There IS such a thing as an intranet that is physically separated from the internet.. internal servers completely inaccessable from the commercial 'net.. KVM switches so all machines are accessable from one workstation.. completely internal secure shell, telnet, ftp, whatever. A setup like that is totally realistic and desirable for a production and/or testbed environment.
Of course, this eliminates the ability of a coder to work from home or do things like surf the internet and check e-mail from the same box they code on.. But if you don't want your code leaked, don't put it on a box that's in any accessable from the commercial internet.
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I saw a job listing recently that had as a requirement "5+ years in administering Windows 2000." This was an entry-level position.
So apparently, not only do you have to be willing to work for peanuts and take entry-level jobs when you have experience... you have to be a time traveller too!
I have a liberal arts degree, too.. and a damn good computer job that I love.
I went to university to learn things and study things I couldn't reasonably learn elsewhere... computers were what I did in my free time.
Now I'm working on getting those "useless meaningless certifications" since HR folk, who barely know how to turn their computers on, have decided that people without certs and/or CS or IT degrees aren't worth considering...
Of course you can just as easily cut your steak with a knife and fork as you can stab and eat someone to death with the same utensils anyway - does that mean we shouldn't eat with a knife and fork anymore?
SHH! Don't let the government know, or they'll add a "NO EATING WITH UTENSILS" clause into the next Patriot Act!
quoth the poster: "I hate published authors because I'm not one of them."
The honesty in that one sentence staggers me... that's something it's almost impossible to get any sort of artist to admit! Unfortunately, your honesty came at the end of a self-indulgent pity-fest rant about how much better you are than actual published famous authors... all I have to say is.. Man, get over it. There is always going to be someone more famous, richer, more critically acclaimed, and better at the craft than you are.
Now see, if you'd just written that one sentence, if would have summed up your entire post. If you'd done that instead of the long-winded semi-readable whine you posted, you could have spent the time pitching your novels to a small publishing house to apply for grants and monetary advances, like most small-time writers do. You don't need a printer, go buy a cheap used typewriter like millions of writers all over the world have used. Type out your book outline, pitch it to a publisher, receive an advance, upgrade your computer system and printer, write your book, give it to the publisher... TA DAAAAH! Suddenly you're a published author, and then you can hate yourself!
Heh.. you forgot the "Oh, but wait, as I'm writing this I realized that the first half of my submission was utterly ridiculous and actually wrong, but I'm continuing anyway..." and the "Oh wait, we already said this" from the Slashdot editors.;)
He's a "cyberyogi," a teacher of "logology." Uh.. yeah. From his site:
Logologie is a religion of reason; it is free of devilization and has many things common with Buddhism, but unlike this it includes a much more detailed understanding of the physical interaction between consciousness and the nervous system. Main goal of Logologie is the preservation and development of the human race by enabling it to sovereignous- holistical thinking and the overcoming of causing sufferance, because due to the network of cosmic consciousness everything is connected with everything and sufferance therefore never exists separately.
I am a cyberage-child - born in the year of Pong, and I study software- techniques at the German technical college Fachhochschule Hamburg (which unfortunately consumes the major amount of my time).
I am researcher of neuronomy and consciousness physics. (Neuronomy is the science of the improvement of the usage of brain and nervous system.) I collect historical videogames and homecomputers, I enjoy to build and repair electronic things and I am interested in electronic musics, synthesizer technology and everything that makes unusual (mostly electronic) sounds. I also compose own musics (e.g. like tekkno- trance, meditational musics etc.) and like to write poems and short stories etc. (e.g. SF), paint computer graphics and I am generally very interested in art and philosophy.
There is a major difference between ability and apathy, intelligence and diligence. I've learned it, and I firmly believe that if one wants to be taking seriously in a public arena, one should learn the magic of spellcheck and dictionary.com.
I am terminally amused by people's perception of me. I am also dyslexic, and an obsessive proofreader myself.;) If I can do it, everyone else should be able to as well... or at least run their post through a spell-checker before posting.
The company may not be held legally responsible, but imagine Mr. Irate User calling up screaming to talk to "YOUR SUPERVISOR, and THEIR SUPERVISOR, DAMMIT!" Most companies do what they can to please the end user. Even if the tech signs a waiver of responsibility, the perception on the part of the user is still that the company is responsible for the tech's actions, because, conceivably, the company trained said tech, and said tech was conceivably acting on behalf of the company.
Kindness is one thing, good business practice is another.
For example: a licensed tech provides off-time support in a relatively unofficial capacity, which causes the user to do something that royally screws his connection/hardware/software/downloaded pr0n/etc. User calls official tech support and demands retribution, seeing as how one of the company's techs told user to do something that "broke his stuff."
