You know it, I know it, everyone knows it. The psychochristians hate anything vaguely homoerotic because they're so far in the closet they're under the piles of shoes.
The only thing I hear people talking about what they listen to is right wing hate radio: Limbuagh, Hanity, etc etc. Maybe the record companies can get a piece of that pressing monthly 'best of' CD's. Here are the advantages:
Low low production costs Constant stream of new material Limitless demand of people who will pay
If the issue is that nearly everything needs admin, and it does, and, admin itself is pocked with problems then the answer is to build a better admin with better protections so that you can have the rights without the wide open problems associated with it.
Look at a built in Windows equivalent of Sudo with as many of the good rights you need and as few of the bad ones you don't need.
And I shudder those few very few instances I'm forced to process a credit card through Paypal which of course is just another tax because credit cards work fine without PayPal.
You're just asking and waiting to get robbed on eBay. It's just matter of time.
I need to print as easily (or as badly) as I do in Windows. That means CUPS or whatever else you use has to work easily the first time. That means it has to print to my print server that's attached to my router or freestanding print server.
I need a fast desktop that's easily recoverable if something goes wrong.
I need a fast restart when I want it.
I need all the desktop apps that I used in Windows including: burning, ripping CD's, IM, office software, games, working with my iPod, browsing including all the media options.
I need easy to use utilities and tools that manage malware/spyware.
I need a patching/update mechanism that's easier to use and back-out-able.
I need to run any special corporate apps that are typically either java or web based.
I need Wine or something like it run critical apps that have no other options.
Sorry, 19 year old TV middle-ish attractive chick who whines alot. We've decided that for the greater good you have to bail. You can take it two ways. Either with a helmet where you slowly run out of air or no helmet and it's quick. Your call.
Now that I would watch. What are the 5 stages of reality TV grief?
Begging Figthing Urinating Yet more drama Hugging Wins a car
Hard science, math, bio, ancient history to some extent, geography and all the things you can easily fact check - Wiki is great for that kind of thing.
Any kind of soft issue, politics, religion, current history or current events, morality, etc... - Wiki is HORRIBLE for that kind of thing.
We hear that NASA wants to wind down space science funding at the same time that the DoD is ramping up the weaponization of space. What kind of bullshit mythology are they going to try to sell this one with? It'll shoot down meteors?
More likely it will shoot down everyone else's spy and comm sats. Expect to see a bunch of mysterious 'failures' from competing countries.
My home fax machine is one digit off from that of an headhunter. Two nights ago I got a 20 page fax detailing the background check results for a candidate including:
Name SSN Address Bank account numbers Credit score Arrest/conviction records: Federal State Local Urinanalysis results
There was never a I never received a followup fax to check up on it - clearly they didn't have my phone number so they couldn't speak to me, but they already had a record of the fax number.
And if that wasn't dumb consider this.
My home phone number is one digit off from the States depart of Revenue unclaimed funds division. I routinely get calls from people asking "Is this the money line???" I get people leaving their name, address, SSN and phone number on my voice mail, unasked and please remember that the outbound message states the phone number and nothing else to indicate what the number is for. I get calls from people in state, out of state, out of the country, from prisons from other branches of the government.
Security is bullshit as long as people act retarded.
It's just business. If you really want to be all fuzzy with them you wouldn't be leaving in the first place. Better to leave on entirely professional and legal terms. There is nothing to be served by trying to leave open the door for reemployment later on that could in any way be construed as conflict of interest. If your soon to be ex employer coldly decided 'as a matter of policy' that you were persona non grata then you should be mature enough to implement your own professional career safeguards in turn.
Wipe your disks so as to avoid problems with the retention their data or their customer's data on the machine you used to use. This is a purely legal safeguard for everyone so that someone can't come back later, supoena that machine and then demand you explain why some customer's or employer's confidential information is still on the machine.
Otherwise I can't imagine why you would care. And let me sharpen that point by stating that for the vast majority of you out there, the old saw to not burn your bridges is in fact nonsense. The likelihood of you returning to an ex employer except in the circumstances of immediately returning as a contractor, are near zero. You want to leave and they don't want you back.
