*sarcasm* You sir are management material. Developers are just replaceable parts. Any developer is the same as any other developer who gets the same pay ( better if they do the job for less ). *end sarcasm*
Layoffs are not done based soley on skill level and experience. Some good programmers will be cut with the chaff. Good people are going to get hurt. For some it may be an opportunity, for others it will be a tragedy.
New Rule: Don't judge people by their employer. There may even be some good developers at Microsoft and even *gasp* SCO. Although in the latter case, they may have been locked in a machine room for the last decade or so *wink*. Maybe the door was blocked by stacks of legal briefs and subpoenaed documents.
All joking aside. Being layed off can be one of the best and worst things to ever happen to you. Depends on your personality, personal situation, and just plain luck. I was one of the lucky ones... although I helped improve my odds with months of social networking and daily job hunting.
It is easy to spot "distinct patterns" after you know all the players and can put the pieces together in context. As they say, Hindsight is 20/20.
I have a sister over-seas. If/when she calls anyone else in the family with news/updates/etc it will generate this pattern of many domestic calls as we have a large extended family who wants to know how she and her family is doing.
This does not mean we are terrorist, even though we might fit this "pattern" of suspicious calls. I bet calls to 900 numbers are suspicious and need lots of monitoring as well.
If the pulse exists at both ends in opposite directions, you get null time trasmission. The error checking happens at the speed of the signal coming from the opposite direction.
Right now most Americans pay sewage charges to have their waste removed and processed. If anyone started converting that waste to bio-diesel Americans would probably complain that they should not have to pay to have waste remove, but be payed for it since it has value!
Greedy Americans... thank God I am one... Otherwise I would ramble on all day about them, while wishing I was one! *grin*
Having a computer at home may be as much of a detriment to some as not having one. Children growing up with them may take them for granted and not explore the many uses and possibilites. When I first went to college I did not have a computer of my own. I used to walk 2 miles to the university to use terminals in a lab. Later I got my own computer and used it, abused it, broke it, and fixed it many times over. I wouldn't trade that experience for anything.
Even though I didn't grow up with one, I had a desire to learn and did. Children need the basics like reading, writing, and simple math. Once you have these skills, the learning curve for computers is not so bad. Knowing computers for the sake of computers may be okay for some. Actually understanding some problem domain(s) outside of the computer realm and applying computers to solve actual problems and to do repetitive tasks is better.
In my opinion, a person interested in computers, even later in life, will learn more than a person who just grew up with one in the house. Knowing how to surf the web and download stuff does not make one "computer literate".
For all we know, the only thing keeping our Universe from Big Crunching -->> Big Banging into another parallel/oposite/mirror universe is global warming.
What if we had passed Kyoto and we all got crushed to death? Might be familiar to some people packed in like sardines in an Asian country, but us Americans like to stretch out.
The perfect size SUV is so big, you just get in at your house then slide the seat forward until you get to your destination! Now that would be cool... ok enough rant.
Time to do my part in fighting global warming... going to kill some poor farting cow and eat him before he CO2's up the whole environment!
Remember that even if your encryption is infallible, if you are protecting anything of value, monetary or otherwise, there is incentive the break the encryption.
It is often easier/faster to break a user than to break the encryption. How long can you stand being beaten with a rubber hose until you hand over the password? How long can you watch your significant other being beaten? How long could you stand your domain being hosted on an IIS server?
For me, well they can beat my wife a long time before I will break. But they better leave my poor little kitty cats alone!
I had a "bad" substitute teacher. The kind that tried to teach. She insisted that I had the wrong answer to a logic problem:
Fact: Susy is unhappy when it rains. Fact: Susy is happy when the sun is shining.
Given these facts, what can you say about these conclusions, if anything: Conclusion: The sun is shining. Answer: You can say that Susy is happy.
Conclusion: Susy is unhappy. Dilema: Here is where sub insisted that it must be raining because Susy was unhappy. I concluded that it might be cloudy but not raining and I just "bitchslapped" Susy into next week. Sub was not impressed with my logic.
