If you want real fun you should come over to the UK. Quite a lot of organisations/companies and public institutions when they first put on filtering did a rather blunt force job.
Its all well and good blocking all references to the word SEX in URLs, but what happens when you want to access the County of Sussex or Essex ?
It makes a quite nice read, especially if you're a heavy Compaq server site.
Smart Handhelds
Decision: The Compaq iPAQ(TM) Pocket PC, re-named the HP iPAQ Pocket PC, will be our smart handheld platform. The best of the current HP Jornada technology will be engineered into the platform. Jornada products will be phased out of the market in 2002.
HP will continue to innovate in wireless, mobility and voice technology. HP also will offer the iPAQ Blackberry device for end-to-end wireless e-mail solutions, under the HP brand.
So evidently we're going to see IPaq's emerging with some of the good Jornada technology integrated. Lets hope its well done, rather than shoehorned in.
You can go to a shop and see a product and its price.
You can then take that product (or a token representing its sale) to the checkout.
You then 'make an offer to buy' the item at the price marked.
The seller then decides if they want to accept your offer to buy or decline it and suggest a new price. Note this lets the price go both up and down.
One point however is that there are SEVERE penalties enacted against operations that can be shown to purposely misplace items either in advertising or on 'shelf prices' in order to lure customers to the checkout.
However once they have accepted your purchase, they cannot back out of it. I've taken CarphoneWarehouse (a major UK mobile telephone reseller) to task over the webpricing of a handset on a 'pay as you go' policy and got them to back down. Lucky for me I had taken an 'offline copy' and also a static image of the page indicating the offer and emailed it to them when they started to disagree with me on the price.. which strangely changed after I first informed them of the problem.
If the school can't afford the audit, they can pay Microsoft a yearly tribute to not audit them, but they lose access to the software once they stop paying. And they have to pay for even non-Microsoft computers, like iMacs.
Never heard of Microsoft Office for Macintosh then?
I don't know what kind of slow auditing process that you're considering but have you heard about auditing utilities? Microsoft even provide one free (MSIA) which audits just the MS applications installed. It will even run over a LAN.
What all these companies who have time delayed deletion of historical email seem to fail to catch onto is that they usually have a long term backup methodology in place.
I've raised this issue with one operation who have a 60 day deletion policy for company security reasons only to be looked at blankly by the HR manager and board directors and then asked, "does anyone doing data recovery ever ask for that sort of thing?".
At that point I nearly cracked up in hysterics myself.
The large doors unlock with a thudding of large electromagnetic bolts and the group huddle in the doorway at the sight of the 'Aht-Darz".
After some moments one of the team surveys the situation with a considered critique... "Its disgusting, doesn't anyone ever clean the floors here?". True to form the floor is covered in what appears to be a complete covering of trampled months old pot noodle dinners.
A second team member points out a rather ragged pillar which has been covered with detritus, "and look at those wireless lan antennae, disgusting!", while with much muttering comes a complaint from one of the more junior team members. "and I wish someone would turn down that awful lighting... its far to bright".
With that we leave our group of intrepid junior programmers to the horrors of the camping expedition.
Apparently, in some States, one person can legally train a camera through the open window of another person's home. In others you can not. Sounds fair enough to me. I close the shades when I do not want others to see what is in my apartment and do not need a law to alleviate me of my responsibility.
So if I'm in for instance South Carolina and train a camera through a window of my neighbour (using a nice telephoto lens) of my neighbour in North Carolina..
"pigeons instead of monkeys is that pigeons are commodity birdware that can be found in any public park"
There was a legal case a while back about someone catching pidgeons in Trafalgar Square (London) to use in Pigeon Pie. (sorry can't find the reference).
MY own DNA sequencing is an ORIGINAL work (assuming that there haven't been any other completely identical copies of me produced in a non-artificial means in the recorded history of the universe).
Additionally MY own DNA is a creative work - of my parents.
This brings up the worrying possibility of my parents copyrighting me.
