To be completely ethically correct, you need a source species able to give informed consent. At this point, we only know of one example, and only in some extraordinarily self-aware examples.
If you do financial math with floating point numbers, you need to step away from the keyboard and let professionals do the programming.
Sounds like those people learned to program from a school advertizing on the back of a matchbook. You need to watch out for that, or Richard Pryor will come to your office and smash your laser printer with a baseball bat.
I guess it's too late for someone to trademark and market Placebo? How much more should they charge for higher dosages? You can't get in trouble with the FDA as long as you make no claims of efficacy for any particular malady, right?
Moral of the story, if you live in a third-world country without a safe drinking water supply, like Louisiana, you might want to boil your water before filling your sinuses up with it with a neti pot. Or else you might get a bad case of microscopic brain-eating monsters.
I sprint into the local "convenient care " before work and a random doc looks at me and prescribes a decongestant and expectorant (that cost 2x the OTC usually) saying he doesn't want to give me antibiotics YET. Thanks.
So I'm back in the office 3-4 day later, almost unable to talk, haven't slept in days, throat killing me, and throat is totally red with green mucus streaking down in the back. "Ooooh! you have a bad sinus infection now! Here's some antibiotics!" Thanks. Now why couldn't we have just done this three days ago instead of putting me through two days of hell?
So the last two times I went in I relayed the above story and they conceded maybe antibiotics before it gets REALLY bad is a good plan for me. And I was sooo thankful, instead of it taking several more days of winding down misery, another two weeks in all, one round of refills to clear up, it was much better the very next day and cleared up in 5 days, both times.
Maybe if you established a relationship with a regular GP or ENT Dr, maybe he would become familiar with your history and not wait to prescribe the antibiotics?
(cue flamefest from people who don't have health insurance...)
Exactly. I tried telling IT and any manager that would listen, but for naught.
Fun fact for someone like me who has access to a LOT of systems, applications, databases, multiple desktops, PLUS all the usually corporate fluff of expense systems, payroll/attendance systems...
Now replicate those "strong" password protocols on all of them. Also they all have to be different.
Yeah, your going to get good passwords that way. Hell the people who only have access to a handful of systems postit note passwords on their monitors.
Also now that IT support is likely getting about a BAZILLION tech support calls a day for "Hey I for got my password for X system..." they likely give it out like candy, which really means rather than even trying to break a weak password using a postit note that is right there staring you in the face, just call up tech support, and ask for a password and they will give it to you.
I work for a 350,000 person company, and you just exactly described their policy. Read it and weep. But you already suspected as much.
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To be completely ethically correct, you need a source species able to give informed consent.
At this point, we only know of one example, and only in some extraordinarily self-aware examples.
Nahh, they need to bill this as the "data preservation act", free backups for everybody. They can spin it as a job-creator in the hard drive industry!
meh, it would only be worth if it included some sort of accountancy simulator module, otherwise it might be too stimulating.
Reminds me of an electronic fraud scheme where a hacker stole all the tenth's of cents left over from bank accounts.
You mean Office Space?
No, Richard "great balls of fire" Pryor. [citation]
If you do financial math with floating point numbers, you need to step away from the keyboard and let professionals do the programming.
Sounds like those people learned to program from a school advertizing on the back of a matchbook. You need to watch out for that, or Richard Pryor will come to your office and smash your laser printer with a baseball bat.
You haven't switched over to electronic or camera toll collection yet?!!!
savages...
Pretty sure there's been rebellions over that type of stuff. But my history might be a bit rusty....
There's a reason EFG (epic FAIL guy) wears a Guy Fawkes mask...
Moore's law has been extended to the point where it is a sociological or economic observation, not a physical one.
I guess it's too late for someone to trademark and market Placebo? How much more should they charge for higher dosages? You can't get in trouble with the FDA as long as you make no claims of efficacy for any particular malady, right?
I'll just leave this here...
Moral of the story, if you live in a third-world country without a safe drinking water supply, like Louisiana , you might want to boil your water before filling your sinuses up with it with a neti pot. Or else you might get a bad case of microscopic brain-eating monsters.
I sprint into the local " convenient care " before work and a random doc looks at me and prescribes a decongestant and expectorant (that cost 2x the OTC usually) saying he doesn't want to give me antibiotics YET. Thanks.
So I'm back in the office 3-4 day later, almost unable to talk, haven't slept in days, throat killing me, and throat is totally red with green mucus streaking down in the back. "Ooooh! you have a bad sinus infection now! Here's some antibiotics!" Thanks. Now why couldn't we have just done this three days ago instead of putting me through two days of hell?
So the last two times I went in I relayed the above story and they conceded maybe antibiotics before it gets REALLY bad is a good plan for me. And I was sooo thankful, instead of it taking several more days of winding down misery, another two weeks in all, one round of refills to clear up, it was much better the very next day and cleared up in 5 days, both times.
Maybe if you established a relationship with a regular GP or ENT Dr, maybe he would become familiar with your history and not wait to prescribe the antibiotics?
(cue flamefest from people who don't have health insurance...)
Pink Noise a transvestite band.
Obviously, with a name with Elon Musk , they guy's destined to be a Bond villain.
Why else would he be building ICBMs ?
Exactly. I tried telling IT and any manager that would listen, but for naught.
Fun fact for someone like me who has access to a LOT of systems, applications, databases, multiple desktops, PLUS all the usually corporate fluff of expense systems, payroll/attendance systems...
Now replicate those "strong" password protocols on all of them. Also they all have to be different.
Yeah, your going to get good passwords that way. Hell the people who only have access to a handful of systems postit note passwords on their monitors.
Also now that IT support is likely getting about a BAZILLION tech support calls a day for "Hey I for got my password for X system..." they likely give it out like candy, which really means rather than even trying to break a weak password using a postit note that is right there staring you in the face, just call up tech support, and ask for a password and they will give it to you.
I work for a 350,000 person company, and you just exactly described their policy. Read it and weep. But you already suspected as much.
oh yeah, I can top that!
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Somebody will forget the run the Windows 95 server stuck in a closet in Kansas that the whole thing relies on every two months?
Al Gore claimed to have invented the intarwebs
Jesus F. Christ, give this a rest. This wasn't funny the first time I heard this bullshit in about 1999, and it sure hasn't improved with age.
But the nerd rage that follows is always hilarious !
Watch out Hollywood, the VCR is going to cripple your business model!
I used to have a viable business model, then I took a VCR in the knee.
You know, that's not funny, my business model was raped by a VCR once.
I seem to recall M.U.L.E.s were unreliable -- they had a tendency to run off after lightning storms.
Actually, I imagined them locating gas stations near the battlefield, ripping up gas pumps, and unreeling rubber proboscises to feed.
I'd still prefer to have a flying car.
Although a pack of these trampling your village would be pretty fearsome.
wait, no, make them bigger... 1/2 truck size.
Real money spent on virtual clothes for virtual pets.
I just cannot make the mental leap to understanding that.
What's " real " about our " money "?!!!
gizmag, really?!!
Couldn't you have at least found the story at Janes?!!
Watch it , that's how tPtB discredited Bob Lazar!
Although you'd think something like PROMIS might make a good model to build on.
Can this putty pick up the comics section from the local newspaper as it heals your bones? If not, I'm out.
I think you probably stumped some of the younger slashdotters with that joke.
yeah, wot's a "newspaper" ?!!!