They are already going there with service-based email, docs, storage. Some ISPs only rent equipment.
I'm sure some executives are rubbing their hands together, waiting to force us onto subscription-based thin clients instead of computer boxes. Fortunately, we can count geekdom to not let it get out of hand.
Unless you hit a key in the middle of a previous upgrade, and can't hunt down what component is causing the complaining about only being able to do a partial upgrade.
MAC switch security, VLANs, captive portals, and a well-planned firewall goes a very long way towards idiot management. Very handy in nabbing who exactly is the idiot, too (including ourselves, if we fail to plan well).
Privacy problems at Google? How about Youtube ditching the existing user accounts (holding your bookmarks hostage), and encouraging you to automatically link it to any other Google-based services that are logged in? What about Picasa continually insisting that you need to create a profile that shares and updates it with friends?
In the end you can dart around these problems, but they sure like to continually throw them in front of you. Sometimes it's not clear what they're up to until you're halfway through signing up. We know most non-tech people will be bitten in the butt in the process.
The results of "breaking into" a router (whether it is wide open or not) is impersonation/identity theft and theft. If someone connects and then behaves themselves, then the results of the offense are nil. The issues become apparent when the intruder downloads GB of warez and you incur overage charges from your ISP and a visit from the police.
As for breaking in itself, instead of a car analogy, let's use a bike analogy. I like near a large cottage community that has free painted community bicycles. It's understood that the bikes are free for use, and than they're expected to be used nicely. There are also bikes in people's yards, some just laying there, some locked up. It's understood that those bikes, whether they're locked or not, are NOT ok to take. Why? Because they belong to people, and are not for public use.
Even children understand this. Judge has reasoning skills of a toddler.
A coffee shop network is understood to be public. Acting like connecting to a network in suburbia in the same way's ok is laughable. If I had taken a bike from a neighbour's yard when I was a kid, I would have been dead meat. Could you imagine the look on your parents' faces if you said "It's ok because they were just sitting there?" Could you imagine the reaction of the victim if your parents went to them and said they have no recourse because the bike was just capable of being gotten at, locked up or not?
My last name is pretty unique, and I'm female, too, so I could get away with a name-only business card in my area of expertise. A "John Johnson", probably not.
If you let the graphic artist do their job, they could come up with something pretty rocking. If you're a consultant this would work rather well - your name is your brand. A good graphic artist will convey many things about you with minimal bling. The point is, you want something that would make you stand out from everyone else.
I have five different personal business cards.
card one - name, program name at college (Hons), vp of local unix group; back has phone number and email. There is a simple but unique design element that connects the front and back, and looks like circuitry. It's actually designed in a way that techies will "get it" and get a laugh out of it. I give this card to techies.
card two - like above, but doesn't list vp of local unix group. Instead, it lists a description/keywords of the technologies I work with (and what I learned in school). This card's for HR types that don't know what the hell networking is, but are adept at knowing (or being impressed with) buzzwords. Also good for non-tech friends who are trying to figure out what I do.
card three - simple card with my contact info. When I am talking to a friend or acquaintance, I'll write down things we talk about they are trying to remember (what was that web site you told me about again? what Chinese restaurant did you say you found the most authentic?)
card four - my crafting business. I've done costuming, wedding and bridesmaid dresses, unique repairs and other highly-detailed work for people on occasion. I don't actively pursue this as a business, but word does travel, and people do often ask me about things I have made or am wearing. Today someone was impressed by my mittens, and told me her husband it begging for the ugly reindeer sweater from Bridget Jones' Diary. I'm supposed to come up with an estimate this weekend. Go figure.
card five - My CFSA instructor card. I was considering getting back into this last year, so I had just 10 of these made when I did my other cards.
I carry about ten each of the first two, and a few of the next two. If I'm going to a particular event, I'll "stack my cards" a certain way. Chances are when I go to a Microsoft seminar, not too many people there will give a damn that I can knit Tux a mini-scarf.
Why overload a card and make it ugly by trying to put everything about you on it? Give people what's important to them.
Yet twenty years later, we still get "omg I have to forward this to you" emails of stories of girls who got raped or mugged in some weird circumstance (and advisories "from the police"), and viral emails of "lookout for this virus".
People aren't trustworthy on figuring out reliable content, either.
For the last week I've been arguing with someone I know that the font she wants to install at work isn't free, just because she found it for free on a site and she's used it before without problem. She doesn't get the licensing thing. Looking further on the site, no licensing info is given, and it was uploaded by some guy from Russia. Oh sure, that's obviously legitimate. And yes, she considers herself a technical/computer person.
