ok valid point about the manufacturing plants. but i might add that all the types of jobs you listed above are assembly line work not requiring any real skill.
Whats being off shored now are technically skilled jobs that people went to uni for and invested a lot of time and money to gain. what i'm building to here is it's not right for a company to simply fire that person in favour of a cheap indian. Move operations gradually as a result of retirments and voluntary dedunances. dont put people out in the cold or worse make them train their replacement. what do you retrain for at age 40 when you have a masters already? answer me that?
I might add, unless you have had your head in the sand you wouldn't have noticed how poor the service is from these offshoring ventures. I'm not personally worried about since i know it will fail. just another flavour of the month
i'm tired of these stupid arguments "What they do care about is why their computer won't play that music, display that web site properly, let them do online banking with their financial software, just use that modem or other hardware, etc"
thats just crap, just because your average schmoe won't care doesn't mean nobody should. your average schmoe is just that - a schmoe without a clue, just cattle feeding the corps.
just because it's GPL and you allow people to use and disribute your work for free, does not mean you are giving away your copyright.
you still own the copyright on that product, if you disribute it you MUST acknowledge it, and if you modify it you MUST provide the source.
forget SCO, the next big legal battle will be greedy/stupid companies thinking they can take take take and not comply with the GPL. This kind of attitude is so ingrained in modern corp. thinking it is enevitable.
thats a crock of shit. RIAA blab on about p2p being the devil and stealing babies in the night, but reality is nothing they are doing is even putting a dent in p2p. just driving it to adopt technology thats makes it harder for them to control.
they will end up with p2p networks that dynamiclly block RIAA own address space, encrypts traffic and uses the DMCA to protect itself.
why don't they put their money where their mouth is and open an mp3 store, i'm betting you won't see much extra p2p songs avaliable, hell they are all avaliable now but they will be able to make a buck out of it and look like a respectable business.
don't try rebrand off shoring jobs as "trade". trade means an exchange of goods, countries selling their products to each other.
if you class firing a local IT worker in favour of an indian because you can pay the indian shit and he still loves it, then your only enaging in SLAVE trading.
"the industry is quietly hoping that the online music stores will start selling songs in compatible formats"
we already have a compatable format arseholes, it's called mp3
i class anything related to supporting/building computer systems as IT. even if you are in software development your still supporting customers by developing software...
personally i can't think of any IT role where your not likely to have a rough time. software development your likely to get off shored, sys admins get pestered 1/2 to death for pitiful wages...
I think i am going to become a massure. everyone loves them and they charge $60 an hour. plus your customers are all lieing face down 1/2 asleep what could be better.
personally i am looking at getting out of IT for these reasons.
the problem i have with degree's is this. you learn nothing useful and it adds no value to your income yet you come out with a huge debt.
almost every CS holder i've come across can talk rubbish till the cows come home but i say "ok sit down and write me this program" they are lost. I've never seen a job for new CS holders pay more then one not.
bottom line is IT is a crap industry to be in and i'd never spend 30k on a CS
i'll just be putting strong encryption on everything thats private and going to furthur lengths to be anonymous when i wish to be so
all laws like this will do is ear tag the clueless and drive the rest of us futhur underground
this is so gimicky.
you can defeat finger printing by tagging a second of low volume static at the end of a song. the listener won't even notice it but it's audio finger print will be completely changed, rendering this thing useless. hell watch mp3 rippers implement this as a standard feature.
you don't have a job do you, or you don't work in IT.
33k in OZ is what i am getting. and yes compared to many sysadmins i'm getting well and truely screwed
but most employers will ALWAYS rip you off. no wonder IT is an abysmal industry to work in.
actually, the people you are referring to as "doctors" are NOT holders of docorates, so technically they are not "doctors" they simply have a medical degree and are recognised by the relavant authorities as being able to practice medicene. If i held a docorate i'd be pissed off these wankers are running around calling themselfs something they have not earned as well. so your analogy is incorrect, but still apt
then you sir, are a moron.
anyone willing to do extra work improving their skills is an asset, and your style of managment will be your undoing.
honestly.. do you really think you have the right to ask them to stop coding outside of making YOU money? the arrogance...
this is why i am a total IT security nazi.
