I don't know why so many people are bashing the company for this. If somebody doesn't want to take a promotion, fine. But you have to realise that this says a lot to the company.
Why would they want an employee that is unwilling to accept further job responsibility for further reward? If somebody says, "I don't want the promotion. It's my current job or nothing," the company is probably well within their rights to say goodbye to that employee.
It seems to me that iKantBelieveThis is not living in reality. If you don't want the job they would like you to do, of course they are considering dismissing you. Unless you and they stated that your job responsibilities would never change when you accepted the current position, I don't know what the problem is.
They need someone to fill a position and think iKantBelieveThis is qualified. iKantBelieveThis is unwilling to do the job, though. Why do they have any obligation to keep him in the current position after seeing that they have an employee that (in their view) has no drive or desire to do more?
I made no claim that I agreed with these views. It says right at the top that it was in a chain letter via email. I just posted it to point out how screwed and hypocritical our country continues to look. I don't recall ever claiming the Democrats wer on the up-n-up.
Oh, well. Didn't see that someone posted it already, although the previous post makes it seem like the politician from Zimbabwe actually said all these things. If this politician actually exists (who knows, it's an email), he didn't say anything beyond the statement about election fraud not being a third-world phenomenon.
I think Intel is definitely aware that this cpu, in its current incarnation, is not satisfactory. But it does do one thing for them. It let's them say they have a faster clock speed than AMD. That's why they released it. They don't really care how well it works right now, they just want bragging rights. Eventually, they'll have to remedy it, but for now, I think they have accomplished their goal. To people who know better, it works against them, but to people like their stockholders and the average consumer, it lets them say, "Hey, look what we did. Look how fast our new processors are."
I see many people complaining that, if this is an option now, they will probably make it mandatory in the future. There is no way that will happen. There are too many programmers, developers, programs, drivers, executables, etc. that use unsigned software. By limiting software to those that have digital signatures, Microsoft would be narrowing the market for people who would use their OS, and as we all know, that is the last thing they would want to do.
Also, I have used their sigverif utility on W2K machines at work, and it is actually useful. One user had a laptop that would not power down properly and cause blue screen. It turned out that an unsigned file level driver was actually causing the problem. By running sigverif, I was able to get a list of all unsigned files and find the driver in question.
There are a lot of reasons not to like Microsoft, but I think trying to make a better product is not one of them.
All this is a good thought, but ICANN has screwed the pooch (or the average person in this case).
The TLD will compete not only by offering extra space, but additional prestige: dot-biz domains will cost $2,000 to register and $150 to maintain.
The higher price means that only serious registrants will be getting dot-biz domain names.
So, someone who can't afford the higher price is automatically considered as a registrant that is not serious? And will a tld like.biz really mean extra space? Costing what they do, mostly established companies and companies with a bunch of cash will buy domain names. These same companies will already own the same.com name or buy it at the same time. While it is technically extra space, I think we will mostly see the same names registered to both.com and.biz.
If they were really serious about alleviating the shortage of domain names, they would have provided a tld for the average person and/or business.
You don't have to know any Unix tools to do a whois. All you need is internet access. See here, here, here, or just do an internet search for whois. You'll get a ton.
But, if you take precautions, the info they can get isn't anything special. Slashdot's info is a good example of how the email can be set up. For security reasons, the phone number should be an 800 number. If it is not, someone can use a war dialer to dial all the numbers on that phone exchange to figure out which lines, if any, have dialup servers. There are still plenty of cracks where the initial point of entry is a dialup server, believe it or not.
I don't know why everyone thinks voting digitally has to be done from home. To make it fair for those that don't have access to the internet, and to make it more secure, why not vote digitally at the polling place?
Sure, it would mean either moving equipment in and taking it back out or dedicated polling places, but couldn't it be done. Security would be better because the equipment could be dedicated, with nothing else running but what is required for voting. Hell, where I am all the polling places are schools. Is it that hard to use their existing wiring and connections to hook up some digital voting booths? You would show up, prove your identity (unlike now), and vote.
For the voter, it could be simple. Press a, b, or c, or 1, 2, or 3. Then, a la Regis, make sure it's your final answer with a simple prompt ensuring that was the intended choice, and your vote gets transmitted securely (hopefully). It seems to me, it would be harder to mess with the system if all the voting was done at designated polling places.
Just remember, no solution will please everyone or be perfect.
