I don't get it. The thing's gotta have a mac address that can be found on a switch somewhere. That'll give you a port number and a patch cable to follow until it's found.
Nah, it's way more fun to blame the guy in prison.
Punishing somebody is only worthwhile if you think someday they'll come around and start acting in a socially acceptable way. Obviously there was no need to keep that piece of shit around.
The only thing SOX requires is that you file paperwork saying, yes, you did these things. Every year an auditor will come through but he won't even look at the system, must less the code, he makes sure your paperwork is in order.
I am wondering why these banks don't hire competent employees (or contractors) though. Some of the problems mentioned in the PDF seem very obvious to me:
Well, I work for a large bank and I can tell you, most of the people who work in this industry are borderline incompetent.
Most good IT people avoid us since banks have to deal with SOX, which was about the dumbest idea ever, and many other regulations that mean even the most trivial changes can take weeks to implement. Not a lot of incentive to go bug hunting when it'll mean filling out (and faxing!) a bunch of lame paperwork.
It once took two weeks for me to add an index to a table.
Huh? You can take my code and the closing brace will always line up with the conditional statement.
That's what people want to see anyhow, nobody cares about the brace.
Damn it, every response I make here has to be limited. I'll just say, no I don't think it was in the states but it could still happen easily. Hell, they got friggen airplanes after all. That's why there have to be secrets.
1) "The people setting policy of defending our country are more concerned about "nation building" than the security of USA or the lives of our troops, beyond the bad PR when American soldiers are killed."
I can't talk about policy or nation building. It's above my pay grade so to speak. We were talking about training and you conceded that we don't need or want close civilian oversight. I was talking about security of our people -- that was my only point. Hey, there's a reason we have a warrior culture. Heck, there's a reason civilized cultures have always set their warriors apart from the rest. They have their job, the rest of society should go about survival and building new malls or something.
What you seem to be talking about is oversight of politicians and civilians in charge of the military. Again, above my pay grade.
2) "The people doing the long term guiding of "defending the country" are only suceeding in making us more globally hated."
What's this got to do with training or comm frequencies? We're the military, the warrior culture. We operate only on orders. You learn that real quick in boot camp when you can't even piss without permission. But when that day comes that we are given a mission, we execute it the best we can. Yes, sometimes bad things happen. There are no pollsters in Iraq. There aren't any politicians on the battlefield. There aren't any Phds out there warning us about the long term effects will be. Well, maybe there are but we're just too low level to talk to. Hell, it's at best bunch of damn 20-somethings, half of whom aren't even trusted to drink yet, out there making split second decisions whether to risk their life or endure CNN's months long investigation and a courts martial. I wonder how many of those 3,000 plus dead decided they'd be better off than to endure that torture.
You civilians are the ones who elect representatives to choose those missions. But then, most people can't be bothered to vote, anyhow. And yet everywhere I go people feel the need to tell *me* how they feel about Iraq. How funny. They've just got to get it off their chest. I don't care because I don't make, influence or have permission to question policy. Hell, I'm usually only half listening anyhow. You have these rights but you're talking to the wrong people.
You want to know all I care about? Coming home alive with all of my buddies in whole pieces so we can go out drinking and complain about everybody else.
Lol. Leave the defending the country stuff to the people who know how to do it right.
Because you don't need to know. You don't need to know callsigns or military strategy. You don't need to know a unit is out there practicing with blanks and might be vulnerable to attack. You don't need to know how to call for air support, which is a skill that could be used against us if an enemy got one of our secure radios. *We* don't need to think about civilians listening in when we're trying to train. And a thousand other things.
Oh sure, it might be *way cool dude* for you to know about ops, but it's our fucking lives. If you haven't noticed, we have enough to worry about.
My guess is too big. The current NVGs suck close up. You'd better be all pro and reloading by feel (not really much of a problem considering how much trigger time we spend practicing).
