I've built MANY MOSS (SharePoint) farms and the ONLY way to get them to run without generating errors in the logs is to build each machine individually and not from VMware templates or cloned images.
Interestingly enough, NewSID did NOT solve the problem, but to be sure, there IS SOMETHING that causes this -- and probably updating/extending NewSID would have been the way to go.
I the best comparison Shuttleworth cam come up with is OS/2, he'd better be 'upgraded' into TODAY.
Problem seems to be that many Linux applications still LOOK and FEEL like OS/2. There is still no such thing as reasonable documentation. There is still DEFINITELY no such thing as interoperability between applications.
Until these issues are resolved, Linux is destined to DIE.
Definitely, the best way to get yourself killed anywhere near anything protected by Americans...
Shoot first - ask questions later. Let god sort 'em out.
...this is the ONLY way to do business!
Having lived in Russia for the past 12 years, I have some experience with this.
"Do you want your license TODAY, or in 3 YEARS?"...
The answer is usually pretty simple...
FOLLOW THE FREAKIN MONEY! "cleared $400,000 in Visa charges in one month alone" Any ideas how much money Visa gets from ALL the SPAM circulating? Let's just say that it is more than enough to ensure that Visa, Mastercard and all the other companies turn a blind eye to it. Without the ability to process money -- SPAMMers would be a thing of the past.
Interesting that America is the only country in the world with this kind of system. I've entered and left Russia, Germany, the UK, Finland and at least a dozen other countries dozens of times in the past couple of years and the USA is the only Police State to have this kind of nonsense.
I guess other countries have more important things to worry about than 'copyright violations'.
Here's a question for all the rocket scientists in the audience -- exactly WHERE ARE all these 'terrorists' since 9/11? One would THINK that MAYBE, just MAYBE if they really did exist, that they couldn't have hooked a chunk of chain onto a rental truck and pulled out a section of train track or SOMETHING?
Wake up America! The police state is already in place. All that needs happen now is tighten the noose around the necks of the sheep.
And you wonder why nobody of any importance wants to come and do business in your country anymore?
What kind of dolt believe terrorists are running around the USA with shoulder-fired heat-seeking missiles? (Something only the US military is likely to have -- particularly within US soil.)
Maybe that is a rhetorical question -- obviously the dolts who will be paying for this new and improved scam on the tax-paying public in the name of 'for your convenience and safety against terrorists'...
Let me ask you something -- shaking in your shoes Americans terrified of your own shadows -- have you not considered that if there actually WERE terrorists -- would they not have done SOMETHING between 9/11 and now?
Could they not have rented (or stolen) a truck and 20 feet of chain and yanked out a section of railways track to derail a train -- or SOMETHING??? (C'mon -- use your small brains and try to come up with some creative measures to wreak havock -- think of anything yet?...)
I currently live in Russia -- a place where trains ARE derailed, and where there ARE terrorists blowing stuff up -- but even a 100-year-old-babooshka in a village somewhere wouldn't be as much of a 'village idiot' as the Americans who are arming the entire country, and giving the government free reign to take away every conceivable element of privacy or security in 'the name' of 'safety' against all these boogiemen behind every 'bush'.
Follow the freakin money folks and use your freakin heads -- into who's pockets do all these billions flow???
You check people leaving as a 'last chance' to catch them and detain them before they go.
Funny thing is that even in Russia where I now live, every Russian citizen can come and go as they please without ANYTHING done at the border except having their passport looked at (by eyball), and a stamp put in it.
I travel between Russia and Finland by train weekly on average, and, with the exception of crossing between one EU country and another where there is basically NO border, it is the EASIEST border crossing in the WORLD.
Even the Canada/US border is now a pain in the butt -- well, at least the American side is.:(
Here's a simple question for all you pro-Bush wankers...
Where are all the terrorists? Do you really believe that since 9/11 one single Bush tactic has prevented a single event of terrorism in the USA?
Face it simpletons -- there ain't any terrorists in the homeland, and they aren't coming in any significant number.
(Study history -- the first steps of the dictator is to create a 'false enemy' for the people to rally aginst -- while giving up all their civil liberties in the process. Before WW2, Germany was also a democracy -- with even more freedoms than Americans have left.)
