Mine wasn't a feature that didn't work properly. Mine was a disagreement with the Evolution team over whether an email reply could be at the top of it if had to be at the bottom.
Their argument was that it was best practice to have your reply to an email below the original. So that you can read it as a thread. Which makes sense. The problem with that is no one outside of IT uses email like that. The reply is always at the top and I wanted an option put in that would allow the reply to be at the top. I even offered to put a bounty on it as we wanted it for work. I got told where to go.
Net result is that we went with Thunderbird and lightning instead.
Lol. I haven't watched office space so I can't say how much of a match it is. But I'm guessing it's not flattering!
Essentially I get requests from internal staff for our bespoke system to do something. They think it should be simple, like turning coal into diamond. They are both carbon right?!?! you should be able to do that easily! I then decide what is actually worth doing, what is achievable and then the cost benefits around each idea. From there I turn these into a technical plan for the development team to work on.
Then from the flip side I have to explain why the design the development team has come up with won't work when exposed to a general user. Why telling a user "just don't do that then" is not the right approach to a bug. Why latency in this area is actually really crap.
It's kinda fun actually. As I said though I'm not a developer but I can understand what it is you are talking about. And I am still enough of a geek that I enjoy building different systems just to see what they do.
Work has changed a lot recently though which means my teams are heaps smaller so I don't get to do this as much anymore:(
I have provided a great deal of detail. Supplying the files that caused the problems, the specs and details of the machines that had the problem and documented steps for how I caused the issue.
Generally I would get no response or the bug would be marked as known / duplicate and nothing would happen further. And when I would read the duplicate my impression would be that they weren't even remotely similar.
The one time I had a longer interaction with a developer I ended up not having the debug tools installed to be able to give him the output he needed to reproduce.
My day job sees me working as a technicalish manager where I am the interface between the general staff and the development team. I may not be a developer but I understand enough to translate. I still couldn't manage it with the projects I tried to help.
I don't believe that 75% comment for a second. There is currently an argument between the police union and the police commissioner with the union pushing for 100% cameras and the police commissioner pushing back saying there are significant unresolved privacy issues about wearing cameras all the time. As it stands there are cameras in most of the larger stations but they are generally used by the fortitude valley and brisbane city branches.
As for the coppers buying their own camera I don't see it. I don't see it on the police walking around and I don't get it from friends and family that are in the force.
Source - My father was a general duties police officer of 35 years till he retired in July. My brother in law is currently in comms working through police training.
As for police bias for or against in the courts - police shootings are actually rare in Australia. Even drawing your firearm results in an internal investigation. The same goes for discharging a taser. This sounds like standard procedure to get all the information. The stuff I read about in the states and places like Fergusen are almost unbelievable from my experiences here.
Unless you are committing code the projects I have tried to get involved with have been a black hole in terms of response.
Documentation is a bitch because things are changing all the time and as a user you are often behind the 8 ball for where development is going. For bug tracking and reporting issues my experience has been either I get no response or I don't have the capabilities to supply the developer with the information they need to track the bug down.
As for artwork I am artistically dead....
The most positive experience with projects has actually been with a game, gnomoria, which is a closed source program with a single developer. I think knowing you are getting paid probably makes a difference.
The opposite end of the spectrum was trying to work with the development team for Evolution (mail client). There was a lot of "if you don't use it this way you are stupid" type responses.
From a news report of ITWire from the 17th of September this year.
Privacy, resourcing hurdles for Brisbane 'robocops'.
Queensland Police’s chief commissioner remains unconvinced about the benefits of cameras pinned to the chests of police officers, despite his southern counterparts pledging $4 million to the technology.
Qld chief commissioner Ian Stewart yesterday told Fairfax radio he still wasn’t fully satisfied that privacy, resourcing and value-for-money issues had been ironed out to the extent that the QPS could proceed with a full rollout of body-worn cameras, beyond limited use of the devices planned for the G20 summit in November.
“It is not quite as simple as putting a camera on a body,” he said, describing privacy as one of the biggest hurdles still to be overcome.
