The following exerpt from the article is pretty telling: Macleod concluded: "So as far as doing the right thing, I'd suggest that you start from the basis that your IT staff are the biggest risk to your organization's security, and if anyone of them disputes this, remember that arguing with colleagues was one of the clear signs of an impending attack."
Basically, if management accuses IT of being a huge risk, and their IT staff is actually honest and dependable, should they stand up for themselves, that's a sign that you should trust them even less??
The thing is that, in a lot of cases, it's a self-fulfilling prophesy.
Management is paranoid that the IT people are going to sabatoge them, so they turn the screws on IT. The people in IT become demoralized, shart showing up late, are disgruntled, more likely to snap at management, etc. Eventually one of them may snap and sabatoge the place on their way out.
The real problem, in a lot of cases, starts out with paranoia and territorial pissing matches to see who controls the budget for what and who can make their kingdom more important. Unfortunately, that is a game that a lot of managers seem to want to play.
I had the same problem. Chances are your laptop is overheating. Get a fan pad. They're powered off of one of your usb ports and keep your machine a lot cooler.
I recomment Vantec's LapCool series, and at about $25 they won't break your wallet.
The thing I loved was how often I was told that I was going to hell. It's the reason I stopped doing anything there even remotely resemboling volunteer work. I got tired of getting my hand bitten by the people I was helping.
The really funny one (not in the haha manner, but in the sad way), though, was the fact that the little brother of one of my best friends in high school would gleefully tell me that I was going to hell. He seemed genuinely happy about it.
His mother was of the same basic opinion (the whole family was, really, except my friend. He basically learned to take me as I was), only she kept trying to get me to come to her church instead of telling me directly that I was going to hell.
Said friend went to the same college that I did after we graduated from high school. After he left his parents' house, he finally came out of the closet. Now I'd known for years - even before he admitted it to himself (heck, I had to quietly explain to my cousin, who was rather fond of him, why he only dated her for a short time before saying it wasn't going to work out), but his parents went ballistic. His mother all but disowned him and it took her a good six months before she'd even talk to him again. Tore the poor guy up inside, and all of this because he finally admitted to himself and his family what I'd known since were were kids.
It's amazing how fast some of them will turn on people; even people they claim to love. I'm acutally sort of amazed that I wasn't accused of corrupting their son because I wasn't Christain.
Flamebait? Apparently the mods have never actually lived in the bible belt.
Unfortunately, the parent poster isn't kidding. These are the same people that scream that because the teachers in a public school aren't allowed to force students to pray that the students aren't allowed to pray (which isn't true. They can pray all they like. They just can't be forced to do it) and go "la la la I can't hear you" when they are told what I just put in parentheses.
They're also the same people that scream that, if everyone in the community isn't Christain, that it's just plain wrong and unholy. They act like the beliefs that someone else holds affects *them* on a personal level and that nobody should be able to believe differently than they do.
Sounds crazy, I know, but there are people out there like that. For some reason, a lot of them have a persecution complex because they aren't allowed to force their beliefs on everyone else. Trust me on that one - as someone who is "not a member of the fold" (I'm Taoist), I've often been on the receiving end of tirades that I am what is wrong with the world.
Some portions of them may be in the minority insofar that they think others should be exactly like them, but it's a really *really* vocal minority.
Well, it's a good thing I don't live in California. I am, according to a lot of people, fairly intimidating and there are way too many door-to-door recruiting efforts from the local churches here.
One would assume that telling them to get lost while looking intimidating would be a crime in California even if they were the ones who came to my home since they were, in their view, exercising their constitutional rights.
Given the arteries and veins that run through your appendages, unless the bleeding was stopped, he would indeed die. Furthermore, even if the bleeding were stopped, it would be possible to die from pain and shock.
Also try installing XP or Vista without the CD/DVD that was shipped with you.
First thing I did when I got my dell laptop was to wipe the hard drive, partition it for dual boot, and install XP Pro (for which I had a license) instead of XP home that the laptop shipped with.
The books are good, and I can also give a thumbs up to the Barry Trotter and the Unauthorized Parody audiobook. They guy reading it does a fantastic job.
