And that's why you have to be your own advocate. If they won't tell you what your working hours are when you start the job, don't take it. Once you've put in your time, go home. If you are halfway decent at your job, you don't need to work extra hours.
Rigid fellow aren't ya? Not all careers can be fit into an 8 hour day. Maybe if you work at McDonald's, or the mailroom, or are a low level code monkey.
I put in much extra time. Field trips, prep for field trips. Meetings and prep for meetings - when you have people coming from across the country for big meetings, they happen whether you are ready or not. Even business or post meeting dinners, which I didn't consider work, but you probably would.
Had nothing to do with my competency - in fact, the biggest problem was high demand for me.
It's a different world, for different people. Your rigid world would drive many of us to distraction out of boredom.
Sumpin's wrong with your setup then. For me, a brand new story is white text on a dark red border, after that, it's white on green, and black story text.
Surface pros come with Windows 10 pro, none of that home users "spying"
Zeezuz, are wyou that naieve?
I've made several W10 Pro installations, already. Express setup includes a key logger, website spying, allowing people who you allow access to your network to share your password with everyone on their social network, and a couple other things I had to turn off on all of them.
Keylogger and what I call the Free pdophile access are the most egregious, and unforgivable. And anyone who would install a keylogger is capable of doing anything.
You're allowed to have your own opinion. Your facts are royally bitched up, totally incorrect.
Adding 100+ domains to your router's firewall is only "trivial to mitigate" for geeks. >99% of Windows 10 users are being spied on, even if they think they turned the settings off.
Id use a linux hardware firewall if I were you, otherwise, yeah a gazillion additions to a firewall is hardly trivial, and of course they will add more with every forced update.
Windows 10 is really not that bad at all. I use it on my gaming system.
It's not "bad", I have it on a few computers now.
The 'spyware' piece is trivial to mitigate,
If by trivial, you mean turning off the things they allow you to turn off, you do know they continue to collect data. A few ways to mitigate that. One is to use a non microsoft hardware firewall, to block them, or like I'm doing with a scrifical computer, I have only the 3 or four programs I need on it. No social, no email, no internet use other than logs the program sends out. Third way is I have it on several computers on a airgapped (by miles) networked system.
and you do not have to install updates depending on the version you get. You can defer them with Pro.
It's pretty sad when you have to buy the enterprise version to not be forced to do updates. BTW, I'm set to defer, but they update when tehy feel like it anyhow.
It's a pity, If it were based on the operating system working well, and the return to easy system maintenance, I'd rate it at arounda solid A+.
With their invasive aspects and forced updates, that gets a 0, so the OS gets 49 percent overall.
Because if there is one thing that tells us truth, integrity, and veracity, it's when billionaires tell people making 30 K a year that they too expensive to pay.
Just imagine how the stockholders can be serviced when the salary of those CEO's goes away. Every penny counts, and that is capitalism, and the invisible hand of the free market in action.
It would take a socialist to try to say that CEO's are somehow privileged to suck at the stockholders teat.
As an I.T. support contractor for the last ten years, my contracts prohibits me from working overtime. I'm only allowed to work from Monday through Friday, during regular business hours. Which is fine with me.
We have that too, except we're only allowed to charge for 40 hours. How much we work is a "gray" area.
That works as long as you don't need to train your staff. But, well, you know how managers are. "Burger joint, IT security consulting, I can manage anything, what's the difference anyway?"
That should be marked insightful or informative.
Modern business and elsewhere now wants MBA's as managers. No experience needed in the working field. My last manager had absolutely no idea about what I did, and very little about my co-workers. During one of our meetings I told him that I could bullshit him into anything, and he'd have no idea ifI was being truthful or not.
He was a nice enough guy, but having no idea about how or what we did was a disaster.
Just a friendly reminder that Nerval's Lobster is a Dice shill account, and posts articles for Dice.com. Oh, and that editors either refuse to, or are banned from, putting a disclaimer that Dice.com is owned by Dice Holdings, Inc., the parent company of Slashdot, as they once would when posting a link to "sister" sites prior to being purchased by Dice.
There's like this thing. It's called Who Gives a Damn? If Dice wants to submit a story, then fine. And if they want to say its from Nerval's Lobster, and that pisses you off, then start over at the beginning of the italicized part.
It's a story, its kinda interesting. Bitching about the source is a little silly, especially if it isn't about Dice, but a subject people might be interested in.