“There are issues such as police walking into a domestic violence situation, where children are involved[or] having the camera on when they are dealing with a sexual offence,” he said.
He also raised doubts about whether the debt-laden state government could afford such an enterprise.
“There is a huge cost behind this. That is about the storage of the information and it is about the classification of the information and the amount of time that the officers are going to have to spend at the end of a shift downloading it and putting into secure storage."
“We are talking about a significant impact on time out on the road,” he said.
Stewart, who has overseen the Queensland Police’s pioneering iPad scheme did, however, concede that the era of “the robocop” was on its way.
“Ultimately I think it is coming, butit still comes down to the human being behind that camera and them doing their job professionally.”
Stewart’s southern counterparts in the NSW Police force have already signed off on the purchase of body-worn cameras for officers, but NSW Police Minister Stuart Ayres declined to comment on the concerns raised by Stewart.
Police unions in both states have vocally backed the technology.
Queensland Police Union president Ian Leavers told the Courier Mail in July the cameras should be thought of as “the modern equivalent of the police notebook”.
The Police Association of NSW said “it has been shown the presence of this type of video can often defuse potentially violent situations without the need for force to be used”.
QLD Police force use body cams. They are worn at the discretion of the officer but must be on during all times they are patrolling. All the video is time stamped and there needs to be a reason why it was turned off - ie went to the toilet. Turning them off during an incident would get you severely punished here.
The video is then handed over to a dedicated unit that curates all the data. It is not possible for an officer to access the raw data directly.
Generally speaking one office in a group wears one when on foot patrol in areas with high alcohol or other related type incidents. So the Valley of Brisbane CBD at night. These have been in place for years and I am not aware of any issues that have arisen from their use.
Hmmm did a quick read. There are primarily two types of breathalyser, the semi-conductor and fuel cell types. Apparently the semi-conductor ones will give a false positive on keytones produced by ketoacidosis but the fuel cell ones wont. Typically the fuel cell types are the ones used by law enforcement.
Depends on where you live. Drivers licenses are the adhoc age verification for anywhere restricted where I live and at 34 I'm still getting carded 50% of the time. The penalties on the venues are so high they don't let minors in.
If you are diabetic you would ask for the bloodtest and the whole conversation would be over. Though as I understand it to have enough alcohol on your breath from a diabetic episode you are in a pretty bad way.
They took them out for a different reason to what the OP thinks.
People were using them to push the line of driving. ie i'm at 0.049 I will drive. But due to the inaccuracy of those machines it actually had the effect of increasing the number of drink drivers. The people who would have ensured they had a designated driver were now using these machines and putting someone behind the wheel they shouldn't have.
The problem stemming from that was that they were installed by the government and the person would argue, but the pub machine said I was fine, your machine must be out. Any if it was the pub machine that was out you have failed in providing me with incorrect information. Overall it became a very thorny issue of liability and over something that was actually putting people who were on the line of being over the limit on the road. It was a lose lose situation.
As an anecdote I was in a pub once and used one of those machines to get a feel for how my blood alcohol would shift with each glass of wine. I was in a state where there was no WAY I would have driven and the machine was still saying I was under. As a result I got access to a police machine (dad was a copper) and did the same test. I was way way over the limit before I had consumed the same amount of alcohol.
There is no way that you will blow over 0.05 after a 3% pint. IF you had the alcohol in your mouth at the time of taking the test you may be able to vaporise enough from the actual liquid to screw the test up but that is why the FIRST question they ask is 'HAVE YOU HAD ANYTHING TO DRINK IN THE PAST HOUR?" If you say yes they will not base a decision on the result of a breathalyser at that time. You will be asked to blow and if you do blow over you will sit on the side of the road for 30 minutes at which time you will blow again. If you fail that one you will then be given the option of a blood test.
As for blowing over 0.05 you actually need a significant amount of alcohol. The advice here is that for a man 2 standard drinks in the first our and 1 each hour after that will keep you under 0.05. For me at 85kg I will often not even register after 7 standard drinks across a 5 hour period.
