When wars are fought with robots and human lives are no longer in the balance a war will have lost all of its beauty.
George Bush's school yard grudges, yes 8000 american live in 9-11, definitely a grudge. Don't talk about soldiers, you obviously are not one.
Does your machine just download those EXE without prompting you if it's ok, mine prompts me and I say "no". Simple as that, don't click yes to programs installing in your computer, much like you don't just let strangers in your house.
I can't get email viruses through my email, unless they are newer than my email scanner on the server end knows about. I set up the work email server and have it scan all incoming and outgoing mail for viruses, if it finds a virus, it tries to cure and if that is impossible it strips the attachment. No muss no fuss, but these html attacks aren't really viruses and can still get through, but not through my spam guard which stops I'd say about 80% of spam on the server end.
not really, usually with questionable email, I just read it through my webmail which doesn't allow html. and everything else I read through outlook. The majority of my email is from work, or people I trust, the rest of it, some friends of mine, and the ocassional unknown person, I just pop out to webmail.
I love the personal insult that I don't get email from girls, oh yes love god of the ages your of course correct, us nerds never see women.
actually I was just making a point that girls are the worst offenders for sending me emails, with viruses, flash screens, stupid little pop ups, bongo buddies, and other shit.
did you not read, I sometimes do read unknown email, meaning, I personally filter it, I don't use a refuse all unknown white list. And if I saw, the subject said, In response to Slashdot, or something else that I was aware I was posting to, or investigating, then I read it with HTML turned off, but if it's from my buddies I read it with HTMl on, if it's from my mom or any girl for that matter, I turn HTML off. lol know your email sender, and adjust accordingly.
I did not say they were organized, I said the government was unorganized, and for a conspiracy as huge as most people refer to, then the upper echelons would all have to be in on it. and quite honestly I don't see that as possible, most people in government are too worried about back stabbing eachother through exposing one another, to ever get in on one big conspiracy. Outing a conspiracy is a bonus for a candidate or politician, they like doing it, this careful degree of them all being too gready to work together, really helps the american people.
Yes of course, all the money from my bank account. Lord knows I keep my bank number, routing number, and pin number, in a text file on my computer marked Bank Information for hacker to use.txt
Get real.
and to you up there who puts his computer on a school network, without all patches and updates, of course you recieved a virus, that's kind of like me bitching if I walk around with my wallet exposed and my eyes closed in London, and then I bitch if my money gets stolen.
A good virus detection program, a NAT router, a spam catcher behind your email server, and a quick look at the security settings, namely changing most of them to prompt before install, and your pretty good to go. Granted, things still could happen to you, lots of them, but you could slip and fall in the shower. lol. My point being, taking away html from email(making them boring), and lots of other stuff you could do, will just make your computing time less enjoyable all the time as apposed to it being less enjoyable some of the time.
They make tons of programs like this. Symantec for instance, the problem I see with them, is the very problem Microsoft tried to avoid in the beginning. my friend had Norton Internet security or some such bullshit on, and we could never figure out why she couldn't share out any of her files, or get at our files, on our personal network, then we found out Norton was blocking file sharing, and you didn't know it, unless you dug through the program and found the right option. Personally I find the nuisance that it presents to be greater than the risks. Because a simple process of not opening unknown email will solve most of your problems. Also, someone above said that people are getting 500$ phone bills from Russian hotlines after clicking a link. apparently those russians are smarter than me, cause I don't know how to increase someones phone bill by having them click a link. Click a link, insert credit card number, or have modem dial out to another number, maybe. But just click the link, then suddenly get bill a month later. It's this kind of exageration that causes people to get over excited about security and put on programs like blackice, that just kill your system all the time as apposed to a virus that might get it some of the time.
You could just simply not view messages from people you don't know. This would solve the majority of problems. I mean if I don't know you, I don't read mail from you, I mean their are times when I take the chance, but lets face it, how often do random people email your personal account? And if your talking a webmaster or sales account, then yes, turn off html, or have your IT guy set up your securities properly.
