With all of those new voters out there (either first time due to age, or first time due to voter drives) I imagine a lot of people going "Huh? The Electoral wha???".
Last night, I was explaining the system to my girlfriend - who I got to vote for her first time yesterday - about the system.
I went out on google to look up something w/ her, and this website was the first hit. Sounded good to me, so I went to it. No go - I figured there are just a lot of people doing the same thing!
We had actually looked @ deploying a similar machine @ our bank...until we saw that it was running a completely wide open OS w/ no protection. They refused to put antivirus on it, and we refused to deploy it.
This is gonna push me over the edge. I've resisted buying a TiVo so far...and I've tried out NetFlix, but I don't like the slow mailing times to receive a movie...I'm more of an instant gratification kind of guy.
This combination could be dangerous for someone like me:)
Non-injurious deterrents don't tickle my fancy. If someone has the audacity to come onto my property and attempt to do harm to my home or family - they have no reason not to leave my property with holes in them.
If you REALLY want to tweak a Dell rep, when you have them on the phone, talk about the nice Lexmark printers they are selling. They are very adamant that they aren't Lexmarks, they are Dells. It's pretty hilarious. Our rep kinda jumped down our bosses throat when he called them Lexmarks. It's fun to mess with them. Especially when you see articles like these, and others, talking about the Lexmark printers.
We like the cheap little USB 2.0 SD Card reader keys you can get at Wal-Mart for $20 of all places. You get your little $20 key, and then you can throw your SD cards into it and plug 'em into your workstation or laptop and they funtion like any old USB key. They are pretty cool - especially if a lot of your devices use SD cards (mine do...). If you don't already have some SD cards it may not be the most cost effective option.
I was thinking the same thing....it kinda scares me when I hear about things like this. The lakes are a pretty fragile environmental balance. Increasing the water temperature could really hurt the life in the lake as we know it. Increased temperature could lead to more active algae life, increasing the food source for zebra mussels, which would then start killing off a lot of food for fish, eventually the zebra mussels would clear the water up and then we'd have massive underwater vegetation infestations along the shorelines due to increased sunlight penetration.
And I usually don't freak out about environmental stuff all that much, but I dunno...this doesn't seem like the best idea to me in the long term.
We have two data centers - we cross ship tapes every day. Restores aren't a major problem - we just have someone open up the tapes we need and throw them into a server at the other location.
Solves the major disaster problem...it does occasionally cause restoration delays when a tape is in transit that we need, but not bad.
I don't think tapes are dead. We have 10 tapes for every server in our company (5 for M-F, 5 for each Saturday of the month). At around 400+ servers, that racks up in numbers pretty quick. Plus, we have to cross ship the tapes to offsite storage every day.
Also, 270 some of our servers are on WAN links, between 56k and 256k circuits. Not exactly speedy when you think of backing up over the network. Also, the bulk of our data is done in our data centers - two of them. We have to have the data offsite. I don't want to try and transfer who knows how many terabytes of data over three T1's every night. We actually have higher data throughput using a courier!
Because of that policy, I stick pretty hard to my policy of not working overtime. There are some guys where I work that put in 60 hours a week. And they are salaried.
My salary is for 40 hour of work a week. Unless it is an emergency I don't really like to go over that. It's not that I'm lazy or anything, or not a motivated employee. I just don't really like working and not getting paid for it.
Actually, while they may have done it 60 years ago, they are still attempting to cover up the act today instead of being open and honest about it. There is a whole chapter in the paperback edition on the lengths that IBM went to to prevent some of the info from getting out.
It tells the story of how Watson moved from NCR to IBM and used his ruthless skills to crush competitors, as well as get governmental support for enabling Nazi Germany to gather extremely accurate census data on the people they were trying to exterminate. There was no way Germany could have done what they did without Watson and his wonderful IBM.
It's got a nice big padded pocket for your laptop. In the bottom rests a nice little shock absorber - essentially some foam and a specially designed resin splint that will flex a little when you drop your lapto so that it takes the shock instead of your back.
In addition to that it's got another pocket for wallet, keys, pens, disks, mice, etc with nice little compartments. On either side of it are handly cell phone pockets and the outside flap even has a pocket on it for a discman with a little flap for the headphones to come out of.
