Seriously - no troll. How soon before even teaching this kind of skill, even in the name of security, will require special licensing, background checks, and any other array of "Security Theater" tactics brought forth by the Department of Homeland Security?
Hell, we can't _legally_ export anything with strong encryption but we allow multi-cultural students to learn cyber-terrorism tactics?
$20 says the instructor Mr. Ledin is either carted away to Guantanamo Bay, contract killed by McAfee or Symantec or hired by some euro country with too many consonants in their name...
"The following quantity limits apply to both your spare and installed batteries. The limits are expressed in grams of "equivalent lithium content." 8 grams of equivalent lithium content is approximately 100 watt-hours. 25 grams is approximately 300 watt-hours"
They highlighted the word BOTH in the sentence above.
So I wonder - I travel with a laptop, 1 spare laptop battery, an iPod, a Samsung phone with Litihium battery and a spare battery for the cell. I even have a Sony reader which I believe has an internal lithium battery in it.
The way I read the article it looks like the bastards at the TSA are going to make some money selling some of my stuff they'll ultimately confiscate. And it will ultimately be at the whim of whichever retard I get that starts riffling through my carry on.
I swear, there are so many 3-letter agencies now that need a serious restructuring in Amerika that it's getting rather frightening.
People underestimate the power of 'M' (and discount Cache from Intersystems) all the time. I've coded in M and Cache for a long time, and though I consider myself non-zealot when it comes to any particular technology, I have found very little that I cannot do in M/Cache that is faster, easier (both to read and maintain) vs. any other language.
As a programmer in the Healthcare field, I use 'M' technology all the time for systems integration - and it's rare that I have to venture outside of the environment to code things other languages like Java, Perl, etc., and when I do, I can still call all of that stuff seamlessly from within the M environment.
No, I think an earlier poster said it best - the IT people should wake up and get a freakin' clue about what the users do and how their workflow is designed before they start touching the frakking keyboard.
The problem isn't that Healthcare is running on expensive platforms, the problem is that there are so many applications that are just plain crap and treat patient data far, far worse than a bank ever treats financial data - trust me, I see it all the time.
No, Linux isn't the solution - it's programmers paying attention to what the users need and how they work that is the better solution. Whether you run an application using Cache, Oracle, MySQL, Unix, Linux, VMS et. al., if the application isn't built properly with scalability, maintainability and workflow in mind, the OS is NOT going to save you.
What does this guy expect, that we should allow anyone who doesn't feel like showing their receipt to walk freely out the door? Yes. That is precisely what I expect. The ONLY time I ever show my receipt is if she is cute and friendly, or at a very minimum there is no line. Either charge me with a crime - after which I will happily sue the store - or stay the hell out of my way. I'm not a sheep and I'm tired of the inconvenience.
Our store has a ton of theft
I feel your pain, but that is not my problem - and inconveniencing me should not be part of your resolution plan. Hire more eyes, pester the hell out of more customers - which generally CC does this plenty already with little to no value added. I ask a question and usually some CC dimwit grabs the box and starts reading the same box I'm holding in my hand! yeah - nice way to "help".
You could always try and hire more trustworthy cashiers since this tactic is more to catch bad cashiers than it is to catch shoplifters anyway.
So, what are you saying? that most shoplifters when faced with "Mongo" from Loss Prevention go, "oh, sorry, I took this but since you asked me nicely to stop I will do so, fess up, and let you call the police to arrest me. My bad."
Please tell me we haven't collectively become that stupid.
Not having searched, I wonder what power source the Rovers use? Were it a small backup nuclear battery it would surprise me if it couldn't keep things (like the main batts) warm enough, and last long enough to power the most basic of rover "keepalive" functions.
Also not knowing how much wind is actually whipping up the frothy dust, how big would a set of cups or blades on the ends of a stick need to be to generate power for the same purpose (if not nuclear). Granted one couldn't always count on there being wind, and the cost to weight ratio against the advantage of having a wind power backup might not add up - but it begs the question...
Interesting... I hadn't known that and I am running Parallels on a MacBook Pro (recent purchase). I've had one panic so far. It rather surprised me - I was thinking it was BSOD all over again.
Nice to know I'm not crazy. It's only happened once and I am using the Parallels image quite rigorously I hope it doesn't happen often!
All this dovetails nicely into the fact that it's probably the same psychological issue that if the boss doesn't see you doing SOMETHING, you must be doing NOTHING.
Something tells me that if we had machines that either generated virtually no sound with large heat-dissipation plates and micropumps that were noiseless and had no blinking lights we would fractionate into two camps:
One camp would say something like that is "green" and unobtrusive to the environment
The other - "What the hell?! Is NOTHING working around here?! ":-)
I was thinking that very same thing! However if memory serves me correctly, I think the drone in GRAW2 is a ducted fan - where the prop is inside the center cavity and the avionics, etc., would surround the housing.
