To be perfectly honest, most people don't really need a college eduction.
That really depends on how you define "need". Most people may not need college to do their job but we have a crying need for a better educated populace. Education pays dividends in a lot of ways that aren't immediately related to someone doing a specific job.
College was the best thing I ever did for my mind. I had to read books I wouldn't have picked up on my own, had to understand points of view that I didn't necessarily agree with and learned to be skeptical of common knowledge and to trust the data. Not everything I learned was useful later, but the knowing is invaluable. Scientific method, statistics, chemistry, history...all had lessons that more than justified the cost of admission. If it were up to me I'd let anyone take as many classes as they wanted. Instead we're spending our collective treasure on supporting 12 aircraft carrier groups so we can maintain military bases in the butt crack of civilization because so many in the uneducated fraction of society feel entitled to drive an SUV the size of a Bangladesh apartment.
Besides, without college I would have missed the lesson in biochemistry and science of attraction I got from a lab partner who was one of the hottest women on campus. She'd wear nylon shorts and half tops (back in the day you could dress like that on campus) and come in from the heat with a hint of perspiration mixed with a dab of Obsession perfume. That alone was worth a semesters tuition.
How the heck are those astro/cosmo/taikonauts going to find food and drinking water to subsist, let alone colonize?
I did a calculation one time about how much food we would have to stock for it to last the rest of our lives. It was entirely doable. If memory serves the cost for 20 years of food was something like $175,000 per person. Certainly within NASA's budget. You'd basically be packing enough consumables for a lifetime, which I'm guessing would be about the weight of the return fuel. Some rocket scientist here could give you a better estimate. They might be able to find ice on Mars for water, otherwise it's just another consumable. One that can be recycled to conserve.
Some kind of underground dwelling, nuclear power source. Excavating equipment to site it. Back up power source, maybe two back ups with an optional resupply in 10 years in case something bad happens. I know the Russians have small scale reactors that have been in service almost that long. Some satellites are still transmitting after 30+ years. An underground greenhouse with nuclear heat and solar power might even be able to produce plants and some spare oxygen. Martian atmosphere has plenty of CO2. If it was built right they might even have some natural light coming in through the roof.
With a resupply that consisted of manufacturing equipment, they might be able to make a go of it. Discovery of natural fibers probably isn't going to save them, but you take the good with the bad.
Having never done this before, the government is bound to have problems.
Exactly. We've had problems on commercial sites that came close to some of those, at least they're trying.
After 8 years of lies, no bid contracts to insiders and a near total lack of accountability, it's encouraging to see even tentative steps toward budget transparency.
He's a danger to their network only if no one has yet changed the passwords...
No kidding. Are those routers and servers just running on on the same settings they were set on 14 months ago? No one has run updates? Changed any settings? Heck, in a lot of places half that equipment would have been replaced in a year. Any reasonably competent admins could have secured that network before now. Most routers have a way of resetting the root password, even if that means taking them off-line a few at a time and reprogramming them.
This is insane. 14 months in jail. Come on San Francisco, time to extract your head out of your boyfriend's ass.
Hopefully his lawyers can appeal to a judge with clue before this stupidity goes any further.
We handed our mail over and it's the first time I've ever had a problem with them as a corporate mail provider. Almost two years. There may have been one other short outage, but I don't remember it being during business hours.
I doubt you could run a mail server more reliably. And, for the difference in cost, I'd stay with Gmail.
And, hey, maybe, the Indians will share some of the load world-wide, that Americans (and the British) are currently managing almost entirely on our own.
I really don't think it will be all that great. It could just as easily check our power in the region. Personally, I think we need to be checked. We really need to start thinking about our budget priorities. Just because we can project power around the world doesn't mean we can afford to keep doing it. Aircraft like that would be a threat to our very expensive carrier groups. Maybe not an attack from Indian aircraft, but what's stopping the Russians from selling them to Iran?
Besides, there was a time the US could never envision war with Germany. India has the bodies for a very large army, they have the budget for advanced weapons systems. Certainly more than we could fight half-way around the world. We need to address our dependence on foreign oil...now. The money we're putting into maintaining 12 aircraft carrier groups and trying to maintain our military presence in Asscrapistan is killing us.
