But don't forget, the current administration really does want to stop terrorism. Yes indeedy. They make sure that all agencies, such as the NSA, that represent our front line on terrorism information gathering, are fully funded and have plenty of Arabic translators. Not.
About one-third of the people in my company have already asked if they'll be able to access our CRM system from the iPhone.
I know of one company in Herndon, VA that plans to supply all 100+ of its employees with iPhones. People who belittle this product are not realizing what kind of impact we're going to see from it. And, to their credit, Apple's masterful marketing of the product (especially lately, releasing a few more tidbits every day as we lead up to the release) is a big reason for that.
I mean, realistically, it's just another smartphone in an already overcrowded market. But it's front page news every day.
I'm no fanboi (I've already critiqued Apple's non-use of AJAX while leaving developers to use AJAX), but to call this "just another smartphone" is to really have blinders on. Consider:
On other phones that play music, it's a pain to find specific tracks. iPhone provides iTunes album preview mode.
Other smartphones give you subsets of websites; crippled "pseudo-web" implementations. iPhone gives you a complete browser.
This is more evidence that if you want to write a killer iPhone app, Safari+AJAX may not have the power you need. Apple sure didn't find that combo to have the horespower when it went to implement Google Maps and now YouTube.
Presumaby you are attending University in order to learn; to expand your horizons. Consider this incident one of your learning experiences at school: You need to move beyond your distrust for the entire banking system. There--you've just received your first lesson of the semester without even attending a single class!
Openmoko seems to be more of a standard than an actual, purchasable device. How about if we compare apples to apples; vaporware should treated as such.
All Apple has to do is wait until June 30th. When word that iPhones can't be restocked fast enough to meet demand, European carriers will be contacting Steve Jobs' office willing to deal.
The satellites had nothing to do with embarrassing anyone over Katrina.
Oh no? That hurricane hit within 30 miles of where they said it would 48 hours earlier. To me, this sure as hell embarrases the White House, who didn't mobilize help until 72 hours after Katrina hit.
In fact, you may have your reason for the satellite not being replaced right there. The Administration does not want to be made to look bad again, so once QuikSat fails they can claim "Nope, we had no way of knowing where Storm X was going to hit, so that's why we had to hold back aid; we didn't know where to send it!"
'm not kidding--this is the only reason I can figure why they've not authorized a replacement satellite. They love spending money as proven by their huge fiscal debt, and there isn't a member of congress who would dare veto funding for a hurricane satellite with Katrina still in the public's memory. They must simply not want it up there so they can cover their butts the next time a major hurricane bears down. (And no, I'm honestly not a conspiracy theorist--I just like trying to figure out motivations.)
Watch me deny it. They are not "full" of thugs. Some people in some unions are thugs. Stop calling the millions of Americans in unions thugs. I've seen what employers do to non-unionized labor. My mom and her fellow teachers were completely mistreated until they unionized. Unions exist for a reason. People would not spontaneously start paying union dues and go without pay for weeks/months on strike unless they'd been badly screwed. I can only hope you get mistreated at work someday and will then come to appreciate, just a little bit, how unions are a necessary part of the workplace in order to push back against domineering employers.
Dozens of others have pointed out how NeoOffice does not require X11 or how he was complaining about the rock-bottom Mac not being powerful enough, so I'll concentrate on the peripherals he complained did not work with the Mac:
* HP 1020 printer -- This is a bargain basement printing solution that HP made reliant on Windows in order to keep it under $100. It clearly states on the product page that is Windows only. Yet he somehow blames Apple and MacOS X for not supporting it. HP chose to make the product this way and he chose to buy it.
* Canon CanoScan LIDE 30 -- Another bargain basement device; it's worth all of $25 now from various camera shops and is listed as being compatible with "MacOS X 10.1 and higher". This means it's been around since 2001 and that Canon did not upgrade the drivers on an obsolete, low-end product. And somehow this is, again, Apple's fault instead of the manufacturer's or the buyer's.
I hope this can be installed on any computer! Just think, rather than coming to the network admin to take out their frustration, the users could take it out on the reset button.
Nooooo!
I don't know about you, but a notable portion of my day is spent responding to users' woes with "Did you try rebooting?" If users learn to reboot their own computers, that would cut the need for us admins in half. This button thingie will lead to mass unemployment. It's evil! Kill it! Kill it!
