Why not? They are attacking and harassing the rest of us as part of their job. If I run into someone working for the NSA they're getting an earful at the very least. They should be ashamed of themselves, their children will be ashamed of them, they are the secret police of our generation.
You don't get deadlines until you get requirements. Once you have them you give them a quote. "If you want all of this it will be done by February 1st" if they complain, tell them what they'll have to cut out to meet their deadline. Once this processes is done EVERY CHANGE TO THE REQUIREMENTS COMES WITH A CHANGE IN THE DEADLINE. No matter how small it is, they send you a change, you send back your revised estimate. You keep track of all of these changes. When the projects complete you do a post-completion review and explain why you missed your original date, siting line by line all of their changes.
This is how it should always happen. The only real catch is you get into arguments with them about "what is a change?" and "We really meant this, not that" So it's important to have the requirements really nailed down. You can take short 1 day classes on these sorts of things, how to word stuff. You want to avoid requirements like "Make the billing application faster" Well... what does "Faster" mean? does 1% faster count? Do they mean LOAD faster? Or that the reports return data faster? You need to be very specific because they're rarely satisfied. Also, define what the billing application is... Very specifically. You really have no idea what they are doing on the business side and sometimes you can get all done and find out they are doing 90% of their work in a spreadsheet and then dumping it into your application. You could likely meet all your requirements just by doing away with the 10yr old lotus notes sheet some dead guy wrote back in the day.
That's just the first one that came up in Google. They do this all the time. although, I'd argue this kind of raid is a heck of a lot more legitimate as they are actually ripping people off by selling them fake stuff.
What TFS doesn't mention was that he died of esophageal cancer. And he got it after nine months of being at the power plant after the accident.
TEPCO claims the cancer is not related to the accident. Of course they would.
Because it's not. Cancer takes a long time to show up (decades) unless it's leukemia, which isn't what he had. If the works are going to start dieing from cancer (which they very well might) it'll start happening around 2020
Don't forget that whole part about the moon not being part of the united states...
and that bit about jailing more people than China.... actually we jail a larger percentage of our population than any government in the history of the world.
Well first of all, I was talking about Wisconsin, that's where I live to. Yes we have some of the weakest DUI laws in the country but you've clearly never gotten a DUI here. Neither have I, but I know people who have and it's no easy thing as you make it out to be. The people that get multiple offenses don't have licenses and don't have jobs. They just keep racking up tickets and not paying them. They spend a few months in jail, get out, re-offend. The ironic twist is often these people are such horrible alcoholics they rarely make it very far out of the bar parking lot before getting picked up. If you have no money, a $2k fine doesn't really matter to you.
However, if you've got a job that you need to drive to... and a mortgage to pay... i.e. you're a normal person... a first offense DUI is unmerciful. Of particular annoyance are court ordered drug counseling classes that you now have very few legal means to get to in our mostly rural state. You're basically either bumming rides weekly from friends or going back to jail for contempt. Oh, and don't forget your car insurance is going to drop you immediately and when you do get your license back are going to triple your rates for the next 7 years or so.
Florida's legislature can go fuck themselves. Gambling is either bad or it isn't. If the government is running the largest gambling operation in the country and then turns around an makes other types of gambling illegal, they're doing nothing more than eliminating competition.
My first computer was a Vic-20 (6502) and I wrote my first program on that when I was about 7 using a book my dad got me. I had the cassette tape drive, a modem (with no-where to call) some cartridges. Man, I thought that thing was magic. My friends had Atari's and stuff, but I could actually make my computer do stuff...
You're misconstruing "death by hit and run" with "hit and run" Most hit and runs are in parking lots and the other drivers inside the store. Also, in many states now, DUIs are considered so heinous the punishments in the "insane" category. It's not that hit and runs are lenient, it's that DUI offenses are treated ridiculously harsh. My state has one of the most lax DUI laws in the country and you still get a $2k fine, lose your license for at least a year and likely will get jail time.