Could of points - these are records of people charged not arrested. You can be arrested and not charged.
Also the law and current statues allow the publishing of details of people charged with a crime. The difference here is that the UK police are specifically promoting that they will report the information on a particular subset more publicly than normal. This doesn't change the fact that the information was public in the first place.
With regards to criminal and arrest information not being public, give some thought to what would happen if these things were kept confidential. There would no longer be ANY ability to track or monitor abuse of the criminal system by the government. You would not know that all of a sudden an extra 50,000 possession charges had been laid by your local force. You will be placing far more trust in the judicial system then you currently do and you would be creating a large vector for abuse.
Hmmm a quick search shows that this is an incorrect assumption. The re-offend rate in Australia is between 20% & 30%. I have also annecdotally known a number of people who got caught drink driving and wouldn't ever do it again. A year without a license is a killer in Australia.
You will only be in front of a Judge if you have been charged. The conviction will occur when in front of the judge as will sentencing.
A drink driving charge in the UK will ONLY come about after you have failed a breathalyser or blood test. There is no requirement for your driving to actually have been poor, or dangerous or anything like that. Only that your blood alcohol level exceeded 0.08 (that is what it was in 2003 it may now be 0.05). Your only hope of winning when you are in front of a judge is to prove the device you were tested on was not checked and calibrated.
As for proving it, good fucking luck. I can only comment on the Queensland police force as I have had a lot of personal dealings with them, but at the end of every shift all Lidars and Breathalysers are placed into a calibration machine. These are then serial logged that they have been tested and at the beginning of the shift the officers only take devices from the machine. It is also generally located at the same place as the armoury and equipment stores.
You may get tackled after passing the ball but you dont get hit when you are on the other side of the field. The other thing is no tackles above the shoulders. High hits get huge penalties that are not restricted to the match itself. A high hit will see financial fines and suspensions.
On top of that I think the helmets are actually dangerous in American Football. They are completely different from the head gear you see union or league players wearing and provide a hard surface to crash into. It is like they are equipped with weapons.
Add to this the education campaigns which have been very effective at stigmatising drink drivers AND those that let their mates drink drive. The combination of knowing you run a pretty good chance of getting caught and people around you trying to stop you has been very effective.
This was the first thing that came to mind. I have had the cheek swab on the way out of the Valley after a night out. It was a two part process. First was blow in the machine. Second was cheek swab. I has on pickup duty so had a car full of drunk people at 2am so I would have been prime target.
The problem then is that your supporters riot. I think they don't get enough of a fix of things happening on the pitch so they beat the crap out of each other afterwards.
Or Rugby Union, Rugby League, AFL. All are full contact sports without the armour that is worn in American Football.
But the styles of the games are completely different. From an uninterested observer American Football seems to have a lot of two lines of armoured tanks crashing into each other in the hope that the line gets broken. It doesn't seem to matter as much who has the ball. In all of types of rugby attacking a player who doesn't have the ball is a foul and that includes taking out defenders or attackers.
In the same way that a glass of water with an ice cube in it will be at a lower temperature than the air around it. If the ice cube was essentially infinite (ie like space) then the water will always be at a lower temperature than the air. Energy will flow from the air to the water and from the water to ice cube.
Given that heat transfer is not instant there will always be a temperature differential at each stage.
White roofs are very common where I live in sunny Brisbane Australia. My own is white with the beautiful name of "Sea Spray". Though lots of people opt for dark coloured tiles, it seems to be the norm for tin roofs to be light.
No Westminster system is party based for elections you vote for individuals. Though some of those systems have a hybrid system for the Senate / House of review.
Looking at - https://commons.wikimedia.org/... I would guess first past the post (US style) is probably the most represented, followed by a hybrid then party based.
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Mine wasn't a feature that didn't work properly. Mine was a disagreement with the Evolution team over whether an email reply could be at the top of it if had to be at the bottom.
