Obviously that is much more important than the fact our borders are wide open, that security screeners at the airport are more concerned about searching 78 year old black men and 18 year old young ladies than some more obvious candidates.
Airport and border security have always been a joke. The point of the TSA is to con you into thinking you're "safe" so you'll go about your life instead of cowering in fear.
I feel so much better knowing my tax money is going to help fund the enforcement efforts of the RIAA and MPAA.
As for being the enforcement arm of the *AA, this country's core creed is "the protection of capital" even to the point of propping up failed business models (hey, it works for Amtrak and the Big Three Airlines). Ignore that at your peril.
You need to pay the man at least $500 and then ask for the "interactive room".
If you get in, then you can get whatever booze, smack, or blow you want to go along with your choice of "interactive partner". Natrually, nothing in the interactive room is free; the $500 is the weed-out money to keep the riff-raff from even asking.
if you stole someone's car, and got caught, would you expect to pay Kelley Blue Book value?
No, but if I make an exact duplicate of your car, then sold it to someone else, I wouldn't expect to pay anything to you. You still have your original car, in its original condition. I haven't stolen anything from you.
Do you allow your children unsupervised access to the internet?
Do you allow them to roam the streets at night without supervision?
I don't want my kids having to experience the stress of life that I experience, and they shouldn't have to figure out porn either.
Sorry, Charlie, but your kids are going to eventually experience "the stress of life" and "porn," too.
As a parent, you have a choice: either teach them how to deal with that stuff at an early enough age so that they get a good education from you or you can shelter them so they don't have to learn about it until they get out on their own. We call the latter the "Freeway to Failure(TM) method of parenting."
"~ the UNIX Administrator does not want to give me root access ~. ~ Is it even possible to function as a full scale webmaster without root access to the box ~?"
approach to website administration. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may have other flaws which used to vary from organization to organization before a poorly thought-out, ineffective approach is suggested.)
(x) Sudo will allow you to do what you need ( ) Installing extra software on a machine without the Admin's knowledge is bad (x) You don't know what you're doing ( ) Hosting w4r3z and hacks on company-owned equipment is bad ( ) You are not mature enough to manage a box in a production environment ( ) Your users will not put up with it ( ) SCO will not put up with it ( ) The police will not put up with it ( ) Requires too much cooperation from the Admin (x) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once (x) Your employers cannot afford to lose services or alienate students ( ) Students don't care about your lack of web admin skills (x) Anyone could anonymously destroy your entire site due to your inept administration skills
Specifically, your plan fails to account for
( ) University rules expressly prohibiting it (x) Lack of centrally controlling authority for servers ( ) 5kr!pt k!dd!35 installing open relays ( ) Backup and restore ( ) Asshats ( ) Jurisdictional problems (x) Unpopularity of weird new configurations ( ) Students' reluctance to use an obviously hacked site ( ) Huge existing software investment current setup ( ) Susceptibility of poorly configured machines to attack (x) Your willingness to install OS patches in a timely manner ( ) Armies of worm riddled broadband-connected Windows boxes ( ) Extreme fun of web h4xx0r5 ( ) Joe jobs and/or identity theft ( ) Technically illiterate school administrators (x) Extreme stupidity on the part of people who think they need root in order to do their job ( ) Bandwidth costs that will increase once the b0xx3n are pwned ( ) IE
and the following philosophical objections may also apply:
( ) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever been shown practical (x) Any scheme based on 'su' is unacceptable ( ) Lack of knowledge upon how to manage a web server should not be the subject of politics ( ).htaccess sucks ( ) mysql sucks ( ) Countermeasures should not involve wire fraud or credit card fraud ( ) Countermeasures should not involve sabotage of campus networks ( ) Countermeasures must work if phased in gradually ( ) Surfing the web should be easy (x) Why should we have to trust you and your servers? ( ) Incompatiblity with open source or open source licenses (x) Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem ( ) Temporary/one-time root access is cumbersome ( ) I don't want the campus regents looking over my shoulder ( ) Web admins who have been coasting along with barely any knowledge of what they're doing should be killed in a way is slow and painful
Furthermore, this is what I think about you:
( ) Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work. (x) This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid person for suggesting it.
