I have a great idea. We could create a visual way to track the bad guys. We could take all the suspected terrorists, file traders, linux users (is there any difference?), and make them sew a symbol on all of their clothing. Perhaps a star? This way we can notice them immediatel! If we want to be even more secure, we could even have them all live in the same city block. We'll call this the "gheto" for the sake of a better word. Then, we will have all of the unamerican Mac users enforce this rule of law for the good guys in the government. They don't get payment, just the pride that they are helping. Write your loacal representative if you support this idea.
Wow! You picked my two favorite movies this year. The acting in both were amazing. I actually saw them both on the same day. I saw Lost in Translation at 6:30 and American Splendor at 9:00. It was a good day.
I'm not trolling here, but I swear that I thought of this 3 1/2 years ago. Here's a link to the discussion I started on alt.philosophy and alt.pilosophy.debate about this exact same theory that I had. I am going to research to see if anyone involved in this theory was involved in our discussion.
You could be right. I don't work in a department that is involved in porting. However, in training we were told that a real number is used, and we could find out what it is if we really needed to. The trainers could have been wrong. (it wouldn't be the last time!)
You just explained how number porting DOES work already for landlines.
I work for a telco that does number porting. The customer is assigned a number from us that is transparent to them. They dial their ported number, a database is accessed, it then gets routed to the "real" number. This real number is only used on our end and is not known to the customer.
FYI: There is a company that already has a Wireless LNP solution for Wireless Telcos. It's called EvolvingSystems.
First, I would like to congratulate you on a wonderful career. Incubus is one of my favorite movies. The concept was cool (Esperanto!), the acting was great, and the cinematography was stellar. I loved the feel of it. I'm a big fan of good cinematography.
Here's my question.
When searching for "god" on the IMDB, your name doesn't list. Not only that, none of your movies show up either. I have emailed the IMDB on several occasions to see if they can make it so your name comes up in searches when one searches for "god". I have not heard anything back. Have you tried to get this error fixed? I'm curious how you feel that your name doesn't show up when "god" is searched for, and how you plan on addressing this matter. Thanks.
By purchasing a resale cable modem service you are setting yourself up for an enormous disappointment. There are many telco companies that re-sell Verizon service, on Verizon lines. If something goes wrong and you need a tech to come out, the company that takes your money can't touch your lines, they have to have Verizon come out and fix your problem, which will almost always take at least 2 weeks to fix. If AT&T sells cable modem and your service goes out, it will be weeks before you are back up. If you think the 3 day wait you get angry about now is bad, you will be in for a wake up call. Trust me on this one. It will make AT&T look like the good guys. They will be able to boast that "their" service is better, even though it is identical. Your tech support will not have access to the UBR's to check the power levels or see what your modem's IP is. They will not be able to clear the host on the UBR's if you want to switch computers, they will not be able to see you coming online. The will just have you power-cycle your modem, and if that doesn't work the only thing for them to do is to send an AT&T tech to your home 2 weeks later, and the problem might not even be with the service. It would be a nightmare choosing a service that uses AT&T's lines.
As a supervisor, I would put you on probation as well. If you were late often, even 1 minute late, you deserve it. I would promote a dedicated employee, who shows up to work on time who is good at his job over someone who is late every day who is better at the job. What good is an employee if he/she isn't there?
Notice that you are complaining? People who complain about their jobs and their employers do not get promoted.
Here is how you get promoted. It's so easy it's silly.
1. Come in to work at least 10 minutes early every day.
2. Leave at least 10 minutes late everyday.
3. Don't complain about your job. EVER!
4. NEVER say anything bad about the company.
5. If you want something changed for the better, come up with at least two solutions and present them in a professional manner.
6. Don't talk too much. People who talk a lot have the appearance that they aren't working, even if they are.
7. Dress better than the average employee.
I know many of you won't buy this, but that doesn't change the fact that it's true. You will claim that you are doing the above, but you aren't. I am no more or less knowledgeable than my co-workers, but am now supervising many of them with years more experience than I have with the company. There's a good valid reason.
I work in a tech support environment as a supervisor, I am 31 years old and am one of the oldest supervisors in the call center. My manager is 23. There is an employee here who is of a similar circumstance as you. He is 19, has a kid, and is married. On top of that, he just bought a house. He is one of the best workers there, and is a very responsible adult (yes, 19 year olds are adults!). The management staff all recognize that he is a great employee, and have promoted him accordingly. There are a few people that have the misconception that they aren't being promoted because they are too young. The actual reasons are because they complain about their jobs all the time, slack on the job, have negative views of the company, or have poor attendance. They seem to miss the fact that the people above them in job status are their age or younger.
