So buying time of a politician is not a form of corruption?
A politician is supposed to represent his voters not a SIG or a Corporation. IF a politician is seeing campaign contributors instead of those who voted for him is this not corruption?
Face it, politics is a nasty dirty business that no honest man will have anything to do with. To state otherwise reveals either a lack of critical examination or deluded ideals.
There is no way to secure a machine that a user has access to. There are however steps to be taken. Remove the CD, change the bios. Lock with a small padlock.
Further more, a network sweep can identify machines OS, automatic cut off of network port when authorised machine found.
A policy of firing people for un-authorised software is open to abuse by the company. Only lowly grunts are going to be dismissed.
This is why IT is not consulted. Extreme prejudice indeed!
If end users are not supposed to do something it's your job to configure the gear so they can't. Rules forbidding something are a failure in IT.
If the user has no agent for the desktop license management how is that a problem exactly? Either they are not using any licensed software our your management software is not to hot on the managing front.
If you're running round playing tattle tale who do you think the finger is really pointing at? Go back to your sever room and lock the door.
A start up doesn't need a large server, or indeed wiring. A central server, wireless networing and some xterms.
A PC on every desk scales linear, so do the costs!
Neither paradigm is good or bad, the uses to which they are applied make the choice good or bad. A $10m server for 20 people is probably a bad choice. A network of 10,000 desktop pcs is probably a bad choice.
Most companies choose not to distribute their assets in such a manner, but is it illegal to do so? Your argument is that all corporations will do everything that is allowed under law. this is not so, but is the point legal?
I went to a computer fair in 1980 more out of curiosity then anything else. Saw these and wanted one. Simple as that, parents waited until the next year and got me the ZX-81. I learnt basic and Z80 assembly. Upgraded to the ZX-Spectrum, then the BBC Micro (6502).
Before the fair I was thinking about being an architect, after the fair all I wanted was to work with computers. I started programming for a living at 17 and have done nothing else for close on 20 years, including picking up B.Sc.(HONS) Compu.Sci. As long as I keep getting new challenges I'll stick with the job.
Bollocks, real world lethality is well known, there are other decisions involved when choosing ammo. Calculate not when the round leaves the barrel but when the round hits the victim.
In Boar war the UK troops discovered that many tribes men had multiple gun shot wounds, they also saw that one round could pass through a target and hit another. The solution was to cross hatch the round. On impact it opened up.
In modern terms they created dum-dum or soft points. The idea is you create a larger hole and transfer more enegry. Hit something vital OR hit hard and cause shock. either way the victim stops.
Modern military arms are covered by the Geneva convention, I think you can only use FMJ on the battle field. Certainly no DD or soft point. A 7.62 will punch through where a 5.56 will lodge or tumble. Curiously, police forces are not covered by the GC.
If you want to stop somebody who is within 100yds of you, put the rifle and pistol away, load a shotgun with 1oz slugs or Hatton rounds. Work out the energy transfer and wound size and you see nothing comes close. It ain't sexy but it does the job.
So why does the NSA emplyee the most people of any goverment TLA? FBI,CIA etc I'm not sure but I think it was only recently eclipsed by the Homeland Security Office.
Given it's secrecy how do you know that NSA is doing what it's mandated to do?
But when the UK built some of their first jets they didn't know how to test for bird strikes.
The US had been using pnuematic cannons and chickens.
So the UK boffins built a cannon, set it to the required pressure, loaded the bird. Fire! One destroyed canopy. Try again same result. Not very reassuring for the new pilots.
Many irate phone calls to US later it was discovered that tahwing the chicken was a required step.
Touche:-) I was sorta hoping you could explain when speed became dangerous. I must assume you are unable to. That being so give some thought as to speed limits and their bearing on safety.
Think about why speed is not the sole reason for any accident. Is it possible that speed has to be mixed with something else OR is it speed alone no matter what else happens. In your rollover were you driving to fast for the condtions OR did you over correct a slide etc?
Once again when does speed become dangerous? By your own admission cars roll at 20 should we limit speed to 19? Or should it be 200. There is no such thing as safe when driving, it's an illusion.
Were as if you crash it's always through excess speed? Because if the car had been stationery you wouldn't have crashed? Ignorant, of course about many things, but not about this topic. Speed contributes but is not sole reason for any accident.
Why do you repeatedly attack me rather than the points I make?
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Holy crap, call me when it's sub $100.
So buying time of a politician is not a form of corruption?
A politician is supposed to represent his voters not a SIG or a Corporation. IF a politician is seeing campaign contributors instead of those who voted for him is this not corruption?
Face it, politics is a nasty dirty business that no honest man will have anything to do with. To state otherwise reveals either a lack of critical examination or deluded ideals.
I feel we'll dis-agree over this point.
There is no way to secure a machine that a user has access to. There are however steps to be taken. Remove the CD, change the bios. Lock with a small padlock.
Further more, a network sweep can identify machines OS, automatic cut off of network port when authorised machine found.
A policy of firing people for un-authorised software is open to abuse by the company. Only lowly grunts are going to be dismissed.
