Also, frequent laptop-toting business travelers (almost universally salesmen) also have more limited access to their local IT techs.
For example, I've worked fairly frequently with a poor lady who was a salesman for a remote market. She lived there rather than near my office. Her email account got suspended at least once a week due to the fact that her laptop had syphilis, gonorrhea, warts, crabs, and just about every virus and worm known to man.
Phone walk-throughs just didn't help with this lady and the local ISP (mandated by accounting) blocked any ports that could be used to remotely administer her machine. Finally we had her fed-ex it to us for cleanup, wipe, and reinstall of a fairly-well locked down windows system with our (accountant selected) workstation antivirus app.
This cycle continued four or five times. Her Antivirus app somehow got disabled and her machine became Typhoid Mary. She shipped the Laptop back and we tried to lock it down as securely as possible.
Ultimately, we discovered that an internet cafe she frequented was infected with a particularly nasty spam-bot worm that our particular antivirus app didn't catch (An AnnaK variant, IIRC). We used this as evidence to override the accountant's selected cheapo antivirus with something that worked a little better.
Actually, STDs haven't really been that fatal until recently. No one really dies from herpes and besides aids the only fatal STD had been syphilis which had not been introduction until Columbus returned from the new world after the 1500s.
It's worth noting that the spread of Syphilis through Europe rather conveniently coincides with the rise of puritanical morality in England and the Americans, especially towards sex. The Victorian movement in England and the Evangelical Christian movement in the U.S. are some of the highest pinnacles of sex taboo ever reached.
By the beginning of the 1900s, however, cheap condoms were beginning to be in common use across most of Europe. The decline of Victorianism coincides.
I'm not claiming any causation here because I don't have the numbers. However, the sheer amount of correlation bears serious thought and study.
MS made a good move in hiring Russovitch. We can hope that he has more positive influence over kernel changes to XP and Vista than MS has bad influence over things that he does and does not get to say and software (sysinterals) he does or does not get to release.
I've always considered that basic morality is always biological.
In otherwords, the sin itself is the punishment. Murder harms the species' ability to propogate. Theft harms the species' ability to care for its children. Incest harms the species' viability.
An aversion to 'basic' sins is evolutionarily advantageous.
All other morality is an offshoot of this behavior combined with humans' abilities to recognize (and sometimes fatally mis-recognize) patterns.
People who eat uncooked pork die horribly of trichnella (sp?) parasite infection. Ergo, certain meats are 'unclean' and therefore not kosher.
People who eat lots of meat and fats suffer more heart attacks and strokes. Ergo, you don't consume meat and dairy (the milk of its mother) at the same time.
This is all the room we require for 'onerous' morality to spawn given humans ability to harmful overcategorize.
When a population begins engaging in lots of promiscuous sex with another population, such as during a rapacious, pillaging invasion, it tends to spread diseases between the two. Everyone on both sides gets herpes strains they're not immune to.
Ergo, sexual conduct as a whole must be bad, right?
We know today that's silly and more harmful than helpful. However, semites still don't eat pork, even if it's been properly cooked.
Yippee - 6 more sites to add to the corporate "banned" list. It's bad enough people try to use things like "Gmail" to send things that really ought to be sent securely. There are lot of semi-computer-literate yokels out there who see "SSL" and "SSH" and forget that their "private" data will be lying in the clear on someone else's server at the end of the day (free for the someone else or a server hacker to copy/read).
It's assholes like this who make IT difficult for everyone else by inspiring hatred and fostering a sense of rebellion among those they supposedly 'serve'. Perhaps as a Slashdot reader, you're familiar with the phrase, "The more you tighten your grip..."? This is the reason that people attempt to work around you by using encrypted links to offsite storage. It's the same reason they set up unofficial file servers and install 'unapproved' applications. They need or want something that you, in your capacity as the provider of IT services, are not providing.
Rather than arrogantly treating those you work with as 'Yokels', you could understand and provide for their needs. Why don't you try working with them rather than against them? Spend the time you would stamping out undesirable computer use by educating your users about security and providing them with the tools and services they want.
