> Why not? They already forced 100% of the clients to switch over. Remember Netscape?
Not quite 100%. I am employed by a large (at least by Canadian standards) financial institution. One of the features they offer all of their customers is "Online Banking". Unfortunately, their web site is NOT compatible with anything other than IE. So guess what, I CLOSED my fee-free employee bank accounts and opened them at another financial institution. And yes, I did make my reasons well know, via both website feedback and a lot of internal ranting to the development management team. And before anyone asks, Payroll and Human Resources went ballistic when I changed my direct deposit info.
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... ever worked on non-i386? that's when you start appreciating a transparent build process.
Quite right. Thankfully, the Linux/Unix world is not limited x86!
Disallowing any form of executable attachments (including any and all forms of documents that can or do support macro languages)
Sorry to sound anal about the whole thing but the data is good, the viewer is bad.
A Word Doc with a macro containing something akin to "system(format C:)" is no big deal. Having an application that blindly executes the macro is REALLY dumb!
Therefore, let's keep all of the Word/Excel docs, macros and all and just do away with the moronic application because that truly is where the problem exists.
We switched our e-mail system from pure POP3 (using Netscape) to Lotus Notes about a year and a half ago. Despite all the propaganda we've put in place, there are still people who won't use Notes. Most give me some bull about how "it's too hard, I don't know how to get my mail". I'm pretty confident this is just stubborn whining because the default opening screen in Notes has a gigantic bright yellow envelope, labeled "Mail" in large letters, occupying the upper left corner of the screen. Happily, though, the number of whiners is subject to attrition, and is down to the single digits now.
Over all I am pretty opened minded EMPLOYER. Use whatever tools you need/feel comfortable with to get your job done. However, in this case my attitude with the whiners would be "Don't let the door hit you on the ass when you leave". The standard, for whatever reason, is Notes. That's it NOTES. I didn't say you had to use the Notes client from Lotus/IBM, I just said YOU HAVE TO GET YOUR E-MAIL FROM A NOTES SERVER. Whatever tools/client you use to access Notes is your business.
Before I hear a lot of whining from others about coddling employees and other crap, it's MY business and MY money. Times change and if you are incapable of change, I am incapable of employing you.
(* Anyhow, the author was playing it strait, and his competitor was cheating. *)
And you know this how? Simply because some knob says something doesn't make it true.
Do you really think some guy selling software has valid licenses for all the "demo" systems sitting in his shop? If you do, I have a bridge for sale that I can let go for a reasonable price.
Remembet the OLD days of DASD (Direct Access Storage Device). The fixed head versions had one head per TRACK. In other words, the only latency would be rotational, you wouldn't have to wait for the armature to move to the correct track. Additionally, there were less moving parts therefore failure rates were lower. On the down side they were EXPENSIVE!!!!
First and foremost, I AM NOT A LAWYER nor have I received any formal legal training.
While I would agree with your conclusion, I really do not think that whether the guy was trying solicit sex from a minor has any relevance to the case.
If I communicate with you to conspire to commit an illegal act, can I have the reasonable expectation that you will not pass this information on to authorities? If you were a priest, lawyer, doctor and were not to be directly involved, I beleive I have a reasonable right to privacy. On the other hand, if I solicit your participation in the act, I don't think there is a reasonable right to privacy.
Additionally, any information I receive pertaining to criminal activities that is not obtained as a result of my being a lawyer, doctor, priest, is mine to do with as I wish. Therefore, I have a right to either pass this information to authorities or not. In this particular case as I understand it, the girl told the police that she was the target of a criminal plan (sex with a minor is a crime) and provided proof of her claim (e-mail, chat transcripts).
The only way I can this guy having any reason for having the evidence thrown out would be if the police/authorities had specifically monitored the communication from his end rather than having the information provided by the intended victim.