In my opinion, either your company is not typical in the IT world, or the reason you think you are being discriminated against isn't what you think is is.
Oh, and to the guy that complained about his grammar. The guy is a Sys Admin, he is supposed to have bad grammar, it comes with the territory.
Just want to correct you on one point. Three Mile Island didn't come within seconds of a meltdown. It DID meltdown. It was a meltdown that was contained sucessfully by the reacors containment shell. I know, I have workrd at nuke plants as a decontamination technician. I know many people that worked at Three Mile Island reactor unit 1 that is still operating. The one that melted down was unit 2.
People saw this as a disaster. The fact is that the plant worked as it was suposed to during a meltdown.
commonwealth
n.
1. The people of a nation or state; the body politic.
2. A nation or state governed by the people; a republic.
3. Commonwealth
a. Used to refer to some U.S. states, namely,
Kentucky, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and
Virginia.
b. Used to refer to a self-governing,
autonomous political unit voluntarily
associated with the United States, namely,
Puerto Rico and the Northern Mariana Islands.
You should stress to them a couple things. First, tell them to experiment. Make this a requirement of the course. Have them discuss new things that they found out while experimenting and clicking away. Second, tell them that it's just a computer and if they mess things up, it's ok. It's JUST a computer and anything that they break is not only unimportant, it's down-right trivial. People seem to get scared about breaking things because they feel that it's bad if things get broken. Make them aware that not only could the computer get messed us, that the system WILL get messed up. It's no biggie, it's the nature of the beast.
If all of this is stressed, they will feel more at ease and less nervous about the whole ordeal.
I used to be a decontamination technician before my current stint in ISP tech support. I was a "moon-suited worker.." (the articles description). I cleaned up contaminated areas at Nuclear Power plants. The suits are actually made of cotton. They keep radioactive materials from hitting your skin. They don't block radiation, just radioactive materials.
There are some things in this article that are kind of strange to me. First, the article says the shed was"contaminated at up to 1000 times the normal levels of background radiation".
Here is why the reporter doesn't know what the hell he was talking about. Radiation and Contamination are two different things. You can have Background Radiation but there is no such thing as Background Contamination You can have enough contamination to cause background contamination.
Also, assuming he slipped up and meant "radioactive levels at up to 1000 times the normal levels of background radiation". Still, this is not much. There is no way that he could have received a lifetime full of dosage from something that gave off 1000 times the normal background level of radiation. (another slashdotter proclaimed this).
Also, a Geiger counter (no longer used anymore except by patchouli soaked anti-nukers) is used to detect REALLY HIGH levels of radioactivity. Showing radioativity on a Geiger counter is BAD. It's range is from 1 R to 100 R per hour. If he was in a 1R field for a few months, he be seriousely screwed. Since there is no way to detect 1000X backgraound radiation on a Geiger counter (because it is too small of am amount for a Geiger counter) his counter would always show zero. Also, a Geiger counter is for detecting Gamma radiation. How he figured out there was neutron radiation coming from the radioactive device is beyond me.
In other words, don't be scammed by all of the Geiger counters on eBay, it will always stay at zero. Buy an Eberline RM-14 or E-520 (if you can find one).
Scott McNealy is comparing apples and oranges. His arguments are not very sound and sound like a high school term paper.
ALLOWING someone information about yourself is not giving up privacy. If I allow an EMT access to my medical records, I am not giving up privacy. If I disallow the EMT my medical records, and he looks them up anyway THEN my privacy is breached.
I don't think that when people argue for privacy they are referring to ABSOLUTE privacy as Scott McNealy seems to think. The topic generally refers to anyone-and-their-brother being able to find out anything they want about you, reading your emails, private conversations, online activity, etc. Of-friggin-course I want my doctor to see my medical records! What a ridiculous argument.
I'm kind of surprised that his article was taken seriously enough to be allowed in the Washington Post. Don't they have editors that can recognize sophomoric editorials?
I can see his next argument....."Don't you want your bank teller to have access to your account balance when you ask her?". What does that have to do with my privacy?? On the other hand, I don't want everyone to have access to is.
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It looks like not much has changed.
