"it's not hurting anyone" Unless you work on those ships.
"but who's it going to hurt in the middle of the Pacific's vast nutrient-devoid dead zones" The people working on those ships, and the formerly nutrient-rich zones that died off because of shipping pollution.
Actually, there IS a corporate income tax -- the B&O tax, which is paid out of GROSS, not NET income. As a former self-employed contractor I used to have to pay it quarterly.
Also, there's little wonder that Bill Gates Sr. is supporting this bull. He doesn't have a job, per se, and doesn't generate "income" the way the rest of us yahoos do.
So you're saying it's perfectly reasonable to make an assumption based on data collected from the last 150 (out of 4.5 BILLION) years. A sample size of 0.0000033%
Or even if you were to limit the scope to earliest known homo sapiens (in order to prove "man-made" glboal warming) from 195,000 years ago, you're still talking about a sample size of less than 0.077%.
It's amazing how many times that this is considered a Microsoft problem when in reality its an organizational problem. Most companies are unwilling to invest in proper training and implementing solid security practices until an attack occurs. While its easy to pick Windows-based malware as a prime example of why organizations should shift from closed-source to open-source technology, the fact of the matter is that the problem is with how the network environments are managed. By locking down user desktops, implementing anti-virus, anti-malware, and anti-spam solutions, in addition to inline IDS or IPS technologies, there is no reason something like this should be infecting any organization. I run multiple Windows PCs, and I don't have viruses running around rampant on my networks.
Seriously, though. Anything you share with third parties, even to a limited audience, can no longer be considered private. And somehow I doubt that his "close friends" were only his doctors, his lawyers, and his clergy. The privacy argument is a bullshit argument.
Anything that lets Active X run, eg a Windows OS is an un-containable security risk. By that I mean that if you have a system that allows that stuff to run you have __NO__ security in that Logical Partition, and you have to be able to sacrifice the Image and start over.
What a load of crap. Can you actually prove what you just stated? Here are some facts for you to digest.
Any operating system / browser environment is just as secure as the users allow it to be. You can run Firefox with NoScript all day long, but how many of us have seen web pages that state "You must have JavaScript enabled to view these pages." A more savvy user would simply decide to either not use that website, or find an alternate way of doing what they need to without lowering the security on their system. However, less informed users might simply decide to create either a permanent or temporary exception for that site without considering the consequences. The same is true with Active X controls. I don't install any I don't trust, and most of the time, even if an application I installed adds an Active X control, I manually go into IE and disable any ActiveX controls I don't trust.
Secondly, anyone who runs their applications, or OS as either root or administrator opens him or herself up to attack regardless of the platform. The fact that there are many more Windows based attacks is because of two reasons. 1) Windows is easy to use, and therefore easier to manipulate, and 2) Windows still owns the lion's share of the desktop market, therefore attacks will have a broader impact. It is foolhardy and ignorant to suggest that any platform is inherently more secure than another. Each has their vulnerabilities, and each will have inexperienced users making bad decisions.
I think you and I are in the same camp. I dropped out after my first year of college in 1994 and started working in the tech bench at a big box retailer. Eventually, I moved through a few different positions, computer operator at a bank, then the data processing center at another company, until I got hired on to do phone support for our data products.
Eventually I moved into tech support, which led to a sysadmin career and then technical training. During that time, I pursued both the MCSE and CCNA certifications. Some of my certs were sponsored by my employer, others were not. After doing sysadmin work for a number of years, I moved into a more soft-skills focused role.
I've been more of a process management / performance management / business intelligence specialist the last couple of years. I just finished the first draft of my second book, and I will probably gross six figures this year. Not bad for an English major who dropped out after Freshman Year.
The bottom line is this. Whether or not you have a degree, expect to start at the bottom, and work your way up. If you advance too soon, you may be in over your head. If your career stagnates, it's because you haven't put enough initiative in moving forward.
Never be afraid of a challenge. My specialty is in Microsoft SysAdmin, but I can configure Cisco routers and switches with the best of them. I've installed a few Linux testbeds, and while it's not my OS of choice, I can manage my way through it.
I will say this; if you're not going to get a degree, at least pursue a basic cert like A+ or Network+ to start.
Because Warren Buffett, Bill Gates, and George Soros all made bajillions playing football?
Hard work is its own reward. The educational system in this country is broken because the bleeding hearts at the NEA are more interested in feel-good "everyone gets a participation trophy" socialism than focusing on the merits of educational achievement.
But, this being slashdot, it's somehow George Bush's fault.
