I mean, come on, keep it in perspective. They *need* this kind of tracking in Texas. It's just kids now but once they grow up it will make it easier for the administration to find them and execute them for stealing loaves of bread or teaching evolution or whatever else warrants the death penalty in Texas these days.
Riiigggghhhttt. Look, just because MS enters a market doesn't mean the automatic destruction of that market's current players. It certainly brings an 800 lb gorilla into play and any company would be a fool not to be prepared to step up their game.
Though . . . I can't quite place it . . . hmmm . . . so familiar . . . ahhh, yes, Ultimate TV. Guess it wasn't as "ultimate" as MS said it was, eh?
So you sing the "somebody did me wrong song" while doing stuff you are pretty sure is helping somebody else do somebody wrong? I don't know what happened to you but you really need to take a longer look in the mirror.
Actually I think we will find once all the facts are revealed that Renault had imbedded secret sensor technology in this car. The car sensed a German approaching and immediately engaged "RUN AWAY!" mode. It finally disabled itself once it determined it was at least 100 KM away from any Germans. Working this technology into more French products is a key initiative of their national defense policy. There is no credible evidence, however, to support the claims of some that when the "RUN AWAY!" mode was deployed a small TV screen revealed itself and began playing old Jerry Lewis movies.
I laugh at this . . . and the responses I see. All the SEC needed to do was make random calls to a handful of Fortune 500 companies and, assuming the right people were willing to talk, ask if CA post-booked deals. The overwhelming answer would be YES, YES, a thousand times YES! I've been dealing with these bastiges for years and it was always quite clear that we were signing multi-million dollar deals in April that they were booking on March 34. It was really common knowledge.
The strange thing is that major exec's are being charged - correctly - but there's no way Kumar cooked this all up by himself. Where is the indictment on Charles Wang? I don't think even Oliver Stone could concoct a theory where CA started down this path without the direct involvement of Wang.
If there's a silver lining it's that perhaps there's a future where CA deals with both it's stockholders AND customers in an ethical manner. Not all of their software and support sucks, and there's stuff we actually like (none of which they wrote themselves, they just bought it) but we'd rather not deal with a company so devoid of basic ethics. Maybe there's a future where that's not the case.
True. I think something that people aren't considering is a lot of places would be happy even if the only change was just to prevent the READING of the data on a USB device. Like any big company we have firewalls diligently trying to protect us from the big bad internet, we have virus scanners on every Winbox, etc. The overwhelming majority of virii in my company have originated from WITHIN the secured network. If we could set it so that the default for all users that didn't demonstrate a need for them was to disable the use of USB keys and the like we'd eliminate a good portion of our virii sources.
Could a knowledgeable, determined, person defeat this? Yeah, probably. Are those people the source of our problem? Not really. We've never had an incident traced to malicious intent (other than the virus writer themself, of course) but, rather, poor judgement. If those users have the feature disabled they'll mostly just shrug and do whatever they would do if they'd never had a USB key available. For those that complain they'd be pointed to a policy that describes a process for justifying the need for that access and how to apply for it (and secure their own mgmt approval). If it's valid, they'd get the access.
Sure, all this control takes the 'personal' out of PC but they stopped being that a long time ago when you are talking about corporate environments.
Will this affect Joe Windows at home? I can't believe even MS would be stupid enough to make "ON" the default value for denying access to external storage devices for any consumer-oriented OS offering . . . but then, they've surprised smarter people then me.:)
Let's be clear - IBM isn't doing this out of any altruistic "we are the world" type of spirit. They are doing it because they believe it's good for their business and they will make money. That's what the business of business is and what their shareholders expect.
"Nah. If Saddam ever did that at that time, it only takes several hours for several F-16 and B2 to go to Iraq and kick his butt."
Of course the problem with this type of thought is that no proof has been offered that Osama ever used Iraq as a base or that he is there now. That and, regardless of where he actually is, it's been shown quite clearly that pure aerial attacks have been unable to locate him and "kick his butt". Wish it wasn't so but, as far as we know now, he's still out there somewhere.
I don't disagree with a single thing you said; if I had mod points I'd mod it up.