Thursday's Canadian copyright town hall was on the recording industry's strategy to pack the room and exclude alternate voices
Hey, they're taking a page from the Republican play book. Packing town hall meetings with partisans to shout down opposing points of view. Then justify it by accusing the other side of doing the same thing, while steadfastly maintaining those are just "real" citizens voicing their opposition. Real citizens being bused in with box lunches from other districts, many of whom happen to work for companies with an interest in the debate, but who's really going to check?
Next they'll have talking heads on sympathetic cable news networks suggesting that Canada is being taken over by Socialists and "real patriots" should start showing up at meetings with guns.
And don't forget to mock the messenger if you're losing the debate. Anyone who doesn't see things your way is a traitor and a Nazi, call them ignorant, "moonbats" and "liberals". I'm not sure why that last one is a bad thing but it seems to play pretty well down here, so give it a shot. Maybe suggest anyone not adopting strict copyright interpretation is killing old people. If that doesn't work, accuse them of not supporting the military. Suggest that lax copyright will lead to "death panels" for musicians.
Got all that? You're off to good start up there, just have to get with the rest of the program.
That wasn't so much a security hole as just bad programming. The equivalent of not merely leaving the barn door open, but designing the barn with no doors. Who thought that was a good plan? None of the developers spoke up and said, "Hey, this is a really bad idea!"
That's not "simply speech". not REMOTELY "simply speech".
I agree with you for the most part. There are lines that free speech does not get to cross, but this case was a little different. The prosecutors were bending the law to make it fit. As much I despise any adult who would play mind games with a child, that doesn't make it okay to reinterpret some law to make the case.
In Mississippi a while back a lady was accused of selling one of her children. The case got a lot of attention because it turned out selling children was not technically illegal in MS. I'm not sure if they found other charges to level against the lady in question and I believe MS has since amended state law to make selling children a crime but I don't think that particular lady ever got charged for that specific crime.
Yes, what the child stalker lady did should be a crime. You have every right to be mad, as a society we should be appalled at stalker lady's behavior. But that doesn't mean we get to make up the law to fit the situation.
The new details about Microsoft's D.C.-based efforts to undermine Google shine a light on the role of third-party firms, funded by tech giants, that engage in activities such as astroturfing, corporate propaganda, and misinformation. Media reports have hinted at a "whisper campaign" undertaken by entities acting at Microsoft's behest to undermine Google, both with policymakers and the public.
Coupled with Microsoft's long standing campaign to influence social media discussions in technical forums, like this one. Instead of investing that money in making better products, we've come to the point where success has to include not only dominating the market, but influencing social media and the regulatory environment. It's almost like their operating system business is an afterthought for Microsoft these days. They're not about building better products as much as hanging on to their market share and putting down competition.
Remind me again why the artificial person that is a corporation deserves the same freedom of speech protections as an individual? Seems like they sort of have an unfair advantage already when it comes to getting their free speech packaged and distributed.
That wouldn't be so bad, except no one here speaks Spanish. So I have no idea if it's a bill collector, a telemarkter, or a candidate running for office in a Spanish speaking area.
All the Spanish I know is basically ordering a beer and asking for directions to the bathroom, so I know they're not selling Dos Equis or directions to the toilet.
Marvin: I think you ought to know I'm feeling very depressed.
Trillian: Well, we have something that may take your mind off it.
Marvin: It won't work, I have an exceptionally large mind.
Trillian: Yeah, we know.
Even if I decide to put my personal stuff on a second drive, I'm worried that using company property to save and write to separate storage still gives them the right to it.
Not if you clarify that the money is a bonus and does not constitute transfer of ownership of the property. And there's no shame wanting to be clear on the conditions.
At the office it's still murky. If you're using company bandwidth, they can monitor that.
There's very little incentive to get caught using company bandwidth to go to blocked locations when netbooks with wireless service are so affordable. I know some military installations are trying to regulate personal wireless devices and in some areas they can. But outside secure areas even those rules aren't entirely clear or consistent.
If it's something that technical, I wonder why Remix isn't compiled that way by default? That's way beyond what most users would be capable of figuring out.
Is the user experience that different? Seems strange that Canonical would have overlooked something so obvious. I'm going to give them the benefit of the doubt that something unpleasant happens to the user experience but I have no clue what that could be.
Global accounting firm...what allegiance do they have to the truth? Hey, someone had to take Arthur Andersen's place. They come in, five or six of them, once a quarter and take over a meeting room or hallway with their little laptop network and their job is to make sure that your actual corporate tax rate comes out at or below that 13% figure. Or that at least you don't get caught cheating too much. And if you think there isn't collusion between the auditors and executive row, then maybe one day you'll be able to work up to a cubicle with a red Swingline stapler.