You have to think twisted like the people you're trying to catch. They are going to lie to do what they're doing.
Your argument justifies a whole lot of false positives to catch one offender. At what point (if any) will you draw that "OK, too twisted" line? For those of you who claim to be geographically-enlightened, Utah to Colorado may be "just next door" but it's also quite a number of miles, so why stop with Colorado? Why not Kansas, or Wyoming, or Idaho, or Nevada, or California, or New Mexico? And if you're going to go that far, why not the whole country, considering that airline tickets are $49 now? Next, if you assume the person is going to lie about their age, then you've just eliminated any benefit from an age search. And then why not assume that if they can move and lie about their age, why not lie about their name? Bingo, you've just invalidated EVERY SINGLE SEARCH. So just STOP your wild-eyed zeal to catch sex offenders and consider that if you over-widen the search, you might as well not search at all.
Because most (all?) religions are intransigent in their core beliefs
It was uncalled for to mod this "Flamebait". No matter how devout you are and of what religion, you are being untruthful if you claim your religion is accepting of change. To most Christians, the Bible is "THE BOOK" and cannot be questioned. "It's in the Bible" is the most common Christian's reply to morality issues. Ditto for Muslims and the Koran. This is not flamebait. In fact, it's a matter of pride of most devout followers--they spend years and years memorizing their holy books. To memorize something is to set it in mental stone; it cannot change. That is the very defintion of the term "intransigent" in the parent post. If you modded the parent (or this post) "Flamebait", then you are abusing your mods and it would be only fair for your karma (both digital and literal) to suffer.
the last thing we need to complete the job is internal dissent.
That is the most un-American thing you can possibly say. The whole point of this country's very existence is dissent. Disagreeing with the government in power his how the United States even got created. How dare you attempt to supporess dissent and free speech among the populace? Who on earth do yo think you are and what country do you think you're in? If you want totalitarianism where dissent is prevented, go live in China or North Korea, and leave your hands the heck off of our freedom.
The reality is that Apple and Google are the companies making the innovative, neat new products these days that we're having fun playing with. You can either accept that and have fun with the rest of us or be grumpy and effectively yell "hey you kids, get out of my yard!" I feel sorry for you if you continue to choose the latter course of action.
Bzzt, wrong, try again. The main reason that Utah was the other state to enact this is their Republican Senator, Orrin Hatch, who has also long been in the pocket of the movie and music industries. There are numbnuts on both sides of the aisle in Washington, so let's not partisanize this. Special interest money is corrupting both parties badly which is why we are in such dire need of lobby reform.
He did--I have no idea why you and a few others do not seem to be able to access the link. For those who cannot, here is the article:
Security Isn't Just Avoiding Microsoft
Ben Rothke
May 07, 2007 (Computerworld) -- Weve all heard IT professionals imagine how secure their networks would be if they just didnt have to use any Microsoft products.
I've had to listen to clients kvetch for hours on end about how Microsoft makes their lives miserable and how everything would be better in a Microsoft-free world. Tony Bove wrote a whole book with that theme, Just Say No to Microsoft, and plenty of blogs have taken up the cry.
It's time for all the people who have entertained this fantasy to stop deluding themselves.
How would life without Microsoft be different? It wouldn't be in any meaningful way for those in charge of network security; there would just be a different vendor peddling the dominant operating system.
Networks in a world in which Apple had won the operating systems wars would still be insecure. What's that, you say? The Macintosh has had far fewer bugs reported and patched than Windows? That's true, but it's a consequence of the minuscule market penetration of Mac OS. If the Mac had enjoyed a market share of upwards of 80% for the past couple of decades, it would have been the focus of every hacker and script kiddie on the planet. And you might be lamenting the minuscule market share of that scrappy operating system vendor in Redmond, Wash.
If you put computers on a network and open that network to the outside world via the Internet, you're going to have security problems, regardless of whether you're running Windows, Mac OS, Linux or an operating system you created in your spare time. By all means, we need to run the safest operating system we can, fortify our networks and police the whole thing. But once we've done all that, we're left with one unalterable fact: Users will still make errors galore. Training can help. But for a bit of perspective, consider commercial air transportation. The hardware is about as safe as possible, and pilots are trained as thoroughly as surgeons. But accidents happen, and theyre usually the result of pilot error.
