Sweet, I'm going to install Linux on all my systems. I didn't know that Linux could prevent natural and man made disasters as well as being a stable operating system. We've been wasting all this money on backup for all these years.
Yeah, really, I mean, it's like those people that wanted to put computers the size of a room in their house! I mean, it's not like they would have ever been able to make them small enough to fit in your pocket. Think of all the time and effort that would have been wasted. I'm glad I didn't invest that failed IBM startup.
Taser's are not considered non-lethal. They are considered Less-than-lethal. Plus there has not been one death that yet that has been directly linked back to a Taser being deployed. Most of the deaths that have occured have also had high levels of drugs in their system and it wasn't clear if it was the drugs or the taser that did the damage.
It is a big deal if people punch others in and out. Say your average McDonalds has 20 employees. We'll say at least once a week one person clocks someone else in 30 minutes before they get there, and another 30 minutes after they leave. If that person gets paid minimum wage of $5.15/hr, the company would be down $133.90 for the year. That's more than the cost of a simple thumbprint biometric scanner.
Now the reality is, that person will get comfortable getting clocked in late. Most likely the other person will want something for clocking the other guy in, and they will swap out taking 30 minutes off a day, 15 at the beginning, and 15 at the end which is hard to notice. That's 2 1/2 hours a week of lost time. At minimum wage, that's going to be $334.75 lost that year in payroll. That easily justifies a biometric palm reader.
Take that cost company wide, you have thousands and thousands of stores like McDonalds does. This figure becomes astronomical. The cost of purchasing the biometric system is now almost nothing compared to the lost wages.
Everyone knows that if you tape a lot of flashlights together you can bend light. I mean, the brighter it is the more bendy. It's one of those laws of movie physics.
I might have been the person you talked to. Was it about 4-5 months ago? I remember talking to someone with OpenBSD. It's really rare to get someone who knows what their talking about call in.
What companies are counting on is that you will forget you even sent the rebate in. What I do is when I buy something with a rebate on it, I promptly follow all instructions and look at the promised date for fulfillment. I then flip through the rebate tracking calendar I keep on my desk and write down on the promised date what the rebate is for, any contact number for the fulfillment agency and the date I am sending it in.
As I recieve checks in the mail I flip through the calendar and mark out the entry on there. If I reach a date and the entry has not been marked out, I promptly call the company and complain about the rebate. When they give me another promised date I transfer the information from the date I am on to the new promised date and make a note that I have contacted them once.
I follow this procedure until I get a check or if I go through 3 contacts with no check, I usually send off a e-mail to the FTC complaining about the company.
While this process is time consuming, it makes sure you get your money.
The old high school I went to was a private school. They had a policy saying if you managed to break the security on the network you were to report it immediately to a admin. Also the policy was to immediately suspend the person who broke the security and to permanently revoke computer privledges. There were so many security holes I wanted to report to the school, but I knew that if I told them I would be suspended. Schools are not doing themselves any good punishing those that try to help.
The few of us in school that actually knew how to use the computers were watched closely. I couldn't do anything without a teacher standing over my shoulder. I once got in trouble by opening a telnet window to connect to my home computer. Apparently anything on the screen that looks different to the teacher is immediately dangerous.
We need to educate our teachers on how to properly teach students, not let them monitor things they don't know. Public school or private, the US education system is seriously flawed.
If you want to try this with the FCC's blessings, I would suggest a Amateur radio license. There is a lot going on in the field of packet radio. The speeds aren't very fast, but the amateur bands have some real possibilities for development, the ham radio community is always looking for people with ideas to help make the hobby even more fun.
wow, I actually got that to work. Took me a little longer than 2 minutes to do though. make the wire fit was the hardest thing to do. And my soldering iron got some revenge on my finger while I was at it.
A quick suggestion for anyone that's going to try this, first of all, be especially careful with the soldering iron (lesson relearned). And try to prefit the wire into the hole, I spent the most time trying to narrow the wire down enough to get it down to size.
I think that he is wrong that open source causes security breaches. I actually think that open source is a cause for less security breaches. If you look at the response time between a hole in an open source system getting fixed and a hole in a closed source system getting fixed, you will see that it takes far less time for the open source one to at least have a patch out for it. While the closed source one usually takes weeks or even months to even hear from the publisher that it is even a problem.
Don't get me wrong though, open source isn't for everyone, but I do think that open source does seem to handle the problem of bad security faster than other types.
Now if they are referring to possible back doors being inserted into open source software, how do you know the closed source software doesn't have back doors. In fact in closed source software, there isn't even a way to check if there is a hole without having to tear apart the product.
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Sweet, I'm going to install Linux on all my systems. I didn't know that Linux could prevent natural and man made disasters as well as being a stable operating system. We've been wasting all this money on backup for all these years.
I was really hoping for Majestik Moose. Seemed like the obvious choice to me.
How about we realize that we are far more likely to be killed by cancer than the cars we drive?
How about we quit giving away all our hard won freedoms like a bunch of seatbelted pussies?