Employees although important, are certainly not the most important assets to many companies.
Haven't you noticed that unemployment is up? You know what that means, more people looking for less jobs. Which means more people, competing for jobs.
And anyone that only lasts three weeks in their position and then passes their failures off on their manager, probably isn't a good person to be speaking of these things.
The people I have recieved these ideas from, through, training, learning, interning, have been some of the most succesful businessmen I have ever known.
Maybe it wasn't your bosses fault, maybe you looked like a total incompetent loser, because you spell the word loser wrong.
"bullsh*t and look like a total incompetent looser "
Ummm...comcast does not have 66B of cash. They have enough stock to sell it to disney stock holders in place of their current stock in Disney. Now Microsoft on the other hand, I am pretty sure last time I checked they have 50B of Cash, literally, liquid assets. That's pretty damn impressive.
Oh jesus, you think the government wants us to be dumb so they can control us and you beleive there is a big secret club that meets and decides this shit. The government is unorganized, far too unorganized to pull off these conspiracy theories you idiots believe in.
Actually the majority that's left over does not think as a whole. Most of them only own small blocks, maybe even just 100 shares, and those shareholders don't even bother voting, Plus remember there is voting and non voting stock depending on how the company is set up.
You can turn the autoplay feature off by clicking the do this everytime box, and then selecting do nothing, which is always an option in the XP pop up box. It is just to help the users that stick in CDs when they intend to do something with them.
Personally, if the person hasn't learned basic civilized nature, than they should probably just be fired, for not having the common sense to act appropriately at work. Stop saying EGO, it's not about that, it's about the judgement I place on a person who hasn't learned what I learned in 4th grade, raise your hand(or whatever is appropriate at your work) and wait your turn to speak. Being a loud mouthed braggart, means your not worthy of being a part of the company, no matter how good your ideas are.
You sir have no idea what your talking about. The millitary is about following orders, but only to an extent. For Marines, war isn't about killing it's about defending your country, liberating other countries, and yes we do believe in these things. Life in the Marine Corps is about honor, respect, and love of the corps.
not knowing why your taking a hill is not ignorance in general, just ignorance of that thing you didn't need to know in the first place.
Truth - A statement proven to be or accepted as true
Attitude - An arrogant or hostile state of mind or disposition.
I fail to see how these two things are mutually exclusive. I can yell at you, or be kind, and say the same things.
you poor anonymous cowards just can't understand, probably because your not smart enough to figure out how to log in.
It's not about the managers ego, it's about human civility. If you have a problem with management, apply for the position, don't just whine here on slashdot at 1:32 am
I tend to think that the japanese business culture that has survived for years and produced several large stable corporations would disagree with you. So what if five guys can fit a niche and stay alive, every small company can survive while filling a niche, but as soon as others realise it is profitable to fill that niche, the company has to go from a small company to a large company to survive.
Microsoft for instance, small startup, now quite large.
And your small companies running circles around larger corporations. Tell me these small companies that are stealing away huge marketshare, from a big company, and I might agree with you.
Also, Microsoft, a large company is responsible for hug inovation, and then there is IBM that rebukes everything you have said, a company run completely from the top down, and they are extremely innovative.
If you have a contract with Dell which prevents your IT department developing solutions in house, what makes you think that this is necessarily the best thing for your company? How can IT be short sighted or uninformed when its you that hasn't told them about your deal with Dell?
I need to get going, but I'll hang around one more minute to answer this, then I need to get to work. Anyhow, here is the deal, you can't tell everyone everything, it's not always a good idea, and more importantly it's an abuse of information. The IT staff knew we had a corporate mandate to purchase Dell machines, they thought it was stupid. Because they could build machines off NewEgg cheaper. Where is my garantee these machines won't break, what's the turnover time, sure I can do this at home, but in the office, it's absurd.
You call me a troll, which I find interesting, because I don't understand, why I am trolling but you are not?