All KPMG cares about is billing. And you can bet anything they publish, anywhere, is tied to that goal. Your marginal tax rate is 35%, second only to Japan...you guys keep leaving out that talking point. People spent a lot of money on think tanks and PR for those talking points, you should at least include that one when you're parroting shit you hear on one of the business channels or Fox News. But if you use our auditing service we can show you the tricks to get your actual tax rate down to just 13% (plus our billing, which is in very small print).
Maybe you've heard of their IT consulting group, BoringPoint...I mean, BearingPoint. Or did they spin off that loser finally? They would sell Girl Scout cookies if it would increase their billing, so they certainly are going to tell their client base what they want to hear. Hell, half their board are probably also the people in those think tanks spending the money to get people like you to vote against their own interests. And that's the only part amazing to me, is how they manage to convince hordes of stupid poor people to vote against their interests so consistently. Just amazing. It's like those street cons playing a rigged game, only the chump never catches on. Or maybe they think that if they work hard, some day, they'll be at the top of the pile. Yeah, you keep believing that...but first you have to earn that red Swingline stapler for your cubicle.
We actually have one of the highest corporate tax rates in the world.
You're quoting KPMG and right wing propaganda machines as authoritative sources on corporate tax rates? Edwin Feulner runs the Heritage Foundation, one of the groups helping organize the "Tea-Birthers". One of his own favorite quotes:
"We conduct warfare in the battle of ideas."
Yes, they do. And those ideas are almost always promoting conservative policy items including corporate welfare. The tax rate is meaningless, the US is actually a corporate tax haven. Because of exceptions, credits, deductions, depreciation and amortization, plus a little lawful and unlawful income shifting, tax deferments and shelters, the effective rate paid by corporations in the US (13.4%) was below the average (16.1%) for the 19 OECD nations in 2000-05. So, sure, lower the tax rate and close off the deductions, then watch those very sources have a collective heart attack.
...proposed a possibly illegal truce with Palm against poaching their respective employees...
How could that not be illegal? It goes against everything our allegedly free market stands for. Top talent should command top dollar. Like athletes, developers have a finite number of peak production years. They should be able to work for the highest bidder.
...everything else is written by someone who's getting paid to create Linux.
It pays for companies using Linux to contribute to the development. The long term savings of using Linux massively outweighs the small contribution of programming resources. And those contributing to development get to address the technical issues on top of their priority list. You can't get that kind of service out of Microsoft.
We're quickly approaching the time when an operating system is more like a utility than a product. A commodity delivery mechanism for business services. The potential for Linux, very quickly approaching realization, is that it can provide a unified stack from a mainframe down to embedded systems. That type of efficiency is very powerful economically. I'm sure MSFT can swim against that tide a long time but, eventually, efficiency will win.
It should not be surprising that when consumers are not treated with respect, they react negatively. That's something the software industry learned long ago, and that's why people don't object to the BSA's enforcement campaign.
I would say that's a pretty tall conclusion. It only applies because the BSA audits businesses and not individuals, so most people outside of IT aren't even aware of who they are. And calling a BSA audit "treating people with respect" is sort of the same mentality that says a rape victim was asking for it.
The documentation requirements go way beyond reasonable. I've seen people get big fines for fairly minor oversights. Engineering moves some old machines to another department and nobody wipes one of the old apps. No one is using the app, and they have licenses for active users, but it's still there.
Makes me glad to be running Linux and doing our development on open source. Sure, audit our Linux boxes. We'll be down at Starbucks breathlessly awaiting the outcome. Part of what got me out of Microsoft World was the ridiculous amount of time and effort you spend dancing on their string. It's just nuts the amount of time you put into serving Microsoft. And don't get me started on the costs. Why is anyone continuing to put themselves through that these days? It's crazy. Get off the treadmill.
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To be perfectly honest, most people don't really need a college eduction.
That really depends on how you define "need". Most people may not need college to do their job but we have a crying need for a better educated populace. Education pays dividends in a lot of ways that aren't immediately related to someone doing a specific job.