I can't see a doc trying to use NVGs close up, even if they're color. The small zoom factor means it's way too difficult to, say, find something in your pack... or anything outside a half foot square at a time really. It's a rare situation when you're that close and it's not better to just lift the blasted things up.
"Now remember, gents, you won't have any depth perception and there's a big ass ditch next to the road. When you see the IR chem light be careful or you're going to lose like a million fucking cool points."
You're out of your mind. The average user may be learning some more about installing video games and downloading music on the web. But many are even less interested in programming and the actual internals of computing than generations before them, even though they've grown up with computers and are comfortable.
I think this is probably caustically related -- the computer is no longer special and no longer gets the "cool" factor it once demanded. Look at the enrollment for Computer Science degrees falling. Regardless, the need for skilled programmers is not going away.
You seem to think languages are getting easier, so easy that skilled hackers are no longer useful. That their creativity is not needed, but they are just a cog.
I'll agree that some things have gotten easier. Where in the past you might have created a massive and difficult client program, you can effectively put many things on the web. However, programming on the web has become a whole matter much more complicated than throwing up some HTML and Javascript menus if you've been struck by a creative moment.
Yes, we spend less time "noodling" C functions. But a whole lot more time integrating libraries, templates, databases. The size of the project, including 3rd party code, is huge... and always growing.
Also, the number of people in the world who are even halfway good at programming, or hell even interested in it, is small. I don't think his asking for a little 15 minute leeway in the morning or some time away from the office is a big deal, as long as the code is there.
If she really didn't want her data to be copied, she should have stuck it in a password protected directory, and she could have made her nifty copyright exclusion/contract agreement to apply after users entered the supplied passwords. No doubt. Check out the Problems viewing this website page. It says, "If you are having problems viewing this web site - it may be because we were forced to disable the copy, save and print functions on these web site pages."
Not to mention... Penguin Computing already does this.
What people want are a large computer firm to sell name brand computers with Linux, not generic boxen. (I don't know why though -- I bought my last workstation from Penguin and it friggen rocks.)
Oh, please. Web developers by definition make shiny things for users.
Now, I've done a lot of web development and it is hard. No denying it. But it's not on the same level as writing a database, say. For the web, portability means validating HTML and checking JavaScript against different browsers. A pain, yes, but not the same as trying to figure out how to port said database to Windows or writing a compiler or creating the next great computer language.
Yeah, maybe there's some arrogance here. Okay, a lot. But you're being crazy defensive. Relax. You live a better life. You can actually show somebody what you worked on and they'll understand what the hell you're talking about.
Yes, I want to engage them on my terms. That's the goal of every fight. And the case I mentioned does happen a lot. But I won't talk any more about specific strategy though, even stuff that's public knowledge.
Tell me when insurgents have won a single battle in Iraq. In every case insurgents are overrun, overpowered and out-thought. No, I'm not saying they're stupid or that the fight has been easy, but they don't engage our forces head on anymore. They'd all die and they know it.
You're crazy. The AK-47 is indeed a fine weapon, but every time somebody toting one engages our forces, they get shot/killed/blown the hell up.
You're comparing light weapons to aircraft? Rather have that, you say? How about you shoot at me and miss because your weapon, while reliable, doesn't have the accuracy to hit me from any farther than maybe 300m, 50m if you shoot like an average Iraqi. (It's reliable because of the tolerances built into the bolt mechanism but that makes it far less accurate. Marines have to qualify at 500m.)
Have fun with that while I'm calling in air support and deciding whether I want to just kill you or to drop the entire building you're in.
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Google has completely cut off other languages.
Dude, it's an embedded device. It doesn't have the room or memory to have a bunch of runtimes around for everybody's favorite languages...
I don't get it. The thing's gotta have a mac address that can be found on a switch somewhere. That'll give you a port number and a patch cable to follow until it's found.
Nah, it's way more fun to blame the guy in prison.
Shoot, we used to think being in prison would be a lot nicer than what we had.
Only two guys to a room and your own head. Color TV. No forced marches, drill, an hour for recess every day. Sounds like cake compared to what we had.
