"central repository" does not mean that everyone should have read access. Preferably their personal home drive or in aid of communications, a group share at their level or department. EG Directors, Managers, Team Leaders or HR/Finance/Accounts etc. Sure, IT could access them by logging in as Domain Admin but A) they could and should be password protected at the file level and B) Your IT staff probably already have the power to do pretty much anything if they put their minds to it.
Evidently he has a laptop and VPN access and company policy should be that all important documents are held on central storage, not a user's PC. Important apps can be published via Citrix and run over VPN so really, this is either a failure of the user or of IT infrastructure.
1. Issue press release decrying DRM and refuse to support it at a hardware level.
2. Announce and develop proper linux support for the ATI range.
3. ???
4. Profit!
Now admittedly i don't know a whole lot about it so perhaps someone would be kind enough to fill in the details, but as far as i know there are only 7 static (ie not distributed) dns root nameservers in the world. Should they be destroyed, would the distributed nameservers be enough to cope until the infrastructure could be rebuilt?
Yes, the revenue model is moving online and the majority of porn probably is downloaded nowadays. But that's irrelevant since we're talking HD here. People aren't going to be downloading 25-30GB movies to their hard drive all that often. Especially since 5 1/4" HD/BD drives are both expensive and hard to come (since they don't plan to keep them on their HDD's indefinitely). We won't see the early adopters for porn that we will for mainstream and so the porn industry will be a deciding factor. Maybe not as large as in the Betamax/VHS war but still an important factor.
It's the nature of the beast. If we slashdotters were to take the Myer-Briggs test (sp?), probably 80-90% would be INTP, if not more. And as we know, INTP types are not natural born leaders. A reputable IT guy won't tell you a bold faced lie to your face. A CEO will. They can. They have that mindset.
Intel pushes the 'more power! faster!' philosophy while AMD just redesigns the architecture and it takes Intel a few years to catch up. Not much has changed since 2000.
If i recall correctly, Andromeda was based on an alternate premise of what TNG would have been. Personally i think it would have been the better option. This sort of show has some premise, but not in the form they mention.
No one said it had to be a recent version. 3.1 would run a dream on the olpc machine. And probably be enough of a hook to get them into other Windows variants later.
I was going to use this article on my blog (shameless plug) but couldn't find an angle that didn't make me look like a fascist.
So anyway, i figured someone might like to read it.
'Children kept dinosaurs as pets'
America's first creationist museum will 'prove' that the animals on Noah's Ark included Tyrannosaurus Rex. Alec Russell is given a preview
Just inside the cavernous sandstone foyer of the world's first creationist museum, two little girls are playing by a waterfall. Barefoot and clad in beige linen tunics, they look like extras in a school pageant. They giggle and kick their legs in the air as they cavort in the water. Behind them, two baby tyrannosaurs flick their trails and let out languorous groans.
If this were Jurassic Park - the only analogy I can come up with as I watch the bizarre scene - the groans would be the cause for a bloodbath. The children would shriek, the dinosaurs would lunge, and that would be that. But this tableau unfolding before my eyes is in many ways more fantastic than Steven Spielberg's fantasies. The animatronic children and tyrannosaurs appear all too real but, far from lunging, the dinosaurs are merely gambolling beside these little humans. It is as if they are domestic pets - and, strange as it will sound, that is just that the creators of the scene intended.
I am witnessing the re-enactment of a happy family scene in the Garden of Eden, which took place just 6,000 years ago, according to the information plaque. This is the familiar Eden of the Book of Genesis, where all the animals lived side by side in harmony, all happy vegetarians - including, it seems, the dinosaurs.
"This is meant to be the wow factor," says my guide, Ken Ham, who has registered my mild astonishment. That claim, at least, is not open to dispute.
Ham, a gruff Australian, is the head of Answers in Genesis, one of the fastest-growing "Young-Earth" creationist ministries in the world. He has spent much of the past decade planning his £14 million museum - mostly paid for by donations - which is scheduled to open early next year.
"So dinosaurs came into being only 6,000 years ago?" I ask.
Oh yes, he says. And, what is more, they survived Noah's flood and continued to roam the Earth until quite recently.
"In fact, if we move on to our bookstore, you will see that it has a dragon theme," he says. "There are dragon legends across Europe, all over the world. Why? Becayse they have a basis in truth, a basis in real animals. So, even though the word dinosaur wasn't coined until 1841, we would say that before that time, it's very possible that what people today call dinosaurs were known as dragons."
Nodding weakly in the face of his machine-gun delivery, I ask about the fossil record. Doesn't that show that dinosaurs lived millions, rather than thousands of years ago? In fact, doesn't current research suggest that the Earth itself is 13 billion years old?
Mr Ham has clearly dealt with snippy questions many times in the 30-odd years since he founded Answers in Genesis. It is Noah's flood, he points out patiently, that is responsible for the existence of fossils. And one shouldn't trust scientists when it comes to dating them either. After all, "when we look at a fossil, it doesn't have a label on it. There is no absolute definitive dating method you can use to absolutely age-date anything."