I've been in this situation before, and it ain't pretty for anyone involved, no matter how good the tech's intentions were.
Don't get me wrong, I'm all for kindness and helping others. But I also understand the corporate position of "no unofficial tech support by official tech supporters."
In America, I own my words, I own my thoughts, and I exercise my freedom to use them. By openly stating these words in freely-accessible text, I claim them as my own. Licensing is different than copyright.
Duh.. They know how prion-based disease is transmitted... it's through consuming the diseased tissues, largely. And in spongiform disorders, this is the brain/spinal cord tissues/fluids, as far as they know
So basically, if you kill a deer that might be diseased, don't use/eat any part of the head.
I agree with you for the most part, but I also would like to say that the "bunny-huggers" don't seem to understand that humans have not only virtually elminated the natural predators of the deer, but we've eliminated their feeding grounds as well. Then people complain on the one hand about the "predatory virulent deer" encroaching on their lovely suburban gardens and freeways, and on the other hand complain about the "bloodthirsty, inhumane hunters" who do no more than their part to keep the population in natural balance as dictated by the conservation society...
As one who lives in metro St. Louis, I understand the dilemma.
Good point.. but it's not just "insisting on inspections" that Iraqi's say are violating human rights... try breaking the Geneva Convention by deliberatly destroying the civillian infrastructure for clean water, and by creating an embargo against imported food, medicine, and technology.
If we want to emancipate and liberate, we need to support build basic infrastructure (including network architecture). We need to ensure freedom of information and human need supply lines to the people, not just the priviledged few...
It's pointless anyway. Politics and humanity are largely lost on Slashdotters. Which is unfortunate, seeing as how the intelligent ones should and can be the ones to make an actual difference, rather than a purely symbolic one...
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Geek girls are hotter anyway. :D
;) Proofreading is your friend.
There IS such a thing as an intranet that is physically separated from the internet.. internal servers completely inaccessable from the commercial 'net.. KVM switches so all machines are accessable from one workstation.. completely internal secure shell, telnet, ftp, whatever. A setup like that is totally realistic and desirable for a production and/or testbed environment.
Of course, this eliminates the ability of a coder to work from home or do things like surf the internet and check e-mail from the same box they code on.. But if you don't want your code leaked, don't put it on a box that's in any accessable from the commercial internet.
I saw a job listing recently that had as a requirement "5+ years in administering Windows 2000." This was an entry-level position.
So apparently, not only do you have to be willing to work for peanuts and take entry-level jobs when you have experience... you have to be a time traveller too!
I have a liberal arts degree, too.. and a damn good computer job that I love.
I went to university to learn things and study things I couldn't reasonably learn elsewhere... computers were what I did in my free time.
Now I'm working on getting those "useless meaningless certifications" since HR folk, who barely know how to turn their computers on, have decided that people without certs and/or CS or IT degrees aren't worth considering...
Of course you can just as easily cut your steak with a knife and fork as you can stab and eat someone to death with the same utensils anyway - does that mean we shouldn't eat with a knife and fork anymore?
SHH! Don't let the government know, or they'll add a "NO EATING WITH UTENSILS" clause into the next Patriot Act!
The Americans who believe what they are spoonfed from the mainstream media's constant barrage are more afraid of terrorism.
The Americans who read, think, evaluate information, and know the Constitution and Bill of Rights are more afraid of the current government's actions.
Ignorance breeds fear. Fear breeds easy compliance.
I am afraid of the people who are afraid of terrorism.
quoth the poster:
"I hate published authors because I'm not one of them."
The honesty in that one sentence staggers me... that's something it's almost impossible to get any sort of artist to admit! Unfortunately, your honesty came at the end of a self-indulgent pity-fest rant about how much better you are than actual published famous authors... all I have to say is.. Man, get over it. There is always going to be someone more famous, richer, more critically acclaimed, and better at the craft than you are.
Now see, if you'd just written that one sentence, if would have summed up your entire post. If you'd done that instead of the long-winded semi-readable whine you posted, you could have spent the time pitching your novels to a small publishing house to apply for grants and monetary advances, like most small-time writers do. You don't need a printer, go buy a cheap used typewriter like millions of writers all over the world have used. Type out your book outline, pitch it to a publisher, receive an advance, upgrade your computer system and printer, write your book, give it to the publisher... TA DAAAAH! Suddenly you're a published author, and then you can hate yourself!
Heh.. you forgot the "Oh, but wait, as I'm writing this I realized that the first half of my submission was utterly ridiculous and actually wrong, but I'm continuing anyway..." and the "Oh wait, we already said this" from the Slashdot editors. ;)
Heh... Sounds like you'd hate most modern art. ;)
Check out his "biography."
