I think perhaps the question was meant to focus on how big picture programming (not images) might have helped or hindered the abilities of the investigators in determining the cause. On the other hand, images of the destruction might come in handy for investigative purpoases as well. Either way, and regardless the intent of the original question, what might systems engineers improve upon or how could they improve upon current paradigms to assist in investigative methods without using "black box" technology approaches?
I agree. Perhaps i would have said it differently but I agree. I think having the.prn would make it easier to filter those sites with adult content. I however don't feel they should give up their.com/.net/.org domain. Merely forward it. You can still filter the content.
This has very little to do with free speech. I can still own and operate an adult site. I am still subject to current laws and regulations. However, I am now is the adult section of the video store so to speak. I am now behind that black polybag wrap around that Playboy, Hustler, and Penthouse MUST use to be sold on news stands in public.
And while this is a minor governmental regulation on th ineternet it is far less dramatic and drastic than say allowing the free trade of altered adult images using children because they are "not real, fantasy in nature, and could be considered art and literature protected by free speech." That's just plain dumb.
I feel the direction we should take as a community is to develope global software solutions for the masses by the masses. This ensures the scalability, reliablity, and useability of the software. As well we should focus our attentions to creating internet protocols that ensure the integrity of data and the near perfect delivery of data and content. If I were an english major or a marketing genius I could fit more buzz words in here.
The bottom line is corporations will make every attempt no matter how pro-this or pro-that (IBM using Linux and OSD) or the usefullness (M$ stealing OS code from OSD for Winblows) to gobble financial assests. The best part is once a company reaches a certain level of capitol its all numbers.
If M$ wants to charge its only out of fear of admitting that free works better than not free in a lot of cases. Charging seems absurd to us because we are used to being able to use free a lot. We use free now. And that is free as in free beer.
Everyday we use things that are FORCED upon us that are not free as in free beer and not free as in freedom of choice, change, and modification. Telephones, electricity, ambulances, hospitals, public and mass transit, CD-R's, RIAA, MPAA, and so on.
Screw it. I'm preaching to the choir on this aren't I?
Last week a major recording label released copy proctected versions of N*Sync's latest CD. Teenage fans across the nation quickly purchased the music CD making it the first ever multi-platinum sales in a single week. However, just as quickly as the sales topped over 17,000,000 units, the tides turned when almost 95% of the purchased CD's were returned.
Some customers sited faulty recording that prevented PC CD-Roms and various CD player models ranging from Sony's popular line of personal CD players, DiscMan, to the more expensive home units by Alpine, Pioneer, and Harmen-Cardon from playing the CD's. Other customers complained about the inability to copy the CD's to the massively popular digital format, mpeg layer 3, that landed Napster and MP3.com in court defending themselves against various lawsuits causing both companies to spends millions in fines, royalties to artists, and court costs (on a separate note various musical artists have filed their own lawsuits including the pop boy band N*Sync sueing for the royalties the recording labels and the RIAA have claimed they have acquired).
This comes as no surprize to online communities such as the often pro-Microsoft, pro-CorporateContentControl MSNBC news, CNet News, New York Times, and various OpenSource backers such as Slashdot.org and ZDNet, as well as consumer rights activists such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation. All of these popularly visited sites ran previous articles detailing the recording label's almost boastful press release regarding the distribution of the N*Sync copy protected CD containing three separate copy protection schemes. These same online communities provide posting forums where concerned potential cosumers and outright angered anti-copy protection activists downed the efforts claiming "if it can be played it can be copied!"
Today in a sweeping almost unanimous cry for justice, forty-two of the fifty states have filed class action lawsuits claiming the copy protection was meant to prevent the consumer from using the "fair use" clause of copyright legislation while the recording label retaliated with it's own high profile attack of consumers ability to freely copy and distribute digital music that the consumers themselves prefer over the orignal work.
While this battle ensues, the old addage "the customer is always right" has been re-coined to say "the customer wants what we tell them they want".