We use a product called Patchlink to patch all of our windows systems. A small agent runs on the client machine (be it server or workstation) and we have one sql/web server (the patchlink server) that communicates with both our clients and the Patchlink corp's systems. They do all the silent install prep and testing of the patch in their labs, and then they put it on their servers. Our Patchlink server picks up the new patch, checks it's database to see what clients it can apply the patch too, and then it sends the patch out to them at night according to our schedule. It silently installs the patch and reboots it at night.
It helps us out A LOT - makes patching easy and fairly painless for us. We can also choose not to roll out certain patches to ease the pain of breakage.
Imagine...these plants start cross breeding with our legitimate plants, next thing you know things get out of hand and THEN!!! No Caffeinated Plants ANYWHERE!! AAAAAaaaaggghhhh!!!!
The best is...someone w/ a stupid little civic...and a larger exhaust pipe than you seen on a civic. God...I get the urge to shove a football in those things, especially that worthless little buzzing noise they make.
His idea of responsibility is a good one - I definitely would have to agree with it. In any other realm, people are responsible for whatever they do. If someone is trespassing on my property and they trip and break their leg, I could indeed be held responsible for whatever was on my land that they tripped on. It's ridiculous. Why don't the same things apply here in the computing world? Why isn't the admin/owner of a system that is trying to attack me with a worm held responsible?
Yes, there is potential for abuse. Yes, I could just block their IP's. I'm not talking entirely about the ability to be able to kill the processes though - just the issue of responsibility. I feel that people should be held responsible for what they do. I administer my machines diligently - patches, virus updates, firewalls - to ensure that I don't spread the harm so to speak.
To me, it seems perfectly reasonable that people should be held responsible for the processes on their machines. Now, if the fact that they aren't held responsible allows me to kill that process, that is a whole 'nother debate.
(If anyone has a WORKING IBM keyboard like this, please, please reply as I would love to get a hold of another...)
Just search eBay for an IBM Type-M keyboard, you can find them pretty easily. My company just tossed hundreds of them - we all dived in and grabbed a few before they went to the recycle/dump/wherever, but they are still pretty easy to find.
Actually, the USCG doesn't own the Mesquite anymore. They declared the ship a loss and it was then intentionally drug into this underwater preserve and dropped there. It's now the property of the state historical society or something along that lines...
but anyone with the money or power to go dig up ships has some ethics in them
Bzzzzzzz! Wrong...unfortunately. I've dove at least a dozen shipwrecks now in the great lakes, and ethics are pretty far from the mind of most people. If you want a great example of ethics, go read a book called "Deep Descent - Adventure and Death Diving The Andrea Doria". The Doria is one of the greatest wrecks in the world to dive. However...many people have foolishly died on the wreck in their efforts to collect something as stupid as china plates.
Salvers may be more ethical (I don't know any so I can't say) but I know that the mentality of a lot of divers is that it's finders keepers. There are underwater preserves in the great lakes, meaning that the shipwrecks are protected. But...most wrecks are found by private individuals and then pilfered of all the interesting stuff before they notify the government. So, when you actually get a chance to dive on the wreck most of the neat artifacts are gone. It's a shame...nothing can compare to the beauty of descended onto a wreck in the dark blue water and crawling through the hatches and seeing old tools, ropes...hundreds of years old. But a lot of divers only see a decoration in their living room.
Even a recent wreck (10 years old) - the US Coast Guard cutter The Mesquite - is in a protected area. When it was sunk, there were crew uniforms, utensils, logbooks - theres still a copy machine and a radio on the deck. A couple of years after the sinking you could find ad's in diving magazines of crew uniforms for sale from the mesquite. It's a HUGE debate in the diving community, about whether artifacts should stay on the wreck or if they should be collected...but ethics....hrm. More of a feeding frenzy on some wrecks...
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With all of those new voters out there (either first time due to age, or first time due to voter drives) I imagine a lot of people going "Huh? The Electoral wha???".
Last night, I was explaining the system to my girlfriend - who I got to vote for her first time yesterday - about the system.
I went out on google to look up something w/ her, and this website was the first hit. Sounded good to me, so I went to it. No go - I figured there are just a lot of people doing the same thing!