I wonder if there will ever be an open-source variety of SecurID key fob (and maybe 1 authorized backup) for disk-based encryption for laptops? You know, those things that changes digits every minute that you use when entering a known passcode to access remote VPN systems. I can envision shipping my SecureID-like key tag via fed-ex or other to my destination and taking the laptop with me.
They can ask me to open it up all they want and I physically would be unable to help them.
More likely I would just do what I do now - Run Linux and use Windows under a virtual machine that is stored in an encrypted file volume. I do this because most of the healthcare tools I use are windows-based and I have some Protected Health Information (PHI) in the image - it's almost impossible not to when trying to debug production systems. I found it was far easier to do this and keep the virtual machine up to date with patches, etc., and never surf with it or use it for anything other than 100% business use. I have another XP image that has all of my other business (and non-PHI) email, etc. on it so never the twain shall meet - until someone has a virus that can use Linux to bridge across 2 VM's where they never both run at the same time.
I used to be a Republican when excessive tax was more of a worry than the complete and total fsking erosion of my rights as a citizen.
Being a citizen now only means they have the option to use lube when they probe you. Note that I said it's just an option - not a right. You poor bastards coming in from beyond the border get the dry probe regardless. You have my sympathies...
Until recently I used to work for a consulting firm not one of the "Biggies" but a memorable name nonetheless - it rhymes with "Merlot".
Bigger than the problem of dealing with explosive growth, going public was the one thing IMHO that practically destroyed the culture we had.
The focus no longer became innovative solutions for our customers for whom we literally could pick and choose - those that had the mindset of real change and not culling some tech shop for bodies, but rather to fatten the pipeline of potential business no matter where or how we found it. All of this was to stay beholden to the quarterly bottom line slobbered over by the institutional investors.
We didn't have to go public. We were literally cash-positive and owed no debt. When the time was ready to go public there was MASSIVE interest by the employees - WAY over and beyond what the initial stock offering was set at. Instead of rethinking the "go-public" strategy and either offer more shares to the employees or hold off and see what heights we could attain ourselves, they went ahead and only offered each employee the option to buy 100 shares at the IPO price on IPO day.
Needless to say, they again are experiencing "explosive growth" (read that explosive spending) and hiring en-masse - which only dilutes what corporate culture we had - and our smaller teams effectiveness due to a sudden lack of autonomy. I remember my team interview over 10 years ago - it was brutal - and it was effective. I met and meshed a group of people that I loved to work with. Anymore you could be sitting in your office or cube when someone you never met from HR marches Bozo the Clown with his finger up his nose and says to you, "This is Bob, he's your new team-mate". No interview to determine if he fits - nothing. Just a hidey-ho surprise to find out you have a new office mate that is supposed to be doing something - as to what exactly that something is we both are clueless.
Leaving to work directly for the client was a good move - at least for now.
Don't mean to correct you - but you CANNOT get all of the Sirius channels thru WiFI. You get the same number you would normally get when you stream it online via your browser. The music is there, Howard is there as is Martha Stewart and one or two others - but NONE of the other talk/news/comedy channels are streamed.
This point in particular has me irritated more than anything and I've already complained about it. I'm actually seriously considering taking the radio back to the store for my money back because of this. I listen to Howard occasionally too, but the lack of the headline news and other channels streamed over WiFi has me pissed.
At least XM has a home-repeater you can purchase so you can mount one antenna and broadcast the full satellite signal throughout your home. The nitwits at Sirius still haven't done this...
Okay, okay! you got me. I knew as soon as I clicked the post button that line was gonna get me basted.
I know what you say is indeed true - it's just frustrating that's all, that policy is usually dictated by people who don't have to access these systems on a daily basis but who will also not release the funds to implement systems to do it right.
Woah there - chill a little on having IT jump all over it because of lazy users. I work at a company where IT felt having a password that is so convoluted and un-memorable that 80% of the people REQUIRE a sticky note just to remember the damn thing.
Just because you CAN do a thing doesn't mean you MUST do a thing, and I think the natural reaction from most admins is to not think further about the impacts their changes will make.
Things like "something you have, something you know" - use a hardware key along with a password that the user can remember (within reason - don't make it something they'll forget if they don't remember after a long weekend). Combine their password with the changing number (a-la SecureID), and you have both tight and safe, which without handing over your key makes it harder to social engineer in the first place - making a task like this infintely more difficult to break through the front door.
Yeah, I know what people will say - "That costs more!" Does it? How much is your data worth if you force your users to write their passwords down all over the frakkin place?!
