> important, creative jobs, putting in over 60 hours every week,
That's your problem right there. Instead of spending an extra 2 hours a day at work, and also expecting to do 2 hours of personal stuff at work, people with "important" jobs should just go home at 5pm sharp and do their shopping and banking at home.
I mean, if you're working for a company like Palantir, doing some cutting-edge data visualization stuff, and then, lookie here, on your free time, you just "happen" to come up with a cool data visualization program that you're selling via PayPal on the Internets, your employer might have some concern.
But, in any case, why are you working on your personal bank account at work?
What to do: When you go to work, work. Do it well for 8 hours. Then go home. Watch TV, the news, do your banking (if you're one of those people that needs to compulsively check their balance online). Facebook, email, skype your friends.
What not to do: Spend 10-12 hours at the office, and 4 of those are just goofing off. Watch Youtube, read the news and ESPN. Facebook, email, skype your friends. Do your personal banking at work.
Why is it that the answer to everything seems to be to fire someone?
If the cafeteria equipment is sub-par, why can't the person in charge simply be told to get better equipment instead of being fired?
Is this a common approach to problem solving in most companies?
Bug tracker not easy to use? Fire someone. Windows has an occasional crash? Fire somebody. There was a brownout and you didn't have enough diesel for the backup generators? Fire the whole IT dept.
I wonder what the people who are quite vociferously attacking this fellow think of Steve Jobs' claim to have invented "IPHONE".
"All this technology already existed"
"There were touchscreen phones before Jobs' phone"
"This wasn't the first smartphone!"
"This wasn't the first phone"
"People had been making phone calls for a long time before the so-called IPHONE".
"There were plenty of ITU standards for telephony before IPHONE."
"Once you have the idea of integrated circuits and communication by radio waves, the implementation of a multitouch screen phone with Internet is quite obvious. Implementation left as an exercise for the reader. "
"Anybody could have done that."
"It's quite natural that an Internet-based phone would be called some combination of Internet phone, I-PHONE, or IPHONE. Call it IPHONESYSTEM to help you understand better."
I believe you must be an employee either private or in the government (university?) sector.
Let's say you were an entrepreneur. You had just created an awesome, geeky device, perhaps influenced by Nikola Tesla's technology. If it were any good, you'd want to tell the world about it, no?
Well, you can either go to something like Hyde Park, and tell people about it (literally). Or you can buy space in someone's magazine/newspaper/TV program and reach many more people. That's advertising.
Saying advertising is evil is like saying speaking is evil or writing is evil.
I was also interested in the idea of a standing desk, until I heard about Policeman's Heel (Plantar Fasciitis) and how standing all day can contribute to that.
Data security classically was: you keep your data in a mainframe, and give people only terminals.
Then it was: You give people PCs, but put gum in the USB slots.
These days that's hard to do because motherboards want keyboards and mice to be USB.
Not to mention laptops. And in some companies (like Nokia US), it's all laptops all the time. And mobile (i.e., no) offices.
In such a scenario, how do you protect against an employee who wants to cp the entire database (design, products, customers, whatever)? Or other documents?
Seems these days the news just tars someone as "consorting with illegal copiers", and everybody goes, Oh noes!
Exactly how clean does a dollar have to be before you accept it? How far do you have to go with a purity test? And how would that impact the ability of a lot people to even get basic services (even food)?
He's the one that appointed some MAFIAA lawyer to be head of the "copyright police".
He did that because Hollywood wants that, and Hollywood gives him $$.
So he doesn't care for him (in the sense that Slashdotters don't care for SCO). But he does care that maximum punishment be inflicted upon unauthorized duplicators.
Slashdot Mirror
I agree with your philosophy.
About the USB ports: companies used to put epoxy in them, but what do you do about USB keyboards/mice? The general trend seems to be toward laptops.
How do you enforce data security?
Wait, your banking is online, but it has to be done during business hours? Are they using mechanical turks on the other end?
Wait, but most people have health insurance through their employers. They already know your SSNs and health info anyway.
And, yeah, IT has access to all of it.
> important, creative jobs, putting in over 60 hours every week,
That's your problem right there. Instead of spending an extra 2 hours a day at work, and also expecting to do 2 hours of personal stuff at work, people with "important" jobs should just go home at 5pm sharp and do their shopping and banking at home.
Out of all the posts, this is a good point.
They could put cameras in the bathrooms, but they don't.
So, it might be best just to blacklist all https use (unless whitelisted for a specific business purpose).
It seems like you're saying it should be OK to spend an hour or so goofing off as long as you actually do some work (4 or 5 hours?).
