scripts need to be developed carefully, within a process, and there's better people to do them than sysadmins alone.
So, who do you suggest write the scripts? And how do you get the domain knowledge and requirements from the system administrators to these script coders?
So, you are willing to accept an admin task performed manually, mistake creepage and all. With 500 workstations, there's no guarantee that the last one will be configured the same as the first. After the first few dozen, fat finger mistakes will undoubtedly creep in. By number 400, your admin won't be seeing straight anymore.
When we say "admins need to understand coding" this includes all of the associated issues of testing and configuration control. Perhaps not to the same level of detail as the code for the product. But in some cases, it can come pretty close.
I'd much rather have my admins script everything. And save the script. So when we come running in and ask, "What the **** did you do??!!", they have the exact steps in hand.
There's a difference between knowing how to code and doing it outside of established processes. The knowledge enhances the admin's ability by giving them a big picture view of the product life cycle. The same holds true the other way around (coders understanding admin tasks).
If the only way you can keep your employees from mucking about outside of established procedures is to hire those who don't know anything beyond their job description, you've lost control of your people.
I've worked at employers who insisted on hiring "technological savants" (a term coined by Scott Adams to describe employees totally unskilled outside of their narrow field). What you end up with is trained monkeys. People with no interest or motivation to improve themselves, their jobs or their products.
... the politics between Apple, Samsung, Microsoft, Intel, ARM and others, you should be working at the United Nations on a solution for eternal world peace.
There is so much sub rosa crap (not all of it ethical or legal) going on between the players we may never know the truth.
No. Next up will be a report from MITRE showing how a UAV can be built cheaply and what its capabilities for combat or surveillance are. As a result, 3-D printers and related technology will be placed on lists of export restricted equipment. And lists of people who own or attempt to purchase listed equipment will be turned over to the FBI for further scrutiny.
In addition to the amount for the review, the accuser should be forced to pay for at least one month of service for the customer, to compensate him for the inconvenience.
How about paying me for my time* to deal with this BS? Verizon et al are just hoping that most people will write off $35 as not being worth their time to pursue.
*Attorney's fees can usually be recovered more easily than one's own time spent on such matters. But then it was attorneys that set this system up in the first place.
Right. These are generally used for traffic enforcement. The real undercover cars are generally picked up short term from Rent-A-Wreck or whatever cheap local rental outfit you have there.
For unmarked traffic enforcement purposes, something that is popular and blends in is what they use. Speeders can't be bothered to check a list of plate numbers and knowing that the cops use a silver Honda Accord will just make them jump every time one of a few thousand identical cars goes by.
The real criminals are screwed because the cops generally don't stake them out using the same rental car twice. And new plates wouldn't be a show-stopper for the cops anyway.
Maybe. If you handed it to him, he'd probably run. If it was still in your pocket, instinct causes many people to reach for it to see if its still there. Even if you refuse the request, his buddy the pickpocket knows where it is now.
I'm about 6'5, 265lbs, with a 36 inch waist,
These people work in gangs. So unless you want to add 'skilled at practical self defense' to that (not all martial arts qualifies) that won't matter much. One guy grabs your phone and runs, two or three trip you, knock you down and kick the crap out of you.
... what are rogue online pharmacies, pirate software sellers and fake anti-virus scams? Who files the complaints and what are they based on?
I can see opportunities for abuse here. Your competitor offers a better product. You file a complaint that they are a 'pirate' and the credit card companies shut them down.
We need to train teachers to spot giftedness, which may take a variety of forms and often needs to be accompanied by creativity, drive and passion. Offering a greater variety of enrichment activities to children will cause many more hidden talents to surface.
Parents of Bubba the jock are going to make damned sure he gets into all the 'gifted' classes. Just so he'll look good getting into a decent university. And perish the thought of putting him into a remedial class because his IQ is on his football jersey. There will be no charter schools to place actual gifted students into. Not if they can send the losers back to the general population. Bubba's parents watch this stuff very carefully.
So you have an educational system that fails both ends of the curve.
incompetent drivers will demand to drive because their tax money paid for the road. I can't see courts buying that argument.
They do already. Try taking grandpa's license away before he runs over the kids at the bus stop. Cops (and judges) are terrified of the AARP coming down on them for discriminating against the elderly.
Doubtful. We have had a principle of users paying for roads in place since nearly the inception of the automobile. Asking non-drivers to pay for those who drive is politically unacceptable. It also opens up the problem of restricting some people (incompetent drivers) from using the roadways. Once they have paid, they can argue that they have a right to use them. Of course, I'm not talking about keeping pedestrians off the sidewalks. But we need to protect our (seldom used) ability to tell some people that they just aren't cutting it behind the wheel.
The charging paddle (and other oddball connectors) were intended to provide a 'unique' connector for charging EVs. This was to provide a means (when regulations were put in place) to charge road taxes for the electricity/fuel/whatever.
The day will come when regs will disallow the use of a simple NEMA 5-15P connection, even for 'emergency' charging. Just so you won't bypass the tax man.
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scripts need to be developed carefully, within a process, and there's better people to do them than sysadmins alone.
So, who do you suggest write the scripts? And how do you get the domain knowledge and requirements from the system administrators to these script coders?
The next thing you know, the admins will want to be let out of the basement.
