I read a study somewhere(can't find it at the moment), that studied just what you said. It stated that talking to someone in the car also is aware of the environment. If a car starts to turn into you, that person will obviously stop talking where someone on the other end of a cell phone will not realize what it happening.
Also, the study took into a effect that more traffic can actually be safe at times. Once the repeition of your drive gets ingrained, if there isn't anything to keep you alert, people tend to "autopilot".
In this particular case, yes we need double standards. Have you seen what the Chinese do to their own people? I don't want to think what would go through their mind with the capability to screw with anyone in the world.
That is a crap argument. If "Jim" or anyone else had half a clue, maybe they would realize the penalty for driving drunk, they wouldn't do it.
And if they do it anyway? I don't see any problem making them use public transportation or taxi for all I care, for using such stupid judgement.
In the US so much money has been spent on telling people not to drink and drive. If you can't get it through your head by now, you are too dumb to drive anyway.
Chances are it's joe cablemodem user
with his Win2k server
I think you are trolling here with that comment, but I'll respond anyway. Win2K DNS has a simple check box that makes the PTR record for you. I'd bet $20 that most of incorrectly set up DNS machines are people running old versions of BIND.
"The Patriot Act has been an extremely useful tool, a demonstrated success, and we don't want that to expire on us," a senior department official said on condition of anonymity.
What? You don't want your name attached with the fact you are happy about spying on people. Shocker.
Look at what search engine is default on most Windows PCs today. MSN.com And Google still beats it. MS is forced to make a superior product this time and I don't see it happening.
This would not be a problem if the law concerning H1Bs was enforced. If these people were paid comparible wages, then companies would need a legitimate reason for bringing them in.
ASP forces us to use IIS. I'm not bothered by that. Use the tools MS gives you!
URLscan along with the IIS lockdown, keep me from worrying about much of anything. Only a hack to the ASP ISAPI would get me worried. Do I wish that these tools were incorporated into IIS to begin with? Yes, but you can only bitch for so long before you look stupid for not locking it down yourself.
To be honest, I didn't expect it to work for me. I had almost resigned myself to working with this new piece of software.
I knew our president used our mainframe just like everyone else, so I asked him to help compare the two. That is what I've done in the past. Try and get the person(s) using the new product along side their current product. Even most bone-headed people will complain if it doesn't work. Granted you can't do that for everything, but it works in some cases.
The problem is when those who decide on things like that, don't use them. Like a Sales VP who never uses the companies CRM product so he doesn't know it sucks.
We are running an older mainframe app through terminals emulators. The company who makes it announced a new GUI-based app that used a different database structure and everything.
I told anyone who listened this was a bad idea. Before I knew it, our president forked over $40,000 as a down payment. I begged that we run it in-house parallel for a couple months to see how it worked. It sucked it big time. The GUI was awful, the database didn't make any sense and we would have had to customize the hell out of it.
Honestly, I don't get the extreme opinions regarding this. This is slashdot. News for nerds. Not news for open source.
There are plently of people here who use MS products. I'd bet the vast majority surfing this site are running IE on some flavor of windows.
Sounds like you've picked some cherry companies
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Aparently you have done a pretty good job, finding companies with fat budgets and no politics.
Seriously, I don't get the money to buy redundent Cisco routers. I don't get to buy extra switches and motherboards.
And the little internal web addy, that has been in place for 2 years? Some tool of a manager who is having a hissy fit, just walked into my office and asked why I haven't fixed his problem that he never told anyone about.
Please......
Whenever you are dealing with people who have almost as many deadlines as you do are involved. Things are never that easy.
Now where I will agree with you are scripts. Learn them. Use them. Love them. But do you have an IDS system? Who verfiys those alerts? Who checks your server logs for descrepencies? Admining is rarely easy.
Funny, I don't recall this talk when the market favored IT workers. Nearly everyone here was, "sticking it the man" and finding different employement every 6-12 months. Now times have changed and everyone wants protection. Companies don't owe you protection any more than you owed your employer when the market was good.
How hard is it to tell them, if you don't have the cash then you don't get to play? Fine, so the US pay for the Russian share. Next time Russia wants to send up some people for tests, then we charge them $500,000.
