I work for a fairly large company - we have 2 Class As. All the computers on our administrative LAN run a standard image. Users are just that - users, no admin rights. Field IT has limited admin rights. Why? It is pretty simple. The company can not afford a roll your own environment. The workstations have to do many specific tasks that keep the company in business. Part of my regular workday involves rdping into workstation and whacking unauthorized software. I know where it is because the system performs a hardware and software audit on a regular basis. The rules are all up front. You are told what is expected when you start the job. We do allow proxied internet access in general unless abuse is detected. We are in the process of pulling back about 1/3 of our laptops. There are no longer a perk, the user has to show a need that exceeds the security risk.
Colorado wized up and made it illegal to cruise in the left lane of highways with a 65 or higher limit. Most places, the law has always been "Slower Traffic Keep Right". Screwing up traffic with left lane stupidity might also get you a "Road Rage" ticket around here.
During the VietNam war, I heard a report that, in part, mentioned that a certain group of people were determined to be Asians based on the size of their shadows as recorded by a intelligence satellite. Add 50 years of technological imnprovements and speculate at what they can really see today.
WOW! a bunch of people from San Francisco ventured out in to the real world and found that people have strange ideas like property rights and the right to bear arms. I'm glad they got an education.
This really has nothing to do with ther internet. It has to do with the employee violating clearly defined terms of employment. I've spent the last 25 years working for a very large government agency and it has been made perfectly clear to me from the start that a law called the Hatch Act limits my political involvement. I would be as likely to get nailed for active campaigning as for internet activity, maybe more so. I accept those restrictions because I value my job. Keep in mind, these are not just company policies, they are US law. Depending on hte severity of the infraction, he likely could have ended up in jail. Not the kind of thing to trife with.
Ijust cruised through the comments at my usual +1. Although the post was a book review, I found exactly one comment about the book. I was hoping that maybe someone had seen or read the book and could comment on the obviously biased review.
I see my company buying into something like that in a flash. Predictable, fixed costs for software over the lifecycle of a desktop machine. No worring about huge, expensive version upgrades and all the cost and installation headaches that go along with them. The luxury of being able to plan hardware refresh on a stable schedule. CEOs,CFOs, and CIOs should love it.
All government agencies have information that needs to be protected. Like Washington, we (my nick will give you a clue who we are) are safeguarding portable information. Our facility has moved to encrypted usb drives to reduce inadvertant disclosure of information. There is a huge list of information managers may need and use that could violate confidentiallity, provide the competition with stratigic data, and damage all kinds of legal processes. With the potential costs, an agency would be stupid to not just gather up unsecure drives and destroy them. The real cost is tiny and the potential cost of not doing so is enormous.
Oh, joy! We certainly don't have enough rude, obnoxious cell phone conversations assulting our ears everywhere so now we can add rude, obnoxious computing. It would be really nice if the developers would just push development of a good brain-device interface. I think therefore I compute!
A letter landed on my desk this very morning that told me I am scheduled for an interview for a promotion to a management-level on Monday. I actually RTFA in hopes that it might give me some helpful hints. What a waste of time. If I didn't already know all that tripe, I wouldn't even be getting an interview.
I guess you haven't been around the inside of the Postal Service recently. If it takes extra hand labor, we don't want it. Machines are cheap and salaries are expensive. I strongly suspect that we have a team working with NetFlix right now to produce economical, machinable packaging. We've also recently been given the ability to negotiate rates for large customers. Don't look for NetFlix to be out of business anytime soon due to postage rates.
I read as many of the comments as I could stomach and came to an obvious conclusion: most of the negative comments are comming form Slashdotters who are simply so envious of somebody actually pulling off the tirp that they can't even thing straight any more. Get back in your tired old Geos and let the rest of the world have some fun.
This whole system requires a two way radio link of some sort to function at all. How difficult is it to scramble the tiny GPS signals or to overload the on-star reciever with a low power transmitter located in your pocket? If it can't talk or listen, it can't do much. From some of the horror stories I've heard, I'm thinking a GPS jammer is almost a requiremnt if you are going to rent a car.