if you let people get away with things they will continue to push their limits. My policy is no less then a 6 digit random alphanumeric password that expires every 3 months. no if's or fucking buts. too many sys admins give in to demands of pure lazyness. your the admin, admin and make them fall into line.
normally i would agree with you here. steve jobs is an arogant asshole, and i don't agree with his reasoning i do agree with him not teaming up with real.
real was basicly offering apple nothing in return for apple saving their business. and real's past history shows them to be the kind of company no one will miss in the market place.
it's a valid point that you don't need to guess the knock, just packet sniff and you can find it. this will only happen in the case the knock is always the same, otherwise you'll never pick it from normal random traffic.
it's a novel idea that might fit the right situation
bagging secret methods of keeping things secure. well i'm sorry kids but ultimately keeping something secret is necassary for a secure system.
what is NOT secure is keeping that secret in an accessable mode. good passwords are the most effective way of having a secret way into a system, since your brain isn't plugged into a computer it's only accessable to the correct person. port knocking sounds intresting, but it's like having a secret knock to let you in a physical door, anyone listening will know that secret knock.
poor password management is the source of most hacks.
i'm betting this cracker has a chip on his shoulder and is out to teach this org a lesson. gaining local access is 1/2 the battle, which is made easy when you use passwords like "password"
rubbish. you obviously have never read the mysql, freebsd, openbsd, netbsd, apache, perl, python, postgresql, samba or isc.org's bind/dchp doc's. because they are all excellent and shit on 99% of closed source vendors docs i have ever read.
And lets not go into how utterly useless MS's documentation is.
"Developers focus on features in their software, rather than ensuring that they have a solid core."
why the fuck would we want to change this practise? OSS strength is in solid stable systems, purely focusing on flashy gimmick crap is WHY most windows software SUCKS
i find packet sniffing to be the fastest way to find problems.
I just use tcpdump and take a look at the traffic. look at applications does you know good since they never tell you exactly what they are sending out.
using tcpdump i found a major issue in one of our applications ( was reading a database table in an infinte loop)
this had gone unoticed for years, and no one ever though why the network was so so congested
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ok valid point about the manufacturing plants. but i might add that all the types of jobs you listed above are assembly line work not requiring any real skill. Whats being off shored now are technically skilled jobs that people went to uni for and invested a lot of time and money to gain. what i'm building to here is it's not right for a company to simply fire that person in favour of a cheap indian. Move operations gradually as a result of retirments and voluntary dedunances. dont put people out in the cold or worse make them train their replacement. what do you retrain for at age 40 when you have a masters already? answer me that? I might add, unless you have had your head in the sand you wouldn't have noticed how poor the service is from these offshoring ventures. I'm not personally worried about since i know it will fail. just another flavour of the month
i'm tired of these stupid arguments "What they do care about is why their computer won't play that music, display that web site properly, let them do online banking with their financial software, just use that modem or other hardware, etc" thats just crap, just because your average schmoe won't care doesn't mean nobody should. your average schmoe is just that - a schmoe without a clue, just cattle feeding the corps.
just because it's GPL and you allow people to use and disribute your work for free, does not mean you are giving away your copyright. you still own the copyright on that product, if you disribute it you MUST acknowledge it, and if you modify it you MUST provide the source. forget SCO, the next big legal battle will be greedy/stupid companies thinking they can take take take and not comply with the GPL. This kind of attitude is so ingrained in modern corp. thinking it is enevitable.
thats a crock of shit. RIAA blab on about p2p being the devil and stealing babies in the night, but reality is nothing they are doing is even putting a dent in p2p. just driving it to adopt technology thats makes it harder for them to control. they will end up with p2p networks that dynamiclly block RIAA own address space, encrypts traffic and uses the DMCA to protect itself. why don't they put their money where their mouth is and open an mp3 store, i'm betting you won't see much extra p2p songs avaliable, hell they are all avaliable now but they will be able to make a buck out of it and look like a respectable business.
don't try rebrand off shoring jobs as "trade". trade means an exchange of goods, countries selling their products to each other. if you class firing a local IT worker in favour of an indian because you can pay the indian shit and he still loves it, then your only enaging in SLAVE trading.
