Prolly the same reason the company is not responsible for whatever twisted sexual fantasy involving the summer interns I can come up with in my head... as long as it stays there it's not any of their concern.
Life experience can not be unmixed from the man. Of those features of a person that cannot be unmixed, the corporation does not own them simply because they do not own the man.
Why is this modded insightful? Can the moderators truely not imagine that a hospiptal has computers that are not running medical machines?
The receptionist has a computer, it's running Windows.
The doctors have computers, they are running Windows.
The pharmacy has computers, they are running Windows for their Point of Sale system.
The cafeteria has cash registers, POS running on Windows.
The gift shop... Windows.
Shipping and Recieving... Windows.
Etc.
Heart monitors, definately NOT running Windows.
Is it truely that difficult to concieve that total disruption of a hostpital network and PCs might have a huge impact on the flowthrough process a hospital uses? Being unable to admit new patients or having analysis done via email, scheduling shifts or whatever else messed up due to a network lockup may cost lives as well as some machine that goes "PING" could.
Yack up the network and the hospital gets less efficient. Efficiency of a hostpital allows for more patients to be treated at a given time. Reduce it, and some get left going to a different hospital or worse, have errors in their treatment.
So I'd moderate first poster as "total fucking tard" and mods "just plain sheep-tards".
[I can't fucking wait for the Doom3 Linux binaries to come out, so I can have a week without the Linux weenies all over the damn place.]
Well, if it's like previous SPs the "public" version on Windows Update will download and install an app that queries the machine... then goes and downloads the parts that are necessary for that machine.
I don't know the specifics, but I assume that Home/Pro versions of XP have differences (Pro has IIS in it for one) that could reduce the download time for a lot of users. People who have been patching probably will have to DL less than people who never patched Windows before.
If you are going to put the SP on several computers, the full DL on a CD ROM will save you a lot of time though.
However general purging of records (electronic or not) that do not fall under those regulations is definately NOT a crime.
However, the second you become aware they might (reasonably might) be used in a court case, you are no longer allowed to destroy them.
I purge the old stuff regularly until told to do otherwise for a specific reason. Of course, there is no way in hell I'd be given a budget to keep the stuff... so bit-bucket it goes!
Petards are a dangerous (to friend and foe alike) early gunpowder weapon.
Basically, a big metal bucket held against a wall or door filled with gunpowder and shot (sometimes). It's set off via a wick in the back, intention being to make a big hole in the wall or door. Usually they were used for siege situations. The explosion sent the petard flying backwards in parts, and caused damage or breach in the wall or door.br>
People setting the thing off often died if they could not get away (gunpowder wicks can be tricky stuff if it's home brew).
When the book was written, the domain "katie.com" was not registered. Therefore anybody was/is allowed to use the words "Katie.com" as the title of a book. (This is confirmed bt the fact that the owner of the domain never did anything against the publishers of the book.)
I think you mean was registered, no? It clearly was by comparison of by the dates, and it seems like the rest of your post goes by that assumption.
I think I see the tel-tale signs of an aircraft carrier as the camera pans left.
So that's probably out to sea.
There's another of an F-14 doing the same thing floating about the internet, only the air is moist so the shockwave cone shows visibly in a cloud-like mist.
Way cool. (I'd upload my copy, but I have no servers capbable of a pseudo-slashdotting.)
If the population sample I have experience with is any indication.... half the home computers out there already have key-loggers on them anyway so a few more won't matter.
Spyware is seriously bad. I can protect myself, but friends or family sure can't....
- active/inactive lets you know if someone is at the computer pushing the mouse around. A big step towards knowing what is going on in the company.
- Co-ordinated online training requires the phone to be used, so IM allows communication despite a 4 hour conference call
- IM replaces the "walk around" part of a lot of tasks, scheduling meetings, discussing lunch, etc. That saves a LOT of time.
- Is much easier to use than "paste illegible postit on monitor" so people stop doing that.
