There is a reason I do not want my online profile linked to my real life person. Or at least as little as possible.
It is also the reason I did not participate in a GPG signing, as I would then have to identify myself with my real life name. Thanks but no thanks. (Could be that other signings are different. No idea.)
If it needs be, I can drop my online alias and create a new one. e.g. if in 20 years people want to kill me because of something I said that is acceptable now. My boss looking for whatever information he thinks he wants, he won't find anything that wasn't screened by me (if he finds the right person, because others with the same name and similar profiles exist and they are in WAY better shape then I am. One even runs marathons.)
Why is it that IT people think in OR/OR and not in AND/AND. GMail supports Imap and pop3, so making a solution where one is the backup of the other should not be something very hard.
OTOH, deleting your email once in a while is not THAT bad. The amount of times I actually accessed mails from + 1 year is zero. It is easier to get the information anew then it is to find the correct email (even with grepm).
But too many choices will confuse the general public
Yet limiting their choices is NOT an option. I am 'confused' by the amount of stores I can buy things. I am 'confused' by the sorts of food I can buy. Clothes, computers, cars, camera's, women... All things where I am 'confused' by the choice I have.
Yet I rather be confused than somebody else make the choice for me.
I assume you are not talking about product information. This is the ONLY way to go. Even so that if the police calls.
And IF the police calls, only give information if they have the right papers with them (a court order). I have already told police that I would put the information aside and hand it over the moment they have the court order, so their case won't blow up in court, because the evidence is thrown out as being unlawfully obtained. This is how the standard is in Belgium.
Don't forget that they WILL try several times, so be 100% sure that ALL staff is aware of these procedures. Police know about social engineering as well.
If you need to call then that many times, you should change providers. I have called mine 2 times for technical reasons. The first time to get immediately the confirmation something was down and they were looking in on it. The second time because I had an issue with my router, which they helped diagnose the issue was on my side. Even offered to send in the router, so they could look at it, because it was something very uncommon.
That is all in the last 10+ years. The second time I let him do ALL the checks I already did.
And I know from experience that if you do NOT go through these checklists with people on the phone, some will get through and take up useless time for both. One incident where they talked for about 45 minutes trying to get the mail working and all that was forgotten was one question, because the agent was impressed by the customer saying 'I am a network specialist, so don't take me to the scripts. Give me the solution'
Also you said you trained them to not have say reboot, yet they do still that. They just have a new script. 1) No windows? Reboot the router. 2) No success? Escalate.
The fact that you think you did that just shows how a pompous person you are.
Look at how Cisco, Microsoft etc. ships stuff to Cuba and Iran, Korea etc. while smaller suppliers that don't have that kind of network get locked out of the business.
A network? Most likely a trading company that smaller businesses can use as well. Saudi Arabia does (did?) not like if you did business with Israel and even had a law that would ban you from doing business. Here is how my dad did business with both countries 20 years ago. (nothing military) 1) Export to Arabic countries directly. Even visit the customers once a year. 2) Have Israeli customers visit him. Sell to a person in Switzerland who sold to Israel. The Saudis knew this happened. The Israelis knew they had to pay a little bit more to the trader in Switzerland and to have the product shipped through a 'neutral' port so your papers are OK. No problem anywhere for anybody.
If you are a small business that does export and do not know about this, then the problem is your knowledge.
To me that is not a network. It is standard operation for a company that does export. And yes, he worked for a small company with 50 or so employees. He could have done the same with South Africa or Cuba, but they were not interested in the product.
And if you have a product that is wanted in one of those countries you are not allowed to export to, THEY will come up with a way around it.
HARLIE is a computer which must prove his own reason to exist. In doing so he creates an even bigger computer (Called the G.O.D. computer) that will answer all questions. However this computer will be so big and complex, it will need HARLIE to build it AND to operate it. So just as the companies that will invent a reason to justify their existence, so does HARLIE.