The only way to have uniformity is to enforce it technically not with policy. If you can't secure the box then what's the point?
If you need a policy then you are not doing you're job. If they're not meant to do it then make sure they can't. No ifs or buts.
This is why IT is not consulted. Extreme prejudice indeed!
If end users are not supposed to do something it's your job to configure the gear so they can't. Rules forbidding something are a failure in IT.
If the user has no agent for the desktop license management how is that a problem exactly? Either they are not using any licensed software our your management software is not to hot on the managing front.
If you're running round playing tattle tale who do you think the finger is really pointing at? Go back to your sever room and lock the door.
You sick, sick person. What did your daughter ever do to you? The stick the poor girl is going to take in school. I blame the parents.
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A start up doesn't need a large server, or indeed wiring. A central server, wireless networing and some xterms.
A PC on every desk scales linear, so do the costs!
Neither paradigm is good or bad, the uses to which they are applied make the choice good or bad. A $10m server for 20 people is probably a bad choice. A network of 10,000 desktop pcs is probably a bad choice.
Not the purchase price but the cost of support/maintneance. Although I am waiting for somebody to release a very cheap <$100 thin client.
companies that is.
You have this wonderful multi user OS and you use it on a single PC, arghhh.
Centralised computing is where most companies should be at, cheap disposable terminals on the desktop and a beast of a server under lock and key.
Linux will rule the enterprise desktop when companies grasp the mainfram had the right network architecture. Until then they're just wasting money.
Just ask them what they earn. When they refuse to tell you ask them why they want to keep it secret have they done soemthing wrong?
Most companies choose not to distribute their assets in such a manner, but is it illegal to do so? Your argument is that all corporations will do everything that is allowed under law. this is not so, but is the point legal?
Z80 1kb Rom/ 1Kb Ram no expansion.
;-)
I went to a computer fair in 1980 more out of curiosity then anything else. Saw these and wanted one. Simple as that, parents waited until the next year and got me the ZX-81. I learnt basic and Z80 assembly. Upgraded to the ZX-Spectrum, then the BBC Micro (6502).
Before the fair I was thinking about being an architect, after the fair all I wanted was to work with computers. I started programming for a living at 17 and have done nothing else for close on 20 years, including picking up B.Sc.(HONS) Compu.Sci. As long as I keep getting new challenges I'll stick with the job.
Computers affect my life, nope not at all
Like American comments are any more meaningful? // // Loop to read file //
Huh? What file, why, when and a loop?
But not as big as a googol plex
Bollocks, real world lethality is well known, there are other decisions involved when choosing ammo. Calculate not when the round leaves the barrel but when the round hits the victim.
In Boar war the UK troops discovered that many tribes men had multiple gun shot wounds, they also saw that one round could pass through a target and hit another. The solution was to cross hatch the round. On impact it opened up.
In modern terms they created dum-dum or soft points. The idea is you create a larger hole and transfer more enegry. Hit something vital OR hit hard and cause shock. either way the victim stops.
Modern military arms are covered by the Geneva convention, I think you can only use FMJ on the battle field. Certainly no DD or soft point. A 7.62 will punch through where a 5.56 will lodge or tumble. Curiously, police forces are not covered by the GC.
If you want to stop somebody who is within 100yds of you, put the rifle and pistol away, load a shotgun with 1oz slugs or Hatton rounds. Work out the energy transfer and wound size and you see nothing comes close. It ain't sexy but it does the job.
Screw VPC use VMWare much better product IMHO.
So why does the NSA emplyee the most people of any goverment TLA? FBI,CIA etc I'm not sure but I think it was only recently eclipsed by the Homeland Security Office.
Given it's secrecy how do you know that NSA is doing what it's mandated to do?
Probably an urban legend
But when the UK built some of their first jets they didn't know how to test for bird strikes.
The US had been using pnuematic cannons and chickens.
So the UK boffins built a cannon, set it to the required pressure, loaded the bird. Fire! One destroyed canopy. Try again same result. Not very reassuring for the new pilots.
Many irate phone calls to US later it was discovered that tahwing the chicken was a required step.
Q.E.D.
This shows a tremendous ignorance of human nature.
No you won't. You'll come along with a better symptom reliever.
1. Ignore the constitution
2. Invade other countries
3. Profit
But who would cut the grass?
Touche :-) I was sorta hoping you could explain when speed became dangerous. I must assume you are unable to. That being so give some thought as to speed limits and their bearing on safety.
Think about why speed is not the sole reason for any accident. Is it possible that speed has to be mixed with something else OR is it speed alone no matter what else happens. In your rollover were you driving to fast for the condtions OR did you over correct a slide etc?
Once again when does speed become dangerous? By your own admission cars roll at 20 should we limit speed to 19? Or should it be 200. There is no such thing as safe when driving, it's an illusion.
Were as if you crash it's always through excess speed? Because if the car had been stationery you wouldn't have crashed? Ignorant, of course about many things, but not about this topic. Speed contributes but is not sole reason for any accident.
Why do you repeatedly attack me rather than the points I make?