Router goes down, half the company is staring at blank screens. And what's the biggest complaint I hear?
I can't get to CNN/eBay/Am I Hot or Not/online bingo/every other non-business essential site.
Of course, what's the first thing I do when the router goes down? Dial my laptop to a local ISP and make sure I can get my/. cause, dammit, this is important!
Why wait until after you lose the bid before pointing out something that could sway the bid your way? In the contract bid, point out your design and server structure and how it's more secure than the SQL/NT structure.
If you don't bring up important items like security until after you lose the contract, you'll be viewed as the sore loser, not as somebody concerned for their well being.
If they still go with the competing company with the poor security, they have only themselves to blame.
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The very first time some IT weenies tried to start a picket line, their corporate masters could have strike-busters there immidiatly. Those guys could clear the ITsters out in minutes. They wouldn't even need guns, just a few hits from a strong club would ruin these weakling's resolve.
I can see it now...
Picket line of geeks get's busted up by big burly guys. Geeks go home, hack into the company system (not that hard if they're already working for the company.) Find names and info on company executives that ordered the strikebusters. Proceed to do more damage than a thug with a club could think of doing.
With our power, the suits should be afraid of us. We just never flex our information muscle. We control everything, let's use that to our benefit.
it just comes down to how much you want to pay for convenience. our entire culture here in the us is based on convenience. it's nice to see the populace smacked around by the reality commonly expirenced by the rest of the world. driving a car isnt a right, it's a luxury. people here get used to things and then get all up in arms when it isnt there anymore.
So, just because the rest of the world doesn't have the luxuries we have here, we should get rid of it? How about air conditioning? clean bathrooms? FOOD!?
You give up your computer, your house, and start eating nothing but rice and drinking river water, and I'll start walking the 22 miles to work.
Instead of reducing ourselves to their level, why not bring the rest of the world up to our standards?
since i am an american who doesnt own a car i look forward to expensive gas prices. people around here need to be smacked around and start using public transportation.
What, you think city buses run on happy thoughts instead of diesel??
And why the hell should I use public transportation? So I can only go where the city government thinks I need to go. What happens if I need to go where city buses don't go (like my office, for instance).
Public transportation is fine if you live in large cities. However, for those of us that live in the rest of the US, public transportation is not an option. I'll continue driving my car, paying $1.80/gallon, and I'll continue to bitch about the price of gas. But I won't stop driving, the alternative is even worse.
There is an ISP in Hawaii that provides very inexpensive dial-up service, with a catch. No tech support. Period. They send you a sheet with your dial-up settings. And that's it. For experienced users only.
Tech support for newbies is, by far, the biggest pain in the a** for an ISP. Eliminate them, the job of running an ISP becomes almost enjoyable.
Is it not obvious to nearly everybody that cutting HavenCo off from the rest of the net would be a very easy thing to accomplish, if the US and/or UK cared enough to do so?
I read that HavenCo has multiple redundant connections to three or four separate companies in separate countries. I know at least France and Belgium have connections to Sealand. There's probably also a redundant satellite connection.
Is there really room in the market for three consoles?? N64 and PSX forces the Saturn out of the market. Just the rumors of the PS2 forced the Dreamcast out.
Nintendo is taking the right track with this one. Nintendo may be the senior company in this market, but Sony and Microsoft have billions, and are willing to spend it, to dominate this market. The Gamecube had better be one incredible machine to be able to survive. Is the market capable of three consoles? Maybe. But my money is on PS2 and XBox over Dolphin.
This is probably the best thing they could do. Imagine being a support tech in that datacenter, with the hum of the equipment being drowned out by It's a Small World in Japanese. Gives me seizures just thinking about it.
I stopped playing years ago (right before Ice Age came out), but I had a killer tourney deck that was legal at the time.