When did there become an "overwhelming consensus" that man is causing global warming?
The temperature of the Earth is increasing. Big deal. It has happened before, and it can and will happen again.
Slashdot had an article about temperatures on Mar increasing as well... must be those damn rovers eh?
Even when the science is impartial, the interpretation is not. I am not a fan of the current administration's policies towards the release of papers and research on climate change.
We need all sides on an issue. The truth is often somewhere in the middle.
Encrypting your data in bulk is not a bad security measure. However, if the breach does not involve the mass theft of encrypted data files, but rather a break in normal access methods, the encryption does not provide any protection at all.
You still have to deal with "trusted user" abuse as well as protecting the API that allow normal decrypted access to the data.
Imagine being the systems/database admin who has to report a data loss to management. Management will have a very hard time understanding that data could be lost even though it was encrypted. Will they understand that they will be required to report this loss despite the encryption security measure?
This is similar to a firewall providing security, even though most of the ports are wide open.
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*sarcasm* You sir are management material. Developers are just replaceable parts. Any developer is the same as any other developer who gets the same pay ( better if they do the job for less ). *end sarcasm*
Layoffs are not done based soley on skill level and experience. Some good programmers will be cut with the chaff. Good people are going to get hurt. For some it may be an opportunity, for others it will be a tragedy.
New Rule: Don't judge people by their employer. There may even be some good developers at Microsoft and even *gasp* SCO. Although in the latter case, they may have been locked in a machine room for the last decade or so *wink*. Maybe the door was blocked by stacks of legal briefs and subpoenaed documents.
All joking aside. Being layed off can be one of the best and worst things to ever happen to you. Depends on your personality, personal situation, and just plain luck. I was one of the lucky ones... although I helped improve my odds with months of social networking and daily job hunting.
It is easy to spot "distinct patterns" after you know all the players and can put the pieces together in context. As they say, Hindsight is 20/20.
I have a sister over-seas. If/when she calls anyone else in the family with news/updates/etc it will generate this pattern of many domestic calls as we have a large extended family who wants to know how she and her family is doing.
This does not mean we are terrorist, even though we might fit this "pattern" of suspicious calls. I bet calls to 900 numbers are suspicious and need lots of monitoring as well.
Many ways to abuse this.
Just another manic monday... *oh hell, damn that woman and her 80's music* ... I mean Sunday, Bloody Sunday!
Is this post a replicant? Or do I have to wait for the next one?
I am pretty sure the same button inflates their "girlfriends" as well!
Questions get asked... but when it comes to women & managers... there is really one one "right" answer.
Anything else, and you are a nay-sayer or "not a team player."
Firefox and Opera can function quite nicely on plain user accounts under XP.
At least until I block ports 80/443 at the firewall and demand that they route thru the proxies.
If the pulse exists at both ends in opposite directions, you get null time trasmission. The error checking happens at the speed of the signal coming from the opposite direction.
Fascinating. \\//=
Right now most Americans pay sewage charges to have their waste removed and processed. If anyone started converting that waste to bio-diesel Americans would probably complain that they should not have to pay to have waste remove, but be payed for it since it has value!
Greedy Americans... thank God I am one... Otherwise I would ramble on all day about them, while wishing I was one! *grin*
I believe there will be too much environmental pressure from the "naturally occuring" slime that seems to accumulate and even thrive there.
Having a computer at home may be as much of a detriment to some as not having one. Children growing up with them may take them for granted and not explore the many uses and possibilites. When I first went to college I did not have a computer of my own. I used to walk 2 miles to the university to use terminals in a lab. Later I got my own computer and used it, abused it, broke it, and fixed it many times over. I wouldn't trade that experience for anything.
Even though I didn't grow up with one, I had a desire to learn and did. Children need the basics like reading, writing, and simple math. Once you have these skills, the learning curve for computers is not so bad. Knowing computers for the sake of computers may be okay for some. Actually understanding some problem domain(s) outside of the computer realm and applying computers to solve actual problems and to do repetitive tasks is better.
