People who don't live in sunny California who have to wear gloves for part of the year. It's actually been the deciding factor around our Toronto office when coworkers have been picking their new smart phone. Most have been opting for non-touch screen phones, or the Blackberry Storm. The inability to use the iPhone without hassle while you're on the go has ruined its chances of entering the business market.
I live in a cold weather area and I have never owned a cellphone that I could use properly with gloves on.
I have a G1 and an iPod touch. If I am somewhere with wifi I find myself using the iPod to surf the net or check email. I thought I would prefer the G1 for the keyboard, but I don't think it's interface is that great, the apps I get are either buggy, not very useful or not very well done and it seems to hang a lot.
Oh yeah, I forgot to mention... I am on a college campus, so "ESPN360.com is also available to fans that access the internet from U.S. college campuses and U.S. military bases." is not factual.
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Jesus, it is a two way street. Canadian customs has searched my car probably 15 times. I still go to Canada.
Granted I was 19-20 at the time and went to Canada a lot more with my friends, but this was years ago - before the 'heightened security." (Good rule of thumb - avoid the bilingual lane, they seem to be bigger pricks).
"My team needs to be happy, but the folks in the rest of the office do not really understand what that means for the types of personalities that exist in our department."
Honestly, I think this is bullshit. The idea that programmers are some social recluses who need to be coddled in the workplace and given special privileges that other employees don't get is pretty bunk. You know, I bet a lot of people who work in other parts of the company have hobbies and interests outside of work too. What's next? An auto restoration garage? A knitting room? An art studio?
If you are seriously thinking about putting a personal game console at every desk, maybe you should instead pitch to your boss the cost savings of contracting out your IT work.
This isn't a big deal, Bob Lutz (Vice Chairman of GM, Retired Marine Aviator) owned a MiG i think, and now flies around in a Czech fighter.
Jack Roush (NASCAR owner, head of Roush Industries) owns a bunch of WWII fighters.
The odd part is that the Google guys seem to have bought it through some company.
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Only $2000? I'm all about building one.
He probably could make some of the money back by selling the plans. An ad for "Build Your Own Mini-Tank!" in the back of Popular Mechanics might actually be the most legit kit ever advertised there.
Why not put Open Office on it? I work at a college, and papers submitted in MS Works are compatible with nothing, not even Word. You can get a translation file for Word, but it loses all the document formatting.
The READ section is also awesome in that it takes what is typically a bunch of wasted trees (excess newspapers, periodicals) and allows us to be more environmentally friendly and timely with things like news/event info/sports/entertainment etc.
Riiiight. Trees are biodegradable, renewable, grown for paper and lumber stock and have a positive impact on the environment. But hey, an electric gizmo on a jumbo-jet is better! The idea that we're "saving a tree" by recycling paper is harmless, but stupid.
One of my best friends helped clear and secure airfields in very unfriendly places and also was thrown into the middle of a coup for some reason while he was in the Air Force. He also told me some story about having to shit in MRE bags while on patrol (there was some convoluted justification for it, I just took his word that it was necessary). Anyways, not everyone in the Air Force is a 9-5 desk jockey. For some reason he re-upped as Army Infantry, I am not sure exactly what the reasoning was, but I guess switching branches is fairly common.
Who wants to hear someone talk about "empathy based relationships"? He wasn't talking about the issues you say the crowd wanted, he was talking about marketing terms and explaining what everyone knows, what Facebook is. Basically it was a boring and rude interview subject being interviewed by someone who was pitching boring softballs. The funny thing is that she tried to lead him into a conversation, all the while he is saying "uh, uh huh, umm. Ok Sure." Then he says "you're supposed to ask a question" and all the nerds in the house ROFLOLZ.
Someone sent me a link to a Wired story where someone on Twitter said it was the biggest thing to happen on the internet. It is like a story that parodies itself.
Most commenters seem to miss the point of what they are doing. It doesn't sound like they are getting together and probing each others networks, or getting involved in this in very minute technical details (but they could be). That is not what these sorts of exercises are usually about. The article says that the first exercise "involved nine large IT firms, six electricity utility firms (generation transmission and grid operations) and two major airline carriers. "
In fact, the article calls this a "hacking exercise" but says:
A Cyber Storm report was released following the exercise in February last year which identified eight specific areas in need of improvement.
