As someone who is going through HP's Work Force Reduction, it was a shock to me too. I'll just bet my 88K salary put them over the edge for this buy. - HEX
^ This + I've even gotten Win7 running on several older machines and it runs better than XP. I'm loving it cranked on my newer main machine. As a die hard XP holdout, I am making the switch on all my machines and recommending clean installs to my family and friends. The wife gets Win7 this weekend as a clean install on a new drive.
If you can roll physical dice onto the Surface and have it read the values, that would be perfect! At least offer the choice. There is just something about rolling your own set of dice that makes D&D special. -HEX-
I wonder how this gels with the research into the dangers of giving oxygen when resuscitating people from death. I have a feeling we'll be seeing the new standard procedure in what gasses to give change radically over the next few years. HEX
And years from now people will quote that comic, word for word. Look how close you are already! Pop culture is incestuous, and to create new works, old works must be cannibalized. When copyrights become no-expiring, creative thought will be a crime. HEX
I'd like to monitor my child's laptop and need something that will perform the same functions as Net Nanny, Spector, etc; especially the monitoring of websites visited, screenshots, and monitoring from my desktop. I haven't been able to find anything but open source keyloggers, which while it would help monitor what my kid is typing, it's simply not enough. Any suggestions are appreciated! -HEX-
First read all the good comments above on audits, backups, chains of command, etc, etc, etc; then read this comment, as it focuses on one small piece of the puzzle.
I work for one of the top computer companies worldwide as a Wintel Server Admin L4, and am contracted as such to a Fortune 100 company. I have full access to many important files, such as Human Resources, Bankruptcy documents, Engineering designs for future products, and even HIPAA Medical data.
I really couldn't care less what's in your files. My only concern is the SLAs, up time, security, and accessibility of them to their authorized users. And if I do have some free time, I have much more interesting things to do than dig through a customer's data. As for supplementing my income selling said data to outside companies, why bother? I am not in to servers and technology for the money, I'm in it for the love of computers. I'm the guy who, during LAN gaming weekends, would be spending more time building computers for people to play on than playing games myself. I'd be tweaking my Windows auto install and testing it out, or trouble shooting the network and crimping new cables. I'm lucky enough to be doing what I love, and I would not give it up for anything.
The only thing I've ever seen that I would of actually of been interested in looking at? Hundreds and hundreds of paper files sitting on bookcases in one of the largest insurance underwriter's offices, all labeled "Three Mile Island". I was alone in that office for days and nights at a time, working on upgrades. Did I even touch them? No.
Being old enough to have experienced red/blue 3D, I have to say I was very impressed with The Ant Bully in 3D at the Henry Ford Museum IMAX theater. Perhaps it's the IMAX that made the difference, as I have yet to watch one of the new 3D movies in a "normal" theater.
I kept thinking of Stevie Wonder, and after watching that I understand why only he can move like that, it's extremely visually disconcerting and headache inducing.
"They send us a list of IP addresses and say `this IP address was involved in a breach on this date'. We look at that say `well what do you want us to do with this? We can't release the person's details to you on the basis of an allegation and we can't go and kick the customer off on the basis of an allegation from someone else'. So we say `you are alleging the person has broken the law; we're passing it to the police. Let them deal with it'."
Excellent synopsis and way to deal with allegations, as we've all heard exactly how often they get these things wrong. If there is an allegation of a crime it's up to the police to properly collect evidence and give it to the prosecutor's office, or the equivalent thereof in local terms.
He said another problem with this traffic is that is not on its network. "It is transiting our network along with the billions of other things passing across the network which are perfectly legal. We are not traffic cops. We can't stand in the middle of it and stop the individual items that might be against the law. These guys are asking us to be judge, jury and executioner," Malone said.
And just like the Pr0n filters the government seems to be forcing on the public over in that section of the globe, it is completely unfeasible for a common carrier to even attempt this sort of thing. I would be completely pissed if I was blocked from accessing anything on the net. If a site is illegal then take it down, but don't try and filter what comes through my pipeline.
"I think they genuinely believe that ISPs have a secret magic wand that we are hiding and if we bring it out we can make piracy disappear just by waving it. And it doesn't exist."
An attitude all to prevalent among non-techies, that throwing a few filters in place will magically fix things. Unfortunately I run into this all the time, and no amount of rational explanation makes their attitude change. Some times you have to implement the wrong solution while documenting what the right one should be, then go back and do it correctly for twice the cost. Note: Cleaned up " ` ' in original quote to display correctly instead of in codes.