Where I work there are 1000 to 1500 Windows 95, 98, NT, 2000 and ME boxes but each one of them have a remote X sessions, Cirix terminal server connections, or dual boot *n*x platforms. There are about 500 test bed Unix machines. On about 200 test boxes there are versions of Linux running anything from RedHat and Mandrake to SuSE and Slackware. Not to mention the nearly 800 remote Unix servers. The true LINUX numbers are around 50 production (technically test bed) boxes running Gnome, KDE, CDE, and OpenWindows (Unix port). We are thinking about using Linux as a replacement for the nearly 800 remote servers complete with remote X-Server sessions for corporate DNS and web serving for remote web-paged based management.
How can you justify forcing the public to adhere to standards of security that are directly in conflict with fair usage clauses under the copyright laws? While I do not traffic in, participate in, or otherwise affiliate myself with those who do, stolen, pirated, copied, illegally borrowed, confiscated, or any other verbage associated with the theft of material legitimate companies have offered for public sale, I also refuse to support you or anyone who attempts to force such regulations of mistrust, guilty before proven innocent, big brother, it's for your own good to divert you from having the option of performing anything illegal, bills or laws.
This is absolutely wrong and I would not be suprised to find out that your wallet is being packed by the special interest groups this is absolutely designed to protect. And to think that the people elected you to your position for you to force such regulations upon them. How dare you?
While growing up in a small community in middle America where everyone knew everyone it was hard to escape a title of notoriety or in my case failure. As a child, if I competed in any sport related event typically I lost in both being chosen to play and actually playing.
However, once I arrived in high school the world changed from not getting picked to everyone played regardless. So PhysEd for me was different than most others. We had tests. We had two teachers. We had 30 students at most. And the weirdest thing was we played both competetive and non-sompetetive games.
I remember playing floor hockey, flag football, and basketball. All of which I came to enjoy and excelled in eventually. But I also remember playing New Games. A concept form southern Cali where the focus was on playing the game rather than being victorious.
I noticed that the concepts New Games taught us branched over into other games. I began to feel the same exhileration playing other games as I did playing New Games. I believe it was because New Games taught us to help each other and co-operate. Also, we learned that cheering others to perform often gave them the confidence to perform or at least to perfrom where they would have opted out.
IMHO, once someone realizes that ALL games can be played as Non-Zero Sum or Zero Sum games as a matter of thought rather than bounding rules ALL games have the potential to gain ethical and moral considerations which is in effect what those games attempt to promote.
This whole Super Bowl was relatively uneventful. A guy got his helmet knocked off but that it's. I guess it's not what it used to be. As for the commercials, well, you're right. There weren't many. Of course I'd like to know where they got the panning cameras they used to shift views during game play? E*Trade may have ripped off the Matrix but didn't the Super Bowl camera men do that too? Only, it made sense when they did it.
While it makes perfect business sense to maximize profits, it makes no sense to screw your customers.
I, for one, will stop using the internet, music, television, automobiles, or any other luxury that I use daily if it's unfairly taxed because a few people have circumvented having to pay for them.
Big business claims it's needed to make the company successful and allow further development of possible ways to deter criminals. First of all, it's at the consumers expense and we consumers have decided that this practice is ok. Remember that even the smartest logician can logically surmize almost anything.
Secondly, the deterance they develop are only ways to prevent fair use and true ownership of media.
CRAP!!!
I will not allow unfair taxation, price hikes, or hidden costs to affect my daily life. I can live without many of the luxuries I use. Can you?
Bottom line is I say we boycott the industry that demands unfair cooperation for consumers by giving up our rights. I will not liscence a VHS or DVD movie just to have that liscence agreement change and either I agree to the new terms or lose rights to what I have paid money to attain.
Then these companies want to assume no liabilities if I do not agree to the terms, in other words, they revoke my ability to use it but do not reimburse my money.