We had actually looked @ deploying a similar machine @ our bank...until we saw that it was running a completely wide open OS w/ no protection. They refused to put antivirus on it, and we refused to deploy it.
This is gonna push me over the edge. I've resisted buying a TiVo so far...and I've tried out NetFlix, but I don't like the slow mailing times to receive a movie...I'm more of an instant gratification kind of guy.
:)
This combination could be dangerous for someone like me
My Ruger .45ACP semi-auto.
Non-injurious deterrents don't tickle my fancy. If someone has the audacity to come onto my property and attempt to do harm to my home or family - they have no reason not to leave my property with holes in them.
If you REALLY want to tweak a Dell rep, when you have them on the phone, talk about the nice Lexmark printers they are selling. They are very adamant that they aren't Lexmarks, they are Dells. It's pretty hilarious. Our rep kinda jumped down our bosses throat when he called them Lexmarks. It's fun to mess with them. Especially when you see articles like these, and others, talking about the Lexmark printers.
We like the cheap little USB 2.0 SD Card reader keys you can get at Wal-Mart for $20 of all places. You get your little $20 key, and then you can throw your SD cards into it and plug 'em into your workstation or laptop and they funtion like any old USB key. They are pretty cool - especially if a lot of your devices use SD cards (mine do...). If you don't already have some SD cards it may not be the most cost effective option.
I was thinking the same thing....it kinda scares me when I hear about things like this. The lakes are a pretty fragile environmental balance. Increasing the water temperature could really hurt the life in the lake as we know it. Increased temperature could lead to more active algae life, increasing the food source for zebra mussels, which would then start killing off a lot of food for fish, eventually the zebra mussels would clear the water up and then we'd have massive underwater vegetation infestations along the shorelines due to increased sunlight penetration.
And I usually don't freak out about environmental stuff all that much, but I dunno...this doesn't seem like the best idea to me in the long term.
This is a bad idea and generally not thought well of for specifically the reasons you mentioned in your "Ask Slashdot" article.
I wouldn't recommend it.
We have two data centers - we cross ship tapes every day. Restores aren't a major problem - we just have someone open up the tapes we need and throw them into a server at the other location.
Solves the major disaster problem...it does occasionally cause restoration delays when a tape is in transit that we need, but not bad.
I don't think tapes are dead. We have 10 tapes for every server in our company (5 for M-F, 5 for each Saturday of the month). At around 400+ servers, that racks up in numbers pretty quick. Plus, we have to cross ship the tapes to offsite storage every day.
Also, 270 some of our servers are on WAN links, between 56k and 256k circuits. Not exactly speedy when you think of backing up over the network. Also, the bulk of our data is done in our data centers - two of them. We have to have the data offsite. I don't want to try and transfer who knows how many terabytes of data over three T1's every night. We actually have higher data throughput using a courier!
:)
You know that's all this is!
Yep...tell me about it.
Because of that policy, I stick pretty hard to my policy of not working overtime. There are some guys where I work that put in 60 hours a week. And they are salaried.
My salary is for 40 hour of work a week. Unless it is an emergency I don't really like to go over that. It's not that I'm lazy or anything, or not a motivated employee. I just don't really like working and not getting paid for it.
Flamebait???
You've got to be kidding me. Read the book - if the truth hurts, hey...tough luck. And this is coming from a German...(I am one...)
Actually, while they may have done it 60 years ago, they are still attempting to cover up the act today instead of being open and honest about it. There is a whole chapter in the paperback edition on the lengths that IBM went to to prevent some of the info from getting out.
Try reading IBM & The Holocaust.
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It tells the story of how Watson moved from NCR to IBM and used his ruthless skills to crush competitors, as well as get governmental support for enabling Nazi Germany to gather extremely accurate census data on the people they were trying to exterminate. There was no way Germany could have done what they did without Watson and his wonderful IBM.
Definitely jansport!!
They make an excellent case called the Datafile.
It's got a nice big padded pocket for your laptop. In the bottom rests a nice little shock absorber - essentially some foam and a specially designed resin splint that will flex a little when you drop your lapto so that it takes the shock instead of your back.
In addition to that it's got another pocket for wallet, keys, pens, disks, mice, etc with nice little compartments. On either side of it are handly cell phone pockets and the outside flap even has a pocket on it for a discman with a little flap for the headphones to come out of.
