I think I may go out and do some drone recon on it this weekend, see what's really going on. As long as I just use my GoPro to record video onboard and LoS for tracking, but don't use my FatShark it's not a drone and it's OK, right FAA?
Tell it from both sides and you risk leaving the audience with unsatisfyingly ambiguous feelings about the whole affair; it's almost as if life isn't black and white!
No-one likes that in a movie.
Quite the contrary, had Gibson included the Roman perspective in "Passion" I would have enjoyed that movie a whole lot more.
Roman Citizen: You taking the chariot out tonight?
Roman Soldier: Yea, me any my cohort are going to do some drive by crucifixions...
Hopefully they'll have plenty of pre-law students filing law suits on 1a grounds, unfair competition and whatever else they can think of as at will be A) good practice for them and, more importantly, B) costly for the property company.
And it supported zmodem. I spent my entire two weeks of a spring break in college playing descent with a class mate. So much so, that when I went to bed (in the morning, lol) my inner ear was playing tricks on me as I still felt like I was rolling around in three dimensions. An amazingly immersive experience for the time.
It even incorporated a POV flight recorder, so when I got back to class, I had a few 5.25 floppies with some great kill shots on them. Hanging against a wall as my opponent flew through the tube and came out above me, missing me completely, I rose up - ala Wrath of Kahn - and took him out from behind. Good stuff.
D2 even had a single from Type O' Negative "Haunted" that was, IIRC, released on the games soundtrack w/out vocals before the October Rust (1996) album was released.
D3 was a serious let down for the series, followed up by "Free Space" and by then, the ride was over. While Free Space was a decent game, it's inclusion in the Descent series made it drift too far from what made "Descent" Descent.
That's not my experience in the "tech industry". Every job I've had - Arizona, Nevada, Colorado, Florida, Tennessee - have required a BS at minimum. I work with people who don't have a degree, and they are in "tech" positions that pay less and have fewer advancement options.
I guess "Tier One Help Desk" would meet the articles criteria, but who would want to do that job for the rest of your life?
In fact, now that I think about it, TFA is 180 from my experience, not only is higher education critically important, but almost equally important is *where* you went to school. Ivy > state > trade > Pheonix > none
Actually, we do something very similar to jailbreaking in the world of sportbikes, as we replace parts and alter components around all of our engines computers in the name of performance
I personally, have a SPST switch under my seat that will jump two pins on the main CPU with a resister,when on,it "tricks" my bike into believing it's in 6th gear no matter what gear it's in. It is only In 6th gear that I have no timing retardation (retardation set by the factory) and have access to all the power my bike can produce throughout the entire gear range
Additionally, I run a PowerCommander, which allows me to attach a laptop to my bike and load custom fuel maps into it
We've been "jailbreaking" our bikes for years since fuel injection became the norm in the early 00's - this was actually why I purchased my last bike as a fuel injected one, normally I prefer the throttle response of a normally aspirated carborated super sport (600cc) - I went with a fuel injected super bike (1000cc) just so I could "jailbreak" it... in 2001..
lastly, less I upset anyone by omission, the Import Tuner - or "Hot Hatch" with a nod the Jezzer - crowd have been doing it to the computers in their cars even longer.
Last night I was surfing netflix and noticed the old Twilight Zone, so I went to watch "Time Enough at Last" (Episode 1 from Season 8 which aired in January of 1953) - but noooooo, netflix only has S1-3 and 5.
The *only* reason I couldn't watch the episode I wanted is because someone, somewhere, is a fsking arsehole.
I just searched google, amazon and gamespot and no where can I find an expansion for the x360. Not even a commitment to release it. I found multiple references to D3 being worked on for the x1 and p4, but nothing for the 360.
I haven't found confirmation yet - though with all the news on this right now, finding meaningful search results is getting arduous - but it doesn't look like x360 users are getting this expansion and if they do, it will be via the x1 - can anyone confirm?
What a great way to screw your customers, sell them a game for one system, then only make expansions available for the next gen console - which, BTFW, *requires* them to purchase the game a second time in order to play it on the new system. Making their purchase on the 360 a total waste of money in the long run.
I'd wager it wasn't the security team that dropped the ball. I work in the same role (I'm the most senior member of the security team), and I can tell you first hand that I don't have the authorization to act in matters of that scope independent of the executive team in situations like those. I have to forward my recommendations up the chain and get approval.
