Know how much fun it is whack n00bs as they keep trying to outrun your PK in DC Final?
Know 1337 it is to pwn the slow and weak in COD4?
That's how much fun it is to watch Jerry Springer dance on TV. He looks like he's dancing with his daughter at her 2nd wedding.
Seriously, DWTS is almost as much fun as Survivor was the first season. And you got to jeer Mark Cuban. Not to mention watching supposedly cool, cute, and hip celebs dance like geeks who left the hanger in their coat.
... but is it possible that the OS vendors are realizing that you don't really need that much to run a browser, email client, and word processor? And you may not need every feature at boot to deliver the user experience?
Or that the PC of tomorrow might be something about as powerful as my G1?
Remember the analogies between cars and computers, where cars of today, if they innovated at the same rate as computers, would cost $150, get 200MPG, require service every 3 years, and offer you the same interior as your four-star hotel?
Why do operating systems turn that on its head(*), so that a car, if innovated like modern OSes, would get 7 MPG, requiring a minimum 500HP engine since the chassis weighs 7,000lb+, has a museum-quality interior but takes 3 parking spaces, and goes from 0-60 in 19 seconds downhill...?
If only we could see the effort at slimming the OS that you see in mobile systems expanded to desktops. Imagine an Atom processor being all you need, and 1GB RAM more than enough.
Oh, wait, is that Ubuntu?
(*) - I know the answer to this. Windows and OS X have tried to include every wiz-bang feature and enhancement imaginable, from DCOM to NetDDE, and with the result that Windows is an entirely hospitable environment for all variety of malware. OS X is better at preventing system abuse by malware, but not entirely immune. Linux ditto.
You don't watch the show, do you? How much lower do you go than Cloris Leachman? Oh, wait, Lance Bass? No, wait, Jophn O'Hurley? Wait, he was actually good, he was robbed.
How about Tatum O'Neal, Tucker Carlson, Jerry Springer (woo baby), Paulina Porizkova (who hid the hanger in her dress very well thank you), Floyd Mayweather, Penn Jillette, Rocco DiSpirito (who?), some of the turkeys from past seasons.
I kinda hope he gets hooked up with Edyta. She hardly wears any clothes, can in fact make a frog look good in the Tango, and usually gets through the first fiew weeks. Since Julianna is taken, he might as well have fun.
I expect Lil' Kim to be gone quick - hip-hop is anthema to the judges, since it's the antithesis of ballroom, especially Mr. Crankypants, Len. L.T. will suprise us, but he's gone by week 5. Denise Richards, Shawn Johnson, Belinda Carlisle (who should have taken this gig just to lose weight like so many others, and Nancy O'Dell are my favorites. There are, however, always suprises. Woz could come off as the Jerry Springer of this season, obviously in over his head, but a gamer. If he enjoys it, gives his all and doesn't let the bastards get to him, he'll be entertaining and get votes.
Now to arrange an outage on the WoW system on Monday nights. Or just message everyone to SMS in and vote. It shouldn't be too hard to hack the voting, eh? This isn't Ohio, I know, but...
ps - This is how the D-listers get up to the C-list. And how non-celebs have a little fun in front of millions. Kathy Griffin *w i s h e s* she could get on this show. We will probably see all of N'Sync, BSB, NKOTB, Menudo, and and at least one Pussycat Doll here some day. Ugh. then the entire Baltimore Ravens backfield. Harrr...
Couple of weeks ago my G1 browser started getting Google Mobile for my homepage instead of the fully-featured Google page. Turns out Google started directing ALL mobile browsers to Google Mobile pages based on user agent. The iPhone fanboyz went ballistic. I just screamed. Among the things I lost was the Bookmarks gadget. Pus.
Their logic was, from several forum posts, that Google wanted mobile (actually 'phone' browsers was how they put it) users to have a 'consistent' experience across platforms.
