Natural Gas may lower carbon emissions in vehicles, however, there are more cars on the road than there were even 15-20 years ago. Even if today all vehicles were to be government mandated to go to natural gas, we would really only be reducing carbon emissions to levels that they were about 15-20 years ago and it would take forever for these mandates to go into effect. At the rate that cars are being added to the road, we would quickly negate any carbon advantage. Hell, the levels 15-20 years ago were still very high!! In the end, it really does nothing to stem the tide of greenhouse gases and climate change. If, as a nation, we were serious about alternative energies we would seek zero emissions. If we were serious about energy independence, we would be actively looking towards clean hydrogen. Clean coal is any oxymoron because it still emits greenhouse gases when burned. The trouble is, thanks to the GOP and Big Oil, we are not likely to get serious any time soon.
or should I say, Standards brough to you by the BBC? My answer is no, don't do it. They are pro DRM and proving to side with the likes of the RIAA and MPAA and similar. I don't want DRM being part of a standard at all! If anything, standards should be developed by indpendent working groups, not by corporations with corporate interests. Independent working groups ensure that standards are open and I am thankful that Wireless N was developed this way. When companies develop standards, we get patents and closed source "standards." Allowing corporations to develop standards lead to the rise of Cisco as a dominant, veritable monopoly in computer networking. While I like the BBC, do I want to be dominated by it? No.
(On a serious note, I get ADSL 50Mbps for about $60 a month in a small Japanese city. I could also get a fiber connection if I wanted to for slightly more)
Wow, if I could afford it, the most I could get in DSL is 40mbps down and 20 up. This service is double what you pay in Japan. For 50.00 per month, I have 12 down/6 up.
Qwest might be slightly underrated. I am not sure how recent this survey is or rather how recent PCMag claims. About 10 months ago, Qwest began rolling out FTTN (Fibre To The Neighborhood) in much of the Phoenix and Tucson greater metro areas. Each subdvision has a fibre junction. My ADSL2+ is quite literally 500 wire feet from the fibre box and I get some really good speeds. I hit a download rate of 2.36MB/s. This was incredible for DSL!
I guickly perused two wikipedia articles: one on Shatner and the other on Schwarzenegger. Shatner has a formal education at a the respectable McGill University whereas Schwarzenegger's education beyond high school is a bit murky. Arnold is well known for his philandering, his get tough on crime politics, and his pro death penalty stance. Arnold's lack of higher education and narcicisstic personality made him a poor choice for representing the will of the people but instead wanting to impose his own will. Arguably, Schwarzenegger is responsible for the veritable demise of the middle class in California. California is a prime example of the goal of the GOP to destroy the middle class. In California, you're rich or poor. William Shatner, however, might make a good Governor as he is well educated as well as honestly civic minded.
I believe Julian already has a high enough profile to protect him from danger. Whoa cometh to the US Government should anything happen to him. The international pressure would be enormous and intense at a time when the US is at an all time international relations low. As a US Citizen, I appreciate his valor in enforcing my government's transparency initiatives. If President Obama is going to promise greater transparency, then by golly, he should deliver on it and if it takes Julian to embarrass him by pointing out his political non-speak, so be it. Wikileaks is holding President Obama's feet to the fire over transparency initiatives and I am the happier for it!
The law aside, Google is making a mistake by not attempting to mix generations. A retired federal law enforcement officer who is like an uncle to me has a saying, "You can learn something from anyone and everyone." The older worker is often more disciplined with a better work ethic than someone fresh out of school. The older software engineer is more experienced and can thus produce better quality code. Why not foster an environment that mixes the youthful ideas and enthusiasm with the experience and wisdom of the older worker? Why not use the older worker as a mentor and guide? By automatically discounting someone based on age, you blind yourself to any good that said person has to offer. And before anyone says I am an OG (Old Guy,) I am 33 and have been able to learn a lot about best practices and network engineering from a 60 year old grandpa!! Because I gave him the time of day, I learned some techniques that could potentially avoid pitfalls and served me very well.
I am very pro SSL and encryption in general. People have an inherent right to privacy and the argument that wanting privacy implies having something (criminal or unsavory) to hide is just bullshit. I do not like having my web surfing habits snooped or other tricky marketing gimmicks. If I want to use a Google SSL proxy, then I should be able to. If I want to use GNUPG to encrypt my email, I can and will. Even though I use the internet for legal means, I don't want Uncle Sam categorizing my activity and mining it.