The tagging idea might work for people whose facebook friends are 95% IT people. But if that were the case, you don't really need that link system to begin with. You've already largely mitigated the problem with browsers, add-ons, practice, and common sense.
Some people who are told where the web site is still get it wrong.
Have you never seen a friend or family member type something like www.hotmail.com into a search toolbar or in a search box on Google? It happens surprisingly often, repeatedly, with reasonably intelligent people.
"Oh, don't type it there,... no, just... the thing there, not.... ju... *sigh* never mind, it's alright." (It works eventually, I guess.)
I just finished watching the (newer) Battlestar Galactica series. The woman who plays Ellen doesn't look human... hard to look at, and hard to look away, at the same time. It creeped me out.
Just like "how many parts can be replaced before a car isn't the same car"... "how much plastic surgery before you're not human anymore?"
If the article and summary is worried on the impact on girls, I think the bigger problem is that you end up with girls in college with no idea what computer science is (and probably getting mocked for it). i.e. it comes across as "dumbed-down computer science for girls"
Though, frankly, the same would happen to boys put through programs like this too.
I didn't have CS courses in high school. Maybe once, one of our teachers showed us a general program in BASIC. But I adapted to using any aspect of the computer very well, and found ways to poke at this interesting (DOS) command-line thing. Why did I end up going to computer science in university? Because adults told me I was smart (and therefore going to university), and "good with computers" (I could use one more easily than they could). When I told someone what I was taking in university, I invariably got a response of "oh, so you can fix computers, then?"
Did I know what I was getting into? I knew better than a lot of adults where I lived, but no, I didn't really know what compsci was all about.
Then I got frustrated in university, worked for a while, and went back for a networking diploma from a college with hands-on experience. (Though the university education was a help too.)
Maybe it's adults that need an education on what compsci is about? At least they should have enough information that they can tell a kid there many disciplines involving computers. Shove 'em in the right directions.
When my parents retired, moved their house and got involved in organizations in the new town, I came across a mug for sale in the mall: "Same circus, different clowns." I bought it and gave it to my Dad next Christmas. He uses it every day.
It's same with dating sites. Doesn't matter how much you pay - same circus, different clowns. Actually, after seeing some of the photos: same circus, same clowns. (Really funny if you sign up on an "adult" site to pick out the idiots who use the same photo as their dating profiles.)
I met people through any number of ways (work, university, gym, free online, paid online), and let me tell you, I waded through a lot of clowns.
Regarding your own comment - funnily enough, I'm a geek girl (network admin among other geeky pursuits) who ended up marrying a non-tech person two months ago. We found each other on POF. We share some geeky interests (tv shows, etc), but the most important thing we have in common is that we're attentive to each other and willing to listen and work on things.
When I took at Linux class at college, there were one or two questions in a test where I couldn't remember the exact syntax (to write on paper), so I put my best guess down and "and Google" or "that's what man/help is for".
As long as someone's not doing it to directly incite hatred, I see no problem. It's kind of like poorly-written profiles on dating sites: if someone wants to out themselves as a dumbass, then please let them. It lets us other sensible people see who they are, so we can avoid them.
And 3/4 of the jockeys speak with the most pretentious content they can come up with, and sound like they have broccoli up their nose. I don't see the stations maintaining much relevancy for much longer.
(I'm not saying the local stations with their obnoxious, loud, prank-playing jockeys are much better...)
"How could the CBC banning Creative Commons (CC) licensing possibly be in the public interest? It is silences a perfectly legal means of licensing that contributes to culture. Banning it is anti-competitive, draconian, and extremely high-handed. CBC needs to get with the times and innovate, not suppress its own citizens. What right do that have to tell Canadians that they can't listen to some Canadian (or other) artists because they don't pay money to the correct large companies? This treatment reduces artists to being victims who must pay bribe money, and reduces listeners to unenlightened children who are being dictated to.
The more this type of "enforcement" is shoved through, the more people will reject it. The younger web culture is now beginning to mature and become a major force in how things are run. They will not put up with it, and the CBC can look forward to becoming very irrelevant in ten or twenty years, if they continue along this path.
This is the country my brother just moved to... and he had to ditch all his LEGAL DVDs because they were the wrong country code, and would be illegal there.
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They are already going there with service-based email, docs, storage. Some ISPs only rent equipment.
I'm sure some executives are rubbing their hands together, waiting to force us onto subscription-based thin clients instead of computer boxes. Fortunately, we can count geekdom to not let it get out of hand.
Unless you hit a key in the middle of a previous upgrade, and can't hunt down what component is causing the complaining about only being able to do a partial upgrade.