If I want a consistent browser experience similar to that of, say a Motorola RazrV3 user, or a BlackBerry Pearl user, I WOULD HAVE PURCHASED A RAZR OR PEARL!!!!!
Sorry. I still get angry.
I bought a G1 mostly to get an enhanced browser, 3G/WiFi service to be able to use the browser, and therefore have a more *useful* experience. Google has essentially downgraded my browser.
I do have a workaround - the Steel browser lets me set the user agent to 'Desktop'. Now I get my Google pages like I like them.
I'm not sure this is Google becoming evil, or Google becoming Nanny. Or is that the same thing?
It couldn't have anything to do with wireless providers asking if there were some way Google could minimize the amount of bandwidth mobile suers were sucking through the straw, could it?
Not many people, even nerds, build their own PCs any more.
My first ham set was Heathkit. I built it from piles of parts. The final amp I built was so good my ham friends had me building others for them. Turns out soldering isn't as simple as I thought it was, and my buddies weren't that good at it sometimes. But then again I was taught in the military, and had much practice...
Imagine getting a motherboard kit with just the surface-mount stuff on it, and piles of parts to tack on. that's building a PC, sort of. A kit with a SMD station would be too expensive.
Getting started in QRP is not a lot of money, and since Morse Code is no longer required, you can get started and find out why code is so much more useful in QRP.
This is my idea - woops,it's not *my* idea, this is not new and it's not my original work.
1. Mail servers must subscribe to a 'reputational' authentication system. The authing system is pretty straightforward, but along with identification and and passcode, the system considers the server's 'reputation'.
2. Reputation is derived by any of serveral means. the most important, for spam prevention, is that reports from other servers of spam activity result in a diminished reputation, and eventually lead to inability to authenticate.
3. I choose to enroll my server in this system. If I don't many other servers will stop listening to me. If I do, I abide by the rules, mostly to minimize spam. If my users send too much spam, I am warned and eventually my server cannot authenticate, so cannot send mail to other enrolled servers. I stop sending spam on behalf of my users to these other servers.
4. A server can achieve a good reputation by sending acceptable mail to other members of this system. Some servers, probably the 'big' ones (Google, Yahoo!, MSN, etc) will accept mail from these 'beginners', and vet them so to speak. They can also tolerate spam more readily, would serve as early warning, and the gateway into the greater system.
5. Botted boxes would never get much of a reputation, as they would be sending much too high a percentage of spam. If they were using SMTP, they would find participating server would refuse their connection. We could consider dropping the mail on receipt, to both deny delivery and tie up the bot box, but that also ties up the servers. We want well-behaved servers to get through, and their recipients to be able to drop connections as soon as possible to avoid even processing incoming spam.
There are probahly issues with this - the most notable being how to deal with servers that work to gain good reputation just to spew spam in short-lived bursts. And how to deal with spoofs and hijacks, and the likely false-positives.
Certificates don't work, as all I have to do is accept one well-crafted phishing message and my cert is out there for abuse. Whitelisting fails. Blacklisting is failing. I don't see a good alternative short of going to only 'approved' servers, where the approval is based on arbitrary decisions on who will provide mail service, and that fails when some otherwise trusted entity gets subverted or paid off to allows the spammers. Try blocking.ru or.ro for a week in that scenario and see nasty it gets.
This is not much different than fax spam or good old-fashioned direct mail through the Postal Service, except there is even less cost to use as leverage, and the legal alternatives such as do-not-call and catalog blacklists are even more unenforceable.
'My' idea may not work either. DNSSEC may offer some help in being able to spot spoofs and inappropriate servers. If I could spot botted machines by knowing they were in known dynamic ranges within residential ISP pools, I'd be happier, but most of the bot spam I get I think is coming from corporate machines compromised by the same botnets, and labelling those IP addresses is very much harder and less precise. Many will show their gateway address as the same as their Exchange server, for instance, and blacklisting those is a lot of trouble.
We may have to filter, or face the choice of losing the 'free' e-mail system.
