I suppose leaving them on longer makes them harder to remove once I do decide to remove them though.
From my own experience I would say no. Eventually the adhesive will lose its grip entirely and the sticker will slide off. From what I've seen, when that happens the sticker tends to take all the adhesive with it, leaving pretty much no mess.
If the vendors were clever, they'd probably chose an adhesive that would release right around when your warranty expires...
Are people really buying laptops that often that this becomes a significant time-suck? The last laptop I bought, I bought 8 or 9 years ago - and I still use it. I basically just let the stickers fall off on their own; over time they lost their hold and were lost to time.
Unfortunately the same applied to the rubber feet underneath the laptop; that was something that should have been affixed with a stronger adhesive. I'm still trying to find replacements for those little buggers...
After bankruptcy in September 2007, SCO and an affiliate filed schedules listing combined assets of $14.2 million and debt totaling $5.2 million
After almost three years of depreciation, I'm sure their assets are worth a lot. I have a few three-year old computers around, I'll happily sell them for cheese.
Colgan Air Inc., which operated the [crashed] flight where 50 people died], is proposing to download and analyze random cockpit recordings in the future as a means of enhancing safety and enforcing cockpit discipline. The union representing Colgan's roughly 480 pilots is dead set against it.
So you took an article in a conservative newspaper, where the author (surprise!) criticized the union and you accepted it at face value. If I showed you an article from the Washington Post that blamed our entire economic situation personally on George W Bush would you accept that too?
Although perhaps just as significant of a misstep in your assumption is taking the statement of "the union representing Colgan's roughly 480 pilots" at face value. You do realize that the Airline Pilots Association represents most of the carriers in the US and Canada, right? The matters they concern themselves with go far beyond just Colgan air. And for that matter, neither you nor your article came up with anything to support ALPA being anti-safety as you claim.
If you keep searching, you'll only find more of the same.
Unless, of course, you actually read what the union is saying, which is quite a bit different than what the "main stream media" keeps telling us is coming out of the union.
Pilots Unions endlessly fight tooth and nail against anything that would impinge upon the cockpit.
Just look at the news and see all the crazy things unions do that dont make sense (unless you are pro-union).
Can you provide an actual example of such an action? People love to go on with "my cousin's best friend's aunt's hairdresser's husband's kid's teacher heard a story about..." but yet they can't provide a source for such an event happening.
Whereas people who have had their eyes open in the last couple of decades have noticed that unions have consistently been losing power for roughly the last 20 years. Membership is down across the country (in part because they have so little power) and anti-union activities by employers have been damn near endorsed by the government.
Whoever the conservative hack was that wrote this summary came up with their little anti-union snipe in spite of the fact that the actual article didn't say anything about unions. If they want to go around bashing unions, they are welcomed to do so. However, as I've already said, they don't further the discussion when they resort to making shit up.
IMHO Unions are concerned that with more ubiquitous FDR and especially CVR data, it will be easier in a he-said-she-said environment post accident to defend their members' actions and cover any mistakes that aren't able to be proven otherwise.
If only you could back up your opinion with fact. But just like the hack who wrote the summary, you won't do any such thing.
Think of it this way: would YOU want a permanently mounted GPS in your car tied into your car's brains so the following happens?:
You started out trying to claim the unions to be somehow evil (in spite of not being able to offer any facts to support your notions). Now you are taking a stance in support of what you claim the unions are supporting. I guess it is no small wonder why you couldn't bother to log in to make your claim.
held back by a combination of aircraft manufacturers, pilots unions and the slow gears of government bureaucracy
Does the article support the notion of the pilots unions fighting against modernization of flight recorders? No, it doesn't. Does common sense support such a notion? No, it doesn't either.
Really, this is not a place for union bashing. If you have an axe to grind, so be it. But don't try to wield your axe at every conceived opportunity, or you'll end up making yourself look silly - as you just did.
They're in the middle of the desert. It's not like there are 50K people crammed into a tiny area.
Sure, there is a fair bit of space available, but for the popular acts (especially performing arts) the crowd density can get rather high. After all, Burning Man isn't just MOMA spread out randomly across the desert.
I went to DC on a school trip in 8th grade, and I didn't even know there was an FDR memorial. (Of course, this was a tightly structured and scheduled trip, so that'd probably be why.)
I don't know how recently you were in 8th grade, but the FDR memorial was only dedicated in 1997. So the current memorial might not have been installed when you were there...
On average we get attacked between 7000 and 9000 times per second
If they get attacked that often, it shouldn't take long for them to find and confirm security holes in Windows. Yet they have been noticeably slow in patching some of those holes; why don't they respond quicker?