I'm glad to live in a somewhat less insane area than SF, but yes moving to the country would be a nice option if you can make a living without commuting. I've got six months on contract and then I'm ready to run away from this madness at least long enough to clear my head and take a fresh approach.
I am super lucky to live just outside the US's "smallest Metropolitan area". I have the conveniences of the city, but can drive 15 miles north, and be in an area that resembles wilderness. We even have an anomalous area, a small valley on top of a mountain that gets weather similar to the Algonquin in Canada.
Just got back from Jeepin' around there today. Sometimes it's like blood pressure medicine for me.
You know you can apply that stupid 'what could ever go wrong' meme to absolutely everything, right? People with actual brains know there are risks and benefits to everything, and it just becomes a matter of risk vs reward. And if you don't think there is any reward to banking and stock trading on the internet, clearly you have not thought about it at all.
Do you have a point?
Of course there are rewards. You can do things really really quickly and with software game the system very well indeed. When the software calls, you dump it all make a few cents or millions and move on. Or buy, whatever the software tells you
And you can use your smartphone to do your banking, and leave you more time to read facebook. That's priceless.
Of course, the bad guys might end up bringing the banks down that way, or you might get taxed on mysterious gains and transactions you never knew you had, but hey, Facebook!
What really surprises me is that I've managed some really decent photos with my phone with some work and creativity. The camera couldn't have less going for it in terms of optics, sensor size, etc., and I find it amazing that I can produce anything even approaching decent with it. A real camera is it not, but still, those things have come a very long way.
Very good point. Creativity is the factor.
Back in school, my Photography prof used to make incredible images with a Diana Camera, which ranks up there with the worst cameras ever made. plastic lenses, light leaks. Horrible thing. It managed to put almost every abberation into one device.
I should have put in my post about how a good photographer can make good photos with just about anything.
The smartphones today feature a decent tonal range, certainly a high MP value. But those lenses! That tiny sensor requires seriously tiny and short focal length lenses, with all their problems.
the only thing pay TV is good for is sports, so a smart TV will let you watch content without buying a set top box like a roku or a chromecast stick. you think google, amazon and roku don't track what you watch and sell it?
Other than an "enhanced advertising experience", and perhaps viewing some web content, what does a smart TV actually give as a service?
Computer like features. It's not all bad. When the wife and I want some completely mindless entertainment, we'll watch youtube stupid pet videos on the tv. And Comcast knows what we watch as part of their whole hd system. That has the upside of them troubleshooting from the office. I've had a couple hd boxes go bad, and we troubleshot it over the phone at my convenience, and got a new box in a couple hours. That beats the old take a day of vacation and wait around the house for the technician all morning paradigm.
But ad serving from the smartTV? If it were being done on mine, we wouldn't be getting all those half dead old people advertisements and the leaky women, stopped up men and sue someone ads that all creep me out.
i get all kinds of lingerie and bra ads on my chrome browser because my wife surfs this stuff at home on safari. sometimes big fredricks of hollywood ads at work because i bought something a year ago and get emails into my gmail every other day
I get some women's clothing advertisements, and I have no idea what prompted that. I must have bought something from some group who has another business line.
Regardless, its harmless, and the ladies look nice, so I let it through.
Or is it..... Will some group decide I'm a cross dresser? That would be funny. Old Ol looks a tad like a hairy Neanderthal. Dressing that hot mess up like a wimmin would definitely scare off the normal folk.
It would be nice to see customers rejecting this kind of practice early on, rather than waiting for it to become so bad and widespread that government finally sees an opportunity (yet one more thing to regulate!) and steps in.
You kind of nailed the issue, but how do you figure that the customer can foil the sociopath? Disliking regulations is good and all, but the sociopaths don't need no stinking EULA, they'll just collect it secretly if they want too. Does the solution have to be a 1985 Television and over-the-air reception?
I have pretty much the same cynical outlook you do towards this stuff, but 90 percent of people don't, and a sizable group has their cynicism misplaced in moon landing and rainbow conspiracies.
And that's the problem - sociopaths won't stop until it hurts them personally. It's why the wet dream of libertarians and some republicans doesn't work. Those ideals only exist in a universe where all are honest.
Maybe all these hacks weren't related to mobile devices, but I'm really surprised anyone would use their mobile phone for banking until there are none of these kinds of issues.
Why, People use their mobile devices while they have sex.
We have to face it, humanity is welded to those little gaddamned things.
It seems like just what is needed in places like San Francisco. When space is so precious many people need an option that provides less space. The communal space is good to add to the mix so people don't get cabin fever being cooped up in a tiny box for too long without social interaction.
