If they are competent, why not? IBM lets competent and aware employees take responsibility for their own PCs/systems, all you have to have is motivation and desire. Those IBMers that want a managed desktop solution have many options to choose from internally (WinXP, Ubuntu, Debian, RedHat, etc.), but if you want to control your own box (within the constraints of IT security guidelines, suitable for work, etc.), then so be it. 40% of IBM US works from home, so the issue isn't control (or lack thereof), it's trust. IBM trusts it's employees, and your company should too.
Someone should seriously look at the business side of what happened to Netscape over the past decade. Clearly, IMHO, there is probably a good case to be made that bureaucracy and mis-management killed the beast. How could something so cool, in it's day, navigate (no pun intended) itself into oblivion? I've seen similar things happen with other cool products being absorbed into bureaucratic companies, only to loose market respect and following. I think there is probably enough evidence out there, somewhere, to have several college business and management courses re-written.
To be clear... IBM isn't governing how IBMers spend their spare time... unless those IBMers leverage IBM while on their spare time (i.e. American Airlines giving IBMers discounts on personal travel).
Hmm... I wonder if that's an IBM issued laptop that he's running an unauthorized software build on?
There is no such thing in IBM as an unauthorized software build. There are, however, unsupported (internally) software OSes.
If so, I bet that he's breaking a ton of IT security regulations!
Not! I'm posting this right now from my IBM provided T60 running Ubuntu Edgy Eft, and no it's not a dual-boot laptop. I don't mess with SL though, so I can't speak to it's capabilities under Ubuntu.;-)
Are they suggesting that they should be able to govern how their employees spend their spare time, or are they just expecting their employees to play the game when they are supposed to be working?
First, Second Life isn't a game, it's a metaverse. Secondly IBMers are IBMers 100% of the time. That is 24x7x365 they represent the company and are expected to do so with good taste. There is no 9 to 5 mentality at IBM, you get paid well to live and perform well, all of the time.
Finally, IBM isn't governing how IBMers spend their spare time. IBM is providing guidelines for how their employees represent IBM regardless of the time of day or year. If and IBMer goes on vacation, and identifies themself as an IBMer, they have a responsibility to not dis-credit the IBM name. The same thing holds true with law enforcement officers, and other public officials (although public officials don't seem to try as hard as IBMers);-)
The real underlying problem is that BAD management promotes and contributes to furthering BAD management. Once BAD management sets in it is difficult to cure. After all it was a BAD manager who enabled the situation to begin with... and what BAD manager is going to fix their own BAD work? Well managed companies fit into two categories: 1) small and family oriented or 2) have high turnover rates.
Another, another possibility is that they previously signed an NDA (possibly having even sold the exploit for $$) and are now contractually prevented from further discussion.
"Mail servers of the sender should store the message until it is retrieved by the receiver."
That would require spammers to be honest. I'd think you would have better luck convincing lawmakers to pass a law that all persons who take cash out of bank remain until the bank and customer(s) are satisfied that the transaction was upright and complete.
OK, the message comes from Hotmail, Mail.com, Yahoo, etc. It's deemed by DKIM to be authentic, yet it is still spam (albeit authenticated spam). All DKIM, and similar solutions, does is to to prevent message and header manipulation in transit. If Yahoo, Mail.com, and Hotmail still allow spammers to sign-up for accounts how does DKIM solve the problem? At best, with full adoption, DKIM can show the world, authentically, who is sending spam. But, you still have a spam problem.
It's only a server validiation solution. DKIM won't stop spam. DKIM will only help validate the identity of the server that is sending you email. Right now I get lots of spam from legitimate Yahoo, Mail.com, and Hotmail servers. DKIM isn't going to stop that it's only going to reinforce what I already know.
I didn't say that I did that 5 years ago, I said "in the past 5 years" several times of which occurred *after* DHS was created. Btw, what makes you think that prior to DHS these things didn't occur? DHS is really just an umbrella organization over pre-existing organizations.
Perhaps unlike you, I know the state of my funds all the time. However with this couple they paid a bill and then couldn't use the *credit* (not the funds) the next day or so. For all we know a credit hold was placed on the card due to late payment or suspected buy+return abuse and the couple just wants to rub JCP the wrong way. You are way too trusting of random news articles. Don't forget you are getting only the story teller's side of the story with that article. If they have a good case a lawyer will pick it up and eventually you will read about JCP's side of the issue. Till then, don't assume.;-)
I periodically pay off previously accumlated debt when I get company bonuses, etc. I've done what they did at least 5 times in the past 5 years and never once heard from DHS. I suspect there is more to their story than they are providing. Don't forget that the card issuer, as well as DHS, is prevented from telling their side of the story due to privacy concerns.
