For example, if a user clicked on an obvious suspicious link (spoofed by yours truly IT Department of course), his computer will be taken away for "maintenance" for a week, and he'll be assigned to another area of the office with a crappy machine. This way, not only does he suffer from his action, others will know why he is working at the "Concentration Cubicle".
Yeah, nothing helps employee morale quite like feeling as though their in a Dilbert comic strip.
Can you imagine having a friend come home from work and describing to you that they've been put at the 'Concentration Cubicle' for a week and their productivity is going to nearly disappear just because management felt they deserved being treated like a 3-year-old?
I'd quit if that happened to me. Of course, I run firefox on Linux, but it'd still piss me off.
Traditionally this has been the case, but MS seems to be showing different colors now.
They've endeavored to make IE7 standards-compliant, they hired a guy to work with Linux, they've finally started addressing the security concerns, etc.
It wouldn't be too hard for me to believe that they're also changing their company policy to be less harsh on open standards and open source. Well, with the exception of the Balmer monkey I could believe it.
The reason many modern 'viruses' (worms mostly) don't all have high-payload attacks like MS-Blaster did is due to the nature of parasitic predators needing their prey.
Ebola has a much larger payload than AIDS, but nobody's as worried about it because Ebola quickly kills its victim(s) and has trouble spreading to a greater community. AIDS, on the other hand, won't manifest symptoms for years and therefore can travel across great spaces and through community barriers with ease.
If they want to infect the largest number of computers, they should choose something sneaky with a deliberately small and hidden payload to accomplish what they want.
that's a really clever idea. Even to have one guy with a laptop in his backpack next to another guy taking pictures would solve the problem of seizure. A voice (metaphorically) would be much harder to silence with instant media transfer.
Moreover, when you visit a site and someone makes a cent or two off of information about you you're almost always being reimbursed for it.
Almost all of the non-subscription entertainment sites make money off ads. Online retailers can offer lower prices because the info they gather from customers makes them a company with better profit margins.
Maybe they're not handing you a check, but it's not like you're in a sweatshop or anything - nothing you mentioned sounds like telltale signs of an extractive economy.
I really appreciate the GitS anime because it was the first one I ever saw that married a sophisticated plot, philosophical questions, and extremely good looking visuals.
I heard that the Wachowski brothers were heavily influenced by Ghost in the Shell as they were developing their idea for the Matrix. Seems to fit.
Google may be a $billion+ company but they seem to do things differently. I'd rather have them as my ISP than Qwest (the shitty provider who's DNS servers are down five minutes of every hour).
Frankly, they have shown time again again that they appreciate innovation and a new business model. Keyhole used to charge for satellite picture - Google bought them and gives us the service for free. It's the same with lots of other products.
Telcos have gotten used to raping us on prices. DLS subscriptions have maintained their $40/month price for years now while the product just gets cheaper to provide.
Franlky, I'd take anybody who wasn't one of the current telcos.
They're not stabbing blindly, they're very deliberate about this.
The Spanish equivalent of the RIAA has lobbied the Spanish government so well that blank media consumers have to pay a fee in addition to the price of the media that goes straight to the music syndicate. They argued that pirated music was such a problem and the blank media was the medium for that problem that they should benefit directly from media sales.
There's little that's intuitive about a base-2 system that started out with the measure of a king's foot. We've crippled ourselves by sticking with these crappy measurements.
base-10 is the way our math system runs, we should have a measuring system that reflects that.
Australia converted their whole country pretty much overnight. If we didn't have such a large population of reactionaries who're scared of anything that might seem communist we'd have been there too.
But the big argument against all-electric (also called gas-optional) cars is that the electricity has to come from *somewhere* and coal plants aren't much better than combustion engines.
If the grid runs off clean and safe nuclear, cars can run of batteries.
It's true that it's a directly a 100:1 reduction, but C02 also stays in the atmosphere for over a hundred years while Methane disappears in around ten - so it's more like 10:1.
I had a calculus teacher (also in WA) who just loved to get pulled over for speeding.
As the officer asked him why he was going so fast he would say:
"Well, it's a speed limit, right?
See, to be an actual limit, it must be approached from both sides. I just wanted to help out."
