Agree 100%. The issue is we as technologist often don't (can't?) communicate 'safe' behaviours, and quite often the end-user doesn't realise the importance of those behaviours until their information (or even personal) security is compromised.
Safe behaviour, in the real world or in technology, is a learned behaviour - you often need to get hurt first. Hopefully, that first experience isn't too damaging, but is just enough to allow people to learn from the experience.
What I liked best about m/f is they were never down while I worked
All true stories
Until you're having game of frisbee in the machine room using the lid from a tape canister, and hit the (unprotected) power-off button - 4331 running DOS/VSE
Or, the IBM engineer who hung his jacket on the EPO (Emergency power off) while doing maintenance - guess what happened when he grabbed his jacket to leave - 3033 running MVS
Well, everybody does that, don't they? Even the Bush administration does that. The key is in your perception of who the bozos are, and who makes a difference...
This reminds me of a U.K. newspaper (the Sun I think) running a competition where the first prize was a Reliant Robin - a HORRIBLE 3 wheeled car. Second prize was two Reliant Robins!
Given my recent woes of getting my Nokia 6682 to actually work as a UTMS/EDGE modem for my Powerbook, the notion of integration is a really nice sounding idea.
I believe that your real problem will come to light when you trade your Just Works(tm) OSX for something evil - simply to get integrated 3G.
Personally, I'd much rather take the test...it's probably far easier than answering that damned question, 'What do you regard as your greatest weakness?' during the interview...
I love that question - after a half hour of me telling them how great I am they hit me with 'What do you regard as your greatest weakness'. My answer?
Shanghai Automotive made a small car (forget the name) that was eerily familiar to GM staffers. GM went and bought one, and found that the floorpan had the same errors in it that the GM designers / engineers hadn't had time to get rid of!
Taking your JV partner to court seems to be the done thing in China!
I know they're not sexy, but IMHO SCADA boxes are the weak link. There seems to be a large effort to secure financial and military systems, but if the power goes off because internet connected scada boxes are infiltrated, then nothing works!
There are some weird requirements that companies have for their new employees, including only wanting someone who has worked in their specific industry. I've found investment banks to be the worst for this - they only want someone with x years investment banking experience, regardless of the IT industry experience.
For some roles I can see this being necessary e.g. a forex application developer. I'm in the infrastructure space - which is pretty much the same across ALL industries. Investment banks may like to think that they are somehow more 'mission critical' than other industries, but they're wrong! e.g. medical/clinical systems are far more important IMHO than financials.
What many companies are doing, by insisting on hiring only those people who already work in their industry will be considered, is not allowing the possibility that someone from outside the industry may bring fresh ideas.
After a rather large motorcycle crash I spent 3 months in traction. The bed was inclined about 6 degrees, head down, to stop me from following the traction weights to the floor!
Getting up for the first time was very weird - I'd lost about 30 kilos of body weight (about 30%), and the head spins were very unsettling.
What kind of wishful thinking persuades someone that IE is suitable for browsing any website except the ones you have written personally?
Actually, that is exactly what I do! Any sites that I develop get tested locally using all installed browsers, including IE, but only with the machine 'stand-alone'. If I'm out on the web, IE never gets used!
Does this mean that the Zacarias Moussaoui (currently in the death penalty phase of his trial for the 9/11 attacks) defence team could say that he emailed the FBI the details of the impending attacks but it 'bounced'?
A few years back I was working for a large U.S. automaker (commonly known by a two letter acronym) and we tried for over a year to get a definitive legal opinion as to whether we could take information regarding Chinese citizens outside the borders and into our offshore datacentre. Seeing as how we couldn't get that opinion, we left some data onshore - which made a mess of my infrastructure design!
