I think many of us are defining the commodity of which there is a shortage wrong: It's IT workers, with the skills in demand, willing to take what the boss thinks the work is worth. One may go on and on about how their l33t skillz is worth X amount of dollars, but if they don't result in X + Y revenue for the guy cutting the check, then you cost too much.
Remember when people would go around saying "I work with computers" when asked what their job was?
Now that would sound like "I work with paper." Dunno about that. My wife is a teacher (here we go full circle) and she still introduces me that way. OTOH, I say I'm an IT manager.
Please oh please share with us the name of your enlightened country of origin so we can pick it apart. Yes, the U.S. is having some serious problems and we are losing much we once cherished. However, in all my studies, I have yet to find a better place to live. I have yet to find a foreign government that was not just as fucked-up in its own special way. If, however, you are living in this magical Shangri-La, please do share it with the rest of us. My passport is up to date.
No. Seriously. Who modded this "Funny"? Poland has been our ally since the Revolutionary War. They sent troops to Iraq. They are the Europeans that don't hate us.
Totally off topic, but, for real: They are a huge US ally.
Small European countries are nice places to live because there are certain big countries that are non-evil and allow them to exist.
Don't kid yourself: Being small and weak may be inexpensive, but such countries are completely at the mercy of the monsters in their neighborhood. The only reason that Scandanavians don't speak Russian is because someone is willing to cowboy up and keep the peace (such as it is). If the U.S. chose to delegate that responsibility, who could we trust to pick it up?
You know, I hate lame patent grabs as much as the next guy, but I'm wondering if this shouldn't really be considered a case of "Don't hate the playa, hate the game". As long as the rules are set as they are, I think the options available to any business is to grab or be sued. If Amazon hadn't done this, who's to say that it wouldn't have been B&N or Buy.com who did?
These people have stock holders to answer to. The high moral ground is nice, it's even important, but business is war with agreed upon rules. This is according to the rules.
I asked GoDaddy what their side of it was. This is what they sent me:
I am Ben Butler, the Director of Network Abuse at Go Daddy and I want to personally address your posts regarding SecLists.org.
As we have said to our customers - Go Daddy is committed to keeping the Internet a safe place. If there is material online that is jeopardizing Internet safety, we will take necessary action.
In this case, Go Daddy attempted to contact the customer with regard to a large list of MySpace user names and passwords which appeared on his Web site. The registrant was not available at the time.
In order to protect users of MySpace from the risk of having private data revealed, we removed the site until we could make contact with our customer. Once we were able to discuss the issue with the registrant, he assured us he would remove the offending material and we re-enabled his site while he was on the phone. The site was back up within one hour.
In each case like this, my department follows a set of operating procedures evaluating whether to remove hosting content or to redirect domain names. The decision is carefully made on a case-by-case basis. Most times, the site is left as is.
An important issue I would ask you to consider is one that is a top priority for us at Go Daddy - child exploitation or even the potential for it.
I don't know of any parent who wouldn't want their child's username and password protected.
Ben Butler Director of Network Abuse The Go Daddy Group, Inc
RE: "(Sidenote: Stop requiring registration for moronic things! I don't want to give you any personal information to post in a damned blog!)"
I require a basic account for posting to my blog. It's just enough of a hassle that it keeps spambots from flooding my site. It costs me comments, no doubt, but the second I turn it off, I get flooded with Viagra offers.
Again, I ask you, where did I indicate anybody cheated? I want you to quote, word for word, the exact text that indicates that I claimed anybody cheated, rigged, coerced, or any other illegitimate activity in relation to the 2000 election.
You're not going to get it. I inferred it from your quotes around the word "elected". If you did not want it to be inferred so, you would not have made it look like the word was not entirely accurate. But you did, so there's not point in being coy.
And I never mentioned the 2000 election.
And that's the last morsel I'll toss to this troll.
Furthermore, please note that George W. Bush is yet another individual "elected" to the presidency against the will of the people.
I was with you until you pulled out the not-really-quotes. Dude's a loser, but close-enough-to-half of us voted for him. Just cause your side lost doesn't mean the other guys cheated. Sometimes, stupid people hold the majority. Hell, MOST times.
Again, I have to believe this is an unfair perception. I've been on some of these challenge courses that the supposedly inside-the-box military types have to navigate. They give you a rope, a telephone pole, and a barrel and leave you to figure out how to move your entire squad across a stretch of "burning" water, or whatever. "No plan survives contact with the enemy" is a common refrain. If all you have is the box your brain came in, you'll be coming home in another box.
Your average ground-pounder ain't gonna solve world hunger, but the goat of any West Point class class comes out with the eqivalent of an Ivy League engineering degree. Just cause these guys have shoulders and read more Rommel than Proust doesn't mean that they are quite the idiots Hollywoods likes to portray them as.
Seriously. His True-Believer schtick is now officially old. Creative Commons is a perfectly customizable and easily decoded system, and I applaud its creators. Stallman's attempt to force the entire F/OS world to walk to the beat of his little tin drum is going to end up driving everyone to more practical solutions. Who needs him?
Please let us stop this nonsense now. It reminds me of an associate of mine who claims that he's become good a drunk driving because he does it so much.
Everytime some nimrod cuts me off in traffic, I can be certain to find a cell phone plasterd to his\her head. Listen carefully kiddies: Yakkng kills.
As someone else noted eloquently above, STFU AND DRIVE!
Most of my top ten is already posted, but I swear by FilZip for compression software, and SmartFTP for non-commercial file transfer. Both Windows apps.
