Well where I work, we did in fact throw a number of resumes out the window specifically because of hotmail and AOL email addresses.
But then again, I work in IT, those people SHOULD know better.
Same here. I've never hired a Sys. Admin. or even a Helpdesk Tech who submits a resume with a hotmail, aol, comcast or similar address. Also, addresses that imply a lack of maturity are penalized. I don't want to see "bunny_252@gmail.com" or "joe_87@live.net".
If you don't want me to look at your email address and wonder if you're mature enough for the position, use something simple and professional like, jon.doe@gmail.com.
Biking to work in Montgomery County would be suicidal. I use mass transit and have been hit by cars while using crosswalks twice in 3 years. I simply cannot imagine the additional danger to someone who bikes to work every day surrounded by MD drivers.
Actually, it sucks. I've literally exhausted 90% of the decent sword & sorcery fantasy fiction out there since I became addicted to it 10 - 12 years ago. I find myself re-reading the better material just to read something.
I picked up the book yesterday afternoon, and finished it just before midnight. (Yes, I actually do retain what I read. No, I don't skip anything.)
The characters are all the same people, but Sanderson's versions seem more chatty, and slightly "larger" than Jordan's... I know that's not clear, but somehow Sanderson's intervention has resulted in more detailed character development.
The book is non-stop action. Jordan's last 3 books were *almost* boring - the plot pace had slowed to a crawl. Not true in this book: if anything, it feels like falling down a water slide. Numerous plot elements are wrapped up in just this first book. A lot of those burning questions about who's dead and who's alive are answered. Unlike Jordan's previous volumes, I could actually see this one as a movie (is that good or bad?).
I enjoyed it thoroughly. It was worth the money and the time (though my 6 hours are a pittance compared to the days some of you will spend reading it). I'm already loaning it out to other Jordan fans to read.
Uhm, no? The engineering challenges alone are vastly greater for flying craft, not to mention the safety considerations, air traffic control and fueling problems. No, if you're going to do (essentially) robotic delivery of trade goods, this would be the way to do it.
Frankly, I'm not too fond of the idea of walking down into my cellar every morning with a shovel to scoop out all the mystery meat that showed up during the night...
They would like the legislation to exempt anyone who owns a copyright, patent, trademark, or trade secret from restrictions against pretexting.
IANAL, but wouldn't this pretty much make the bill in question completely worthless? I'm thinking that companies like HP, Microsoft, etc. would be exempt if the **AA gets what they're asking for here.
If it's business communication, it needs to be logged and available for reference. It's not my decision, and even if it was, I'd probably log it. If you're discussing personal stuff using corporate resources, then you need to realize that communication is not private. We spell that out very clearly in employee contracts (and since I know people don't read them, I explain it when new employees come to meet me). By the way - our users have ASKED for searchable logs of instant messaging (we facilitated that with Google Desktop).
If you want to have a private conversation, use your cell phone, an outside messaging system, or web-based email account (GAIM integrates multiple messaging protocols, and we only log communication routed through our corporate jabber server). None of those are logged (don't use them for corporate communication, or else).
If we could do STT conversion of voicemail and phone calls, store them and index them, we probably would. I'm sure some day we will.
The office is NOT your home. Sorry.
Now at home? The government, my ISP, software vendors and anyone else had better keep their hands off of my data. The sanctity and privacy of our homes and private lives is something I spend serious time and money on lobbying for.
I have to agree with you, luca. Our company uses a corporate Jabber server paired with GAIM on the user end. When Jabber goes down, productivity grinds to a halt. Probably half of our corporate communication is done via Jabber.
In that same vein of thought, I just spent the last hour and a half in my boss's (VP for Tech) office seriously discussing this group of services Google is offering. Part of what makes it so attractive is the searchable logging of instant messages. We have enough trouble just logging our Jabber messaging as it is, let alone making that text searchable.
In the past two days, one of these botnets has used my company's url as the bounceback URL for thier spam flood. I honestly didn't think there was anyone left out there who bounced-back spam messages, but believe me, I've been disbused of that notion. The flood of bouncebacks that hit our mailservers brought them to thier knees. 200000 messages in 8 hours. I know that may not seem like a lot to some admins out there, but that's more crap mail in 8 hours than legit mail we get/send in a year.
When you use the term "AI," people immediately think of a human-like consciousness. The same phenomenon occurs with robotics. For some reason, creation of intelligent pseudo-life is likened in our minds with procreation. Hence, that creation is in our own image.
"And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth." The Bible, KJV, Genesis 1:26.
Why don't you to come to Hyjal (my WoW realm) and evangelize that point of view to all the 12-15 year old players out there. I'll be entertained to see how many converts you get by telling them "Your gear is good enough to play and be happy!"
Simple fact: these games are built to suck in the casual gamer and turn him into a serious gamer. That's how the revenue model works.
Thanks for the correction about 255. As for there only being 16 addresses there... Each dorm has one or more subnets; we rarely, if ever, use more than 5 banned addresses per subnet. We have a pretty good level of awareness about installing and updating anti-virus software. Our biggest issue right now is Gnutella (40 Gnutella users can eat up 20% of our outbound bandwidth).
