I would challenge this "no permission to use" assumption. If I were the student, I would have defended myself by saying "my home machine password is the same, i just tried it and it worked, what a coincidence!"
The amount of times I played similar pranks on lesser knowledgeable students while in college should have put me behind bars for 3 life sentences. Yet, I have grown to be a responsible family man. Maybe if i would have been put in jail for such things i would have been a hardened criminal by now.
Please tell... which computer and software would you use to convert a 10 GB large, 2h long 1080p video to 1366x768 in 2 minutes? Keeping embedded subtitles in is a requirement.
Because I already own the fucking video. What would you do, convert it just because "hey it ain't fittin'"? I can watch 1080p MKVs on my crappy Samsung S4 Mini without a hitch, it works, doesn't consume much power (30% battery for a 2h long movie is pretty darn good) and yeah the phone resolution is crap but I don't care. I care about playing the damn video.
I'm not saying they should submit to it, I'm saying there are other things one could do first, before running to HR or the judge with tears flying off their cheeks.
It is not the same thing because the undercover cop stalking you gathers data, not metadata. It's the difference between counting how many envelopes you're getting in your mailbox and how thick they are versus reading their contents.
If you're a dickhead (pun not-intended), you'll be treated like a shithead. Sexual poetry book? Talk to the dude who gave it to you, tell him it's inappropriate. or go to HR (which is usually women-biased) and tell them you felt offended, they will talk tot he dude. Colleagues discussing pornography on a plane? Tell them to keep it quiet (add "please!" because it's polite) and they will stop. if they don't, do as above. Men tend to slip back to pseudo-savagery if women aren't around in a workplace for a while, and when a woman comes in, they tend do remain savage unless their eyes are opened. Don't pry their eyes open with a crowbar and acid, do it nicely and all's gonna be okay. As for the other "reasons", they're dumb and weak. A male partner touched your leg under a table? C'mon, really now. gender bias right there: imagine a male complaining about the same thing performed by a female: I bet everyone would laugh at him. but noo, when a woman experiences it, it's baaad, it's almost rape! Unacceptable!
It looks like currently the appropriate action is "shut up and sue" rather than "talk to the offender, then HRm then escalate, then sue if issue isn't resolved and he continues".
Here's something that happened at my workplace (which fields men and women almost in equal percentages). There was this new dude who had a rather unpolished character, swearing a lot, etc. One female colleague felt offended and went to HR. Another talked to him directly, in private and explained that he's crossing some lines. Dude got it, stopped, then a week later he's called to HR (follow-up from the first woman's complaint) and slammed with 10% pay cut for 3 months. After that, everyone (men and women alike) isolated themselves from that woman (socially) because they felt uneasy around her. One could never be sure that they might slip and say something that "offended" her somehow and end up being punished for some little thing they might not have realized.
Being an arsehole swings both ways and can backfire.
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Your calculations are off by a factor of 8. You'd get whole 16 seconds, not 2, you ungrateful customer you!
I would challenge this "no permission to use" assumption.
If I were the student, I would have defended myself by saying "my home machine password is the same, i just tried it and it worked, what a coincidence!"
Why do you think most people don't do it?
There are countless cases when a victim could have been saved if anyone would have interfered, nobody did.
The amount of times I played similar pranks on lesser knowledgeable students while in college should have put me behind bars for 3 life sentences.
Yet, I have grown to be a responsible family man.
Maybe if i would have been put in jail for such things i would have been a hardened criminal by now.
Have you stopped beating your wife?
Old one.
The answer is yes.
You would say "so you used to beat her!" to which the answer is "no".
One can stop before performing the action.
This means that a new GPU has no proper reviewers for an entire year, at which point it's already obsolete.
The second xkcd is actually how you should judge review stars in reality. Anything below 4 stars is crap with inflated # of stars due to fake reviews.
It would look more like an arsehole...
...while all this time he was in Romania.
That would piss Dors off.
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So close to 8 minutes on a top machine. Not two.
This guy did: https://rolandh31.wordpress.co...
Please tell... which computer and software would you use to convert a 10 GB large, 2h long 1080p video to 1366x768 in 2 minutes? Keeping embedded subtitles in is a requirement.
Because I already own the fucking video. What would you do, convert it just because "hey it ain't fittin'"?
I can watch 1080p MKVs on my crappy Samsung S4 Mini without a hitch, it works, doesn't consume much power (30% battery for a 2h long movie is pretty darn good) and yeah the phone resolution is crap but I don't care. I care about playing the damn video.
Or a movie coming off torrents in that format.
Not if you already have it like that.
and which pants heavily when you want to watch an 1080p MKV on it.
AFAIK that's already recorded as far as snail mail is concerned.
I wouldn't care but I'm also aware I'm part of a tiny minority.
I'm not saying they should submit to it, I'm saying there are other things one could do first, before running to HR or the judge with tears flying off their cheeks.
Have them pay the customer a sum equal to the amount the customer paid for the house.
It is not the same thing because the undercover cop stalking you gathers data, not metadata. It's the difference between counting how many envelopes you're getting in your mailbox and how thick they are versus reading their contents.
When they work in an all-female team for a while, yes they can become pretty savage.
According to undisputed court testimony Pao did complain multiple times and was eventually side-lined and eventually fired.
Maybe because she was the girl who cried wolf too many times and people eventually got sick of all the drama queening.
If you're a dickhead (pun not-intended), you'll be treated like a shithead.
Sexual poetry book? Talk to the dude who gave it to you, tell him it's inappropriate. or go to HR (which is usually women-biased) and tell them you felt offended, they will talk tot he dude.
Colleagues discussing pornography on a plane? Tell them to keep it quiet (add "please!" because it's polite) and they will stop. if they don't, do as above.
Men tend to slip back to pseudo-savagery if women aren't around in a workplace for a while, and when a woman comes in, they tend do remain savage unless their eyes are opened. Don't pry their eyes open with a crowbar and acid, do it nicely and all's gonna be okay.
As for the other "reasons", they're dumb and weak.
A male partner touched your leg under a table? C'mon, really now. gender bias right there: imagine a male complaining about the same thing performed by a female: I bet everyone would laugh at him. but noo, when a woman experiences it, it's baaad, it's almost rape! Unacceptable!
It looks like currently the appropriate action is "shut up and sue" rather than "talk to the offender, then HRm then escalate, then sue if issue isn't resolved and he continues".
Here's something that happened at my workplace (which fields men and women almost in equal percentages). There was this new dude who had a rather unpolished character, swearing a lot, etc. One female colleague felt offended and went to HR. Another talked to him directly, in private and explained that he's crossing some lines. Dude got it, stopped, then a week later he's called to HR (follow-up from the first woman's complaint) and slammed with 10% pay cut for 3 months.
After that, everyone (men and women alike) isolated themselves from that woman (socially) because they felt uneasy around her. One could never be sure that they might slip and say something that "offended" her somehow and end up being punished for some little thing they might not have realized.
Being an arsehole swings both ways and can backfire.