Very snazzy.
We use a product called Patchlink to patch all of our windows systems. A small agent runs on the client machine (be it server or workstation) and we have one sql/web server (the patchlink server) that communicates with both our clients and the Patchlink corp's systems. They do all the silent install prep and testing of the patch in their labs, and then they put it on their servers. Our Patchlink server picks up the new patch, checks it's database to see what clients it can apply the patch too, and then it sends the patch out to them at night according to our schedule. It silently installs the patch and reboots it at night.
It helps us out A LOT - makes patching easy and fairly painless for us. We can also choose not to roll out certain patches to ease the pain of breakage.
My god...this is just evil.
Imagine...these plants start cross breeding with our legitimate plants, next thing you know things get out of hand and THEN!!! No Caffeinated Plants ANYWHERE!! AAAAAaaaaggghhhh!!!!
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(It'd still come out on the PC, of course.)
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Yeah....I hate these things.
The best is...someone w/ a stupid little civic...and a larger exhaust pipe than you seen on a civic. God...I get the urge to shove a football in those things, especially that worthless little buzzing noise they make.
I'm salaried...so when I stay here until 8pm a couple of nights a week, what do I get? Oh yeah!
NOTHING!!!
Wooohooo....oh wait...no. That's right, I hate that part.
His idea of responsibility is a good one - I definitely would have to agree with it. In any other realm, people are responsible for whatever they do. If someone is trespassing on my property and they trip and break their leg, I could indeed be held responsible for whatever was on my land that they tripped on. It's ridiculous. Why don't the same things apply here in the computing world? Why isn't the admin/owner of a system that is trying to attack me with a worm held responsible?
Yes, there is potential for abuse. Yes, I could just block their IP's. I'm not talking entirely about the ability to be able to kill the processes though - just the issue of responsibility. I feel that people should be held responsible for what they do. I administer my machines diligently - patches, virus updates, firewalls - to ensure that I don't spread the harm so to speak.
To me, it seems perfectly reasonable that people should be held responsible for the processes on their machines. Now, if the fact that they aren't held responsible allows me to kill that process, that is a whole 'nother debate.
(If anyone has a WORKING IBM keyboard like this, please, please reply as I would love to get a hold of another...)
Just search eBay for an IBM Type-M keyboard, you can find them pretty easily. My company just tossed hundreds of them - we all dived in and grabbed a few before they went to the recycle/dump/wherever, but they are still pretty easy to find.
Actually, the USCG doesn't own the Mesquite anymore. They declared the ship a loss and it was then intentionally drug into this underwater preserve and dropped there. It's now the property of the state historical society or something along that lines...
but anyone with the money or power to go dig up ships has some ethics in them
Bzzzzzzz! Wrong...unfortunately. I've dove at least a dozen shipwrecks now in the great lakes, and ethics are pretty far from the mind of most people. If you want a great example of ethics, go read a book called "Deep Descent - Adventure and Death Diving The Andrea Doria". The Doria is one of the greatest wrecks in the world to dive. However...many people have foolishly died on the wreck in their efforts to collect something as stupid as china plates.
Salvers may be more ethical (I don't know any so I can't say) but I know that the mentality of a lot of divers is that it's finders keepers. There are underwater preserves in the great lakes, meaning that the shipwrecks are protected. But...most wrecks are found by private individuals and then pilfered of all the interesting stuff before they notify the government. So, when you actually get a chance to dive on the wreck most of the neat artifacts are gone. It's a shame...nothing can compare to the beauty of descended onto a wreck in the dark blue water and crawling through the hatches and seeing old tools, ropes...hundreds of years old. But a lot of divers only see a decoration in their living room.
Even a recent wreck (10 years old) - the US Coast Guard cutter The Mesquite - is in a protected area. When it was sunk, there were crew uniforms, utensils, logbooks - theres still a copy machine and a radio on the deck. A couple of years after the sinking you could find ad's in diving magazines of crew uniforms for sale from the mesquite. It's a HUGE debate in the diving community, about whether artifacts should stay on the wreck or if they should be collected...but ethics....hrm. More of a feeding frenzy on some wrecks...