While most certainly it is the boy's fault that the network went down, does the hospital have any liability if the equipment had a lethal failure (ie. a patient died as a result). In tort law, did the hospital take necessary steps to ensure the safety of its tenants in the event of a failure. If nothing else, this might server as a warning to IT dependent hospitals of placing too much faith in technology, and to make sure that the technology is secure enough to ensure the safety of their patients.
I wish we could deal with these situations in a less-civilized manner. I wish we could go back to locking them in the stocks and as a humorous twist, use their behinds as a pincushion for added effect. I think the intimidation factor would be increased a thousand fold. And believe you me, there ought to be such a punishment for people that hijack OSS software like that to make a sleazy dime.
Or has malware become more subversive? Before it was something that was easyt to trace and detect, but has the decline actually occured from vanishing spyware, or is it because it has gone underground?
Who was excited when IE7 came out??? WHo in their right mind would download, install, and use a piece of MS software that wasn't 'finished'? It's bad enough when the full release product comes out, but a beta? C'mon, let's face it, IE6 still has quite a few problems with it and anyone expecting 7 to work well is crackers.
I'm sorry, but at this point I would rather install Sony's rootkit simply because *I (now) know* what junk is being loaded on my machine. With IE7 I'm loading the hacker's pandora box on my poor innocent rig.
It's interesting the juxtaposition of roles here. Sony was the incumbent of the console wars, leaving M$ in the position of proving itself. I think it is pretty safe to say that M$ has given Sony a run for its money, and now M$ is the incumbent to a firmly entrenched online gaming network.
To put succinctly, Sony has one shot to get it right--not to dethrone M$, but prove that its online gaming shows the potential to rival or better M$'s system.
While I don't disagree with your comment on actually making people learn to read and write, I do feel like alternative instructional techniques are underused. My university uses the Blackboard Academic Suite to let professors leverage the Internet to distribute electronic articles, test banks, quizzes, message boards, etc. as an aid to students. I don't think that this person is trying to eliminate books, but give them a *supplement* aka an aid.
Not neccesarily. The porn industry thrives on not just those that know they want adult content, but those that accidentally happen upon it. [insert joke here]. I think that the porn industry is just as guilty as the tobacco industry of desire to infiltrate peoples' homes and expose them to erotic material--this means those under the age of 18. I have no beef with the.xxx domain being created, but I doubt that there will be this mass abondonment of.com,.net, etc. domain names to claim the newly created territory, simply for the reasons you just stated.
No marketer in their right mind would close off a path from a lucrative market. In order for their machine to continue working, they have to get new customers of adult content.
Depending on how big your database is, SQL Server 2005 Express Edition may be a 'free' alternative. While there is nothing wrong with switching to MySQL ( I mean hey, this is/., if I didn't give OSS a plug, well... ), if you want to stay with MS technology, while not having to pay for the DBMS, then this might fit the bill. The only drawback with this solution is that you're basically limited to a 4GB database. Try it out, you might like it.
I hate to sound like I had a bias while I RTFA
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But the thing that kills me about these theories is that they make human existance seem like some anamolous event that all in all was just plain bad news for the rest of the planet. I feel like they make us out to be the 'virus' that Agent Smith describes humanity as in The Matrix.
Anybody else feel that way when the tree hugging hippies come out to talk?
The new brand change up makes perfect sense. After a period of time brand equity stops gaining clout with consumers. Sure, 'pentium' is recognizable, but it no longer strikes consumers as the brand to be. I remember when pentium was the 'new' thing back in the ninties. It was something to brag about. But not anymore.
Now, I'm not entirely sure that their choice of Intel D 840 is quite the alternative that *I* would look for--in fact it somes to digress from the 386, 486 SX/DX days of numbers and abbreviations. I think their campaign was quite successful when chaning to the 'pentium' brand.
So, basically, it's a good move to go with something new, but a bad move to the alternative.
I have never read a more scathing remark of Bill outside of/.:
And the next time Bill G. promises to make software that is so fundamentally secure that customers never have to worry about it, ask him what decade he plans to release it.
