Your assertion that you have some "right" to do whatever you want with someone else's ideas, information, or invention is just that - an assertion. It does not flow from any first principle. In other words, what moral or rational basis do you use to argue that if a company spends e.g. $1 billion dollars developing a cure for some disease that you have the "right" to just steal their formula and start cranking out cheap copies?
That's ok - copyright doesn't flow from any first principle either. It's just a reasonable deal with the ultimate purpose of enriching the public domain. Since that's not happening any more, why should we keep our end of the deal?
By laying open that which someone has taken pains to conceal, you violate their right to do as they please, since it doesn't affect others (in general). You have to justify the invasion with an overriding concern, such as evidence of drug abuse or an older 'friend' that they met online.
I cannot believe a scientist would advocate censorship of opposing ideas, rather than refute them with logic.
I sometimes think about this when dealing with ID crapflooders - after seeing the same tired arguments for the hundredth time or seeing someone gritch about free markets and then condemning another for opposing some large corporation, I stop caring about the argument and just want them to shut up.
Stripping their license for spouting the wrong dogma is too far, though.
Thus, I have no sympathy for kids who resent being spied on by their parents... it's their parent's property, they have every right to know every detail of how it is used.
That's crap. Kids have a right to privacy, morally if not legally. It isn't absolute, but the idea that you have a right to know every detail of your kid's life is monstrous. If that's what you want, go get a dog.
She's 12 now. In a year or two, she'll be 14, and well on her way to adulthood. I agree with the others here: talk to her. She isn't a little girl any more, so it's time to take a less authoritative stance - how else will she learn to function as an adult?
Yeah, that has nothing to do with the prejudice against career women in the 50s - lots of the men in charge found the idea of a women who wasn't planning to get married and quit laughable.
I'll take the competent unix guy who knows what soap is and shaves regularly, TYVM. If the unix guy is in fact a girl (even with bright pink hair), that's fine too.
Why are the child porn types writing software that magically puts child porn on random people's computers? I'm really not clear about what they're accomplishing there, other than potentially hurting their business by bringing child pornography into the spotlight.
If I had a thing for illegal stuff like that, I'd certainly use someone else's equipment for hosting and storage. If I spread it around enough, then the simple presence of CP on my computer wouldn't be enough to convict me of anything.
We are not at war - our country is not under direct threat. Rather, we are fighting a war in a foreign country. There's a difference: they're under threat and fighting for freedom from us, while we can leave and suffer fairly minimal consequences. If we were at war, there would be rationing and our industries would be turned towards war production. Instead, fat assholes drive H2s around (by themselves) and bitch if gas gets near $3/gal.
A good portion of the insurgents are not iraqi people. Notice i didn't say all. Blowing up the people you fighting for doesn't neccesarily make on thier side. The Iraqi citizens have also been given an out err a peacfull way of getting us out.
So what? It's not like borders in the mideast are static, and a lot of the 'foreign' insurgents are muslims who, in their eyes, are aiding their brothers.
We have set up a government, elected by thier own people, charted a constitution by thier own people with the public voting and participating in the process. We have said publicly that we are leaving as soon as the new Iraq can defend itself reasonable and provide for the security of thier own people. We have ensured that there is a proccess for people to make changes to both the government and the laws. There is the out.
And yet it doesn't have popular support and is viewed by many as a puppet of the US. If Bush manages to establish a democracy in Iraq, it'll be the first time it was done by an invader - frankly, I don't have much faith in that.
What we have is a blood thirsty group of people who entire goal is to strike terror into the citizens by any means neccesary. They are killing because of some religous zealotry and a terrorist agenda.
No, they're fighting for control. They aren't terrorists so much as militia; if they were terrorists, they'd be doing something other than trying to take over.
There is no valor in killing for fun or because you can and that what these insurgents are doing.
Based on what, exactly? Anyway, they aren't insurgents. That's a made up word, just like 'enemy combatant'.
War effort? Are you kidding? We aren't at war, we've invaded some random country for no good reason. If we want to avoid getting our shit blown up, why don't we just leave?
