They have actually a very simple policy designed to make the security guy's work easy enough for a guy who gets paid $6/hr to do it. Check the receipt on every item not in a bag. Check the receipt on any obvious high price item going out the store.
That's it.
The grill (which you described as big) was presumably not in a box.
This also helps to prevent fraud committed by employees. Imagine that the cashier was helping his friend steal the grill. It looks like he went through the checkout, it looks like he paid for it, but when the security guard checks the receipt...
Security personnel are not police officers but are often confused with them due to similar uniforms and behaviors, especially on private property. Security personnel derive their powers not from the state, as public police officers do, but from a contractual arrangement that give them 'Agent of the Owner' powers. This includes a nearly unlimited power to question with the freedom of an absence of probable cause requirements that frequently dog public law enforcement officers. Additionally, as legal precedents have further restrained the traditional police officers' power of "officer discretion" regarding arrests in the field, requiring a police officer to arrest minor lawbreakers, private security personnel still enjoy such powers of discretion largely due to their private citizen status. Since the laws regarding the limitations of powers generally have to do with public law enforcement, private security is relatively free to utilize non-traditional means to protect and serve their clients' interests. This does not come without checks, however, as private security personnel do not enjoy the benefit of civil protection, as public law enforcement officers do, and can be sued directly for false arrests and illegal actions if they commit such acts....
Except in these special cases, a security guard who misrepresents himself as a police officer is committing a crime. However, security personnel by their very nature often work in cooperation with police officials. Police are called in when a situation warrants a higher degree of authority to act upon reported observations of the security personnel that could not be directly acted upon safely by the security personnel.
Only on/. would someone make a point to mention that they put on clean underware before leaving their domicile. I think normal people must take clean underware for granted!
Only on slashdot would someone try to get away with first claiming to be a woman, then a fashionable woman (who reads and posts on slashdot no less) capable of making their own clothes, then blow their cover by talking about putting on clean underwear before leaving home.
Like another poster, I was at a target with my wife yesterday. I'm very white. They failed to charge us for two items, and being honest people, we informed the cashier. Cashier calls manager. Manager says: who cares... have a nice weekend, and then walks to the exit and starts inspecting the receipts vs. goods of hispanic-appearing patrons leaving the store.
Doesn't an email address defeat the purpose of being an anonymous coward?
I don't think you understand the momentousness of this occassion.
HE'S THE GUY The anonymous coward. How many times have we been irritated with his postings? How often has he trolled? Now we finally know who he is! I foresee the greatest email bombing to ever hit the net in final retaliation for his long years of tormenting us all.
I believe the claim is straightforward: CO2 drives global temperatures, and thus climate. There is a natural CO2 cycle over time that has varied from 200-300 ppm over the last 800,000 years (all of the years we have data for).
We're now at over 380 ppm. Perhaps we should be concerned that given a natural range of 250 +- 50 ppm we are now at 250 + 130 ppm (more than double the typical natural range over the last 800k years). Whether or not it is our fault, we might want to give some thought to whether or not we want to live with the possible consequences, and whether or not we'd like to do something about them before it is too late.
Even if we decide to do nothing this year, or this decade, perhaps such an extreme change is worthy of funding a little bit more study... fate of mankind potentially being at stake and all.
Indeed, and Windows has this nifty utility, regedit, that will let you edit literally millions of configuration settings that are not available in the UI. I have no doubt that configuration of this sound will also be editable by regedit, even if it is nowhere in the UI.
Those bulbs are not very bright... in many applications, people want 6-8x the lumens, so if you multiply 1/30th * 6 lights = 1/5th you're right back in the same place you were with CF, and way more expensive (not to mention needing 6 sockets).
LED lighting has a ways to go yet. But I really hope it gets there because the color is way better.
I have the latest phillips cf bulbs, I just installed a batch of 8 in my condo. The light is still ugly-harsh. I still have to use incandescent for reading. At least all of the utility lights are replaced at this point.
Still, I'm hopefull that home LED lighting will soon allow me to replace those last bulbs where I care about the quality of the light.
He's constantly trying to get me to switch jobs. Unfortunately, my current job is paying me quite ludicrously, so I'm not switching for now. But the games industry in general is desperate to hire right now. The problem is that most 'game dev' schools are churning out utter crap for candidates. They haven't really done much development, they can barely code at all, or their art skills are crud. The game school programs just don't produce the kind of candidates the industry wants. You're better off going to a real school, getting a real CS degree, and producing a game in your spare time. That's the kind of candidate the game industry will gobble up.
