So an "nl" has to point out to a "us" where the usps FAQ is located? tsk tsk.
The document is useful but the post above goes into much more detail, and is more emphatic. Would be good to include these points in the USPS site AND make sure it gets out there
This sounds like the making of a FAQ. Seriously. Should be posted in post offices and on mail boxes. Should be printed on the back of sheets of stamps.
What about kiosks at post ofices where you can enter an address and it either asks for clarification (did you mean Main Street or Main Boulevard? Is is South Main Street or North Main Street) or gives you the zip+5
Pre-screening of employees and logging of all transactions is necessary
An I can guarentee that these minimal controls are non-existent at this particular company. In fact, I would bet that most employees have their passwords on post-it notes right on their monitor. Outside of banking (and maybe medical with HIPAA) most commercial entities have absolutely ZERO data security. This is a systemic failure that will continue to result in serious compromises, until our elected officials get the cojones to pass laws mandating otherwise.
Similarly - all the posts about 'if you can't keep it secure you shouldn't have it' are stupid - with that argument, absolutely no-one should be able to keep the data... and therefore no-one should have a credit card..
If the data were protected as well as credit card processors or banks do, this would not have happened. Financial institutions are subject to INCREDIBLE regulations on data security, that are enforced by armies of examiners and auditors. There are also severe enforcement mechanisms for those who steal data - someone walking off with account info from a bank would be facing a federal prison term.
Consumer market data companies, by contrast are completely unregulated and subject to no oversight. The industry would prefer not to have to spend to money to do sa, and to hell with the consequences.
Too much dependance on editing configuration files by hand.
My problem is the opposite - where there are nice GUI tools for configuring somethign, the resulting config files are:
Not documented, neither their location nor how they are set
Impossible to understand, much less mofiy by hand
Big advantage of an open source system should be the ability to peer "under the hood" and tweak things by hand, even if they were set up with a friendly GUI utility.
My main example is the KDE setup for PPP. Very useful for getting a dial-up connection quickly, but the resulting config files are a mess. What if I just want to change one value? What if I want to (or need to) run in command line mode and have no GUI to access?
When using a GUI tool, the resulting config files should be absolutely transparent, and well documented. You'd NEVER get this in Windows. You SHOULD get this in Linux.
I've worked for a "Big 5" consulting group where this sort of thing happened all the time. If you didn't enthusiastically cooperate, your career would face a sudden, unexpected shortening. Folks actually used the acronym "CLM" (career limiting movement) to tag these sort of serious political faux pas.
At this place, being divorced was considered a badge of honor, as it meant you had your priorities "in the right place"
At these places, the carrot was making partner in your mid-30's, with a mean compensation of oh wbout $350,000 per year.
If you want the benefits though, someone has to live with the negatives.
Suggestion: If they want to deep-six the windmill farm, let them give up the electricity. I'm sure a few selected brownouts and blackouts will provide their neighbors with enough power to make up for the lost windfarm.
If these people were such great environmentalists, they'd be trying to live off-grid anyway. If they were, I'd give a little bit of consideration to them. As it is, they look to be self centered wealthy whiners.
I KNOW you couldn't care less about public housing. I have to live next to it while it rots. And riots. And robs. And mugs. And reproduces
And just think how much more efficiently the private sector could accomplish these same ends! The free housing market can produce slums far more effectively than any government program. Most 19th Century big cities were full of rotting crime-infested slums - and not a dollar of taxpayer money was spent to subsidize them!
Publicly assisted housing programs in the US have been fairly decimated over the last 20 years. What I see of free market housing solutions now are people living in cardboard boxes. Thirty years ago this was unheard of. It was thought that a first world country like the US would NEVER have third world shanty-towns. I don't know about you, but I don't feel any safer knowing that public housing has been replaced with encampments under freeway onramps.
You may resent the public housing you live next to. I fear the people without housing who inhabit public streets, parks, vacant lots, and the like.
It not just eh amount spent on defense, it's where the money was spent. During WWII, money was spent on mass production that could easily be converted to civilian use after the war. As the military has shofted more towards highly specialized weaponry, there have been fewer civilian spin-offs. Also the fact that technology regulation is much stricter now, means items built for military purposes (e.g., GPS) have a much harder time being made available for civilian use, given that the most innovative stuff is classified, and even the stuff that isn't is subject to export restrictions.
I believe the book Mary Kaldor, The Baroque Arsenal, Hill and Wang, 1981 (See Amazon.com) advanced this theory.
In my experience, younger people tend to work like dogs until it stops being fun for them. They will pull all nighters all week when you're trying to launch a product, won't need to leave early for soccer and little league games, and won't get in trouble from their non-existant wife for leaving a few minutes late.
