Man, dunno how i'm gonna feel on my lowly powerbook though.. how do you other geeks deal with girlfriends whose laptops are better than yours? aarrgghh...:)
Taco, your suggestion that we mod offtopic comments down is troubling, in that it runs contrary to what I believe about the way Slashdot works, or should work:
Everything starts at the same level, subject to optional bonuses we can choose, but probably most of of us actually read at 2 or higher these days -- except when modding. I would think the best use of the limited modpoints we have is to mod the ontopic, useful comments up to the point where we all see them, rather than push the lame stuff further into oblivion. There's plenty of time to correct poor judgement calls in voting, once we get to the point of metamoderation. But that's sometimes days or even weeks away, when the discussion in question is cold, and no longer benefits from improperly downvoted posts recovering their standing. I'd rather see a few comments not of interest to me, than few comments of interest to me, which is what happens when we subtract from, rather than add to, the pool of visible comments.
As part of adding, sometimes we'll see points come up that are only mildly related, but worthy of note. But tangents are a major point of the spark of discussion created by the topic even being set before us, aren't they? Tangents are where we leave the space we all know and expect, and start to learn things, perhaps unexpectedly. Mindful of this, people are certainly less afraid to bring tangential information to the table if they think they might be rewarded for it, rather than punished.
I think we have a broader, more comprehensive discussion when interesting points are pulled up, rather than when the crap is pushed further down. As an editor, you have unlimited points to get rid of the worst offenses anyway. Let us concentrate on digging for the gems, please.
BlueTooth is another example--while widely supported on Macs, it just still kinda sucks when trying to find and use a non-Apple BT product.
OSX seemingly only fully supports the BT either built in or one external adapter from D-Link. I have an iogear adapter (GBU311) that OSX won't support fully; I can use it to transfer data to and from my cell phone, but I can't use my headset with it, because it claims that the adapter doesn't support handsfree or headset profiles. Ironically, in Windows, it supports them.:(
I would think, after 3 major repairs, you could demand a refund under your local lemon law. Even if not, some credit card companies offer similar protection, too. What did you find when you looked into these options?
But they'll still pester me for that personal information, as well as the personal information of every last person in line ahead of me and I'm a crotchety old curmudgeon. Bah!!!
Ah, but if you get in line, I sneak over and play in your yard. Ever think of that one?
Oh, and just to actually respond to the post... I sure hope the pilots and flight crew also have some modicum of qualification for what they're doing. You'd be surprised how hard it is to be a really good stew (e.g., evacuation training, dealing with drunks or medical emergencies, etc.) let alone fly even a small plane in near perfect conditions let alone land a passenger jet at near minimums with 100+ lives riding on your ability.
Are you trolling? They just had their first fatality in over 30 years of flying. It was that one in Chicago, where the plane went off the end of the runway and hit a car. The point is, there are lots of people technically qualified for just about any position. It pays to hold out for the nice ones, if you can.
Southwest has had this strategy for years. Must be why they are posting profits when all other airlines are sinking into debt.
They also tend to only hire people who are nice, willing to help others, and are always respectful to others in the company. According to mythos, sometimes managers will pretend to be prospective applicants, and walk in and sit with the real ones, to watch them. There have been applicants at the final level who have lost the job because they were rude to a secretary.
And really, except for the mechanics on the field, nobody there is in a job where training and experience could absolutely trump being nice, thoughtful and being able to learn. And even the mechanics, you want to have caring and thinking about the people in the planes. That probably also contributed to why they lasted so long without a plane crash.
It makes sense, doesn't it? It's a lot easier to enjoy your work environment if you don't hire jerks.:)
Is there absolutely only one entry point into the network? Or do you have local LAN users, plus remote dialup users, plus maybe a remote building or two, plus an internet gateway?
Draw a network diagram, including all possible entry points. Now, where is that single firewall going to sit, to cover all of them?
Personally, I'd go with a mixed router and hardware firewall configuration, probably with some IDS capability, but "small" doesn't tell me much of anything. So in lieu of something that doesn't fit, I'm going to say, if you do go with software instead, you really need coverage on every entry point you can afford to cover. You also should be running host intrusion detection on the most important database and command servers, if at all possible.
