Shouldn't be too hard to make the kill switch flash bright red and beep (separate circuits, please) when it's engaged and the car's switched on. Put it right in the driver's line of sight - on the dash above the steering wheel would be an idea.
Both my folks were lifelong senior teachers (now retired). Quite a few years ago, when my IT career had consisted of "a short while doing tech support" and nothing else, I was offered a teaching job at a private company which did brand-name IT certification.
My starting salary, had I taken the job, would have been thirty percent more than my parents' combined salaries - and they'd been in teaching for over 25 years apiece.
Fake some data which shows medium-high-level political figures stomping on cats. Chinonymous vs the Ruling Party should settle things one way or another.
"blocking ads can be devastating to the sites you love"
If a site decides not to show me content, it's not a site I love. I'm sorry, did Ars think there was brand loyalty on the internet? Please. Every site's userbase is two seconds and one Google search away from moving lock, stock and barrel to a competitor.
In startling revelations, it was discovered that China's multbilliondollar industrial espionage program has been targeting things invented in the 1980s, because "everyone knows it was the coolest decade". In recent weeks, sources say they've gained access to enormous amounts of sensitive information about Commodore 64s, Nintendo Entertainment Systems, and the Yugo.
The head of the Chinese espionage program was later seen smoking a cigar and proclaiming "I love it when a plan comes together."
I presume it's US-only, or else I could simply pack a camper full of food, solar arrays, and a satellite net connection, and head out into the Australian desert for four weeks. There are places within a day's drive that haven't had a human pass there in fifty years.
It wouldn't even matter if my net connection was unproxied. Tracking my IP might tell you which ISP I was with, and analysing the ping might help to determine that I was on a satellite connection, but then what? Even if you knew precisely where in orbit the satellite was, "over Australia" still doesn't help much. I could keep up with a pile of forums all day long and no-one would have a chance in hell of physically locating me.
As for interesting things I could do, I could shoot a nature documentary, a survivalist documentary, a documentary on car repair in the desert, make a vlog, all kinds of things.
Bonus points if I had a tiny area in the camper set up with a variable background (colors, paintings, wall kibble, lighting etc) and took along collapsible backgrounds which resembled well-known locations/walls in a major city. And wore different kinds of hats, sunglasses, hair styles and colors etc, to make it look like I was skulking around town. And uploaded a ten-minute video every day with the fake backgrounds and disguises.
Double bonus points if I'd shot the videos the previous month, uploaded them to a colo server, and simply had a cron job move a new one to the public folder (and update links) every 24 hours.
It's just marketing to try and get more people through their doors this year to fill the coffers after a rocky economic period.
If they were really serious about it, they would stop issuing the A+ certs, allow them to still be 'lifetime', and rename the certificate to something else which expired in N years.
Eventually, employers would stop looking for A+ certifications and start looking for NewZappoWonder+ on CVs.
What are they planning to do with the money? Simply kick back and relax? Or now that Google's reached cruising speed, are they likely to be looking around for new challenges?
You will generally need fewer IT staff per hundred users if:
- You have a large organisation (several thousand staff) and can use economies of scale.
- You have a homogeneous digital corporate environment.
- Your business does not change much from year to year.
- Your business is largely non-IT based; miners and dock workers generate less IT demand than office workers and engineers.
- Your IT infrastructure has been built up slowly and thoughtfully, with consideration given to interoperability, remote administration, and software automation and maintenance.
- Your IT department is allowed to devote resources towards improvement of service.
- Your IT department has extensive input on incoming upgrades, speccing and sourcing, and other uses of the IT budget.
- The IT staff is paid well and provided with an attractive working environment, leading to lower turnover and greater average ability/knowledge per IT person.
- The IT staff don't mind cross-training and providing a degree of flexibility and coverage for each other, which is a lot easier to make stick if people actually like working for your IT department.
- You have procedures in place for both reducing instances of and minimising effects of things like bad software rollouts, new interface implementations, and so forth.
- You have methods in place for allowing a sliding set of task assignments, so that if something big does unexpectedly crop up, people can be smoothly assigned to it in an actually effective way without their normal duties falling by the wayside, and it can be taken care of much more rapidly. You also have procedures for rapidly acquiring additional emergency IT staff who won't need three months' training to get up to speed.
So, yeah. There's a bunch of factors involved. A ten-person IT team might be needed for a fifty-person bleeding-edge programming shop built out of spit and Steve Jobs' old turtlenecks, but an identical ten-person team might be able to hold down a fifty-thousand-employee megacorp where the infrastructure is a locked-down 500-person HQ and two hundred sites specialising in physical labor and hosting a single indestructible greenscreen terminal each because 90% of their paperwork consists of the boss's clipboard and a work schedule stapled to the break room wall.
"We appreciate the concept of being forced to wear clothing we did not choose or design ourselves, and look forward to the Management team leading the way in this brave revolution. To assist with implementing this new policy, we have stepped up to the plate and proactively designed the uniforms for the Management team. They are distinct, highly visible from across a floor, and come with a wide range of accessories, from red wigs to squirting flowers, and shoes in Executive Board Member sizes."
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Take it away, Skutters!
And you wondered how the bodies of your enemies always disappeared in 3D shooters...
Shouldn't be too hard to make the kill switch flash bright red and beep (separate circuits, please) when it's engaged and the car's switched on. Put it right in the driver's line of sight - on the dash above the steering wheel would be an idea.
"Bob, you should come over! I've got the demo for the new Bloodfist 7: The Bloodening!"
"Can't make it this week - see you on the weekend though."
ON THE WEEKEND:
"So what do you think, Bob?"
"Dude, this demo sucks!"
"Well, it was, like, better before."
"Are you high? I'm not buying this!"