"Blizzard has effectively won the legal ability for developers to state and enforce anything like this they'd like to put in the agreement!"
And this is a new development? EULAs are full of insane stuff. Blizzard isn't even the worst of the bunch, they just get villified by those who want the rules to be what *THEY* want them to be.
And how does my little (49oy) brother feel when he plays WoW 'by hand', building and accumulating by the rules? He's beyond offended by those that use resources merely to profit in real $. He cranks levels and such for the sole purpose of being able to help other players accomplish what they want - usually level. Then he gives stuff away. And he gets a fair amount of wrath from the spammers and sellers who have at least twice tried to get his account deleted. Apparently not, weasels. He's not a 24x7 player. he's also a NASCAR fan. You get many weekends off from tormenting him.
I have less than no sympathy for the botters. May they lose everything in-game, and make room for players.
Increasing the size of a basketball team from 5 to 40 would not make it a better game.
Even increasing the size of the court 5-8 times would not make it a better game.
Of course, increasing the maximum roster from 15 or so to say 40 might have beneficial impact. If you can get the benchwarmers to accept their roles as rarely playing. then you have to ask, what *is* their role?
TFA seems to imply that more people involved in the planning process is better. I doubt it much.
While it sounds all nice and open-source-cozy-and-warm, too many chefs spoil the soup. In the input end, more opinions, points of view, and unique ideas could yield some interesting options and maybe a new and better way. But as the planning process goes on, sooner or later decisions have to be made. The crowd is not necessarily better at making these decisions, nor does it make better decisions. Even the smaller group doesn't necessarily make better decisions when you increase the size of the group.
And opening up the planning process to all comers doesn't even guarantee you get good and talented people involved. You just get more. More is not always better. Knowing when it is and is not is key.
Some things might benefit, but the reality is that injecting an open-source solution into the urban planning process presupposes that urban planning is failing because of lack of involvement. Maybe it's failing because of acceptance. Or lack of adequate funding. Or a flawed vision.
Packing us into cities may be more effecient, but as a lifestyle it is not univerally admired.
Saying we should not be commuting so far to our jobs doesn't change the fact that many of us just don't want to live near where we work. And sometimes our jobs can't be relocated closer to our homes.
Employee has violated policy in the past. The potential losses are in the $Bs. Legal fiduciary responsibility on your part.
You CANNOT do anything but handle the situation assuming the worst. Remember, that contractor had a history of not following policy. Your caution is driven by the employee's behavior and the potential risk.
ps - from your tone, I would treat you as high-risk. Less profanity would have made me much more trusting of you.
They fired him. And let him have some access before he left.
Not a good idea. Sadly, you have to be aware of the threat. If you're firing someone with admin access, you should meet with them in a room without a workstation, explain the situation, and send them back to their desk to clean it out - with a monitor to ensure their workstation stays turned off.
While you're having the meeting, someone shuts down their workstation, disables network access, and - if not concurrently - immediately revokes their privileges. You do not finish the meeting until you receive confirmation that they no longer have access. Usually you have to let them be interviewed before you can kill their access, since some people get suspicious when they can't sign on. Forbid that the Help Desk will assist them in resetting their password. You gotta kill their privileges. The ideal scenario is letting them sign on but have no access to anything. After they are gone, then you can reset the password. Some systems need the access left in place to do forensics or establish their replacement (a sign of inadequate documentation) and thus you have to resort to the password trick.
If in doubt, I've cut their network cable right off, or even superglued blank plugs in their office jacks while I go back over their privileges. I can replace the jacks easily.
An unfortunate oversight. Some places have this 'exit interview' with security present. Some, Like Fannie Mae back then, don't think it through.
Can't be too careful.
Here, I work in a fairly secure environment. In spite of that, some of my IDs got associated with another employee with the (mostly) same name, go figure. He left at the end of the year. I've been getting access established to many systems as our security group has dutifully deleted my access as his. Too damned efficient.
i already use stevia in breakfast and drinks. shopped at WildOats before they succumed. we buy about 60% organics and the rest is no antibiotics/hormone free/etc.