When IE won't open a page ("Operation Aborted"), damn straight Firefox is for business.
MAC switch security, VLANs, captive portals, and a well-planned firewall goes a very long way towards idiot management. Very handy in nabbing who exactly is the idiot, too (including ourselves, if we fail to plan well).
Privacy problems at Google? How about Youtube ditching the existing user accounts (holding your bookmarks hostage), and encouraging you to automatically link it to any other Google-based services that are logged in? What about Picasa continually insisting that you need to create a profile that shares and updates it with friends?
In the end you can dart around these problems, but they sure like to continually throw them in front of you. Sometimes it's not clear what they're up to until you're halfway through signing up. We know most non-tech people will be bitten in the butt in the process.
The results of "breaking into" a router (whether it is wide open or not) is impersonation/identity theft and theft. If someone connects and then behaves themselves, then the results of the offense are nil. The issues become apparent when the intruder downloads GB of warez and you incur overage charges from your ISP and a visit from the police.
As for breaking in itself, instead of a car analogy, let's use a bike analogy. I like near a large cottage community that has free painted community bicycles. It's understood that the bikes are free for use, and than they're expected to be used nicely. There are also bikes in people's yards, some just laying there, some locked up. It's understood that those bikes, whether they're locked or not, are NOT ok to take. Why? Because they belong to people, and are not for public use.
Even children understand this. Judge has reasoning skills of a toddler.
A coffee shop network is understood to be public. Acting like connecting to a network in suburbia in the same way's ok is laughable. If I had taken a bike from a neighbour's yard when I was a kid, I would have been dead meat. Could you imagine the look on your parents' faces if you said "It's ok because they were just sitting there?" Could you imagine the reaction of the victim if your parents went to them and said they have no recourse because the bike was just capable of being gotten at, locked up or not?
And then you google him.
My last name is pretty unique, and I'm female, too, so I could get away with a name-only business card in my area of expertise. A "John Johnson", probably not.
If you let the graphic artist do their job, they could come up with something pretty rocking. If you're a consultant this would work rather well - your name is your brand. A good graphic artist will convey many things about you with minimal bling. The point is, you want something that would make you stand out from everyone else.
I have five different personal business cards.
card one - name, program name at college (Hons), vp of local unix group; back has phone number and email. There is a simple but unique design element that connects the front and back, and looks like circuitry. It's actually designed in a way that techies will "get it" and get a laugh out of it. I give this card to techies.
card two - like above, but doesn't list vp of local unix group. Instead, it lists a description/keywords of the technologies I work with (and what I learned in school). This card's for HR types that don't know what the hell networking is, but are adept at knowing (or being impressed with) buzzwords. Also good for non-tech friends who are trying to figure out what I do.
card three - simple card with my contact info. When I am talking to a friend or acquaintance, I'll write down things we talk about they are trying to remember (what was that web site you told me about again? what Chinese restaurant did you say you found the most authentic?)
card four - my crafting business. I've done costuming, wedding and bridesmaid dresses, unique repairs and other highly-detailed work for people on occasion. I don't actively pursue this as a business, but word does travel, and people do often ask me about things I have made or am wearing. Today someone was impressed by my mittens, and told me her husband it begging for the ugly reindeer sweater from Bridget Jones' Diary. I'm supposed to come up with an estimate this weekend. Go figure.
card five - My CFSA instructor card. I was considering getting back into this last year, so I had just 10 of these made when I did my other cards.
I carry about ten each of the first two, and a few of the next two. If I'm going to a particular event, I'll "stack my cards" a certain way. Chances are when I go to a Microsoft seminar, not too many people there will give a damn that I can knit Tux a mini-scarf.
Why overload a card and make it ugly by trying to put everything about you on it? Give people what's important to them.
This was an episode of Futurama.
They have actively been promoting illegal use. Search by filetype.
A huge proportion of certain filetypes are known to be very likely illegal to download. Google knew damn well what they were doing.
Yet twenty years later, we still get "omg I have to forward this to you" emails of stories of girls who got raped or mugged in some weird circumstance (and advisories "from the police"), and viral emails of "lookout for this virus".
People aren't trustworthy on figuring out reliable content, either.
For the last week I've been arguing with someone I know that the font she wants to install at work isn't free, just because she found it for free on a site and she's used it before without problem. She doesn't get the licensing thing. Looking further on the site, no licensing info is given, and it was uploaded by some guy from Russia. Oh sure, that's obviously legitimate. And yes, she considers herself a technical/computer person.
The tagging idea might work for people whose facebook friends are 95% IT people. But if that were the case, you don't really need that link system to begin with. You've already largely mitigated the problem with browsers, add-ons, practice, and common sense.
