if employees are visiting porn sites on company time, they should be fired.
Absolutely agree. However, working for the government, the union will not let you just fire someone. You have to document everything from now til Tuesday, give them a warning, note it in their file, THEN bring action at which point the union makes all kinds of excuses for why the person shouldn't be fired.
I know for a fact that there was someone who, every day, was trying to get to dozens of different adult sites for 20 minutes at a time. Supposedly it was all documented and set on to the higher ups but the guy still has a job. Whether it wasn't pursued or the union found an excuse to keep the guy, I don't know. If it were up to me, anyone trying for more than five minutes should get auto-fired. No appeal.
It's one thing to accidentally type in a wrong address or click a link without looking (I did that recently) but the logs will clearly show you left the link quickly once you realized your mistake. It's another to see the same person day after day trying to get to slutsrus.com.
if small things like checking the sports scores, or stocks, or news is what keeps them happy at work,
We don't block those kind of sites. SI, MarketWatch, CNN are all perfectly accessible. Even overseas web sites are accessible. I look at two Japanese sites and the BBC and there is someone here who checks a Chinese-language site daily. The only ones we do block are what are considered time wasters (games, chat rooms, etc).
Some places are more strict, others more permissive. It all depends on the agency. I think the policy in place here strikes a good balance between letting people check news and such while limiting time wasters.
We block certain website groups (adult, gambling, games, etc) by default and everyone must go through our proxy to the outside world. Web logs are checked throughout the day and those who try 30 different ways to get to boobsgonewild.com are reported.
Most people have only User permissions so they can't install something and we regularly do sweeps of unapproved software on those people who do have admin privileges. I'm the one who generally gets the call to remove the software. We also check for firewalls on PCs and other software which can potentially bypass our firewall or hide the user.
As far as electronics are concerned, the worst we have are people using fans or heaters, depending on the season.
Not sure what the big deal is. These are just basic network security measures which any decent admin should do and have set up.
the most common websites visited by personal web surfers were online trading sites, instant messaging/chat services and peer-to-peer sharing sites
Everyone where I work (for state government) must go through our proxy except for a select few circumstances. All the sites listed above are blocked and a nice warning message comes up if you try to get to one of them.
How bosses can't know where their employees are going on the intertubes is beyond me as we have people checking the log files and see the people trying to get to boobsgonewild.com, donkeylove.com and giganticasses.com for 20 minutes at a time. If bosses don't know where their people are going, then the people in charge of the network aren't doing their jobs (or the bosses don't care).
And yes, I am at work right now as I type this, abusing the taxpayer dollars by doing something personal. Working in IT and being the go-to guy does have its perks. Not that being good at what I do will get me anywhere, but that's another story.
Ninety Percent of Olympic Athletes Used Nutritional Supplements to Enhance Performance
Criminals Who Eat Processed Foods Leave More Evidence Behind at Crime Scenes
Media Quotes Vitamin B12 Deficiency Study to Attack Vegetarians, Vegans
Yet More Pharmaceuticals Found in the Public Water Supply of U.S. Cities
Did Kevin Trudeau write any of those articles I posted?
Never said he did. I was merely pointing out a similarity between Natural News and Kevin Trudeau both claiming that "natural" remedies are more effective than man-made medicines (which are also natural).
Do you have any links or proof that he is providing miraculous cures?
Just a few. Like this one, this one and this one. So yes, I have proof he is providing miracle cures. That and his infomercials on which he peddles his book which has in its title, "Includes The Natural Cures For Over 50 Specific Diseases".
Good job at attacking a source you don't like instead of trying to prove anything they said wrong. Very intelligent!
I never said I didn't like the source. Some "natural" items can be very beneficial to certain people. However, claiming that ONLY "natural" products, such as supplements which are unregulated and don't have to detail what they actually contain or what effect they may have on people, is disingenuous and potentially harmful.
As far as proving them wrong, I don't need to prove them wrong because studies over the years have proven them wrong. Here is one article which discusses "natural" remedies, and this one which talks about Lycopene.
So yes, I was very intelligent to point out the bias of Natural News so people are aware of their bias. Whether people heed the warning is up to them but they have been warned.
Nice links. Can't imagine why Natural News would have such articles. Couldn't be anything about their bias to get people to buy "natural" products, is it?
You know, like Kevin Trudeau claiming the government is keeping cures for arthritis, cancer and other afflictions from the people and how he miraculously has all these cures, but only if you buy his book and visit his web site to buy the products.
As of yesterday, the official count of Americans dead in Iraq is 4,158. As to the number of dead Iraqis, that number depends on how you count the dead.