But why should you spend any time goofing off at work? Just do your job, and go home, right at 5pm.
Then play WoW or whatever, at home.
Depends.
I mean, if you're working for a company like Palantir, doing some cutting-edge data visualization stuff, and then, lookie here, on your free time, you just "happen" to come up with a cool data visualization program that you're selling via PayPal on the Internets, your employer might have some concern.
Good point.
But, in any case, why are you working on your personal bank account at work?
What to do: When you go to work, work. Do it well for 8 hours. Then go home. Watch TV, the news, do your banking (if you're one of those people that needs to compulsively check their balance online). Facebook, email, skype your friends.
What not to do: Spend 10-12 hours at the office, and 4 of those are just goofing off. Watch Youtube, read the news and ESPN. Facebook, email, skype your friends. Do your personal banking at work.
>which means that somebody needs to be fired.
Why is it that the answer to everything seems to be to fire someone?
If the cafeteria equipment is sub-par, why can't the person in charge simply be told to get better equipment instead of being fired?
Is this a common approach to problem solving in most companies?
Bug tracker not easy to use? Fire someone.
Windows has an occasional crash? Fire somebody.
There was a brownout and you didn't have enough diesel for the backup generators? Fire the whole IT dept.
>I know, right?! We got a plastic spork and a single-ply napkin wrapped in cellophane.
You got sporks wrapped in cellphones? So that's what they're doing with the excess RIM Blackberry inventory?
I wonder what the people who are quite vociferously attacking this fellow think of Steve Jobs' claim to have invented "IPHONE".
"All this technology already existed"
"There were touchscreen phones before Jobs' phone"
"This wasn't the first smartphone!"
"This wasn't the first phone"
"People had been making phone calls for a long time before the so-called IPHONE".
"There were plenty of ITU standards for telephony before IPHONE."
"Once you have the idea of integrated circuits and communication by radio waves, the implementation of a multitouch screen phone with Internet is quite obvious. Implementation left as an exercise for the reader. "
"Anybody could have done that."
"It's quite natural that an Internet-based phone would be called some combination of Internet phone, I-PHONE, or IPHONE. Call it IPHONESYSTEM to help you understand better."
I believe you must be an employee either private or in the government (university?) sector.
Let's say you were an entrepreneur. You had just created an awesome, geeky device, perhaps influenced by Nikola Tesla's technology. If it were any good, you'd want to tell the world about it, no?
Well, you can either go to something like Hyde Park, and tell people about it (literally). Or you can buy space in someone's magazine/newspaper/TV program and reach many more people. That's advertising.
Saying advertising is evil is like saying speaking is evil or writing is evil.
you google "people who google 'chemicals to passout a person'"?
He needs to get a junior dev to push the desk from side to side.
Bonus points if you can pass it off to the PHB as pair programming.
I was also interested in the idea of a standing desk, until I heard about Policeman's Heel (Plantar Fasciitis) and how standing all day can contribute to that.
Anybody in the know about that?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plantar_fasciitis
I think what he's trying to say by "one thing" is you've got one page, and that's where all the action happens (like Gmail, Google Maps, or whatever).
For a page-oriented application where you're clicking around to different URLs, one of the PHP frameworks with URL routing might be better.
National Aeronautics and Space Administration^H^H^H^H^H
National Assorted Stuff Agency
What kind of system do you have, and what size monitor? Just wondering.
Wait, which binary blobs would those be?
Korea
Data security classically was: you keep your data in a mainframe, and give people only terminals.
Then it was: You give people PCs, but put gum in the USB slots.
These days that's hard to do because motherboards want keyboards and mice to be USB.
Not to mention laptops. And in some companies (like Nokia US), it's all laptops all the time. And mobile (i.e., no) offices.
In such a scenario, how do you protect against an employee who wants to cp the entire database (design, products, customers, whatever)? Or other documents?
Maybe this should be an Ask Slashdot.
You mean like Google makes money off of
"infringing copyright law"?
Very important point.
Seems these days the news just tars someone as "consorting with illegal copiers", and everybody goes, Oh noes!
Exactly how clean does a dollar have to be before you accept it? How far do you have to go with a purity test? And how would that impact the ability of a lot people to even get basic services (even food)?
Yeah, he does.
He's the one that appointed some MAFIAA lawyer to be head of the "copyright police".
He did that because Hollywood wants that, and Hollywood gives him $$.
So he doesn't care for him (in the sense that Slashdotters don't care for SCO). But he does care that maximum punishment be inflicted upon unauthorized duplicators.
Took the words out of my mouth (hey, wait, are you Siri?!)