The Washington Post has an excellent article that goes into detail about everything going on in Florida. One thing it mentions is that there are about 1000 Florida voters living in Israel, most of whom would be expected to vote for Gore (if they voted).
They also mention Pat Buchanan getting more than four times the votes in Palm Beach County (the one with different ballots) than he received in a nearby comparable county, Broward, and more than four times the votes compared to a nearby county that is more conservative.
We'll know soon, but there are going to be complaints and allegations no matter who wins.
It is automated if you consider punch cards to be automated. How come the US voting system is stuck with technology this old?
Not only that, from my observations voting in Maryland (the last three presidential elections), it seems likely that people can commit a lot of fraud without getting caught. In most elections, it probably isn't close enough for a couple people tampering to make a difference, but it seems like there are few checks for this system.
I walked into my polling place, told them my name, and got my ballots. They didn't check ID or anything. If I had names of other registered voters, I presumably could have come back at a different time and voted as someone else if that person hadn't voted.
When you vote, you punch holes in a card, which must be read later as a punch card. You take your ballot to the front and dump it in a big cardboard box which it would be possible to damage, destroy, replace, or steal. Whatever law enforcement and security is minimal. Would it be that hard to tamper? Not at all. Ballot stuffing seems likely, and any tampering is too much.
It's a lot more than NASA. Social Security Administration, Department of Commerce, Department of Transportation, US Coast Guard, Department of Defense, ATF... the list just keeps going. I know of places that are contracting out or considering contracting much more than the tech stuff. Basically, everything except administration and finance.
I can tell you, as a contractor, I feel I could make more if I left. But the environment I am in allows me to play around a little. I get into a lot of different technology at work, and they let me do a lot with it. I know a lot of places aren't like that, so I don't have a lot to complain about. But it is very likely that I will eventually end up leaving for money.
How does the situation stink of "ooh, look at me!" more than if he had accepted and become the king? Being Homecoming King doesn't scream "look at me!"? I doubt this really ruined any of the students' enjoyment of Homecoming, either. I remember my Homecoming, and it was a fun time, but I have no idea who the king and queen where.
I agree, he's not a hero or a martyr. But maybe to some of his fellow students he is, and that's what matters, isn't it?
This shows that you don't have to be intelligent to work at a school or hand out punishments. When I was in public high school, I hated going to class. I skipped all the time, even while maintaining decent grades. Two things happened. One was, in Maryland you lost credit after five unexcused absences. So, in a couple of classes, even though I had a B, they failed me.
The second was, they wanted to punish me for skipping class. So, guess what they did? They suspended me. Ouch! It really hurt to be suspended for SKIPPING CLASS.
Looks like they're using similar logic here... and that would be no logic. The school had no grounds to suspend him for refusing to be homecoming king. Would they have suspended him if he had just decided not to go to the homecoming football game? All the school should have done is picked up the crown and awarded it to the runner-up. That's what runners-up are for. If they did this to one of my kids (I can't believe I'm old enough to have kids, plural), I would be outraged.
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A person familiar with the break-in told The Journal that it appeared the hackers accessed Microsoft's system by e-mailing software, called QAZ Trojan, to the company's network and then opening a so-called back door through the infected computer.
I'm glad they used protection. It's always wise, but especially when going in the back door and an infection is involved.
I'm having a Covad installation next week, and they use ADSL for residential, even if you get the faster speed. They only use SDSL for commercial, which of course is much more. I did find a place that had SDSL up to 784k for $40US a month, but they sucked. Kept telling me the CO was out of capacity when it was just the space that they payed for that was out of capacity. After waiting a few months, I cancelled and signed up somewhere else.
I agree. The average server can handle a much higher load and has a much faster connection than the average client. That's because a server is there to serve. The problem is that both a client and a server will bog down if there is too much of a load. But if someone could find a way to make some money doing this, they could afford to use servers that won't slow to a crawl as often as the clients. Even if you just use the servers for indexing (I think they called this a "super-peer" in the article), they can be used to speed things up.
There are certain advantages to p2p, like the fact that it can't be shutdown or fail because of a couple machines failing or someone trying to pull the plug for legal reasons. But servers are used for a reason and definitely serve a function. I don't think p2p is going to eliminate client/server any time soon.
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I don't know why so many people are bashing the company for this. If somebody doesn't want to take a promotion, fine. But you have to realise that this says a lot to the company.
Why would they want an employee that is unwilling to accept further job responsibility for further reward? If somebody says, "I don't want the promotion. It's my current job or nothing," the company is probably well within their rights to say goodbye to that employee.