That causes delays. Often times, things then get lost in the executive level. Whenever there are contractors involved it's even worse as they spend a week or so arguing over whose responsibility it is, who is going to pay for it, how much down time it's going to represent, how much money they're going to lose, etc,etc, etc. Executives are also really bad at judging risk when it comes to security. They'll expose themselves and their companies to staggering amounts of risk - if for no other reason - than the fact that the failure/security breach/what-have-you isn't impacting business "right now" but shutting down an ecommerce system to patch it will impact the bottom line *right now* and they would rather risk "maybe" losing money at some future date than know they're losing money "right now".
Executives will mortgage their companies futures at every possible opportunity for a few extra dollars today.
The number of times I've taken a GLARING security issue up only to have the "how long can we leave it before it impacts business" be their main concern. If it's a vulnerability on a production, WAN facing system - but we don't have evidence of it being actively exploited - it's not considered to be as critical as taking that system offline for an hour to patch/test it. The certainty of lost revenue in that hour is more meaningful than the potential of abuse at a later date. Worst part of it all is that when that later date does come around and things get really bad, they all point their collective fingers at the security team and none of them take any responsibility whatsoever.
You're damned if you do, damned if you don't and blamed all the way around.
Corporate InfoSec is a very, very frustrating occupation. I feel for those poor guys at Target.
I'm a Visa holder, and even I don't get the need to loosen the immigration laws. I'd like to make things easier on myself, sure, but for American's seeing improving wages?? how is that anything but counter productive?
Further, if they really wanted to help JQP, they would tie all wages to inflation (so they grow at the same rate, at minimum) and stop paying themselves 100's of times more than their lowest paid employee. Anyone who sits on a Scrooge McDuck stack of cash DOES NOT have your best interests in mind.
I fly 33" to 65" with a POV link to the ground (FatShark) and a GoPro onboard - it's a very common configuration. Everyone I know (and "know" via the Internet) posts videos to YouTube and some even make money from adds on YouTube. So if it's just about shooting video from the air via a radio controlled craft and making money from the resulting video, there are thousands (if not more) of people across the country guilty of this.
I’ll second that. When approaching management with security concerns, many of us fall short on being able to properly communicate with management regarding risk. While it’s helpful that management, specifically upper management, deal with risk every day the downside to that is, you have to present your risk to them in terms they can understand. Using the formula of:
Cost of failure * rate of failure = total cost of failure is actually detrimental to this approach, most notably because the rate of failure for an undiscovered/undisclosed security defect is quite small and yields a total cost of risk that is well within norms for most companies.
What you need to do is familiarize yourself with the upper management, specifically those through which you report up to the CEO, and understand the types of risk they deal with and – more importantly – the total costs of failure they find acceptable. Then, when approaching them – just by way of example - prepare a report which demonstrates this specific risk in terms they both understand and with a gravity that they appreciate. Never say “we could be hacked, it would be awful”, instead “when this defect is eventually discovered (include citations on the rate of remote network probes/scans), the resulting security breach will cost us $X to resolve, further (citations are handy) as this has been in the news lately, expect additional fallout in both news cycles and social media. Instead of facing $X in known risk, by investing $Y in prevention we can address this issue and improve (insert impact on project/product they are personally invested in).”
Lastly, never leave the rate of risk ambiguous – never leave it at “might, may, could or worse still, one in a million” – always represent those uncertainties with math: number of remote attack attempts over time. If your perimeter is anything like mine, it will be read by management as an eventual certainty and *not* like something that can be safely ignored as an unlikely “storm of the century” type event.
I'll second that observation. Ever since "manager" has become a career option in and of itself, it's attracted "those who can't do anything else and who don't produce anything of value". Prior to that being a self serving career path, managers were people who worked their way up the ranks and carried with them both the experience of being "worker bees" and the knowledge of what the pain points of the bees were. Once they became management, upper management benefited from their experience of being a worker, and the workers benefited from their experience of being "one of them" - everybody won. These days, you have managers (we have one where I work) who have never done anything else and as a result, bring absolutely nothing to the table.
I thought so too, but it doesn't seem to make a darn bit of difference that I'm British and we (US/UK) have been allies for ages. I was almost not let back in the country the last time I left - I now won't leave the country as I'm not confident I'll be able to get back in. I'm obviously on the TSA's list for additional screening (I wasn't allowed through security on my last flight because I had printed out my boarding pass from United - as suggested by United in order to save time and I was required to have one issued by the airline on the day; missed my flight because of that).
