But how am I to get the correct geo-coded ads? I'll be disappointed when the ad says "Meet single ladies in $fakeregion," if $fakeregion isn't where I'm sitting.
Worry not, my friend!
IE 10.2 will have location information included as part of every request as a required element. If it's missing, you'll get an HTTP 400.;)
If they won't sell it to you, pirate it. That's obviously what they want you to do.
You know, this is the comment that has made the most logical and monetary sense that I have read today. People (read: people/their corporate holding companies/resellers) basically put themselves in a position where piracy is the only way something is feasible.
Not counting people who are just leeches and don't want to but anything, ever, this is an excellent representation of the self-fulfilling prophecy hard at work.
....scientists at the UK's Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) certainly think so. They have been testing a lightweight system to protect astronauts and spacecraft components from harmful radiation and working with colleagues in America to design a concept spaceship called Discovery that could take astronauts to the Moon or Mars.....
and it will be ready for production use in less than a year. (sarcasm)
Ah, I see... So this is an action that tries to illustrate blocking, destruction, and punishment are completely common actions when it comes to "classified" data.
I guess that means that any actions taken against people and/or organizations in the *future* can be treated as, "Hey, this is what happens all the time. You didn't know that?"
Nice move, government. Very childish and hackneyed, but still... Bravo.
Ultimately, these robots will replace human assembly workers and 'our [human] workers will then become technicians and engineers,'
Oh, no, nothing bad will happen to any working. Jobs that do not exist for all of the assembly workers will assemble themselves magically. 'No job' will become 'well-employed'.
Does "biofuel" still seem like a mysterious magical term.
Good point!
I was thinking of posting, "Wait a second.. Question: How much of Earth's breathable oxygen is transformed via algae? Will her next invention be something that generates power from water, transforming it into acid?"
Also, coal power plants produce more nuclear radiation yearly than all the nuclear accidents in the entire history of the human race including our weapons testing and use.
Could you please cite a source of this information? I have been trying to convince people that nuclear power is by far the best of all options long-term, but always get stuck on fear, NIMBY, and citations of prior accidents by the other party.
I could really use this information in a logical argument. Do you have any sources you can cite?
If you do not know, then you are in no position to pick your boss, even if that silly concept would be a reality. Then even then, you turn to slashdot, to a bunch of mostly unwashed gpl fanatics, it just doesn't look good. Maybe you should have taken your silly imagination to a professional consultation firm or something.
I thought distributed computing was a "good thing"...
While I agree the IT manager is failing, it seems that the employees he's managing are also failing by taking advantage of his incompetence. While the IT manager should have enough knowledge to know better, it's the responsibility of his employees to give him the best advice possible for completion of the projects.
How does this account for the large numbers of management individuals who DO listen to their subordinates, followed by an ERASE?
"Sure, Bob. I see your view on that. We really do need to upgrade the database underlying infrastructure before our customers are unable to order products, switching to a new vendor. I will get cracking right away on this!"
....... Bob leaves office...
....... Manager calls wife to ask what's for dinner tonight and where they are vacationing this coming fall...
Head of IT doesn't really need to know that much tech. His blind trust in his underlings might be an issue, but lack of technical skills is not really an issue
There is a minimum level of IT competency that leads to credibility as an IT manager, however... actual managerial skills? That's all about goals, deadlines, motivation, people, targets, and deliverables (among other things).
The most common metric for managers is project completion - not project satisfaction.
If your manager is consistently meeting their targets and performance objectives, you don't have much recourse - Unless you're at one of the very forward-thinking companies that actually accounts for subordinate satisfaction in managerial performance reviews. Which is unlikely, because even companies that adhere to that philosophy don't generally put it in practice.
What I'm reading here is that perhaps a working solution would be to "deprogram" business knowledge from all non-managerial graduates. It would basically make the process of finding faults before the compromise system functionality null.
Now if only we could only place your reply into the beginning of Business Administration college courses (I mean the VERY beginning), this country might actually go somewhere.
Unfortunately, to HR, most people with more business college experience than actual hands-on technical knowledge are the cream of the crop for management of technical minds.
Funny, I had one job where a techie was placed in management. His hair went grey in 5 years and he always wanted to seclude himself from people. He spent more time in Outlook, on the phone, in meetings, and traveling than he did touching his keyboard for tech work, but damn was he good when he could. Basically, management pulled him away from tech work. Coincidentally, those in management always wanted to know what those "darn tech idiots were doing" and spent more time and money on Six-Sigma and meeting about possible current and future activities rather than, you know, asking any techs or having them in the meetings. I'm straying from the answer now... The answer to the article's question is (humorously) in the subject line of my reply.