First Duty Station (1-2 years): Pick up cigarette butts. Run a buffer.
Second Duty Station (1-2 years): Pick up cigarette butts. Run a buffer. Do something related to your MOS on occasion.
I managed to purge the memory of that damn circa-1950 buffer (don't get it near the teevee or anyone with a pacemaker!) for over a decade, and you bring it back like the hot fist at the end of a wet kiss.
You know, the Instituto de Pesquisas Tecnológicas do Estado de São Paulo Identified 23 seismicgenic zones in Brazil:
- Boa Vista SZ, related to the Guiana-Central Belt, between the Caroni and Maecuru blocks;
- Cruzeiro do Sul SZ, along the Serra do Divisor and Acre suture zones, between the Juruá Block and the Peruvian subandine domain;
- Manaus SZ, at the Rio Negro, Madeira and Médio Tapajós suture zones, and the Japurá, Maecuru and Juruena blocks;
- Belém SZ, in the Belém Block, with some influence of the Amapá and Gurupi suture zones;
- Aripuanã SZ, on the Rondônia Belt, between the Juruena and Parecis blocks;
- Itacaiúnas SZ, near the Central Pará suture zone, between the Belém and Araguacema blocks;
- São Luís SZ, near the Gurupi suture zone;
- Sobral SZ, along the Granja suture zone, between the São Luís and Ceará blocks;
- Pacajus SZ, adjacent to the Jaguaribe suture zone in Southeastern Ceará;
- Açu SZ, practically restricted to the Rio Grande Block, between its junction with the Pernambuco Block and the Patos suture zone;
- Caruaru SZ, restricted to the Pernambuco Block, which southern and southeastern boundaries seem to be extension of the Salvador suture belt;
- Cuiabá SZ, restricted to the Pantanal Block, between the Guaporé and Coxim suture zones;
- Porangatu SZ, in the Porangatu Block, between the Porto Nacional and Ceres suture zones;
- Passos SZ, on and adjacent to the Itumbiara and Alterosa suture zones;
- Paraguaçu SZ, in the Serrinha Block;
- Jequitinhonha SZ, along the Abre-Campo suture zone and the Governador Valadares Lineament; at the junction of the Brasília and Vitória blocks;
- Paraopebas SZ, near the southern border of the Brasília Block;
- Ribeirão Preto SZ, in the Paraná Block, between the Ribeirão Preto and Presidente Prudente suture zones;
- Presidente Prudente SZ, also in the Paraná Block, between the Ribeirão Preto, Presidente Prudente and Três Lagoas suture zones;
- Pinhal SZ, in the São Paulo Block, near the junction of the Ribeirão Preto and Alterosa suture zones, and coincident to the Moji-Guaçu Uplift;
- Cananéia SZ, along the Ubatuba suture zone and the coastal flexure related to the Santos Basin;
- Cunha SZ, at the Ubatuba and Abre-Campo suture zones, between the Brasília, Vitória and São Paulo blocks, as well as at the domain of the Mantiqueira Uplift, and the flexure zone related to the Santos Basin;
- Santos SZ, near the Ubatuba suture zone, at the western border of Santos and Campos offshore basins and the São Paulo Plateau.
So P, S, Rayleigh, and Love waves (i.e., seismic waves) aren't transmitted from those seismic zones through your central plateau (basalt)? Maybe the magic Smurfs keep the waves out, much like the smoke from the smoking sections stays out of the non-smoking sections of the open-room restaurants.
Oh, wait, you said that seismic waves are due to "terrain accomodation" instead of "earthquakes." Maybe that has something to do with the earthquake weather y'all get down there?
Damn, I wish I'd known that before I got my Geophysics degree. Oh well, I guess I can just go ahead and go into the glamorous world of fast food.
It is definitely NOT a strategic direction of
OpenOffice.org.