I may as well be Chinese for all the difference it makes to the TSA and CBP.
When I was first out of college I got a contracting job working for the USAF. I'm a British national (born in England) and I am a legal US resident (green card). I was able to work on some pretty sensitive stuff that required everyone else to have a clearance (I worked on the roll-out of the "glass cockpits" - upgraded avionics - for McConnell AFB in the early 90's) even though I wasn't eligible for clearance. Nor was I eligible for working on this contract for the Air Force. My employer got around that requirement by subcontracting me several layers deep. The subcontracting went something like: USAF to his company to another company to him (as a third company) to me (as a fourth company) and finally to me as a 1099. As it was explained to me at the time, it was due to regulations in place with the military where contractors who were X many times removed from the primary contract were not required to have the same security clearance as the origin contract holder and/or that the origin contract holder wasn't required to review the status of those X times removed.
Either way the result was that I had no clearance and I was on a project where everyone else was required to have one. I'm sure there must be H1B contractors who are similarly working on some pretty sensitive stuff for the government.
Agreed. But with the vast, vaaast amount of dushbaggery out there, it's often quite difficult to avoid doing some level of business with them. Kinda hard to get by without using a bank.
Their (PP's) propensity for keeping their customers money was the precise reason I stopped using them.
Agreed. However in many cases it is still possible to use PayPal on merchant accounts without having a PayPal account yourself. Whenever I need to use PayPal I always take that option. I pay with a CC as a "customer who doesn't have a PayPal account" (even though I technically have one). The CC I use (as peragrin noted above) is a simple prepaid card. I actually picked mine up at WalMart and I can refill it at the self checkout for $3. I usually leave a nominal balance on it (~40 USD) and then only pay onto it when I intend to purchase something online.
That prepaid card - which effectively insulates me from any problems associated with loss/theft (+/- ~$40) - is well worth the piece of mind that comes with it.
Thankfully Brian had already contacted his local PD and advised them that this was a distinct possibility so they were prepared for the possibility that it was a hoax when they arrived.
Not to speak for OP, but there is a hint of logic in there. It wouldn't apply at farms where hegemony translates into resiliency, but it would apply in situations where resiliency results in the ability to withstand faults without replacing anything. Military and other tier one instances come to mind.
"Over specialize and you breed in weakness"
- Major Kusanagi Motoko
Quite true, yet I found that once I completed the initial setup of my iPad from my Mac, I haven't used my Mac since - and that was almost a year ago now. Everything I need to do from web, email, video, music, games, and including light web development + ftp can be done from the iPad + App Store.
It depends largely on what you need to do, of course, but if one is just an end user of the web (email, social media, video, music, etc) then a tablet is perfectly sufficient.
Here is a snip from DC's laws that describe what constitutes assaulting an officer:
"Whoever without justifiable and excusable cause, assaults, resists, opposes, impedes, intimidates, or interferes with a law enforcement officer on account of, or while that law enforcement officer is engaged in the performance of his or her official duties shall be guilty of a misdemeanor" it elevates to a felony if it "causes significant bodily injury to the law enforcement officer, or commits a violent act that creates a grave risk of causing significant bodily injury to the officer"
That's a pretty broad set of actions one can commit and still constitute "assault", which is why it's often referred to as "contempt of cop". Technically, if a cop punches you in the face and cuts his hand on your teeth, you can be charged with felony assault. Hopefully that won't hold up, but as you said, if you assault an officer, you're guilty. Period.
Your comment indicates that existing board members have informed you that your idea may not be welcomed by Bob. Listen to them. He has been personally invested in this for quite some time and may not welcome the new guy rocking the proverbial boat, I'd suggest the best way to pursue this would be to have the move to Google be Bob's idea.
Have Bob show you his work, appreciate how much time and effort he's put into it and when you get to functionality that it doesn't do or doesn't do well steer the conversation towards filling those gaps. Ask Bob how he would do it on his site or ask him for his ideas. It's very likely that Bob isn't any happier with his solution than anyone else is, but he's personally invested in it. It's that investment you need to recognize in order for your migration suggestion to be successful - for everyone.
If you can get Bob to be part of the solution, he may well invest just as much time in that as he did this.
I agree, but for a different reason. Unfortunately where I work, if you don't have written evidence that someone agreed to something then you cannot "prove" they ever said it. I can't count the number of times being able to forward an email where someone agreed to do X or be responsible for Y has saved my arse.