Time for one more thought before the PHB really statrts whining. Let's assume that an individual is under investigation for whatever reason. As part of the investigation, authorities have obtained a valid court order to tap the persons telephone conversation. I phone the person and tell the person I committed another crime not related to the initial investigation. Can the authorities use that information to prosecute me? I don't know what the laws are in specific areas but it would seem to me that I really cannot expect supression of that conversation.
I had an after-school job in a sandwich shop/pinball arcade back in the 70's. I still remember the amazing line-ups to play Space Invaders, unfortunatley/fortunately I never relly became a big fan of shoot-em ups. My tastes ran a liitle more towards the strategy genre.
So in order of addiction,
1) Nethack mostly for nostalgia. I still fondly remember playing "Collosal Cave" on a 370 running MVS.
2) Civ. WOW what a game. Unfortunately, the time commitment is a little heavy. You just can't play for 15 minutes at a time.
3) Xboing. Pure mindless escapism, who can ask for more.
Well how about AIX for one. Since version 4.0 of AIX, IBM has NOT include a "C" compiler as part of the base operating system. I agree, it can be purchased or GCC can be installed but both of these have negative implications in a corporate environment.
Purchasing a C compiler costs money and bean counters and the like object to anything that adds to the cost of a box. Using GCC, or for that matter, any software that is not supported by a vendor, is usually strictly forbidden.
This policy or a similar type varient, has been the standard at almost ALL of my employers (3 fulltime and 14 contract over the past 22 years). On the other hand, development boxes are usually not quite as vigilantly monitored.
I am not saying this good or bad just passing along some anecdotal evidence that:
if (sys == Unix) {
C compiler == TRUE
}
is no where near as true now as it once was.
Sorry, but I believe your somewaht confused about Orthodox Christianity. The fact that Orthodox Christians celebrate Christmas on Jan 6 has absolutely nothing to do with the Epiphany. Time for a quick history lesson.
In 1054AD, the Eastern (based in Constaninople) and Western (based in Rome) branches of Christiantiy split.
In 1582, Pope Gregory (hence the name Gregorian calendar) determined the then currently used calendar (Julian calendar) was in error. This had an adverse impact on coreectly calculating when Easter (the most important Christian holy day) would fall. In order to correct this, several days were dropped from the calendar in October of 1582.
The Eastern branch of the church had no use for any pronouncements coming out of Rome so they stuck to old Julian calendar. This also explains why Eastern and Western Easters are, in some years, celibrated on the same day while in other years they differ by almost a month.
Just so you don't think I am making this all up, I was raised a Roman Catholic. I attended parochial school until university. My wife's uncle is priest. My paternal grandparents were very strict Orthodox Catholics. I have MANY wonderful childhood memories attending Orthodox services with my grandparents.
I believe you are refering to Gerrald Bull (sp?). He was a Canadian who was murdered in Belgium IIRC. The rumours at the time pointed very heavily towards the Mossad and much less so at the CIA. Check out the following for more info:
http://world.std.com/~jlr/doom/bull.htm
http://www-istp.gsfc.nasa.gov/stargaze/Smartlet. ht m
http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/iraq/other/supergu n. htm
Sorry, it was more of an FYI. I realize that IBM has withdrawn support for 4.2 but there are enough people that are running older versions (even as back as 3.2.5) for one reason or another that I thought it might have been semi imformative.
"If I were hiring someone who had worked for a porn site, I would want to know why s/he thought that was morally acceptable."
The very fact that an individual worked at a porn site proves the individual believes their action is morally acceptable. Should this not be the case, the individual could have easily terminated their employment.
My obligation as an employee is to provide services in a matter deemed acceptable by employer. I am under no obligation to provide any justification of my beliefs/morals what so ever and if I was I believe several pieces of civil rights legislation would prove otherwise.
If I were a possible employer of this person, I would most probably look quite highly on the skills they posses. The individual is obviously used to working in a "for profit" business environment. In short, the kind of person I want working for me.
"Does your company treat its porn actors properly?"
Does your employer treat all of its employees "properly"? If not, why are you still working there?