I've worked in IT for 14 years, and I can tell you that the more an organization is willing to invest in their recruiting or hiring process, the better the company is likely to be. Considering you work in a market that is constantly shifting and changing with technology, it's not unreasonable to be expected to prove your skills.
If you were a marketing expert, and were interviewing for jobs, don't you think you'd be expected to show a portfolio, or other examples of your previous work and skills?
The logic of this escapes me. And mind you, I'm not saying you're wrong but...
Since when is there an expectation of privacy from government agencies when you're using a public library funded by public dollars.
But, what makes this a non-issue is that the FBI asked for information, and the director of that library made the decision he thought was best, and voluntarily provided the agency with what they requested. He might have known that a warrant was inevitable, and didn't want to waste money fighting it.
There was another article I read earlier this week that mentioned while Comedy Central bought the cable TV rights, broadcast TV rights were still up for grabs.
Comcast doesn't need to do device verification because all devices that use Cable Cards must be certified by CableLabs. They hold the patents on how the cards work, and they license the technology to approved vendors. The problem is, I can't go out and buy an off-the-shelf TV tuner card that has a cable card input to use with a home-built PC running either Windows Media Center or MythTV. I would have to buy an OEM PC from an approved manufacturer with a specific BIOS configuration.
Personally, I don't find that to be a very consumer-friendly option.
Also, where can I go out and buy one of these tuners from Cisco or Motorola? Can I pick one up at Target? or Wal-Mart?
Since when is an certification that requires seven exams considered "entry-level."
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Cisco Certifications are no different than Microsoft or any other vendor-specific certifications. And quite frankly, you're an ass for suggesting anyone with a Cisco cert is a moron.
Vendor-specific certifications can offer value to both employers and employees by recognizing a certain level of knowledge about a particular product or technology.
There are certain nuances to the Cisco IOS that might demonstrate that even though a candidate may not know everything there is to know about OSPF or EIGRP, that they are at least comfortable with the IOS, and can figure out how to do something without having their hand held. The certification industry helps drives product sales. If I have a number of Cisco certified staff working for me, am I really going to invest in 3Com or Juniper when I know there may be (an albeit slight) learning curve for them?
I hold many certifications, myself. Most of them are vendor specific (primarily Microsoft, because I worked as a Microsoft Certified Trainer; and I certified in everything I taught); but not all of them.
I don't think it's fair to dismiss the CCNA; but I think the Network+ certification might be more valuable to an employer who is looking for general network skills without vendor-specific implementation.
But, there's always going to be the elitist asses who dismiss all certification programs outright. I guess when you fail the test two or three times, you might become embittered.
I disagree. I tend to find the Times to be a bit more, dare I say, fair and balanced than the PI. I prefer the Times over the PI for the following reasons.
The Times is really more of a local paper. The PI is, just like any other Hearst-owned property, more concerned with national headlines than the region.
The Times is more balanced, especially when it comes to endorsements. The PI always endorses to the left, often to the extreme left. The Times has made endorsements for more moderate candidates that make sense to Seattle, and Washington as a whole. For example, the Times endorsed both Dino Rossi and Mike McGavick, both moderate Republicans.
You would never see the PI "stoop to that level."
I'll tell him, alright. I'll tell him to his ass-face. This is the land of opportunity, not equality. Every American has an opportunity to become successful and wealthy if they're willing to work for it.
-1 OffTopic
(There, I saved the haters the trouble)
This is true. I am the primary Exchange administrator for my organization, and we intentionally limit most employee mailboxes to 60MB. This is because your e-mail client is not a god damned filesystem . Email messages by themselves should not be more than a few KB, even with the overhead of using MS Word-rich text or MS HTML. Attachments are the problem, and we instruct our users to save the attachments to the filesystem where they can be cataloged and index with by the indexing server.
This culture of storing everything in your mailbox leads to bad business practices, and an IT management nightmare.
The technology is different. Try playing some of your old DOS games in Vista. Can you play Monkey Island on Vista or XP? Not without an emulator like ScummVM. It's the same thing between the Xbox and the Xbox 360. Plus, you have the additional challenge of supporting games that moved from an x86 platform to PowerPC.
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"it's not hurting anyone"
Unless you work on those ships.
"but who's it going to hurt in the middle of the Pacific's vast nutrient-devoid dead zones"
The people working on those ships, and the formerly nutrient-rich zones that died off because of shipping pollution.