"Aw. And it's multiplayer. I guess there's no point in me getting it either. But dang, I was sure it used to be better..."
Both my folks were lifelong senior teachers (now retired). Quite a few years ago, when my IT career had consisted of "a short while doing tech support" and nothing else, I was offered a teaching job at a private company which did brand-name IT certification.
My starting salary, had I taken the job, would have been thirty percent more than my parents' combined salaries - and they'd been in teaching for over 25 years apiece.
Fake some data which shows medium-high-level political figures stomping on cats. Chinonymous vs the Ruling Party should settle things one way or another.
"blocking ads can be devastating to the sites you love"
If a site decides not to show me content, it's not a site I love. I'm sorry, did Ars think there was brand loyalty on the internet? Please. Every site's userbase is two seconds and one Google search away from moving lock, stock and barrel to a competitor.
People still watch TV?
It's a plot! All they need now is Google Matter, and they'll be able to redefine C to make their fiber faster!
Any reason they couldn't wholly own a world-class stocking factory and a world-class nuke plant, though?
The entire meeting.
CHINA ACQUIRES '80S TECH
In startling revelations, it was discovered that China's multbilliondollar industrial espionage program has been targeting things invented in the 1980s, because "everyone knows it was the coolest decade". In recent weeks, sources say they've gained access to enormous amounts of sensitive information about Commodore 64s, Nintendo Entertainment Systems, and the Yugo.
The head of the Chinese espionage program was later seen smoking a cigar and proclaiming "I love it when a plan comes together."
so they have nothing to lose by making them crap.
Reputation. Eyeballs. Advertising. Money. Existence.
I presume it's US-only, or else I could simply pack a camper full of food, solar arrays, and a satellite net connection, and head out into the Australian desert for four weeks. There are places within a day's drive that haven't had a human pass there in fifty years.
It wouldn't even matter if my net connection was unproxied. Tracking my IP might tell you which ISP I was with, and analysing the ping might help to determine that I was on a satellite connection, but then what? Even if you knew precisely where in orbit the satellite was, "over Australia" still doesn't help much. I could keep up with a pile of forums all day long and no-one would have a chance in hell of physically locating me.
As for interesting things I could do, I could shoot a nature documentary, a survivalist documentary, a documentary on car repair in the desert, make a vlog, all kinds of things.
Bonus points if I had a tiny area in the camper set up with a variable background (colors, paintings, wall kibble, lighting etc) and took along collapsible backgrounds which resembled well-known locations/walls in a major city. And wore different kinds of hats, sunglasses, hair styles and colors etc, to make it look like I was skulking around town. And uploaded a ten-minute video every day with the fake backgrounds and disguises.
Double bonus points if I'd shot the videos the previous month, uploaded them to a colo server, and simply had a cron job move a new one to the public folder (and update links) every 24 hours.
"Hi. I'm in... Delaware."
New studies show that an estimate of 'ten years away' could be made as early as next year!
It's just marketing to try and get more people through their doors this year to fill the coffers after a rocky economic period.
If they were really serious about it, they would stop issuing the A+ certs, allow them to still be 'lifetime', and rename the certificate to something else which expired in N years.
Eventually, employers would stop looking for A+ certifications and start looking for NewZappoWonder+ on CVs.
CompTIA certs only impress people who don't know anything, and are helpful to get you through the HR screening
You need a spellcheck guy.
Not everyone networks.
Do not fret, citizen! Such things are a worry of the past, with the new fully electronic braking systems!
What are they planning to do with the money? Simply kick back and relax? Or now that Google's reached cruising speed, are they likely to be looking around for new challenges?
Hand them a paper bag and say "Get coding!" ?
Wait, there's someone on Slashdot who cares about social feedback?
You will generally need fewer IT staff per hundred users if:
- You have a large organisation (several thousand staff) and can use economies of scale.
- You have a homogeneous digital corporate environment.
- Your business does not change much from year to year.
- Your business is largely non-IT based; miners and dock workers generate less IT demand than office workers and engineers.
- Your IT infrastructure has been built up slowly and thoughtfully, with consideration given to interoperability, remote administration, and software automation and maintenance.
- Your IT department is allowed to devote resources towards improvement of service.
- Your IT department has extensive input on incoming upgrades, speccing and sourcing, and other uses of the IT budget.
- The IT staff is paid well and provided with an attractive working environment, leading to lower turnover and greater average ability/knowledge per IT person.
- The IT staff don't mind cross-training and providing a degree of flexibility and coverage for each other, which is a lot easier to make stick if people actually like working for your IT department.
- You have procedures in place for both reducing instances of and minimising effects of things like bad software rollouts, new interface implementations, and so forth.
- You have methods in place for allowing a sliding set of task assignments, so that if something big does unexpectedly crop up, people can be smoothly assigned to it in an actually effective way without their normal duties falling by the wayside, and it can be taken care of much more rapidly. You also have procedures for rapidly acquiring additional emergency IT staff who won't need three months' training to get up to speed.
So, yeah. There's a bunch of factors involved. A ten-person IT team might be needed for a fifty-person bleeding-edge programming shop built out of spit and Steve Jobs' old turtlenecks, but an identical ten-person team might be able to hold down a fifty-thousand-employee megacorp where the infrastructure is a locked-down 500-person HQ and two hundred sites specialising in physical labor and hosting a single indestructible greenscreen terminal each because 90% of their paperwork consists of the boss's clipboard and a work schedule stapled to the break room wall.
"We appreciate the concept of being forced to wear clothing we did not choose or design ourselves, and look forward to the Management team leading the way in this brave revolution. To assist with implementing this new policy, we have stepped up to the plate and proactively designed the uniforms for the Management team. They are distinct, highly visible from across a floor, and come with a wide range of accessories, from red wigs to squirting flowers, and shoes in Executive Board Member sizes."