Make certin you get your meningitus vaccines.
Personally, if was a choice between insane rents and living like a college freshman in a dorm, I'd move to the country.
They are wise not to buy them. I have never made a worse financial decision in my life than becoming a home owner, I discourage everyone I meet from ever purchasing real estate. Renting an inexpensive place and spending the difference on hard drugs is a far better idea.
While I did buy a house and paid it off early, so now I don't have a monthly payment, so did well, there are many reasons that home ownership is not the nirvana that the real estate market makes it out to be.
A big one is maintenance. The amount of maintenance on a home is pretty striking, unless you want it to look like these well kept places http://agonistica.com/wp-conte...
And many people have been talked into foolishly spending way more than they can afford by grifters ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H real estate agents. I fired one who refused to stop showing me houses that were well beyond what I told her I would pay, then said I was being foolish for not spending as much on a house as I could and not using using creative financing. Mr or Mrs Real Estate agent is not your friend.
There are many cases where owning your own home is actually a smarter move. Be prepared for the hypnotized to jump on this for my heresy.
College dorms run pretty well but there is a good reason why. Any problems in a dorm can bring down the wrath of Khan upon you.
This is what mommy and daddy are for. A quick call home about that mean person in the next room, and mommy and daddy will swoop in like Kahn, demanding the mean person and the building super be taken out and shot for upsetting little precious. They'll stick around another day so they can go to where the kid works, and demand that they get a promotion because like, Precious showed up on time for a month, and should now be in management.
Looks like another example of millennial children not knowing how to grow up. We'll just pretend we're in college again. Won't it be great? Gotta text mommy and dad about this!
In the old days they would hire some kid out of high school and TRAIN HIM. What the hell happened to that?
Are you under the impression that IT is like operating a drill press on an assembly line or something? If so, no wonder you're scared of being outsourced.
Are you under the impression that IT springs out of the ocean fully formed like Venus, and is ready to tackle all problems with no experience whatsoever?
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And that's why you have to be your own advocate. If they won't tell you what your working hours are when you start the job, don't take it. Once you've put in your time, go home. If you are halfway decent at your job, you don't need to work extra hours.
Rigid fellow aren't ya? Not all careers can be fit into an 8 hour day. Maybe if you work at McDonald's, or the mailroom, or are a low level code monkey.
I put in much extra time. Field trips, prep for field trips. Meetings and prep for meetings - when you have people coming from across the country for big meetings, they happen whether you are ready or not. Even business or post meeting dinners, which I didn't consider work, but you probably would.
Had nothing to do with my competency - in fact, the biggest problem was high demand for me.
It's a different world, for different people. Your rigid world would drive many of us to distraction out of boredom.
Sumpin's wrong with your setup then. For me, a brand new story is white text on a dark red border, after that, it's white on green, and black story text.
Surface pros come with Windows 10 pro, none of that home users "spying"
Zeezuz, are wyou that naieve?
I've made several W10 Pro installations, already. Express setup includes a key logger, website spying, allowing people who you allow access to your network to share your password with everyone on their social network, and a couple other things I had to turn off on all of them.
Keylogger and what I call the Free pdophile access are the most egregious, and unforgivable. And anyone who would install a keylogger is capable of doing anything. You're allowed to have your own opinion. Your facts are royally bitched up, totally incorrect.
Adding 100+ domains to your router's firewall is only "trivial to mitigate" for geeks. >99% of Windows 10 users are being spied on, even if they think they turned the settings off.
Id use a linux hardware firewall if I were you, otherwise, yeah a gazillion additions to a firewall is hardly trivial, and of course they will add more with every forced update.
Windows 10 is really not that bad at all. I use it on my gaming system.
It's not "bad", I have it on a few computers now.
The 'spyware' piece is trivial to mitigate,
If by trivial, you mean turning off the things they allow you to turn off, you do know they continue to collect data. A few ways to mitigate that. One is to use a non microsoft hardware firewall, to block them, or like I'm doing with a scrifical computer, I have only the 3 or four programs I need on it. No social, no email, no internet use other than logs the program sends out. Third way is I have it on several computers on a airgapped (by miles) networked system.
and you do not have to install updates depending on the version you get. You can defer them with Pro.
It's pretty sad when you have to buy the enterprise version to not be forced to do updates. BTW, I'm set to defer, but they update when tehy feel like it anyhow.
