... if companies, specially big ones, were not uttering so much bullshit about how a valued employee you are, about common values and all kind of nonsense to make you feel part of the "team".
I learned the hard way what you explained above (by watching family and colleagues treated like dirt), but many people, specially younger employees that have not yet opened their eyes, should know that all the corporate propaganda is utter bullshit, because at the end you are nothing but a number with a salary in a database.
I refreshed a couple of important skills when I was made redundant earlier this year. I came and went as I pleased (within reason) and even managed to save their asses one last time.
I had the machines at my entire disposal (because in the UK not all companies are annal retentive, they have trusted me for years, there is no objective reason why the trust should not continue just because they made me redundant).
Look, your peers will be fine, either you document things or not. If you did not document things for years I frankly would not lose sleep for not doing so know. The shit may hit the fan, your peers will sort things out, they may curse you a bit, but life will go on.
It is all very nice to be thinking about others, but I see a monumental elephant, no, mammoth in the room: your company is telling you in no uncertain terms they don't trust you anymore.
For bunnies sakes, either reach an agreement and get out of there now or post like a mad bunny in/. (but good articles only please, not some more bullshit about Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of Mediocre Movies).
Trust and commitment has to be reciprocal, if one part does not need it get the clue and move on.
There is a good reason one should refer to film experts before going to watch a movie: they will tell us if it is something innovative or just more of the same bullshit.
I have watched on of the Indiana Jones movies on TV and frankly leaves me unimpressed.
I had a similar attitude to James Bond films (having watched one or two it was obvious that most were crap) until the last one, which clearly was a departure from the franchise and had proper actors and plots in place.
There is no such a thing in the new IJ movie: no innovation, plot confusion, temporal idocity (make up will just take you so far). The experts have spotted this and have warned us.
But of course/. is very peculiar, we want the world to trust our opinions as experts when it comes to IT and technology, but are quick to ignore expert opinions of proper film critics (hint: they don't care about what actresses dress on premiers) if they destroy blow by blow lame attempts to revive past cinematic glories.
Th movie industry has managed to convince people that of you don't participate in the bombastic blockbuster fest every summer, somehow you are socially deficient.
You may think you want to see it, but marketing, astroturfing and many other ways of advertisement put *social pressure* on people to watch the blockbusters.
This works wonders with fanbois and children, we adults refer to proper film critics to form an opinion regarding the quality of a movie.
Instead of concentrating on making desktop software better (by open sourcing it for example, thus becoming the major player and market leader in services for the industry) they go all around the place like headless chickens:
Follow the next big thing! PDAs? Windows Mobile! MP3 players? Zune! Google? Yahoo! er, bribe searchers!
in the meantime they abandon IE for who knows how long, and made mediocre products in the field that is actually profitable.
So make an account for your contractor and then control access to the data locally.
At the end there is also a degree of trust (enforceable by contracts) in which you evaluate if your business partners are capable and reputable, because no matter what you do, once a third party can read data they can copy it.
The problem is one of design, this applies equally to all OSes.
The OS should protect effectively and transparently users against such occurrences.
Some hardened versions of popular Linux and UNIX systems come close, but are so difficult to administer that people tend to pray and hope to ensure their machines are safe....
There is a point when too much muscle is bad for you, specially for your heart.
Also your bones may struggle (they don't really care if the extra weight is fat or muscle).
So although BMI may be bullshit in the sense of declaring you obese, it is still a good indicator in regards to where you weight is going, and a high BMI could still indicate issues, since too much muscle is also unnatural.
I used to be like that, plenty of excuses for doing nothing.
Until my dad died of a fulminating heart attack.
Now I run 10km every weekend (and other distances during the week) and am training for a half marathon.
The day I ended with the excuses I became more creative about ways to lose the flab.