In what possible way does an attack across the internet at Microsoft.com translate to exposing a flaw in the Windows operating system?
If you read the start of the summary:
When hackers crash Windows in the course of developing malware, they'll often accidentally agree to send the virus code straight to Microsoft
So the attack they are describing is actually the malware crap that is being sent in after windows crashes. Hence we aren't actually talking about www.microsoft.com being attacked - although one might expect that to be running windows server anyways - rather we're talking about random workstations around the world being attacked or used as guinea pigs.
On average we get attacked between 7000 and 9000 times per second
If they get attacked that often, it shouldn't take long for them to find and confirm security holes in Windows. Yet they have been noticeably slow in patching some of those holes; why don't they respond quicker?
It may be that the solution is to simply hire more nurses and the like and to cut down on the overtime that lead to the mistake. Again, it will cost more on the front end for labor, but at least the lawsuits will decrease.
Many parts of the US (and I suspect other parts of the world as well) are facing significant nursing shortages. Even if you have the money to hire more nurses, they simply aren't there to be hired. This problem is then magnified by the fact that nurses make more money as nurses than as nursing educators, so nursing schools around the country are unable to expand their classes due to lack of qualified instructors.
I don't make a habit of reading his blog, since it generally has the exact same stuff he posts here in his journal at slashdot - and I have no interest in setting up an account to post replies there.
That said, I checked the relevant post to see if I had mis-read it. On there, he starts by saying:
I am no longer working for Slashdot/Geeknet as of September 30. I am actively seeking new employment.
So apparently he is still working for them in some capacity through the end of next month. He didn't give any other insight into what happened. I also see that he still has the slashdot logo on his profile, I would think they would fix that once his time is up.
I guess we now know why a "how do we see if a terminated employee left logic bombs or gaping backdoors" article made the front page:)
I would think that their overlords would have been wise enough to restrict programmers' access to the most critical servers. But then again, they don't seem to distinguish between "development" and "production", so who knows.
And he is well aware that the economy is in the toilet right now (even if he thinks the fault for it belongs exclusively to Obama) so he isn't likely arrogant enough to expect that job offers will beat a path to his door.
Which is why I think he may have gotten shitcanned
I could see it as a layoff; slashdot doing some downsizing and trying to figure out WTF they are going to do in attempt to find some degree of relevance on the modern internet. But I rather doubt he was fired outright. Besides, having terms like that for termination sounds more like a layoff, or the firing of a protected union member. And we know which Pudge would prefer to be...
Or, since the election season is heating up, he's going into politics full-time.
I don't know why he wouldn't have done that in the previous cycle when we were electing a new POTUS. Unless he is so dedicated to stopping Obama (from not doing anything) that he wants to invest all his time, effort, and resources into unseating incumbent democrats. But I think he could have accomplished that better by investing more effort into preventing Obama from being elected in the first place.
FYI, he was either fired from Slashdot (good riddance!)
I don't know why they would fire him before the fact. I have seen him saying he is no longer working with them after September 30; why would they keep him on the payroll for almost two months? On the other hand, he certainly isn't saying anything about it...
or quit without another job lined up two weeks ago
He may be a lot of things that I wouldn't consider to be complimentary, but I don't think he is genuinely stupid. I suspect that like most homo sapien sapiens, he is interested deeply in self-preservation. So I don't see him jumping ship voluntarily without an immediate plan for a follow-up. And he is well aware that the economy is in the toilet right now (even if he thinks the fault for it belongs exclusively to Obama) so he isn't likely arrogant enough to expect that job offers will beat a path to his door.
A good IT department for a sizable company should have some technicians and some administrators. There is rarely - if ever - reason for technicians to have root access to servers and other administrative rights. Your admins should themselves be vetted well enough to not have to worry about them compromising your network after the fact.
Come on, really. How many games gave you the opportunity to spend half a day trying to get out of a well, only to find half a Reece's Pieces Candy and fall into another well? That was cutting edge gaming, man! It was all the plot elements of Pac-Man and Space Invaders wrapped into one easy-to-play package!
That said, I just 26 in June and was under 15 when I joined Slashdot
12 years ago the internet was a different place than it is now, even if slashdot hasn't improved much in that time frame. Most kids under 16 likely see the internet as "facebook" and "everything else"; and slashdot doesn't compete well in that "everything else" category for the under-15 crowd.
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I won't go into my age when Win95 came out. I will say that I knew some people who were - in comparison to myself - early adopters of the system. However I also recall the first thing they showed me in Win95 was how to boot it to the command prompt, skipping the overhead of the GUI completely. Because after all, "real men" did their work at the command prompt or through DOS programs anyways.
