"Just remember that you may or may not be hired due to interpretations of your "web presence" regardless of whether or not it's actually how you live your life."
Erm, correction: There was a third theft that I forgot about. It turned out that some guy was walking into the building from the street, following people through the security doors after they used their cards, and trying to steal computers. I'm know at one point some employees spotted him and stopped him, but this was after he had gotten some loot already. His description went out in the company e-mail and I don't think we heard from him again.
"A few years ago, a securtity head-honcho at my company gave a presentation about keeping confidential documents off our desks, because "you never know when the janitors can come in and just swipe it out with them. I know they don't speak English, but it doesn't take a lot to swipe stuff off a desk...""
It's easy to blame the person who's not in the room. Why do you think they blame the project's current problems on the person who jumped ship and left the company?
And FWIW, there were only two occasions I know of where things were stolen from an office where I worked or visited. One of them (involving the theft of the database peoples' candy/cookie stock) was never solved as far as I know. The other one (involving the theft of computer equipment) was conclusively traced to a person on the custodial staff. This person was hired on Tuesday, a thief on the Wednesday, and fired on the Thursday.
I've never experienced that. Toshiba has been used in my family for years with nary a problem. The most problematic ones were NEC and Dell. We've had the best experienes with IBM, Toshiba, Fujitsu, Compaq and Apple.
" Didn't realize these guys were hackers, too. Wonder how many RIAA/MPAA scum got in on the beta test?"
This is also what I worry about. A hostile peer is one thing. You can just choose not to receive packets from them. But what about a hostile tracker sending your client on a wild goose chase?
"At somepoint, the networks need to realize that WE WANT OUR PROGRAMMING OUR WAY. We don't always mind commercials, we don't mind in-show advertising (I don't personally, YMMV), but we mind you playing games with us and hindering our ability to watch a simple show on the television."
Ah yes, the contradiction of TV. The stupidities that annoy us all can be explained when we realise that the show is not the product. The viewer is the product and we are being sold to the advertisers. The TV networks care little about the show or the viewer at all. As long as they get the viewer in front of the tube so they can get their advertising revenue, that's all that matters.
This whole 'our programming' and 'our way' thing has not entered the mind of the TV execs at all. Again I am reminded of why I prefer DVDs.
Doesn't happen. Aside from asinine license keys tied to the MAC address of a system, I've never seen any stupid copy protection schemes anywhere except at the consumer/small business level."
In the same line you said that copy protection doesn't exist in enterprise software and then described an asinine license key scheme tied to MAC addresses in enterprise software. This kind of thing is exactly what we want to know about.
Please tell us if there are any stupidities in installing, running or backing up the software (or software components) related to copy protection. If the company does not respect the paying user, then I have no respect for the company and won't buy their product.
I have officially bit off my foot after putting it too far into my mouth. In my country, only old people really RTFA in soviet russia with hot grits. Have a nice day.
"(And really, if your search returns 30 pages of results, that's going to take a lot of CPU to search if a lot of users are using it.)"
Erm, probably should have said "a lot of CPU to sort" instead of search. Some estimates indicate that 20% of all CPU power worldwide is used for sorting.
I probably also should have said RTFA but RTFM sort of works too.
If you'd care to RTFM, you'd realise that the option to sort by date is gone. So you can still restrict your searches to a certain date range, but sorting those returned results by date is not possible anymore. (And really, if your search returns 30 pages of results, that's going to take a lot of CPU to search if a lot of users are using it.)
"Unless someone puts together an "In Korea" flash video featuring elderly people sending e-mails to a techno beat before the end of the day, I think this one is dead."
You know I still think this one has some life yet due to this article. The original version was pretty lame because you could only change the subject and nothing else. You couldn't take that joke very far. We can now permute it by saying:
"In [name of country], [subject] is only for old people!"
So now it's the "old people" meme instead of the "In Korea" meme. Yes, now it has potential I think.
"I mean, come on... IN SOVIET RUSSIA lasted at least a week or two, and people are still pulling an "All Your Base" every now and then. This has to be some sort of record."
Come on, you didn't even reference my AYB parody of the In Korea joke!
Fair enough, maybe I'm just blind. I never saw this feature once. But then again I didn't have any annoying people to hide from (on ICQ) at that point.
"You think because AV finds nothing, your box is clean? Not necessarily. If you're rooted, you're rooted, and you'll never know unless you boot from trusted media. Once your box is not your own, the OS will never tell you the truth again.
Virus and Spyware detection will fail, because a root-kitted kernel will lie to it about what files are there, what processes are running, and what network traffic is flowing."
Also it would clog up a 28.8 so fast that it would be impossible for us to not notice.;)
Let me preface this by saying that in my area you can only get 28.8 dialup. There is nothing better available. Not even 56K. (And yes, I know there are some here stuck on 19.2 and 21.6... I feel for you all.)