I'd bet both numbers are extraordinarily low.
If you mean strictly civilians killed by American and other forces, that number will never be revealed. Obviously we don't want the civilians of Iraq to know how many of their neighbors were killed by the liberators. In fact, when the Iraqis tried to keep a running total based on the number of bodies brought to morgues, the Iraqi government was forced to stop counting the figures.
If you mean the number of civilians killed by American and other forces along with the number killed by their neighbors due to religious, cultural or other reasons, again, that number will never be revealed. Wouldn't want to reinflame sectarian violence, would we? However, based on interviews and other sources, as of November 2006, we have the following estimates:
Iraqi civilians deaths: 49,000 > 655,000
Those figures were derived from Iraq Body Count and a study published in Lancet in 2006.
If you mean the number of Iraqi civilians who took up arms against the occupying forces but who are considered insurgents/terrorists/member of Al Qaeda/etc, then the military will gladly give you that number. In fact, as of August 2007, the military reported 18,832 suspected insurgents killed.
For a report on why getting numbers is so difficult, see this story in The Guardian from March of this year.
i can't stand it when people just blindly stick in an address and let some little thing on the dash tell them when to turn.. and just drive on not even bothering to look where it is going to take them.
Either that's some extreme hyperbole or you need to relax a bit, geesh.
You might be interested in thesetwo articles which prove the posters point.
Can you do the updates on XP without having WGA installed?
Yes
I so, how?
You can manually download each update directly from Microsoft's site. I do this for my parents machines. They're legitimate machines with licenses but being on dial-up, it would take a while for some of the patches so I d/l the patches from work. I do the same thing for my 2K system.
Any links on a guide?
Go to this link, scroll down a bit until you see the dropdown boxes and make your selections. Do the broadest search possible so you see all the updates. Once the list comes back, just download the updates and manually apply them.
It should be noted there are a few updates every so often which will require you to verify your copy but those are far and few.
See the OP's corrected comment about horribly designed sites. No site should require Flash to be used. None. As I stated in my journal a while back, my mutual fund company thought it would be uber kewl to have a Flash front page without an easy, secure, way to access ones account information. It didn't matter that Flash has been shown to be insecure, they used it.
Fortunately, after some gentle cattle-prodding, they've mended their ways and now have an easy (and secure) way to bypass Flash when logging in.
Flash is evil. It is comparable to the blink tag. It breaks standards, slows systems (like java) and developers use it in the most inane places (Dilbert anyone?). Sites which require you to install Flash should be swept from the inter-tubes and repeatedly, and with great prejudice, be burned on the scrapheap of failed web interfaces.
I would study the tools and see if they have a recognizable 'fingerprint' when used.
Forget the tools, it's much easier to identify the fake ads because they use the same phrases over and over. To wit:
a body that will make you melt
I haven't had much luck on Craigslist
to name just two I can remember. All CL has to do is to scan their postings every hour, identify ads which use these phrases and delete them. Sure, the postings still get put up but they get taken down just as easily.
If that is all there is to it, then I am more than willing to give Fx3 another shot. As I have said a bit further up, I have modified my userchrome file to not display past results so I am quite capable, and willing, to muck about in about:config.
However, I have always been under the impression that to completely turn off the "feature" one had to add an add-on, which is something I don't even do with my current version. I like to keep things simple. Less room for problems to happen.
I will take your information under advisement and go from there.
Which is what I currently have done. I've modified my chrome file to not display web sites when I type though interestingly enough, it works on my home PC, but not here at work. Even copying the chrome file to this PC hasn't changed anything.
However, from what I've seen, it's not so simple in Fx3 but if I'm mistaken, please correct me.
Add me onto the list of so-not Awesome Bar haters. I know where I've been, I don't need to be told every time I type a url, and I shouldn't have to jump through hoops to turn this crappy "feature"[1] off.
Hell, you can turn off auto-complete (which is what it is) in IE by unchecking a box. Why can't the Fx team do the same?
[1]It appears the Fx team is adopting Microsoft's idea of what a good "feature" is.
Wait a second. I have 1G of memory in my 2K system with a 128MB Nvidia card and Fx2, but I can't run this because I don't have XP or Vista? This is a definite WTF?
I've cooked on dark coloured rocks in Sydney, Australia in the middle of the day.
I'm not trying to call you a liar, but you're a liar (or not realizing what you actually saw). It is impossible to "cook" on a hot surface (rock, asphalt, concrete, metal) under normal conditions on this planet. Why? Because there is no heat source to continue heating the object once you place something on the object.
