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  1. I found a source stating that the color was chosen that way. http://www.businessinsider.com...

  2. Re:Some tech, much brain on Ask Slashdot: How Do News Organizations Keep Track of So Much Information? · · Score: 1

    Thank you for a wonderful and thoughtful response.

  3. Firing anyone, for any reason, does not give them the right to damage business property.
    And because your style of thinking, I keep making backup's.

  4. Thanks for asking, hope this helps and guild you correctly:
    Most people don't have a true, who gives a fuck what you say attitude and or my life does not depend on this job lifestyle so... /start/
    well, here is my accountability chart.
    note that the fault is
    A = mine
    B = not mine

    a= I accept the blame for this.
    keep mouth shut tight as can be, CxO will piss and rant then walk away

    b= you can tell, being that the fault is not mine, BUT however, if you let me solve it, and I succeed, I want a 38% pay raise
    CxO says " how about I let you keep your job"
    me = you are funny, so about the problem and my pay raise, do I send this in a memo and CC personnel or whom?
    shut up tight as can be

    I've always been amazingly good at not having fear when asking for something that is justified ( or just a great gamble), if you got fired then they really did not see the value in you. BTW 38% is a great number to start with, weirdly enough people argue intensely or accept it as fact. I use it exclusively.

  5. Funny that you say that. I do an accountability chart, so I know when it's my fault, when I am related to the fault, or when I am not accountable. Makes my life much easier. While we are all accountable to a point, I use it to know where the limits of liability are.

  6. And while I know you are sarcastic, it's people that think in this manner that ruin people's lives for years. I Almost lost my company if it was not for my backup policy. I would do back-ups monthly myself on Saturday morning and retrieve the cassettes Sunday afternoon, take them home and store. an employee that I fired for doing something real bad did a time bomb on the payroll system and sent a system-wide delete. well long story short, 3 days of employee's working part time with note pads I got a basic restore done, then one system at a time did re-installs ... 2 weeks later we were back in business.

    to this day I keep backup's of data, spare computer laptops just in case, and 1 month payroll and 1 month of expenses LOL never again I hope

    if the business would have failed, it would have cost 38 people's employment and my business ruined.

    safe to say, that I never let only 1 person handle backing up the systems ever

  7. very factual. ownership of the resource is the company, not the admin, the Admin is the manager of 1 of the many resources. such a simple concept but for years people don't get it. and it's in every industry that I know of.

  8. Re:Yep :/ on UW Professor: The Information War Is Real, and We're Losing It (seattletimes.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    While I like her study, there was another study and reported here in /. back in 2000 - 2004
    about AOL chat groups and how people and groups of people whom are on the fringes of
    behavior. the study presented that people when encountering like-minded people seem
    to see the fringe behaviour as socially acceptable.

    real interesting, figured that everyone knew this by now, but like the lady said, " it was laughed off "

  9. Re:Alright, where do I get it? on Millions of Records Leaked From Huge US Corporate Database (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    been looking around, Not a single source in the wild yet

  10. Re:Oh for Pete's Sake! on Lost Package Derails Project To Preserve Super Nintendo Games (eurogamer.net) · · Score: 1

    That is most likely true.

  11. I've really looked at this problem, couple of issues came up
    A) Why did they choose Tungsten Carbide instead of Eglin steel. just does not seem as effective
    B) unless the design is conical in nature, 30% of Ball bearings are going towards earth ( could be a lot more if it's a ball design or tube design )
    C) in any case, upon a Kessler Syndrome happening, space exploration would stop for 25 to 50 years unless someone comes up with a way to clean up space ( maybe a world wide concerted effort with lasers to clear a basic launch path. )

    so the next step is for someone to create the clean up device.

  12. Re:among the launched birds... on ISRO Makes History, Launches 104 Satellites With Single Rocket (indiatimes.com) · · Score: 1

    very interesting. Now let me just ask, cell phone camera's. Very very small, but I think I could mount a few 20 to 40 on a basic cube sat. which could be ridged. would that work as a basic concept? shoot up to the sky and act as a very big looking bug eye?

  13. What this does seems to say ever so slightly to me, is, we need to algae bloom the ocean over 30 to 50 years, in some sort of way that will provide a layer to reduce and or bury the problem.

  14. Re:Spillway was damaged with a bomb, wake up peopl on US National Weather Service Suffered 'Catastrophic' Outage; Website Stopped Sending Forecasts, Warnings (miamiherald.com) · · Score: 2

    Knowing how not to pay taxes legally is not a crime. We should celebrate it, because it is the proof that the IRS and Congress needs to re-write bit's of the tax code so that everyone pays the a proportion.

  15. Re:Wikileaks on WikiLeaks Threatens To Publish Twitter Users' Personal Info (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    the post by WikiLeaks specifically stated Family

    A database of verified people and their family is a simple family kidnapping filter.
    Bill made a lot on a deal, Bill is just a verified twitter user whom owns a store, brags about it business, and did a huge deal
    that he's popping a bottle of wine.
    Villain opens up the database and starts a review of reasonably near targets and finds Bill, Villian take his daughter and
    Bill will have to pay $$$ to get his kid back ( which is most likely dead )

    Those that buy data are trackable.
    and facebook is troubling.