We are engaged in a huge debate, not over the fact that the control of our nation's ports has been turned over to foreign governments in the first place, but rather over the fact that it may be racist to suggest that a nation that funded Bin Ladin, passed sensitive information to him, had top level meetings with him, recognized the Taliban, and was home to two of the 9/11 hijackers might not be trustworthy
It actually took me to the last point of that sentence before realising that you were talking about the U.A.E. (a valuable ally of the U.S.) and not the U.S. itself!
This is like a directive from Siemens Head Office in Germany that dictated the way to answer the phone - if you were in the London office you answered the phone 'Good Morning/Afternoon Siemens London'. It took a bit of explaining to get the people from the Staines office an exemption!
Many people, here and elsewhere, are decrying the violence (inherent or simply highlighted by the western media) of Islam. Islam is roughly 600 years younger than Christianity - what were the Christians doing 600 years ago? Killing Muslims in The Crusades!
Surely/.ers more than most understand the concept of karma.
As a non-American, I find it slightly disturbing that the US is now justifying its Iraqi invasion as 'spreading democracy'. This has traditionally not been a strong point of American foreign policy e.g. the Vietnamese people would have voted for 'Uncle Ho' (Ho Chi Min - Communist leader) had the US allowed those elections to go ahead. Now we're seeing the 'wrong' (for the US, the EU and Israel) result in Palestine.
The danger is that the US will intervene whenever there is a free and fair election result with which it doesn't agree - then we're back with the US installing and supporting their own dictators (Saddam Hussein anyone?) with all of their attendant power abuses simply to keep the 'wrong' people out of (legitimate) power.
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bulging in the northern hemisphere and pressed inward in the south.
Is there a north or south in space?? How do you tell?
Agree 100%. The issue is we as technologist often don't (can't?) communicate 'safe' behaviours, and quite often the end-user doesn't realise the importance of those behaviours until their information (or even personal) security is compromised.
Safe behaviour, in the real world or in technology, is a learned behaviour - you often need to get hurt first. Hopefully, that first experience isn't too damaging, but is just enough to allow people to learn from the experience.
What I liked best about m/f is they were never down while I worked
All true stories
Until you're having game of frisbee in the machine room using the lid from a tape canister, and hit the (unprotected) power-off button - 4331 running DOS/VSE
Or, the IBM engineer who hung his jacket on the EPO (Emergency power off) while doing maintenance - guess what happened when he grabbed his jacket to leave - 3033 running MVS
Or, me screwing up
I guess I'm showing my age
the younger generation is trusting internet news sources more and more.
The youth of today are so trusting - just the other day I said to my girlfriend 'But its really good for your skin!'
Scott McNealy is available!
Well, everybody does that, don't they? Even the Bush administration does that. The key is in your perception of who the bozos are, and who makes a difference...
Except the bozo in charge!
This reminds me of a U.K. newspaper (the Sun I think) running a competition where the first prize was a Reliant Robin - a HORRIBLE 3 wheeled car. Second prize was two Reliant Robins!
Given my recent woes of getting my Nokia 6682 to actually work as a UTMS/EDGE modem for my Powerbook, the notion of integration is a really nice sounding idea.
I believe that your real problem will come to light when you trade your Just Works(tm) OSX for something evil - simply to get integrated 3G.
Personally, I'd much rather take the test...it's probably far easier than answering that damned question, 'What do you regard as your greatest weakness?' during the interview...
I love that question - after a half hour of me telling them how great I am they hit me with 'What do you regard as your greatest weakness'. My answer?
I'm too modest
Worse than that.....
Shanghai Automotive made a small car (forget the name) that was eerily familiar to GM staffers. GM went and bought one, and found that the floorpan had the same errors in it that the GM designers / engineers hadn't had time to get rid of!
Taking your JV partner to court seems to be the done thing in China!
I know they're not sexy, but IMHO SCADA boxes are the weak link. There seems to be a large effort to secure financial and military systems, but if the power goes off because internet connected scada boxes are infiltrated, then nothing works!
