If we paid for it, we'll bloody well manage it ourselves.
Fine. Then it doesn't go on our network or receive any network services we provide.
The tech team is tasked with to managing and maintaining all workstations, servers, and networks for the organization. We have no desire to prevent users from doing work. However, you're not the only people doing work and we have to consider the needs of the organization as a whole. We can't pull magical servers from our ass that don't consume any resources. Those resources are already shared by the rest of the organization, and those resources were already properly sized and budgeted for by other departments. If you require additional resources, you must do the same as everyone else and request that they be made available and provide the funds necessary to support them.
This is not unreasonable. This is standard. The point of centralized management is to consolidate resources and to ease administration. That doesn't mean those resources are limitless or free, and like all users in the organization your access to those resources will be based on what you need to do your job and/or that what you can appropriately budget for.
You want a server? Send us the specs and we'll give you a system quote you can use in your budget. Purchase the system and we'll install, configure, and maintain the system. Does your application need root? If it does, you're undoubtedly doing something wrong. If it doesn't, you don't need it either. Do you really just want a sandbox environment? Then why can't you just use a VM on your workstation? If you truly need a hardware test environment to fully play around with it's going to be on it's own VLAN and dedicated hardware, because I'm not going to risk the rest of the organization because you misplaced a decimal point. My job is not only to provide you with services but to prevent your activities from interrupting the rest of the organization. Either way, you're paying for it from your budget because that's what the dev budget is for. Development.
If you're blowing cash on a dev team (let's say 5 folks at $120K/year each with benefits), you're going to try to save $1-2K a year so you don't have to host the final product (perhaps a publicly-facing final product) on its own server?
It would be fine if people would budget money to pay for the servers instead of expecting the tech department to foot the bill. Your desires and poor budgeting are not an excuse for burdening another department with your overhead costs. If you want it, you pay for it and we manage it.
Yep, I lived in Tucson myself for about 2 years. I'm pretty sure I had it at some point as the doctors at the hospital I worked at said that pretty much everybody is exposed to it at some point within their first six months in the area. I had a couple flu-like illnesses that could've qualified as valley fever.
Nobody really warns about it because its so common and most people have no symptoms or mild symptoms that resolve themselves.
ClamWin is "light footprint" because it's no footprint. It has no on-access scanning, which for most people is indistinguishable from not having antivirus installed.
No, he looked at GGP's broken link and saw what it was supposed to be pointing to. Then he read the article:
[The thorn letter] has the sound of either a voiceless dental fricative, like th as in the English word thick, or a voiced dental fricative, like th as in the English word the. Modern Icelandic usage generally excludes the latter, which is instead represented with the letter eth; [...]
Like all modern trivia, it was learned on an arbitrarily hyper-specific wiki entry.
More than that, the French spent so much money on the war with Britain that it essentially bankrupted the monarchy. This fairly directly led to the French Revolution.
about:config is the browser equivalent of the Windows registry or/etc/ files. Unless you're actually doing something a computer professional would need to do, it's a failure of user interface to require the user to do it.
You're completely missing the point. It's not about whether or not you or I can tell the difference. It's whether or not Google can tell the difference using some arbitrary algorithm constrained by some arbitrary definition of "adult".
Here's another one. How many free-to-play MMO ads have you seen that do little more that draw the eye with hyper-sexualized fantasy women? The contents of the game are not adult in nature, but because the target demographic is teenage boys the advertisements certainly could be. How about the overtly sexual GoDaddy ads? Or the annual Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue? Sex sells, even when the product itself has nothing at all to do with sex.
So, is an "adult ad" and advertisement for adult content, or an advertisement that contains adult content in the ad?
Windows XP was released in October of 2001. That's also the same month Red Hat 7.2 was released. I guess you could say that was a good month for operating systems.
You know when Red Hat 7.2 was end-of-lifed? December 2003. Ten years ago.
It's not that git doesn't store files efficiently or is somehow worse at binary diffs than svn. It's that svn allows you to extract a single folder of the source tree, while git requires you to clone the whole repos. If the repos is 1TB of data due to raw media assets, then even if I want to work on plain text C source files I have to clone the whole damn thing with git. With svn, I can just checkout the directory that has the C source files in it. If git means I have to have 1TB of disk space but svn means I can get away with 10MB, then svn is far more flexible with massive repositories which generally implies binary blobs.
