I've worked in organizations where, because you can tunnel over SSH, it was banned and blocked over the network. Everything had to be done with Telnet instead. I'm not joking. That is probably what started my loathing of net admins.
Every position I've ever had for every company I've ever worked for, the head boss in the corner office has always been a woman. I hear about these barriers to women in management positions and that it has something to do with my evil white penis, but I have never ever seen this in the real world.
Now there may be barriers in upper board room level management but that's a very small segment of the professional world. And a woman has a better chance at CEO than me. As a short balding male, I my chances there are statistically zero.
The v.92 handshake still sounds rather recent to me, especially considering I just bought one to send to my mother so she could use AOL (I'm not kidding - she wanted AOL because she's used to it - I didn't know they were still around!).
I'd have rather heard a Bell 212A carrier. Older, and much less silly sounding than these newfangled 56k modems.
I believe in the invisible deity in the sky, but I don't want it taught in schools. That's faith, and there's already a place to learn that. And it's optional.
Blame the politicians who are overstepping their authority. It's as simple as that. State legislature has no business manipulating curriculum for any purpose. Federal government has even less authority.
They caught some poor teenage Muslim kid in Iraq with a bomb vest, fortunately before he detonated it. When asked why he was doing it, the kid said, "It's the only way I'm going to get any virgins."
That does sort of blur the line between material and religious.
In the beginning of the Bible, there was nothing. It doesn't say there wasn't something before that, and how blasphemous to say that there wasn't. But since the universe started as a singularity, there's no way, by the confines of our own existence, we can ever know or understand what it might have been. Or not been. I, personally, think we'll all find out some day but it's a one way trip.
About the bronze age fore bearers, God told people what they needed to know when it was important. The last communication was, "Be nice to people". We should do more of that.
I've read the literature and seen the videos from the people who believe the word-for-word literal meaning of Genesis. It just doesn't align with science that we can touch and feel. So that limits the choices.
1. Give up on the science that I can prove.
2. Give up on the religion that I believe.
3. Accept that science is how and the Bible is why.
There's a 4th that some suggest, that God created the Earth as in Genesis as we see it today. That millions of years of plate tectonics and erosion we see were just put there all at once for us.
But the God I believe in is huge and has infinite patience. Spending 14 billion years creating the heavens and the earth is easy for him. Let their be light? How about infinite light and energy in zero space. That's light so intense we can't even describe it mathematically! And science backs that up. We can look at the cosmic microwave background radiation and see God's word in his own handwriting!
Anyways, if one can accept that the Bible is an explanation and a guide on how to live our lives, suddenly it and science start to align in really amazing ways. One of those is that something happened long ago that nearly wiped out the human race. Flood? Maybe. Meteor? We have geologic evidence for that. Volcano? Plague? Solar eruption? It really doesn't matter. All that matters is that God had a reason to start over from one or a very small number of humans, and did it.
So that's my opinion. It helps that both pastors of my church have engineering degrees. I asked one of them about this once. He said, "Did Adam have a belly button"?
Studies of mitochondrial DNA suggest that the human race was narrowed down to just several or even one female at a point in our past, possibly around 180,000 years ago. Same narrowing with males appears with the Y-chromosome. I believe the flood of Genesis is telling the story of one or more catastrophic events that nearly killed off the human race and caused the genetic narrowing we can observe today. So I think that "flood" is a metaphor for one of any number of things that could have happened over time.
I've found card transactions to be much faster than cash, especially considering the kid at the register frequently can't handle basic math. More annoying, if something is $1.35 and I hand over 2 bucks and a dime because I want three quarters in change, the kid will stare at it blankly for a while, and then hand me back my dime, 2 quarters, another dime, and a nickel. Grrr.
I stop at the same store every couple of days for a drink refill. It comes to $1.02 with tax. Since I don't want 98 cents in change, I whip out the plastic every time. The store owner winces because he's probably losing all his profit to the Visa fee. He should just drop the price by 2 cents and I'll pay cash.
But no store is ever going to do that if they can't verify that your account is in good standing. Same with checks. The few stores that still accept checks always verify them electronically first. And a credit card wouldn't be nearly as safe as a check, considering writing a bad check is still a criminal offense (in the U.S.).
I see the dumbest simplest apps coming with ads. An ad supported stopwatch? Give me a freakin break. And ads or no ads, it's probably scraping my emails and contacts.
No judge will ever force AT&T to provide service to this customer. They can cut him off at any time. The ONLY question is whether they can try to bill him an ETF. Good question, considering they've both breached the contract, but no way are they going to waste a court hearing over a couple hundred bucks.
IANAL, but I did take a kick ass contract law course once.
Two fundamentals of contract law:
1. I give you this and you give me that.
2. You can't force anyone to do anything.
The first is important because value has to travel both directions. "I hereby give you my car" is not a contract. "I hereby give you my car and you give me a hundred dollars" is a contract.
Let's say you show up with the $100 and I change my mind. Can you make me sell the car? No way! Can you make me pay for your $10 cab fare for the ride over? Yes. Those are damages. My breach of contract cost you $10.