It seems to me that iKantBelieveThis is not living in reality. If you don't want the job they would like you to do, of course they are considering dismissing you. Unless you and they stated that your job responsibilities would never change when you accepted the current position, I don't know what the problem is.
They need someone to fill a position and think iKantBelieveThis is qualified. iKantBelieveThis is unwilling to do the job, though. Why do they have any obligation to keep him in the current position after seeing that they have an employee that (in their view) has no drive or desire to do more?
Hey, MP3s won't make artists poor if they do what Metallica did!
I made no claim that I agreed with these views. It says right at the top that it was in a chain letter via email. I just posted it to point out how screwed and hypocritical our country continues to look. I don't recall ever claiming the Democrats wer on the up-n-up.
Oh, well. Didn't see that someone posted it already, although the previous post makes it seem like the politician from Zimbabwe actually said all these things. If this politician actually exists (who knows, it's an email), he didn't say anything beyond the statement about election fraud not being a third-world phenomenon.
He was funnier before the divorce.
I think Intel is definitely aware that this cpu, in its current incarnation, is not satisfactory. But it does do one thing for them. It let's them say they have a faster clock speed than AMD. That's why they released it. They don't really care how well it works right now, they just want bragging rights. Eventually, they'll have to remedy it, but for now, I think they have accomplished their goal. To people who know better, it works against them, but to people like their stockholders and the average consumer, it lets them say, "Hey, look what we did. Look how fast our new processors are."
I see many people complaining that, if this is an option now, they will probably make it mandatory in the future. There is no way that will happen. There are too many programmers, developers, programs, drivers, executables, etc. that use unsigned software. By limiting software to those that have digital signatures, Microsoft would be narrowing the market for people who would use their OS, and as we all know, that is the last thing they would want to do.
Also, I have used their sigverif utility on W2K machines at work, and it is actually useful. One user had a laptop that would not power down properly and cause blue screen. It turned out that an unsigned file level driver was actually causing the problem. By running sigverif, I was able to get a list of all unsigned files and find the driver in question.
There are a lot of reasons not to like Microsoft, but I think trying to make a better product is not one of them.
All this is a good thought, but ICANN has screwed the pooch (or the average person in this case).
The TLD will compete not only by offering extra space, but additional prestige: dot-biz domains will cost $2,000 to register and $150 to maintain.
The higher price means that only serious registrants will be getting dot-biz domain names.
So, someone who can't afford the higher price is automatically considered as a registrant that is not serious? And will a tld like .biz really mean extra space? Costing what they do, mostly established companies and companies with a bunch of cash will buy domain names. These same companies will already own the same .com name or buy it at the same time. While it is technically extra space, I think we will mostly see the same names registered to both .com and .biz.
If they were really serious about alleviating the shortage of domain names, they would have provided a tld for the average person and/or business.
That was the point. It was an attempt at humor.
Didn't you hear. This should answer your question.
Damn, my fingerprints aren't unique, my ideas aren't unique... at least my Slashdot nickname is completely unique.
Phew, I feel better!
You don't have to know any Unix tools to do a whois. All you need is internet access. See here, here, here, or just do an internet search for whois. You'll get a ton.
But, if you take precautions, the info they can get isn't anything special. Slashdot's info is a good example of how the email can be set up. For security reasons, the phone number should be an 800 number. If it is not, someone can use a war dialer to dial all the numbers on that phone exchange to figure out which lines, if any, have dialup servers. There are still plenty of cracks where the initial point of entry is a dialup server, believe it or not.
I don't know why everyone thinks voting digitally has to be done from home. To make it fair for those that don't have access to the internet, and to make it more secure, why not vote digitally at the polling place?
Sure, it would mean either moving equipment in and taking it back out or dedicated polling places, but couldn't it be done. Security would be better because the equipment could be dedicated, with nothing else running but what is required for voting. Hell, where I am all the polling places are schools. Is it that hard to use their existing wiring and connections to hook up some digital voting booths? You would show up, prove your identity (unlike now), and vote.
For the voter, it could be simple. Press a, b, or c, or 1, 2, or 3. Then, a la Regis, make sure it's your final answer with a simple prompt ensuring that was the intended choice, and your vote gets transmitted securely (hopefully). It seems to me, it would be harder to mess with the system if all the voting was done at designated polling places.
Just remember, no solution will please everyone or be perfect.