The EULA is the perfect business model. NOT!!! Not unless you are the EULA writer. IT essentially says you give up all rights in the court when you use this product and you really don't own it - you simply get to USE it until they decide you can't.
I dare a corporate business to release fully featured, bug free software, that does not require insane legalese to attain the use.
They can't and won't. Hypocrits. Talk about wanting to give me better service only to remove my humanity so that I don't care about better service.
...when you pour your heart and soul into a company, get things done under budget and ahead of schedule, and everyone agrees that you are nearly invaluable, then you get canned because they can't afford your salary anymore. What sux worse is finding out they hired over 80 employees since you were canned at higher wages. Of course EVERYONE can read that scenario and guess the reasons why but the light at the end of this tunnel is being hired by a fortune 500 company to basically have fun and get paid nearly one sixth of your salary MORE to do it.
Such is life...
Oh and save your money for the rainy days like the AC said up top.
I taught level one SAIR LCA training at a small Linux company with roots that reach into the local ISP's of my town. I won't go into detail where or when.
The first thing I noticed was the lack of interest in really training to learn rather than training to get bodies in the seat. The second thing I noticed was most of the students weren't passing the tests. I took several tests and passed each of them. It did take a few times on the areas in which I have little knowledge however. The typical good student didn't pass the test the first time. There are a few reasons. First the students expected too much too fast. They wanted to pass the tests right out of the class.
The third thing I noticed while working there was the lack of real relationships. There were fostered realationships but no real ones. Many of the other teachers as well as myself began to feel frustrated because the bulk of the students didn't have computer experience beyond the home use. The fourth reason for my lack of interest in Linux certification.
In a nutshell (pun inteneded), Linux needs valid certification paths and institutions to offer the courses developed toward learning Linux (not SAIR certification). I would be all for properlly training students in Linux and giving prep courses for the certifications. However, until the real world accepts Linux as a viable replacement to more expensive solutions I don't think certifications are going to hold a cup full of water. I wish it were otherwise.
(BTW - I now work in a Sun Solaris Unix shop - talk about irony).
Rivendahl
I keep getting the error message, "This story has been unposted."
Any insight?
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We are seeing a surgence of technilogical wars fought in courts based around not only copyrights, monetary valued ideals, personal liabilities, and accountability, but also fore thought and preminition.
In the early 1980's the RIAA backed major record lables when the Christian Coalition brought the wrath of God into the court rooms charging vulgar language, sexual content, and satanic overtones didn't belong in music. The coalition brought the MPAA into the courts over violent slasher movies in the early 1990's. Each time charging that the companies producing, writing, and distributing the evil and immoral products were directly responsible for their uses, misuses, and any harm befalling individuals who used their products.
Using a microwave at home almost guarantees radioactivity abundant in your home. Many urban legends are based around the uses however like most myths they are born of fact. The fact is the microwaves can be dangerous, if improperly used.
Our government mandates that car companies go out of their way to ensure and prove safety testing. Gun manufacturers find themselves under heavy fire an a nearly daily basis over the questionable offense of providing semi-automatic firearms.
But what is not seen is how they are held pervasively responsible.
If a programmer writes a virus that was used, it is likely he/she will be held in direct responsibility. I'm sure a lot of you will agree with that. But waht determines harmful programming code?
If fact, what determines coding at all. Even our own government doesn't know how to classify program code when being copyrighted. Is it art, freedom of speech, text?
Look at DeCSS, Napster, Yo!nk, OpenDVD, Copyleft. These companies are among a handful fighting not just for their survival of themselves but to also prevent the unlawful intrusion upon our privacy, right to fair use copyright, and fair trade.
A DVD can be copied with or without DeCSS. You don't need the program. Even better it's more costly to copy DVD's than VHS. MPAA releases movies here and videos 2-4-6 months later. Over seas that some movie is released theatrically a year later. Therefore a European purchasing a DVD online may see the movie months before it's theatrical debut in his/her respective country.