Instead of going for a massively small system why doesn't anyone embrase the PADD style of an A4 sized unit of approx Palm thickness. Am I alone in wondering why if the 'communicator' did influence modert mobile phone design, why they can't allow for some design influence in portable computing devices?
That way you can have a reasonable screen and a larger interface area?
And during the 60's and 70's the Swedish Govt was conducting eugenics experimentation on various social minorities, including forced castration on gay men.
Just goes to show that even the quiet Scandinavian countries can get up to the scary things.
At last.. the mad rush of factiods and dis-information is at an end.
Now can the rest of the known universe please be allowed to get on with its own business without having to put up with two grown men squabbling over who has the biggest dun-dun ?
Well for a start what is data like that doing on a desktop computing platform?
The users here (big advertsing company) have no save to disk ability. They want to write data then it goes to the network servers. Logins are set to the usual 3 tries and its dead for 3 hours, 8 chars minimum password which needs resetting every 60 days.
They realise that the data they work on is commercially sensitive, both in the interest of their own competing advertising companies, and also the competitors to their own clients, so we don't get complaints except from new starters and they get into the company operating methodology pretty quickly.
If someone thinks they are going to nick the servers themselves, well I'd like to see them get through 24 hour security staff, security controlled doors on the server room (the guards don't have access - only 4 people have valid tag's) and locked and secured server implementation.
As one of those Network Administrators who is on the other end of the stick (as it were), and who has been deluged in the past few days with users asking me if they are having their email reviewed, my response is..
I've got far better things to do than trawl through your mailboxes.
Of course, anyone who does ask does pique my curiosity, but why do they believe that I'd want to see their latest JPG's of "my 2nd cousins best school friends mother in laws new grandchild".
Slashdot Mirror
Its all well and good blocking all references to the word SEX in URLs, but what happens when you want to access the County of Sussex or Essex ?
The HP website has a Product Roadmap in its press releases.
It makes a quite nice read, especially if you're a heavy Compaq server site.
Smart Handhelds
Decision: The Compaq iPAQ(TM) Pocket PC, re-named the HP iPAQ Pocket PC, will be our smart handheld platform. The best of the current HP Jornada technology will be engineered into the platform. Jornada products will be phased out of the market in 2002.
HP will continue to innovate in wireless, mobility and voice technology. HP also will offer the iPAQ Blackberry device for end-to-end wireless e-mail solutions, under the HP brand.
So evidently we're going to see IPaq's emerging with some of the good Jornada technology integrated. Lets hope its well done, rather than shoehorned in.
Why have I never seen a headline "Psychic wins lottery"?
Because we're not stupid enough to tell people we're psychic when we win. Otherwise we'd get mobbed by the normals like you.
Not that we would do such an unprofessional thing of course.
What is "Hamburger Helper"
Is it some kind of self assembly tool or product that does the BBQ flipping for you?
British law works quite well
One point however is that there are SEVERE penalties enacted against operations that can be shown to purposely misplace items either in advertising or on 'shelf prices' in order to lure customers to the checkout.
However once they have accepted your purchase, they cannot back out of it. I've taken CarphoneWarehouse (a major UK mobile telephone reseller) to task over the webpricing of a handset on a 'pay as you go' policy and got them to back down. Lucky for me I had taken an 'offline copy' and also a static image of the page indicating the offer and emailed it to them when they started to disagree with me on the price.. which strangely changed after I first informed them of the problem.
If the school can't afford the audit, they can pay Microsoft a yearly tribute to not audit them, but they lose access to the software once they stop paying. And they have to pay for even non-Microsoft computers, like iMacs.
Never heard of Microsoft Office for Macintosh then?
Hey lets just build a nice big Dyson Sphere and have fun floating around on the inside!
17 computers an hour
I don't know what kind of slow auditing process that you're considering but have you heard about auditing utilities? Microsoft even provide one free (MSIA) which audits just the MS applications installed. It will even run over a LAN.
What all these companies who have time delayed deletion of historical email seem to fail to catch onto is that they usually have a long term backup methodology in place.