Given Comcast's strong anti-net neutrality stance and propsensity towards censorship, I agree with the FCC. The merger should be blocked because it does not serve a really good purpose. It just creates a giant media conglomerate with far reaching arms into government. Comcast and NBC Universal should remain separate entities.
The article wasn't terribly well written. I would say it is not a big deal at all because the traffic between the tunnel end-points is encrypted anyway. I smell an attempt to spread FUD about IPv6 and I happen to like IPv6.
It does look kind of neat but I have all kinds of goodies on a jailbroke touch. I don't think I am going to upgrade to iOS 4 until someone comes up with a jailbreak. The goodies from Cydia repos are worth more than just a few extras that I really don't need.
Mod the parent up. This is exactly what is happening! Cell-based data plans are very expensive when compared to wifi and other options. Prices are going up when the economy, despite what the financial news wants us to believe, is not improving and we still have 15+ million unemployed. Go figure!
higher test scores != learning more
More and more school districts and states are moving towards using standardized tests to measure "learning". If you only teach students to score well on those tests then they aren't "learning" as much as they are "memorizing facts". Teaching kids how to think, critical thinking, reasoning, etc will benefit them (and the rest of us) much more in the long run... there just aren't any easy ways to measure that kind of performance.
You teach a kid 'how to think' and then sit them in front of 'World of Goo', 'Gears', etc and you'll see they can 'think'.
Test scores are a poor indicator of future achievement, this is why many colleges (even at the upper tier) only want to know that you took the SAT and could care less what the scores were. In fact, our school system kind of resembles the 1950s and 1960s without as much racism and segregation. It is perhaps the most backward piece of our whole society. Schools need to be dragged kicking and screaming into the modern era. It is not enough to mix technology with outmoded, outdated thinking. You can have all the fancy bling in the world, but if you use test scores as benchmarks without looking at teaching, you fail miserably.
Computers and technology in gerneral is not a replacement for quality instruction. Unfortunately, this emphasis on technology as a way to overcome poor instruction is failing miserably. In schools in neighborhoods with more money, I see these fancy electronic Blackboards, whiteboards, and course management software which all amount to precisely nothing if the teacher is unable to present the material logically, cohesively, and in a manner which can be understood. This is not to stay that technology lacks any importance whatsoever, quite the contrary. A lack of computer know-how or knowledge can be an automatic disqualifier in even some of the lower jobs in today's job market so technology (or a reasonable amount, thereof) in the classroom is important. Instead of spending lots of money on Blackboard/WebCT and similar, lets look at open source to replace these and use the money saved towards teacher education. Both DimDim and dotLrn make excellent replacements on that front. Finally, let's look at teacher education in college - it generally disturbs me that the Education major is a default major. I heard two sophmores shrug their shoulders and say, "I'll go into education." A good teacher inspires, motivates, and is able to teach material to students: tactily, auditorily, and visually. At my alma matter, I could not help but shake my head at the types of people going into education as I wouldn't want them teaching my son or daughter. There needs to be tougher academic standards and stricter entry requirements into these programs. Good teachers will only be augmented by technology, poor teachers will be "crutched" by technology.
Good luck getting Zuckenberg extradited to Pakistan for trial. It seems like many of these theocratic governments just make their countries two-bit, backwater places.
I am all for open source but isn't an open source mpeg4 codec kind of an oxymoron? I hate to be redundant but my purpose is in getting people to maybe look beyond MPEG4.
Micromanagement is a moral destroyer and encourages rank and file employees to be mindless automatons.
A typo, but an apt one. You clearly meant "morale", as in "how employees feel about work"; however, by leaving off that last letter, you turned it into "moral" as in "the ethical capacity of the managers".
Micromanagement is absolute power, and it corrupts absolutely.
Thank you for pointing this out. I should have done better spell checking.
You certainly weren't, the way you quietly got rid of people to save your job!
I consider someone to be devious that does this day in and day out. I do not but when backed into a corner, like anyone, I fight.
