Unfortunately, I don't have the time to find verification of this, but I was told (during boot camp, when they showed us the film) that all enlisted flight deck personnel E-5 and above were killed during the fire. This meant the ship lost the most experienced men on board for flight deck operations. Also, effective fire fighting at the time was limited to "career" sailors, those who shipped over at least once. That was one of the reasons why so many Petty Officers and Chiefs were killed, they were the only ones who knew how to man the hoses. It was after this that the Navy started including basic fire fighting in boot camp, and started requiring all rates and ratings to know how to fight fires, not just the guys below decks in engineering.
It was John McCain's (yes, the Senator) aircraft fuel tank that exploded. Someone else's missile hit it though.
McCain had a really bad week, that week. Not only did a Zuni rocket misfire and hit his jet, after he managed to get out and survive the carnage he volunteered to transfer to another squadron while the Forestal headed home for repairs. A few days later, he was shot down and taken prisoner by the North Vietnamese. You don't have to agree with his politics to admire the bravery all of that took.
Maybe it's because April 1st is on a Saturday this year, and the author of the original article wanted to get a jump on the weekend. Or maybe he has a weekly article, every Monday, I'm not sure. But whatever the cause, it should be pretty obvious this is an early April Fool's article. I'm not buying it.
In the UK, the PC World chain is the main purveyor of PCs at retail. It, err...well. How shall we put this? It doesn't have the greatest reputation for knowledgeable staff and customer service.
A county spent 6 months with a staff of four programmers to build their site with the newer version of this software. I was asked to do it in 3 months by myself...It's a month past deadline and if I don't finish it by the end of next week, I'm fired.
I call bullshit. It's incredibly difficult to fire state employees, and given that there's documented evidence of a similar organization taking 8 times the resources to complete the same project, there's no way you can get fired for this from a large corporation, let alone the state.
If your manager has literally threatened you with termination over this, stop working on the project and go directly to your HR department, do not pass GO. Tell them about your stress (it helps if you have a doctor's note or, even better, a note from Epstein's muttah, stating that you're under immense stress and borderline to a breakdown) and make sure they know you've been threatened with termination for not doing what four people couldn't. You'll be surprised at how fast they move to make sure you're taken care of.
There are subtle nuances, but unless you are adept at pulling a rabbit out of the hat, I'd vote for #4, regardless of how long you've been there. People understand bailing out of failing situations.
I'm constantly amazed by the tendancy of Slashdotters to just cut and run in the face of adversity. Quiting one job just because you don't get along with every single person in the organization is not a winning strategy cause, guess what?, you're not always going to get along with everyone. Try to be positive and find ways to work with the situation, not against it.
Options #1 and #2 are the only really viable solutions to this mess. And be sure to try them in that order. Either the road block gets on board, or you go around the road block. Now, the question is, how do you accomplish #1?
Someone else mentioned pulling him into meetings so he can get an education on what's involved. That might help, but first you have to determine, why is this guy causing problems in the first place? If he doesn't see the need for a website in the first place, then pulling him into meetings showing how hard it is to do right is only going to give him more ammunition. If he's just trying to be contrary, then you'll never get anywhere and you should just pretend he doesn't exist to the extent you can. Also, there's no clue given as to what this guy's position is. And not just his title, but is he the CEO's college roommate or has he been there so long everyone just defers to him?
Before moving any further in the project, you may have to have an outside "efficiency consultant" (and I don't mean the Bobs) come in and help explain what a website can do for your company. Make it as flashy a presentation as possible, and only invite managers who control the purse strings. Once they're on board, everything else will fall in place.
The fact that a manager is asking this is a little troubling. Dude, seriously, you need to go read some books on how to manage projects and people, and probably attend some self-improvement and/or sales seminars. You'd be surprised what you can learn about human nature at those things.
I don't understand the accounting side enough to know what the benefits are there
They're called "recurring costs", and hiring outside consultants don't generate them while hiring employees do. Let's say you have to accomplish some project, and it's going to require roughly 1600 man hours to complete (three programmers working for three months, eight hour days). You don't have three programmers with enough time to dedicate to this project. So, you have two choices:
a) hire three guys b) hire an outside firm to do the work
Finding and hiring three qualified programmers is going to take longer than finding one qualified firm, but even if it wasn't it's still cheaper to go with route b in this instance. Three programmers are going to cost you about $250,000 a year, give or take $50,000 depending on your market. So even if you spend $100 per hour on the outside firm, you're coming out ahead at only $160,000. Not to mention, once this project is done, if you go with route a, you're now stuck with three more employees, for whom you have to find something to do or else they're just going to get disgruntled and spend all day posting on Slashdot.