No doubt. Oorah!
Punishing somebody is only worthwhile if you think someday they'll come around and start acting in a socially acceptable way. Obviously there was no need to keep that piece of shit around.
HA!
The only thing SOX requires is that you file paperwork saying, yes, you did these things. Every year an auditor will come through but he won't even look at the system, must less the code, he makes sure your paperwork is in order.
I am wondering why these banks don't hire competent employees (or contractors) though. Some of the problems mentioned in the PDF seem very obvious to me:
Well, I work for a large bank and I can tell you, most of the people who work in this industry are borderline incompetent.
Most good IT people avoid us since banks have to deal with SOX, which was about the dumbest idea ever, and many other regulations that mean even the most trivial changes can take weeks to implement. Not a lot of incentive to go bug hunting when it'll mean filling out (and faxing!) a bunch of lame paperwork.
It once took two weeks for me to add an index to a table.
Huh? You can take my code and the closing brace will always line up with the conditional statement. That's what people want to see anyhow, nobody cares about the brace.
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Damn it, every response I make here has to be limited. I'll just say, no I don't think it was in the states but it could still happen easily. Hell, they got friggen airplanes after all. That's why there have to be secrets.
1) "The people setting policy of defending our country are more concerned about "nation building" than the security of USA or the lives of our troops, beyond the bad PR when American soldiers are killed."
I can't talk about policy or nation building. It's above my pay grade so to speak. We were talking about training and you conceded that we don't need or want close civilian oversight. I was talking about security of our people -- that was my only point. Hey, there's a reason we have a warrior culture. Heck, there's a reason civilized cultures have always set their warriors apart from the rest. They have their job, the rest of society should go about survival and building new malls or something.
What you seem to be talking about is oversight of politicians and civilians in charge of the military. Again, above my pay grade.
2) "The people doing the long term guiding of "defending the country" are only suceeding in making us more globally hated."
What's this got to do with training or comm frequencies? We're the military, the warrior culture. We operate only on orders. You learn that real quick in boot camp when you can't even piss without permission. But when that day comes that we are given a mission, we execute it the best we can. Yes, sometimes bad things happen. There are no pollsters in Iraq. There aren't any politicians on the battlefield. There aren't any Phds out there warning us about the long term effects will be. Well, maybe there are but we're just too low level to talk to. Hell, it's at best bunch of damn 20-somethings, half of whom aren't even trusted to drink yet, out there making split second decisions whether to risk their life or endure CNN's months long investigation and a courts martial. I wonder how many of those 3,000 plus dead decided they'd be better off than to endure that torture.
You civilians are the ones who elect representatives to choose those missions. But then, most people can't be bothered to vote, anyhow. And yet everywhere I go people feel the need to tell *me* how they feel about Iraq. How funny. They've just got to get it off their chest. I don't care because I don't make, influence or have permission to question policy. Hell, I'm usually only half listening anyhow. You have these rights but you're talking to the wrong people.
You want to know all I care about? Coming home alive with all of my buddies in whole pieces so we can go out drinking and complain about everybody else.
I mentioned that because it's happened. To people I know personally. Several Marines died that day.
Lol. Leave the defending the country stuff to the people who know how to do it right.
Because you don't need to know. You don't need to know callsigns or military strategy. You don't need to know a unit is out there practicing with blanks and might be vulnerable to attack. You don't need to know how to call for air support, which is a skill that could be used against us if an enemy got one of our secure radios. *We* don't need to think about civilians listening in when we're trying to train. And a thousand other things.
Oh sure, it might be *way cool dude* for you to know about ops, but it's our fucking lives. If you haven't noticed, we have enough to worry about.
How about you not be a jerk and install something who's sole purpose seems to be to make a lot of noise and annoy everybody?
Then I think we'd be good.
Sorry man, I use Firefox and NoScript. What's a popup?
