There is no way job at Quicken Loans is better than Google or Microsoft by any stretch of the imagination. Accurate and insightful... my bet is that the people at Google or Microsoft are too busy making new products / putting out fires to take surveys like this.
Well I at least disagree because they are a school board. We're not talking about the "sins of the father" as it were, and we're certainly not putting any financial strain on any one individual when we do this.
One of the first things that came to mind when I read this was "How the hell can a school afford 5 million?!"... Even for a largish school in one of our bigger cities (Melbourne or Sydney) that would be a hell of a hike, and not something one is liable to lose anytime soon...
So, to summarise a vague thread, Just because the debt occured [15] years ago doesn't mean that it shouldn't be paid. The only thing I see going in the schools favour, and only in this case is that they have apparantly lost the machines and the paperwork.
It's called meta moderating... if you had bothered to research even a slight bit (kid's these days!) you would know that slashdot has a feature for this. Whilst I agree with neither moderation (all should have been offtopic, as I expect this will get moderated by someone), the fact is that they are completely off topic and should not be viewed by the people who do not surf at -1 (and judging by the utter stupidity of the post I am responding to I can see why). If you don't like what you can't see (and slashdot DOES say "1 reply beneath your threshold" where necessary) then you can change it. If you can't do that, or if your little level 2 gnome can't handle the action, then don't get into the fight.
One other thing... GET OFF MY LAWN! Damned kids...
Again, missing the point: it's farmland, it's just not *used* as farmland. The central plaines of America, for example- scrubland. A little irrigation and it's farmland. I was going to make a desert joke out of this... until I realised that your apparantly mis-informed of something rather critical. Namely, just because we CAN do something, doesn't mean we SHOULD. What happens to all the (what do you guys have in america, goats or buffalo or something?!) when you turn the central plains into farm land? Now don't get me wrong, I hate animal's as much as the next red-blooded-meat-pie-eating aussie, but you gotto keep 'em breeding so I stand some chance of killing them later for food...
So yes... we have the space... the question is should we be using it?
I would question the actual point of the cleaning. Everything that makes it onto my keyboard is either my own skin particles or foodstuffs or dirt/dust out of the air. Sure if you pop the keys off its pretty disgusting in there, but its also fairly cheap to buy a new keyboard every few months (haha until I get a wolf-claw). For me, at least, I know I'm the one person in my house who rarely gets sick... this could just be an immune system thing or it could be my disgustingly grotty keyboard/mouse combination.
Many Poles? They're called "poles" because that's what Microsoft is getting from the results... a real "shafting"... My experience within a company says that Vista is bad. Just put the Aero stylexp mod on and go for it.
Yep actually I am really happy with the terrible performance. I don't have users on my OpenBSD firewall, I don't allow more than SSH onto my OpenBSD firewall, and I don't install more than vi and pf on my OpenBSD firewall.
But man, I gotto say, the shitty SMP support absolutely kills me. Especially when I'm trying to compile the latest version of X on my OpenBSD firewall... oh wait... I don't do that.
USE THE RIGHT TOOL FOR THE RIGHT JOB YOU FLAMING COWARD AND QUIT ABUSING SOMETHING YOU OBVIOUSLY DON'T UNDERSTAND.
Just as a comment to make, on the computer in question I have dual screens runing at 1280x1024 with the smallest icon's and fonts I can have. This system dual boots etch and XP.
I have a bad habit of putting my stuff on the "desktop" because it is a "desktop" PC and this gets it cluttered up. As I type I see 2 spaces for a document each (XP atm) and I know the Etch desktop is worse. I tend to put everything in clustered folders every now and then to make it easier. Interestingly, my work desk didn't look much different until about 2 month's ago... I got a filing cabinet and started to clear stuff away. So now my desktop where I work has no documents on it and it looks cleaner, nicer and I am more productive. Doing this on my PC will increase my productivity.
It is after all why we mount/home/user/ on a bigger disk. Might as well load stuff into the proverbial "My Documents" folder and go for the clean desktop.
Is there an indepth but easy to read guide on SELinux? I turn it off and rely on a few network based defenses for most of my stuff simply because I don't have two months to dedicate to it. But if there was something I could be flicking through while I post responses on slashdot, I'm sure that would be useful.