15 miles is nothing for any seasoned cyclist. If you would embrace it you would find that after 6 months it would take you a short time (and is not like you need to do it every day, you could do it twice during the working week and then put two more sessions Saturday and Sunday. That is plenty of exercise to be in good shape).
... but obese people are costing to society, not only in the ways indicated by the article, but also health care (via increase in insurance premiums if you are unlucky to live in the US, or by increase in overall taxation if you live in a place with a socialized health care system).
Fatties are a burden to society, to pretend otherwise is most disingenuous, if taxation is one of the weapons to combat this, I see no rational argument against it.
As for personal responsibility, p-h-u-l-e-a-s-e... obese people is precisely what they lack, they are not responsible towards themselves (they are pretty much killing themselves) so there is no much responsibility to be expected from them frankly unless they are educated or made to pay for the privilege of making all of us poorer.
The Nokia tablet is ugly and does not combine with your furniture. Any furniture.
The Chumby could in theory fit nicely with how you decorate a room.
Their aims are different, the problems they solve are different, why you are comparing them is a monument to the lack of practical sense of most technical people.
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Corporate email servers may be not as reliable as Google mail, but there are many regulatory reasons for which you must run your own servers.
An excuse of the kind of "Google ate my homework" will not wash with any regulators.
And if your email goes through other companies, how do you know it is not been scanned by a third party?
When did email become a private means of communication?
If you are going to slag Google at least do it for valid reasons.
Communism does not recognize copyright and private enterprise, fundamental cornerstones of Free Software.
For you information co-operative movements (to which FOSS is more akin) were born in capitalist societies...
According to such stupid analogy any change conduces to communism.
And after enough years in the industry I have never met anybody from previous jobs (clients, colleagues) later in life.
... if companies, specially big ones, were not uttering so much bullshit about how a valued employee you are, about common values and all kind of nonsense to make you feel part of the "team".
I learned the hard way what you explained above (by watching family and colleagues treated like dirt), but many people, specially younger employees that have not yet opened their eyes, should know that all the corporate propaganda is utter bullshit, because at the end you are nothing but a number with a salary in a database.
I refreshed a couple of important skills when I was made redundant earlier this year. I came and went as I pleased (within reason) and even managed to save their asses one last time.
I had the machines at my entire disposal (because in the UK not all companies are annal retentive, they have trusted me for years, there is no objective reason why the trust should not continue just because they made me redundant).
Only in the US ....
So on top of running with your own username you did it on a a live production system!
Have you ever heard the terms QA or UAT?
I reiterate: cowboy behaviour.
Period.
End of discussion.
The original poster is a cowboy of the profession.
That company should be glad you were out of the door.
My peers, my peers....
/. (but good articles only please, not some more bullshit about Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of Mediocre Movies).
Look, your peers will be fine, either you document things or not. If you did not document things for years I frankly would not lose sleep for not doing so know. The shit may hit the fan, your peers will sort things out, they may curse you a bit, but life will go on.
It is all very nice to be thinking about others, but I see a monumental elephant, no, mammoth in the room: your company is telling you in no uncertain terms they don't trust you anymore.
For bunnies sakes, either reach an agreement and get out of there now or post like a mad bunny in
Trust and commitment has to be reciprocal, if one part does not need it get the clue and move on.
There is a good reason one should refer to film experts before going to watch a movie: they will tell us if it is something innovative or just more of the same bullshit.
/. is very peculiar, we want the world to trust our opinions as experts when it comes to IT and technology, but are quick to ignore expert opinions of proper film critics (hint: they don't care about what actresses dress on premiers) if they destroy blow by blow lame attempts to revive past cinematic glories.
I have watched on of the Indiana Jones movies on TV and frankly leaves me unimpressed.
I had a similar attitude to James Bond films (having watched one or two it was obvious that most were crap) until the last one, which clearly was a departure from the franchise and had proper actors and plots in place.
There is no such a thing in the new IJ movie: no innovation, plot confusion, temporal idocity (make up will just take you so far). The experts have spotted this and have warned us.