Whatever come up for lunch - ranges from grilled ham & cheese to sushi to mexican rice bowl.
Dinner is pretty much chicken, beef, or fish, potato or rice, veggies from parsnips to asparagus. My wife cooks what she wants.
I'm getting off the soda, but Aspartame is hard to avoid. I look for Splenda more often. Caffeine is out, save for green tea.
I eat better than I did before that incident, but I'm just not normal. I could eat anything before.
Probiotics seems a waste. As we now know, we have unique biota, and even adding something from the store will have to compete with the existing and probably the new bugs that squeak their way in there.
Plenty of bacteria out there, as if I need to buy them.
About 3 years ago, I had a terrible meal. Cheeseburger with broiled spinach topping.
That's not the gross part.
I had the diarrhea as I have never had before. It took more than a week for me to keep anything from going through me in an hour or less. But let's not make this alt.gross...
Before that, I had no serious digestive problems. Never constipation for more than a day, nothing to complain about. My wife hated that, she has her issues.
Since then, however, my digestion is different. In almost every way. Some foods just don't work for me any more, the toilet is no longer my friend, and it's just very different.
I have no doubt that 'cleansing' incident sure cleaned me out. My doctor was curious about how I could drink a quart of water and have go straight through me. He let up when I could take broth and didn't show serious signs of dehydration. Drinking 12 quarts of water and broth a day helped... Ugh.
When I could actually keep my bowels for a half a day, my wife started me on a little bit of yogurt to give my gut something to work with. It sure did. I went from 235 to 210 that week. I would not recommend that as a weight-loss regimen...
I've got a different gut biota now. If it can change, it can be different.
No, I haven't been back to that restaraunt. I haven't even been back to that strip mall.
Several other games lead to repeated head injuries, if only for the very elite players.
I doubt heading the ball in Soccer qualifies, but I've been kicked in the head a few times in the goal crease. Of course, wanting to play the keeper pretty much disqualifies me as a control subject. Playing it for 15+ years should write that in stone, eh...
Manufacturers quoted failure rates and MTBF are well-thought out, but meaningless, statistical derivatives.
The only failure rate that means anything is the one measured by the weight of your trash can.
An MTBF of 200,000 hrs. claims that there will be some power-on failure approximately every 22.8 years. Funny.
Actually, every drive manufacturer can claim a failure rate of 100%. They all will die. What's the out-of-box, 1,2,3,5,7 year failure rates?
I left some 7-year old Fujitsu drives running back in 2005. Stern instructions to not let them get turned off and go cold. I didn't expect them to start again. Who knew the UPS would be so critical...
Slashdot Mirror
Slashdot posts article about Google silently erasing posts.
Slashdot goes down (I got all sorts of page errors first time I tried to read this thread).
Coincidence?
Know how much fun it is whack n00bs as they keep trying to outrun your PK in DC Final?
Know 1337 it is to pwn the slow and weak in COD4?
That's how much fun it is to watch Jerry Springer dance on TV. He looks like he's dancing with his daughter at her 2nd wedding.
Seriously, DWTS is almost as much fun as Survivor was the first season. And you got to jeer Mark Cuban. Not to mention watching supposedly cool, cute, and hip celebs dance like geeks who left the hanger in their coat.
Dance like nobody's watching, baby!
"Yes, she's well past her prime physically, but she was (and is) quite talented"
That pretty much describes Lance Bass, too. Only he doesn't have an Oscar to strap on, IYKWIM...
So maybe fitting Woz into that box isn't so easy? Feh.
Full Disk Encryption and of course encrypting our USB keys, backup DVDs, etc. Central key management, recovery, pretty well thought out.
I dunno if the 'free' version does all this. It's not as clever as TruCrypt, but it works.
