Let Apple taste some of their medicine. They consider themselves to be so smart, and such savvy marketers. Yet they failed to do a few simple searches to make sure that they were not co-opting someone else's name? Or perhaps they did, and decided that it did not matter? If the latter, they double plus good on them getting sued.
I did one of their treatment programs about a decade ago. There really is a "feeling" associated with being focused. Via biofeedback you can train the mind to recognize mental states in the brain. It is a very powerful and useful science.
It seems like the military is taking shortcuts. Rather than going through a 6 month program, they are just pumping some current through the areas of the brain related to the type of learning that they are trying to enhance. It seems like it would be effective. Once the synapses have been formed, the training is more or less permanent.
I wonder if they've considered piracetam or other nootropics to further enhance the process.
The Unincorporated Man is another great, recently written, dystopian future kind of book. The underlying premise to the book is that in the future, every person is a corporation unto themselves. People's stock is bought and sold on the market. In effect, people become investors in each other. Obviously the majority of people end up being owned by others. The greatest accomplishment for a person is to reach "majority", to have the controlling stake in themselves.
All in all, it is a well written and entertaining book. I will probably appeal to most/. readers.
You have to have internal "firewalls" (yes, they stole the term from the networking world) in place to limit contact between the groups working on the different matters. Even with internal controls in place, you still have to inform the client that your firm is representing the other party.
Most of the time, only the largest firms can hope to have enough resources and controls in place to separate large litigations like that. I'm surprised that Pepper Hamilton dropped the ball on this one.
How many of you who are working IT full time have up to date certifications? The only certs I ever got were my Novell CNA when I was in high school, and then a couple of Microsoft certifications in the Server/Workstation 2000 era.
Every time the discussion of certifications came up in interviews, I always told the truth. "I was too busy solving problems in the real world to spend what little free time I had left studying for certification tests. Look at my job history if you doubt my technical competencies."
FWIW - I'm currently the senior technical resource / manager with total operational responsibility for a SaaS environment that generates millions of dollars in revenue every quarter.
I am not sure if my experience is typical though. Do certs really help with career development, or are they just used as a filter by HR drones during the early stages of a candidate search?
"...let go of this archaic view of software as a licensed investment and view it as "paper and pens". This is, obviously, the new party line."
Exactly. This is frightening. Like paper and pens? In other words, replace them every semester? Great. Let me just purchase the latest version of an app every semester. Didn't Apple express an interest in getting into the electronic textbook market? I see that they have internal synergy.
BMWs are notoriously fickle when it comes to electrical systems. I saw a 2001 740i completely destroyed be a stereo shop. The stereo shop spliced the wiring harness. The ECU was doing some sort of resistence test on the harness as an anti-theft measure, and with some of the wire removed, the resistance changed. The entire wiring harness had to be replaced because the car refused to start. It was a multi-thousand dollar "Oops".
Sad, isn't it. Those "highly educated ______" users are usually the first ones to throw a temper tantrum when they bork their box and don't have a valid backup. Or when their backups are on a 3 year old USB drive that takes a crap.
That seems to be par for the course when it comes to "super star IT staff". They tend to last 2-4 years where ever they go, and then they're off on whatever the next shiny thing their ADHD brain latches onto.
"In Windows Server 8, the recommended application model is to run on Server Core using PowerShell for local management tasks and then deliver a rich GUI administration tool capable of running remotely on a Windows client."
In other words, it sounds a lot like where Novell was in the mid-1990s and where *nix has been forever. The server will no longer be a workstation. The server is the server and the admin tools reside elsewhere.
I am not happy about this given the cluster fuck that is Server Core and the sub-par command line that they have delivered with it in 2008 R2. As long as they get their act together and provide the full set of MMC tools, it will be fine. Knowing Microsoft the server team will be different from the team developing the management apps. Half of the tools will work from GUI and the other half will require doing it from the console. Of course they won't do something simple like SSH, so we are going to have to have OOB management, or direct physical access.
In all seriousness though, there are serious flaws to this line of thought. Who the hell wants to work on file system ACLs from the command line? Who wants to setup user accounts and security groups from the command line? There certain basic admin tasks where having a GUI, and features like auto-complete are a godsend. Now granted, for large scale user adds or modifications you should be scripting them. But for one off adds, or looking at the resultant set of policy for complex ACLs with a lot of inheritance, the idea of doing it from the command line just sucks.