Unfortunately there's an increasing number of folks in this country that feel like the first respondent to my post - killing 4 unarmed students is justifiable because property damage was occuring (even though no credible link existed between the 4 murdered students and that damage). Sadder still is that the freedoms essential to showing that there is a difference between K. State and T. Square are under direct assault from 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., which should be all about defending them instead.
Hey, I want the incumbent out of office but this is still wrong. Even if it isn't a flat-out DDOS if the net result is still the same there's really no difference. I'd rather let everybody publish their views and positions and let the people decide. Attempting to sabotage the means for anybody to communicate their messages simply contradicts the whole intent of the process.
"There are some differences between what the Swift Boat Veterans and what the radical Left are wanting to do, though.
First of all, the Swift Boat vets are NOT advocating acts of civil disobedience bordering of violence (and probably crossing that border, too) that some of the radical Left are advocating. Remember what happened in 1968 and 1999 when a small group of anarchists turned what was supposed to be peaceful protest into violent confrontations with the police and causing quite a lot of property damage?"
Yeah, nothing says FREEDOM like shooting unarmed students at Kent State, urk, I mean, ummm, Tiananmen Square.
"You shouldn't be free to fly planes in buildings. "
Seriously, how many buildings are big enough that flying planes in them is a serious concern? Yeah, while I'm a stickler for preserving rights, I'm willing to concede that one as I really don't envision myself ever having a burning need to fly a plane in a building. On the other hand they will have to pry my cold, dead, fingers off my jet-powered backpack before they stop me from flying that in buildings!
"My father and his (Belgian) wife visited the US during the recent "Freedom Fries" period. My stepmother was delayed at EACH DOMESTIC AIRPORT for a full luggage and personal search. She got funny looks at cafes when she spoke. It was apparently really creepy."
People were just probably wierded out when they saw her dip her freedom fries in mayo. In America, you must put ketchup on _everything_! I think that's a provision of the next iteration of the Patriot Act.
"What use would a fingerprint have been to the authorities at 9am, September 11th, 2001?"
Well, if we found their fingers in the debris we could match them up with their mugshots. So THAT'S what those guys looked like, eh? Neat. Good thing we had these mugshots with the fingerprints!
After hours and lord knows how many gallons of water pouring from a burst water pipe on the 8th floor (above a 7th floor data center), it was finally noticed as it poured into the building lobby on the 1st floor (this was a holiday Monday). Much of the key equipment, including an IBM ES9000 9021-9X2 mainframe (so obviously this was a while ago) was directly in the path of the water.
Once the water had been shut off and the electricians had done their walkthru and signoff that it was OK to power the equipment back on, we started doing just that. Initially we couldn't get all of the mainframe LPAR's to initialize. Most would but one (the most important one) wouldn't come up. We were puzzled for a while till we figured out that it must be a memory issue - for a particular range of central storage. Sure enough, the IBM CE pulled the boards for that range and they were wet. I'll never forget the sight of an that CE holding a hair-dryer (I think we bought out the supply from the Walgreens down the street) to those memory cards to dry them out. Once he popped them back in the other LPAR initialized just fine and all systems were back in business.
The DASD? Well that's another story. It ran but within a year began to experience a much higher failure rate than normal.
To this day visitors to our data center always ask about the containers of plastic sheeting that hang from each of the machines.
Do keep in mind that Apple has a history of playing fast and loose with basic grammar. Does anyone remember "Think different"? Apple freed the world from the need to differentiate the usage of adjectives and adverbs, empowering all of us to assemble any sequence of words as we saw fit regardless of the lack of correct grammatical structure. When adverbs are outlawed, only outlaws will have adverbs!
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Sounds like a win for you. Dominos isn't pizza, it's f*cking cardboard covered with imitation cheese and soy-filler meat-like products. Who the hell orders from Dominos?
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I mean, come on, keep it in perspective. They *need* this kind of tracking in Texas. It's just kids now but once they grow up it will make it easier for the administration to find them and execute them for stealing loaves of bread or teaching evolution or whatever else warrants the death penalty in Texas these days.
