At least you didn't inexplicably put the Digital Equipment Corporation logo on this posting, like you do for every post with the word "digital" in its title.
In the future, the DEC logo will soon be replaced with the Compaq logo since DEC was bought by Compaq.
In the far, far future, the Compaq logo will be replaced by the HP logo, since Compaq was bought by HP.
But hey, but cut the editors some slack . . . Slashdot is a free service, and well worth every penny I pay for it.
Maybe the editors intentionally make mistakes . . . so the complainers will have something trivial to complain about . . . ?
Instead of complaining about more serious issues . . .
Major League Baseball is worried that a future enraged, confused and heavily armed O. J. Simpson will rob a baseball card traders convention in Las Vegas, claiming that he is just "looking for his shit".
With Bitcoin Beanie Baby Baseball Cards, there is nothing physical to steal.
So, what can he do . . . raid a data center . . . ?
After all look at how well that worked in Auschwitz!
You don't even need to look back that far. The folks in East Germany whispered in public places, like restaurants, because they never knew if some Stasi "informal employees" were listening in at the next table.
I'm thinking that someone needs to open up a Kickstarter for a "Maxwell Smart Portable Cone of Silence", that we can all carry around with us.
Either that, or don't talk at the checkout at Walmart. Or maybe we all need to learn sign language . . .
. . . but then the spooks will invent an AI Camera Sign Language to Text system . . . oh, well . . .
The East German secret police, the Stasi didn't have all the neat technology that the USA spooks have . . .
. . . otherwise . . . the new Germany States, formerly East German States, would still be East Germany.
Although the roles of the ICE and the Stasi are/were quite a bit different . . . the ICE is concerned about keeping non-citizens out of the country . . . the Stasi was concerned about keeping citizens in the country.
Zwei Dinge erfüllen das Gemüt mit immer neuer und zunehmender Bewunderung und Ehrfurcht, je öfter und anhaltender sich das Nachdenken damit beschäftigt: Der bestirnte Himmel über mir, und das moralische Gesetz in mir
The obvious solution is to switch to Libre Offices.;)
The obvious solution is to switch to Home Offices.;)
My employer went further than Open Offices . . . we went to "Flex Offices" or "E-Places". You get a closet locker and a Rimowa Rollboy Trolley. And there is a big room with empty desks . . . with less desks than employees. Folks were expected to work at customer sites or at their home whenever possible. In the office, each morning there is a Enterprise Edition game of "Musical Chairs" (or Reise nach Jerusalem for the German-speaking folks). Since the desks don't belong to anyone personally, you are not allowed to leave any personal belongings on the desk overnight. No awards or personal pictures on the walls either.
So . . . a helluva lot of folks just decided to work from home.
Now the fad wind direction has changed, and senior management wants to encourage folks to come into the office again. Under the current conditions in the office . . . not too many folks want to do that . . . and the way the company arranged the deal . . . they can't force us to either.
Want to get us back . . . ? Offer us a better place to work . . . it's as simple as that.
CRTs tend to contain some really nasty stuff, including lead, barium, and various kinds of phosphor coating.
Since the recycling industry is vastly a "you break it, you deal with it" kind of deal, those chemicals need to be reclaimed somehow and disposed of. That process will eat into your potential profits like crazy.
The problem with recycling stuff . . . if that we are trying to recycle stuff that wasn't built to be recycled. The stuff was built to be used, and tossed away. Recycling is an afterthought, so of course it is difficult.
Now, if we built stuff to be recycled . . . it would be easier and cheaper . . . but it would probably make the stuff . . . (gasp!) . . . more expensive. No one wants that! And things would probably be bigger . . . instead of smaller and thinner like everyone wants.
So, I'm guessing that the solution for e-waste will probably just be to bury it, and let future generations deal with it. The "next generations" always think that they are smarter than their overpaid, lazy generations . . . so let them figure it out!
I always wanted to ask the government if I could bury their nuclear waste in my backyard. I'm guessing my great-great-grandchildren will make a fortune with their "energy mines", when we figure out how to use the waste as raw fuel.
Of course, instead of the government sending a nuclear scientist around . . . they would send some folks from Homeland Security to have a chat with me.