I think Slashdot should offer a bounty of $1000 to the first person who actually gets on Jeopardy and answers "Who is CowboyNeal?" during Final Jeopardy. Just for the pure fun of it.
If Slashdot won't/can't do it themselves, then a group of Slashdotters should. Hell, I'd contribute $50 to the cause. Who's with me?
Hold off on that sale. If you really think it's going to go down, you're better off buying put options on SPDR futures, instead, to hedge your position. That way, no matter what happens, you come out ahead. If your broker lets you complete this sale without at least mentioning this option, fire him and go find someone who knows what their doing.
Disclaimer: I have a Series 7, but I'm not currently working as a broker.
Windows has shipped with an SMTP server installed since Windows 2000.
And that matters why, exactly? This is a problem with Sendmail, not the SMTP protocol. It's like saying "This Apache bug could affect Windows 2000 boxes running IIS." Just because it's using the same protocol doesn't mean it's using the same codebase.
Doesn't have anything to do with advertising. It has to do with price gouging.
This entire conversation is about advertising. What the hell are you talking about?
Grocery stores don't have free speech rights.
You need to go audit a course or two on constitutional law, as you are gravely mistaken. A grocery store, or any business, is a legal construct, and the rights of that entity are derived from the rights of its owners. You can't prevent advertising in the store without trampling on the rights of the owner of the store to do what they want with their own property.
Fine, then we'll get the legislature to outlaw it. Then management will give a shit.
There's a wonderful idea! Let's use men with guns to force people not to put advertising in their own stores, that'll learn 'em!
If you don't like the advertising, either tune it out, or go somewhere else. But don't start infringing people's free speech rights just because it annoys you personally.
And I will make it a point to shop at the stores that don't bombard me with extra advertising as I walk down an aisle.
That takes way too much effort, and would require you to even notice the ads at the store in the first place. If you're anything like me (lucky you if you are!), you'll have already started tuning out ads in most locations.
Imagine if the Lincoln-Douglas debates had been kept to under 20 minutes? Or do you think maybe Douglas did some demonstrations to keep his audience interested? I tend to think the people listening had fewer immediate distractions and longer attention spans.
More likely, there just wasn't anything else going on that day. When the highlight of your week is listening to a couple of politicians pontificate on precarious points, your life is just plain pathetic.
Whenever I and my girlfriend are talking in person we get along amazingly - we discuss interesting things, and find each other to be amusing and fun. But when I try to talk to her online or on the phone, it's impossible.
It sounds like your girlfriend doesn't consider non-face-to-face meetings as "real". If you're not there, you don't exist. There's nothing inherently wrong with this, lots of people are that way. But if you either can't or won't accept this part of her personality, and she's unwilling or unable to change it, you guys should probably just go your separate ways sooner rather than later. Less heartbreak that way, and maybe you can still be friends (and by "friends", I mean "fuck buddies").
I think you're missing something very important: De Raadt shot his mouth off critizing the military, while at the same time depending on a grant from said military to develop a secure OS for their environment. Now, if I was at DARPA and in charge of selecting vendors for such sensitive operations, the absolute last person in the world I would even consider for the project would be someone who's made clear their disdain for the military. How can you be certain he won't put in some kind of backdoor and give the keys to Bad Guys(tm)? Simple, you can't. Especially not if you're some bureaucrat or career military guy who sees bugbears everywhere.
In a free country, you're entitled to have any opinion you want, and the government will neither punish nor reward you for it.
No, but your customers (who may at times include the government) will. If I had a pending support contract from McDonald's, the last thing I'd do is give an interview saying I thought fast food was "sickening". It's the exact same thing here. He wasn't "punished", his potential customer decided to take their business elsewhere.
Someone else will take on the work and cost of supporting OpenSSH. There's no "maybe" about it.
Really? So every single open source project in the world has been taken care of after the original creators moved on to other things? Do you know how many abandoned projects are on SourceForge?
