Your protections do you no good. You didn't understand the point of the article. Here it is, spelled out real simple. The smart cards are effective in stopping card duping and card theft. They have no effect on identity theft. Someone will apply as you at a bank that you have never dealt with and receive a card in your name. You cash does not protect you. Verified enrollment would, but the article didn't discuss that. It also didn't mention that as EMV has caused certain types of fraud rates to fall where it is implemented that fraud his migrated to places where EMV is not in place, mainly the USA.
Play the game. It makes it clear who authored it. Nearly free advertising for him. I'd do that in a second. Some of my games have been stolen in the past and I wasn't given attribution. At least he's getting credit.
"their oil"? That is an odd way of putting it. You mean to say that the feds are stealing oil from LA? You've lost me. How does the federal gas tax hurt LA? This is the dumbest comment that I've ever seen modded up to +5 on/.
I think you are missing my point. If the culture of the shop is such that they aren't going to let you in, to the point where you aren't given access to any machines, then you're going to have a hard time figuring things out on your own. While for the most part we weren't being actively excluded we were not being welcomed with open arms. Mainframes are big enough and different enough from what you learn in school that it is pretty tough to even know where to start in educating yourself. Not to mention, what is the motivation when the larger team obviously doesn't want you?
I transferred to another group that did something I had no exposure in but they embraced me. They gave me useful work to do and actively mentored me. They did this with several people, not just me.
Maybe I am a pompous ass for not wanting to spend two years debugging. Note that I didn't join that particular group. I can tell you that the people that did sign up for that are idiots and not the sort of motivated people that you want as a foundation for the future. In any case, I was there, you weren't (unless you know me, do you?) and I am telling you how this particular situation was. I'm sorry that it doesn't match up with your experience but it doesn't mean that I'm wrong about what I observed.
I mentioned 40 as the youngest. Older people were in their 50's and 60's and some had been working on the product for over 30 years. I mention that because it plays into the culture gap. A 55 year old might have a harder time showing a 21 year old the ropes. In the group I was in ALL the older guys were incapable of effective mentoring for one reason or another. None of the people starting out had a "god complex". We all wanted to learn and to be useful, but it was obvious that our willingness and effort wasn't enough to make it happen.
I've been in another division of IBM for about 7 years now and from the start have been able to be effectively mentored and make real contributions to the group.
I should mention that the lab that I was at considered this such a problem accross divisions that they began holding meetings trying to figure out a solution. I left before they made any progress.
I started at IBM in software group doing mainframe stuff. The group had just hired four recent college grads. Everybody else was over 40.
There were several reasons for this. One was that during IBM's "dark days" in the early 1990's all the young people took the severance packages and fled the mainframe groups. They knew they could learn other technologies and the packages were too good to resist. The older people stuck with what the knew. Then as IBM slowly recovered the recovery didn't focus on mainframe technologies, so new people didn't get hired into those groups. When they finally realized that they did need to hire new people it had been nearly a decade since those old people had trained anybody and they really didn't know how to do it.
I came in with a CS degree from Stanford and was told by one manager that if I worked in his group I would spend two years debugging other people's code. That wasn't attractive to me at all. Bright people want to go somewhere where they can have an impact, but the older guys saw us as a threat and were very reticent to teach us anything. All four of the people I was hired with left for different either different groups in IBM or other companies. The mainframe world couldn't compete with the glamour of the internet boom.
Honestly, I spent four months trying my best to learn this stuff but nobody wanted to teach me. I could see that it was going nowhere. There is going to have to be a real culture change if a hand-off of this stuff is going to happen.
If the question is one of security rather then one of keeping track of files, then you can disable the drivers for USB flash drives. There was a previous Ask/. about this, and I'm too lazy to look it up for you.
If the issue is keeping track of files as the original post implied, then the answer is one of training. Don't store anything long-term on removable media such as floppy drives or flash drives. (I'm ignoring backup solutions such as tape drives fo rthe moment.) Use flash drives as a convenience to walk files from one computer to another, not to store anything critical.
I agree. The DVD drive he bought is almost as big as the mini. He could have still used his custom port panel and then built the mini into the wall just above the panel allowing access to the DVD drive.
This article from Wired describes a new system that might be attractive to you once it goes into full production. Of course, Idaho probably isn't the most effective location for solar power...
For instance, how much data is there? I've read some of the linked articles and I can't find any estimate of how many MB there might be. I would guess that there isn't a massive amount of data simply because the thing was designed within the limits of 1970s technology and they had to be able to record the data as it was coming in.
Also, I would be shocked if NASA didn't document any of the file formats used. I've worked on a NASA project and they are all about documentation. In fact, I was writing a system used to document the shuttle booster production process.
