You know, I never thought I'd say this but Netscape really sucks. I still have my Netscape 1.0 CD. Times have changed though. If you're using Netscape anything, it's being released by AOL. You can rest assured it is no longer the superior product it once was. It's been hashed up and recoded by the same team that brough you the AOL ISP client software, which has been the death of many a Windows-based PC. You have to wonder what all it's phoning home to AOL, too.
The biggest problem with American voters is that the dufuses in Florida couldn't use their bingo blotters to mark the ballot. We've never really elected a present anyway. There's this thing called the electorial college and they're the ones who really pick the president. We thought all you folks overseas knew that.
Besides, if we suck so bad, how come all the people from everywhere else keep coming here?
If there is software he's not supposed to be using while he's at work, why is it even installed? It is quite simple to supress the installation of all of the "Games". How's this for logic, Mr Smarty Pants Mayor...If you don't want your employees playing games, DON'T INSTALL THEM....DUH!!!! I really don't see why an employee should be fired for using software that you provided him with, even if it is a game.
It's sad that you have all these bad experiences. I work in an IT department ON a university. We employ a LOT of student workers in various capacities. We only had one or two bad apples come through. They don't last long and are easily replaced. My suggestion would be to find direct phone numbers from the CS/programming professors. I'd also recommend hiring masters level students if you can get them. The previous posters statement about the party thing applies far more to the undergrads than the grads.
Now for the comments above -
Graphic design - Most coders are horrible graphic designers. The graphic design should be left to the designers and not the coders. Art students are even cheaper than CS students.
Human factors testing / engineering - This particular person does seem to need anything horribly complex, so I have a feeling that would be overkill.
Markup, layout, and general UI design - Your designer should have some input here, but most coders have usually used enough programs to have a pretty good instinctive feel for UI.
Technical writing (help system, page text, etc.) - Since this person's project doesn't seem terribly complex, most of the code can be documented in comments. I've seen you coders in action...I manage a team of developers. I've yet to meet a coder that will actually document anything willingly. I seriously doubt that the gentleman in question is going to leave the page text up to a coder.
- Programming, Testing, Maintenence - Wow! Look it's the mid part of the application life cycle. Which is exactly what you hire the student to do.
Personally, I'd pay extra to sit in the "no screaming baby" and "no squealing brat" section at the movie theater, restraunt, etc. I'd certainly pay extra to live in an apartment complex that had the same kind of rules. Unfortunately, thanks to the "fair housing" act *MY* preferences in the matter are disregarded. I end up with neighbors who have poorly disciplined, destructive children. I have had several incidents involving chidren and theft or children and vandalism. While I deal with the process within the law, I would rather not have to deal with it at all. It's a PITA. If I had property to lease out, I'd certainly want to put things like "No kids and no pets."
While we're on the subject, I'd also like to see a "No jackass screaming into the cell phone section", especially at the movie theater. Face it, we all have things that annoy us. Why shouldn't people be allowed to be upfront about that? I understand that what we're looking to prevent here is the creation of ghettos, in the true sense of the word, were people are segregated to specific sections of town. I think, though, that unless you're posting about 5 units or more, it shouldn't apply.
If I'm leasing a room in my house, theres a lot of trust and personal comfort involved in that. My jewish families won't let someone who isn't jewish stay with them, because of the Sabbat. Sabbat begins on Friday at sunset and ends at sunset on Saturday. Specific rules must be observed during that time. Some sects of Christianity feel the same way about Sundays. I'm sure other religions have similar issues.
Bleh! If people want to discriminate, let them. They'll do it anyway, at least if it's in the open, you can save your time.
I'd strongly recommend that you find a local university that has a master's program in Computer Science. Get yourself a couple of students to write the thing for you. You get good cheap help and they get paid more than the on campus jobs plus the resume fodder never hurts.