... but is it possible that the OS vendors are realizing that you don't really need that much to run a browser, email client, and word processor? And you may not need every feature at boot to deliver the user experience?
Or that the PC of tomorrow might be something about as powerful as my G1?
Remember the analogies between cars and computers, where cars of today, if they innovated at the same rate as computers, would cost $150, get 200MPG, require service every 3 years, and offer you the same interior as your four-star hotel?
Why do operating systems turn that on its head(*), so that a car, if innovated like modern OSes, would get 7 MPG, requiring a minimum 500HP engine since the chassis weighs 7,000lb+, has a museum-quality interior but takes 3 parking spaces, and goes from 0-60 in 19 seconds downhill...?
If only we could see the effort at slimming the OS that you see in mobile systems expanded to desktops. Imagine an Atom processor being all you need, and 1GB RAM more than enough.
Oh, wait, is that Ubuntu?
(*) - I know the answer to this. Windows and OS X have tried to include every wiz-bang feature and enhancement imaginable, from DCOM to NetDDE, and with the result that Windows is an entirely hospitable environment for all variety of malware. OS X is better at preventing system abuse by malware, but not entirely immune. Linux ditto.
".wma-only DRM-laden catalog..."
Ah, a single file format and DRM. This would explain iTunes' failures in the past.
Lowering the bar?
You don't watch the show, do you? How much lower do you go than Cloris Leachman? Oh, wait, Lance Bass? No, wait, Jophn O'Hurley? Wait, he was actually good, he was robbed.
How about Tatum O'Neal, Tucker Carlson, Jerry Springer (woo baby), Paulina Porizkova (who hid the hanger in her dress very well thank you), Floyd Mayweather, Penn Jillette, Rocco DiSpirito (who?), some of the turkeys from past seasons.
I kinda hope he gets hooked up with Edyta. She hardly wears any clothes, can in fact make a frog look good in the Tango, and usually gets through the first fiew weeks. Since Julianna is taken, he might as well have fun.
I expect Lil' Kim to be gone quick - hip-hop is anthema to the judges, since it's the antithesis of ballroom, especially Mr. Crankypants, Len. L.T. will suprise us, but he's gone by week 5. Denise Richards, Shawn Johnson, Belinda Carlisle (who should have taken this gig just to lose weight like so many others, and Nancy O'Dell are my favorites. There are, however, always suprises. Woz could come off as the Jerry Springer of this season, obviously in over his head, but a gamer. If he enjoys it, gives his all and doesn't let the bastards get to him, he'll be entertaining and get votes.
Now to arrange an outage on the WoW system on Monday nights. Or just message everyone to SMS in and vote. It shouldn't be too hard to hack the voting, eh? This isn't Ohio, I know, but...
ps - This is how the D-listers get up to the C-list. And how non-celebs have a little fun in front of millions. Kathy Griffin *w i s h e s* she could get on this show. We will probably see all of N'Sync, BSB, NKOTB, Menudo, and and at least one Pussycat Doll here some day. Ugh. then the entire Baltimore Ravens backfield. Harrr...
Couple of weeks ago my G1 browser started getting Google Mobile for my homepage instead of the fully-featured Google page. Turns out Google started directing ALL mobile browsers to Google Mobile pages based on user agent. The iPhone fanboyz went ballistic. I just screamed. Among the things I lost was the Bookmarks gadget. Pus.
Their logic was, from several forum posts, that Google wanted mobile (actually 'phone' browsers was how they put it) users to have a 'consistent' experience across platforms.
If I want a consistent browser experience similar to that of, say a Motorola RazrV3 user, or a BlackBerry Pearl user, I WOULD HAVE PURCHASED A RAZR OR PEARL!!!!!
Sorry. I still get angry.
I bought a G1 mostly to get an enhanced browser, 3G/WiFi service to be able to use the browser, and therefore have a more *useful* experience. Google has essentially downgraded my browser.
