It's true - a bad PSU can show up in all sorts of areas, such as bad video cards, interference on the display, or memory errors. A decent PSU is only about $50, so why not? I don't really plan to get a power filter for my stereo, though - when I move up to the big setup, it's going to get its own 20A circuit for the speakers.
If it's a matter of market opportunity, then the best way to get them to change is to sell it as such. This thread seems to be more about looking for hidden bias because there aren't many black programmers. Not that programmers are the only ones building games.
We work in a healthcare organization and having people develop applications on our servers can potentially cause huge issues.
And why exactly would dev's get to touch production? This is the reason why change control , documentation and good service topography is so vital. Your dev system should be a snapshot of production minus personal data. Your infrastructure should support that all the way back to the dev shop. Anything less is laziness. Most of which is probably way outside of your control. I gave management the options and rationale and they make poor choices. Don't lose too much sleep over it.
In my case, it's because I deploy my stuff to prod and need to support production operational issues, along with the usual development and design.
People love the "We installed WIFI ourselves and all was joyous" stories. But you never hear the, "We installed WIFI ourselves and breached security on the network/ate up all the DHCP addresses/allowed a guy with a trivial WEP breaking program to sniff everyone's network passwords" story.
There are very good reasons why WIFI can't always be installed. No one ever wants to hear it, but it's true. If all you need is internet access, it's trivial. If you need access to secure servers, it is substantially more difficult. That's what happens when IT refuses to actually do their job. The only reason to refuse something like this is budgetary or technical (can't pay for it, can't do it). WIFI is neither - you either set up open access or you put up WPA for the wifi access. If you need secure access, there are solutions that work just fine, but this is a college - you probably just want internet.
Please. Suppose your mother could copy her file "Names, SSNs, and other bits of employee data.xls" onto her thumb drive. Suppose she then lost it. The entire company would get in trouble. And everyone on/. would vilify them.
What business does she have storing that file on her laptop in the first place? Sensitive data should stay on a server and never touch something that can leave the company premises.
In the two examples cited, I could easily see situations where it'd be reasonable to say 'stop it or you're fired'. Setting up a random WAP that nobody in IT knows about can result in random people in the parking lot having access to your network, and storing company mail on an ipod is a massive breach waiting to happen - the only reason blackberries are allowed most places is because they can be bricked remotely.
They do, at least more than other ethnic groups. The majority of murders are black on black; You don't have to like it, but it's hard to argue with facts.
How am I to know that someone is american at all? They may not be a citizen, and they may not care either - better to go on visible characteristics. Black covers the a.a. thing as well as avoiding the question of where they're from, which I often don't know. Asians are fairly easy to identify by physical characteristics, so why not?
>Interestingly enough, new immigrants from African countries get to essentially piggyback onto the same story even when they are not descendants of the slaves and were never subject to discrimination in US. Oh well, every groups of people looks for competitive advantage.
On the flip side, immigrants of European descent are able to benefit from the system of prejudice that benefited the majority white population. Right ?
Like the irish (aka white nigger), right? How about the italians? They weren't officially white until recently.
Who cares? If you're going to prattle about how rockstar doesn't have street cred because they don't have a lot of blacks on staff, then your opinion is worth nothing. If you think that there's some bias in their hiring, then that's different. In my experience, though, we don't care what color you are, we have a hard enough time finding qualified people as it is.
Hell, if there is one constant across the world it's racism.. Not really. France, it's racism, Australia, it's intolerant muslims, Egypt, it's more like 5000 years of feuds and grudges.
Put simply, why is an American with African heritage an African American, when a white American with European heritage is simply American? Culture. Africans are different from American Blacks, mostly due to culture. Why call someone african american when you mean black? Are you going to call some guy from Barbados a.a.? How about the guy I know from South Africa?
I think it's just as likely that combining so many vaccines and introducing them into a still forming body with a weak immune system could be the cause. Obviously, something is causing the increase. And if any of it leads back to them, regardless of the cause, they don't want it known.
OTOH, not giving kids immunizations is retarded, and I say this as someone with an autistic niece. Well, since moving to non-mercury based vaccinations does exactly nothing, I'd chalk it up to better diagnosis. I also agree with you - vaccinations should be mandatory. Doesn't even matter if you're a christian scientist.
IP address identifying a company who owns that block of IPs is a far different thing than using them to identify a user who doesn't even own a single address, but gets them from DHCP and slings them from behind a NAT firewall where they share the computer with everyone else in the house and, possibly, their neighbors if they don't know how to set up security.
I have no idea how that process works now, that's been about 15 yrs ago, but I assume the same laws are still in place, but I'd wonder in cases like that if you refuse to give your ssn, if they can just refuse to do business with you, or if they are legally required to offer an alternative to turning over your ssn?
Are there more than just those three now? I thought for awhile your ssn was also on your driver's license, tho mine is not now.
They are never obligated to do business with you, although utilities may have different rules.