I've raised this issue with one operation who have a 60 day deletion policy for company security reasons only to be looked at blankly by the HR manager and board directors and then asked, "does anyone doing data recovery ever ask for that sort of thing?".
At that point I nearly cracked up in hysterics myself.
The large doors unlock with a thudding of large electromagnetic bolts and the group huddle in the doorway at the sight of the 'Aht-Darz".
After some moments one of the team surveys the situation with a considered critique... "Its disgusting, doesn't anyone ever clean the floors here?". True to form the floor is covered in what appears to be a complete covering of trampled months old pot noodle dinners.
A second team member points out a rather ragged pillar which has been covered with detritus, "and look at those wireless lan antennae, disgusting!", while with much muttering comes a complaint from one of the more junior team members. "and I wish someone would turn down that awful lighting
With that we leave our group of intrepid junior programmers to the horrors of the camping expedition.
Apparently, in some States, one person can legally train a camera through the open window of another person's home. In others you can not. Sounds fair enough to me. I close the shades when I do not want others to see what is in my apartment and do not need a law to alleviate me of my responsibility.
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So if I'm in for instance South Carolina and train a camera through a window of my neighbour (using a nice telephoto lens) of my neighbour in North Carolina
You DARE!!! to critise the darling and most revered Miss Minogue!
May your hotpants split and turn to dust in public!
"pigeons instead of monkeys is that pigeons are commodity birdware that can be found in any public park"
There was a legal case a while back about someone catching pidgeons in Trafalgar Square (London) to use in Pigeon Pie. (sorry can't find the reference).
Turns out this is not legal
Additionally MY own DNA is a creative work - of my parents.
This brings up the worrying possibility of my parents copyrighting me.
Thats the entire basis of the flexibility of the whole windows ethos. You don't have to be in the appropriate application.
Forever trapped here in the gravity well of planet earth and denied the chance of spaceflight by NASA's demands that all its spacers be 5'8" or less?
Sheesh.. cut my legs off at the knee.
NxxxYnn
So if you had two Notes Mail servers in BIRmingham they would be:
NBIRM01 and NBIRM02
Similarly you could setup Netware boxes as: WxxxYnn
So the first Managewise server in London would be
WLONM01
Just come up with a set of consistent Server OS and Subclass definitions.
Instead of going for a massively small system why doesn't anyone embrase the PADD style of an A4 sized unit of approx Palm thickness. Am I alone in wondering why if the 'communicator' did influence modert mobile phone design, why they can't allow for some design influence in portable computing devices?
That way you can have a reasonable screen and a larger interface area?
Please don't get started on the who owns the patent on hyperlinks.
Given British Telecom's current mass lawsuits, click here to establish that "we thought of it first", are irritating the rest of the known universe.
Actually its significantly *MORE* difficult to type Voyager than Pioneer with your left thumb up your butt.
Looking at the keystrokes, with your left hand out of range of the keyboard, VAGER are a no-go, whereas PIONR are in range of your RIGHT HAND.
Just goes to show that even the quiet Scandinavian countries can get up to the scary things.
Now can the rest of the known universe please be allowed to get on with its own business without having to put up with two grown men squabbling over who has the biggest dun-dun ?
Thank you & goodnight
The users here (big advertsing company) have no save to disk ability. They want to write data then it goes to the network servers. Logins are set to the usual 3 tries and its dead for 3 hours, 8 chars minimum password which needs resetting every 60 days.
They realise that the data they work on is commercially sensitive, both in the interest of their own competing advertising companies, and also the competitors to their own clients, so we don't get complaints except from new starters and they get into the company operating methodology pretty quickly.
If someone thinks they are going to nick the servers themselves, well I'd like to see them get through 24 hour security staff, security controlled doors on the server room (the guards don't have access - only 4 people have valid tag's) and locked and secured server implementation.
I've got far better things to do than trawl through your mailboxes.
Of course, anyone who does ask does pique my curiosity, but why do they believe that I'd want to see their latest JPG's of "my 2nd cousins best school friends mother in laws new grandchild".
sigh
Wow .. gotta get me one of those!