Fortunately or unfortunately I think most folks use past experiences with people and products to determine their stance on one side or the other. Some folks probably immediately think of Frontpage when they hear Microsoft and web development in the same conversation.
Uh, maybe because the US is full of diverse cultures and people who may not share the same values of oh I don't know . . . life, women, children, dogs, cats, cars, alcohol, etc.
The diversity that is here in the US has a ton to do with how people react in certain situations. People may not want to admit it, but folks from different ethnic backgrounds may be more aggressive or more passive depending on the situation. They may handle depression differently (binge drinking, drugs, violence and then others may actually seek professional help or take to family and friends about things).
This has already been done for a bunch of laptops. It was a complete pain for most programs. Not all government laptops contain patient or investigation-related data. Most are just used for simple word processing and to check email while traveling.
They've told us that we'll get to encrypt external hard drives . . . including all USB thumb drives.
As a fellow government employee I can attest to the crazy bureaucracy we have to deal with.
Just a quick example:
Some staff are given credit cards. You'd think it would easy just to go use the card to purchase whatever supplies you need (if you have the $$ in your budget) and just use the statement as the final paperwork needed to track the money.
Nope, people still have to fill out as much paperwork as if they were doing a purchase order and everything has to be approved using the same process.
Talk about spending extra time and money that's not needed.
Then there's the whole, "you've gotta buy from this list of vendors only" crap. The government does a great job of tying it's own hands.
$500 plus for a gaming console and probably $50 or more for games? No thanks.
I'm as happy as I can be with my PS2, but I doubt I'll be buying a PS3 anytime soon.
Is anyone else wondering when the price of gaming consoles is going to come down just as the price of PCs has gotten lower over the last 5-10 years? Maybe not super cheap, but you're atleast able to get more bang for your buck these days.
If the PS3 retails for what Sony says it will that thing had better pack quite the punch.
I was tired of Norton's hogging so many resources and decided to give AVG a try and haven't looked back. The free version does a very good job of protecting my machine and doesn't seem to use near the resources that some of the other anti-virus programs do.
I don't know if Qwest is a bunch of terrorists or not, but their service wasn't the world's best back when I was a customer.
I'm sure the NSA could get their hands on the data if they wanted to (if they haven't already).
I've seen this mentioned on here a couple of times and everyone's reactions are kinda mixed. I think we all knew something like this was coming eventually. So will current DVR's get a forced firmware upgrade to use this new technology if/when it is implemented?
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get rich quick book I bought off of eBay several months ago. Is that considered auction fraud or non-delivery?
Fortunately or unfortunately I think most folks use past experiences with people and products to determine their stance on one side or the other. Some folks probably immediately think of Frontpage when they hear Microsoft and web development in the same conversation.
Uh, maybe because the US is full of diverse cultures and people who may not share the same values of oh I don't know . . . life, women, children, dogs, cats, cars, alcohol, etc.
The diversity that is here in the US has a ton to do with how people react in certain situations. People may not want to admit it, but folks from different ethnic backgrounds may be more aggressive or more passive depending on the situation. They may handle depression differently (binge drinking, drugs, violence and then others may actually seek professional help or take to family and friends about things).
It took 12 freakin' days to find that hour we lost?
This has already been done for a bunch of laptops. It was a complete pain for most programs. Not all government laptops contain patient or investigation-related data. Most are just used for simple word processing and to check email while traveling.
They've told us that we'll get to encrypt external hard drives . . . including all USB thumb drives.
Should be fun.
As a fellow government employee I can attest to the crazy bureaucracy we have to deal with.
Just a quick example:
Some staff are given credit cards. You'd think it would easy just to go use the card to purchase whatever supplies you need (if you have the $$ in your budget) and just use the statement as the final paperwork needed to track the money.
Nope, people still have to fill out as much paperwork as if they were doing a purchase order and everything has to be approved using the same process.
Talk about spending extra time and money that's not needed.Then there's the whole, "you've gotta buy from this list of vendors only" crap. The government does a great job of tying it's own hands.
Exactly . . . what's even better is that people think GWB can even type.
slashpot.org is already taken.
I'm as happy as I can be with my PS2, but I doubt I'll be buying a PS3 anytime soon.
Is anyone else wondering when the price of gaming consoles is going to come down just as the price of PCs has gotten lower over the last 5-10 years? Maybe not super cheap, but you're atleast able to get more bang for your buck these days.
If the PS3 retails for what Sony says it will that thing had better pack quite the punch.
I was tired of Norton's hogging so many resources and decided to give AVG a try and haven't looked back. The free version does a very good job of protecting my machine and doesn't seem to use near the resources that some of the other anti-virus programs do.
You can record at up to 4X using the latest version of Tunebite.
I'd recommend Tunebite or MuvAudio . . . they're not free, but they both work like a charm.
Very true. You would assume that they wouldn't waste the time or effort to print and mail a paper copy of something they could email.
Yep . . . funnier too.
I don't know if Qwest is a bunch of terrorists or not, but their service wasn't the world's best back when I was a customer. I'm sure the NSA could get their hands on the data if they wanted to (if they haven't already).
I'm sure Jack Bauer could find a way to hi-jack a plane with a copy of Brokeback Mountain on DVD.
Heh. I think you've sold me on it. Where can I sign up?
Very true. I completely forgot about an external enclosure. Thanks.
Yep. The bigger they get the cheaper the "smaller" drives become . . . which is very cool. Only if the external drives were as cheap.
I've seen this mentioned on here a couple of times and everyone's reactions are kinda mixed. I think we all knew something like this was coming eventually. So will current DVR's get a forced firmware upgrade to use this new technology if/when it is implemented?
Luckily there's a NoScript extension for Firefox to disable those pesky javascripts.