So, get over the hurt feelings stage, take your 2 week sabbatical to lay whatever prep work with your new employer you can. In fact, I make it rule to never state whether I'm actually taking a new job or not. That's not your old employer's information to chew on. If they ask, politely be vague about 'a few options cooking right now'. This helps avoid the discussion of non competes, etc. Basically it's not their business.
Next, if you're locked out then you are also free to refuse to help them in any other way as well. If some soon to be ex coworker comes to you with a question related to your former duties you should answer them in only the most general terms or not at all. Otherwise you're warranting a system you have no control over and may have already been changed in some way. I would also send a note to HR stating that since you have been locked out you cannot be held responsible for the condition, failure, state of any device from that date forward, for any reason. If you have to do it in a hardcopy letter because you're locked out, all the better.
Also remember to tell them to change your voicemail password on a given date.
Google DoD STD 5220.22-M and get a piece of freeware that can wipe your disks per that standard. Tell your soon to be ex employer you are doing that unless of course there are published rules that forbid you from wiping your disk.
Throw the card keys, swipe cards and cable locks over your shoulder, wave buh bye to the square badge and leave.
Why can't they build a $200 machine and subsidize half the cost for the first few years? Even at a $100 subsidy a pop, how much could it possibly cost to outfit the first generation of customers? You could outfit 1 out of 6 people in India for an outlay of $200 million bucks.
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You know it, I know it, everyone knows it. The psychochristians hate anything vaguely homoerotic because they're so far in the closet they're under the piles of shoes.
If the government wanted us to read Mao then they wouldn have replaced our Bibles with little red books.
The only thing I hear people talking about what they listen to is right wing hate radio: Limbuagh, Hanity, etc etc. Maybe the record companies can get a piece of that pressing monthly 'best of' CD's. Here are the advantages:
Low low production costs
Constant stream of new material
Limitless demand of people who will pay
If the issue is that nearly everything needs admin, and it does, and, admin itself is pocked with problems then the answer is to build a better admin with better protections so that you can have the rights without the wide open problems associated with it.
Look at a built in Windows equivalent of Sudo with as many of the good rights you need and as few of the bad ones you don't need.
Just don't tell them.
It's still not recommended or supported as an upgrade in house though it is now released and supported on initial build.
And I shudder those few very few instances I'm forced to process a credit card through Paypal which of course is just another tax because credit cards work fine without PayPal.
You're just asking and waiting to get robbed on eBay. It's just matter of time.
Ok Peguinos here's the deal:
I need to print as easily (or as badly) as I do in Windows. That means CUPS or whatever else you use has to work easily the first time. That means it has to print to my print server that's attached to my router or freestanding print server.
I need a fast desktop that's easily recoverable if something goes wrong.
I need a fast restart when I want it.
I need all the desktop apps that I used in Windows including:
burning, ripping CD's, IM, office software, games, working with my iPod, browsing including all the media options.
I need easy to use utilities and tools that manage malware/spyware.
I need a patching/update mechanism that's easier to use and back-out-able.
I need to run any special corporate apps that are typically either java or web based.
I need Wine or something like it run critical apps that have no other options.
If it's meant to protect me then why can't I verify who the vendor is? Is that what fraud control is all about?
Sorry, 19 year old TV middle-ish attractive chick who whines alot. We've decided that for the greater good you have to bail. You can take it two ways. Either with a helmet where you slowly run out of air or no helmet and it's quick. Your call.
Now that I would watch. What are the 5 stages of reality TV grief?
Begging
Figthing
Urinating
Yet more drama
Hugging
Wins a car
some information sources should be for information not endless masturbatory 'debate'.
Wiki is great for verifiable things like science, math, ancient history, engineering, etc.
Wiki is horrible for soft things like politics, religion, morality, current events, etc.
Just understand the drivers and motives that people have for contributing to Wiki
Hard science, math, bio, ancient history to some extent, geography and all the things you can easily fact check - Wiki is great for that kind of thing.