Their argument was that it was best practice to have your reply to an email below the original. So that you can read it as a thread. Which makes sense. The problem with that is no one outside of IT uses email like that. The reply is always at the top and I wanted an option put in that would allow the reply to be at the top. I even offered to put a bounty on it as we wanted it for work. I got told where to go.
Net result is that we went with Thunderbird and lightning instead.
Lol. I haven't watched office space so I can't say how much of a match it is. But I'm guessing it's not flattering!
Essentially I get requests from internal staff for our bespoke system to do something. They think it should be simple, like turning coal into diamond. They are both carbon right?!?! you should be able to do that easily! I then decide what is actually worth doing, what is achievable and then the cost benefits around each idea. From there I turn these into a technical plan for the development team to work on.
Then from the flip side I have to explain why the design the development team has come up with won't work when exposed to a general user. Why telling a user "just don't do that then" is not the right approach to a bug. Why latency in this area is actually really crap.
It's kinda fun actually. As I said though I'm not a developer but I can understand what it is you are talking about. And I am still enough of a geek that I enjoy building different systems just to see what they do.
Work has changed a lot recently though which means my teams are heaps smaller so I don't get to do this as much anymore :(
I have provided a great deal of detail. Supplying the files that caused the problems, the specs and details of the machines that had the problem and documented steps for how I caused the issue.
Generally I would get no response or the bug would be marked as known / duplicate and nothing would happen further. And when I would read the duplicate my impression would be that they weren't even remotely similar.
The one time I had a longer interaction with a developer I ended up not having the debug tools installed to be able to give him the output he needed to reproduce.
My day job sees me working as a technicalish manager where I am the interface between the general staff and the development team. I may not be a developer but I understand enough to translate. I still couldn't manage it with the projects I tried to help.
I don't believe that 75% comment for a second. There is currently an argument between the police union and the police commissioner with the union pushing for 100% cameras and the police commissioner pushing back saying there are significant unresolved privacy issues about wearing cameras all the time. As it stands there are cameras in most of the larger stations but they are generally used by the fortitude valley and brisbane city branches.
As for the coppers buying their own camera I don't see it. I don't see it on the police walking around and I don't get it from friends and family that are in the force.
Source - My father was a general duties police officer of 35 years till he retired in July. My brother in law is currently in comms working through police training.
As for police bias for or against in the courts - police shootings are actually rare in Australia. Even drawing your firearm results in an internal investigation. The same goes for discharging a taser. This sounds like standard procedure to get all the information. The stuff I read about in the states and places like Fergusen are almost unbelievable from my experiences here.
Unless you are committing code the projects I have tried to get involved with have been a black hole in terms of response.
Documentation is a bitch because things are changing all the time and as a user you are often behind the 8 ball for where development is going. For bug tracking and reporting issues my experience has been either I get no response or I don't have the capabilities to supply the developer with the information they need to track the bug down.
As for artwork I am artistically dead....
The most positive experience with projects has actually been with a game, gnomoria, which is a closed source program with a single developer. I think knowing you are getting paid probably makes a difference.
The opposite end of the spectrum was trying to work with the development team for Evolution (mail client). There was a lot of "if you don't use it this way you are stupid" type responses.
Also here is a link to a photo of the Aus police ones - they look pretty well reinforced.
http://resources2.news.com.au/...
From a news report of ITWire from the 17th of September this year.
Privacy, resourcing hurdles for Brisbane 'robocops'.
Queensland Police’s chief commissioner remains unconvinced about the benefits of cameras pinned to the chests of police officers, despite his southern counterparts pledging $4 million to the technology.
Qld chief commissioner Ian Stewart yesterday told Fairfax radio he still wasn’t fully satisfied that privacy, resourcing and value-for-money issues had been ironed out to the extent that the QPS could proceed with a full rollout of body-worn cameras, beyond limited use of the devices planned for the G20 summit in November.
“It is not quite as simple as putting a camera on a body,” he said, describing privacy as one of the biggest hurdles still to be overcome.