Actually, there IS a corporate income tax -- the B&O tax, which is paid out of GROSS, not NET income. As a former self-employed contractor I used to have to pay it quarterly.
Also, there's little wonder that Bill Gates Sr. is supporting this bull. He doesn't have a job, per se, and doesn't generate "income" the way the rest of us yahoos do.
So you're saying it's perfectly reasonable to make an assumption based on data collected from the last 150 (out of 4.5 BILLION) years. A sample size of 0.0000033%
Or even if you were to limit the scope to earliest known homo sapiens (in order to prove "man-made" glboal warming) from 195,000 years ago, you're still talking about a sample size of less than 0.077%.
Hardly "undeniable," or even conclusive.
It's amazing how many times that this is considered a Microsoft problem when in reality its an organizational problem. Most companies are unwilling to invest in proper training and implementing solid security practices until an attack occurs. While its easy to pick Windows-based malware as a prime example of why organizations should shift from closed-source to open-source technology, the fact of the matter is that the problem is with how the network environments are managed. By locking down user desktops, implementing anti-virus, anti-malware, and anti-spam solutions, in addition to inline IDS or IPS technologies, there is no reason something like this should be infecting any organization. I run multiple Windows PCs, and I don't have viruses running around rampant on my networks.
The real joke is that in Comrade Obama's Socialist Amerika, the government will be looking to Microsoft for a bailout.
Seriously, though. Anything you share with third parties, even to a limited audience, can no longer be considered private. And somehow I doubt that his "close friends" were only his doctors, his lawyers, and his clergy. The privacy argument is a bullshit argument.
What a load of crap. Can you actually prove what you just stated? Here are some facts for you to digest.
Any operating system / browser environment is just as secure as the users allow it to be. You can run Firefox with NoScript all day long, but how many of us have seen web pages that state "You must have JavaScript enabled to view these pages." A more savvy user would simply decide to either not use that website, or find an alternate way of doing what they need to without lowering the security on their system. However, less informed users might simply decide to create either a permanent or temporary exception for that site without considering the consequences. The same is true with Active X controls. I don't install any I don't trust, and most of the time, even if an application I installed adds an Active X control, I manually go into IE and disable any ActiveX controls I don't trust.
Secondly, anyone who runs their applications, or OS as either root or administrator opens him or herself up to attack regardless of the platform. The fact that there are many more Windows based attacks is because of two reasons. 1) Windows is easy to use, and therefore easier to manipulate, and 2) Windows still owns the lion's share of the desktop market, therefore attacks will have a broader impact. It is foolhardy and ignorant to suggest that any platform is inherently more secure than another. Each has their vulnerabilities, and each will have inexperienced users making bad decisions.
I'm generally a Microsoft booster, but I found your post almost as funny as the VCR comment. I think the AC who called you a troll is the real troll.
I think you and I are in the same camp. I dropped out after my first year of college in 1994 and started working in the tech bench at a big box retailer. Eventually, I moved through a few different positions, computer operator at a bank, then the data processing center at another company, until I got hired on to do phone support for our data products.
Eventually I moved into tech support, which led to a sysadmin career and then technical training. During that time, I pursued both the MCSE and CCNA certifications. Some of my certs were sponsored by my employer, others were not. After doing sysadmin work for a number of years, I moved into a more soft-skills focused role.
I've been more of a process management / performance management / business intelligence specialist the last couple of years. I just finished the first draft of my second book, and I will probably gross six figures this year. Not bad for an English major who dropped out after Freshman Year.
The bottom line is this. Whether or not you have a degree, expect to start at the bottom, and work your way up. If you advance too soon, you may be in over your head. If your career stagnates, it's because you haven't put enough initiative in moving forward.
Never be afraid of a challenge. My specialty is in Microsoft SysAdmin, but I can configure Cisco routers and switches with the best of them. I've installed a few Linux testbeds, and while it's not my OS of choice, I can manage my way through it.
I will say this; if you're not going to get a degree, at least pursue a basic cert like A+ or Network+ to start.
Because Warren Buffett, Bill Gates, and George Soros all made bajillions playing football? Hard work is its own reward. The educational system in this country is broken because the bleeding hearts at the NEA are more interested in feel-good "everyone gets a participation trophy" socialism than focusing on the merits of educational achievement. But, this being slashdot, it's somehow George Bush's fault.
I've worked in IT for 14 years, and I can tell you that the more an organization is willing to invest in their recruiting or hiring process, the better the company is likely to be. Considering you work in a market that is constantly shifting and changing with technology, it's not unreasonable to be expected to prove your skills. If you were a marketing expert, and were interviewing for jobs, don't you think you'd be expected to show a portfolio, or other examples of your previous work and skills?