Which data center were you in? Which other data centers are you comparing it to? We're co-located in an AT&T facility and I am constantly told by colleagues who have equipment in other centers that ours is much nicer than theirs. We've been there for seven years and never had a single facilities related issue.
AT&T has data centers all over the globe. They already offer managed hosting services, in additional to traditional co-location agreements. A technology like OpenStack that allows users to self provision infrastructure services seems like a no brainer to me.
What happens when the company gets sued and the lawyers need to do electronic discovery on the device? Are there backup devices available for employees while their personal devices are forensically imaged and unavailable to them for however long that process takes (usually a couple of days at minimum if they are lucky)?
Are the employees going to be happy when all of their personal correspondence, family photos, etc are vacuumed up as part of the evidence collection process?
Of course the photos will never be entered into evidence. They will be captured though. Otherwise the legal team opens themselves up to liabilities for failing to take a full and complete foresnic copy of the device.
How about the guy who has pictures of his kid in the bath? Harmless enough, but child porn none the less. Do you want child porn on a company device?
The only sensible thing is firm separation between employee devices and work devices. Anything short of a complete separation is asking for problems sooner or later.
If an employee needs a device for work, the employer should provide it. If the employer does not provide it, the employee obviously does not need it.
For everyone who demands the right to bring their own devices, I say this. If you want to use your own device, become a contractor. Start your own company. Buy your own tools and use whatever device you want to use. If your services are so freaking valuable and so unique that they can only be done on a specific device, then the world will pay you the premium that you demand. If the world laughs in your face and tells you to use the tools you are given, then your skills are not as unique as you believe they are.
This attitude is also very short sighted. An "idiot" to one person is a potential customer / client to someone else. We live in an age where there so much specialized knowledge out there, it is impossible for anyone to know it all. Therefore we can make money from helping each other.
A molecular biologist might not know anything about how an OS works, but they probably understand more about the body than the average computer geek. Does that mean that the geeks are not worthy of living because they do not understand their bodies? Of course not, but the premise is just as absurd.
I work on my mechanic's computer all the time. He works on my car. I could work on my car, and when I was growing up and couldn't afford a mechanic, I did. He could figure out the computer, but in reality he'd rather do other things with his free time. To extend the analogy, I could still work on my car but I do not have a shop full of tools, lifts, etc. He could work on his computer, but he does not have the library of software and knowledge that I have. We each focus on what we are good at, and pay each other to do what we are not as good at.. either out of convenience, or due to lack of expertise.
This was reported on Zero Hedge last night and there was a link to the cached version of the hacked page on Google.
I've obviously heard about Anonymous before but never paid much attention to them. The crap that they posted on the hacked site makes me question what they are all about. It was a whole bunch of socialist crap about capitalism being bad, and communes being good. They had some videos where they showed the Occupy Oakland protestors destroying some windows at Wells Fargo. There was a long winded diatribe (tl;dr) basically encouraging people to engage in whatever fraud they can get away with because it will hurt the system.
Now I realize just how out of touch with reality these kids are. They do not have a constructive message. They do not have any plan or ability to actually make things better. All they want to do is whine about "how bad things are". It is clear that they are just a bunch of retards on the internet. Anarchists in black? Digital vigilantes?
All I see in Anonymous is another example of the collapse of society. All they are doing is hastening the downfall, without offering anything constructive to replace the current system with. Boo hoo hoo, capitalism sucks. We have roofs over our heads and when we can't find a job, we have the welfare state to fall back on to keep us fed and off the streets. Fuck the system man, it's keeping us down. It's making us BUY all of this shit. Cry me a fucking river.
There is a major shit storm coming. Anonymous, OWS and all of those people think that they are on the "right" side of the battle line. When it comes down to it, the fact of the matter is that America as a country kicks ass. We are blessed with natural resources and more food than we need. We have so much food that we can export it to poorer countries. Our economy kicks so much ass that half of the country can not pay taxes, yet still get fed and housed. There are a bunch of corrupt assholes at the top of the food chain, but tell me how that is any different from any other point in history. It isn't.