Sensory Deprivation Deck
Blue/Colorless (Artifacts)
Counterspells, Vesuvian Dopplegangers, and other anti-magic cards
Four of each Urza's Lands. Relic Barriers, Winter Orbs, Black Vises
Deck took a few turns to get moving, so it was incredibly suseptible to fast weenie decks. But, when it got moving, it was killer. Counterspells would prevent opponent from casting anything. Controls and Doppleganger pretty much negated any creatures he played. Winter Orbs would block usage of land. Before the end of opponent's turn, use relic barrier to tap Winter Orb. Allows me to untap all land. Opponent can't cast anything, Black Vises would bleed opponent life.
I won a few major tourney's with this deck. Then, I got tired of MtG and sold my entire collection. Got back every dime I put into it.
And immediately after I got out, tourney rules were changed, that would have made my deck illegal. Still, it was fun as hell to see the looks on players faces.
I've finally got a snappy comeback to all those Linux-using bastards here in the office that claim Linux is superior and is more secure than Windows NT.
I'd hate to be the admin on a mail server with users passing around 700mb files via email. Most of the trading is done on IRC, usenet, and P2P applications...
Most trading I've done in the last few months has been via FTP. Specifically, finding companies with tons of bandwidth and minimal security on their FTP servers. Upload a movie and post to a bulletin board the location of said movie. Other users download the movie, spiking the bandwidth usage on particular server. Admin notices usage, finds unauthorized files, deletes them, and tightens security. Find new server with no security. Repeat until you have more movies than you can watch.
Not that I've participated in this ethically questionable practice. And I don't have over 200 movies I haven't seen yet.
The real problem probably lies in the fact that more drugs have been used by people in those generations than have been used by generations in the past.
You mean, I can blame my memory loss on my parents? My dad has been blaming every ailment of his on me for years, I've finally got something to blame on him, other than the beer gut and the small penis.
You mean people in their twenties and thirties with PDAs are stupid. Hell, most people in their twenties and thirties are stupid, regardless if they own a PDA or not. That's half the fun of being young, you can be stupid.
Besides, have you watched MTV lately? Point made.
BTW, I'm thirty, I use a Palm daily, and my wife can vouch for the stupidity part.
I know, this software doesn't actually run the servers, it just interconnects them. Still, too much knowledge in the hands of those with too little intelligence can be a dangerous thing.
Still, it's great to see major corporations not only using open source, but opening their internal tools to open source. One more point for the good guys.
Because with a machine this powerful built by Intel, you just know they'll cause a rip in the space/time continuum and cause the end of all reality as we know it.
Or, it'll just create BSOD's billions of times faster than any current silicon-based PC.
Why are genes patentable? It's not like the company invented them, they just identified them. Should medival doctors receive the patents on the human internal organs? How about researchers that discover what parts of the brain do what functions, should that be patentable.
Maybe the US Patent Office should take the year off and go back into the real world. Maybe they'll find their common sense they lost so many years ago. Of course, you can say that about anybody in government service (especially congressmen).
If anybody should receive the patent on genes, it should be God. He created them.
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And you better believe they're gonna let you know, often and loud.
I can't get to CNN/eBay/Am I Hot or Not/online bingo/every other non-business essential site.
Of course, what's the first thing I do when the router goes down? Dial my laptop to a local ISP and make sure I can get my /. cause, dammit, this is important!
Jeez, you gave me a fright. Don't do that again!
If you don't bring up important items like security until after you lose the contract, you'll be viewed as the sore loser, not as somebody concerned for their well being.
If they still go with the competing company with the poor security, they have only themselves to blame.
I can see it now...
Picket line of geeks get's busted up by big burly guys. Geeks go home, hack into the company system (not that hard if they're already working for the company.) Find names and info on company executives that ordered the strikebusters. Proceed to do more damage than a thug with a club could think of doing.
With our power, the suits should be afraid of us. We just never flex our information muscle. We control everything, let's use that to our benefit.
So, just because the rest of the world doesn't have the luxuries we have here, we should get rid of it? How about air conditioning? clean bathrooms? FOOD!?
You give up your computer, your house, and start eating nothing but rice and drinking river water, and I'll start walking the 22 miles to work.
Instead of reducing ourselves to their level, why not bring the rest of the world up to our standards?
What, you think city buses run on happy thoughts instead of diesel??
