Statistics show that most airline crashes occur on takeoff or landing (so almost none in cruising). You might argue that the frequency of tack offs and landings experienced by Qantas are much less than other carriers, and why their safety record seems so good.
Huh? That's doesn't compute! What's the difference between a flight from SF -> LA and a flight from Sydney -> LA? Both have the same amount of tack offs and landings. Or are you saying that Quantas has fewer flights?
I really don't understand all the fuss! This is a search company there. If the government wants more info why don't they just google it like the rest of us have to do!
If they can't find what they are looking for well then welcome to the world of internet research/search.
Geeze.
My system is pretty simple. If you're not on my whitelist then you get a bounce back message saying effectively, "click here to register, type in your name" and wham your previous message(s) get delivered and you are on my whitelist from now on. Pretty simple.
And anybody who cannot click and type their name is not anybody I want email from anyway!
Have you ever written a whitelisting system? I have. And there is no way to "deactivate the whitelist mechanism". If you think there is then I invite you to deactivate mine.
Leaving your wireless network flat open is stupid. You deserve what you get. Others are under no obligation to inform you of your stupidity and printing the relevant sections of the manual is akin to "A word to the wise". I'm sorry you were not able to figure out how to enable the proper security for your network card and that you were still stupid enough to use is unprotected.
As for treatment of IT people, there are far too many stupid and lazy people out there to teach them all how to crack a book once in a while but it does pay the bills - quite nicely I might add. However I've figured out long ago that dealing with idiots and morons who never bother to take the time to learn how to use the sophisticated piece of hardware and software that their company places on their desks is not one of the better paying positions in IT. So I deal with people who know what they are doing and who have much more complex problems and are willing to pay well into the 6 figures for somebody who knows how to solve their problems. I've long ago passed the helping the stupid exec who cares more about their office location, what people are wearing and what title they have managed to obtain while the company is managing to pay him less than 6 figures. Helping him learn the difference betweenn capturing just the image of the active window and capturing the whole desktop and why that's a waste of resources when all that is required is the one line error message itself, is a waste of time!
Paying the costs for running a special referendum is not purchasing a state referendum. Spending money to advertise is also not buying a state referendum. Are you so stupid to believe this? Are you that mindless that if somebody spends a bunch of money on advertising for a proposition you are somehow gonna change your mind and vote for something you previously thought was a bad idea? If so then all I can say is you deserve what you get!
Utter nonsense. You need not spend hardly anything. All you need to do is simple assert this fact. Even a paralegall could do this for you at $50 not $5 million.
Actually, yes I do know how my car runs! And yes I would switch to a manual transmission in a heartbeat (as I've owned them before and prefer them).
No I don't look for a car "as simple as the previous one" - I look for one with *more* features thus complexity.
Scratching my head and wondering what your point is (and pitying you for your lack of knowledge...)
If the IT manager, which is a technical field, does not know hot basically run a computer then that says a lot about his intelligence or lack thereof. Would you employ a manager of say a auto mechanic who didn't know how to drive nor what an engine was? I think not.
I didn't read the article to say that the IT staff required hand holding rather the IT manager was grabbing everybody's hands. There's a difference there.
And yes I would expect a manager of the janitorial staff to know a thing or two about the tools of the trade and what his staff needs or doesn't need. Matching up the janitor with an office manager is apples to oranges.
And in general smart people, while they may be exceptionally smart in one area, show intelligence in most areas of their lives or at least are not the bumbling absent minded professor who is a brillant say, scientist but cannot dress himself. That is not the norm but the exception.
What would stop someone from redirecting the neophyte user to a malious site that also uses SSL. Just because it's SSL does not mean it's a site I want to be at. Sure SSL can guarantee identity but many, many people don't even check to insure that they got to an SSL site. And how many legitimate "login screens" are not SSL to start with!
(Or was that just because it's not right... Hmmmm... Surely you'll forgive my little spelling error on not -> now. I mean it was a minor error write?:-)
Words are important. Correct usage of words convey proper meaning. Like it or now... err not, how you communicate reflects on you directly. Sure you may not be a dumb ass but not correcting obvious errors always gives me the impression that attention to detail is not your forte.
See also Plan 4 Improvement of English Language and if you can read and comprehend the last sentence with ease then you've been on the Internet too long!
Paying people to click away for cash? I don't get it. A web server has no real knowledge as to whether a user clicked to a URL or a URL was requested by a program such as wget. Why pay people to click a mouse perhaps once every second when you can easily program somethign with wget to generate thousands of "click thrus" per minute?
Not any more of a waste than say Apache under Cygwin. I know, the emulation slows things down a bit. But you know what? Often you get additional functionality that is quite useful. For example, Apache under Cygwin understands and supports symlink. Apache under Windows doesn't.
Why not? I know MySQL is available for Windows but then again so are many things that Cygwin provides. The thing is Cygwin provides it in a Unix context and many times that's a much better environment. For example, having command history in mysql monitor is much better than the Windows version.
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I purchased a Creative Zen Touch 40 Gig for ~$200 whereas the iPod 30 Gig was $300. 10 more gig - $100 cheaper.
"reguard" - really? Don't cha hate it when writing about good grammar and spelling, you make a simple grammatical or spelling error! :-)
Not sure about Evolution but both exim and fetchmail have already been ported into Windows - they work under Cygwin!