How does this put a nail in the coffin of ID? Could the ID's just simply say that we don't even know how 'x' works and their claim still hold true? But can't we all just play nice? Can't we just let people who believe in ID to do so, and those who don't stop whining that somebody could ever believe in that? I mean, I would think that our/. crowd would be the epitome of open mindedness and understanding.
That the only people that complain are those who wish to take advantage of posting their own link, too. If they were real/.ers, they'de care more about the stories and comments on the site than who submitted them. Face it, the complainers are just jealous that someone has submitted quite a few stories that got accepted.
But even if it were true, who cares if Beatles Beatles is in bed with Scuttlemonkey?! If you do care, it's only because you wish *you* were the one in bed with him.
I'm still happy about the articles that are posted and I'm still happy about reading comments. I really don't see any reason to be upset and ruining the boards. Afterall, you can vote with your mouse clicks-- meaning that if you don't like it, go somewhere else, or create \. the evil twin of/.
My worst experience with a host has with the thier 'form mail' junk that they use so that your pages can send e-mails. They had standard subject lines, etc. and so the only fields that you could change were the 'From' and the message body. I thought that was lame, and asked for access to the scritps (which were in my directory) but permissions were not in place to be able to access them. When I asked for permisssions to modify my own scripts, the Support said that they did not support scripts and that I wouldn't be given access to them. After going through several supervisors, they finally realized I wasn't trying to modify anything on their side of things, but customize MY OWN stuff, they finally relented. This incident and other similiar events, led me to new host.
and maybe I'm just ignorant, but WHY DON'T THEY ENCRYPT ALL THAT INFORMATION WHEN IT LEAVES THE MAIN DATA WAREHOUSE? It seems to me that by encrypting its contents, you put some security around it should it be lost/stolen/etc. Can anyone explain why this isn't done?
To be honest I wasn't too impressed with the screenshots of Darwinia, but one day being bored of playing Day of Defeat:Source I downloaded the demo of Darwinia. I was instantly sucked in. I am not too high on the startegy game genre, but found Darwinia to be a 'just fun' game. After finishing the demo I was left with a craving for more and have not regretted it one bit. Darwinia is hands down my #1 pick.
Not true. If your school is appart of the Microsoft Software Academic Alliance, then you can get Visual Studio for the same cost as Eclipse. Plus, you can download the new Visual Studio Express directly from Microsoft's website (even if you're not apart of the AA program) for the same cost. Plus, you can download the express version of SQL Server 2005 for the same cost. So, all in all it'll cost the same, except your dignity when you hang out with the Linux FUD crowd.
Having worked for a government contractor myself, here are a few tips:
1. Don't expect change overnight. If there is one too true stereotype of govt. contractors, it's that maintaining the status quo is the most important thing to do. These people have to be coaxed and coddled to change.
2. With that in mind, money talks pretty loud with them also. Put together a white paper detailing what NEEDS to be done. Outline how much it's oging to cost, but then outline the net present value and/or internal rate of return of projected savings. Managers like numbers and percentages to justify change. For example, I too was frustrated by what my employer was doing in their IT department. They also were doing a lot of things by paper, and by implementing a web application to automate a lot of what they were doing, I was able to save them not only hundreds of dollars in paper EACH MONTH, I was also saving thousands of dollars in employee work hours. Instead of having the employees wasting so much time shuffling paper, they could put their skills to better use in benefitting the company.
Hope that helps!
You could be Time Person of the Year Too!
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...but here's a slashdot article addressing that same issue. The idea of a 3D desktop is not new, but it would be cool if some of the big players actually addressed. I think that if they were genuinely itnerested, it could revolutionize the desktop as we currently conceptualize it.
Slashdot Mirror
While most certainly it is the boy's fault that the network went down, does the hospital have any liability if the equipment had a lethal failure (ie. a patient died as a result). In tort law, did the hospital take necessary steps to ensure the safety of its tenants in the event of a failure. If nothing else, this might server as a warning to IT dependent hospitals of placing too much faith in technology, and to make sure that the technology is secure enough to ensure the safety of their patients.