Stale? look at an arial of your home town. Then look at the courthouse. Zoom out for around three to five miles (range of a morter) and look for areas of concealment, escape routes that either let you run like hell, or easily blend in with a bunch of other people, obscure line of sight directly to the court house, or obsticles that might make someone responding from that general direction slower then from another route.
ZOMG! It's like using a paper map, only slightly better! Seriously, though, you're right, this is a non-issue.
I needed a cert for the wireless network installed on my machine.
You didn't say that. All I had to go on was that IT wouldn't touch your computer and that it was somehow nonstandard.
So this is the root of the problem that most people have with IT. Why should they be disclaiming anything?
Because they're responsible for their budget. Allowing unrestrained scope creep means that they'll be responsible for everything and burn far more of the company's money than most are willing to pay for.
Instead, my dealer values my time and understands that I can afford their service so long as I have a job. So doesn't it make sense that offering better service is ultimately going to yield happier customers and subsequently a higher level of income?
No. This is IT, not contract support, so offering extra services may just cost money. IT is not a top-line part of the org, they're a bottom line part - they support and enable proper functioning, but bring no direct revenue. I still think you need to think about a test lab for your external stuff. It's cheap, solves your problems, and protects the company from your stuff if it decides to lose its shit.
It's for a project that I'm doing that's sponsored by my boss and supported by the business. What about this config do you think makes it rogue?
The fact that your response to 'not a supported config' is that it's name brand. Since they have that response, I assume that they have a standard image and configs to reduce workload to something manageable (if they didn't, mgmt would bitch about the money they spent on IT).Given that, IT can disclaim everything on your side of the ethernet port if you're a normal user.
As I stated earlier, my job is to bring new stuff into the company so that we can support our customers.
So you have different needs than the average bear - sounds like you shouldn't be using the common channel to IT, since the level 1 guys know nothing of your situation. If it's one or two guys evaluating hardware, then you really need your own contacts in order to get things done. the IT support line is for people who's desktops start making weird grinding noises or unplug their network cable.
Why is IT any different than my copy department, that will make up virtually anything I want virtually on demand, as long as I'm willing to pay for it?
Because they control their equipment, so they know how to make it behave. This is far different to expecting them to support any random piece of crap you happen to find, which they likely have never seen and do not know what state it's in. As I've said, you need a direct line to IT, especially since they're likely to have to support it if you evaluate it positively.
If, on the other hand, this is for external clients, then you need a test lab on a separate network with a strictly delimited support boundary. Sorry, but you're on your own - it's your job to evaluate this thing, so it's your job to make it work. IT supports the normal LOB systems, not products or stuff you develop.
No, it refers to people who will likely never pay their bills. They may be there for a sore shoulder, or the weird rash they've had for 6 months finally won't let them sleep. It's considered highly perjorative, because you're basically referring to someone as human trash and telling them you'd rather they go die in a gutter. You can fix most of that by offering basic health care to the masses for less money than health care costs now.
My feeling about my IT people is that they're really great at running the network and server farms, but beyond that they don't care about their customers.
IT doesn't run server farms, that's sysadmins. What I want to know is if you work in a company or are bitching about someone supporting your home box. If I were an IT person at a company, I'd deny you too, then cut you off at the switch. You're apparently running some random box on the network, which is firable where I work. So, how did you get this box you want supported? Was it through IT or did you bring it in on the sly?
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Your assertion that you have some "right" to do whatever you want with someone else's ideas, information, or invention is just that - an assertion. It does not flow from any first principle. In other words, what moral or rational basis do you use to argue that if a company spends e.g. $1 billion dollars developing a cure for some disease that you have the "right" to just steal their formula and start cranking out cheap copies?
That's ok - copyright doesn't flow from any first principle either. It's just a reasonable deal with the ultimate purpose of enriching the public domain. Since that's not happening any more, why should we keep our end of the deal?
By laying open that which someone has taken pains to conceal, you violate their right to do as they please, since it doesn't affect others (in general). You have to justify the invasion with an overriding concern, such as evidence of drug abuse or an older 'friend' that they met online.
