Why has “get off my lawn” become code for cranky senior citizen?
I reckon the main reason for which objections to trespassing by younger generation is uncommon is most of them don't own one or don't have enough time to appreciate meticulous lawn-mowing (being busy to earn enough to pay the mortgage for one).
(in other words: just remember that "cranky is in the eye of beholder" and you should be able to enjoy your lawn without remorse...and raise the "why the crankiness" point only as a philosophical/rhetorical one)
Show what you'd lose at a 50% cut. Show him the things that they want to have, that would go away if they cut that much. Often people fail to appreciate what a budget is spent on and if it gets explained what they'll have to trade off they'll be more accommodating.
You are giving the person tooooo much credit!
Look it - I've been there - HIS boss is telling him to cut costs and HIS bonus is riding on it. Got it?
HIS BONUS.
If he's smart, in the mind of the boss the thought is likely to go on the line of: "Thanks sucker for telling me how much time I have to cash my bonus".
Any talent left behind will be so stressed, bitter and tired that they won't be half as productive as they used to (they will have figuratively quit while they wait to find something better).
It is very likely the talent that you mention should be quoted (as "talent"): an explanation here (the most mobile talent - the one it's likely you would want to have - will evaporate earlier).
No, they are MOST CERTAINLY NOT "damned if they do and damned f they don't". There is a big difference between doing an ACTUAL INVESTIGATION, and arresting someone without any critical thought or due process.
If any actual critical thinking was applied here, this kid would not be arrested.
Critical thoughts/thinking? That's a crime nowadays.
Just look how much is spent on public schools to eradicate it; the mission statement of "No kid gets ahead" should be indicative of the spirit.
Take a whiff from a piece of meat after 2 weeks at room temperature and compare it with how a DVD smells after the same time. Complains on bit rot accepted only after the experiment.
When I load slashdot.org, the window title is "Slashdot:News for nerds, stuff that matters - Mozilla Firefox. Hovering over the tab gives a similar title minus the Mozilla Firefox and the window list also gives a similar title with Firefox as the prefix.
Perhaps it depends on the browser
It seems that it does depend on the browser: on CentOS Chrome doesn't display it, Firefox does.
Seems that I either I have to hand over the nerd card or change the browser.
Communist China steals our IP and infiltrates every major American corporation.
Uh, oh... and NSA wanted the IP back, I see.
The NSA is there to protect American interests and maintain a technological and strategic edge over rivals.
If you call China a rival already, why do you complain when China hacks you?
This is the cost of remaining the sole superpower in the world. So people give up the semblance of privacy, in exchange for global dominance of American policy - a fair trade.
I wonder how much of this post is kidding? Poe's law at it's best.
You can argue that exposing NSA's domestic spying operation is for the good of US people, but exposing hacking of a Chinese university serves no US interests whatsoever, it only gives China the moral high ground to continue its cyber attack against the US. If this is not planned by the central committee of the communist party, I don't know what is.
Nice... It's Snowden fault that NSA hacked the Chinese university, isn't it?
Or... having NSA hacking the Chinese is a patriotic gesture now?
And people hate admins when admins waste their time. Mostly by forcing them to use software or mandatory processes that simply aren't well suited to their problems.
That is like blaming the accountant for the accounting policies
Blaming the accountant? Why not help him finish the inventory control sooner (drop table assets semicolon return)?
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He's probably getting the Senior Citizen discount,
Get off his lawn!
Not for his grand-children, no.
Plus: Junior Mints for them at $5 are expensive.
Why has “get off my lawn” become code for cranky senior citizen?
I reckon the main reason for which objections to trespassing by younger generation is uncommon is most of them don't own one or don't have enough time to appreciate meticulous lawn-mowing (being busy to earn enough to pay the mortgage for one).
(in other words: just remember that "cranky is in the eye of beholder" and you should be able to enjoy your lawn without remorse...and raise the "why the crankiness" point only as a philosophical/rhetorical one)
But who pays for a ticket to get bored out of their mind and play on a cellphone?
E.g. men dragged in by their former-GF-freshly-upgraded-to-Wife1.0?
Show what you'd lose at a 50% cut. Show him the things that they want to have, that would go away if they cut that much. Often people fail to appreciate what a budget is spent on and if it gets explained what they'll have to trade off they'll be more accommodating.
You are giving the person tooooo much credit!
Look it - I've been there - HIS boss is telling him to cut costs and HIS bonus is riding on it. Got it?
HIS BONUS.
If he's smart, in the mind of the boss the thought is likely to go on the line of: "Thanks sucker for telling me how much time I have to cash my bonus".