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Always become pals with the security and even the cleaners. Don't treat them as the help, treat them the way you would want to be treated. It is amazing what kind of insight they can provide. A retired federal special agent once told me that you can learn something from anyone and he was so right. A security guard overheard two people plotting a way to get rid of me. He told me the circumstance so I looked through my web logs for the sites that these ass clowns went to, had a neat little report assembled, and dropped it off at HR the next morning. At nine o'clock the next morning, the two stooges were called into the HR office and two hours later the two stooges were sent packing absolutely blind-sided. Moral: be honest, don't be devious, and most of all.... appreciate the jobs that your security and custodial folks do as they are real jobs and necessary.
If the BOFH has taught the IT world anything, it's to always monitor your co-workers. This provides potential means for extortion if there would ever be talk about you being fired or replaced as well as an easy and effective way to climb to the top at startling speeds.
What goes around, comes around. I've seen people behave this way climb a long way over a short period only to fall faster and harder. It is a miserable and paranoid experience.
I worked in a similar situation and it was maddness but I solved the problem with a little bit of forethought and concern for both sides of the issue. I realized I had to design an appropriate usage/access policy to protect the company. Taking some careful time I came to the realization that sometimes policies come off as too heavy-handed or even suspiciously sound like old-world Communist propaganda. As an aside, I remember getting an email at a company I worked for vaguely stating that additional security measures will "help me do my job more effectively leading to better job satisfaction and better performance for the company." Obviously, I wanted to avoid this hogwash, corporate non-speak. Here is how I did it. I implemented an authenticated proxy and drafted up an acceptable use policy in conjunction with HR worded to sound less punitive and more to explain the reasons for doing so - we are not in the military and do not have to snap to. Instead of firing off an email, I took a week to hold meetings with other employees and actually explained what happens when someone "chokes off the bandwidth." Most users use their computers somewhat impulsively without taking the time to think about the potential consequences. I found that by explaining, in more than just bullshit propaganda, the effects of abuse of the network, many of the more reasonable users agreed without grumbling. Even the grumblers begrudgingly admitted that the network works better. The manufacturing guys admitted that they depend upon their computers working perfectly to keep their machine tools doing the same. I found that people began policing themselves and reminding each other not to do because it may crash the CNC controller. In the end, I avoided becoming an enemy and my user base was smarter and more proactive.
Society is growing used to more extensive monitoring overall. We monitor our babies with webcams. The webcams are then used in schools to monitor class rooms and playgrounds. When we grow up, we rename them security cameras and appoint low wage individuals as our watchmen.
In some areas of the world such as the UK, computers are already being used to analyze the images from the security cameras. Storage capacity grows, and data gathered from the image analysis are stored for a lifetime. They can be used to enhance the analysis of your children's children. The ones which protests are considered suspicious with "something to hide". The ruling class are the only ones exempt from monitoring.
In the next step, computers are used to analyse images from private bedrooms and bathrooms. After all, who needs to worry about privacy when it's only a computer watching. It's all about protecting us from the boogey man. Think of the children!
Resistance is futile. You will be monitored.
Fear is an amazingly powerful controller. Why do you think the news/government tries to mention terrorism as much as it can? A state of fear keeps people generally in a blind obedience to totalitarian inroads. I cannot help but think that the movie, V for Vendetta, is a scarily astute observation/political commentary to what fear and blind following does to a society. Mix that with strong religious overtones and you have the tools for manipulation of the masses.
Another true story. At my company, I sit close to the guys who monitor the content filters. They have connections to their computers outside the proxies, directly on the Internet. I see them all the time accessing their personal Gmail accounts, which is blatantly against the company's security policy. It's a bit like the police officers I see all the time driving 70 MPH on the 55 MPH-speed limit Interstate, or driving through red lights. Who watches the watchers? Oh yeah, that would be nobody. Oh, don't worry though, I'm sure they're browsing "responsibly" and don't need watching.
This happens daily at our company. In fact, I had a manager approach me and ask if she could have the same tool that I use for remote access to assist users and fix things. I flat out told her "no." She sniffed and walked away. The hubris of corporate America is astounding. Management mentality is still very much caught in "industrial revolution" mode of thinking where employees need constant micromanaging. Has it occured to anyone, that human beings hate micromanagement? Micromanagement is a moral destroyer and encourages rank and file employees to be mindless automatons. I often wonder why someone wants to become a manager. I think it is to gain more freedom to make decisions so they are less of an automaton. Many managers also forget from whence they came.
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Damn shame that the bill sponsor is Republican. That much aside, I am glad he is doing something to stop this.