I do have a workaround - the Steel browser lets me set the user agent to 'Desktop'. Now I get my Google pages like I like them.
I'm not sure this is Google becoming evil, or Google becoming Nanny. Or is that the same thing?
It couldn't have anything to do with wireless providers asking if there were some way Google could minimize the amount of bandwidth mobile suers were sucking through the straw, could it?
Your SO had no problems usign GIMP?
She's more 1337 than me, damned straight. Not a representative sample.
Assuming she's a she of course... Crap, down the sewer of sexism I sail... darn...
Not many people, even nerds, build their own PCs any more.
My first ham set was Heathkit. I built it from piles of parts. The final amp I built was so good my ham friends had me building others for them. Turns out soldering isn't as simple as I thought it was, and my buddies weren't that good at it sometimes. But then again I was taught in the military, and had much practice...
Imagine getting a motherboard kit with just the surface-mount stuff on it, and piles of parts to tack on. that's building a PC, sort of. A kit with a SMD station would be too expensive.
Getting started in QRP is not a lot of money, and since Morse Code is no longer required, you can get started and find out why code is so much more useful in QRP.
You could probably do that with an old copy of Filemaker Pro and a eeePC.
Sheesh. It's inventory management, not rocket science.
It seemed like half the servers were named 'hobbes'?
My first set of servers, routers, and such were named for Norse gods. Thor, Fenris, Loki, Odin, and Osiris was thrown in cause someone liked it.
My second set for another ISP got flower names. Rose, Iris, Lily, Calla, Peony (big mistake), it went on for a while.
Much nicer than wppwd534, for instance.
Then I got functional, and it was SERVER1, SERVER2, DBSERVER, POPSERVER, CMSERVER. Boring.
I wouldn't be so creative today. My current server and only one I actually keep online is named 'cyber'. woot.
This is my idea - woops,it's not *my* idea, this is not new and it's not my original work.
1. Mail servers must subscribe to a 'reputational' authentication system. The authing system is pretty straightforward, but along with identification and and passcode, the system considers the server's 'reputation'.
2. Reputation is derived by any of serveral means. the most important, for spam prevention, is that reports from other servers of spam activity result in a diminished reputation, and eventually lead to inability to authenticate.
3. I choose to enroll my server in this system. If I don't many other servers will stop listening to me. If I do, I abide by the rules, mostly to minimize spam. If my users send too much spam, I am warned and eventually my server cannot authenticate, so cannot send mail to other enrolled servers. I stop sending spam on behalf of my users to these other servers.
4. A server can achieve a good reputation by sending acceptable mail to other members of this system. Some servers, probably the 'big' ones (Google, Yahoo!, MSN, etc) will accept mail from these 'beginners', and vet them so to speak. They can also tolerate spam more readily, would serve as early warning, and the gateway into the greater system.
5. Botted boxes would never get much of a reputation, as they would be sending much too high a percentage of spam. If they were using SMTP, they would find participating server would refuse their connection. We could consider dropping the mail on receipt, to both deny delivery and tie up the bot box, but that also ties up the servers. We want well-behaved servers to get through, and their recipients to be able to drop connections as soon as possible to avoid even processing incoming spam.
There are probahly issues with this - the most notable being how to deal with servers that work to gain good reputation just to spew spam in short-lived bursts. And how to deal with spoofs and hijacks, and the likely false-positives.
Certificates don't work, as all I have to do is accept one well-crafted phishing message and my cert is out there for abuse. Whitelisting fails. Blacklisting is failing. I don't see a good alternative short of going to only 'approved' servers, where the approval is based on arbitrary decisions on who will provide mail service, and that fails when some otherwise trusted entity gets subverted or paid off to allows the spammers. Try blocking .ru or .ro for a week in that scenario and see nasty it gets.
This is not much different than fax spam or good old-fashioned direct mail through the Postal Service, except there is even less cost to use as leverage, and the legal alternatives such as do-not-call and catalog blacklists are even more unenforceable.