These included better inter-agency coordination, the formation of a training and exercise program, increased coordination between those involved in cyber incidents, the development of a common framework for response and information access, as well as the development of a strategic communications and public relations plan.
Security experts said the first Cyber Storm event last year improved participants' understanding of who to call in the event of an attack, but did not identify specific vulnerabilities in the nation's computer systems. What they were likely doing was role-playing major systems getting corrupted, altered or going off-line. There is a non-technical side to such an event that needs to be thought about and practiced. When a crisis happens, there will be a period of chaos, which you quickly need to get under control and then fix. Say you were an airline, and air traffic systems went out. What do you do with your planes? Your passengers? Who is your contact at the Federal government? Who do they report to? Who are they speaking for? What assistance can they provide? Who are your contacts at other airlines? Who is in charge of communicating with the airports? Does finance have money available to put passengers in hotels if necessary? Who in finance is can make those decisions? Who are your contacts at the hotels? What assistance will they provide? What are our plans for handling major schedule disruption? How long would it take to get the planes back online and normal service resumed?
If the exercise tells you that your systems have been infiltrated, you could imagine similar questions raised.
The idea is to get people thinking about what their specific role is and understanding it. We always told people there are no wrong answers, they are not graded. The facilitator guides the exercise and observes how well things go, and makes recommendations afterwards.
If it had nothing to do with PR, it wouldn't have even been mentioned to the press. When's the last time they reported on a fire drill or internal audit? I didn't say it has "nothing to do with PR," I said it wasn't a PR exercise. The article quotes politicians, who are of course looking for PR. The article has everything to do with PR. The actual exercise probably has very little to do with it.
It is not a PR exercise (well, maybe it is, I haven't read TFA), these types of scenarios are used all the time for crisis testing. I used to help run part of a major multi-national's crisis team, and the main goal in table-topping various disaster scenarios is not to drum up some mass paranoia, or even to exercise more likely minor events. The goal is to come up with something large enough to involve all, or most, members of the team. Too often people are tasked with a crisis function on top of their "real" job, and it is something they will hardly ever be called upon to perform. So you pull them together, give them a scenario, and basically you role-play it. The idea is that they need to become familiar with their specific role, what the other members roles are, and the decision-making and communication structure. Afterwards, you assess how it went, and make suggestions for improvement. We did this all the time. It generally had nothing to do with terrorism (weather or infrastructure failures were more likely scenarios, but sometimes terrorism, crime or political instability were used).
If you regularly travel internationally on business, it is a good idea to use a laptop which does not carry personal information and just contains non-confidential materials related to the purpose of your trip.
Most magazines these days are filled with "Top 10 _____" articles. They are quick meaningless bits of information that are generally just product placement and able to be read quicker than the amount of time you might spend in the bathroom. Blame Maxim, not the internet.
gee, i dunno, maybe just show your damn receipt? and get on with your day?
What sense does it make to ask someone for their receipt when they have just walked 10 feet from a cash register to a door? The only thing I could see this preventing is a cashier not ringing up some items for an accomplice.
I have been in a hurry at a Best Buy (I avoid Best Buy now, for other reasons) and walked ten feet to the door only to be intercepted by some employee who asked to see my receipt. I asked the employee if they were suggesting I had stolen something and got the biggest horseshit line. "Oh, no no no sir! This is for your convenience. I need to make sure you got all the items you were charged for today." Other times I have walked past them.
The only time I was actually accused of shoplifting was at a Meijer store, where someone behind us on the way out kept asking where the batteries were. I finally realized they were talking to me. The lady said that I was seen taking batteries, and she would like me to produce them. I told her I didn't even know where the batteries were in the store, and the accusation was ridiculous. Then she said she would have to take me to the manager if I did not produce the batteries. I told her that I would absolutely love to talk to the manager, and she backed down and let me go. I was a kid at the time, but I should have gone to see the manager anyways.
how does the FBI decide if you are selling stolen items?
I worked for a large US manufacturer, and we noticed some of our tooling was going missing and seemed to be ending up on eBay. We marked similar tooling in the area where it was disappearing. Showed up on eBay. No problems proving it.
San Francisco is mired, Chicago gives up but Wireless Oakland chugs along. One of my ex-Michigander Bay Area friends can't believe that I have free wireless but the Googlenet (or whatever SF plans) is still not working.