Yeah, they do their politicizing by hiring based on political allegience rather than competence in the field.
I cannot believe a scientist would advocate censorship of opposing ideas, rather than refute them with logic.
I sometimes think about this when dealing with ID crapflooders - after seeing the same tired arguments for the hundredth time or seeing someone gritch about free markets and then condemning another for opposing some large corporation, I stop caring about the argument and just want them to shut up.
Stripping their license for spouting the wrong dogma is too far, though.
Thus, I have no sympathy for kids who resent being spied on by their parents... it's their parent's property, they have every right to know every detail of how it is used.
That's crap. Kids have a right to privacy, morally if not legally. It isn't absolute, but the idea that you have a right to know every detail of your kid's life is monstrous. If that's what you want, go get a dog.
She's 12 now. In a year or two, she'll be 14, and well on her way to adulthood. I agree with the others here: talk to her. She isn't a little girl any more, so it's time to take a less authoritative stance - how else will she learn to function as an adult?
HP got a steady stream of good hires by word of mouth without heavy recruiting expenses.
And then they went and hired Carly.
Just picking someone I know at my job.
Yeah, that has nothing to do with the prejudice against career women in the 50s - lots of the men in charge found the idea of a women who wasn't planning to get married and quit laughable.
I'll take the competent unix guy who knows what soap is and shaves regularly, TYVM. If the unix guy is in fact a girl (even with bright pink hair), that's fine too.
- Paving the potholes in the highways. Don't see that as an enumerated, delegated power in the text of the Constitution or its amendments.
Nothing explicit, save for providing for the general welfare.
- Delivering the mail. Don't see that as an enumerated, delegated power in the text of the Constitution or its amendments.
Article 1, section 8.
- Building prisons. Don't see that as an enumerated, delegated power in the text of the Constitution or its amendments.
Kind of neccesary for the legal system.
- Establishing and operating the U.S. Coast Guard.
Article 1, section 8.
Why are the child porn types writing software that magically puts child porn on random people's computers? I'm really not clear about what they're accomplishing there, other than potentially hurting their business by bringing child pornography into the spotlight.
If I had a thing for illegal stuff like that, I'd certainly use someone else's equipment for hosting and storage. If I spread it around enough, then the simple presence of CP on my computer wouldn't be enough to convict me of anything.
We are not at war - our country is not under direct threat. Rather, we are fighting a war in a foreign country. There's a difference: they're under threat and fighting for freedom from us, while we can leave and suffer fairly minimal consequences. If we were at war, there would be rationing and our industries would be turned towards war production. Instead, fat assholes drive H2s around (by themselves) and bitch if gas gets near $3/gal.
Can't blame George Bush for the inteligence given him by the Clinton Administration.
We can blame him for cherry-picked evidence from the VP and forged documents that he submitted to the CIA (which were pretty bad forgeries).
A good portion of the insurgents are not iraqi people. Notice i didn't say all. Blowing up the people you fighting for doesn't neccesarily make on thier side. The Iraqi citizens have also been given an out err a peacfull way of getting us out.
So what? It's not like borders in the mideast are static, and a lot of the 'foreign' insurgents are muslims who, in their eyes, are aiding their brothers.
We have set up a government, elected by thier own people, charted a constitution by thier own people with the public voting and participating in the process. We have said publicly that we are leaving as soon as the new Iraq can defend itself reasonable and provide for the security of thier own people. We have ensured that there is a proccess for people to make changes to both the government and the laws. There is the out.
And yet it doesn't have popular support and is viewed by many as a puppet of the US. If Bush manages to establish a democracy in Iraq, it'll be the first time it was done by an invader - frankly, I don't have much faith in that.
What we have is a blood thirsty group of people who entire goal is to strike terror into the citizens by any means neccesary. They are killing because of some religous zealotry and a terrorist agenda.
No, they're fighting for control. They aren't terrorists so much as militia; if they were terrorists, they'd be doing something other than trying to take over.