Well, thank God I'm in the Marine Corps and it's diffeUYYWL!@#FF#@$VASFF@##GHJ
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My guess is too big. The current NVGs suck close up. You'd better be all pro and reloading by feel (not really much of a problem considering how much trigger time we spend practicing).
I can't see a doc trying to use NVGs close up, even if they're color. The small zoom factor means it's way too difficult to, say, find something in your pack... or anything outside a half foot square at a time really. It's a rare situation when you're that close and it's not better to just lift the blasted things up.
Which leads to funny briefs like this:
"Now remember, gents, you won't have any depth perception and there's a big ass ditch next to the road. When you see the IR chem light be careful or you're going to lose like a million fucking cool points."
You're out of your mind. The average user may be learning some more about installing video games and downloading music on the web. But many are even less interested in programming and the actual internals of computing than generations before them, even though they've grown up with computers and are comfortable.
I think this is probably caustically related -- the computer is no longer special and no longer gets the "cool" factor it once demanded. Look at the enrollment for Computer Science degrees falling. Regardless, the need for skilled programmers is not going away.
You seem to think languages are getting easier, so easy that skilled hackers are no longer useful. That their creativity is not needed, but they are just a cog.
I'll agree that some things have gotten easier. Where in the past you might have created a massive and difficult client program, you can effectively put many things on the web. However, programming on the web has become a whole matter much more complicated than throwing up some HTML and Javascript menus if you've been struck by a creative moment.
Yes, we spend less time "noodling" C functions. But a whole lot more time integrating libraries, templates, databases. The size of the project, including 3rd party code, is huge... and always growing.
Also, the number of people in the world who are even halfway good at programming, or hell even interested in it, is small. I don't think his asking for a little 15 minute leeway in the morning or some time away from the office is a big deal, as long as the code is there.
No doubt. Check out the Problems viewing this website page. It says, "If you are having problems viewing this web site - it may be because we were forced to disable the copy, save and print functions on these web site pages."
I actually laughed out loud. What an idiot...
Not to mention... Penguin Computing already does this.
What people want are a large computer firm to sell name brand computers with Linux, not generic boxen. (I don't know why though -- I bought my last workstation from Penguin and it friggen rocks.)
Oh, please. Web developers by definition make shiny things for users.
Now, I've done a lot of web development and it is hard. No denying it. But it's not on the same level as writing a database, say. For the web, portability means validating HTML and checking JavaScript against different browsers. A pain, yes, but not the same as trying to figure out how to port said database to Windows or writing a compiler or creating the next great computer language.
Yeah, maybe there's some arrogance here. Okay, a lot. But you're being crazy defensive. Relax. You live a better life. You can actually show somebody what you worked on and they'll understand what the hell you're talking about.
Funny you should mention that. 2/1 is my battalion, mentioned in that article. You have no idea what you're talking about.
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That was a political decision.
http://dir.salon.com/story/news/feature/2004/09/1
Yes, I want to engage them on my terms. That's the goal of every fight. And the case I mentioned does happen a lot. But I won't talk any more about specific strategy though, even stuff that's public knowledge.
Tell me when insurgents have won a single battle in Iraq. In every case insurgents are overrun, overpowered and out-thought. No, I'm not saying they're stupid or that the fight has been easy, but they don't engage our forces head on anymore. They'd all die and they know it.
You're crazy. The AK-47 is indeed a fine weapon, but every time somebody toting one engages our forces, they get shot/killed/blown the hell up.
You're comparing light weapons to aircraft? Rather have that, you say? How about you shoot at me and miss because your weapon, while reliable, doesn't have the accuracy to hit me from any farther than maybe 300m, 50m if you shoot like an average Iraqi. (It's reliable because of the tolerances built into the bolt mechanism but that makes it far less accurate. Marines have to qualify at 500m.)
Have fun with that while I'm calling in air support and deciding whether I want to just kill you or to drop the entire building you're in.
This will give you the idea.
~ some jarhead
Oh, and I'm pretty sure the Seals "submerge" themselves every once in a while. Marines? Well, we never get near water, right?