I also remember being puzzled at the thought of running games in Win95 - why would I ever want to run something as great as Doom in a window? That seemed like sacrilege, futility, or both. However I did have one game fairly early that benefitted from Win95 - Warcraft2. While WC2 on its own did not need Win95, the map editor pretty much did. Some of us recall the map editor could run in Win3.1 with WinG and Win32s, but those were not easy to find. I remember many a long hour on BBSes with 14.4 dial-up looking through file repositories for "WinG" and finding long lists of "Wing Commander this" and "Wing Commander that".
I do remember wishing I had something better than Netscape on Win 3.11 w/ AOL dialup for surfing however.
Count yourself lucky. My first browser in windows was the Prodigy browser, on a 2400baud modem. Later I upgraded to a 14.4 - then eventually a 28.8 - and got access through the local university; browsing with a very early mosaic browser.
And don't get me started on gopher holes or telnet or ftp sites.
Of course if you were alive then, you've probably seen the commercials.
You don't honestly think that slashdot is in any way relevant to kids 15 and under, do you? If we even said "old enough to remember seeing the commercials" and graciously said that someone 5 years old at the time might remember them, that would mean you expect slashdot to have relevance to the 20-and-under set.
Although I honestly don't remember the commercials, and Windows 95 was the first OS I bought (or pirated? I don't remember now) on CD. I do recall that 95 was the first windows release that actually required you to enter a registration key at installation; 3.1 would graciously let you "enter it later".
That story was published in the Wall Street Journal two days ago. I was going to submit it, but my experience tells me I'm better off wadding an article up and spitting it in the general direction of slashdot if I want to see it on the front page.
So now we see "the other day's news that mattered two days ago".
really? cause I can't remember a day where there wasn't some liberal politician crying about fox news.
There is a significant difference between individual politicians complaining about one biased network and basing a party platform around the concept of "vast liberal media conspiracies".
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I suppose leaving them on longer makes them harder to remove once I do decide to remove them though.
From my own experience I would say no. Eventually the adhesive will lose its grip entirely and the sticker will slide off. From what I've seen, when that happens the sticker tends to take all the adhesive with it, leaving pretty much no mess.
If the vendors were clever, they'd probably chose an adhesive that would release right around when your warranty expires...
Are people really buying laptops that often that this becomes a significant time-suck? The last laptop I bought, I bought 8 or 9 years ago - and I still use it. I basically just let the stickers fall off on their own; over time they lost their hold and were lost to time.
Unfortunately the same applied to the rubber feet underneath the laptop; that was something that should have been affixed with a stronger adhesive. I'm still trying to find replacements for those little buggers...
After bankruptcy in September 2007, SCO and an affiliate filed schedules listing combined assets of $14.2 million and debt totaling $5.2 million
After almost three years of depreciation, I'm sure their assets are worth a lot. I have a few three-year old computers around, I'll happily sell them for cheese.
http://online.wsj.com/article/NA_WSJ_PUB:SB124201244946205809.html
Colgan Air Inc., which operated the [crashed] flight where 50 people died], is proposing to download and analyze random cockpit recordings in the future as a means of enhancing safety and enforcing cockpit discipline. The union representing Colgan's roughly 480 pilots is dead set against it.
So you took an article in a conservative newspaper, where the author (surprise!) criticized the union and you accepted it at face value. If I showed you an article from the Washington Post that blamed our entire economic situation personally on George W Bush would you accept that too?
Although perhaps just as significant of a misstep in your assumption is taking the statement of "the union representing Colgan's roughly 480 pilots" at face value. You do realize that the Airline Pilots Association represents most of the carriers in the US and Canada, right? The matters they concern themselves with go far beyond just Colgan air. And for that matter, neither you nor your article came up with anything to support ALPA being anti-safety as you claim.
If you keep searching, you'll only find more of the same.
Unless, of course, you actually read what the union is saying, which is quite a bit different than what the "main stream media" keeps telling us is coming out of the union.
Pilots Unions endlessly fight tooth and nail against anything that would impinge upon the cockpit.
Wrong, but thanks for playing.
Just look at the news and see all the crazy things unions do that dont make sense (unless you are pro-union).
Can you provide an actual example of such an action? People love to go on with "my cousin's best friend's aunt's hairdresser's husband's kid's teacher heard a story about ..." but yet they can't provide a source for such an event happening.
Whereas people who have had their eyes open in the last couple of decades have noticed that unions have consistently been losing power for roughly the last 20 years. Membership is down across the country (in part because they have so little power) and anti-union activities by employers have been damn near endorsed by the government.
