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How To Succeed In IT Without Really Trying 283

snydeq writes "Deep End's Paul Venezia discusses the two ways to succeed in IT: through proficiency and hard work, a road that often leads to unending servitude, or the other way; with little effort or proficiency at all. 'I hate to say this, but a number of people in IT positions work harder to make it seem like they're busy as beavers than doing actual work. Quite often this dysfunction starts at the top: When an IT manager doesn't know the technology very well, he or she may hire folks who have no idea what their job is other than to show up every day and answer the occasional email, passing questions along to others with more technical abilities, or to their contacts at the various hardware and software vendors. People like these populate many consulting companies. They rely almost completely on contractors to perform the actual work, serving as remote hands in a real crisis and as part of a phone tree for less pressing issues.'"
Businesses

Apple Nixes iPad Giveaways 388

KingSkippus writes "According to a story at CNN, Apple has begun enforcing third party promotion guidelines (PDF) that, among other things, restricts organizations from giving away iPads, using the word 'free' to describe any Apple products in a prominent manner, or promoting giveaways of iPod Touches in lots of less than 250 and with Apple's explicit approval."

Comment Re:Over-reaction (Score 1) 369

OR, if you were an academic at another institution, and you wanted to discuss something with another professor, and that other professor is sometimes outspoken, then you might think twice about what you say?

OR if you're a student of said professor, and you wanted to discuss your career in the field, would you think twice about that if that correspondance could be public?

and on, and on,

Comment Re:Free speech (Score 1) 794

I am gay, I consider Exodus International's activities deceptively cruel to the point of fraud, and I find the app itself offensive.

And I hope that Apple allows the app to remain in the App Store.

Yeah, right next to the 'horoscope' and 'enlarge your penis' apps.

Japan

Nuclear Emergency Declared At 2 Plants In Japan 752

Hugh Pickens writes "CBC reports that Japan has declared a state of emergency and called for mass evacuations near two nuclear power plants following cooling systems failures that led to radiation escaping from a reactor at one location. The emergency declarations, which include five reactors at the two plants, followed Friday's 8.9-magnitude earthquake off the country's northeast coast. In a troubling announcement, Japan Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency official Ryohei Shiomi said a monitoring device outside the plant detected radiation that is eight times higher than normal and an evacuation zone has been expanded from three kilometres around the plant to 10 kilometres."

Comment Re:Make it clear to your DA (Score 1) 486

By your logic, if I am in line at Dunkin Donuts and the person in front of me (Joe) is on the phone leaving a message while I'm talking to my friend then Joe is guilty of illegal wiretapping.

Only if they are recording the police. And since you're at a Donut shop, that is likely the case. Could you give me Joe's full name and current address? I need to report him.

Comment Attacking Glenn Greenwald (Score 2) 246

These guys are idiots

what the fuck are they thinking by claiming that Glenn [Greenwald] weighs “professional preservation” against “cause”? Could they be more wrong, painting Glenn as a squeamish careerist whose loud support for WikiLeaks (which dates back far longer than these security firms seem to understand) is secondary to “professional preservation”?

http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2011/02/09/security-firms-pitching-bank-of-america-proposed-targeting-glenn-greenwald/

If you've read anything that blogger Greenwald has written, you'd know how true this.

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