You're mistaking the audience for this test. The CIO can go to the board and say "We need money to fix security. Here is how bad it is now." Hand them the bad news, and get the cash to do something about it.
It isn't about raising awareness or actual testing in many cases. It's about convincing the purse-strings to open before something terrible happens.
An aminal is a type of chemical compound that has two amine groups attached to the same carbon atom. Small aminals would have small amine groups attached to a regular-size carbon atom.
I'm probably not normal, but I actually like my job. I don't even have a cellphone, and I never take work home with me. If something breaks when I'm gone, it just waits. If I won the lottery I wouldn't be desperate to "end it all."
Lots of lottery winners blow all their money and need to work again in a few years, and lots of wealthy people work to stay active.
That's only 10 days off a year. I get that many paid holidays. Most people also get 10 vacation days and possibly sick leave. I'll admit that 8 hours a day is on the low side for most people in IT, but 200 days a year is realistic.
It's tough. Term limits were introduced in order to bust up corrupt inbred permanent legislature. What we got was lobbyists calling the shots no matter what fresh-faced idealist is in office.
Can you check the etymology of "entimology?" It's not in my dictionary. Perhaps you meant "entomology" but I fail to see what insects have to do with piracy. I guess you could board and loot somebody else's bug.
Do you ever shop in a store or eat in a restaurant? If so, you're supporting the RIAA. They also get a cut of blank media and hard drives in many countries. Let's see...radio, movies, TV all cut checks as well. I'd say in today's world it is impossible to not give them money.
I actually thought about simply defining a monitor as my TV, but I still have some VHS tapes and OTA broadcasts that don't play nice with PCs. I have a capture card, but it seems stupid to fire all that up just so I can catch the odd simpsons. Oh, my TV is 29" and I can't afford a monitor that big.
That doesn't work. If you win the lottery, you can spend a few weeks documenting and training while you wait for the check to clear. You are available for occasional phone calls. You might even be willing to pitch in a few hours here and there at contractor rates.
If you're worried about the meetings becoming depressing, you can always mix it up. Ran over by a paver. Child porn charges so bad you're given the death sentence. Eaten by rats. Suicide by power drill. Make it fun!
I worked for a while entering medical forms from home. They were all scanned, even X-rays. The company also did subscription cards and rebates, but those were offshored. Their rates were very low, just a few cents a piece.
I bought a low-end 3d graphics card for $40 just for the TV-out ability. I figured not wasting time and dvd blanks would pay for itself in a matter of weeks.
Oddly, I'm running 50' of coax and using the plain ol' composite video signal and it looks good!
Not every PC has built-in tv-readable outputs you know.
It's true that property values have gone crazy. I'm from California, so I know all about the 30k houses worth a million. I live in Colorado now, and have already seen houses go from 80k to 400k in just 12 years.
I am speaking from purely anecdotal personal experience, I realize not very scientific. I have a few friends that support a family comfortably on one income, complete with home ownership and many luxuries. True, they can't live in posh neighborhoods in a 4000 square foot house.
I'd sure like to see more of productivity gains make it to the workers. Oh well.
Living on a boat, cool! I had a friend who lived in a boat in Santa Barbara because rent was so high. I heard they kept raising marina fees until he had to "move" to the next closest one.
You make good points. I lived in high-rent areas most of my life until I moved to Colorado. Rent has gone up a lot here, too, but at least it is possible to live comfortably for $1000/mo.
I was raised in a family with a stay-at-home mom in the 70s-80s, in a neighborhood where this was unusual. It was a bit tough because my friends had a lot more toys than I did, saw more movies, got cable when it came out, etc. I was able to get along ok but always felt like an outsider.
I'm grateful now, since I appear to be immune to advertising and the constant desire to BUY. It seems that things are even tougher now, in school brand awareness is even worse than the jordache mentality I remember. Conspicuous consumption is even more demanding. I bet kids are treated like freaks if they don't have a cellphone and buy/eat/wear like everyone else does.