In Anonymous I see a bunch of greedy, spoiled, whining kids. They are upset because they do not have what they believe they are entitled to. So they are going to go around and fuck things up because they can. It shows how lame and out of touch they are. Society is fragile. It always has been, and always will be. It always takes more energy to build things up than to tear them down. It takes more effort to keep things going, than it does to get in the way and fuck things up.
We will always need Pakistan. Diesel fuel is too heavy to fly into the AO given the rate at which it is consumed. There would have to be a steady convoy of helicopters flying 24/7 to provide the fuel needed.
...my all expenses paid trips to pr0n-con^H^H^H^H^H^H^H, CES.
On topic, I'm surprised that it took Microsoft this long to drop out of CES. It has been shrinking and becoming more and more irrelevant with each passing year. I always figured it was just an excuse to be in town at the same time as the AVN awards.
The article is complete flamebait, and many other posters have pointed that out.
The solution to home brew IT and people wanting to use their own devices is simple. Setup Citrix VDI or something similar. The Citrix receiver runs on everything.. iBlah, Android, web browsers, etc. The "cutting edge, tech savvy users" can use their lame devices, and all of the application code and information stays safe on the corporate network.
To flip the author's logic back around him, he suggests that users using their own devices are making things easier on corporate IT. They are empowering themselves at their own cost. Good for them. Let them pay for their Citrix licenses and infrastructure costs. If they really want to "partner with IT" and be an "IT ally" (to use the idiotic author's verbiage) , they can go ahead and come up with some funding. Nothing makes friends like throwing money around.
It will be unwound, messily, but it will unwind and society will go on. Do not buy into all of the hype about civilization coming to an end. There will always be people with excess capital that they want to invest. There will always be people with good ideas who need funding to get them off of the ground.
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IP is about a lot more than Hollywood movies and music. All of that "manufacturing know-how, research, etc" that you are so concerned with is also IP.
Well oddly enough, /. offers cutting edge functionality, like emailing notifications when threads are replied to.
RTFA? Who has time for that? I post based on conjecture and wild ass guesses. I will leave article reading for those with free time.
then* double plus good...
Need more food, less /.
The title says it all.
Let Apple taste some of their medicine. They consider themselves to be so smart, and such savvy marketers. Yet they failed to do a few simple searches to make sure that they were not co-opting someone else's name? Or perhaps they did, and decided that it did not matter? If the latter, they double plus good on them getting sued.
These people use biofeedback to help with ADHD and other conditions.
http://www.drakeinstitute.com/
I did one of their treatment programs about a decade ago. There really is a "feeling" associated with being focused. Via biofeedback you can train the mind to recognize mental states in the brain. It is a very powerful and useful science.
It seems like the military is taking shortcuts. Rather than going through a 6 month program, they are just pumping some current through the areas of the brain related to the type of learning that they are trying to enhance. It seems like it would be effective. Once the synapses have been formed, the training is more or less permanent.
I wonder if they've considered piracetam or other nootropics to further enhance the process.
The Unincorporated Man is another great, recently written, dystopian future kind of book. The underlying premise to the book is that in the future, every person is a corporation unto themselves. People's stock is bought and sold on the market. In effect, people become investors in each other. Obviously the majority of people end up being owned by others. The greatest accomplishment for a person is to reach "majority", to have the controlling stake in themselves.
All in all, it is a well written and entertaining book. I will probably appeal to most /. readers.
You have to have internal "firewalls" (yes, they stole the term from the networking world) in place to limit contact between the groups working on the different matters. Even with internal controls in place, you still have to inform the client that your firm is representing the other party.
Most of the time, only the largest firms can hope to have enough resources and controls in place to separate large litigations like that. I'm surprised that Pepper Hamilton dropped the ball on this one.
How many of you who are working IT full time have up to date certifications? The only certs I ever got were my Novell CNA when I was in high school, and then a couple of Microsoft certifications in the Server/Workstation 2000 era.
Every time the discussion of certifications came up in interviews, I always told the truth. "I was too busy solving problems in the real world to spend what little free time I had left studying for certification tests. Look at my job history if you doubt my technical competencies."
FWIW - I'm currently the senior technical resource / manager with total operational responsibility for a SaaS environment that generates millions of dollars in revenue every quarter.
I am not sure if my experience is typical though. Do certs really help with career development, or are they just used as a filter by HR drones during the early stages of a candidate search?