Then, when you have a *real* security problem (one that doesn't involve the use of GMail), they'll be less likely to revolt.
If you work in IT and aren't willing to treat those around you with more respect than you'd give to livestock, you need to find a different job.
Okay, I can kinda wrap my head around that. It's possible that an un-as-of-yet identified function in this group could describe a geodesic structure we haven't built or conceived yet?
Hmm... I see how this could have some effects on nano-tech then, especially as carbon-nanotube and buckminsterfullerine research continue.
Thanks, Arlo! Number theory may make my head hurt, but the implications are always fun to consider.
Nobel Prize Nominees as the control, and Nobel Prize Winners as the sample?
Gee criminey... It's like using tweezers to pick up sand grains on the far shore of the bell curve to see how sandy they are.
FTFA:
An analysis of 524 nominees for the Nobels in physics and in chemistry between 1901 and 1950 showed that the group's 135 winners lived about two years longer than the also-rans. The finding points to the health benefits of social status and suggests that status benefits the bodies of the cerebrally normal too.
A single car crash could have skewed your margins on that.
When I get a cut or a scratch, I clean it with alcohol. (because short of amputating the hand, it's the ONLY way to be sure!) One would assume that at least some of this alcohol would stay on my hands when I drive.
I don't drive drunk. Ever. Still my car would be cutting out whenever I've treated one of my numerous injuries.
While I agree that we're probably about to have a minor watershed of dead web 2.0 companies, something that's often neglected is that websites are relatively inexpensive to maintain when compared to a brick and mortar location. You pay for bandwidth, new development, and storage.
If managed correctly, this is far less expensive than maintaining a 'real world' location.
If I were an investor, I wouldn't write off the Web 2.0 companies as a whole, but I would be leery of things like high salesman salaries, a large management to production employment ratio, and an absence of realistic business plans.
We still have the best of the Web 1.0 bubble with us, and they're profitable. Five, ten years from now, we'll have the best of the Web 2.0 bubble with us and will be speculating about which of the 3.0 companies are next to go.
As a company owner, this thing is so sad. But on the techinical aspect, ReiserFS has better numbers in i/o, read and write that ext3, but many, many times, the way Hans conducts himself, lead to more and more people running away from ReiserFS.
I've been reading about Hans since the murder indictment, but haven't really found much besides technical details of ReiserFS. What kind of behavior is he known for that would cause people to avoid him, or his products?
(Personally, I'm the sort to hold to the 'innocent before proven guilty' motto. No, I don't care if OJ's DNA was all over the bloody bodies of Ron and Nicole. He's innocent because the jury said so. Even if he killed the people, it's the price we pay for a merciful justice system.)
heh - I'm 30 and have been listening to to the audio CDs of books 1-6 (Jim Dale narrator) over and over in order for the past several months. It's so much fun to listen to while doing things around the apartment. I think this was the perfect time to get into Potter, as now I get to anticipate the release of book 7, but didn't have to go through this on books 2-6.
The wait for 5 was just amazingly insane. It went 12.3..4.....................5...6...
'Order of the Phoenix' was both amazingly long, worth the wait, and quite a milestone for Rowling as an author. She went from a deus-ex-machina-type denoument in the first book to what can only be described as an epic fantasy battle at the end of the fifth.
If you've seen the bits of the trailers of Movie 5-- well-- they don't really do the work justice, even as good as they are.
The tech behind ZFS at least sounds very impressive, but I have to wonder how useful it is for workstation drives.
I've never found plain-Jane posix permissions to be all that useful on anything other than the most basic of server environments.
HFS has going for it all the fun stuff we've come to love apple for, such as transparent file customization like icons, labels, meta data, and whatnot through resource forks. I assume that these can be made to work with ZFS by making hidden files.
What I'd really like to see is both that kind of functionality along with NTFS's really excellent ACL permission system implemented. ACL permissions are a godsend for people responsible for running a file store that's used by humans as opposed to automated processes. NTFS also has a great deal of capacity for meta-data, although not to the same level as HFS.