Oh, and don't forget, you need to have a written security policy before doing a lot of configuration, to keep things consistent and to save yourself a lot of grief. It also helps when you have to figure out if someone is getting through, and how.
Tell you what, go poke around on Cisco's website for their SAFE blueprint, and you can start with this. You can learn the basic conceptual stuff for free, and then implement scalable design choices using their stuff or someone else's.
If there are any legal protests, they will surely fail. Like the Oscars being sued when the most popular documentary in history wasn't nominated for a single thing, the courts said all that movie stuff is a private industry, and they can do whatever they want and you can't do anything about it. The courts are real good about protecting Goliath from David, as if Goliath needed any more help...
Companies are responsible for making sure their films' names are on the eligibility reminder list. Then the community of eligible voters votes to nominate up to 5 candidates for each award.
At what point do you think anyone has a right to sue if they don't get nominated, and should they be suing the Academy, or their production companies, or their peers? The very idea is lame.
They probably had to drop one vendor for power supplies, or at least kill a batch of bad supplies from their inventory. You'd think they might have delays while repacking some boxes still in warehouses.
Note that complete and accurate whois information is a prerequisite for maintaining a domain registration.
All accredited registrars have agreed with ICANN to obtain contact information from registrants, to provide it publicly by a Whois service, and to investigate and correct any reported inaccuracies in contact information for domain names registered through them.
If you are leaving to go to a competitor, you bet they will lock you out. Not just so you won't damage anything, which they're not assuming, but that you won't copy tools and manuals and possibly even customer lists to take with you.
I gave 4 weeks' notice at my last job, then used up my remaining vacation days, before coming back and working the last part of the period. And I was working in the financial industry. But they knew why I was leaving -- to go back to school -- so they knew I wasn't a threat. And I knew I needed the money I'd get by staying as long as I could, so I warned them I needed to go, and worked out the times with my boss, etc. I had no infrastructure duties (this was a survival job at a call center) but I remained customer-facing up until I clocked out for the last time.
Oh, and my last job before that, my company gave me six months' notice of my layoff, and gave me substantial severance when it happened, finally. Instead of revoking my access in stages, by the end I was finishing interdepartmental projects. Actually, my last boss there managed to get me an extra month extension at the last minute, too. I had heavy infrastructure responsibility at the time, and my last week was spent on call. This was in the internet industry, after the bubble burst, which makes it more surprising.
Sometimes circumstances dictate fast separation. But if you're a team player with a reputation for honesty, and you're not leaving out of anger, I think managers try to be considerate in how they handle it. If not, were you working for the right manager to begin with?:) And if not, think of being cut off right away as minimizing your culpability if/when something breaks, later.
In this instance, she only switched the price tag, not made her own barcode. I got confused, because it's been a long time since I've seen anything with a price tag. I only see barcode tags any more, so I equated them in my mind.
Funny you should mention their loss prevention staff. I think I saw some store security people at work last time I was in my local Target. I was looking for something and overheard some faint radio crackle, then saw a guy in street clothes run behind me, then peer over the aisle towards some people in a back corner of the store. At first I was going to find a clerk and tell them some crazy person was running around, then I heard another radio crackle, from someone else off to the left, apparently also closing in. Freaked me out a little, but I decided it was probably store cops or undercover real cops, but it still freaked me out, especially since it might not have been, so I left the store quickly.
A Grapevine woman was arrested last week after police said she switched the price tag of a trash can from $29.83 to $2.17 at the Wal-Mart Supercenter, 160 W. Texas 114. [...] The woman faces a Class A misdemeanor charge of fraud/removal, police said. If convicted, she faces a maximum of a year in jail -- with no access to trash cans.
Comparing stories, it looks like the penalties vary widely. I'm guessing the Denver story only made the news on Slashdot because it involved an iPod.:)
When people talk about how maybe there aren't greater numbers of women in engineering and science disciplines because they may think a bit differently, they get censured, lose tenure, and even get fired. But it's okay to say that male programmers can't make videogames that women would like, because they think a bit differently from women?
I looked into it, and the ease of use of it, along with the feature set, (comparison here) pushed me into going ahead and buying a rev3 WRT54GS. Anyway, here is the link.
Quickly reduced salinity is also threatening the viability of a number of aquatic species in the area, including those commercial fishing depends upon.
