Yes it is IT's fault. They let users have privilages sufficient to install programs, leading to viruses. If it were a buffer overflow in a JPEG I wouldn't blame IT.
Rules are clearly stated - enforce them or if you want to let users have more freedoms then keep and monitor detailed logs on what they do with these 'rights'.
You seem to demonstrate an immature attitude and lack of respect for users - if you are an admin you are employed because you are a specialist and it is better for you to be the single point of expertise for that task - just like you couldn't calculate the accounts for a company I doubt the finance staff would be so patronising as saying "waaa, the accountant says I can't have 3 21" LCDs, waaa, the CEO says I can't take 5 months paid leave a year".
Users probably broke some internal rule about not installing external software and are certianly not blameless, but the ultimate job and responsibility of admins is to administrate. The admins let them have the right to install programs and seemingly didn't enforce/check logs to see what users had been installing.
I am not one to believe that "money = quality". But I also refuse to accept the counterculture view that "money = luxurious waste">
Hey fuckwit, did you fail to read my post in full, fail to understand it, or just spout off some opinion, becuase you have that opinion, relevent or not. A communication requires responce to something conjectured previously, not unrelated opinion for the sake of it.
Really? I've had no probs with actually loading emails using Firefox 0.8, 0.93 and 1.0PR. The only major prob I've had is using the backspace key took me back form an email to whatever box I came from, but using the back arrow would take me back to the login screen. Don't have the problem using FF1.0PR, but don't know if gmail or the 'upgrade' was the solving factor.
If somebody buys something they like or appreciate, who is to say "it's a joke"?
Absolutely. They are paying for something they like, they are not paying for "optically correct"ness, they are paying for a luxury good. That's fine - the joke is thinking, as advertisers often seem to imply, that paying lots of money automatically makes something better, when the 'betterness' is in the peripheral, rather than functional, attribute of the product (well, we could go down the route that cool glasses help pick up babes, which may or may not be a functional requirement, but this is way into n-th degrees of functionality).
Ther are safety standards. As long as these glasses have been verified as complying with these standards, I don't care if they are mass produced and cost £2.99, though this is a little low, £8.99 is usually the cheapest decent pair I can find. Paying $400 for "optically correct" glasses is quite a joke.
"theoretical logistics of employing janitorial staff"
I'm sure this is just one of the problems HR staff struggle with every day. Or is he implying that janitorial staff are stupid and unable to follow instructions?
Excellent post, sir! I struggle to understand how an actual story submitted is flamebait in its entirity, with a link to a thinly veiled attack on immigration mascarading as a political piece. Blame the immigrants and minorities for our middle/working class misfortune (which many articles on the 'op-ed' piece seem obsessed with. Reminds me of the beginnings of the Nazi party in Germany.
1. Why should you have a comfortable well paying job and someone else not - because you work harder at it or are more able - you achieve this by hard work and/or study. Yeah it'd be great if we all had jobs which payed well and were secure, but not all tasks that have to be done in society are nice; if we all had jobs that were equally easy to get and more-or-less similarly well paid that'd be called communism - and that failed hard (because of the will to shirk/moral hazard/adverse selection reduced the incentive to work).
2. Unemployment is around 5-5.5% of workforce (with around 12% saying they'd try to get a job if the situation changed substantially). Yeah it's not good to have 5% of the population not earning, perhaps 3% would be the expected number given some people in transition between jobs, below 2% would probably be damaging at any time horizon 2+ years, companies would be very squeezed, have to raise priced substantially to pay for required labour - a vicious circle resulting in massive inflation, high interest rates and/or a subsequent economic collapse - boom and bust.
3. Want life on a plate - its not that easy. Don't blame the immigrants - they come to the country, speak little English, are very willing to do low paid lobs - are you really competing with these people? Did you choose a CompSci degree because you loved CompSci and were good at it - well then you could either get a job, as there is real demand for highly skilled people - or did you do CompSci because you thought the.com boom would be here again, you're not very good at the subject, or maybe you did a technical 2 year course - well I'm afraid that was a bad decision - you were after something to fall in to. Too bad - refocus, find you interest and find sustained demand for something you're interested in. Jobs like plumbers and electricians are pay pretty reasonably and - and don't need another degree - perhaps you could combine skills? Lather rinse repeat (do all Economics/Business grads think it'll get them a job on Wall St?!).