Perhaps learning to manage your own time and work effort takes some maturity? Young people work like maniacs because the don't plan their time well, aren't as good at estimating the actual effort it takes to do something (this requires experience), aren't quite as good at forseeing and working around resource constraints, maybe don't have the political savvy to negotiate a more reasonable approach when required?
Kind of like a vehicle that requires a powerful engine because the transmission is inefficient. You may be amazed at the horsepower under the hood, but the performance isn't really there.
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But I've run across far more "rigid thinking" from "youngsters" than from experienced baby-boomers.
The difference is that the "youngsters" rigid thinking involves current technology, while the rigidity of the "older folks" involves technology that has been around a while, and when not actually waning, is typed as "old stuff".
Being rigid about The Latest Thing won't make you look like a ridiculous reactionary right away, in fact if it is truly The Latest Thing it may fool folks into thinking you are an innovator. Eventually, your favorite technology will become old, and you will be old with it.
Sort of like old guys who still have their hair done up in the same style that was fashionable when they were 16.
Paraphrasing Karl Marx, "innovation the first time looks chic and fashionable, the second time it looks ridiculous and dated"
Latest scientific theory is that this is the predecessor of the Hollerith card. The markings have been tentatively identified as a primitive form of mainframe JCL.
I hope I'm not asking the obvious in this forum, but is there some sort of performance monitoring and modeling software that can take performance statistics from your current PC and run some "what if" simulation of the effects of upgrading processor speed, memory capacity and speed, hard drive speed, etc.?
I know similar software has been used for large mainframe computers in the past, specifically a package called "BEST/1". Of course with these systems, upgrading the CPU practically requires floating a corporate bond issue, so the cost of the software is self-justified.
If this software is available and actually works as advertised, it might help settle some of these "do I need a faster processor" questions.
You disaster recovery site is no doubt a very stable climate controlled facility, with even temperature and humidity. Just the place to start a wine cellar! Consider keeping a few bottles of treasured Bordeaux first growths, German Auslese, and California Chardonnay.
When a disaster actually occurs, and your well thought out and tested disaster plan makes the whole operation a sucess, celebrate with a fine vintage.
Don't forget to keep a redundant backup copy of a corkscrew as well
I said "being caught by their parents". Depending on how the parent deals with this it could involve shame, or it could involve healthier emotions.
This was a rebuttal to posts about how kids should NEVER have access to sexually explicit material. They WILL and dealing with it is part of growing up.
Once they get the addresses back, they should consider selling or renting them out to raise some funds since California claims to be having budget problems.
Given the dire situation of LA County, I think it is just as criminal that ARIN won't permit this. Think of the emergency medical care that could be funded by carving out some class B's and C's here.
We shouldn't be trashing the spammers for being the opportunistic farks that they are. We should be trashing ARIN for being an obstacle to leasing out unused IP addresses.
its hardly a case of bad management, and more of a statement of what happens when you cut costs too far
A construction company that decided that since business was bad they would use only half as much concrete in their work would be engaging in very bad management. A retailer wouldn't just stock half as many items and hope to maintain the same sales. You can't just arbitrarily cut your material inputs in half and hope to stay in business. Why should you think you can get by on half the employees as well?
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The document is useful but the post above goes into much more detail, and is more emphatic. Would be good to include these points in the USPS site AND make sure it gets out there
What about kiosks at post ofices where you can enter an address and it either asks for clarification (did you mean Main Street or Main Boulevard? Is is South Main Street or North Main Street) or gives you the zip+5
An I can guarentee that these minimal controls are non-existent at this particular company. In fact, I would bet that most employees have their passwords on post-it notes right on their monitor. Outside of banking (and maybe medical with HIPAA) most commercial entities have absolutely ZERO data security. This is a systemic failure that will continue to result in serious compromises, until our elected officials get the cojones to pass laws mandating otherwise.
If the data were protected as well as credit card processors or banks do, this would not have happened. Financial institutions are subject to INCREDIBLE regulations on data security, that are enforced by armies of examiners and auditors. There are also severe enforcement mechanisms for those who steal data - someone walking off with account info from a bank would be facing a federal prison term.
Consumer market data companies, by contrast are completely unregulated and subject to no oversight. The industry would prefer not to have to spend to money to do sa, and to hell with the consequences.
My problem is the opposite - where there are nice GUI tools for configuring somethign, the resulting config files are:
- Not documented, neither their location nor how they are set
- Impossible to understand, much less mofiy by hand
Big advantage of an open source system should be the ability to peer "under the hood" and tweak things by hand, even if they were set up with a friendly GUI utility.My main example is the KDE setup for PPP. Very useful for getting a dial-up connection quickly, but the resulting config files are a mess. What if I just want to change one value? What if I want to (or need to) run in command line mode and have no GUI to access?