“There are issues such as police walking into a domestic violence situation, where children are involved[or] having the camera on when they are dealing with a sexual offence,” he said.
He also raised doubts about whether the debt-laden state government could afford such an enterprise.
“There is a huge cost behind this. That is about the storage of the information and it is about the classification of the information and the amount of time that the officers are going to have to spend at the end of a shift downloading it and putting into secure storage."
“We are talking about a significant impact on time out on the road,” he said.
Stewart, who has overseen the Queensland Police’s pioneering iPad scheme did, however, concede that the era of “the robocop” was on its way.
“Ultimately I think it is coming, butit still comes down to the human being behind that camera and them doing their job professionally.”
Stewart’s southern counterparts in the NSW Police force have already signed off on the purchase of body-worn cameras for officers, but NSW Police Minister Stuart Ayres declined to comment on the concerns raised by Stewart.
Police unions in both states have vocally backed the technology.
Queensland Police Union president Ian Leavers told the Courier Mail in July the cameras should be thought of as “the modern equivalent of the police notebook”.
The Police Association of NSW said “it has been shown the presence of this type of video can often defuse potentially violent situations without the need for force to be used”.
Read more: http://www.itnews.com.au/News/...
QLD Police force use body cams. They are worn at the discretion of the officer but must be on during all times they are patrolling. All the video is time stamped and there needs to be a reason why it was turned off - ie went to the toilet. Turning them off during an incident would get you severely punished here.
The video is then handed over to a dedicated unit that curates all the data. It is not possible for an officer to access the raw data directly.
Generally speaking one office in a group wears one when on foot patrol in areas with high alcohol or other related type incidents. So the Valley of Brisbane CBD at night. These have been in place for years and I am not aware of any issues that have arisen from their use.
Hmmm did a quick read. There are primarily two types of breathalyser, the semi-conductor and fuel cell types. Apparently the semi-conductor ones will give a false positive on keytones produced by ketoacidosis but the fuel cell ones wont. Typically the fuel cell types are the ones used by law enforcement.
Not that often. But if co-workers want to go to the pub after work and I have trained it in that would be seriously annoying.
Depends on where you live. Drivers licenses are the adhoc age verification for anywhere restricted where I live and at 34 I'm still getting carded 50% of the time. The penalties on the venues are so high they don't let minors in.
If you are diabetic you would ask for the bloodtest and the whole conversation would be over. Though as I understand it to have enough alcohol on your breath from a diabetic episode you are in a pretty bad way.
They took them out for a different reason to what the OP thinks.
People were using them to push the line of driving. ie i'm at 0.049 I will drive. But due to the inaccuracy of those machines it actually had the effect of increasing the number of drink drivers. The people who would have ensured they had a designated driver were now using these machines and putting someone behind the wheel they shouldn't have.
The problem stemming from that was that they were installed by the government and the person would argue, but the pub machine said I was fine, your machine must be out. Any if it was the pub machine that was out you have failed in providing me with incorrect information. Overall it became a very thorny issue of liability and over something that was actually putting people who were on the line of being over the limit on the road. It was a lose lose situation.
As an anecdote I was in a pub once and used one of those machines to get a feel for how my blood alcohol would shift with each glass of wine. I was in a state where there was no WAY I would have driven and the machine was still saying I was under. As a result I got access to a police machine (dad was a copper) and did the same test. I was way way over the limit before I had consumed the same amount of alcohol.
Bullshit.
There is no way that you will blow over 0.05 after a 3% pint. IF you had the alcohol in your mouth at the time of taking the test you may be able to vaporise enough from the actual liquid to screw the test up but that is why the FIRST question they ask is 'HAVE YOU HAD ANYTHING TO DRINK IN THE PAST HOUR?" If you say yes they will not base a decision on the result of a breathalyser at that time. You will be asked to blow and if you do blow over you will sit on the side of the road for 30 minutes at which time you will blow again. If you fail that one you will then be given the option of a blood test.