And don't forget your cellphone. The problem is the weather service sends out stupid alerts I don't care about and I have no way to filter them. I have a weather radio at home and I never turn it on because it goes off at least once a week at 3am with "Thunderstorm warning!!!!" Ok, yea, as if the thunder and my panicking dog didn't already alert me to that. Then there's the flash flood warnings. I live on high ground, and work on the 6th floor of a highrise and even if I didn't what the hell am I supposed to do about either situation?
I want an alert for when I need to go in the basement, leave town, or get out my gun. Other than that, I don't want to hear about it.
The problem is that it's not a adversarial processes. The only side making an argument is the feds. So they get to present the government with whatever information they feel like and there's no-one there to point out they're lieing through their fucking teeth. All these judges should be run out on their ears for even hearing these cases.
What I build every day directly relates to the stats and commission of a large number of people. The problem is I'm given flawed methodology from the outset by the managers and above of these people. They basically do not have the analytical or even basic math skills required to be writing the requirements they are in charge of. When I point out all the problems with how they want to approach what we're doing, all I get in return is talk of scope creep and lines like "you're trying to fix today's problems when what we need done is the design for tomorrows system!" which I'm assuming they got out of a book or trade magazine because I hear it repeated enough. None of it really matters when they're doing something as idiotic as dividing every month by 30 to get a daily average. "well most months are 30 days" No, most months have 31... what about holidays and weekends? "See? It all averages out!" You and I have entirely different definitions of "average" and... whatever, I've written all my objections into the design requirements, please sign off that you're ignoring my warnings, thanks. "Done!" Again, your peoples numbers will be completely wrong...
Uh... Android IS Linux and people have been switching in droves. Not because of privacy issues, or stability or anything else geeks have been raving about for years... It's cheap, and it's easier to use. The fact that this is exactly what the mainstreams been screaming at the Linux community for over a decade while they didn't listen, while at the same time they screamed at Microsoft for the very things that are bringing them down now and they never listened is the height of irony.
It has nothing to do with "your time" it has to do with being on your feet and doing physical labor for 60hrs+, the physical toll that has on the body and trying to discourage employers from scheduling those kinds of shifts by making it cheaper to hire more people instead. Lastly, your employer isn't required to pay you overtime or give you comp time, but they certainly can if they so choose. Mine does. It's up to you to chose a job that fits your lifestyle. You have a white-collar job even if you don't really believe it. The people doing the manual labor in this country need special protections that you and I do not. What you and I find irritating, may injure or even kill someone working in a factory.
I think this article is exactly about my primary concern with the idea of a return to manufacturing in the US. Most people think China and Mexico's big advantage is cheap labor. But manufacturing's been in my family for a long time and many of my relatives run large plants. The hourly wage of the employees is a factor, but not nearly as important as many people think. The real problem is being able to scale operations up and down quickly. Can I hire 500 people and have them on the line within a month? Equally, can I let go 500 people just as fast? In mexico and china you certainly can. And with the size of their operations there they might be able to shift those people over to something else. In the US with all of our labor laws you can't do that sort of thing quickly and the loss of even a small contract for a manufacturing plant has devastating repercussions on the floor, with salesman scrambling to find new work quickly. Then when you're at your peak you're turning down contracts for fear of employing too many and having to let them go later. I'm not suggesting that or labor laws are bad on the whole, they are good for society just bad for manufacturing plants.
Being someone with a crazy beard myself, all I can say is... I'm sorry, both your mom and your wife like it and think it tickles. You don't really want me to disappoint them do you?
The head of the government's surveillance centre GCHQ, Sir Iain Lobban, says reconnaissance has taken place in cyberspace
Ok, after reading that I'm firmly convinced that this guy doesn't actually own a computer, use the internet and his concept of what networking is entirely based on watching the movie Tron a few too many times. He's probably paying his security experts six figures and at the end of each day they turn in reports full of details about light-cycles and occasionally they "capture" a glow in the dark frisbee at the local wallgreens and claim that they are some hackers identity disc.
