Or, maybe, we could get over this notion that guilt is hereditary and stop asking people to apologise for things that were done by others often before they were born.
Not only before they were born, but the times it happened in, these things were very normal and standard. I am sure that our great-grand children will have plenty to apologize about for things we think are very, very normal. So here it goes: Sorry!
Oh and all women should apologize to men for taking that apple.
They run openSUSE: sudo zypper in oz-flight-simulator. Or they used the build server and did something like click here (Yes, that actually works when you run 11.1)
It is as if they would be allowed to do a search in an apartment and find keys to his mothers apartment and his office. Places they did not have a warrant for before.
Wrong. Children learn to work on the platform that's mostly used in Businesses today, giving them the necessary skills to obtain a job.
It is a pity then that all they remember is what buttons to press in Word and not how to write a letter. It is a pity then that I have to train each and every person we get to use the tools we have.
Instead of button pressing droids, I rather have people who understand what the reason is why they need to press those buttons.
At one particualr handover of a job, I got a detaild description of what I had to enter, copy and paste to get a report. That took about 2 hours to explain, write down and what not. 2 hours, not 2 years or more of schooltime. Then when I asked what I was actualy reporting on, what the results where being used for, so I could look at a better way (and perhaps automate parts of it) I got a blank stare.
Explain the why and peple will figure out the how.
Learn people what a spreadsheet is and does and they will be able to use any of them. Specifics will be learned when they are in the company that then can decide if they want to use OpenOffice, Excel, Gnumeric or paper.
The excuse that MS uses is that they are able to use what the companies want. The companies then can only buy these tools, as nobody knows how to use anything else. So yes, they are poisening the system because of this cath 22 they are trying to create.
Schools teach Office, so people get a job. Companies buy Office, as that is the only thing people the want to hire know.
I have seen people who are perfect in Excel, yet they have no idea what they are doing. I rather do it in a slower way (pen, paper and a calculator if I am lazy) and actually KNOW what the numbers mean.
I have several people where I work who are working at numbers on excel sheets just how they learned to do it and would not see an error if you hit them with the keyboard. "I have no idea why the commission for that person is 15.000 this week where it is normaly 150. I put it in as always and that is the result."
If he gives you money to buy the PC, who does it belong to? If it is yours, then they have no say on it. If it is theirs, then they might have a say in it. Ask HIM what the situation is by email. That way you have a trace if anything goes sour in two years or so. The worst that can happen is that he decides that it is THEIR machine. At least then you know what the situation is.
I would think that if they are willing to give you that amount of money, they will also be willing to answer any questions you have about it.
A solution depends also on what rights you have on that PC. If you have admin rights, you could use encryption. As it is a Portable, you could use encryption anyway. That way when you loose the machine or it is stolen, the company data is secure as well.
Make either a separate encrypted partition for yourself or use the hidden part of Truecrypt for your own files. That way you can even give the sysadmin of the company the login, in case you are hit by a bus. That way your data is secure and private, while the companies is secure as well.
If you do not have the admin rights (and don't want to hack them) then an external drive and/or USB stick can be the answer. e.g. at home an external drive for everything and a USB stick for on the road.
In Real Life dating agencies, there are often a lack of males. So one person who owned it often dated the women, just to keep them on longer and to get more money from them. They were not in the dating game, they were in the 'get money from desperate souls' game.
The reason (his words) was that women were less afraid to admitting to each other that they were unable to find a partner, where male ego's would never admit such a thing.
Obviously with the anonymity that is The Internet, this difference is gone and any man now gets ripped of as well.
Just use multiple ways. CD/DVD/BlueRay and a USB stick.
However making a book will be the nicest thing to get. Even for a geek. Or a box or something they can at least hold and is not digital.
Put a newspaper and a magazine in that box. Those will get a giggle when reading after 17 years. Not more then two. For the rest there are other means to get the information if you want it then.
Also a range of other items that you find important at this time. I would not go with photos as they can be shown much earlier as well. If you really want something technical in there, put in a used cellphone in there. It might not work anymore, but it will certainly be amazing to see a 17 year old cellphone. I would LOVE to be able to show an old Nokia now.