- Many users have the same account at home, so people can be reached (mostly just IT) for various resons at home.
- Allows employees to deal with their friends/family without spending money on long distance phone calls.
True, IM does not REPLACE other methods of communication and does promote some fooling around. But we are a small shop and can tell when someone is not doing their job... not like they can hide in amongst 100 other workers doing the same thing.
So for some workplaces, there are good uses for IM.
Use one computer to power hard drives or components mounted on the other.
Imagine a 2U rack server with a semi-dead raid card (and probably a couple dead drives) with an old tower case server leaning up on it at 45 degree angle.
Four drives dangling by their power cords connected to the one on top, SCSI cables connected to the raid card.... all while the raid card squeals its "i'm dead" song.
Sorta like killing a cow by shooting a rabbit out of a cannon.
It worked tho. Got the data off.
[It wasn't my server, I'd have had backups.]
In other news, pry the good bios chip of a dead mobo to place on top of a fried bios chip (bad flash) long enough to boot into the next bios re-flash.
Sometimes the server room looks more like the Red Green show than anything else....
Pick your browser of choice, then REMOVE the shortcuts from the Start Menu, desktop, and shortcut bar.
Replace them with identically named shortcuts to your browser of choice, and use the shortcut properties to replace the Icon image with the big blue "E".
I had a hard enough time finding the excutable, and I fix computers for a living. I bet the ordinary user would never figure it out. Most of the people I have done that to never even realize the program is different.
Clean up your third-world-shithole of a country and you'll get off my list.
My intention is to hurt your economy and users like you. That's half of what those lists are for; protecting one's own services and servers AND causing deliberate collateral damage.
Whether you choose to sit there and whine, or clean up the place is up to you. Either way, Romanians won't be allowed to behave badly on my servers.
A simple reformulation to help characterize the quality of the argument used by the article writer:
"Aside from that, there is always the argument for ineptitude. If someone is stupid enough to walk down the street their ass can be raped every time they go grocery shopping. Then they probably deserve to be stripped of their virginity. So why should Gangsta's right to walk free go the way of the dodo just because some 11 year old children don't like getting raped?"
"Vande" better hope I don't run across his/her mom on the street, because according to him the above is a valid argument to justify any sort of crime.
Maybe if those bloody neo-third-world shit-holes weren't run by organized crime gangs, they wouldn't have the problem of being blacklisted.
Yeah it sucks if you live in one of those countries and are just and ordinary Internet-using person trying to make a few purchases online.
This issue is probably just one on a long list of disadvangages of being in a country where "bad" activity is the norm. I'll bet that healthcare, clean water, police and political corruption, religious zealotism, and crime rates are an issue too.
It seems like the long term solution is probably not to piss and moan about how downtrodden one is, but to solve the overall problems that cause the situation to arise in the first place. In other words, the less the country acts like a third-world thug-run crudhole in general the better off one would be in all respects, INCLUDING being less likely to be stuck on a bunch of "does not exist" lists and more likely to be viewed as a valuable economic partner for e-commerce.
(Hey, I admit, the list of IP address blocks that are stopped at my firewall is frighteningly long. No web, no email, nothing. I just do not have the time to fight off Russian script kiddies, Romanian spammers and Nigerian pornsters. They just go in the bit bucket. Know what else? NONE OF MY CUSTOMERS HAS NOTICED. They dont want to deal with them either. Until that changes. Bit bucket.)
Killing people by attacking civilians trying to get to work or enjoying a cup of coffee just because of their ethnicity or religion.
Killing known-combatants using their own families as shields for their bomb making operations, while happening to miss a few times, causing unfortunate deaths.
Real moral equivalency there.
From elsewhere in the article you linked, coming to the exact opposite conclusion you did:
The statistics show that Israeli noncombatants over the last 23 months have been killed essentially at random, as Palestinian terrorists have chosen to attack whichever civilian targets were accessible. Palestinian fatalities, however, have been strongly concentrated within a particular population segment - teenaged boys and young men.
and....