If terrorists wanted in -- they'd use the same methods as the other illegals -- through the southern border. One should assume that highly-trained, physically fit terrorists would have just as good a chance as some mexican grandmother?
And what would they do once they are IN the USA? You may think that they'd buy guns (as anyone with a hundred dollar bill can do walking into a biker bar), and start having some sniper fun. (Remember how much terror a single pair of snipers can invoke on an entire city?)
There are a MILLION acts of mischief, vandalism and 'terror' they could indulge in. All it takes is a cutting torch and about half an hour to take out a section of track large enough to derail any commuter train. Or a piece of chain, a stolen (or rented) truck and about 2 minutes.
C'mon -- if there WERE any terrorists do you think they wouldn't have DONE SOMETHING in the past 7 years? You figure they're maybe 'saving it up' sitting on their hineys for 'something BIG'?
This whole terrorist scare is a Bush invention -- just like the weapons of mass destruction -- nothing more than an excuse to put into force whatever measures are on the 'agenda' -- like getting free Iraq oil, or sealing off the borders.
One wonders how long the monkeys are going to be running the circus.
And don't think that you're all comfy-cozy in the USA by sealing your borders to the rest of the world -- it just so happens that the rest of the world is putting very specific measures in place AGAINST AMERICANS in a tit-for-tat fashion. For example, when the US required anyone from Russia to fill out a big questionaire about everything from where you went to high school, to what organizations you are a member of -- the Russians did EXACTLY THE SAME for the Americans.
So, unless you are content to stay in Butfloss Alabama for the rest of your life and never leave the country -- you're going to be seeing up close and personal just how the world is responding to what your commander-in-chief is having done to them.
As for me, a Canadian, I see no reason to go to the USA anymore. With cheap flights to Europe and no hassles (thanks to NOT being an American), the world is open. Cuba is a really nice place to take a vacation too!
Gee, interesting how Google enjoys exactly the same benefits with FireFix that Microsoft was slammed for with their OWN browser. In fact, with the DNS Error redirect, they are taking this even a step further.
56 million a year is PEANUTS compared to what they get out of the deal -- and it seems nobody is forcing them to 'open up'. Hypocracy at its finest.
Google already buys data from other sources (read their privacy policy) and consolidates that with the MOUNTAIN of information they keep on individuals -- including scanning and indexing your email, recording every search you make, and, if you use the Google Toolbar in 'advanced' mode (ie. you can see Page Rank) -- they record EVERY search you make. Now, in addition to already knowing you have aids, diabetes or erection disfunction (based on your searches and the ads you click) -- they want even MORE evidence.
This will become VERY EVIL once Google decides to sell this information to the insurance companies.
Does anyone have the SLIGHTEST CLUE where Google's master plan is going? Does anyone (besides me) CARE?
Where can you find software engineers for $2.50 per hour?
I currently work in the offshore outsourcing field and the lowest rates I've seen are $4.10 for entry-level people in China.
In India, typical rates for programmers (not project managers or architects) is around $20 to $30 per hour. Russia and FSU, $18 to $25 is pretty typical.
The days when offshore developers worked from grass huts on 386's is LONG GONE. No, Indian developers don't charge $50 to $150 per hour because if they make $20 per hour they can live like KINGs. (Maybe not with an SUV or million dollar home -- but they can have a nice car, a maid, cook, driver and live in a pretty nice place.)
Problem with American developers is that they still expect rediculous rates for basic, simple work that can NOW be done from anywhere in the world. Coding, Flash, Graphics, Web Design, etc. etc.
Want more money? Get more skilled! Move up the food chain.
The IT industry is BOOMING. Countries like Australia and the UK can't import enough people fast enough, unemployment is lower than ever and salaries have never been higher.
Want a job where you don't need to retrain continually and get a high salary? I don't have an answer for you. Even as a doctor, the human body doesn't change, but new technologies and medicines are released every day.
The days where you could go to University and get a job for life are long gone.
