One of these arrest attempts in which the following occurred:
1) The entire front row of the audience stood up and turned out to be lawyers representing the speaker; or
2) As the speaker was carted off, a previously arranged secondary speaker stepped onto the stage and continued the presentation - and if that one was also arrested, a third, then a fourth, then a fifth...
After all, there's nothing like having a firewall and failover backups.
If the speaker and the entire audience turned out to actually be cardboard cutouts, that would be a honeypot?
I have an idea. Every time I block an ad, it can pop up on trifish's PC. That way it's not deleted, and the people who think ads are a great idea can be the ones seeing them. Everyone wins!
There was an auction house in my town selling a boatload of second-hand government surplus 21" monitors. They had so many at one stage that they were actually offering them for sale on their website (at about $US150 equivalent) instead of just at auction.
I wondered if I could get a further discount. So I asked a couple of colleagues if they'd be interested. They were. I called the place and said "I can take a chunk of those off your hands, what's your best price?" They told me about another sixth off (~$US125 equivalent) if I could guarantee fifty units and take care of delivery myself.
I put a note on the purely local bulletin board at work. By noon I was getting calls and emails from staff at the other end of the city. By the next day, I was getting queries from other organisations. Six hours after that, it seemed everyone and their mates and their family and their mates' families' dentists' goldfish was calling me.
I took orders, drove around the city and collected several thousand bucks in cash, then told everyone to turn up to the auction house that evening. One flash mob later, seventy-one monster-sized monitors were gone. I even delivered a couple myself to people who had wanted one but couldn't be there to pick it up.
I still have and use two of them. They're not brilliant, but considering this was just before LCD screens for desktops took off, they were well worth it.
Even if they released the specs, there's no guarantee that these chips would be general-purpose units compatible with your average beige-box, discount-store, consumer-level workstation mobo.
Some might call those projects failures. I call it 'learning'.
They have the money. They want to expand. But instead of pouring billions into an area they know nothing about, they spend a fraction of that on some experimental probes into a lot of different areas. One of those sortees might discover something interesting. Another might find something that is useless by itself, but when combined with other information they've just found becomes much more viable.
They're evolving at the edges and growing into new niches, slowly at first. It's even possible that they might find something more profitable than search, and the Google of the future might have different connotations for the average punter.
If nothing else, they're not betting the farm on one cash cow. If the bottom falls out of search, they have GMail. If webmail services fall into disrepute, they have Google Earth. If that dies, I'm betting they'll have something else by then.
The same (requiring an act of God) goes for at least some government departments. I worked for one for seven years. In the first three, the manager was a Type-A personality who wouldn't put up with any crap from anyone. If a bad tech made it past the interview to temp status, they very rarely made permanent after three months.
Then the manager was replaced by spineless idiots. Who hired idiots, and made them permanent. Then promoted them to trainers and supervisors. The entire place went to hell in a handbasket. When we finally armtwisted someone with half a brain into the manager's job, he couldn't do more than hold the line and hope the bad techs moved on, because they were unfireable. The only way to fix the problem would have been to break up the entire technical division and start from scratch.
Me? I eventually snapped, listed every problem that had developed over the past five years on a sheet of paper, including how to fix it and how much money it would save (about 80% of our multimilliondollar budget). I then annoyed the CEO-equivalent (remember, I was unfireable too) until he assigned some middle-managers to me to look into these 'potential savings'. I ran through a couple of meetings, handed out the list of fixes, emailed the CEO saying that his underlings should be presenting him with million-dollar-plus savings in three months, and quit.
Screw 'em. If they want to hire an overpaid executive who actually knows how to deliver those savings, they have my number. Otherwise the division can try and explain their overinflated budget to the CEO and CIO. Yeah, good luck with that.
The same is true of Financial Directors and their ilk. They have to take years of qualifications and have decades of experience before they're allowed to do their job.
And as a result, no major business has ever collapsed from financial misdirection!