Let's say you don't show. Can I take your $100? No way! But if the car depreciated while I was waiting on you and now the car will only sell for $90, you could be liable for the $10 difference. Those are damages. Your breach of contract cost me $10.
Somebody hasn't read the terms of their service. AT&T claims the right to terminate for any reason at any time.
Anybody can break a contract at any time for any reason. The only recourse for the other party is to sue for damages.
That's basic contract law.
In the case of AT&T, the damages are the cost of your phone subsidy. Thus the termination fee. For the customer? Harder to prove damages. Perhaps if you missed out on a Verizon sale to go with AT&T you could sue for the difference, but that's not likely.
Companies all the time are trying contracts for services. Whenever I cancel one, they cry, "But you agreed to the contract!". Sure, now I'm unagreeing to the contract. Prove damages, or STFU.
I don't know about meth, but I do know that the price of cigarettes has no effect on how much I want one or how many I would consume. Anyone who's taken macroeconomics knows that cigarette taxes are entirely about revenue, not prevention. Addiction's a bitch.
And when they ask for permission to search, say "NO!"
My local newspaper lists arrests every week, and it always start out with a speeding stop, then drugs found during a consent search. Even if you're not guilty, who knows if the previous owner of your car didn't hide a joint somewhere and forget about it.
If someone has a one in a million chance to determine my password how much of a threat is that to me if the site that requires the password only allows a few attempts before it locks the account?
When I see this implemented, it's usually like 3 attempts until lockout. Make it a few hundred. That's enough that a forgetful human has plenty of tries but a brute force attack will fail.
Part of the job is learning it on your own, volunteering for new things, and sometimes exaggerating your experience to get into new technologies. No company has ever spent a dime on my training, yet I've managed to build a killer resume just by never ever saying "No" to anything.
I'm working in a Java shop and the PHB sent out a group email looking for volunteers with.NET experience. My coworkers are exceptionally good at Java and I know they'd figure out C# over a weekend, but nobody volunteered! Except me. I got a 12 week gig (with paid overtime!) and all the latest Microsoft buzzwords to add to my resume.
Slashdot Mirror
Free to walk in, but $15 to park (Udvar Hazy center, where they will display the Discovery).
Okay.
There might be a story about how to do something INSIGHTFUL in a magazine I borrowed from someone a few months back in some place somewhere.
Karma bonus, here I come...
If you get an "Informative" mod for that, I'm giving up on Slashdot.
I've worked in organizations where, because you can tunnel over SSH, it was banned and blocked over the network. Everything had to be done with Telnet instead. I'm not joking. That is probably what started my loathing of net admins.
Do they still let sandwiches and apples on?
I think a peanut butter and jelly sandwich would probably set off the bomb detector and result in a rather vigorous body cavity search.
Why is it the federal government's job to fund this service at all?
"Hearing impaired" is not the preferred phrase
Yeah, it should be HEARING IMPAIRED!!!!!
Every position I've ever had for every company I've ever worked for, the head boss in the corner office has always been a woman. I hear about these barriers to women in management positions and that it has something to do with my evil white penis, but I have never ever seen this in the real world.
Now there may be barriers in upper board room level management but that's a very small segment of the professional world. And a woman has a better chance at CEO than me. As a short balding male, I my chances there are statistically zero.
The v.92 handshake still sounds rather recent to me, especially considering I just bought one to send to my mother so she could use AOL (I'm not kidding - she wanted AOL because she's used to it - I didn't know they were still around!).
I'd have rather heard a Bell 212A carrier. Older, and much less silly sounding than these newfangled 56k modems.
I believe in the invisible deity in the sky, but I don't want it taught in schools. That's faith, and there's already a place to learn that. And it's optional.
Blame the politicians who are overstepping their authority. It's as simple as that. State legislature has no business manipulating curriculum for any purpose. Federal government has even less authority.
We won the civil war and are now stuck with them, they are as American as anyone.
We're stuck with California, too.
They caught some poor teenage Muslim kid in Iraq with a bomb vest, fortunately before he detonated it. When asked why he was doing it, the kid said, "It's the only way I'm going to get any virgins."
That does sort of blur the line between material and religious.
In the beginning of the Bible, there was nothing. It doesn't say there wasn't something before that, and how blasphemous to say that there wasn't. But since the universe started as a singularity, there's no way, by the confines of our own existence, we can ever know or understand what it might have been. Or not been. I, personally, think we'll all find out some day but it's a one way trip.
About the bronze age fore bearers, God told people what they needed to know when it was important. The last communication was, "Be nice to people". We should do more of that.
Anyways, it's turtles all the way down!
I've read the literature and seen the videos from the people who believe the word-for-word literal meaning of Genesis. It just doesn't align with science that we can touch and feel. So that limits the choices.
1. Give up on the science that I can prove.
2. Give up on the religion that I believe.
3. Accept that science is how and the Bible is why.
There's a 4th that some suggest, that God created the Earth as in Genesis as we see it today. That millions of years of plate tectonics and erosion we see were just put there all at once for us.
