...get informed and stay informed. Its hard for me to fathom living in a democracy and crying ignorance about that which keeps our democracy from descending into something other than democracy, (i.e., fascism, socialism, whatever -ism you don't want to descent into).
I don't cast a vote on every issue, particularly ones that don't affect me but may be on the ballot, or those written in a way that make them hard to comprehend. However, everyone in the states that is of voting age has a responsibility to stay informed at some level.
Many Get-out-the-vote campaigns recommend using absentee or mail-in ballots as a method to circumvent potential fraud associated with e-voting. However, blackboxvoting.org is recommending against absentee/mail-in voting as possibly being more problematic because amongnst other problems, typically an election official, without oversight, manually enters each ballot into an e-vote tabulation console. My questions are,
do you agree with this assesment (that absentee votes are more suseptable to fraud),
and what recommendation(s) would you make to decrease the potential risk of absentee fraud?
I'm slightly bewildered as to how a thread on a story about leaving the US digressed immediately into "becoming addicted to cannabis." I guess that goes to demonstrate just how bad things are really getting in the US. "Can't deal with bushit so let's bake."
Oop, gotta go, it's twenty after four already...
My I.T. career path paid a part...
on
IT and Divorce?
·
· Score: 1
...but was certainly not the only factor in my divorce. That probably goes without saying, but it might be helpful to those mocking to understand and take note of other's experiences. If one doesn't know how to leave the stressors at the keyboard, (and anyone that's been working in I.T. long enough for at least a few different employers), knows that stressors are many, unique, often beyond your control. Come to think of it, probably one of the most critical professional development classes someone in I.T. should be required to take is stress and/or anger management. Exercise helps, or if that's is not for you, learn to drink responsibly and buy a bus pass.
I can't count the unrealistic projects I've been assigned to and had employment tied to their delivery. Often times that implies its necessary to bring work home, pounding keys into the wee hours of morning, heading back to the cubicle at the crack of dawn. How many projects have the wrong developers (wrong skillset), incompetent managers lacking foresite or essential knowledge, lack of hardware for development (including versioning), testing and deployment, unrealistic delivery schedules? How many projects are underfunded? How many contract system integrators are stuck between two or more vendors unwilling to disclose integration aspects of their application interfaces?
Ever worked on a project where the employer just bought every RUP product ever made, no clue how to use any of them, demanding every document/diagram in the RUP arsenal goes through three revisions before coding a line? Maybe the manager (i.e., recently demoted executive, marketing 'genius' brought in from some other industry) sold management that HIS whip would be the most effective at motivating skeleton crew of Serenity-type misfits to pound out some pie-in-the-sky?
Finally, the economy of late, in particular for software developers, (at least in the western hemisphere), hasn't really been ideal to allow us each to shop for the perfect fit/employer. The notion that a Perl scripter can somehow transform themselves overnight into the a.NET guru because their resume says "software engineer," runs rampant at the executive level. Or perhaps your project got reassigned overnight by the Business Development group after they cut a new marketing relationship with M$ yesterday to "save a ton of money" (swampland in S. Florida anyone?)
There are so many stressors. You HAVE to learn to leave the problems at the keyboard IN YOUR CUBE. If you chose to sit at a keyboard when not at work, that's your time to kill some monsters, cast a spell, download some pr0n, yada. I don't give a shit whether they just bought you a new Dell XPS laptop or not (wise to not download the pr0n there)! They're gonna make you give it back.
Ultimately, my unavailability to my family lead to the stressors in my relationship and ultimately to my marriages' demise. Anyone choosing to mock this reality, call me when you need a good divorce attorney. Plan on it costing you at least a years salary just to pay them, but don't plan on walking away with your house, since the courts will see your "earning potential" overshadows that of your partner's.
IE7 and MSN Search are both developed by a convicted monopolist. Integrating them together smacks of a(nother) Sherman Antitrust violation. Firefox is NOT developed by Google (not a convicted monopolist) and therefor cannot be held to the same standard. If Firefox defaults to Google, it is because the Firefox development team concluded it is a better search engine. FF appears to be motivated primarily by technology, not profit and market share greed. However, it would further appear (and history shows, i.e., Apache v. IIS), technology, not bundling, ultimately drives market share. Furthermore, in regards to Safari having only a single search engine available as an integrated feature, last I cheched Firefox still was a distant second in terms of browser user base while Safari user base barely registers on the radar screen.