Riiigggghhhttt. Look, just because MS enters a market doesn't mean the automatic destruction of that market's current players. It certainly brings an 800 lb gorilla into play and any company would be a fool not to be prepared to step up their game.
Though . . . I can't quite place it . . . hmmm . . . so familiar . . . ahhh, yes, Ultimate TV. Guess it wasn't as "ultimate" as MS said it was, eh?
So you sing the "somebody did me wrong song" while doing stuff you are pretty sure is helping somebody else do somebody wrong? I don't know what happened to you but you really need to take a longer look in the mirror.
Actually I think we will find once all the facts are revealed that Renault had imbedded secret sensor technology in this car. The car sensed a German approaching and immediately engaged "RUN AWAY!" mode. It finally disabled itself once it determined it was at least 100 KM away from any Germans. Working this technology into more French products is a key initiative of their national defense policy. There is no credible evidence, however, to support the claims of some that when the "RUN AWAY!" mode was deployed a small TV screen revealed itself and began playing old Jerry Lewis movies.
I laugh at this . . . and the responses I see. All the SEC needed to do was make random calls to a handful of Fortune 500 companies and, assuming the right people were willing to talk, ask if CA post-booked deals. The overwhelming answer would be YES, YES, a thousand times YES! I've been dealing with these bastiges for years and it was always quite clear that we were signing multi-million dollar deals in April that they were booking on March 34. It was really common knowledge.
The strange thing is that major exec's are being charged - correctly - but there's no way Kumar cooked this all up by himself. Where is the indictment on Charles Wang? I don't think even Oliver Stone could concoct a theory where CA started down this path without the direct involvement of Wang.
If there's a silver lining it's that perhaps there's a future where CA deals with both it's stockholders AND customers in an ethical manner. Not all of their software and support sucks, and there's stuff we actually like (none of which they wrote themselves, they just bought it) but we'd rather not deal with a company so devoid of basic ethics. Maybe there's a future where that's not the case.
True. I think something that people aren't considering is a lot of places would be happy even if the only change was just to prevent the READING of the data on a USB device. Like any big company we have firewalls diligently trying to protect us from the big bad internet, we have virus scanners on every Winbox, etc. The overwhelming majority of virii in my company have originated from WITHIN the secured network. If we could set it so that the default for all users that didn't demonstrate a need for them was to disable the use of USB keys and the like we'd eliminate a good portion of our virii sources.
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Could a knowledgeable, determined, person defeat this? Yeah, probably. Are those people the source of our problem? Not really. We've never had an incident traced to malicious intent (other than the virus writer themself, of course) but, rather, poor judgement. If those users have the feature disabled they'll mostly just shrug and do whatever they would do if they'd never had a USB key available. For those that complain they'd be pointed to a policy that describes a process for justifying the need for that access and how to apply for it (and secure their own mgmt approval). If it's valid, they'd get the access.
Sure, all this control takes the 'personal' out of PC but they stopped being that a long time ago when you are talking about corporate environments.
Will this affect Joe Windows at home? I can't believe even MS would be stupid enough to make "ON" the default value for denying access to external storage devices for any consumer-oriented OS offering . . . but then, they've surprised smarter people then me.
Let's be clear - IBM isn't doing this out of any altruistic "we are the world" type of spirit. They are doing it because they believe it's good for their business and they will make money. That's what the business of business is and what their shareholders expect.
"Nah. If Saddam ever did that at that time, it only takes several hours for several F-16 and B2 to go to Iraq and kick his butt."
Of course the problem with this type of thought is that no proof has been offered that Osama ever used Iraq as a base or that he is there now. That and, regardless of where he actually is, it's been shown quite clearly that pure aerial attacks have been unable to locate him and "kick his butt". Wish it wasn't so but, as far as we know now, he's still out there somewhere.
I don't disagree with a single thing you said; if I had mod points I'd mod it up.
Unfortunately there's an increasing number of folks in this country that feel like the first respondent to my post - killing 4 unarmed students is justifiable because property damage was occuring (even though no credible link existed between the 4 murdered students and that damage). Sadder still is that the freedoms essential to showing that there is a difference between K. State and T. Square are under direct assault from 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., which should be all about defending them instead.