NTFS is one of the few worthwhile things that's ever come out of Redmond. I wish more people would spend a bit learning from it without throwing it away simply because it's MS bloat.
Teaming up with EA was the worst thing that ever happened to Maxis.
SimCity 2000 was so polished and bug-free. SimCity 3 and 4 are... well... painful to run.
My wife is a diehard 'The Sims' addict. She can go on and on about bugs in 'The Sims 2' that make me scratch my head... and I play MMOs and am used to longstanding bugs.
I just got done reinstalling her system so that she would have more room to download player-developed content. Oh, she had a 70gb hard drive I bought for her just for this reason, but 'The Sims 2' pukes if its download folder is not BOTH on the 'C' drive and in the user's 'Documents and Settings' folder. Simply relocating the folder via windows registry changes is not adequate.
I pleaded with her to quit buying the expansions until they had a 'known issues' patch, but they apparently still haven't released one for their 'pets' expansion. She wanted to breed virtual dogs so she's struggling with a veritable cornucopia of game issues, bugs, and incompatibilities.
- Don't be too surprised when people around you start building their own houses rather than choosing to pay rent.
DNS upheaval has been a long time coming, and the current anti-American sentiment worldwide isn't exactly helping to stabilize it. We're already seeing all sorts of adhoc routing setups that deal with shortcomings of an ameri-centric DNS. My guess is that within the next few years, ICANN's 'control' of the internet will be in name only as everyone else in the world will have moved on to alternative routing and domain systems.
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Pink Kryptonite caused Christopher Reeves to kiss Michael Caine in 'Deathtrap'
Also, frequent laptop-toting business travelers (almost universally salesmen) also have more limited access to their local IT techs.
For example, I've worked fairly frequently with a poor lady who was a salesman for a remote market. She lived there rather than near my office. Her email account got suspended at least once a week due to the fact that her laptop had syphilis, gonorrhea, warts, crabs, and just about every virus and worm known to man.
Phone walk-throughs just didn't help with this lady and the local ISP (mandated by accounting) blocked any ports that could be used to remotely administer her machine. Finally we had her fed-ex it to us for cleanup, wipe, and reinstall of a fairly-well locked down windows system with our (accountant selected) workstation antivirus app.
This cycle continued four or five times. Her Antivirus app somehow got disabled and her machine became Typhoid Mary. She shipped the Laptop back and we tried to lock it down as securely as possible.
Ultimately, we discovered that an internet cafe she frequented was infected with a particularly nasty spam-bot worm that our particular antivirus app didn't catch (An AnnaK variant, IIRC). We used this as evidence to override the accountant's selected cheapo antivirus with something that worked a little better.
Actually, STDs haven't really been that fatal until recently. No one really dies from herpes and besides aids the only fatal STD had been syphilis which had not been introduction until Columbus returned from the new world after the 1500s.
It's worth noting that the spread of Syphilis through Europe rather conveniently coincides with the rise of puritanical morality in England and the Americans, especially towards sex. The Victorian movement in England and the Evangelical Christian movement in the U.S. are some of the highest pinnacles of sex taboo ever reached.
By the beginning of the 1900s, however, cheap condoms were beginning to be in common use across most of Europe. The decline of Victorianism coincides.
I'm not claiming any causation here because I don't have the numbers. However, the sheer amount of correlation bears serious thought and study.
MS made a good move in hiring Russovitch. We can hope that he has more positive influence over kernel changes to XP and Vista than MS has bad influence over things that he does and does not get to say and software (sysinterals) he does or does not get to release.
I've always considered that basic morality is always biological.
In otherwords, the sin itself is the punishment. Murder harms the species' ability to propogate. Theft harms the species' ability to care for its children. Incest harms the species' viability.
An aversion to 'basic' sins is evolutionarily advantageous.
All other morality is an offshoot of this behavior combined with humans' abilities to recognize (and sometimes fatally mis-recognize) patterns.