'My' idea may not work either. DNSSEC may offer some help in being able to spot spoofs and inappropriate servers. If I could spot botted machines by knowing they were in known dynamic ranges within residential ISP pools, I'd be happier, but most of the bot spam I get I think is coming from corporate machines compromised by the same botnets, and labelling those IP addresses is very much harder and less precise. Many will show their gateway address as the same as their Exchange server, for instance, and blacklisting those is a lot of trouble.
We may have to filter, or face the choice of losing the 'free' e-mail system.
?
"Blizzard has effectively won the legal ability for developers to state and enforce anything like this they'd like to put in the agreement!"
And this is a new development? EULAs are full of insane stuff. Blizzard isn't even the worst of the bunch, they just get villified by those who want the rules to be what *THEY* want them to be.
And how does my little (49oy) brother feel when he plays WoW 'by hand', building and accumulating by the rules? He's beyond offended by those that use resources merely to profit in real $. He cranks levels and such for the sole purpose of being able to help other players accomplish what they want - usually level. Then he gives stuff away. And he gets a fair amount of wrath from the spammers and sellers who have at least twice tried to get his account deleted. Apparently not, weasels. He's not a 24x7 player. he's also a NASCAR fan. You get many weekends off from tormenting him.
I have less than no sympathy for the botters. May they lose everything in-game, and make room for players.
Increasing the size of a basketball team from 5 to 40 would not make it a better game.
Even increasing the size of the court 5-8 times would not make it a better game.
Of course, increasing the maximum roster from 15 or so to say 40 might have beneficial impact. If you can get the benchwarmers to accept their roles as rarely playing. then you have to ask, what *is* their role?
TFA seems to imply that more people involved in the planning process is better. I doubt it much.
While it sounds all nice and open-source-cozy-and-warm, too many chefs spoil the soup. In the input end, more opinions, points of view, and unique ideas could yield some interesting options and maybe a new and better way. But as the planning process goes on, sooner or later decisions have to be made. The crowd is not necessarily better at making these decisions, nor does it make better decisions. Even the smaller group doesn't necessarily make better decisions when you increase the size of the group.
And opening up the planning process to all comers doesn't even guarantee you get good and talented people involved. You just get more. More is not always better. Knowing when it is and is not is key.
Some things might benefit, but the reality is that injecting an open-source solution into the urban planning process presupposes that urban planning is failing because of lack of involvement. Maybe it's failing because of acceptance. Or lack of adequate funding. Or a flawed vision.
Packing us into cities may be more effecient, but as a lifestyle it is not univerally admired.
Saying we should not be commuting so far to our jobs doesn't change the fact that many of us just don't want to live near where we work. And sometimes our jobs can't be relocated closer to our homes.
Way it is. Duh.
This is the problem;
Employee has violated policy in the past.
The potential losses are in the $Bs.
Legal fiduciary responsibility on your part.
You CANNOT do anything but handle the situation assuming the worst. Remember, that contractor had a history of not following policy. Your caution is driven by the employee's behavior and the potential risk.
ps - from your tone, I would treat you as high-risk. Less profanity would have made me much more trusting of you.
i keep a spare cable in my bag. and another in the drawer.
i would have more trouble getting past a glued plug but it would take a moment.
but i would actually pull his cable(s) at the switch or disable the port(s). if i had time.
and yes, i keep superglue handy. never know who needs their drawers stuck shut.
They fired him. And let him have some access before he left.
Not a good idea. Sadly, you have to be aware of the threat. If you're firing someone with admin access, you should meet with them in a room without a workstation, explain the situation, and send them back to their desk to clean it out - with a monitor to ensure their workstation stays turned off.