I offered clear concise information, you offered me a BBC TV series. Which wouldn't be very interesting if there wasn't some drama.
War, is won in the tactics, in the way you fight, in the will to fight. Don't tell me about war, because based on your analysis, you haven't studied much. Many a time, a smaller, worse armed, millitary unit has claimed victory, because of good training, tactics and will.
Churchill gave the vision, his lietenants made it come to life.
"to life in the military(driven by death and ignorance)? "
Please try not to take something that I love and you obviously know nothing about, and smear it with such an attitude.
and yes, if I pay them, they are my employee, and I demand they work for that paycheck. Employees are not "the company". In actuallity they are ussually considered assets, or resources, just like coal, oil, machinery and other such things. There are lots of people out there, educated and looking for jobs, give me people that are happy to have a job, and respect the responsibility that entails and I'll do my best to ensure, that through, "greed and disillusion", or whatever else is needed to be done, the company will still be there to employ them ten years from now.
You just exulted my point, see you had something to say, but you lost me at,"your company is all about your ego". Immediately saying something negative about me personally.
Even so this is how I would deal with it in a meeting, Mr. Coward, I would like to discuss that at a later time, right now I am trying to get some information out, without engaging them in an idea that will have nothing to do with them, or may waste their time.
but what I mean to say is, Grow up, how you say things is almost as important as what you say. Why do you think grammar was invented. I have terrible grammar, so I make a point of looking over important documents, quotes, and ideas before sending them out. Presentation shows a level of responsibility, of maturity. By showing this maturity, and respect for me as a person, I now know that this idea is coming from someone I should listen to.
Instead of blabbing your idea out in the wrong forum, try instead saying, sir, I'd like to ask you about something later when we have time to discuss it. Me insulting you and maybe people above you, in public, probably isn't the best idea.
Once again I say it's not about employees or bosses, just showing you have basic human civility, if your father or mother has something on their teeth or face you don't yell it to them in front of a group of people, you find a discreet way to let them know and help them save face.
For instance if your boss has made a poor decision and doesn't know it, nothing will come of making a fool of him in front of a bunch of people, when you could simply email or phone him at a different time. In which case he'll understand your trying to help, not just be a jerk, and more than likely he will listen with great interest to your idea.
So you would say that it is inappropriate for me to take past experiences I have learned from and apply them to my life? If you can't draw the lines of similarity between war and business, I fear you'll never understand either, you might try reading, "The Art of War, It is helpful to many.
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When wars are fought with robots and human lives are no longer in the balance a war will have lost all of its beauty. George Bush's school yard grudges, yes 8000 american live in 9-11, definitely a grudge. Don't talk about soldiers, you obviously are not one.
Does your machine just download those EXE without prompting you if it's ok, mine prompts me and I say "no". Simple as that, don't click yes to programs installing in your computer, much like you don't just let strangers in your house.
how does an executable get downloaded and installed without you clicking yes, install me. Do you have your security set lower than default?
I can't get email viruses through my email, unless they are newer than my email scanner on the server end knows about. I set up the work email server and have it scan all incoming and outgoing mail for viruses, if it finds a virus, it tries to cure and if that is impossible it strips the attachment. No muss no fuss, but these html attacks aren't really viruses and can still get through, but not through my spam guard which stops I'd say about 80% of spam on the server end.
not really, usually with questionable email, I just read it through my webmail which doesn't allow html. and everything else I read through outlook. The majority of my email is from work, or people I trust, the rest of it, some friends of mine, and the ocassional unknown person, I just pop out to webmail.
I love the personal insult that I don't get email from girls, oh yes love god of the ages your of course correct, us nerds never see women.
actually I was just making a point that girls are the worst offenders for sending me emails, with viruses, flash screens, stupid little pop ups, bongo buddies, and other shit.
did you not read, I sometimes do read unknown email, meaning, I personally filter it, I don't use a refuse all unknown white list. And if I saw, the subject said, In response to Slashdot, or something else that I was aware I was posting to, or investigating, then I read it with HTML turned off, but if it's from my buddies I read it with HTMl on, if it's from my mom or any girl for that matter, I turn HTML off. lol know your email sender, and adjust accordingly.