Yeah, really, I mean, it's like those people that wanted to put computers the size of a room in their house! I mean, it's not like they would have ever been able to make them small enough to fit in your pocket. Think of all the time and effort that would have been wasted. I'm glad I didn't invest that failed IBM startup.
Though, it is funnier to steal just the engine or gas tank.
Great tax break?
Taser's are not considered non-lethal. They are considered Less-than-lethal. Plus there has not been one death that yet that has been directly linked back to a Taser being deployed. Most of the deaths that have occured have also had high levels of drugs in their system and it wasn't clear if it was the drugs or the taser that did the damage.
Damn, you beat me to it.
That was most likely your active directory configuration wizard.
I think my head just exploded...
It is a big deal if people punch others in and out. Say your average McDonalds has 20 employees. We'll say at least once a week one person clocks someone else in 30 minutes before they get there, and another 30 minutes after they leave. If that person gets paid minimum wage of $5.15/hr, the company would be down $133.90 for the year. That's more than the cost of a simple thumbprint biometric scanner.
Now the reality is, that person will get comfortable getting clocked in late. Most likely the other person will want something for clocking the other guy in, and they will swap out taking 30 minutes off a day, 15 at the beginning, and 15 at the end which is hard to notice. That's 2 1/2 hours a week of lost time. At minimum wage, that's going to be $334.75 lost that year in payroll. That easily justifies a biometric palm reader.
Take that cost company wide, you have thousands and thousands of stores like McDonalds does. This figure becomes astronomical. The cost of purchasing the biometric system is now almost nothing compared to the lost wages.
Don't you think that's a little harsh? I mean, the punishment needs to match the crime here.
Everyone knows that if you tape a lot of flashlights together you can bend light. I mean, the brighter it is the more bendy. It's one of those laws of movie physics.
Did some digging around on the Star Wars site.
If you would like to report this theater, you can call:
Disney Exhibitor Relations
(818) 560-6200
I might have been the person you talked to. Was it about 4-5 months ago? I remember talking to someone with OpenBSD. It's really rare to get someone who knows what their talking about call in.
Yea, I was beginning to wonder if I was the only one that noticed that.
Couldn't have said it better myself =)
What companies are counting on is that you will forget you even sent the rebate in. What I do is when I buy something with a rebate on it, I promptly follow all instructions and look at the promised date for fulfillment. I then flip through the rebate tracking calendar I keep on my desk and write down on the promised date what the rebate is for, any contact number for the fulfillment agency and the date I am sending it in.
As I recieve checks in the mail I flip through the calendar and mark out the entry on there. If I reach a date and the entry has not been marked out, I promptly call the company and complain about the rebate. When they give me another promised date I transfer the information from the date I am on to the new promised date and make a note that I have contacted them once.
I follow this procedure until I get a check or if I go through 3 contacts with no check, I usually send off a e-mail to the FTC complaining about the company.
While this process is time consuming, it makes sure you get your money.
The old high school I went to was a private school. They had a policy saying if you managed to break the security on the network you were to report it immediately to a admin. Also the policy was to immediately suspend the person who broke the security and to permanently revoke computer privledges. There were so many security holes I wanted to report to the school, but I knew that if I told them I would be suspended. Schools are not doing themselves any good punishing those that try to help.
The few of us in school that actually knew how to use the computers were watched closely. I couldn't do anything without a teacher standing over my shoulder. I once got in trouble by opening a telnet window to connect to my home computer. Apparently anything on the screen that looks different to the teacher is immediately dangerous.
We need to educate our teachers on how to properly teach students, not let them monitor things they don't know. Public school or private, the US education system is seriously flawed.
Read the top row? It has letters? I thought it was a picture of a horse!
If you want to try this with the FCC's blessings, I would suggest a Amateur radio license. There is a lot going on in the field of packet radio. The speeds aren't very fast, but the amateur bands have some real possibilities for development, the ham radio community is always looking for people with ideas to help make the hobby even more fun.
wow, I actually got that to work. Took me a little longer than 2 minutes to do though. make the wire fit was the hardest thing to do. And my soldering iron got some revenge on my finger while I was at it.
A quick suggestion for anyone that's going to try this, first of all, be especially careful with the soldering iron (lesson relearned). And try to prefit the wire into the hole, I spent the most time trying to narrow the wire down enough to get it down to size.
I think that he is wrong that open source causes security breaches. I actually think that open source is a cause for less security breaches. If you look at the response time between a hole in an open source system getting fixed and a hole in a closed source system getting fixed, you will see that it takes far less time for the open source one to at least have a patch out for it. While the closed source one usually takes weeks or even months to even hear from the publisher that it is even a problem. Don't get me wrong though, open source isn't for everyone, but I do think that open source does seem to handle the problem of bad security faster than other types. Now if they are referring to possible back doors being inserted into open source software, how do you know the closed source software doesn't have back doors. In fact in closed source software, there isn't even a way to check if there is a hole without having to tear apart the product.
of course... everyone knows that alien computers are all i386 compatible.