Admittedly, this says less about the importance of email as a communication medium and more about corporate culture where I work, but this isn't the first time I've run into this and don't expect it to be the last.
Email provides a clear written record of what's been said and more often than not, being able to refer back to that record - either for your own edification or as evidence - is extremely useful.
As someone who recently went from a ~50+ minute commute to a six minute commute (door to door) it’s worth it, that alone makes it worth it. That's the most valuable factor in the entire equation. I got ~+10 hours a week of my life back that I used to spend in a car. Ten. The amount of *life* I've regained, and its corresponding value, is incalculable. It's worth much more than an extra 7K/year - I'd consider the extra money as a nice bonus, the real value in this job offer is in the amount of your life you're going to get back.
The vast number of other/.’rs are right, we’re talking about companies, where there is no such thing as loyalty or friends *especially* between upper management and worker bees. It’s about money and greed. Period. Full stop. If they have two trained jr. developers who combined make less than you (in all forms of compensation: vacation time, medical/pension and other employer contributions, etc) then they will, in all likelihood, fire you as soon as they think those two can hold that ship afloat with the outsourced developers. I’d expect that to happen shortly after the product is launched. Unless you have shares in the company or will make beans should the product you’ve been working on takes off, then you have no stake in their game. If they really need you, they'll pay to keep you - but if they do, I think it will increase the likelihood that you're training your replacements - but are you absolutely sure you aren't already doing that?
UconnGuy is 100% right about how to tell if they truly are your friends or not when you tell them about the offer. If they really are “friends”, they’ll want you to get an extra $7k/year and +~10 hours a week of your life back, as friends want what's best for you not what's best for the company. XxtraLarGe also has a very good suggestion, you can offer to stay on as a consultant. It could be for a transitional period or as long as you/they want, and with the extra ~+10 hours a week, you’re going to have *plenty* of time to do that consulting work!
Take the new job as long as you have some level of confidence that it’s a stable move and your new employer isn’t at risk for downsizing anytime soon as you’ll be the first to go if they do. Bottom line is this: time is something they’re always making more of but something you’ll never have enough of & the amount of *life* you’ll get back that you used to spend commuting will be worth infinitely more than the $7k pay rise is.
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I think I may go out and do some drone recon on it this weekend, see what's really going on. As long as I just use my GoPro to record video onboard and LoS for tracking, but don't use my FatShark it's not a drone and it's OK, right FAA?
Tell it from both sides and you risk leaving the audience with unsatisfyingly ambiguous feelings about the whole affair; it's almost as if life isn't black and white!
No-one likes that in a movie.
Quite the contrary, had Gibson included the Roman perspective in "Passion" I would have enjoyed that movie a whole lot more.
Roman Citizen: You taking the chariot out tonight?
Roman Soldier: Yea, me any my cohort are going to do some drive by crucifixions...
Hopefully they'll have plenty of pre-law students filing law suits on 1a grounds, unfair competition and whatever else they can think of as at will be A) good practice for them and, more importantly, B) costly for the property company.
And it supported zmodem. I spent my entire two weeks of a spring break in college playing descent with a class mate. So much so, that when I went to bed (in the morning, lol) my inner ear was playing tricks on me as I still felt like I was rolling around in three dimensions. An amazingly immersive experience for the time.
It even incorporated a POV flight recorder, so when I got back to class, I had a few 5.25 floppies with some great kill shots on them. Hanging against a wall as my opponent flew through the tube and came out above me, missing me completely, I rose up - ala Wrath of Kahn - and took him out from behind. Good stuff.
D2 even had a single from Type O' Negative "Haunted" that was, IIRC, released on the games soundtrack w/out vocals before the October Rust (1996) album was released.
D3 was a serious let down for the series, followed up by "Free Space" and by then, the ride was over. While Free Space was a decent game, it's inclusion in the Descent series made it drift too far from what made "Descent" Descent.
That's not my experience in the "tech industry". Every job I've had - Arizona, Nevada, Colorado, Florida, Tennessee - have required a BS at minimum. I work with people who don't have a degree, and they are in "tech" positions that pay less and have fewer advancement options.
I guess "Tier One Help Desk" would meet the articles criteria, but who would want to do that job for the rest of your life?
