Re:IT, No T, any job is the same
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I agree wholeheartedly. My job is killing my life right now, what with a commute of two hours each way to get into NYC. It cuts down on the time I have and when I get home, I leave work behind only to find more work. I get precious little sleep (4 hours is a pretty good night for me) and as a result of all of this, things are rocky at home.
But this would occur in any kind of job that demanded the same kind of hours. It is not the culprit. As for me, of course I'm trying to find a job closer to home, but the market is competitive right now with the number of people outsourced rising and employers demanding wider skill sets. I can only hope I luck into something soon.
The European Office of Trade Marks and Designs, noting that the vast majority of the hits yielded by a Google search for the word made no reference to the food...
...and asteroid impacts, close passes by rogue planets, ice ages, orbital wobbiling, development of nuclear weapons, and the occasional odd supernova in your immediate vicinity, you go on to develop advanced civilization and the Double Whopper with Cheese (tm).
However, for an autistic individual, sometimes the simple pressure on the skin provides a calming effect, or is a stimulus they require to maintain control. I worked with the autistic and developmentally disabled for 8 years; I had many a client who required some kind of tactile stimulus, either as constant input (self-stimulatory behavior) or for behavioral control (comfort). This is ideal, as it would be a lot less obtrusive than some of the ways we came up with to provide such stimulation.
They end their posting by stating that only spamhaus.org's registrar or the Internet Registry have the ability and authority to suspend an individual domain name.
And in that regard, it would do no good, as Spamhaus could simply register another domain with a registrar in a different country using a TLD outside the normal.org structure (I believe they already have.co.uk) and that would be that. Given the number of potential TLDs, e360 could be in litigation forever even attempting to shut down every possible domain. And even then, it would be futile, as they'd just resort to using a set of rotating IP addresses.
McAfee set up a special committee of independent directors to look into the company's practices of stock-option granting. The committee was assisted by independent counsel and forensic accountants. Based on the committee's findings, McAfee now expects to have to restate financial results over a 10-year period to record pre-tax non-cash charges of between US$100 million and $150 million for stock-based compensation.
Which is where the problem lies in any company that hands out stock options. The trick of "back dating" options so CEOs can cash in on higher returns, coupled with a CEO's knowledge of events in the company, give them unprecedented power to make money off the company's stock while simultaneously causing the company to slide toward oblivion. No one can claim McAfee has exactly been tearing up the anti-virus market of late. Now, having to restate earnings, the stock is threatened with a nose-dive and the other investors are left holding the bag while the defrocked CEOs and Presidents get to walk away with large sums of cash.
I mean, if you were Ballmer, wouldn't you be thrilled that Google had bought YouTube?
No. Now I have to compete with Google in yet another arena that I don't want to. Every time Google makes a move, I have to counter or be caught behind the eight-ball. True, Google is going to have its hands full with litigation, but then this is what Google wants, so it can force media agencies to make concessions about allowing content on Google. Their pockets are pretty deep too.
Damn, judges really should be expected to have a clue when sitting in on a case...
But can you expect a judge to be as technically savvy as anyone in IT, given the broad range of cases they must try? Look at the trouble court cases with juries have when the case involves technical arguments (not just IT, but science topics as well).
While I agree that the judge should have some reasonable level of knowledge to allow him/her to judge the case, it doesn't surprise me that judges currently have little clue about the ramifications of rulings in technologically oriented cases.
Yeeeeaarrrrgggghhhhh!!! Avast Mateys!! We'll be needin' to get some of these here votin' machines fer the next elec-shun!! We'll teach those scurvy dawgs a thing or two... Arrrrrr!!!
Ms. Dunn, according to reports, has been striken with ovarian cancer, so I suspect any punishment the State of California can meat out would pale in comparison. Karma, perhaps? Still, if you commit a crime, you should pay a penalty of some sort, karmic or otherwise.