I thought that too until I realized the implications of sheer power to keep it on tap all the time. Maybe as densities of specific sizes increase and you can swap out drives, eventually it requires more and more power to store it all. I read a funny Cringley article on that one recently.
I work in the medical field and the lossless scanned image data they need to keep is utterly horrendous. The idea may still have merit though by using HD's as swappable "shelf-media" unless something happens and they would no longer spin-up or be readable. I dunno. It's just that would you be able to compress and migrate onto drives of larger and larger sizes faster than the rate at which you would outgrow cooling capacity, footprint, uptime, support on the number of disk controllers, etc, to keep it all flowing?
Dunno.. This one isn't an easy one when you reach a certain level of what all you have to keep and for how long - and more importantly still need to to get to it 80 years later.
Ya wouldn't need the keyboard as a small fold-up unless you wanted to. The Mac Mini he installed was bluetooth capable - any bluetooth keyboard and mouse stashed under the seat in a nice padded bag would work great.
As far as the cell-phone hookup - bluetooth again. Use your bluetooth cell as a dialer. Granted, you wouldn't get the greatest speeds, but hey - the geek factor is where it's at. Or - use one of the Sierra PCX wireless cards for an "always on connection" ($100 for the card and $80/mo for the privilege, but hey - that touchscreen alone is pricey!)
GPS - tee hee - bluetooth again! The same GPS could feed the Mac app as well as wear it like a pendant to transmit to your iPAQ PDA when you're doing the sneaker-net deal the rest of the way.
IMHO it's not even so much of paying a quarter a show or any price for that matter, to me it's more about simple availability from a continuity standpoint.
Take for instance Stargate SG-1, Atlantis and BSG. I live in Texas where my exposure to decent Sci-Fi is whatever I can get via cable or satellite. It's not even so much that the Sci-Fi channel doesn't air the shows that are seen on UK TV until almost 6 months to a year later - but when they do, they pull this "split-season" crap where they'll show only part of a season, followed by re-runs ad-nauseum, then complete out the season in some stair-step fashion simply to boost ad-revenue dollars.
I'd be happy to not bother downloading if they would simply show some continuity and quit jacking so much with the schedules.
I do purchase the DVD sets when they're available, and even watch them on occasion as I TiVo them all.
The networks would be smart to allow downloads and figure out new ways of revenue generation. And on that same note, I would like to thank PERSONALLY all of those wonderful individuals that post these shows from SkyOne as they are aired in the UK. You guys are the BEST! (and I mean that from the bottom of my heart!)
Many of the sites I read about this talks about how state-of-the art protection can be out in the middle of nowhere, but _getting_ there during a national crisis is another.
The worst kind of biological exposure is one that has a decent incubation period then nails you later in the blink of an eye.
You're either already exposed getting there, in which case you bring it with you, or include pointers and tips on how to cover yourself by getting to the safehouse without being exposed - something missed by most pundits on this issue.
When CNN screams, "We're being bio-attacked!", you get to jam yourself amongst the thralling masses trying to get away? Not good...
Good enough to go around on the right? Huh? I already do that because of the slow, stupid people in the left lane. You missed my point.
Don't speed?
Point out one single highway where the speed limit is recognized or practiced by even a minor percentage of the drivers where a Police car is not anyhwhere in sight and I'll say you're not in the USA.
I ride a motorcycle, so "going the speed limit" usually isn't an option as that's usually a lot slower than anyone else on the road - and I could get hurt - badly.
Yes - you can drive in any lane you want, but if you are going slower than anyone else in the left lane, I'm just asking that you be a sweetie-pie and just move over. Why be a dick? Just to prove some point that you can drive in front of me? Nothing like being "goal oriented" I guess.
It's just that type of "I'll drive in any lane I want" arrogance that leads to road rage.
If you're not a wise enough driver to avoid rattling someone elses cage simply because you get off on some "you can't tell me what to do" power trip - perhaps it's you that needs to consider mass transit?
In any case, don't worry about me, cupcake - I'll just ride around you like I already do when you aren't paying attention:-)
Fiiine... As long as (if you're in America) you aren't in the left most passing lane.
The following is only meant for those not paying attention in the States and going slow in the left lane; If this is not you, you may continue.
If you are going slower in the left lane, stop playing God (cop or both) and get the fsck out of the left lane!
Usually the excuses are;
"But I'm doing the speed limit?" I don't give a rats ass - again, get the hell out of the left lane. If you aren't going faster than me, move over to the right.
"There's another lane, so you can go around." No, you can go to hell and read the law - slower traffic keep to the right. Again, get the hell out of my way.