Seriously, a lot of that stuff is run by automated processes. I know a few guys that got real world rich of UO and EQ in that very manner. The trick is to make it so that it requires interaction with a live human or two or more in order to craft some of these high powered items. I know of several smaller privately run RPG game servers that have serious crafting components for those that choose to do so. You can also restrict raw materials. For example, if you want to make leather armor, it takes 10 hides. Now, you can't just walk over to another merchant and get 10 hides. You'll have to get them from a player who's been out hunting and who has the "skin animal" skill. He might only have one or two. You may end up having to buy hides from 7 or 8 people just to have the skins you need. Now you need metal too... You get the idea.
You can stop the farmers if you design it properly from the get go.... Maybe not completely but at least keep it down to a dull roar.
Think about it this way: if you lock a bunch of people in a room toegther and have them come up with an answer, the "strong" personalities in the room are likely to have a heavy influence on the "weaker" ones. People who aren't really firm in their opinions are going to influenced -- whether they realize it or not -- by people who sound confident.
That's exactly what happens in every jury room, focus group, and committee meeting on the planet or any other place were a group of humans are expected to come to a group consensus decision.
Now you begin to see why I say focus groups and not Power Point is the bane of modern existence.
Wait until mailing lists that you want to subscribe to start charging you because they have to pay to send you a email!
Mind you, I'm fairly well convinced that anyone who's paying $24.95 a month for dial up in this day and age is probably not the sharpest crayola in the box. Since you're obviously too stupid to find one of the $4.95 a month dial up services and save yourself $20, I guess you deserve to pay even more to get your email.
Come to think of it, it might work out well since the AOL users won't be cluttering up the mailing lists with stupid questions and getting offended when they get an "RTFM" reply.
I wonder if this is going to have another spyware-ridden root kit in it too!
If the guys at Symantec/Norton think I'm EVER going to install/recommend ANY of their products EVER again, they're still smoking the same stuff that they were smoking when they thought that root-kitting all their customers was a good idea in the first place.
Hey Symantec - PUT THE CRACK PIPE DOWN AND BACK AWAY SLOWLY!!!!
My gaming clan plays on line in several games. We don't grief the newbies but we do tend to play "in character" a bit too well for some folks liking. We play SWG as Tarkan raiders and we do exactly that. We roam about and raid. That said, we don't get particulary angry if we roll up on something that turns out to be too tough to handle. We play NWN too and tend to play as chaotic evil and the same tactics serve us well there too, much to many people's dismay. A lot of servers have some serious death penalties and we never whinge when we get whacked by them. We've been known to play the Need for Speed series as well as some similar games and I'm notorious for "nerfing". Now the flip side of that is I don't get bent when I'm one grinding the wall. Frankly I don't see why your "voice" or style of game play needs to be changed just because you swap genres of game.
Ok people, here's the deal. It's not pretty and it doesn't fit in with most folks candy-coated, rose-colored view of the world.
1. There have always been mass extinctions. They predate man - we know this from the fossil records. They are caused by things like volcanoes and diseases. (Black Death, anyone?)
2. Mother nature works by extinction. The old must be cleared away to make room for the new. The dinos lost and little possum-looking thing won so here we are. The rule is adapt or die. If you die off and you were useful, something else will take over that niche.
3. Climate changes happen periodically. Ice Ages come and go. Warm periods come and go. This is part of the cycle of the planet.
4. A single volcanic eruption spews way more crap into the atmosphere in the matter of minutes than every can of hairspray with hydrocarbon propellant. It spews more than every single car on the planet.
You want to know why a billion people don't have freedom? I suggest that you read what happened to some students that started protesting for more food, better housing and better teachers at their universities.
Frail humans on foot don't stand much of a chance against tanks...
Sadly, because I've mentioned Tiananmen Square here, we'll be blocked by Google from all of China. Except for the people who were there and saw what happened, this is one of the filters that their goverment applies. They don't want their people to know that they slaughtered thousands of their own students because they asked for more food, and housing that was warm in the winter and had roofs that didn't leak.