Don't expect something on a plate. WOrk for it, and do something you enjoy so you don't need to be bitter 'for committing you life to this...' when you hit a rough patch. I'd sure prefer opportunity and reward than a job on a plate - the US is all about achieving and being rewarded for success (whatever level this may be on), I don't need to blame an immigrant for my being worse than them - born and educated in a developed country I, like the vast majority of slashdotters, have had every chance to determine my path, and it is never too late to develop the skills.
Of course, this is my perspective. I'd be eager to get reposts (beyond 'flamebait' mods/abusive replies as is the usual 'I'll bite' reply lacking any coherance). Summary: The article was a piece of cr4p, as are all arguments 'immigration stole my job'.
Sucks you got modded down as a troll twice (though, IIRC, you do troll!, just not this time!) when you raise a good point that should be worthy of discussion, rather than censorship (moderation being used as a form of indirect-censorship to lower a post to the point the majority won't see it).
Not OT and not flamebait/troll. If you feel the need to moderate remember crap moderation results in crap meta moderation, and meta moderation is much more fun.
If the marginal propensity to save (or more generally the 'leakage') in the area money is being given to is less than the area it is being taken from it will have a real effect, as stated in the link.
I think a proximity sensor is too short-range for use at speed - the trailing car may be 10 meters away which is a very short distance if travelling fast but increasing range of a proximity sensor would make it go off 3 car lengths away when reversing! Yeah you could link it into the speedometer etc bu as pointed out earlier, looking over your shoulder is probably the best solution (and this is sue of technology to add gimicks to cars or reduce the chance of litigation car manufacturers may face for 'building vehicles with blind spots').
For starters your packets are never going to be sent different ways around the world, they will all follow the same path until something disrupts that path and forces it to choose a new route.
Except this disruption happens constantly. Packets are not secure, but they are more secure.
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OTOH, it could be that all the exercise makes your eye muscles stronger, like going down to the gym
haha, Short sightedness is when the muscle has tensed too much and distgorted the 'natural' state pernamently.
Surely a CRT would implode, not explode?
A post-singularity web! Awesome! Who knows what it'll bring!
Fuck you, you fucking fuck.
yes but don't use GNOME, a single icon would take up the entire screen
Yes it is IT's fault. They let users have privilages sufficient to install programs, leading to viruses. If it were a buffer overflow in a JPEG I wouldn't blame IT.
Rules are clearly stated - enforce them or if you want to let users have more freedoms then keep and monitor detailed logs on what they do with these 'rights'.
You seem to demonstrate an immature attitude and lack of respect for users - if you are an admin you are employed because you are a specialist and it is better for you to be the single point of expertise for that task - just like you couldn't calculate the accounts for a company I doubt the finance staff would be so patronising as saying "waaa, the accountant says I can't have 3 21" LCDs, waaa, the CEO says I can't take 5 months paid leave a year".
Its easy for admins to blame users.
Users probably broke some internal rule about not installing external software and are certianly not blameless, but the ultimate job and responsibility of admins is to administrate. The admins let them have the right to install programs and seemingly didn't enforce/check logs to see what users had been installing.
For clarification.
why will there be anarchy in post singularity? who knows what is post singularity. yeah, i like anarchy more than the nano version though
I am not one to believe that "money = quality". But I also refuse to accept the counterculture view that "money = luxurious waste">
Hey fuckwit, did you fail to read my post in full, fail to understand it, or just spout off some opinion, becuase you have that opinion, relevent or not. A communication requires responce to something conjectured previously, not unrelated opinion for the sake of it.
FOAD, motherfucker.
Really? I've had no probs with actually loading emails using Firefox 0.8, 0.93 and 1.0PR. The only major prob I've had is using the backspace key took me back form an email to whatever box I came from, but using the back arrow would take me back to the login screen. Don't have the problem using FF1.0PR, but don't know if gmail or the 'upgrade' was the solving factor.
Or some more, here, here, here, here, or here!
Well, get an invite here then!
What I find insalely awesome is an adaption of:
Who's going to be first to market this same thing except with a 'now playing' HUD on the sunglasses?
How abaout a HUD to play UT2004?!
If somebody buys something they like or appreciate, who is to say "it's a joke"?
Absolutely. They are paying for something they like, they are not paying for "optically correct"ness, they are paying for a luxury good. That's fine - the joke is thinking, as advertisers often seem to imply, that paying lots of money automatically makes something better, when the 'betterness' is in the peripheral, rather than functional, attribute of the product (well, we could go down the route that cool glasses help pick up babes, which may or may not be a functional requirement, but this is way into n-th degrees of functionality).
