"you're not allowed to connect hardware to the network without us checking it out first"
Somewhere behind rules like that is an idiot who brought in a device like a wireless router that acted as a DHCP server or similar and kicked a pile of people off a network annoying a manager enough to implement such a policy. Sure, expensive hardware rolled out everywhere can protect against that, but a policy of "ask before you plug it in" is a lot cheaper than replacing a lot of stuff just in case of people doing stupid stuff. Also some hardware on networks is so fragile that anything sending weird packets to it can take it down (HP and Samsung I'm looking at you). You are not that idiot the rule is for but in a large enough org there will be a few.
Oddest one I've heard is the sysadmin asked to sort out a problem with a urinal. I suppose at least that makes it an I pee address, but jokes aside it happened because we are seen as "techie" types so better at dealing with machinery and infrastructure than a receptionist.
Dumb fucks just can't bring themselves to learn anything
I did learn. I found out about a problem. It's you who does not wish to learn that it exists and have gone as far as insulting someone who dares to mention it.
No reply to your "refutation" that applies equally to dictators and Tzars then? Your "but I will not continue replying" looks rather a lot as if you like to shout ridiculous things and not have to back them up - the act of a coward.
Your reply to the AC "the state exercised great control over the economy, welfare system, and social programs", also applies to Kings, Tzars and dictators, as you should know, so is no refutation. So why pretend to be such an idiot? You can do better.
Sometimes the rich and famous get weird fixations outside of their skill set and produce noise of no more worth than noise from anyone else without a clue. Artificial Intelligence? We can't even define the intelligence of a cockroach let alone model it.
Perhaps because your "refutation" doesn't actually refute it and you may have a chance to look less foolish if you try again. If you are happy to be considered someone to laugh at then fair enough, don't "spoonfeed".
Refuted? Really? Then why not cut and paste it if it really happened? Shouldn't you do that just to stop me pointing at you so that everyone can laugh at you?
Not really. A driver from 2009 will just work on Windows 10
The guy in my office who upgraded to MS Win10 despite being warned otherwise who has to get other people to print for him disagrees. The even more annoying thing is an update broke support for those older printers and plotters and they worked for a few months after the "upgrade". There are plenty of examples like that out there of hardware where the drivers no longer work in MS Win10.
The project is a massive "cathedral" instead of modular pieces - planned for that reason or not a fork would be more difficult than devising a total replacement structured differently.
The thing that pissed me off in a major way was the flexlm "protection" software that was changed so that a perpetual license expired in the year 2000. It took a few weeks for that to be resolved before the stupidly expensive software that was "protected" could be used. For added laughs their USB dongle updater used MSDOS stuff and would not work in a 64 bit operating system. How that happened I have no idea since they must have had to add USB support to MSDOS to get that problem to happen in the first place.
You won't find many right wingers hating on engineering/medical/law (some for law, but they do deserve some) school.
In the 1980s I was on the receiving end of that hate. It was real. Fill a government with used car salesmen, a crooked cop, failed farmers who never bothered to learn how to farm from their parents and real estate agents to get shit like that.
The article could be correct, who knows, but when did a trashy business magazine become something to quote on a tech site? Factual reporting is not what they are know for, it's "business trends" and "feel" or "what is your business power animal". It's not just the fringe dwelling conspiracy theorists quoting it now, seems like everyone is linking to that thing that may as well be the National Enquirer.
Colleges are also how we end up with electrical engineers and doctors
Oh, we can just import them as indentured servants just like was done during that "engineer shortage" where for some reason local recent graduates couldn't get jobs.
Religious fanatics would rather burn progressive thinkers like Galileo Galilei
People keep on bringing that up as an example when it was really about politics and free speech. The real problem he had was due to publicly calling the Pope an idiot in print and getting a wide circulation. The idea he had been discussing had been out for decades and had been read by many of the clergy.
IMHO, looking from the outside, appointing "school administrators" who had never taught was where the fuckup happened. They have not made that mistake in other countries that are not exhibiting such a dramatic decline in outcomes. The insane "a good manager can manage anything" phrase always looked to me to be nothing but an excuse to get friends or family into a management job that required domain knowledge to be competent. Hence the focus on management metrics instead of outcomes.
The unions
The people who make the rules are not in a union. Try thinking about the issue instead of channeling Talk Radio on that bit. I know it's ingrained into many and not really your fault, but the unions just do not have the power to influence the issue even if by some perversity they wanted to make things worse for their members.
W and Trump and basically say that both should have been removed from the party, as well as America since they were/are disasters and had nothing in common with the Republican ideals.
Spot on. What part of "small government" describes the Homeland Security Department and it's massive welfare projects for substandard wannabe cops the TSA.
and in response they create an organization to overtly be indoctrinating fringe conservative views by replacing news with editorials
WTF? It was Rupert Murdoch seeing a potential market and doing a TV version of his UK tabloids. No need for a weird conspiracy, just one greedy amoral control freak.
I had at least one professor, and possibly two, in the CS department who definitely seemed to think that teaching was the sort of job one held until one could find a real job.
Two? What does their title even mean? Meanwhile in other places without title creep there is only one person in a department who gets to be called professor. In those other places there will also be many people that go in and out of academia - it's normal and a very positive thing. Some people even do both part time.