I wish we could deal with these situations in a less-civilized manner. I wish we could go back to locking them in the stocks and as a humorous twist, use their behinds as a pincushion for added effect. I think the intimidation factor would be increased a thousand fold. And believe you me, there ought to be such a punishment for people that hijack OSS software like that to make a sleazy dime.
Or has malware become more subversive? Before it was something that was easyt to trace and detect, but has the decline actually occured from vanishing spyware, or is it because it has gone underground?
Who was excited when IE7 came out??? WHo in their right mind would download, install, and use a piece of MS software that wasn't 'finished'? It's bad enough when the full release product comes out, but a beta? C'mon, let's face it, IE6 still has quite a few problems with it and anyone expecting 7 to work well is crackers.
I'm sorry, but at this point I would rather install Sony's rootkit simply because *I (now) know* what junk is being loaded on my machine. With IE7 I'm loading the hacker's pandora box on my poor innocent rig.
It's interesting the juxtaposition of roles here. Sony was the incumbent of the console wars, leaving M$ in the position of proving itself. I think it is pretty safe to say that M$ has given Sony a run for its money, and now M$ is the incumbent to a firmly entrenched online gaming network.
To put succinctly, Sony has one shot to get it right--not to dethrone M$, but prove that its online gaming shows the potential to rival or better M$'s system.
While I don't disagree with your comment on actually making people learn to read and write, I do feel like alternative instructional techniques are underused. My university uses the Blackboard Academic Suite to let professors leverage the Internet to distribute electronic articles, test banks, quizzes, message boards, etc. as an aid to students. I don't think that this person is trying to eliminate books, but give them a *supplement* aka an aid.
"The giant octopus was very scary! -- Data
My swimmers could say the same thing about the Intel chips.
Not neccesarily. The porn industry thrives on not just those that know they want adult content, but those that accidentally happen upon it. [insert joke here]. I think that the porn industry is just as guilty as the tobacco industry of desire to infiltrate peoples' homes and expose them to erotic material--this means those under the age of 18. I have no beef with the .xxx domain being created, but I doubt that there will be this mass abondonment of .com, .net, etc. domain names to claim the newly created territory, simply for the reasons you just stated.
No marketer in their right mind would close off a path from a lucrative market. In order for their machine to continue working, they have to get new customers of adult content.
Depending on how big your database is, SQL Server 2005 Express Edition may be a 'free' alternative. While there is nothing wrong with switching to MySQL ( I mean hey, this is /., if I didn't give OSS a plug, well... ), if you want to stay with MS technology, while not having to pay for the DBMS, then this might fit the bill. The only drawback with this solution is that you're basically limited to a 4GB database. Try it out, you might like it.
But the thing that kills me about these theories is that they make human existance seem like some anamolous event that all in all was just plain bad news for the rest of the planet. I feel like they make us out to be the 'virus' that Agent Smith describes humanity as in The Matrix.
Anybody else feel that way when the tree hugging hippies come out to talk?
The new brand change up makes perfect sense. After a period of time brand equity stops gaining clout with consumers. Sure, 'pentium' is recognizable, but it no longer strikes consumers as the brand to be. I remember when pentium was the 'new' thing back in the ninties. It was something to brag about. But not anymore. Now, I'm not entirely sure that their choice of Intel D 840 is quite the alternative that *I* would look for--in fact it somes to digress from the 386, 486 SX/DX days of numbers and abbreviations. I think their campaign was quite successful when chaning to the 'pentium' brand. So, basically, it's a good move to go with something new, but a bad move to the alternative.
Here's a link you might follow to get you onto the right foot. It seems to me that all of your 'needs' only *need* some research. Jakob Nielsen's usibility guidlines are a good headstart. My own suggestion would be KISS.
Just pull the plug on IT and see how much the business looses. Maybe then they'll appreciate you more.
