Click on the number on the far right on the comment line, just to the right of the date stamp. This will show the comment, and moderation totals for the comment. The first mod I received on this post was a flamebait mod, and that's what I was speaking to.
I'm interested that you disagree and would love to discuss it further. Could you expand on that disagreement?
Jill Taylor, a director of engineering, said Home Depot considered Linux but settled on the "more mainstream" Windows operating system. She said that with Linux, the company would have faced issues such as a lack of drivers and support if it decided to use cross-platform hardware.
If you can't standardize your POS hardware, you've got bigger problems than what OS to use. Even if you can't, I seriously doubt hardware compatiblity is really that much of a problem with Linux. I think the real kicker is the word "mainstream". I smell fud.
Is it just me, or is there a rash of unfair moderation lately? Can anyone explain the moderation on the parent post in terms other than "you pissed off the moderator and they don't agree with you"?
What's going on? Are there just more idiots in the queue these days, or have we all slacked off on M2ing?
Re:fear mongering
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If he had gotten up and actually acted, the planes would have been followed by fighter planes, and given authorization, shot down before they got close enough to take out the towers.
I notice your conspicuous use of the plural term "towers" above. Do you honestly mean to suggest that on the morning of 9/11, before the first tower was struck, it was appropriate and justifiable behavior to shoot down airliners that were flying off-course?
Let's take the discussion further. Let's move to just after the first plane crash. Do you expect the president of the United States to authorize the destruction of every airliner in U.S. airspace which is off-course because one happened to run into a building?
I don't know what a careful decision on the part of the Commander in Chief to use deadly force against innocent civilians looks like in your political universe, but I sleep better at night knowing that my president is reluctant to take such action.
Having information accessible to governments is not a problem unless you're naughty.
You're trolling, right? Please say you're trolling.
You think they're going to find it funny that you rent a pron video of animal action once a month? They're not even going to care...
I perform expert witness testimony in computer related criminal cases, most of which revolve around obscenity allegations. I can say, with some authority, that you have not the slightest fucking idea (no pun intended) what you are talking about. Beastiality is covered by most obscenity laws, so not only will the FBI care, they will put you in prison for it. The numbers the FBI has to make to keep their job is convictions, and computer geeks who've been sent child porn images via spam make very easy convictions. I've seen guys go away for less than the example you provided.
They can already subpoena banks, airlines, get your criminal records etc... so what if the FBI can access your records at any time?
A subpeona is one thing. A blank check search warrant is quite another. Given the lengths I've seen the FBI go to in order to get said search warrant, I can say that Society As We Know it will be quite different when the need to do so no longer exists.
If you don't trust those people who'll be working with the information, do something about it
Unless the 4th, 7th, and 9th amendments have been removed from the Constitution, I'm not supposed to have to do anything about it. That's how rights (are supposed to) work.
What is probably going to happen is that kids in schools today will be taught (slowly as not to draw attention to it) that it is good and proper for the government to watch its citizens...
Ah, a fellow Pomeranian. I made it out in '01. I remember the year we transitioned from bonuses to lapel pins(1998). When, the year after that, the company simply failed to acknowledge Christmas, most of us felt relieved. In '00, they wanted us to work on Christmas because of all the Y2K hype.
I could write a book on how consummately evil that company is.
Forgive me for being cynical, but I think the recording industry's concern with what happens to music CDs that wind up in computers has nothing to do with listening habits. Given that most CDs are probably not played in computers, and that a particular sort of customer listens to CDs in their computer, you will probably not get valid marketing information from such a technology.
If you want to catch someone ripping MP3z, however, this is a pretty good way to do it.
Ah yes, automation. Nice plan.
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There's just a few gotchas. These revolve around consistency.
Are your servers consistent? Are your OS's consistent? Are your applications deployed the same way in each of your remote offices? Do your users have the same applications on their computers?
Or is your IT infrastructure a giant ad hoc hairball resulting from IT decisions being made by non-IT personnel? Do you use anything because "that's what everyone else uses, so it must be good enough, therefore opinions to the contrary are wrong"?
Have you implemented things like network management and application/workstation management only to find that the investment is worthless because your organization cannot adhere to a set of standards long enough to make such systems effective, resulting in such an expanse of policy variance that the "management" systems themselves become a net drain on your management resources?
If so, then you've come to realize that the IT problem does not have a technical solution, rendering the entire premise of the article false.
The problem is cultural. IT people are not trusted to make IT decisions, such as meaningful policies with regard to how technology is implemented and what resources are required to deliver a given level of service.