Last time I checked, food and shelter are basic human needs. Without them people become desperate becasue their day-to-day survival is threatened.
First off, any girl who likes math and science isn't likely to be watching a soap opera. I clearly recall my high school years and none of us was ever a "soap ho". In fact, we made fun of the "soap hos". Once you come to the realization that there's more to life than hairspray, make-up, and "who likes who", soaps just aren't all that interesting. I've heard a lot of people say "Oh, they're just like real life." The doublecrosses, the extravagant lifestyles, the amnesia, the tragic diseases...and that's just from one week. I have to tell you that I'd be so worn out from the plotting and deception that I'd probably welcome death from the tragic disease just to get me out of the grind.
I have been boycotting all music purchases for some time now. I refuse to "feed the beast". If there were a way for me to make a paypal donation to my favorite bands, I would glady do so. Sadly, the RIAA is *NOT* *NOT* *NOT* about making money for the artists. They are about making money for the RIAA. They typically underpay the arists, even by the terms of their own contracts. They charge "ripoff" prices for a CD with 2 good songs and 12 tracks of absolute crap. Out of that, the arist is lucky if they see 5 cents of each sale.
The whole reason that the RIAA is willing to punish us is becasue they are lining their own pockets. They are not doing anything useful for the artists. There is no need for them anymore - they are dinosaurs. Too bad we don't have a meteor.
Having done more than a bit of diving, I can tell you that many octopii are very curious creatures. They seem to come in two rather distinct varieties - the very shy ones that flee and the very curious that are quite willing to investigate your mask, tanks, etc. Many octopii are also very senstive to light and color. They seem to use color to communicate with each other. Depending on the type of octopii, many are quite sensitive to light, some being attracted to and some being repelled by it.
I'm also betting that these folks had all their little lights blazing, all their little tools humming, and lord only know what else. I'm sure that they attracted the thing. Most people don't realize that octopii have problem-solving intelligence. (It's the one thing that makes me feel guilty about eating them. I guess if they were smarter they'd find a way not to taste so good) Anyway, because they're smart, they also investigate odd things. As fragile as they look, they are suprisingly strong. I've had an octopus not much bigger than my hand nearly pull my regulator out of my mouth. I can only imagine what 100lb octopus is capable of. Frankly, I'm a bit surprised they have sub left. I would suggest investigating to see if they can find out what they did to initiate the incident and "don't do that anymore."
Dictionary.com lists the definition of humanitarian as "One who is devoted to the promotion of human welfare and the advancement of social reforms; a philanthropist."
Bill Gates, a man who has built a monoploy through intimidation and raketerring, can hardly be called a humanitarian. So what if he gives 0.1% of it back to charity? A "humanitarian" would not resort to these tactics in order to build their business.
Lest you think I have a bias for Steve Jobs, think again. Steven Jobs is well known for terrorizing his employees, his arrogance (although not entirely unfounded), as well as some other undesirable personality traits.
My personal feeling is that neither of them deserve to be mentioned with the word "humantiarian" in the same sentence. To the two of you, your big fat bank accounts cannot purchase your redemption. Salvation is not for sale. Deep down both of you know this to be true. Learn to be better people - that will truly earn you the description you seem to seek.
I've been running OSX now for about 3 years. I have *NO* antivirus software. I have *NO* antispware. The really telling thing is that I also have *NO* problems! The best thing about OSX is that I just don't need any of this stuff. At this point in the game, it is completely irrelevant to me.
For all you Microsoft users who are trapped in your ActiveX hell, I feel for you. I have only one thing to say, "Free your OS and your @ss will follow!"
I need Macromedia's suite, Photoshop (I love GIMP, but it just isn't the same), Illustrator. My husband is a commercial artist and he really needs Quark. Most of the other stuff I use on a regular basis has acceptable open source equivalents.
We use this at a universtiy on lab computers that are available to the public, as well as desktop machines , laptops, etc. So far, I'll say that we've not encountered anything we know about it hasn't handled.
