There are several solutions that use tokens (SecurID, Safeword) or even SMS messages to ensure people use one time passwords.
All this printing card with passwords nonsense is confusing, difficult to maintain and fails to acknowledge the existence of cheap good technology that makes this much easier.
We are talking about somebody that violated a policy which stated he would be fired for doing so.
Such an employee may be immensely more expensive than the meagre expense of replacing him (go on, don't tell me you already forgot about the dude that almost brought down the major French bank a few months ago)....
There is always somebody that may be disgruntled enough in spite of being properly compensated.
Here the old saying that money does not buy happiness is ominously true.
Trusting human nature is all warm, new agey and fuzzy, but will not save your ass if somebody that felt wronged decides to take advantage of your trust.
Confidential data is far more important than a relationship of trust with your employees in regards to that data.
You can trust your employees to do the right thing in most situations, but you can't take such a gamble with data that is sensitive. To be so trusty is a dereliction of duty.
Don't blame Google for using job market and IT industry supply and demand forces to fill whatever positions they need.
Google found a niche, exploited it for all what is worth, and are so efficient at it that they can allow themselves to get the best talent money can buy.
Please grow up, that is how a job market is supposed to work. If the rest of the IT industry can't come with innovative ideas good enough to attract new investment and bright people, it is hardly Google's fault.
When Google comes crashing (yeah, we know, all companies do, thanks for the insight genius) it will be for more important reasons than treating well, even lavishly, their employees.
At the moment it seems to be working, so I really don't see why they should change. I am not saying that all companies should provide whatever Google provides, but I am sure that morale in many companies would be increased immeasurably if they put a few pool tables around and some comfy sofas were to nap or to have a chat.
Most companies forget their employees are human and that it is important to give a degree of human empathy to your employees.
When the bad times come all those extras can be taken away, but to do so at a time when business is brisk is nonsense. It just shows why they are billionaires and some around here are unsatisfied middle managers or angry technicians.
I was seeing a TV program tonight about the history of the car bomb.
In the context of the history of one car bombing in the US, the program related how many students were furious about the Vietnam War and became politically involved either in demonstrations, political activism and, regrettably, even a few in acts of terrorism.
That got me thinking: were are all the protests, demonstrations and outrage in the young of today? How it comes that the pair of asshats liars that are Blair and Bush got re-elected? How it comes that the recording companies pull all the stunts they do and nobody bats an eyelid?
And here, in this very thread I got my answer.
Everybody cares tremendously about their shiny iPods, crippled and expensive iPhones and eye candied powerbooks. There is no outrage at having been had by Jobs & Co. who basically dictate what you can do with the music you buy (sorry, rent) or the hardware you paid for. The wonderful new phone is yours, but well, not really, because you will do as you are told, which is why the scumbag companies you support with your money can go and bribe politicians: so you can get your toys, but only in the ways the manufacturers want.
As soon as somebody pickets the precious genius bars (gosh, how you guys can support such idiotic names) all what matters (cultural freedom basically) goes out of the window.
Lets Keep our Apple stuff, and gosh, by all means keep using the "genius bars" (hideous name if there was ever one). We deserve that organizations like the FSF disappear (go ahead guys, stop your membership, who is going to defend your technological sorry asses then?).
We clearly don't need the FSF since the circus part of the equation in our modern societies is very neatly covered.
If there is something important in an email you document it somewhere else where you are following up a project or regular relationship and move the email out of the way.
This is clearly the solution to today's MS's woes, Who would companies trust to support their Windows systems if they were open? Microsoft or a third party two bits firm?
What would be the most used Windows distro? Microsoft's or any other?
Software is services and support. The sooner MS realizes this and embraces and genuinely extends technology, the sooner we will forgive all their sins and welcome them to the open ecosystem.
So you are paying around $300 of your hard earned cash per year in order to be locked out.
What will happen with all your music if a better music gadget hits the market, or you simply get fed up with the one you have?
You are being locked down from head to toe, and you say you are not being affected? People that become locked down by proprietary formats don't realize how much it is affecting them until it is too late to do anything about it.
Mate, you are dancing to Apple's tune and have no say about it.
Jeez, don't you see what lock down is doing to MS costumers?
The tendency in big enterprises is for ultra specialization, the reason being simple: that way people become interchangeable (or so they think, people are not machines after all).
Small and medium companies yes, for sure, you want somebody that is more of a Jack of all trades.
... you don;t have enough life or corporate experience to be a manager.
This is the problem with IT now. Companies pay peanuts for new people (please tell us, are you working 35 to 40 hours a week? No? Why I am not surprised) in order to exploit them doing a job for which they are not prepared.
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Such an action would be most likely unfair dismissal in the UK.
If that is not the case in the US or other localities, please do receive my pity.
There are several solutions that use tokens (SecurID, Safeword) or even SMS messages to ensure people use one time passwords.
All this printing card with passwords nonsense is confusing, difficult to maintain and fails to acknowledge the existence of cheap good technology that makes this much easier.
We are talking about somebody that violated a policy which stated he would be fired for doing so.
Such an employee may be immensely more expensive than the meagre expense of replacing him (go on, don't tell me you already forgot about the dude that almost brought down the major French bank a few months ago)....
There is always somebody that may be disgruntled enough in spite of being properly compensated.
Here the old saying that money does not buy happiness is ominously true.
Trusting human nature is all warm, new agey and fuzzy, but will not save your ass if somebody that felt wronged decides to take advantage of your trust.
Confidential data is far more important than a relationship of trust with your employees in regards to that data.
You can trust your employees to do the right thing in most situations, but you can't take such a gamble with data that is sensitive. To be so trusty is a dereliction of duty.