  16. Re:Wikileaks on WikiLeaks Threatens To Publish Twitter Users' Personal Info (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    while you see it as a Doxxing Database, I see it as a kidnapping database.

    A database of verified people and their family is a simple family kidnapping filter.

    Bill made a lot on a deal, Bill is just a verified twitter user whom owns a store, brags about it business, and did a huge deal
    that he's popping a bottle of wine.
    Villain opens up the database and starts a review of reasonably near targets and finds Bill, Villian take his daughter and
    Bill will have to pay $$$ to get his kid back ( which is most likely dead )

  17. Re:Wikileaks on WikiLeaks Threatens To Publish Twitter Users' Personal Info (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Statement validation : https://www.theguardian.com/me...

  18. Re:I'll grab some popcorn on WikiLeaks Threatens To Publish Twitter Users' Personal Info (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, in the factual world, data is data. Causation and Correlation are not fact, but propaganda can make it like look fact. Great example is the Kevin Bacon game, given enough, people might think you know KB directly or have access to his ear.

    Now more directly, I gather data all the time for my Real Estate business, I'm a realtor.
    I note overgrown lawns and messy landscaping ( means they forgot to call the service, on holiday, or don't have money )
    I note garage sales ( Means they might be cleaning house for a sale )
    I note New Baba signs ( means they might sell and want to upgrade a house )
    I see data all the time, and try profit from it.

    A database of verified people and their family is a simple family kidnapping filter.
    Bill made a lot on a deal, Bill is just a verified twitter user whom owns a store, brags about it business, and did a huge deal
    that he's popping a bottle of wine.
    Villain opens up the database and starts a review of reasonably near targets and finds Bill, Villian take his daughter and
    Bill will have to pay $$$ to get his kid back ( which is most likely dead )

  19. Re:Wikileaks on WikiLeaks Threatens To Publish Twitter Users' Personal Info (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    > self-aggrandize their reputation:

    what a wonderful phrase. I hope to use it. Anyway on to the reply

    I have never liked Wikileaks in any way. Spilling the beans without some sort of check
    and balance does more harm than good. That's why qualified, and skilled reporting, is
    required. A good story will always sell, Great story's, make great reading IE: what you had mentioned.

    I feel that people who are validated on Twitter will be subjected to Doxing and possible harm. You don't
    have to be too famous to become a target of someone that wants to make quick cash.

  20. Re:Disassembled.... on China Says It Will Return the Underwater Drone It Seized From the US (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    I do know a bit about maritime law, if the drone was attached to the US vessel in any physical way, it's a huge violation.
    Maritime laws have been around for a very long time. and stupid act's like that can lead to very physical trade problems,
    maritime people are really different, they have to work together, because simple errors can now cost almost billions of dollars
    worth of insurance claims. Also, how do nations retaliate, simple, Customs not clearing a ship or delay ( very few US flag
    vessels call China, but many call USA ) can have a huge long term business cost to a steamship line.

  21. Re:Confucious say on China Says It Will Return the Underwater Drone It Seized From the US (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    We hit china's embassy at least once https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... that was in 1999.

    not saying we did it, but .... looks like we hit Moscow's too http://www.cbsnews.com/news/ru...

    the moscow hit looks like a tit for tat

  22. Re:Evidence, please. on President Obama Threatens Retaliatory Actions Against Russia Over Hacks (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    ROFL
    thank you, I needed to laugh loudly and publicly

  23. Re:All the fun users on Reddit To Crack Down On Abuse By Punishing Hundreds of 'Toxic Users' (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    While I am not sure what they will do, I am going to guess that the 80/20 rule in some form will be applied. IE: those that really were on the extreme of the review will get removed. maybe reddit won't look the same, but it might become something different and just as interesting.

  24. b is cheap and to the point, Also it's easy to set up an appointment. call the local arb association and you can get 3 qualified to pick from. Court would be the next step, to collect.

    Also, you have to look at it from my point... every seller wants more, every buyer wants it cheaper. both sides after 3 or 4 days get buyer's/seller's remorse. it's a fucking nightmare sometimes, I've seen fights break out at the closing table over 1 fucking key IE: it was a medco key, cost $25. and the seller wanted the buyer to pay for the second copy, and that's when I pulled out the listing contract and said " no, it's 2 main keys, you signed here remember ", and at the closing table is where people will try to screw you over ( both the seller and buyer ) that's why I never schedule both parties at the same time.

    Also, do you want to take your client to public court, great reputation to have. No, Arb is always private and usually never even get's that far, good people realise the error and fix the problem.

  25. In the example of the sinkhole; if I did not disclose to the public that I know it ( which I did once he filled out the disclosure ) I'm guilty of fraud and maybe more. if the owner never disclosed it, and I went on to market the property and discovered ( a known problem that was not disclosed ) the sinkhole after and inspection, I can take the owner to arb and demand that he pay my marketing cost and/or cancel the listing.

    that's why I don't do anything without a listing contract and a sellers disclosure.