Two identical applicants, except one is an expert in OO and the other in MS Office and the company uses MS Office, which candidate do you think they will select?
I'd take the object oriented candidate over a MS Office user any day.
It is a Windows issue, but it is not a Windows-only issue. With XP, by default, the first user you create has admin rights. That's clearly bad. Even still, most people leave it alone and, for all intents and purposes, stay logged in as root all day long doing whatever it is they do. These people should log out as often as possible, whether or not the machine is in use.
Even for a restricted user, logging out when the machine is not in use is good practice. Any process left running in the background, even with restricted credentials, can be dangerous. Probably not to the entire system, but certainly to that user's data. I don't think this idea is at all limited to Windows.
How is logging off of their computer when it's not in use going to help them?
Logging off prevents unauthorized background processes (though, not services) from running with their user credentials when they are not at the machine. If said credentials include admin rights to the machine, the added security of logging off is huge. It's no different than choosing whether or not to leave the vault door open when you leave the bank.
You make an excellent point:
What's their motivation to learn this stuff? Their kid is already taking care of everything for them.
There really is no motivation in this case. However, that may not be such a bad thing. If the "family IT guy" sets up a safe sandbox for everyone to play in (i.e., restricted user accounts), they don't really need to learn or understand system security. Couple that with regular, off-machine backups, and you have a family of blissfully (and, perhaps, justifiably) ignorant users. If they don't want to come out of the dark, you can't force them, and if you want to keep familial relationships as smooth as possible, you pick up the slack.
Bullshit? Exit polls have historically had a margin of error anywhere from 1-3%, with a slight increase, on average, in the last decade or so. Look it up (or don't, and remain a partisan ignoramus).
Conclusion- Many democrats are not truthful upon exiting the voting booth since they are obviously voting for Independents or Republicans
So that discounts the approximately 50,000 Iraqi civilians that have been killed since we invaded?* Does that discount our usage of white phosphorous in Fallujah? First they said it was for "illumination purposes". Then it was for offensive use, but only against "enemies". Then the documentaries came out, showing what our media would not or could not report: that we melted innocent people that day. And not just a couple.
After over three years have come and gone, with the situation getting progressively worse, the casualty rate increasing, civil war too blatantly obvious to be denied any longer, how could you possibly call it anything but genocide? What do you call it? A tragedy, an unfortunate thing... maybe a comma in history?
In any case, I'll answer your question. For one, I never said the intention was genocide. Only in the movies could anything be so cut and dry. Second, it would really depend on exactly how many they didn't let evacuate, and why.
* Suspected to be FAR higher. Of course, ask W, and it's "30,000, more or less".
Are you saying that the U.S. has forced abortions...
The Mariana Islands are a U.S. territory and widely suspected of this very thing. Google it.
wholesale cultural genocide...
Iraq. Don't even try the talking points on this one, it is well documented in this country as well as in dozens of others. Here's a starting point: White phosphorous, Fallujah.
wholesale censorship of the press and Internet...
That's already done on a corporate level in this country and has been for decades.
massive "reeducation" (read: concentration) camps
I'm going to guess that neither you nor anyone you know was a Japanese-American during WWII.
Why don't you grow up, pull your head out of your ass and stop spouting "bush=hitler" puke.
lol. You gave yourself away on that one. Before you flame someone and tell them to pull their head out of their ass, maybe you should pull yours out of the sand.
Blocking from news, by no means leaves me uninformed. I read up on old publications of local election candidates and email them with questions and critique.
What makes "old publications" more reliable than the news? "Old publications" are yesterday's news, no? That bit was a little confusing. I don't see how you could possibly consider yourself informed if this is your process.
In any case, you prefer to grill a candidate on out-dated information rather than issues that are actually current? They must grin ear-to-ear when they see you coming; you must be the ultimate soft-baller (next to Chris Matthews).:D
VS high end app? common I don't think you meant what you wrote there.
How about: Visual Studio is an ass-end app that requires a high-end machine to run.
Actually, if you change your editor settings to no longer track changes (the almost invisible green and yellow bars in the left-hand gutter that you don't pay attention to anyway) and if you disable the [mostly useless] navigation bar, VS performance almost improves. Of course, there is no fix for the mysteriously obstinate Properties dockbar that stays pinned no matter how many times you click the damned button. Don't even get me started on "Pending Checkins".
This post has made me so depressed, I think I'm going to go install Eclipse, Mono, and be done with it.
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Do a nslookup on insolitus.com. No results. Now, do a whois on it. Lots of data. See why nslookup is the wrong tool for this job?
Or did you mean command line whois?
Two identical applicants, except one is an expert in OO and the other in MS Office and the company uses MS Office, which candidate do you think they will select?
I'd take the object oriented candidate over a MS Office user any day.
In truth? All of them. Electronic voting is definitely one of those "just because you can, doesn't mean you should" kinda things.
How many hotfixes, security patches and maintenance releases did it take for IE 6 to get there?
If you knew me in real life, you'd know how far from the truth you are.
I'll take a stab
You sure you didn't mean to type 'emo2001' when you signed up?
Believe in God. Check.
Shun oss in favor of MegaEvilCorp. Check.