Then he launches into his core thesis, spraying out facts and theories "secular" scientists, I am told, are always misinterpreting the past; carbon dating is unreliable; if i doubt one verse of the Bible, i may as well tear the whole thing up.
"The Bible teaches that the reason we die is because we sinned. There was no death before Adam's sin. So you can't have millions of years of fossils because, in the fossil record, you have evidence of animals eathing each other. And the bible makes it clear that originally, animals were vegetarians, as man was vegetarian."
As i try in vain to insert a question into Ham's torrent of words, i catch sight of a beautifully carved miniature of Noah's Ark be
This whole video is a fucking scary affair.
Last i checked, a taser was used to incapacitate a hostile suspect. This guy, while mouthy, doesn't look like he made any hostile actions at all. We've learned from shows like Jackass that if you taser somebody, they're staying down for a while.
For me, the really worrying part of this video is at the end, with the officer warning people to "Stand back or you'll get tased". If you give an idiot a non-lethal weapon, then he's probably not going to think twice about using it. And therein lies the problem. While police can get away with excessive non-lethal force, it's going to keep happening. Thankfully, with the advent of cellphone cameras, they might not be able to do it for much longer.
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"central repository" does not mean that everyone should have read access. Preferably their personal home drive or in aid of communications, a group share at their level or department. EG Directors, Managers, Team Leaders or HR/Finance/Accounts etc. Sure, IT could access them by logging in as Domain Admin but A) they could and should be password protected at the file level and B) Your IT staff probably already have the power to do pretty much anything if they put their minds to it.
Evidently he has a laptop and VPN access and company policy should be that all important documents are held on central storage, not a user's PC. Important apps can be published via Citrix and run over VPN so really, this is either a failure of the user or of IT infrastructure.
If you're going to offer up such a sweeping statement without any evidence to back it up, at least have the courage not to post as AC.
Shit. Are we really calling it that?
Did anyone else read the title and think Google were buying a load of old P3's?
No, just me? Aw, zing.
1. Issue press release decrying DRM and refuse to support it at a hardware level.
2. Announce and develop proper linux support for the ATI range.
3. ???
4. Profit!
This sounds an awful lot like how Skynet might get started.
Now admittedly i don't know a whole lot about it so perhaps someone would be kind enough to fill in the details, but as far as i know there are only 7 static (ie not distributed) dns root nameservers in the world. Should they be destroyed, would the distributed nameservers be enough to cope until the infrastructure could be rebuilt?
Has there ever been a better chance to start a real life MST3K?
It would solve all our problems!
Seriously, no blamecanda?
If i had mod points, i would so mod you up. But i don't, so you just get this lousy reply.
Most companies seem to be using 5 year old equipment anyway.
My thought exactly. This stinks to high hell of Fallout.
Yes, the revenue model is moving online and the majority of porn probably is downloaded nowadays. But that's irrelevant since we're talking HD here. People aren't going to be downloading 25-30GB movies to their hard drive all that often. Especially since 5 1/4" HD/BD drives are both expensive and hard to come (since they don't plan to keep them on their HDD's indefinitely). We won't see the early adopters for porn that we will for mainstream and so the porn industry will be a deciding factor. Maybe not as large as in the Betamax/VHS war but still an important factor.
"Apple Inc. Inks Apple Corps Deal"
Try saying that 10 times quickly.
It's the nature of the beast. If we slashdotters were to take the Myer-Briggs test (sp?), probably 80-90% would be INTP, if not more. And as we know, INTP types are not natural born leaders. A reputable IT guy won't tell you a bold faced lie to your face. A CEO will. They can. They have that mindset.
Maybe, just maybe it has something to do with the million dollars.
Intel pushes the 'more power! faster!' philosophy while AMD just redesigns the architecture and it takes Intel a few years to catch up. Not much has changed since 2000.
If i recall correctly, Andromeda was based on an alternate premise of what TNG would have been. Personally i think it would have been the better option. This sort of show has some premise, but not in the form they mention.
No one said it had to be a recent version. 3.1 would run a dream on the olpc machine. And probably be enough of a hook to get them into other Windows variants later.
Dr. Emmett Brown: "I'm sure in 1985 plutonium is available at every corner drugstore, but in 1955 it's a little hard to come by." Only 20 years late.
If they're not using them, can we have them?
So anyway, i figured someone might like to read it.
This whole video is a fucking scary affair. Last i checked, a taser was used to incapacitate a hostile suspect. This guy, while mouthy, doesn't look like he made any hostile actions at all. We've learned from shows like Jackass that if you taser somebody, they're staying down for a while.
For me, the really worrying part of this video is at the end, with the officer warning people to "Stand back or you'll get tased". If you give an idiot a non-lethal weapon, then he's probably not going to think twice about using it. And therein lies the problem. While police can get away with excessive non-lethal force, it's going to keep happening. Thankfully, with the advent of cellphone cameras, they might not be able to do it for much longer.
Oh wait, yes i did.
Anyone who didn't see this coming must have been living under a rock.