The function of the IT department is to ensure that the tools are working the way the user expects.
I would be fine ensuring that users get admin access like they expect if there was a 50ish to 1 user to IT ratio. Once it climbs to 100 or more, IT can't keep the PCs running the way users expect while also giving users the flexibility they expect. Once the ratio grows large enough, the role of IT changes from break/fix to preventative maintenance. If they try to keep break/fix with large numbers of users, they'll get a lot of breaks to fix, and a large amount of dissatisfied users.
Have a separate admin-level account (either local or domain-based) for that purpose. Their day-to-day should be low-level. This is much easier to on Windows with UAC nowadays, as well as on Mac OS X and Linux (sudo).
The admin account quickly becomes the day-to-day account and they forget the password to the non-admin one. They don't care about security. Security restricts freedom.
that's the real trick, if Windows had and enforced proper user/system separation then companies could lock down the systems that would limit that crap.
Windows and it's applications assume you have full admin rights all the time. UAC while bad was a good step MSFT should have just pressed harder program developers to code properly, and forced all XP programs into a hard lock down mode.
Are you from 1999? Software developers stopped assuming users have admin access a few years after XP hit the scene. It's only rare medical of scientific control software that's written that stupidly anymore. And guess what? There is specialty scientific software for Linux out there that assumes you're root.
And windows is easy to segregate admin access on desktops either manually or via GPO. You can even list admin users additively or destructively(replacing the current list, preventing admins from adding someone else as an admin).
...then my boycot is a result of my distrust in them
A lot of people say that - and not just about DRM - but in the end just go out and spend the money on the DRM infestation anyway because they don't want random warez possibly infecting them with something perhaps more offensive than DRM.
Then they don't know what a boycott is. The only new game I've played between Mechwarrior4 and Current (on the PC) is Battlefield2, and that was on a dedicated system. I gave up on PC games after MW4 because it wouldn't work with any CDROM drive I owned. I gifted it to a friend. He doesn't talk to me these days.
All it takes is a simple law and this shit could stop next week.
Yep, because laws stop people from doing stupid and illegal things.
This is Texas. Laws don't stop people from doing stupid and illegal things, guns do. ergo:
"All it takes is a simple six shooter and this shit could stop next week."
Are you positive GoDaddy is being picked on because of the hunting thing?
I am. The link to the hunting is in a sentence denouncing goDaddy's trustworthiness based on his personal trustworthiness (without other reasons cited).
There are definitely many more reasons to not trust the security of GoDaddy.
Would have been nice for TFA to state them. Sure, we here at/. know those reasons, but the populace at large doesn't. Most people think GoDaddy is a porn site.
And X-Com was the best Laser-Weapons / Exotic Corpse Product company ever. I made extra bases filled with engineers making laser cannons just to fund my hunger for large rockets.
I didn't say you'd hop on a ship and head to the far end of the universe, as space westerns depict future space travel. Instead it's likely to be something like solar-system hopping space colonization...
...as the only "space westerns" depict future space travel. Firefly took place in one solar system.
And how did it manage to play the end of an avi or mpeg file or whatever it was, without the header?
Exactly what I was wondering. I could see the controller saying that the whole file copied, but only the first X KB of the file are playable, but the "last X KB" doesn't fly.
Extinction of Canadian geese would seriously alter their ecosystem. What other species could possibly match the efficiency of Canadian geese in covering a large area with fecal matter?
The sad thing is: they're not in "their" ecosystem any more. They used to fly over the majority of the US, wintering in the south and summering in Canada and the north. Now that we have endless retention ponds and man-made lakes, the geese have decided that all of the US is a nice place to spend the summer. And the retention ponds are in places with few natural predators, and man is prevented from hunting them by law. Cars are their biggest threat, and they're too stupid to be scared of them (not really true; they're smart enough to learn from an early age that cars always stop for them, and sometimes honk pleasantly as they pass. One or two geese die here or there, but thousands of others command respect from the giant metal stampeding beasts).
I'm safely off at a distance, living in foreignland, where the word "government" has not become a synonym for "satan", so I really can't understand why so many people in the US want to correct their problems by removing government entirely. You do not fix something that's broken by just throwing it away and saying you can do without it.
Our government has "shut down" many, many times before, and it's never synonymous with anarchy. It's usually like when a grubby restaurant gets "shut down" by the board of health for a weekend. They clean things up, get another inspection, and work slightly better for a couple years at keeping things clean. But without that jarring shutdown, they won't clean up their act. I know you don't understand the US view of "government is evil", but that's because our country was founded on the principle that power corrupts, and that checks and balances need to be used to prevent anyone (or any group) from becoming a dictator. It's sort of ilke trying to explain FOSS ideals to someone firmly entrenched in the Microsoft world. You might be made to see intellectually why we believe what we do, but you won't fully understand until you're burned badly enough by your OS software vendor to wipe your machine and start from scratch.
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The function of the IT department is to ensure that the tools are working the way the user expects.
I would be fine ensuring that users get admin access like they expect if there was a 50ish to 1 user to IT ratio. Once it climbs to 100 or more, IT can't keep the PCs running the way users expect while also giving users the flexibility they expect. Once the ratio grows large enough, the role of IT changes from break/fix to preventative maintenance. If they try to keep break/fix with large numbers of users, they'll get a lot of breaks to fix, and a large amount of dissatisfied users.
Have a separate admin-level account (either local or domain-based) for that purpose. Their day-to-day should be low-level. This is much easier to on Windows with UAC nowadays, as well as on Mac OS X and Linux (sudo).