I did not say they were organized, I said the government was unorganized, and for a conspiracy as huge as most people refer to, then the upper echelons would all have to be in on it. and quite honestly I don't see that as possible, most people in government are too worried about back stabbing eachother through exposing one another, to ever get in on one big conspiracy. Outing a conspiracy is a bonus for a candidate or politician, they like doing it, this careful degree of them all being too gready to work together, really helps the american people.
Yes of course, all the money from my bank account. Lord knows I keep my bank number, routing number, and pin number, in a text file on my computer marked Bank Information for hacker to use.txt
Get real.
and to you up there who puts his computer on a school network, without all patches and updates, of course you recieved a virus, that's kind of like me bitching if I walk around with my wallet exposed and my eyes closed in London, and then I bitch if my money gets stolen.
A good virus detection program, a NAT router, a spam catcher behind your email server, and a quick look at the security settings, namely changing most of them to prompt before install, and your pretty good to go. Granted, things still could happen to you, lots of them, but you could slip and fall in the shower. lol. My point being, taking away html from email(making them boring), and lots of other stuff you could do, will just make your computing time less enjoyable all the time as apposed to it being less enjoyable some of the time.
They make tons of programs like this. Symantec for instance, the problem I see with them, is the very problem Microsoft tried to avoid in the beginning.
my friend had Norton Internet security or some such bullshit on, and we could never figure out why she couldn't share out any of her files, or get at our files, on our personal network, then we found out Norton was blocking file sharing, and you didn't know it, unless you dug through the program and found the right option. Personally I find the nuisance that it presents to be greater than the risks. Because a simple process of not opening unknown email will solve most of your problems.
Also, someone above said that people are getting 500$ phone bills from Russian hotlines after clicking a link.
apparently those russians are smarter than me, cause I don't know how to increase someones phone bill by having them click a link. Click a link, insert credit card number, or have modem dial out to another number, maybe. But just click the link, then suddenly get bill a month later. It's this kind of exageration that causes people to get over excited about security and put on programs like blackice, that just kill your system all the time as apposed to a virus that might get it some of the time.
You could just simply not view messages from people you don't know. This would solve the majority of problems. I mean if I don't know you, I don't read mail from you, I mean their are times when I take the chance, but lets face it, how often do random people email your personal account? And if your talking a webmaster or sales account, then yes, turn off html, or have your IT guy set up your securities properly.
Haven't you noticed that unemployment is up? You know what that means, more people looking for less jobs. Which means more people, competing for jobs.
And anyone that only lasts three weeks in their position and then passes their failures off on their manager, probably isn't a good person to be speaking of these things.
The people I have recieved these ideas from, through, training, learning, interning, have been some of the most succesful businessmen I have ever known.
Maybe it wasn't your bosses fault, maybe you looked like a total incompetent loser, because you spell the word loser wrong.
"bullsh*t and look like a total incompetent looser "
Ummm...comcast does not have 66B of cash. They have enough stock to sell it to disney stock holders in place of their current stock in Disney. Now Microsoft on the other hand, I am pretty sure last time I checked they have 50B of Cash, literally, liquid assets. That's pretty damn impressive.
Oh jesus, you think the government wants us to be dumb so they can control us and you beleive there is a big secret club that meets and decides this shit. The government is unorganized, far too unorganized to pull off these conspiracy theories you idiots believe in.
Actually the majority that's left over does not think as a whole. Most of them only own small blocks, maybe even just 100 shares, and those shareholders don't even bother voting, Plus remember there is voting and non voting stock depending on how the company is set up.
You can turn the autoplay feature off by clicking the do this everytime box, and then selecting do nothing, which is always an option in the XP pop up box. It is just to help the users that stick in CDs when they intend to do something with them.