So it is not a strategic direction of OOO to use the interface
standards of the market, right? Please allow me to quote from "User
Interface Design for Programmers" (APress, 2001):
I've seen companies where management prides themselves on doing
things deliberately differently from Microsoft. "Just because
Microsoft does it, doesn't mean it's right," they brag, and then
proceed to create a gratuitously different user interface from the one
that people are used to. Before you start chanting the mantra that
"just because Microsoft does it, doesn't mean it's right," please
consider two things:
1. Even if it's not right, if Microsoft is doing it in a popular
program like Word, Excel, Windows, or Internet Explorer, then millions
of people are going to think that it's right, or at least,
fairly standard, and they are going to assume that your program works
the same way. Even if you think (as the Netscape 6.0 engineers clearly
do) that Alt+Left is not a good shortcut key for "Back", there are
literally millions of people out there who will try to use Alt+Left to
go back, and if you refuse to do it on some general religious
principle that Bill Gates is the evil smurf arch-nemesis Gargamel,
then you are just gratuitously ruining your program so that you can
feel smug and self-satisfied, and your users will not thank you for
it.
2. And don't be so sure it's not right. Microsoft spends more money
on usability testing than you do, they keep detailed statistics based
on millions of tech support phone calls, and there's a darn good
chance that they did it that way because more people can figure out
how to use it that way.
I'm guessing you're thinking Billg is the Evil Smurf, right?
OOo does not want to be hampered by the poor decisions that
Microsoft has made in interface design over the years. We want to
consider each change on it's merits not because 'we say so' corp does
it that way.
I thought so. That's not the point. The point is most of your
potential customers think that is the way an office suite should behave.
By intentionally doing things differently, you're telling them, "You're
too stupid to use our program, so either learn how or stick with what
you got." That's exactly what they'll do.
OpenOffice.org is not trailing MS Word, it aim [sic]
to be better.
Beta was better than VHS, but guess who won, the one with the better
product or the one who got the most people to use it?
If OOo ever did implement MS Word's interface exactly I can
imagine the advertising now. Open Source is just following the leader.
We would play into their hands.
Better, instead, to be a niche program, used by less than one percent
of the office-suite-using public, because the learning curve is too
high.
[The] MS theme ~ will never be installed by default, possibly
not even in the official tarball for legal reasons.
Legal reasons like Apple v. Microsoft?
That whole part about how look and feel can't be copyrighted because it
is made of non-copyrightable elements, like menus and buttons? That
one?
If you wish this then please get involved and help ~.
I must respectfully decline. I would rather not devote my time to a
project in which the average user was so obviously considered
Workers should not have to go through all these hours of
developing on a regular basis to launch a product.
If you let them get away with it, then they'll keep taking advantage
of you, forever. If working crazy hours is the expected norm where you
are, then you
Have incompetent (non-existent?) project managers,
Work for grossly incompetent management (who never read/don't
understand The Mythical Man-Month)
Need never expect it to get better unless you do something about
it,
Don't need the government to do something you can
do yourself (do you honestly think they'll get it right?)
Take some responsibility for yourself and draw the line
(diplomatically...), but if that doesn't work, then you have basically
two choices, suck up or get out.
Understand that not every place is like what you describe. Where I
work, I put in no more than 40 every single week, unless *I* want to
work late. When management first squawked about how long the
project was taking, I whipped out the work breakdown and said, "Okay,
which features do we cut first?"
Is that site yours?
on
Knoppix Hacks
·
· Score: -1, Troll
Another idiot "portal" that someone bought and filled with stupid links while he waits to get the big money from some other idiot wanting to buy the DNS name.
Hope you didn't pay too much for it; enjoy the wait.
Imagine the rate of adoption if the OO team got off their dead asses and make OO behave exactly like MSO? I'm talking about duplicating the same shortcuts, toolbars, and menus. The average person only knows how to work their apps "by rote," so having a different way (OO team would say it is "better," but that is just damn-MS-at-all-costs diarrhea) automatically makes the learning curve for those folks too high.
This isn't rocket science; Microsoft did the exact same thing to Lotus in order to crush the 1-2-3 market.
Example:
How do you remove a hyperlink in word?
Right-click on the 'link, click on "remove hyperlink"
How do you remove a hyperlink in OO?
Click on the format menu, click on "default" WTF???!!
Well, surely you've been saving up a few thousand bucks
~.
Not at all.
