Probably never, because such a patch would be illegal, and if you're going to do something illegal, might as well just burn a full version of XP from your friend.
So...are consumer router/firewalls ok then? Since almost all of them provide a web interface from which total control of the firewall can be obtained...
Does that mean we need to restrict firewall access to only physical access?
Try telling that to the company president after they've installed enough spyware/adware to effectively cripple their machines.
Perhaps an "opt-in/opt-out" system would work. I could tell the company president that I gave them a choice of no admin access w/ regular support or admin access w/ only self-help support (web resources, access to images/packages...). That can't be any worse than forcing no admin access, can it? After all, I am giving users a choice, and I am in no way preventing them from getting access to the regular type of support. The users should be no worse off.
Any admin worth their pay is going to have automated tools to take care of just about anything that comes up for installs and system changes. If someone needs something, all I have to do is push out the package and it's installed in the background while they're still working. When the little blinky thing disappears from their system tray, they know they can use it.
Unfortunately (from a sysadmin perspective), many users' jobs involve making unexpected changes or installing unexpected software for testing/development purposes - there would be no packages to be able to push out. In fact, it would be quite a huge headache to admin those machines.
Hell, my own account doesn't even have admin, I have to log in with a separate one for that.
The entire reasoning behind removing a user's admin access is to prevent them from causing irrepairable damage to their operating system.
As for telling them that "they're on their own", I take it you've never worked as a system adminstrator?
You could always give users the choice of being "on their own", with no support if they muck up (but perhaps self help resources available such as hard drive images), or having no admin access but having eligibility for support.
Why are you giving users administrative access over their PCs? There is NO valid reason for it (and if you think there is, you need to do some research)
Um, how about convenience? Do you REALLY think it is wise to have to have an administrator come by (or access the pc remotely) everytime a user (such as a software developer, QA engineer, etc) needs to install software or change system settings (different software that installs in different places, different settings...), or add/delete user accounts or set up their own local firewalls/networks? Please give me a reason why this is NOT valid reason. I personally hate sys admins who like to abuse power and make other people's jobs harder. In fact, everyone should have local administrative access - there is no reason for them not to. Just give it with the caveat that if they muck up, they're on their own.
Every government makes it very clear that your computer can and will be monitored (even though the sys-admins are usualy not up to the task of actually figuring out how to effectively monitor it). i.e. the sys-admin had every right to do this and was acting according to what someone way way higher up would say was good practices to the cammeras.
Does it also make very clear that anyone (or the sysadmin) can monitor the computer?
Never let anything, popup windows, javascript, etc., hide any part of the browser interface.
Exactly...I don't know why javascript even allows popup windows, or altering the browser interface. The browser should contain a save, self-contained viewport on the world wide web. Anything that a webpage does should *only* occur within the viewport.
IT people are annoying because:
- they treat non-IT people (including engineers, scientists, and software developers) as idiots
- they assume niche knowledge of IT = brilliance and lack of it = stupidity
- they think they have the hardest, most intellectually challenging job in the world
- they laugh at "users"
- they have a "I'm better than you" attitude
Actually I shouldn't say *all* IT people are like this, because I know quite a few that actually care about what they do, enjoy helping others, and have respect for others. However, coincidentally or not, those same few do exclusively "behind the scenes" work such as server administration, network stuff, or mail environment stuff.
That sounds a bit more like a greeting for those who actually expect to help someone when they answer the phone. I'm not sure if it makes sense for most people.
Depending on how close you are with George, you may say, "Hi, George, it's (your name). How are you?" or something like that. It is rude simply to say, "Hi George, it's (your name), can I speak to Liz?" George desrves a polite social interchange.
Actually, if I were George, I would find the caller to be exceedingly irritating and annoying, if the "polite social interchange" has no point other than to take up time. The fact is , the caller called wih the intent of speaking to someone else, and simply greeting me with a "Hi George", and then politely asking for that person is perfectly fine (and preferrable) for me.
Um, so what IS an appropriate first word, besides "Hello" ("Hello?" is not a word, so I'll assume you meant "Hello" - normally I'm not so anal, but since you made a point of being specific about the first word, well...)?
With the apparent growth of digital cable and satellite, can TV tuners even be used in the future? It's nice to have a custom tivo-type PC that you can do anything with, but would that be possible a few years from now?
Thank you for expressing my exact feelings about that phrase. I couldn't help but cringe when I read it at the end of the submission.
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Prior to that, the number pad doubled as the motion keys.
And I wish it had stayed that way. Now that mice are so common, we have to either put our keyboards at an awkard angle to make room for the mouse, or use the mouse at an awkward distance. Unless you're left-handed, in which case you are lucky.
Funny, but a lot of people really do care about that loss. Especially when we have millions of amateurs trying to copy music - do you think we can guarantee good quality copies from an analogue source?