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For a job on a fixed wage?
You seem a little bit out of touch so perhaps should not be so critical.
Somewhere behind rules like that is an idiot who brought in a device like a wireless router that acted as a DHCP server or similar and kicked a pile of people off a network annoying a manager enough to implement such a policy. Sure, expensive hardware rolled out everywhere can protect against that, but a policy of "ask before you plug it in" is a lot cheaper than replacing a lot of stuff just in case of people doing stupid stuff.
Also some hardware on networks is so fragile that anything sending weird packets to it can take it down (HP and Samsung I'm looking at you).
You are not that idiot the rule is for but in a large enough org there will be a few.
Have you actually thought about where those policies came from?
If a policy is stupid (many are) there is no point blaming the tail and not the dog.
Oddest one I've heard is the sysadmin asked to sort out a problem with a urinal.
I suppose at least that makes it an I pee address, but jokes aside it happened because we are seen as "techie" types so better at dealing with machinery and infrastructure than a receptionist.
What a copout - how does "the state exercised great control over the economy, welfare system, and social programs" refute it?
You are like a child ringing a doorbell and running away.
I did learn.
I found out about a problem.
It's you who does not wish to learn that it exists and have gone as far as insulting someone who dares to mention it.
WTF is it with hypocritical fanboys?
No reply to your "refutation" that applies equally to dictators and Tzars then? Your "but I will not continue replying" looks rather a lot as if you like to shout ridiculous things and not have to back them up - the act of a coward.
Your reply to the AC "the state exercised great control over the economy, welfare system, and social programs", also applies to Kings, Tzars and dictators, as you should know, so is no refutation.
So why pretend to be such an idiot? You can do better.
Sometimes the rich and famous get weird fixations outside of their skill set and produce noise of no more worth than noise from anyone else without a clue.
Artificial Intelligence? We can't even define the intelligence of a cockroach let alone model it.
Perhaps because your "refutation" doesn't actually refute it and you may have a chance to look less foolish if you try again.
If you are happy to be considered someone to laugh at then fair enough, don't "spoonfeed".
Refuted?
Really?
Then why not cut and paste it if it really happened?
Shouldn't you do that just to stop me pointing at you so that everyone can laugh at you?
Hmm - looks like my move to replace Mac OS X 10.4 with FreeBSD was later than it should be.
The guy in my office who upgraded to MS Win10 despite being warned otherwise who has to get other people to print for him disagrees. The even more annoying thing is an update broke support for those older printers and plotters and they worked for a few months after the "upgrade". There are plenty of examples like that out there of hardware where the drivers no longer work in MS Win10.
The project is a massive "cathedral" instead of modular pieces - planned for that reason or not a fork would be more difficult than devising a total replacement structured differently.
The thing that pissed me off in a major way was the flexlm "protection" software that was changed so that a perpetual license expired in the year 2000. It took a few weeks for that to be resolved before the stupidly expensive software that was "protected" could be used.
For added laughs their USB dongle updater used MSDOS stuff and would not work in a 64 bit operating system. How that happened I have no idea since they must have had to add USB support to MSDOS to get that problem to happen in the first place.
In the 1980s I was on the receiving end of that hate. It was real. Fill a government with used car salesmen, a crooked cop, failed farmers who never bothered to learn how to farm from their parents and real estate agents to get shit like that.
The article could be correct, who knows, but when did a trashy business magazine become something to quote on a tech site? Factual reporting is not what they are know for, it's "business trends" and "feel" or "what is your business power animal".
It's not just the fringe dwelling conspiracy theorists quoting it now, seems like everyone is linking to that thing that may as well be the National Enquirer.
Oh, we can just import them as indentured servants just like was done during that "engineer shortage" where for some reason local recent graduates couldn't get jobs.
People keep on bringing that up as an example when it was really about politics and free speech.
The real problem he had was due to publicly calling the Pope an idiot in print and getting a wide circulation. The idea he had been discussing had been out for decades and had been read by many of the clergy.
So more of the same :(
The insane "a good manager can manage anything" phrase always looked to me to be nothing but an excuse to get friends or family into a management job that required domain knowledge to be competent.
Hence the focus on management metrics instead of outcomes.
The people who make the rules are not in a union. Try thinking about the issue instead of channeling Talk Radio on that bit. I know it's ingrained into many and not really your fault, but the unions just do not have the power to influence the issue even if by some perversity they wanted to make things worse for their members.
Spot on. What part of "small government" describes the Homeland Security Department and it's massive welfare projects for substandard wannabe cops the TSA.
Brace yourself for a shock. Hitler lied.
He wasn't the only one. Later on East Germany wasn't a "Democratic Republic" either.
WTF? It was Rupert Murdoch seeing a potential market and doing a TV version of his UK tabloids. No need for a weird conspiracy, just one greedy amoral control freak.
I had at least one professor, and possibly two, in the CS department who definitely seemed to think that teaching was the sort of job one held until one could find a real job.
Two? What does their title even mean? Meanwhile in other places without title creep there is only one person in a department who gets to be called professor. In those other places there will also be many people that go in and out of academia - it's normal and a very positive thing. Some people even do both part time.