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"we won't link to it."
I know you are making a joke, but we shouldn't participate in this bullshit by limiting what we publish.
People who don't live in sunny California who have to wear gloves for part of the year. It's actually been the deciding factor around our Toronto office when coworkers have been picking their new smart phone. Most have been opting for non-touch screen phones, or the Blackberry Storm. The inability to use the iPhone without hassle while you're on the go has ruined its chances of entering the business market.
I live in a cold weather area and I have never owned a cellphone that I could use properly with gloves on.
I have a G1 and an iPod touch. If I am somewhere with wifi I find myself using the iPod to surf the net or check email. I thought I would prefer the G1 for the keyboard, but I don't think it's interface is that great, the apps I get are either buggy, not very useful or not very well done and it seems to hang a lot.
Oh yeah, I forgot to mention... I am on a college campus, so "ESPN360.com is also available to fans that access the internet from U.S. college campuses and U.S. military bases." is not factual.
Here is the other version of the message:
How To Get ESPN360.com
ESPN360.com is available at no charge to fans who receive their high-speed internet connection from an ESPN360.com affiliated internet service provider. ESPN360.com is also available to fans that access the internet from U.S. college campuses and U.S. military bases.
Your current computer network falls outside of these categories. Here's how you can get access to ESPN360.com.
1. Switch to an ESPN360.com affiliated internet service provider or to contact your internet service provider and request ESPN360.com. Click here to enter your ZIP code and find out which providers in your area carry offer ESPN360.com
2. For Verizon Customers Only:
Sign-in using remote access if you already get ESPN360.com
Well that sucks for Google.
Jesus, it is a two way street. Canadian customs has searched my car probably 15 times. I still go to Canada.
Granted I was 19-20 at the time and went to Canada a lot more with my friends, but this was years ago - before the 'heightened security." (Good rule of thumb - avoid the bilingual lane, they seem to be bigger pricks).
But does it run.....
nevermind.
"My team needs to be happy, but the folks in the rest of the office do not really understand what that means for the types of personalities that exist in our department."
Honestly, I think this is bullshit. The idea that programmers are some social recluses who need to be coddled in the workplace and given special privileges that other employees don't get is pretty bunk. You know, I bet a lot of people who work in other parts of the company have hobbies and interests outside of work too. What's next? An auto restoration garage? A knitting room? An art studio?
If you are seriously thinking about putting a personal game console at every desk, maybe you should instead pitch to your boss the cost savings of contracting out your IT work.
Sorry to rain on the parade.
This isn't a big deal, Bob Lutz (Vice Chairman of GM, Retired Marine Aviator) owned a MiG i think, and now flies around in a Czech fighter.
Jack Roush (NASCAR owner, head of Roush Industries) owns a bunch of WWII fighters.
The odd part is that the Google guys seem to have bought it through some company.
He probably could make some of the money back by selling the plans. An ad for "Build Your Own Mini-Tank!" in the back of Popular Mechanics might actually be the most legit kit ever advertised there.
Why not put Open Office on it? I work at a college, and papers submitted in MS Works are compatible with nothing, not even Word. You can get a translation file for Word, but it loses all the document formatting.
Riiiight. Trees are biodegradable, renewable, grown for paper and lumber stock and have a positive impact on the environment. But hey, an electric gizmo on a jumbo-jet is better! The idea that we're "saving a tree" by recycling paper is harmless, but stupid.
One of my best friends helped clear and secure airfields in very unfriendly places and also was thrown into the middle of a coup for some reason while he was in the Air Force. He also told me some story about having to shit in MRE bags while on patrol (there was some convoluted justification for it, I just took his word that it was necessary). Anyways, not everyone in the Air Force is a 9-5 desk jockey. For some reason he re-upped as Army Infantry, I am not sure exactly what the reasoning was, but I guess switching branches is fairly common.
Who wants to hear someone talk about "empathy based relationships"? He wasn't talking about the issues you say the crowd wanted, he was talking about marketing terms and explaining what everyone knows, what Facebook is. Basically it was a boring and rude interview subject being interviewed by someone who was pitching boring softballs. The funny thing is that she tried to lead him into a conversation, all the while he is saying "uh, uh huh, umm. Ok Sure." Then he says "you're supposed to ask a question" and all the nerds in the house ROFLOLZ.