Bush and Company associate themselves with this rah-rah story simply as a justification for their warrantless wiretapping program. They have been able to demonstrate no positive outcome for all the invasive (and illegal) activities they have been up to -- and use the German success story to justify what they are doing.
How could anyone be so naive as to not see through it?
Once ALL your freedom and privacy have been given up -- you'll have a ZERO percent crime rate -- just like under Stalin and Hitler. Is that how you want to live? (And don't even think about telling us how much you "trust" your government. We all know what kind of monkey business they've been up to since 9/11.) See: "extraordinary rendition", "aman arar", "waterboarding"...
Who gives a fuzzy rat's a__ about how much freedom YOU are willing to give up -- FREEDOM isn't YOURS to give. It was hard won, but very easily lost if left unprotected.
>The FDA is overseen by the Department of Health and Human Services, which, at the time
>of VeriChip's approval, was headed by Tommy Thompson. Two weeks after the device's
>approval took effect on Jan. 10, 2005, Thompson left his Cabinet post, and within
>five months was a board member of VeriChip Corp. and Applied Digital Solutions.
>He was compensated in cash and stock options.
Sounds like Tommy boy was on the take for quite some time.
FDA approvals are not granted overnight -- they can take many years. For him to claim he never heard of the company means he was either lying or not doing his job overseeing the FDA by being ingnorant of such a major case.
Of course, nothing will ever be done -- same as in most similar cases...
It would seem that Mindbridge is being run by the fanboys and not the accountants or shareholders.
Let's not bother to actually QUANTIFY "bunches of money" or do any kind of cost/benefits analysis and just make a headline out of it to get some free publicity.
Obviously nobody has done any kind of credible study on the TOTAL cost of ownership. YA, just train a few admins and we're good to go. No extra costs there. Sure, customers want Microsoft, and we'll give it to them if they want to pay extra. We don't need no steenkin' TCO analysis -- we just KNOW we are saving BUNCHES of money.
This kind of drivel makes both the Linux fanboys and Californians look bad.
Mindbridge most likely had problems managing their Windows servers because they were unskilled in Active Directory, Group Policy and the dozens of other management, maintenance and administration tools provided out of the box. Check the latest reports on what the majority of Fortune 1000 companies run on both their public AND internal servers.
Maybe if they had taken some of those "bunches of money" and invested them in real training, they'd be singing a different tune now.
For stores to have someone checking receipts against goods at the exit is nothing unsual in most countries.
In Russia, to buy anything with a credit card, you generally need to present a passport and you WILL without fail be asked to show the goods and the receipts on exiting any electronic products store.
This is standard procedure most places. What's the problem with that? Not like he was asking for an on-the-spot snappy glove search or anything.
Sounds like a case of a very small person deliberately trying to stir up some trouble.
When the guy exited the store after mouthing off to the security guard (who is paid by the store and who DOES have certain authority to stop people -- remember the guy was on STORE PROPERTY and is subject to whatever rules they want to put in place) -- I'd have voted for a good pepper spraying.
Now the guy is taking 'donations' to defend his big case. Good scam (er work) if you can get it. Just surprised he didn't have someone getting it all on video for extra exposure on YouTube.
In regards to the statement, "which enables you to learn almost any language in a day"
Seems the CS course didn't teach you enough about anything to know that NO modern language can be learned in one day by ANYBODY.
The REAL computer specialists know just how much they DON'T know and hit the books to learn.
If some CS guy came to me for a job and had no experience and said he could learn VB or SQL in one day, I only hope he wouldn't hit his ass on the door too hard on the way out.
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From Wikipedia... "commonly referred to as the Oklahoma City bomber, was convicted of eleven federal offenses and ultimately executed as a result of his role on the April 19, 1995, Oklahoma City bombing. The bombing, which claimed 168 lives, was the deadliest act of terrorism in American history until the September 11, 2001 attacks and remains the deadliest incident of domestic terrorism in the United States."
Cuba has many resources the US finds valuable -- makes a great place for offshoring the CIA's dirty work of holding people without charges, evidence or any kind of rights, imprisoning them for indeterminate amounts of time, subjecting them to interrogation and torture at leisure. Surely THAT would count for SOMETHING? C'mon - give the Cubans some PCs for putting up with it.
