Seems to me that the companies are to blame for the gap between what the marketing guys say and the reality, not the users.
Last time I checked, nobody told me my car could withstand 60 mph head on with a bridge embankment so I don't treat it that way.
Likewise, last time I checked Microsoft and Apple could give two shits about what the knowledgeable geeks had to say about it and went for the dumb grandma dumb enough to pay full retail for the box at WalMart.
If it's an OS, people ARE told to treat it that way and it doesn't always work out so well.
So fire your marketing department, or make a better OS, or shut the fuck up cuz it sure as hell is not the users fault.
Only the FreeOS guys get anywhere close, "oh just [execute obscure and difficult to find script on some oddly formatted config files here] and it will work". With them, at least I know what the tasks are.
If yours is like my company, IT projects dont do any of those things, but rather can be catagorized is "filled the gap between the pack of lies the sales department created and what the developers actually said it would do".
Start your stopwatch when you start working on it, and stop it when done.
Do that for the duration of the project then add the total time all up.
File the report under "waste of fucking time"
Last time I checked, RAID arrays don't fail in sympathetically because the one next door did. They do or they don't. Your metric should be "did shit break?" and "did it get fixed fast or rendered irrelevant due to failover"? "Yes/No".
What the guy next door does is irrelevant and trying to compare your stuff with his stuff is middle-management claptrap.
The US Government would rather snoop than censor I think, more after power than they are religious BS. (Though the latter is getting more and more attention.)
Hey, if you want to arrogantly troll, how about starting your own thread.
Deliberately misunderstanding the GP and spouting your filth is not going to win you any points here.
How about the route to Canada and Continental US?
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Will that enable truck traffic all the way to say, LA?
Last I heard, the coast was the only way and it didnt go ALL the way for roads. So Russia just gets to trade with Alaska, not the entire North American continent.
Sounds like a good trick for the ruskies to get us to pay for most of it then threaten to take back Alaska. It's not like Putin is a nice soft fuzzy benevolent character or anything....
In the 1990's, someone I know told me the inventing company (I forgot which, 3m maybe?) saw this coming and got out of the business, selling it to other companies.
See, air samples, water samples, and tissue samples of stuff all over the planet was showing up with traces of this stuff. Maybe it was causing problems or not, I don't remember. But the point being it was EVERYWHERE and not breaking down at all.
I have been waiting for this to come out of the woodwork and nail the stain/flame prevention makers. Though the chemicals are quite useful, the application and inability to keep them from getting all over makes them unappealing.
That said, there needs to be a way to collect from the ever increasing proportion of economic activity that does not fit into what used to work in the 50's. However, it should be a discourse free of likes like the parent poster offers above.
Note however these are coming from a small-ish set of server farms in Europe. I caught a bunch and started looking at the IP addresses (assuming some 'tard in my company got infected and that I needed to find out who it was to do clean up) and the SMTP server is a known spammer server farm out of Amsterdam or somesuch.
So, often these are coming directly from the bad guys in an attempt to set up a zombie-spam net.
So "Worm" isn't a very good description at this point, it's a "Worm Drop" or "Cluster worm" or something. It will be a worm in a few days after a few folks get infected with it.
(Though, to their credit, even the people I expected to get infected didn't.. they just spent two hours wandering around asking everybody else about it. Not sure how many times "delete the thing and go back to work" needs to be said before it sinks in.)
Do the companies that make these cells get their energy for free?
If not, you can see how that assertion is rediculous as the price of the energy is built into the cost. (Well, in the case where a sane company wants to make money instead of "make it up on volume".)
I think that if you watch "Faux News" you will find that talking over, interrupting, and once they are off camera spouting plattitudes and ridiculing the views of the "other side" is a part of how Faux executes their "fair and balanced" plan on pretty much all their shows.
Yeah, well in my area both the cable and DSL providers advertise "DOWNLOAD MOVIES IN MINUTES!!!1!!" get all the greatest tunes! Lightning fast games blah blah blah.
Basically, saying they endorse lots of file sharing-like activity in the ads and not just implying faster surfing, but more, and bigger downloads as part of the point of their service.
Which makes tying the ads with the false unlimited claim less forgivable.
But, pretty much everybody should be aware that all telcos and all cable companies are pretty much large industrial fraud engines in the first place. Corrupt and incompetent to the core is the norm in the industry.
That doesn't make the policies and ads any less of a lie though.
Yes. Because everyday surfers everywhere are constantly picking up infectious shit off mainstream web sites such as Disney, CNN, Fox News (ok that one), Slashdot and Fark.
Whereas the collective observations of thousands of admins amounts to nothing because you are too uptight to admit you are surfing porn to us when it is obvious to everybody in the industry that infection and porn go together like cookies and cream.