"What is the net effect of your company on society?"
And just how does one determine the "net effect" on society??????
The only difference between the Taliban and the puritanical rightwing moralists in the United States is the day of the week they pray on.
"Oh, and *never*, *ever* reboot a system just to se if the problem goeas away... Instead use the opportunity to learn some new stuff"
Truly one of the best statements ever on/.
Learn why and why not something did or did not happen. As a sysadmin your best attribute is the ability to determine the cause of a problem, for there many great things will come.
This brings to mind the old quote "If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, the first wood pecker that came along would destroy civilization".
When looked at in the context of practical experience, this is quite false. We have been building buildings for at least several thousand years with some tremendous success and some spectacular failures. I live in Toronto where we were lucky (I think) enough to have the first major league baseball stadium with a retractable roof. IIRMC, the original cost estimates were in the vicinity $100 million (CND). When the stadium opened (pretty close to on time), the cost was actually around $480 million (CND).
I guess this somewhat proves you can estimate either cost or time accurately but not always both. My experience in the IT industry has shown that most problems can be over come with enough resources. Unfortunately, resources are not limitless and therefore consessions must be made. This generally means the completion date slips or functionality is reduced or a combination of both.
1) I do believe Clear Choice has the right to decide what gets played where and when. As an owner of a business, I exercise the prerogative to provide whatever services I deem reasonable within the bounds of current legislation. Should the market place deem may services to be inappropriate, the market place will cease purchasing my services.
2) The ownership of several providers of a service in an area is NOT an indication of intellectual or moral superiority. It simply demonstrates the ability to out perform others in business matters. I think the actual list speaks volumes about the ability of the people running Clear Choice to deal with matters other than profit and loss.
Although I do not profess to familiar with all of the songs on the list, it would seem virtually any song that has mentioned death, destruction, airplanes, New York City or anything else even remotely linked to the tragedy of September 11th is banned. There appears to be a wholesale disregard for the context of the lyrics.
So in summary, Clear Choice, as an American entity, you have the unalienable right to be asinine and you have exercised that right to the fullest.
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> Why not? They already forced 100% of the clients to switch over. Remember Netscape?
Not quite 100%. I am employed by a large (at least by Canadian standards) financial institution. One of the features they offer all of their customers is "Online Banking". Unfortunately, their web site is NOT compatible with anything other than IE. So guess what, I CLOSED my fee-free employee bank accounts and opened them at another financial institution. And yes, I did make my reasons well know, via both website feedback and a lot of internal ranting to the development management team. And before anyone asks, Payroll and Human Resources went ballistic when I changed my direct deposit info.
Quite right. Thankfully, the Linux/Unix world is not limited x86!
Sorry to sound anal about the whole thing but the data is good, the viewer is bad.
A Word Doc with a macro containing something akin to "system(format C:)" is no big deal. Having an application that blindly executes the macro is REALLY dumb!
Therefore, let's keep all of the Word/Excel docs, macros and all and just do away with the moronic application because that truly is where the problem exists.
Over all I am pretty opened minded EMPLOYER. Use whatever tools you need/feel comfortable with to get your job done. However, in this case my attitude with the whiners would be "Don't let the door hit you on the ass when you leave". The standard, for whatever reason, is Notes. That's it NOTES. I didn't say you had to use the Notes client from Lotus/IBM, I just said YOU HAVE TO GET YOUR E-MAIL FROM A NOTES SERVER. Whatever tools/client you use to access Notes is your business.
Before I hear a lot of whining from others about coddling employees and other crap, it's MY business and MY money. Times change and if you are incapable of change, I am incapable of employing you.
Actually it is a "stunning innovation". It's rather akin to humans being able to communicate with something like a starfish.
(* Anyhow, the author was playing it strait, and his competitor was cheating. *)
And you know this how? Simply because some knob says something doesn't make it true.