3.1) Erect a big car-production-line sized tent over the area to shield it from monsoon rains flooding the caves. How big is Thailand, in the size-of-Wales units . . . ?
3.2) Use flamethrowers to boil the water and dry out the caves.
4) Musk can maybe provide patience. It doesn't seem that there are any quick and easy solutions. I remember a mine accident in South America, where it took three months to dig them out via an escape hole.
Musk has gotten patience from his Tesla investors. Maybe he can convince the world that they will just need to be patient and wait for a safe rescue method . . . ?
Someone at IBM is very, very stupid for having fired that dude, if data he used as evidence can be confirmed.
FTFA:
In August, 2016, IBM Marketing Manager Erika Riehle stereotyped Boomer employees as contributing to five workplace “dysfunctions.” Boomers were allegedly less trusting of their coworkers, less collaborative, less committed, less accountable and less attentive to results. Compared to younger employees, IBM found that Boomers were the least likely to understand IBM’s business strategy, least likely to understand their manager’s expectations of them, least likely to understand what customers wanted, and the least likely to understand IBM’s brand.
Now if THAT statement can be verified . . . then someone is in trouble . . . just replace "Boomer" with any other gender, religious, race or age group to see what I mean.
My guess is the Erika Riehle will claim she was "misquoted out of context" or "misspoke."
In a number of Larry Niven sci-fi novels, there are people addicted to brain stimulation, known as "wireheads".
Well, gee, the bus I take often must run through a Larry Niven novel . . . all the "wirehead" passengers seem to be addicted to their smarty-pants-phones.
Does that mean you can only have one coffee per day?
It depends on how sick you are. Caffeine Gene Control works according to the medicinal laws of Homeopathic Dilution . . . so the more the caffeine is diluted, the higher its Caffeine Gene Control potency.
So, if you are normal and healthy, drink all the coffee you want . . . the high concentrations of caffeine means that it will not try to control your genes.
If you are sick . . . just drink a thimbleful of coffee, and the high dilution, high potency caffeine will control your genes, and you will soon feel much, much better, and think that you'll go for a walk.
For people who are very seriously ill . . . just sniffing a few whiffs of coffee will be enough to cure them.
Probably.
Wasn't there a 70's Electro Pop band called "Caffeine Gene" . . . ?
I can't remember exactly . . . maybe I've had too much coffee . . . or too little of it . . .
"No one in this world, so far as I know... has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people." -- H.L. Mencken
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Then chop it up and send it off for recycling - seems very unlikely that you couldn't turn a profit that way.
Yes, you could do that and make a profit . . .
. . . and then you could whine that you need government subsidies to do that . . . and make even more profit!
. . . it's subsidies . . . all the way down . . .
At least you didn't inexplicably put the Digital Equipment Corporation logo on this posting, like you do for every post with the word "digital" in its title.
In the future, the DEC logo will soon be replaced with the Compaq logo since DEC was bought by Compaq.
In the far, far future, the Compaq logo will be replaced by the HP logo, since Compaq was bought by HP.
But hey, but cut the editors some slack . . . Slashdot is a free service, and well worth every penny I pay for it.
Maybe the editors intentionally make mistakes . . . so the complainers will have something trivial to complain about . . . ?
Instead of complaining about more serious issues . . .
Didn't understand a word of that.
"Bitcoin Beanie Baby Baseball Cards"
Major League Baseball is worried that a future enraged, confused and heavily armed O. J. Simpson will rob a baseball card traders convention in Las Vegas, claiming that he is just "looking for his shit".
With Bitcoin Beanie Baby Baseball Cards, there is nothing physical to steal.
So, what can he do . . . raid a data center . . . ?
Scots don't use pounds . . . they use "stones" . . .
After all look at how well that worked in Auschwitz!
You don't even need to look back that far. The folks in East Germany whispered in public places, like restaurants, because they never knew if some Stasi "informal employees" were listening in at the next table.
I'm thinking that someone needs to open up a Kickstarter for a "Maxwell Smart Portable Cone of Silence", that we can all carry around with us.
Either that, or don't talk at the checkout at Walmart. Or maybe we all need to learn sign language . . .
