In our IT department, the females hold a majority, 4 to 3. Our Helpdesk (which is counted separate...don't know why) is all female, with 5 of them. The makeup of this department is a lot different than any I have worked in before. The telecom and electronics is all male, still, but the total comes out to be 8 to 7 in the favor of females between the three areas.
The article does make some good points. I've seen this in the college level, where the female students just didn't seem to fit in with the rest of the bunch on the higher level. Sometimes because they had a hard time with the learning curve (programming classes dropped by about 40% after mid terms), or they just didn't feel comfortable with the students around them. Those who did make it were very good at what they did.
In short, I do believe it can be harder for them to reach the bar, due to others around them, and I think that can be helped. However I don't think the bar should be lowered to help more get in.
With that said, pass me that bowl of spam. I've got a truckload that arrived today in my yahoo account (assuming it's still active), and I need to get rid of it.
Ok, I know that keeping data off-site is a good thing, but do you hand an intern your backups and send him home with the tapes? I think they REALLY need to redo their backup plan. Especially if it involves THAT MUCH personal data.
But you can also encrypt with a private key, like a signature in an email, so it can be read publicly who signed it, but it is encrypted to those without the public key.
Same here. This has existed for quite some time, spam blockers try to do some of this as well, I believe. Encrypt it, and hope someone doesn't have your key.;)
I may be going off the deep end, but if you have their public/private key, can't you decrypt something in SSL as well? I think the public one gets sent over the wire...so if they get that, then they should be able to decrypt it...
They're not "tampering" with the data. The data gets there, just not in a timely fashion. So as long as they don't corrupt the data, and it arrives intact, it's "ok".
It's like UPS or FedEx and their packages. You pay a different price for different speeds and qualities of service. No one modifies what's in the boxes (or is supposed to, anyway). I think they have something like a certified carrier status.
Copper is no reason why they're charging extremely high prices for wireless phones. And if they switched to fiber lines, they would pawn the price onto the consumer, making it even higher.
Copper is in our computers, cable, phone lines, and some wireless antennas. Last I checked, even fiber switches had some copper in them. At some point something is going over copper. We still hear in analog, so something has to be in analog.
Other than the fact that he favors everything that Sony made, he missed out on what happened: Most everyone loves things that are readily accessible, not something they have to go find.
Minidisc - 'Better' compression, but we all had CDs at this point. No incentive for the average consumer to change.
Laserdisc - Just too expensive to the average consumer, need I say more?
Betamax - VHS became more readily available to the consumer, and so the consumer adopted it, plus the players were cheaper.
Seems like the guy is wining that the proprietary hardware didn't win out...Or he just bought everything he thought should win, and lost out. I wonder if he's still watching his movies by Laserdisc player.
So, I'm at a 2 year college, not a university (grain of salt, and all that), that has wireless across campus. It's used as a convenience for faculty and students, but is by no means a primary connection point. You also cannot connect directly to campus servers, since it's on a separate VLAN. Every dorm room has Ethernet access, which only goes out when lightning hits nearby, and fries a switch (which happens to APs, Servers, PCs.). I could see wireless being "critical" for students and portable internet access, and it would be inconvenient if it went out, but it's not the end of the world. Keep in mind that we have survived before without wireless, it is possible to live without it.
Anyway, whatever problem DOES need to be fixed. It's not that hard to keep traffic for wireless separated on a network, so at least the problem is isolated from the "really critical" stuff, like actual business operation of a university. Is it just me, or would a version of (insert favorite WLAN packet sniffer here) be really useful. Check out what it's actually looking for. It's not like wireless signals are hard to sniff.
One question is are they strictly talking about desktop linux, or do they also count in servers? Would they count the people who use/access these servers, or just the company/person who maintains it? I would imagine seeing something along the lines of number of machines it's installed on, but it has flaws as well. I have a desktop and laptop for personal use, as well as a desktop and laptop for work, plus an extra desktop for testing software. I could count as 1 user or 5 licenses. Now at a Public Library, you could have a few machines that get used by a host of people each day. That would yield more users than licenses.
I know I'm preaching to the choir, but linux users could be confined to a small group, or expanded to anyone who visits a website running on linux.
And then you'll have each side of the debate disputing and spinning numbers to be in their favor...A messy deal that will be. Well, if it ever happens.
*marketspeak warning*
People should pay the extra $10 for the immediate revenue we would lose from the non-free calls, as well as to justify our installation of the capability into the phones. *marketspeak warning over*
The billed items just move from one place to another. And the Regional Directors need new boats, since their current models are getting dusty.
As for the minutes thing, it negates the purpose of having such a system, for the most part.
Two big advantages were claimed for these bullets. Firstly, that they would be safe over their entire range, compared to existing rounds, which can be hazardous at close quarters.
Can be hazardous? I didn't know bullets were "potentially harmful" if fired at short range. I will have to study this.
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I'm scared when something complex has no patches. Then again I'm more scared when something complex has a LOT of patches.
It's VERY Restrictive Swiss Cheese. Kinda like Windows ME.
In our IT department, the females hold a majority, 4 to 3. Our Helpdesk (which is counted separate...don't know why) is all female, with 5 of them. The makeup of this department is a lot different than any I have worked in before. The telecom and electronics is all male, still, but the total comes out to be 8 to 7 in the favor of females between the three areas.