Natural Gas may lower carbon emissions in vehicles, however, there are more cars on the road than there were even 15-20 years ago. Even if today all vehicles were to be government mandated to go to natural gas, we would really only be reducing carbon emissions to levels that they were about 15-20 years ago and it would take forever for these mandates to go into effect. At the rate that cars are being added to the road, we would quickly negate any carbon advantage. Hell, the levels 15-20 years ago were still very high!! In the end, it really does nothing to stem the tide of greenhouse gases and climate change. If, as a nation, we were serious about alternative energies we would seek zero emissions. If we were serious about energy independence, we would be actively looking towards clean hydrogen. Clean coal is any oxymoron because it still emits greenhouse gases when burned. The trouble is, thanks to the GOP and Big Oil, we are not likely to get serious any time soon.
or should I say, Standards brough to you by the BBC? My answer is no, don't do it. They are pro DRM and proving to side with the likes of the RIAA and MPAA and similar. I don't want DRM being part of a standard at all! If anything, standards should be developed by indpendent working groups, not by corporations with corporate interests. Independent working groups ensure that standards are open and I am thankful that Wireless N was developed this way. When companies develop standards, we get patents and closed source "standards." Allowing corporations to develop standards lead to the rise of Cisco as a dominant, veritable monopoly in computer networking. While I like the BBC, do I want to be dominated by it? No.
I live in Japan. /wins
(On a serious note, I get ADSL 50Mbps for about $60 a month in a small Japanese city. I could also get a fiber connection if I wanted to for slightly more)
Wow, if I could afford it, the most I could get in DSL is 40mbps down and 20 up. This service is double what you pay in Japan. For 50.00 per month, I have 12 down/6 up.
Qwest might be slightly underrated. I am not sure how recent this survey is or rather how recent PCMag claims. About 10 months ago, Qwest began rolling out FTTN (Fibre To The Neighborhood) in much of the Phoenix and Tucson greater metro areas. Each subdvision has a fibre junction. My ADSL2+ is quite literally 500 wire feet from the fibre box and I get some really good speeds. I hit a download rate of 2.36MB/s. This was incredible for DSL!
I guickly perused two wikipedia articles: one on Shatner and the other on Schwarzenegger. Shatner has a formal education at a the respectable McGill University whereas Schwarzenegger's education beyond high school is a bit murky. Arnold is well known for his philandering, his get tough on crime politics, and his pro death penalty stance. Arnold's lack of higher education and narcicisstic personality made him a poor choice for representing the will of the people but instead wanting to impose his own will. Arguably, Schwarzenegger is responsible for the veritable demise of the middle class in California. California is a prime example of the goal of the GOP to destroy the middle class. In California, you're rich or poor. William Shatner, however, might make a good Governor as he is well educated as well as honestly civic minded.
I believe Julian already has a high enough profile to protect him from danger. Whoa cometh to the US Government should anything happen to him. The international pressure would be enormous and intense at a time when the US is at an all time international relations low. As a US Citizen, I appreciate his valor in enforcing my government's transparency initiatives. If President Obama is going to promise greater transparency, then by golly, he should deliver on it and if it takes Julian to embarrass him by pointing out his political non-speak, so be it. Wikileaks is holding President Obama's feet to the fire over transparency initiatives and I am the happier for it!
The law aside, Google is making a mistake by not attempting to mix generations. A retired federal law enforcement officer who is like an uncle to me has a saying, "You can learn something from anyone and everyone." The older worker is often more disciplined with a better work ethic than someone fresh out of school. The older software engineer is more experienced and can thus produce better quality code. Why not foster an environment that mixes the youthful ideas and enthusiasm with the experience and wisdom of the older worker? Why not use the older worker as a mentor and guide? By automatically discounting someone based on age, you blind yourself to any good that said person has to offer. And before anyone says I am an OG (Old Guy,) I am 33 and have been able to learn a lot about best practices and network engineering from a 60 year old grandpa!! Because I gave him the time of day, I learned some techniques that could potentially avoid pitfalls and served me very well.
I am very pro SSL and encryption in general. People have an inherent right to privacy and the argument that wanting privacy implies having something (criminal or unsavory) to hide is just bullshit. I do not like having my web surfing habits snooped or other tricky marketing gimmicks. If I want to use a Google SSL proxy, then I should be able to. If I want to use GNUPG to encrypt my email, I can and will. Even though I use the internet for legal means, I don't want Uncle Sam categorizing my activity and mining it.