My girlfriend and I were listening to it for the heck of it and making fun of just how well he's able to sound like some of the characters from the Harry Potter movies.
Even if it does, I don't see the problem. Okay, so the person who posted may get a couple of bucks from the company in question, but it costs you jack. In the end, all three parties come out ahead.
I fail to see what so many people here have against someone getting a small return on passing on some potentially interesting information to people as long as it doesn't cost the end users.
We're sitting on what may very well be a real estate bubble that could be very nasty when/if it collapses.
We're operating at a huge trade deficit.
We have a massive deficit period and our currency is being devalued in the world market.
Every time we come up with a decent career path for people, companies get the bright idea to outsource it once it's even halfway established. Hell, they even get tax breaks when they do it. We're putting all of our eggs in someone else's baskets and it's going to come back to bite us.
The list goes on. It may look okay on the surface where you are, but it's not all roses and sunshine.
They don't really tell anyone that. About the only way that anyone ever finds that out is to start asking questions.
Another dirty little secret is that you really need to hire a lawyer to make sure your records are expunged of some charge even after the court orders it because the people who actually do it will often "forget".
Thankfully that's not something that I know from personal experience but rather something that I've learned from the experiences of others.
ATHF is amusing on occasion. A lot of the episodes suck, though. The episode with Danzig was amusing - "Now, is there a way to get the blood to flow *up* the walls?" I agree with you on the dislikes other than that. I also agree with most of your list of likes.
Big FLCL fan (I introduced my girlfriend to it in order to screw with her mind. She just kind of stared at the screen with a wtf expression for three hours. It was funny), and I have had the following quote from Paranoia Agent on one of my markerboards for months on end now - "All around the mullberry bush, my partner chases a loony..."
Unfortunately, a lot of people in power want people to think that everyone is out to get them. It is a lot easier to tighten the screws on a populace that is afraid of some ill-defined enemy because they'll give up rights so you can "protect" them. That's why all of these so-called hoaxes get announced.
For a lot of the people in power, the reason they keep parroting the whole "terrorist" possibility (much like the communist scare of years gone by) is so that they can have even more power. They think that if they can keep the populace frightened enough, they will be able to justify keeping themselves in office indefinately and being able to act with impunity.
In addition, it's a great way to distract people from how badly things are going in the economic and civil rights arenas.
It's like the old saying says - power corrupts, and these people have way too much power and far too few scruples.
Yet a lot of the people on here shout out against what is painfully obvious just because the obvious isn't taught in a class and the lie is.
There are way too many lovers of and believers in the "free market" despite the fact that it's being used to hang them out to dry. It's rather sad, really.
I hate to break this to you, but the free market is an illusion. It's a convinient lie told to people by economists and parroted by large companies because it suits their purposes (eg "don't blame us. It's just the market at work"). The thing that amazes me is that so many intelligent people buy into it.
The truth is that the major players in any given market often collude with each other on one level or another for their own mutual benefit and the government goes along with it. In fact, governmental interference in your so-called free market is the reason that the phone companies were feaseable in the first place (the fed paid for the infrastructure) and is the reason that the airlines are still operating because most of them are hemoraging money left and right.
Since my primary machine is a laptop, the $30 dvd burner is kind of out of the question, and it's not currently in the budget to get an external.
Not a really big deal, though. The data that actually needs backed up fits on 3 or 4 cds. The rest of it is pretty much just installed programs and part of my cd collection.
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Nope. The ones who make it out of the rank of 2nd Lt. usually get promoted to at least the rank of Col. over time.
Sometimes General, but I believe that takes congressional approval now.
I'm Taoist. Does that count? =]
:P
Don't start in on blade weilding maniacs either. I've trained martially since I was a kid
Thankfully I seem to be a relatively well adjusted individual.
The following exerpt from the article is pretty telling:
Macleod concluded: "So as far as doing the right thing, I'd suggest that you start from the basis that your IT staff are the biggest risk to your organization's security, and if anyone of them disputes this, remember that arguing with colleagues was one of the clear signs of an impending attack."