It's almost 2006, where is Calendaring w/ Thunderbird? 90% of the world distributes scheduling updates via email (iCal). Outlook and Evolution support iCal, but the Mozilla team keeps leaving it out of Thunderbird. There is some sort of extension for Thunderbird, but I gave up waiting for it to catch up with the Tbird releases. There is some better calendaring app coming from Mozilla, sometime in the future, but I needed integrated calendaring last year, this year, and next year. To me, email and calendaring belong together.
If I shoot you before you do so, being reasonably certain that you intend to shoot me and take my wallet, I have acted in self defense, and there is no crime.
Don't rely on that to be totally true in all corners of the world, yet alone in all 50 US states. A better position is to feel that your life is threatened, not just your wallet.;-)
Join mailinglists for other local groups in the geographical area in which you are interested. For example, if you wanted to launch a technical user group in Atlanta you might announce it to the Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts, the Atlanta Perl Mongers, the Atlanta.NET User Group, or the Atlanta Java User Group. Even though your new group might be unrelated to some other groups, there will undoubtably be members who are interested or know someone else who is interested. If you are concerned about posting to those groups, just contact the respective mailinglist admins to ask their opinion.
It's all about generating more revenue for the registrars.
BINGO! It's almost always about generating more revenue, just follow the money. Don't forget that ICANN gets a percentage of every new domain that is registered. This is their effort to raise more funds by FORCING companies to register more domains to protect their web identity (something public companies are legally obligated to do by contract with stockholders)
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If they are competent, why not? IBM lets competent and aware employees take responsibility for their own PCs/systems, all you have to have is motivation and desire. Those IBMers that want a managed desktop solution have many options to choose from internally (WinXP, Ubuntu, Debian, RedHat, etc.), but if you want to control your own box (within the constraints of IT security guidelines, suitable for work, etc.), then so be it. 40% of IBM US works from home, so the issue isn't control (or lack thereof), it's trust. IBM trusts it's employees, and your company should too.
Someone should seriously look at the business side of what happened to Netscape over the past decade. Clearly, IMHO, there is probably a good case to be made that bureaucracy and mis-management killed the beast. How could something so cool, in it's day, navigate (no pun intended) itself into oblivion? I've seen similar things happen with other cool products being absorbed into bureaucratic companies, only to loose market respect and following. I think there is probably enough evidence out there, somewhere, to have several college business and management courses re-written.
Isn't this Redhat's third attempt at the desktop market? Seems if they had just been consistently playing along.....
To be clear... IBM isn't governing how IBMers spend their spare time... unless those IBMers leverage IBM while on their spare time (i.e. American Airlines giving IBMers discounts on personal travel).
Hmm... I wonder if that's an IBM issued laptop that he's running an unauthorized software build on?
;-)
There is no such thing in IBM as an unauthorized software build. There are, however, unsupported (internally) software OSes.
If so, I bet that he's breaking a ton of IT security regulations!
Not! I'm posting this right now from my IBM provided T60 running Ubuntu Edgy Eft, and no it's not a dual-boot laptop. I don't mess with SL though, so I can't speak to it's capabilities under Ubuntu.
Are they suggesting that they should be able to govern how their employees spend their spare time, or are they just expecting their employees to play the game when they are supposed to be working?
;-)
First, Second Life isn't a game, it's a metaverse. Secondly IBMers are IBMers 100% of the time. That is 24x7x365 they represent the company and are expected to do so with good taste. There is no 9 to 5 mentality at IBM, you get paid well to live and perform well, all of the time.
Finally, IBM isn't governing how IBMers spend their spare time. IBM is providing guidelines for how their employees represent IBM regardless of the time of day or year. If and IBMer goes on vacation, and identifies themself as an IBMer, they have a responsibility to not dis-credit the IBM name. The same thing holds true with law enforcement officers, and other public officials (although public officials don't seem to try as hard as IBMers)
Does the company you work for have a written policy against flashing clients?
Isn't that already covered by existing laws? Companies don't normally setup corporate regulations/requirements for existing case law. YMMV.
The real underlying problem is that BAD management promotes and contributes to furthering BAD management. Once BAD management sets in it is difficult to cure. After all it was a BAD manager who enabled the situation to begin with... and what BAD manager is going to fix their own BAD work? Well managed companies fit into two categories: 1) small and family oriented or 2) have high turnover rates.