Our gateway box is a Win2k machine. It hasn't been patched in months upon months because it would tie up the connection for a long time. (Downloading patches over 28.8 is slow and we have eight computers in the house sharing that connection.) That gateway machine is totally clean. No spyware, no worms, etc. This is confirmed by proper antivirus and anti spyware software.
I'm just posting this an in interesting observation. This makes sense because a zombie on a dialup line is pretty damn worthles anyway.
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Crap, I'd better remove that link from my sig!
Good luck building your next desktop computer.
dying is only for... Wait, I guess this meme is dead now. Good riddance.
Yes, he is!
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Better buy now! Amazon.com has only 2 copies left in stock! (though more are on the way)
Erm, correction: There was a third theft that I forgot about. It turned out that some guy was walking into the building from the street, following people through the security doors after they used their cards, and trying to steal computers. I'm know at one point some employees spotted him and stopped him, but this was after he had gotten some loot already. His description went out in the company e-mail and I don't think we heard from him again.
It's easy to blame the person who's not in the room. Why do you think they blame the project's current problems on the person who jumped ship and left the company?
And FWIW, there were only two occasions I know of where things were stolen from an office where I worked or visited. One of them (involving the theft of the database peoples' candy/cookie stock) was never solved as far as I know. The other one (involving the theft of computer equipment) was conclusively traced to a person on the custodial staff. This person was hired on Tuesday, a thief on the Wednesday, and fired on the Thursday.
I've never experienced that. Toshiba has been used in my family for years with nary a problem. The most problematic ones were NEC and Dell. We've had the best experienes with IBM, Toshiba, Fujitsu, Compaq and Apple.
This is also what I worry about. A hostile peer is one thing. You can just choose not to receive packets from them. But what about a hostile tracker sending your client on a wild goose chase?
Ah yes, the contradiction of TV. The stupidities that annoy us all can be explained when we realise that the show is not the product. The viewer is the product and we are being sold to the advertisers. The TV networks care little about the show or the viewer at all. As long as they get the viewer in front of the tube so they can get their advertising revenue, that's all that matters.
This whole 'our programming' and 'our way' thing has not entered the mind of the TV execs at all. Again I am reminded of why I prefer DVDs.
Japanese people are smaller. Duh.
Doesn't happen. Aside from asinine license keys tied to the MAC address of a system, I've never seen any stupid copy protection schemes anywhere except at the consumer/small business level."
In the same line you said that copy protection doesn't exist in enterprise software and then described an asinine license key scheme tied to MAC addresses in enterprise software. This kind of thing is exactly what we want to know about.
Please tell us if there are any stupidities in installing, running or backing up the software (or software components) related to copy protection. If the company does not respect the paying user, then I have no respect for the company and won't buy their product.
Yeah I got it wrong, just mod it as offtopic or whatever.
I have officially bit off my foot after putting it too far into my mouth. In my country, only old people really RTFA in soviet russia with hot grits. Have a nice day.
Erm, probably should have said "a lot of CPU to sort" instead of search. Some estimates indicate that 20% of all CPU power worldwide is used for sorting.
I probably also should have said RTFA but RTFM sort of works too.
Look at the advanced search page.
The search by date option is still present.
If you'd care to RTFM, you'd realise that the option to sort by date is gone. So you can still restrict your searches to a certain date range, but sorting those returned results by date is not possible anymore. (And really, if your search returns 30 pages of results, that's going to take a lot of CPU to search if a lot of users are using it.)
You know I still think this one has some life yet due to this article. The original version was pretty lame because you could only change the subject and nothing else. You couldn't take that joke very far. We can now permute it by saying:
"In [name of country], [subject] is only for old people!"
So now it's the "old people" meme instead of the "In Korea" meme. Yes, now it has potential I think.
Come on, you didn't even reference my AYB parody of the In Korea joke!
You're telling me that the guy's box was loaded with warez over a 28.8 connection? Nasty. I would never let such large transfers happen under my nose.
... must ... resist ... urge to make an "In Korea" joke ...
No the antivirus on the server always checks every day at 6:30pm for updates.
Fair enough, maybe I'm just blind. I never saw this feature once. But then again I didn't have any annoying people to hide from (on ICQ) at that point.
Also it would clog up a 28.8 so fast that it would be impossible for us to not notice. ;)
Our gateway box is a Win2k machine. It hasn't been patched in months upon months because it would tie up the connection for a long time. (Downloading patches over 28.8 is slow and we have eight computers in the house sharing that connection.) That gateway machine is totally clean. No spyware, no worms, etc. This is confirmed by proper antivirus and anti spyware software.
I'm just posting this an in interesting observation. This makes sense because a zombie on a dialup line is pretty damn worthles anyway.
I used ICQ since 1997, and there was no selective invisibility except through third party clients or blocking a user.