"...let go of this archaic view of software as a licensed investment and view it as "paper and pens". This is, obviously, the new party line."
Exactly. This is frightening. Like paper and pens? In other words, replace them every semester? Great. Let me just purchase the latest version of an app every semester. Didn't Apple express an interest in getting into the electronic textbook market? I see that they have internal synergy.
BMWs are notoriously fickle when it comes to electrical systems. I saw a 2001 740i completely destroyed be a stereo shop. The stereo shop spliced the wiring harness. The ECU was doing some sort of resistence test on the harness as an anti-theft measure, and with some of the wire removed, the resistance changed. The entire wiring harness had to be replaced because the car refused to start. It was a multi-thousand dollar "Oops".
Sad, isn't it. Those "highly educated ______" users are usually the first ones to throw a temper tantrum when they bork their box and don't have a valid backup. Or when their backups are on a 3 year old USB drive that takes a crap.
That seems to be par for the course when it comes to "super star IT staff". They tend to last 2-4 years where ever they go, and then they're off on whatever the next shiny thing their ADHD brain latches onto.
"In Windows Server 8, the recommended application model is to run on Server Core using PowerShell for local management tasks and then deliver a rich GUI administration tool capable of running remotely on a Windows client."
http://blogs.technet.com/b/server-cloud/archive/2012/01/11/windows-server-8-server-applications-and-the-minimal-server-interface.aspx
In other words, it sounds a lot like where Novell was in the mid-1990s and where *nix has been forever. The server will no longer be a workstation. The server is the server and the admin tools reside elsewhere.
I am not happy about this given the cluster fuck that is Server Core and the sub-par command line that they have delivered with it in 2008 R2. As long as they get their act together and provide the full set of MMC tools, it will be fine. Knowing Microsoft the server team will be different from the team developing the management apps. Half of the tools will work from GUI and the other half will require doing it from the console. Of course they won't do something simple like SSH, so we are going to have to have OOB management, or direct physical access.
In all seriousness though, there are serious flaws to this line of thought. Who the hell wants to work on file system ACLs from the command line? Who wants to setup user accounts and security groups from the command line? There certain basic admin tasks where having a GUI, and features like auto-complete are a godsend. Now granted, for large scale user adds or modifications you should be scripting them. But for one off adds, or looking at the resultant set of policy for complex ACLs with a lot of inheritance, the idea of doing it from the command line just sucks.
Which data center were you in? Which other data centers are you comparing it to? We're co-located in an AT&T facility and I am constantly told by colleagues who have equipment in other centers that ours is much nicer than theirs. We've been there for seven years and never had a single facilities related issue.
AT&T has data centers all over the globe. They already offer managed hosting services, in additional to traditional co-location agreements. A technology like OpenStack that allows users to self provision infrastructure services seems like a no brainer to me.
What happens when the company gets sued and the lawyers need to do electronic discovery on the device? Are there backup devices available for employees while their personal devices are forensically imaged and unavailable to them for however long that process takes (usually a couple of days at minimum if they are lucky)?
Are the employees going to be happy when all of their personal correspondence, family photos, etc are vacuumed up as part of the evidence collection process?
Of course the photos will never be entered into evidence. They will be captured though. Otherwise the legal team opens themselves up to liabilities for failing to take a full and complete foresnic copy of the device.
How about the guy who has pictures of his kid in the bath? Harmless enough, but child porn none the less. Do you want child porn on a company device?
The only sensible thing is firm separation between employee devices and work devices. Anything short of a complete separation is asking for problems sooner or later.
If an employee needs a device for work, the employer should provide it. If the employer does not provide it, the employee obviously does not need it.
For everyone who demands the right to bring their own devices, I say this. If you want to use your own device, become a contractor. Start your own company. Buy your own tools and use whatever device you want to use. If your services are so freaking valuable and so unique that they can only be done on a specific device, then the world will pay you the premium that you demand. If the world laughs in your face and tells you to use the tools you are given, then your skills are not as unique as you believe they are.
This attitude is also very short sighted. An "idiot" to one person is a potential customer / client to someone else. We live in an age where there so much specialized knowledge out there, it is impossible for anyone to know it all. Therefore we can make money from helping each other.