In contrast, Palestinian noncombatant fatalities have been overwhelmingly young (but over the age of 11) and male. This pattern of Palestinian deaths completely contradicts accusations that Israel has "indiscriminately targeted women and children." It is clear that the vast majority of the Palestinians killed did not die as the result of random Israeli attacks on inhabited areas, or on mixed-sex crowds at roadblocks and the like. There appears to be only one reasonable explanation of this pattern: that Palestinian men and boys engaged in behavior that brought them into conflict with Israeli armed forces.
Why don't you just add:
"YALLA YALLA YALLA JIHAD!ALLAH IS GREAT! DIE INFIDELS!!!" to your sig. That way you can be an extremist asshole with EVERY post instead of just this one.
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A long while back....
A cop pulled over my dad driving his new Volvo to get a closer look at the new-fangled over the shoulder seatbelts. (No ticket, just curiosity.)
All the ones in the US cars were lap-only at the time.
Prolly the same reason the company is not responsible for whatever twisted sexual fantasy involving the summer interns I can come up with in my head... as long as it stays there it's not any of their concern.
Life experience can not be unmixed from the man. Of those features of a person that cannot be unmixed, the corporation does not own them simply because they do not own the man.
Why is this modded insightful? Can the moderators truely not imagine that a hospiptal has computers that are not running medical machines?
The receptionist has a computer, it's running Windows.
The doctors have computers, they are running Windows.
The pharmacy has computers, they are running Windows for their Point of Sale system.
The cafeteria has cash registers, POS running on Windows.
The gift shop... Windows.
Shipping and Recieving... Windows.
Etc.
Heart monitors, definately NOT running Windows.
Is it truely that difficult to concieve that total disruption of a hostpital network and PCs might have a huge impact on the flowthrough process a hospital uses? Being unable to admit new patients or having analysis done via email, scheduling shifts or whatever else messed up due to a network lockup may cost lives as well as some machine that goes "PING" could.
Yack up the network and the hospital gets less efficient. Efficiency of a hostpital allows for more patients to be treated at a given time. Reduce it, and some get left going to a different hospital or worse, have errors in their treatment.
So I'd moderate first poster as "total fucking tard" and mods "just plain sheep-tards".
[I can't fucking wait for the Doom3 Linux binaries to come out, so I can have a week without the Linux weenies all over the damn place.]
For fucks sake, learn to THINK people.
Well, if it's like previous SPs the "public" version on Windows Update will download and install an app that queries the machine... then goes and downloads the parts that are necessary for that machine.
I don't know the specifics, but I assume that Home/Pro versions of XP have differences (Pro has IIS in it for one) that could reduce the download time for a lot of users. People who have been patching probably will have to DL less than people who never patched Windows before.
If you are going to put the SP on several computers, the full DL on a CD ROM will save you a lot of time though.
There's regulations for certain industries.
However general purging of records (electronic or not) that do not fall under those regulations is definately NOT a crime.
However, the second you become aware they might (reasonably might) be used in a court case, you are no longer allowed to destroy them.
I purge the old stuff regularly until told to do otherwise for a specific reason. Of course, there is no way in hell I'd be given a budget to keep the stuff... so bit-bucket it goes!
The folks I work with stopped calling me an IT professional some time last year... using instead the more apt term "IT Asshole".
Burn-out does that to you.
Petards are a dangerous (to friend and foe alike) early gunpowder weapon.
Basically, a big metal bucket held against a wall or door filled with gunpowder and shot (sometimes). It's set off via a wick in the back, intention being to make a big hole in the wall or door. Usually they were used for siege situations. The explosion sent the petard flying backwards in parts, and caused damage or breach in the wall or door.br>
People setting the thing off often died if they could not get away (gunpowder wicks can be tricky stuff if it's home brew).