College was the best thing I ever did for my mind. I had to read books I wouldn't have picked up on my own, had to understand points of view that I didn't necessarily agree with and learned to be skeptical of common knowledge and to trust the data. Not everything I learned was useful later, but the knowing is invaluable. Scientific method, statistics, chemistry, history...all had lessons that more than justified the cost of admission. If it were up to me I'd let anyone take as many classes as they wanted. Instead we're spending our collective treasure on supporting 12 aircraft carrier groups so we can maintain military bases in the butt crack of civilization because so many in the uneducated fraction of society feel entitled to drive an SUV the size of a Bangladesh apartment.
Besides, without college I would have missed the lesson in biochemistry and science of attraction I got from a lab partner who was one of the hottest women on campus. She'd wear nylon shorts and half tops (back in the day you could dress like that on campus) and come in from the heat with a hint of perspiration mixed with a dab of Obsession perfume. That alone was worth a semesters tuition.
Actually a worse idea than it sounds
I could see cows blocking the road, trailing blood, wrapped in barbed wire because crashing the fence was painless.
I'm also concerned people would tend to abuse a pain-free animal more. It's not like they're going to respond to a cattle prod or electric fence.
Besides, putting them down at the slaughter house is pretty humane. A bolt in the head and electrocution. Doesn't give pain a lot of time to register.
Crimeny, women have made me stupid for decades. When does it get better?
How the heck are those astro/cosmo/taikonauts going to find food and drinking water to subsist, let alone colonize?
I did a calculation one time about how much food we would have to stock for it to last the rest of our lives. It was entirely doable. If memory serves the cost for 20 years of food was something like $175,000 per person. Certainly within NASA's budget. You'd basically be packing enough consumables for a lifetime, which I'm guessing would be about the weight of the return fuel. Some rocket scientist here could give you a better estimate. They might be able to find ice on Mars for water, otherwise it's just another consumable. One that can be recycled to conserve.
Some kind of underground dwelling, nuclear power source. Excavating equipment to site it. Back up power source, maybe two back ups with an optional resupply in 10 years in case something bad happens. I know the Russians have small scale reactors that have been in service almost that long. Some satellites are still transmitting after 30+ years. An underground greenhouse with nuclear heat and solar power might even be able to produce plants and some spare oxygen. Martian atmosphere has plenty of CO2. If it was built right they might even have some natural light coming in through the roof.
With a resupply that consisted of manufacturing equipment, they might be able to make a go of it. Discovery of natural fibers probably isn't going to save them, but you take the good with the bad.
Having never done this before, the government is bound to have problems.
Exactly. We've had problems on commercial sites that came close to some of those, at least they're trying.
After 8 years of lies, no bid contracts to insiders and a near total lack of accountability, it's encouraging to see even tentative steps toward budget transparency.
He's a danger to their network only if no one has yet changed the passwords...
No kidding. Are those routers and servers just running on on the same settings they were set on 14 months ago? No one has run updates? Changed any settings? Heck, in a lot of places half that equipment would have been replaced in a year. Any reasonably competent admins could have secured that network before now. Most routers have a way of resetting the root password, even if that means taking them off-line a few at a time and reprogramming them.
This is insane. 14 months in jail. Come on San Francisco, time to extract your head out of your boyfriend's ass.
Hopefully his lawyers can appeal to a judge with clue before this stupidity goes any further.
So much for handing your email over to Google
We handed our mail over and it's the first time I've ever had a problem with them as a corporate mail provider. Almost two years. There may have been one other short outage, but I don't remember it being during business hours.
I doubt you could run a mail server more reliably. And, for the difference in cost, I'd stay with Gmail.
And, hey, maybe, the Indians will share some of the load world-wide, that Americans (and the British) are currently managing almost entirely on our own.
I really don't think it will be all that great. It could just as easily check our power in the region. Personally, I think we need to be checked. We really need to start thinking about our budget priorities. Just because we can project power around the world doesn't mean we can afford to keep doing it. Aircraft like that would be a threat to our very expensive carrier groups. Maybe not an attack from Indian aircraft, but what's stopping the Russians from selling them to Iran?
Besides, there was a time the US could never envision war with Germany. India has the bodies for a very large army, they have the budget for advanced weapons systems. Certainly more than we could fight half-way around the world. We need to address our dependence on foreign oil...now. The money we're putting into maintaining 12 aircraft carrier groups and trying to maintain our military presence in Asscrapistan is killing us.