After visiting New York 2 days ago, and trying to drive in that god forsaken hell-hole, one wonders whether a better focus of time and money wouldn't be on ridding the city of asshole-cretin taxi drivers and organizing something simple -- like, say PARKING!!! ($84/day for parking is more than some hotels cost just outside the city.)
As soon as you find a set of open source products that provide the same level of functionality and interconnectivity as the Microsoft products -- let everyone know.
FOSS is absolutely NOTHING LIKE your telephone analogy because most FOSS products DO NOT EASILY WORK TOGETHER -- or -- at the very least require so much glue code, development and generally pissing around that it would cost 100 times more to MAKE them work together as buying a comparable set of MS products off the shelf.
This is one of the most important strengths of MS products. I'm not just talking about the client side here, but also in the back office.
By the time the FOSS crowd even figures out which one of the 400 'popular' distros of Linux to use, selects from the dozens of different options for each particular function -- then manages to actually get them to COMPILE on the desired platform and get them running and configured (let alone actually talking to EACH OTHER) -- the MS-based solution would have already been running for a year.
Platform independence is also a HUGE red herring FOSS advocates have regurgitated as being some kind of 'benefit' when in fact it is totally useless. (Ask ANY IT professional how many of them WANT or NEED to have software moved from platform to platform once it is installed and operational.)
Microsoft is the ONLY company that not only offers ALL products necessary for complete end-to-end business solutions -- but it is also the ONLY company whos set of products are DESIGNED to snap together like little leggo blocks with NO interface problems.
From the developer side, life is EASY. You have ONE interface to learn. ONE programming language, syntax and object model and DO NOT need to worry about how to get data moving from A to B.
Also for the developer is the development environment. Nothing even remotely close to Visual Studio.NET exists for ANY other platform -- Open Source or ahything else. (Don't ask some zealot who's slamming MS, but who has never even used the product -- ask PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPERS who actually DO need to produce software professionally and have to meet silly things like deadlines and productivity goals.)
Want to teach students something they can use in their life? Teach them how to use the right tools for the right purposes to help THEM operate successful businesses. Teach them how to weight the cost of products versus the benefits the products provide them. Teach them that there is no such thing as a free lunch -- and if they choose the cheap-and-free route -- they'll spend a whole lot more on the back-end learning curve and support costs. (Not to mention astronomical development times and lost opportunity.)
Ted hit the nail right on the head about the HUMAN costs. You can buy a hell of a lot of educational licenses for the $100K or so it costs for even ONE SINGLE SUPPORT TECH. (And don't count on one being able to handle the job.)
On another front -- does it make sense to have the students learn products that are NOT used in the real business world?
(Sorry Linuxies and OpenOfficionados -- but MS-Operating Systems and Applications ARE THE STANDARD of business.)
The UK seems to be taking a lesson from Stallinist Russia.
Report your neighbors for even thinking non-party thoughts and have them killed.
Of course, crime was pretty rare in such a society. Punishment was severe. But maybe that's a good thing -- considering how many people today do heinous crimes against other people and walk away or get a slap on the wrist...
Take away all forms of personal freedom and privacy and you have no crime. Simple as that.
Don't worry America! You aren't far behind!
Where there is no freedom or privacy -- there is no crime.
The question is -- do we WANT a society where we are watched and babysat by the government 24 hours a day?
Do you really TRUST or WANT the government to completely monitor your daily life?
(And for the dick-heads that think it is 'all good' -- yes, citizen -- if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear.)
Looks like another "failing grade" for US Government network and computer security.
- Contractors accessing data/systems after they no longer work there.
- Connections being accepted from Iranian IP addresses.
The US Military blocks inbound and outbound traffic to/from China and several other countries. Why not the rest of the government -- or at least areas where potentially valuable information could be found?
Of course that's not going to stop attackers located in 'friendly' countries, but it is a least a MINIMAL starting point.
In any case, this guy will surely have a free extended vacation in Cuba while they ask him a few questions about the incident...
