Oh come'on. Let's be serious. Before HP aquired Compaq, they had awesome printers and crappy everything else. Now they have awesome low and medium end servers. Printers started sucking wind some time ago (mostly because of those awful drivers, WTF is going on over there), but the essentially Compaq servers they are putting out are decent. Plus, I'm none too displeased with my HP stock price.
Now ideally this is in the form of someone else having access, or there being a central password store. Read in to the Childs case and indeed there was a place where passwords were supposed to be stored and he didn't do it. However even if that's not the case, you have to relinquish the passwords when you leave. If you are the only one with the root password, you have to hand it over (or change it for them or whatever). Same shit as your keys, when you leave employment, you have to turn in your keys.
You don't have to help them figure anything out, but you are not allowed to lock them out of their own systems. If you cannot see the difference, you are being deliberately blind.
You and I may see the difference, but can your luddite boss and his luddite lawyer? You might think that laws and court rulings are based on responsible understandings of the facts, but then you would be wrong.
And then once you've been fired, you must always be available to your company to provide that service?
As IT workers, our job to is provide service, not prevent it. We need to do what we can to ensure people can get what they need. It is a service industry, like it or no.
My responsibilities and duties as an IT worker end the moment I quit or someone fires me. I do not like the precedence this trial sets. Because I am in IT, for some reason I must make myself available weeks or months after the fact to provide passwords. What about basic services that I created? Must I be available to provide those? What about not so basic services? "You are the one who designed the widget software and we do not think your documentation is complete. Come show us how this works or we will throw you in jail."
No, this Childs trial has created a dangerous precedence. The IT worker is held to a standard above that of officers, managers, and other employees. I am very not comfortable with that, and you should not be either.
Agreed. America is supposed to be a civilized country. Why would anyone believe that it is appropriate to allow prisoners to be raped by other prisoners?
People joke about this and even seem to hope that it happens. This is disgusting and wrong. We have Enlightened articles about cruel and unusual punishments. Prison is supposed to be a loss of freedom, not a loss of basic human rights.
Does it really matter anymore? It seems these days the only difference between the two parties is gun control and abortion. The Compassionate GOP would have definitely voted for Universal Healthcare had Tzar Bush asked for it.
You should be making quite a bit more then. I assure you the asshole with the Director title is making well into 6. Who is doing the work, you or him? You can do his job, can he do yours?
"Computer people" have all manner of hurdles placed in their way by large government and large companies working to increase profits. The pay of IT professionals would be significantly higher if the labor market was truly free.
You seem to be mistaking a little bit of coding with the work that is actually being done.
The programmers in this article are not dumb fuck meth addicts building a website and writing a little bit of Flash or C++ or even guys with EE or CS majors, but rather tend to be Economic or Statistic PhDs from Northwestern, UC, and other major programs. From the article, Sergey Aleynikov, according to his LinkedIn pagelike, has at least a masters from Rutgers and likely a PhD.
The programmers are working with SAS and other powerful statistical software that on their own is easy enough to learn. But these programmers are applying what the learned in their PhD studies to create trading and marketing strategies and then create proof of the trading and marketing strategies. They are making their companies millions and get paid very little because "they are only programmers".
They have every right to not be particularly happy. The programmers, these economics PhDs, know their worth and it isn't 125k a year.
Also, there is an increasing tendency in American business culture to undervalue the PhD as a foreigner or nerd degree and require anyone who makes real money to have an MBA.
Backup and redundancy can get awfully expensive, particularly if an online backup product like Evault is used. I don't know if its worth 30 dollars, but it's a pretty fucking good milkshake.
It's a funny thing that having wonderful natural resources dampens other parts of the economy. It's called Dutch Disease, and was diagnosed some time ago. Kind of makes you want to re-read Diamond's Guns Germs and Steel.
Most financial companies of any size are doing this already with Ph.Ds and Masters from economic programs. I don't see how is this any difference from modern economics. It sounds sexier? IBM is doing it? They might as well call it Psychohistory and suck their own cocks while they are at it.
People have been claiming this since Spy Hunter came out. It was bunk then and it is bunk now. It's not video games that make you drive fast, it's the Peter Gunn theme.
Cool. I don't care for the idea running around in Washington right now that this might justify the elimination of the NASA manned rocket program. But that hardly makes this not cool.
