I learned an important lession when I was providing 24x7 support for a network management center.
At my boss's advice, I visited the end customers each and every workday.
They began to associate me with the system while it was working. In contrast, some admins only showed up when their systems were broken. They were usually greeted with "Here comes trouble!"
My relationship was so good that, when the system broke in the middle of the night, the customers would do their best to get by until morning, even though I assured them that it was my duty to restore it during the night.
Being around to take credit for things running smoothly is indispensible.
> My concern with a program like this is that people who use > cryptography always do so because they have something to hide. > A sense of guilt and shame seems to drive them. > They know that they are doing something wrong and desperately > want to hide it from the eyes of the world (although hiding > it from the eyes of God is another matter! LOL!)
Dear Mr. Ashcroft,
My concern with a post like yours is that people who use "Anonymous Coward" always do so because they have something to hide. A sense of guilt and shame seems to drive them. They know that they are saying something wrong and desperately want to hide from any challenges to their views (although hiding from any challenges from God is another matter! LOL!)
I would add that we have no business trying to communicate with aliens when we're doing such a poor job communicating between all of the humans on the planet.
I wonder how long it will take for some competitor (or any congresscritter outside of Washington State) to accuse the U.S. gov't of subsidizing Microsoft by donating testing resources?
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"Along time ago, people said that the moon was made of green cheese.
"Now we know that it's really just a big rock.
"That's what happens when you leave cheese out overnight."
I think all the characters should have the voice of Majel Barrett.
Before long, the analog air waves will be clogged with sex-related content. And advertising.
Reminds me of two dogs.
If you experience interruptus, do you have to throw cold water on the joined iPods?
They're changing their name to "Christian Scientific American."
I learned an important lession when I was providing 24x7 support for a network management center.
At my boss's advice, I visited the end customers each and every workday.
They began to associate me with the system while it was working. In contrast, some admins only showed up when their systems were broken. They were usually greeted with "Here comes trouble!"
My relationship was so good that, when the system broke in the middle of the night, the customers would do their best to get by until morning, even though I assured them that it was my duty to restore it during the night.
Being around to take credit for things running smoothly is indispensible.
1. Take the amount of time you think you will need to do the job.
2. Multiply by two.
3. Change to the next higher unit.
Thus we allocate 2 days to do a 1-hour task.
I, for one, welcome my new implant overlord.
The unit of computer logic, the alogorithm, is named after former U.S. Vice President, Al Gore, who is the inventor of the Internet.
I, for one, welcome our new U.N. Internet Overlords.
"MISTER TAMBORINE MAN!"
> My concern with a program like this is that people who use
> cryptography always do so because they have something to hide.
> A sense of guilt and shame seems to drive them.
> They know that they are doing something wrong and desperately
> want to hide it from the eyes of the world (although hiding
> it from the eyes of God is another matter! LOL!)
Dear Mr. Ashcroft,
My concern with a post like yours is that people who use
"Anonymous Coward" always do so because they have something to hide.
A sense of guilt and shame seems to drive them.
They know that they are saying something wrong and desperately
want to hide from any challenges to their views (although
hiding from any challenges from God is another matter! LOL!)
So they'll only be able to send spam at half speed.
And that's just until they figure out how to set up a packet filtering rule.
Not a big improvement.
I agree.
I would add that we have no business trying to communicate with aliens when we're doing such a poor job communicating between all of the humans on the planet.
I say we push the fundamentalists further South by continuing to educate the North.
> Look across space from one edge of the visible universe to the other
You can't see from one edge of the visible universe to the other.
You can only see from the center to the edge.
That's because Hubble expansion coupled with the limiting speed of light define the edge of the visible universe from the position of the observer.
Change the position of the observer to the edge of the visible universe and the edges will move.
Wow, just like those funny glasses I bought from the ad in the comic book back in the 60's.
I wonder how long it will take for some competitor (or any congresscritter outside of Washington State) to accuse the U.S. gov't of subsidizing Microsoft by donating testing resources?
That's why we send your preapproved credit applications and your blank checks through the U.S. Mail.
AT&T had a national collect-calling campaign telling people to "Dial 1-800-Operator."
A competitor, MCI IIRC, quickly snatched up the number 1-800-Operater and got lots of the business from the campaign.
So it's not just URL's that get the typo business.
This book is better than any book ever written. It is better than any book that will ever be written in the future. And I haven't even read it yet.
I can't tell you what art is, but I know it when I see it.
I suppose they're archaic now.
CAN SPAM is a good illustration about how hard it is to write a law to solve a technology problem.
Just keep that in mind when worrying about DMCA, etc.
Imagine a world where tools like PGP become more and more successful because the corporate/government oppressors are trying to get more control.
Technologists just want to be free.
Maybe some form of RFID can help the editors avoid these duplicate articles.