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I've built MANY MOSS (SharePoint) farms and the ONLY way to get them to run without generating errors in the logs is to build each machine individually and not from VMware templates or cloned images. Interestingly enough, NewSID did NOT solve the problem, but to be sure, there IS SOMETHING that causes this -- and probably updating/extending NewSID would have been the way to go.
I the best comparison Shuttleworth cam come up with is OS/2, he'd better be 'upgraded' into TODAY. Problem seems to be that many Linux applications still LOOK and FEEL like OS/2. There is still no such thing as reasonable documentation. There is still DEFINITELY no such thing as interoperability between applications. Until these issues are resolved, Linux is destined to DIE.
...paid by the lobbyists -- the biggest bullies in the world just got bigger...
Definitely, the best way to get yourself killed anywhere near anything protected by Americans... Shoot first - ask questions later. Let god sort 'em out.
...this is the ONLY way to do business! Having lived in Russia for the past 12 years, I have some experience with this. "Do you want your license TODAY, or in 3 YEARS?"... The answer is usually pretty simple...
FOLLOW THE FREAKIN MONEY!
"cleared $400,000 in Visa charges in one month alone"
Any ideas how much money Visa gets from ALL the SPAM circulating?
Let's just say that it is more than enough to ensure that Visa, Mastercard and all the other companies turn a blind eye to it.
Without the ability to process money -- SPAMMers would be a thing of the past.
Interesting that America is the only country in the world with this kind of system. I've entered and left Russia, Germany, the UK, Finland and at least a dozen other countries dozens of times in the past couple of years and the USA is the only Police State to have this kind of nonsense.
I guess other countries have more important things to worry about than 'copyright violations'.
Here's a question for all the rocket scientists in the audience -- exactly WHERE ARE all these 'terrorists' since 9/11? One would THINK that MAYBE, just MAYBE if they really did exist, that they couldn't have hooked a chunk of chain onto a rental truck and pulled out a section of train track or SOMETHING?
Wake up America! The police state is already in place. All that needs happen now is tighten the noose around the necks of the sheep.
And you wonder why nobody of any importance wants to come and do business in your country anymore?
What kind of dolt believe terrorists are running around the USA with shoulder-fired heat-seeking missiles? (Something only the US military is likely to have -- particularly within US soil.)
...)
Maybe that is a rhetorical question -- obviously the dolts who will be paying for this new and improved scam on the tax-paying public in the name of 'for your convenience and safety against terrorists'...
Let me ask you something -- shaking in your shoes Americans terrified of your own shadows -- have you not considered that if there actually WERE terrorists -- would they not have done SOMETHING between 9/11 and now?
Could they not have rented (or stolen) a truck and 20 feet of chain and yanked out a section of railways track to derail a train -- or SOMETHING??? (C'mon -- use your small brains and try to come up with some creative measures to wreak havock -- think of anything yet?
I currently live in Russia -- a place where trains ARE derailed, and where there ARE terrorists blowing stuff up -- but even a 100-year-old-babooshka in a village somewhere wouldn't be as much of a 'village idiot' as the Americans who are arming the entire country, and giving the government free reign to take away every conceivable element of privacy or security in 'the name' of 'safety' against all these boogiemen behind every 'bush'.
Follow the freakin money folks and use your freakin heads -- into who's pockets do all these billions flow???
You check people leaving as a 'last chance' to catch them and detain them before they go.
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Funny thing is that even in Russia where I now live, every Russian citizen can come and go as they please without ANYTHING done at the border except having their passport looked at (by eyball), and a stamp put in it.
I travel between Russia and Finland by train weekly on average, and, with the exception of crossing between one EU country and another where there is basically NO border, it is the EASIEST border crossing in the WORLD.
Even the Canada/US border is now a pain in the butt -- well, at least the American side is.
Here's a simple question for all you pro-Bush wankers...
Where are all the terrorists? Do you really believe that since 9/11 one single Bush tactic has prevented a single event of terrorism in the USA?
Face it simpletons -- there ain't any terrorists in the homeland, and they aren't coming in any significant number.