There are some weird requirements that companies have for their new employees, including only wanting someone who has worked in their specific industry. I've found investment banks to be the worst for this - they only want someone with x years investment banking experience, regardless of the IT industry experience.
For some roles I can see this being necessary e.g. a forex application developer. I'm in the infrastructure space - which is pretty much the same across ALL industries. Investment banks may like to think that they are somehow more 'mission critical' than other industries, but they're wrong! e.g. medical/clinical systems are far more important IMHO than financials.
What many companies are doing, by insisting on hiring only those people who already work in their industry will be considered, is not allowing the possibility that someone from outside the industry may bring fresh ideas.
After a rather large motorcycle crash I spent 3 months in traction. The bed was inclined about 6 degrees, head down, to stop me from following the traction weights to the floor!
Getting up for the first time was very weird - I'd lost about 30 kilos of body weight (about 30%), and the head spins were very unsettling.
Not something I'd recommend to anyone!
From the article. Now, can you tell me how to remove "your software" that you acknowledge you provided free of charge? I consider this "hacking".
rm -Rf *
I reckon that Johnny Hughes, in Centos support, deserves a medal - I would have spat the dummy at this fool!
What kind of wishful thinking persuades someone that IE is suitable for browsing any website except the ones you have written personally?
Actually, that is exactly what I do! Any sites that I develop get tested locally using all installed browsers, including IE, but only with the machine 'stand-alone'. If I'm out on the web, IE never gets used!
Does this mean that the Zacarias Moussaoui (currently in the death penalty phase of his trial for the 9/11 attacks) defence team could say that he emailed the FBI the details of the impending attacks but it 'bounced'?
American beer is like making love in a canoe.
It's fucking near water!
Except for all the 6'6" women :)
Yeah, you've got to go up on them!
A few years back I was working for a large U.S. automaker (commonly known by a two letter acronym) and we tried for over a year to get a definitive legal opinion as to whether we could take information regarding Chinese citizens outside the borders and into our offshore datacentre. Seeing as how we couldn't get that opinion, we left some data onshore - which made a mess of my infrastructure design!
We are engaged in a huge debate, not over the fact that the control of our nation's ports has been turned over to foreign governments in the first place, but rather over the fact that it may be racist to suggest that a nation that funded Bin Ladin, passed sensitive information to him, had top level meetings with him, recognized the Taliban, and was home to two of the 9/11 hijackers might not be trustworthy
It actually took me to the last point of that sentence before realising that you were talking about the U.A.E. (a valuable ally of the U.S.) and not the U.S. itself!
This is like a directive from Siemens Head Office in Germany that dictated the way to answer the phone - if you were in the London office you answered the phone 'Good Morning/Afternoon Siemens London'. It took a bit of explaining to get the people from the Staines office an exemption!
I use dialup and I ..... [no carrier]
I know the concept of Olympians being amateurs is outdated, but shouldn't they be barred from competition for this sort of thing?
Does this mean the U.S. Basketball team now needs to give back its medals?
Many people, here and elsewhere, are decrying the violence (inherent or simply highlighted by the western media) of Islam. Islam is roughly 600 years younger than Christianity - what were the Christians doing 600 years ago? Killing Muslims in The Crusades!
/.ers more than most understand the concept of karma.
Surely
Mod me flamebait if you must - karma comes round!
As a non-American, I find it slightly disturbing that the US is now justifying its Iraqi invasion as 'spreading democracy'. This has traditionally not been a strong point of American foreign policy e.g. the Vietnamese people would have voted for 'Uncle Ho' (Ho Chi Min - Communist leader) had the US allowed those elections to go ahead. Now we're seeing the 'wrong' (for the US, the EU and Israel) result in Palestine.
The danger is that the US will intervene whenever there is a free and fair election result with which it doesn't agree - then we're back with the US installing and supporting their own dictators (Saddam Hussein anyone?) with all of their attendant power abuses simply to keep the 'wrong' people out of (legitimate) power.
History always repeats!