I was rather disappointed that I was modded funny, as I was dead serious. (the bone dice reply was FUNNY) We got in a huge argument about it, and since the religious right had told her that I would say it was just a game while it was really a tool of Satan I didn't make much progress. I had to search around myself to find my AD&D books from where she had hidden them. I'm just glad I got back my tactical rules 3rd edition and the rest!
I am so glad that they have a reasonable reason for doing this. I was a victim of my grandmother taking away my AD&D books back in the 90's due to the 700 Club helpfully telling her they would allow me to summon a demon from hell or force me to kill myself when my alternate persona died.
Slashdot: Hao! Dai ye! We won again! This is good, but what is best in life?
Activision: The open steppe, fleet horse, falcons at your wrist, and the wind in your hair.
Slashdot: Wrong! Blizzard! What is best in life?
Blizzard: To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of the women.
Slashdot: That is good! That is good.
With full apologies to Robert E. Howard, and to a lesser extent John Milius. I used to use this sound clip from the movie as my UO Monitor server up sound to catch those once a day rares, too bad there isn't a WoW Monitor I can put it into just for old times sake.
Stock 2008 Ford Fusion Lease with the 6 cylinder engine hits 120 Mph easily, and does 20 to 80 onto the freeway fast enough to give you a bit of G force feeling. My wife thinks she's freaking Mario Andretti in it. On the bad side, MS Sync blows, can't understand voice commands, even with the latest patch. My wife calls her the Sync Bitch and wants her dead daily.
Well for a company that can't spell Googol correctly, I'm not surprised they would not be using the word Beta correctly. We're just lucky they haven't started spelling it Baitah, Beata, or Bayta.
It's the summer of 2019. You're you, but you're a decade older. Where are you having dinner, what are you eating, what are you thinking or talking about?
(and check out other players' dinner stories in the comments of our Superstruct announcement! http://www.iftf.org/node/2098)
Soooo... they want us to write essays on the future. Sure I'm eating all my food in pill form and discussing how screwed up the world is. Collate this into your forecast idiots!
Interestingly enough, I have gotten 3 PDFs in the past few days in my corporate email inviting me to various "seminars" on technology subjects. All were very well written and professional looking but for products I have never used and companies I had not heard of. They passed both my email server's scanning and the local virus scan on my company laptop, however since I have very rarely gotten PDFs in the past I am now very suspicious.
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Reasons? Citations? News Articles? Peer Reviews?
As someone who is going through HP's Work Force Reduction, it was a shock to me too. I'll just bet my 88K salary put them over the edge for this buy. - HEX
^ This + I've even gotten Win7 running on several older machines and it runs better than XP. I'm loving it cranked on my newer main machine. As a die hard XP holdout, I am making the switch on all my machines and recommending clean installs to my family and friends. The wife gets Win7 this weekend as a clean install on a new drive.
If you can roll physical dice onto the Surface and have it read the values, that would be perfect! At least offer the choice. There is just something about rolling your own set of dice that makes D&D special. -HEX-
I wonder how this gels with the research into the dangers of giving oxygen when resuscitating people from death. I have a feeling we'll be seeing the new standard procedure in what gasses to give change radically over the next few years. HEX
And years from now people will quote that comic, word for word. Look how close you are already! Pop culture is incestuous, and to create new works, old works must be cannibalized. When copyrights become no-expiring, creative thought will be a crime.
HEX
I'd like to monitor my child's laptop and need something that will perform the same functions as Net Nanny, Spector, etc; especially the monitoring of websites visited, screenshots, and monitoring from my desktop. I haven't been able to find anything but open source keyloggers, which while it would help monitor what my kid is typing, it's simply not enough. Any suggestions are appreciated! -HEX-
First read all the good comments above on audits, backups, chains of command, etc, etc, etc; then read this comment, as it focuses on one small piece of the puzzle.
I work for one of the top computer companies worldwide as a Wintel Server Admin L4, and am contracted as such to a Fortune 100 company. I have full access to many important files, such as Human Resources, Bankruptcy documents, Engineering designs for future products, and even HIPAA Medical data.
I really couldn't care less what's in your files. My only concern is the SLAs, up time, security, and accessibility of them to their authorized users. And if I do have some free time, I have much more interesting things to do than dig through a customer's data. As for supplementing my income selling said data to outside companies, why bother? I am not in to servers and technology for the money, I'm in it for the love of computers. I'm the guy who, during LAN gaming weekends, would be spending more time building computers for people to play on than playing games myself. I'd be tweaking my Windows auto install and testing it out, or trouble shooting the network and crimping new cables. I'm lucky enough to be doing what I love, and I would not give it up for anything.