Given HIPAA and SOX and alot of newer legislation, I would tell you to run, no - sprint, to your legal department. Sit out and talk to the legal beagles. Have them help you draft a risk acceptance letter and outlines everything you've put in this missive. Then go to the brass and make them sign it in triplicate. Give the brass one copy, give one copy to your personal lawyer and lock one in a safety deposit box somewhere. Depending on the circumstances, anything else might leave you open for a jail term. You sure don't want that. No one wants to go to jail because of a bunch of PHB's.
Besides, when you whip out the document and tell them sign on the dotted line that says "We know it's stupid but its what we really want to do." it's absolutely amazing how fast the "you know we don't have money for that" becomes "how much budget did you need for that?" My experience has been that they ususally *do* have the money, but they don't want to spend it because it's an expense and expenses eat into their fat annual and quaterly bonuses.
Well, now that they're part of Fed-Ex, perhaps the folks working the counter will get a slight raise. Lord knows that with what Fed-Ex charges to ship a package they can certainly afford to do it. Perhaps this will highlight the plight of Kinkos copy-slaves everywhere.
Some twinkie-eating high school kid carried off the lowest tech "hack" ever. He's now being charged with a felony for asking for folks in a chat room to refresh his high school's home page to bring down the server.
Item 1) If the server can't stand having the home page reloaded by a chat room's worth of people, it's obviously one lame-ass server.
Item 2) What kind of morons charge a child (so he's 16- he's still a minor that makes him legally a child) with a FELONY for this.
In light of the this stupidity, I would like to encourage everyone to go this link (to the same home page) and refresh it as often as possible.
Slashdot Mirror
You know, I never thought I'd say this but Netscape really sucks. I still have my Netscape 1.0 CD. Times have changed though. If you're using Netscape anything, it's being released by AOL. You can rest assured it is no longer the superior product it once was. It's been hashed up and recoded by the same team that brough you the AOL ISP client software, which has been the death of many a Windows-based PC. You have to wonder what all it's phoning home to AOL, too.
2 cents,
Queen B
The biggest problem with American voters is that the dufuses in Florida couldn't use their bingo blotters to mark the ballot. We've never really elected a present anyway. There's this thing called the electorial college and they're the ones who really pick the president. We thought all you folks overseas knew that.
Besides, if we suck so bad, how come all the people from everywhere else keep coming here?
2 cents,
Queen B
For the money those guys make, they'd let you pee on their heads. Public humiliation won't phase them.
2 cents,
Queen B
If there is software he's not supposed to be using while he's at work, why is it even installed? It is quite simple to supress the installation of all of the "Games". How's this for logic, Mr Smarty Pants Mayor...If you don't want your employees playing games, DON'T INSTALL THEM....DUH!!!! I really don't see why an employee should be fired for using software that you provided him with, even if it is a game.
2 cents,
Queen B
It's sad that you have all these bad experiences. I work in an IT department ON a university. We employ a LOT of student workers in various capacities. We only had one or two bad apples come through. They don't last long and are easily replaced. My suggestion would be to find direct phone numbers from the CS/programming professors. I'd also recommend hiring masters level students if you can get them. The previous posters statement about the party thing applies far more to the undergrads than the grads.
Now for the comments above -
Graphic design - Most coders are horrible graphic designers. The graphic design should be left to the designers and not the coders. Art students are even cheaper than CS students.
Human factors testing / engineering - This particular person does seem to need anything horribly complex, so I have a feeling that would be overkill.
Markup, layout, and general UI design - Your designer should have some input here, but most coders have usually used enough programs to have a pretty good instinctive feel for UI.
Technical writing (help system, page text, etc.) - Since this person's project doesn't seem terribly complex, most of the code can be documented in comments. I've seen you coders in action...I manage a team of developers. I've yet to meet a coder that will actually document anything willingly. I seriously doubt that the gentleman in question is going to leave the page text up to a coder.
- Programming, Testing, Maintenence - Wow! Look it's the mid part of the application life cycle. Which is exactly what you hire the student to do.