Whoever the conservative hack was that wrote this summary came up with their little anti-union snipe in spite of the fact that the actual article didn't say anything about unions. If they want to go around bashing unions, they are welcomed to do so. However, as I've already said, they don't further the discussion when they resort to making shit up.
IMHO Unions are concerned that with more ubiquitous FDR and especially CVR data, it will be easier in a he-said-she-said environment post accident to defend their members' actions and cover any mistakes that aren't able to be proven otherwise.
If only you could back up your opinion with fact. But just like the hack who wrote the summary, you won't do any such thing.
Think of it this way: would YOU want a permanently mounted GPS in your car tied into your car's brains so the following happens?:
You started out trying to claim the unions to be somehow evil (in spite of not being able to offer any facts to support your notions). Now you are taking a stance in support of what you claim the unions are supporting. I guess it is no small wonder why you couldn't bother to log in to make your claim.
held back by a combination of aircraft manufacturers, pilots unions and the slow gears of government bureaucracy
Does the article support the notion of the pilots unions fighting against modernization of flight recorders? No, it doesn't. Does common sense support such a notion? No, it doesn't either.
Really, this is not a place for union bashing. If you have an axe to grind, so be it. But don't try to wield your axe at every conceived opportunity, or you'll end up making yourself look silly - as you just did.
They're in the middle of the desert. It's not like there are 50K people crammed into a tiny area.
Sure, there is a fair bit of space available, but for the popular acts (especially performing arts) the crowd density can get rather high. After all, Burning Man isn't just MOMA spread out randomly across the desert.
What about encryption? How do I know my call is safe, and do I trust the operator of these devices?
In a crowd of 50,000 people I'm not sure that call safety and call security are the most reasonable things to be concerned about...
The person did not machine the calculator out of aluminum, only the body for it.
I went to DC on a school trip in 8th grade, and I didn't even know there was an FDR memorial. (Of course, this was a tightly structured and scheduled trip, so that'd probably be why.)
I don't know how recently you were in 8th grade, but the FDR memorial was only dedicated in 1997. So the current memorial might not have been installed when you were there...
On average we get attacked between 7000 and 9000 times per second
If they get attacked that often, it shouldn't take long for them to find and confirm security holes in Windows. Yet they have been noticeably slow in patching some of those holes; why don't they respond quicker?
In what possible way does an attack across the internet at Microsoft.com translate to exposing a flaw in the Windows operating system?
If you read the start of the summary:
When hackers crash Windows in the course of developing malware, they'll often accidentally agree to send the virus code straight to Microsoft
So the attack they are describing is actually the malware crap that is being sent in after windows crashes. Hence we aren't actually talking about www.microsoft.com being attacked - although one might expect that to be running windows server anyways - rather we're talking about random workstations around the world being attacked or used as guinea pigs.
On average we get attacked between 7000 and 9000 times per second
If they get attacked that often, it shouldn't take long for them to find and confirm security holes in Windows. Yet they have been noticeably slow in patching some of those holes; why don't they respond quicker?
It may be that the solution is to simply hire more nurses and the like and to cut down on the overtime that lead to the mistake. Again, it will cost more on the front end for labor, but at least the lawsuits will decrease.
Many parts of the US (and I suspect other parts of the world as well) are facing significant nursing shortages. Even if you have the money to hire more nurses, they simply aren't there to be hired. This problem is then magnified by the fact that nurses make more money as nurses than as nursing educators, so nursing schools around the country are unable to expand their classes due to lack of qualified instructors.
I think you should check his blog.
I don't make a habit of reading his blog, since it generally has the exact same stuff he posts here in his journal at slashdot - and I have no interest in setting up an account to post replies there.
That said, I checked the relevant post to see if I had mis-read it. On there, he starts by saying:
I am no longer working for Slashdot/Geeknet as of September 30. I am actively seeking new employment.
So apparently he is still working for them in some capacity through the end of next month. He didn't give any other insight into what happened. I also see that he still has the slashdot logo on his profile, I would think they would fix that once his time is up.
I guess we now know why a "how do we see if a terminated employee left logic bombs or gaping backdoors" article made the front page :)
I would think that their overlords would have been wise enough to restrict programmers' access to the most critical servers. But then again, they don't seem to distinguish between "development" and "production", so who knows.
And he is well aware that the economy is in the toilet right now (even if he thinks the fault for it belongs exclusively to Obama) so he isn't likely arrogant enough to expect that job offers will beat a path to his door.
