The last time but one I moved, I had two days to get rid of almost a decade's old and crufty gear, which filled a room floor to ceiling. I put it out the front of the house and spread the word on Freecycle, the IT section of the local paper, and amongst the local tech-heads.
Two days later, the only item I had left was a single 14-inch CRT. Everything else - the cases, the 5M SCSI drives, the completely random crap from who-knows-where - had been ninjaed.
If you're worried about throwing something out, particularly if you live in a city, don't. Just get all the other e-hoarders to come around and make your crap their crap. Outsource your e-junk. Use crowd computing.
Precisely. When it comes to persistent, repeated crimes being committed against you, do you want a legal solution where, IF the police can be bothered and IF they can prove anything, the perp MIGHT be able to eventually wind up in a court room while your life savings vanishes into the billable hours of your respective lawyers quibble about the exact amount of psychological stress you could be said to have suffered, or do you just want a button on your phone which stops the problem in the first place in under one second, for free?
What happens when 1% of all clients of defunct businesses who are billed by the fraudsters turn out to be businesses where a junior trainee admin takes the bill, checks that yes, they have records saying they did business with that business name, and processes the payment?
It doesn't matter if 99% of recipients spot the scam, or do some checking, or kick up a fuss about an obviously wrong invoice, or aren't using their old billing address, or anything else. All it needs is that 1% who aren't paying quite as much attention as they should be.
Just fire the entire management chain. "You are hereby proscribed from holding a position of management or any other authority or advice provision over persons, organizations, or other legal bodies or their subdivisions other than your own self for a period of five years. Furthermore, any and all current and future owed payouts or other benefits from the affected entity or any entities it is involved with which may benefit you are hereby rendered null and void."
And of course, a multilevel freeze on any non-salary bonuses or other benefits to take place during the entire period of the investigation. Anyone remaining after the purge gets their bennies unlocked again. Can't imagine any stock options already issued would be worth much over the next couple of months either.
Given the amount of information processing power on a PC, and the fact that the SOE and entire configuration was supplied by the company, it's more like asking a company-loyal personal assistant or supplied temp/secretary to take dictation of a letter slagging off the company. There's a fairly good chance that they're going to grass on the person dictating the letter.
Whether or not there are legal rulings one way or the other, it's just DUMB to use company-issued resources for personal activities, particularly if those activities are going to cause problems for the company.
If someone absolutely must access personal email at work, wouldn't it be a hell of a lot smarter to either use a personal laptop with a WiFi link to the nearest hotspot out the window, or set up a encrypted tunnel to a home machine and make sure no logs or caches were stored on the work box? Or even just obtain a standard smartphone or PDA which can send and receive email?
...the exclusive Bing-only search function built into every next release of Windows, thus cornering the entire I-can-barely-turn-on-my-PC market in one fell swoop. These are the people who can't configure their PC for beans, use default everything, have no advertising blocks, and are more likely all around to click on adverts.
Microsoft isn't after the search market, it's after the advertising revenue. Bing is not about returning good results, it's about transferring Google's main source of income to Microsoft's coffers.
Generate the tiny amounts of gases and immediately recombine them to produce electricity and water. Plug the barrier into a suitably monitored/fuseboxed buried roadside power line using breakaway connectors. Rig the entire system so that if the barrier component is not upright and plugged in correctly, or if it has experienced significant impact, the components of the catalytic process are physically removed from one another.
"What's your time worth? Now how much of it do you waste calling us when you could have been back to work five seconds later if you'd just read what was right in front of you?"
Also, the use of "Yes" "No" and "Cancel" should be BANNED from dialogue boxes. Make the buttons actually say what they are going to do.
[Yes, you are absolutely right!] [What? That's stupid!] [No comment] [More info, please]
Additionally, in a corporate environment, why not make in-house app errors load part of their text from an external database that the Helpdesk can modify? (For example, the error can have a short, unchanging alphanumeric code string as an index, followed by a 255-character field.) After all, it's the Helpdesk that the user will be calling 99% of the time, so they've got the most invested in coming up with and tweaking text which will make the user NOT call them.
Slashdot Mirror
"There's a distro for that."
How about a way to get my phone to simulate a new random prepaid softphone every month - or day - or call?
Is there an app for that?
The last time but one I moved, I had two days to get rid of almost a decade's old and crufty gear, which filled a room floor to ceiling. I put it out the front of the house and spread the word on Freecycle, the IT section of the local paper, and amongst the local tech-heads.
Two days later, the only item I had left was a single 14-inch CRT. Everything else - the cases, the 5M SCSI drives, the completely random crap from who-knows-where - had been ninjaed.