Consider the logistics behind it. Consider the fair trade laws and the WTO meetings. At some point due to the companies failure to foresee the consumer as intelligent these companies are trying to make us pay the bill.
So, when kids kill themselves because they listened to Metallica, Ozzy Osbourne, and Iron Maiden...
So, when kids murder their parents and blame movies, harsh upbringing, and satan...
So, when the RIAA and MPAA blame coders for the misuse of their programs perhaps we should all APPLAUD the hard work of these corporate giants...
I for one fought alongside the RIAA saying that, "If a teenager kills himself thingking he heard satan in the music telling him to do so, that kid wasn't all together in the first place...". I said the record companies cannot be held responsible for what people found in their music...I sited freedom of speech...I sited personal interests...I sited personal freedom to own and hear and view whatever I want in this free country...I stood up for the MPAA saying that, "The movies never made my parents want to start a war or kill people, and it doesn't make me want to either, and therefore movies as a whole are not resposible for people misunderstanding the movies meaning..."
Let us not forget that RIAA and MPAA found themselves on the other side of the court room not so long ago being help responsible for their actions...
Fucking hippocrites!
...too many people who are managing IT dept. have no concept of IT. With all the various acronyms floating about indicating each companies desire to be significant and different from the other it's hard to imagine these management types really being able to help at all. Sure, they might be able to manage people but who you hire a McDonald's manager to manage nuclear scientists? That may seem a bit extreme but consider a multi-billion dollar corporation depending on a manager whose sole management experience has nothing to do with tax accounting, lawyer firms and law, network management. But then those IT gurus who do the good job and get the newly created titles may also not know their IT from an MIT.
Bottom line is...management should know it's people, stop fucking your best workers, and learn to accept rejection over brown-nosing. It's simple. Screw the latest management technologies. I mean come on, technologies? WTF?!?!
Slashdot Mirror
I think perhaps the question was meant to focus on how big picture programming (not images) might have helped or hindered the abilities of the investigators in determining the cause. On the other hand, images of the destruction might come in handy for investigative purpoases as well. Either way, and regardless the intent of the original question, what might systems engineers improve upon or how could they improve upon current paradigms to assist in investigative methods without using "black box" technology approaches?
Rivendahl
Sure its a record company but it's good stuff. Old and new school too.
Metropolis Records
I agree. Perhaps i would have said it differently but I agree. I think having the .prn would make it easier to filter those sites with adult content. I however don't feel they should give up their .com/.net/.org domain. Merely forward it. You can still filter the content.
This has very little to do with free speech. I can still own and operate an adult site. I am still subject to current laws and regulations. However, I am now is the adult section of the video store so to speak. I am now behind that black polybag wrap around that Playboy, Hustler, and Penthouse MUST use to be sold on news stands in public.
And while this is a minor governmental regulation on th ineternet it is far less dramatic and drastic than say allowing the free trade of altered adult images using children because they are "not real, fantasy in nature, and could be considered art and literature protected by free speech." That's just plain dumb.
I feel the direction we should take as a community is to develope global software solutions for the masses by the masses. This ensures the scalability, reliablity, and useability of the software. As well we should focus our attentions to creating internet protocols that ensure the integrity of data and the near perfect delivery of data and content. If I were an english major or a marketing genius I could fit more buzz words in here.
The bottom line is corporations will make every attempt no matter how pro-this or pro-that (IBM using Linux and OSD) or the usefullness (M$ stealing OS code from OSD for Winblows) to gobble financial assests. The best part is once a company reaches a certain level of capitol its all numbers.
If M$ wants to charge its only out of fear of admitting that free works better than not free in a lot of cases. Charging seems absurd to us because we are used to being able to use free a lot. We use free now. And that is free as in free beer.
Everyday we use things that are FORCED upon us that are not free as in free beer and not free as in freedom of choice, change, and modification. Telephones, electricity, ambulances, hospitals, public and mass transit, CD-R's, RIAA, MPAA, and so on.