Bingo. Someone should be fired at Samsung, specifically the manager who hired the programmer with out vetting their capabilities.
Another, another possibility is that they previously signed an NDA (possibly having even sold the exploit for $$) and are now contractually prevented from further discussion.
How would the community have coped with two of the largest vendors doing so?
FreeBSD.
"Mail servers of the sender should store the message until it is retrieved by the receiver." That would require spammers to be honest. I'd think you would have better luck convincing lawmakers to pass a law that all persons who take cash out of bank remain until the bank and customer(s) are satisfied that the transaction was upright and complete.
"DKIM is a message authentication solution"
OK, the message comes from Hotmail, Mail.com, Yahoo, etc. It's deemed by DKIM to be authentic, yet it is still spam (albeit authenticated spam). All DKIM, and similar solutions, does is to to prevent message and header manipulation in transit. If Yahoo, Mail.com, and Hotmail still allow spammers to sign-up for accounts how does DKIM solve the problem? At best, with full adoption, DKIM can show the world, authentically, who is sending spam. But, you still have a spam problem.
It's only a server validiation solution. DKIM won't stop spam. DKIM will only help validate the identity of the server that is sending you email. Right now I get lots of spam from legitimate Yahoo, Mail.com, and Hotmail servers. DKIM isn't going to stop that it's only going to reinforce what I already know.
I'll second that. WebEX works for me, and has worked well for years.
P.S.: I'm no kid. I'm 24. Kids dont work for ISPs, usually ;)
;-) Now take your talents and go write a better WoW. Beat them via competition, not anger. ;-)
By my definition 24 is still a kid, albeit an older one.
I didn't say that I did that 5 years ago, I said "in the past 5 years" several times of which occurred *after* DHS was created. Btw, what makes you think that prior to DHS these things didn't occur? DHS is really just an umbrella organization over pre-existing organizations.
;-)
Perhaps unlike you, I know the state of my funds all the time. However with this couple they paid a bill and then couldn't use the *credit* (not the funds) the next day or so. For all we know a credit hold was placed on the card due to late payment or suspected buy+return abuse and the couple just wants to rub JCP the wrong way. You are way too trusting of random news articles. Don't forget you are getting only the story teller's side of the story with that article. If they have a good case a lawyer will pick it up and eventually you will read about JCP's side of the issue. Till then, don't assume.
I periodically pay off previously accumlated debt when I get company bonuses, etc. I've done what they did at least 5 times in the past 5 years and never once heard from DHS. I suspect there is more to their story than they are providing. Don't forget that the card issuer, as well as DHS, is prevented from telling their side of the story due to privacy concerns.
FWIW, Evolution (and all it's "groupware") has always loaded faster for me than Thunderbird ever has.
It's almost 2006, where is Calendaring w/ Thunderbird? 90% of the world distributes scheduling updates via email (iCal). Outlook and Evolution support iCal, but the Mozilla team keeps leaving it out of Thunderbird. There is some sort of extension for Thunderbird, but I gave up waiting for it to catch up with the Tbird releases. There is some better calendaring app coming from Mozilla, sometime in the future, but I needed integrated calendaring last year, this year, and next year. To me, email and calendaring belong together.
If I shoot you before you do so, being reasonably certain that you intend to shoot me and take my wallet, I have acted in self defense, and there is no crime.
;-)
Don't rely on that to be totally true in all corners of the world, yet alone in all 50 US states. A better position is to feel that your life is threatened, not just your wallet.
I recommend Bob Toxen's Real World Linux Security, it's a year or two old but still chock-full of goodness.
Join mailinglists for other local groups in the geographical area in which you are interested. For example, if you wanted to launch a technical user group in Atlanta you might announce it to the Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts, the Atlanta Perl Mongers, the Atlanta .NET User Group, or the Atlanta Java User Group. Even though your new group might be unrelated to some other groups, there will undoubtably be members who are interested or know someone else who is interested. If you are concerned about posting to those groups, just contact the respective mailinglist admins to ask their opinion.
I've had excellent success running common Windows applications with Crossover Office. What is the application you are pushing to all the PCs?
It's all about generating more revenue for the registrars.
BINGO! It's almost always about generating more revenue, just follow the money. Don't forget that ICANN gets a percentage of every new domain that is registered. This is their effort to raise more funds by FORCING companies to register more domains to protect their web identity (something public companies are legally obligated to do by contract with stockholders)