However, if you're saying that the laws of physics somehow don't apply to your neck of the woods, you might want to contact various folks to examine your area.
I really don't see the Iranians ever developing a nuclear weapons programs as it will ultimately work against them.
No, it will work for them by being a deterrent to Israel (and by extension the U.S.) with its nuclear armament. It will be the same situation as exists between the U.S. and Russia with one vital difference: when Iran obtains nuclear weapons, it can hold the oil fields of the entire Middle East hostage if the U.S., or Israel, decides to attack it.
And before someone asks the obvious question, "What's to stop them from holding the oil fields hostage regardless of being attacked?", there would be no benefit to threaten the oil fields other than to drive up the cost of oil. However, as a poster up the way has already pointed out, Iran imports roughly 40% of its gasoline. Thus, any benefit from higher oil prices would be negated by the higher gas prices.
Absolutely. I'm sure everyone remembers the police training video where the instructor would ask the recruits how they would defend themselves against attackers wielding various weapons such as grapes, raspberries and bananas. The one recruit kept mentioning pointy sticks but the instructor ignored him.
Unfortunately here in Pennsylvania, they're ready to remove the price caps on electricity.
Just to add in for those not aware, projections for the percentage increase in ones monthly electric bill have ranged from 28% to 64% once the caps are removed. There are efforts to spread those increases over a period of years rather than all at once.
It was during the Ridge(R) administration that electric utilities lobbied and won the right to set their own rates, rather than having the PUC (Public Utility Commission) set the rates (i.e. deregulation). In response, the rates electric utilities could charge was capped for a period of time with the caps ending in 2010 and 2011.
With the rise in electric generation fuels (natural gas, oil, coal) having risen substantially since the caps were put in place, utilities will raise their rates to compensate as well as continue to provide dividends to their shareholders. In fact, PPL (Pennsylvania Power & Light) who serves my area, said somewhat recently that its shareholders should expect their stock performance to improve once the caps are removed (i.e. we (PPL) are going to crank up our rates)
America has a spike in the age distribution of people over 50, thanks to the baby boomers.
True. However, Japan's elderly (those over 65) comprised 19% of the population as of 2003. By contrast, the United States elderly percentage (as of the 2000 census) was 12.4%*.
Granted, we're talking percentages rather than raw numbers, but those considered senior citizens comprise a larger portion of the overall population in Japan as compared to the U.S. That said, to see the baby boom generation and how their population affects the overall population, look at this 2005 graph from the census bureau.
Overall, it's not necessarily the older generation that "holds progress back" but rather, it is people in general who do not see the need for the newest and shiniest. Look at Blue Ray and HDTV to use two examples. DVDs are perfectly acceptable for the masses so most don't see the need to repurchase new media to play in their new (much more expensive) players.
*Scroll to the last page to see the percentage breaks outs and add the last three columns.
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Absolutely agree. However, working for the government, the union will not let you just fire someone. You have to document everything from now til Tuesday, give them a warning, note it in their file, THEN bring action at which point the union makes all kinds of excuses for why the person shouldn't be fired.
I know for a fact that there was someone who, every day, was trying to get to dozens of different adult sites for 20 minutes at a time. Supposedly it was all documented and set on to the higher ups but the guy still has a job. Whether it wasn't pursued or the union found an excuse to keep the guy, I don't know. If it were up to me, anyone trying for more than five minutes should get auto-fired. No appeal.
It's one thing to accidentally type in a wrong address or click a link without looking (I did that recently) but the logs will clearly show you left the link quickly once you realized your mistake. It's another to see the same person day after day trying to get to slutsrus.com.
We don't block those kind of sites. SI, MarketWatch, CNN are all perfectly accessible. Even overseas web sites are accessible. I look at two Japanese sites and the BBC and there is someone here who checks a Chinese-language site daily. The only ones we do block are what are considered time wasters (games, chat rooms, etc).
Some places are more strict, others more permissive. It all depends on the agency. I think the policy in place here strikes a good balance between letting people check news and such while limiting time wasters.
We block certain website groups (adult, gambling, games, etc) by default and everyone must go through our proxy to the outside world. Web logs are checked throughout the day and those who try 30 different ways to get to boobsgonewild.com are reported.
Most people have only User permissions so they can't install something and we regularly do sweeps of unapproved software on those people who do have admin privileges. I'm the one who generally gets the call to remove the software. We also check for firewalls on PCs and other software which can potentially bypass our firewall or hide the user.