Thursday's Canadian copyright town hall was on the recording industry's strategy to pack the room and exclude alternate voices
Hey, they're taking a page from the Republican play book. Packing town hall meetings with partisans to shout down opposing points of view. Then justify it by accusing the other side of doing the same thing, while steadfastly maintaining those are just "real" citizens voicing their opposition. Real citizens being bused in with box lunches from other districts, many of whom happen to work for companies with an interest in the debate, but who's really going to check?
Next they'll have talking heads on sympathetic cable news networks suggesting that Canada is being taken over by Socialists and "real patriots" should start showing up at meetings with guns.
And don't forget to mock the messenger if you're losing the debate. Anyone who doesn't see things your way is a traitor and a Nazi, call them ignorant, "moonbats" and "liberals". I'm not sure why that last one is a bad thing but it seems to play pretty well down here, so give it a shot. Maybe suggest anyone not adopting strict copyright interpretation is killing old people. If that doesn't work, accuse them of not supporting the military. Suggest that lax copyright will lead to "death panels" for musicians.
Got all that? You're off to good start up there, just have to get with the rest of the program.
That wasn't so much a security hole as just bad programming. The equivalent of not merely leaving the barn door open, but designing the barn with no doors. Who thought that was a good plan? None of the developers spoke up and said, "Hey, this is a really bad idea!"
And, last I checked, the page was still up.
That's not "simply speech". not REMOTELY "simply speech".
I agree with you for the most part. There are lines that free speech does not get to cross, but this case was a little different. The prosecutors were bending the law to make it fit. As much I despise any adult who would play mind games with a child, that doesn't make it okay to reinterpret some law to make the case.
In Mississippi a while back a lady was accused of selling one of her children. The case got a lot of attention because it turned out selling children was not technically illegal in MS. I'm not sure if they found other charges to level against the lady in question and I believe MS has since amended state law to make selling children a crime but I don't think that particular lady ever got charged for that specific crime.
Yes, what the child stalker lady did should be a crime. You have every right to be mad, as a society we should be appalled at stalker lady's behavior. But that doesn't mean we get to make up the law to fit the situation.
The new details about Microsoft's D.C.-based efforts to undermine Google shine a light on the role of third-party firms, funded by tech giants, that engage in activities such as astroturfing, corporate propaganda, and misinformation. Media reports have hinted at a "whisper campaign" undertaken by entities acting at Microsoft's behest to undermine Google, both with policymakers and the public.
Coupled with Microsoft's long standing campaign to influence social media discussions in technical forums, like this one. Instead of investing that money in making better products, we've come to the point where success has to include not only dominating the market, but influencing social media and the regulatory environment. It's almost like their operating system business is an afterthought for Microsoft these days. They're not about building better products as much as hanging on to their market share and putting down competition.
Remind me again why the artificial person that is a corporation deserves the same freedom of speech protections as an individual? Seems like they sort of have an unfair advantage already when it comes to getting their free speech packaged and distributed.
That wouldn't be so bad, except no one here speaks Spanish. So I have no idea if it's a bill collector, a telemarkter, or a candidate running for office in a Spanish speaking area.
All the Spanish I know is basically ordering a beer and asking for directions to the bathroom, so I know they're not selling Dos Equis or directions to the toilet.
Marvin: I think you ought to know I'm feeling very depressed.
Trillian: Well, we have something that may take your mind off it.
Marvin: It won't work, I have an exceptionally large mind.
Trillian: Yeah, we know.
Even if I decide to put my personal stuff on a second drive, I'm worried that using company property to save and write to separate storage still gives them the right to it.
Not if you clarify that the money is a bonus and does not constitute transfer of ownership of the property. And there's no shame wanting to be clear on the conditions.
At the office it's still murky. If you're using company bandwidth, they can monitor that.
There's very little incentive to get caught using company bandwidth to go to blocked locations when netbooks with wireless service are so affordable. I know some military installations are trying to regulate personal wireless devices and in some areas they can. But outside secure areas even those rules aren't entirely clear or consistent.
I'm having a flashback to dumb terminal days.
For a second I had hope that companies would be dusting off us old guys again.
If it's something that technical, I wonder why Remix isn't compiled that way by default? That's way beyond what most users would be capable of figuring out.
Is the user experience that different? Seems strange that Canonical would have overlooked something so obvious. I'm going to give them the benefit of the doubt that something unpleasant happens to the user experience but I have no clue what that could be.