And I'm still waiting for an architecture change. How about finally retiring the byte as a base logical unit? In return, just use the bit, or whatever word length the machine is./i?
This has already happened. The base logical unit on conroe is the 64bit longword. You can access bits and bytes (and 32bits) within that of course, since that's a necessity for various kinds of programs.
I go with a similar strategy. I always list 'all software developed for Surt's software, including future maintenance and development', noting that because I am bound by an NDA I cannot describe this software futher, and that because I have agreed to do continued consulting in my spare time I may have to continue to provide them additional software. No one has ever contested this, and in 4 tries, all 4 jobs hired me in spite of this.
Indeed, though given where I was trying to work, they were one of the better paying options, and I could have lived with the frustration for a couple years in exchange for the money. Since then I've moved to an area with many more opportunities, and I certainly wouldn't consider working for such a project now.
That reminds me of a phone interview I had with SBC. They passed me around to a few people to answer some technical questions, and it became increasingly clear that they didn't understand enough about what they were doing to understand my solutions to their problems. The further I went in trying to explain the number of easier ways to do things that were available to them, the more entrenched they got in the notion that what I was suggesting was impossible, and couldn't work (ignoring of course the very successful company I came out of using these techniques).
In the end they didn't hire me, I laughed when the recruiter told me they thought I couldn't solve their problems. Two years later the project they were going to hire me for was canceled as a failure, a project I could have helped them wrap up in less than a year (faster if I could have taught someone else to help me).
Probably you want to realize the company doesn't care enough about its hiring practices to have a bright future, and move on.
If you're an employer, you want to make sure that your interviewers have a strong enough grasp of the interview questions not to be wrong about possible valid answers. Allowing inexperienced developers to interview candidates is a recipe for disaster. You don't build a quality company by delegating this task to the inexperienced. You accept that this is work that is best done by your most experienced people, and that it is one of the most valuable uses of their time that you can make.
It's even worse than that. Generally Sci-D degrees are the bought and paid for kind, even at the 'prestigious' schools. So it doesn't even prove that she has studied or knows how to write reports.
I'm pretty sure that every sane country will require you to treat a clone as you would treat any other child. They'll have all the usual human rights, and the parent will have all the usual power over their child til the age of majority.
Certainly seeing how you would turn out if you raised yourself is an interesting question, it will be fascinating to see as that technology becomes practical.
On #1, I think incest is usually separated out because the victim is seen as even more vulnerable. The force involved in the rape tends to be of a different nature. In addition, the resulting pregnancy is fraught with risks due to genetic disease factors.
For #2, that is certainly debateable. In the rape of a minor and incest cases, a risky pregnancy is guaranteed, so life of the mother is an automatic background fact. Rape of an adult woman by an unrelated man vs risks to life of the mother is a more debateable case. Forcing a woman to carry will carry risks (mental health, and others) that at least make that strongly comparable to other health of the mother issues, and of course every pregnancy carries a not insignificant risk of death to the mother, so you have to ask at exactly what life risk level it becomes acceptable to force a woman to carry a child to term.
Frankly I just thought it was rather convenient ignoring the strongest claims on abortion when discussing how a civilized society could do without them. If you want to try to make a case that they're immoral in general, don't go after the weakest cases.
Here's a hierarchy of abortions (I think most people will agree with this, at least roughly):
Most moral:
Incest Rape of a minor Rape Life of the mother Long term Health of the mother Short term Health of the mother Life threatening birth defects Misery causing birth defects ------ Your proposal stops here, at best Early Reproductive Control Late Reproductive Control Enjoys killing fetuses
As you can see, you really haven't covered much ground, morally.
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They have actually a very simple policy designed to make the security guy's work easy enough for a guy who gets paid $6/hr to do it. Check the receipt on every item not in a bag. Check the receipt on any obvious high price item going out the store.
...
That's it.
The grill (which you described as big) was presumably not in a box.
This also helps to prevent fraud committed by employees. Imagine that the cashier was helping his friend steal the grill. It looks like he went through the checkout, it looks like he paid for it, but when the security guard checks the receipt
No consequences to you unless he places you under arrest. And then he and the store are both fucked in court when you bring false arrest charges.