The article does make some good points. I've seen this in the college level, where the female students just didn't seem to fit in with the rest of the bunch on the higher level. Sometimes because they had a hard time with the learning curve (programming classes dropped by about 40% after mid terms), or they just didn't feel comfortable with the students around them. Those who did make it were very good at what they did.
In short, I do believe it can be harder for them to reach the bar, due to others around them, and I think that can be helped. However I don't think the bar should be lowered to help more get in.
Reduced to a single word...
Whirrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.....
That help you out?
With that said, pass me that bowl of spam. I've got a truckload that arrived today in my yahoo account (assuming it's still active), and I need to get rid of it.
Vista *might* have been better if they would have applied the same thoughts. Who am I kidding, Vista would have never hit shelves.
"I was the newest person in the door so I inherited the job of taking the data tapes out of the building."
So why, exactly, do you make the newest person take the tapes out? The background check is the newest? I'm thinking they were just a little lazy.
Ok, I know that keeping data off-site is a good thing, but do you hand an intern your backups and send him home with the tapes? I think they REALLY need to redo their backup plan. Especially if it involves THAT MUCH personal data.
That all depends on if it has an internet connection or not ;)
But you can also encrypt with a private key, like a signature in an email, so it can be read publicly who signed it, but it is encrypted to those without the public key.
Same here. This has existed for quite some time, spam blockers try to do some of this as well, I believe. Encrypt it, and hope someone doesn't have your key. ;)
SMTP is cleartext, so it's readable. 20 Hops can be done in a few seconds.
I may be going off the deep end, but if you have their public/private key, can't you decrypt something in SSL as well? I think the public one gets sent over the wire...so if they get that, then they should be able to decrypt it...
They're not "tampering" with the data. The data gets there, just not in a timely fashion. So as long as they don't corrupt the data, and it arrives intact, it's "ok".
It's like UPS or FedEx and their packages. You pay a different price for different speeds and qualities of service. No one modifies what's in the boxes (or is supposed to, anyway). I think they have something like a certified carrier status.
Just quoting what the lawyers are gonna say.
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Copper is no reason why they're charging extremely high prices for wireless phones. And if they switched to fiber lines, they would pawn the price onto the consumer, making it even higher.
Copper is in our computers, cable, phone lines, and some wireless antennas. Last I checked, even fiber switches had some copper in them. At some point something is going over copper. We still hear in analog, so something has to be in analog.
A certain ISP in Canada delt with this not long ago...
It's a lot easier to run down 2 or 3 groups, as to staying up at night, hoping you have them all when you just caught #200.
Other than the fact that he favors everything that Sony made, he missed out on what happened: Most everyone loves things that are readily accessible, not something they have to go find.
Minidisc - 'Better' compression, but we all had CDs at this point. No incentive for the average consumer to change.
Laserdisc - Just too expensive to the average consumer, need I say more?
Betamax - VHS became more readily available to the consumer, and so the consumer adopted it, plus the players were cheaper.
Seems like the guy is wining that the proprietary hardware didn't win out...Or he just bought everything he thought should win, and lost out. I wonder if he's still watching his movies by Laserdisc player.
Amazingly, my web pages sucked with HTML 4. They sucked with XHTML. They'll probably suck just as bad in HTML 5.
Just my 2 worth.
So, I'm at a 2 year college, not a university (grain of salt, and all that), that has wireless across campus. It's used as a convenience for faculty and students, but is by no means a primary connection point. You also cannot connect directly to campus servers, since it's on a separate VLAN. Every dorm room has Ethernet access, which only goes out when lightning hits nearby, and fries a switch (which happens to APs, Servers, PCs.). I could see wireless being "critical" for students and portable internet access, and it would be inconvenient if it went out, but it's not the end of the world. Keep in mind that we have survived before without wireless, it is possible to live without it.
Anyway, whatever problem DOES need to be fixed. It's not that hard to keep traffic for wireless separated on a network, so at least the problem is isolated from the "really critical" stuff, like actual business operation of a university. Is it just me, or would a version of (insert favorite WLAN packet sniffer here) be really useful. Check out what it's actually looking for. It's not like wireless signals are hard to sniff.
One question is are they strictly talking about desktop linux, or do they also count in servers? Would they count the people who use/access these servers, or just the company/person who maintains it? I would imagine seeing something along the lines of number of machines it's installed on, but it has flaws as well. I have a desktop and laptop for personal use, as well as a desktop and laptop for work, plus an extra desktop for testing software. I could count as 1 user or 5 licenses. Now at a Public Library, you could have a few machines that get used by a host of people each day. That would yield more users than licenses.
I know I'm preaching to the choir, but linux users could be confined to a small group, or expanded to anyone who visits a website running on linux.
And then you'll have each side of the debate disputing and spinning numbers to be in their favor...A messy deal that will be. Well, if it ever happens.
*marketspeak warning*
People should pay the extra $10 for the immediate revenue we would lose from the non-free calls, as well as to justify our installation of the capability into the phones.
*marketspeak warning over*
The billed items just move from one place to another. And the Regional Directors need new boats, since their current models are getting dusty.
As for the minutes thing, it negates the purpose of having such a system, for the most part.
Can be hazardous? I didn't know bullets were "potentially harmful" if fired at short range. I will have to study this.
On second thought...I'll just look it up.
I have a BS degree from the University of Bologna and...
Any conversation would stop there, right?