That is the problem right there. You think that because somebody is in public, that person has no right to privacy. I think that I still have a right to privacy.
If I walk by a cop, he will see me pick my nose and the next day he will have forgotten about me. The worst that can happen is that he says 'I saw somebody pick his nose' and that will be the end of it. If I rob an old lady, the cop will see hit and arrest me if I were stupid enough to do it in front of him.
With a camera my nose picking will be for all to see for an indefinite time. Then when the camera sees me rob an old lady, they will need to try and find me and there will be a 1 in 1.000 chance that they do.
To me a police walking around is not "the enemy". In fact if they are friendly (and I knew a few of them) it is nice to talk to them and have a beer with them. To me he is not there to get me, he is there to prevent that somebody else gets me.
To me there is a huge difference between my privacy and your right to put everything you see online. The way you explain it, stalking should be legal.
Or in other words: the rights to privacy should be opt-in (I agree that you take and publish my picture) not opt-out. And if there are 10.000 people who you would need to ask, you might say? Well, that is YOUR problem, not mine and if you think that you can't fulfill those demands, then don't take the picture.
1000 identifications? That does not mean they were guilty. And only 5.000+ processed? That means that they are highly ineffective.
And estimate 70%? I estimate it was 134%. When estimating percentages when you have actual numbers, "estimate" means "pulled it out of my ass". And of that 'estimate' how many would have been caught without the camera's anyway?
And of those 1000 identifications, how many where doing serious crime (so no traffic offenses). Why not put that amount of money in preventing crime? Now you let people comit a crime and catch them and put them in jail.
The victim is still a victim and the rest of society will pay for the person being in prison. If a cop was standing there, no crime would have been committed, so no victim and no cost later for society. The "problem" is that you can't put a number on that.
It is rather McNally who tries to spin it. He wants more to be done, which means either even more camera's or even more investment then what has already been poured into it, most likely much more more.
I estimated that 100% money will get only a 70% better result.
For example, if standard PC software is restricted (misses a useful feature) because the developer wants you to pay a little more for the full price version with the feature enabled, you still 'own' both software, it's just that one is more restricted than the other - it doesn't make either version any less 'yours'.
I should be able to ask a different developer. The original developer should have no say in to whether I want to buy features at him or somewhere else. The fact that locking in is very common does not mean it is a good idea.
Apple doesn't want Google to take over a critical part of its phone.
Uh, I thought it was MY phone and I bloody well should be able to decide who takes over and how they do it. If the provider is not happy with what I send over it, that is another matter, because I RENT that. I BOUGHT the phone.
Have people become so ignorant that there is no difference in buying and renting anymore?
It is actually pretty simple. If you SELL something, the other person becomes the owner and it isn't YOURS anymore. Perhaps they should make a version of "mine" and "yours" like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0H9MUWhU7Xw
Almost the same in Belgium. You SMS ` ` to a number. The difference is that you do not get a fixed time. When you end parking, you send another message and the time difference is what you pay.
You can still pay with money. Where I live, you can even get 15 minutes free parking. For that you must walk to the meter (every 50 meters or so there is one) and press the button.
That said, you need to pay from 07:00 till 21:00 and parking is very scarce. This to 'promote' the city as bike and pedestrian friendly. And if you do not pay, you can get up to three tickets a day.
Many people say that you do not have any rights once you do something in public. However I think times have changed and we should be reconsider what we call privacy. Once when you did something stupid in public, the few (100?) who saw it remembered the fact and not the person. They would say: I saw this guy doing that and such.
Even if it was somebody you knew, you might not have an idea that it was that specific person.
Then came the ability to take pictures. Only if you were very important would people see it and relate the fact with the person.
Now each and every person that does something stupid could be traced down for the rest of his or her life. "Not doing stupid things" is not an option. That is how you learn.
Will this ever change? No, because there is a louder cry of 'freedom of the press' then there is of 'privacy for all people'. The reason is because those defending the first can shout louder, because they ARE the press.
Unfortunately the 'press' is not about freedom of the press. It is about making money.
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To me to make a difference I say Windows Machine and Linux Box.
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Can you say sarcasm?