It's a pity, If it were based on the operating system working well, and the return to easy system maintenance, I'd rate it at arounda solid A+.
With their invasive aspects and forced updates, that gets a 0, so the OS gets 49 percent overall.
Not when the source holds a status of privilege above other sources and the connection is not disclosed.
So what? You have a problem with Nerval's lobster don't read it's postings, you kno how to avoid getting all pissed about it.
Your bitching about it is just like the people bitching "Why is this even on Slashdot?" Its here because it's here.
Sucks to not have absolute control over what is written eh?
Just imagine how the stockholders can be serviced when the salary of those CEO's goes away. Every penny counts, and that is capitalism, and the invisible hand of the free market in action.
It would take a socialist to try to say that CEO's are somehow privileged to suck at the stockholders teat.
As an I.T. support contractor for the last ten years, my contracts prohibits me from working overtime. I'm only allowed to work from Monday through Friday, during regular business hours. Which is fine with me.
We have that too, except we're only allowed to charge for 40 hours. How much we work is a "gray" area.
That works as long as you don't need to train your staff. But, well, you know how managers are. "Burger joint, IT security consulting, I can manage anything, what's the difference anyway?"
That should be marked insightful or informative.
Modern business and elsewhere now wants MBA's as managers. No experience needed in the working field. My last manager had absolutely no idea about what I did, and very little about my co-workers. During one of our meetings I told him that I could bullshit him into anything, and he'd have no idea ifI was being truthful or not.
He was a nice enough guy, but having no idea about how or what we did was a disaster.
Just a friendly reminder that Nerval's Lobster is a Dice shill account, and posts articles for Dice.com. Oh, and that editors either refuse to, or are banned from, putting a disclaimer that Dice.com is owned by Dice Holdings, Inc., the parent company of Slashdot, as they once would when posting a link to "sister" sites prior to being purchased by Dice.
There's like this thing. It's called Who Gives a Damn? If Dice wants to submit a story, then fine. And if they want to say its from Nerval's Lobster, and that pisses you off, then start over at the beginning of the italicized part.
It's a story, its kinda interesting. Bitching about the source is a little silly, especially if it isn't about Dice, but a subject people might be interested in.
When a story is first posted, it's in red. Now be good boys, and take your blood pressure meds.
I'm glad to live in a somewhat less insane area than SF, but yes moving to the country would be a nice option if you can make a living without commuting. I've got six months on contract and then I'm ready to run away from this madness at least long enough to clear my head and take a fresh approach.
I am super lucky to live just outside the US's "smallest Metropolitan area". I have the conveniences of the city, but can drive 15 miles north, and be in an area that resembles wilderness. We even have an anomalous area, a small valley on top of a mountain that gets weather similar to the Algonquin in Canada.
Just got back from Jeepin' around there today. Sometimes it's like blood pressure medicine for me.
You know you can apply that stupid 'what could ever go wrong' meme to absolutely everything, right? People with actual brains know there are risks and benefits to everything, and it just becomes a matter of risk vs reward. And if you don't think there is any reward to banking and stock trading on the internet, clearly you have not thought about it at all.
Do you have a point?
Of course there are rewards. You can do things really really quickly and with software game the system very well indeed. When the software calls, you dump it all make a few cents or millions and move on. Or buy, whatever the software tells you
And you can use your smartphone to do your banking, and leave you more time to read facebook. That's priceless.
Of course, the bad guys might end up bringing the banks down that way, or you might get taxed on mysterious gains and transactions you never knew you had, but hey, Facebook!
What really surprises me is that I've managed some really decent photos with my phone with some work and creativity. The camera couldn't have less going for it in terms of optics, sensor size, etc., and I find it amazing that I can produce anything even approaching decent with it. A real camera is it not, but still, those things have come a very long way.
Very good point. Creativity is the factor.
Back in school, my Photography prof used to make incredible images with a Diana Camera, which ranks up there with the worst cameras ever made. plastic lenses, light leaks. Horrible thing. It managed to put almost every abberation into one device.
I should have put in my post about how a good photographer can make good photos with just about anything.
The smartphones today feature a decent tonal range, certainly a high MP value. But those lenses! That tiny sensor requires seriously tiny and short focal length lenses, with all their problems.
the only thing pay TV is good for is sports, so a smart TV will let you watch content without buying a set top box like a roku or a chromecast stick. you think google, amazon and roku don't track what you watch and sell it?
HBO?
Other than an "enhanced advertising experience", and perhaps viewing some web content, what does a smart TV actually give as a service?