I'm guessing they were probably killed before you were even born.
Hey, I want the incumbent out of office but this is still wrong. Even if it isn't a flat-out DDOS if the net result is still the same there's really no difference. I'd rather let everybody publish their views and positions and let the people decide. Attempting to sabotage the means for anybody to communicate their messages simply contradicts the whole intent of the process.
"There are some differences between what the Swift Boat Veterans and what the radical Left are wanting to do, though. First of all, the Swift Boat vets are NOT advocating acts of civil disobedience bordering of violence (and probably crossing that border, too) that some of the radical Left are advocating. Remember what happened in 1968 and 1999 when a small group of anarchists turned what was supposed to be peaceful protest into violent confrontations with the police and causing quite a lot of property damage?" Yeah, nothing says FREEDOM like shooting unarmed students at Kent State, urk, I mean, ummm, Tiananmen Square.
You forgot the cluster of "common man" that Cheney would be pissing on.
"You shouldn't be free to fly planes in buildings. "
Seriously, how many buildings are big enough that flying planes in them is a serious concern? Yeah, while I'm a stickler for preserving rights, I'm willing to concede that one as I really don't envision myself ever having a burning need to fly a plane in a building. On the other hand they will have to pry my cold, dead, fingers off my jet-powered backpack before they stop me from flying that in buildings!
"Yeah, well atleast we can still swear on TV, drink at 18, protest without being pepper sprayed and burn our (and your) flags ;)"
Sounds like a pretty full day, but don't the flags start getting expensive?
"My father and his (Belgian) wife visited the US during the recent "Freedom Fries" period. My stepmother was delayed at EACH DOMESTIC AIRPORT for a full luggage and personal search. She got funny looks at cafes when she spoke. It was apparently really creepy."
People were just probably wierded out when they saw her dip her freedom fries in mayo. In America, you must put ketchup on _everything_! I think that's a provision of the next iteration of the Patriot Act.
"What use would a fingerprint have been to the authorities at 9am, September 11th, 2001?"
Well, if we found their fingers in the debris we could match them up with their mugshots. So THAT'S what those guys looked like, eh? Neat. Good thing we had these mugshots with the fingerprints!
Self-appointed dictators are, IMO, disqualified from consideration as "public servants".
No more of that pounding thunder in my head!
After hours and lord knows how many gallons of water pouring from a burst water pipe on the 8th floor (above a 7th floor data center), it was finally noticed as it poured into the building lobby on the 1st floor (this was a holiday Monday). Much of the key equipment, including an IBM ES9000 9021-9X2 mainframe (so obviously this was a while ago) was directly in the path of the water.
Once the water had been shut off and the electricians had done their walkthru and signoff that it was OK to power the equipment back on, we started doing just that. Initially we couldn't get all of the mainframe LPAR's to initialize. Most would but one (the most important one) wouldn't come up. We were puzzled for a while till we figured out that it must be a memory issue - for a particular range of central storage. Sure enough, the IBM CE pulled the boards for that range and they were wet. I'll never forget the sight of an that CE holding a hair-dryer (I think we bought out the supply from the Walgreens down the street) to those memory cards to dry them out. Once he popped them back in the other LPAR initialized just fine and all systems were back in business.
The DASD? Well that's another story. It ran but within a year began to experience a much higher failure rate than normal.
To this day visitors to our data center always ask about the containers of plastic sheeting that hang from each of the machines.
Dumbass. All Tivo's run Linux, always have.
The Canyonero . . . choice of Marge Simpson.
does it make when it's flattened by an SUV?
Do keep in mind that Apple has a history of playing fast and loose with basic grammar. Does anyone remember "Think different"? Apple freed the world from the need to differentiate the usage of adjectives and adverbs, empowering all of us to assemble any sequence of words as we saw fit regardless of the lack of correct grammatical structure. When adverbs are outlawed, only outlaws will have adverbs!
Sounds like a win for you. Dominos isn't pizza, it's f*cking cardboard covered with imitation cheese and soy-filler meat-like products. Who the hell orders from Dominos?