Personally, if the person hasn't learned basic civilized nature, than they should probably just be fired, for not having the common sense to act appropriately at work. Stop saying EGO, it's not about that, it's about the judgement I place on a person who hasn't learned what I learned in 4th grade, raise your hand(or whatever is appropriate at your work) and wait your turn to speak. Being a loud mouthed braggart, means your not worthy of being a part of the company, no matter how good your ideas are.
Why are these people even allowed to post. And you modded this dick funny?
not knowing why your taking a hill is not ignorance in general, just ignorance of that thing you didn't need to know in the first place.
Truth - A statement proven to be or accepted as true
Attitude - An arrogant or hostile state of mind or disposition.
I fail to see how these two things are mutually exclusive. I can yell at you, or be kind, and say the same things.
It's not about the managers ego, it's about human civility. If you have a problem with management, apply for the position, don't just whine here on slashdot at 1:32 am
Microsoft for instance, small startup, now quite large.
And your small companies running circles around larger corporations. Tell me these small companies that are stealing away huge marketshare, from a big company, and I might agree with you.
Also, Microsoft, a large company is responsible for hug inovation, and then there is IBM that rebukes everything you have said, a company run completely from the top down, and they are extremely innovative.
I need to get going, but I'll hang around one more minute to answer this, then I need to get to work. Anyhow, here is the deal, you can't tell everyone everything, it's not always a good idea, and more importantly it's an abuse of information. The IT staff knew we had a corporate mandate to purchase Dell machines, they thought it was stupid. Because they could build machines off NewEgg cheaper. Where is my garantee these machines won't break, what's the turnover time, sure I can do this at home, but in the office, it's absurd.
You call me a troll, which I find interesting, because I don't understand, why I am trolling but you are not?
I offered clear concise information, you offered me a BBC TV series. Which wouldn't be very interesting if there wasn't some drama.
War, is won in the tactics, in the way you fight, in the will to fight. Don't tell me about war, because based on your analysis, you haven't studied much. Many a time, a smaller, worse armed, millitary unit has claimed victory, because of good training, tactics and will.
Churchill gave the vision, his lietenants made it come to life.
and yes, if I pay them, they are my employee, and I demand they work for that paycheck. Employees are not "the company". In actuallity they are ussually considered assets, or resources, just like coal, oil, machinery and other such things. There are lots of people out there, educated and looking for jobs, give me people that are happy to have a job, and respect the responsibility that entails and I'll do my best to ensure, that through, "greed and disillusion", or whatever else is needed to be done, the company will still be there to employ them ten years from now.
Even so this is how I would deal with it in a meeting, Mr. Coward, I would like to discuss that at a later time, right now I am trying to get some information out, without engaging them in an idea that will have nothing to do with them, or may waste their time.
but what I mean to say is, Grow up, how you say things is almost as important as what you say. Why do you think grammar was invented. I have terrible grammar, so I make a point of looking over important documents, quotes, and ideas before sending them out. Presentation shows a level of responsibility, of maturity. By showing this maturity, and respect for me as a person, I now know that this idea is coming from someone I should listen to.
Instead of blabbing your idea out in the wrong forum, try instead saying, sir, I'd like to ask you about something later when we have time to discuss it. Me insulting you and maybe people above you, in public, probably isn't the best idea.
Once again I say it's not about employees or bosses, just showing you have basic human civility, if your father or mother has something on their teeth or face you don't yell it to them in front of a group of people, you find a discreet way to let them know and help them save face.
For instance if your boss has made a poor decision and doesn't know it, nothing will come of making a fool of him in front of a bunch of people, when you could simply email or phone him at a different time. In which case he'll understand your trying to help, not just be a jerk, and more than likely he will listen with great interest to your idea.
So you would say that it is inappropriate for me to take past experiences I have learned from and apply them to my life? If you can't draw the lines of similarity between war and business, I fear you'll never understand either, you might try reading, "The Art of War, It is helpful to many.