User errors have long been the bane of security. In a sense, true security requires a paranoia honed to a fanatical edge, but sometimes even fanaticism isnt enough. After all, no one has surpassed the Nazis when it comes to fanatical paranoia. Yet even the well-trained German soldiers of World War II broke a fundamental rule of cryptography and reused the same keys. That mistake might be the only reason this article wasn't written in German.
So, what needs to be done? You must require users to attend formal information security training and awareness programs. No one should be left out. Set minimum security training and awareness requirements that all workers must meet -- even janitors and others who have no system access. Step up the requirements for those who have access to corporate information systems (most workers would fall into this category), and establish exhaustive requirements for employees in computer-related positions of trust, such as security staff and systems programmers.
Your first step, if you haven't already done it, is to write down your information security policies. You can't design an effective training and awareness program without them.
Once you've set up effective training, you have to maintain it. Keep it consistent, and make sure users are up to date. It won't be easy. In fact, it's a lot easier to just blame Microsoft. But don't feel that all that kvetching didn't help. It took lots of people kvetching loudly for many years for Microsoft to realize that it had to do more, and it has made great strides since 2002, when it announced its Trustworthy Computing initiative.
Now it's your turn to do something similar within your
related topics like the content cabal's continuing crusade that confounds consumers' capabilities to copy in conditions commensurate with copyright law
Voila! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of Fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a by-gone vexation, stands vivified and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin van-guarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition.
The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta, held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous.
Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose, so let me simply add that it's my very good honor to meet you and you may call me V.
It's interesting that their primary response is to shoot the messenger instead of listening to the message. We're not hearing from the teachers and administrators who get the highest marks on the website, are we? Just the bad ones who are trying to save their jobs not by improving but through censorship.
As a side note, it's also interesting that the first two posts in response to this story seemed to advocate the censorship instead of considering whether the "defamed" teachers might in fact be unfit. Are Aussies really that OK with censorship?
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But don't forget, the current administration really does want to stop terrorism. Yes indeedy. They make sure that all agencies, such as the NSA, that represent our front line on terrorism information gathering, are fully funded and have plenty of Arabic translators. Not.
There--fixed that for you.
- On other phones that play music, it's a pain to find specific tracks. iPhone provides iTunes album preview mode.
- Other smartphones give you subsets of websites; crippled "pseudo-web" implementations. iPhone gives you a complete browser.
- No awkward dials, knobs, or scrollwheels to move about. Want to zoom in? Spread your fingers. Zoom out? Pinch them.
This thing really is different.This is more evidence that if you want to write a killer iPhone app, Safari+AJAX may not have the power you need. Apple sure didn't find that combo to have the horespower when it went to implement Google Maps and now YouTube.
Presumaby you are attending University in order to learn; to expand your horizons. Consider this incident one of your learning experiences at school: You need to move beyond your distrust for the entire banking system. There--you've just received your first lesson of the semester without even attending a single class!
Openmoko seems to be more of a standard than an actual, purchasable device. How about if we compare apples to apples; vaporware should treated as such.
All Apple has to do is wait until June 30th. When word that iPhones can't be restocked fast enough to meet demand, European carriers will be contacting Steve Jobs' office willing to deal.
In fact, you may have your reason for the satellite not being replaced right there. The Administration does not want to be made to look bad again, so once QuikSat fails they can claim "Nope, we had no way of knowing where Storm X was going to hit, so that's why we had to hold back aid; we didn't know where to send it!"
'm not kidding--this is the only reason I can figure why they've not authorized a replacement satellite. They love spending money as proven by their huge fiscal debt, and there isn't a member of congress who would dare veto funding for a hurricane satellite with Katrina still in the public's memory. They must simply not want it up there so they can cover their butts the next time a major hurricane bears down. (And no, I'm honestly not a conspiracy theorist--I just like trying to figure out motivations.)
* HP 1020 printer -- This is a bargain basement printing solution that HP made reliant on Windows in order to keep it under $100. It clearly states on the product page that is Windows only. Yet he somehow blames Apple and MacOS X for not supporting it. HP chose to make the product this way and he chose to buy it.