Not only before they were born, but the times it happened in, these things were very normal and standard. I am sure that our great-grand children will have plenty to apologize about for things we think are very, very normal. So here it goes: Sorry!
Oh and all women should apologize to men for taking that apple.
Replace thermonuclear with terrorist and see how real it was.
They run openSUSE: sudo zypper in oz-flight-simulator. Or they used the build server and did something like click here (Yes, that actually works when you run 11.1)
SUSE means SLE. If this is SLES or SLED, I do not know. These could have licensing costs. Otherwise it would be openSUSE.
It proves that security is a process, not so much a technical solution
I thank you for the compliment that you think English is my first language. It isn't. In fact it is my third.
It is as if they would be allowed to do a search in an apartment and find keys to his mothers apartment and his office. Places they did not have a warrant for before.
Interesting link. Also interesting is that the USofA also pos up on that list between the countries where you would expect it.
It is a pity then that all they remember is what buttons to press in Word and not how to write a letter. It is a pity then that I have to train each and every person we get to use the tools we have.
Instead of button pressing droids, I rather have people who understand what the reason is why they need to press those buttons.
At one particualr handover of a job, I got a detaild description of what I had to enter, copy and paste to get a report. That took about 2 hours to explain, write down and what not. 2 hours, not 2 years or more of schooltime. Then when I asked what I was actualy reporting on, what the results where being used for, so I could look at a better way (and perhaps automate parts of it) I got a blank stare.
Explain the why and peple will figure out the how.
Learn people what a spreadsheet is and does and they will be able to use any of them. Specifics will be learned when they are in the company that then can decide if they want to use OpenOffice, Excel, Gnumeric or paper.
The excuse that MS uses is that they are able to use what the companies want. The companies then can only buy these tools, as nobody knows how to use anything else.
So yes, they are poisening the system because of this cath 22 they are trying to create.
Schools teach Office, so people get a job.
Companies buy Office, as that is the only thing people the want to hire know.
I have seen people who are perfect in Excel, yet they have no idea what they are doing. I rather do it in a slower way (pen, paper and a calculator if I am lazy) and actually KNOW what the numbers mean.
I have several people where I work who are working at numbers on excel sheets just how they learned to do it and would not see an error if you hit them with the keyboard.
"I have no idea why the commission for that person is 15.000 this week where it is normaly 150. I put it in as always and that is the result."
If he gives you money to buy the PC, who does it belong to? If it is yours, then they have no say on it. If it is theirs, then they might have a say in it.
Ask HIM what the situation is by email. That way you have a trace if anything goes sour in two years or so. The worst that can happen is that he decides that it is THEIR machine. At least then you know what the situation is.
I would think that if they are willing to give you that amount of money, they will also be willing to answer any questions you have about it.
A solution depends also on what rights you have on that PC. If you have admin rights, you could use encryption. As it is a Portable, you could use encryption anyway. That way when you loose the machine or it is stolen, the company data is secure as well.
Make either a separate encrypted partition for yourself or use the hidden part of Truecrypt for your own files. That way you can even give the sysadmin of the company the login, in case you are hit by a bus.
That way your data is secure and private, while the companies is secure as well.
If you do not have the admin rights (and don't want to hack them) then an external drive and/or USB stick can be the answer. e.g. at home an external drive for everything and a USB stick for on the road.
He must be a redneck for not getting the joke.
In Real Life dating agencies, there are often a lack of males. So one person who owned it often dated the women, just to keep them on longer and to get more money from them. They were not in the dating game, they were in the 'get money from desperate souls' game.
The reason (his words) was that women were less afraid to admitting to each other that they were unable to find a partner, where male ego's would never admit such a thing.
Obviously with the anonymity that is The Internet, this difference is gone and any man now gets ripped of as well.
Just use multiple ways. CD/DVD/BlueRay and a USB stick.
However making a book will be the nicest thing to get. Even for a geek. Or a box or something they can at least hold and is not digital.
Put a newspaper and a magazine in that box. Those will get a giggle when reading after 17 years. Not more then two. For the rest there are other means to get the information if you want it then.
Also a range of other items that you find important at this time. I would not go with photos as they can be shown much earlier as well. If you really want something technical in there, put in a used cellphone in there. It might not work anymore, but it will certainly be amazing to see a 17 year old cellphone. I would LOVE to be able to show an old Nokia now.