Screw it. I'm preaching to the choir on this aren't I?
Later,
Rivendahl
Last week a major recording label released copy proctected versions of N*Sync's latest CD. Teenage fans across the nation quickly purchased the music CD making it the first ever multi-platinum sales in a single week. However, just as quickly as the sales topped over 17,000,000 units, the tides turned when almost 95% of the purchased CD's were returned.
Some customers sited faulty recording that prevented PC CD-Roms and various CD player models ranging from Sony's popular line of personal CD players, DiscMan, to the more expensive home units by Alpine, Pioneer, and Harmen-Cardon from playing the CD's. Other customers complained about the inability to copy the CD's to the massively popular digital format, mpeg layer 3, that landed Napster and MP3.com in court defending themselves against various lawsuits causing both companies to spends millions in fines, royalties to artists, and court costs (on a separate note various musical artists have filed their own lawsuits including the pop boy band N*Sync sueing for the royalties the recording labels and the RIAA have claimed they have acquired).
This comes as no surprize to online communities such as the often pro-Microsoft, pro-CorporateContentControl MSNBC news, CNet News, New York Times, and various OpenSource backers such as Slashdot.org and ZDNet, as well as consumer rights activists such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation. All of these popularly visited sites ran previous articles detailing the recording label's almost boastful press release regarding the distribution of the N*Sync copy protected CD containing three separate copy protection schemes. These same online communities provide posting forums where concerned potential cosumers and outright angered anti-copy protection activists downed the efforts claiming "if it can be played it can be copied!"
Today in a sweeping almost unanimous cry for justice, forty-two of the fifty states have filed class action lawsuits claiming the copy protection was meant to prevent the consumer from using the "fair use" clause of copyright legislation while the recording label retaliated with it's own high profile attack of consumers ability to freely copy and distribute digital music that the consumers themselves prefer over the orignal work.
While this battle ensues, the old addage "the customer is always right" has been re-coined to say "the customer wants what we tell them they want".
Where I work there are 1000 to 1500 Windows 95, 98, NT, 2000 and ME boxes but each one of them have a remote X sessions, Cirix terminal server connections, or dual boot *n*x platforms. There are about 500 test bed Unix machines. On about 200 test boxes there are versions of Linux running anything from RedHat and Mandrake to SuSE and Slackware. Not to mention the nearly 800 remote Unix servers. The true LINUX numbers are around 50 production (technically test bed) boxes running Gnome, KDE, CDE, and OpenWindows (Unix port). We are thinking about using Linux as a replacement for the nearly 800 remote servers complete with remote X-Server sessions for corporate DNS and web serving for remote web-paged based management.
Does this help?
Sen. Hollings,
How can you justify forcing the public to adhere to standards of security that are directly in conflict with fair usage clauses under the copyright laws? While I do not traffic in, participate in, or otherwise affiliate myself with those who do, stolen, pirated, copied, illegally borrowed, confiscated, or any other verbage associated with the theft of material legitimate companies have offered for public sale, I also refuse to support you or anyone who attempts to force such regulations of mistrust, guilty before proven innocent, big brother, it's for your own good to divert you from having the option of performing anything illegal, bills or laws.
This is absolutely wrong and I would not be suprised to find out that your wallet is being packed by the special interest groups this is absolutely designed to protect. And to think that the people elected you to your position for you to force such regulations upon them. How dare you?
Sincerely yours,
Eric
And yet you post to one of the most liberal places on earth - an OpenSource community board...hmmm.
While growing up in a small community in middle America where everyone knew everyone it was hard to escape a title of notoriety or in my case failure. As a child, if I competed in any sport related event typically I lost in both being chosen to play and actually playing.
However, once I arrived in high school the world changed from not getting picked to everyone played regardless. So PhysEd for me was different than most others. We had tests. We had two teachers. We had 30 students at most. And the weirdest thing was we played both competetive and non-sompetetive games.