I never understood the idea of icons and/or things running on the desktop. To see or access anything, I need to move or minimize or do whatever to access that. And then those that have several million (ok, a few less) icons and files on their desktop.
Sure you can use a some shortcut to show it, but that is a workaround. I rather have a second, third... Xst 'start' button to show those icons. e.g. one start button for main programs, one for main folders, one for last files and one as it is now. Luckily I am partly able to do that with XFCE.
Who wants to listen to 90 year old "rock stars" cough up a lung, or pre-pubescent teenagers sing about the "angst" of a life they haven't even begun to live yet, or stupid "look at me being a gangsta is so cool but all my friends are dead or in jail" crap.
Enough, otherwise the music industry would trow them out in a second.
Free streaming is not something of the last 5 years. Free streaming was invented more then 100 years ago. And recording of the free streaming (for which the music industry pays) has been done on a medium that was licenced free of charge.
I understand them. They see Banks and other industries getting a shitload of money, so they want some too. It is as if they are saying "Boo-hoo, competition is HARD! Please give us enough money and power so the money we make matches the slides we showed our shareholders (which is us)."
Well, if you don't like it, get out. But buying some politician is easier. Especially if the media is on your side and actually part of the whole process.
I apparently am not everybody. What I did was stop using Paypal.
At one point I was able to buy something only with payment through Paypal and I rather did not buy it then use them. I even have used a much more expensive way (international back transfer) then using them.
Not using them is the only way. I also tell friends never to use them. One once tried to tell me I was wrong. I stated that he as a doctor did not know his profession if I did not know mine. After some more explanation, he also stopped using it most of the time.
And if they need a new HD, they buy a new portable or in some cases an external HD. I am able to replace the HD in my portable, but even I would most likely just buy a new one. In fact, that is exactly what I did.
Also because when I need a bigger HD, I will also want a faster one.
Uh, wrong as well. In Fantasy things happen, In Science fiction, it is told why in a technical way. "The sword was indestructible" vs. "By changing the molecular structure, the sword became indestructible"
And then there is also a lot of cross-over where it is both or neither (even if it is in space/future/with lots of techno stuff)
Of course, the whole thing ignores the fact that Sauron was evil, and he committed many evil acts in his thousands of years of existence prior to the events of LotR. Sauron was a total sociopath control freak.
That is the whole point. That image was created by 'the winners'. When I read LotR for the third iof fourth time, I tried to imagined the following. The 'winners' where for segregation. e.g. separate countries for hobbits and all the others. The 'losers' where for integration.
"One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them" I interpreted to be united even in dark times.
Because they were so against this integration, the choice to destroy the only possibility to be united was destroyed.
Interesting read if you read it with that mindset. Change of mindset is always a good thing when reading or taking in information in general.
Same here. My guess it is 'dead' because it is not included as a default option in most email clients. Even CC is not always used properly. One that is even 'deader' is bounce. When applied properly, funny things can happen.
Reminds me of a girl in my class. She was not allowed contact with any of the other kids. He parents were very over protective. Then at 18, she was old enough according to her parents and was left loose. In about 3 months she became the school slut, because she had no idea how to correctly interact with others.
It is also like kid-proofing your house. Don't. The kid will get some bumps and that is how you learn: by failing.
It is basically the standard: do not take candy from strangers. I was raised in such a way that I would not even take candy from neighbors and if my parents were there and some neighbor wanted to give me candy, I would aks my parents first.
Education on what to do is the best thing you can give your kid. Not only so he won't get raped (which happens way more with people they know then with people they don't) and murdered, but s they have a basis for the rest of their life on how to handle situations.
As a parent you are NOT the babysitter and you are NOT their friend. You are the parent and YOU need to see that they learn as much as possible. Putting them in a cocoon will take the ability to learn away.
Protection is a short term goal. As a parent you need to look at the long term goal. 20+ years from the start.
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There is a reason I do not want my online profile linked to my real life person. Or at least as little as possible.
It is also the reason I did not participate in a GPG signing, as I would then have to identify myself with my real life name. Thanks but no thanks. (Could be that other signings are different. No idea.)