You'd think Google would have built in an auto-updater, but clearly not with this low of a response rate.
Regarding the sample boxes they couldn't determine the status for, they may be firewalled by companies who don't want to risk unforseen vulnerabilities. Regarding the ones that are accessible but not patched, is it possible the owners are also blocking updates? If you have a dedicated search appliance in a situation where you can't really afford it going down for an unknown period of time, would you risk patching until you'd heard from others that the patch didn't introduce any new instabilities? Especially since it's a black (or blue) box, so a hard crash might mean having to send it back?
Win2000 and WinXP have autoupdaters, also. Many of them are not completely patched, either. The users have either never enabled, or disabled, that feature. The administrative interface on Google appliances could allow that level of control, also.
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Um... root her more often?
Taco, your suggestion that we mod offtopic comments down is troubling, in that it runs contrary to what I believe about the way Slashdot works, or should work:
Everything starts at the same level, subject to optional bonuses we can choose, but probably most of of us actually read at 2 or higher these days -- except when modding. I would think the best use of the limited modpoints we have is to mod the ontopic, useful comments up to the point where we all see them, rather than push the lame stuff further into oblivion. There's plenty of time to correct poor judgement calls in voting, once we get to the point of metamoderation. But that's sometimes days or even weeks away, when the discussion in question is cold, and no longer benefits from improperly downvoted posts recovering their standing. I'd rather see a few comments not of interest to me, than few comments of interest to me, which is what happens when we subtract from, rather than add to, the pool of visible comments.
As part of adding, sometimes we'll see points come up that are only mildly related, but worthy of note. But tangents are a major point of the spark of discussion created by the topic even being set before us, aren't they? Tangents are where we leave the space we all know and expect, and start to learn things, perhaps unexpectedly. Mindful of this, people are certainly less afraid to bring tangential information to the table if they think they might be rewarded for it, rather than punished.
I think we have a broader, more comprehensive discussion when interesting points are pulled up, rather than when the crap is pushed further down. As an editor, you have unlimited points to get rid of the worst offenses anyway. Let us concentrate on digging for the gems, please.
Talk about your topic police...
I can't imagine someone eating a Segway, can you?
BTW, RY is out on DVD, finally.
OSX seemingly only fully supports the BT either built in or one external adapter from D-Link. I have an iogear adapter (GBU311) that OSX won't support fully; I can use it to transfer data to and from my cell phone, but I can't use my headset with it, because it claims that the adapter doesn't support handsfree or headset profiles. Ironically, in Windows, it supports them.
I would think, after 3 major repairs, you could demand a refund under your local lemon law.
Even if not, some credit card companies offer similar protection, too. What did you find when you looked into these options?
Great! I don't like loud fans or anything in my living room.
Is it quieter than the PS2?
Sorry to hear that. That's pretty sad, to have neither interface.
Ah, but if you get in line, I sneak over and play in your yard. Ever think of that one?
Are you trolling? They just had their first fatality in over 30 years of flying. It was that one in Chicago, where the plane went off the end of the runway and hit a car. The point is, there are lots of people technically qualified for just about any position. It pays to hold out for the nice ones, if you can.
They also tend to only hire people who are nice, willing to help others, and are always respectful to others in the company. According to mythos, sometimes managers will pretend to be prospective applicants, and walk in and sit with the real ones, to watch them. There have been applicants at the final level who have lost the job because they were rude to a secretary.
And really, except for the mechanics on the field, nobody there is in a job where training and experience could absolutely trump being nice, thoughtful and being able to learn. And even the mechanics, you want to have caring and thinking about the people in the planes. That probably also contributed to why they lasted so long without a plane crash.
It makes sense, doesn't it? It's a lot easier to enjoy your work environment if you don't hire jerks.
Is there absolutely only one entry point into the network? Or do you have local LAN users, plus remote dialup users, plus maybe a remote building or two, plus an internet gateway?
Draw a network diagram, including all possible entry points. Now, where is that single firewall going to sit, to cover all of them?
Personally, I'd go with a mixed router and hardware firewall configuration, probably with some IDS capability, but "small" doesn't tell me much of anything. So in lieu of something that doesn't fit, I'm going to say, if you do go with software instead, you really need coverage on every entry point you can afford to cover. You also should be running host intrusion detection on the most important database and command servers, if at all possible.