I remember playing floor hockey, flag football, and basketball. All of which I came to enjoy and excelled in eventually. But I also remember playing New Games. A concept form southern Cali where the focus was on playing the game rather than being victorious.
I noticed that the concepts New Games taught us branched over into other games. I began to feel the same exhileration playing other games as I did playing New Games. I believe it was because New Games taught us to help each other and co-operate. Also, we learned that cheering others to perform often gave them the confidence to perform or at least to perfrom where they would have opted out.
IMHO, once someone realizes that ALL games can be played as Non-Zero Sum or Zero Sum games as a matter of thought rather than bounding rules ALL games have the potential to gain ethical and moral considerations which is in effect what those games attempt to promote.
Later,
Rivendahl
This whole Super Bowl was relatively uneventful. A guy got his helmet knocked off but that it's. I guess it's not what it used to be. As for the commercials, well, you're right. There weren't many. Of course I'd like to know where they got the panning cameras they used to shift views during game play? E*Trade may have ripped off the Matrix but didn't the Super Bowl camera men do that too? Only, it made sense when they did it.
While it makes perfect business sense to maximize profits, it makes no sense to screw your customers.
I, for one, will stop using the internet, music, television, automobiles, or any other luxury that I use daily if it's unfairly taxed because a few people have circumvented having to pay for them.
Big business claims it's needed to make the company successful and allow further development of possible ways to deter criminals. First of all, it's at the consumers expense and we consumers have decided that this practice is ok. Remember that even the smartest logician can logically surmize almost anything.
Secondly, the deterance they develop are only ways to prevent fair use and true ownership of media.
CRAP!!!
I will not allow unfair taxation, price hikes, or hidden costs to affect my daily life. I can live without many of the luxuries I use. Can you?
Bottom line is I say we boycott the industry that demands unfair cooperation for consumers by giving up our rights. I will not liscence a VHS or DVD movie just to have that liscence agreement change and either I agree to the new terms or lose rights to what I have paid money to attain.
Then these companies want to assume no liabilities if I do not agree to the terms, in other words, they revoke my ability to use it but do not reimburse my money.
The EULA is the perfect business model. NOT!!! Not unless you are the EULA writer. IT essentially says you give up all rights in the court when you use this product and you really don't own it - you simply get to USE it until they decide you can't.
I dare a corporate business to release fully featured, bug free software, that does not require insane legalese to attain the use.
They can't and won't. Hypocrits. Talk about wanting to give me better service only to remove my humanity so that I don't care about better service.
Later.
...when you pour your heart and soul into a company, get things done under budget and ahead of schedule, and everyone agrees that you are nearly invaluable, then you get canned because they can't afford your salary anymore. What sux worse is finding out they hired over 80 employees since you were canned at higher wages. Of course EVERYONE can read that scenario and guess the reasons why but the light at the end of this tunnel is being hired by a fortune 500 company to basically have fun and get paid nearly one sixth of your salary MORE to do it.
Such is life...
Oh and save your money for the rainy days like the AC said up top.
I taught level one SAIR LCA training at a small Linux company with roots that reach into the local ISP's of my town. I won't go into detail where or when. The first thing I noticed was the lack of interest in really training to learn rather than training to get bodies in the seat. The second thing I noticed was most of the students weren't passing the tests. I took several tests and passed each of them. It did take a few times on the areas in which I have little knowledge however. The typical good student didn't pass the test the first time. There are a few reasons. First the students expected too much too fast. They wanted to pass the tests right out of the class. The third thing I noticed while working there was the lack of real relationships. There were fostered realationships but no real ones. Many of the other teachers as well as myself began to feel frustrated because the bulk of the students didn't have computer experience beyond the home use. The fourth reason for my lack of interest in Linux certification. In a nutshell (pun inteneded), Linux needs valid certification paths and institutions to offer the courses developed toward learning Linux (not SAIR certification). I would be all for properlly training students in Linux and giving prep courses for the certifications. However, until the real world accepts Linux as a viable replacement to more expensive solutions I don't think certifications are going to hold a cup full of water. I wish it were otherwise. (BTW - I now work in a Sun Solaris Unix shop - talk about irony). Rivendahl
I keep getting the error message, "This story has been unposted." Any insight?