Apache, ModSSL, OpenSSL are all open source, and SGI has made some fairly significant contributions to various open source projects (i.e, XFS), but forget about that. Why aren't these hypocrits running IIS on Windows?
That's a rhetorical question. They can't afford the down time or hacks planting worms via active directory exploits that Windows closed nature allegedly conceals.
You are seeking fellowships. There are many. Here, for example, is a list of fellowships that are independent of, but kept track by Cornel University...
But can anyone think of a system that is *seriously* better at everything DNS does than DNS?
Yes, Google. And it can do a lot more. Eradicate domain names altogether...! Bind is a great DNS implementation. Unfortunately not everyone uses Bind anymore. Too many tier 1 service providers have discrepencies in the way the implement things like recursion. DNS, like the hosts table, has long outlived its life expectancy, (to its credit), but lets move on...
Recently I ran into a problem with IIS because although it claimed to support the W3C Extended Log File format, Microsoft "forgot" to make it extendable as both the name implies and as written into the specification. I was told by the $250 support call that I made that because the specification didn't include a provision for implementation, it was "supportd" only by writing either an ISAPI filter or COM logging module.
It needs to be noted that no specification includes provisions for implementation, just the rules that must be adhered to in order to claim compatability or support for.
Imagine my surprise when the development tools needed to enable the "supported" feature did not come bundled with IIS, (i.e.,, VC++).
By using the Microsoft support engineer's logic, providing someone with VC++ constitutes support for the HTTP 1.1 protocol (RFC 2616) as well. Why even waste time developing IIS?
Apache and Netscape both require a 3 word modification to config file to accomplish what I needed to do. Something that can be completed by any novice adminstrator. IIS, on the other hand, requires several thousands of lines of code to be written and compiled by a software engineer with a toolkit not bundled with the product? How does this qualify as a supported feature?
For a feature to be supported, from my perspective, the line is drawn when someone with administrative priveleges or less can make a parameter change with a config file or utility. Requiring a software engineer to write compilable code with an unbundled software development kit does not constitute support.
Now Microsoft wants me to pay their professional services group to write the code necessary to make IIS compatible with the specification the product literature already claims it is.
Is it any wonder why so many tech savvy people despise working with Microsoft server tools? What is Microsoft doing to change this perception? Please comment...
Slashdot Mirror
...get informed and stay informed. Its hard for me to fathom living in a democracy and crying ignorance about that which keeps our democracy from descending into something other than democracy, (i.e., fascism, socialism, whatever -ism you don't want to descent into).
I don't cast a vote on every issue, particularly ones that don't affect me but may be on the ballot, or those written in a way that make them hard to comprehend. However, everyone in the states that is of voting age has a responsibility to stay informed at some level.
I'm slightly bewildered as to how a thread on a story about leaving the US digressed immediately into "becoming addicted to cannabis." I guess that goes to demonstrate just how bad things are really getting in the US. "Can't deal with bushit so let's bake."
Oop, gotta go, it's twenty after four already...
...but was certainly not the only factor in my divorce. That probably goes without saying, but it might be helpful to those mocking to understand and take note of other's experiences. If one doesn't know how to leave the stressors at the keyboard, (and anyone that's been working in I.T. long enough for at least a few different employers), knows that stressors are many, unique, often beyond your control. Come to think of it, probably one of the most critical professional development classes someone in I.T. should be required to take is stress and/or anger management. Exercise helps, or if that's is not for you, learn to drink responsibly and buy a bus pass.
.NET guru because their resume says "software engineer," runs rampant at the executive level. Or perhaps your project got reassigned overnight by the Business Development group after they cut a new marketing relationship with M$ yesterday to "save a ton of money" (swampland in S. Florida anyone?)
I can't count the unrealistic projects I've been assigned to and had employment tied to their delivery. Often times that implies its necessary to bring work home, pounding keys into the wee hours of morning, heading back to the cubicle at the crack of dawn. How many projects have the wrong developers (wrong skillset), incompetent managers lacking foresite or essential knowledge, lack of hardware for development (including versioning), testing and deployment, unrealistic delivery schedules? How many projects are underfunded? How many contract system integrators are stuck between two or more vendors unwilling to disclose integration aspects of their application interfaces?