Here's a pic: Petard
Big deal. Bill & Belinda Gates give boatloads of money to charities to fight AIDS and stuff.
That doesn't keep BG from being an evil monopolist.
Parry is just a bully, plain and simple.
When the book was written, the domain "katie.com" was not registered. Therefore anybody was/is allowed to use the words "Katie.com" as the title of a book. (This is confirmed bt the fact that the owner of the domain never did anything against the publishers of the book.)
I think you mean was registered, no? It clearly was by comparison of by the dates, and it seems like the rest of your post goes by that assumption.
Nice vid.
I think I see the tel-tale signs of an aircraft carrier as the camera pans left.
So that's probably out to sea.
There's another of an F-14 doing the same thing floating about the internet, only the air is moist so the shockwave cone shows visibly in a cloud-like mist.
Way cool. (I'd upload my copy, but I have no servers capbable of a pseudo-slashdotting.)
Not from in game they are not.
Aside from the pictures of the box and so on, those are the exact same screenshots that have been going around the net for a week.
It might have a box, but I don't think he took those screenies.
..... which is not a big deal.
If the population sample I have experience with is any indication.... half the home computers out there already have key-loggers on them anyway so a few more won't matter.
Spyware is seriously bad. I can protect myself, but friends or family sure can't....
You forgot:
"And it will absolutely NOT STOP until you are dead!"
(T1)
I for one will go see the movie.
Recently a friend loaned me the DVD set, so I got to watch them all in a row in the correct order.
Due to the time slot, I only saw one or two episodes on TV.
Sure there are problems with the show (later episodes gathered more and more) but I was genuinely entertained by it.
Plus, you gotta think that any show placed in the far distant future that shows Windows XP as the operating system running a dumpster is pretty cool.
[The "steal the laser" episode where Sapharron makes her second appearance. The dumpster they highjack to get the loot has windows on it's screen.]
Better Yet:
Dear Nigerian Scammer,
I dare you to come get me, my address is:
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Washington, DC
Come get me chimp!
MSN is required at my company.
Here's why:
- active/inactive lets you know if someone is at the computer pushing the mouse around. A big step towards knowing what is going on in the company.
- Co-ordinated online training requires the phone to be used, so IM allows communication despite a 4 hour conference call
- IM replaces the "walk around" part of a lot of tasks, scheduling meetings, discussing lunch, etc. That saves a LOT of time.
- Is much easier to use than "paste illegible postit on monitor" so people stop doing that.
- Many users have the same account at home, so people can be reached (mostly just IT) for various resons at home.
- Allows employees to deal with their friends/family without spending money on long distance phone calls.
True, IM does not REPLACE other methods of communication and does promote some fooling around. But we are a small shop and can tell when someone is not doing their job... not like they can hide in amongst 100 other workers doing the same thing.
So for some workplaces, there are good uses for IM.
Section 508 only applies to GOV sites run by GOV organizations.
To a private individual, it means dick.
And like other posters said, there are CLI whois clients out there, no need to use WWW at all.
Maybe to drum up more business for their new spam blocking service.
Just pay em some money and they take your MX! Mail is scanned then forwarded on to the real mail server.
(also a ploy to get you to let them host DNS)
Definately not a company I'd let store and forward my email....
A great way to horrify onlookers;
Use one computer to power hard drives or components mounted on the other.
Imagine a 2U rack server with a semi-dead raid card (and probably a couple dead drives) with an old tower case server leaning up on it at 45 degree angle.
Four drives dangling by their power cords connected to the one on top, SCSI cables connected to the raid card.... all while the raid card squeals its "i'm dead" song.
Sorta like killing a cow by shooting a rabbit out of a cannon.
It worked tho. Got the data off.
[It wasn't my server, I'd have had backups.]
In other news, pry the good bios chip of a dead mobo to place on top of a fried bios chip (bad flash) long enough to boot into the next bios re-flash.
