"Its De Beers, not DuBeers. Get your names straight."
Someone sounds a little touchy on the Oppenheimer regime. Only an uneducated fool or someone with a stake in the field would consider the treatment of South African's in the diamond mines as being fair practice. You obviously are uninformed regarding the sale of diamonds. Go to your local library and look through the national geographics (since you obviously don't have a subscription or you wouldn't need additional proof), or just look it up on the net.
Also, consider holding back from flaming a posters spelling until you gain mastery over your grammer.
Having lived in Macomb County for years, it might interest you to know about the history of this sheriff.
Mark Hackel, the current sheriff in this case, is the son of William Hackel, the prior sheriff. Daddy was sentenced to jail for rape a couple years back.
See: http://www.detnews.com/2000/macomb/0005/17/
Now while you might argue that his father's actions have no relation to his, please consider that crooked deals have followed this family around for years. I'm not even going to get started on how black's from Detroit, Mt. Clemens and other subs are treated driving in their jurisdiction.
While I think the fee's demanded by this hoster are without question out of line, the methods used by the sheriff's office are a distinct abuse of power which reflects the county's past.
65 windows servers 99.9 % uptime?
Not a single breakin? Linux admin is easy properly without any experience? And your friends at your old job kept you updated with all those stats?
I think you forgot the part where you say you're a single white female with double d's looking for a nice geek who lets the woman take charge in the network. You probably got fired for talking alotta S#17.
I am amazed at how much value is being put on some of these certifications today. Any book smart individual (which most geeks reading slashdot are) can sit down with a book for X amount of time and pass most of the Microsoft, Cisco or Comptia exams. Its just like anyone who goes to college for a bachelor degree will succeed so long as they attend class. I would have to say that the majority of individuals who have finished a bachelor degree of any sort have the ability to cram for any of these exams. They do not represent actual skill but the ability to regurgitate information.
Considering the large fees being charged for these assessments, it wouldn't be too hard to put a warm corpse in the room during the test to proctor a few live-action activities to verify ability. But then again, why have a bunch of people proctoring tests when you can port their jobs oversea's, hire a proctologist and determine the most comfortable way of bending people over again and again...
I'd just love to see this go to grand jury and watch some average joes try and determine innocence or guilt. Can you imagine some non-geeks not only trying to decipher the computer code but also contemplate the lawyer jargon?
Hmm...i'm feeling that the people benefitting from linux in this case (lawyers) will happily defend against the predators (lawyers). SCOX will not implode if faced with bankruptcy because of (lawyers) getting government officials to bail them out and in the end we know who shall win...(need i repeat?)
Hmm...if the greatest email filter (the delete key) isn't working for you and your time is soooo precious because you are a corporate big wig then you always can use your "secretary" to preview the emails and delete the crap. Or have we learned nothing from years of postal services and mailrooms?
blocking all spam is like saying the RIAA can stop you from burning a cd. its just not going to happen
Obviously fakes. Taken in the desert right next to the old moon landing set. I hear that if you zoom in really close on the rover you can see the SCO trademark too.
In regards to onstar, its only a matter of time until "new" features allow for the tap to be used without loss of services. If it hasn't been introduced already.
As far as warrants are concerned, I agree individuals are living in that fantasy land where the cops/fbi/cia/etc issue warrants for every time they perform a search. The warrant is simply a minor inconvenience for which there is always a way around.
While flipping through the patent page, i wondered at the potential similarities to the original patents for the floppy disk. Much of the actual patent appeared to comparing their idea to other forms of media such as the floppy disk. Couldn't a floppy company as easily come forward and claim that their concept was stolen and applied to CD's with minimal change?
Is it just me or is anyone else smelling similarities with the SCO fiasco?
It is common in all fields for individuals to change the role they were hired to fill with the role they would like to fill.
The developers, programers, secretaries, etc., all have specific jobs which must be done for the success of the business. If a given security policy or IT procedure keeps them from doing their job, the policy must be disabled, until fixed, for the employee to do their job. Obviously this cannot be done in certain high-security situations.
This problem is seen outside of the IT field. My personal favourite is the 6 figure admin wasting two or three hours over a 5 cent increase in pencil cost.
