Actually that's how it is in most companies that have anyone half competent. I'm sysadmin with a real engineering degree, the engineering degree is used more than the sysadmin hat. Everyone on my network is an engineer or scientist. there is NO WAY i would let these people install their own OS, and we are a small house. At the medium sized engineering firm I was at before this, installing your own OS was a termination offense. Having a pHD and years of experience in field doesn't make you some 3l33t3 4u43 with computers.
If a user needed that linux partition they should have come to me first. When you call me a bureacratic fool to the VP because I overwrote it, I will calmly explain to him that your actions put us at risk for a hacker to compromise our systems and steal our exposed IP, or allow a disgruntled employee to steal the VPs email. The VP will calm you down and be polite and tell you to put up with the rules and ask IT to install any operating systems you need. IT will have Root on that box. Then he'll privately tell me that he knows you're being arrogant and that security of IP is priority number one and I should come to him if anyone else is putting the future of the company at risk.
"Operating on the premise that all staff are luddites, criminals, or not to be trusted..." Go work some time at an IT helpdesk and you'll realize that this is a good assumption.
This is painfully obvious. Many small town video stores have done similar. The village rental where i grew up did this before the days of Blockbuster.
The ability to use Fedex on a volume large enough to make a profit is nothing innovative, it just wasn't feasible before the internet. Which part is innovative? The internet part. If netflix created the internet they could patent that. If they created their own propietary protocol sets for netflix they could patent that. If they used premade tools and existing services to put together a form of a virtual storefront, then they're doing nothing unique. The whole point of a patent is (was supposed to be) that you've done something UNIQUE and need protection from people who could afford to reverse engineer your work (like cased ammunition for revolvers).
If an obvious concept becomes 'unique and visionary' by adding the words 'on the internet' I think the same should apply to fortune cookie suffix 'in bed.'
I'm sure the government would be able to have a business unit cost of 2, 3, even $10 per transaction. At a cost of $1 each there's no way the government would make money. Even with the paperwork reduction act they would still have to have noninternet based methods.
Yes, that's the problem isn't it?
When they establish a base and promise it won't be used as a military asset...no one else will know if they're joking or not. No matter what the intention or purpose (or nationality), a moonbase must be recognized as a strategic position that influences balance of power. All it takes to change it from research station to attack platform is one payload flight with a nucelar device.
I wonder if there was a secret deal between US and USSR not to make a moonbase because it would change the balance of power in a nuclear standoff?
Previous work by George Orwell supercedes the patent on this process, right?
Thank god, we don't have to worry about seeing this topic as a privacy AND copyright issue.
Jeez, an explicit block on port 135 was the first rule that goes into any firewall I touch. I always ALWAYS put in explicit blocks for in / out on port 135, 137-139 even when they are redundant
Oh right...the noninitiated home users are screwed because they don't even have zonealarm. Well...yeah. They don't install service patches either so what's one more security flaw matter?
"You been playin da foosball??"
My god that would be awful...Ken Starr would never be out of a job and Fox News would never have to talk about actual politics.
We'd spend the next fifty years going after Clinton's women and real estate deals, because there 'might' be something there. In the end the investigations would probably cost more than a manned mission to mars.
Our competitor's mail server bounced an email back to us which we had never sent.
When I talked with their techs about it they told me that the same chinese company had been spamming them from our email address for more than a year. No one in their office spoke chinese so they just put up filters. I like to wonder how many prospective customers received the same spam.
Stop the whining and learn to use the god damn things...
To quote one of my users...
"If I wanted to LEARN how to do this why did I buy a really expensive software app to do it for me?"
Me, i was dumbfounded by such an honest explanation of what it means to be a user.
If you make a big mistake with our program via GIGO and no one in your company catches it...stuff can literally blow up. Obviously it's not worth the user's time to learn to use the tool.
But do these 'no one does that good' liberal arts professors fail a third of students in an upper level class? That's what happens in the 'you can get 100% but expect 30% at best and pass at 19%' engineering courses.
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My fingers are crossed that it is not the type of sequel that MythIII was.
They've had a lot of time...hopefully they played the first two to get an idea of what worked...