When using a GUI tool, the resulting config files should be absolutely transparent, and well documented. You'd NEVER get this in Windows. You SHOULD get this in Linux.
There's hope yet...
... it would be illegal.
Story first noted in 1920 . Slashdot editors, take heed.
Don't be too perturbed if they make fun of your American accent though.
Who is number one?
seems like a lot of trouble to squach an armadillo. Usually speeding cars do just fine.
Or, welcome to the Chrome Tailfins Automotive Accessories Guild. Buggy whips were once useful. Chrome tailfins were always mere ornamentation.
At this place, being divorced was considered a badge of honor, as it meant you had your priorities "in the right place"
At these places, the carrot was making partner in your mid-30's, with a mean compensation of oh wbout $350,000 per year.
Suggestion: If they want to deep-six the windmill farm, let them give up the electricity. I'm sure a few selected brownouts and blackouts will provide their neighbors with enough power to make up for the lost windfarm.
If these people were such great environmentalists, they'd be trying to live off-grid anyway. If they were, I'd give a little bit of consideration to them. As it is, they look to be self centered wealthy whiners.
And just think how much more efficiently the private sector could accomplish these same ends! The free housing market can produce slums far more effectively than any government program. Most 19th Century big cities were full of rotting crime-infested slums - and not a dollar of taxpayer money was spent to subsidize them!
Publicly assisted housing programs in the US have been fairly decimated over the last 20 years. What I see of free market housing solutions now are people living in cardboard boxes. Thirty years ago this was unheard of. It was thought that a first world country like the US would NEVER have third world shanty-towns. I don't know about you, but I don't feel any safer knowing that public housing has been replaced with encampments under freeway onramps.
You may resent the public housing you live next to. I fear the people without housing who inhabit public streets, parks, vacant lots, and the like.
I believe the book Mary Kaldor, The Baroque Arsenal, Hill and Wang, 1981 (See Amazon.com) advanced this theory.
Perhaps learning to manage your own time and work effort takes some maturity? Young people work like maniacs because the don't plan their time well, aren't as good at estimating the actual effort it takes to do something (this requires experience), aren't quite as good at forseeing and working around resource constraints, maybe don't have the political savvy to negotiate a more reasonable approach when required?
Kind of like a vehicle that requires a powerful engine because the transmission is inefficient. You may be amazed at the horsepower under the hood, but the performance isn't really there.
The difference is that the "youngsters" rigid thinking involves current technology, while the rigidity of the "older folks" involves technology that has been around a while, and when not actually waning, is typed as "old stuff".
Being rigid about The Latest Thing won't make you look like a ridiculous reactionary right away, in fact if it is truly The Latest Thing it may fool folks into thinking you are an innovator. Eventually, your favorite technology will become old, and you will be old with it.
Sort of like old guys who still have their hair done up in the same style that was fashionable when they were 16.
Paraphrasing Karl Marx, "innovation the first time looks chic and fashionable, the second time it looks ridiculous and dated"
Latest scientific theory is that this is the predecessor of the Hollerith card. The markings have been tentatively identified as a primitive form of mainframe JCL.
I know similar software has been used for large mainframe computers in the past, specifically a package called "BEST/1". Of course with these systems, upgrading the CPU practically requires floating a corporate bond issue, so the cost of the software is self-justified.
If this software is available and actually works as advertised, it might help settle some of these "do I need a faster processor" questions.
When a disaster actually occurs, and your well thought out and tested disaster plan makes the whole operation a sucess, celebrate with a fine vintage.
Don't forget to keep a redundant backup copy of a corkscrew as well
Every slashdot poster would have the opportunity to flunk computer science at one of the world's most prestigious universities.
This was a rebuttal to posts about how kids should NEVER have access to sexually explicit material. They WILL and dealing with it is part of growing up.
Given the dire situation of LA County, I think it is just as criminal that ARIN won't permit this. Think of the emergency medical care that could be funded by carving out some class B's and C's here.
We shouldn't be trashing the spammers for being the opportunistic farks that they are. We should be trashing ARIN for being an obstacle to leasing out unused IP addresses.
A construction company that decided that since business was bad they would use only half as much concrete in their work would be engaging in very bad management. A retailer wouldn't just stock half as many items and hope to maintain the same sales. You can't just arbitrarily cut your material inputs in half and hope to stay in business. Why should you think you can get by on half the employees as well?