your apartment provided fire extinguishers? I've found the best security system is a big dog, but that usually doesn't work well in an apartment! But I too have set up a web cam now...mostly to record my cats flying around chasing each other, but if someone did come in I'd have the evidence now.
It all comes down to the rental agreement really. Very few people read the whole thing, but almost all of them state they can enter for maintenance, pest control, etc.
Thus why the first thing I do in a new apartment is change the locks. If they leave a note telling me they need to come in, I call the leasing office to find out when they will be there so I'm there too...I have way too much $$$ in equipment to trust a maintenance guy, it would be far too easy for them to walk out with something I might not even notice is gone for awhile, and it's happened to me before, and all the leasing office would do is say "we'll look into it". That, and they let me "break my lease" without penalty when I moved out. Calling the police just resulted in the police saying "well, since it's under $500 we just send this form, you mail it back"...basically no one cared except me and since I had no "proof" it was the maintenance guy...the ironic thing is he took a broken laptop that I was going to toss anyway, but I was still pretty mad about it.
And I'll bet that MS had also discussed this with their legal team first, who told them all this. Maybe they have a console cowboy who just goes and does stuff like this without telling his management, but I doubt it.
More worrisome is our recruitment of workers from the same area we're "fighting terrorists" in. When I was at ATnT, we had a "scandal" were some contractors in Malaysia were funneling money to Al Queda, the FBI was involved and such. It's awesome to have a contractor from some place who is contracted to some Indian company, who is then contracted to IBM, who is then contracted to National Grid, who runs the power system in a large chunk of the northeast US. They don't need to hack anything, we just handed them a laptop with VPN access into various production servers. I wouldn't be surprised if right now there is some sleeper code on various systems no one realizes is there, because there are too many vendors to watch everything. NG has 20+ domain controller clusters in the US alone...someone could darken 1/4 of the US just by kidnapping a developer over there and forcing their password / VPN PIN out of them (if it's not written on a post-it stuck inside the laptop).
the worst in-house software I've ever been forced to use is HP's Service Manager, the worlds worst ticketing system. I was shocked that we actually sell it as a product, it's a crime against humanity. Even inside the company I had to complain three levels up my management before I could even get ahold of anyone that "supported" it. I had more problems using it than I did actually doing my job...all in Java, they "implemented" their own tabbing system inside a single window, you couldn't Undo anything, the "knowledge base" never seems to update the short descriptions returned in searches; just to do searches you had to fill in at least 5-10 different fields on 2-3 pages...whoever wrote it must be a sadist.
"Bullets cost money" that's why they would use their American Express company card and expense it to the retirement fund, and take it out of your pay as a benefit!
yep, all they care about is stock prices, quarterly profits, and their bonuses. They are long gone by the time the house of cards they built collapses.
people like him often don't even stay at a company for five years...they come in, fire all the real workers, bring H1-B's in, drive up stock prices, then bail before the whole thing collapses.
They would be amazingly useful running network cabling through ceilings and under floors! You could even get them tiny hard hats to satisfy OSHA requirements...they would just have to wear diapers to they wouldn't leave scat under the raised floor!
My ethics prof in college put himself through school as a used car salesperson...VERY interesting class, he had a very unique viewpoint on it all and always had "real world" examples that everyone grokked. I also learned how to save tons of money buying a used car, as he revealed many of the tricks they used and how to use them against them.
Most large corps have online training classes too. Here at HP we have hundreds of "classes" on a wide range of topics, not just IT...and we are required to take some every year. To most HR drones, these classes are pretty much equal (or close enough) to other industry standard certs...or course those with real certs would disagree but their usually not HR drones so...
Right as I was getting laid off from IBM, they came out with this idea were they would transfer Americans to India, and pay you an Indian wage! Then they used it as PR saying "well, we offered EVERYONE the chance to 'keep their job!'" even though it required uprooting your entire family and leaving the country. Now, if your single and adventurous it might be fun, and even at an "equal wage" in India an American can have a colonial England lifestyle (maids, butlers, etc) but still...to me it sounded like an idea cooked up by a bunch of drunk frat-boy marketers.
pointer? like that dog that gets a flat back when you shoot something? I think a linked list is a type of litter of kittens I've heard too...and my fish bubble sort all the time! I should apply for an HR recruiting position, I know the buzzwords!