I am diabetic and part of a large group plan. My HMO doesn't get a single penny extra because I have diabetes and I cost them a bunch more than most other patients. Their accountants would rejoice at news of an effective, low-cost treatment.
Is no one aware that non-profit stations like NPR are required to operate in the low end of the FM band? They would gladly move if they were allowed to do so but they can't so they are rightly defending their part of the spectrum against illegal transmitters. Tell me what is wrong with that?
I have contact with a number of "blue-collar" cell phone users. Almost every one of them hate the available phones. They rely on their phones out in the real world. Most of them would pay a few hundred dollars for a rugged phone. One where the flip doesn't break off the first time you are in a hurry, where the ringer can be set loud enough for the jobsite environment, where the whole thing is waterproof and doesn't die because it fell in a puddle or you used it in the rain. They want a ruggedized unit that will survive a couple of years. Some of them tell me they replace phones every couple of months because they fail on them. These are commercial users who have the money but not the choices.
Postal Setvice has a limit of 400 megs of network storage except for justified cases. That's your email and all other files. It forces you to get rid of the stuff you'll never need. We also limit the size of attachments to 5 megs.
I don't know about the academics but I have pretty much given up on Help in any Microsoft program. You enter what should be an obvious search term and then spend forever trying to find the information you want. I'm regularly using Google for help now. Because the pepole who write OSS tend to use it, it just tends to work the way it should.
OK, dis me if you want but I happen to have a $1000 dog. Unusual purebreds come high. When he gets nervous or excited, he can scale a 6-foot fence. I'll likely wait 'till the price drops a bit but it would be a valuable service to know if he leaves the area and to be able to go out and positively track him down. The "call your dog" feature seem to me to be a subset of the other necessary functions. To call and get GPS location, you need full-bore cell functionality anyway. Hey, maybe next they will add a camera and I can see where he is.
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I work for a fairly large company - we have 2 Class As. All the computers on our administrative LAN run a standard image. Users are just that - users, no admin rights. Field IT has limited admin rights. Why? It is pretty simple. The company can not afford a roll your own environment. The workstations have to do many specific tasks that keep the company in business. Part of my regular workday involves rdping into workstation and whacking unauthorized software. I know where it is because the system performs a hardware and software audit on a regular basis. The rules are all up front. You are told what is expected when you start the job. We do allow proxied internet access in general unless abuse is detected. We are in the process of pulling back about 1/3 of our laptops. There are no longer a perk, the user has to show a need that exceeds the security risk.
Colorado wized up and made it illegal to cruise in the left lane of highways with a 65 or higher limit. Most places, the law has always been "Slower Traffic Keep Right". Screwing up traffic with left lane stupidity might also get you a "Road Rage" ticket around here.
During the VietNam war, I heard a report that, in part, mentioned that a certain group of people were determined to be Asians based on the size of their shadows as recorded by a intelligence satellite. Add 50 years of technological imnprovements and speculate at what they can really see today.
Of course, the really pricey part - the liquid cooling system can easily be recycled into a new computer.
WOW! a bunch of people from San Francisco ventured out in to the real world and found that people have strange ideas like property rights and the right to bear arms. I'm glad they got an education.
This really has nothing to do with ther internet. It has to do with the employee violating clearly defined terms of employment. I've spent the last 25 years working for a very large government agency and it has been made perfectly clear to me from the start that a law called the Hatch Act limits my political involvement. I would be as likely to get nailed for active campaigning as for internet activity, maybe more so. I accept those restrictions because I value my job. Keep in mind, these are not just company policies, they are US law. Depending on hte severity of the infraction, he likely could have ended up in jail. Not the kind of thing to trife with.
Ijust cruised through the comments at my usual +1. Although the post was a book review, I found exactly one comment about the book. I was hoping that maybe someone had seen or read the book and could comment on the obviously biased review.
If it doesn't get as least 100 miles to the gallon, it shouldn't be allowed on the streets. Think fuel economy!
I see my company buying into something like that in a flash. Predictable, fixed costs for software over the lifecycle of a desktop machine. No worring about huge, expensive version upgrades and all the cost and installation headaches that go along with them. The luxury of being able to plan hardware refresh on a stable schedule. CEOs,CFOs, and CIOs should love it.