You can get a short (3 page) contract vetted for anywhere from $75US
to about $150. Some referral services will get you the first thirty
minutes for almost nothing ($20)--enough to go over the more egregious
sections of your contract. That's nothing considering how much you would
lose if you signed a contract that screwed you.
~ there is likely a term in their employment contract that says they "will not organize".
They can put anything they want in the contract. It doesn't mean it is enforceable.
A contract I once received had all kinds of kooky stuff in it: I wasn't allowed to contact any of their "potential" clients after terminating employment. I ran that past my Lawyer and he laughed; it was patently above and beyond the bounds of any contract and thus not likely to be held up. The best comment: "They probably downloaded this contract off the Internet."
That's also why you get what you get when you sign anything without getting it vetted by your lawyer.
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As for being the enforcement arm of the *AA, this country's core creed is "the protection of capital" even to the point of propping up failed business models (hey, it works for Amtrak and the Big Three Airlines). Ignore that at your peril.
If you get in, then you can get whatever booze, smack, or blow you want to go along with your choice of "interactive partner". Natrually, nothing in the interactive room is free; the $500 is the weed-out money to keep the riff-raff from even asking.
Now, if your car was a WunderCar 6000, with a innovative new design © 2004 by you, and I made a copy and sold it, then you could sue me for infringement, but that is NOT a criminal offense. The new law was threatening to make it so, and that is wrong.
Do you allow them to roam the streets at night without supervision? Sorry, Charlie, but your kids are going to eventually experience "the stress of life" and "porn," too.
As a parent, you have a choice: either teach them how to deal with that stuff at an early enough age so that they get a good education from you or you can shelter them so they don't have to learn about it until they get out on their own. We call the latter the "Freeway to Failure(TM) method of parenting."
Do I own you money?
"~ the UNIX Administrator does not want to give me root access ~. ~ Is it even possible to function as a full scale webmaster without root access to the box ~?"
.htaccess sucks
This article advocates a
( ) technical ( ) legislative ( ) market-based (x) vigilante
approach to website administration. Your idea will not work. Here is why it
won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea,
and it may have other flaws which used to vary from organization to
organization before a poorly thought-out, ineffective approach is suggested.)
(x) Sudo will allow you to do what you need
( ) Installing extra software on a machine without the Admin's knowledge
is bad
(x) You don't know what you're doing
( ) Hosting w4r3z and hacks on company-owned equipment is bad
( ) You are not mature enough to manage a box in a production environment
( ) Your users will not put up with it
( ) SCO will not put up with it
( ) The police will not put up with it
( ) Requires too much cooperation from the Admin
(x) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once
(x) Your employers cannot afford to lose services or alienate students
( ) Students don't care about your lack of web admin skills
(x) Anyone could anonymously destroy your entire site due to your
inept administration skills
Specifically, your plan fails to account for
( ) University rules expressly prohibiting it
(x) Lack of centrally controlling authority for servers
( ) 5kr!pt k!dd!35 installing open relays
( ) Backup and restore
( ) Asshats
( ) Jurisdictional problems
(x) Unpopularity of weird new configurations
( ) Students' reluctance to use an obviously hacked site
( ) Huge existing software investment current setup
( ) Susceptibility of poorly configured machines to attack
(x) Your willingness to install OS patches in a timely manner
( ) Armies of worm riddled broadband-connected Windows boxes
( ) Extreme fun of web h4xx0r5
( ) Joe jobs and/or identity theft
( ) Technically illiterate school administrators
(x) Extreme stupidity on the part of people who think they need root
in order to do their job
( ) Bandwidth costs that will increase once the b0xx3n are pwned
( ) IE
and the following philosophical objections may also apply:
( ) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever been
shown practical
(x) Any scheme based on 'su' is unacceptable
( ) Lack of knowledge upon how to manage a web server should not be the
subject of politics
( )
( ) mysql sucks
( ) Countermeasures should not involve wire fraud or credit card fraud
( ) Countermeasures should not involve sabotage of campus networks
( ) Countermeasures must work if phased in gradually
( ) Surfing the web should be easy
(x) Why should we have to trust you and your servers?