In my opinion, a person interested in computers, even later in life, will learn more than a person who just grew up with one in the house. Knowing how to surf the web and download stuff does not make one "computer literate".
God created Mexican food first. That caused the BIG BANG!
God invented Mexican food first... that caused the BIG BANG!
For all we know, the only thing keeping our Universe from Big Crunching -->> Big Banging into another parallel/oposite/mirror universe is global warming.
What if we had passed Kyoto and we all got crushed to death? Might be familiar to some people packed in like sardines in an Asian country, but us Americans like to stretch out.
The perfect size SUV is so big, you just get in at your house then slide the seat forward until you get to your destination! Now that would be cool... ok enough rant.
Time to do my part in fighting global warming... going to kill some poor farting cow and eat him before he CO2's up the whole environment!
Remember that even if your encryption is infallible, if you are protecting anything of value, monetary or otherwise, there is incentive the break the encryption.
It is often easier/faster to break a user than to break the encryption. How long can you stand being beaten with a rubber hose until you hand over the password? How long can you watch your significant other being beaten? How long could you stand your domain being hosted on an IIS server?
For me, well they can beat my wife a long time before I will break. But they better leave my poor little kitty cats alone!
I had a "bad" substitute teacher. The kind that tried to teach. She insisted that I had the wrong answer to a logic problem:
Fact: Susy is unhappy when it rains.
Fact: Susy is happy when the sun is shining.
Given these facts, what can you say about these conclusions, if anything:
Conclusion: The sun is shining. Answer: You can say that Susy is happy.
Conclusion: Susy is unhappy. Dilema: Here is where sub insisted that it must be raining because Susy was unhappy. I concluded that it might be cloudy but not raining and I just "bitchslapped" Susy into next week. Sub was not impressed with my logic.
Just for the record, A-->B does not mean B-->A
... oh hell you mean in real life... with a real woman!
There is no place like slashdot...There is no place like slashdot
Let's get back to stuff that matters, not stuff that will never happen!
Don't worry about that...
:(
Thats the challange I guess...
With great spelling like this straight from the Taco himself, it will always have taht "Old Slashdot Feel"!
Oh, the answer is "Lonely, so very lonely." The question? How I will feel after I am no longer allowed on Slashdot.?
If software can fix user error with software, why doesn't the original software "fix" the potential for error. It is obviously possible, so why not?
They are everything you say... well mostly. And they have OpenSSH to support!
You ever been e-mailed with a message to e-mail to someone else with no changes?
Yeah, they will run the searches and print out the results in a pretty format. Same as always.
The government should mandate that all new credit cards be made on these Biodesiel pumps...
Most people have a "BIG STACK" of them anyway.
Me, well no I use my debit card. I have $0 in credit card debt. Oh and my credit rating is damn good!
When did there become an "overwhelming consensus" that man is causing global warming?
The temperature of the Earth is increasing. Big deal. It has happened before, and it can and will happen again.
Slashdot had an article about temperatures on Mar increasing as well... must be those damn rovers eh?
Even when the science is impartial, the interpretation is not. I am not a fan of the current administration's policies towards the release of papers and research on climate change.
We need all sides on an issue. The truth is often somewhere in the middle.
Encrypting your data in bulk is not a bad security measure. However, if the breach does not involve the mass theft of encrypted data files, but rather a break in normal access methods, the encryption does not provide any protection at all.
You still have to deal with "trusted user" abuse as well as protecting the API that allow normal decrypted access to the data.
Imagine being the systems/database admin who has to report a data loss to management.
Management will have a very hard time understanding that data could be lost even though it was encrypted. Will they understand that they will be required to report this loss despite the encryption security measure?
This is similar to a firewall providing security, even though most of the ports are wide open.
Uh oh, I feel a Patent Lawsuit coming on!...
Immersion Corporation don't let anyone vibrate without first paying the piper!
Just ask Sony about that!See Legal section.