In fact, now that I think about it, TFA is 180 from my experience, not only is higher education critically important, but almost equally important is *where* you went to school. Ivy > state > trade > Pheonix > none
I personally, have a SPST switch under my seat that will jump two pins on the main CPU with a resister,when on,it "tricks" my bike into believing it's in 6th gear no matter what gear it's in. It is only In 6th gear that I have no timing retardation (retardation set by the factory) and have access to all the power my bike can produce throughout the entire gear range
Additionally, I run a PowerCommander, which allows me to attach a laptop to my bike and load custom fuel maps into it
We've been "jailbreaking" our bikes for years since fuel injection became the norm in the early 00's - this was actually why I purchased my last bike as a fuel injected one, normally I prefer the throttle response of a normally aspirated carborated super sport (600cc) - I went with a fuel injected super bike (1000cc) just so I could "jailbreak" it... in 2001..
lastly, less I upset anyone by omission, the Import Tuner - or "Hot Hatch" with a nod the Jezzer - crowd have been doing it to the computers in their cars even longer.
No, no it isn't
Last night I was surfing netflix and noticed the old Twilight Zone, so I went to watch "Time Enough at Last" (Episode 1 from Season 8 which aired in January of 1953) - but noooooo, netflix only has S1-3 and 5.
The *only* reason I couldn't watch the episode I wanted is because someone, somewhere, is a fsking arsehole.
I just searched google, amazon and gamespot and no where can I find an expansion for the x360. Not even a commitment to release it. I found multiple references to D3 being worked on for the x1 and p4, but nothing for the 360. I haven't found confirmation yet - though with all the news on this right now, finding meaningful search results is getting arduous - but it doesn't look like x360 users are getting this expansion and if they do, it will be via the x1 - can anyone confirm?
What a great way to screw your customers, sell them a game for one system, then only make expansions available for the next gen console - which, BTFW, *requires* them to purchase the game a second time in order to play it on the new system. Making their purchase on the 360 a total waste of money in the long run.
I'd wager it wasn't the security team that dropped the ball. I work in the same role (I'm the most senior member of the security team), and I can tell you first hand that I don't have the authorization to act in matters of that scope independent of the executive team in situations like those. I have to forward my recommendations up the chain and get approval.
That causes delays. Often times, things then get lost in the executive level. Whenever there are contractors involved it's even worse as they spend a week or so arguing over whose responsibility it is, who is going to pay for it, how much down time it's going to represent, how much money they're going to lose, etc,etc, etc. Executives are also really bad at judging risk when it comes to security. They'll expose themselves and their companies to staggering amounts of risk - if for no other reason - than the fact that the failure/security breach/what-have-you isn't impacting business "right now" but shutting down an ecommerce system to patch it will impact the bottom line *right now* and they would rather risk "maybe" losing money at some future date than know they're losing money "right now".
Executives will mortgage their companies futures at every possible opportunity for a few extra dollars today.
The number of times I've taken a GLARING security issue up only to have the "how long can we leave it before it impacts business" be their main concern. If it's a vulnerability on a production, WAN facing system - but we don't have evidence of it being actively exploited - it's not considered to be as critical as taking that system offline for an hour to patch/test it. The certainty of lost revenue in that hour is more meaningful than the potential of abuse at a later date. Worst part of it all is that when that later date does come around and things get really bad, they all point their collective fingers at the security team and none of them take any responsibility whatsoever.
You're damned if you do, damned if you don't and blamed all the way around.
Corporate InfoSec is a very, very frustrating occupation. I feel for those poor guys at Target.
I'm a Visa holder, and even I don't get the need to loosen the immigration laws. I'd like to make things easier on myself, sure, but for American's seeing improving wages?? how is that anything but counter productive? Further, if they really wanted to help JQP, they would tie all wages to inflation (so they grow at the same rate, at minimum) and stop paying themselves 100's of times more than their lowest paid employee. Anyone who sits on a Scrooge McDuck stack of cash DOES NOT have your best interests in mind.
I fly 33" to 65" with a POV link to the ground (FatShark) and a GoPro onboard - it's a very common configuration. Everyone I know (and "know" via the Internet) posts videos to YouTube and some even make money from adds on YouTube. So if it's just about shooting video from the air via a radio controlled craft and making money from the resulting video, there are thousands (if not more) of people across the country guilty of this.
I’ll second that. When approaching management with security concerns, many of us fall short on being able to properly communicate with management regarding risk. While it’s helpful that management, specifically upper management, deal with risk every day the downside to that is, you have to present your risk to them in terms they can understand. Using the formula of:
Cost of failure * rate of failure = total cost of failure is actually detrimental to this approach, most notably because the rate of failure for an undiscovered/undisclosed security defect is quite small and yields a total cost of risk that is well within norms for most companies.