I'd bet that, if forced to, NASA and SpaceX could launch a Dragon capsule capable of getting them back. It isn't "fully tested" yet, but even at it's current state it's probably safer than the original Mercury and Gemini capsules when they launched.
but subtle sabotage by training the replacements incorrectly...just incorrectly enough that upper management doesn't notice until things go wrong, and by then they wouldn't ever realize it's your fault.
perhaps several feet of Aerogel, with electric reactive armour underneath that? Or some type of meta-material that can "channel" the impact energy towards a non ship impacting angle. It doesn't have to miss the ship by much, and if we had some weird lattice structure that could deflect the momentum just enough so it misses...but yeah, anything going that fast will probably need a few hundred feet thick armour encasing it, especially if we're sending a ship into another solar system. If your going any significant speed into a planetary system as soon as you hit the targets "Oort Cloud" no materials we have can withstand even a marble hitting it at.1C
I firmly believe that we should re-direct about 25% of the military budget back into NASA. NASA should also stop building rockets; obviously private enterprise is better at that (now) and instead develop NEW tech instead of re-building 40 year old stuff...at this point, SpaceX and such could easily "take over" this area as it's not as much science anymore as it is engineering. NASA should be pushing us to new frontiers, not just launching spy / comm sats...NASA can't even launch a human into space at the moment on their own, and that is messed up!
If it's "their right", then it's the rest of the population's "right" to NOT allow the kids to be in the general population at schools. It's a very tricky situation, but it's not fair or safe to put the rest of the population at a HUGE risk (this is not hypothetical, there have now been outbreaks because of anti-vacers) because they don't understand science. This isn't just a personal stand for freedom...they are killing people via their choices. When "invoking my right of freedom" results in disease outbreaks and dead children, where to we as a free country draw the line?
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it's his house, set it on fire! lol
your apartment provided fire extinguishers? I've found the best security system is a big dog, but that usually doesn't work well in an apartment! But I too have set up a web cam now...mostly to record my cats flying around chasing each other, but if someone did come in I'd have the evidence now.
It all comes down to the rental agreement really. Very few people read the whole thing, but almost all of them state they can enter for maintenance, pest control, etc.
Thus why the first thing I do in a new apartment is change the locks. If they leave a note telling me they need to come in, I call the leasing office to find out when they will be there so I'm there too...I have way too much $$$ in equipment to trust a maintenance guy, it would be far too easy for them to walk out with something I might not even notice is gone for awhile, and it's happened to me before, and all the leasing office would do is say "we'll look into it". That, and they let me "break my lease" without penalty when I moved out. Calling the police just resulted in the police saying "well, since it's under $500 we just send this form, you mail it back"...basically no one cared except me and since I had no "proof" it was the maintenance guy...the ironic thing is he took a broken laptop that I was going to toss anyway, but I was still pretty mad about it.
And I'll bet that MS had also discussed this with their legal team first, who told them all this. Maybe they have a console cowboy who just goes and does stuff like this without telling his management, but I doubt it.
if...if...if they take my stapler I'll...I'll set the building on fire
More worrisome is our recruitment of workers from the same area we're "fighting terrorists" in. When I was at ATnT, we had a "scandal" were some contractors in Malaysia were funneling money to Al Queda, the FBI was involved and such. It's awesome to have a contractor from some place who is contracted to some Indian company, who is then contracted to IBM, who is then contracted to National Grid, who runs the power system in a large chunk of the northeast US. They don't need to hack anything, we just handed them a laptop with VPN access into various production servers. I wouldn't be surprised if right now there is some sleeper code on various systems no one realizes is there, because there are too many vendors to watch everything. NG has 20+ domain controller clusters in the US alone...someone could darken 1/4 of the US just by kidnapping a developer over there and forcing their password / VPN PIN out of them (if it's not written on a post-it stuck inside the laptop).
the worst in-house software I've ever been forced to use is HP's Service Manager, the worlds worst ticketing system. I was shocked that we actually sell it as a product, it's a crime against humanity. Even inside the company I had to complain three levels up my management before I could even get ahold of anyone that "supported" it. I had more problems using it than I did actually doing my job...all in Java, they "implemented" their own tabbing system inside a single window, you couldn't Undo anything, the "knowledge base" never seems to update the short descriptions returned in searches; just to do searches you had to fill in at least 5-10 different fields on 2-3 pages...whoever wrote it must be a sadist.