The Washington Post has an excellent article that goes into detail about everything going on in Florida. One thing it mentions is that there are about 1000 Florida voters living in Israel, most of whom would be expected to vote for Gore (if they voted).
They also mention Pat Buchanan getting more than four times the votes in Palm Beach County (the one with different ballots) than he received in a nearby comparable county, Broward, and more than four times the votes compared to a nearby county that is more conservative.
We'll know soon, but there are going to be complaints and allegations no matter who wins.
It is automated if you consider punch cards to be automated. How come the US voting system is stuck with technology this old?
Not only that, from my observations voting in Maryland (the last three presidential elections), it seems likely that people can commit a lot of fraud without getting caught. In most elections, it probably isn't close enough for a couple people tampering to make a difference, but it seems like there are few checks for this system.
I walked into my polling place, told them my name, and got my ballots. They didn't check ID or anything. If I had names of other registered voters, I presumably could have come back at a different time and voted as someone else if that person hadn't voted.
When you vote, you punch holes in a card, which must be read later as a punch card. You take your ballot to the front and dump it in a big cardboard box which it would be possible to damage, destroy, replace, or steal. Whatever law enforcement and security is minimal. Would it be that hard to tamper? Not at all. Ballot stuffing seems likely, and any tampering is too much.
If MS is forced to split any time soon, you can bet they will make IE for multiple platforms. Will people try it, or find an excuse not to?
It's a lot more than NASA. Social Security Administration, Department of Commerce, Department of Transportation, US Coast Guard, Department of Defense, ATF... the list just keeps going. I know of places that are contracting out or considering contracting much more than the tech stuff. Basically, everything except administration and finance.
I can tell you, as a contractor, I feel I could make more if I left. But the environment I am in allows me to play around a little. I get into a lot of different technology at work, and they let me do a lot with it. I know a lot of places aren't like that, so I don't have a lot to complain about. But it is very likely that I will eventually end up leaving for money.
How does the situation stink of "ooh, look at me!" more than if he had accepted and become the king? Being Homecoming King doesn't scream "look at me!"? I doubt this really ruined any of the students' enjoyment of Homecoming, either. I remember my Homecoming, and it was a fun time, but I have no idea who the king and queen where.
I agree, he's not a hero or a martyr. But maybe to some of his fellow students he is, and that's what matters, isn't it?
This shows that you don't have to be intelligent to work at a school or hand out punishments. When I was in public high school, I hated going to class. I skipped all the time, even while maintaining decent grades. Two things happened. One was, in Maryland you lost credit after five unexcused absences. So, in a couple of classes, even though I had a B, they failed me.
The second was, they wanted to punish me for skipping class. So, guess what they did? They suspended me. Ouch! It really hurt to be suspended for SKIPPING CLASS.
Looks like they're using similar logic here... and that would be no logic. The school had no grounds to suspend him for refusing to be homecoming king. Would they have suspended him if he had just decided not to go to the homecoming football game? All the school should have done is picked up the crown and awarded it to the runner-up. That's what runners-up are for. If they did this to one of my kids (I can't believe I'm old enough to have kids, plural), I would be outraged.
Gotta love that slashcode! Why did I hit preview?
Here/a& gt; is an interesting little article about the top 10 IT disasters. I don't know if each would be considered a Deathmarch, but if not they're sure close. The craziest thing is how much money each of these projects burned up without being able to accomplish anything close to the goal.
I'm glad they used protection. It's always wise, but especially when going in the back door and an infection is involved.
I'm having a Covad installation next week, and they use ADSL for residential, even if you get the faster speed. They only use SDSL for commercial, which of course is much more. I did find a place that had SDSL up to 784k for $40US a month, but they sucked. Kept telling me the CO was out of capacity when it was just the space that they payed for that was out of capacity. After waiting a few months, I cancelled and signed up somewhere else.
I agree. The average server can handle a much higher load and has a much faster connection than the average client. That's because a server is there to serve. The problem is that both a client and a server will bog down if there is too much of a load. But if someone could find a way to make some money doing this, they could afford to use servers that won't slow to a crawl as often as the clients. Even if you just use the servers for indexing (I think they called this a "super-peer" in the article), they can be used to speed things up.
There are certain advantages to p2p, like the fact that it can't be shutdown or fail because of a couple machines failing or someone trying to pull the plug for legal reasons. But servers are used for a reason and definitely serve a function. I don't think p2p is going to eliminate client/server any time soon.
You're really going out on a limb with that one.