As far as electronics are concerned, the worst we have are people using fans or heaters, depending on the season.
Not sure what the big deal is. These are just basic network security measures which any decent admin should do and have set up.
Just nuke him from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
Everyone where I work (for state government) must go through our proxy except for a select few circumstances. All the sites listed above are blocked and a nice warning message comes up if you try to get to one of them.
How bosses can't know where their employees are going on the intertubes is beyond me as we have people checking the log files and see the people trying to get to boobsgonewild.com, donkeylove.com and giganticasses.com for 20 minutes at a time. If bosses don't know where their people are going, then the people in charge of the network aren't doing their jobs (or the bosses don't care).
And yes, I am at work right now as I type this, abusing the taxpayer dollars by doing something personal. Working in IT and being the go-to guy does have its perks. Not that being good at what I do will get me anywhere, but that's another story.
Straight from their own front page:
Never said he did. I was merely pointing out a similarity between Natural News and Kevin Trudeau both claiming that "natural" remedies are more effective than man-made medicines (which are also natural).
Just a few. Like this one, this one and this one. So yes, I have proof he is providing miracle cures. That and his infomercials on which he peddles his book which has in its title, "Includes The Natural Cures For Over 50 Specific Diseases".
I never said I didn't like the source. Some "natural" items can be very beneficial to certain people. However, claiming that ONLY "natural" products, such as supplements which are unregulated and don't have to detail what they actually contain or what effect they may have on people, is disingenuous and potentially harmful.
As far as proving them wrong, I don't need to prove them wrong because studies over the years have proven them wrong. Here is one article which discusses "natural" remedies, and this one which talks about Lycopene.
So yes, I was very intelligent to point out the bias of Natural News so people are aware of their bias. Whether people heed the warning is up to them but they have been warned.
Nice links. Can't imagine why Natural News would have such articles. Couldn't be anything about their bias to get people to buy "natural" products, is it?
You know, like Kevin Trudeau claiming the government is keeping cures for arthritis, cancer and other afflictions from the people and how he miraculously has all these cures, but only if you buy his book and visit his web site to buy the products.
As of yesterday, the official count of Americans dead in Iraq is 4,158. As to the number of dead Iraqis, that number depends on how you count the dead.
If you mean strictly civilians killed by American and other forces, that number will never be revealed. Obviously we don't want the civilians of Iraq to know how many of their neighbors were killed by the liberators. In fact, when the Iraqis tried to keep a running total based on the number of bodies brought to morgues, the Iraqi government was forced to stop counting the figures.
If you mean the number of civilians killed by American and other forces along with the number killed by their neighbors due to religious, cultural or other reasons, again, that number will never be revealed. Wouldn't want to reinflame sectarian violence, would we? However, based on interviews and other sources, as of November 2006, we have the following estimates:
Iraqi civilians deaths: 49,000 > 655,000
Those figures were derived from Iraq Body Count and a study published in Lancet in 2006.
If you mean the number of Iraqi civilians who took up arms against the occupying forces but who are considered insurgents/terrorists/member of Al Qaeda/etc, then the military will gladly give you that number. In fact, as of August 2007, the military reported 18,832 suspected insurgents killed.
For a report on why getting numbers is so difficult, see this story in The Guardian from March of this year.
You mean like this?
In that case, there shouldn't be a problem with two men or two women getting married.
Oh wait. . .
You might be interested in these two articles which prove the posters point.
Or, put another way, she'll pretty much have to.
Yes
You can manually download each update directly from Microsoft's site. I do this for my parents machines. They're legitimate machines with licenses but being on dial-up, it would take a while for some of the patches so I d/l the patches from work. I do the same thing for my 2K system.
Go to this link, scroll down a bit until you see the dropdown boxes and make your selections. Do the broadest search possible so you see all the updates. Once the list comes back, just download the updates and manually apply them.
It should be noted there are a few updates every so often which will require you to verify your copy but those are far and few.
See the OP's corrected comment about horribly designed sites. No site should require Flash to be used. None. As I stated in my journal a while back, my mutual fund company thought it would be uber kewl to have a Flash front page without an easy, secure, way to access ones account information. It didn't matter that Flash has been shown to be insecure, they used it.
Fortunately, after some gentle cattle-prodding, they've mended their ways and now have an easy (and secure) way to bypass Flash when logging in.
Flash is evil. It is comparable to the blink tag. It breaks standards, slows systems (like java) and developers use it in the most inane places (Dilbert anyone?). Sites which require you to install Flash should be swept from the inter-tubes and repeatedly, and with great prejudice, be burned on the scrapheap of failed web interfaces.