* Canon CanoScan LIDE 30 -- Another bargain basement device; it's worth all of $25 now from various camera shops and is listed as being compatible with "MacOS X 10.1 and higher". This means it's been around since 2001 and that Canon did not upgrade the drivers on an obsolete, low-end product. And somehow this is, again, Apple's fault instead of the manufacturer's or the buyer's.
NOW we know what a home user needs Terabytes of storage for. NAS for everyone!
I don't know about you, but a notable portion of my day is spent responding to users' woes with "Did you try rebooting?" If users learn to reboot their own computers, that would cut the need for us admins in half. This button thingie will lead to mass unemployment. It's evil! Kill it! Kill it!
The reality is that Apple and Google are the companies making the innovative, neat new products these days that we're having fun playing with. You can either accept that and have fun with the rest of us or be grumpy and effectively yell "hey you kids, get out of my yard!" I feel sorry for you if you continue to choose the latter course of action.
He did--I have no idea why you and a few others do not seem to be able to access the link. For those who cannot, here is the article:
Security Isn't Just Avoiding Microsoft
Ben Rothke
May 07, 2007 (Computerworld) -- Weve all heard IT professionals imagine how secure their networks would be if they just didnt have to use any Microsoft products.
I've had to listen to clients kvetch for hours on end about how Microsoft makes their lives miserable and how everything would be better in a Microsoft-free world. Tony Bove wrote a whole book with that theme, Just Say No to Microsoft, and plenty of blogs have taken up the cry.
It's time for all the people who have entertained this fantasy to stop deluding themselves.
How would life without Microsoft be different? It wouldn't be in any meaningful way for those in charge of network security; there would just be a different vendor peddling the dominant operating system.
Networks in a world in which Apple had won the operating systems wars would still be insecure. What's that, you say? The Macintosh has had far fewer bugs reported and patched than Windows? That's true, but it's a consequence of the minuscule market penetration of Mac OS. If the Mac had enjoyed a market share of upwards of 80% for the past couple of decades, it would have been the focus of every hacker and script kiddie on the planet. And you might be lamenting the minuscule market share of that scrappy operating system vendor in Redmond, Wash.
If you put computers on a network and open that network to the outside world via the Internet, you're going to have security problems, regardless of whether you're running Windows, Mac OS, Linux or an operating system you created in your spare time. By all means, we need to run the safest operating system we can, fortify our networks and police the whole thing. But once we've done all that, we're left with one unalterable fact: Users will still make errors galore. Training can help. But for a bit of perspective, consider commercial air transportation. The hardware is about as safe as possible, and pilots are trained as thoroughly as surgeons. But accidents happen, and theyre usually the result of pilot error.
User errors have long been the bane of security. In a sense, true security requires a paranoia honed to a fanatical edge, but sometimes even fanaticism isnt enough. After all, no one has surpassed the Nazis when it comes to fanatical paranoia. Yet even the well-trained German soldiers of World War II broke a fundamental rule of cryptography and reused the same keys. That mistake might be the only reason this article wasn't written in German.
So, what needs to be done? You must require users to attend formal information security training and awareness programs. No one should be left out. Set minimum security training and awareness requirements that all workers must meet -- even janitors and others who have no system access. Step up the requirements for those who have access to corporate information systems (most workers would fall into this category), and establish exhaustive requirements for employees in computer-related positions of trust, such as security staff and systems programmers.
Your first step, if you haven't already done it, is to write down your information security policies. You can't design an effective training and awareness program without them.
Once you've set up effective training, you have to maintain it. Keep it consistent, and make sure users are up to date. It won't be easy. In fact, it's a lot easier to just blame Microsoft. But don't feel that all that kvetching didn't help. It took lots of people kvetching loudly for many years for Microsoft to realize that it had to do more, and it has made great strides since 2002, when it announced its Trustworthy Computing initiative.
Now it's your turn to do something similar within your
The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta, held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous.
Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose, so let me simply add that it's my very good honor to meet you and you may call me V.
As a side note, it's also interesting that the first two posts in response to this story seemed to advocate the censorship instead of considering whether the "defamed" teachers might in fact be unfit. Are Aussies really that OK with censorship?