What you need to do is familiarize yourself with the upper management, specifically those through which you report up to the CEO, and understand the types of risk they deal with and – more importantly – the total costs of failure they find acceptable. Then, when approaching them – just by way of example - prepare a report which demonstrates this specific risk in terms they both understand and with a gravity that they appreciate. Never say “we could be hacked, it would be awful”, instead “when this defect is eventually discovered (include citations on the rate of remote network probes/scans), the resulting security breach will cost us $X to resolve, further (citations are handy) as this has been in the news lately, expect additional fallout in both news cycles and social media. Instead of facing $X in known risk, by investing $Y in prevention we can address this issue and improve (insert impact on project/product they are personally invested in).”
Lastly, never leave the rate of risk ambiguous – never leave it at “might, may, could or worse still, one in a million” – always represent those uncertainties with math: number of remote attack attempts over time. If your perimeter is anything like mine, it will be read by management as an eventual certainty and *not* like something that can be safely ignored as an unlikely “storm of the century” type event.
I'll second that observation. Ever since "manager" has become a career option in and of itself, it's attracted "those who can't do anything else and who don't produce anything of value". Prior to that being a self serving career path, managers were people who worked their way up the ranks and carried with them both the experience of being "worker bees" and the knowledge of what the pain points of the bees were. Once they became management, upper management benefited from their experience of being a worker, and the workers benefited from their experience of being "one of them" - everybody won. These days, you have managers (we have one where I work) who have never done anything else and as a result, bring absolutely nothing to the table.
I thought so too, but it doesn't seem to make a darn bit of difference that I'm British and we (US/UK) have been allies for ages. I was almost not let back in the country the last time I left - I now won't leave the country as I'm not confident I'll be able to get back in. I'm obviously on the TSA's list for additional screening (I wasn't allowed through security on my last flight because I had printed out my boarding pass from United - as suggested by United in order to save time and I was required to have one issued by the airline on the day; missed my flight because of that).
I may as well be Chinese for all the difference it makes to the TSA and CBP.
When I was first out of college I got a contracting job working for the USAF. I'm a British national (born in England) and I am a legal US resident (green card). I was able to work on some pretty sensitive stuff that required everyone else to have a clearance (I worked on the roll-out of the "glass cockpits" - upgraded avionics - for McConnell AFB in the early 90's) even though I wasn't eligible for clearance. Nor was I eligible for working on this contract for the Air Force. My employer got around that requirement by subcontracting me several layers deep. The subcontracting went something like: USAF to his company to another company to him (as a third company) to me (as a fourth company) and finally to me as a 1099. As it was explained to me at the time, it was due to regulations in place with the military where contractors who were X many times removed from the primary contract were not required to have the same security clearance as the origin contract holder and/or that the origin contract holder wasn't required to review the status of those X times removed.
Either way the result was that I had no clearance and I was on a project where everyone else was required to have one. I'm sure there must be H1B contractors who are similarly working on some pretty sensitive stuff for the government.
Agreed. But with the vast, vaaast amount of dushbaggery out there, it's often quite difficult to avoid doing some level of business with them. Kinda hard to get by without using a bank.
Their (PP's) propensity for keeping their customers money was the precise reason I stopped using them.
Agreed. However in many cases it is still possible to use PayPal on merchant accounts without having a PayPal account yourself. Whenever I need to use PayPal I always take that option. I pay with a CC as a "customer who doesn't have a PayPal account" (even though I technically have one). The CC I use (as peragrin noted above) is a simple prepaid card. I actually picked mine up at WalMart and I can refill it at the self checkout for $3. I usually leave a nominal balance on it (~40 USD) and then only pay onto it when I intend to purchase something online.
That prepaid card - which effectively insulates me from any problems associated with loss/theft (+/- ~$40) - is well worth the piece of mind that comes with it.
Thankfully Brian had already contacted his local PD and advised them that this was a distinct possibility so they were prepared for the possibility that it was a hoax when they arrived.
That and Brian is white, so that helps...
%$#@! auto-correct, I meant: homogeneous
Not to speak for OP, but there is a hint of logic in there. It wouldn't apply at farms where hegemony translates into resiliency, but it would apply in situations where resiliency results in the ability to withstand faults without replacing anything. Military and other tier one instances come to mind.