The only thing I've ever seen that I would of actually of been interested in looking at? Hundreds and hundreds of paper files sitting on bookcases in one of the largest insurance underwriter's offices, all labeled "Three Mile Island". I was alone in that office for days and nights at a time, working on upgrades. Did I even touch them? No.
HEX
Being old enough to have experienced red/blue 3D, I have to say I was very impressed with The Ant Bully in 3D at the Henry Ford Museum IMAX theater. Perhaps it's the IMAX that made the difference, as I have yet to watch one of the new 3D movies in a "normal" theater.
HEX
Why the emphasis on how long it will take? I've had pieces of shit that took longer than that to get ready for "production".
I kept thinking of Stevie Wonder, and after watching that I understand why only he can move like that, it's extremely visually disconcerting and headache inducing.
HEX
Just wondering, has anyone actually implemented this (penetration testing wares, etc) or is it just a joke RFC?
HEX
Excellent synopsis and way to deal with allegations, as we've all heard exactly how often they get these things wrong. If there is an allegation of a crime it's up to the police to properly collect evidence and give it to the prosecutor's office, or the equivalent thereof in local terms.
And just like the Pr0n filters the government seems to be forcing on the public over in that section of the globe, it is completely unfeasible for a common carrier to even attempt this sort of thing. I would be completely pissed if I was blocked from accessing anything on the net. If a site is illegal then take it down, but don't try and filter what comes through my pipeline.
An attitude all to prevalent among non-techies, that throwing a few filters in place will magically fix things. Unfortunately I run into this all the time, and no amount of rational explanation makes their attitude change. Some times you have to implement the wrong solution while documenting what the right one should be, then go back and do it correctly for twice the cost.
Note: Cleaned up " ` ' in original quote to display correctly instead of in codes.
HEX
I was rather disappointed that I was modded funny, as I was dead serious. (the bone dice reply was FUNNY) We got in a huge argument about it, and since the religious right had told her that I would say it was just a game while it was really a tool of Satan I didn't make much progress. I had to search around myself to find my AD&D books from where she had hidden them. I'm just glad I got back my tactical rules 3rd edition and the rest!
Jonah HEX
I am so glad that they have a reasonable reason for doing this. I was a victim of my grandmother taking away my AD&D books back in the 90's due to the 700 Club helpfully telling her they would allow me to summon a demon from hell or force me to kill myself when my alternate persona died.
Jonah HEX
Vas Ort Flam
Corp Por
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That's for selling Origin to EA, which then created Trammel.
DogMeat [MoO] Mayor of Oberon Pass, Chesapeake
Jonah HEX
No problem, after getting two messages saying "Focus" I had to re-read it myself to make sure I hadn't made a mistake typing.
I invite you to re-read what I actually posted; it does say Fusion, not Focus.
He'll just keep chanting "Vendor buy the banks some guards". Shout out to all my old Chesapeake crew, from DogMeat [MoO] Mayor of Oberon Pass
Jonah HEX
With full apologies to Robert E. Howard, and to a lesser extent John Milius. I used to use this sound clip from the movie as my UO Monitor server up sound to catch those once a day rares, too bad there isn't a WoW Monitor I can put it into just for old times sake.
Jonah HEX
Stock 2008 Ford Fusion Lease with the 6 cylinder engine hits 120 Mph easily, and does 20 to 80 onto the freeway fast enough to give you a bit of G force feeling. My wife thinks she's freaking Mario Andretti in it. On the bad side, MS Sync blows, can't understand voice commands, even with the latest patch. My wife calls her the Sync Bitch and wants her dead daily.
Jonah HEX
Well for a company that can't spell Googol correctly, I'm not surprised they would not be using the word Beta correctly. We're just lucky they haven't started spelling it Baitah, Beata, or Bayta.
Jonah HEX
Soooo... they want us to write essays on the future. Sure I'm eating all my food in pill form and discussing how screwed up the world is. Collate this into your forecast idiots!
Jonah HEX
Interestingly enough, I have gotten 3 PDFs in the past few days in my corporate email inviting me to various "seminars" on technology subjects. All were very well written and professional looking but for products I have never used and companies I had not heard of. They passed both my email server's scanning and the local virus scan on my company laptop, however since I have very rarely gotten PDFs in the past I am now very suspicious.
Jonah HEX
http://www.gamestop.com/Catalog/ProductDetails.aspx?sku=647480
Link to Collector's Edition PreOrder thanks to the AC above for finding it on GameStop.
Jonah HEX