Hello, we like good porn too, just realize you take a dumb risk when you do search for it, and shouldn't do it with a "critical" middle management laptop in any case.
True for "mom and pop" type and "I need a web site for my dog or clan" sites.
Once you start in the market of "32 year old hotshot ASP/PERL program guy that never ran is own server" territory (medium to small businesses have these all over) who has no oversight from his management team... you tend to get people who accidentally kill the entire OS by doing stupid shit in their web sites. "Let's just build an app that sends email every time a file gets viewed! Then I can build my log in Excel and see all my hits real time!" (Never mind that there are logs available to download real time.) Of course, this tool doesn't realize that that crappy DreamWeaver menu he built contains 125 images which also count as hits. Down goes the server and down (until the web server stops) goes the mail server.
People who host on other servers have no respect for their integrity even if they know how. Like a public bathroom, who cares if the toilet is plugged, just shit on top and walk away.
If you want to host with those people and not go out of businesses, you gotta virtualize to protect the rest of your customers from the overblown wannabe leet geeks. The, "knows enough to be dangerous" crowd. Either that, or you need a TOS so strict they end up going elsewhere (or self-hosting).
So, yeah, IIS and Apache and whatever can host many web sites with one instance. Sometimes though, you can't realistically do that.
One of the three "tennants" of bad faith holding a domain is basically, using the domain itself as a source of profit (squatting) rather than using it for a productive purpose.
So, offers for domain can be a ruse to establish that your purpose of holding it is resale, and that's one step towards being yanked from you.
The issues are listed in the "domain name arbitration" area of the rules set out by ICANN.
I would certainly expect to get a cashed check in the bank before doing any steps in transfer. Folks that deal in domains are sometimes shady characters.
"Hummer that is on the road for three times longer than a Prius" Really? A Toyota beat out in longevity by a pile if shit American product? HA! If by "longer" they mean "sits in the garage many days of the year because the owner is driving his Porsche around or the Lexus he takes to work" then sure.
Insert a bunch of stuff of them bashing the nickel mine here. (Unsupported by facts or references and with no comparison of the mining locations used by the Hummer manufacturer.)
Not to mention the expected lifetime of 100,000 miles for the Toyota and 300,000 for the Hummer. Reaaaally? Looks to me like they got the numbers mixed up.
Oh, and "CNW Marketing Research" has the first item on their FAQ biatching about how they don't pick up the phone if you block caller ID. That sounds like a bunch of pros to me. hehe.
CNW also appears to specialize in helping car dealers figure out how to sell cars to consumers coming up with "preowned certified" and other BS. I am not sure if I really believe their engineering expertise on the actual manufacturing processes of various cars especially when it is their financial self-interest to steer (or help others steer) consumers into the high profit vehicles for American car makers.
Why don't you ask Bill Fucking Gates about Windows Vista while you are at it.
Tell ya what, give me a bunch of charts and shit and I can spin an article full of as much FUD as this one. I won't even charge ya for it, but I get to drink beer while I do it.
An analog tape was not recovered using a run of the mill tape player from some goober in the back office I would expect....
It was a pro tool designed to do that with a guy that knows what he's doing tinkering with it.
What did they do with the CD ROM? Throw it in the Dell and wait for the Autorun to pop up and when it doesn't just throw up their hands? I haven't heard of but I am sure a CD ROM drive that ignores error correction and pulls raw data exists, check the pirate CD burning and copying software for hints on how to do that. Maybe they should get one of those CD ROM drives (or make one if it doesn't exist). Then use basically OCR-type technology to take the raw bit data and convert it back to a FAT12 file system like the feds use on a suspect's hard drive.
They could always just stick digital data in a shareware program on some college campus and let natural forces duplicate it all over. Just be sure to name it "marsha_n_britany_oral.avi" first.
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"Easiest version ever"
"Simple as 1, 2, 3"
"Point and click"
"Set up for wireless in minutes!"
Seems to me that the companies are to blame for the gap between what the marketing guys say and the reality, not the users.
Last time I checked, nobody told me my car could withstand 60 mph head on with a bridge embankment so I don't treat it that way.
Likewise, last time I checked Microsoft and Apple could give two shits about what the knowledgeable geeks had to say about it and went for the dumb grandma dumb enough to pay full retail for the box at WalMart.
If it's an OS, people ARE told to treat it that way and it doesn't always work out so well.
So fire your marketing department, or make a better OS, or shut the fuck up cuz it sure as hell is not the users fault.
Only the FreeOS guys get anywhere close, "oh just [execute obscure and difficult to find script on some oddly formatted config files here] and it will work". With them, at least I know what the tasks are.
If yours is like my company, IT projects dont do any of those things, but rather can be catagorized is "filled the gap between the pack of lies the sales department created and what the developers actually said it would do".