You do know that money spent on these projects isn't actually destroyed, right? It's spent, people get paid, corporations make money.
Understood. My irritation is that people outside of said corporation are lead to believe that a solution is in the near future or being actively worked on when, in fact, there might be nothing of any significant value being achieved. Sure people are taking the money home, but the problem isn't being solved.
The statement I just made does not apply if they are actually working hard on finding a solution and have knowledgeable people on staff, of course.
You know what you're doing in your comment? It's called assuming.
You know what the previous poster was doing in their comment? It's called "assuming these researchers, who have probably spent years/decades in space science, don't know that asteroids rotate".
I hear ya, but I never trust people going for grant money.;)
My father said "Don't touch my *&@$)(ing computer or you'll be beaten to a pulp and grounded for a month".
After that, guess what I wanted to do more than anything? I skipped days of school pretending I was sick just to mess with his computer. Started with QBASIC, then moved to OS/hardware interests. Moved into debugging others' code later in all languages known to mankind but can't write for crap.
Yes, I was discovered once and was beaten to hell and back. I think I told him that his 'IF' statement wasn't 'TRUE' when I was grounded for more than a month. That got me belted again.:)
...Privacy is not at the forefront of any politician's agenda that I know of, unless you can find a way to make it turn a profit, and it never will be until there's a massive breech i.e. until it's already too late.
I suspect that the privacy in question (and valued) is that of the politicians themselves.
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But how am I to get the correct geo-coded ads? I'll be disappointed when the ad says "Meet single ladies in $fakeregion," if $fakeregion isn't where I'm sitting.
Worry not, my friend!
IE 10.2 will have location information included as part of every request as a required element. If it's missing, you'll get an HTTP 400. ;)
If they won't sell it to you, pirate it. That's obviously what they want you to do.
You know, this is the comment that has made the most logical and monetary sense that I have read today. People (read: people/their corporate holding companies/resellers) basically put themselves in a position where piracy is the only way something is feasible.
Not counting people who are just leeches and don't want to but anything, ever, this is an excellent representation of the self-fulfilling prophecy hard at work.
Theft theft theft theft stealing theft theft theft burglary theft theft theft larceny theft theft rape theft.
You forgot your META tags ;)
Then why do they have internet border routers?
Ha ha. A funny.
Do they also have oil?
Not that much, but THEY HAVE WATER! Move on this, quick!
...and misstated the terms of available loan products during telemarketing calls.
And now we know what the suit really brought in the big bucks for.
This isn't about DNC; it's about presenting misleading information.
I'm waiting for the day that some company really gets busted and taken out of business on DNC violations alone!
I read the article and I'm not seeing "cloud" in it. Something must be missing. Everything new and high-performance uses "the cloud".
....scientists at the UK's Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) certainly think so. They have been testing a lightweight system to protect astronauts and spacecraft components from harmful radiation and working with colleagues in America to design a concept spaceship called Discovery that could take astronauts to the Moon or Mars.....
and it will be ready for production use in less than a year. (sarcasm)
Hey, wait. Didn't we already have a craft called "Discovery?"
They really are nerdin' it out. :)
Ah, I see... So this is an action that tries to illustrate blocking, destruction, and punishment are completely common actions when it comes to "classified" data.
I guess that means that any actions taken against people and/or organizations in the *future* can be treated as, "Hey, this is what happens all the time. You didn't know that?"
Nice move, government. Very childish and hackneyed, but still... Bravo.
Ultimately, these robots will replace human assembly workers and 'our [human] workers will then become technicians and engineers,'
Oh, no, nothing bad will happen to any working. Jobs that do not exist for all of the assembly workers will assemble themselves magically. 'No job' will become 'well-employed'.
Trust us.
Wood is a form of biofuel.
See what I did there?
Does "biofuel" still seem like a mysterious magical term.
Good point!
I was thinking of posting, "Wait a second.. Question: How much of Earth's breathable oxygen is transformed via algae? Will her next invention be something that generates power from water, transforming it into acid?"
Interesting concept.
Now how about watching your seizures start (if you have epilepsy)? Watching your migraine start is fascinating until you have it. :)
Also, coal power plants produce more nuclear radiation yearly than all the nuclear accidents in the entire history of the human race including our weapons testing and use.