Granted that OpenSSH is a bit larger than most of the PHP editor projects on SourceForge, but the principle still stands: there's no guarantee that someone will step up to the plate. Waving your hands and saying "someone will take on the support" doesn't give me warm and fuzzies, and I guarantee that other IT management will feel the same way. This is a problem with an easy solution: OpenBSD needs to take their business seriously, and start running it as a business, or they'll see their userbase start to crumble. That, or someone else will take their code and start their own business with it, neither one would be a good result from the standpoint of the OpenBSD developers.
No one's made this observation yet, so I figure I should: the flip side to OpenBSD not having enough money to maintain operations means that the software they make, especially OpenSSH, is in danger of being no longer supported. Yes, yes, I know, it's free software, so someone else can pick up the pieces after Theo is forced to take his toys and go home. But the reality is that no business in the world should trust software who's creator is about to implode.
What happens in six months when OpenSSH is no longer actively supported by the team that created it and a new exploit is discovered/released? What responsible IT manager is going to let his employer get into the potential problem in the first place?
I say, rather than begging for donations, the OpenBSD team needs to get their act together and find a way to keep the lights on, or they're going to see fewer and fewer people trusting the use of their software in large corporate environments. If that means the leader of the team needs to keep his mouth shut about his anti-war views when he's depending on a grant from the US Defense Department to keep his operation going, then that's what he needs to do. Being an adult means doing things you don't neccessarily want to do, like eating your peas and broccoli.
A sleepy idiot such as much self can read that sentence and think "umm, since when did the US Democratic party want to force ISPs to block violent and pornographic content if elected?"
Why don't you go ask Hillary Clinton and Joe Lieberman? Maybe they can clue you in on Democrats who want to block violent and/or pornographic material.
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RE: The Forrestal.
Unfortunately, I don't have the time to find verification of this, but I was told (during boot camp, when they showed us the film) that all enlisted flight deck personnel E-5 and above were killed during the fire. This meant the ship lost the most experienced men on board for flight deck operations. Also, effective fire fighting at the time was limited to "career" sailors, those who shipped over at least once. That was one of the reasons why so many Petty Officers and Chiefs were killed, they were the only ones who knew how to man the hoses. It was after this that the Navy started including basic fire fighting in boot camp, and started requiring all rates and ratings to know how to fight fires, not just the guys below decks in engineering.
It was John McCain's (yes, the Senator) aircraft fuel tank that exploded. Someone else's missile hit it though.
McCain had a really bad week, that week. Not only did a Zuni rocket misfire and hit his jet, after he managed to get out and survive the carnage he volunteered to transfer to another squadron while the Forestal headed home for repairs. A few days later, he was shot down and taken prisoner by the North Vietnamese. You don't have to agree with his politics to admire the bravery all of that took.
Maybe it's because April 1st is on a Saturday this year, and the author of the original article wanted to get a jump on the weekend. Or maybe he has a weekly article, every Monday, I'm not sure. But whatever the cause, it should be pretty obvious this is an early April Fool's article. I'm not buying it.
In the UK, the PC World chain is the main purveyor of PCs at retail. It, err...well. How shall we put this? It doesn't have the greatest reputation for knowledgeable staff and customer service.
Ah, so you guys do have Fry's Electronics!
This guy needs to get out more. I would have thought 'amusingly' to be enough overstatement but, 'hilariously?'
Considering the fact that he used the word twice in one sentance, I've got a crisp $5 bill that says it was on his word-of-the-day calendar.
A county spent 6 months with a staff of four programmers to build their site with the newer version of this software. I was asked to do it in 3 months by myself...It's a month past deadline and if I don't finish it by the end of next week, I'm fired.
I call bullshit. It's incredibly difficult to fire state employees, and given that there's documented evidence of a similar organization taking 8 times the resources to complete the same project, there's no way you can get fired for this from a large corporation, let alone the state.
If your manager has literally threatened you with termination over this, stop working on the project and go directly to your HR department, do not pass GO. Tell them about your stress (it helps if you have a doctor's note or, even better, a note from Epstein's muttah, stating that you're under immense stress and borderline to a breakdown) and make sure they know you've been threatened with termination for not doing what four people couldn't. You'll be surprised at how fast they move to make sure you're taken care of.
There are subtle nuances, but unless you are adept at pulling a rabbit out of the hat, I'd vote for #4, regardless of how long you've been there. People understand bailing out of failing situations.