What all of this means is that your Great Answer may not come from the vendor/consultant of the month, but by simply asking your people what is going on, listening to them, and giving them the leeway to make things right. And yes, this was written by a consultant.
Not to knock slashdot (read: please don't mod me down, I promise I'm not a troll!), but I am disappointed to learn of this here. I would like for them to have informed me of this directly. I mean, jeez, did they fire the guy who keeps track of their mailing lists already?
I've used the service since the Telocity days, and am profoundly sad to see it go. Not many ISPs out there value freedom of information enough to be server-friendly/static IP, and I don't much enjoy seeing less of them in the world.
I guess I'll spend the next few weeks poring over AUPs.:sigh:
I'm not going to mention the "t" word, because moderators tend to reflexively mod it, and I want this post to sail freely to its destination without my disturbing the water. But we all know what we are talking about, and I just want to say...
Beautiful, man. Simply, staggeringly beautiful. You went from Max the righteous to Wimpy the alcoholic to SpongeBob Squarepants the homosexual communist without even breaking a sweat.
Forgive me for seeming cynical, but where Microsoft gets to sit at a banquet does nothing to shatter my political illusions.
If anything in that article shocks you, then you haven't been keeping track. The
Lippo group coal scandal of the 90's far exceeds
anything mentioned in this article.
A lot can be told from a person from their waste. You can tell what they eat, what kind of health they're in, what kinds of drugs are in their systems and if they're pregnant.
I never thought I'd see the privacy question come full circle as regards the use of outhouses.
From chemotherapy patients cleverly recruited by Al Qaida to handle nuclear bombs. Many thanks to the crack transit police, who bravely ignored the fact that these people were actual cancer patients and stip searched them anyway.
Maybe a few street gangs painting obscene graffiti with radium paint will put some perspective on all this crap.
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re: disagreement. Never mind, you took it up elsewhere. My bad.
Click on the number on the far right on the comment line, just to the right of the date stamp. This will show the comment, and moderation totals for the comment. The first mod I received on this post was a flamebait mod, and that's what I was speaking to.
I'm interested that you disagree and would love to discuss it further. Could you expand on that disagreement?
From the article
Jill Taylor, a director of engineering, said Home Depot considered Linux but settled on the "more mainstream" Windows operating system. She said that with Linux, the company would have faced issues such as a lack of drivers and support if it decided to use cross-platform hardware.
If you can't standardize your POS hardware, you've got bigger problems than what OS to use. Even if you can't, I seriously doubt hardware compatiblity is really that much of a problem with Linux. I think the real kicker is the word "mainstream". I smell fud.
Uh, thanks. I guess.
Is it just me, or is there a rash of unfair moderation lately? Can anyone explain the moderation on the parent post in terms other than "you pissed off the moderator and they don't agree with you"?
What's going on? Are there just more idiots in the queue these days, or have we all slacked off on M2ing?
If he had gotten up and actually acted, the planes would have been followed by fighter planes, and given authorization, shot down before they got close enough to take out the towers.
I notice your conspicuous use of the plural term "towers" above. Do you honestly mean to suggest that on the morning of 9/11, before the first tower was struck, it was appropriate and justifiable behavior to shoot down airliners that were flying off-course?
Let's take the discussion further. Let's move to just after the first plane crash. Do you expect the president of the United States to authorize the destruction of every airliner in U.S. airspace which is off-course because one happened to run into a building?
I don't know what a careful decision on the part of the Commander in Chief to use deadly force against innocent civilians looks like in your political universe, but I sleep better at night knowing that my president is reluctant to take such action.
Ah. Thanks for the clue.
Having information accessible to governments is not a problem unless you're naughty.
You're trolling, right? Please say you're trolling.
You think they're going to find it funny that you rent a pron video of animal action once a month? They're not even going to care...
I perform expert witness testimony in computer related criminal cases, most of which revolve around obscenity allegations. I can say, with some authority, that you have not the slightest fucking idea (no pun intended) what you are talking about. Beastiality is covered by most obscenity laws, so not only will the FBI care, they will put you in prison for it. The numbers the FBI has to make to keep their job is convictions, and computer geeks who've been sent child porn images via spam make very easy convictions. I've seen guys go away for less than the example you provided.
They can already subpoena banks, airlines, get your criminal records etc... so what if the FBI can access your records at any time?
A subpeona is one thing. A blank check search warrant is quite another. Given the lengths I've seen the FBI go to in order to get said search warrant, I can say that Society As We Know it will be quite different when the need to do so no longer exists.