There is no valor in killing for fun or because you can and that what these insurgents are doing.
Based on what, exactly? Anyway, they aren't insurgents. That's a made up word, just like 'enemy combatant'.
War effort? Are you kidding? We aren't at war, we've invaded some random country for no good reason. If we want to avoid getting our shit blown up, why don't we just leave?
Stale? look at an arial of your home town. Then look at the courthouse. Zoom out for around three to five miles (range of a morter) and look for areas of concealment, escape routes that either let you run like hell, or easily blend in with a bunch of other people, obscure line of sight directly to the court house, or obsticles that might make someone responding from that general direction slower then from another route.
ZOMG! It's like using a paper map, only slightly better! Seriously, though, you're right, this is a non-issue.
Okay, so I bought the ATI card. Now where do I plug it in on my pbook?
I needed a cert for the wireless network installed on my machine.
You didn't say that. All I had to go on was that IT wouldn't touch your computer and that it was somehow nonstandard.
So this is the root of the problem that most people have with IT. Why should they be disclaiming anything?
Because they're responsible for their budget. Allowing unrestrained scope creep means that they'll be responsible for everything and burn far more of the company's money than most are willing to pay for.
Instead, my dealer values my time and understands that I can afford their service so long as I have a job. So doesn't it make sense that offering better service is ultimately going to yield happier customers and subsequently a higher level of income?
No. This is IT, not contract support, so offering extra services may just cost money. IT is not a top-line part of the org, they're a bottom line part - they support and enable proper functioning, but bring no direct revenue. I still think you need to think about a test lab for your external stuff. It's cheap, solves your problems, and protects the company from your stuff if it decides to lose its shit.
It's for a project that I'm doing that's sponsored by my boss and supported by the business. What about this config do you think makes it rogue?
The fact that your response to 'not a supported config' is that it's name brand. Since they have that response, I assume that they have a standard image and configs to reduce workload to something manageable (if they didn't, mgmt would bitch about the money they spent on IT).Given that, IT can disclaim everything on your side of the ethernet port if you're a normal user.
As I stated earlier, my job is to bring new stuff into the company so that we can support our customers.
So you have different needs than the average bear - sounds like you shouldn't be using the common channel to IT, since the level 1 guys know nothing of your situation. If it's one or two guys evaluating hardware, then you really need your own contacts in order to get things done. the IT support line is for people who's desktops start making weird grinding noises or unplug their network cable.
Why is IT any different than my copy department, that will make up virtually anything I want virtually on demand, as long as I'm willing to pay for it?
Because they control their equipment, so they know how to make it behave. This is far different to expecting them to support any random piece of crap you happen to find, which they likely have never seen and do not know what state it's in. As I've said, you need a direct line to IT, especially since they're likely to have to support it if you evaluate it positively.
If, on the other hand, this is for external clients, then you need a test lab on a separate network with a strictly delimited support boundary. Sorry, but you're on your own - it's your job to evaluate this thing, so it's your job to make it work. IT supports the normal LOB systems, not products or stuff you develop.
I think I need to start a fight club...
No, you need to raise your rates.
No, but I laugh at people who try to steal power cables that are running 11kV.
No, it refers to people who will likely never pay their bills. They may be there for a sore shoulder, or the weird rash they've had for 6 months finally won't let them sleep. It's considered highly perjorative, because you're basically referring to someone as human trash and telling them you'd rather they go die in a gutter. You can fix most of that by offering basic health care to the masses for less money than health care costs now.
My feeling about my IT people is that they're really great at running the network and server farms, but beyond that they don't care about their customers.
IT doesn't run server farms, that's sysadmins. What I want to know is if you work in a company or are bitching about someone supporting your home box. If I were an IT person at a company, I'd deny you too, then cut you off at the switch. You're apparently running some random box on the network, which is firable where I work. So, how did you get this box you want supported? Was it through IT or did you bring it in on the sly?
Well, you know - watersports, that German Scheisse stuff, BDSM - stuff kids won't understand at all. Simple penetration is tame by comparison.