Unless you are glad that no one is willing to take responsibility for the problem and fix it???
But of course! People are always taking responsibility for the error of their ways ("I was molested as a child by priests," "I didn't see the iceberg," "They told me they were herbal supplements," etc.). It's nice to see a couple of groups turning over a new leaf and denying that either have anything to do with the problem rather than having this tedious mucking about taking the initiative, issuing mea culpas, and solving the problem.
Note: The above was sarcasm. If you did not know it was sarcasm, consult your physician and they will issue you a prescription for a pill that will make it better.
...the Department of Homeland Security and FEMA have announced they will be sending aid to Uranus as quickly as possible, though there are already calls for an investigation into the slow government response, since the image in question came at the end of August.
"We used blog-search engines to find anyone who wrote the word 'Microsoft' on their blog. Even if they had no readers and were just ranting, 'I hate Microsoft,' I could see that and link to it, or I could participate in their comments, or send them an e-mail saying, 'What's going on?' And that told those people that someone was listening to their rants, that this is a different world than the one in which no one listens. It was an invaluable focus group that Microsoft didn't have to pay for."
Why didn't he just read Slashdot? Faster, cheaper, and probably holds the core user/developer base that would have the most to say on the subject of Microsoft software. Face it: even the most virulent criticism of MS here would contain enough useful information that if Gates & Co. actually paid attention, they'd find innumerable ideas for improving their wares. And all for free.
He would never have shot them if he didn't have access to the gun either. Simply put, since gun makers aren't accountable for unintended actions carried out with their products, neither are game makers.
And even with access to the gun, it required volition to commit murder, i.e. he'd have to say to himself "I want to kill someone." Whether the video game had anything to do with it or not can't be separated from the other events in this kid's environment (family problems, school trouble, possible depression, etc.) that would have also had an impact on the level of volition. The game might have had an influence, but cannot be pointed to as the sole causitive factor. I agree -- this lawsuit is going nowhere fast.
As a Perl programmer, I have to ask: why? I don't want Pugs, I want Perl 6! The last thing I need is another language to clutter things up. I'm not going to go about converting Perl 5 scripts to Pugs then having to convert them over to Perl 6. Or is LW going to wave a magic wand one day and Pugs will magically transmogrify into Perl 6? I love Perl, I really do -- it's the Swiss Army knife of languages, good for just about anything you can think of. Whether there is a Perl 6 in the future is really irrelevant because I bet I'll be maintaining the vast abundance of Perl 5 code for many years to come before most places even think of converting.
But when will private industry make it into orbit and back.
You need that if you want to stay for more then free fall.
True, but the first thing you have to do before you worry about orbit is making sure you can get up and down safely. Look at how NASA conducted Project Mercury - a couple of sub-orbital lob shots to prove they could do it, before trying to boost a guy into orbit.
In the beginning, commercial space travel will be the arena of the commercial traveller, and they will be more interested in speed that floating around in space. If they can take a flight that will get them from one side of the world to the other in less than an hour, they'll find that useful. Even in this day of widespread telecom, there's nothing like meeting people face-to-face or giving presentations in person.
Of course they're going after the small fry; small business owners often have only a rudimentary IT capacity, if any at all, more often relying on an outside firm to handle these things. A Fortune 500 company has all sorts of resources to prevent this kind of thing (which begs the question why so many of them still have problems with it), while a small business owner doesn't and by the they find out it's a problem, it so pervasive that it gets expensive to fix.
The scenario is described in 'Practical Unix and Internet Security' where author Professor Gene Spafford spells out Spaf's first principle of security administration. This principle states that 'if you have responsibility for security but have no authority to set rules or punish violators, your own role in the organization is to take the blame when something big goes wrong'. Spaf's principle is a cruel reality faced by many of those responsible for information security.