If it needs be, I can drop my online alias and create a new one. e.g. if in 20 years people want to kill me because of something I said that is acceptable now. My boss looking for whatever information he thinks he wants, he won't find anything that wasn't screened by me (if he finds the right person, because others with the same name and similar profiles exist and they are in WAY better shape then I am. One even runs marathons.)
So again, thanks but no thanks.
Why is it that IT people think in OR/OR and not in AND/AND. GMail supports Imap and pop3, so making a solution where one is the backup of the other should not be something very hard.
OTOH, deleting your email once in a while is not THAT bad. The amount of times I actually accessed mails from + 1 year is zero. It is easier to get the information anew then it is to find the correct email (even with grepm).
Yet limiting their choices is NOT an option. I am 'confused' by the amount of stores I can buy things. I am 'confused' by the sorts of food I can buy. Clothes, computers, cars, camera's, women... All things where I am 'confused' by the choice I have.
Yet I rather be confused than somebody else make the choice for me.
I live in Belgium. Every communication system I work on is multilingual and has been for many years.
I assume you are not talking about product information.
This is the ONLY way to go. Even so that if the police calls.
And IF the police calls, only give information if they have the right papers with them (a court order). I have already told police that I would put the information aside and hand it over the moment they have the court order, so their case won't blow up in court, because the evidence is thrown out as being unlawfully obtained. This is how the standard is in Belgium.
Don't forget that they WILL try several times, so be 100% sure that ALL staff is aware of these procedures. Police know about social engineering as well.
If you need to call then that many times, you should change providers. I have called mine 2 times for technical reasons.
The first time to get immediately the confirmation something was down and they were looking in on it. The second time because I had an issue with my router, which they helped diagnose the issue was on my side. Even offered to send in the router, so they could look at it, because it was something very uncommon.
That is all in the last 10+ years. The second time I let him do ALL the checks I already did.
And I know from experience that if you do NOT go through these checklists with people on the phone, some will get through and take up useless time for both. One incident where they talked for about 45 minutes trying to get the mail working and all that was forgotten was one question, because the agent was impressed by the customer saying 'I am a network specialist, so don't take me to the scripts. Give me the solution'
Also you said you trained them to not have say reboot, yet they do still that. They just have a new script.
1) No windows? Reboot the router.
2) No success? Escalate.
The fact that you think you did that just shows how a pompous person you are.
A network? Most likely a trading company that smaller businesses can use as well.
Saudi Arabia does (did?) not like if you did business with Israel and even had a law that would ban you from doing business.
Here is how my dad did business with both countries 20 years ago. (nothing military)
1) Export to Arabic countries directly. Even visit the customers once a year.
2) Have Israeli customers visit him. Sell to a person in Switzerland who sold to Israel.
The Saudis knew this happened. The Israelis knew they had to pay a little bit more to the trader in Switzerland and to have the product shipped through a 'neutral' port so your papers are OK. No problem anywhere for anybody.
If you are a small business that does export and do not know about this, then the problem is your knowledge.
To me that is not a network. It is standard operation for a company that does export. And yes, he worked for a small company with 50 or so employees.
He could have done the same with South Africa or Cuba, but they were not interested in the product.
And if you have a product that is wanted in one of those countries you are not allowed to export to, THEY will come up with a way around it.
Serious spoiler:
If you intend to read the book, do not read on.
Serious. Don't read on.
HARLIE is a computer which must prove his own reason to exist. In doing so he creates an even bigger computer (Called the G.O.D. computer) that will answer all questions. However this computer will be so big and complex, it will need HARLIE to build it AND to operate it. So just as the companies that will invent a reason to justify their existence, so does HARLIE.
Talking from the perspective of the media companies.
So their calculations was done by HARLIE
(You will probably only get the reference if you read the book)
I never understood the idea of icons and/or things running on the desktop. To see or access anything, I need to move or minimize or do whatever to access that. And then those that have several million (ok, a few less) icons and files on their desktop.