I have a great idea. We could create a visual way to track the bad guys. We could take all the suspected terrorists, file traders, linux users (is there any difference?), and make them sew a symbol on all of their clothing. Perhaps a star? This way we can notice them immediatel! If we want to be even more secure, we could even have them all live in the same city block. We'll call this the "gheto" for the sake of a better word. Then, we will have all of the unamerican Mac users enforce this rule of law for the good guys in the government. They don't get payment, just the pride that they are helping. Write your loacal representative if you support this idea.
Wow! You picked my two favorite movies this year. The acting in both were amazing. I actually saw them both on the same day. I saw Lost in Translation at 6:30 and American Splendor at 9:00. It was a good day.
I never liked shaky cam movies anyway. Hopefully, the quality of VCD's will now improve.
Where is "kazaaliteuser@Kazaa"?
I'm not trolling here, but I swear that I thought of this 3 1/2 years ago. Here's a link to the discussion I started on alt.philosophy and alt.pilosophy.debate about this exact same theory that I had. I am going to research to see if anyone involved in this theory was involved in our discussion.
You could be right. I don't work in a department that is involved in porting. However, in training we were told that a real number is used, and we could find out what it is if we really needed to. The trainers could have been wrong. (it wouldn't be the last time!)
You just explained how number porting DOES work already for landlines.
I work for a telco that does number porting. The customer is assigned a number from us that is transparent to them. They dial their ported number, a database is accessed, it then gets routed to the "real" number. This real number is only used on our end and is not known to the customer.
FYI: There is a company that already has a Wireless LNP solution for Wireless Telcos. It's called EvolvingSystems.
starphish writes "Sony introduces Robot Frank, it's new version of the humanoid Robot Ron."
Yeah, but Margay doesn't have "OS" in it. An Ocelot is a better play on words, and an appropriately spotted cat.
I think it should be called "Ocelot". Pronounced "OS-A-Lot". It's another spotted cat.
California: "Microsoft, we are going to sue you because you use unfair business practices by giving away your product to destroy your competition!"
Microsoft: "As a punishment, you should make us give away our products. That will teach us!"
California: "Sounds good to me!"
DOH!!!
First, I would like to congratulate you on a wonderful career. Incubus is one of my favorite movies. The concept was cool (Esperanto!), the acting was great, and the cinematography was stellar. I loved the feel of it. I'm a big fan of good cinematography.
Here's my question.
When searching for "god" on the IMDB, your name doesn't list. Not only that, none of your movies show up either. I have emailed the IMDB on several occasions to see if they can make it so your name comes up in searches when one searches for "god". I have not heard anything back. Have you tried to get this error fixed? I'm curious how you feel that your name doesn't show up when "god" is searched for, and how you plan on addressing this matter. Thanks.
I belive that this was originally the idea of Tenacious D. You can hear Jack Black sing about it in the song "City Hall".
By purchasing a resale cable modem service you are setting yourself up for an enormous disappointment. There are many telco companies that re-sell Verizon service, on Verizon lines. If something goes wrong and you need a tech to come out, the company that takes your money can't touch your lines, they have to have Verizon come out and fix your problem, which will almost always take at least 2 weeks to fix. If AT&T sells cable modem and your service goes out, it will be weeks before you are back up. If you think the 3 day wait you get angry about now is bad, you will be in for a wake up call. Trust me on this one. It will make AT&T look like the good guys. They will be able to boast that "their" service is better, even though it is identical. Your tech support will not have access to the UBR's to check the power levels or see what your modem's IP is. They will not be able to clear the host on the UBR's if you want to switch computers, they will not be able to see you coming online. The will just have you power-cycle your modem, and if that doesn't work the only thing for them to do is to send an AT&T tech to your home 2 weeks later, and the problem might not even be with the service. It would be a nightmare choosing a service that uses AT&T's lines.
As a supervisor, I would put you on probation as well. If you were late often, even 1 minute late, you deserve it. I would promote a dedicated employee, who shows up to work on time who is good at his job over someone who is late every day who is better at the job. What good is an employee if he/she isn't there?
Notice that you are complaining? People who complain about their jobs and their employers do not get promoted.
Here is how you get promoted. It's so easy it's silly.
1. Come in to work at least 10 minutes early every day.
2. Leave at least 10 minutes late everyday.
3. Don't complain about your job. EVER!
4. NEVER say anything bad about the company.
5. If you want something changed for the better, come up with at least two solutions and present them in a professional manner.
6. Don't talk too much. People who talk a lot have the appearance that they aren't working, even if they are.
7. Dress better than the average employee.
I know many of you won't buy this, but that doesn't change the fact that it's true. You will claim that you are doing the above, but you aren't. I am no more or less knowledgeable than my co-workers, but am now supervising many of them with years more experience than I have with the company. There's a good valid reason.