Basically, if management accuses IT of being a huge risk, and their IT staff is actually honest and dependable, should they stand up for themselves, that's a sign that you should trust them even less??
Give me a freaking break.
The thing is that, in a lot of cases, it's a self-fulfilling prophesy.
Management is paranoid that the IT people are going to sabatoge them, so they turn the screws on IT. The people in IT become demoralized, shart showing up late, are disgruntled, more likely to snap at management, etc. Eventually one of them may snap and sabatoge the place on their way out.
The real problem, in a lot of cases, starts out with paranoia and territorial pissing matches to see who controls the budget for what and who can make their kingdom more important. Unfortunately, that is a game that a lot of managers seem to want to play.
I had the same problem. Chances are your laptop is overheating. Get a fan pad. They're powered off of one of your usb ports and keep your machine a lot cooler.
I recomment Vantec's LapCool series, and at about $25 they won't break your wallet.
The thing I loved was how often I was told that I was going to hell. It's the reason I stopped doing anything there even remotely resemboling volunteer work. I got tired of getting my hand bitten by the people I was helping.
The really funny one (not in the haha manner, but in the sad way), though, was the fact that the little brother of one of my best friends in high school would gleefully tell me that I was going to hell. He seemed genuinely happy about it.
His mother was of the same basic opinion (the whole family was, really, except my friend. He basically learned to take me as I was), only she kept trying to get me to come to her church instead of telling me directly that I was going to hell.
Said friend went to the same college that I did after we graduated from high school. After he left his parents' house, he finally came out of the closet. Now I'd known for years - even before he admitted it to himself (heck, I had to quietly explain to my cousin, who was rather fond of him, why he only dated her for a short time before saying it wasn't going to work out), but his parents went ballistic. His mother all but disowned him and it took her a good six months before she'd even talk to him again. Tore the poor guy up inside, and all of this because he finally admitted to himself and his family what I'd known since were were kids.
It's amazing how fast some of them will turn on people; even people they claim to love. I'm acutally sort of amazed that I wasn't accused of corrupting their son because I wasn't Christain.
Flamebait? Apparently the mods have never actually lived in the bible belt.
Unfortunately, the parent poster isn't kidding. These are the same people that scream that because the teachers in a public school aren't allowed to force students to pray that the students aren't allowed to pray (which isn't true. They can pray all they like. They just can't be forced to do it) and go "la la la I can't hear you" when they are told what I just put in parentheses.
They're also the same people that scream that, if everyone in the community isn't Christain, that it's just plain wrong and unholy. They act like the beliefs that someone else holds affects *them* on a personal level and that nobody should be able to believe differently than they do.
Sounds crazy, I know, but there are people out there like that. For some reason, a lot of them have a persecution complex because they aren't allowed to force their beliefs on everyone else. Trust me on that one - as someone who is "not a member of the fold" (I'm Taoist), I've often been on the receiving end of tirades that I am what is wrong with the world.
Some portions of them may be in the minority insofar that they think others should be exactly like them, but it's a really *really* vocal minority.
Well, it's a good thing I don't live in California. I am, according to a lot of people, fairly intimidating and there are way too many door-to-door recruiting efforts from the local churches here.
One would assume that telling them to get lost while looking intimidating would be a crime in California even if they were the ones who came to my home since they were, in their view, exercising their constitutional rights.
Given the arteries and veins that run through your appendages, unless the bleeding was stopped, he would indeed die. Furthermore, even if the bleeding were stopped, it would be possible to die from pain and shock.
Also try installing XP or Vista without the CD/DVD that was shipped with you.
First thing I did when I got my dell laptop was to wipe the hard drive, partition it for dual boot, and install XP Pro (for which I had a license) instead of XP home that the laptop shipped with.
No problems at all.
The books are good, and I can also give a thumbs up to the Barry Trotter and the Unauthorized Parody audiobook. They guy reading it does a fantastic job.
My girlfriend and I were listening to it for the heck of it and making fun of just how well he's able to sound like some of the characters from the Harry Potter movies.
No lawsuits. It's parody, which is allowed. =]
So's the guy who played him.