Computer like features. It's not all bad. When the wife and I want some completely mindless entertainment, we'll watch youtube stupid pet videos on the tv. And Comcast knows what we watch as part of their whole hd system. That has the upside of them troubleshooting from the office. I've had a couple hd boxes go bad, and we troubleshot it over the phone at my convenience, and got a new box in a couple hours. That beats the old take a day of vacation and wait around the house for the technician all morning paradigm.
But ad serving from the smartTV? If it were being done on mine, we wouldn't be getting all those half dead old people advertisements and the leaky women, stopped up men and sue someone ads that all creep me out.
i get all kinds of lingerie and bra ads on my chrome browser because my wife surfs this stuff at home on safari. sometimes big fredricks of hollywood ads at work because i bought something a year ago and get emails into my gmail every other day
I get some women's clothing advertisements, and I have no idea what prompted that. I must have bought something from some group who has another business line.
Regardless, its harmless, and the ladies look nice, so I let it through.
Or is it..... Will some group decide I'm a cross dresser? That would be funny. Old Ol looks a tad like a hairy Neanderthal. Dressing that hot mess up like a wimmin would definitely scare off the normal folk.
It would be nice to see customers rejecting this kind of practice early on, rather than waiting for it to become so bad and widespread that government finally sees an opportunity (yet one more thing to regulate!) and steps in.
You kind of nailed the issue, but how do you figure that the customer can foil the sociopath? Disliking regulations is good and all, but the sociopaths don't need no stinking EULA, they'll just collect it secretly if they want too. Does the solution have to be a 1985 Television and over-the-air reception?
I have pretty much the same cynical outlook you do towards this stuff, but 90 percent of people don't, and a sizable group has their cynicism misplaced in moon landing and rainbow conspiracies.
And that's the problem - sociopaths won't stop until it hurts them personally. It's why the wet dream of libertarians and some republicans doesn't work. Those ideals only exist in a universe where all are honest.
Its a good thing we have regulations in place to keep banks from getting too big.
Otherwise you could hack hundreds of millions of accounts all at once.
Rather its a good thing we have banking and stock trading on the internet. What could ever go wrong? P Oh... wait.
Maybe all these hacks weren't related to mobile devices, but I'm really surprised anyone would use their mobile phone for banking until there are none of these kinds of issues.
Why, People use their mobile devices while they have sex.
We have to face it, humanity is welded to those little gaddamned things.
It seems like just what is needed in places like San Francisco. When space is so precious many people need an option that provides less space. The communal space is good to add to the mix so people don't get cabin fever being cooped up in a tiny box for too long without social interaction.
Make certin you get your meningitus vaccines.
Personally, if was a choice between insane rents and living like a college freshman in a dorm, I'd move to the country.
They are wise not to buy them. I have never made a worse financial decision in my life than becoming a home owner, I discourage everyone I meet from ever purchasing real estate. Renting an inexpensive place and spending the difference on hard drugs is a far better idea.
While I did buy a house and paid it off early, so now I don't have a monthly payment, so did well, there are many reasons that home ownership is not the nirvana that the real estate market makes it out to be.
A big one is maintenance. The amount of maintenance on a home is pretty striking, unless you want it to look like these well kept places http://agonistica.com/wp-conte...
And many people have been talked into foolishly spending way more than they can afford by grifters ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H real estate agents. I fired one who refused to stop showing me houses that were well beyond what I told her I would pay, then said I was being foolish for not spending as much on a house as I could and not using using creative financing. Mr or Mrs Real Estate agent is not your friend.
There are many cases where owning your own home is actually a smarter move. Be prepared for the hypnotized to jump on this for my heresy.
College dorms run pretty well but there is a good reason why. Any problems in a dorm can bring down the wrath of Khan upon you.
This is what mommy and daddy are for. A quick call home about that mean person in the next room, and mommy and daddy will swoop in like Kahn, demanding the mean person and the building super be taken out and shot for upsetting little precious. They'll stick around another day so they can go to where the kid works, and demand that they get a promotion because like, Precious showed up on time for a month, and should now be in management.
Your parents severely fucked you up, kids.
In the old days they would hire some kid out of high school and TRAIN HIM. What the hell happened to that?
Are you under the impression that IT is like operating a drill press on an assembly line or something? If so, no wonder you're scared of being outsourced.
Are you under the impression that IT springs out of the ocean fully formed like Venus, and is ready to tackle all problems with no experience whatsoever?