Perhaps there is a misunderstanding. Any closed hand blow to the head creates danger to the attacked, particularly when issued from behind. After all, any teenage male of sufficient mass is might throw a haymaker capable of knocking someone unconscious. The thug attacked OP a closed hand blow to the head from behind. This could be construed as an attempt at lethal damage (and was). That the thug had no means to continue the action is irrelevant (and was unknown at the moment of the attack to OP). The thug surrendered all rights to legal protection from lethal damage with his attack, as his action ignored the rights to legal protection from lethal attack of OP.
That the thug's intent was not to inflict lethal damage is irrelevant, as the attack was close handed to the head and therefore had the potential for inflicting lethal damage.
That's normal behavior in most fight. That is why it is so important you train before fighting. A fight is not a detached nor impassive, like programming a router or designing a network. You cease to think, because thinking takes too long. You only act.
You likely wouldn't have caused any significant damage without significant training.
Seriously, don't worry about it. That's something we all do. Part of being human.
lol. Exactly. To this day, I can't sleep on my back. Had a seventh grade wrestling coach who "explained" that we should never sleep on our back, because it was a bad habit to deliberately put yourself on your back.
I think if you consider the data more closely, you'll see that the responses such the Mississippi civil rights murders were outliers rather than the norm. Don't get me wrong. There was widespread terrible, unacceptable violence. Further, racism was awful and its very good that it has become socially verboten. But most of the civil rights leaders lived to ripe old ages. The violence was not systematic nor was it approved of by the central government. Here, like in India, non-violence only works when used against the non-violent. Had the Federal government tacitly supported the violence used against the civil rights movement, as it had a generation earlier, then the civil rights movement would not have succeeded.
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Oh come'on. Let's be serious. Before HP aquired Compaq, they had awesome printers and crappy everything else. Now they have awesome low and medium end servers. Printers started sucking wind some time ago (mostly because of those awful drivers, WTF is going on over there), but the essentially Compaq servers they are putting out are decent. Plus, I'm none too displeased with my HP stock price.
Now ideally this is in the form of someone else having access, or there being a central password store. Read in to the Childs case and indeed there was a place where passwords were supposed to be stored and he didn't do it. However even if that's not the case, you have to relinquish the passwords when you leave. If you are the only one with the root password, you have to hand it over (or change it for them or whatever). Same shit as your keys, when you leave employment, you have to turn in your keys.
You don't have to help them figure anything out, but you are not allowed to lock them out of their own systems. If you cannot see the difference, you are being deliberately blind.
You and I may see the difference, but can your luddite boss and his luddite lawyer? You might think that laws and court rulings are based on responsible understandings of the facts, but then you would be wrong.
And then once you've been fired, you must always be available to your company to provide that service?
As IT workers, our job to is provide service, not prevent it. We need to do what we can to ensure people can get what they need. It is a service industry, like it or no.
My responsibilities and duties as an IT worker end the moment I quit or someone fires me. I do not like the precedence this trial sets. Because I am in IT, for some reason I must make myself available weeks or months after the fact to provide passwords. What about basic services that I created? Must I be available to provide those? What about not so basic services? "You are the one who designed the widget software and we do not think your documentation is complete. Come show us how this works or we will throw you in jail."
No, this Childs trial has created a dangerous precedence. The IT worker is held to a standard above that of officers, managers, and other employees. I am very not comfortable with that, and you should not be either.
Agreed. America is supposed to be a civilized country. Why would anyone believe that it is appropriate to allow prisoners to be raped by other prisoners?
People joke about this and even seem to hope that it happens. This is disgusting and wrong. We have Enlightened articles about cruel and unusual punishments. Prison is supposed to be a loss of freedom, not a loss of basic human rights.
But the election of the president does. It's a rare SC Justice that turns out not as the president who appoints them intended.
Does it really matter anymore? It seems these days the only difference between the two parties is gun control and abortion. The Compassionate GOP would have definitely voted for Universal Healthcare had Tzar Bush asked for it.
Is this Orrin Hatch's "Destroy the PCs" plan made manifest? It has taken 7 years, but what subtle, indeed Machiavellian implementation.
Unless of course you are currently obtaining your Green Card, aka Indentured Servitude.