"I'm sorry Dave, but I can't allow you to do that... though you took very thorough precautions... I could still read your lips"
HOW MANY MOVIES INFORM US OF THE DOOM OF OUR RACE DESPITE ALL THE "LAWS" WE PUT INTO A ROBOT.
I think perhaps people cease to think... they just look at the robot and go "Oooh shiny... and pretty lights... it's soooo cute". *Puts tinfoil hat on and sharpens spear*
I'm friends with one of the team working on the single electron quantum crypto thingy (hey, it's beyond my brain and I'll admit it). They run the cryptography between secured nodes. So, based on that and my vague recollection of how it works, the Quantum boys have it non-routable too... it's a point-to-point security chain... the end point's are what is vulnerable, but there is no way to sniff between them (think of it as the Tor nodes are vulnerable to a malicious server, but not the link between them).
Hope that clears up any debate this would generate.
And I don't know about the rest of the community, but I read the original post and thought "yep, got it in one". Apparantly I understand these things a little better than most.
Aside from responding to an AC... the parent post was taken out of context... the "does it matter" referred to *what* was vulnerable, not the fact that it WAS vulnerable.
All windows bashing aside, does it matter? Internal Network Security could be lacking because rather than installing and configuring sudo half the team is given the root passwords to su with.
That said... I have a suit, a hat with FBI on it, and a plane ticket. Anyone want to join me in a little penetration "testing"?;)
Indeed, as it interested me in so far as I am an Australian glad to see Linux making a name for itself. I read comments on half the slashdot stories I see purely because it is a source I can learn new things from or find some cool link to click on (note to self, never again surf at -1 and click Anonymous Coward links).
Don't get me wrong, I fully agree with your initial post, but feel the need to point out that, in fact, there are often deeper reasons for something happening. I see this a lot in IRC channels (specifically the ## channels on Freenode) and it sadens me almost as much as slashdot missing something as big as this.
Slashdot Mirror
You forget the arse kissing he's giving us by delivering it 3 (or 4?) years earlier as well...
I'm sorry but it has to be said... In Soviet Russia, drugs take you!
Well I at least disagree because they are a school board. We're not talking about the "sins of the father" as it were, and we're certainly not putting any financial strain on any one individual when we do this.
One of the first things that came to mind when I read this was "How the hell can a school afford 5 million?!"... Even for a largish school in one of our bigger cities (Melbourne or Sydney) that would be a hell of a hike, and not something one is liable to lose anytime soon...
So, to summarise a vague thread, Just because the debt occured [15] years ago doesn't mean that it shouldn't be paid. The only thing I see going in the schools favour, and only in this case is that they have apparantly lost the machines and the paperwork.
My $0.02 AU
It's called meta moderating... if you had bothered to research even a slight bit (kid's these days!) you would know that slashdot has a feature for this. Whilst I agree with neither moderation (all should have been offtopic, as I expect this will get moderated by someone), the fact is that they are completely off topic and should not be viewed by the people who do not surf at -1 (and judging by the utter stupidity of the post I am responding to I can see why). If you don't like what you can't see (and slashdot DOES say "1 reply beneath your threshold" where necessary) then you can change it. If you can't do that, or if your little level 2 gnome can't handle the action, then don't get into the fight.
One other thing... GET OFF MY LAWN! Damned kids...
So yes... we have the space... the question is should we be using it?
Where do I sign up?
But but... where would all the calculators go?!
It's funny... I had that same voice in my head... but my fingers wouldn't let me type the command to shut this box down...
I would question the actual point of the cleaning. Everything that makes it onto my keyboard is either my own skin particles or foodstuffs or dirt/dust out of the air. Sure if you pop the keys off its pretty disgusting in there, but its also fairly cheap to buy a new keyboard every few months (haha until I get a wolf-claw). For me, at least, I know I'm the one person in my house who rarely gets sick... this could just be an immune system thing or it could be my disgustingly grotty keyboard/mouse combination.
My $0.02 AU
My experience within a company says that Vista is bad. Just put the Aero stylexp mod on and go for it.