But the God I believe in is huge and has infinite patience. Spending 14 billion years creating the heavens and the earth is easy for him. Let their be light? How about infinite light and energy in zero space. That's light so intense we can't even describe it mathematically! And science backs that up. We can look at the cosmic microwave background radiation and see God's word in his own handwriting!
Anyways, if one can accept that the Bible is an explanation and a guide on how to live our lives, suddenly it and science start to align in really amazing ways. One of those is that something happened long ago that nearly wiped out the human race. Flood? Maybe. Meteor? We have geologic evidence for that. Volcano? Plague? Solar eruption? It really doesn't matter. All that matters is that God had a reason to start over from one or a very small number of humans, and did it.
So that's my opinion. It helps that both pastors of my church have engineering degrees. I asked one of them about this once. He said, "Did Adam have a belly button"?
There are at least 3,141 school districts in the U.S. This is one of them.
And "considering firing the teacher" ranges anywhere from "Most Likely" to "We're just saying this so the annoying parent will stop bothering us."
Studies of mitochondrial DNA suggest that the human race was narrowed down to just several or even one female at a point in our past, possibly around 180,000 years ago. Same narrowing with males appears with the Y-chromosome. I believe the flood of Genesis is telling the story of one or more catastrophic events that nearly killed off the human race and caused the genetic narrowing we can observe today. So I think that "flood" is a metaphor for one of any number of things that could have happened over time.
I've found card transactions to be much faster than cash, especially considering the kid at the register frequently can't handle basic math. More annoying, if something is $1.35 and I hand over 2 bucks and a dime because I want three quarters in change, the kid will stare at it blankly for a while, and then hand me back my dime, 2 quarters, another dime, and a nickel. Grrr.
I stop at the same store every couple of days for a drink refill. It comes to $1.02 with tax. Since I don't want 98 cents in change, I whip out the plastic every time. The store owner winces because he's probably losing all his profit to the Visa fee. He should just drop the price by 2 cents and I'll pay cash.
But no store is ever going to do that if they can't verify that your account is in good standing. Same with checks. The few stores that still accept checks always verify them electronically first. And a credit card wouldn't be nearly as safe as a check, considering writing a bad check is still a criminal offense (in the U.S.).
I see the dumbest simplest apps coming with ads. An ad supported stopwatch? Give me a freakin break. And ads or no ads, it's probably scraping my emails and contacts.
No judge will ever force AT&T to provide service to this customer. They can cut him off at any time. The ONLY question is whether they can try to bill him an ETF. Good question, considering they've both breached the contract, but no way are they going to waste a court hearing over a couple hundred bucks.
IANAL, but I did take a kick ass contract law course once.
Two fundamentals of contract law:
1. I give you this and you give me that.
2. You can't force anyone to do anything.
The first is important because value has to travel both directions. "I hereby give you my car" is not a contract. "I hereby give you my car and you give me a hundred dollars" is a contract.
Let's say you show up with the $100 and I change my mind. Can you make me sell the car? No way! Can you make me pay for your $10 cab fare for the ride over? Yes. Those are damages. My breach of contract cost you $10.
Let's say you don't show. Can I take your $100? No way! But if the car depreciated while I was waiting on you and now the car will only sell for $90, you could be liable for the $10 difference. Those are damages. Your breach of contract cost me $10.
Somebody hasn't read the terms of their service. AT&T claims the right to terminate for any reason at any time.
Anybody can break a contract at any time for any reason. The only recourse for the other party is to sue for damages.
That's basic contract law.
In the case of AT&T, the damages are the cost of your phone subsidy. Thus the termination fee. For the customer? Harder to prove damages. Perhaps if you missed out on a Verizon sale to go with AT&T you could sue for the difference, but that's not likely.
Companies all the time are trying contracts for services. Whenever I cancel one, they cry, "But you agreed to the contract!". Sure, now I'm unagreeing to the contract. Prove damages, or STFU.
Drugs are the best example of inelastic demand.
I don't know about meth, but I do know that the price of cigarettes has no effect on how much I want one or how many I would consume. Anyone who's taken macroeconomics knows that cigarette taxes are entirely about revenue, not prevention. Addiction's a bitch.
And when they ask for permission to search, say "NO!"
My local newspaper lists arrests every week, and it always start out with a speeding stop, then drugs found during a consent search. Even if you're not guilty, who knows if the previous owner of your car didn't hide a joint somewhere and forget about it.
If someone has a one in a million chance to determine my password how much of a threat is that to me if the site that requires the password only allows a few attempts before it locks the account?
When I see this implemented, it's usually like 3 attempts until lockout. Make it a few hundred. That's enough that a forgetful human has plenty of tries but a brute force attack will fail.
Part of the job is learning it on your own, volunteering for new things, and sometimes exaggerating your experience to get into new technologies. No company has ever spent a dime on my training, yet I've managed to build a killer resume just by never ever saying "No" to anything.
.NET experience. My coworkers are exceptionally good at Java and I know they'd figure out C# over a weekend, but nobody volunteered! Except me. I got a 12 week gig (with paid overtime!) and all the latest Microsoft buzzwords to add to my resume.
I'm working in a Java shop and the PHB sent out a group email looking for volunteers with