"You shouldn't be speeding!" Your opinion and it has been duly noted. Again, and as I pointed out before, GET THE HELL OUT OF THE LEFTMOST PASSING LANE!
So - if you're in the left lane, (note, it doesn't say "The Speed Limit Lane" in the drivers handbook), GET THE HELL OUT OF THE WAY!
I am of the firm belief that if you are in the left lane and puposefully hindering traffic, I hope you DO get rear-ended - hopefully by a 30 ton garbage truck that makes Pate' out of you and your Yugo.
If you're cute. Feel free to bring me a donut, cupcake! However you raise an interesting point, whoever you are;
ENOUGH WITH THE POLITICAL CORRECTNESS BULLSHIT!
Build a bridge and get over it. If you're a woman who's too weak to move the materials, hire a big, stupid man you can manipulate to do it for you. Is that more to your feminist liking? (Actually I don't really care, but I figured I'd be nice and ask you anyway)
"Lead ALL sacred cows to the grill" I say, and if you're too sensitive to handle my "grow a pair" statement, you're also too sensitive to hold a high position where difficult decisions need to be made - whether you're a man, woman or "other". If you can do the job, you have my respect. If you're one of the ones who just bitch about how someone ELSE does the job and you don't get off your ass and do something constructive with your opinions, you get my label of "Liberal Bitch Pansy".
Don't like the "balls" comment? Fine... I know women who's ovaries are the size of 10Lb bowling balls compared to my nads and could roll though me at business knack like a hot knife through warm butter, and you don't see me whining about it.
" To get job security, developers need to position themselves as highly effective business-value generators, working with the rest of the company to solve common goals."
No, it's not simply ego. It's people in the trenches actually taking the time to stick their head out of the average gopher hole and look around to see what the fuck is going on.
As a medical integration consultant, more than 90% of the people I'm called in to deal are full of the "Not My Job" syndrome. These NMJ's are of course the first whiny bastards that bitch, moan and complain about what stupid job management is doing. How many times do you hear ANYONE bitch, but offer any well-thought out solutions to go with it? Exactly.
Of course many of these "movers" have ego's. They HAVE to in order to manipulate, bypass or utterly CRUSH the sycophantic-retards in middle management that have their own little empires to worry about without focusing on growing the company.
Okay, so the "consultant-speak" at the start of the article was bit over the top. However the whiny bastards that choose to bitch someone out over the phone and only says "You give me the specs, that's not my job" like some pirate's parrot deserve exactly WTF they get.
Christ, just lose all the consultant blather and repeat after me, "Grow A Pair of Balls, Grow the Company."
I've never been wasted politically for doing what's right and what's in the best interest of the company. And yes, you NEED to grow an ego or some sycophantic little opportunistic weasel will take your ideas AND the credit. Don't like it? get a job at Mc-Jobs and focus on the fries.
The whole concept of "death marches" are simply caused by the complete disconnect between Upper Management, Marketing and the people who actually do the work.
Without proper planning where you manage Scope, Time and Resources to find that balance - you get death marches. Willing to be one who works in that environment costs not only your life, but your sanity and having time to watch your kids grow up.
1 - Identify Risks - no matter how small, both the good and the bad that could come from the project
2 - list the Assumptions and tie a name of a person that validates those assumptions (ahhh, that 4 letter word "accountability")
3 - Document your Issues, and again - assign names to get get those issues resolved
4 - Define in plain english all the terminology the project uses so everyone is on the same page. For example, the word "server" to me at the client end might mean something totally different to the people on the technical end.
Now, break down the tasks and estimate effort using people that know what the f**k is going on, write it up and stick to the plan. Yes, the plan will change but with proper MANAGEMENT of the plan and MITIGATING the RISKS you won't have to DIE or worse, come home to some guy doing YOUR job with the wife.
So, what if the Stakeholder (e.g. Suit, Marketing Puke or Client) wants something added? Easy! You have a process that outlines the costs the additional scope will add to the balance of resources and time and what risk it poses to the project for all to see and agree upon. Usually someone with some sense steps in and says WOAH! points out the problems, then people keep moving along.
As a consultant, I use my "Three Balls" analogy a lot; Draw a triangle and put a circle at each of the 3 points. Label the circles "Good", "Fast" and "Cheap". Tell them to "Pick Two". This is also known as a "Flexibility Matrix" of sorts, but I like to keep the jargon to a minimum.
If that stumps them, make it easier - Draw two circles connected with a line and put in the words "Right" and "Right Now" and tell them to "Pick One" The latter is for those 30,000' view executives whose ties are on too tight choking off the blood supply to their brains.
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Seriously - no troll. How soon before even teaching this kind of skill, even in the name of security, will require special licensing, background checks, and any other array of "Security Theater" tactics brought forth by the Department of Homeland Security?