2 more cents,
Queen B
Personally, I'd pay extra to sit in the "no screaming baby" and "no squealing brat" section at the movie theater, restraunt, etc. I'd certainly pay extra to live in an apartment complex that had the same kind of rules. Unfortunately, thanks to the "fair housing" act *MY* preferences in the matter are disregarded. I end up with neighbors who have poorly disciplined, destructive children. I have had several incidents involving chidren and theft or children and vandalism. While I deal with the process within the law, I would rather not have to deal with it at all. It's a PITA. If I had property to lease out, I'd certainly want to put things like "No kids and no pets."
While we're on the subject, I'd also like to see a "No jackass screaming into the cell phone section", especially at the movie theater. Face it, we all have things that annoy us. Why shouldn't people be allowed to be upfront about that? I understand that what we're looking to prevent here is the creation of ghettos, in the true sense of the word, were people are segregated to specific sections of town. I think, though, that unless you're posting about 5 units or more, it shouldn't apply.
If I'm leasing a room in my house, theres a lot of trust and personal comfort involved in that. My jewish families won't let someone who isn't jewish stay with them, because of the Sabbat. Sabbat begins on Friday at sunset and ends at sunset on Saturday. Specific rules must be observed during that time. Some sects of Christianity feel the same way about Sundays. I'm sure other religions have similar issues.
Bleh! If people want to discriminate, let them. They'll do it anyway, at least if it's in the open, you can save your time.
2 cents,
Queen B
I'd strongly recommend that you find a local university that has a master's program in Computer Science. Get yourself a couple of students to write the thing for you. You get good cheap help and they get paid more than the on campus jobs plus the resume fodder never hurts.
2 cents,
Queen B
Seriously, a lot of that stuff is run by automated processes. I know a few guys that got real world rich of UO and EQ in that very manner. The trick is to make it so that it requires interaction with a live human or two or more in order to craft some of these high powered items. I know of several smaller privately run RPG game servers that have serious crafting components for those that choose to do so. You can also restrict raw materials. For example, if you want to make leather armor, it takes 10 hides. Now, you can't just walk over to another merchant and get 10 hides. You'll have to get them from a player who's been out hunting and who has the "skin animal" skill. He might only have one or two. You may end up having to buy hides from 7 or 8 people just to have the skins you need. Now you need metal too... You get the idea.
You can stop the farmers if you design it properly from the get go.... Maybe not completely but at least keep it down to a dull roar.
2 cents,
Queen B
That's exactly what happens in every jury room, focus group, and committee meeting on the planet or any other place were a group of humans are expected to come to a group consensus decision.
Now you begin to see why I say focus groups and not Power Point is the bane of modern existence.
2 cents,
Queen B
Wait until mailing lists that you want to subscribe to start charging you because they have to pay to send you a email!
Mind you, I'm fairly well convinced that anyone who's paying $24.95 a month for dial up in this day and age is probably not the sharpest crayola in the box. Since you're obviously too stupid to find one of the $4.95 a month dial up services and save yourself $20, I guess you deserve to pay even more to get your email.
Come to think of it, it might work out well since the AOL users won't be cluttering up the mailing lists with stupid questions and getting offended when they get an "RTFM" reply.
2 cents,
Queen B
I wonder if this is going to have another spyware-ridden root kit in it too!
If the guys at Symantec/Norton think I'm EVER going to install/recommend ANY of their products EVER again, they're still smoking the same stuff that they were smoking when they thought that root-kitting all their customers was a good idea in the first place.
Hey Symantec - PUT THE CRACK PIPE DOWN AND BACK AWAY SLOWLY!!!!