I have accounts where the password is something useless like that. Those are on sites where the host forced me to create an account to get a coupon or something similarly idiotic to drive up their subscription rates. I suspect these hackers have a nice long list off accounts for the surname "yourself"
I didn't say it was difficult. My statement was that it was costly. Two different things.
It's too costly now. The real problem isn't what they are doing with this system at the moment. It may very well be that they are doing things we'd consider evil, but it's not like we're getting thrown into camps for complaining about it yet. The real problem is what they will eventually use this for. The un-checked power this gives the government is terrifying. It's like they're holding a gun to everyones head, just in case they turn out to be a terrorist and you're arguing that bullets are too expensive for them to shoot everyone. Well, prices are going to come down on these particular bullets, and future administrations may decided that terrorists aren't the only ones that deserve a bullet to the head.
Whenever there's a question of weather the government should have the ability to do something, the test is simple. Think of the worst, most despicable dictator/king/whatever in human history (this will be different for everyone based on their political ideology) then think "Would I be ok with that person being president and having the ability to do this...." Because, given enough time, we will elect a president that's that bad. Currently we seem to be stuck in a trend of electing barely competent idiots into office over and over again, but that wont last forever. It's only a matter of time before we get our own Stalin, Pol-pot or Hitler.
I call nonsense on you. Perfect example: Waterproofing. It would be trivial to make a waterproof (or at least water resistant) phone. Yet there are none. In fact, just having your phone in a overly humid environment will likely ruin it. This is clearly by design.
Who the fuck cares? Let the media report the wrong thing over and over... they already do that anyway. Then they wonder why their ratings are shit now.
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Note I don't say attacked or harassed.
Why not? They are attacking and harassing the rest of us as part of their job. If I run into someone working for the NSA they're getting an earful at the very least. They should be ashamed of themselves, their children will be ashamed of them, they are the secret police of our generation.
You don't get deadlines until you get requirements. Once you have them you give them a quote. "If you want all of this it will be done by February 1st" if they complain, tell them what they'll have to cut out to meet their deadline. Once this processes is done EVERY CHANGE TO THE REQUIREMENTS COMES WITH A CHANGE IN THE DEADLINE. No matter how small it is, they send you a change, you send back your revised estimate. You keep track of all of these changes. When the projects complete you do a post-completion review and explain why you missed your original date, siting line by line all of their changes.
This is how it should always happen. The only real catch is you get into arguments with them about "what is a change?" and "We really meant this, not that" So it's important to have the requirements really nailed down. You can take short 1 day classes on these sorts of things, how to word stuff. You want to avoid requirements like "Make the billing application faster" Well... what does "Faster" mean? does 1% faster count? Do they mean LOAD faster? Or that the reports return data faster? You need to be very specific because they're rarely satisfied. Also, define what the billing application is... Very specifically. You really have no idea what they are doing on the business side and sometimes you can get all done and find out they are doing 90% of their work in a spreadsheet and then dumping it into your application. You could likely meet all your requirements just by doing away with the 10yr old lotus notes sheet some dead guy wrote back in the day.
They do:
http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20100818/midtown/port-authority-raids-midtown-perfume-wholesaler-hawking-counterfeit-goods
That's just the first one that came up in Google. They do this all the time.
although, I'd argue this kind of raid is a heck of a lot more legitimate as they are actually ripping people off by selling them fake stuff.
What TFS doesn't mention was that he died of esophageal cancer. And he got it after nine months of being at the power plant after the accident.
TEPCO claims the cancer is not related to the accident. Of course they would.
Because it's not. Cancer takes a long time to show up (decades) unless it's leukemia, which isn't what he had. If the works are going to start dieing from cancer (which they very well might) it'll start happening around 2020
Don't forget that whole part about the moon not being part of the united states...
and that bit about jailing more people than China.... actually we jail a larger percentage of our population than any government in the history of the world.