So, you are willing to accept an admin task performed manually, mistake creepage and all. With 500 workstations, there's no guarantee that the last one will be configured the same as the first. After the first few dozen, fat finger mistakes will undoubtedly creep in. By number 400, your admin won't be seeing straight anymore.
When we say "admins need to understand coding" this includes all of the associated issues of testing and configuration control. Perhaps not to the same level of detail as the code for the product. But in some cases, it can come pretty close.
I'd much rather have my admins script everything. And save the script. So when we come running in and ask, "What the **** did you do??!!", they have the exact steps in hand.
There's a difference between knowing how to code and doing it outside of established processes. The knowledge enhances the admin's ability by giving them a big picture view of the product life cycle. The same holds true the other way around (coders understanding admin tasks).
If the only way you can keep your employees from mucking about outside of established procedures is to hire those who don't know anything beyond their job description, you've lost control of your people.
I've worked at employers who insisted on hiring "technological savants" (a term coined by Scott Adams to describe employees totally unskilled outside of their narrow field). What you end up with is trained monkeys. People with no interest or motivation to improve themselves, their jobs or their products.
There is so much sub rosa crap (not all of it ethical or legal) going on between the players we may never know the truth.
Monkeys get time and a half for overtime. Professionals work on salary.
In order to eliminate jokes about 'Uranus', the planet's name will be changed in 2620.
To 'Urectum'.
And don't forget the toobz!
Here's a link you can use:
http://www.alibaba.com/showroom/crt-monitor-manufacturers.html
Compounding pharmacies are regulated by the states, not the FDA the way drug manufacturers are.
The rest of you all owe me royalties. Or I'll see you in court!
No. Next up will be a report from MITRE showing how a UAV can be built cheaply and what its capabilities for combat or surveillance are. As a result, 3-D printers and related technology will be placed on lists of export restricted equipment. And lists of people who own or attempt to purchase listed equipment will be turned over to the FBI for further scrutiny.
So, for $2000 did they include weapons hardpoints?
In addition to the amount for the review, the accuser should be forced to pay for at least one month of service for the customer, to compensate him for the inconvenience.
How about paying me for my time* to deal with this BS? Verizon et al are just hoping that most people will write off $35 as not being worth their time to pursue.
*Attorney's fees can usually be recovered more easily than one's own time spent on such matters. But then it was attorneys that set this system up in the first place.
Right. These are generally used for traffic enforcement. The real undercover cars are generally picked up short term from Rent-A-Wreck or whatever cheap local rental outfit you have there.
For unmarked traffic enforcement purposes, something that is popular and blends in is what they use. Speeders can't be bothered to check a list of plate numbers and knowing that the cops use a silver Honda Accord will just make them jump every time one of a few thousand identical cars goes by.
The real criminals are screwed because the cops generally don't stake them out using the same rental car twice. And new plates wouldn't be a show-stopper for the cops anyway.
Is this a common tactic for stealing phones?
Maybe. If you handed it to him, he'd probably run. If it was still in your pocket, instinct causes many people to reach for it to see if its still there. Even if you refuse the request, his buddy the pickpocket knows where it is now.
I'm about 6'5, 265lbs, with a 36 inch waist,
These people work in gangs. So unless you want to add 'skilled at practical self defense' to that (not all martial arts qualifies) that won't matter much. One guy grabs your phone and runs, two or three trip you, knock you down and kick the crap out of you.
I can see opportunities for abuse here. Your competitor offers a better product. You file a complaint that they are a 'pirate' and the credit card companies shut them down.
Or someone needs to write a wrapper around the existing SSL API. Put it (and other simplification stuff) in libn00b.
We need to train teachers to spot giftedness, which may take a variety of forms and often needs to be accompanied by creativity, drive and passion. Offering a greater variety of enrichment activities to children will cause many more hidden talents to surface.
Parents of Bubba the jock are going to make damned sure he gets into all the 'gifted' classes. Just so he'll look good getting into a decent university. And perish the thought of putting him into a remedial class because his IQ is on his football jersey. There will be no charter schools to place actual gifted students into. Not if they can send the losers back to the general population. Bubba's parents watch this stuff very carefully.
So you have an educational system that fails both ends of the curve.
Melting glaciers.
Free as in free of Flash cookies and other tracking garbage. Not free as in I'm too cheap to even bother installing/configuring an alternative.
incompetent drivers will demand to drive because their tax money paid for the road. I can't see courts buying that argument.
They do already. Try taking grandpa's license away before he runs over the kids at the bus stop. Cops (and judges) are terrified of the AARP coming down on them for discriminating against the elderly.
Doubtful. We have had a principle of users paying for roads in place since nearly the inception of the automobile. Asking non-drivers to pay for those who drive is politically unacceptable. It also opens up the problem of restricting some people (incompetent drivers) from using the roadways. Once they have paid, they can argue that they have a right to use them. Of course, I'm not talking about keeping pedestrians off the sidewalks. But we need to protect our (seldom used) ability to tell some people that they just aren't cutting it behind the wheel.
The charging paddle (and other oddball connectors) were intended to provide a 'unique' connector for charging EVs. This was to provide a means (when regulations were put in place) to charge road taxes for the electricity/fuel/whatever.
The day will come when regs will disallow the use of a simple NEMA 5-15P connection, even for 'emergency' charging. Just so you won't bypass the tax man.