. . . but then the spooks will invent an AI Camera Sign Language to Text system . . . oh, well . . .
The East German secret police, the Stasi didn't have all the neat technology that the USA spooks have . . .
. . . otherwise . . . the new Germany States, formerly East German States, would still be East Germany.
Although the roles of the ICE and the Stasi are/were quite a bit different . . . the ICE is concerned about keeping non-citizens out of the country . . . the Stasi was concerned about keeping citizens in the country.
What happened to
Verjährt.
A heart healthy person will get a heart attack from neither adjusting sleeping/waking preferences nor irritation it may cause.
. . . which excludes about a third of the folks in the US . . .
Plus they sleep all day anyway.
. . . and the Southern Europeans respond with a chorus of:
"Only mad dogs, and Englishmen, go out in the noonday sun."
Throw some of that heat down this way guys!
. . . just hitch a ride with your fellow citizen, Kim Dotcom . . . he's headed for somewhere very hot in the US.
The obvious solution is to switch to Libre Offices. ;)
The obvious solution is to switch to Home Offices. ;)
My employer went further than Open Offices . . . we went to "Flex Offices" or "E-Places". You get a closet locker and a Rimowa Rollboy Trolley. And there is a big room with empty desks . . . with less desks than employees. Folks were expected to work at customer sites or at their home whenever possible. In the office, each morning there is a Enterprise Edition game of "Musical Chairs" (or Reise nach Jerusalem for the German-speaking folks). Since the desks don't belong to anyone personally, you are not allowed to leave any personal belongings on the desk overnight. No awards or personal pictures on the walls either.
So . . . a helluva lot of folks just decided to work from home.
Now the fad wind direction has changed, and senior management wants to encourage folks to come into the office again. Under the current conditions in the office . . . not too many folks want to do that . . . and the way the company arranged the deal . . . they can't force us to either.
Want to get us back . . . ? Offer us a better place to work . . . it's as simple as that.
CRTs tend to contain some really nasty stuff, including lead, barium, and various kinds of phosphor coating.
Since the recycling industry is vastly a "you break it, you deal with it" kind of deal, those chemicals need to be reclaimed somehow and disposed of. That process will eat into your potential profits like crazy.
The problem with recycling stuff . . . if that we are trying to recycle stuff that wasn't built to be recycled. The stuff was built to be used, and tossed away. Recycling is an afterthought, so of course it is difficult.
Now, if we built stuff to be recycled . . . it would be easier and cheaper . . . but it would probably make the stuff . . . (gasp!) . . . more expensive. No one wants that! And things would probably be bigger . . . instead of smaller and thinner like everyone wants.
So, I'm guessing that the solution for e-waste will probably just be to bury it, and let future generations deal with it. The "next generations" always think that they are smarter than their overpaid, lazy generations . . . so let them figure it out!
I always wanted to ask the government if I could bury their nuclear waste in my backyard. I'm guessing my great-great-grandchildren will make a fortune with their "energy mines", when we figure out how to use the waste as raw fuel.
Of course, instead of the government sending a nuclear scientist around . . . they would send some folks from Homeland Security to have a chat with me.
1. Tech meltdown
2. ???
3. Profit!
1. Tech meltdown
2. Government bailout
3. Privatize profits; socialize losses
We've got too many things that are "too big to fail" . . . and the "things" know that, and are expecting their bailouts.
CEO becomes CTO, CTO -> CFO, CFO -> CEO.
. . . and in a further surprising and shocking announcement . . . the new CEO will be . . .
. . . Kim Dotcom!
Hi, my name is Werner Brandes. My voice is my passport. Verify Me.
You might actually have a brilliant idea there . . .
. . . let Google Duplex AI Voice check in for you!
No more waiting in line.
Quick! Patent it, before Google does!
The QANTAS logo may look like a kangaroo to the untrained eye, but really it's more of a mermaid.
When you've been in the outback too long . . . kangaroos start to look like mermaids.
". . . where the men are men, and the kangaroos scared . . . "
3) Expertise.
3.1) Erect a big car-production-line sized tent over the area to shield it from monsoon rains flooding the caves. How big is Thailand, in the size-of-Wales units . . . ?