If you're worried about throwing something out, particularly if you live in a city, don't. Just get all the other e-hoarders to come around and make your crap their crap. Outsource your e-junk. Use crowd computing.
There's a fap for that.
So now there will be no reason at all not to download a torrent!
So this would be an epic faceplant?
It's more like announcing that your front door is no longer guarded by Bozo And His Balloon Antics.
That's what you get when all the important decisions are made by Dick.
Porn was a full time job for that man, and his job performance was fucking excellent.
Literally, it would seem.
The US has absolutely no bribing to get things done well.
It's called "tipping". Gotta get the terminology right.
Illegal for you to tape your work? What if you simply have a perfect memory? Are you not allowed to leave the building, ever?
Precisely. When it comes to persistent, repeated crimes being committed against you, do you want a legal solution where, IF the police can be bothered and IF they can prove anything, the perp MIGHT be able to eventually wind up in a court room while your life savings vanishes into the billable hours of your respective lawyers quibble about the exact amount of psychological stress you could be said to have suffered, or do you just want a button on your phone which stops the problem in the first place in under one second, for free?
What happens when 1% of all clients of defunct businesses who are billed by the fraudsters turn out to be businesses where a junior trainee admin takes the bill, checks that yes, they have records saying they did business with that business name, and processes the payment?
It doesn't matter if 99% of recipients spot the scam, or do some checking, or kick up a fuss about an obviously wrong invoice, or aren't using their old billing address, or anything else. All it needs is that 1% who aren't paying quite as much attention as they should be.
Cue attacks which appear to be coming from the home PCs of the top military commanders, business computers of captains of industry, the White House...
Just fire the entire management chain. "You are hereby proscribed from holding a position of management or any other authority or advice provision over persons, organizations, or other legal bodies or their subdivisions other than your own self for a period of five years. Furthermore, any and all current and future owed payouts or other benefits from the affected entity or any entities it is involved with which may benefit you are hereby rendered null and void."
And of course, a multilevel freeze on any non-salary bonuses or other benefits to take place during the entire period of the investigation. Anyone remaining after the purge gets their bennies unlocked again. Can't imagine any stock options already issued would be worth much over the next couple of months either.
1: Create clone army of self. Replicate any distinguishing features - scars, hairstyles etc.
2: Commit crime(s), leaving DNA evidence.
3: Profit!
Given the amount of information processing power on a PC, and the fact that the SOE and entire configuration was supplied by the company, it's more like asking a company-loyal personal assistant or supplied temp/secretary to take dictation of a letter slagging off the company. There's a fairly good chance that they're going to grass on the person dictating the letter.
Whether or not there are legal rulings one way or the other, it's just DUMB to use company-issued resources for personal activities, particularly if those activities are going to cause problems for the company.
If someone absolutely must access personal email at work, wouldn't it be a hell of a lot smarter to either use a personal laptop with a WiFi link to the nearest hotspot out the window, or set up a encrypted tunnel to a home machine and make sure no logs or caches were stored on the work box? Or even just obtain a standard smartphone or PDA which can send and receive email?
it's important to note that that doesn't mean we found 1,800 security issues.
"...we have absolutely no idea where THOSE are."
They figure they'll make up for it with
Microsoft isn't after the search market, it's after the advertising revenue. Bing is not about returning good results, it's about transferring Google's main source of income to Microsoft's coffers.
There's no need for pipes at all.
Generate the tiny amounts of gases and immediately recombine them to produce electricity and water. Plug the barrier into a suitably monitored/fuseboxed buried roadside power line using breakaway connectors. Rig the entire system so that if the barrier component is not upright and plugged in correctly, or if it has experienced significant impact, the components of the catalytic process are physically removed from one another.
Very particularly placed wire on internal wall nearest transmitter.
Apply power.
Transmitter go boom.
Repeat until transmitter owner gets fed up and relocates it.
Hopefully not to your roof.
"What's your time worth? Now how much of it do you waste calling us when you could have been back to work five seconds later if you'd just read what was right in front of you?"
Also, the use of "Yes" "No" and "Cancel" should be BANNED from dialogue boxes. Make the buttons actually say what they are going to do.
[Yes, you are absolutely right!] [What? That's stupid!] [No comment] [More info, please]
Additionally, in a corporate environment, why not make in-house app errors load part of their text from an external database that the Helpdesk can modify? (For example, the error can have a short, unchanging alphanumeric code string as an index, followed by a 255-character field.) After all, it's the Helpdesk that the user will be calling 99% of the time, so they've got the most invested in coming up with and tweaking text which will make the user NOT call them.
"If it's not an activity involving spending money, we don't want it happening near us."
Ah, you've experienced the new Old Fogey Discouragement System!