2 cents,
Queen B
My gaming clan plays on line in several games. We don't grief the newbies but we do tend to play "in character" a bit too well for some folks liking. We play SWG as Tarkan raiders and we do exactly that. We roam about and raid. That said, we don't get particulary angry if we roll up on something that turns out to be too tough to handle. We play NWN too and tend to play as chaotic evil and the same tactics serve us well there too, much to many people's dismay. A lot of servers have some serious death penalties and we never whinge when we get whacked by them. We've been known to play the Need for Speed series as well as some similar games and I'm notorious for "nerfing". Now the flip side of that is I don't get bent when I'm one grinding the wall. Frankly I don't see why your "voice" or style of game play needs to be changed just because you swap genres of game.
2 cents,
Queen B
Ok people, here's the deal. It's not pretty and it doesn't fit in with most folks candy-coated, rose-colored view of the world.
1. There have always been mass extinctions. They predate man - we know this from the fossil records. They are caused by things like volcanoes and diseases. (Black Death, anyone?)
2. Mother nature works by extinction. The old must be cleared away to make room for the new. The dinos lost and little possum-looking thing won so here we are. The rule is adapt or die. If you die off and you were useful, something else will take over that niche.
3. Climate changes happen periodically. Ice Ages come and go. Warm periods come and go. This is part of the cycle of the planet.
4. A single volcanic eruption spews way more crap into the atmosphere in the matter of minutes than every can of hairspray with hydrocarbon propellant. It spews more than every single car on the planet.
2 cents,
Queen B
You want to know why a billion people don't have freedom? I suggest that you read what happened to some students that started protesting for more food, better housing and better teachers at their universities.
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Frail humans on foot don't stand much of a chance against tanks...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiananmen_Square_pro
Sadly, because I've mentioned Tiananmen Square here, we'll be blocked by Google from all of China. Except for the people who were there and saw what happened, this is one of the filters that their goverment applies. They don't want their people to know that they slaughtered thousands of their own students because they asked for more food, and housing that was warm in the winter and had roofs that didn't leak.
Last time I checked, food and shelter are basic human needs. Without them people become desperate becasue their day-to-day survival is threatened.
2 cents,
Queen B
First off, any girl who likes math and science isn't likely to be watching a soap opera. I clearly recall my high school years and none of us was ever a "soap ho". In fact, we made fun of the "soap hos". Once you come to the realization that there's more to life than hairspray, make-up, and "who likes who", soaps just aren't all that interesting. I've heard a lot of people say "Oh, they're just like real life." The doublecrosses, the extravagant lifestyles, the amnesia, the tragic diseases...and that's just from one week. I have to tell you that I'd be so worn out from the plotting and deception that I'd probably welcome death from the tragic disease just to get me out of the grind.
2 cents,
Queen B
I have been boycotting all music purchases for some time now. I refuse to "feed the beast". If there were a way for me to make a paypal donation to my favorite bands, I would glady do so. Sadly, the RIAA is *NOT* *NOT* *NOT* about making money for the artists. They are about making money for the RIAA. They typically underpay the arists, even by the terms of their own contracts. They charge "ripoff" prices for a CD with 2 good songs and 12 tracks of absolute crap. Out of that, the arist is lucky if they see 5 cents of each sale.
The whole reason that the RIAA is willing to punish us is becasue they are lining their own pockets. They are not doing anything useful for the artists. There is no need for them anymore - they are dinosaurs. Too bad we don't have a meteor.
2 cents,
Queen B
Having done more than a bit of diving, I can tell you that many octopii are very curious creatures. They seem to come in two rather distinct varieties - the very shy ones that flee and the very curious that are quite willing to investigate your mask, tanks, etc. Many octopii are also very senstive to light and color. They seem to use color to communicate with each other. Depending on the type of octopii, many are quite sensitive to light, some being attracted to and some being repelled by it.
I'm also betting that these folks had all their little lights blazing, all their little tools humming, and lord only know what else. I'm sure that they attracted the thing. Most people don't realize that octopii have problem-solving intelligence. (It's the one thing that makes me feel guilty about eating them. I guess if they were smarter they'd find a way not to taste so good) Anyway, because they're smart, they also investigate odd things. As fragile as they look, they are suprisingly strong. I've had an octopus not much bigger than my hand nearly pull my regulator out of my mouth. I can only imagine what 100lb octopus is capable of. Frankly, I'm a bit surprised they have sub left. I would suggest investigating to see if they can find out what they did to initiate the incident and "don't do that anymore."