All government agencies have information that needs to be protected. Like Washington, we (my nick will give you a clue who we are) are safeguarding portable information. Our facility has moved to encrypted usb drives to reduce inadvertant disclosure of information. There is a huge list of information managers may need and use that could violate confidentiallity, provide the competition with stratigic data, and damage all kinds of legal processes. With the potential costs, an agency would be stupid to not just gather up unsecure drives and destroy them. The real cost is tiny and the potential cost of not doing so is enormous.
Oh, joy! We certainly don't have enough rude, obnoxious cell phone conversations assulting our ears everywhere so now we can add rude, obnoxious computing. It would be really nice if the developers would just push development of a good brain-device interface. I think therefore I compute!
A letter landed on my desk this very morning that told me I am scheduled for an interview for a promotion to a management-level on Monday. I actually RTFA in hopes that it might give me some helpful hints. What a waste of time. If I didn't already know all that tripe, I wouldn't even be getting an interview.
I guess you haven't been around the inside of the Postal Service recently. If it takes extra hand labor, we don't want it. Machines are cheap and salaries are expensive. I strongly suspect that we have a team working with NetFlix right now to produce economical, machinable packaging. We've also recently been given the ability to negotiate rates for large customers. Don't look for NetFlix to be out of business anytime soon due to postage rates.
I read as many of the comments as I could stomach and came to an obvious conclusion: most of the negative comments are comming form Slashdotters who are simply so envious of somebody actually pulling off the tirp that they can't even thing straight any more. Get back in your tired old Geos and let the rest of the world have some fun.
This whole system requires a two way radio link of some sort to function at all. How difficult is it to scramble the tiny GPS signals or to overload the on-star reciever with a low power transmitter located in your pocket?
If it can't talk or listen, it can't do much. From some of the horror stories I've heard, I'm thinking a GPS jammer is almost a requiremnt if you are going to rent a car.
Linux is free, Windows costs money. Republicans are rich and Democrats are not (except Hilliary)
Functionality is the key. Linux products are dependable and do not crash so they are functionally different than any MS product.
I am diabetic and part of a large group plan. My HMO doesn't get a single penny extra because I have diabetes and I cost them a bunch more than most other patients. Their accountants would rejoice at news of an effective, low-cost treatment.
Is no one aware that non-profit stations like NPR are required to operate in the low end of the FM band? They would gladly move if they were allowed to do so but they can't so they are rightly defending their part of the spectrum against illegal transmitters. Tell me what is wrong with that?
Who left out the catagories VIP Asshole and VIP Idiot. They are where most of my VIP mail gets filed.
It is faster for me to file my own email than fix what some quirky program does to it.
I have contact with a number of "blue-collar" cell phone users. Almost every one of them hate the available phones. They rely on their phones out in the real world. Most of them would pay a few hundred dollars for a rugged phone. One where the flip doesn't break off the first time you are in a hurry, where the ringer can be set loud enough for the jobsite environment, where the whole thing is waterproof and doesn't die because it fell in a puddle or you used it in the rain. They want a ruggedized unit that will survive a couple of years. Some of them tell me they replace phones every couple of months because they fail on them. These are commercial users who have the money but not the choices.
Postal Setvice has a limit of 400 megs of network storage except for justified cases. That's your email and all other files. It forces you to get rid of the stuff you'll never need. We also limit the size of attachments to 5 megs.
I don't know about the academics but I have pretty much given up on Help in any Microsoft program. You enter what should be an obvious search term and then spend forever trying to find the information you want. I'm regularly using Google for help now. Because the pepole who write OSS tend to use it, it just tends to work the way it should.
OK, dis me if you want but I happen to have a $1000 dog. Unusual purebreds come high. When he gets nervous or excited, he can scale a 6-foot fence. I'll likely wait 'till the price drops a bit but it would be a valuable service to know if he leaves the area and to be able to go out and positively track him down. The "call your dog" feature seem to me to be a subset of the other necessary functions. To call and get GPS location, you need full-bore cell functionality anyway. Hey, maybe next they will add a camera and I can see where he is.
Simple: Because they can! If they can, they will. That's essential human nature.