Doesn't this beg the question of whether they will EVER be ready?
Despite their foibles and quirks, "the mainstream," bless their souls, sometime has a pretty good bead on what they think is bullshit and what is not. I think that TV on a cell phone is counted in the former category and not the latter.
Just because technology can do a thing, does not necessarily mean that it will ever be accepted by the "mainstream."
Our data center has a cube farm for its operators, but the cube farm itself is guarded by a separate security guard. Even if you get past the guard at the main gate with the rubber glove and the sign "Use of Excessive Force Has Been Approved" you cannot get into the command center without an escort who WORKS in the command center (even if you have a green-badge, non-escorted access visitor badge) and separate showing of government (not company) ID.
Our systems are FDA validated, and the first time I had to go into the command center I was told that this was a consequence of running a validated computer system.
In other words, something that only endangers one self is trying to be prevented, right?
it's actually more ridiculous than the seatbelt laws. Consider that if you were in an accident and not wearing your seatbelt, public services (fire, ems, etc.) would be engaged to either pull you out or scrape you off, depending on the severity of the accident; so you could make a case that the public good is enhanced if everybody wore their seatbelt.
Securing an open WiFi access point doesn't secure any additional public 'good.' It's a bullshit law.
One testimonial writer on that web site said that he plugged this power cord in and magically "now, tones and sounds linger and pull on you until you''re totally involved in the performance. "
2) Pay scales and advancement are good things to have, but I wonder if this is the root cause of the defection. How is the organization structured? Is a tech lead a road to nowhere? It might be, if the group is divided functionally. A true siloed organization ain't any good either, because of the risk of becoming an insect (i.e., so specialized that you aren't fit for anything else.)
OT, but it brings back memories of working at Purolator Courier in the machine room. IBM mainframe shop.
We had had trouble with the damn fire suppression all day. On third shift, around 3 AM, the trouble alarm went off (again) for the umpteenth time. One of the operators, a nervous fellow who was a little bit green, went over to the annunciator panel and opened it to see what the Trouble Might Be.
A fire technician he was not, and he apparently didn't know the difference between the trouble bell and the klaxon that would sound when a halon dump was about to occur; so he reached around the open panel door and hit the halon defeat.
Or so he thought.
It was actually the Big Red Switch.
The whole room (full of 3420 and 3480 tape drives, the 3745s, the 3800 laser printers; and the floor above, containing trivial bits like the DASD and the CPU all plunged into a deafening silence.
We all stared at each other and at the newbie BOFHeck.
A few minutes later, the phone rang. It was the Indianapolis air hub for Purolator, wondering why (when they were about to receive about 150 planes from all over the country) they didn't have anything useful displayed on their green screens.
geez, IM was viewed here (large Fortune 500 firm) as probably very close to a !Hole! !In! !The! !Fabric! !Of! !Space-Time! !Itself! for the longest time.
We finally deployed an IM for inside the firewall. It doesn't suck too badly as long as people don't abuse it. There are only one or two people who barrage me with popups, and they have the good sense to just flash peacefully on the taskbar if the window doesn't have the focus.
Assuming that the truth-teller comes from the village of life (you didn't specify) then simply point down one of the forks and ask the person "Is this the road to your village?"
If the person answers "Yes" then take the path.
Reasoning is that the truth teller will always tell the truth and that's the right way. Since the liar will always lie, he'll say "yes" as well and that will be a falsehood.
So what? We have a common naming scheme for malware outbreaks. I don't see how that contributes one jot or tittle to actually containing the outbreaks.
If it were a common initiative to develop a distribution framework for patches and a response, that's one thing. But the whole point of this article seems to be:
"Hi! It looks like you have malware on your system! Based on the signature, you have malware192. HTH. HAND."
By this logic, I am permitted (so say you) to download any content that I could get normally through any channel that I'm subscribed to by my cable provider.
I could say even further that I'm simply availing myself of an alternative delivery method for the shows and eps that I'm getting, since my cable provider also provisions my cable modem.:)
Of course, the analogy falls apart as soon as I join a swarm and start uploading. (sigh)
And actually, once things are humming, you can assume the day-to-day and have some relatively recession-proof skillset.
AS LONG as you remember the primary caveat enumerated earlier; that you must be well versed with your business process. If you don't, you're no better than the 2500-rupee whizkid from Chennai who can bang out an EDI map. An EDI analyst who has a good grasp of the business concepts, and who can partner with their internal business partners AND their trading partners, will never lack for work.
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it's Eddy. Eddy's in the space time vortex, remember?
Damon Knight already predicted universal access to the cameras in his short story I See You.
Available as an ebook at the hyperlink. Good read.
Doesn't this beg the question of whether they will EVER be ready?
Despite their foibles and quirks, "the mainstream," bless their souls, sometime has a pretty good bead on what they think is bullshit and what is not. I think that TV on a cell phone is counted in the former category and not the latter.
Just because technology can do a thing, does not necessarily mean that it will ever be accepted by the "mainstream."
Our data center has a cube farm for its operators, but the cube farm itself is guarded by a separate security guard. Even if you get past the guard at the main gate with the rubber glove and the sign "Use of Excessive Force Has Been Approved" you cannot get into the command center without an escort who WORKS in the command center (even if you have a green-badge, non-escorted access visitor badge) and separate showing of government (not company) ID.
Our systems are FDA validated, and the first time I had to go into the command center I was told that this was a consequence of running a validated computer system.