Do you really think some guy selling software has valid licenses for all the "demo" systems sitting in his shop? If you do, I have a bridge for sale that I can let go for a reasonable price.
Remembet the OLD days of DASD (Direct Access Storage Device). The fixed head versions had one head per TRACK. In other words, the only latency would be rotational, you wouldn't have to wait for the armature to move to the correct track. Additionally, there were less moving parts therefore failure rates were lower. On the down side they were EXPENSIVE!!!!
First and foremost, I AM NOT A LAWYER nor have I received any formal legal training.
While I would agree with your conclusion, I really do not think that whether the guy was trying solicit sex from a minor has any relevance to the case.
If I communicate with you to conspire to commit an illegal act, can I have the reasonable expectation that you will not pass this information on to authorities? If you were a priest, lawyer, doctor and were not to be directly involved, I beleive I have a reasonable right to privacy. On the other hand, if I solicit your participation in the act, I don't think there is a reasonable right to privacy.
Additionally, any information I receive pertaining to criminal activities that is not obtained as a result of my being a lawyer, doctor, priest, is mine to do with as I wish. Therefore, I have a right to either pass this information to authorities or not. In this particular case as I understand it, the girl told the police that she was the target of a criminal plan (sex with a minor is a crime) and provided proof of her claim (e-mail, chat transcripts).
The only way I can this guy having any reason for having the evidence thrown out would be if the police/authorities had specifically monitored the communication from his end rather than having the information provided by the intended victim.
Time for one more thought before the PHB really statrts whining. Let's assume that an individual is under investigation for whatever reason. As part of the investigation, authorities have obtained a valid court order to tap the persons telephone conversation. I phone the person and tell the person I committed another crime not related to the initial investigation. Can the authorities use that information to prosecute me? I don't know what the laws are in specific areas but it would seem to me that I really cannot expect supression of that conversation.
Again IANAL
I had an after-school job in a sandwich shop/pinball arcade back in the 70's. I still remember the amazing line-ups to play Space Invaders, unfortunatley/fortunately I never relly became a big fan of shoot-em ups. My tastes ran a liitle more towards the strategy genre.
So in order of addiction,
1) Nethack mostly for nostalgia. I still fondly remember playing "Collosal Cave" on a 370 running MVS.
2) Civ. WOW what a game. Unfortunately, the time commitment is a little heavy. You just can't play for 15 minutes at a time.
3) Xboing. Pure mindless escapism, who can ask for more.
Well how about AIX for one. Since version 4.0 of AIX, IBM has NOT include a "C" compiler as part of the base operating system. I agree, it can be purchased or GCC can be installed but both of these have negative implications in a corporate environment.
Purchasing a C compiler costs money and bean counters and the like object to anything that adds to the cost of a box. Using GCC, or for that matter, any software that is not supported by a vendor, is usually strictly forbidden.
This policy or a similar type varient, has been the standard at almost ALL of my employers (3 fulltime and 14 contract over the past 22 years). On the other hand, development boxes are usually not quite as vigilantly monitored.
I am not saying this good or bad just passing along some anecdotal evidence that:
if (sys == Unix) {
C compiler == TRUE
}
is no where near as true now as it once was.
Sorry, but I believe your somewaht confused about Orthodox Christianity. The fact that Orthodox Christians celebrate Christmas on Jan 6 has absolutely nothing to do with the Epiphany. Time for a quick history lesson.
In 1054AD, the Eastern (based in Constaninople) and Western (based in Rome) branches of Christiantiy split.
In 1582, Pope Gregory (hence the name Gregorian calendar) determined the then currently used calendar (Julian calendar) was in error. This had an adverse impact on coreectly calculating when Easter (the most important Christian holy day) would fall. In order to correct this, several days were dropped from the calendar in October of 1582.
The Eastern branch of the church had no use for any pronouncements coming out of Rome so they stuck to old Julian calendar. This also explains why Eastern and Western Easters are, in some years, celibrated on the same day while in other years they differ by almost a month.