We are seeing a surgence of technilogical wars fought in courts based around not only copyrights, monetary valued ideals, personal liabilities, and accountability, but also fore thought and preminition. In the early 1980's the RIAA backed major record lables when the Christian Coalition brought the wrath of God into the court rooms charging vulgar language, sexual content, and satanic overtones didn't belong in music. The coalition brought the MPAA into the courts over violent slasher movies in the early 1990's. Each time charging that the companies producing, writing, and distributing the evil and immoral products were directly responsible for their uses, misuses, and any harm befalling individuals who used their products. Using a microwave at home almost guarantees radioactivity abundant in your home. Many urban legends are based around the uses however like most myths they are born of fact. The fact is the microwaves can be dangerous, if improperly used. Our government mandates that car companies go out of their way to ensure and prove safety testing. Gun manufacturers find themselves under heavy fire an a nearly daily basis over the questionable offense of providing semi-automatic firearms. But what is not seen is how they are held pervasively responsible. If a programmer writes a virus that was used, it is likely he/she will be held in direct responsibility. I'm sure a lot of you will agree with that. But waht determines harmful programming code? If fact, what determines coding at all. Even our own government doesn't know how to classify program code when being copyrighted. Is it art, freedom of speech, text? Look at DeCSS, Napster, Yo!nk, OpenDVD, Copyleft. These companies are among a handful fighting not just for their survival of themselves but to also prevent the unlawful intrusion upon our privacy, right to fair use copyright, and fair trade. A DVD can be copied with or without DeCSS. You don't need the program. Even better it's more costly to copy DVD's than VHS. MPAA releases movies here and videos 2-4-6 months later. Over seas that some movie is released theatrically a year later. Therefore a European purchasing a DVD online may see the movie months before it's theatrical debut in his/her respective country. Consider the logistics behind it. Consider the fair trade laws and the WTO meetings. At some point due to the companies failure to foresee the consumer as intelligent these companies are trying to make us pay the bill. So, when kids kill themselves because they listened to Metallica, Ozzy Osbourne, and Iron Maiden... So, when kids murder their parents and blame movies, harsh upbringing, and satan... So, when the RIAA and MPAA blame coders for the misuse of their programs perhaps we should all APPLAUD the hard work of these corporate giants... I for one fought alongside the RIAA saying that, "If a teenager kills himself thingking he heard satan in the music telling him to do so, that kid wasn't all together in the first place...". I said the record companies cannot be held responsible for what people found in their music...I sited freedom of speech...I sited personal interests...I sited personal freedom to own and hear and view whatever I want in this free country...I stood up for the MPAA saying that, "The movies never made my parents want to start a war or kill people, and it doesn't make me want to either, and therefore movies as a whole are not resposible for people misunderstanding the movies meaning..." Let us not forget that RIAA and MPAA found themselves on the other side of the court room not so long ago being help responsible for their actions... Fucking hippocrites!
...too many people who are managing IT dept. have no concept of IT. With all the various acronyms floating about indicating each companies desire to be significant and different from the other it's hard to imagine these management types really being able to help at all. Sure, they might be able to manage people but who you hire a McDonald's manager to manage nuclear scientists? That may seem a bit extreme but consider a multi-billion dollar corporation depending on a manager whose sole management experience has nothing to do with tax accounting, lawyer firms and law, network management. But then those IT gurus who do the good job and get the newly created titles may also not know their IT from an MIT.
Bottom line is...management should know it's people, stop fucking your best workers, and learn to accept rejection over brown-nosing. It's simple. Screw the latest management technologies. I mean come on, technologies? WTF?!?!