Which is why I think he may have gotten shitcanned
I could see it as a layoff; slashdot doing some downsizing and trying to figure out WTF they are going to do in attempt to find some degree of relevance on the modern internet. But I rather doubt he was fired outright. Besides, having terms like that for termination sounds more like a layoff, or the firing of a protected union member. And we know which Pudge would prefer to be...
Or, since the election season is heating up, he's going into politics full-time.
I don't know why he wouldn't have done that in the previous cycle when we were electing a new POTUS. Unless he is so dedicated to stopping Obama (from not doing anything) that he wants to invest all his time, effort, and resources into unseating incumbent democrats. But I think he could have accomplished that better by investing more effort into preventing Obama from being elected in the first place.
FYI, he was either fired from Slashdot (good riddance!)
I don't know why they would fire him before the fact. I have seen him saying he is no longer working with them after September 30; why would they keep him on the payroll for almost two months? On the other hand, he certainly isn't saying anything about it...
or quit without another job lined up two weeks ago
He may be a lot of things that I wouldn't consider to be complimentary, but I don't think he is genuinely stupid. I suspect that like most homo sapien sapiens, he is interested deeply in self-preservation. So I don't see him jumping ship voluntarily without an immediate plan for a follow-up. And he is well aware that the economy is in the toilet right now (even if he thinks the fault for it belongs exclusively to Obama) so he isn't likely arrogant enough to expect that job offers will beat a path to his door.
A good IT department for a sizable company should have some technicians and some administrators. There is rarely - if ever - reason for technicians to have root access to servers and other administrative rights. Your admins should themselves be vetted well enough to not have to worry about them compromising your network after the fact.
...and that the game sucked
Come on, really. How many games gave you the opportunity to spend half a day trying to get out of a well, only to find half a Reece's Pieces Candy and fall into another well? That was cutting edge gaming, man! It was all the plot elements of Pac-Man and Space Invaders wrapped into one easy-to-play package!
That said, I just 26 in June and was under 15 when I joined Slashdot
12 years ago the internet was a different place than it is now, even if slashdot hasn't improved much in that time frame. Most kids under 16 likely see the internet as "facebook" and "everything else"; and slashdot doesn't compete well in that "everything else" category for the under-15 crowd.
I also remember being puzzled at the thought of running games in Win95 - why would I ever want to run something as great as Doom in a window? That seemed like sacrilege, futility, or both. However I did have one game fairly early that benefitted from Win95 - Warcraft2. While WC2 on its own did not need Win95, the map editor pretty much did. Some of us recall the map editor could run in Win3.1 with WinG and Win32s, but those were not easy to find. I remember many a long hour on BBSes with 14.4 dial-up looking through file repositories for "WinG" and finding long lists of "Wing Commander this" and "Wing Commander that".
I do remember wishing I had something better than Netscape on Win 3.11 w/ AOL dialup for surfing however.
Count yourself lucky. My first browser in windows was the Prodigy browser, on a 2400baud modem. Later I upgraded to a 14.4 - then eventually a 28.8 - and got access through the local university; browsing with a very early mosaic browser.
And don't get me started on gopher holes or telnet or ftp sites.
Of course if you were alive then, you've probably seen the commercials.
You don't honestly think that slashdot is in any way relevant to kids 15 and under, do you? If we even said "old enough to remember seeing the commercials" and graciously said that someone 5 years old at the time might remember them, that would mean you expect slashdot to have relevance to the 20-and-under set.
Although I honestly don't remember the commercials, and Windows 95 was the first OS I bought (or pirated? I don't remember now) on CD. I do recall that 95 was the first windows release that actually required you to enter a registration key at installation; 3.1 would graciously let you "enter it later".
That story was published in the Wall Street Journal two days ago. I was going to submit it, but my experience tells me I'm better off wadding an article up and spitting it in the general direction of slashdot if I want to see it on the front page.
So now we see "the other day's news that mattered two days ago".
really? cause I can't remember a day where there wasn't some liberal politician crying about fox news.
There is a significant difference between individual politicians complaining about one biased network and basing a party platform around the concept of "vast liberal media conspiracies".
... but how many cars can even idle for 9 days straight? I would think most cars in the jam would have run out of gas before day 9 came and went.
A google search for "North Korea" +Twitter gives:http://twitter.com/kcna_dprk which redirects to http://twitter.com/suspended. Apparently Great Leader will need to find another way to share his great wisdom.
which generally isn't in the playbook of the party he ran under - although it is very much in the playbook of the other party.
What other party? Trying to draw a meaningful distinction between the lying democans and the lying republicrats is the joke.
While the political platforms of the two parties have reached a point of being nearly interchangeable, the tactics still have a slight distinction.