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Actually that's how it is in most companies that have anyone half competent. I'm sysadmin with a real engineering degree, the engineering degree is used more than the sysadmin hat. Everyone on my network is an engineer or scientist. there is NO WAY i would let these people install their own OS, and we are a small house. At the medium sized engineering firm I was at before this, installing your own OS was a termination offense. Having a pHD and years of experience in field doesn't make you some 3l33t3 4u43 with computers. If a user needed that linux partition they should have come to me first. When you call me a bureacratic fool to the VP because I overwrote it, I will calmly explain to him that your actions put us at risk for a hacker to compromise our systems and steal our exposed IP, or allow a disgruntled employee to steal the VPs email. The VP will calm you down and be polite and tell you to put up with the rules and ask IT to install any operating systems you need. IT will have Root on that box. Then he'll privately tell me that he knows you're being arrogant and that security of IP is priority number one and I should come to him if anyone else is putting the future of the company at risk. "Operating on the premise that all staff are luddites, criminals, or not to be trusted..." Go work some time at an IT helpdesk and you'll realize that this is a good assumption.
This is painfully obvious. Many small town video stores have done similar. The village rental where i grew up did this before the days of Blockbuster. The ability to use Fedex on a volume large enough to make a profit is nothing innovative, it just wasn't feasible before the internet. Which part is innovative? The internet part. If netflix created the internet they could patent that. If they created their own propietary protocol sets for netflix they could patent that. If they used premade tools and existing services to put together a form of a virtual storefront, then they're doing nothing unique. The whole point of a patent is (was supposed to be) that you've done something UNIQUE and need protection from people who could afford to reverse engineer your work (like cased ammunition for revolvers). If an obvious concept becomes 'unique and visionary' by adding the words 'on the internet' I think the same should apply to fortune cookie suffix 'in bed.'
I'm sure the government would be able to have a business unit cost of 2, 3, even $10 per transaction. At a cost of $1 each there's no way the government would make money. Even with the paperwork reduction act they would still have to have noninternet based methods.
Yes, that's the problem isn't it? When they establish a base and promise it won't be used as a military asset...no one else will know if they're joking or not. No matter what the intention or purpose (or nationality), a moonbase must be recognized as a strategic position that influences balance of power. All it takes to change it from research station to attack platform is one payload flight with a nucelar device. I wonder if there was a secret deal between US and USSR not to make a moonbase because it would change the balance of power in a nuclear standoff?
Previous work by George Orwell supercedes the patent on this process, right? Thank god, we don't have to worry about seeing this topic as a privacy AND copyright issue.
Reply to topic, reply to this...the buttons were so close...the offtopic was second friggin' post at the time.
Jeez, at least come up with a simpsons quote if you're going offtopic. "Yada-yada, square root of a million..." See how easy it is?
Jeez, an explicit block on port 135 was the first rule that goes into any firewall I touch. I always ALWAYS put in explicit blocks for in / out on port 135, 137-139 even when they are redundant Oh right...the noninitiated home users are screwed because they don't even have zonealarm. Well...yeah. They don't install service patches either so what's one more security flaw matter? "You been playin da foosball??"
In soviet russia you don't invade iraq to buy oil...iraq sells oil to YOU!!!!
Hmm...sounds like either our current or former US president... depending on whether you ask a republican or democrat, of course
My god that would be awful...Ken Starr would never be out of a job and Fox News would never have to talk about actual politics. We'd spend the next fifty years going after Clinton's women and real estate deals, because there 'might' be something there. In the end the investigations would probably cost more than a manned mission to mars.
Hmmm...it also explains why my wife's teddy bear has a box full of 'undeliverable' mail at the mailroom for the dorm where i met her.
Our competitor's mail server bounced an email back to us which we had never sent. When I talked with their techs about it they told me that the same chinese company had been spamming them from our email address for more than a year. No one in their office spoke chinese so they just put up filters. I like to wonder how many prospective customers received the same spam.
Stop the whining and learn to use the god damn things... To quote one of my users... "If I wanted to LEARN how to do this why did I buy a really expensive software app to do it for me?" Me, i was dumbfounded by such an honest explanation of what it means to be a user. If you make a big mistake with our program via GIGO and no one in your company catches it...stuff can literally blow up. Obviously it's not worth the user's time to learn to use the tool.
"It's like the square root of a million..." One would think this weren't slashdot...a call for simpsons' quotes and that isn't the first one. "yarr"
But do these 'no one does that good' liberal arts professors fail a third of students in an upper level class? That's what happens in the 'you can get 100% but expect 30% at best and pass at 19%' engineering courses.
My fingers are crossed that it is not the type of sequel that MythIII was. They've had a lot of time...hopefully they played the first two to get an idea of what worked...