Dee: You're saying that your life is so terrible because you eat rat cheese and cat food and huff glue all day long?
"Bullets cost money" that's why they would use their American Express company card and expense it to the retirement fund, and take it out of your pay as a benefit!
yep, all they care about is stock prices, quarterly profits, and their bonuses. They are long gone by the time the house of cards they built collapses.
people like him often don't even stay at a company for five years...they come in, fire all the real workers, bring H1-B's in, drive up stock prices, then bail before the whole thing collapses.
They would be amazingly useful running network cabling through ceilings and under floors! You could even get them tiny hard hats to satisfy OSHA requirements...they would just have to wear diapers to they wouldn't leave scat under the raised floor!
My ethics prof in college put himself through school as a used car salesperson...VERY interesting class, he had a very unique viewpoint on it all and always had "real world" examples that everyone grokked. I also learned how to save tons of money buying a used car, as he revealed many of the tricks they used and how to use them against them.
Most large corps have online training classes too. Here at HP we have hundreds of "classes" on a wide range of topics, not just IT...and we are required to take some every year. To most HR drones, these classes are pretty much equal (or close enough) to other industry standard certs...or course those with real certs would disagree but their usually not HR drones so...
Right as I was getting laid off from IBM, they came out with this idea were they would transfer Americans to India, and pay you an Indian wage! Then they used it as PR saying "well, we offered EVERYONE the chance to 'keep their job!'" even though it required uprooting your entire family and leaving the country. Now, if your single and adventurous it might be fun, and even at an "equal wage" in India an American can have a colonial England lifestyle (maids, butlers, etc) but still...to me it sounded like an idea cooked up by a bunch of drunk frat-boy marketers.
pointer? like that dog that gets a flat back when you shoot something? I think a linked list is a type of litter of kittens I've heard too...and my fish bubble sort all the time! I should apply for an HR recruiting position, I know the buzzwords!
The consulting / recruiting companies won't leave me alone, but all their jobs are half my current payrate...
I'd bet that, if forced to, NASA and SpaceX could launch a Dragon capsule capable of getting them back. It isn't "fully tested" yet, but even at it's current state it's probably safer than the original Mercury and Gemini capsules when they launched.
but subtle sabotage by training the replacements incorrectly...just incorrectly enough that upper management doesn't notice until things go wrong, and by then they wouldn't ever realize it's your fault.
perhaps several feet of Aerogel, with electric reactive armour underneath that? Or some type of meta-material that can "channel" the impact energy towards a non ship impacting angle. It doesn't have to miss the ship by much, and if we had some weird lattice structure that could deflect the momentum just enough so it misses...but yeah, anything going that fast will probably need a few hundred feet thick armour encasing it, especially if we're sending a ship into another solar system. If your going any significant speed into a planetary system as soon as you hit the targets "Oort Cloud" no materials we have can withstand even a marble hitting it at .1C
What's that you say? The NSA was caught spying on Bat Boy?
And today apparently WWN has a dinosaur egg that was "frozen" and "thawed out" and hatched...
I firmly believe that we should re-direct about 25% of the military budget back into NASA. NASA should also stop building rockets; obviously private enterprise is better at that (now) and instead develop NEW tech instead of re-building 40 year old stuff...at this point, SpaceX and such could easily "take over" this area as it's not as much science anymore as it is engineering. NASA should be pushing us to new frontiers, not just launching spy / comm sats...NASA can't even launch a human into space at the moment on their own, and that is messed up!
If it's "their right", then it's the rest of the population's "right" to NOT allow the kids to be in the general population at schools. It's a very tricky situation, but it's not fair or safe to put the rest of the population at a HUGE risk (this is not hypothetical, there have now been outbreaks because of anti-vacers) because they don't understand science. This isn't just a personal stand for freedom...they are killing people via their choices. When "invoking my right of freedom" results in disease outbreaks and dead children, where to we as a free country draw the line?