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I think many of us are defining the commodity of which there is a shortage wrong: It's IT workers, with the skills in demand, willing to take what the boss thinks the work is worth. One may go on and on about how their l33t skillz is worth X amount of dollars, but if they don't result in X + Y revenue for the guy cutting the check, then you cost too much.
Please oh please share with us the name of your enlightened country of origin so we can pick it apart. Yes, the U.S. is having some serious problems and we are losing much we once cherished. However, in all my studies, I have yet to find a better place to live. I have yet to find a foreign government that was not just as fucked-up in its own special way. If, however, you are living in this magical Shangri-La, please do share it with the rest of us. My passport is up to date.
Totally off topic, but, for real: They are a huge US ally.
Small European countries are nice places to live because there are certain big countries that are non-evil and allow them to exist.
Don't kid yourself: Being small and weak may be inexpensive, but such countries are completely at the mercy of the monsters in their neighborhood. The only reason that Scandanavians don't speak Russian is because someone is willing to cowboy up and keep the peace (such as it is). If the U.S. chose to delegate that responsibility, who could we trust to pick it up?
You know, I hate lame patent grabs as much as the next guy, but I'm wondering if this shouldn't really be considered a case of "Don't hate the playa, hate the game". As long as the rules are set as they are, I think the options available to any business is to grab or be sued. If Amazon hadn't done this, who's to say that it wouldn't have been B&N or Buy.com who did? These people have stock holders to answer to. The high moral ground is nice, it's even important, but business is war with agreed upon rules. This is according to the rules.
Only if you fail.
I asked GoDaddy what their side of it was. This is what they sent me:
I am Ben Butler, the Director of Network Abuse at Go Daddy and I want to personally address your posts regarding SecLists.org.
As we have said to our customers - Go Daddy is committed to keeping the Internet a safe place. If there is material online that is jeopardizing Internet safety, we will take necessary action.
In this case, Go Daddy attempted to contact the customer with regard to a large list of MySpace user names and passwords which appeared on his Web site. The registrant was not available at the time.
In order to protect users of MySpace from the risk of having private data revealed, we removed the site until we could make contact with our customer. Once we were able to discuss the issue with the registrant, he assured us he would remove the offending material and we re-enabled his site while he was on the phone. The site was back up within one hour.
In each case like this, my department follows a set of operating procedures evaluating whether to remove hosting content or to redirect domain names. The decision is carefully made on a case-by-case basis. Most times, the site is left as is.
An important issue I would ask you to consider is one that is a top priority for us at Go Daddy - child exploitation or even the potential for it.
I don't know of any parent who wouldn't want their child's username and password protected.
Ben Butler
Director of Network Abuse
The Go Daddy Group, Inc
RE: "(Sidenote: Stop requiring registration for moronic things! I don't want to give you any personal information to post in a damned blog!)"
I require a basic account for posting to my blog. It's just enough of a hassle that it keeps spambots from flooding my site. It costs me comments, no doubt, but the second I turn it off, I get flooded with Viagra offers.
How many seconds did it take you to figure that out? How much smarter are you than everyone else?
You're not going to get it. I inferred it from your quotes around the word "elected". If you did not want it to be inferred so, you would not have made it look like the word was not entirely accurate. But you did, so there's not point in being coy.
And I never mentioned the 2000 election.
And that's the last morsel I'll toss to this troll.
"elected". Unless you were actually quoting someone you'd heard using that word.
I can actually picture you using the little finger-quotes. You (apparently) have no idea how stuff like that undercuts your argument.
I was with you until you pulled out the not-really-quotes. Dude's a loser, but close-enough-to-half of us voted for him. Just cause your side lost doesn't mean the other guys cheated. Sometimes, stupid people hold the majority. Hell, MOST times.
Again, I have to believe this is an unfair perception. I've been on some of these challenge courses that the supposedly inside-the-box military types have to navigate. They give you a rope, a telephone pole, and a barrel and leave you to figure out how to move your entire squad across a stretch of "burning" water, or whatever. "No plan survives contact with the enemy" is a common refrain. If all you have is the box your brain came in, you'll be coming home in another box.
Your average ground-pounder ain't gonna solve world hunger, but the goat of any West Point class class comes out with the eqivalent of an Ivy League engineering degree. Just cause these guys have shoulders and read more Rommel than Proust doesn't mean that they are quite the idiots Hollywoods likes to portray them as.
Actually, this is probably why we want to use the tag. I think we tend to assume the other person on this board is being an ass.
Seriously. His True-Believer schtick is now officially old. Creative Commons is a perfectly customizable and easily decoded system, and I applaud its creators. Stallman's attempt to force the entire F/OS world to walk to the beat of his little tin drum is going to end up driving everyone to more practical solutions. Who needs him?
Please let us stop this nonsense now. It reminds me of an associate of mine who claims that he's become good a drunk driving because he does it so much. Everytime some nimrod cuts me off in traffic, I can be certain to find a cell phone plasterd to his\her head. Listen carefully kiddies: Yakkng kills. As someone else noted eloquently above, STFU AND DRIVE!
Never anthropomorphize computers. They don't like it.
Just go to their site: http://www.somethingawful.com/.
It's front page news, there.
Seems like everytime I upgrade something like this, someone slips some new DCMA gizmo in. Remember when you could capture streams?
Kinda ironic that Kuro5hin ran a spoof on this topic just yesterday, when it seemed too preposterous to actually happen: Kuro5hin
Most of my top ten is already posted, but I swear by FilZip for compression software, and SmartFTP for non-commercial file transfer. Both Windows apps.