Better - if a patent used in a court case is shown to be invalid (because of prior art or any other reason), do the following:
1) Revoke the patent. 2) Fine the ex-patent holder a percentage of their turnover. 3) Advise ex-patent holder that *all* of their current patents will be reviewed in 30 days, and any found to be invalid will be revoked and attract further fines. Also advise that they may release any current patents in that 30-day period without attracting fines. 4) Fines will go to the budget of the Patent Office.
Result: The larger a company is, the surer it better be that its patents are defendable before trying to use them in court.
All sporting terms and most high-bandwidth sites are blocked already. Not to mention that I don't believe 99% of our staff would even realise that you can watch sport on your PC.
Wouldn't it be a great distribution system for artists, though?
Just get someone to put your new song on a couple of auto-transmitting devices (one for each common protocol/type in the market) and have them go hang out in LAX departure areas for a couple of hours.
There's probably some early-implementer money to be made by setting up a 'distibution' system that consists of such miniclusters in major airports and public transport nexuses around the world, plus download servers for everyone else.
At least until some marketing executive figures out they can load their auto-sharers with advertising and go hang out at the airport coffee bar all day in the name of 'work'.
Teaching incorrect axioms and/or reasoning skills, or failing to teach the correct ones, will mean that the student has to:
(a) realise that they were not given correct information;
(b) discover for themselves what the correct information is; and
(c) then catch up on the years of instruction and information they were originally denied
before they will be at the same learning level as students who were initially taught correctly. It follows that the skill levels of students exposed to drivel may very well be depressed compared to those of students who weren't.
Drivel causes low skill levels which in turn leads to more drivel. It's a self-perpetuating cycle which only the brightest individuals break out of, because they're the only ones who actively question what they were taught.
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AOL still has subscribers?
Well someone there had to prevent anyone else reading books on security. It's s full-time job!
Dunno, from the quoted text it sounds like that's what he was doing at Microsoft...
One of these arrest attempts in which the following occurred:
1) The entire front row of the audience stood up and turned out to be lawyers representing the speaker; or
2) As the speaker was carted off, a previously arranged secondary speaker stepped onto the stage and continued the presentation - and if that one was also arrested, a third, then a fourth, then a fifth...
After all, there's nothing like having a firewall and failover backups.
If the speaker and the entire audience turned out to actually be cardboard cutouts, that would be a honeypot?
Anyone willing to provide free tech support for any length of time is unlikely to have any real-world experience at doing so. Or they're a masochist.
Easy. Just connect the strangers with the relatives, and let them support each other!
I have an idea. Every time I block an ad, it can pop up on trifish's PC. That way it's not deleted, and the people who think ads are a great idea can be the ones seeing them. Everyone wins!
Is that what's used to make... booty calls?
There was an auction house in my town selling a boatload of second-hand government surplus 21" monitors. They had so many at one stage that they were actually offering them for sale on their website (at about $US150 equivalent) instead of just at auction.
I wondered if I could get a further discount. So I asked a couple of colleagues if they'd be interested. They were. I called the place and said "I can take a chunk of those off your hands, what's your best price?" They told me about another sixth off (~$US125 equivalent) if I could guarantee fifty units and take care of delivery myself.
I put a note on the purely local bulletin board at work. By noon I was getting calls and emails from staff at the other end of the city. By the next day, I was getting queries from other organisations. Six hours after that, it seemed everyone and their mates and their family and their mates' families' dentists' goldfish was calling me.
I took orders, drove around the city and collected several thousand bucks in cash, then told everyone to turn up to the auction house that evening. One flash mob later, seventy-one monster-sized monitors were gone. I even delivered a couple myself to people who had wanted one but couldn't be there to pick it up.
I still have and use two of them. They're not brilliant, but considering this was just before LCD screens for desktops took off, they were well worth it.
Even if they released the specs, there's no guarantee that these chips would be general-purpose units compatible with your average beige-box, discount-store, consumer-level workstation mobo.
Well, some of us voted the Democrats into office in 2000.