2 cents,
Queen B
Dictionary.com lists the definition of humanitarian as "One who is devoted to the promotion of human welfare and the advancement of social reforms; a philanthropist."
Bill Gates, a man who has built a monoploy through intimidation and raketerring, can hardly be called a humanitarian. So what if he gives 0.1% of it back to charity? A "humanitarian" would not resort to these tactics in order to build their business.
Lest you think I have a bias for Steve Jobs, think again. Steven Jobs is well known for terrorizing his employees, his arrogance (although not entirely unfounded), as well as some other undesirable personality traits.
My personal feeling is that neither of them deserve to be mentioned with the word "humantiarian" in the same sentence. To the two of you, your big fat bank accounts cannot purchase your redemption. Salvation is not for sale. Deep down both of you know this to be true. Learn to be better people - that will truly earn you the description you seem to seek.
2 cents,
Queen B
I've been running OSX now for about 3 years. I have *NO* antivirus software. I have *NO* antispware. The really telling thing is that I also have *NO* problems! The best thing about OSX is that I just don't need any of this stuff. At this point in the game, it is completely irrelevant to me.
For all you Microsoft users who are trapped in your ActiveX hell, I feel for you. I have only one thing to say, "Free your OS and your @ss will follow!"
2 cents,
Queen B
I need Macromedia's suite, Photoshop (I love GIMP, but it just isn't the same), Illustrator. My husband is a commercial artist and he really needs Quark. Most of the other stuff I use on a regular basis has acceptable open source equivalents.
2 cents,
Queen B
We use a product called CounterSpy with a trial available here - http://www.sunbelt-software.com/CounterSpy.cfm
We use this at a universtiy on lab computers that are available to the public, as well as desktop machines , laptops, etc. So far, I'll say that we've not encountered anything we know about it hasn't handled.
2 cents,
Queen B
Given HIPAA and SOX and alot of newer legislation, I would tell you to run, no - sprint, to your legal department. Sit out and talk to the legal beagles. Have them help you draft a risk acceptance letter and outlines everything you've put in this missive. Then go to the brass and make them sign it in triplicate. Give the brass one copy, give one copy to your personal lawyer and lock one in a safety deposit box somewhere. Depending on the circumstances, anything else might leave you open for a jail term. You sure don't want that. No one wants to go to jail because of a bunch of PHB's.
Besides, when you whip out the document and tell them sign on the dotted line that says "We know it's stupid but its what we really want to do." it's absolutely amazing how fast the "you know we don't have money for that" becomes "how much budget did you need for that?" My experience has been that they ususally *do* have the money, but they don't want to spend it because it's an expense and expenses eat into their fat annual and quaterly bonuses.
2 cents,
Queen B
Well, now that they're part of Fed-Ex, perhaps the folks working the counter will get a slight raise. Lord knows that with what Fed-Ex charges to ship a package they can certainly afford to do it. Perhaps this will highlight the plight of Kinkos copy-slaves everywhere.
2 cents,
Queen B
Some twinkie-eating high school kid carried off the lowest tech "hack" ever. He's now being charged with a felony for asking for folks in a chat room to refresh his high school's home page to bring down the server.
Item 1) If the server can't stand having the home page reloaded by a chat room's worth of people, it's obviously one lame-ass server.
Item 2) What kind of morons charge a child (so he's 16- he's still a minor that makes him legally a child) with a FELONY for this.
In light of the this stupidity, I would like to encourage everyone to go this link (to the same home page) and refresh it as often as possible.
This one - http://lakelocal.oh.schoolwebpages.com/education/s chool/school.php?sectiondetailid=10 which says that they're moving their site.
ROFL!
2 cents,
Queen B