The admin account quickly becomes the day-to-day account and they forget the password to the non-admin one. They don't care about security. Security restricts freedom.
that's the real trick, if Windows had and enforced proper user/system separation then companies could lock down the systems that would limit that crap. Windows and it's applications assume you have full admin rights all the time. UAC while bad was a good step MSFT should have just pressed harder program developers to code properly, and forced all XP programs into a hard lock down mode.
Are you from 1999? Software developers stopped assuming users have admin access a few years after XP hit the scene. It's only rare medical of scientific control software that's written that stupidly anymore. And guess what? There is specialty scientific software for Linux out there that assumes you're root.
And windows is easy to segregate admin access on desktops either manually or via GPO. You can even list admin users additively or destructively(replacing the current list, preventing admins from adding someone else as an admin).
...then my boycot is a result of my distrust in them
A lot of people say that - and not just about DRM - but in the end just go out and spend the money on the DRM infestation anyway because they don't want random warez possibly infecting them with something perhaps more offensive than DRM.
Then they don't know what a boycott is. The only new game I've played between Mechwarrior4 and Current (on the PC) is Battlefield2, and that was on a dedicated system. I gave up on PC games after MW4 because it wouldn't work with any CDROM drive I owned. I gifted it to a friend. He doesn't talk to me these days.
I'm allergic to installing that crap on my system, so I figured out how to bypass it with a modified exe.
Did you personally modify the exe? Why would you be allergic to rootkits from DRM, but not from modified executables?
All it takes is a simple law and this shit could stop next week.
Yep, because laws stop people from doing stupid and illegal things.
This is Texas. Laws don't stop people from doing stupid and illegal things, guns do. ergo:
"All it takes is a simple six shooter and this shit could stop next week."
Are you positive GoDaddy is being picked on because of the hunting thing?
I am. The link to the hunting is in a sentence denouncing goDaddy's trustworthiness based on his personal trustworthiness (without other reasons cited).
There are definitely many more reasons to not trust the security of GoDaddy.
Would have been nice for TFA to state them. Sure, we here at /. know those reasons, but the populace at large doesn't. Most people think GoDaddy is a porn site.
Contracted third parties aren't employees.
How about case officer?
Carbon Monoxide? CO made him do it.
Nuclear!? What about tsunamis?
And X-Com was the best Laser-Weapons / Exotic Corpse Product company ever. I made extra bases filled with engineers making laser cannons just to fund my hunger for large rockets.
Sammy's dyslexic. He thought April 10 was April 01.
I didn't say you'd hop on a ship and head to the far end of the universe, as space westerns depict future space travel. Instead it's likely to be something like solar-system hopping space colonization...
...as the only "space westerns" depict future space travel. Firefly took place in one solar system.
I'm in. If I could just get my time machine working.
The "oddball" theory is that a scaled-down test plane, manned by chimpanzees crashed in the desert.
FTFY. It's even more plausible, but unlikely to be admitted to.
...think of the possibilities.
It sits in my wallet for two decades and goes bad?
Turn on tinyurl preview and you won't. It's one of the few safer URL shorteners.
You lose, Sentry! Trillion suns beats a million!
And how did it manage to play the end of an avi or mpeg file or whatever it was, without the header?
Exactly what I was wondering. I could see the controller saying that the whole file copied, but only the first X KB of the file are playable, but the "last X KB" doesn't fly.
Instead, they fake service records, lie about it on television, even after getting caught,
This totally makes me think of GWB.
It should. It was GWB's service record that Dan Rather lied about.
I switched from /dev/random to /dev/urandom because I have to wiggle my mouse less often.
Extinction of Canadian geese would seriously alter their ecosystem. What other species could possibly match the efficiency of Canadian geese in covering a large area with fecal matter?
The sad thing is: they're not in "their" ecosystem any more. They used to fly over the majority of the US, wintering in the south and summering in Canada and the north. Now that we have endless retention ponds and man-made lakes, the geese have decided that all of the US is a nice place to spend the summer. And the retention ponds are in places with few natural predators, and man is prevented from hunting them by law. Cars are their biggest threat, and they're too stupid to be scared of them (not really true; they're smart enough to learn from an early age that cars always stop for them, and sometimes honk pleasantly as they pass. One or two geese die here or there, but thousands of others command respect from the giant metal stampeding beasts).
I'm safely off at a distance, living in foreignland, where the word "government" has not become a synonym for "satan", so I really can't understand why so many people in the US want to correct their problems by removing government entirely. You do not fix something that's broken by just throwing it away and saying you can do without it.
Our government has "shut down" many, many times before, and it's never synonymous with anarchy. It's usually like when a grubby restaurant gets "shut down" by the board of health for a weekend. They clean things up, get another inspection, and work slightly better for a couple years at keeping things clean. But without that jarring shutdown, they won't clean up their act. I know you don't understand the US view of "government is evil", but that's because our country was founded on the principle that power corrupts, and that checks and balances need to be used to prevent anyone (or any group) from becoming a dictator. It's sort of ilke trying to explain FOSS ideals to someone firmly entrenched in the Microsoft world. You might be made to see intellectually why we believe what we do, but you won't fully understand until you're burned badly enough by your OS software vendor to wipe your machine and start from scratch.
Not worth saving.
we still have to deal with Paul Ryan's insane "budget plan" which consists of mainly (of) by switching grandma from Ramen to Alpo.
As it is, China and Japan are the ones buying Ramen for Grandma. What happens when they come knocking asking for their money back?
Grandma gets switched from eating Ramen to being Alpo?