...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_guard
Of particular interest:
Security personnel are not police officers but are often confused with them due to similar uniforms and behaviors, especially on private property. Security personnel derive their powers not from the state, as public police officers do, but from a contractual arrangement that give them 'Agent of the Owner' powers. This includes a nearly unlimited power to question with the freedom of an absence of probable cause requirements that frequently dog public law enforcement officers. Additionally, as legal precedents have further restrained the traditional police officers' power of "officer discretion" regarding arrests in the field, requiring a police officer to arrest minor lawbreakers, private security personnel still enjoy such powers of discretion largely due to their private citizen status. Since the laws regarding the limitations of powers generally have to do with public law enforcement, private security is relatively free to utilize non-traditional means to protect and serve their clients' interests. This does not come without checks, however, as private security personnel do not enjoy the benefit of civil protection, as public law enforcement officers do, and can be sued directly for false arrests and illegal actions if they commit such acts.
Except in these special cases, a security guard who misrepresents himself as a police officer is committing a crime. However, security personnel by their very nature often work in cooperation with police officials. Police are called in when a situation warrants a higher degree of authority to act upon reported observations of the security personnel that could not be directly acted upon safely by the security personnel.
Only on /. would someone make a point to mention that they put on clean underware before leaving their domicile. I think normal people must take clean underware for granted!
Only on slashdot would someone try to get away with first claiming to be a woman, then a fashionable woman (who reads and posts on slashdot no less) capable of making their own clothes, then blow their cover by talking about putting on clean underwear before leaving home.
Like another poster, I was at a target with my wife yesterday. I'm very white. They failed to charge us for two items, and being honest people, we informed the cashier. Cashier calls manager. Manager says: who cares ... have a nice weekend, and then walks to the exit and starts inspecting the receipts vs. goods of hispanic-appearing patrons leaving the store.
We must ban all Commodores, to save the children of course. Think of the children!
Thanks, that's exactly the thing that got us into this mess in the first place.
Attention perverts:
STOP Thinking of the children!
Doesn't an email address defeat the purpose of being an anonymous coward?
I don't think you understand the momentousness of this occassion.
HE'S THE GUY The anonymous coward. How many times have we been irritated with his postings? How often has he trolled? Now we finally know who he is! I foresee the greatest email bombing to ever hit the net in final retaliation for his long years of tormenting us all.
I think the economic equivalent of the topsoil blowing away is all of your customers dying from heat exposure.
I'm not sure we want to wait and be reactive on this one.
I believe the claim is straightforward: CO2 drives global temperatures, and thus climate. There is a natural CO2 cycle over time that has varied from 200-300 ppm over the last 800,000 years (all of the years we have data for).
... fate of mankind potentially being at stake and all.
We're now at over 380 ppm. Perhaps we should be concerned that given a natural range of 250 +- 50 ppm we are now at 250 + 130 ppm (more than double the typical natural range over the last 800k years). Whether or not it is our fault, we might want to give some thought to whether or not we want to live with the possible consequences, and whether or not we'd like to do something about them before it is too late.
Even if we decide to do nothing this year, or this decade, perhaps such an extreme change is worthy of funding a little bit more study
... followed by the brown noise.
Indeed, and Windows has this nifty utility, regedit, that will let you edit literally millions of configuration settings that are not available in the UI. I have no doubt that configuration of this sound will also be editable by regedit, even if it is nowhere in the UI.
Those bulbs are not very bright ... in many applications, people want 6-8x the lumens, so if you multiply 1/30th * 6 lights = 1/5th you're right back in the same place you were with CF, and way more expensive (not to mention needing 6 sockets).
LED lighting has a ways to go yet. But I really hope it gets there because the color is way better.
I have the latest phillips cf bulbs, I just installed a batch of 8 in my condo. The light is still ugly-harsh. I still have to use incandescent for reading. At least all of the utility lights are replaced at this point.
Still, I'm hopefull that home LED lighting will soon allow me to replace those last bulbs where I care about the quality of the light.