Don't blame Google for using job market and IT industry supply and demand forces to fill whatever positions they need.
Google found a niche, exploited it for all what is worth, and are so efficient at it that they can allow themselves to get the best talent money can buy.
Please grow up, that is how a job market is supposed to work. If the rest of the IT industry can't come with innovative ideas good enough to attract new investment and bright people, it is hardly Google's fault.
When Google comes crashing (yeah, we know, all companies do, thanks for the insight genius) it will be for more important reasons than treating well, even lavishly, their employees.
At the moment it seems to be working, so I really don't see why they should change. I am not saying that all companies should provide whatever Google provides, but I am sure that morale in many companies would be increased immeasurably if they put a few pool tables around and some comfy sofas were to nap or to have a chat.
Most companies forget their employees are human and that it is important to give a degree of human empathy to your employees.
When the bad times come all those extras can be taken away, but to do so at a time when business is brisk is nonsense. It just shows why they are billionaires and some around here are unsatisfied middle managers or angry technicians.
By starting by insulting my intelligence it is unlikely I will even try it.
Cuil is not pronounced cool, no matter which way you want to slice the spelling.
I was seeing a TV program tonight about the history of the car bomb.
In the context of the history of one car bombing in the US, the program related how many students were furious about the Vietnam War and became politically involved either in demonstrations, political activism and, regrettably, even a few in acts of terrorism.
That got me thinking: were are all the protests, demonstrations and outrage in the young of today? How it comes that the pair of asshats liars that are Blair and Bush got re-elected? How it comes that the recording companies pull all the stunts they do and nobody bats an eyelid?
And here, in this very thread I got my answer.
Everybody cares tremendously about their shiny iPods, crippled and expensive iPhones and eye candied powerbooks. There is no outrage at having been had by Jobs & Co. who basically dictate what you can do with the music you buy (sorry, rent) or the hardware you paid for. The wonderful new phone is yours, but well, not really, because you will do as you are told, which is why the scumbag companies you support with your money can go and bribe politicians: so you can get your toys, but only in the ways the manufacturers want.
As soon as somebody pickets the precious genius bars (gosh, how you guys can support such idiotic names) all what matters (cultural freedom basically) goes out of the window.
Lets Keep our Apple stuff, and gosh, by all means keep using the "genius bars" (hideous name if there was ever one). We deserve that organizations like the FSF disappear (go ahead guys, stop your membership, who is going to defend your technological sorry asses then?).
We clearly don't need the FSF since the circus part of the equation in our modern societies is very neatly covered.
Now that is something new.
If there is something important in an email you document it somewhere else where you are following up a project or regular relationship and move the email out of the way.
email was not designed for this in all honestly.
I would not work for $20/hour.
The British killed millions (just in Kenya 1 million natives died during rebellions prior to independence).
This nonsense about how civilized the British were while oppressing other peoples has got really to stop, it has no base in any credible evidence.
The 23 billion would go out on thin air if they could get Yahoo with their dirty paws.
Heeelllooo!
Their cash reserves are depleted, and they would equal zero if their nonsensical buy out of Yahoo went through.
And the market is speaking, their share price has been pretty much flat (i.e. has lost value in real terms) since the dot com bubble burst.
This is clearly the solution to today's MS's woes, Who would companies trust to support their Windows systems if they were open? Microsoft or a third party two bits firm?
What would be the most used Windows distro? Microsoft's or any other?
Software is services and support. The sooner MS realizes this and embraces and genuinely extends technology, the sooner we will forgive all their sins and welcome them to the open ecosystem.
Yeah, hell freezing over would be nice as well.
... are the ones that refuse to see.
So you are paying around $300 of your hard earned cash per year in order to be locked out.
What will happen with all your music if a better music gadget hits the market, or you simply get fed up with the one you have?
You are being locked down from head to toe, and you say you are not being affected? People that become locked down by proprietary formats don't realize how much it is affecting them until it is too late to do anything about it.
Mate, you are dancing to Apple's tune and have no say about it.
Jeez, don't you see what lock down is doing to MS costumers?
Something that nobody understands as sarcastic can't be a sarcasm.....
Let wait computers brake and if all the necessary keys can be recovered....
We consumer are never right.
The companies are always oh so gracious to take our money so we can be blessed by the usage of their products.
Return it, and let them know why.
Report them if you can to the respective authorities for flase advertising regarding ACPI support.
ACPI compliance should be a prerequisite for Windows certification.
They can't claim something not doing ACPI is OK because MS says so.
Here in the UK I would take their sorry asses to the trade commission for false advertisement.
The tendency in big enterprises is for ultra specialization, the reason being simple: that way people become interchangeable (or so they think, people are not machines after all).
Small and medium companies yes, for sure, you want somebody that is more of a Jack of all trades.
I have worked in several countries and if the only jobs are elsewhere I will pack and go.
I find mind boggling that US techies have problems to find a job.
... you don;t have enough life or corporate experience to be a manager.
This is the problem with IT now. Companies pay peanuts for new people (please tell us, are you working 35 to 40 hours a week? No? Why I am not surprised) in order to exploit them doing a job for which they are not prepared.
If Novell wants to keep selling their wares, they better behave.
We still remember the MS deal, it is not forgotten, but people are giving Novell the benefit of the doubt.
But then there is Mono, MS's patent trojan horse into the heart of Linux.
And prominent Novell employees (you know who) defending MS pushed pseudo "standards".
If Novell even tries to touch Solaris they would have very few friends in places that matter.
As many people have pointed out, the main instigators of this nonsense seem to have done quite well by cashing shares at the right time...
That says it all really....