I have no plans to publish a book. In the future I might have plans to use public domain code though, and it seems like a good idea to have some understanding of how things work.
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Seriously though, you need to get someone that has massive experience doing this sort of thing and doing it in anger.
Your protections do you no good. You didn't understand the point of the article. Here it is, spelled out real simple. The smart cards are effective in stopping card duping and card theft. They have no effect on identity theft. Someone will apply as you at a bank that you have never dealt with and receive a card in your name. You cash does not protect you. Verified enrollment would, but the article didn't discuss that. It also didn't mention that as EMV has caused certain types of fraud rates to fall where it is implemented that fraud his migrated to places where EMV is not in place, mainly the USA.
Play the game. It makes it clear who authored it. Nearly free advertising for him. I'd do that in a second. Some of my games have been stolen in the past and I wasn't given attribution. At least he's getting credit.
"their oil"? That is an odd way of putting it. You mean to say that the feds are stealing oil from LA? You've lost me. How does the federal gas tax hurt LA? This is the dumbest comment that I've ever seen modded up to +5 on /.
I transferred to another group that did something I had no exposure in but they embraced me. They gave me useful work to do and actively mentored me. They did this with several people, not just me.
Maybe I am a pompous ass for not wanting to spend two years debugging. Note that I didn't join that particular group. I can tell you that the people that did sign up for that are idiots and not the sort of motivated people that you want as a foundation for the future. In any case, I was there, you weren't (unless you know me, do you?) and I am telling you how this particular situation was. I'm sorry that it doesn't match up with your experience but it doesn't mean that I'm wrong about what I observed.
I've been in another division of IBM for about 7 years now and from the start have been able to be effectively mentored and make real contributions to the group.
I should mention that the lab that I was at considered this such a problem accross divisions that they began holding meetings trying to figure out a solution. I left before they made any progress.
There were several reasons for this. One was that during IBM's "dark days" in the early 1990's all the young people took the severance packages and fled the mainframe groups. They knew they could learn other technologies and the packages were too good to resist. The older people stuck with what the knew. Then as IBM slowly recovered the recovery didn't focus on mainframe technologies, so new people didn't get hired into those groups. When they finally realized that they did need to hire new people it had been nearly a decade since those old people had trained anybody and they really didn't know how to do it.
I came in with a CS degree from Stanford and was told by one manager that if I worked in his group I would spend two years debugging other people's code. That wasn't attractive to me at all. Bright people want to go somewhere where they can have an impact, but the older guys saw us as a threat and were very reticent to teach us anything. All four of the people I was hired with left for different either different groups in IBM or other companies. The mainframe world couldn't compete with the glamour of the internet boom.
Honestly, I spent four months trying my best to learn this stuff but nobody wanted to teach me. I could see that it was going nowhere. There is going to have to be a real culture change if a hand-off of this stuff is going to happen.
Um, did you read the follow on sentece?
schweet! I'll have to modify my 3d asteroids to run as a screensaver...
His blog is at http://panela.blog-city.com/. He thought it was a great conference.
Of course the mere fact that somebody slipped up and let this out would be enough for Steve to cancel such a project if there ever was one.
Can't he, the oracle of all things Apple, clear this up for us? Why is he strangely silent, he who used to comment so often?
You think Bush has any interest in paying down the debt????????
Borland is going out of business slowly. They just laid off a bunch of support people. Too bad since they made some good stuff.
If the issue is keeping track of files as the original post implied, then the answer is one of training. Don't store anything long-term on removable media such as floppy drives or flash drives. (I'm ignoring backup solutions such as tape drives fo rthe moment.) Use flash drives as a convenience to walk files from one computer to another, not to store anything critical.
I am also willing to wait for a BT version. My desk is such a rat's nest that every cable I can get rid of is a minor blessing.
I think the combination of "Lord" and "Ender" requires a serious misreading of the books as well. That title goes with that name like oil and water.
I agree. The DVD drive he bought is almost as big as the mini. He could have still used his custom port panel and then built the mini into the wall just above the panel allowing access to the DVD drive.
http://slashdot.org/~gmhowell/journal/112533
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.07/solar.htm l?pg=1&topic=solar&topic_set=
Sweet. We can put it on my phone!
Also, I would be shocked if NASA didn't document any of the file formats used. I've worked on a NASA project and they are all about documentation. In fact, I was writing a system used to document the shuttle booster production process.
I trust those tacked on labels put on imports about not at all. Plus, what is the point of importing Mexican coke with HFCS in it?
Not to put too fine a point on it, but... that sucks.
I have no plans to publish a book. In the future I might have plans to use public domain code though, and it seems like a good idea to have some understanding of how things work.