Sure you can use a some shortcut to show it, but that is a workaround. I rather have a second, third ... Xst 'start' button to show those icons. e.g. one start button for main programs, one for main folders, one for last files and one as it is now.
Luckily I am partly able to do that with XFCE.
Enough, otherwise the music industry would trow them out in a second.
Free streaming is not something of the last 5 years. Free streaming was invented more then 100 years ago. And recording of the free streaming (for which the music industry pays) has been done on a medium that was licenced free of charge.
I understand them. They see Banks and other industries getting a shitload of money, so they want some too. It is as if they are saying "Boo-hoo, competition is HARD! Please give us enough money and power so the money we make matches the slides we showed our shareholders (which is us)."
Well, if you don't like it, get out. But buying some politician is easier. Especially if the media is on your side and actually part of the whole process.
I apparently am not everybody. What I did was stop using Paypal.
At one point I was able to buy something only with payment through Paypal and I rather did not buy it then use them. I even have used a much more expensive way (international back transfer) then using them.
Not using them is the only way. I also tell friends never to use them. One once tried to tell me I was wrong. I stated that he as a doctor did not know his profession if I did not know mine. After some more explanation, he also stopped using it most of the time.
So stop using it.
Resist "The man" until you become "The man".
Some images for those who are not interested in the game: http://www.buzzfeed.com/gavon/hot-chicks-with-zelda-tattoos
Then I hope they won't know of the excistence of Bored of the Rings. Great and funny read.
OK, it is indeed a parody, but that is just a name. You could even call The Last Ring-bearer a parody if you like.
And if they need a new HD, they buy a new portable or in some cases an external HD. I am able to replace the HD in my portable, but even I would most likely just buy a new one. In fact, that is exactly what I did.
Also because when I need a bigger HD, I will also want a faster one.
Uh, wrong as well. In Fantasy things happen, In Science fiction, it is told why in a technical way.
"The sword was indestructible" vs. "By changing the molecular structure, the sword became indestructible"
And then there is also a lot of cross-over where it is both or neither (even if it is in space/future/with lots of techno stuff)
That is the whole point. That image was created by 'the winners'. When I read LotR for the third iof fourth time, I tried to imagined the following. The 'winners' where for segregation. e.g. separate countries for hobbits and all the others.
The 'losers' where for integration.
"One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them" I interpreted to be united even in dark times.
Because they were so against this integration, the choice to destroy the only possibility to be united was destroyed.
Interesting read if you read it with that mindset. Change of mindset is always a good thing when reading or taking in information in general.
Even if sold and made for commerce, I doubt that will be the reason for Tolkien to not publish anymore.
Same here.
My guess it is 'dead' because it is not included as a default option in most email clients. Even CC is not always used properly. One that is even 'deader' is bounce. When applied properly, funny things can happen.
Reminds me of a girl in my class. She was not allowed contact with any of the other kids. He parents were very over protective. Then at 18, she was old enough according to her parents and was left loose. In about 3 months she became the school slut, because she had no idea how to correctly interact with others.
It is also like kid-proofing your house. Don't. The kid will get some bumps and that is how you learn: by failing.
It is basically the standard: do not take candy from strangers. I was raised in such a way that I would not even take candy from neighbors and if my parents were there and some neighbor wanted to give me candy, I would aks my parents first.
Education on what to do is the best thing you can give your kid. Not only so he won't get raped (which happens way more with people they know then with people they don't) and murdered, but s they have a basis for the rest of their life on how to handle situations.
As a parent you are NOT the babysitter and you are NOT their friend. You are the parent and YOU need to see that they learn as much as possible. Putting them in a cocoon will take the ability to learn away.
Protection is a short term goal. As a parent you need to look at the long term goal. 20+ years from the start.
This is not the job of the parents. It should be the job of the school to prepare kids for the future (where they will be monitored all the time)
That is a far cry from " I disagree with what you say but I will defend to death your right to say it".