Could you please cite a source of this information? I have been trying to convince people that nuclear power is by far the best of all options long-term, but always get stuck on fear, NIMBY, and citations of prior accidents by the other party.
I could really use this information in a logical argument. Do you have any sources you can cite?
Must post the obligatory reply:
"I didn't do it."
If you do not know, then you are in no position to pick your boss, even if that silly concept would be a reality. Then even then, you turn to slashdot, to a bunch of mostly unwashed gpl fanatics, it just doesn't look good. Maybe you should have taken your silly imagination to a professional consultation firm or something.
I thought distributed computing was a "good thing"...
While I agree the IT manager is failing, it seems that the employees he's managing are also failing by taking advantage of his incompetence. While the IT manager should have enough knowledge to know better, it's the responsibility of his employees to give him the best advice possible for completion of the projects.
How does this account for the large numbers of management individuals who DO listen to their subordinates, followed by an ERASE?
"Sure, Bob. I see your view on that. We really do need to upgrade the database underlying infrastructure before our customers are unable to order products, switching to a new vendor. I will get cracking right away on this!"
....... Bob leaves office...
Sometimes, management will overlook the fact that a new measurement technique may not provide useful data ... because it's measuring the wrong thing.
Sometimes?
Head of IT doesn't really need to know that much tech. His blind trust in his underlings might be an issue, but lack of technical skills is not really an issue
There is a minimum level of IT competency that leads to credibility as an IT manager, however ... actual managerial skills? That's all about goals, deadlines, motivation, people, targets, and deliverables (among other things).
The most common metric for managers is project completion - not project satisfaction.
If your manager is consistently meeting their targets and performance objectives, you don't have much recourse - Unless you're at one of the very forward-thinking companies that actually accounts for subordinate satisfaction in managerial performance reviews. Which is unlikely, because even companies that adhere to that philosophy don't generally put it in practice.
What I'm reading here is that perhaps a working solution would be to "deprogram" business knowledge from all non-managerial graduates. It would basically make the process of finding faults before the compromise system functionality null.
Now if only we could only place your reply into the beginning of Business Administration college courses (I mean the VERY beginning), this country might actually go somewhere.
Good summary!
Unfortunately, to HR, most people with more business college experience than actual hands-on technical knowledge are the cream of the crop for management of technical minds.
Funny, I had one job where a techie was placed in management. His hair went grey in 5 years and he always wanted to seclude himself from people. He spent more time in Outlook, on the phone, in meetings, and traveling than he did touching his keyboard for tech work, but damn was he good when he could. Basically, management pulled him away from tech work. Coincidentally, those in management always wanted to know what those "darn tech idiots were doing" and spent more time and money on Six-Sigma and meeting about possible current and future activities rather than, you know, asking any techs or having them in the meetings. I'm straying from the answer now... The answer to the article's question is (humorously) in the subject line of my reply.
Lather, rinse, repeat.
It's fine if you just use it without stressing that oh-my-god-it's-different. It's definitely not perfect, but it's fine.
Now if we could have ever gotten people to have that same opinion about Linux..... Damn.
You do know that money spent on these projects isn't actually destroyed, right? It's spent, people get paid, corporations make money.
Understood. My irritation is that people outside of said corporation are lead to believe that a solution is in the near future or being actively worked on when, in fact, there might be nothing of any significant value being achieved. Sure people are taking the money home, but the problem isn't being solved.
The statement I just made does not apply if they are actually working hard on finding a solution and have knowledgeable people on staff, of course.
You know what you're doing in your comment? It's called assuming.
You know what the previous poster was doing in their comment? It's called "assuming these researchers, who have probably spent years/decades in space science, don't know that asteroids rotate".
I hear ya, but I never trust people going for grant money. ;)
My father said "Don't touch my *&@$)(ing computer or you'll be beaten to a pulp and grounded for a month".
After that, guess what I wanted to do more than anything? I skipped days of school pretending I was sick just to mess with his computer. Started with QBASIC, then moved to OS/hardware interests. Moved into debugging others' code later in all languages known to mankind but can't write for crap.
Yes, I was discovered once and was beaten to hell and back. I think I told him that his 'IF' statement wasn't 'TRUE' when I was grounded for more than a month. That got me belted again. :)
...Privacy is not at the forefront of any politician's agenda that I know of, unless you can find a way to make it turn a profit, and it never will be until there's a massive breech i.e. until it's already too late.
I suspect that the privacy in question (and valued) is that of the politicians themselves.