Any chance this OSS project could be made into a distributed app that is hosted on thousands of individual web servers in some sort of cooperative?
Imagine if any group of people could develop a search engine that (through funky DNS or distributed scripting) they could easily host themselves and provide internet searaches that have certain intentional biases.
Like a "Google for gamers" or "Google for crackers" or "Google for linguistics" - but all independantly hosted.
Sounds like "Free as in 'Look, I'm cool like Google'"
I believe in good parenting and not just censorship, I also think that exposure to almost anything is good if there is someone who can help a child understand and engage with the issue surrounding it.
That said, I had to stop playing Grand Theft Auto because I noticed that it started affecting my driving. That was proof enough to me that not all games will stay comfortably in the realm of fantasy.
Lately I've been loving the way C-Net reviews items. They seem to be in contrast with retailers in the way they accept everything.
Whenever I want to review something I first go to the negative comments. Through those I can find out what the downsides of a certain product are. If none of those qualities will impair my ability to use/enjoy it then I consider it a good purchase.
Positive reviews only tell me that a large percantage of folks don't have problems with stuff they buy.
It's funny that you recommend people don't mess with RHEL and just go to something 'freeer' like CentOS.
CentOS is absolutely nothing more than RHEL with the labels removed. They make almost no other alterations to it. It releases two days after every release of RHEL.
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For example, if a user clicked on an obvious suspicious link (spoofed by yours truly IT Department of course), his computer will be taken away for "maintenance" for a week, and he'll be assigned to another area of the office with a crappy machine. This way, not only does he suffer from his action, others will know why he is working at the "Concentration Cubicle".
Yeah, nothing helps employee morale quite like feeling as though their in a Dilbert comic strip.
Can you imagine having a friend come home from work and describing to you that they've been put at the 'Concentration Cubicle' for a week and their productivity is going to nearly disappear just because management felt they deserved being treated like a 3-year-old?
I'd quit if that happened to me. Of course, I run firefox on Linux, but it'd still piss me off.
"angst" is followed closely by "Stock Market" which gives 98,532 results.
They're not all 13 year olds you know. Many are innovative publishers who are making a living off of content production.
Traditionally this has been the case, but MS seems to be showing different colors now.
They've endeavored to make IE7 standards-compliant, they hired a guy to work with Linux, they've finally started addressing the security concerns, etc.
It wouldn't be too hard for me to believe that they're also changing their company policy to be less harsh on open standards and open source. Well, with the exception of the Balmer monkey I could believe it.
And to top it off: three guys hanging out in a neighbor's pool. And by 'guys' I mean a box of fries, a milkshake, and a meatball.
The reason many modern 'viruses' (worms mostly) don't all have high-payload attacks like MS-Blaster did is due to the nature of parasitic predators needing their prey.
Ebola has a much larger payload than AIDS, but nobody's as worried about it because Ebola quickly kills its victim(s) and has trouble spreading to a greater community. AIDS, on the other hand, won't manifest symptoms for years and therefore can travel across great spaces and through community barriers with ease.
If they want to infect the largest number of computers, they should choose something sneaky with a deliberately small and hidden payload to accomplish what they want.
Microsoft is attempting to develop their products to work better for Asian users.
I can't imagine a better way to develop a product that they know will work well for the Chinese than to have it built in China.
Frankly, I applaud this.
that's a really clever idea. Even to have one guy with a laptop in his backpack next to another guy taking pictures would solve the problem of seizure. A voice (metaphorically) would be much harder to silence with instant media transfer.
Absolutely right.
Moreover, when you visit a site and someone makes a cent or two off of information about you you're almost always being reimbursed for it.
Almost all of the non-subscription entertainment sites make money off ads. Online retailers can offer lower prices because the info they gather from customers makes them a company with better profit margins.
Maybe they're not handing you a check, but it's not like you're in a sweatshop or anything - nothing you mentioned sounds like telltale signs of an extractive economy.
I really appreciate the GitS anime because it was the first one I ever saw that married a sophisticated plot, philosophical questions, and extremely good looking visuals.
I heard that the Wachowski brothers were heavily influenced by Ghost in the Shell as they were developing their idea for the Matrix. Seems to fit.
Google may be a $billion+ company but they seem to do things differently. I'd rather have them as my ISP than Qwest (the shitty provider who's DNS servers are down five minutes of every hour).
