of making phones.
Though I admit that's a bit conspiratorial. And you'd think Google would've fired first...?
I don't know what extreme programming is, but that really makes me want to buy some doritos and mountain dew.
Gmail does work without Javascript. It'll prompt you for basic html mode. And yes, you have to deal with page loads and a number of functions are simply stripped out.
Good question. Just found this: http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2011-10/29/rossi-success
Unsurprisingly... still unclear what the situation is.
I'd love the staff forever if they re-parented your reply above the first post... just this once.
Nah, you learn a lot when folks who know what they're talking about come out of the woodwork.
Also, I'm not particularly interested in the end result of any argument over, "best hair product".
Nonsense. I've been watching people on slashdot trash things they know absolutely nothing about for something near a decade.
:)
I come here for the ones that can call them out on it.
It sounds like you're operating under a premise I don't quite understand. Why does switching to IPv6 imply that we must network things that shouldn't be networked, and do it poorly? Can we, should we and will we network the toaster? That's unknown. But if we did, I don't see why it would have much to do with the particular form of network addressing we use. All discussion of device security beyond that seems tangential (though not unimportant on its own).
For "mom & pop", whom everyone seems both terrified of and for, the situation should be largely the same. They'll plug their devices into a box, likely provided by their ISP. That box will do all the routing and firewalling their current box does, seemingly by magic, just as it does now. I don't see why that would change.
And in the process we'll have rid ourselves of spaghetti solutions like NAT and negotiating port forwarding for like services. Need to expose some service on your xbox? Great, it's easy now. There's no need to expose the toaster in the process, any more than there is now.
Though if there's something I'm overlooking I'd genuinely appreciate a heads-up, because it's clear that time is a-comin'.
Well if we're going to get silly...
I'll take addresses and phone numbers for all of my homes and phones, without having to use post-it notes and pseudo-addresses to make everything reachable. Particularly if having those addresses affords me the same level of security as doing without.
After all, nothing about being able to address all your devices precludes the use of proper firewalling, just as you do now.
That's an entirely common and functional hack that exists to deal with the scarcity of IP addresses. And simply that.
I'm not exactly all gung-ho on the ipv6 thing (yet), but having to deal with a purely digital resource as a limited thing is kinda silly, and needs to be corrected eventually.
Yeah, it's definitely a cash-grab. It has no utility for the rest of us, nobody wanted it and it only makes for costly aggravation.
I feel bad that folks like you that have to deal with this.
I can't help but wonder how much more crimp there'd be in a previously spent shell if you used this guy's super efficient packing algos.
Ah gotcha, I'm sure you're right... if even just as defensive patents.
I can't see what Amazon would do with it. They're heavily invested in Android now with their existing devices and Android App Store.