But of course
Ha, ha, ha.
Th movie industry has managed to convince people that of you don't participate in the bombastic blockbuster fest every summer, somehow you are socially deficient.
You may think you want to see it, but marketing, astroturfing and many other ways of advertisement put *social pressure* on people to watch the blockbusters.
This works wonders with fanbois and children, we adults refer to proper film critics to form an opinion regarding the quality of a movie.
A software company?
A gaming company?
A services company?
An advertisement company?
This, ladies and gents, is called lack of focus.
Instead of concentrating on making desktop software better (by open sourcing it for example, thus becoming the major player and market leader in services for the industry) they go all around the place like headless chickens:
Follow the next big thing!
PDAs? Windows Mobile!
MP3 players? Zune!
Google? Yahoo! er, bribe searchers!
in the meantime they abandon IE for who knows how long, and made mediocre products in the field that is actually profitable.
Talk about not keeping the eye in the ball....
Nowadays people can work remotely.
So make an account for your contractor and then control access to the data locally.
At the end there is also a degree of trust (enforceable by contracts) in which you evaluate if your business partners are capable and reputable, because no matter what you do, once a third party can read data they can copy it.
How much cavalier can one get nowadays?
Everybody and his dog knows the flaws of ftp and it is almost certain that most people in your office will know which the ftp servers are.
Sorry, but your assumptions are rubbish.
sftp makes matters slightly less bad, but still has issues that need to be thought about and not dismissed as unlikely.
One thing is to safeguard the integrity of the data (VPN) and another one is to safeguard access to a service (FTP).
It is ludicrous to suggest that both should be tied up.
It is vulnerable to man in the middle attacks, unless you buy a commercial solution with host authentication.
I have no expertise with setting up VPNs, but a similar situation may arise.
The problem is one of design, this applies equally to all OSes.
The OS should protect effectively and transparently users against such occurrences.
Some hardened versions of popular Linux and UNIX systems come close, but are so difficult to administer that people tend to pray and hope to ensure their machines are safe....
There is a point when too much muscle is bad for you, specially for your heart.
Also your bones may struggle (they don't really care if the extra weight is fat or muscle).
So although BMI may be bullshit in the sense of declaring you obese, it is still a good indicator in regards to where you weight is going, and a high BMI could still indicate issues, since too much muscle is also unnatural.
I used to be like that, plenty of excuses for doing nothing.
Until my dad died of a fulminating heart attack.
Now I run 10km every weekend (and other distances during the week) and am training for a half marathon.
The day I ended with the excuses I became more creative about ways to lose the flab.
15 miles is nothing for any seasoned cyclist. If you would embrace it you would find that after 6 months it would take you a short time (and is not like you need to do it every day, you could do it twice during the working week and then put two more sessions Saturday and Sunday. That is plenty of exercise to be in good shape).
A non smoker does not affect other people for not smoking.
A smoker does affect others around him.
In a civilized society activities that harm third parties are curtailed in some form.
Smokers got away with murder only because the companies killing them have a lot of political cloud.
... but obese people are costing to society, not only in the ways indicated by the article, but also health care (via increase in insurance premiums if you are unlucky to live in the US, or by increase in overall taxation if you live in a place with a socialized health care system).
Fatties are a burden to society, to pretend otherwise is most disingenuous, if taxation is one of the weapons to combat this, I see no rational argument against it.
As for personal responsibility, p-h-u-l-e-a-s-e... obese people is precisely what they lack, they are not responsible towards themselves (they are pretty much killing themselves) so there is no much responsibility to be expected from them frankly unless they are educated or made to pay for the privilege of making all of us poorer.
The Nokia tablet is ugly and does not combine with your furniture. Any furniture.
The Chumby could in theory fit nicely with how you decorate a room.
Their aims are different, the problems they solve are different, why you are comparing them is a monument to the lack of practical sense of most technical people.