Forget the tools, it's much easier to identify the fake ads because they use the same phrases over and over. To wit:
to name just two I can remember. All CL has to do is to scan their postings every hour, identify ads which use these phrases and delete them. Sure, the postings still get put up but they get taken down just as easily.
If that is all there is to it, then I am more than willing to give Fx3 another shot. As I have said a bit further up, I have modified my userchrome file to not display past results so I am quite capable, and willing, to muck about in about:config.
However, I have always been under the impression that to completely turn off the "feature" one had to add an add-on, which is something I don't even do with my current version. I like to keep things simple. Less room for problems to happen.
I will take your information under advisement and go from there.
Did you get drunk and wake up next to a showgirl?
Which is what I currently have done. I've modified my chrome file to not display web sites when I type though interestingly enough, it works on my home PC, but not here at work. Even copying the chrome file to this PC hasn't changed anything.
However, from what I've seen, it's not so simple in Fx3 but if I'm mistaken, please correct me.
they pry Fx 2 from cold, dead hard drive.
Add me onto the list of so-not Awesome Bar haters. I know where I've been, I don't need to be told every time I type a url, and I shouldn't have to jump through hoops to turn this crappy "feature"[1] off.
Hell, you can turn off auto-complete (which is what it is) in IE by unchecking a box. Why can't the Fx team do the same?
[1]It appears the Fx team is adopting Microsoft's idea of what a good "feature" is.
Wait a second. I have 1G of memory in my 2K system with a 128MB Nvidia card and Fx2, but I can't run this because I don't have XP or Vista? This is a definite WTF?
I'm not trying to call you a liar, but you're a liar (or not realizing what you actually saw). It is impossible to "cook" on a hot surface (rock, asphalt, concrete, metal) under normal conditions on this planet. Why? Because there is no heat source to continue heating the object once you place something on the object.
For your reference.
However, if you're saying that the laws of physics somehow don't apply to your neck of the woods, you might want to contact various folks to examine your area.
No, it will work for them by being a deterrent to Israel (and by extension the U.S.) with its nuclear armament. It will be the same situation as exists between the U.S. and Russia with one vital difference: when Iran obtains nuclear weapons, it can hold the oil fields of the entire Middle East hostage if the U.S., or Israel, decides to attack it.
And before someone asks the obvious question, "What's to stop them from holding the oil fields hostage regardless of being attacked?", there would be no benefit to threaten the oil fields other than to drive up the cost of oil. However, as a poster up the way has already pointed out, Iran imports roughly 40% of its gasoline. Thus, any benefit from higher oil prices would be negated by the higher gas prices.
Absolutely. I'm sure everyone remembers the police training video where the instructor would ask the recruits how they would defend themselves against attackers wielding various weapons such as grapes, raspberries and bananas. The one recruit kept mentioning pointy sticks but the instructor ignored him.
For those that don't remember, here's the video in question.
You mean such as:
Yes, I see what you mean.
Just to add in for those not aware, projections for the percentage increase in ones monthly electric bill have ranged from 28% to 64% once the caps are removed. There are efforts to spread those increases over a period of years rather than all at once.
It was during the Ridge(R) administration that electric utilities lobbied and won the right to set their own rates, rather than having the PUC (Public Utility Commission) set the rates (i.e. deregulation). In response, the rates electric utilities could charge was capped for a period of time with the caps ending in 2010 and 2011.
With the rise in electric generation fuels (natural gas, oil, coal) having risen substantially since the caps were put in place, utilities will raise their rates to compensate as well as continue to provide dividends to their shareholders. In fact, PPL (Pennsylvania Power & Light) who serves my area, said somewhat recently that its shareholders should expect their stock performance to improve once the caps are removed (i.e. we (PPL) are going to crank up our rates)
True. However, Japan's elderly (those over 65) comprised 19% of the population as of 2003. By contrast, the United States elderly percentage (as of the 2000 census) was 12.4%*.
Granted, we're talking percentages rather than raw numbers, but those considered senior citizens comprise a larger portion of the overall population in Japan as compared to the U.S. That said, to see the baby boom generation and how their population affects the overall population, look at this 2005 graph from the census bureau.
Overall, it's not necessarily the older generation that "holds progress back" but rather, it is people in general who do not see the need for the newest and shiniest. Look at Blue Ray and HDTV to use two examples. DVDs are perfectly acceptable for the masses so most don't see the need to repurchase new media to play in their new (much more expensive) players.
*Scroll to the last page to see the percentage breaks outs and add the last three columns.