Hell, we can't _legally_ export anything with strong encryption but we allow multi-cultural students to learn cyber-terrorism tactics?
$20 says the instructor Mr. Ledin is either carted away to Guantanamo Bay, contract killed by McAfee or Symantec or hired by some euro country with too many consonants in their name...
That's not how I read it. TFA says:
"The following quantity limits apply to both your spare and installed batteries. The limits are expressed in grams of "equivalent lithium content." 8 grams of equivalent lithium content is approximately 100 watt-hours. 25 grams is approximately 300 watt-hours"
They highlighted the word BOTH in the sentence above.
So I wonder - I travel with a laptop, 1 spare laptop battery, an iPod, a Samsung phone with Litihium battery and a spare battery for the cell. I even have a Sony reader which I believe has an internal lithium battery in it.
The way I read the article it looks like the bastards at the TSA are going to make some money selling some of my stuff they'll ultimately confiscate. And it will ultimately be at the whim of whichever retard I get that starts riffling through my carry on.
I swear, there are so many 3-letter agencies now that need a serious restructuring in Amerika that it's getting rather frightening.
People underestimate the power of 'M' (and discount Cache from Intersystems) all the time. I've coded in M and Cache for a long time, and though I consider myself non-zealot when it comes to any particular technology, I have found very little that I cannot do in M/Cache that is faster, easier (both to read and maintain) vs. any other language.
As a programmer in the Healthcare field, I use 'M' technology all the time for systems integration - and it's rare that I have to venture outside of the environment to code things other languages like Java, Perl, etc., and when I do, I can still call all of that stuff seamlessly from within the M environment.
No, I think an earlier poster said it best - the IT people should wake up and get a freakin' clue about what the users do and how their workflow is designed before they start touching the frakking keyboard.
The problem isn't that Healthcare is running on expensive platforms, the problem is that there are so many applications that are just plain crap and treat patient data far, far worse than a bank ever treats financial data - trust me, I see it all the time.
No, Linux isn't the solution - it's programmers paying attention to what the users need and how they work that is the better solution. Whether you run an application using Cache, Oracle, MySQL, Unix, Linux, VMS et. al., if the application isn't built properly with scalability, maintainability and workflow in mind, the OS is NOT going to save you.
I feel your pain, but that is not my problem - and inconveniencing me should not be part of your resolution plan. Hire more eyes, pester the hell out of more customers - which generally CC does this plenty already with little to no value added. I ask a question and usually some CC dimwit grabs the box and starts reading the same box I'm holding in my hand! yeah - nice way to "help".
You could always try and hire more trustworthy cashiers since this tactic is more to catch bad cashiers than it is to catch shoplifters anyway.
So, what are you saying? that most shoplifters when faced with "Mongo" from Loss Prevention go, "oh, sorry, I took this but since you asked me nicely to stop I will do so, fess up, and let you call the police to arrest me. My bad."
Please tell me we haven't collectively become that stupid.Not having searched, I wonder what power source the Rovers use? Were it a small backup nuclear battery it would surprise me if it couldn't keep things (like the main batts) warm enough, and last long enough to power the most basic of rover "keepalive" functions.
Also not knowing how much wind is actually whipping up the frothy dust, how big would a set of cups or blades on the ends of a stick need to be to generate power for the same purpose (if not nuclear). Granted one couldn't always count on there being wind, and the cost to weight ratio against the advantage of having a wind power backup might not add up - but it begs the question...
Interesting... I hadn't known that and I am running Parallels on a MacBook Pro (recent purchase). I've had one panic so far. It rather surprised me - I was thinking it was BSOD all over again.
Nice to know I'm not crazy. It's only happened once and I am using the Parallels image quite rigorously I hope it doesn't happen often!
All this dovetails nicely into the fact that it's probably the same psychological issue that if the boss doesn't see you doing SOMETHING, you must be doing NOTHING.
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Something tells me that if we had machines that either generated virtually no sound with large heat-dissipation plates and micropumps that were noiseless and had no blinking lights we would fractionate into two camps:
One camp would say something like that is "green" and unobtrusive to the environment
The other - "What the hell?! Is NOTHING working around here?! "
I was thinking that very same thing! However if memory serves me correctly, I think the drone in GRAW2 is a ducted fan - where the prop is inside the center cavity and the avionics, etc., would surround the housing.
I wonder if there will ever be an open-source variety of SecurID key fob (and maybe 1 authorized backup) for disk-based encryption for laptops? You know, those things that changes digits every minute that you use when entering a known passcode to access remote VPN systems. I can envision shipping my SecureID-like key tag via fed-ex or other to my destination and taking the laptop with me.