Robots killing people is fairly easy, simple motion activated systems combined with range finding and ballistics algorithms will do the trick. Add facial/body type/gait recognition to keep it from going after so many shadows.
Getting them to do that while also not killing the right people is the hard part.
That's not the hard part, actually. The hard part is getting them to do all that more cost effectively than a human soldier. If an automated robotic killing machine doesn't do a better job than the same cost in the number of humans, you're going to have a hard time convincing anybody to buy more than one to play with.
How should I know? I haven't done any research on "most theists". However, it's gross speculation to say anything about them as a whole. He provided zero factual basis for his assertions, making them mere opinions. The weight of opinion on an argument is based solely on the expertise of the speaker in the field -- the only time appeal to authority is not completely fallacious -- yet he himself provides no credentials of any kind.
The fact that he ostensibly asserts all of this with references makes him close-minded. He has no facts yet reaches a conclusion.
The fact that he ostensibly asserts all of this with no credentials makes him pretentious. He has no exposure to the field yet believes his opinions have merit.
The fact that he ostensibly asserts that a group of people is inferior merely on the basis of the type of their religion makes him condescending and arrogant. He believes himself to be objectively better than literally billions of others.
Why should I even consider the merits of his opinion when it clearly has none?
Don't worry. Some irresponsible journalist will find the minority shareholders that don't want Michael Dell to buy the company out and get a nice story plastered all over Forbes and the Wall Street Journal. They'll probably spin it as a failure of the corporate model and that new, stronger laws should be passed to give shareholders more leverage.
It's not about the armed violent suspects. It's the unarmed violent suspects, or unarmed not-particularly-violent suspects, or even the armed, non-violent suspects. Tasers aren't used just as an alternative to lethal force, they're used as an alternative to other forms of less-lethal force.
Think about it. You're a little kid. You have just a metal bat. How likely are you to randomly hit someone with it? Not very, right? I mean, it would hurt, and there would be repercussions to hurting someone. Now we'll give you a foam bad. How likely are you to randomly hit someone with it? If you're anything like my nephew, you're going to smack everybody with it as soon as they get into range because, hey, foam bats don't hurt that much, right? Now how about a hard plastic wiffle bat? You're not going to kill someone with it, but you can sure as hell cause some pain by doing it. Swing that around a few times, and you're going to actually hurt people. Not broken bone pain, but you'll raise some welts. You're not going to cause the kind of damage a metal bat would, but you're going to use it a lot more often than you really should.
This is the problem with tasers. They make the Police think they should use them when we as citizens think they shouldn't be using a weapon at all.
Silverware. Silverware is not patented technology. It's not copyrighted either. Yet I can go to a score of stores in my medium size town and buy enough silverware to host a meal for a thousand people or more for less than a day's wages. Aspirin, acetaminophen, and penicillin are no longer covered by patents, and those are still readily available. Coca-Cola, even with it's secret formula, is famously available and identifiable world-wide. Your assertion that without the power of a legally enforced monopoly that nobody would produce goods for profit is absurd.
People that make things do so because it makes them money. It makes them money whether there is competition or not because people need things. Patents allow limited time to make more money by suspending the power of competition to artificially compensate for the cost of development. A tax based on the value of a patent or copyright over it's lifespan is perfectly acceptable. As GP said, if IP holders are so insistent that IP be subject to the benefits of property laws, then let them suffer some of the drawbacks as well.
It is not the Court's purpose to restrict the ability of the Executive (i.e., FBI, CIA, etc.) to do things that are potentially abusive. That's the Legislature's job. If you do not like how the current law reads, petition your representative to change it.
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"[I]f you have the skill/hardware" is a horrible prerequisite for using software. And people wonder why Linux isn't more popular.
Let's put it this way: The Internet has offered unlimited, free pornography since 1995, but it took 10 years for 75% of America to get access at home.
Fine. Then it doesn't go on our network or receive any network services we provide.