If you don't trust those people who'll be working with the information, do something about it
Unless the 4th, 7th, and 9th amendments have been removed from the Constitution, I'm not supposed to have to do anything about it. That's how rights (are supposed to) work.
What is probably going to happen is that kids in schools today will be taught (slowly as not to draw attention to it) that it is good and proper for the government to watch its citizens...
Which is why we home school our kids.
Look at the number 2 UK search - Big Brother. I guess they've noticed that they can't pick their nose in public without it being taped.
Ah, a fellow Pomeranian. I made it out in '01. I remember the year we transitioned from bonuses to lapel pins(1998). When, the year after that, the company simply failed to acknowledge Christmas, most of us felt relieved. In '00, they wanted us to work on Christmas because of all the Y2K hype.
I could write a book on how consummately evil that company is.
Forgive me for being cynical, but I think the recording industry's concern with what happens to music CDs that wind up in computers has nothing to do with listening habits. Given that most CDs are probably not played in computers, and that a particular sort of customer listens to CDs in their computer, you will probably not get valid marketing information from such a technology.
If you want to catch someone ripping MP3z, however, this is a pretty good way to do it.
There's just a few gotchas. These revolve around consistency.
Are your servers consistent? Are your OS's consistent? Are your applications deployed the same way in each of your remote offices? Do your users have the same applications on their computers?
Or is your IT infrastructure a giant ad hoc hairball resulting from IT decisions being made by non-IT personnel? Do you use anything because "that's what everyone else uses, so it must be good enough, therefore opinions to the contrary are wrong"?
Have you implemented things like network management and application/workstation management only to find that the investment is worthless because your organization cannot adhere to a set of standards long enough to make such systems effective, resulting in such an expanse of policy variance that the "management" systems themselves become a net drain on your management resources?
If so, then you've come to realize that the IT problem does not have a technical solution, rendering the entire premise of the article false.
The problem is cultural. IT people are not trusted to make IT decisions, such as meaningful policies with regard to how technology is implemented and what resources are required to deliver a given level of service.
What all of this means is that your Great Answer may not come from the vendor/consultant of the month, but by simply asking your people what is going on, listening to them, and giving them the leeway to make things right. And yes, this was written by a consultant.
Not to knock slashdot (read: please don't mod me down, I promise I'm not a troll!), but I am disappointed to learn of this here. I would like for them to have informed me of this directly. I mean, jeez, did they fire the guy who keeps track of their mailing lists already?
I've used the service since the Telocity days, and am profoundly sad to see it go. Not many ISPs out there value freedom of information enough to be server-friendly/static IP, and I don't much enjoy seeing less of them in the world.
I guess I'll spend the next few weeks poring over AUPs. :sigh:
What the hell is this, K5?
If you block web advertisements, you are a terrorist.
Ask Slashdot: Should you trust website customer reveiws?
I'm not going to mention the "t" word, because moderators tend to reflexively mod it, and I want this post to sail freely to its destination without my disturbing the water. But we all know what we are talking about, and I just want to say...
Beautiful, man. Simply, staggeringly beautiful. You went from Max the righteous to Wimpy the alcoholic to SpongeBob Squarepants the homosexual communist without even breaking a sweat.
Forgive me for seeming cynical, but where Microsoft gets to sit at a banquet does nothing to shatter my political illusions.
If anything in that article shocks you, then you haven't been keeping track. The Lippo group coal scandal of the 90's far exceeds anything mentioned in this article.
How exactly, do you service a sewerpipe once it has fiber running through it?
Easy. Plumbers must become fiberoptic cable technicians. I'm sure as hell not going to service cable run through the sewers.
Suddenly all that porn surfing doesn't seem so inappropriate anymore.
A lot can be told from a person from their waste. You can tell what they eat, what kind of health they're in, what kinds of drugs are in their systems and if they're pregnant.
I never thought I'd see the privacy question come full circle as regards the use of outhouses.
From chemotherapy patients cleverly recruited by Al Qaida to handle nuclear bombs. Many thanks to the crack transit police, who bravely ignored the fact that these people were actual cancer patients and stip searched them anyway.
Maybe a few street gangs painting obscene graffiti with radium paint will put some perspective on all this crap.
What, you mean besides the $10 a year it costs me to keep the domain registered on the web server in a switch closet at work?
So, EDGE fully expands to:
Enhanced Data for Global System for Mobile Communications Evolution
Jesus. Let's just start making up words for stuff like this. I hereby proclaim this technology to be called "durf".