That is the problem right there. You think that because somebody is in public, that person has no right to privacy. I think that I still have a right to privacy.
If I walk by a cop, he will see me pick my nose and the next day he will have forgotten about me. The worst that can happen is that he says 'I saw somebody pick his nose' and that will be the end of it. If I rob an old lady, the cop will see hit and arrest me if I were stupid enough to do it in front of him.
With a camera my nose picking will be for all to see for an indefinite time. Then when the camera sees me rob an old lady, they will need to try and find me and there will be a 1 in 1.000 chance that they do.
To me a police walking around is not "the enemy". In fact if they are friendly (and I knew a few of them) it is nice to talk to them and have a beer with them. To me he is not there to get me, he is there to prevent that somebody else gets me.
To me there is a huge difference between my privacy and your right to put everything you see online. The way you explain it, stalking should be legal.
Or in other words: the rights to privacy should be opt-in (I agree that you take and publish my picture) not opt-out. And if there are 10.000 people who you would need to ask, you might say? Well, that is YOUR problem, not mine and if you think that you can't fulfill those demands, then don't take the picture.
1000 identifications? That does not mean they were guilty. And only 5.000+ processed? That means that they are highly ineffective.
And estimate 70%? I estimate it was 134%. When estimating percentages when you have actual numbers, "estimate" means "pulled it out of my ass". And of that 'estimate' how many would have been caught without the camera's anyway?
And of those 1000 identifications, how many where doing serious crime (so no traffic offenses). Why not put that amount of money in preventing crime? Now you let people comit a crime and catch them and put them in jail.
The victim is still a victim and the rest of society will pay for the person being in prison. If a cop was standing there, no crime would have been committed, so no victim and no cost later for society. The "problem" is that you can't put a number on that.
It is rather McNally who tries to spin it. He wants more to be done, which means either even more camera's or even more investment then what has already been poured into it, most likely much more more.
I estimated that 100% money will get only a 70% better result.
I should be able to ask a different developer. The original developer should have no say in to whether I want to buy features at him or somewhere else. The fact that locking in is very common does not mean it is a good idea.
I am now going to buy shares in the companies that make this, the flesh light and real doll. These three together will make a HUGE amount of money.
Uh, I thought it was MY phone and I bloody well should be able to decide who takes over and how they do it. If the provider is not happy with what I send over it, that is another matter, because I RENT that. I BOUGHT the phone.
Have people become so ignorant that there is no difference in buying and renting anymore?
It is actually pretty simple. If you SELL something, the other person becomes the owner and it isn't YOURS anymore. Perhaps they should make a version of "mine" and "yours" like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0H9MUWhU7Xw
I do not think that democracy means what you think it means.
Almost the same in Belgium. You SMS ` ` to a number. The difference is that you do not get a fixed time. When you end parking, you send another message and the time difference is what you pay.
You can still pay with money. Where I live, you can even get 15 minutes free parking. For that you must walk to the meter (every 50 meters or so there is one) and press the button.
That said, you need to pay from 07:00 till 21:00 and parking is very scarce. This to 'promote' the city as bike and pedestrian friendly. And if you do not pay, you can get up to three tickets a day.
I would say "It's a trap"
The books have not changed. You have.
Apparently you are typing that on an azerty keyboard. Or Dvorak.
Many people say that you do not have any rights once you do something in public. However I think times have changed and we should be reconsider what we call privacy.
Once when you did something stupid in public, the few (100?) who saw it remembered the fact and not the person. They would say: I saw this guy doing that and such.
Even if it was somebody you knew, you might not have an idea that it was that specific person.
Then came the ability to take pictures. Only if you were very important would people see it and relate the fact with the person.
Now each and every person that does something stupid could be traced down for the rest of his or her life. "Not doing stupid things" is not an option. That is how you learn.
Will this ever change? No, because there is a louder cry of 'freedom of the press' then there is of 'privacy for all people'. The reason is because those defending the first can shout louder, because they ARE the press.
Unfortunately the 'press' is not about freedom of the press. It is about making money.