3.2) Use flamethrowers to boil the water and dry out the caves.
4) Musk can maybe provide patience. It doesn't seem that there are any quick and easy solutions. I remember a mine accident in South America, where it took three months to dig them out via an escape hole. Musk has gotten patience from his Tesla investors. Maybe he can convince the world that they will just need to be patient and wait for a safe rescue method . . . ?
Someone at IBM is very, very stupid for having fired that dude, if data he used as evidence can be confirmed.
FTFA:
In August, 2016, IBM Marketing Manager Erika Riehle stereotyped Boomer employees as contributing to five workplace “dysfunctions.” Boomers were allegedly less trusting of their coworkers, less collaborative, less committed, less accountable and less attentive to results. Compared to younger employees, IBM found that Boomers were the least likely to understand IBM’s business strategy, least likely to understand their manager’s expectations of them, least likely to understand what customers wanted, and the least likely to understand IBM’s brand.
Now if THAT statement can be verified . . . then someone is in trouble . . . just replace "Boomer" with any other gender, religious, race or age group to see what I mean.
My guess is the Erika Riehle will claim she was "misquoted out of context" or "misspoke."
And who wants exploding tomatoes, or hearing loss?
"Where's the kaboom? There was supposed to be an Earth-shattering kaboom!"
The higher the current the peaceful of the subjects. Over a certain range efectivity is 100%
The true irony here is that the folks giving the shocks were actually the subjects of the test.
A la Stanley Milgram: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Hey, college sophomores . . . y'all got some time to help out in a psychological experiment and fry up some violent criminals . . . ?"
In a number of Larry Niven sci-fi novels, there are people addicted to brain stimulation, known as "wireheads".
Well, gee, the bus I take often must run through a Larry Niven novel . . . all the "wirehead" passengers seem to be addicted to their smarty-pants-phones.
Create a bunch of fake accounts. Each one is a shell for one and only one ad.
Well, some of those names Twitter has provided from the Yoyodyne Corporation look strangely familiar:
Vlad Barnett
Vlad Bigboote
Vlad Camp
Vlad Careful Walker
Vlad Chief Crier
Vlad Cooper
Vlad Coyote
Vlad Edwards
Vlad Fat Eating
Vlad Fish
Vlad Fledgling
Vlad Gomez
Vlad Grim
Vlad Guardian
Vlad Icicle Boy
Vlad Jones
Vlad Joseph
Vlad Kim Chi
Vlad Lee
Vlad LittleVlad
Vlad Many Jars
Vlad Milton
Vlad Mud Head
Vlad Nephew
Vlad Nolan
Vlad O'Connor
Vlad Omar
Vlad Parrot
Vlad Rajeesh
Vlad Ready to Fly
Vlad Repeat Dance
Vlad Roberts
Vlad Scott
Vlad Shaw
Vlad Smallberries
Vlad Starbird
Vlad Take Cover
Vlad Thorny Stick
Vlad Turk
Vlad Two Horns
Vlad Web
Vlad Whorfin
Vlad Wood
Vlad Wright
Vlad Ya Ya
Does that mean you can only have one coffee per day?
It depends on how sick you are. Caffeine Gene Control works according to the medicinal laws of Homeopathic Dilution . . . so the more the caffeine is diluted, the higher its Caffeine Gene Control potency.
So, if you are normal and healthy, drink all the coffee you want . . . the high concentrations of caffeine means that it will not try to control your genes.
If you are sick . . . just drink a thimbleful of coffee, and the high dilution, high potency caffeine will control your genes, and you will soon feel much, much better, and think that you'll go for a walk.
For people who are very seriously ill . . . just sniffing a few whiffs of coffee will be enough to cure them.
Probably.
Wasn't there a 70's Electro Pop band called "Caffeine Gene" . . . ?
I can't remember exactly . . . maybe I've had too much coffee . . . or too little of it . . .
Some Uber drivers aren't particularly bright.
"No one in this world, so far as I know ... has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people." -- H.L. Mencken
fix it again tony!
In Fiatian Chrysler, Tony Soprano fixes you!