While you're having the meeting, someone shuts down their workstation, disables network access, and - if not concurrently - immediately revokes their privileges. You do not finish the meeting until you receive confirmation that they no longer have access. Usually you have to let them be interviewed before you can kill their access, since some people get suspicious when they can't sign on. Forbid that the Help Desk will assist them in resetting their password. You gotta kill their privileges. The ideal scenario is letting them sign on but have no access to anything. After they are gone, then you can reset the password. Some systems need the access left in place to do forensics or establish their replacement (a sign of inadequate documentation) and thus you have to resort to the password trick.
If in doubt, I've cut their network cable right off, or even superglued blank plugs in their office jacks while I go back over their privileges. I can replace the jacks easily.
An unfortunate oversight. Some places have this 'exit interview' with security present. Some, Like Fannie Mae back then, don't think it through.
Can't be too careful.
Here, I work in a fairly secure environment. In spite of that, some of my IDs got associated with another employee with the (mostly) same name, go figure. He left at the end of the year. I've been getting access established to many systems as our security group has dutifully deleted my access as his. Too damned efficient.
i already use stevia in breakfast and drinks. shopped at WildOats before they succumed.
we buy about 60% organics and the rest is no antibiotics/hormone free/etc.
Hmph.
My meals are:
Yogurt & cereal & banana
Whatever come up for lunch - ranges from grilled ham & cheese to sushi to mexican rice bowl.
Dinner is pretty much chicken, beef, or fish, potato or rice, veggies from parsnips to asparagus. My wife cooks what she wants.
I'm getting off the soda, but Aspartame is hard to avoid. I look for Splenda more often. Caffeine is out, save for green tea.
I eat better than I did before that incident, but I'm just not normal. I could eat anything before.
Probiotics seems a waste. As we now know, we have unique biota, and even adding something from the store will have to compete with the existing and probably the new bugs that squeak their way in there.
Plenty of bacteria out there, as if I need to buy them.
A prequel.
I seen it before, works pretty good...
Had mine out when I was 5.
About 3 years ago, I had a terrible meal. Cheeseburger with broiled spinach topping.
That's not the gross part.
I had the diarrhea as I have never had before. It took more than a week for me to keep anything from going through me in an hour or less. But let's not make this alt.gross...
Before that, I had no serious digestive problems. Never constipation for more than a day, nothing to complain about. My wife hated that, she has her issues.
Since then, however, my digestion is different. In almost every way. Some foods just don't work for me any more, the toilet is no longer my friend, and it's just very different.
I have no doubt that 'cleansing' incident sure cleaned me out. My doctor was curious about how I could drink a quart of water and have go straight through me. He let up when I could take broth and didn't show serious signs of dehydration. Drinking 12 quarts of water and broth a day helped... Ugh.
When I could actually keep my bowels for a half a day, my wife started me on a little bit of yogurt to give my gut something to work with. It sure did. I went from 235 to 210 that week. I would not recommend that as a weight-loss regimen...
I've got a different gut biota now. If it can change, it can be different.
No, I haven't been back to that restaraunt. I haven't even been back to that strip mall.
Oh, Lord...
Hockey
Aussie Rules Football (a fabulous bame, BTW)
Rugby
Several other games lead to repeated head injuries, if only for the very elite players.
I doubt heading the ball in Soccer qualifies, but I've been kicked in the head a few times in the goal crease. Of course, wanting to play the keeper pretty much disqualifies me as a control subject. Playing it for 15+ years should write that in stone, eh...
What? WHAT??
Manufacturers quoted failure rates and MTBF are well-thought out, but meaningless, statistical derivatives.
The only failure rate that means anything is the one measured by the weight of your trash can.
An MTBF of 200,000 hrs. claims that there will be some power-on failure approximately every 22.8 years. Funny.
Actually, every drive manufacturer can claim a failure rate of 100%. They all will die. What's the out-of-box, 1,2,3,5,7 year failure rates?
I left some 7-year old Fujitsu drives running back in 2005. Stern instructions to not let them get turned off and go cold. I didn't expect them to start again. Who knew the UPS would be so critical...