I know the guy was a method actor, but dang, that's just taking it a little too far...
Even if it does, I don't see the problem. Okay, so the person who posted may get a couple of bucks from the company in question, but it costs you jack. In the end, all three parties come out ahead.
I fail to see what so many people here have against someone getting a small return on passing on some potentially interesting information to people as long as it doesn't cost the end users.
Get over it.
Well, let's see...
We're sitting on what may very well be a real estate bubble that could be very nasty when/if it collapses.
We're operating at a huge trade deficit.
We have a massive deficit period and our currency is being devalued in the world market.
Every time we come up with a decent career path for people, companies get the bright idea to outsource it once it's even halfway established. Hell, they even get tax breaks when they do it. We're putting all of our eggs in someone else's baskets and it's going to come back to bite us.
The list goes on. It may look okay on the surface where you are, but it's not all roses and sunshine.
They don't really tell anyone that. About the only way that anyone ever finds that out is to start asking questions.
Another dirty little secret is that you really need to hire a lawyer to make sure your records are expunged of some charge even after the court orders it because the people who actually do it will often "forget".
Thankfully that's not something that I know from personal experience but rather something that I've learned from the experiences of others.
ATHF is amusing on occasion. A lot of the episodes suck, though. The episode with Danzig was amusing - "Now, is there a way to get the blood to flow *up* the walls?" I agree with you on the dislikes other than that. I also agree with most of your list of likes.
Big FLCL fan (I introduced my girlfriend to it in order to screw with her mind. She just kind of stared at the screen with a wtf expression for three hours. It was funny), and I have had the following quote from Paranoia Agent on one of my markerboards for months on end now - "All around the mullberry bush, my partner chases a loony..."
You actually have to file a request to get your stuff back. Otherwise they'll just keep it forever or until they decide to throw it out or sell it.
Doesn't really matter what it is that they confiscate. If you don't file the paperwork you're not going to get it back.
Unfortunately, a lot of people in power want people to think that everyone is out to get them. It is a lot easier to tighten the screws on a populace that is afraid of some ill-defined enemy because they'll give up rights so you can "protect" them. That's why all of these so-called hoaxes get announced.
For a lot of the people in power, the reason they keep parroting the whole "terrorist" possibility (much like the communist scare of years gone by) is so that they can have even more power. They think that if they can keep the populace frightened enough, they will be able to justify keeping themselves in office indefinately and being able to act with impunity.
In addition, it's a great way to distract people from how badly things are going in the economic and civil rights arenas.
It's like the old saying says - power corrupts, and these people have way too much power and far too few scruples.
Yet a lot of the people on here shout out against what is painfully obvious just because the obvious isn't taught in a class and the lie is.
There are way too many lovers of and believers in the "free market" despite the fact that it's being used to hang them out to dry. It's rather sad, really.
I hate to break this to you, but the free market is an illusion. It's a convinient lie told to people by economists and parroted by large companies because it suits their purposes (eg "don't blame us. It's just the market at work"). The thing that amazes me is that so many intelligent people buy into it.
The truth is that the major players in any given market often collude with each other on one level or another for their own mutual benefit and the government goes along with it. In fact, governmental interference in your so-called free market is the reason that the phone companies were feaseable in the first place (the fed paid for the infrastructure) and is the reason that the airlines are still operating because most of them are hemoraging money left and right.
Since my primary machine is a laptop, the $30 dvd burner is kind of out of the question, and it's not currently in the budget to get an external.
Not a really big deal, though. The data that actually needs backed up fits on 3 or 4 cds. The rest of it is pretty much just installed programs and part of my cd collection.
I actually remember seeing Oregon Trail on CD in walmart years ago.
It brought a smile to my face =]
Agreed on the backups. There was a point in time when I bought them by the 50pk before CD writers were common.
:P
Alas, I have no dvd burner, so I'm still stuck with CDs.
offtopic: I just never seem to get away from you, do I?
Some of us still have fond memories of them. This is why we lament the fact that they're one step closer to being gone.
Personally, I remember the cases of them that I had for the various software that I used.