Not just ocean water, but all water is wet.
Since when is there an expectation of privacy from government agencies when you're using a public library funded by public dollars.
But, what makes this a non-issue is that the FBI asked for information, and the director of that library made the decision he thought was best, and voluntarily provided the agency with what they requested. He might have known that a warrant was inevitable, and didn't want to waste money fighting it.
1/4, actually.
Its should have been It's
parent's should have been parents.
Other's should have been Others.
don't is correct.
Is "M$" still funny or subversive after 1998?
There was another article I read earlier this week that mentioned while Comedy Central bought the cable TV rights, broadcast TV rights were still up for grabs.
I think you missed the point.
Comcast doesn't need to do device verification because all devices that use Cable Cards must be certified by CableLabs. They hold the patents on how the cards work, and they license the technology to approved vendors.
The problem is, I can't go out and buy an off-the-shelf TV tuner card that has a cable card input to use with a home-built PC running either Windows Media Center or MythTV. I would have to buy an OEM PC from an approved manufacturer with a specific BIOS configuration.
Personally, I don't find that to be a very consumer-friendly option.
Also, where can I go out and buy one of these tuners from Cisco or Motorola? Can I pick one up at Target? or Wal-Mart?
At least I, as an American, am allowed to think of such things.
CCNP certification consists of 4 exams (or 3 if you combine the routing and switching exams)
CCIE certification consists of 2 exams, one written and one (7 hour!) hands-on lab.
http://www.cisco.com/web/learning/le3/learning_ca
MCP certification is 1 exams 2003/default.mspx
MCSA certification is 4 exams
MCSE certification is 7 exams
http://www.microsoft.com/learning/mcp/mcse/window
Since when is an certification that requires seven exams considered "entry-level."
Cisco Certifications are no different than Microsoft or any other vendor-specific certifications. And quite frankly, you're an ass for suggesting anyone with a Cisco cert is a moron. Vendor-specific certifications can offer value to both employers and employees by recognizing a certain level of knowledge about a particular product or technology. There are certain nuances to the Cisco IOS that might demonstrate that even though a candidate may not know everything there is to know about OSPF or EIGRP, that they are at least comfortable with the IOS, and can figure out how to do something without having their hand held. The certification industry helps drives product sales. If I have a number of Cisco certified staff working for me, am I really going to invest in 3Com or Juniper when I know there may be (an albeit slight) learning curve for them? I hold many certifications, myself. Most of them are vendor specific (primarily Microsoft, because I worked as a Microsoft Certified Trainer; and I certified in everything I taught); but not all of them. I don't think it's fair to dismiss the CCNA; but I think the Network+ certification might be more valuable to an employer who is looking for general network skills without vendor-specific implementation. But, there's always going to be the elitist asses who dismiss all certification programs outright. I guess when you fail the test two or three times, you might become embittered.
I disagree. I tend to find the Times to be a bit more, dare I say, fair and balanced than the PI. I prefer the Times over the PI for the following reasons.
The Times is really more of a local paper. The PI is, just like any other Hearst-owned property, more concerned with national headlines than the region.
The Times is more balanced, especially when it comes to endorsements. The PI always endorses to the left, often to the extreme left. The Times has made endorsements for more moderate candidates that make sense to Seattle, and Washington as a whole. For example, the Times endorsed both Dino Rossi and Mike McGavick, both moderate Republicans.
You would never see the PI "stoop to that level."
I'll tell him, alright. I'll tell him to his ass-face. This is the land of opportunity, not equality. Every American has an opportunity to become successful and wealthy if they're willing to work for it. -1 OffTopic (There, I saved the haters the trouble)
This is true. I am the primary Exchange administrator for my organization, and we intentionally limit most employee mailboxes to 60MB. This is because your e-mail client is not a god damned filesystem . Email messages by themselves should not be more than a few KB, even with the overhead of using MS Word-rich text or MS HTML. Attachments are the problem, and we instruct our users to save the attachments to the filesystem where they can be cataloged and index with by the indexing server. This culture of storing everything in your mailbox leads to bad business practices, and an IT management nightmare.
The technology is different. Try playing some of your old DOS games in Vista. Can you play Monkey Island on Vista or XP? Not without an emulator like ScummVM. It's the same thing between the Xbox and the Xbox 360. Plus, you have the additional challenge of supporting games that moved from an x86 platform to PowerPC.