A meta-metric on this issue is easy.
Start your stopwatch when you start working on it, and stop it when done.
Do that for the duration of the project then add the total time all up.
File the report under "waste of fucking time"
Last time I checked, RAID arrays don't fail in sympathetically because the one next door did. They do or they don't. Your metric should be "did shit break?" and "did it get fixed fast or rendered irrelevant due to failover"? "Yes/No".
What the guy next door does is irrelevant and trying to compare your stuff with his stuff is middle-management claptrap.
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Any bets over a million by the end of the week?
The US Government would rather snoop than censor I think, more after power than they are religious BS. (Though the latter is getting more and more attention.)
No, you arrogant shitbag.
Slashdotters want the law to be applied fairly and with a chance for all sides to be heard in due process.
24 hours notice on a test day does not fall under fair hearing in due process.
Go back to whatever right wing trashbag site you regularly inhabit asshole.
Hey, if you want to arrogantly troll, how about starting your own thread.
Deliberately misunderstanding the GP and spouting your filth is not going to win you any points here.
Will that enable truck traffic all the way to say, LA?
Last I heard, the coast was the only way and it didnt go ALL the way for roads. So Russia just gets to trade with Alaska, not the entire North American continent.
Sounds like a good trick for the ruskies to get us to pay for most of it then threaten to take back Alaska. It's not like Putin is a nice soft fuzzy benevolent character or anything....
In the 1990's, someone I know told me the inventing company (I forgot which, 3m maybe?) saw this coming and got out of the business, selling it to other companies.
See, air samples, water samples, and tissue samples of stuff all over the planet was showing up with traces of this stuff. Maybe it was causing problems or not, I don't remember. But the point being it was EVERYWHERE and not breaking down at all.
I have been waiting for this to come out of the woodwork and nail the stain/flame prevention makers. Though the chemicals are quite useful, the application and inability to keep them from getting all over makes them unappealing.
Maybe for once your partisan republican ass should stop making blatant lies?
Here's an analysis of your "% burden % income earners" statement that shows it is clearly propaganda or ignorance at best with that prattling truism.
On Taxes
That said, there needs to be a way to collect from the ever increasing proportion of economic activity that does not fit into what used to work in the 50's. However, it should be a discourse free of likes like the parent poster offers above.
Yes true.
Note however these are coming from a small-ish set of server farms in Europe. I caught a bunch and started looking at the IP addresses (assuming some 'tard in my company got infected and that I needed to find out who it was to do clean up) and the SMTP server is a known spammer server farm out of Amsterdam or somesuch.
So, often these are coming directly from the bad guys in an attempt to set up a zombie-spam net.
So "Worm" isn't a very good description at this point, it's a "Worm Drop" or "Cluster worm" or something. It will be a worm in a few days after a few folks get infected with it.
(Though, to their credit, even the people I expected to get infected didn't.. they just spent two hours wandering around asking everybody else about it. Not sure how many times "delete the thing and go back to work" needs to be said before it sinks in.)
Do the companies that make these cells get their energy for free?
If not, you can see how that assertion is rediculous as the price of the energy is built into the cost. (Well, in the case where a sane company wants to make money instead of "make it up on volume".)
I think that if you watch "Faux News" you will find that talking over, interrupting, and once they are off camera spouting plattitudes and ridiculing the views of the "other side" is a part of how Faux executes their "fair and balanced" plan on pretty much all their shows.
So, just maybe clean your own house for once eh?
Yeah, well in my area both the cable and DSL providers advertise "DOWNLOAD MOVIES IN MINUTES!!!1!!" get all the greatest tunes! Lightning fast games blah blah blah.
Basically, saying they endorse lots of file sharing-like activity in the ads and not just implying faster surfing, but more, and bigger downloads as part of the point of their service.
Which makes tying the ads with the false unlimited claim less forgivable.
But, pretty much everybody should be aware that all telcos and all cable companies are pretty much large industrial fraud engines in the first place. Corrupt and incompetent to the core is the norm in the industry.
That doesn't make the policies and ads any less of a lie though.
Yes. Because everyday surfers everywhere are constantly picking up infectious shit off mainstream web sites such as Disney, CNN, Fox News (ok that one), Slashdot and Fark.
Whereas the collective observations of thousands of admins amounts to nothing because you are too uptight to admit you are surfing porn to us when it is obvious to everybody in the industry that infection and porn go together like cookies and cream.
Hello, we like good porn too, just realize you take a dumb risk when you do search for it, and shouldn't do it with a "critical" middle management laptop in any case.
You would think this brain-dead idiot would clue into the fact the U was onto him at that point and bounce off a zombie somewhere instead.
This guy needs to go to jail because he's too stupid to not get himself hurt crossing the street.