Ever worked on a project where the employer just bought every RUP product ever made, no clue how to use any of them, demanding every document/diagram in the RUP arsenal goes through three revisions before coding a line? Maybe the manager (i.e., recently demoted executive, marketing 'genius' brought in from some other industry) sold management that HIS whip would be the most effective at motivating skeleton crew of Serenity-type misfits to pound out some pie-in-the-sky?
Finally, the economy of late, in particular for software developers, (at least in the western hemisphere), hasn't really been ideal to allow us each to shop for the perfect fit/employer. The notion that a Perl scripter can somehow transform themselves overnight into the a
There are so many stressors. You HAVE to learn to leave the problems at the keyboard IN YOUR CUBE. If you chose to sit at a keyboard when not at work, that's your time to kill some monsters, cast a spell, download some pr0n, yada. I don't give a shit whether they just bought you a new Dell XPS laptop or not (wise to not download the pr0n there)! They're gonna make you give it back.
Ultimately, my unavailability to my family lead to the stressors in my relationship and ultimately to my marriages' demise. Anyone choosing to mock this reality, call me when you need a good divorce attorney. Plan on it costing you at least a years salary just to pay them, but don't plan on walking away with your house, since the courts will see your "earning potential" overshadows that of your partner's.
IE7 and MSN Search are both developed by a convicted monopolist. Integrating them together smacks of a(nother) Sherman Antitrust violation. Firefox is NOT developed by Google (not a convicted monopolist) and therefor cannot be held to the same standard. If Firefox defaults to Google, it is because the Firefox development team concluded it is a better search engine. FF appears to be motivated primarily by technology, not profit and market share greed. However, it would further appear (and history shows, i.e., Apache v. IIS), technology, not bundling, ultimately drives market share. Furthermore, in regards to Safari having only a single search engine available as an integrated feature, last I cheched Firefox still was a distant second in terms of browser user base while Safari user base barely registers on the radar screen.
Apache, ModSSL, OpenSSL are all open source, and SGI has made some fairly significant contributions to various open source projects (i.e, XFS), but forget about that. Why aren't these hypocrits running IIS on Windows?
That's a rhetorical question. They can't afford the down time or hacks planting worms via active directory exploits that Windows closed nature allegedly conceals.
Cornel Fellowship Notebook
Note: Some are more lucrative than others, while some require some type of employment commitment upon completion of sponsored event.
But can anyone think of a system that is *seriously* better at everything DNS does than DNS? Yes, Google. And it can do a lot more. Eradicate domain names altogether...! Bind is a great DNS implementation. Unfortunately not everyone uses Bind anymore. Too many tier 1 service providers have discrepencies in the way the implement things like recursion. DNS, like the hosts table, has long outlived its life expectancy, (to its credit), but lets move on...
Recently I ran into a problem with IIS because although it claimed to support the W3C Extended Log File format, Microsoft "forgot" to make it extendable as both the name implies and as written into the specification. I was told by the $250 support call that I made that because the specification didn't include a provision for implementation, it was "supportd" only by writing either an ISAPI filter or COM logging module. It needs to be noted that no specification includes provisions for implementation, just the rules that must be adhered to in order to claim compatability or support for. Imagine my surprise when the development tools needed to enable the "supported" feature did not come bundled with IIS, (i.e.,, VC++). By using the Microsoft support engineer's logic, providing someone with VC++ constitutes support for the HTTP 1.1 protocol (RFC 2616) as well. Why even waste time developing IIS? Apache and Netscape both require a 3 word modification to config file to accomplish what I needed to do. Something that can be completed by any novice adminstrator. IIS, on the other hand, requires several thousands of lines of code to be written and compiled by a software engineer with a toolkit not bundled with the product? How does this qualify as a supported feature? For a feature to be supported, from my perspective, the line is drawn when someone with administrative priveleges or less can make a parameter change with a config file or utility. Requiring a software engineer to write compilable code with an unbundled software development kit does not constitute support. Now Microsoft wants me to pay their professional services group to write the code necessary to make IIS compatible with the specification the product literature already claims it is. Is it any wonder why so many tech savvy people despise working with Microsoft server tools? What is Microsoft doing to change this perception? Please comment...