Sorry if I was unclear!
Ther are safety standards. As long as these glasses have been verified as complying with these standards, I don't care if they are mass produced and cost £2.99, though this is a little low, £8.99 is usually the cheapest decent pair I can find. Paying $400 for "optically correct" glasses is quite a joke.
"theoretical logistics of employing janitorial staff"
I'm sure this is just one of the problems HR staff struggle with every day. Or is he implying that janitorial staff are stupid and unable to follow instructions?
Excellent post, sir! I struggle to understand how an actual story submitted is flamebait in its entirity, with a link to a thinly veiled attack on immigration mascarading as a political piece. Blame the immigrants and minorities for our middle/working class misfortune (which many articles on the 'op-ed' piece seem obsessed with. Reminds me of the beginnings of the Nazi party in Germany.
.com boom would be here again, you're not very good at the subject, or maybe you did a technical 2 year course - well I'm afraid that was a bad decision - you were after something to fall in to. Too bad - refocus, find you interest and find sustained demand for something you're interested in. Jobs like plumbers and electricians are pay pretty reasonably and - and don't need another degree - perhaps you could combine skills? Lather rinse repeat (do all Economics/Business grads think it'll get them a job on Wall St?!).
1. Why should you have a comfortable well paying job and someone else not - because you work harder at it or are more able - you achieve this by hard work and/or study. Yeah it'd be great if we all had jobs which payed well and were secure, but not all tasks that have to be done in society are nice; if we all had jobs that were equally easy to get and more-or-less similarly well paid that'd be called communism - and that failed hard (because of the will to shirk/moral hazard/adverse selection reduced the incentive to work).
2. Unemployment is around 5-5.5% of workforce (with around 12% saying they'd try to get a job if the situation changed substantially). Yeah it's not good to have 5% of the population not earning, perhaps 3% would be the expected number given some people in transition between jobs, below 2% would probably be damaging at any time horizon 2+ years, companies would be very squeezed, have to raise priced substantially to pay for required labour - a vicious circle resulting in massive inflation, high interest rates and/or a subsequent economic collapse - boom and bust.
3. Want life on a plate - its not that easy. Don't blame the immigrants - they come to the country, speak little English, are very willing to do low paid lobs - are you really competing with these people? Did you choose a CompSci degree because you loved CompSci and were good at it - well then you could either get a job, as there is real demand for highly skilled people - or did you do CompSci because you thought the
Don't expect something on a plate. WOrk for it, and do something you enjoy so you don't need to be bitter 'for committing you life to this...' when you hit a rough patch. I'd sure prefer opportunity and reward than a job on a plate - the US is all about achieving and being rewarded for success (whatever level this may be on), I don't need to blame an immigrant for my being worse than them - born and educated in a developed country I, like the vast majority of slashdotters, have had every chance to determine my path, and it is never too late to develop the skills.
Of course, this is my perspective. I'd be eager to get reposts (beyond 'flamebait' mods/abusive replies as is the usual 'I'll bite' reply lacking any coherance). Summary: The article was a piece of cr4p, as are all arguments 'immigration stole my job'.
Sucks you got modded down as a troll twice (though, IIRC, you do troll!, just not this time!) when you raise a good point that should be worthy of discussion, rather than censorship (moderation being used as a form of indirect-censorship to lower a post to the point the majority won't see it).
Not OT and not flamebait/troll. If you feel the need to moderate remember crap moderation results in crap meta moderation, and meta moderation is much more fun.
If the marginal propensity to save (or more generally the 'leakage') in the area money is being given to is less than the area it is being taken from it will have a real effect, as stated in the link.
You mean a fender?
I think a proximity sensor is too short-range for use at speed - the trailing car may be 10 meters away which is a very short distance if travelling fast but increasing range of a proximity sensor would make it go off 3 car lengths away when reversing! Yeah you could link it into the speedometer etc bu as pointed out earlier, looking over your shoulder is probably the best solution (and this is sue of technology to add gimicks to cars or reduce the chance of litigation car manufacturers may face for 'building vehicles with blind spots').
here.
are two far gone to benefit don't you mean are too far gone to benefit?
For starters your packets are never going to be sent different ways around the world, they will all follow the same path until something disrupts that path and forces it to choose a new route.
Except this disruption happens constantly. Packets are not secure, but they are more secure.