There are a lot of reasons I don't want kids, but a big one is not inflicting this on some innocent person. I'm not prepared to "sell out" in order to smooth a kid's experience, and it isn't fair to make them endure 18 years of abuse just because I'm not a good consumer.
I disagree. You're comparing different lifestyles. The stay-at-home-mom generation had one small house, one car, and a couple of appliances. They ate out rarely, packed lunches, and had one telephone.
If a typical family lived in a 1200 square foot home, had one car, only the home phone, no cable/internet/cellphone, and didn't blow money on dining out and buying things they'd only need one income to do it.
I know there has been flat/declining real wages for some time now, but our standards are higher.
I think some people would be better off working less. You end up paying a lot for child care, eating out, 2nd car, etc.
Most people grow when they sleep. Then, their vertebrae compress during the day and they go to bed shorter. While horozontal the discs uncompress, resulting in "growth." Astronauts get about 2 inches taller in low gravity, but for us earthbound folk it is less, maybe 1-2 cm. Here is a link I found.
I end up using different computers enough that this would be an inconvenience. I'd be ok until I was somewhere that didn't know my passwords, then I'd have to go through the unpleasant retrieval process just to post to slashdot.
I also don't want to cultivate habits that'd give out my password to firefox on whoever's machine I'm on.
Agreed. I've had to help too many people who use autofill passwords and don't know the passwords when they change machines or use another pc. I avoided the whole thing because it seemed likely to allow me to forget passwords, and didn't seem totally secure.
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You're mistaking the audience for this test. The CIO can go to the board and say "We need money to fix security. Here is how bad it is now." Hand them the bad news, and get the cash to do something about it.
It isn't about raising awareness or actual testing in many cases. It's about convincing the purse-strings to open before something terrible happens.
I play CDs by grinding them in a circular pattern in a pan of gravel. They sound much warmer than vinyl.
Proper care is essential. I clean them before each use with bleach and steel wool, then tumble dry on low.
An aminal is a type of chemical compound that has two amine groups attached to the same carbon atom. Small aminals would have small amine groups attached to a regular-size carbon atom.
I'm probably not normal, but I actually like my job. I don't even have a cellphone, and I never take work home with me. If something breaks when I'm gone, it just waits. If I won the lottery I wouldn't be desperate to "end it all."
Lots of lottery winners blow all their money and need to work again in a few years, and lots of wealthy people work to stay active.
Well now we know why youngin's slouch and geezers yell "Sit up straight!"
The easiest way, of course, is to use reverse psychology. Get on my lawn!
That's only 10 days off a year. I get that many paid holidays. Most people also get 10 vacation days and possibly sick leave. I'll admit that 8 hours a day is on the low side for most people in IT, but 200 days a year is realistic.
It's tough. Term limits were introduced in order to bust up corrupt inbred permanent legislature. What we got was lobbyists calling the shots no matter what fresh-faced idealist is in office.
Can you check the etymology of "entimology?" It's not in my dictionary. Perhaps you meant "entomology" but I fail to see what insects have to do with piracy. I guess you could board and loot somebody else's bug.
Do you ever shop in a store or eat in a restaurant? If so, you're supporting the RIAA. They also get a cut of blank media and hard drives in many countries. Let's see...radio, movies, TV all cut checks as well. I'd say in today's world it is impossible to not give them money.
You can only minimize it.
There are at least 1 Enter 1 + of us.
My PC is CGA you insensitive clod!
I actually thought about simply defining a monitor as my TV, but I still have some VHS tapes and OTA broadcasts that don't play nice with PCs. I have a capture card, but it seems stupid to fire all that up just so I can catch the odd simpsons. Oh, my TV is 29" and I can't afford a monitor that big.
That doesn't work. If you win the lottery, you can spend a few weeks documenting and training while you wait for the check to clear. You are available for occasional phone calls. You might even be willing to pitch in a few hours here and there at contractor rates.