They can ask me to open it up all they want and I physically would be unable to help them.
More likely I would just do what I do now - Run Linux and use Windows under a virtual machine that is stored in an encrypted file volume. I do this because most of the healthcare tools I use are windows-based and I have some Protected Health Information (PHI) in the image - it's almost impossible not to when trying to debug production systems. I found it was far easier to do this and keep the virtual machine up to date with patches, etc., and never surf with it or use it for anything other than 100% business use. I have another XP image that has all of my other business (and non-PHI) email, etc. on it so never the twain shall meet - until someone has a virus that can use Linux to bridge across 2 VM's where they never both run at the same time.
I used to be a Republican when excessive tax was more of a worry than the complete and total fsking erosion of my rights as a citizen.
Being a citizen now only means they have the option to use lube when they probe you. Note that I said it's just an option - not a right. You poor bastards coming in from beyond the border get the dry probe regardless. You have my sympathies...
Until recently I used to work for a consulting firm not one of the "Biggies" but a memorable name nonetheless - it rhymes with "Merlot".
Bigger than the problem of dealing with explosive growth, going public was the one thing IMHO that practically destroyed the culture we had.
The focus no longer became innovative solutions for our customers for whom we literally could pick and choose - those that had the mindset of real change and not culling some tech shop for bodies, but rather to fatten the pipeline of potential business no matter where or how we found it. All of this was to stay beholden to the quarterly bottom line slobbered over by the institutional investors.
We didn't have to go public. We were literally cash-positive and owed no debt. When the time was ready to go public there was MASSIVE interest by the employees - WAY over and beyond what the initial stock offering was set at. Instead of rethinking the "go-public" strategy and either offer more shares to the employees or hold off and see what heights we could attain ourselves, they went ahead and only offered each employee the option to buy 100 shares at the IPO price on IPO day.
Needless to say, they again are experiencing "explosive growth" (read that explosive spending) and hiring en-masse - which only dilutes what corporate culture we had - and our smaller teams effectiveness due to a sudden lack of autonomy. I remember my team interview over 10 years ago - it was brutal - and it was effective. I met and meshed a group of people that I loved to work with. Anymore you could be sitting in your office or cube when someone you never met from HR marches Bozo the Clown with his finger up his nose and says to you, "This is Bob, he's your new team-mate". No interview to determine if he fits - nothing. Just a hidey-ho surprise to find out you have a new office mate that is supposed to be doing something - as to what exactly that something is we both are clueless.
Leaving to work directly for the client was a good move - at least for now.
Don't mean to correct you - but you CANNOT get all of the Sirius channels thru WiFI. You get the same number you would normally get when you stream it online via your browser. The music is there, Howard is there as is Martha Stewart and one or two others - but NONE of the other talk/news/comedy channels are streamed.
This point in particular has me irritated more than anything and I've already complained about it. I'm actually seriously considering taking the radio back to the store for my money back because of this. I listen to Howard occasionally too, but the lack of the headline news and other channels streamed over WiFi has me pissed.
At least XM has a home-repeater you can purchase so you can mount one antenna and broadcast the full satellite signal throughout your home. The nitwits at Sirius still haven't done this...
Okay, okay! you got me. I knew as soon as I clicked the post button that line was gonna get me basted.
I know what you say is indeed true - it's just frustrating that's all, that policy is usually dictated by people who don't have to access these systems on a daily basis but who will also not release the funds to implement systems to do it right.
Again, I apologize for sounding like an ass...
Woah there - chill a little on having IT jump all over it because of lazy users. I work at a company where IT felt having a password that is so convoluted and un-memorable that 80% of the people REQUIRE a sticky note just to remember the damn thing.
Just because you CAN do a thing doesn't mean you MUST do a thing, and I think the natural reaction from most admins is to not think further about the impacts their changes will make.
Things like "something you have, something you know" - use a hardware key along with a password that the user can remember (within reason - don't make it something they'll forget if they don't remember after a long weekend). Combine their password with the changing number (a-la SecureID), and you have both tight and safe, which without handing over your key makes it harder to social engineer in the first place - making a task like this infintely more difficult to break through the front door.
Yeah, I know what people will say - "That costs more!" Does it? How much is your data worth if you force your users to write their passwords down all over the frakkin place?!
I thought that too until I realized the implications of sheer power to keep it on tap all the time. Maybe as densities of specific sizes increase and you can swap out drives, eventually it requires more and more power to store it all. I read a funny Cringley article on that one recently.