ICANN. Lets see, now why exactly can't someone have a domain name.art for their art class? Or how about.cars for their auto dealership? Did that.kids thing ever go through? Could potentially make filtering naughty stuff from the rugrats a bit easier.
But then again, we have to consider the rights of those companies that have put $$$$ in domain names and need to cash in on their investments. ICANN's decisions reflect the interests of the people who line their pockets and God forbid China or Japan or some other country with dumb crap on the net have something to say about it. It is our duty as Americans to protect our capitalistic freedoms.
I agree with you on theory on this but lets say the RIAA sues you for having a few music files on your computer. You're lawyer = $$ Their lawyer = $$$$$$
They sue you for a small amount and crush you with their lawyer fees.
Consider the class action lawsuits that have become a recent trend. Telephone Company A is sued for overcharging its customers ten cents a month for the last year. Lawfirm X starts the lawsuit, get a million people signed up and sues TeleCom A for 20 million. Law firm wins 10 million while all 1 million customers get a lousy buck each.
Once you have declared the twinkie defense, and it is declared that the hacker could possibly have deleted their tracks to some extent (now you have a damaged crime scene), the prosicution must prove criminal intent i.e. a motive for an individual with no prior computer record or connection to the company in question to commit the crime.
I'll keep my money and keep burning away thank you very much. I've burned a couple hundred albums and my vengence is still not quencehed for having been suckered into paying money for 'Yellow Submarine.' The RIAA will crash and I will burn.
Wow. That article just swayed me over. I guess its time for me to drop my servers and just pay $700 plus for a MCSE (and again in 2 years beacause it expires)
I feel like such a sucker for wasting my time on Linux. Time to start saving for Longhorn cause i think i'm going to max the cards buying this new M$ office
If you are talking about paying for your own license upgrades then you have my sympathy. I don't doubt the prices for an instant. My friend had the luxury of his training and upgrades paid for via AA (he's actually with american eagle atm) Before he took this position he was making about the same amount per month (and not a whole lot more than that for the first few years even after signing with AA)
I imagine you'll know the numbers, but i'm sure it was outrageously expensive when he upgraded to flying jet engines. Not the kind of money that most people could afford to pay on their own. At the same time however, i doubt (at least hope)too many people flying the big planes actually had to pay for their own upgrades.
You need to be an officer to fly in the military (i'm sure there are a few exceptions to this) and you need to have a 4 year degree to become an officer(one or two rare exceptions to this rule). Any accredited college will do for your four year degree.
I think people have this common misconception that doctors, lawyers and jumbo-jet pilots spend their lives in sainthood and keep us safe from all harm.
I have a friend who is working up the ranks of American Airlines towards flying the big jumbo jets. That "great" investement is a 4 year bachelor degree in aviation. This is nothing in comparison to many professions requiring masters and beyond. His long hours are approx 20 hours a week. Yes, he is away from home and his wife for 3 - 4 days at a time but thats the adventuresome lifestyle he always wanted. Besides, how many hours a week are truck drivers away from home? As for stress, imagine being control of a big vehicle where 99.999999% of the time the only reason another vehile is within a half-mile of you is when its shut off. It is going to take him another 5-10 years to have the seniority to fly the big boys. But then again, at every job you have to put in your dues for the most part.
Do pilots make alot. Oh yeah. Do airlines over-charge you to take a flight? Just a wee bit. I think the pilots deserve the amount they receive considering how much the airlines make on those flights. Young pilots however don't make $#i7.
1. Insert CD (open warez folder)
2. Go get refill on drink
3. Go back and click yes/accept/yaddayadda
4. Go to bathroom (wash your hands too!)
5. Check logs on linux box for giggles
6. Come back and hit finish.
This could take up 20 minutes easily.
But i think you might want to check if you don't have a configuration error. Also, I have had problems with Itunes and your ipod might have similar software issues. Its a silly flame to compare your uberMac to a 486.
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you'll understand that their ignorance isn't entirely their fault.
Lets see, who can we point the finger at?
The school for throwing out MBA's to anyone paying the bill?
The system for saying you need an MBA to make a slightly educated decision?
CowboyNeal?
"please show how DE Beers misuses their monopoly"
"Its De Beers, not DuBeers. Get your names straight."