I have never read a more scathing remark of Bill outside of /. :
And the next time Bill G. promises to make software that is so fundamentally secure that customers never have to worry about it, ask him what decade he plans to release it.How does this put a nail in the coffin of ID? Could the ID's just simply say that we don't even know how 'x' works and their claim still hold true? But can't we all just play nice? Can't we just let people who believe in ID to do so, and those who don't stop whining that somebody could ever believe in that? I mean, I would think that our /. crowd would be the epitome of open mindedness and understanding.
That the only people that complain are those who wish to take advantage of posting their own link, too. If they were real /.ers, they'de care more about the stories and comments on the site than who submitted them. Face it, the complainers are just jealous that someone has submitted quite a few stories that got accepted.
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But even if it were true, who cares if Beatles Beatles is in bed with Scuttlemonkey?! If you do care, it's only because you wish *you* were the one in bed with him.
I'm still happy about the articles that are posted and I'm still happy about reading comments. I really don't see any reason to be upset and ruining the boards. Afterall, you can vote with your mouse clicks-- meaning that if you don't like it, go somewhere else, or create \. the evil twin of
Couldn't we have waited another 82 days to show this story?
My worst experience with a host has with the thier 'form mail' junk that they use so that your pages can send e-mails. They had standard subject lines, etc. and so the only fields that you could change were the 'From' and the message body. I thought that was lame, and asked for access to the scritps (which were in my directory) but permissions were not in place to be able to access them. When I asked for permisssions to modify my own scripts, the Support said that they did not support scripts and that I wouldn't be given access to them. After going through several supervisors, they finally realized I wasn't trying to modify anything on their side of things, but customize MY OWN stuff, they finally relented. This incident and other similiar events, led me to new host.
and maybe I'm just ignorant, but WHY DON'T THEY ENCRYPT ALL THAT INFORMATION WHEN IT LEAVES THE MAIN DATA WAREHOUSE? It seems to me that by encrypting its contents, you put some security around it should it be lost/stolen/etc. Can anyone explain why this isn't done?
To be honest I wasn't too impressed with the screenshots of Darwinia, but one day being bored of playing Day of Defeat:Source I downloaded the demo of Darwinia. I was instantly sucked in. I am not too high on the startegy game genre, but found Darwinia to be a 'just fun' game. After finishing the demo I was left with a craving for more and have not regretted it one bit. Darwinia is hands down my #1 pick.
Not true. If your school is appart of the Microsoft Software Academic Alliance, then you can get Visual Studio for the same cost as Eclipse. Plus, you can download the new Visual Studio Express directly from Microsoft's website (even if you're not apart of the AA program) for the same cost. Plus, you can download the express version of SQL Server 2005 for the same cost. So, all in all it'll cost the same, except your dignity when you hang out with the Linux FUD crowd.
Having worked for a government contractor myself, here are a few tips:
1. Don't expect change overnight. If there is one too true stereotype of govt. contractors, it's that maintaining the status quo is the most important thing to do. These people have to be coaxed and coddled to change.
2. With that in mind, money talks pretty loud with them also. Put together a white paper detailing what NEEDS to be done. Outline how much it's oging to cost, but then outline the net present value and/or internal rate of return of projected savings. Managers like numbers and percentages to justify change. For example, I too was frustrated by what my employer was doing in their IT department. They also were doing a lot of things by paper, and by implementing a web application to automate a lot of what they were doing, I was able to save them not only hundreds of dollars in paper EACH MONTH, I was also saving thousands of dollars in employee work hours. Instead of having the employees wasting so much time shuffling paper, they could put their skills to better use in benefitting the company.
Hope that helps!
Hey, if you give enough, maybe you could outshine billy boy, and be time person of the year
...but here's a slashdot article addressing that same issue. The idea of a 3D desktop is not new, but it would be cool if some of the big players actually addressed. I think that if they were genuinely itnerested, it could revolutionize the desktop as we currently conceptualize it.