Given Comcast's strong anti-net neutrality stance and propsensity towards censorship, I agree with the FCC. The merger should be blocked because it does not serve a really good purpose. It just creates a giant media conglomerate with far reaching arms into government. Comcast and NBC Universal should remain separate entities.
The article wasn't terribly well written. I would say it is not a big deal at all because the traffic between the tunnel end-points is encrypted anyway. I smell an attempt to spread FUD about IPv6 and I happen to like IPv6.
It does look kind of neat but I have all kinds of goodies on a jailbroke touch. I don't think I am going to upgrade to iOS 4 until someone comes up with a jailbreak. The goodies from Cydia repos are worth more than just a few extras that I really don't need.
Mod the parent up. This is exactly what is happening! Cell-based data plans are very expensive when compared to wifi and other options. Prices are going up when the economy, despite what the financial news wants us to believe, is not improving and we still have 15+ million unemployed. Go figure!
higher test scores != learning more More and more school districts and states are moving towards using standardized tests to measure "learning". If you only teach students to score well on those tests then they aren't "learning" as much as they are "memorizing facts". Teaching kids how to think, critical thinking, reasoning, etc will benefit them (and the rest of us) much more in the long run ... there just aren't any easy ways to measure that kind of performance.
You teach a kid 'how to think' and then sit them in front of 'World of Goo', 'Gears', etc and you'll see they can 'think'.
Test scores are a poor indicator of future achievement, this is why many colleges (even at the upper tier) only want to know that you took the SAT and could care less what the scores were. In fact, our school system kind of resembles the 1950s and 1960s without as much racism and segregation. It is perhaps the most backward piece of our whole society. Schools need to be dragged kicking and screaming into the modern era. It is not enough to mix technology with outmoded, outdated thinking. You can have all the fancy bling in the world, but if you use test scores as benchmarks without looking at teaching, you fail miserably.
Computers and technology in gerneral is not a replacement for quality instruction. Unfortunately, this emphasis on technology as a way to overcome poor instruction is failing miserably. In schools in neighborhoods with more money, I see these fancy electronic Blackboards, whiteboards, and course management software which all amount to precisely nothing if the teacher is unable to present the material logically, cohesively, and in a manner which can be understood. This is not to stay that technology lacks any importance whatsoever, quite the contrary. A lack of computer know-how or knowledge can be an automatic disqualifier in even some of the lower jobs in today's job market so technology (or a reasonable amount, thereof) in the classroom is important. Instead of spending lots of money on Blackboard/WebCT and similar, lets look at open source to replace these and use the money saved towards teacher education. Both DimDim and dotLrn make excellent replacements on that front. Finally, let's look at teacher education in college - it generally disturbs me that the Education major is a default major. I heard two sophmores shrug their shoulders and say, "I'll go into education." A good teacher inspires, motivates, and is able to teach material to students: tactily, auditorily, and visually. At my alma matter, I could not help but shake my head at the types of people going into education as I wouldn't want them teaching my son or daughter. There needs to be tougher academic standards and stricter entry requirements into these programs. Good teachers will only be augmented by technology, poor teachers will be "crutched" by technology.
Good luck getting Zuckenberg extradited to Pakistan for trial. It seems like many of these theocratic governments just make their countries two-bit, backwater places.
Rogers: GSM -850MHz & 1900MHz Telus: CDMA and limited HSPA -800MHz & 1900MHz Bell: CDMA and limited HSPA -850MHz & 1900MHz
You might want to add that said awesome phone would need to support both GSM and CDMA. I hear some Blackberry World Edition phones do
I am all for open source but isn't an open source mpeg4 codec kind of an oxymoron? I hate to be redundant but my purpose is in getting people to maybe look beyond MPEG4.
A typo, but an apt one. You clearly meant "morale", as in "how employees feel about work"; however, by leaving off that last letter, you turned it into "moral" as in "the ethical capacity of the managers".
Micromanagement is absolute power, and it corrupts absolutely.
Thank you for pointing this out. I should have done better spell checking.
Moral: ... don't be devious
You certainly weren't, the way you quietly got rid of people to save your job!
I consider someone to be devious that does this day in and day out. I do not but when backed into a corner, like anyone, I fight.