I get paid monthly, and anything over one month's salary really belongs in ING or an investment account. Should I convert to 2 week checks for the purposes of this poll?
Maybe Symantec should take heed, then. If the majority of the people who see symantec software see buggy crap, what does that say about their reputation as a whole? I also dispute your claims about consumer level vs. corporate stuff - the only real gradient I've found on features vs. quality is consumer vs. pro (that being CAD/Design/DV editing). Corporate stuff can be just as ugly and fad driven as Dell shovelware.
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You've got it all wrong. The real question is this: How do I set up shop and start selling cables to rubes?
It's true - a bad PSU can show up in all sorts of areas, such as bad video cards, interference on the display, or memory errors. A decent PSU is only about $50, so why not? I don't really plan to get a power filter for my stereo, though - when I move up to the big setup, it's going to get its own 20A circuit for the speakers.
Users, nothing! They shouldn't be able to get that data there.
Of course I'm speculating - this is slashdot. Also, the department did this, so my assumption is more likely.
If it's a matter of market opportunity, then the best way to get them to change is to sell it as such. This thread seems to be more about looking for hidden bias because there aren't many black programmers. Not that programmers are the only ones building games.
And why exactly would dev's get to touch production? This is the reason why change control , documentation and good service topography is so vital. Your dev system should be a snapshot of production minus personal data. Your infrastructure should support that all the way back to the dev shop. Anything less is laziness. Most of which is probably way outside of your control. I gave management the options and rationale and they make poor choices. Don't lose too much sleep over it.
In my case, it's because I deploy my stuff to prod and need to support production operational issues, along with the usual development and design.
There are very good reasons why WIFI can't always be installed. No one ever wants to hear it, but it's true. If all you need is internet access, it's trivial. If you need access to secure servers, it is substantially more difficult. That's what happens when IT refuses to actually do their job. The only reason to refuse something like this is budgetary or technical (can't pay for it, can't do it). WIFI is neither - you either set up open access or you put up WPA for the wifi access. If you need secure access, there are solutions that work just fine, but this is a college - you probably just want internet.
Please. Suppose your mother could copy her file "Names, SSNs, and other bits of employee data.xls" onto her thumb drive. Suppose she then lost it. The entire company would get in trouble. And everyone on /. would vilify them.
What business does she have storing that file on her laptop in the first place? Sensitive data should stay on a server and never touch something that can leave the company premises.
I'm perfectly willing to accept that there's racial bias in how laws are enforced, but not in regards to bodycount.
In the two examples cited, I could easily see situations where it'd be reasonable to say 'stop it or you're fired'. Setting up a random WAP that nobody in IT knows about can result in random people in the parking lot having access to your network, and storing company mail on an ipod is a massive breach waiting to happen - the only reason blackberries are allowed most places is because they can be bricked remotely.
I'm fond of 'white boy', myself.
Funny, I always thought Gordon Freeman was black. It's never really mentioned, though - he's jus tthe protagonist.
They do, at least more than other ethnic groups. The majority of murders are black on black; You don't have to like it, but it's hard to argue with facts.
How am I to know that someone is american at all? They may not be a citizen, and they may not care either - better to go on visible characteristics. Black covers the a.a. thing as well as avoiding the question of where they're from, which I often don't know. Asians are fairly easy to identify by physical characteristics, so why not?
On the flip side, immigrants of European descent are able to benefit from the system of prejudice that benefited the majority white population. Right ?
Like the irish (aka white nigger), right? How about the italians? They weren't officially white until recently.
Who cares? If you're going to prattle about how rockstar doesn't have street cred because they don't have a lot of blacks on staff, then your opinion is worth nothing. If you think that there's some bias in their hiring, then that's different. In my experience, though, we don't care what color you are, we have a hard enough time finding qualified people as it is.
Caucasians are a mostly muslim group in and around what is now Chechnya. I'm white.
OTOH, not giving kids immunizations is retarded, and I say this as someone with an autistic niece. Well, since moving to non-mercury based vaccinations does exactly nothing, I'd chalk it up to better diagnosis. I also agree with you - vaccinations should be mandatory. Doesn't even matter if you're a christian scientist.
IP address identifying a company who owns that block of IPs is a far different thing than using them to identify a user who doesn't even own a single address, but gets them from DHCP and slings them from behind a NAT firewall where they share the computer with everyone else in the house and, possibly, their neighbors if they don't know how to set up security.
Are there more than just those three now? I thought for awhile your ssn was also on your driver's license, tho mine is not now.
They are never obligated to do business with you, although utilities may have different rules.
I get paid monthly, and anything over one month's salary really belongs in ING or an investment account. Should I convert to 2 week checks for the purposes of this poll?
Maybe Symantec should take heed, then. If the majority of the people who see symantec software see buggy crap, what does that say about their reputation as a whole? I also dispute your claims about consumer level vs. corporate stuff - the only real gradient I've found on features vs. quality is consumer vs. pro (that being CAD/Design/DV editing). Corporate stuff can be just as ugly and fad driven as Dell shovelware.