I work in the medical field and the lossless scanned image data they need to keep is utterly horrendous. The idea may still have merit though by using HD's as swappable "shelf-media" unless something happens and they would no longer spin-up or be readable. I dunno. It's just that would you be able to compress and migrate onto drives of larger and larger sizes faster than the rate at which you would outgrow cooling capacity, footprint, uptime, support on the number of disk controllers, etc, to keep it all flowing?
Dunno.. This one isn't an easy one when you reach a certain level of what all you have to keep and for how long - and more importantly still need to to get to it 80 years later.
DOH! Ima Tard... Forgot the Mac Mini didn't have a PCMCIA port. My bad... ;-)
Ya wouldn't need the keyboard as a small fold-up unless you wanted to. The Mac Mini he installed was bluetooth capable - any bluetooth keyboard and mouse stashed under the seat in a nice padded bag would work great.
As far as the cell-phone hookup - bluetooth again. Use your bluetooth cell as a dialer. Granted, you wouldn't get the greatest speeds, but hey - the geek factor is where it's at. Or - use one of the Sierra PCX wireless cards for an "always on connection" ($100 for the card and $80/mo for the privilege, but hey - that touchscreen alone is pricey!)
GPS - tee hee - bluetooth again! The same GPS could feed the Mac app as well as wear it like a pendant to transmit to your iPAQ PDA when you're doing the sneaker-net deal the rest of the way.
Cool thoughts...
IMHO it's not even so much of paying a quarter a show or any price for that matter, to me it's more about simple availability from a continuity standpoint.
Take for instance Stargate SG-1, Atlantis and BSG. I live in Texas where my exposure to decent Sci-Fi is whatever I can get via cable or satellite. It's not even so much that the Sci-Fi channel doesn't air the shows that are seen on UK TV until almost 6 months to a year later - but when they do, they pull this "split-season" crap where they'll show only part of a season, followed by re-runs ad-nauseum, then complete out the season in some stair-step fashion simply to boost ad-revenue dollars.
I'd be happy to not bother downloading if they would simply show some continuity and quit jacking so much with the schedules.
I do purchase the DVD sets when they're available, and even watch them on occasion as I TiVo them all.
The networks would be smart to allow downloads and figure out new ways of revenue generation. And on that same note, I would like to thank PERSONALLY all of those wonderful individuals that post these shows from SkyOne as they are aired in the UK. You guys are the BEST! (and I mean that from the bottom of my heart!)
Oh - ys mean if I saw CNN freakin' out about the issue whilst I was tossin' a few brewskis back in the shelter?
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But of course, my man... Hopefully that would be the way it would go down but with my luck? Doubtful.
Many of the sites I read about this talks about how state-of-the art protection can be out in the middle of nowhere, but _getting_ there during a national crisis is another.
The worst kind of biological exposure is one that has a decent incubation period then nails you later in the blink of an eye.
You're either already exposed getting there, in which case you bring it with you, or include pointers and tips on how to cover yourself by getting to the safehouse without being exposed - something missed by most pundits on this issue.
When CNN screams, "We're being bio-attacked!", you get to jam yourself amongst the thralling masses trying to get away? Not good...
Good enough to go around on the right? Huh? I already do that because of the slow, stupid people in the left lane. You missed my point.
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Don't speed?
Point out one single highway where the speed limit is recognized or practiced by even a minor percentage of the drivers where a Police car is not anyhwhere in sight and I'll say you're not in the USA.
I ride a motorcycle, so "going the speed limit" usually isn't an option as that's usually a lot slower than anyone else on the road - and I could get hurt - badly.
Yes - you can drive in any lane you want, but if you are going slower than anyone else in the left lane, I'm just asking that you be a sweetie-pie and just move over. Why be a dick? Just to prove some point that you can drive in front of me? Nothing like being "goal oriented" I guess.
It's just that type of "I'll drive in any lane I want" arrogance that leads to road rage.
If you're not a wise enough driver to avoid rattling someone elses cage simply because you get off on some "you can't tell me what to do" power trip - perhaps it's you that needs to consider mass transit?
In any case, don't worry about me, cupcake - I'll just ride around you like I already do when you aren't paying attention
Fiiine... As long as (if you're in America) you aren't in the left most passing lane.
The following is only meant for those not paying attention in the States and going slow in the left lane; If this is not you, you may continue.
If you are going slower in the left lane, stop playing God (cop or both) and get the fsck out of the left lane!
Usually the excuses are;
"But I'm doing the speed limit?" I don't give a rats ass - again, get the hell out of the left lane. If you aren't going faster than me, move over to the right.
"There's another lane, so you can go around." No, you can go to hell and read the law - slower traffic keep to the right. Again, get the hell out of my way.
"You shouldn't be speeding!" Your opinion and it has been duly noted. Again, and as I pointed out before, GET THE HELL OUT OF THE LEFTMOST PASSING LANE!