As for blowing over 0.05 you actually need a significant amount of alcohol. The advice here is that for a man 2 standard drinks in the first our and 1 each hour after that will keep you under 0.05. For me at 85kg I will often not even register after 7 standard drinks across a 5 hour period.
Could of points - these are records of people charged not arrested. You can be arrested and not charged.
Also the law and current statues allow the publishing of details of people charged with a crime. The difference here is that the UK police are specifically promoting that they will report the information on a particular subset more publicly than normal. This doesn't change the fact that the information was public in the first place.
With regards to criminal and arrest information not being public, give some thought to what would happen if these things were kept confidential. There would no longer be ANY ability to track or monitor abuse of the criminal system by the government. You would not know that all of a sudden an extra 50,000 possession charges had been laid by your local force. You will be placing far more trust in the judicial system then you currently do and you would be creating a large vector for abuse.
Hmmm a quick search shows that this is an incorrect assumption. The re-offend rate in Australia is between 20% & 30%. I have also annecdotally known a number of people who got caught drink driving and wouldn't ever do it again. A year without a license is a killer in Australia.
http://www.aic.gov.au/publicat...
You will only be in front of a Judge if you have been charged. The conviction will occur when in front of the judge as will sentencing.
A drink driving charge in the UK will ONLY come about after you have failed a breathalyser or blood test. There is no requirement for your driving to actually have been poor, or dangerous or anything like that. Only that your blood alcohol level exceeded 0.08 (that is what it was in 2003 it may now be 0.05). Your only hope of winning when you are in front of a judge is to prove the device you were tested on was not checked and calibrated.
As for proving it, good fucking luck. I can only comment on the Queensland police force as I have had a lot of personal dealings with them, but at the end of every shift all Lidars and Breathalysers are placed into a calibration machine. These are then serial logged that they have been tested and at the beginning of the shift the officers only take devices from the machine. It is also generally located at the same place as the armoury and equipment stores.
You may get tackled after passing the ball but you dont get hit when you are on the other side of the field. The other thing is no tackles above the shoulders. High hits get huge penalties that are not restricted to the match itself. A high hit will see financial fines and suspensions.
On top of that I think the helmets are actually dangerous in American Football. They are completely different from the head gear you see union or league players wearing and provide a hard surface to crash into. It is like they are equipped with weapons.
Add to this the education campaigns which have been very effective at stigmatising drink drivers AND those that let their mates drink drive. The combination of knowing you run a pretty good chance of getting caught and people around you trying to stop you has been very effective.
This was the first thing that came to mind. I have had the cheek swab on the way out of the Valley after a night out. It was a two part process. First was blow in the machine. Second was cheek swab. I has on pickup duty so had a car full of drunk people at 2am so I would have been prime target.
The problem then is that your supporters riot. I think they don't get enough of a fix of things happening on the pitch so they beat the crap out of each other afterwards.
Or Rugby Union, Rugby League, AFL. All are full contact sports without the armour that is worn in American Football.
But the styles of the games are completely different. From an uninterested observer American Football seems to have a lot of two lines of armoured tanks crashing into each other in the hope that the line gets broken. It doesn't seem to matter as much who has the ball. In all of types of rugby attacking a player who doesn't have the ball is a foul and that includes taking out defenders or attackers.
In the same way that a glass of water with an ice cube in it will be at a lower temperature than the air around it. If the ice cube was essentially infinite (ie like space) then the water will always be at a lower temperature than the air. Energy will flow from the air to the water and from the water to ice cube.
Given that heat transfer is not instant there will always be a temperature differential at each stage.
White roofs are very common where I live in sunny Brisbane Australia. My own is white with the beautiful name of "Sea Spray". Though lots of people opt for dark coloured tiles, it seems to be the norm for tin roofs to be light.
No Westminster system is party based for elections you vote for individuals. Though some of those systems have a hybrid system for the Senate / House of review.
Looking at - https://commons.wikimedia.org/... I would guess first past the post (US style) is probably the most represented, followed by a hybrid then party based.