Plus, these same amateurs will probably lose interest when it takes 1+ hour to copy a CD.
why arent we tapping the people in the third world for "ideas" if theres truely a shortage? Theres billions of people who could come up with ideas but instead they are just being allowed to starve to death.
That's a problem, there is so much talent and brainpower being wasted because we can't even come up with a way to feed people in in the third world, let alone educate them to the extent that they can exploit their abilities.
Create better Robots? Yes we all have that PHD from MIT.
But, maybe in the future we will all have that PHD from MIT, or whatever the equivalent would be in your chosen field. I have faith in humans, we all have wonderous natural capabilities, we just aren't encouraging, developing, or taking advantage of them in the optimal way.
For your world to ever exist, we'd have to change the education system and make the focus of education on creative thinking instead of memorization.
It seems we are currently trying to change the education system. In the past few years at least, there has been a gradual shift towards creativity, critical thinking, and problem solving, and away from memorization (at least in science and mathematics). I imagine that trend is going to continue.
Musicians, Actors, CEOs, etc don't want any competition else they'd end up like the average man constantly being replaced.
I don't know, that may be true for CEOs, or actors to some extent, but most creative people I've seen seem don't seem to have a self-defensive attitude - in fact, they often encourage everyone to expose themselves to their specific field.
Yes at first the reduction of jobs will be good due to increased productivity, this happened with the computer industry in the USA, but after a point the productivity stops increasing while the jobs continue to decrease. The need for unskilled labor will continue to decrease until the majority of people in the world simply won't be as qualified as the machines are. What the hell are service workers supposed to do once they are told the robot can do their job perfectly? What will garbage men do once the garbage machine replaces them? I don't see how robots is good, this would be equal to China working hard to increase its population.
What the heck? Look, it's happened many times before and we've gotten along just fine. There is currently definitely not a shortage of jobs, and probably won't ever be - there is always room to innovate, create, and if anything, create better robots. There will always be problems to be solved in the world, and we need people to solve them, (perhaps by finding ways for robots to do the actual solving). So what if the majority of people in the world become less qualified than robots at certain things? Do you think anyone's more qualified at printing labels than a label printer? Or packaging snacks than a packaging factory?
What the hell are service workers supposed to do once they are told the robot can do their job perfectly? What will garbage men do once the garbage machine replaces them?
What the hell are they supposed to do? Don't you think they would be happy now that they can actually get a job elsewhere that makes use of their unique human abilities, like creativity for instance? We *do* have a shortage of innovators and thinkers in this world, after all. Why aren't there more people filling those positions? Well, because they are needed for dumping garbage bags in a truck. A waste of human talent, if you ask me. Bottom line, humans should be doing what humans are good at, *not* cutting lawns or picking up garbage bags.
I've had my Apple G4 Cube for a few years now, only now really showing its age and completely silent.
*sigh*... I wish no computer components required fans. I mean, do people really not care about noise? The market is driven by supply and demand, right?
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Probably never, because such a patch would be illegal, and if you're going to do something illegal, might as well just burn a full version of XP from your friend.
Does that mean we need to restrict firewall access to only physical access?
Perhaps an "opt-in/opt-out" system would work. I could tell the company president that I gave them a choice of no admin access w/ regular support or admin access w/ only self-help support (web resources, access to images/packages...). That can't be any worse than forcing no admin access, can it? After all, I am giving users a choice, and I am in no way preventing them from getting access to the regular type of support. The users should be no worse off.
Any admin worth their pay is going to have automated tools to take care of just about anything that comes up for installs and system changes. If someone needs something, all I have to do is push out the package and it's installed in the background while they're still working. When the little blinky thing disappears from their system tray, they know they can use it.
Unfortunately (from a sysadmin perspective), many users' jobs involve making unexpected changes or installing unexpected software for testing/development purposes - there would be no packages to be able to push out. In fact, it would be quite a huge headache to admin those machines.
Hell, my own account doesn't even have admin, I have to log in with a separate one for that.
Perhaps that would work for other users as well.
You could always give users the choice of being "on their own", with no support if they muck up (but perhaps self help resources available such as hard drive images), or having no admin access but having eligibility for support.
Um, how about convenience? Do you REALLY think it is wise to have to have an administrator come by (or access the pc remotely) everytime a user (such as a software developer, QA engineer, etc) needs to install software or change system settings (different software that installs in different places, different settings...), or add/delete user accounts or set up their own local firewalls/networks? Please give me a reason why this is NOT valid reason. I personally hate sys admins who like to abuse power and make other people's jobs harder. In fact, everyone should have local administrative access - there is no reason for them not to. Just give it with the caveat that if they muck up, they're on their own.
Can someone explain why asking a question is considered trolling? I must admit I'm a bit dumbfounded...