He's a "cyberyogi," a teacher of "logology." Uh.. yeah. From his site:
Logologie is a religion of reason; it is free of devilization and has many things common with Buddhism, but unlike this it includes a much more detailed understanding of the physical interaction between consciousness and the nervous system. Main goal of Logologie is the preservation and development of the human race by enabling it to sovereignous- holistical thinking and the overcoming of causing sufferance, because due to the network of cosmic consciousness everything is connected with everything and sufferance therefore never exists separately.
I am a cyberage-child - born in the year of Pong, and I study software- techniques at the German technical college Fachhochschule Hamburg (which unfortunately consumes the major amount of my time).
I am researcher of neuronomy and consciousness physics. (Neuronomy is the science of the improvement of the usage of brain and nervous system.) I collect historical videogames and homecomputers, I enjoy to build and repair electronic things and I am interested in electronic musics, synthesizer technology and everything that makes unusual (mostly electronic) sounds. I also compose own musics (e.g. like tekkno- trance, meditational musics etc.) and like to write poems and short stories etc. (e.g. SF), paint computer graphics and I am generally very interested in art and philosophy.
Uh.. yeah. Sounds credible to me.
Amen, brother (or sister, since you're Anonymous)!
There is a major difference between ability and apathy, intelligence and diligence. I've learned it, and I firmly believe that if one wants to be taking seriously in a public arena, one should learn the magic of spellcheck and dictionary.com.
I am terminally amused by people's perception of me. I am also dyslexic, and an obsessive proofreader myself. ;) If I can do it, everyone else should be able to as well... or at least run their post through a spell-checker before posting.
Hey, man, when the poster reveals to us all that they are actually a third-grader, I'll withdraw my criticism. ;)
The company may not be held legally responsible, but imagine Mr. Irate User calling up screaming to talk to "YOUR SUPERVISOR, and THEIR SUPERVISOR, DAMMIT!" Most companies do what they can to please the end user. Even if the tech signs a waiver of responsibility, the perception on the part of the user is still that the company is responsible for the tech's actions, because, conceivably, the company trained said tech, and said tech was conceivably acting on behalf of the company.
And apparently, the above post is what happens when our communities save money on things like "teachers" and "textbooks."
Kindness is one thing, good business practice is another.
For example: a licensed tech provides off-time support in a relatively unofficial capacity, which causes the user to do something that royally screws his connection/hardware/software/downloaded pr0n/etc. User calls official tech support and demands retribution, seeing as how one of the company's techs told user to do something that "broke his stuff."
I've been in this situation before, and it ain't pretty for anyone involved, no matter how good the tech's intentions were.
Don't get me wrong, I'm all for kindness and helping others. But I also understand the corporate position of "no unofficial tech support by official tech supporters."
You don't own math because you commented on a particular sequence of numbers.
You don't own the internet because you commented on a particular sequence of words.
Just like in America, you don't own your country just because you trudged to the polls and voted once.
It just doesn't work that way. Period.
In America, you are wrong. Slashdot agrees with me. Look at the bottom of the page you are surfing: "All trademarks and copyrights on this page are owned by their respective owners. Comments are owned by the Poster. The Rest © 1997-2002 OSDN."
In America, I own my words, I own my thoughts, and I exercise my freedom to use them. By openly stating these words in freely-accessible text, I claim them as my own. Licensing is different than copyright.
Duh.. They know how prion-based disease is transmitted... it's through consuming the diseased tissues, largely. And in spongiform disorders, this is the brain/spinal cord tissues/fluids, as far as they know
So basically, if you kill a deer that might be diseased, don't use/eat any part of the head.
I agree with you for the most part, but I also would like to say that the "bunny-huggers" don't seem to understand that humans have not only virtually elminated the natural predators of the deer, but we've eliminated their feeding grounds as well. Then people complain on the one hand about the "predatory virulent deer" encroaching on their lovely suburban gardens and freeways, and on the other hand complain about the "bloodthirsty, inhumane hunters" who do no more than their part to keep the population in natural balance as dictated by the conservation society...
As one who lives in metro St. Louis, I understand the dilemma.
Good point.. but it's not just "insisting on inspections" that Iraqi's say are violating human rights... try breaking the Geneva Convention by deliberatly destroying the civillian infrastructure for clean water, and by creating an embargo against imported food, medicine, and technology.
If we want to emancipate and liberate, we need to support build basic infrastructure (including network architecture). We need to ensure freedom of information and human need supply lines to the people, not just the priviledged few...
Nah, this is more of a "who cares??" idea.
It's pointless anyway. Politics and humanity are largely lost on Slashdotters. Which is unfortunate, seeing as how the intelligent ones should and can be the ones to make an actual difference, rather than a purely symbolic one...