Comment With great power, comes great responsibility (Score 1) 823
Always remember that.
Comment What was your favorite/most elaborate prank? (Score 2) 612
You have a long history of being a trickster. I am curious which you are most proud of/which was your favorite.
Comment Sounds like tech support? (Score 1) 630
I guess I am desensitized... I realize this is a pharmaceutical company, but this is all very standard behavior in the tech support / call center world. I've seen this sort of thing since 1998, so it really isn't that new to me.
In both cases it sounds like management is being asked to predict productivity and deliverables based on time.
Is your job function serial in nature at all? Does someone have to do something to a product before its passed to you and do you pass it to someone after that?
Comment Two types of Professionals (Score 1) 515
You are going to find two types of techs throughout your career.
* The Career-Person:
Is there to punch a time card and collect a paycheck
Learns only what is necessary to do the job
Probably received a classroom education on tech
Goes home and complains about not having enough free time to socialize
* The Enthusiast:
Loves technology and loves getting paid for working with it
Is constantly researching new technology even if it doesn't have to do with work
Could either have a degree our self taught education
Goes home and hacks on/fiddles with some sort of tech
* The Career-Person:
Is there to punch a time card and collect a paycheck
Learns only what is necessary to do the job
Probably received a classroom education on tech
Goes home and complains about not having enough free time to socialize
* The Enthusiast:
Loves technology and loves getting paid for working with it
Is constantly researching new technology even if it doesn't have to do with work
Could either have a degree our self taught education
Goes home and hacks on/fiddles with some sort of tech
Top Google Executives Approved Illegal Drug Ads 287
Hugh Pickens writes "PC Magazine reports that the U.S. government used convicted con artist David Whitaker, owner of an online business selling steroids and human growth hormone to U.S. consumers, to help federal agents in a sting operation against Google when he began advertising with Google with advertisements that included the statement 'no prescription needed,' clearly violating U.S. laws. Google's settlement with the U.S. government for $500 million blamed AdWords sales by Canadian pharmacies, who allegedly were selling drugs to U.S. consumers. 'We banned the advertising of prescription drugs in the U.S. by Canadian pharmacies some time ago,' Google said then. 'However, it's obvious with hindsight that we shouldn't have allowed these ads on Google in the first place.' Peter Neronha, the U.S. attorney for Rhode Island who led the multiagency federal task force that conducted the sting, claims that chief executive Larry Page had personal knowledge of the operation, as did Sheryl Sandberg, a Google executive who now is the chief operating officer for Facebook. In 2009 Google started requiring online pharmacy advertisers to be certified by the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy's Verified Internet Pharmacy Practices Sites program and hired an outside company to detect pharmacy advertisers exploiting flaws in the Google's screening systems."
Intel's Plans For X86 Android, Smartphones, and Tablets 151
MrSeb writes "'Last week, Intel announced that it had added x86 optimizations to Android 4.0, Ice Cream Sandwich, but the text of the announcement and included quotes were vague and a bit contradictory given the open nature of Android development. After discussing the topic with Intel we've compiled a laundry list of the company's work in Gingerbread and ICS thus far, and offered a few of our own thoughts on what to expect in 2012 as far as x86-powered smartphones and tablets are concerned.' The main points: Intel isn't just a chip maker (it has oodles of software experience); Android's Native Development Kit now includes support for x86 and MMX/SSE instruction sets and can be used to compile dual x86/ARM, 'fat' binaries; and development tools like Vtune and Intel Graphics Performance Analyzer are on their way to Android."
Comment Bug fixes (Score 1) 666
With commercial support, if and when you find a bug in the distribution, you have the means and leverage to have the bug fixed and possibly interim workarounds.
Comment Sudo + LDAP + Plugins (Score 1) 153
I don't see why you cannot properly scale Sudo via LDAP:
http://www.gratisoft.us/sudo/man/1.8.1/sudoers.ldap.man.html
I also believe some of the functionality described by the article can be achieved via the Plugin API introduced in Sudo 1.8.1:
http://www.gratisoft.us/sudo/man/1.8.1/sudo_plugin.man.html
Comment Fedora (Score 2) 264
Fedora has components to help manage large deployments.
https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/
It also has FreeIPA to help with a secure and scalable means of managing authentication/authorization/resources within the cluster.
http://freeipa.org/page/Main_Page
Comment Why not try an OpenSource PKI: Dogtag for Fedora (Score 1) 286
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