Reg: They've bled us white, the bastards. They've taken everything we had, not just from us, from our fathers and from our fathers' fathers.
Stan: And from our fathers' fathers' fathers.
Reg: Yes.
Stan: And from our fathers' fathers' fathers' fathers.
Reg: All right, Stan. Don't labour the point. And what have they ever given us in return? (he pauses smugly)
Xerxes: The aqueduct?
Reg: What?
Xerxes: The aqueduct.
Reg: Oh yeah, yeah they gave us that. Yeah. That's true.
Masked Commando: And the sanitation!
Stan: Oh yes... sanitation, Reg, you remember what the city used to be like.
Reg: All right, I'll grant you that the aqueduct and the sanitation are two things that the Romans have done...
Matthias: And the roads...
Reg: (sharply) Well yes obviously the roads... the roads go without saying. But apart from the aqueduct, the sanitation and the roads...
Another Masked Commando: Irrigation...
Other Masked Voices: Medicine... Education... Health
Reg: Yes... all right, fair enough...
Commando Nearer The Front: And the wine...
General Audience: Oh yes! True!
Francis: Yeah. That's something we'd really miss if the Romans left, Reg.
Masked Commando At Back: Public baths!
Stan: And it's safe to walk in the streets at night now.
Francis: Yes, they certainly know how to keep order... (general nodding)... let's face it, they're the only ones who could in a place like this. (more general murmurs of agreement)
Reg: All right... all right... but apart from better sanitation and medicine and education and irrigation and public health and roads and a freshwater system and baths and public order... what have the Romans done for us?
Xerxes: Brought peace!
Reg: (very angry, he's not having a good meeting at all) What!? Oh... (scornfully) Peace, yes... shut up!
I was at a friends funeral last week. He'd wanted an atheist service, which was done really well. However during the open mic portion, an aunt 9who, it turns out, is a minister in some happy-clappy cult) couldn't resist getting up and leading people in the lords prayer. It freaked me out when all these (mostly older) people around me started muttering this imprecation to some deity. After the beautiful celebration of my friend's life, this cult-like behaviour was quite scary.
I'm the IS security guy where I work. We just implemented a policy banning banning non-work related multimedia on company equipment.
It's too hard to figure out what's legally obtained music and what's been pirated, and it's a common vector for malware. So no music on company gear. We allow MP3 players, but you can't connect them to company equipment - we use end-point security to control and audit I/O on workstations and notebooks.
Problem solved. The users were actually pretty understanding, but it really helps having the exec fully backing us and the policies being broadcast the the deputy CEO.
I once had a girlfriend who though porn was OK in principal, but she considered performing manual overrides as cheating because I wasn't thinking about her!
Don't you hate it when your laugh at your girlfriend, then realise she's serious...
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So what kind of car would the LHC be?
"But I also think they'll want to finish the analysis and get some people who understand what they're looking at, before they start making claims"
Preferably someone who knows that a .bak file isn't "vandalised", but the standard SQL file level backup extension...
I've heard they have women there!
I'm not!
Reg: They've bled us white, the bastards. They've taken everything we had, not just from us, from our fathers and from our fathers' fathers.
Stan: And from our fathers' fathers' fathers.
Reg: Yes.
Stan: And from our fathers' fathers' fathers' fathers.
Reg: All right, Stan. Don't labour the point. And what have they ever given us in return? (he pauses smugly)
Xerxes: The aqueduct?
Reg: What?
Xerxes: The aqueduct.
Reg: Oh yeah, yeah they gave us that. Yeah. That's true.
Masked Commando: And the sanitation!
Stan: Oh yes ... sanitation, Reg, you remember what the city used to be like.
Reg: All right, I'll grant you that the aqueduct and the sanitation are two things that the Romans have done ...
Matthias: And the roads ...
Reg: (sharply) Well yes obviously the roads ... the roads go without saying. But apart from the aqueduct, the sanitation and the roads ...
Another Masked Commando: Irrigation ...
Other Masked Voices: Medicine ... Education ... Health
Reg: Yes ... all right, fair enough ...
Commando Nearer The Front: And the wine ...
General Audience: Oh yes! True!
Francis: Yeah. That's something we'd really miss if the Romans left, Reg.
Masked Commando At Back: Public baths!
Stan: And it's safe to walk in the streets at night now.
Francis: Yes, they certainly know how to keep order ... (general nodding) ... let's face it, they're the only ones who could in a place like this. (more general murmurs of agreement)
Reg: All right ... all right ... but apart from better sanitation and medicine and education and irrigation and public health and roads and a freshwater system and baths and public order ... what have the Romans done for us?
Xerxes: Brought peace!
Reg: (very angry, he's not having a good meeting at all) What!? Oh ... (scornfully) Peace, yes ... shut up!
Yeah, but it's still just a shiny piece of shit. Oh, wait, we were talking about .NET
I find it a little odd that so much time/money/effort is spent on driving regulations, when smoking kills ~ 5,000 people each year in New Zealand.
No, you da ho!
C'mon, this is Slashdot - I thought we were all boycotting Sony after that root kit fiasco?
What is this 'White Wiimote of Death' to which you wefer?
I fairly sure NASA's AGC isn't in use any more.
WTF? Chiropractic != massage, and has a lot to do with vertebral subluxation.
Actually, it's Lieutenant Pedantic
Nessus has a pretty good plug-in for finding SQL injection and cross-site vulnerabilities.
But getting them fixed, yeah, that can be painful...
WSUS does Office patching, not an issue
What's a lot harder is patching Adobe products and the like. We're currently investigating Shavlik Netchk Pro for patching apps
http://www.shavlik.com/netchk-protect.aspx
I prefer to call them iHoles...
Or his mistress in complete infidelity?
"Simply put, it's the most expensive sci-fi book in the world, and not even a very good one at that."
As opposed to L. Ron's other works of fiction, which were cheap and not even very good.
It's just a matter of scale...
I was at a friends funeral last week. He'd wanted an atheist service, which was done really well. However during the open mic portion, an aunt 9who, it turns out, is a minister in some happy-clappy cult) couldn't resist getting up and leading people in the lords prayer. It freaked me out when all these (mostly older) people around me started muttering this imprecation to some deity. After the beautiful celebration of my friend's life, this cult-like behaviour was quite scary.
It means he's got a huge student loan to pay off.
Oh hooray, I can finally sleep soundly.
So the increased odds of getting heart disease and/or cancer, combined with the decreased odds of getting laid just wasn't motivating enough?
I suspect your intelligence is already compromised, you're just too far gone to realise it.
I'm the IS security guy where I work. We just implemented a policy banning banning non-work related multimedia on company equipment.
It's too hard to figure out what's legally obtained music and what's been pirated, and it's a common vector for malware. So no music on company gear. We allow MP3 players, but you can't connect them to company equipment - we use end-point security to control and audit I/O on workstations and notebooks.
Problem solved. The users were actually pretty understanding, but it really helps having the exec fully backing us and the policies being broadcast the the deputy CEO.
I once had a girlfriend who though porn was OK in principal, but she considered performing manual overrides as cheating because I wasn't thinking about her!
Don't you hate it when your laugh at your girlfriend, then realise she's serious...
Bung Truecrypt on and encrypt your personal data, using the plausible deniability option.
Do daily backups when you get home.