Someone sent me a link to a Wired story where someone on Twitter said it was the biggest thing to happen on the internet. It is like a story that parodies itself.
In fact, the article calls this a "hacking exercise" but says: A Cyber Storm report was released following the exercise in February last year which identified eight specific areas in need of improvement.
These included better inter-agency coordination, the formation of a training and exercise program, increased coordination between those involved in cyber incidents, the development of a common framework for response and information access, as well as the development of a strategic communications and public relations plan.
Security experts said the first Cyber Storm event last year improved participants' understanding of who to call in the event of an attack, but did not identify specific vulnerabilities in the nation's computer systems. What they were likely doing was role-playing major systems getting corrupted, altered or going off-line. There is a non-technical side to such an event that needs to be thought about and practiced. When a crisis happens, there will be a period of chaos, which you quickly need to get under control and then fix. Say you were an airline, and air traffic systems went out. What do you do with your planes? Your passengers? Who is your contact at the Federal government? Who do they report to? Who are they speaking for? What assistance can they provide? Who are your contacts at other airlines? Who is in charge of communicating with the airports? Does finance have money available to put passengers in hotels if necessary? Who in finance is can make those decisions? Who are your contacts at the hotels? What assistance will they provide? What are our plans for handling major schedule disruption? How long would it take to get the planes back online and normal service resumed?
If the exercise tells you that your systems have been infiltrated, you could imagine similar questions raised.
The idea is to get people thinking about what their specific role is and understanding it. We always told people there are no wrong answers, they are not graded. The facilitator guides the exercise and observes how well things go, and makes recommendations afterwards.
It is not a PR exercise (well, maybe it is, I haven't read TFA), these types of scenarios are used all the time for crisis testing. I used to help run part of a major multi-national's crisis team, and the main goal in table-topping various disaster scenarios is not to drum up some mass paranoia, or even to exercise more likely minor events. The goal is to come up with something large enough to involve all, or most, members of the team. Too often people are tasked with a crisis function on top of their "real" job, and it is something they will hardly ever be called upon to perform. So you pull them together, give them a scenario, and basically you role-play it. The idea is that they need to become familiar with their specific role, what the other members roles are, and the decision-making and communication structure. Afterwards, you assess how it went, and make suggestions for improvement. We did this all the time. It generally had nothing to do with terrorism (weather or infrastructure failures were more likely scenarios, but sometimes terrorism, crime or political instability were used).
If you regularly travel internationally on business, it is a good idea to use a laptop which does not carry personal information and just contains non-confidential materials related to the purpose of your trip.
The idea of a Lessig run gets some love on the National Review Online.
Wow, a huge energy drain that employs almost nobody. Where do we sign up?
Most magazines these days are filled with "Top 10 _____" articles. They are quick meaningless bits of information that are generally just product placement and able to be read quicker than the amount of time you might spend in the bathroom. Blame Maxim, not the internet.
What sense does it make to ask someone for their receipt when they have just walked 10 feet from a cash register to a door? The only thing I could see this preventing is a cashier not ringing up some items for an accomplice.
I have been in a hurry at a Best Buy (I avoid Best Buy now, for other reasons) and walked ten feet to the door only to be intercepted by some employee who asked to see my receipt. I asked the employee if they were suggesting I had stolen something and got the biggest horseshit line. "Oh, no no no sir! This is for your convenience. I need to make sure you got all the items you were charged for today." Other times I have walked past them.
The only time I was actually accused of shoplifting was at a Meijer store, where someone behind us on the way out kept asking where the batteries were. I finally realized they were talking to me. The lady said that I was seen taking batteries, and she would like me to produce them. I told her I didn't even know where the batteries were in the store, and the accusation was ridiculous. Then she said she would have to take me to the manager if I did not produce the batteries. I told her that I would absolutely love to talk to the manager, and she backed down and let me go. I was a kid at the time, but I should have gone to see the manager anyways.
I worked for a large US manufacturer, and we noticed some of our tooling was going missing and seemed to be ending up on eBay. We marked similar tooling in the area where it was disappearing. Showed up on eBay. No problems proving it.
San Francisco is mired, Chicago gives up but Wireless Oakland chugs along. One of my ex-Michigander Bay Area friends can't believe that I have free wireless but the Googlenet (or whatever SF plans) is still not working.