The tech team is tasked with to managing and maintaining all workstations, servers, and networks for the organization. We have no desire to prevent users from doing work. However, you're not the only people doing work and we have to consider the needs of the organization as a whole. We can't pull magical servers from our ass that don't consume any resources. Those resources are already shared by the rest of the organization, and those resources were already properly sized and budgeted for by other departments. If you require additional resources, you must do the same as everyone else and request that they be made available and provide the funds necessary to support them.
This is not unreasonable. This is standard. The point of centralized management is to consolidate resources and to ease administration. That doesn't mean those resources are limitless or free, and like all users in the organization your access to those resources will be based on what you need to do your job and/or that what you can appropriately budget for.
You want a server? Send us the specs and we'll give you a system quote you can use in your budget. Purchase the system and we'll install, configure, and maintain the system. Does your application need root? If it does, you're undoubtedly doing something wrong. If it doesn't, you don't need it either. Do you really just want a sandbox environment? Then why can't you just use a VM on your workstation? If you truly need a hardware test environment to fully play around with it's going to be on it's own VLAN and dedicated hardware, because I'm not going to risk the rest of the organization because you misplaced a decimal point. My job is not only to provide you with services but to prevent your activities from interrupting the rest of the organization. Either way, you're paying for it from your budget because that's what the dev budget is for. Development.
It would be fine if people would budget money to pay for the servers instead of expecting the tech department to foot the bill. Your desires and poor budgeting are not an excuse for burdening another department with your overhead costs. If you want it, you pay for it and we manage it.
There are tests for it, and presumably a common antifungal drug could treat it.
Don't panic, though. It's not really that dangerous in very many people.
Yep, I lived in Tucson myself for about 2 years. I'm pretty sure I had it at some point as the doctors at the hospital I worked at said that pretty much everybody is exposed to it at some point within their first six months in the area. I had a couple flu-like illnesses that could've qualified as valley fever.
Nobody really warns about it because its so common and most people have no symptoms or mild symptoms that resolve themselves.
The most obvious source I can think for this would be a leak in the water cooling suit astronauts wear to keep cool while in the space suit.
ClamWin is "light footprint" because it's no footprint. It has no on-access scanning, which for most people is indistinguishable from not having antivirus installed.
No, he looked at GGP's broken link and saw what it was supposed to be pointing to. Then he read the article:
Like all modern trivia, it was learned on an arbitrarily hyper-specific wiki entry.
More than that, the French spent so much money on the war with Britain that it essentially bankrupted the monarchy. This fairly directly led to the French Revolution.
It certainly flattens the syntax learning curve.
The algorithm learning curve on the other hand....
It means the NSA is not malicious, merely incompetent.
I feel so much better.
about:config is the browser equivalent of the Windows registry or /etc/ files. Unless you're actually doing something a computer professional would need to do, it's a failure of user interface to require the user to do it.
Yes, but it will cost 20 times more to be burdened by and the be forced to fix a shitty first implementation.
Do it right the first time or you're going to pay even more to do it right the second.
You're completely missing the point. It's not about whether or not you or I can tell the difference. It's whether or not Google can tell the difference using some arbitrary algorithm constrained by some arbitrary definition of "adult".
Here's another one. How many free-to-play MMO ads have you seen that do little more that draw the eye with hyper-sexualized fantasy women? The contents of the game are not adult in nature, but because the target demographic is teenage boys the advertisements certainly could be. How about the overtly sexual GoDaddy ads? Or the annual Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue? Sex sells, even when the product itself has nothing at all to do with sex.
So, is an "adult ad" and advertisement for adult content, or an advertisement that contains adult content in the ad?
Windows XP was released in October of 2001. That's also the same month Red Hat 7.2 was released. I guess you could say that was a good month for operating systems.
You know when Red Hat 7.2 was end-of-lifed? December 2003. Ten years ago.
Correct. This is correctly called "the right to be left alone".
The most common citation in US law is Justice Brandeis' dissenting opinion in Olmstead v US, which, amusingly, is another case of wiretapping the court heard way back in 1914.