I'm constantly amazed by the tendancy of Slashdotters to just cut and run in the face of adversity. Quiting one job just because you don't get along with every single person in the organization is not a winning strategy cause, guess what?, you're not always going to get along with everyone. Try to be positive and find ways to work with the situation, not against it.
Options #1 and #2 are the only really viable solutions to this mess. And be sure to try them in that order. Either the road block gets on board, or you go around the road block. Now, the question is, how do you accomplish #1?
Someone else mentioned pulling him into meetings so he can get an education on what's involved. That might help, but first you have to determine, why is this guy causing problems in the first place? If he doesn't see the need for a website in the first place, then pulling him into meetings showing how hard it is to do right is only going to give him more ammunition. If he's just trying to be contrary, then you'll never get anywhere and you should just pretend he doesn't exist to the extent you can. Also, there's no clue given as to what this guy's position is. And not just his title, but is he the CEO's college roommate or has he been there so long everyone just defers to him?
Before moving any further in the project, you may have to have an outside "efficiency consultant" (and I don't mean the Bobs) come in and help explain what a website can do for your company. Make it as flashy a presentation as possible, and only invite managers who control the purse strings. Once they're on board, everything else will fall in place.
The fact that a manager is asking this is a little troubling. Dude, seriously, you need to go read some books on how to manage projects and people, and probably attend some self-improvement and/or sales seminars. You'd be surprised what you can learn about human nature at those things.
I don't understand the accounting side enough to know what the benefits are there
They're called "recurring costs", and hiring outside consultants don't generate them while hiring employees do. Let's say you have to accomplish some project, and it's going to require roughly 1600 man hours to complete (three programmers working for three months, eight hour days). You don't have three programmers with enough time to dedicate to this project. So, you have two choices:
a) hire three guys
b) hire an outside firm to do the work
Finding and hiring three qualified programmers is going to take longer than finding one qualified firm, but even if it wasn't it's still cheaper to go with route b in this instance. Three programmers are going to cost you about $250,000 a year, give or take $50,000 depending on your market. So even if you spend $100 per hour on the outside firm, you're coming out ahead at only $160,000. Not to mention, once this project is done, if you go with route a, you're now stuck with three more employees, for whom you have to find something to do or else they're just going to get disgruntled and spend all day posting on Slashdot.
Bash. If you don't know how to write a for-loop in bash to connect to all your hosts and make some changes, you don't know what you're missing.
You misspelled "doing".
I think Slashdot should offer a bounty of $1000 to the first person who actually gets on Jeopardy and answers "Who is CowboyNeal?" during Final Jeopardy. Just for the pure fun of it.
If Slashdot won't/can't do it themselves, then a group of Slashdotters should. Hell, I'd contribute $50 to the cause. Who's with me?
Hold off on that sale. If you really think it's going to go down, you're better off buying put options on SPDR futures, instead, to hedge your position. That way, no matter what happens, you come out ahead. If your broker lets you complete this sale without at least mentioning this option, fire him and go find someone who knows what their doing.
Disclaimer: I have a Series 7, but I'm not currently working as a broker.
Windows has shipped with an SMTP server installed since Windows 2000.
And that matters why, exactly? This is a problem with Sendmail, not the SMTP protocol. It's like saying "This Apache bug could affect Windows 2000 boxes running IIS." Just because it's using the same protocol doesn't mean it's using the same codebase.
Doesn't have anything to do with advertising. It has to do with price gouging.
This entire conversation is about advertising. What the hell are you talking about?
Grocery stores don't have free speech rights.
You need to go audit a course or two on constitutional law, as you are gravely mistaken. A grocery store, or any business, is a legal construct, and the rights of that entity are derived from the rights of its owners. You can't prevent advertising in the store without trampling on the rights of the owner of the store to do what they want with their own property.
Fine, then we'll get the legislature to outlaw it. Then management will give a shit.
There's a wonderful idea! Let's use men with guns to force people not to put advertising in their own stores, that'll learn 'em!
If you don't like the advertising, either tune it out, or go somewhere else. But don't start infringing people's free speech rights just because it annoys you personally.
And I will make it a point to shop at the stores that don't bombard me with extra advertising as I walk down an aisle.
That takes way too much effort, and would require you to even notice the ads at the store in the first place. If you're anything like me (lucky you if you are!), you'll have already started tuning out ads in most locations.