I work as an IT technician (translation: underpaid slave labor) for a large university in the southeastern U.S. Our method of controlling virii propagation is to reserve the upper 15 addresses in each subnet (XXX.XXX.XXX.240-255) for use as banned IP's. If we find a student who is generating huge amounts of traffic, we create a DHCP reservation by their MAC address, and put them in that range. Our firewalls and switches are instructed to simply drop all traffic from any IP with 240-255 in the last octet.
As soon as they clean their machines, we delete the reservations. Of course, they also get the standard "You must have an up-to-date antivirus client installed on your machine at all times!" talk as well.
If you have a smart user who knows how to clone their MAC, it becomes a little more difficult: we then use the lovely features of our Cisco Catalyst 2950 Series Switches to shut down their network connections altogether.
These methods are also used to prevent students from distributing copyrighted content, and to stop the occasional student-gone-script-kiddie.
A boss of mine who used to work for Air Force Intel told me that the magnetic field used to de-gauss an HDD had to be about as strong as a car-lifting magnet. I seriously doubt that the field generated by an 80mm fan is even enough to penetrate the steel housing of the drive (maybe not even the circuit board, since it's bottom-mounted).
What other kind of phone is there? Seriously, I live in a house with 3 mobile phones (on 3 different networks, *sigh*). You'd have to threaten my life to get me to sign up for a land line.
"Well, detective, the coroner's report cited the cause of death as a Blue Skin Of Death." There's gonna be some great Law and Order episodes from this one.
This is what my school did with Blaster... They just pulled the fiber from the routers down in the basement (IT's standard location). We spent the next 6 days (weekend included) going from door to door with a bevy of CD's (one for each OS, created by our poor MCSE). Each CD had a little batch job that scanned the PC, removed the infection (if it existed), and then installed the appropriate patch. This was made more complicated by the University's privacy policy, which mandates that a school employee cannot enter a student's room alone. We had to travel in teams, and with a small school's IT department, that meant we had 3 teams for 2,500+ PC's. That comes out to over $5K in manhours alone. The infection rate was approx. 68%. I think we need a class on how to install patches.
Uhm, anyone who does research and development with carbon nanotubes is, by definition, smart. Something tells me that they wouldn't be marketing a product that experienced a critical failure every time the sun came up.
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Well where I work, we did in fact throw a number of resumes out the window specifically because of hotmail and AOL email addresses.
But then again, I work in IT, those people SHOULD know better.
Same here. I've never hired a Sys. Admin. or even a Helpdesk Tech who submits a resume with a hotmail, aol, comcast or similar address. Also, addresses that imply a lack of maturity are penalized. I don't want to see "bunny_252@gmail.com" or "joe_87@live.net".
If you don't want me to look at your email address and wonder if you're mature enough for the position, use something simple and professional like, jon.doe@gmail.com.
Biking to work in Montgomery County would be suicidal. I use mass transit and have been hit by cars while using crosswalks twice in 3 years. I simply cannot imagine the additional danger to someone who bikes to work every day surrounded by MD drivers.
Actually, it sucks. I've literally exhausted 90% of the decent sword & sorcery fantasy fiction out there since I became addicted to it 10 - 12 years ago. I find myself re-reading the better material just to read something.
I picked up the book yesterday afternoon, and finished it just before midnight. (Yes, I actually do retain what I read. No, I don't skip anything.)
The characters are all the same people, but Sanderson's versions seem more chatty, and slightly "larger" than Jordan's... I know that's not clear, but somehow Sanderson's intervention has resulted in more detailed character development.
The book is non-stop action. Jordan's last 3 books were *almost* boring - the plot pace had slowed to a crawl. Not true in this book: if anything, it feels like falling down a water slide. Numerous plot elements are wrapped up in just this first book. A lot of those burning questions about who's dead and who's alive are answered. Unlike Jordan's previous volumes, I could actually see this one as a movie (is that good or bad?).
I enjoyed it thoroughly. It was worth the money and the time (though my 6 hours are a pittance compared to the days some of you will spend reading it). I'm already loaning it out to other Jordan fans to read.
Uhm, no? The engineering challenges alone are vastly greater for flying craft, not to mention the safety considerations, air traffic control and fueling problems. No, if you're going to do (essentially) robotic delivery of trade goods, this would be the way to do it.
Frankly, I'm not too fond of the idea of walking down into my cellar every morning with a shovel to scoop out all the mystery meat that showed up during the night...
In other words, before attempting to exercise your grammar nazi skills in a witty and seemingly humorous manner, RTFA.
IANAL, but wouldn't this pretty much make the bill in question completely worthless? I'm thinking that companies like HP, Microsoft, etc. would be exempt if the **AA gets what they're asking for here.
I would have rated you "+1 Insightful" if it weren't for the complete lack of anything resembling proper English.
If it's business communication, it needs to be logged and available for reference. It's not my decision, and even if it was, I'd probably log it. If you're discussing personal stuff using corporate resources, then you need to realize that communication is not private. We spell that out very clearly in employee contracts (and since I know people don't read them, I explain it when new employees come to meet me). By the way - our users have ASKED for searchable logs of instant messaging (we facilitated that with Google Desktop).