Some might call those projects failures. I call it 'learning'. They have the money. They want to expand. But instead of pouring billions into an area they know nothing about, they spend a fraction of that on some experimental probes into a lot of different areas. One of those sortees might discover something interesting. Another might find something that is useless by itself, but when combined with other information they've just found becomes much more viable. They're evolving at the edges and growing into new niches, slowly at first. It's even possible that they might find something more profitable than search, and the Google of the future might have different connotations for the average punter. If nothing else, they're not betting the farm on one cash cow. If the bottom falls out of search, they have GMail. If webmail services fall into disrepute, they have Google Earth. If that dies, I'm betting they'll have something else by then.
Oh yeah, because everyone knows Microsoft will NEVER EVER keep on doing things it's been sued for.
Standard practice?
The same (requiring an act of God) goes for at least some government departments. I worked for one for seven years. In the first three, the manager was a Type-A personality who wouldn't put up with any crap from anyone. If a bad tech made it past the interview to temp status, they very rarely made permanent after three months.
Then the manager was replaced by spineless idiots. Who hired idiots, and made them permanent. Then promoted them to trainers and supervisors. The entire place went to hell in a handbasket. When we finally armtwisted someone with half a brain into the manager's job, he couldn't do more than hold the line and hope the bad techs moved on, because they were unfireable. The only way to fix the problem would have been to break up the entire technical division and start from scratch.
Me? I eventually snapped, listed every problem that had developed over the past five years on a sheet of paper, including how to fix it and how much money it would save (about 80% of our multimilliondollar budget). I then annoyed the CEO-equivalent (remember, I was unfireable too) until he assigned some middle-managers to me to look into these 'potential savings'. I ran through a couple of meetings, handed out the list of fixes, emailed the CEO saying that his underlings should be presenting him with million-dollar-plus savings in three months, and quit.
Screw 'em. If they want to hire an overpaid executive who actually knows how to deliver those savings, they have my number. Otherwise the division can try and explain their overinflated budget to the CEO and CIO. Yeah, good luck with that.
Bitter? Me?
Including the managers who set the security policies the IT department has to follow.
Running Opera on 4800x1200. Looks fine to me. Your specs?
And as a result, no major business has ever collapsed from financial misdirection!
Better - if a patent used in a court case is shown to be invalid (because of prior art or any other reason), do the following:
1) Revoke the patent.
2) Fine the ex-patent holder a percentage of their turnover.
3) Advise ex-patent holder that *all* of their current patents will be reviewed in 30 days, and any found to be invalid will be revoked and attract further fines. Also advise that they may release any current patents in that 30-day period without attracting fines.
4) Fines will go to the budget of the Patent Office.
Result: The larger a company is, the surer it better be that its patents are defendable before trying to use them in court.
All sporting terms and most high-bandwidth sites are blocked already. Not to mention that I don't believe 99% of our staff would even realise that you can watch sport on your PC.
It's the latest Mel Brooks sequel :)
Wouldn't it be a great distribution system for artists, though? Just get someone to put your new song on a couple of auto-transmitting devices (one for each common protocol/type in the market) and have them go hang out in LAX departure areas for a couple of hours. There's probably some early-implementer money to be made by setting up a 'distibution' system that consists of such miniclusters in major airports and public transport nexuses around the world, plus download servers for everyone else. At least until some marketing executive figures out they can load their auto-sharers with advertising and go hang out at the airport coffee bar all day in the name of 'work'.
If only Apple would invent a transporter. It would Just Work, but if you tried to copy yourself you'd end up feeling fuzzy.
(a) realise that they were not given correct information;
(b) discover for themselves what the correct information is; and
(c) then catch up on the years of instruction and information they were originally denied
before they will be at the same learning level as students who were initially taught correctly. It follows that the skill levels of students exposed to drivel may very well be depressed compared to those of students who weren't.
Drivel causes low skill levels which in turn leads to more drivel. It's a self-perpetuating cycle which only the brightest individuals break out of, because they're the only ones who actively question what they were taught.
Tech support is supposed to have an average burnout time of 18 months. Five years is "crabby wizened old guru" territory for us :)