If you're worried about the meetings becoming depressing, you can always mix it up. Ran over by a paver. Child porn charges so bad you're given the death sentence. Eaten by rats. Suicide by power drill. Make it fun!
I worked for a while entering medical forms from home. They were all scanned, even X-rays. The company also did subscription cards and rebates, but those were offshored. Their rates were very low, just a few cents a piece.
I bought a low-end 3d graphics card for $40 just for the TV-out ability. I figured not wasting time and dvd blanks would pay for itself in a matter of weeks.
Oddly, I'm running 50' of coax and using the plain ol' composite video signal and it looks good!
Not every PC has built-in tv-readable outputs you know.
Interesting post, but you're wrong about P=NP. Here is a quick overview.
Basically, P is one set of problems and NP is another set of problems. It is "hard" to say if the two sets of problems are equally complex.
It's true that property values have gone crazy. I'm from California, so I know all about the 30k houses worth a million. I live in Colorado now, and have already seen houses go from 80k to 400k in just 12 years.
That is interesting, I will give it a read.
I am speaking from purely anecdotal personal experience, I realize not very scientific. I have a few friends that support a family comfortably on one income, complete with home ownership and many luxuries. True, they can't live in posh neighborhoods in a 4000 square foot house.
I'd sure like to see more of productivity gains make it to the workers. Oh well.
Living on a boat, cool! I had a friend who lived in a boat in Santa Barbara because rent was so high. I heard they kept raising marina fees until he had to "move" to the next closest one.
You make good points. I lived in high-rent areas most of my life until I moved to Colorado. Rent has gone up a lot here, too, but at least it is possible to live comfortably for $1000/mo.
I was raised in a family with a stay-at-home mom in the 70s-80s, in a neighborhood where this was unusual. It was a bit tough because my friends had a lot more toys than I did, saw more movies, got cable when it came out, etc. I was able to get along ok but always felt like an outsider.
I'm grateful now, since I appear to be immune to advertising and the constant desire to BUY. It seems that things are even tougher now, in school brand awareness is even worse than the jordache mentality I remember. Conspicuous consumption is even more demanding. I bet kids are treated like freaks if they don't have a cellphone and buy/eat/wear like everyone else does.
There are a lot of reasons I don't want kids, but a big one is not inflicting this on some innocent person. I'm not prepared to "sell out" in order to smooth a kid's experience, and it isn't fair to make them endure 18 years of abuse just because I'm not a good consumer.
I disagree. You're comparing different lifestyles. The stay-at-home-mom generation had one small house, one car, and a couple of appliances. They ate out rarely, packed lunches, and had one telephone.
If a typical family lived in a 1200 square foot home, had one car, only the home phone, no cable/internet/cellphone, and didn't blow money on dining out and buying things they'd only need one income to do it.
I know there has been flat/declining real wages for some time now, but our standards are higher.
I think some people would be better off working less. You end up paying a lot for child care, eating out, 2nd car, etc.
Most people grow when they sleep. Then, their vertebrae compress during the day and they go to bed shorter. While horozontal the discs uncompress, resulting in "growth." Astronauts get about 2 inches taller in low gravity, but for us earthbound folk it is less, maybe 1-2 cm. Here is a link I found.
I end up using different computers enough that this would be an inconvenience. I'd be ok until I was somewhere that didn't know my passwords, then I'd have to go through the unpleasant retrieval process just to post to slashdot.
I also don't want to cultivate habits that'd give out my password to firefox on whoever's machine I'm on.
Agreed. I've had to help too many people who use autofill passwords and don't know the passwords when they change machines or use another pc. I avoided the whole thing because it seemed likely to allow me to forget passwords, and didn't seem totally secure.
OK, let me see if I understand.
C = based on water
F = based on nothing
I don't think F is just as good as C.
I've seen it wrong too many times. It doesn't look right even when it's right. Oh well.