(Study history -- the first steps of the dictator is to create a 'false enemy' for the people to rally aginst -- while giving up all their civil liberties in the process. Before WW2, Germany was also a democracy -- with even more freedoms than Americans have left.)
If terrorists wanted in -- they'd use the same methods as the other illegals -- through the southern border. One should assume that highly-trained, physically fit terrorists would have just as good a chance as some mexican grandmother?
And what would they do once they are IN the USA? You may think that they'd buy guns (as anyone with a hundred dollar bill can do walking into a biker bar), and start having some sniper fun. (Remember how much terror a single pair of snipers can invoke on an entire city?)
There are a MILLION acts of mischief, vandalism and 'terror' they could indulge in. All it takes is a cutting torch and about half an hour to take out a section of track large enough to derail any commuter train. Or a piece of chain, a stolen (or rented) truck and about 2 minutes.
C'mon -- if there WERE any terrorists do you think they wouldn't have DONE SOMETHING in the past 7 years? You figure they're maybe 'saving it up' sitting on their hineys for 'something BIG'?
This whole terrorist scare is a Bush invention -- just like the weapons of mass destruction -- nothing more than an excuse to put into force whatever measures are on the 'agenda' -- like getting free Iraq oil, or sealing off the borders.
One wonders how long the monkeys are going to be running the circus.
And don't think that you're all comfy-cozy in the USA by sealing your borders to the rest of the world -- it just so happens that the rest of the world is putting very specific measures in place AGAINST AMERICANS in a tit-for-tat fashion. For example, when the US required anyone from Russia to fill out a big questionaire about everything from where you went to high school, to what organizations you are a member of -- the Russians did EXACTLY THE SAME for the Americans.
So, unless you are content to stay in Butfloss Alabama for the rest of your life and never leave the country -- you're going to be seeing up close and personal just how the world is responding to what your commander-in-chief is having done to them.
As for me, a Canadian, I see no reason to go to the USA anymore. With cheap flights to Europe and no hassles (thanks to NOT being an American), the world is open. Cuba is a really nice place to take a vacation too!
Gee, interesting how Google enjoys exactly the same benefits with FireFix that Microsoft was slammed for with their OWN browser. In fact, with the DNS Error redirect, they are taking this even a step further.
56 million a year is PEANUTS compared to what they get out of the deal -- and it seems nobody is forcing them to 'open up'. Hypocracy at its finest.
Google already buys data from other sources (read their privacy policy) and consolidates that with the MOUNTAIN of information they keep on individuals -- including scanning and indexing your email, recording every search you make, and, if you use the Google Toolbar in 'advanced' mode (ie. you can see Page Rank) -- they record EVERY search you make. Now, in addition to already knowing you have aids, diabetes or erection disfunction (based on your searches and the ads you click) -- they want even MORE evidence. This will become VERY EVIL once Google decides to sell this information to the insurance companies. Does anyone have the SLIGHTEST CLUE where Google's master plan is going? Does anyone (besides me) CARE?
Where can you find software engineers for $2.50 per hour?
I currently work in the offshore outsourcing field and the lowest rates I've seen are $4.10 for entry-level people in China.
In India, typical rates for programmers (not project managers or architects) is around $20 to $30 per hour. Russia and FSU, $18 to $25 is pretty typical.
The days when offshore developers worked from grass huts on 386's is LONG GONE. No, Indian developers don't charge $50 to $150 per hour because if they make $20 per hour they can live like KINGs. (Maybe not with an SUV or million dollar home -- but they can have a nice car, a maid, cook, driver and live in a pretty nice place.)
Problem with American developers is that they still expect rediculous rates for basic, simple work that can NOW be done from anywhere in the world. Coding, Flash, Graphics, Web Design, etc. etc.
Want more money? Get more skilled! Move up the food chain.
The IT industry is BOOMING. Countries like Australia and the UK can't import enough people fast enough, unemployment is lower than ever and salaries have never been higher.
Want a job where you don't need to retrain continually and get a high salary? I don't have an answer for you. Even as a doctor, the human body doesn't change, but new technologies and medicines are released every day.
The days where you could go to University and get a job for life are long gone.