Any talent left behind will be so stressed, bitter and tired that they won't be half as productive as they used to (they will have figuratively quit while they wait to find something better).
It is very likely the talent that you mention should be quoted (as "talent"): an explanation here (the most mobile talent - the one it's likely you would want to have - will evaporate earlier).
No, they are MOST CERTAINLY NOT "damned if they do and damned f they don't". There is a big difference between doing an ACTUAL INVESTIGATION, and arresting someone without any critical thought or due process.
If any actual critical thinking was applied here, this kid would not be arrested.
Critical thoughts/thinking? That's a crime nowadays.
Just look how much is spent on public schools to eradicate it; the mission statement of "No kid gets ahead" should be indicative of the spirit.
When working on Unix systems, it is easy to get lost at C.
Casts in C are indeed dangerous. Keeping my fingers crossed.
Bit rot is also a big problem with data.
Take a whiff from a piece of meat after 2 weeks at room temperature and compare it with how a DVD smells after the same time.
Complains on bit rot accepted only after the experiment.
To put this into perspective, if you were to write this data onto standard DVDs, the resulting stack would be more than 2 miles tall.
Once that happens, they'll be able to stop storing it on DVDs and move it into the cloud.
And before anyone knows, we would have a space elevator within the next 5 years instead of the eternal +25.
When I load slashdot.org, the window title is "Slashdot:News for nerds, stuff that matters - Mozilla Firefox. Hovering over the tab gives a similar title minus the Mozilla Firefox and the window list also gives a similar title with Firefox as the prefix.
Perhaps it depends on the browser
It seems that it does depend on the browser: on CentOS Chrome doesn't display it, Firefox does.
Seems that I either I have to hand over the nerd card or change the browser.
Yes Nerds care and last time I checked this site is *supposed* to be "News for Nerds".
Check again. No seriously, do check... can you find it NOW?
I would like to be so, but it seems that senility (lost of common functions) comes with age faster for web sites than for humans
two fitty, please
I see your 2 fitty and raise you to five fitty (and, if that's not enough, there you have some more)
Now... I'll call... whois icann?
data store maintained by a third party
What domain privacy rules would be applicable?
England is not a random European country. It is a pseudo-random US colony.
There, FTFY
It's actually quite intriguing. They've managed to reach a point where they need to join forces to create something even worse than usual.
Say... Windows 10 will have the file system running on top of an Oracle DB?
It's actually quite intriguing. They've managed to reach a point where they need to join forces to create something even worse than usual.
A pity that an "Axis of evil" usually comes in 3. Wonder who will join?
...I'm questioning Snowden's motive of revealing US hacking Chinese university, these two are totally unrelated.
Maybe I slow today, but I don't see it how this question would be of any relevance.
Russia's Interfax news agency is reporting a source at Aeroflot airline says there is a ticket in Snowden's name for a flight from Moscow to Cuba.
I wonder how much of this post is kidding? Poe's law at it's best.
You might find that has an unexpected application.
Like what? Discovering that someone which you believed to be kidding is actually a sincere extremist, but making this discovery too late?
You almost make it sound like US wars in Afghanistan and Iraq didn't make sense.
Did they actually make sense?
Communist China steals our IP and infiltrates every major American corporation.
Uh, oh... and NSA wanted the IP back, I see.
The NSA is there to protect American interests and maintain a technological and strategic edge over rivals.
If you call China a rival already, why do you complain when China hacks you?
This is the cost of remaining the sole superpower in the world. So people give up the semblance of privacy, in exchange for global dominance of American policy - a fair trade.
I wonder how much of this post is kidding? Poe's law at it's best.
You can argue that exposing NSA's domestic spying operation is for the good of US people, but exposing hacking of a Chinese university serves no US interests whatsoever, it only gives China the moral high ground to continue its cyber attack against the US. If this is not planned by the central committee of the communist party, I don't know what is.
Nice... It's Snowden fault that NSA hacked the Chinese university, isn't it?
Or... having NSA hacking the Chinese is a patriotic gesture now?
And people hate admins when admins waste their time. Mostly by forcing them to use software or mandatory processes that simply aren't well suited to their problems.
That is like blaming the accountant for the accounting policies
Blaming the accountant? Why not help him finish the inventory control sooner (drop table assets semicolon return)?
Because he's the BOFH, that's why.
Make all you sensitive transaction from a live read-only image of the OS.
...
My apologies: I forgot that, in this imperfect world, there are hardware/OS-es which can't be booted from a live image.
(ducks)