"The relative innocence and stable period of the last 50 years may spiral into a nearly inevitable exposure to real chaos. What if it isn't haphazard testosterone driven riots, where they cannibalize their own neighborhood, much like in L.A. in the 80s, but someone with real insight behind that criminal energy ? What if Slashdotters start musing aloud about "Gee, the L.A. water supply is rather simplistic, isn't it?" An Open Source crime web, a Wiki for real WTO opposition ? Hacking L.A. may be a lot easier than hacking IE."
and as good a developer or QA engineer they may be, they are not the ones accountable for the systems. at the end of the day, I, and only I am accountable for building and maintaining good systems.
You are going to get a bunch of responses. most of them from people that will say something like.. "NO." "NOBODY GETS ROOT, PERIOD".
Well, in an ideal world, it would be that way. We would setup systems for people to use and they could just use them without root privledge. Unfortunatley we know that isn't possible if you want your users to actually be productive and get things done.
I work for a large software company. Trust me you'd know the name of it if I could tell you. We use linux on the desktop, as well as the servers. We also have some Microsoft servers that are either for legacy purposes (havent been updated yet) or for testing applications against MS environments. Anyway...
All my users have laptops with Linux on it. They all have the root password to their individual laptops. Many of the also have a server at their desk for their own testing purposes. They have root to that.
However, the "real" servers that are accessed by someone that isn't themselves, the users do not get the root password, ever.
I look at it this way. If you bomb your laptop or your test server, either you can fix it, or you can call me and I'll walk you through fixing it, fix it, or just give you a new clean configuration.
If you bomb my server, I'm going to make sure you never have access to anything, ever.
I'm not sure I understand the logistics of it either - but that was the way it was at my last company as well. You pay for office and every other Microsoft product EVERY YEAR. I always would argue with my bosses that we already paid for the license, why should we pay again? But that type of logic was lost on them. They just did what MS told them to do.
My current job, we use Open Office for everything, and avoid Microsoft Products like the plague.
What can this strange device be? When I touch it, it brings forth a sound It's got wires that vibrate, and give music. What can this thing be that I've found?
I'm not sure of the law in the US - but It may be the same. The thing is, they have not "concluded the contract" yet - but they make you do all the legwork, and take your credit card. You get to see the final price before "confriming" the order, but at that point, you've already done the work, they have your email address for spamming, and what not..
Heh, that after rebate crap is actually illegal in my state, and we found a website that was based out of this state offering up computers for "free" after rebate. of course you had to buy so many other things to get the rebate - but a quick letter from the attorney general had free computers delivered to the doors of 15 of my friends.. haha.
(and I hope some online vendors take note of this)
If I can't get the shipping price BEFORE I put in my Name and Credit card - I take my business elsewhere. Alot of these places put a low price out to get high on the search engines, and then have like $30 for shipping, which of course you can only see AFTER you put in all your shipping address and credit card, mothers maiden name and favorite pet, at which point I bet they figure either people won't notice, or will feel that they already did all that work they might as well just pay it.
So, bottom line for me : No shipping price ahead of time, No Business from me.
Interesting thought to ponder and discuss.
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Lake spotted on Titan?
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So we are sending all these probes.. Mars and Titan for example.
What if one of them returned images of cities, or villages, either deserted or actively inhabited. - What do you think would happen? Would there be a giant cover up? Or maybe a giant newsflash? Would those responsible for the probe just publically "forget" that they ever sent a probe there?
Answer the phone. In well spoken and understood english (or whatever the native language is for the region that the hardware was sold)
Respect the fact that I am an experienced system administrator, and I don't need to be told to reboot the machine. Granted, there are people that need to be told that - those customers should be given a different number.
Get me on and off the phone quickly. I'm busy. If you can't get to me right away - thats fine, but maybe you could call me back or even send me an email or IM when you are ready to deal with me.
"You have 20,000,000 credits, which is enough to purchase 3 songs, but only from this list of one hit wonder bands, from their albums that did not contain said hit."
As long as the prices are low (i'm sure they won't be) and the credits earned for sharing the file are fair, then this sounds like a reasonable compromise.
We get music, legally, and affordably (hopefully). We also have the opportunity to earn credits for using our bandwidth.
They get money, which is all they really want anyway.