It's not that git doesn't store files efficiently or is somehow worse at binary diffs than svn. It's that svn allows you to extract a single folder of the source tree, while git requires you to clone the whole repos. If the repos is 1TB of data due to raw media assets, then even if I want to work on plain text C source files I have to clone the whole damn thing with git. With svn, I can just checkout the directory that has the C source files in it. If git means I have to have 1TB of disk space but svn means I can get away with 10MB, then svn is far more flexible with massive repositories which generally implies binary blobs.
Robots killing people is fairly easy, simple motion activated systems combined with range finding and ballistics algorithms will do the trick. Add facial/body type/gait recognition to keep it from going after so many shadows.
Getting them to do that while also not killing the right people is the hard part.
That's not the hard part, actually. The hard part is getting them to do all that more cost effectively than a human soldier. If an automated robotic killing machine doesn't do a better job than the same cost in the number of humans, you're going to have a hard time convincing anybody to buy more than one to play with.
How should I know? I haven't done any research on "most theists". However, it's gross speculation to say anything about them as a whole. He provided zero factual basis for his assertions, making them mere opinions. The weight of opinion on an argument is based solely on the expertise of the speaker in the field -- the only time appeal to authority is not completely fallacious -- yet he himself provides no credentials of any kind.
The fact that he ostensibly asserts all of this with references makes him close-minded. He has no facts yet reaches a conclusion.
The fact that he ostensibly asserts all of this with no credentials makes him pretentious. He has no exposure to the field yet believes his opinions have merit.
The fact that he ostensibly asserts that a group of people is inferior merely on the basis of the type of their religion makes him condescending and arrogant. He believes himself to be objectively better than literally billions of others.
Why should I even consider the merits of his opinion when it clearly has none?
See? Religion doesn't have a monopoly on the market for close-minded, condescending, arrogant, pretentious assholes.
Don't worry. Some irresponsible journalist will find the minority shareholders that don't want Michael Dell to buy the company out and get a nice story plastered all over Forbes and the Wall Street Journal. They'll probably spin it as a failure of the corporate model and that new, stronger laws should be passed to give shareholders more leverage.
It's not about the armed violent suspects. It's the unarmed violent suspects, or unarmed not-particularly-violent suspects, or even the armed, non-violent suspects. Tasers aren't used just as an alternative to lethal force, they're used as an alternative to other forms of less-lethal force.
Think about it. You're a little kid. You have just a metal bat. How likely are you to randomly hit someone with it? Not very, right? I mean, it would hurt, and there would be repercussions to hurting someone. Now we'll give you a foam bad. How likely are you to randomly hit someone with it? If you're anything like my nephew, you're going to smack everybody with it as soon as they get into range because, hey, foam bats don't hurt that much, right? Now how about a hard plastic wiffle bat? You're not going to kill someone with it, but you can sure as hell cause some pain by doing it. Swing that around a few times, and you're going to actually hurt people. Not broken bone pain, but you'll raise some welts. You're not going to cause the kind of damage a metal bat would, but you're going to use it a lot more often than you really should.
This is the problem with tasers. They make the Police think they should use them when we as citizens think they shouldn't be using a weapon at all.
Silverware. Silverware is not patented technology. It's not copyrighted either. Yet I can go to a score of stores in my medium size town and buy enough silverware to host a meal for a thousand people or more for less than a day's wages. Aspirin, acetaminophen, and penicillin are no longer covered by patents, and those are still readily available. Coca-Cola, even with it's secret formula, is famously available and identifiable world-wide. Your assertion that without the power of a legally enforced monopoly that nobody would produce goods for profit is absurd.
People that make things do so because it makes them money. It makes them money whether there is competition or not because people need things. Patents allow limited time to make more money by suspending the power of competition to artificially compensate for the cost of development. A tax based on the value of a patent or copyright over it's lifespan is perfectly acceptable. As GP said, if IP holders are so insistent that IP be subject to the benefits of property laws, then let them suffer some of the drawbacks as well.
Suggesting Linux as an option to fix Windows is like proposing Esperanto to fix English.
It is not the Court's purpose to restrict the ability of the Executive (i.e., FBI, CIA, etc.) to do things that are potentially abusive. That's the Legislature's job. If you do not like how the current law reads, petition your representative to change it.