Someone sounds a little touchy on the Oppenheimer regime. Only an uneducated fool or someone with a stake in the field would consider the treatment of South African's in the diamond mines as being fair practice. You obviously are uninformed regarding the sale of diamonds. Go to your local library and look through the national geographics (since you obviously don't have a subscription or you wouldn't need additional proof), or just look it up on the net.
Also, consider holding back from flaming a posters spelling until you gain mastery over your grammer.
Having lived in Macomb County for years, it might interest you to know about the history of this sheriff.
Mark Hackel, the current sheriff in this case, is the son of William Hackel, the prior sheriff. Daddy was sentenced to jail for rape a couple years back.
See: http://www.detnews.com/2000/macomb/0005/17/
Now while you might argue that his father's actions have no relation to his, please consider that crooked deals have followed this family around for years. I'm not even going to get started on how black's from Detroit, Mt. Clemens and other subs are treated driving in their jurisdiction.
While I think the fee's demanded by this hoster are without question out of line, the methods used by the sheriff's office are a distinct abuse of power which reflects the county's past.
65 windows servers 99.9 % uptime?
Not a single breakin?
Linux admin is easy properly without any experience?
And your friends at your old job kept you updated with all those stats?
I think you forgot the part where you say you're a single white female with double d's looking for a nice geek who lets the woman take charge in the network. You probably got fired for talking alotta S#17.
I am amazed at how much value is being put on some of these certifications today. Any book smart individual (which most geeks reading slashdot are) can sit down with a book for X amount of time and pass most of the Microsoft, Cisco or Comptia exams. Its just like anyone who goes to college for a bachelor degree will succeed so long as they attend class. I would have to say that the majority of individuals who have finished a bachelor degree of any sort have the ability to cram for any of these exams. They do not represent actual skill but the ability to regurgitate information.
Considering the large fees being charged for these assessments, it wouldn't be too hard to put a warm corpse in the room during the test to proctor a few live-action activities to verify ability. But then again, why have a bunch of people proctoring tests when you can port their jobs oversea's, hire a proctologist and determine the most comfortable way of bending people over again and again...
Let's see, does this give them the rights to sue the estate of Ian Flemming for infringment upon their image?
I'd just love to see this go to grand jury and watch some average joes try and determine innocence or guilt. Can you imagine some non-geeks not only trying to decipher the computer code but also contemplate the lawyer jargon?
I'm sure it will. Only problem is that we will eat soo much cheese that we will die from obesity issues before the cancer has a chance to get us.
Hmm...i'm feeling that the people benefitting from linux in this case (lawyers) will happily defend against the predators (lawyers). SCOX will not implode if faced with bankruptcy because of (lawyers) getting government officials to bail them out and in the end we know who shall win...(need i repeat?)
Hmm...if the greatest email filter (the delete key) isn't working for you and your time is soooo precious because you are a corporate big wig then you always can use your "secretary" to preview the emails and delete the crap. Or have we learned nothing from years of postal services and mailrooms?
blocking all spam is like saying the RIAA can stop you from burning a cd. its just not going to happen
Obviously fakes. Taken in the desert right next to the old moon landing set. I hear that if you zoom in really close on the rover you can see the SCO trademark too.
In regards to onstar, its only a matter of time until "new" features allow for the tap to be used without loss of services. If it hasn't been introduced already.
As far as warrants are concerned, I agree individuals are living in that fantasy land where the cops/fbi/cia/etc issue warrants for every time they perform a search. The warrant is simply a minor inconvenience for which there is always a way around.
While flipping through the patent page, i wondered at the potential similarities to the original patents for the floppy disk. Much of the actual patent appeared to comparing their idea to other forms of media such as the floppy disk. Couldn't a floppy company as easily come forward and claim that their concept was stolen and applied to CD's with minimal change?
Is it just me or is anyone else smelling similarities with the SCO fiasco?
It is common in all fields for individuals to change the role they were hired to fill with the role they would like to fill.
The developers, programers, secretaries, etc., all have specific jobs which must be done for the success of the business. If a given security policy or IT procedure keeps them from doing their job, the policy must be disabled, until fixed, for the employee to do their job. Obviously this cannot be done in certain high-security situations.
This problem is seen outside of the IT field. My personal favourite is the 6 figure admin wasting two or three hours over a 5 cent increase in pencil cost.