Durrrr.....
True for "mom and pop" type and "I need a web site for my dog or clan" sites.
Once you start in the market of "32 year old hotshot ASP/PERL program guy that never ran is own server" territory (medium to small businesses have these all over) who has no oversight from his management team... you tend to get people who accidentally kill the entire OS by doing stupid shit in their web sites. "Let's just build an app that sends email every time a file gets viewed! Then I can build my log in Excel and see all my hits real time!" (Never mind that there are logs available to download real time.) Of course, this tool doesn't realize that that crappy DreamWeaver menu he built contains 125 images which also count as hits. Down goes the server and down (until the web server stops) goes the mail server.
People who host on other servers have no respect for their integrity even if they know how. Like a public bathroom, who cares if the toilet is plugged, just shit on top and walk away.
If you want to host with those people and not go out of businesses, you gotta virtualize to protect the rest of your customers from the overblown wannabe leet geeks. The, "knows enough to be dangerous" crowd. Either that, or you need a TOS so strict they end up going elsewhere (or self-hosting).
So, yeah, IIS and Apache and whatever can host many web sites with one instance. Sometimes though, you can't realistically do that.
They need some cobalt-60 carts to park in the hallway, nothing like a little gamma to ruin a bacteria's day.
Just clear the floor, and have some robot or remote control steer it in.
Kill all the crud sitting and flying around once a week and hospitals would have less of a problem.
(In addition to hand washing and plain dumb mistakes that is.)
Bevets, meet Slashdot. Slashdot, meet Bevets.
You just described one of my co-workers to the letter.
So. What does one do with such a person?
I have started simply interrupting and saying something along the lines of "which question would you like me to answer?"
Maybe your SQL servers need a few more Gig of ram, or the databases themselves need some TLC.
An SQL server doing something that is too big for it can get you in "slower than my last 486" territory pretty quick.
I know very little about SANs, but assume the file system is pretty fast... so maybe it's not the problem at all.
One of the three "tennants" of bad faith holding a domain is basically, using the domain itself as a source of profit (squatting) rather than using it for a productive purpose.
So, offers for domain can be a ruse to establish that your purpose of holding it is resale, and that's one step towards being yanked from you.
The issues are listed in the "domain name arbitration" area of the rules set out by ICANN.
I would certainly expect to get a cashed check in the bank before doing any steps in transfer. Folks that deal in domains are sometimes shady characters.
If you _really_ want to help the environment.
Shoot yourself in the back of the head. (Don't miss and just go all Schaivo.)
Human population is the root problem of environmental destruction... so the solution is obvious. Kill more humans.
TFA calls an electric motor an "engine".
"Hummer that is on the road for three times longer than a Prius" Really? A Toyota beat out in longevity by a pile if shit American product? HA! If by "longer" they mean "sits in the garage many days of the year because the owner is driving his Porsche around or the Lexus he takes to work" then sure.
Insert a bunch of stuff of them bashing the nickel mine here. (Unsupported by facts or references and with no comparison of the mining locations used by the Hummer manufacturer.)
Not to mention the expected lifetime of 100,000 miles for the Toyota and 300,000 for the Hummer. Reaaaally? Looks to me like they got the numbers mixed up.
Oh, and "CNW Marketing Research" has the first item on their FAQ biatching about how they don't pick up the phone if you block caller ID. That sounds like a bunch of pros to me. hehe.
CNW also appears to specialize in helping car dealers figure out how to sell cars to consumers coming up with "preowned certified" and other BS. I am not sure if I really believe their engineering expertise on the actual manufacturing processes of various cars especially when it is their financial self-interest to steer (or help others steer) consumers into the high profit vehicles for American car makers.
Why don't you ask Bill Fucking Gates about Windows Vista while you are at it.
Tell ya what, give me a bunch of charts and shit and I can spin an article full of as much FUD as this one. I won't even charge ya for it, but I get to drink beer while I do it.
And to add to your points...
An analog tape was not recovered using a run of the mill tape player from some goober in the back office I would expect....
It was a pro tool designed to do that with a guy that knows what he's doing tinkering with it.
What did they do with the CD ROM? Throw it in the Dell and wait for the Autorun to pop up and when it doesn't just throw up their hands? I haven't heard of but I am sure a CD ROM drive that ignores error correction and pulls raw data exists, check the pirate CD burning and copying software for hints on how to do that. Maybe they should get one of those CD ROM drives (or make one if it doesn't exist). Then use basically OCR-type technology to take the raw bit data and convert it back to a FAT12 file system like the feds use on a suspect's hard drive.
They could always just stick digital data in a shareware program on some college campus and let natural forces duplicate it all over. Just be sure to name it "marsha_n_britany_oral.avi" first.