Well first of all, I was talking about Wisconsin, that's where I live to. Yes we have some of the weakest DUI laws in the country but you've clearly never gotten a DUI here. Neither have I, but I know people who have and it's no easy thing as you make it out to be. The people that get multiple offenses don't have licenses and don't have jobs. They just keep racking up tickets and not paying them. They spend a few months in jail, get out, re-offend. The ironic twist is often these people are such horrible alcoholics they rarely make it very far out of the bar parking lot before getting picked up. If you have no money, a $2k fine doesn't really matter to you.
However, if you've got a job that you need to drive to... and a mortgage to pay... i.e. you're a normal person... a first offense DUI is unmerciful. Of particular annoyance are court ordered drug counseling classes that you now have very few legal means to get to in our mostly rural state. You're basically either bumming rides weekly from friends or going back to jail for contempt. Oh, and don't forget your car insurance is going to drop you immediately and when you do get your license back are going to triple your rates for the next 7 years or so.
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Florida's legislature can go fuck themselves. Gambling is either bad or it isn't. If the government is running the largest gambling operation in the country and then turns around an makes other types of gambling illegal, they're doing nothing more than eliminating competition.
My first computer was a Vic-20 (6502) and I wrote my first program on that when I was about 7 using a book my dad got me. I had the cassette tape drive, a modem (with no-where to call) some cartridges. Man, I thought that thing was magic. My friends had Atari's and stuff, but I could actually make my computer do stuff...
You're misconstruing "death by hit and run" with "hit and run" Most hit and runs are in parking lots and the other drivers inside the store. Also, in many states now, DUIs are considered so heinous the punishments in the "insane" category. It's not that hit and runs are lenient, it's that DUI offenses are treated ridiculously harsh. My state has one of the most lax DUI laws in the country and you still get a $2k fine, lose your license for at least a year and likely will get jail time.
And don't forget your cellphone. The problem is the weather service sends out stupid alerts I don't care about and I have no way to filter them. I have a weather radio at home and I never turn it on because it goes off at least once a week at 3am with "Thunderstorm warning!!!!" Ok, yea, as if the thunder and my panicking dog didn't already alert me to that. Then there's the flash flood warnings. I live on high ground, and work on the 6th floor of a highrise and even if I didn't what the hell am I supposed to do about either situation?
I want an alert for when I need to go in the basement, leave town, or get out my gun. Other than that, I don't want to hear about it.
The problem is that it's not a adversarial processes. The only side making an argument is the feds. So they get to present the government with whatever information they feel like and there's no-one there to point out they're lieing through their fucking teeth. All these judges should be run out on their ears for even hearing these cases.
You're making my point for me.
What I build every day directly relates to the stats and commission of a large number of people. The problem is I'm given flawed methodology from the outset by the managers and above of these people. They basically do not have the analytical or even basic math skills required to be writing the requirements they are in charge of. When I point out all the problems with how they want to approach what we're doing, all I get in return is talk of scope creep and lines like "you're trying to fix today's problems when what we need done is the design for tomorrows system!" which I'm assuming they got out of a book or trade magazine because I hear it repeated enough. None of it really matters when they're doing something as idiotic as dividing every month by 30 to get a daily average.
"well most months are 30 days"
No, most months have 31... what about holidays and weekends?
"See? It all averages out!"
You and I have entirely different definitions of "average" and... whatever, I've written all my objections into the design requirements, please sign off that you're ignoring my warnings, thanks.
"Done!"
Again, your peoples numbers will be completely wrong...
Uh... Android IS Linux and people have been switching in droves. Not because of privacy issues, or stability or anything else geeks have been raving about for years... It's cheap, and it's easier to use. The fact that this is exactly what the mainstreams been screaming at the Linux community for over a decade while they didn't listen, while at the same time they screamed at Microsoft for the very things that are bringing them down now and they never listened is the height of irony.