This same principal applies to a great number of jobs in IT. If it's your job to create content for display on the Internet/Intranet and you aren't given the proper access and tools to get the job done, it is often your fault for the failure, even though you're at the mercy of others. Same goes for bad project management; if a project is slow or fails, it's not because the project manager was an ignorant troll, but was in fact due to the "inability of programmers to meet their goals," even though the goals and timelines were unreasonable and ultimately futile.
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I agree wholeheartedly. My job is killing my life right now, what with a commute of two hours each way to get into NYC. It cuts down on the time I have and when I get home, I leave work behind only to find more work. I get precious little sleep (4 hours is a pretty good night for me) and as a result of all of this, things are rocky at home.
But this would occur in any kind of job that demanded the same kind of hours. It is not the culprit. As for me, of course I'm trying to find a job closer to home, but the market is competitive right now with the number of people outsourced rising and employers demanding wider skill sets. I can only hope I luck into something soon.
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I suspect Xerox(tm) and Kleenex(tm) would have something to say about it. For more information, try this little piece from Media Literacy Review
SPAM search
And what is the first item listed, you ask? Why WWW.SPAM.COM - From Hormel Foods Corporation. Includes history, fan club, and facts. I'm pretty sure Hormel has had to fork over a lot of money to keep them at the top of any search for SPAM, to keep the trademark from being wiped away.
...and asteroid impacts, close passes by rogue planets, ice ages, orbital wobbiling, development of nuclear weapons, and the occasional odd supernova in your immediate vicinity, you go on to develop advanced civilization and the Double Whopper with Cheese (tm).
However, for an autistic individual, sometimes the simple pressure on the skin provides a calming effect, or is a stimulus they require to maintain control. I worked with the autistic and developmentally disabled for 8 years; I had many a client who required some kind of tactile stimulus, either as constant input (self-stimulatory behavior) or for behavioral control (comfort). This is ideal, as it would be a lot less obtrusive than some of the ways we came up with to provide such stimulation.
They end their posting by stating that only spamhaus.org's registrar or the Internet Registry have the ability and authority to suspend an individual domain name.
And in that regard, it would do no good, as Spamhaus could simply register another domain with a registrar in a different country using a TLD outside the normal .org structure (I believe they already have .co.uk) and that would be that. Given the number of potential TLDs, e360 could be in litigation forever even attempting to shut down every possible domain. And even then, it would be futile, as they'd just resort to using a set of rotating IP addresses.
Which is where the problem lies in any company that hands out stock options. The trick of "back dating" options so CEOs can cash in on higher returns, coupled with a CEO's knowledge of events in the company, give them unprecedented power to make money off the company's stock while simultaneously causing the company to slide toward oblivion. No one can claim McAfee has exactly been tearing up the anti-virus market of late. Now, having to restate earnings, the stock is threatened with a nose-dive and the other investors are left holding the bag while the defrocked CEOs and Presidents get to walk away with large sums of cash.
Vindaloo
I mean, if you were Ballmer, wouldn't you be thrilled that Google had bought YouTube?
No. Now I have to compete with Google in yet another arena that I don't want to. Every time Google makes a move, I have to counter or be caught behind the eight-ball. True, Google is going to have its hands full with litigation, but then this is what Google wants, so it can force media agencies to make concessions about allowing content on Google. Their pockets are pretty deep too.
Damn, judges really should be expected to have a clue when sitting in on a case...
But can you expect a judge to be as technically savvy as anyone in IT, given the broad range of cases they must try? Look at the trouble court cases with juries have when the case involves technical arguments (not just IT, but science topics as well).
While I agree that the judge should have some reasonable level of knowledge to allow him/her to judge the case, it doesn't surprise me that judges currently have little clue about the ramifications of rulings in technologically oriented cases.
Yeeeeaarrrrgggghhhhh!!! Avast Mateys!! We'll be needin' to get some of these here votin' machines fer the next elec-shun!! We'll teach those scurvy dawgs a thing or two... Arrrrrr!!!