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KAI KRAUSE
"The relative innocence and stable period of the last 50 years may spiral into a nearly inevitable exposure to real chaos. What if it isn't haphazard testosterone driven riots, where they cannibalize their own neighborhood, much like in L.A. in the 80s, but someone with real insight behind that criminal energy ? What if Slashdotters start musing aloud about "Gee, the L.A. water supply is rather simplistic, isn't it?" An Open Source crime web, a Wiki for real WTO opposition ? Hacking L.A. may be a lot easier than hacking IE."
and as good a developer or QA engineer they may be, they are not the ones accountable for the systems. at the end of the day, I, and only I am accountable for building and maintaining good systems.
You are going to get a bunch of responses. most of them from people that will say something like.. "NO." "NOBODY GETS ROOT, PERIOD".
Well, in an ideal world, it would be that way. We would setup systems for people to use and they could just use them without root privledge. Unfortunatley we know that isn't possible if you want your users to actually be productive and get things done.
I work for a large software company. Trust me you'd know the name of it if I could tell you. We use linux on the desktop, as well as the servers. We also have some Microsoft servers that are either for legacy purposes (havent been updated yet) or for testing applications against MS environments. Anyway...
All my users have laptops with Linux on it. They all have the root password to their individual laptops. Many of the also have a server at their desk for their own testing purposes. They have root to that.
However, the "real" servers that are accessed by someone that isn't themselves, the users do not get the root password, ever.
I look at it this way. If you bomb your laptop or your test server, either you can fix it, or you can call me and I'll walk you through fixing it, fix it, or just give you a new clean configuration.
If you bomb my server, I'm going to make sure you never have access to anything, ever.
or here
Dear NSA:
RTFM.
I'm not sure I understand the logistics of it either - but that was the way it was at my last company as well. You pay for office and every other Microsoft product EVERY YEAR. I always would argue with my bosses that we already paid for the license, why should we pay again? But that type of logic was lost on them. They just did what MS told them to do.
My current job, we use Open Office for everything, and avoid Microsoft Products like the plague.
Just goes to show that there is indeed a good use for everything.
the album in question is a country album. almost the exact opposite of rap.
you must first convert to spacequest Buckazoids
they have that too.. you call a phone number and a customer service rep reads you the source code, line by line.
probably because most of the passwords were
"password"
"(name of hotel)"
etc.
This is as bad as blaming Gun manufacturers for murders, and blaming McDonalds because you are fat.
What can this strange device be?
When I touch it, it brings forth a sound
It's got wires that vibrate, and give music.
What can this thing be that I've found?
nicely done.
yes, as many reputable online vendors do it.
I'm not sure of the law in the US - but It may be the same. The thing is, they have not "concluded the contract" yet - but they make you do all the legwork, and take your credit card. You get to see the final price before "confriming" the order, but at that point, you've already done the work, they have your email address for spamming, and what not..
connecticut
Heh, that after rebate crap is actually illegal in my state, and we found a website that was based out of this state offering up computers for "free" after rebate. of course you had to buy so many other things to get the rebate - but a quick letter from the attorney general had free computers delivered to the doors of 15 of my friends.. haha.
I like to use froogle to find the prices.. BUT:
(and I hope some online vendors take note of this)
If I can't get the shipping price BEFORE I put in my Name and Credit card - I take my business elsewhere. Alot of these places put a low price out to get high on the search engines, and then have like $30 for shipping, which of course you can only see AFTER you put in all your shipping address and credit card, mothers maiden name and favorite pet, at which point I bet they figure either people won't notice, or will feel that they already did all that work they might as well just pay it.
So, bottom line for me : No shipping price ahead of time, No Business from me.
So we are sending all these probes.. Mars and Titan for example.
What if one of them returned images of cities, or villages, either deserted or actively inhabited. - What do you think would happen? Would there be a giant cover up? Or maybe a giant newsflash? Would those responsible for the probe just publically "forget" that they ever sent a probe there?
I expect my vendors to:
Answer the phone. In well spoken and understood english (or whatever the native language is for the region that the hardware was sold)
Respect the fact that I am an experienced system administrator, and I don't need to be told to reboot the machine. Granted, there are people that need to be told that - those customers should be given a different number.
Get me on and off the phone quickly. I'm busy. If you can't get to me right away - thats fine, but maybe you could call me back or even send me an email or IM when you are ready to deal with me.
more like..
"You have 20,000,000 credits, which is enough to purchase 3 songs, but only from this list of one hit wonder bands, from their albums that did not contain said hit."
As long as the prices are low (i'm sure they won't be) and the credits earned for sharing the file are fair, then this sounds like a reasonable compromise.
We get music, legally, and affordably (hopefully). We also have the opportunity to earn credits for using our bandwidth.
They get money, which is all they really want anyway.
I absoultely agree with you.
In North Korea, only old hackers rival the CIA.