It has nothing to do with "your time" it has to do with being on your feet and doing physical labor for 60hrs+, the physical toll that has on the body and trying to discourage employers from scheduling those kinds of shifts by making it cheaper to hire more people instead. Lastly, your employer isn't required to pay you overtime or give you comp time, but they certainly can if they so choose. Mine does. It's up to you to chose a job that fits your lifestyle. You have a white-collar job even if you don't really believe it. The people doing the manual labor in this country need special protections that you and I do not. What you and I find irritating, may injure or even kill someone working in a factory.
Go work in a factory or in food service for a couple of weeks and you'll get it.
I think this article is exactly about my primary concern with the idea of a return to manufacturing in the US. Most people think China and Mexico's big advantage is cheap labor. But manufacturing's been in my family for a long time and many of my relatives run large plants. The hourly wage of the employees is a factor, but not nearly as important as many people think. The real problem is being able to scale operations up and down quickly. Can I hire 500 people and have them on the line within a month? Equally, can I let go 500 people just as fast? In mexico and china you certainly can. And with the size of their operations there they might be able to shift those people over to something else. In the US with all of our labor laws you can't do that sort of thing quickly and the loss of even a small contract for a manufacturing plant has devastating repercussions on the floor, with salesman scrambling to find new work quickly. Then when you're at your peak you're turning down contracts for fear of employing too many and having to let them go later. I'm not suggesting that or labor laws are bad on the whole, they are good for society just bad for manufacturing plants.
and a mother ;-)
Being someone with a crazy beard myself, all I can say is... I'm sorry, both your mom and your wife like it and think it tickles. You don't really want me to disappoint them do you?
The head of the government's surveillance centre GCHQ, Sir Iain Lobban, says reconnaissance has taken place in cyberspace
Ok, after reading that I'm firmly convinced that this guy doesn't actually own a computer, use the internet and his concept of what networking is entirely based on watching the movie Tron a few too many times. He's probably paying his security experts six figures and at the end of each day they turn in reports full of details about light-cycles and occasionally they "capture" a glow in the dark frisbee at the local wallgreens and claim that they are some hackers identity disc.
I have accounts where the password is something useless like that. Those are on sites where the host forced me to create an account to get a coupon or something similarly idiotic to drive up their subscription rates. I suspect these hackers have a nice long list off accounts for the surname "yourself"
I didn't say it was difficult. My statement was that it was costly. Two different things.
It's too costly now. The real problem isn't what they are doing with this system at the moment. It may very well be that they are doing things we'd consider evil, but it's not like we're getting thrown into camps for complaining about it yet. The real problem is what they will eventually use this for. The un-checked power this gives the government is terrifying. It's like they're holding a gun to everyones head, just in case they turn out to be a terrorist and you're arguing that bullets are too expensive for them to shoot everyone. Well, prices are going to come down on these particular bullets, and future administrations may decided that terrorists aren't the only ones that deserve a bullet to the head.
Whenever there's a question of weather the government should have the ability to do something, the test is simple. Think of the worst, most despicable dictator/king/whatever in human history (this will be different for everyone based on their political ideology) then think "Would I be ok with that person being president and having the ability to do this...." Because, given enough time, we will elect a president that's that bad. Currently we seem to be stuck in a trend of electing barely competent idiots into office over and over again, but that wont last forever. It's only a matter of time before we get our own Stalin, Pol-pot or Hitler.
Ok, that link should be at the top of this discussion. After reading that I've no interest in seeing him get out of jail.
I call nonsense on you. Perfect example: Waterproofing. It would be trivial to make a waterproof (or at least water resistant) phone. Yet there are none. In fact, just having your phone in a overly humid environment will likely ruin it. This is clearly by design.
Who the fuck cares? Let the media report the wrong thing over and over... they already do that anyway. Then they wonder why their ratings are shit now.