I work in a tech support environment as a supervisor, I am 31 years old and am one of the oldest supervisors in the call center. My manager is 23. There is an employee here who is of a similar circumstance as you. He is 19, has a kid, and is married. On top of that, he just bought a house. He is one of the best workers there, and is a very responsible adult (yes, 19 year olds are adults!). The management staff all recognize that he is a great employee, and have promoted him accordingly. There are a few people that have the misconception that they aren't being promoted because they are too young. The actual reasons are because they complain about their jobs all the time, slack on the job, have negative views of the company, or have poor attendance. They seem to miss the fact that the people above them in job status are their age or younger.
In my opinion, either your company is not typical in the IT world, or the reason you think you are being discriminated against isn't what you think is is.
Oh, and to the guy that complained about his grammar. The guy is a Sys Admin, he is supposed to have bad grammar, it comes with the territory.
Just want to correct you on one point. Three Mile Island didn't come within seconds of a meltdown. It DID meltdown. It was a meltdown that was contained sucessfully by the reacors containment shell. I know, I have workrd at nuke plants as a decontamination technician. I know many people that worked at Three Mile Island reactor unit 1 that is still operating. The one that melted down was unit 2.
People saw this as a disaster. The fact is that the plant worked as it was suposed to during a meltdown.
It is a State. Read.....from Dictionary.com
commonwealth
n.
1. The people of a nation or state; the body politic.
2. A nation or state governed by the people; a republic.
3. Commonwealth
a. Used to refer to some U.S. states, namely,
Kentucky, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and
Virginia.
b. Used to refer to a self-governing,
autonomous political unit voluntarily
associated with the United States, namely,
Puerto Rico and the Northern Mariana Islands.
I've been looking for a good free format utlity with an attractive front end. Is there a PC port?
Replace the .de with .com and the /de/ with /en/ and bingo! You have the English version of this link. No Babelfish needed.
http://www.suse.com/en/produkte/susesoft/linux/ind ex.html
If all of this is stressed, they will feel more at ease and less nervous about the whole ordeal.
Damn it....I shouldn't have clicked submit. I meant that "You can have enough contamination to cause background RADIATION."
There are some things in this article that are kind of strange to me. First, the article says the shed was"contaminated at up to 1000 times the normal levels of background radiation".
Here is why the reporter doesn't know what the hell he was talking about. Radiation and Contamination are two different things. You can have Background Radiation but there is no such thing as Background Contamination You can have enough contamination to cause background contamination.
Also, assuming he slipped up and meant "radioactive levels at up to 1000 times the normal levels of background radiation". Still, this is not much. There is no way that he could have received a lifetime full of dosage from something that gave off 1000 times the normal background level of radiation. (another slashdotter proclaimed this).
Also, a Geiger counter (no longer used anymore except by patchouli soaked anti-nukers) is used to detect REALLY HIGH levels of radioactivity. Showing radioativity on a Geiger counter is BAD. It's range is from 1 R to 100 R per hour. If he was in a 1R field for a few months, he be seriousely screwed. Since there is no way to detect 1000X backgraound radiation on a Geiger counter (because it is too small of am amount for a Geiger counter) his counter would always show zero. Also, a Geiger counter is for detecting Gamma radiation. How he figured out there was neutron radiation coming from the radioactive device is beyond me.
In other words, don't be scammed by all of the Geiger counters on eBay, it will always stay at zero. Buy an Eberline RM-14 or E-520 (if you can find one).
ALLOWING someone information about yourself is not giving up privacy. If I allow an EMT access to my medical records, I am not giving up privacy. If I disallow the EMT my medical records, and he looks them up anyway THEN my privacy is breached.
I don't think that when people argue for privacy they are referring to ABSOLUTE privacy as Scott McNealy seems to think. The topic generally refers to anyone-and-their-brother being able to find out anything they want about you, reading your emails, private conversations, online activity, etc. Of-friggin-course I want my doctor to see my medical records! What a ridiculous argument.
I'm kind of surprised that his article was taken seriously enough to be allowed in the Washington Post. Don't they have editors that can recognize sophomoric editorials?
I can see his next argument....."Don't you want your bank teller to have access to your account balance when you ask her?". What does that have to do with my privacy?? On the other hand, I don't want everyone to have access to is.
He is comparing apples and oranges.