A molecular biologist might not know anything about how an OS works, but they probably understand more about the body than the average computer geek. Does that mean that the geeks are not worthy of living because they do not understand their bodies? Of course not, but the premise is just as absurd.
I work on my mechanic's computer all the time. He works on my car. I could work on my car, and when I was growing up and couldn't afford a mechanic, I did. He could figure out the computer, but in reality he'd rather do other things with his free time. To extend the analogy, I could still work on my car but I do not have a shop full of tools, lifts, etc. He could work on his computer, but he does not have the library of software and knowledge that I have. We each focus on what we are good at, and pay each other to do what we are not as good at.. either out of convenience, or due to lack of expertise.
Exactly. Samsung LCD TVs are great devices. I have two of them. My parents have one. My sister has one.
My g/f has a Vibrant. It is a piece of junk. I'm sorry that I ever suggested that she buy it. However her phone has nothing to do with the television.
This was reported on Zero Hedge last night and there was a link to the cached version of the hacked page on Google.
I've obviously heard about Anonymous before but never paid much attention to them. The crap that they posted on the hacked site makes me question what they are all about. It was a whole bunch of socialist crap about capitalism being bad, and communes being good. They had some videos where they showed the Occupy Oakland protestors destroying some windows at Wells Fargo. There was a long winded diatribe (tl;dr) basically encouraging people to engage in whatever fraud they can get away with because it will hurt the system.
Now I realize just how out of touch with reality these kids are. They do not have a constructive message. They do not have any plan or ability to actually make things better. All they want to do is whine about "how bad things are". It is clear that they are just a bunch of retards on the internet. Anarchists in black? Digital vigilantes?
All I see in Anonymous is another example of the collapse of society. All they are doing is hastening the downfall, without offering anything constructive to replace the current system with. Boo hoo hoo, capitalism sucks. We have roofs over our heads and when we can't find a job, we have the welfare state to fall back on to keep us fed and off the streets. Fuck the system man, it's keeping us down. It's making us BUY all of this shit. Cry me a fucking river.
There is a major shit storm coming. Anonymous, OWS and all of those people think that they are on the "right" side of the battle line. When it comes down to it, the fact of the matter is that America as a country kicks ass. We are blessed with natural resources and more food than we need. We have so much food that we can export it to poorer countries. Our economy kicks so much ass that half of the country can not pay taxes, yet still get fed and housed. There are a bunch of corrupt assholes at the top of the food chain, but tell me how that is any different from any other point in history. It isn't.
In Anonymous I see a bunch of greedy, spoiled, whining kids. They are upset because they do not have what they believe they are entitled to. So they are going to go around and fuck things up because they can. It shows how lame and out of touch they are. Society is fragile. It always has been, and always will be. It always takes more energy to build things up than to tear them down. It takes more effort to keep things going, than it does to get in the way and fuck things up.
We will always need Pakistan. Diesel fuel is too heavy to fly into the AO given the rate at which it is consumed. There would have to be a steady convoy of helicopters flying 24/7 to provide the fuel needed.
Even the porn stars see the writing on the wall with regards to CES.
...my all expenses paid trips to pr0n-con^H^H^H^H^H^H^H, CES.
On topic, I'm surprised that it took Microsoft this long to drop out of CES. It has been shrinking and becoming more and more irrelevant with each passing year. I always figured it was just an excuse to be in town at the same time as the AVN awards.
The article is complete flamebait, and many other posters have pointed that out.
The solution to home brew IT and people wanting to use their own devices is simple. Setup Citrix VDI or something similar. The Citrix receiver runs on everything.. iBlah, Android, web browsers, etc. The "cutting edge, tech savvy users" can use their lame devices, and all of the application code and information stays safe on the corporate network.
To flip the author's logic back around him, he suggests that users using their own devices are making things easier on corporate IT. They are empowering themselves at their own cost. Good for them. Let them pay for their Citrix licenses and infrastructure costs. If they really want to "partner with IT" and be an "IT ally" (to use the idiotic author's verbiage) , they can go ahead and come up with some funding. Nothing makes friends like throwing money around.
It will be unwound, messily, but it will unwind and society will go on. Do not buy into all of the hype about civilization coming to an end. There will always be people with excess capital that they want to invest. There will always be people with good ideas who need funding to get them off of the ground.