Oh, and don't forget, you need to have a written security policy before doing a lot of configuration, to keep things consistent and to save yourself a lot of grief. It also helps when you have to figure out if someone is getting through, and how.
Tell you what, go poke around on Cisco's website for their SAFE blueprint, and you can start with this. You can learn the basic conceptual stuff for free, and then implement scalable design choices using their stuff or someone else's.
Companies are responsible for making sure their films' names are on the eligibility reminder list. Then the community of eligible voters votes to nominate up to 5 candidates for each award.
At what point do you think anyone has a right to sue if they don't get nominated, and should they be suing the Academy, or their production companies, or their peers? The very idea is lame.
They probably had to drop one vendor for power supplies, or at least kill a batch of bad supplies from their inventory. You'd think they might have delays while repacking some boxes still in warehouses.
Note that complete and accurate whois information is a prerequisite for maintaining a domain registration.
If you are leaving to go to a competitor, you bet they will lock you out. Not just so you won't damage anything, which they're not assuming, but that you won't copy tools and manuals and possibly even customer lists to take with you.
:) And if not, think of being cut off right away as minimizing your culpability if/when something breaks, later.
I gave 4 weeks' notice at my last job, then used up my remaining vacation days, before coming back and working the last part of the period. And I was working in the financial industry. But they knew why I was leaving -- to go back to school -- so they knew I wasn't a threat. And I knew I needed the money I'd get by staying as long as I could, so I warned them I needed to go, and worked out the times with my boss, etc. I had no infrastructure duties (this was a survival job at a call center) but I remained customer-facing up until I clocked out for the last time.
Oh, and my last job before that, my company gave me six months' notice of my layoff, and gave me substantial severance when it happened, finally. Instead of revoking my access in stages, by the end I was finishing interdepartmental projects. Actually, my last boss there managed to get me an extra month extension at the last minute, too. I had heavy infrastructure responsibility at the time, and my last week was spent on call. This was in the internet industry, after the bubble burst, which makes it more surprising.
Sometimes circumstances dictate fast separation. But if you're a team player with a reputation for honesty, and you're not leaving out of anger, I think managers try to be considerate in how they handle it. If not, were you working for the right manager to begin with?
In this instance, she only switched the price tag, not made her own barcode.
I got confused, because it's been a long time since I've seen anything with a price tag. I only see barcode tags any more, so I equated them in my mind.
Funny you should mention their loss prevention staff. I think I saw some store security people at work last time I was in my local Target. I was looking for something and overheard some faint radio crackle, then saw a guy in street clothes run behind me, then peer over the aisle towards some people in a back corner of the store. At first I was going to find a clerk and tell them some crazy person was running around, then I heard another radio crackle, from someone else off to the left, apparently also closing in. Freaked me out a little, but I decided it was probably store cops or undercover real cops, but it still freaked me out, especially since it might not have been, so I left the store quickly.
Comparing stories, it looks like the penalties vary widely. I'm guessing the Denver story only made the news on Slashdot because it involved an iPod.
When people talk about how maybe there aren't greater numbers of women in engineering and science disciplines because they may think a bit differently, they get censured, lose tenure, and even get fired. But it's okay to say that male programmers can't make videogames that women would like, because they think a bit differently from women?
I looked into it, and the ease of use of it, along with the feature set, (comparison here) pushed me into going ahead and buying a rev3 WRT54GS. Anyway, here is the link.
Quickly reduced salinity is also threatening the viability of a number of aquatic species in the area, including those commercial fishing depends upon.
Regarding the sample boxes they couldn't determine the status for, they may be firewalled by companies who don't want to risk unforseen vulnerabilities. Regarding the ones that are accessible but not patched, is it possible the owners are also blocking updates? If you have a dedicated search appliance in a situation where you can't really afford it going down for an unknown period of time, would you risk patching until you'd heard from others that the patch didn't introduce any new instabilities? Especially since it's a black (or blue) box, so a hard crash might mean having to send it back?
Win2000 and WinXP have autoupdaters, also. Many of them are not completely patched, either. The users have either never enabled, or disabled, that feature. The administrative interface on Google appliances could allow that level of control, also.
So you'd deliberately and maliciously cause problems, just to prove you were on some imaginary moral high ground?