He's constantly trying to get me to switch jobs. Unfortunately, my current job is paying me quite ludicrously, so I'm not switching for now. But the games industry in general is desperate to hire right now. The problem is that most 'game dev' schools are churning out utter crap for candidates. They haven't really done much development, they can barely code at all, or their art skills are crud. The game school programs just don't produce the kind of candidates the industry wants. You're better off going to a real school, getting a real CS degree, and producing a game in your spare time. That's the kind of candidate the game industry will gobble up.
Indeed, or the rather obvious alternative that no one ever seems to bring up:
....
Define a planet as 'one of the nine classical planets, or any body meeting the following definition'
Problem solved already.
And I'm still waiting for an architecture change. How about finally retiring the byte as a base logical unit? In return, just use the bit, or whatever word length the machine is./i?
This has already happened. The base logical unit on conroe is the 64bit longword. You can access bits and bytes (and 32bits) within that of course, since that's a necessity for various kinds of programs.
I go with a similar strategy. I always list 'all software developed for Surt's software, including future maintenance and development', noting that because I am bound by an NDA I cannot describe this software futher, and that because I have agreed to do continued consulting in my spare time I may have to continue to provide them additional software. No one has ever contested this, and in 4 tries, all 4 jobs hired me in spite of this.
Indeed, though given where I was trying to work, they were one of the better paying options, and I could have lived with the frustration for a couple years in exchange for the money. Since then I've moved to an area with many more opportunities, and I certainly wouldn't consider working for such a project now.
That reminds me of a phone interview I had with SBC. They passed me around to a few people to answer some technical questions, and it became increasingly clear that they didn't understand enough about what they were doing to understand my solutions to their problems. The further I went in trying to explain the number of easier ways to do things that were available to them, the more entrenched they got in the notion that what I was suggesting was impossible, and couldn't work (ignoring of course the very successful company I came out of using these techniques).
In the end they didn't hire me, I laughed when the recruiter told me they thought I couldn't solve their problems. Two years later the project they were going to hire me for was canceled as a failure, a project I could have helped them wrap up in less than a year (faster if I could have taught someone else to help me).
Probably you want to realize the company doesn't care enough about its hiring practices to have a bright future, and move on.
If you're an employer, you want to make sure that your interviewers have a strong enough grasp of the interview questions not to be wrong about possible valid answers. Allowing inexperienced developers to interview candidates is a recipe for disaster. You don't build a quality company by delegating this task to the inexperienced. You accept that this is work that is best done by your most experienced people, and that it is one of the most valuable uses of their time that you can make.
It's even worse than that. Generally Sci-D degrees are the bought and paid for kind, even at the 'prestigious' schools. So it doesn't even prove that she has studied or knows how to write reports.
Actually, by her definition, chess would only be something like 20% violent (what percentage of chess moves typically result in a capture?)
Could I buy some server time to get my initial compile to under a week?
I'm sorry, but their grid isn't that big.
I'm pretty sure that every sane country will require you to treat a clone as you would treat any other child. They'll have all the usual human rights, and the parent will have all the usual power over their child til the age of majority.
Certainly seeing how you would turn out if you raised yourself is an interesting question, it will be fascinating to see as that technology becomes practical.
On #1, I think incest is usually separated out because the victim is seen as even more vulnerable. The force involved in the rape tends to be of a different nature. In addition, the resulting pregnancy is fraught with risks due to genetic disease factors.
For #2, that is certainly debateable. In the rape of a minor and incest cases, a risky pregnancy is guaranteed, so life of the mother is an automatic background fact. Rape of an adult woman by an unrelated man vs risks to life of the mother is a more debateable case. Forcing a woman to carry will carry risks (mental health, and others) that at least make that strongly comparable to other health of the mother issues, and of course every pregnancy carries a not insignificant risk of death to the mother, so you have to ask at exactly what life risk level it becomes acceptable to force a woman to carry a child to term.
Frankly I just thought it was rather convenient ignoring the strongest claims on abortion when discussing how a civilized society could do without them. If you want to try to make a case that they're immoral in general, don't go after the weakest cases.
Here's a hierarchy of abortions (I think most people will agree with this, at least roughly):
Most moral:
Incest
Rape of a minor
Rape
Life of the mother
Long term Health of the mother
Short term Health of the mother
Life threatening birth defects
Misery causing birth defects
------ Your proposal stops here, at best
Early Reproductive Control
Late Reproductive Control
Enjoys killing fetuses
As you can see, you really haven't covered much ground, morally.