Comment To the ocean (Score 1) 722
At my last shop we used functional names for internal servers (e.g. COSVR048) but for external servers we used fish names for the primary data center and aquatic mammals for the secondary.
Is Software Driving a Falling Demand For Brains? 622
Hugh Pickens writes writes "Paul Krugman writes in the NY Times that information technology seems to be reducing, not increasing, the demand for highly educated workers (reg. may be required), because a lot of what highly educated workers do could actually be replaced by sophisticated information processing. One good recent example is how software is replacing the teams of lawyers who used to do document research. 'From a legal staffing viewpoint, it means that a lot of people who used to be allocated to conduct document review are no longer able to be billed out,' says Bill Herr, a lawyer at a major chemical company who used to muster auditoriums of lawyers to read documents for weeks on end. 'People get bored, people get headaches. Computers don't.' If true this raises a number of interesting questions. 'One is whether emphasizing education — even aside from the fact that the big rise in inequality has taken place among the highly educated — is, in effect, fighting the last war,' writes Krugman. 'Another is how we [can] have a decent society if and when even highly educated workers can't command a middle-class income.' Remember the Luddites weren't the poorest of the poor, they were skilled artisans whose skills had suddenly been devalued by new technology."
Comment Re:Nope (Score 1) 366
gmail supports BCC: in both client/server mode and web mode. In Web Mode the link to add BCC recipients is just as prominent as the link for CC recipients. They even have a pretty 'English' write up of it's use: http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=57143
Comment New scripts? (Score 1) 2254
Haven't analyzed them yet, but seem to be getting new third part scripts trying to load now? (cdn.optimizley.com; s8.addthis.com) Are these new or am I just looking to hard?
Comment Re:At work (Score 1) 2
We just decommissioned a data center (consolidating buildings) and came across all manner of out of production media (hello "floppy" disks and IOMega drives) that were stored away for just-in-case situations...of course no devices/software to use them were anywhere to be found so we ended up destroying them. But no one learns, as systems not being migrated were being decommissioned "final" backups were made....by making tape backups of proprietary blob data only....good luck getting a system ever put back together that will ever be able to use it! Exporting information to an open format should be a requirement of any major system!
Comment Yo dawg! (Score 4, Funny) 322
"It makes you smile that you can use one homebrew console to hack another to get homebrew on that console."
Yo dawg! I heard you like hacking homebrew, so we we put hack in your homebrew so you can hack homebrew while you hack!
Comment Re:And a safe for when you're not there to guard i (Score 1) 825
Housebreakers don't go in for (ineffective) arms races. They are more into avoiding "houses that shoot" in favor of less dangerous prey.
I can't be the only one that envisioned automatic "gun cameras" here can I?
Comment Not safe enough for my work (Score 5, Informative) 98
"This site contains content from the following categories: Adult/Mature Content;Entertainment; and has been automatically blocked". It is distinguised from playboy.com (category:Pornography), but unless they can get the "Mature" label dropped this will remain just beyond reach.
Comment Re:SOlution (Score 1) 389
Sure, but how many are available from the "LAN" port with NO or default passwords? Couple this with more browser based attacks (from redirection a call to 192.168.0.1 to running a java control) then you can count and the router can be readily owned. For most home users it is very easy to get them to run malware.
Comment Re:Really!? (Score 1) 319
...BTW in the sixties the USA developed but never tested or deployed a nuclear powered supersonic cruise missile.
Got any sources on this? I've heard of missiles with nuclear payloads, but not where their power source is nuclear...
Comment Re:Oh yeah, great idea (Score 1) 494
You forgot about the second pic of the back side of the check that also has your signature on it - nothing could ever go wrong with that, even thought TFA assures that the images will be encrypted when sent.
Easy enough, don't sign it..."FOR DEPOSIT ONLY" is pretty much universally accepted, you should never have to actually sign your check unless you are exchanging it for cash or transfering it to someone else.
Comment Re:Making copies shouldn't be a crime (Score 1) 199
If I print $1 trillion in cash tomorrow and hand it out on the streets, suddenly your house and everything you own is worth less. You still have a house, I didn't take that from you. I just stole it's value.
No you didn't; my house is still as valuable as it was the day before, only the measure of it's value with that specific currency has changed. If the printed money was handed out equally "on the streets" all you did was cause inflation, my house now 'costs' more, as does everything else.
Comment Re:Nice. (Score 1) 295
m.facebook.com is the lightest of all (designed for the most basic mobile browsers) Though I still haven't gotten it to render in Lynx
Comment Re:DNS (Score 2, Informative) 239
I didn't RTFA, but it's not a new idea
It certainly is not, 1996 just called and wants their Universal Internet Numbers back (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICQ#UIN)
Comment The list (Score 5, Informative) 313
Canon Digital ELPH (2000)
Apple PowerBook G4 (Titanium) (2001)
Microsoft Windows XP (2001) / Apple Mac OS X (2000)
Apple iPod (2001)
TiVo Series2 (2002)
Motorola RAZR V3 (2003)
PalmOne Treo 600 / 650 (2003 / 2004)
Microsoft Xbox 360 (2005)
Apple iPhone (2007)
ASUS Eee PC 900 (2008)