So - if you're in the left lane, (note, it doesn't say "The Speed Limit Lane" in the drivers handbook), GET THE HELL OUT OF THE WAY!
I am of the firm belief that if you are in the left lane and puposefully hindering traffic, I hope you DO get rear-ended - hopefully by a 30 ton garbage truck that makes Pate' out of you and your Yugo.
Yeah... it's a sensitive subject...
Not at all. I'm simply getting at the fact you can't read.
If you're cute. Feel free to bring me a donut, cupcake! However you raise an interesting point, whoever you are;
ENOUGH WITH THE POLITICAL CORRECTNESS BULLSHIT!
Build a bridge and get over it. If you're a woman who's too weak to move the materials, hire a big, stupid man you can manipulate to do it for you. Is that more to your feminist liking? (Actually I don't really care, but I figured I'd be nice and ask you anyway)
"Lead ALL sacred cows to the grill" I say, and if you're too sensitive to handle my "grow a pair" statement, you're also too sensitive to hold a high position where difficult decisions need to be made - whether you're a man, woman or "other". If you can do the job, you have my respect. If you're one of the ones who just bitch about how someone ELSE does the job and you don't get off your ass and do something constructive with your opinions, you get my label of "Liberal Bitch Pansy".
Don't like the "balls" comment? Fine... I know women who's ovaries are the size of 10Lb bowling balls compared to my nads and could roll though me at business knack like a hot knife through warm butter, and you don't see me whining about it.
" To get job security, developers need to position themselves as highly effective business-value generators, working with the rest of the company to solve common goals."
No, it's not simply ego. It's people in the trenches actually taking the time to stick their head out of the average gopher hole and look around to see what the fuck is going on.
As a medical integration consultant, more than 90% of the people I'm called in to deal are full of the "Not My Job" syndrome. These NMJ's are of course the first whiny bastards that bitch, moan and complain about what stupid job management is doing. How many times do you hear ANYONE bitch, but offer any well-thought out solutions to go with it? Exactly.
Of course many of these "movers" have ego's. They HAVE to in order to manipulate, bypass or utterly CRUSH the sycophantic-retards in middle management that have their own little empires to worry about without focusing on growing the company.
Okay, so the "consultant-speak" at the start of the article was bit over the top. However the whiny bastards that choose to bitch someone out over the phone and only says "You give me the specs, that's not my job" like some pirate's parrot deserve exactly WTF they get.
Christ, just lose all the consultant blather and repeat after me, "Grow A Pair of Balls, Grow the Company."
I've never been wasted politically for doing what's right and what's in the best interest of the company. And yes, you NEED to grow an ego or some sycophantic little opportunistic weasel will take your ideas AND the credit. Don't like it? get a job at Mc-Jobs and focus on the fries.
Toot your own horn... You might make more money.
The whole concept of "death marches" are simply caused by the complete disconnect between Upper Management, Marketing and the people who actually do the work.
Without proper planning where you manage Scope, Time and Resources to find that balance - you get death marches. Willing to be one who works in that environment costs not only your life, but your sanity and having time to watch your kids grow up.
Handling projects correctly isn't freakin' rocket science - Perform proper RAID analysis;
1 - Identify Risks - no matter how small, both the good and the bad that could come from the project
2 - list the Assumptions and tie a name of a person that validates those assumptions (ahhh, that 4 letter word "accountability")
3 - Document your Issues, and again - assign names to get get those issues resolved
4 - Define in plain english all the terminology the project uses so everyone is on the same page. For example, the word "server" to me at the client end might mean something totally different to the people on the technical end.
Now, break down the tasks and estimate effort using people that know what the f**k is going on, write it up and stick to the plan. Yes, the plan will change but with proper MANAGEMENT of the plan and MITIGATING the RISKS you won't have to DIE or worse, come home to some guy doing YOUR job with the wife.
So, what if the Stakeholder (e.g. Suit, Marketing Puke or Client) wants something added? Easy! You have a process that outlines the costs the additional scope will add to the balance of resources and time and what risk it poses to the project for all to see and agree upon. Usually someone with some sense steps in and says WOAH! points out the problems, then people keep moving along.
As a consultant, I use my "Three Balls" analogy a lot; Draw a triangle and put a circle at each of the 3 points. Label the circles "Good", "Fast" and "Cheap". Tell them to "Pick Two". This is also known as a "Flexibility Matrix" of sorts, but I like to keep the jargon to a minimum.
If that stumps them, make it easier - Draw two circles connected with a line and put in the words "Right" and "Right Now" and tell them to "Pick One" The latter is for those 30,000' view executives whose ties are on too tight choking off the blood supply to their brains.