You should be making quite a bit more then. I assure you the asshole with the Director title is making well into 6. Who is doing the work, you or him? You can do his job, can he do yours?
I feel I should also point out that "computer people" have Federal Law against them. From The Wall Street Journal: The law, known as Section 1706 of the 1986 Tax Reform Act, made it extremely difficult for information technology professionals to work as self-employed individuals, forcing most to become company employees.
"Computer people" have all manner of hurdles placed in their way by large government and large companies working to increase profits. The pay of IT professionals would be significantly higher if the labor market was truly free.
You seem to be mistaking a little bit of coding with the work that is actually being done.
The programmers in this article are not dumb fuck meth addicts building a website and writing a little bit of Flash or C++ or even guys with EE or CS majors, but rather tend to be Economic or Statistic PhDs from Northwestern, UC, and other major programs. From the article, Sergey Aleynikov, according to his LinkedIn pagelike, has at least a masters from Rutgers and likely a PhD.
The programmers are working with SAS and other powerful statistical software that on their own is easy enough to learn. But these programmers are applying what the learned in their PhD studies to create trading and marketing strategies and then create proof of the trading and marketing strategies. They are making their companies millions and get paid very little because "they are only programmers".
They have every right to not be particularly happy. The programmers, these economics PhDs, know their worth and it isn't 125k a year.
Also, there is an increasing tendency in American business culture to undervalue the PhD as a foreigner or nerd degree and require anyone who makes real money to have an MBA.
Let alone a SAS70.
Backup and redundancy can get awfully expensive, particularly if an online backup product like Evault is used. I don't know if its worth 30 dollars, but it's a pretty fucking good milkshake.
How was it unauthorized? If a VP or President asks for company information, it is authorized.
Yeah, I'm looking forward to playing some Pathfinder in the next few weeks.
If that's the case, then why is Paladin the worst 3.5e base class?
It's a funny thing that having wonderful natural resources dampens other parts of the economy. It's called Dutch Disease, and was diagnosed some time ago. Kind of makes you want to re-read Diamond's Guns Germs and Steel.
I am Andy.
Most financial companies of any size are doing this already with Ph.Ds and Masters from economic programs. I don't see how is this any difference from modern economics. It sounds sexier? IBM is doing it? They might as well call it Psychohistory and suck their own cocks while they are at it.
People have been claiming this since Spy Hunter came out. It was bunk then and it is bunk now. It's not video games that make you drive fast, it's the Peter Gunn theme.
Cool. I don't care for the idea running around in Washington right now that this might justify the elimination of the NASA manned rocket program. But that hardly makes this not cool.
Perhaps there is a misunderstanding. Any closed hand blow to the head creates danger to the attacked, particularly when issued from behind. After all, any teenage male of sufficient mass is might throw a haymaker capable of knocking someone unconscious. The thug attacked OP a closed hand blow to the head from behind. This could be construed as an attempt at lethal damage (and was). That the thug had no means to continue the action is irrelevant (and was unknown at the moment of the attack to OP). The thug surrendered all rights to legal protection from lethal damage with his attack, as his action ignored the rights to legal protection from lethal attack of OP.
That the thug's intent was not to inflict lethal damage is irrelevant, as the attack was close handed to the head and therefore had the potential for inflicting lethal damage.
Jason,
That's normal behavior in most fight. That is why it is so important you train before fighting. A fight is not a detached nor impassive, like programming a router or designing a network. You cease to think, because thinking takes too long. You only act.
You likely wouldn't have caused any significant damage without significant training.
Seriously, don't worry about it. That's something we all do. Part of being human.
lol. Exactly. To this day, I can't sleep on my back. Had a seventh grade wrestling coach who "explained" that we should never sleep on our back, because it was a bad habit to deliberately put yourself on your back.
I think if you consider the data more closely, you'll see that the responses such the Mississippi civil rights murders were outliers rather than the norm. Don't get me wrong. There was widespread terrible, unacceptable violence. Further, racism was awful and its very good that it has become socially verboten. But most of the civil rights leaders lived to ripe old ages. The violence was not systematic nor was it approved of by the central government. Here, like in India, non-violence only works when used against the non-violent. Had the Federal government tacitly supported the violence used against the civil rights movement, as it had a generation earlier, then the civil rights movement would not have succeeded.