People who eat uncooked pork die horribly of trichnella (sp?) parasite infection. Ergo, certain meats are 'unclean' and therefore not kosher.
People who eat lots of meat and fats suffer more heart attacks and strokes. Ergo, you don't consume meat and dairy (the milk of its mother) at the same time.
This is all the room we require for 'onerous' morality to spawn given humans ability to harmful overcategorize.
When a population begins engaging in lots of promiscuous sex with another population, such as during a rapacious, pillaging invasion, it tends to spread diseases between the two. Everyone on both sides gets herpes strains they're not immune to.
Ergo, sexual conduct as a whole must be bad, right?
We know today that's silly and more harmful than helpful. However, semites still don't eat pork, even if it's been properly cooked.
Pathetic fanboy trumps grade-school potty humour any day of the week.
I think we all know the source of these fragments:
"Deado Scream"
Demanding money with an accompanying threat is still EXTORTION, whether there's an actual lawsuit or not.
Yippee - 6 more sites to add to the corporate "banned" list.
It's bad enough people try to use things like "Gmail" to send things that really ought to be sent securely. There are lot of semi-computer-literate yokels out there who see "SSL" and "SSH" and forget that their "private" data will be lying in the clear on someone else's server at the end of the day (free for the someone else or a server hacker to copy/read).
It's assholes like this who make IT difficult for everyone else by inspiring hatred and fostering a sense of rebellion among those they supposedly 'serve'. Perhaps as a Slashdot reader, you're familiar with the phrase, "The more you tighten your grip..."? This is the reason that people attempt to work around you by using encrypted links to offsite storage. It's the same reason they set up unofficial file servers and install 'unapproved' applications. They need or want something that you, in your capacity as the provider of IT services, are not providing.
Rather than arrogantly treating those you work with as 'Yokels', you could understand and provide for their needs. Why don't you try working with them rather than against them? Spend the time you would stamping out undesirable computer use by educating your users about security and providing them with the tools and services they want.
Then, when you have a *real* security problem (one that doesn't involve the use of GMail), they'll be less likely to revolt.
If you work in IT and aren't willing to treat those around you with more respect than you'd give to livestock, you need to find a different job.
Okay, I can kinda wrap my head around that. It's possible that an un-as-of-yet identified function in this group could describe a geodesic structure we haven't built or conceived yet?
Hmm... I see how this could have some effects on nano-tech then, especially as carbon-nanotube and buckminsterfullerine research continue.
Thanks, Arlo! Number theory may make my head hurt, but the implications are always fun to consider.
Both TFA and wiki mention that these functions keep cropping up in real world problems from chemistry and physics.
So... uh, which ones?
See, this is why I switched majors from physics. Any time I look at an infinite series, my head starts to hurt.
... we prosecuted extortion under organized crime statutes.
Wow. Mod parent insightlful, please.
Gee criminey... It's like using tweezers to pick up sand grains on the far shore of the bell curve to see how sandy they are.
FTFA:
A single car crash could have skewed your margins on that.
Since when do MMO players need politics as an excuse for grief play?
I'm a handwasher. I have cats.
When I get a cut or a scratch, I clean it with alcohol. (because short of amputating the hand, it's the ONLY way to be sure!) One would assume that at least some of this alcohol would stay on my hands when I drive.
I don't drive drunk. Ever. Still my car would be cutting out whenever I've treated one of my numerous injuries.
While I agree that we're probably about to have a minor watershed of dead web 2.0 companies, something that's often neglected is that websites are relatively inexpensive to maintain when compared to a brick and mortar location. You pay for bandwidth, new development, and storage.
If managed correctly, this is far less expensive than maintaining a 'real world' location.
If I were an investor, I wouldn't write off the Web 2.0 companies as a whole, but I would be leery of things like high salesman salaries, a large management to production employment ratio, and an absence of realistic business plans.
We still have the best of the Web 1.0 bubble with us, and they're profitable. Five, ten years from now, we'll have the best of the Web 2.0 bubble with us and will be speculating about which of the 3.0 companies are next to go.