What do you mean? What criteria do you use to determine whether or not results display bias?
Does it also make very clear that anyone (or the sysadmin) can monitor the computer?
Exactly...I don't know why javascript even allows popup windows, or altering the browser interface. The browser should contain a save, self-contained viewport on the world wide web. Anything that a webpage does should *only* occur within the viewport.
And I'm annoying because I don't use the preview button. Slashdot is annoying because of the 20-second minimum time........
IT people are annoying because: - they treat non-IT people (including engineers, scientists, and software developers) as idiots - they assume niche knowledge of IT = brilliance and lack of it = stupidity - they think they have the hardest, most intellectually challenging job in the world - they laugh at "users" - they have a "I'm better than you" attitude Actually I shouldn't say *all* IT people are like this, because I know quite a few that actually care about what they do, enjoy helping others, and have respect for others. However, coincidentally or not, those same few do exclusively "behind the scenes" work such as server administration, network stuff, or mail environment stuff.
That sounds a bit more like a greeting for those who actually expect to help someone when they answer the phone. I'm not sure if it makes sense for most people.
Actually, if I were George, I would find the caller to be exceedingly irritating and annoying, if the "polite social interchange" has no point other than to take up time. The fact is , the caller called wih the intent of speaking to someone else, and simply greeting me with a "Hi George", and then politely asking for that person is perfectly fine (and preferrable) for me.
Um, so what IS an appropriate first word, besides "Hello" ("Hello?" is not a word, so I'll assume you meant "Hello" - normally I'm not so anal, but since you made a point of being specific about the first word, well...)?
I have a saying I stick by - anything I can think of, others have thought of earlier. Anything I can do, others can do better.
With the apparent growth of digital cable and satellite, can TV tuners even be used in the future? It's nice to have a custom tivo-type PC that you can do anything with, but would that be possible a few years from now?
Hmm, I like the fact that it doesn't really imply the two are mutually exclusive.
Those who can't teach, do.
Many of those who teach can in fact do, and what the heck do you think teaching is? Is it not doing?
However many that can do, can't seem to teach. Which is why they pretend that those who can't do, teach.
Thank you for expressing my exact feelings about that phrase. I couldn't help but cringe when I read it at the end of the submission.
And I wish it had stayed that way. Now that mice are so common, we have to either put our keyboards at an awkard angle to make room for the mouse, or use the mouse at an awkward distance. Unless you're left-handed, in which case you are lucky.
Plus, these same amateurs will probably lose interest when it takes 1+ hour to copy a CD.
Yeah but I'd hate to put up with constantly degrading displays
That's a problem, there is so much talent and brainpower being wasted because we can't even come up with a way to feed people in in the third world, let alone educate them to the extent that they can exploit their abilities.
Create better Robots? Yes we all have that PHD from MIT.
But, maybe in the future we will all have that PHD from MIT, or whatever the equivalent would be in your chosen field. I have faith in humans, we all have wonderous natural capabilities, we just aren't encouraging, developing, or taking advantage of them in the optimal way.
For your world to ever exist, we'd have to change the education system and make the focus of education on creative thinking instead of memorization.
It seems we are currently trying to change the education system. In the past few years at least, there has been a gradual shift towards creativity, critical thinking, and problem solving, and away from memorization (at least in science and mathematics). I imagine that trend is going to continue.
Musicians, Actors, CEOs, etc don't want any competition else they'd end up like the average man constantly being replaced.
I don't know, that may be true for CEOs, or actors to some extent, but most creative people I've seen seem don't seem to have a self-defensive attitude - in fact, they often encourage everyone to expose themselves to their specific field.
What the heck? Look, it's happened many times before and we've gotten along just fine. There is currently definitely not a shortage of jobs, and probably won't ever be - there is always room to innovate, create, and if anything, create better robots. There will always be problems to be solved in the world, and we need people to solve them, (perhaps by finding ways for robots to do the actual solving). So what if the majority of people in the world become less qualified than robots at certain things? Do you think anyone's more qualified at printing labels than a label printer? Or packaging snacks than a packaging factory?
What the hell are service workers supposed to do once they are told the robot can do their job perfectly? What will garbage men do once the garbage machine replaces them?
What the hell are they supposed to do? Don't you think they would be happy now that they can actually get a job elsewhere that makes use of their unique human abilities, like creativity for instance? We *do* have a shortage of innovators and thinkers in this world, after all. Why aren't there more people filling those positions? Well, because they are needed for dumping garbage bags in a truck. A waste of human talent, if you ask me. Bottom line, humans should be doing what humans are good at, *not* cutting lawns or picking up garbage bags.
*sigh*... I wish no computer components required fans. I mean, do people really not care about noise? The market is driven by supply and demand, right?