Bush and Company associate themselves with this rah-rah story simply as a justification for their warrantless wiretapping program. They have been able to demonstrate no positive outcome for all the invasive (and illegal) activities they have been up to -- and use the German success story to justify what they are doing.
How could anyone be so naive as to not see through it?
Once ALL your freedom and privacy have been given up -- you'll have a ZERO percent crime rate -- just like under Stalin and Hitler. Is that how you want to live? (And don't even think about telling us how much you "trust" your government. We all know what kind of monkey business they've been up to since 9/11.) See: "extraordinary rendition", "aman arar", "waterboarding"...
Who gives a fuzzy rat's a__ about how much freedom YOU are willing to give up -- FREEDOM isn't YOURS to give. It was hard won, but very easily lost if left unprotected.
>The FDA is overseen by the Department of Health and Human Services, which, at the time
>of VeriChip's approval, was headed by Tommy Thompson. Two weeks after the device's
>approval took effect on Jan. 10, 2005, Thompson left his Cabinet post, and within
>five months was a board member of VeriChip Corp. and Applied Digital Solutions.
>He was compensated in cash and stock options.
Sounds like Tommy boy was on the take for quite some time.
FDA approvals are not granted overnight -- they can take many years. For him to claim he never heard of the company means he was either lying or not doing his job overseeing the FDA by being ingnorant of such a major case.
Of course, nothing will ever be done -- same as in most similar cases...
It would seem that Mindbridge is being run by the fanboys and not the accountants or shareholders.
Let's not bother to actually QUANTIFY "bunches of money" or do any kind of cost/benefits analysis and just make a headline out of it to get some free publicity.
Obviously nobody has done any kind of credible study on the TOTAL cost of ownership. YA, just train a few admins and we're good to go. No extra costs there. Sure, customers want Microsoft, and we'll give it to them if they want to pay extra. We don't need no steenkin' TCO analysis -- we just KNOW we are saving BUNCHES of money.
This kind of drivel makes both the Linux fanboys and Californians look bad.
Mindbridge most likely had problems managing their Windows servers because they were unskilled in Active Directory, Group Policy and the dozens of other management, maintenance and administration tools provided out of the box. Check the latest reports on what the majority of Fortune 1000 companies run on both their public AND internal servers.
Maybe if they had taken some of those "bunches of money" and invested them in real training, they'd be singing a different tune now.
You gotta wonder when you hear stuff like this...
For stores to have someone checking receipts against goods at the exit is nothing unsual in most countries.
In Russia, to buy anything with a credit card, you generally need to present a passport and you WILL without fail be asked to show the goods and the receipts on exiting any electronic products store.
This is standard procedure most places. What's the problem with that? Not like he was asking for an on-the-spot snappy glove search or anything.
Sounds like a case of a very small person deliberately trying to stir up some trouble.
When the guy exited the store after mouthing off to the security guard (who is paid by the store and who DOES have certain authority to stop people -- remember the guy was on STORE PROPERTY and is subject to whatever rules they want to put in place) -- I'd have voted for a good pepper spraying.
Now the guy is taking 'donations' to defend his big case. Good scam (er work) if you can get it. Just surprised he didn't have someone getting it all on video for extra exposure on YouTube.
Bah humbug!
In regards to the statement, "which enables you to learn almost any language in a day"
Seems the CS course didn't teach you enough about anything to know that NO modern language can be learned in one day by ANYBODY.
The REAL computer specialists know just how much they DON'T know and hit the books to learn.
If some CS guy came to me for a job and had no experience and said he could learn VB or SQL in one day, I only hope he wouldn't hit his ass on the door too hard on the way out.
From Wikipedia... "commonly referred to as the Oklahoma City bomber, was convicted of eleven federal offenses and ultimately executed as a result of his role on the April 19, 1995, Oklahoma City bombing. The bombing, which claimed 168 lives, was the deadliest act of terrorism in American history until the September 11, 2001 attacks and remains the deadliest incident of domestic terrorism in the United States."
Cuba has many resources the US finds valuable -- makes a great place for offshoring the CIA's dirty work of holding people without charges, evidence or any kind of rights, imprisoning them for indeterminate amounts of time, subjecting them to interrogation and torture at leisure. Surely THAT would count for SOMETHING? C'mon - give the Cubans some PCs for putting up with it.