I can't believe it! You'd think we Texans did all our legislation and legal maneuvering by the 'Good ol' Boy' system.
Oh, wait....
As a company owner, this thing is so sad. But on the techinical aspect, ReiserFS has better numbers in i/o, read and write that ext3, but many, many times, the way Hans conducts himself, lead to more and more people running away from ReiserFS.
I've been reading about Hans since the murder indictment, but haven't really found much besides technical details of ReiserFS. What kind of behavior is he known for that would cause people to avoid him, or his products?
(Personally, I'm the sort to hold to the 'innocent before proven guilty' motto. No, I don't care if OJ's DNA was all over the bloody bodies of Ron and Nicole. He's innocent because the jury said so. Even if he killed the people, it's the price we pay for a merciful justice system.)
heh - I'm 30 and have been listening to to the audio CDs of books 1-6 (Jim Dale narrator) over and over in order for the past several months. It's so much fun to listen to while doing things around the apartment. I think this was the perfect time to get into Potter, as now I get to anticipate the release of book 7, but didn't have to go through this on books 2-6.
The wait for 5 was just amazingly insane. It went 12.3..4.....................5...6...
'Order of the Phoenix' was both amazingly long, worth the wait, and quite a milestone for Rowling as an author. She went from a deus-ex-machina-type denoument in the first book to what can only be described as an epic fantasy battle at the end of the fifth.
If you've seen the bits of the trailers of Movie 5-- well-- they don't really do the work justice, even as good as they are.
The tech behind ZFS at least sounds very impressive, but I have to wonder how useful it is for workstation drives.
I've never found plain-Jane posix permissions to be all that useful on anything other than the most basic of server environments.
HFS has going for it all the fun stuff we've come to love apple for, such as transparent file customization like icons, labels, meta data, and whatnot through resource forks. I assume that these can be made to work with ZFS by making hidden files.
What I'd really like to see is both that kind of functionality along with NTFS's really excellent ACL permission system implemented. ACL permissions are a godsend for people responsible for running a file store that's used by humans as opposed to automated processes. NTFS also has a great deal of capacity for meta-data, although not to the same level as HFS.
NTFS is one of the few worthwhile things that's ever come out of Redmond. I wish more people would spend a bit learning from it without throwing it away simply because it's MS bloat.
Mod Parent up as 'Informative', please.
Teaming up with EA was the worst thing that ever happened to Maxis.
SimCity 2000 was so polished and bug-free. SimCity 3 and 4 are... well... painful to run.
My wife is a diehard 'The Sims' addict. She can go on and on about bugs in 'The Sims 2' that make me scratch my head... and I play MMOs and am used to longstanding bugs.
I just got done reinstalling her system so that she would have more room to download player-developed content. Oh, she had a 70gb hard drive I bought for her just for this reason, but 'The Sims 2' pukes if its download folder is not BOTH on the 'C' drive and in the user's 'Documents and Settings' folder. Simply relocating the folder via windows registry changes is not adequate.
I pleaded with her to quit buying the expansions until they had a 'known issues' patch, but they apparently still haven't released one for their 'pets' expansion. She wanted to breed virtual dogs so she's struggling with a veritable cornucopia of game issues, bugs, and incompatibilities.
"to kill a mockingbird", with an orgy scene
Wait, what?
Atticus better not find out about that or Scout and Jem are going to be in TROUBLE!
9 million pornographic images and articles
Tsk. Slackers. That's hardly worth buying a new spindle of DVDRs for, let alone going to prison for life.
- Don't be too surprised when people around you start building their own houses rather than choosing to pay rent.
DNS upheaval has been a long time coming, and the current anti-American sentiment worldwide isn't exactly helping to stabilize it. We're already seeing all sorts of adhoc routing setups that deal with shortcomings of an ameri-centric DNS. My guess is that within the next few years, ICANN's 'control' of the internet will be in name only as everyone else in the world will have moved on to alternative routing and domain systems.