Sometimes the server room looks more like the Red Green show than anything else....
Use the big blue "E".
Pick your browser of choice, then REMOVE the shortcuts from the Start Menu, desktop, and shortcut bar.
Replace them with identically named shortcuts to your browser of choice, and use the shortcut properties to replace the Icon image with the big blue "E".
I had a hard enough time finding the excutable, and I fix computers for a living. I bet the ordinary user would never figure it out. Most of the people I have done that to never even realize the program is different.
Bah.
Clean up your third-world-shithole of a country and you'll get off my list.
My intention is to hurt your economy and users like you. That's half of what those lists are for; protecting one's own services and servers AND causing deliberate collateral damage.
Whether you choose to sit there and whine, or clean up the place is up to you. Either way, Romanians won't be allowed to behave badly on my servers.
A simple reformulation to help characterize the quality of the argument used by the article writer:
"Aside from that, there is always the argument for ineptitude. If someone is stupid enough to walk down the street their ass can be raped every time they go grocery shopping. Then they probably deserve to be stripped of their virginity. So why should Gangsta's right to walk free go the way of the dodo just because some 11 year old children don't like getting raped?"
"Vande" better hope I don't run across his/her mom on the street, because according to him the above is a valid argument to justify any sort of crime.
Maybe if those bloody neo-third-world shit-holes weren't run by organized crime gangs, they wouldn't have the problem of being blacklisted.
Yeah it sucks if you live in one of those countries and are just and ordinary Internet-using person trying to make a few purchases online.
This issue is probably just one on a long list of disadvangages of being in a country where "bad" activity is the norm. I'll bet that healthcare, clean water, police and political corruption, religious zealotism, and crime rates are an issue too.
It seems like the long term solution is probably not to piss and moan about how downtrodden one is, but to solve the overall problems that cause the situation to arise in the first place. In other words, the less the country acts like a third-world thug-run crudhole in general the better off one would be in all respects, INCLUDING being less likely to be stuck on a bunch of "does not exist" lists and more likely to be viewed as a valuable economic partner for e-commerce.
(Hey, I admit, the list of IP address blocks that are stopped at my firewall is frighteningly long. No web, no email, nothing. I just do not have the time to fight off Russian script kiddies, Romanian spammers and Nigerian pornsters. They just go in the bit bucket. Know what else? NONE OF MY CUSTOMERS HAS NOTICED. They dont want to deal with them either. Until that changes. Bit bucket.)
Yeah, until Godzilla shows up. Then everything I make looks like Tokyo.
Killing people by attacking civilians trying to get to work or enjoying a cup of coffee just because of their ethnicity or religion.
Killing known-combatants using their own families as shields for their bomb making operations, while happening to miss a few times, causing unfortunate deaths.
Real moral equivalency there.
From elsewhere in the article you linked, coming to the exact opposite conclusion you did:
The statistics show that Israeli noncombatants over the last 23 months have been killed essentially at random, as Palestinian terrorists have chosen to attack whichever civilian targets were accessible. Palestinian fatalities, however, have been strongly concentrated within a particular population segment - teenaged boys and young men.
and....
In contrast, Palestinian noncombatant fatalities have been overwhelmingly young (but over the age of 11) and male. This pattern of Palestinian deaths completely contradicts accusations that Israel has "indiscriminately targeted women and children." It is clear that the vast majority of the Palestinians killed did not die as the result of random Israeli attacks on inhabited areas, or on mixed-sex crowds at roadblocks and the like. There appears to be only one reasonable explanation of this pattern: that Palestinian men and boys engaged in behavior that brought them into conflict with Israeli armed forces.
Why don't you just add:
"YALLA YALLA YALLA JIHAD!ALLAH IS GREAT! DIE INFIDELS!!!" to your sig. That way you can be an extremist asshole with EVERY post instead of just this one.