"Over specialize and you breed in weakness"
- Major Kusanagi Motoko
Quite true, yet I found that once I completed the initial setup of my iPad from my Mac, I haven't used my Mac since - and that was almost a year ago now. Everything I need to do from web, email, video, music, games, and including light web development + ftp can be done from the iPad + App Store. It depends largely on what you need to do, of course, but if one is just an end user of the web (email, social media, video, music, etc) then a tablet is perfectly sufficient.
Here is a snip from DC's laws that describe what constitutes assaulting an officer:
"Whoever without justifiable and excusable cause, assaults, resists, opposes, impedes, intimidates, or interferes with a law enforcement officer on account of, or while that law enforcement officer is engaged in the performance of his or her official duties shall be guilty of a misdemeanor" it elevates to a felony if it "causes significant bodily injury to the law enforcement officer, or commits a violent act that creates a grave risk of causing significant bodily injury to the officer"
That's a pretty broad set of actions one can commit and still constitute "assault", which is why it's often referred to as "contempt of cop". Technically, if a cop punches you in the face and cuts his hand on your teeth, you can be charged with felony assault. Hopefully that won't hold up, but as you said, if you assault an officer, you're guilty. Period.
Your comment indicates that existing board members have informed you that your idea may not be welcomed by Bob. Listen to them. He has been personally invested in this for quite some time and may not welcome the new guy rocking the proverbial boat, I'd suggest the best way to pursue this would be to have the move to Google be Bob's idea. Have Bob show you his work, appreciate how much time and effort he's put into it and when you get to functionality that it doesn't do or doesn't do well steer the conversation towards filling those gaps. Ask Bob how he would do it on his site or ask him for his ideas. It's very likely that Bob isn't any happier with his solution than anyone else is, but he's personally invested in it. It's that investment you need to recognize in order for your migration suggestion to be successful - for everyone. If you can get Bob to be part of the solution, he may well invest just as much time in that as he did this.
I agree, but for a different reason. Unfortunately where I work, if you don't have written evidence that someone agreed to something then you cannot "prove" they ever said it. I can't count the number of times being able to forward an email where someone agreed to do X or be responsible for Y has saved my arse. Admittedly, this says less about the importance of email as a communication medium and more about corporate culture where I work, but this isn't the first time I've run into this and don't expect it to be the last. Email provides a clear written record of what's been said and more often than not, being able to refer back to that record - either for your own edification or as evidence - is extremely useful.
As someone who recently went from a ~50+ minute commute to a six minute commute (door to door) it’s worth it, that alone makes it worth it. That's the most valuable factor in the entire equation. I got ~+10 hours a week of my life back that I used to spend in a car. Ten. The amount of *life* I've regained, and its corresponding value, is incalculable. It's worth much more than an extra 7K/year - I'd consider the extra money as a nice bonus, the real value in this job offer is in the amount of your life you're going to get back.
/.’rs are right, we’re talking about companies, where there is no such thing as loyalty or friends *especially* between upper management and worker bees. It’s about money and greed. Period. Full stop. If they have two trained jr. developers who combined make less than you (in all forms of compensation: vacation time, medical/pension and other employer contributions, etc) then they will, in all likelihood, fire you as soon as they think those two can hold that ship afloat with the outsourced developers. I’d expect that to happen shortly after the product is launched. Unless you have shares in the company or will make beans should the product you’ve been working on takes off, then you have no stake in their game. If they really need you, they'll pay to keep you - but if they do, I think it will increase the likelihood that you're training your replacements - but are you absolutely sure you aren't already doing that?
The vast number of other
UconnGuy is 100% right about how to tell if they truly are your friends or not when you tell them about the offer. If they really are “friends”, they’ll want you to get an extra $7k/year and +~10 hours a week of your life back, as friends want what's best for you not what's best for the company. XxtraLarGe also has a very good suggestion, you can offer to stay on as a consultant. It could be for a transitional period or as long as you/they want, and with the extra ~+10 hours a week, you’re going to have *plenty* of time to do that consulting work!
Take the new job as long as you have some level of confidence that it’s a stable move and your new employer isn’t at risk for downsizing anytime soon as you’ll be the first to go if they do. Bottom line is this: time is something they’re always making more of but something you’ll never have enough of & the amount of *life* you’ll get back that you used to spend commuting will be worth infinitely more than the $7k pay rise is.