Any kind of soft issue, politics, religion, current history or current events, morality, etc... - Wiki is HORRIBLE for that kind of thing.
Soon we will be their customer support function - 20 years, tops.
We hear that NASA wants to wind down space science funding at the same time that the DoD is ramping up the weaponization of space. What kind of bullshit mythology are they going to try to sell this one with? It'll shoot down meteors?
More likely it will shoot down everyone else's spy and comm sats. Expect to see a bunch of mysterious 'failures' from competing countries.
Most people who own a Ferrari never take it out of 2nd gear either.
Like BMC Patrol
Like some triggers in Sybase
Like some administrative applications in Oracle
Like Windows clusters
it's not a dirty little secret at all.
My home fax machine is one digit off from that of an headhunter. Two nights ago I got a 20 page fax detailing the background check results for a candidate including:
Name
SSN
Address
Bank account numbers
Credit score
Arrest/conviction records: Federal State Local
Urinanalysis results
There was never a I never received a followup fax to check up on it - clearly they didn't have my phone number so they couldn't speak to me, but they already had a record of the fax number.
And if that wasn't dumb consider this.
My home phone number is one digit off from the States depart of Revenue unclaimed funds division. I routinely get calls from people asking "Is this the money line???" I get people leaving their name, address, SSN and phone number on my voice mail, unasked and please remember that the outbound message states the phone number and nothing else to indicate what the number is for. I get calls from people in state, out of state, out of the country, from prisons from other branches of the government.
Security is bullshit as long as people act retarded.
It's just business. If you really want to be all fuzzy with them you wouldn't be leaving in the first place. Better to leave on entirely professional and legal terms. There is nothing to be served by trying to leave open the door for reemployment later on that could in any way be construed as conflict of interest. If your soon to be ex employer coldly decided 'as a matter of policy' that you were persona non grata then you should be mature enough to implement your own professional career safeguards in turn.
Wipe your disks so as to avoid problems with the retention their data or their customer's data on the machine you used to use. This is a purely legal safeguard for everyone so that someone can't come back later, supoena that machine and then demand you explain why some customer's or employer's confidential information is still on the machine.
Not everything is about porn, you know.
Otherwise I can't imagine why you would care. And let me sharpen that point by stating that for the vast majority of you out there, the old saw to not burn your bridges is in fact nonsense. The likelihood of you returning to an ex employer except in the circumstances of immediately returning as a contractor, are near zero. You want to leave and they don't want you back.
So, get over the hurt feelings stage, take your 2 week sabbatical to lay whatever prep work with your new employer you can. In fact, I make it rule to never state whether I'm actually taking a new job or not. That's not your old employer's information to chew on. If they ask, politely be vague about 'a few options cooking right now'. This helps avoid the discussion of non competes, etc. Basically it's not their business.
Next, if you're locked out then you are also free to refuse to help them in any other way as well. If some soon to be ex coworker comes to you with a question related to your former duties you should answer them in only the most general terms or not at all. Otherwise you're warranting a system you have no control over and may have already been changed in some way. I would also send a note to HR stating that since you have been locked out you cannot be held responsible for the condition, failure, state of any device from that date forward, for any reason. If you have to do it in a hardcopy letter because you're locked out, all the better.
Also remember to tell them to change your voicemail password on a given date.
Google DoD STD 5220.22-M and get a piece of freeware that can wipe your disks per that standard. Tell your soon to be ex employer you are doing that unless of course there are published rules that forbid you from wiping your disk.
Throw the card keys, swipe cards and cable locks over your shoulder, wave buh bye to the square badge and leave.
Holy.
Fucking.
Shit.
I mean this IS China, riiiight? Can you imagine if it turned out the entire games were run on pirated software...?
Are they fighting about content al RIAA or are they simply representing commerical software companies?
Why can't they build a $200 machine and subsidize half the cost for the first few years? Even at a $100 subsidy a pop, how much could it possibly cost to outfit the first generation of customers? You could outfit 1 out of 6 people in India for an outlay of $200 million bucks.