Just so you don't think I am making this all up, I was raised a Roman Catholic. I attended parochial school until university. My wife's uncle is priest. My paternal grandparents were very strict Orthodox Catholics. I have MANY wonderful childhood memories attending Orthodox services with my grandparents.
I believe you are refering to Gerrald Bull (sp?). He was a Canadian who was murdered in Belgium IIRC. The rumours at the time pointed very heavily towards the Mossad and much less so at the CIA. Check out the following for more info:
. ht m
u n. htm
http://world.std.com/~jlr/doom/bull.htm
http://www-istp.gsfc.nasa.gov/stargaze/Smartlet
http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/iraq/other/superg
Sorry, it was more of an FYI. I realize that IBM has withdrawn support for 4.2 but there are enough people that are running older versions (even as back as 3.2.5) for one reason or another that I thought it might have been semi imformative.
Tried the 4.3 version on a 4.2 box....It was pretty ugly. I would NOT recomend. :(
"If I were hiring someone who had worked for a porn site, I would want to know why s/he thought that was morally acceptable."
The very fact that an individual worked at a porn site proves the individual believes their action is morally acceptable. Should this not be the case, the individual could have easily terminated their employment.
My obligation as an employee is to provide services in a matter deemed acceptable by employer. I am under no obligation to provide any justification of my beliefs/morals what so ever and if I was I believe several pieces of civil rights legislation would prove otherwise.
If I were a possible employer of this person, I would most probably look quite highly on the skills they posses. The individual is obviously used to working in a "for profit" business environment. In short, the kind of person I want working for me.
"Does your company treat its porn actors properly?"
Does your employer treat all of its employees "properly"? If not, why are you still working there?
"What is the net effect of your company on society?"
And just how does one determine the "net effect" on society??????
The only difference between the Taliban and the puritanical rightwing moralists in the United States is the day of the week they pray on.
"It obviously couldn't be cross-platform either."
Kind of makes one pine for elm.
On the other hand, perhaps it was your vote for Gore that prevented Nader from becoming pesident.
"Oh, and *never*, *ever* reboot a system just to se if the problem goeas away... Instead use the opportunity to learn some new stuff"
/.
Truly one of the best statements ever on
Learn why and why not something did or did not happen. As a sysadmin your best attribute is the ability to determine the cause of a problem, for there many great things will come.
This brings to mind the old quote "If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, the first wood pecker that came along would destroy civilization".
When looked at in the context of practical experience, this is quite false. We have been building buildings for at least several thousand years with some tremendous success and some spectacular failures. I live in Toronto where we were lucky (I think) enough to have the first major league baseball stadium with a retractable roof. IIRMC, the original cost estimates were in the vicinity $100 million (CND). When the stadium opened (pretty close to on time), the cost was actually around $480 million (CND).
I guess this somewhat proves you can estimate either cost or time accurately but not always both. My experience in the IT industry has shown that most problems can be over come with enough resources. Unfortunately, resources are not limitless and therefore consessions must be made. This generally means the completion date slips or functionality is reduced or a combination of both.
A few points:
1) I do believe Clear Choice has the right to decide what gets played where and when. As an owner of a business, I exercise the prerogative to provide whatever services I deem reasonable within the bounds of current legislation. Should the market place deem may services to be inappropriate, the market place will cease purchasing my services.
2) The ownership of several providers of a service in an area is NOT an indication of intellectual or moral superiority. It simply demonstrates the ability to out perform others in business matters. I think the actual list speaks volumes about the ability of the people running Clear Choice to deal with matters other than profit and loss.
Although I do not profess to familiar with all of the songs on the list, it would seem virtually any song that has mentioned death, destruction, airplanes, New York City or anything else even remotely linked to the tragedy of September 11th is banned. There appears to be a wholesale disregard for the context of the lyrics.
So in summary, Clear Choice, as an American entity, you have the unalienable right to be asinine and you have exercised that right to the fullest.