Always become pals with the security and even the cleaners. Don't treat them as the help, treat them the way you would want to be treated. It is amazing what kind of insight they can provide. A retired federal special agent once told me that you can learn something from anyone and he was so right. A security guard overheard two people plotting a way to get rid of me. He told me the circumstance so I looked through my web logs for the sites that these ass clowns went to, had a neat little report assembled, and dropped it off at HR the next morning. At nine o'clock the next morning, the two stooges were called into the HR office and two hours later the two stooges were sent packing absolutely blind-sided. Moral: be honest, don't be devious, and most of all .... appreciate the jobs that your security and custodial folks do as they are real jobs and necessary.
If the BOFH has taught the IT world anything, it's to always monitor your co-workers. This provides potential means for extortion if there would ever be talk about you being fired or replaced as well as an easy and effective way to climb to the top at startling speeds.
What goes around, comes around. I've seen people behave this way climb a long way over a short period only to fall faster and harder. It is a miserable and paranoid experience.
I worked in a similar situation and it was maddness but I solved the problem with a little bit of forethought and concern for both sides of the issue. I realized I had to design an appropriate usage/access policy to protect the company. Taking some careful time I came to the realization that sometimes policies come off as too heavy-handed or even suspiciously sound like old-world Communist propaganda. As an aside, I remember getting an email at a company I worked for vaguely stating that additional security measures will "help me do my job more effectively leading to better job satisfaction and better performance for the company." Obviously, I wanted to avoid this hogwash, corporate non-speak. Here is how I did it. I implemented an authenticated proxy and drafted up an acceptable use policy in conjunction with HR worded to sound less punitive and more to explain the reasons for doing so - we are not in the military and do not have to snap to. Instead of firing off an email, I took a week to hold meetings with other employees and actually explained what happens when someone "chokes off the bandwidth." Most users use their computers somewhat impulsively without taking the time to think about the potential consequences. I found that by explaining, in more than just bullshit propaganda, the effects of abuse of the network, many of the more reasonable users agreed without grumbling. Even the grumblers begrudgingly admitted that the network works better. The manufacturing guys admitted that they depend upon their computers working perfectly to keep their machine tools doing the same. I found that people began policing themselves and reminding each other not to do because it may crash the CNC controller. In the end, I avoided becoming an enemy and my user base was smarter and more proactive.
Society is growing used to more extensive monitoring overall. We monitor our babies with webcams. The webcams are then used in schools to monitor class rooms and playgrounds. When we grow up, we rename them security cameras and appoint low wage individuals as our watchmen. In some areas of the world such as the UK, computers are already being used to analyze the images from the security cameras. Storage capacity grows, and data gathered from the image analysis are stored for a lifetime. They can be used to enhance the analysis of your children's children. The ones which protests are considered suspicious with "something to hide". The ruling class are the only ones exempt from monitoring. In the next step, computers are used to analyse images from private bedrooms and bathrooms. After all, who needs to worry about privacy when it's only a computer watching. It's all about protecting us from the boogey man. Think of the children!
Resistance is futile. You will be monitored.
Fear is an amazingly powerful controller. Why do you think the news/government tries to mention terrorism as much as it can? A state of fear keeps people generally in a blind obedience to totalitarian inroads. I cannot help but think that the movie, V for Vendetta, is a scarily astute observation/political commentary to what fear and blind following does to a society. Mix that with strong religious overtones and you have the tools for manipulation of the masses.
Another true story. At my company, I sit close to the guys who monitor the content filters. They have connections to their computers outside the proxies, directly on the Internet. I see them all the time accessing their personal Gmail accounts, which is blatantly against the company's security policy. It's a bit like the police officers I see all the time driving 70 MPH on the 55 MPH-speed limit Interstate, or driving through red lights. Who watches the watchers? Oh yeah, that would be nobody. Oh, don't worry though, I'm sure they're browsing "responsibly" and don't need watching.
This happens daily at our company. In fact, I had a manager approach me and ask if she could have the same tool that I use for remote access to assist users and fix things. I flat out told her "no." She sniffed and walked away. The hubris of corporate America is astounding. Management mentality is still very much caught in "industrial revolution" mode of thinking where employees need constant micromanaging. Has it occured to anyone, that human beings hate micromanagement? Micromanagement is a moral destroyer and encourages rank and file employees to be mindless automatons. I often wonder why someone wants to become a manager. I think it is to gain more freedom to make decisions so they are less of an automaton. Many managers also forget from whence they came.