Will you buy pizza hut pizza if you see Jessica Simpson eat it in a movie.
I think it's safe to say I'd buy just about anything after watching Jessica Simpson eat it. That woman can make the muppets sexy, fer cryin' out loud!
Imagine if the Lincoln-Douglas debates had been kept to under 20 minutes? Or do you think maybe Douglas did some demonstrations to keep his audience interested? I tend to think the people listening had fewer immediate distractions and longer attention spans.
More likely, there just wasn't anything else going on that day. When the highlight of your week is listening to a couple of politicians pontificate on precarious points, your life is just plain pathetic.
Whenever I and my girlfriend are talking in person we get along amazingly - we discuss interesting things, and find each other to be amusing and fun. But when I try to talk to her online or on the phone, it's impossible.
It sounds like your girlfriend doesn't consider non-face-to-face meetings as "real". If you're not there, you don't exist. There's nothing inherently wrong with this, lots of people are that way. But if you either can't or won't accept this part of her personality, and she's unwilling or unable to change it, you guys should probably just go your separate ways sooner rather than later. Less heartbreak that way, and maybe you can still be friends (and by "friends", I mean "fuck buddies").
I think you're missing something very important: De Raadt shot his mouth off critizing the military, while at the same time depending on a grant from said military to develop a secure OS for their environment. Now, if I was at DARPA and in charge of selecting vendors for such sensitive operations, the absolute last person in the world I would even consider for the project would be someone who's made clear their disdain for the military. How can you be certain he won't put in some kind of backdoor and give the keys to Bad Guys(tm)? Simple, you can't. Especially not if you're some bureaucrat or career military guy who sees bugbears everywhere.
Now do you understand?
In a free country, you're entitled to have any opinion you want, and the government will neither punish nor reward you for it.
No, but your customers (who may at times include the government) will. If I had a pending support contract from McDonald's, the last thing I'd do is give an interview saying I thought fast food was "sickening". It's the exact same thing here. He wasn't "punished", his potential customer decided to take their business elsewhere.
Hey, now. Enterprise had its good parts...
(all conveniently located in the space montage during the show's first 30 seconds!)
Funny, I thought they were all located in a nice, tight, red uniform...
Someone else will take on the work and cost of supporting OpenSSH. There's no "maybe" about it.
Really? So every single open source project in the world has been taken care of after the original creators moved on to other things? Do you know how many abandoned projects are on SourceForge?
Granted that OpenSSH is a bit larger than most of the PHP editor projects on SourceForge, but the principle still stands: there's no guarantee that someone will step up to the plate. Waving your hands and saying "someone will take on the support" doesn't give me warm and fuzzies, and I guarantee that other IT management will feel the same way. This is a problem with an easy solution: OpenBSD needs to take their business seriously, and start running it as a business, or they'll see their userbase start to crumble. That, or someone else will take their code and start their own business with it, neither one would be a good result from the standpoint of the OpenBSD developers.
No one's made this observation yet, so I figure I should: the flip side to OpenBSD not having enough money to maintain operations means that the software they make, especially OpenSSH, is in danger of being no longer supported. Yes, yes, I know, it's free software, so someone else can pick up the pieces after Theo is forced to take his toys and go home. But the reality is that no business in the world should trust software who's creator is about to implode.
What happens in six months when OpenSSH is no longer actively supported by the team that created it and a new exploit is discovered/released? What responsible IT manager is going to let his employer get into the potential problem in the first place?
I say, rather than begging for donations, the OpenBSD team needs to get their act together and find a way to keep the lights on, or they're going to see fewer and fewer people trusting the use of their software in large corporate environments. If that means the leader of the team needs to keep his mouth shut about his anti-war views when he's depending on a grant from the US Defense Department to keep his operation going, then that's what he needs to do. Being an adult means doing things you don't neccessarily want to do, like eating your peas and broccoli.
A sleepy idiot such as much self can read that sentence and think "umm, since when did the US Democratic party want to force ISPs to block violent and pornographic content if elected?"
Why don't you go ask Hillary Clinton and Joe Lieberman? Maybe they can clue you in on Democrats who want to block violent and/or pornographic material.
Licensing Fees for a brothel? Just what country are you talking about? Cause I doubt it's America or Australia.
(Possibly NSFW) Yeah, 'cause there are no licensed brothels in Australia.