Actually this is more common then you would think. Our company does it and at first I thought, it was really stupid, but talking to our CFO, it made some sense. I'm not knowledgable enough in it to explain it here, but it allows our accounting dept to be more flexible in what gets leased and what doesn't. Plus we probably give ourselves good rates.
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yes, I read the article
Also, the study took into a effect that more traffic can actually be safe at times. Once the repeition of your drive gets ingrained, if there isn't anything to keep you alert, people tend to "autopilot".
Actually what the army and consquentially the government needs is a fricking Pause button.
In this particular case, yes we need double standards. Have you seen what the Chinese do to their own people? I don't want to think what would go through their mind with the capability to screw with anyone in the world.
Motient offered unlimited data for the RIM devices too. It didn't last very long. They soon went to metered access. Sprint will too, you watch.
And if they do it anyway? I don't see any problem making them use public transportation or taxi for all I care, for using such stupid judgement.
In the US so much money has been spent on telling people not to drink and drive. If you can't get it through your head by now, you are too dumb to drive anyway.
What are you talking about? Worldcom and Enron were awesome at it.
I think you are trolling here with that comment, but I'll respond anyway. Win2K DNS has a simple check box that makes the PTR record for you. I'd bet $20 that most of incorrectly set up DNS machines are people running old versions of BIND.
What? You don't want your name attached with the fact you are happy about spying on people. Shocker.
Look at what search engine is default on most Windows PCs today. MSN.com And Google still beats it. MS is forced to make a superior product this time and I don't see it happening.
This would not be a problem if the law concerning H1Bs was enforced. If these people were paid comparible wages, then companies would need a legitimate reason for bringing them in.
URLscan along with the IIS lockdown, keep me from worrying about much of anything. Only a hack to the ASP ISAPI would get me worried. Do I wish that these tools were incorporated into IIS to begin with? Yes, but you can only bitch for so long before you look stupid for not locking it down yourself.
I knew our president used our mainframe just like everyone else, so I asked him to help compare the two. That is what I've done in the past. Try and get the person(s) using the new product along side their current product. Even most bone-headed people will complain if it doesn't work. Granted you can't do that for everything, but it works in some cases.
The problem is when those who decide on things like that, don't use them. Like a Sales VP who never uses the companies CRM product so he doesn't know it sucks.
I told anyone who listened this was a bad idea. Before I knew it, our president forked over $40,000 as a down payment. I begged that we run it in-house parallel for a couple months to see how it worked. It sucked it big time. The GUI was awful, the database didn't make any sense and we would have had to customize the hell out of it.
In the end our president asked for our 40K back.
I was doing this years ago in high school.
What's he going to do? Wait for the stock market to go back up and merge with Canada?
There are plently of people here who use MS products. I'd bet the vast majority surfing this site are running IE on some flavor of windows.
Seriously, I don't get the money to buy redundent Cisco routers. I don't get to buy extra switches and motherboards.
And the little internal web addy, that has been in place for 2 years? Some tool of a manager who is having a hissy fit, just walked into my office and asked why I haven't fixed his problem that he never told anyone about.
Please......
Whenever you are dealing with people who have almost as many deadlines as you do are involved. Things are never that easy.
Now where I will agree with you are scripts. Learn them. Use them. Love them. But do you have an IDS system? Who verfiys those alerts? Who checks your server logs for descrepencies? Admining is rarely easy.
Funny, I don't recall this talk when the market favored IT workers. Nearly everyone here was, "sticking it the man" and finding different employement every 6-12 months. Now times have changed and everyone wants protection. Companies don't owe you protection any more than you owed your employer when the market was good.
Simple fact. Unions promote complacency.
How hard is it to tell them, if you don't have the cash then you don't get to play? Fine, so the US pay for the Russian share. Next time Russia wants to send up some people for tests, then we charge them $500,000.
Assuming the site won't use a referer check. If they do, the site could just you dump back to the test site.
Did you ever get to help pick out the non-essential personal that would inevitably die on each episode?
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I'd love to get one but.....
Actually this is more common then you would think. Our company does it and at first I thought, it was really stupid, but talking to our CFO, it made some sense. I'm not knowledgable enough in it to explain it here, but it allows our accounting dept to be more flexible in what gets leased and what doesn't. Plus we probably give ourselves good rates.
does it have copy protection on it?