Global accounting firm...what allegiance do they have to the truth? Hey, someone had to take Arthur Andersen's place. They come in, five or six of them, once a quarter and take over a meeting room or hallway with their little laptop network and their job is to make sure that your actual corporate tax rate comes out at or below that 13% figure. Or that at least you don't get caught cheating too much. And if you think there isn't collusion between the auditors and executive row, then maybe one day you'll be able to work up to a cubicle with a red Swingline stapler.
All KPMG cares about is billing. And you can bet anything they publish, anywhere, is tied to that goal. Your marginal tax rate is 35%, second only to Japan...you guys keep leaving out that talking point. People spent a lot of money on think tanks and PR for those talking points, you should at least include that one when you're parroting shit you hear on one of the business channels or Fox News. But if you use our auditing service we can show you the tricks to get your actual tax rate down to just 13% (plus our billing, which is in very small print).
Maybe you've heard of their IT consulting group, BoringPoint...I mean, BearingPoint. Or did they spin off that loser finally? They would sell Girl Scout cookies if it would increase their billing, so they certainly are going to tell their client base what they want to hear. Hell, half their board are probably also the people in those think tanks spending the money to get people like you to vote against their own interests. And that's the only part amazing to me, is how they manage to convince hordes of stupid poor people to vote against their interests so consistently. Just amazing. It's like those street cons playing a rigged game, only the chump never catches on. Or maybe they think that if they work hard, some day, they'll be at the top of the pile. Yeah, you keep believing that...but first you have to earn that red Swingline stapler for your cubicle.
You got a little spittle running from your foamy mouth there skippy. Maybe the nurse can wipe that off for you after computer time is over.
We actually have one of the highest corporate tax rates in the world.
You're quoting KPMG and right wing propaganda machines as authoritative sources on corporate tax rates? Edwin Feulner runs the Heritage Foundation, one of the groups helping organize the "Tea-Birthers". One of his own favorite quotes:
"We conduct warfare in the battle of ideas."
Yes, they do. And those ideas are almost always promoting conservative policy items including corporate welfare. The tax rate is meaningless, the US is actually a corporate tax haven. Because of exceptions, credits, deductions, depreciation and amortization, plus a little lawful and unlawful income shifting, tax deferments and shelters, the effective rate paid by corporations in the US (13.4%) was below the average (16.1%) for the 19 OECD nations in 2000-05. So, sure, lower the tax rate and close off the deductions, then watch those very sources have a collective heart attack.
You'll believe anything if it's on Fox News.
How could that not be illegal? It goes against everything our allegedly free market stands for. Top talent should command top dollar. Like athletes, developers have a finite number of peak production years. They should be able to work for the highest bidder.
It pays for companies using Linux to contribute to the development. The long term savings of using Linux massively outweighs the small contribution of programming resources. And those contributing to development get to address the technical issues on top of their priority list. You can't get that kind of service out of Microsoft.
We're quickly approaching the time when an operating system is more like a utility than a product. A commodity delivery mechanism for business services. The potential for Linux, very quickly approaching realization, is that it can provide a unified stack from a mainframe down to embedded systems. That type of efficiency is very powerful economically. I'm sure MSFT can swim against that tide a long time but, eventually, efficiency will win.
I'd live for that day.
In the UK, a full version of Windows 7 Home Premium is going to cost less than half the price Americans will have to pay...
Getting stiffed by Microsoft simply because you CAN pay more. I think that's hilarious. How are the Microsoft faithful going to spin this one?
I've got a link for the Windows fanbois.
It should not be surprising that when consumers are not treated with respect, they react negatively. That's something the software industry learned long ago, and that's why people don't object to the BSA's enforcement campaign.
I would say that's a pretty tall conclusion. It only applies because the BSA audits businesses and not individuals, so most people outside of IT aren't even aware of who they are. And calling a BSA audit "treating people with respect" is sort of the same mentality that says a rape victim was asking for it.
The documentation requirements go way beyond reasonable. I've seen people get big fines for fairly minor oversights. Engineering moves some old machines to another department and nobody wipes one of the old apps. No one is using the app, and they have licenses for active users, but it's still there.
Makes me glad to be running Linux and doing our development on open source. Sure, audit our Linux boxes. We'll be down at Starbucks breathlessly awaiting the outcome. Part of what got me out of Microsoft World was the ridiculous amount of time and effort you spend dancing on their string. It's just nuts the amount of time you put into serving Microsoft. And don't get me started on the costs. Why is anyone continuing to put themselves through that these days? It's crazy. Get off the treadmill.