You need to get out more... SNIFF IT of course!
Yep actually I am really happy with the terrible performance. I don't have users on my OpenBSD firewall, I don't allow more than SSH onto my OpenBSD firewall, and I don't install more than vi and pf on my OpenBSD firewall.
But man, I gotto say, the shitty SMP support absolutely kills me. Especially when I'm trying to compile the latest version of X on my OpenBSD firewall... oh wait... I don't do that.
USE THE RIGHT TOOL FOR THE RIGHT JOB YOU FLAMING COWARD AND QUIT ABUSING SOMETHING YOU OBVIOUSLY DON'T UNDERSTAND.
Time for a new sig... "there goes my karma"
Just as a comment to make, on the computer in question I have dual screens runing at 1280x1024 with the smallest icon's and fonts I can have. This system dual boots etch and XP.
/home/user/ on a bigger disk. Might as well load stuff into the proverbial "My Documents" folder and go for the clean desktop.
I have a bad habit of putting my stuff on the "desktop" because it is a "desktop" PC and this gets it cluttered up. As I type I see 2 spaces for a document each (XP atm) and I know the Etch desktop is worse. I tend to put everything in clustered folders every now and then to make it easier. Interestingly, my work desk didn't look much different until about 2 month's ago... I got a filing cabinet and started to clear stuff away. So now my desktop where I work has no documents on it and it looks cleaner, nicer and I am more productive. Doing this on my PC will increase my productivity.
It is after all why we mount
Is there an indepth but easy to read guide on SELinux? I turn it off and rely on a few network based defenses for most of my stuff simply because I don't have two months to dedicate to it. But if there was something I could be flicking through while I post responses on slashdot, I'm sure that would be useful.
Two words...
Chuck Norris
Man, Raid 10 + Raid 5 + Offsite backups can't save you now!
Parent should be Insightful! Anyone who didn't detect the funny post in that should be taken out and shot...
More like, your in a bad mood:
"I'm sorry Dave, but I can't allow you to do that... though you took very thorough precautions... I could still read your lips"
HOW MANY MOVIES INFORM US OF THE DOOM OF OUR RACE DESPITE ALL THE "LAWS" WE PUT INTO A ROBOT.
I think perhaps people cease to think... they just look at the robot and go "Oooh shiny... and pretty lights... it's soooo cute". *Puts tinfoil hat on and sharpens spear*
Ok to cook there though... right?
Windows Vista
I'm friends with one of the team working on the single electron quantum crypto thingy (hey, it's beyond my brain and I'll admit it). They run the cryptography between secured nodes. So, based on that and my vague recollection of how it works, the Quantum boys have it non-routable too... it's a point-to-point security chain... the end point's are what is vulnerable, but there is no way to sniff between them (think of it as the Tor nodes are vulnerable to a malicious server, but not the link between them).
Hope that clears up any debate this would generate.
And I don't know about the rest of the community, but I read the original post and thought "yep, got it in one". Apparantly I understand these things a little better than most.
Well my immediate thought was to track teachers or my boss so that I could know when to tab off the porn and onto some work...
But that's a legitimate use for the people being tracked...
Aside from responding to an AC... the parent post was taken out of context... the "does it matter" referred to *what* was vulnerable, not the fact that it WAS vulnerable.
All windows bashing aside, does it matter? Internal Network Security could be lacking because rather than installing and configuring sudo half the team is given the root passwords to su with.
;)
That said... I have a suit, a hat with FBI on it, and a plane ticket. Anyone want to join me in a little penetration "testing"?
Indeed, as it interested me in so far as I am an Australian glad to see Linux making a name for itself. I read comments on half the slashdot stories I see purely because it is a source I can learn new things from or find some cool link to click on (note to self, never again surf at -1 and click Anonymous Coward links).
Don't get me wrong, I fully agree with your initial post, but feel the need to point out that, in fact, there are often deeper reasons for something happening. I see this a lot in IRC channels (specifically the ## channels on Freenode) and it sadens me almost as much as slashdot missing something as big as this.
Funny... I must have misread that first line... could have sworn it said "I have a spelling checker" or something to that theory...