these big IT consulting firms are only as good as the clowns they put on your project. In my career so far, i've been involved in 3 major projects involving "Big 5" consultants. Often, you get graduates with little experience under their belt.
Their answer to this is that their employees are able to draw on a vast and global pool of knowledge.
For those that can't tear themselves away from IE, and also don't want to run local proxy servers to strip "pop-up" code, you can use Internet Explorer's "Security Zones" to selectively enable JavaScript only on sites you authorise.
Start by making "Internet" and "Trusted Sites" have the same level ("Medium" is the default for Internet"). Then, in the "Internet" zone, turn off Active Scripting.
Any site that you want to allow JavaScript, add to your Trusted Sites. Voila!
The UK's utility companies use just as underhand tactics to get consumers to move their account to them:( One company in particular recently made a completely unrelated offer (nothing to do with Gas or Electricity), but hidden in the small print was a clause that said along the lines of "in signing up to this offer, I agree to move my Electricity supply contract to XXXXXXX".
Home contents insurance companies send out extremely official looking documents that take on the appearance of a renewal notice, even though it's actually just junk mail.
I've received a few of these, and anybody even just slightly off the ball (hangover?) could be duped into signing the form and sending it back.
If it weren't for the libel risk, i'd love to start a website that named and shamed companies using these sort of trick tactics.
Look, journalists, just because something can be remotely controlled does not mean that it can be remotely controlled to such an extent that catastrophic damage can be done.
As an example, take the remote operation of water treatment plants. Sure, you can remotely control the amount of chlorine that is added to the water - the utility companies do this all the time.
But just because the amount can be remotely controlled does not mean that ANY amount of chlorine can be added to the water. The maximum amount is physically restricted to be within safe limits, so even the worlds most 31337 H@X0R won't be able to poison us all.
Traffic lights. Yes, you can remotely control traffic lights. No, you CAN NOT remotely control traffic lights to go green in all directions.
On behalf of systems engineers everywhere. Boss, Pointy Haired.
Next time you're bored, go into Radio Shack or whatever and express interest in something expensive.
Get really excited, and finally say you'll buy it. The sales droid will then start on the extended warranty script. One of the favourite lines is "Modern electrical equipment is very complicated and can go wrong..."
When they say this, tell them that the shop next door is selling the same thing, but not such a complicated one and theirs doesn't break down. Then walk out of the shop.
I've never run any kind of virus checking and in nearly 12 years all I suffered was a small outbreak of FORM whilst at Uni a few years ago.
I download all sorts of things, but I always think before I click. I look at the URL's, check I'm not being redirected - stuff like that, and simply don't bother running those Christmas Card.exe things that get sent about.
NETOP: Slight problem, the guy that knows the router config to stop it working left, he was made redundant last week.
PHB: Ah, can't we just switch them off?
NETOP: No can do cap'n, no remote power off for security reasons.
PHB: So we need somebody to go out to site and switch all the routers off?
NETOP: That's what i'm telling you captain. These CISCO's just work so well, and without the guy who knows how to configure them to stop working we can't shut the network down.
PHB: OK, how many sites is that?
NETOP: About 23,239
PHB: Ok, get onto field maintenance.
NETOP: Slight problem, they were all made redundant last week.
A few years ago, a cow-orker insisted that he was not at all influenced by advertising. He was a loyal football fan, and followed a Premiership club avidly - going to many home games and watching all Premiership football highlights on TV.
He owned a Sony Playstation, Drank Carling lager, and regularly ate at McDonalds.
And the three main sponsors of the FA Carling Premiership that year were....?
If the previous poster is correct, and this Telesync doesn't even come up to 'crap' standard, what are the chances that it's someone posing as a journalist who sat in the front row with his laptop with built in camera.
(new word: cumulassumptive - the accumulation of assumptions) has always bugged me as far as theoretical science is concerned, but I guess there's no other way really.
You start off with some idea/theory, which probably has an error in it. This idea is then extended, incorporating not only its own errors but also those upon which it was based. So on, so forth.
We all know that the performance of two developers, all other things being equal (education, qualification, experience etc.) can vary enormously. Some people claim this can be as much as a factor of 10.
How does XP / Pair Programming cope with two developers who are at opposite ends of this scale, or do you have to be pretty evenly matched in ability?
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these big IT consulting firms are only as good as the clowns they put on your project. In my career so far, i've been involved in 3 major projects involving "Big 5" consultants. Often, you get graduates with little experience under their belt.
Their answer to this is that their employees are able to draw on a vast and global pool of knowledge.
I think that's bollocks.
The trick involves first setting both "Internet" and "Trusted Zones" to the same security level - that normally associated with "Internet".
For those that can't tear themselves away from IE, and also don't want to run local proxy servers to strip "pop-up" code, you can use Internet Explorer's "Security Zones" to selectively enable JavaScript only on sites you authorise.
Start by making "Internet" and "Trusted Sites" have the same level ("Medium" is the default for Internet"). Then, in the "Internet" zone, turn off Active Scripting.
Any site that you want to allow JavaScript, add to your Trusted Sites. Voila!
PHB.
The UK's utility companies use just as underhand tactics to get consumers to move their account to them :( One company in particular recently made a completely unrelated offer (nothing to do with Gas or Electricity), but hidden in the small print was a clause that said along the lines of "in signing up to this offer, I agree to move my Electricity supply contract to XXXXXXX".