Frankly, they have shown time again again that they appreciate innovation and a new business model. Keyhole used to charge for satellite picture - Google bought them and gives us the service for free. It's the same with lots of other products.
Telcos have gotten used to raping us on prices. DLS subscriptions have maintained their $40/month price for years now while the product just gets cheaper to provide.
Franlky, I'd take anybody who wasn't one of the current telcos.
They're not stabbing blindly, they're very deliberate about this.
The Spanish equivalent of the RIAA has lobbied the Spanish government so well that blank media consumers have to pay a fee in addition to the price of the media that goes straight to the music syndicate. They argued that pirated music was such a problem and the blank media was the medium for that problem that they should benefit directly from media sales.
I think that's what they're trying to do here.
Wow, looks like you're both pretty bad at what you do.
You tried for first post without hesitation, but you got so excited you done missed your mark and invaded the third post spot.
Let's see how you get outta this quagmire.
I can see the next Vegas problem now:
undercover geeks find a game they like, disconnected it from the network and enjoy hours of free gaming.
I'd be down for some of that.
There's little that's intuitive about a base-2 system that started out with the measure of a king's foot. We've crippled ourselves by sticking with these crappy measurements.
base-10 is the way our math system runs, we should have a measuring system that reflects that.
Australia converted their whole country pretty much overnight. If we didn't have such a large population of reactionaries who're scared of anything that might seem communist we'd have been there too.
And it will take the next two weeks for you to realize it was a waste of both your and our time.
And if, by chance, the article hasn't show up before - we simply wait until it appears again. Maybe the dupe will have links.
'Cause it's slowing down already:
Mirrordot mirror:
http://www.mirrordot.com/stories/fc9b34ac4dfe751a
But the big argument against all-electric (also called gas-optional) cars is that the electricity has to come from *somewhere* and coal plants aren't much better than combustion engines.
If the grid runs off clean and safe nuclear, cars can run of batteries.
There's an article on WorldChanging.com today about this very topic. They discuss the viability of terraforming techniques to address this problem.
The nearest terraforming solution would be the use of methanotrophes, a bacteria that is known to consume methane.
It's worth a read (it's enviro-techy, a good combination).
http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/003283.html
It's true that it's a directly a 100:1 reduction, but C02 also stays in the atmosphere for over a hundred years while Methane disappears in around ten - so it's more like 10:1.
I had a calculus teacher (also in WA) who just loved to get pulled over for speeding.
As the officer asked him why he was going so fast he would say:
"Well, it's a speed limit, right?
See, to be an actual limit, it must be approached from both sides. I just wanted to help out."
How exactly do you measure 'snappiness'?
I'd say that Gentoo (what I'm using while typing this) leads the competition in quickness, 'right there'-ness, and definitely, brightness.
I'd say Gentoo is also probably the most rubbery OS I've ever used.
Any chance this OSS project could be made into a distributed app that is hosted on thousands of individual web servers in some sort of cooperative?
Imagine if any group of people could develop a search engine that (through funky DNS or distributed scripting) they could easily host themselves and provide internet searaches that have certain intentional biases.
Like a "Google for gamers" or "Google for crackers" or "Google for linguistics" - but all independantly hosted.
Sounds like "Free as in 'Look, I'm cool like Google'"
I believe in good parenting and not just censorship, I also think that exposure to almost anything is good if there is someone who can help a child understand and engage with the issue surrounding it.
That said, I had to stop playing Grand Theft Auto because I noticed that it started affecting my driving. That was proof enough to me that not all games will stay comfortably in the realm of fantasy.
Lately I've been loving the way C-Net reviews items. They seem to be in contrast with retailers in the way they accept everything.
Whenever I want to review something I first go to the negative comments. Through those I can find out what the downsides of a certain product are. If none of those qualities will impair my ability to use/enjoy it then I consider it a good purchase.
Positive reviews only tell me that a large percantage of folks don't have problems with stuff they buy.
It's funny that you recommend people don't mess with RHEL and just go to something 'freeer' like CentOS.
CentOS is absolutely nothing more than RHEL with the labels removed. They make almost no other alterations to it. It releases two days after every release of RHEL.