I guess this explains the torrent of negative and condescending comments.
Thank you, Mr. Ironic.
It is a Windows issue, but it is not a Windows-only issue. With XP, by default, the first user you create has admin rights. That's clearly bad. Even still, most people leave it alone and, for all intents and purposes, stay logged in as root all day long doing whatever it is they do. These people should log out as often as possible, whether or not the machine is in use.
Even for a restricted user, logging out when the machine is not in use is good practice. Any process left running in the background, even with restricted credentials, can be dangerous. Probably not to the entire system, but certainly to that user's data. I don't think this idea is at all limited to Windows.
Are you trying to convince them to stop using computers altogether?
How is logging off of their computer when it's not in use going to help them?
Logging off prevents unauthorized background processes (though, not services) from running with their user credentials when they are not at the machine. If said credentials include admin rights to the machine, the added security of logging off is huge. It's no different than choosing whether or not to leave the vault door open when you leave the bank.
You make an excellent point:
What's their motivation to learn this stuff? Their kid is already taking care of everything for them.
There really is no motivation in this case. However, that may not be such a bad thing. If the "family IT guy" sets up a safe sandbox for everyone to play in (i.e., restricted user accounts), they don't really need to learn or understand system security. Couple that with regular, off-machine backups, and you have a family of blissfully (and, perhaps, justifiably) ignorant users. If they don't want to come out of the dark, you can't force them, and if you want to keep familial relationships as smooth as possible, you pick up the slack.
Bullshit? Exit polls have historically had a margin of error anywhere from 1-3%, with a slight increase, on average, in the last decade or so. Look it up (or don't, and remain a partisan ignoramus).
Conclusion- Many democrats are not truthful upon exiting the voting booth since they are obviously voting for Independents or Republicans
Eh, you are lost.
So that discounts the approximately 50,000 Iraqi civilians that have been killed since we invaded?* Does that discount our usage of white phosphorous in Fallujah? First they said it was for "illumination purposes". Then it was for offensive use, but only against "enemies". Then the documentaries came out, showing what our media would not or could not report: that we melted innocent people that day. And not just a couple.
After over three years have come and gone, with the situation getting progressively worse, the casualty rate increasing, civil war too blatantly obvious to be denied any longer, how could you possibly call it anything but genocide? What do you call it? A tragedy, an unfortunate thing... maybe a comma in history?
In any case, I'll answer your question. For one, I never said the intention was genocide. Only in the movies could anything be so cut and dry. Second, it would really depend on exactly how many they didn't let evacuate, and why.
* Suspected to be FAR higher. Of course, ask W, and it's "30,000, more or less".
Are you saying that the U.S. has forced abortions...
The Mariana Islands are a U.S. territory and widely suspected of this very thing. Google it.
wholesale cultural genocide...
Iraq. Don't even try the talking points on this one, it is well documented in this country as well as in dozens of others. Here's a starting point: White phosphorous, Fallujah.
wholesale censorship of the press and Internet...
That's already done on a corporate level in this country and has been for decades.
massive "reeducation" (read: concentration) camps
I'm going to guess that neither you nor anyone you know was a Japanese-American during WWII.
Why don't you grow up, pull your head out of your ass and stop spouting "bush=hitler" puke.
lol. You gave yourself away on that one. Before you flame someone and tell them to pull their head out of their ass, maybe you should pull yours out of the sand.
What makes "old publications" more reliable than the news? "Old publications" are yesterday's news, no? That bit was a little confusing. I don't see how you could possibly consider yourself informed if this is your process.
In any case, you prefer to grill a candidate on out-dated information rather than issues that are actually current? They must grin ear-to-ear when they see you coming; you must be the ultimate soft-baller (next to Chris Matthews).
You have selective ignorance down to a science. Do you vote? If you do (as we all should), upon what do you base your decisions?
Have you seen Anna Nicole Smith recently? She already looks like herself on crystal meth.
Why not?
VS high end app? common I don't think you meant what you wrote there.
How about: Visual Studio is an ass-end app that requires a high-end machine to run.
Actually, if you change your editor settings to no longer track changes (the almost invisible green and yellow bars in the left-hand gutter that you don't pay attention to anyway) and if you disable the [mostly useless] navigation bar, VS performance almost improves. Of course, there is no fix for the mysteriously obstinate Properties dockbar that stays pinned no matter how many times you click the damned button. Don't even get me started on "Pending Checkins".
This post has made me so depressed, I think I'm going to go install Eclipse, Mono, and be done with it.
They might be lemmings.
Why are you keeping me in Guantanamo for 4 years without right to a lawyer? PATRIOT ACT.
Considering that no one actually read the Patriot Act before voting on it, there actually could be something about Gitmo in there.
old Compaq laptops...I keep in my guest rooms
:D
Sorry to go off-topic, but that is a really cool idea! I hope you get along well with your family... I know if I did that, mine would never leave.
Let's shorten that up a bit:
:)
Marketing is like rape to sex.
Or:
Marketing is always wrong.
Has a nice ring to it, that last one.
And your rant has what to do with the privacy rights of children?
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Ask for Ted.
What part of inalienable rights do you not understand? Have you read the 4th? Maybe you should read it again.