After visiting New York 2 days ago, and trying to drive in that god forsaken hell-hole, one wonders whether a better focus of time and money wouldn't be on ridding the city of asshole-cretin taxi drivers and organizing something simple -- like, say PARKING!!! ($84/day for parking is more than some hotels cost just outside the city.)
As soon as you find a set of open source products that provide the same level of functionality and interconnectivity as the Microsoft products -- let everyone know.
.NET exists for ANY other platform -- Open Source or ahything else. (Don't ask some zealot who's slamming MS, but who has never even used the product -- ask PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPERS who actually DO need to produce software professionally and have to meet silly things like deadlines and productivity goals.)
FOSS is absolutely NOTHING LIKE your telephone analogy because most FOSS products DO NOT EASILY WORK TOGETHER -- or -- at the very least require so much glue code, development and generally pissing around that it would cost 100 times more to MAKE them work together as buying a comparable set of MS products off the shelf.
This is one of the most important strengths of MS products. I'm not just talking about the client side here, but also in the back office.
By the time the FOSS crowd even figures out which one of the 400 'popular' distros of Linux to use, selects from the dozens of different options for each particular function -- then manages to actually get them to COMPILE on the desired platform and get them running and configured (let alone actually talking to EACH OTHER) -- the MS-based solution would have already been running for a year.
Platform independence is also a HUGE red herring FOSS advocates have regurgitated as being some kind of 'benefit' when in fact it is totally useless. (Ask ANY IT professional how many of them WANT or NEED to have software moved from platform to platform once it is installed and operational.)
Microsoft is the ONLY company that not only offers ALL products necessary for complete end-to-end business solutions -- but it is also the ONLY company whos set of products are DESIGNED to snap together like little leggo blocks with NO interface problems.
From the developer side, life is EASY. You have ONE interface to learn. ONE programming language, syntax and object model and DO NOT need to worry about how to get data moving from A to B.
Also for the developer is the development environment. Nothing even remotely close to Visual Studio
Want to teach students something they can use in their life? Teach them how to use the right tools for the right purposes to help THEM operate successful businesses. Teach them how to weight the cost of products versus the benefits the products provide them. Teach them that there is no such thing as a free lunch -- and if they choose the cheap-and-free route -- they'll spend a whole lot more on the back-end learning curve and support costs. (Not to mention astronomical development times and lost opportunity.)
Ted hit the nail right on the head about the HUMAN costs. You can buy a hell of a lot of educational licenses for the $100K or so it costs for even ONE SINGLE SUPPORT TECH. (And don't count on one being able to handle the job.)
On another front -- does it make sense to have the students learn products that are NOT used in the real business world?
(Sorry Linuxies and OpenOfficionados -- but MS-Operating Systems and Applications ARE THE STANDARD of business.)
The UK seems to be taking a lesson from Stallinist Russia. Report your neighbors for even thinking non-party thoughts and have them killed. Of course, crime was pretty rare in such a society. Punishment was severe. But maybe that's a good thing -- considering how many people today do heinous crimes against other people and walk away or get a slap on the wrist... Take away all forms of personal freedom and privacy and you have no crime. Simple as that. Don't worry America! You aren't far behind! Where there is no freedom or privacy -- there is no crime. The question is -- do we WANT a society where we are watched and babysat by the government 24 hours a day? Do you really TRUST or WANT the government to completely monitor your daily life? (And for the dick-heads that think it is 'all good' -- yes, citizen -- if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear.)
Looks like another "failing grade" for US Government network and computer security.
- Contractors accessing data/systems after they no longer work there. - Connections being accepted from Iranian IP addresses.
The US Military blocks inbound and outbound traffic to/from China and several other countries. Why not the rest of the government -- or at least areas where potentially valuable information could be found?
Of course that's not going to stop attackers located in 'friendly' countries, but it is a least a MINIMAL starting point.
In any case, this guy will surely have a free extended vacation in Cuba while they ask him a few questions about the incident...