I really don't understand all the fuss! This is a search company there. If the government wants more info why don't they just google it like the rest of us have to do! If they can't find what they are looking for well then welcome to the world of internet research/search. Geeze.
My system is pretty simple. If you're not on my whitelist then you get a bounce back message saying effectively, "click here to register, type in your name" and wham your previous message(s) get delivered and you are on my whitelist from now on. Pretty simple. And anybody who cannot click and type their name is not anybody I want email from anyway!
Have you ever written a whitelisting system? I have. And there is no way to "deactivate the whitelist mechanism". If you think there is then I invite you to deactivate mine.
My phone is configured that way!
Yes us smart people do. We can't help what you stupid people do however (but we can exploit it!)
Leaving your wireless network flat open is stupid. You deserve what you get. Others are under no obligation to inform you of your stupidity and printing the relevant sections of the manual is akin to "A word to the wise". I'm sorry you were not able to figure out how to enable the proper security for your network card and that you were still stupid enough to use is unprotected. As for treatment of IT people, there are far too many stupid and lazy people out there to teach them all how to crack a book once in a while but it does pay the bills - quite nicely I might add. However I've figured out long ago that dealing with idiots and morons who never bother to take the time to learn how to use the sophisticated piece of hardware and software that their company places on their desks is not one of the better paying positions in IT. So I deal with people who know what they are doing and who have much more complex problems and are willing to pay well into the 6 figures for somebody who knows how to solve their problems. I've long ago passed the helping the stupid exec who cares more about their office location, what people are wearing and what title they have managed to obtain while the company is managing to pay him less than 6 figures. Helping him learn the difference betweenn capturing just the image of the active window and capturing the whole desktop and why that's a waste of resources when all that is required is the one line error message itself, is a waste of time!
Paying the costs for running a special referendum is not purchasing a state referendum. Spending money to advertise is also not buying a state referendum. Are you so stupid to believe this? Are you that mindless that if somebody spends a bunch of money on advertising for a proposition you are somehow gonna change your mind and vote for something you previously thought was a bad idea? If so then all I can say is you deserve what you get!
Utter nonsense. You need not spend hardly anything. All you need to do is simple assert this fact. Even a paralegall could do this for you at $50 not $5 million.
Perhaps, however the real question is will you still be saying this when you wake up in the hospital on life support?
Actually, yes I do know how my car runs! And yes I would switch to a manual transmission in a heartbeat (as I've owned them before and prefer them). No I don't look for a car "as simple as the previous one" - I look for one with *more* features thus complexity. Scratching my head and wondering what your point is (and pitying you for your lack of knowledge...)
If the IT manager, which is a technical field, does not know hot basically run a computer then that says a lot about his intelligence or lack thereof. Would you employ a manager of say a auto mechanic who didn't know how to drive nor what an engine was? I think not.
I didn't read the article to say that the IT staff required hand holding rather the IT manager was grabbing everybody's hands. There's a difference there.
And yes I would expect a manager of the janitorial staff to know a thing or two about the tools of the trade and what his staff needs or doesn't need. Matching up the janitor with an office manager is apples to oranges.
And in general smart people, while they may be exceptionally smart in one area, show intelligence in most areas of their lives or at least are not the bumbling absent minded professor who is a brillant say, scientist but cannot dress himself. That is not the norm but the exception.
Face it, this guy's just a bad manager.
The only civilizing effect that a woman has is to turn men into pussies. You're already too far gone to realize this.
http://www.24hourfitness.com/ - enuf said!
You mean DST is not voluntary?!? They'll have to pry my watch off my cold dead arm! :-)
Yes leave it to government - they never screw up anything!
'Cept that most of the time your carefully recycled plastics end up in the landfill anyways.
What would stop someone from redirecting the neophyte user to a malious site that also uses SSL. Just because it's SSL does not mean it's a site I want to be at. Sure SSL can guarantee identity but many, many people don't even check to insure that they got to an SSL site. And how many legitimate "login screens" are not SSL to start with!
Well just because it's now right!
(Or was that just because it's not right... Hmmmm... Surely you'll forgive my little spelling error on not -> now. I mean it was a minor error write? :-)
Words are important. Correct usage of words convey proper meaning. Like it or now... err not, how you communicate reflects on you directly. Sure you may not be a dumb ass but not correcting obvious errors always gives me the impression that attention to detail is not your forte.
See also Plan 4 Improvement of English Language and if you can read and comprehend the last sentence with ease then you've been on the Internet too long!
Paying people to click away for cash? I don't get it. A web server has no real knowledge as to whether a user clicked to a URL or a URL was requested by a program such as wget. Why pay people to click a mouse perhaps once every second when you can easily program somethign with wget to generate thousands of "click thrus" per minute?
Well we managed to piss the cat off! :-)
To me that's progress!
Not any more of a waste than say Apache under Cygwin. I know, the emulation slows things down a bit. But you know what? Often you get additional functionality that is quite useful. For example, Apache under Cygwin understands and supports symlink. Apache under Windows doesn't.
Why not? I know MySQL is available for Windows but then again so are many things that Cygwin provides. The thing is Cygwin provides it in a Unix context and many times that's a much better environment. For example, having command history in mysql monitor is much better than the Windows version.