If you want to have a private conversation, use your cell phone, an outside messaging system, or web-based email account (GAIM integrates multiple messaging protocols, and we only log communication routed through our corporate jabber server). None of those are logged (don't use them for corporate communication, or else).
If we could do STT conversion of voicemail and phone calls, store them and index them, we probably would. I'm sure some day we will.
The office is NOT your home. Sorry.
Now at home? The government, my ISP, software vendors and anyone else had better keep their hands off of my data. The sanctity and privacy of our homes and private lives is something I spend serious time and money on lobbying for.
"Libre Software"? What is this, the French Computing Revolution?
I have to agree with you, luca. Our company uses a corporate Jabber server paired with GAIM on the user end. When Jabber goes down, productivity grinds to a halt. Probably half of our corporate communication is done via Jabber.
In that same vein of thought, I just spent the last hour and a half in my boss's (VP for Tech) office seriously discussing this group of services Google is offering. Part of what makes it so attractive is the searchable logging of instant messages. We have enough trouble just logging our Jabber messaging as it is, let alone making that text searchable.
Have you ever watched a group of 16-year-old kids texting? Believe me, they aren't interested in seeing what they're writing.
"Dood, com 2 mx plc aeter schl."
In the past two days, one of these botnets has used my company's url as the bounceback URL for thier spam flood. I honestly didn't think there was anyone left out there who bounced-back spam messages, but believe me, I've been disbused of that notion. The flood of bouncebacks that hit our mailservers brought them to thier knees. 200000 messages in 8 hours. I know that may not seem like a lot to some admins out there, but that's more crap mail in 8 hours than legit mail we get/send in a year.
When you use the term "AI," people immediately think of a human-like consciousness. The same phenomenon occurs with robotics. For some reason, creation of intelligent pseudo-life is likened in our minds with procreation. Hence, that creation is in our own image.
"And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth." The Bible, KJV, Genesis 1:26.
Why don't you to come to Hyjal (my WoW realm) and evangelize that point of view to all the 12-15 year old players out there. I'll be entertained to see how many converts you get by telling them "Your gear is good enough to play and be happy!" Simple fact: these games are built to suck in the casual gamer and turn him into a serious gamer. That's how the revenue model works.
Thanks for the correction about 255.
As for there only being 16 addresses there... Each dorm has one or more subnets; we rarely, if ever, use more than 5 banned addresses per subnet. We have a pretty good level of awareness about installing and updating anti-virus software.
Our biggest issue right now is Gnutella (40 Gnutella users can eat up 20% of our outbound bandwidth).
I work as an IT technician (translation: underpaid slave labor) for a large university in the southeastern U.S. Our method of controlling virii propagation is to reserve the upper 15 addresses in each subnet (XXX.XXX.XXX.240-255) for use as banned IP's. If we find a student who is generating huge amounts of traffic, we create a DHCP reservation by their MAC address, and put them in that range. Our firewalls and switches are instructed to simply drop all traffic from any IP with 240-255 in the last octet.
As soon as they clean their machines, we delete the reservations. Of course, they also get the standard "You must have an up-to-date antivirus client installed on your machine at all times!" talk as well.
If you have a smart user who knows how to clone their MAC, it becomes a little more difficult: we then use the lovely features of our Cisco Catalyst 2950 Series Switches to shut down their network connections altogether.
These methods are also used to prevent students from distributing copyrighted content, and to stop the occasional student-gone-script-kiddie.
A boss of mine who used to work for Air Force Intel told me that the magnetic field used to de-gauss an HDD had to be about as strong as a car-lifting magnet. I seriously doubt that the field generated by an 80mm fan is even enough to penetrate the steel housing of the drive (maybe not even the circuit board, since it's bottom-mounted).
What other kind of phone is there? Seriously, I live in a house with 3 mobile phones (on 3 different networks, *sigh*). You'd have to threaten my life to get me to sign up for a land line.
"Well, detective, the coroner's report cited the cause of death as a Blue Skin Of Death."
There's gonna be some great Law and Order episodes from this one.
This is what my school did with Blaster...
They just pulled the fiber from the routers down in the basement (IT's standard location). We spent the next 6 days (weekend included) going from door to door with a bevy of CD's (one for each OS, created by our poor MCSE). Each CD had a little batch job that scanned the PC, removed the infection (if it existed), and then installed the appropriate patch.
This was made more complicated by the University's privacy policy, which mandates that a school employee cannot enter a student's room alone. We had to travel in teams, and with a small school's IT department, that meant we had 3 teams for 2,500+ PC's. That comes out to over $5K in manhours alone.
The infection rate was approx. 68%. I think we need a class on how to install patches.
Uhm, anyone who does research and development with carbon nanotubes is, by definition, smart. Something tells me that they wouldn't be marketing a product that experienced a critical failure every time the sun came up.
Great, I think I just figured out a new method for pr0n detection. Unless we're talking anime, of course.
Anyone still practice the ancient art of defenistration?