"the industry is quietly hoping that the online music stores will start selling songs in compatible formats" we already have a compatable format arseholes, it's called mp3
i class anything related to supporting/building computer systems as IT. even if you are in software development your still supporting customers by developing software... personally i can't think of any IT role where your not likely to have a rough time. software development your likely to get off shored, sys admins get pestered 1/2 to death for pitiful wages... I think i am going to become a massure. everyone loves them and they charge $60 an hour. plus your customers are all lieing face down 1/2 asleep what could be better.
personally i am looking at getting out of IT for these reasons. the problem i have with degree's is this. you learn nothing useful and it adds no value to your income yet you come out with a huge debt. almost every CS holder i've come across can talk rubbish till the cows come home but i say "ok sit down and write me this program" they are lost. I've never seen a job for new CS holders pay more then one not. bottom line is IT is a crap industry to be in and i'd never spend 30k on a CS
so what your saying is it's impossible?
i'll just be putting strong encryption on everything thats private and going to furthur lengths to be anonymous when i wish to be so all laws like this will do is ear tag the clueless and drive the rest of us futhur underground
this is so gimicky. you can defeat finger printing by tagging a second of low volume static at the end of a song. the listener won't even notice it but it's audio finger print will be completely changed, rendering this thing useless. hell watch mp3 rippers implement this as a standard feature.
umm i've heard of these things called cd burners. and did you know you can play cds in your car now?!?! amazing!
you don't have a job do you, or you don't work in IT. 33k in OZ is what i am getting. and yes compared to many sysadmins i'm getting well and truely screwed but most employers will ALWAYS rip you off. no wonder IT is an abysmal industry to work in.
actually, the people you are referring to as "doctors" are NOT holders of docorates, so technically they are not "doctors" they simply have a medical degree and are recognised by the relavant authorities as being able to practice medicene. If i held a docorate i'd be pissed off these wankers are running around calling themselfs something they have not earned as well. so your analogy is incorrect, but still apt
then you sir, are a moron. anyone willing to do extra work improving their skills is an asset, and your style of managment will be your undoing. honestly.. do you really think you have the right to ask them to stop coding outside of making YOU money? the arrogance...
this is why i am a total IT security nazi. if you let people get away with things they will continue to push their limits. My policy is no less then a 6 digit random alphanumeric password that expires every 3 months. no if's or fucking buts. too many sys admins give in to demands of pure lazyness. your the admin, admin and make them fall into line.
normally i would agree with you here. steve jobs is an arogant asshole, and i don't agree with his reasoning i do agree with him not teaming up with real. real was basicly offering apple nothing in return for apple saving their business. and real's past history shows them to be the kind of company no one will miss in the market place.
they are also going to loose massive amounts in stock value. a major backer pulling out of a venture always hurts stock prices.
it's a valid point that you don't need to guess the knock, just packet sniff and you can find it. this will only happen in the case the knock is always the same, otherwise you'll never pick it from normal random traffic. it's a novel idea that might fit the right situation
bagging secret methods of keeping things secure. well i'm sorry kids but ultimately keeping something secret is necassary for a secure system. what is NOT secure is keeping that secret in an accessable mode. good passwords are the most effective way of having a secret way into a system, since your brain isn't plugged into a computer it's only accessable to the correct person. port knocking sounds intresting, but it's like having a secret knock to let you in a physical door, anyone listening will know that secret knock.
poor password management is the source of most hacks. i'm betting this cracker has a chip on his shoulder and is out to teach this org a lesson. gaining local access is 1/2 the battle, which is made easy when you use passwords like "password"
rubbish. you obviously have never read the mysql, freebsd, openbsd, netbsd, apache, perl, python, postgresql, samba or isc.org's bind/dchp doc's. because they are all excellent and shit on 99% of closed source vendors docs i have ever read. And lets not go into how utterly useless MS's documentation is.
"Developers focus on features in their software, rather than ensuring that they have a solid core." why the fuck would we want to change this practise? OSS strength is in solid stable systems, purely focusing on flashy gimmick crap is WHY most windows software SUCKS
have been using misleading links for years for years
i find packet sniffing to be the fastest way to find problems. I just use tcpdump and take a look at the traffic. look at applications does you know good since they never tell you exactly what they are sending out. using tcpdump i found a major issue in one of our applications ( was reading a database table in an infinte loop) this had gone unoticed for years, and no one ever though why the network was so so congested