( ) Incompatiblity with open source or open source licenses
(x) Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem
( ) Temporary/one-time root access is cumbersome
( ) I don't want the campus regents looking over my shoulder
( ) Web admins who have been coasting along with barely any knowledge
of what they're doing should be killed in a way is slow and painful
Furthermore, this is what I think about you:
( ) Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work.
(x) This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid person for suggesting it.
In any group, the number of communication paths is
Obviously, the larger the group, the more communications events that it will require to get the job done, but it is not O(n).A team of two developers only has 1 communication path.
A team of 10 has 45.
A team of 20 has 100.
News for social misfits, stuff that is glaringly obvious.
I probably won't sleep for days, now.
Most municipalities (and small towns) get their revenue from traffic tickets. If you make cars that never break the law, then bye, bye revenue!
An exploited tech worker is responsible for allowing it to happen.
So P, S, Rayleigh, and Love waves (i.e., seismic waves) aren't transmitted from those seismic zones through your central plateau (basalt)? Maybe the magic Smurfs keep the waves out, much like the smoke from the smoking sections stays out of the non-smoking sections of the open-room restaurants.
Oh, wait, you said that seismic waves are due to "terrain accomodation" instead of "earthquakes." Maybe that has something to do with the earthquake weather y'all get down there?
Damn, I wish I'd known that before I got my Geophysics degree. Oh well, I guess I can just go ahead and go into the glamorous world of fast food.
So it is not a strategic direction of OOO to use the interface standards of the market, right? Please allow me to quote from "User Interface Design for Programmers" (APress, 2001):
I'm guessing you're thinking Billg is the Evil Smurf, right?
I thought so. That's not the point. The point is most of your potential customers think that is the way an office suite should behave. By intentionally doing things differently, you're telling them, "You're too stupid to use our program, so either learn how or stick with what you got." That's exactly what they'll do.
Beta was better than VHS, but guess who won, the one with the better product or the one who got the most people to use it?
Better, instead, to be a niche program, used by less than one percent of the office-suite-using public, because the learning curve is too high.
Legal reasons like Apple v. Microsoft? That whole part about how look and feel can't be copyrighted because it is made of non-copyrightable elements, like menus and buttons? That one?
I must respectfully decline. I would rather not devote my time to a project in which the average user was so obviously considered
There is no place on earth that doesn't experience earthquakes.
If you let them get away with it, then they'll keep taking advantage of you, forever. If working crazy hours is the expected norm where you are, then you
Take some responsibility for yourself and draw the line (diplomatically...), but if that doesn't work, then you have basically two choices, suck up or get out.
Understand that not every place is like what you describe. Where I work, I put in no more than 40 every single week, unless *I* want to work late. When management first squawked about how long the project was taking, I whipped out the work breakdown and said, "Okay, which features do we cut first?"
Hope you didn't pay too much for it; enjoy the wait.
This isn't rocket science; Microsoft did the exact same thing to Lotus in order to crush the 1-2-3 market.
Example:
How do you remove a hyperlink in word? Right-click on the 'link, click on "remove hyperlink" How do you remove a hyperlink in OO? Click on the format menu, click on "default" WTF???!!In America, 53% =~ 100% ("Clear Mandate," sez the Grate Communicator)
(rim shot)
Not at all.
You can get a short (3 page) contract vetted for anywhere from $75US to about $150. Some referral services will get you the first thirty minutes for almost nothing ($20)--enough to go over the more egregious sections of your contract. That's nothing considering how much you would lose if you signed a contract that screwed you.
They can put anything they want in the contract. It doesn't mean it is enforceable.
A contract I once received had all kinds of kooky stuff in it: I wasn't allowed to contact any of their "potential" clients after terminating employment. I ran that past my Lawyer and he laughed; it was patently above and beyond the bounds of any contract and thus not likely to be held up. The best comment: "They probably downloaded this contract off the Internet."
That's also why you get what you get when you sign anything without getting it vetted by your lawyer.
Creating a new search engine will not help many people
Creating a new service that allows people to ____ (that no one has thought of yet) can help many people.
Before you carress the eggs, make sure to lightly rub each one with a fur-lined silk hanky.
when you check'em, make sure you lift each egg to ensure it has not cracked on the underside.