Classic Buerocracy at work.
ICANN. Lets see, now why exactly can't someone have a domain name .art for their art class? Or how about .cars for their auto dealership? Did that .kids thing ever go through? Could potentially make filtering naughty stuff from the rugrats a bit easier.
But then again, we have to consider the rights of those companies that have put $$$$ in domain names and need to cash in on their investments. ICANN's decisions reflect the interests of the people who line their pockets and God forbid China or Japan or some other country with dumb crap on the net have something to say about it. It is our duty as Americans to protect our capitalistic freedoms.
First it was the Rainforest, Now its Microsoft!
God Save the Queen!!!!
I agree with you on theory on this but lets say the RIAA sues you for having a few music files on your computer. You're lawyer = $$ Their lawyer = $$$$$$ They sue you for a small amount and crush you with their lawyer fees.
Consider the class action lawsuits that have become a recent trend. Telephone Company A is sued for overcharging its customers ten cents a month for the last year. Lawfirm X starts the lawsuit, get a million people signed up and sues TeleCom A for 20 million. Law firm wins 10 million while all 1 million customers get a lousy buck each.
Once you have declared the twinkie defense, and it is declared that the hacker could possibly have deleted their tracks to some extent (now you have a damaged crime scene), the prosicution must prove criminal intent i.e. a motive for an individual with no prior computer record or connection to the company in question to commit the crime.
I'll keep my money and keep burning away thank you very much. I've burned a couple hundred albums and my vengence is still not quencehed for having been suckered into paying money for 'Yellow Submarine.' The RIAA will crash and I will burn.
Wow. That article just swayed me over. I guess its time for me to drop my servers and just pay $700 plus for a MCSE (and again in 2 years beacause it expires)
I feel like such a sucker for wasting my time on Linux. Time to start saving for Longhorn cause i think i'm going to max the cards buying this new M$ office
If you are talking about paying for your own license upgrades then you have my sympathy. I don't doubt the prices for an instant. My friend had the luxury of his training and upgrades paid for via AA (he's actually with american eagle atm) Before he took this position he was making about the same amount per month (and not a whole lot more than that for the first few years even after signing with AA)
I imagine you'll know the numbers, but i'm sure it was outrageously expensive when he upgraded to flying jet engines. Not the kind of money that most people could afford to pay on their own. At the same time however, i doubt (at least hope)too many people flying the big planes actually had to pay for their own upgrades.
You need to be an officer to fly in the military (i'm sure there are a few exceptions to this) and you need to have a 4 year degree to become an officer(one or two rare exceptions to this rule). Any accredited college will do for your four year degree.
I think people have this common misconception that doctors, lawyers and jumbo-jet pilots spend their lives in sainthood and keep us safe from all harm.
I have a friend who is working up the ranks of American Airlines towards flying the big jumbo jets. That "great" investement is a 4 year bachelor degree in aviation. This is nothing in comparison to many professions requiring masters and beyond. His long hours are approx 20 hours a week. Yes, he is away from home and his wife for 3 - 4 days at a time but thats the adventuresome lifestyle he always wanted. Besides, how many hours a week are truck drivers away from home? As for stress, imagine being control of a big vehicle where 99.999999% of the time the only reason another vehile is within a half-mile of you is when its shut off. It is going to take him another 5-10 years to have the seniority to fly the big boys. But then again, at every job you have to put in your dues for the most part.
Do pilots make alot. Oh yeah. Do airlines over-charge you to take a flight? Just a wee bit. I think the pilots deserve the amount they receive considering how much the airlines make on those flights. Young pilots however don't make $#i7.
I want the job to discover the fastest route!!!
But I'd probably lose to someone with 10 years in the pizza delivery biz =(
20 minutes to install Adobe? What's the problem?
1. Insert CD (open warez folder)
2. Go get refill on drink
3. Go back and click yes/accept/yaddayadda
4. Go to bathroom (wash your hands too!)
5. Check logs on linux box for giggles
6. Come back and hit finish.
This could take up 20 minutes easily.
But i think you might want to check if you don't have a configuration error. Also, I have had problems with Itunes and your ipod might have similar software issues. Its a silly flame to compare your uberMac to a 486.