And why the hell should I use public transportation? So I can only go where the city government thinks I need to go. What happens if I need to go where city buses don't go (like my office, for instance).
Public transportation is fine if you live in large cities. However, for those of us that live in the rest of the US, public transportation is not an option. I'll continue driving my car, paying $1.80/gallon, and I'll continue to bitch about the price of gas. But I won't stop driving, the alternative is even worse.
Mmmmmmm, pork chop dubber.
Just like Mom used to buy.
Tech support for newbies is, by far, the biggest pain in the a** for an ISP. Eliminate them, the job of running an ISP becomes almost enjoyable.
I read that HavenCo has multiple redundant connections to three or four separate companies in separate countries. I know at least France and Belgium have connections to Sealand. There's probably also a redundant satellite connection.
Nintendo is taking the right track with this one. Nintendo may be the senior company in this market, but Sony and Microsoft have billions, and are willing to spend it, to dominate this market. The Gamecube had better be one incredible machine to be able to survive. Is the market capable of three consoles? Maybe. But my money is on PS2 and XBox over Dolphin.
This is probably the best thing they could do. Imagine being a support tech in that datacenter, with the hum of the equipment being drowned out by It's a Small World in Japanese. Gives me seizures just thinking about it.
Sensory Deprivation Deck
Blue/Colorless (Artifacts)
Counterspells, Vesuvian Dopplegangers, and other anti-magic cards
Four of each Urza's Lands. Relic Barriers, Winter Orbs, Black Vises
Deck took a few turns to get moving, so it was incredibly suseptible to fast weenie decks. But, when it got moving, it was killer. Counterspells would prevent opponent from casting anything. Controls and Doppleganger pretty much negated any creatures he played. Winter Orbs would block usage of land. Before the end of opponent's turn, use relic barrier to tap Winter Orb. Allows me to untap all land. Opponent can't cast anything, Black Vises would bleed opponent life.
I won a few major tourney's with this deck. Then, I got tired of MtG and sold my entire collection. Got back every dime I put into it.
And immediately after I got out, tourney rules were changed, that would have made my deck illegal. Still, it was fun as hell to see the looks on players faces.
Oh, wait. I'm one of those Linux-using bastards.
Most trading I've done in the last few months has been via FTP. Specifically, finding companies with tons of bandwidth and minimal security on their FTP servers. Upload a movie and post to a bulletin board the location of said movie. Other users download the movie, spiking the bandwidth usage on particular server. Admin notices usage, finds unauthorized files, deletes them, and tightens security. Find new server with no security. Repeat until you have more movies than you can watch.
Not that I've participated in this ethically questionable practice. And I don't have over 200 movies I haven't seen yet.
Senator, there are exactly 56 card-carrying members of the Democratic Socialists of America in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Give Riker the balls to nail every babe on the show.
Give Beverly Crusher a hot nude lesbian scene in the holo-deck with Deanna Troi and a tub of strawberry Jello.
Give Wesley Crusher the screaming agonizing death he so richly deserved.
Now, put that on DVD and I'll pay for it.
You mean, I can blame my memory loss on my parents? My dad has been blaming every ailment of his on me for years, I've finally got something to blame on him, other than the beer gut and the small penis.
Besides, have you watched MTV lately? Point made.
BTW, I'm thirty, I use a Palm daily, and my wife can vouch for the stupidity part.
Why does it have to be extreme? I'd like to see Programming that might kill you and throw your body off a bridge.
I know, this software doesn't actually run the servers, it just interconnects them. Still, too much knowledge in the hands of those with too little intelligence can be a dangerous thing.
Still, it's great to see major corporations not only using open source, but opening their internal tools to open source. One more point for the good guys.
Now, that's a vague reference. It's a shame that was about the only funny part in that whole movie.
747's that can shoot down incoming missles. That's what this world needs.
Or, it'll just create BSOD's billions of times faster than any current silicon-based PC.
Maybe the US Patent Office should take the year off and go back into the real world. Maybe they'll find their common sense they lost so many years ago. Of course, you can say that about anybody in government service (especially congressmen).
If anybody should receive the patent on genes, it should be God. He created them.