Some people who are told where the web site is still get it wrong.
Have you never seen a friend or family member type something like www.hotmail.com into a search toolbar or in a search box on Google? It happens surprisingly often, repeatedly, with reasonably intelligent people.
"Oh, don't type it there,... no, just... the thing there, not.... ju... *sigh* never mind, it's alright." (It works eventually, I guess.)
I just finished watching the (newer) Battlestar Galactica series. The woman who plays Ellen doesn't look human... hard to look at, and hard to look away, at the same time. It creeped me out.
Just like "how many parts can be replaced before a car isn't the same car"... "how much plastic surgery before you're not human anymore?"
*shiver*
If the article and summary is worried on the impact on girls, I think the bigger problem is that you end up with girls in college with no idea what computer science is (and probably getting mocked for it). i.e. it comes across as "dumbed-down computer science for girls"
Though, frankly, the same would happen to boys put through programs like this too.
I didn't have CS courses in high school. Maybe once, one of our teachers showed us a general program in BASIC. But I adapted to using any aspect of the computer very well, and found ways to poke at this interesting (DOS) command-line thing. Why did I end up going to computer science in university? Because adults told me I was smart (and therefore going to university), and "good with computers" (I could use one more easily than they could). When I told someone what I was taking in university, I invariably got a response of "oh, so you can fix computers, then?"
Did I know what I was getting into? I knew better than a lot of adults where I lived, but no, I didn't really know what compsci was all about.
Then I got frustrated in university, worked for a while, and went back for a networking diploma from a college with hands-on experience. (Though the university education was a help too.)
Maybe it's adults that need an education on what compsci is about? At least they should have enough information that they can tell a kid there many disciplines involving computers. Shove 'em in the right directions.
If you don't know how to multitask, you don't belong here!
The sad news is no one will believe you're straight.
My husband has a thing for interior design, but hasn't pursued it because he figures he won't be taken seriously by any clients.
When my parents retired, moved their house and got involved in organizations in the new town, I came across a mug for sale in the mall: "Same circus, different clowns." I bought it and gave it to my Dad next Christmas. He uses it every day.
It's same with dating sites. Doesn't matter how much you pay - same circus, different clowns. Actually, after seeing some of the photos: same circus, same clowns. (Really funny if you sign up on an "adult" site to pick out the idiots who use the same photo as their dating profiles.)
I met people through any number of ways (work, university, gym, free online, paid online), and let me tell you, I waded through a lot of clowns.
Regarding your own comment - funnily enough, I'm a geek girl (network admin among other geeky pursuits) who ended up marrying a non-tech person two months ago. We found each other on POF. We share some geeky interests (tv shows, etc), but the most important thing we have in common is that we're attentive to each other and willing to listen and work on things.
When I took at Linux class at college, there were one or two questions in a test where I couldn't remember the exact syntax (to write on paper), so I put my best guess down and "and Google" or "that's what man/help is for".
Got part marks, which normally weren't given out.
Feature creep and bogging down? It's ICQ all over again.
As long as someone's not doing it to directly incite hatred, I see no problem. It's kind of like poorly-written profiles on dating sites: if someone wants to out themselves as a dumbass, then please let them. It lets us other sensible people see who they are, so we can avoid them.
And 3/4 of the jockeys speak with the most pretentious content they can come up with, and sound like they have broccoli up their nose. I don't see the stations maintaining much relevancy for much longer.
(I'm not saying the local stations with their obnoxious, loud, prank-playing jockeys are much better...)
To CRTC:
"How could the CBC banning Creative Commons (CC) licensing possibly be in the public interest? It is silences a perfectly legal means of licensing that contributes to culture. Banning it is anti-competitive, draconian, and extremely high-handed. CBC needs to get with the times and innovate, not suppress its own citizens. What right do that have to tell Canadians that they can't listen to some Canadian (or other) artists because they don't pay money to the correct large companies? This treatment reduces artists to being victims who must pay bribe money, and reduces listeners to unenlightened children who are being dictated to.
The more this type of "enforcement" is shoved through, the more people will reject it. The younger web culture is now beginning to mature and become a major force in how things are run. They will not put up with it, and the CBC can look forward to becoming very irrelevant in ten or twenty years, if they continue along this path.
(http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/10/08/2346236/CBC-Bans-Use-of-Creative-Commons-Music-On-Podcasts)"
Troll? Seriously, people?
This is the country my brother just moved to... and he had to ditch all his LEGAL DVDs because they were the wrong country code, and would be illegal there.
Or buy jelly candies. Many are made of mineral oil. They are found in the candy aisle :)
= dirty look