In other words, something that only endangers one self is trying to be prevented, right?
it's actually more ridiculous than the seatbelt laws. Consider that if you were in an accident and not wearing your seatbelt, public services (fire, ems, etc.) would be engaged to either pull you out or scrape you off, depending on the severity of the accident; so you could make a case that the public good is enhanced if everybody wore their seatbelt.
Securing an open WiFi access point doesn't secure any additional public 'good.' It's a bullshit law.
Or you could write to webmaster@experiencela.com, who hosts the LATW site, telling them of the hack. That might be more useful than /. mod points.
Puh-leeze.
One testimonial writer on that web site said that he plugged this power cord in and magically "now, tones and sounds linger and pull on you until you''re totally involved in the performance. "
rolling my eyes
Here's a food innovation that's up there with Reese's Peanut Butter Cups. Sheer inspiration.
Only partly humorous.
1) If you don't have senior leadership buy-in on this reorg, you're dead. Period. And, regretfully, oftentimes the CIO doesn't count as senior leadership.
2) Pay scales and advancement are good things to have, but I wonder if this is the root cause of the defection. How is the organization structured? Is a tech lead a road to nowhere? It might be, if the group is divided functionally. A true siloed organization ain't any good either, because of the risk of becoming an insect (i.e., so specialized that you aren't fit for anything else.)
halon defeat
OT, but it brings back memories of working at Purolator Courier in the machine room. IBM mainframe shop.
We had had trouble with the damn fire suppression all day. On third shift, around 3 AM, the trouble alarm went off (again) for the umpteenth time. One of the operators, a nervous fellow who was a little bit green, went over to the annunciator panel and opened it to see what the Trouble Might Be.
A fire technician he was not, and he apparently didn't know the difference between the trouble bell and the klaxon that would sound when a halon dump was about to occur; so he reached around the open panel door and hit the halon defeat.
Or so he thought.
It was actually the Big Red Switch.
The whole room (full of 3420 and 3480 tape drives, the 3745s, the 3800 laser printers; and the floor above, containing trivial bits like the DASD and the CPU all plunged into a deafening silence.
We all stared at each other and at the newbie BOFHeck.
A few minutes later, the phone rang. It was the Indianapolis air hub for Purolator, wondering why (when they were about to receive about 150 planes from all over the country) they didn't have anything useful displayed on their green screens.
That was a fun morning.
Ah, those were the days indeed.
Are you thinking of the Long Range Foundation or the Howard Foundation?
geez, IM was viewed here (large Fortune 500 firm) as probably very close to a !Hole! !In! !The! !Fabric! !Of! !Space-Time! !Itself! for the longest time.
We finally deployed an IM for inside the firewall. It doesn't suck too badly as long as people don't abuse it. There are only one or two people who barrage me with popups, and they have the good sense to just flash peacefully on the taskbar if the window doesn't have the focus.
because you don't want him re-elected again.
Absent a constitutional convention, that'll be difficult to do.
Assuming that the truth-teller comes from the village of life (you didn't specify) then simply point down one of the forks and ask the person "Is this the road to your village?"
If the person answers "Yes" then take the path.
Reasoning is that the truth teller will always tell the truth and that's the right way. Since the liar will always lie, he'll say "yes" as well and that will be a falsehood.
... after reading TFA...
So what? We have a common naming scheme for malware outbreaks. I don't see how that contributes one jot or tittle to actually containing the outbreaks.
If it were a common initiative to develop a distribution framework for patches and a response, that's one thing. But the whole point of this article seems to be:
"Hi! It looks like you have malware on your system!
Based on the signature, you have malware192. HTH. HAND."
Or am I missing the point?
By this logic, I am permitted (so say you) to download any content that I could get normally through any channel that I'm subscribed to by my cable provider.
:)
I could say even further that I'm simply availing myself of an alternative delivery method for the shows and eps that I'm getting, since my cable provider also provisions my cable modem.
Of course, the analogy falls apart as soon as I join a swarm and start uploading. (sigh)
"data managers" - you're on the 'nix version; which one?
We process over 250MB daily (a Fortune 50 company) in our MVS version and I can't remember the last time we lost a bundle of data.
And actually, once things are humming, you can assume the day-to-day and have some relatively recession-proof skillset.
AS LONG as you remember the primary caveat enumerated earlier; that you must be well versed with your business process. If you don't, you're no better than the 2500-rupee whizkid from Chennai who can bang out an EDI map. An EDI analyst who has a good grasp of the business concepts, and who can partner with their internal business partners AND their trading partners, will never lack for work.
I can second this. You MUST have your business processes in order, or EDI will just transmit your crap to your trading partner.
And they will NOT like you. "Cost recovery" is the euphemism they use for charging you for correcting your EDI fuckups.
Gentran is a bulletproof platform, but pricey. I work on the MVS version of Gentran now, and know the Unix version too.
:) If you need to hang a box on the network for EDI, you probably couldn't do it any cheaper than Softshare.
Softshare Delta is raved about a lot, and it's relatively cheap.
Cheaper than Gentran, anyway.
We're grudgingly letting Yahoo host it but if you want, come on over to the EDI-L mailing list. Messages are viewable by the public.
I have a few years of EDI experience as well, and it's my day job. I don't mind knowledge transfer either.
p.s. I didn't post any web sites. I posted a *link* to a web site.
Question now becomes: Does your pedantry trump my pedantry?
Only the mods can say.
Oooh! Rimshot! Didn't see that coming, did you?
J&J sells cotton swabs, but Q-Tip brand cotton swabs are made by Cheeseborough-Ponds which was acquired by Unilever in 1987.
Which could be found on the same web site you posted.
Another funny post falls to pedantry.
Which was the intention all along, according to the summary if not TFA.
I sit corrected. Thank you.