Ms. Dunn, according to reports, has been striken with ovarian cancer, so I suspect any punishment the State of California can meat out would pale in comparison. Karma, perhaps? Still, if you commit a crime, you should pay a penalty of some sort, karmic or otherwise.
Unless you are glad that no one is willing to take responsibility for the problem and fix it???
But of course! People are always taking responsibility for the error of their ways ("I was molested as a child by priests," "I didn't see the iceberg," "They told me they were herbal supplements," etc.). It's nice to see a couple of groups turning over a new leaf and denying that either have anything to do with the problem rather than having this tedious mucking about taking the initiative, issuing mea culpas, and solving the problem.
Note: The above was sarcasm. If you did not know it was sarcasm, consult your physician and they will issue you a prescription for a pill that will make it better.
If you think that's bad, how do you think your employer feels when they see you reading about Uranus...
Note: Ha-ha! Didn't expect a Uranus joke in an article on corporate espionage, did you?!?
Sure, I've collected all this great data, but now how to I find a buyer?
we-buy-secret-corporate-info.com
Cone of Silence.
...the Department of Homeland Security and FEMA have announced they will be sending aid to Uranus as quickly as possible, though there are already calls for an investigation into the slow government response, since the image in question came at the end of August.
Does that include the article saying it was a hoax? What are we to believe?!?!?
Why didn't he just read Slashdot? Faster, cheaper, and probably holds the core user/developer base that would have the most to say on the subject of Microsoft software. Face it: even the most virulent criticism of MS here would contain enough useful information that if Gates & Co. actually paid attention, they'd find innumerable ideas for improving their wares. And all for free.
And even with access to the gun, it required volition to commit murder, i.e. he'd have to say to himself "I want to kill someone." Whether the video game had anything to do with it or not can't be separated from the other events in this kid's environment (family problems, school trouble, possible depression, etc.) that would have also had an impact on the level of volition. The game might have had an influence, but cannot be pointed to as the sole causitive factor. I agree -- this lawsuit is going nowhere fast.
As a Perl programmer, I have to ask: why? I don't want Pugs, I want Perl 6! The last thing I need is another language to clutter things up. I'm not going to go about converting Perl 5 scripts to Pugs then having to convert them over to Perl 6. Or is LW going to wave a magic wand one day and Pugs will magically transmogrify into Perl 6? I love Perl, I really do -- it's the Swiss Army knife of languages, good for just about anything you can think of. Whether there is a Perl 6 in the future is really irrelevant because I bet I'll be maintaining the vast abundance of Perl 5 code for many years to come before most places even think of converting.
But when will private industry make it into orbit and back.
You need that if you want to stay for more then free fall.
True, but the first thing you have to do before you worry about orbit is making sure you can get up and down safely. Look at how NASA conducted Project Mercury - a couple of sub-orbital lob shots to prove they could do it, before trying to boost a guy into orbit.
In the beginning, commercial space travel will be the arena of the commercial traveller, and they will be more interested in speed that floating around in space. If they can take a flight that will get them from one side of the world to the other in less than an hour, they'll find that useful. Even in this day of widespread telecom, there's nothing like meeting people face-to-face or giving presentations in person.
Of course they're going after the small fry; small business owners often have only a rudimentary IT capacity, if any at all, more often relying on an outside firm to handle these things. A Fortune 500 company has all sorts of resources to prevent this kind of thing (which begs the question why so many of them still have problems with it), while a small business owner doesn't and by the they find out it's a problem, it so pervasive that it gets expensive to fix.
This same principal applies to a great number of jobs in IT. If it's your job to create content for display on the Internet/Intranet and you aren't given the proper access and tools to get the job done, it is often your fault for the failure, even though you're at the mercy of others. Same goes for bad project management; if a project is slow or fails, it's not because the project manager was an ignorant troll, but was in fact due to the "inability of programmers to meet their goals," even though the goals and timelines were unreasonable and ultimately futile.