Home contents insurance companies send out extremely official looking documents that take on the appearance of a renewal notice, even though it's actually just junk mail.
I've received a few of these, and anybody even just slightly off the ball (hangover?) could be duped into signing the form and sending it back.
If it weren't for the libel risk, i'd love to start a website that named and shamed companies using these sort of trick tactics.
I really don't get it, either.
Please - can someone explain what the problem is?
And yes, i've read the letter. Still don't get it.
at least getting laid on Jan 31st, 2019 should be reasonably easy.
Look, journalists, just because something can be remotely controlled does not mean that it can be remotely controlled to such an extent that catastrophic damage can be done.
As an example, take the remote operation of water treatment plants. Sure, you can remotely control the amount of chlorine that is added to the water - the utility companies do this all the time.
But just because the amount can be remotely controlled does not mean that ANY amount of chlorine can be added to the water. The maximum amount is physically restricted to be within safe limits, so even the worlds most 31337 H@X0R won't be able to poison us all.
Traffic lights. Yes, you can remotely control traffic lights. No, you CAN NOT remotely control traffic lights to go green in all directions.
On behalf of systems engineers everywhere.
Boss, Pointy Haired.
Patent #233823923
Method and apparatus for allowing disaster recovery from loss of a file by storing it in two places at once.
if the civilisation is less advanced than us, then they can't.
or
if the civilisation is more advanced than us, then they have nothing to gain.
I think.
In the same way that me bumping into you in a crowded street by accident does not constitute an assault, whereas me hitting you does.
How hard I hit you is kind of irrelevant, but is of course a factor in assigning punishment.
Next time you're bored, go into Radio Shack or whatever and express interest in something expensive.
Get really excited, and finally say you'll buy it. The sales droid will then start on the extended warranty script. One of the favourite lines is "Modern electrical equipment is very complicated and can go wrong..."
When they say this, tell them that the shop next door is selling the same thing, but not such a complicated one and theirs doesn't break down. Then walk out of the shop.
:o)
I've never run any kind of virus checking and in nearly 12 years all I suffered was a small outbreak of FORM whilst at Uni a few years ago.
.exe things that get sent about.
I download all sorts of things, but I always think before I click. I look at the URL's, check I'm not being redirected - stuff like that, and simply don't bother running those Christmas Card
PHB: That's it, money gone, shut down the ebone.
NETOP: Right on cap'n, shutting down ebone now...
PHB: Thank you.
NETOP: Slight problem, the guy that knows the router config to stop it working left, he was made redundant last week.
PHB: Ah, can't we just switch them off?
NETOP: No can do cap'n, no remote power off for security reasons.
PHB: So we need somebody to go out to site and switch all the routers off?
NETOP: That's what i'm telling you captain. These CISCO's just work so well, and without the guy who knows how to configure them to stop working we can't shut the network down.
PHB: OK, how many sites is that?
NETOP: About 23,239
PHB: Ok, get onto field maintenance.
NETOP: Slight problem, they were all made redundant last week.
PHB: Anyone fancy a pint?
_THIS_ is the kind of thing you should be awarding patents for.
Not 'for' loops.
...that zoomed in on a globe (Planet Earth)
:)
:(
...then zoomed in on a country
...then zoomed in on a hill
...then zoomed in on a house
...then zoomed in on a window on the house
...then zoomed in on desk inside the window
...then zoomed in on a globe on the desk
...and then started all over again, with the globe of course being Planet Earth where the animation had started.
I've always thought it would make a cool screen saver but I can't find it anywhere
http://195.158.250.186/ebonelive1.asx
You can see the problem, none of them are wearing shirts and ties. If they were wearing shirts and ties none of this would have happened.
I'm being more serious than you might think.
If you're going to have a fully roaming office where people work at any computer that happens to be convenient then you need:
Computers dedicated for people with normal skin
Computers dedicated for people with greasy skin
Computers dedicated for women with hand cream addiction
How on earth do you "opt-in" for something that you don't know exists?
claim that they're not influenced by advertising.
A few years ago, a cow-orker insisted that he was not at all influenced by advertising. He was a loyal football fan, and followed a Premiership club avidly - going to many home games and watching all Premiership football highlights on TV.
He owned a Sony Playstation, Drank Carling lager, and regularly ate at McDonalds.
And the three main sponsors of the FA Carling Premiership that year were....?
I'm serious. They're desperately trying to come up with a way of making money that isn't going to completely alienate their users.
They're clutching at all sorts of straws - google answers for example.
The _content_ of FAQs are as copyrightable as anything else.
The question "Can an FAQ be copyrightable?" is just completely meaningless and wrong.
It's like asking "Can I transfer my car from my home to the mall over HTTP?"
Just stop paying them.
If the previous poster is correct, and this Telesync doesn't even come up to 'crap' standard, what are the chances that it's someone posing as a journalist who sat in the front row with his laptop with built in camera.
(new word: cumulassumptive - the accumulation of assumptions) has always bugged me as far as theoretical science is concerned, but I guess there's no other way really.
You start off with some idea/theory, which probably has an error in it. This idea is then extended, incorporating not only its own errors but also those upon which it was based. So on, so forth.
I think.
We all know that the performance of two developers, all other things being equal (education, qualification, experience etc.) can vary enormously. Some people claim this can be as much as a factor of 10.
How does XP / Pair Programming cope with two developers who are at opposite ends of this scale, or do you have to be pretty evenly matched in ability?